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Speaker 2: Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual
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Speaker 3: Baby.
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Speaker 2: run concludes. Here they are broadcasting live on AM five
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Speaker 1: Sax and Kate's and am here on this Tuesday morning,
Speaker 1: October fifteenth. Thanks for being with us. We're live and local.
Speaker 1: Are your home of the Dodgers A five seventy LA
Speaker 1: Sports here with you until nine o'clock this morning. Coming
Speaker 1: up at the bottom of the hour. Mike Marshall, former
Speaker 1: teammate at Saxy's part of the nineteen eighty eight World
Speaker 1: Series championship team in mainstay in that outfield. They're in
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties an all Star two time World Series
Speaker 1: champ Mike Marshall will join us at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour. An hour from now, Mike Stanton from MLB
Speaker 1: Network Radio will join us. Won three World Series rings
Speaker 1: with the New York Yankees. He is gonna help us
Speaker 1: break down what happened in this bullpen game and the
Speaker 1: pitching so far in the first two games to look
Speaker 1: ahead to the next three games in New York at
Speaker 1: City Field. Game three is tomorrow night. Both teams will
Speaker 1: have a workout later on this afternoon in New York
Speaker 1: as they traveled after the game yesterday to the East
Speaker 1: Coast to get ready for the next three games, so
Speaker 1: we know it won't be as sweep. We certainly talked
Speaker 1: a lot about what happened yesterday in the bullpen game,
Speaker 1: landon Na getting roughed up in that second inning, Ryan
Speaker 1: Brasier giving up the home run to Francisco Lindor to
Speaker 1: start off the game. But the offense Saxy you mentioned
Speaker 1: it the numbers yesterday from what the time five hitters
Speaker 1: in the Dodgers offense show, Hey, O Tani all the
Speaker 1: way down, oh for nineteen with nine strikeouts or the
Speaker 1: top five batters yesterday, O Tani Bets, ta Oscar Freddie
Speaker 1: and Will Smith oh for nineteen with nine strikeouts. I
Speaker 1: don't care if you lose a game two nothing or
Speaker 1: you lose seven to three. Most times out of night,
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose a game when all five of those
Speaker 1: guys aren't producing a single thing.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's called the collective letdown. You can say a
Speaker 3: team you know, to team bomb, whatever you want, it's
Speaker 3: it's part of the process as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is just how people refer to this.
Speaker 3: And you know it's not all the time that you
Speaker 3: see when your team loses that you have the whole
Speaker 3: top of the order where nobody does anything. I mean,
Speaker 3: you're talking oh for nineteen with nine k's. That's a beatdown, right.
Speaker 3: It doesn't happen much with the Dodgers. This was the
Speaker 3: most prolific offensive juggernaut in all of baseball. One fifty
Speaker 3: seven run differential to the plus side for this team. Okay.
Speaker 3: That means that this team when they go out and
Speaker 3: play other clubs, they outscored them this season by one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty seven runs. Okay, that is a smack
Speaker 3: beat down, like you can't believe this is a this
Speaker 3: is a dangerous, dangerous team that can turn it around
Speaker 3: at the flip of a switch. That's how fast this
Speaker 3: thing can happen. So you never count the Dodgers out,
Speaker 3: including yesterday's game when they lost, you pointed out the
Speaker 3: numerous times where they had chances to do it. It
Speaker 3: doesn't happen all the time. But you know what, that's
Speaker 3: why you play a series of games so you can
Speaker 3: find out, you know, in that sample size, who might
Speaker 3: be the better team. And I think the Dodgers have
Speaker 3: the advantage. Look when they go on the road to
Speaker 3: the Dodgers record on the road this year was forty
Speaker 3: six and thirty five. And if you go over to
Speaker 3: the Mets their home record, guess what, forty six and
Speaker 3: thirty five and absolute and an absolute draw. You know,
Speaker 3: here's the Dodgers traveling around all across United States up
Speaker 3: in that terrible, terrible environment as far as the fans go,
Speaker 3: because they are very partisan in New York. Even though
Speaker 3: the Dodgers come from New York, it's not the same.
Speaker 3: They're playing against a team that's very partisan in their
Speaker 3: fan base. And they had the same record on the
Speaker 3: road as the Mets do at home, so the fans,
Speaker 3: the fans should gain some solace and knowing that they're
Speaker 3: going to go into an environment where they're very adept
Speaker 3: to winning. And now here's here's another little trinket that
Speaker 3: you might want to know. And you know this is
Speaker 3: just just for talk. You know the Mets uniforms, right,
Speaker 3: you have the orange and the blue, and you know
Speaker 3: where that their colors come from.
Speaker 1: I think I have an idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they they come They come from the fact that
Speaker 3: the Dodgers they're blue and the Giants their orange. All
Speaker 3: resided in New York before they came west in nineteen
Speaker 3: fifty eight to the you know, to the West coast
Speaker 3: at San Francisco and La respectively. By the way, the
Speaker 3: Dodgers almost were in San Francisco and the Giants were
Speaker 3: almost in Los Angeles. But that's another story. But their
Speaker 3: team colors of orange and blue are a derivative of
Speaker 3: the Dodgers and Giants in New York. When they left,
Speaker 3: the Mets came in and the Mets took both those colors,
Speaker 3: and that's why they're orange and blue.
Speaker 1: So a little bit of the Mets DNA is Dodger blue.
Speaker 1: It interesting, interesting, like doing it's like doing a an
Speaker 1: ancestry dot com DNA thing here to find out who
Speaker 1: who the parents are and where your lineage is. That's right.
Speaker 1: And we find out that the Dodgers are a great
Speaker 1: uncle or a great that's.
Speaker 3: Right, right, do a DNA right the money dads are.
Speaker 1: That is amazing. Eight six, seven, two, five seventy is
Speaker 1: our number as the Dodgers of Mets are even up
Speaker 1: at a game of peace. The offense yesterday struggled Mookie
Speaker 1: Betts in this NLCS, So the first couple of games
Speaker 1: have struggled, hitting one ninety two the first two games.
Speaker 1: Yesterday goes oh for four with three punch outs. Did
Speaker 1: get on base with the walk and score a run
Speaker 1: off of that walk. But here's Mookie Betts after the
Speaker 1: game yesterday. Nobody's went eleven to No.
Speaker 4: One postseason, all the team, my bats, all the team's
Speaker 4: four teams left, they're all good. You're not going to
Speaker 4: just run through everybody in the postseason. That doesn't I've
Speaker 4: never seen it, and I'd imagine you never will see
Speaker 4: anything like that.
Speaker 5: Seum and I I think, I mean, you guys have
Speaker 5: seen him a lot in the last few years and
Speaker 5: you had like almost an eight a arra against you guys.
Speaker 5: But obviously the arm changle change. What was he doing
Speaker 5: well today? And was it just as simple as the
Speaker 5: arm angle change that was.
Speaker 3: Throwing you guys on?
Speaker 4: I mean, been pitching really well lately and a lot
Speaker 4: of confidence there, and he threw the ball well again.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, there's no U, there's no other
Speaker 4: words are gonna be lost. I mean it sucks, and
Speaker 4: but you can't expect us to just move got I
Speaker 4: don't think anybody here is expecting them to just roll over.
Speaker 4: You know, we know it's gonna be tough. We know,
Speaker 4: I mean, it is one of the other we lost.
Speaker 4: We gotta turn the page and get ready to seven games.
Speaker 4: We gotta go and prepare for game three.
Speaker 3: Now, how much story confidences give you that?
Speaker 6: You guys kind of want to say a spot last round,
Speaker 6: but obviously when one going into San Diego and Turkey
Speaker 6: up with that.
Speaker 1: Sort, I mean last round was last round.
Speaker 4: You know, we gotta focus on game three right now.
Speaker 3: Split one on one.
Speaker 1: We're going to New York.
Speaker 4: We know it's gonna be hectic there. We know they're
Speaker 4: gonna be ah that when they're just obviously is gonna
Speaker 4: give them a lot of confidence. So we have to
Speaker 4: come out ready to play.
Speaker 6: Weird to split this postseason six or eight for thrunners on,
Speaker 6: but hasn't had a hit? Keep the base? Is it? Is?
Speaker 6: It just one of those as our baseball numbers.
Speaker 4: I guess, I mean shore he he'll be fine, he'll
Speaker 4: be fine.
Speaker 7: Missed opportunities, but you have a lot of opportunities.
Speaker 4: It was a nice to kind of scratch back against
Speaker 4: them after that start.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean, but it's a loss, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Today is over with.
Speaker 4: We have to uh flush it, figure out what we
Speaker 4: need to do going forward and prepare for Game three.
Speaker 1: All right, Saxy, is there anything you can take away
Speaker 1: as a hitter in a loss? Knowing that you face
Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz, you face the high end stantic was the
Speaker 1: guy they faced in the seventh and eighth inning, Since
Speaker 1: you face their high end relievers, the back end guys
Speaker 1: who are gonna be pitching in a tight game later
Speaker 1: on this series multiple times, the fact that you got
Speaker 1: eyes on them in Game two like you did. Can
Speaker 1: you take anything away from this and a loss?
Speaker 3: Well, their pitchers are subject to the laws of inevitability
Speaker 3: as well, So they're not going to go up there
Speaker 3: and just you know, shove every single time. They're gonna
Speaker 3: have challenges as well. And so yeah, you take that
Speaker 3: and you say, okay, you know what, we got to
Speaker 3: look at him. We got into that bullpen. We got
Speaker 3: to expose and put them on display. If that's that's
Speaker 3: as rough as it's going to get in this series.
Speaker 3: So you got to get into the depths of the bullpen,
Speaker 3: which is what you want to do. And so you
Speaker 3: take that, come to game three and I like Mookie's
Speaker 3: analogy where we had to flush this game. I like that.
Speaker 3: I like the analogy. It's gone. And now you come
Speaker 3: up in game three, take what you learn from game
Speaker 3: two in game one, and you put that together and
Speaker 3: you put a thumping on these guys, and that's what
Speaker 3: they are definitely planning to do. Mookie's perspective was spot on.
Speaker 3: Nobody expected to go oh eleven and zero show.
Speaker 1: Hey Otani goes oh for three yesterday with a couple
Speaker 1: of strikeouts in two walks. Clearly when nobody is on base,
Speaker 1: they are pitching around him. The blueprint is out there
Speaker 1: that if there's nobody on baits, pitch away, pitch away,
Speaker 1: pitch away, make him get himself out by chasing pitches
Speaker 1: out of the strike zone, And that's exactly what he's done.
Speaker 1: When runners are on base, he is six for eight
Speaker 1: in this postseason. When there's nobody on base, he is
Speaker 1: oh for the postseason. Here's Dave Roberts after the game
Speaker 1: yesterday sack see when asked maybe move Otani and change
Speaker 1: up the lineup moving forward here, he.
Speaker 8: Is not really, you know, I think that, you know,
Speaker 8: as far as on the offensive side, I think we've
Speaker 8: been pretty good offensively. I think the guys at the
Speaker 8: bottom have been doing a nice job of getting on base,
Speaker 8: you know. And as far as moving him down, I
Speaker 8: just don't want to be too reactive. I don't really
Speaker 8: see the benefit. We got to just make sure that
Speaker 8: our guys are just still swinging the bat well, and
Speaker 8: quite frankly, I want Showhy to get fined at that's
Speaker 8: a game, you know. So I think he's our best
Speaker 8: here and I want him up there five times.
Speaker 1: There's no sense in panicking, right, I mean, it's two
Speaker 1: games of the NLCS. You're not going to panic and
Speaker 1: started shuffling the lineup. That You've had pretty much set
Speaker 1: this way for the entire regular season.
Speaker 3: No, chemistry means a lot, Familiarity means a lot. You
Speaker 3: won ninety eight games this year. Let's say you put
Speaker 3: Mooki or you put show Hey in the third spot
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers get blown out and shut down and
Speaker 3: he doesn't have a good game. Now what are you
Speaker 3: going to do? Oh, We're going to rush him back
Speaker 3: to the first spot. No, it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 3: You won ninety eight games this year, you dominated p
Speaker 3: Bowl and the run differential. You just keep what's going on.
Speaker 3: You take the loss, take it stride. You come up
Speaker 3: and put a big crooked number up there early, and
Speaker 3: you'll change the perspective quickly.
Speaker 1: I mean, the odds are you're not gonna have your
Speaker 1: top five hitters go oh for nineteen yeah with nine Yeah,
Speaker 1: over the course of a seven game series. It happens once,
Speaker 1: it probably doesn't happen again.
Speaker 3: You got three, you got three former MVPs. Well another
Speaker 3: one coming up in the uh you know, in the
Speaker 3: top three spots. You just you just it's been golden
Speaker 3: for you. You hope to get the most out of
Speaker 3: Freddy because of the ankle, but you just ride that
Speaker 3: thing and you know you're gonna have some losses in there,
Speaker 3: and that's this is one of them that we just
Speaker 3: had previous. But you know what, I'll take my shot
Speaker 3: with this club any day of the week. If the
Speaker 3: pitching holds up, they're gonna score runs. And I bet
Speaker 3: you if you know, I'm not a bet man, but
Speaker 3: you go down to Vegas, I'm sure and you look
Speaker 3: at the the the odds, the odds are they're betting
Speaker 3: on the Dodgers. I would I would guess that for sure.
Speaker 1: Roman and wit Hears next up on Saxon Kate to
Speaker 1: the am here on am FI seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Roman, Hey, good morning gentlemen. I wish Honeywell
Speaker 9: would have started the game yesterday, first of all, but
Speaker 9: I just wanted to suggest maybe Freeman. I see him
Speaker 9: struggling on the bases and stuff. Is there any possibility
Speaker 9: that they could put Freeman as a designated hitter put Otani.
Speaker 6: As a position player.
Speaker 9: That way, Freeman is not on his feet the whole game,
Speaker 9: Because I mean, this is the playoffs and in the
Speaker 9: World Series, I'm expecting Otani to pitch a game, So well,
Speaker 9: give me your feedback on all this.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 1: If there's one position the guy with a bad ankle
Speaker 1: can play, it's first base, right saxon me tape it
Speaker 1: and cut it. Yeah, I mean he's spatting it up
Speaker 1: like a football player does with tape on the outside.
Speaker 1: H He's trying everything he can and doing everything he
Speaker 1: can to be out there, and he has so far
Speaker 1: the last couple of games with this NLCS. I don't
Speaker 1: worry about that. It's going to continue to give. He's
Speaker 1: getting the treatment every day. The further and further we
Speaker 1: get away from that initial spring is only a good thing.
Speaker 3: And I've never heard Freddy complain about it once. No,
Speaker 3: not one time, And you won't because he's a pro,
Speaker 3: and you know what you do. He's playing first base,
Speaker 3: he doesn't have to run as much. You tape it
Speaker 3: and you gut it out. That's what you do, and
Speaker 3: he'll do it. I would bet he'll be there in
Speaker 3: every game. You know what, if he if he can
Speaker 3: possibly get on the field, he'll be there.
Speaker 1: Sean Man and Naya was like one and six against
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, one in five against the Dodgers in his
Speaker 1: career going into the game two yesterday, and he goes
Speaker 1: out there and pitches five innings, three runs, two hit,
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts and ends up walking for late in that outing,
Speaker 1: they started comparing him to Chris Sale last night in
Speaker 1: the broadcast. And while he's redone his mechanics and he's
Speaker 1: now dropped his arm slot down a little bit so
Speaker 1: he's more three quarters rather than over the top. He's
Speaker 1: got a wide delivery, so against the left hander, it
Speaker 1: feels like he's coming right at you and then the
Speaker 1: ball ben breaks over the the plate. It seemed to
Speaker 1: have Freddie Freeman mookie bats and more importantly, Showy Otani
Speaker 1: on roller skates yesterday. What did you see in Shan
Speaker 1: Manaya in his new mechanics that was so good for him? Yes,
Speaker 1: Shane working.
Speaker 3: First of all, that's a different picture. It's not the
Speaker 3: former Sean Manaya. Oh I guess you say it is
Speaker 3: the former Sean Manaiah because you won't see that guy anymore.
Speaker 3: This transformation that he's made is just shocking to me
Speaker 3: that a guy this you know, on in his career
Speaker 3: can make a massive change. Because what those numbers they
Speaker 3: were posting before were with Shan and Iyah with a
Speaker 3: three quarter arm delivery. Now you have a side arm
Speaker 3: guy that's throwing cross bodied, which is you know, voodoo
Speaker 3: for a young picture, because oh it'll tear up your
Speaker 3: arm and you can't do it. This is a mature
Speaker 3: man with that big, big dude. You want to compare
Speaker 3: him with Chris Sale. You got to first shed one
Speaker 3: hundred pounds off his back. But this is a guy
Speaker 3: that can take it.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: He's a grown he's a grown man. He's a big dude.
Speaker 3: He can take a lot of punishment, and that delivery
Speaker 3: that he has is just devastating. It's not easy for
Speaker 3: right handers either, and the ball gets on you a
Speaker 3: lot quicker than you think. First of all, he's got
Speaker 3: over a seven foot stretch when he's delivering the ball
Speaker 3: out of his hand because he's a real tall guy
Speaker 3: and they were saved seven point one feet from the
Speaker 3: rubber till when he delivers the ball out of his hand,
Speaker 3: So it gets on you a little bit quicker. And
Speaker 3: the fact that he's got a great change up makes
Speaker 3: the ninety two fastball look ninety seven and devastating. For
Speaker 3: left handers, they just they think that thing's coming out
Speaker 3: of Australia somewhere that's way down and over there. So
Speaker 3: brilliant move to do it. It's a gutsy, ballsy move
Speaker 3: to completely transform your delivery. But man did it work.
Speaker 3: Look at the splits before he did this, where he
Speaker 3: was just an average guy. Now he's way above average.
Speaker 3: This is a major transformation that really worked out for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he completely looks like a new pitcher out there
Speaker 1: and had the Dodger hitters on roller skates for a
Speaker 1: lot of that game yesterday out of Dodgers Stadium. Dodgers
Speaker 1: had their chances even against the Mets, bullpen couldn't come
Speaker 1: through when they needed that big hit eight six, six, nine,
Speaker 1: eighty seven to two, five seventy year phone calls coming up.
Speaker 1: We'll also hear from former Dodger Mike Marshall. In about
Speaker 1: forty five minutes, we'll check in with MLB Network Radios
Speaker 1: Mike Stanton, former reliever won three World Series with the Yankees.
Speaker 1: Get his thoughts on this pitching staff, this Dodger bullpen,
Speaker 1: the bullpen game that was at Game two yesterday, and
Speaker 1: if the Dodgers able to piece it together with a
Speaker 1: bullpen game in New York, which they're probably gonna have
Speaker 1: to do at some point in games three, four, and five.
Speaker 1: He is Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kates. Thanks for being
Speaker 1: with us on this Tuesday morning on a FI seventy
Speaker 1: LA sports Sax and Kate's in the am on this
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, October fifteenth. Thanks for being with this. You
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Speaker 1: a five seventy LA sports. Dodgers and Mets all tied
Speaker 1: up at a game apiece and this best is seven NLCS.
Speaker 1: Dodgers won Game one on Sunday night. Game two goes
Speaker 1: to the Mets yesterday after they jumped on the Dodgers'
Speaker 1: bullpen early. The Dodgers had a chance six seventh and
Speaker 1: eighth inning they had runners on base, could not get
Speaker 1: that big hit they needed to get back into the game,
Speaker 1: and now the series tied at the game of piece,
Speaker 1: going to New York. Game three will be tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: five oh eight. First pitch walker Bueller and Luis Severino.
Speaker 1: The pitching matchup that is coming up again tomorrow night
Speaker 1: at City Field in New York. Coming up in just
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, Mike Marshall, your former teammate there
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers, will join us, get his thoughts on
Speaker 1: this NLCS and look back to nineteen eighty eight and
Speaker 1: the magical run you guys had. Of course, the NLCS
Speaker 1: you guys had against the New York Mets and Darryl
Speaker 1: Strawberry Doc Gooden in that eighty eight Mets sevens. Go
Speaker 1: back out to the phones, Mike and Torrens. Thanks for
Speaker 1: being patient. Mike.
Speaker 3: How you doing Gerick?
Speaker 6: Thanks? How are you doing good?
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 7: I was out of the game yesterday at ten thirty,
Speaker 7: and given it was a short day from the great
Speaker 7: victory on Sunday, I noticed something that the Mets were
Speaker 7: out there for an hour and a half doing batting practice,
Speaker 7: and there wasn't one Dodger that hit batting practice. And
Speaker 7: I'll tell you, they were rocketing and they were hitting.
Speaker 7: They were you could see they were kind of sharpening
Speaker 7: the sword. And that's how the game started. The Mets
Speaker 7: came out, beryln and the Dodgers were cold and dead
Speaker 7: and lifeless.
Speaker 9: So I'm just out of that.
Speaker 7: Steve Sachs, I mean, I played sports for years I
Speaker 7: just played baseball with and I was listening to Pete
Speaker 7: Rose recently. He just talked about playing Pepper. You know,
Speaker 7: even before games looking at the ball. How important is it,
Speaker 7: Steve to have that that that batting practice, especially in
Speaker 7: a short season or a short night like that where
Speaker 7: you're kind of over You're like, oh, well, we're good,
Speaker 7: we're good. Is it really important to get out there
Speaker 7: and kind of sharpen the saw before a game like that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for your call, And you know what, I
Speaker 3: like it. I love take batting practice a lot. But
Speaker 3: these guys are hitting. You can bet that they're hitting
Speaker 3: underneath the stadium and the big beautiful cages that they
Speaker 3: have there. I liked hitting on the field. I'm with you.
Speaker 3: I like to watch the ball and see where how
Speaker 3: it comes off the bat. But they're hitting. They're doing
Speaker 3: soft toss or hitting in the cage, or taking live
Speaker 3: batting practice and whatnot. I do agree with you with Pepper.
Speaker 3: They don't even put the signs up there behind the
Speaker 3: backstops anymore. That says no Pepper games because nobody does
Speaker 3: it anymore. But I love Pepper. If I was a manager,
Speaker 3: that would be a staple as far as my warm ups.
Speaker 3: It's good for the infielders, then it's good for the hitters.
Speaker 1: They also do virtual baseball. They put the goggles on
Speaker 1: and oh man, I mean.
Speaker 3: That's that's just so I don't know, I gotta have
Speaker 3: something organic. I mean a little bit, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: even the crack of the bad I mean, even whatever.
Speaker 3: I mean. I know people do it, and I know
Speaker 3: there's all these different ways and new found ways too,
Speaker 3: but I don't know. I just think the old fashion
Speaker 3: way is pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's a way to see the picture beforehand. You can
Speaker 1: see the different arm slots. You can kind of get
Speaker 1: a read because they can program in what pitches he throws,
Speaker 1: how he throws them, different spots they land, and you
Speaker 1: can kind of go through a bad after a bad
Speaker 1: before the game even starts, and simulate what it's going
Speaker 1: to look like when you face that picture that day.
Speaker 1: I know that's something that they've started using in the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. You know, there's everything out there now.
Speaker 1: Technology has allowed so much for these guys to have
Speaker 1: the tools before you even step in the batter's box,
Speaker 1: to go out there and maybe have an advantage or disadvantage.
Speaker 1: However you look at it against the pitcher. Angie in
Speaker 1: la is next up here on Saxon Kate's and am
Speaker 1: on this Tuesday morning. How you doing Angie?
Speaker 10: Good morning guys. I'm doing great. And Saxe before I
Speaker 10: even start, my best friend would never forgive me if
Speaker 10: I don't tell you that she loves you.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you Angie.
Speaker 10: Please if you can say hi to Cynthia for me.
Speaker 3: Cynthia, how you doing.
Speaker 9: You so much?
Speaker 10: You know, guys, I'm just calling because it's so frustrating people.
Speaker 10: Oh why did they have a bullpen game? Why would
Speaker 10: they want to bullpen game for the first game in
Speaker 10: hostile territory? It makes no sense to me. I feel
Speaker 10: that Bueller is getting better his last outing. I always
Speaker 10: worry about the first inning because that's his achilles.
Speaker 11: He got out of.
Speaker 10: The first inning, but then second inning said here hold
Speaker 10: my beer, and it wasn't even him, you know what
Speaker 10: I mean. So, guys, everybody relaxed. It's game two. Like
Speaker 10: Moukie said in the interview, we weren't going to sweep
Speaker 10: the Mets. They're here for a reason. We're here for
Speaker 10: a reason. All the injuries we've had throughout the season,
Speaker 10: and we had the best record in the MLB, not
Speaker 10: the West, not the NL in MLB. So guys really
Speaker 10: need to stop balllyaching about oh, why this or why that?
Speaker 10: You know, when the team does great, Roberts is the best.
Speaker 10: When something goes wrong, why is Robert still here? It's
Speaker 10: a bipolar relationship. If you're not strong enough, then, like
Speaker 10: I told my daughter, I told my daughter this yesterday, Hey,
Speaker 10: bandwagon go sit over there. You don't got to leave,
Speaker 10: but just keep it down.
Speaker 1: All right, Ange, You're tough there throwing it down on
Speaker 1: her daughter for being a bandwagon field.
Speaker 3: I think there's a good perspective there, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: sometimes we I mean we can question moves that you know,
Speaker 3: managers and all that make it's easy to do that.
Speaker 3: But I mean the overall is she had it right.
Speaker 3: I mean, Dave Roberts is a great manager. He's great
Speaker 3: with the with the players. He sets the tone in
Speaker 3: the clubhouse, and that's what managers do. Good managers do.
Speaker 3: That's he's really great at it.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 1: Saxy joining us now a former teammate of yours, A
Speaker 1: fixture in the outfield for the Dodgers in the nineteen eighties,
Speaker 1: two time World Series champ and All Star. He is
Speaker 1: Mike Marshall and he joins us now here on a
Speaker 1: five seventy LA Sports. You'r home of the Dodgers. Mike,
Speaker 1: Good morning. How you doing, I'm doing, appreciate you coming
Speaker 1: on this morning. Here we are the NLCS like nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight, to the Dodgers and Meds squaring off, and
Speaker 1: you got a Dodgers team that's the favorite. Back in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, you and Saxy were playing. You guys
Speaker 1: were the serious underdogs in that series. When you see
Speaker 1: these two teams squaring off here in twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: in the National League Championship Series, what kind of memories
Speaker 1: do you remember from nineteen eighty eight and that series
Speaker 1: that you guys played in.
Speaker 6: Oh gosh, As SAXI will tell you, you probably don't go.
Speaker 6: You probably don't go during the day. Anytime during the day.
Speaker 6: You have flashbacks of your career and certain things that
Speaker 6: happened in your baseball life. And you know, after I
Speaker 6: got a call from Brent or saying that's going to
Speaker 6: be on the radio today, I can just never I
Speaker 6: never forgot. Everybody talks about Gibbe's home run in the
Speaker 6: World Series, but I just never forgot watching so shit
Speaker 6: the home run off of Good I mean yeah, I
Speaker 6: mean we're we're a couple outs away from being down
Speaker 6: three to one and have to come back the next day.
Speaker 6: I think, play like a noon game and hit the
Speaker 6: home run, and then Ghibbee follows up and hits a
Speaker 6: home run and extra innings. I mean, yeah, those are
Speaker 6: the things that happened. And in postseason play in the playoffs,
Speaker 6: it's just you just never know. And it's a big reward.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 6: You start in January and you go through the one
Speaker 6: hundred and sixty games and playoffs and spring training and
Speaker 6: ups and downs and then to get that reward to
Speaker 6: play in the postseason. These guys are just having a
Speaker 6: great time. And it's it really is two different seasons.
Speaker 6: Steve will tell you. It's it's it's it's a regular
Speaker 6: season in postseason. It's just two different things, and you
Speaker 6: just never know what's going to happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's right, Mike, good to be with you. How
Speaker 3: you doing, my friend, you too, Yeah, it's great to
Speaker 3: hear from you, you too, And a lot I want
Speaker 3: to tell our fans and Tim that Mike and I
Speaker 3: were really good friends. We still are. And the first
Speaker 3: time I ever saw Mike Marshall take batting practice was
Speaker 3: in Lethbridge, Alberta. And he gets in the cage with
Speaker 3: the double ear flaps on, and I'm at shortstop and
Speaker 3: I see Mike hit the first couple of balls that
Speaker 3: are going up as they leave Henderson Stadium in Lethbridge,
Speaker 3: and they're going up to left center field and then
Speaker 3: they're going up to right center field as they leave,
Speaker 3: and or in the in the lights, and I said, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is what big league power is. I've never seen
Speaker 3: anything like this. And this guy, Mike Marshall had some
Speaker 3: of the most dynamic, unbelievable power in the game and
Speaker 3: battie practice whatever. He could hit some missiles, I mean
Speaker 3: absolute howitzers, and I just marveled at his power. So, Mike, anyway,
Speaker 3: it's good to be with you, Mike.
Speaker 6: And hey, you very very kind, Steven. You still exaggerate,
Speaker 6: So no.
Speaker 3: I'm not exaggerating at all, not at all. Well, listen,
Speaker 3: I do you believe this?
Speaker 6: I mean, could you believe this? I mean I know,
Speaker 6: I mean, we're we're in our mid sixties.
Speaker 9: Year.
Speaker 6: I mean eighteen, we're eighteen years old. Yeah, both of
Speaker 6: us don't even know, you know, what the heck's going
Speaker 6: on with life? Eighteen years old than left Bridge Upbird
Speaker 6: of Canada and here we are whatever years Yeah, talking
Speaker 6: about it again and the and the life experiences that
Speaker 6: we've had. So that's pretty cool. But you know, another
Speaker 6: thing I was thinking about is, you know, with all
Speaker 6: the crazy, you guys experience it more than I do
Speaker 6: because you watch it every day. I don't. But the
Speaker 6: crazy rules that they've implemented, I'm like, se sex would
Speaker 6: have sexy, you would have stolen hundred bases.
Speaker 11: I mean, I'm serious, I'm serious.
Speaker 6: You guys. They can't throw over, not more than they can't.
Speaker 6: They can't freeze you, I know they can't. They can't
Speaker 6: make you stop because the clock's going whatever the heck
Speaker 6: the clock is doing. They gotta throw. I mean, you
Speaker 6: had stolen a hundred bases.
Speaker 3: I mean, fine, who knows, but it's Mike. I agree.
Speaker 3: And that's another conversation we could have about this, about
Speaker 3: all these different rules are crazy and all that. But anyway, Mike,
Speaker 3: how about this series now? I mean you kind of
Speaker 3: make comparison to where the way we had it ours
Speaker 3: was just so crazy with everything was going on, and
Speaker 3: you know, here comes Oral out of the out of
Speaker 3: the bullpen that didn't even know he was down there.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe you can you can lend a little
Speaker 3: bit to the fact that so she used to tell Tommy, Hey,
Speaker 3: tom you gotta you gotta, you know, hit and run
Speaker 3: on this pitch. Right, Oh yes, Oh go ahead, tell
Speaker 3: them to hit run. How about that? How crazy was
Speaker 3: it with our team? I mean compare that kind of
Speaker 3: to now, where it's more structured and whatnot. Back then,
Speaker 3: we were kind of gunslinging and doing what we could,
Speaker 3: taping things together. And we we put together that unbelievable
Speaker 3: team in eighty eight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we we did. I mean you think about well,
Speaker 6: as we all know, I mean, the home run that
Speaker 6: Gibby hit in the World Series, I mean, you know,
Speaker 6: it'll go on forever and ever. But I think that
Speaker 6: all of us needed. We just needed that guy. You know,
Speaker 6: we just kind of needed that dirt bag, yeah, you know,
Speaker 6: no nonsense football mentality to come in and to put
Speaker 6: the guys together. And I thought that was Gibby. You know,
Speaker 6: I mean, you look at his MVP numbers, I mean that,
Speaker 6: you know, they just they weren't that special.
Speaker 3: Right, that was a great half for Miggy in his
Speaker 3: first half.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, and and so you're just like, but he was.
Speaker 6: He just he brought out the best in all of us.
Speaker 6: And you know, scoring from second to second base on
Speaker 6: a wild pitch, and love that Kim Leary pinch hitting
Speaker 6: as a pitcher and winning a game with a game
Speaker 6: winning hit and bringing bringing guys in out of the
Speaker 6: bullpen that you're like, you know, what the heck? You know? So, yeah,
Speaker 6: it really was. It was. It was a little bit
Speaker 6: different game, different mentality. And I thought that Gibby, you know,
Speaker 6: you and me and and and a lot of the
Speaker 6: guys on the team, we just needed that guy to
Speaker 6: be able to say, hey, the way that we play
Speaker 6: is okay. You know it was a little ugly at Todds,
Speaker 6: but but the way we play is okay, We're not
Speaker 6: the you know, we're not going to be very pretty
Speaker 6: at this, but gonna win ball game. I'm gonna catch
Speaker 6: everything somehow, I'll catch it.
Speaker 1: Right, keeping it as pg as we can. Mike Marshall,
Speaker 1: what was it like for you and Steve Sachson that
Speaker 1: eighties Dodgers team. I mean, you guys were were it.
Speaker 1: It was showtimelakers, it was the Dodgers in the eighties.
Speaker 1: We got other things to distract us now and whatnot,
Speaker 1: but man, Los Angeles is still a Dodgers town. And
Speaker 1: when you guys are winning, and you guys are winning
Speaker 1: in eighty eight and riding high, you guys are the
Speaker 1: king of the castle in the city.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was, I think, Steve, for me, it was
Speaker 6: such an honor. You know, I remember going back. Even
Speaker 6: Steve will tell you a little bit about the way
Speaker 6: the O'Malleys ran even spring training and uh, you know,
Speaker 6: the Sandy Colfaxes and the Roy Campanella's and all the
Speaker 6: guys from the fifties and sixties are at camp and
Speaker 6: they're there and it's just a I mean, there was
Speaker 6: such a pride in wearing that uniform and such an
Speaker 6: honor to be able to play at that time. And
Speaker 6: then the guys I got to play with and against,
Speaker 6: so uh, you know, at times I was almost in awe.
Speaker 6: I think I I almost didn't play as well as
Speaker 6: I could have because I almost didn't feel like not
Speaker 6: that I didn't belong, but it was just this pretty
Speaker 6: special time. It was very, very very special to wear
Speaker 6: that uniform.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, Micah. Also, I know I was recently in Chicago,
Speaker 3: and believe me, I had a conversation with the guys.
Speaker 3: Some guys there that knew you very well, knew you
Speaker 3: were from Buffalo. Grove knew that you broke Dave Kingman's
Speaker 3: home run records and broke his records in high school.
Speaker 3: And you're still a huge legend back in Chicago as well. Uh,
Speaker 3: But I wanted to I wanted to ask you a
Speaker 3: little bit about the starting pitching today. Okay, like we
Speaker 3: just recently had a bullpen game. We never heard of
Speaker 3: a bullpen game. When we played. The starters were there,
Speaker 3: they were expected to go. I mean Nolan Ryan pitching
Speaker 3: three hundred innings, Don Sutton pitching three hundred innings. You
Speaker 3: know during the season. Today it's one hundred and fly
Speaker 3: and that's it. How about the starting pitching today versus
Speaker 3: the way it was back then?
Speaker 6: Well again, another one of those about the about the
Speaker 6: base stealing. We could spend about an hour on this,
Speaker 6: but I've heard I've heard Oral, I've heard John Smoltz,
Speaker 6: you know, two highly intelligent guys, and again you would
Speaker 6: know more than I. But I just think the strike
Speaker 6: box has really affected the game. I don't like I
Speaker 6: don't like how high they've moved the strike zone. And
Speaker 6: because of the moving of the strike zone up, they've
Speaker 6: created the ninety seven ninety eight mile an hour fastball
Speaker 6: up in the zone. And so you're just putting so
Speaker 6: much stress on these pitchers to be power guys, and
Speaker 6: they just don't get the they don't get the low strike.
Speaker 6: I mean, you don't see anybody breaking bats anymore. You
Speaker 6: don't see anybody pitching in the bottom of the zone
Speaker 6: with movement like oral. Did you know Smoltz was a
Speaker 6: power guy, but he had incredible movement on both sides
Speaker 6: of the plate and down you know. I mean when
Speaker 6: you got to the when you got to the big leagues,
Speaker 6: everybody pitched down, down, down. You know, you want to
Speaker 6: ground balls, you wanted action. And now it's a lot
Speaker 6: of strikeouts, a lot of walks, and a lot of
Speaker 6: home runs because guys are elevating pitches. But I think
Speaker 6: we just go back. I mean, look at the amount
Speaker 6: of pitchers in the in the big leagues that are
Speaker 6: that are having surgery and not being able to go
Speaker 6: long into games and it's just it's a different game.
Speaker 6: I understand it, but I just don't know if it's
Speaker 6: in the best interest of these guys' arms too. And
Speaker 6: again I wish that they would lower the strike zone.
Speaker 6: I just I just think the high strike has really
Speaker 6: hurt guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike, Mike, And another thing I wanted to ask
Speaker 3: you quickly is that you know when they were video
Speaker 3: and guys back when we play, I'm sorry, when the
Speaker 3: ball was coming out of the hand, as far as
Speaker 3: the speed machines, a jugs machine, they would clock that
Speaker 3: coming over the plate. Today they clock it coming out
Speaker 3: of the hand. I've heard that they recently did a
Speaker 3: mock up of Nolan Ryan, a life sized version of
Speaker 3: him on his video and they clocked him coming out
Speaker 3: of the hand as opposed to coming over the plate.
Speaker 3: And it was between one toweight and one ten. And
Speaker 3: there's nobody that throws close to that today. There's nobody
Speaker 3: that threw close to that when we played. So I
Speaker 3: want to get your assessment kind of are they really
Speaker 3: throwing ninety eight? Has the evolution of the human body
Speaker 3: and the ability to throw from ninety ninety two ninety
Speaker 3: three years ninety three miles an hour to all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, everybody's throwing a hundred. Is it really a hundred?
Speaker 3: Or is it maybe the way that they're detecting the speed.
Speaker 6: I think you're onto something, I really do. I don't think, yeah,
Speaker 6: it's incredible. I mean, how about the ninety two ninety
Speaker 6: three mile an hour change ups?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Holy god?
Speaker 3: The other day, whoa, he's doing a ninety change up.
Speaker 11: Mike.
Speaker 3: And I've been down in the pits in spring training.
Speaker 3: I've seen these guys throw. I've been right next to them,
Speaker 3: and I'm thinking, it's been a long time. I don't
Speaker 3: notice any difference. No, I think the breadth of all
Speaker 3: of them together maybe a little bit. But right, they're
Speaker 3: not throwing ninety two. I remember Steve Howe was instructurally
Speaker 3: you saw in ninety two and they were like, whoa,
Speaker 3: this guy's so yeah, righty two ninety three and now
Speaker 3: that's a slow one. Today it's a change up. Like
Speaker 3: you said, I can't believe that the human bodies evolve
Speaker 3: that fast.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, I think you're right. I think it's I
Speaker 6: think it's for the fans. I think you know, you
Speaker 6: sit there and you're like wow. You know, there is
Speaker 6: a wow factor to seeing one oh one or ninety
Speaker 6: eight to consistently being thrown. But I but I agree
Speaker 6: with you. I don't think it's uh but I mean
Speaker 6: I kind of you know, you guys asking me questions.
Speaker 6: I'm asking you what the heck is going on with
Speaker 6: the with the Tommy John surgeries and losing five starting
Speaker 6: pitchers in the season. What do you what do you
Speaker 6: attribute it to? Watching it every day?
Speaker 3: You know, it's uh, it's it's I'm befuddled with this
Speaker 3: whole thing. I I I mean, I see all these guys.
Speaker 3: I mean, look at the laundry list of Dodgers of
Speaker 3: got I mean we have Walker Buller's had two, you got,
Speaker 3: you got, Dustin May you got. I mean all the
Speaker 3: way down there's the Dodger of the Dodger and teams
Speaker 3: other teams as well. I don't know. I don't get it.
Speaker 6: Weight training, I mean, is it may training? Is it
Speaker 6: the is it the weighted balls? Is it? H what
Speaker 6: do they call that? The skyline or whatever? The heck?
Speaker 6: People know these guys and yeah, yeah, the yeah, I
Speaker 6: mean I hear about it.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know why why we have
Speaker 3: so many, But maybe it's the.
Speaker 6: When I heard law, when I heard launch Agle, I
Speaker 6: turned the TV off.
Speaker 3: Hey, Mike, when you get a home run, I would
Speaker 3: guess that the Mike Marshall launch angle was pretty good,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, when you run, you have
Speaker 3: to check the angle. I mean really, but I think
Speaker 3: I think some of these injuries to you guys is
Speaker 3: because that pitchers don't know how to ratchet it down
Speaker 3: a little bit. I can. I can promise you did
Speaker 3: the great Madus. These guys didn't go you know, one
Speaker 3: hundred percent every single pitch. You can pitch it ninety
Speaker 3: velocity and still get guys out big time by putting
Speaker 3: some on.
Speaker 6: The taking off right, Absolutely absolutely, And it's just it's
Speaker 6: such yeah, and it's such a better game when you
Speaker 6: when you see the action in the infield and the
Speaker 6: guys getting ground balls and plays are being made and
Speaker 6: and uh, I mean, heck, I'm talking to a guy.
Speaker 6: I mean, when was the last time you saw somebody slash?
Speaker 12: You know?
Speaker 6: I mean I saw the Dodgers bunt the other day.
Speaker 6: That was kind of fun. But I mean I'm talking
Speaker 6: to a guy that could I mean, you could put
Speaker 6: it out there and pull it back and slash. I mean,
Speaker 6: just a lot of fun stuff that the game is,
Speaker 6: but it's still it's still a great game. I mean,
Speaker 6: I I mean this this thing, the ball I hadn't
Speaker 6: seen since Bonds, Since Barry Bonds, I haven't seen a
Speaker 6: ball come off a bat like this. Uh. This kid
Speaker 6: with the Dodgers, the Atonic kid. That is unbelievable, the
Speaker 6: way the sound and the way the ball comes off
Speaker 6: the bat. So there's just some incredible athletes. I mean,
Speaker 6: I don't want to be that guy that says back
Speaker 6: in the day it was such you know, we were
Speaker 6: so much better now these guys are incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, spin top spin, over overspin, line drives that are
Speaker 3: hitting the wall, that plus power. You know that all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 6: I do I do want some of their whatever made
Speaker 6: ball or whatever. I do want some of their bats,
Speaker 6: though I don't think we got.
Speaker 1: The bats that they got a different for sure.
Speaker 3: Mike.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your time this morning. Uh, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: It's been too long since we talked, and I look forward.
Speaker 6: To doing it in Stevie. I love you, brother man,
Speaker 6: love you, buddy.
Speaker 3: Mike. Lit'sten call me. I'm gonna we want to talk
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 1: We got right here.
Speaker 6: I think you ain't sack. You still got still is
Speaker 6: still in Sacramento.
Speaker 3: I am indeed, buddy.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I'm in Paulo, Alto. So a car ride.
Speaker 6: Let's do it.
Speaker 3: That's good, Okay, but take care Mike.
Speaker 1: All right, there he goes the great Mike Marshall him,
Speaker 1: how is that.
Speaker 3: Guy not in the front office or something with some team?
Speaker 1: Absolutely so much knowledge, love hearing from him, and my
Speaker 1: ten year old Tim Kats is geeking out right now
Speaker 1: having Steve Saxon Mike Marshall talk baseball. I just sat
Speaker 1: back here and listened to you guys talk. It was fantastic.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: Hope you enjoyed that. Dodger fans, Thanks to Mike Marshall
Speaker 1: for joining us. Coming up the top of the r
Speaker 1: Mike Stanton from MLB Network Radio join us talk about
Speaker 1: the bullpen game, Dodgers Mets tied at a game of
Speaker 1: peace in the NLCS. It's Sacks and Kate to the
Speaker 1: am right here on your home with the Dodgers a
Speaker 1: FI seventy l A Sports, Sax and kateson am FI
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports Live and Local as the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: Mets are all even in a game of piece in
Speaker 1: the NLCS after the Mets stole the whole field of
Speaker 1: advantage with a seventy three win over the Dodgers yesterday
Speaker 1: thanks to Mike Marshall. So cool to catch up with
Speaker 1: your former teammates, But at dude, unbelievable and U the
Speaker 1: wealth of knowledge that he has for baseball, current past,
Speaker 1: the game, how it should be played is truly off
Speaker 1: you as well, Sexy, I mean, around the game still
Speaker 1: as much as you are. And to have that fountain
Speaker 1: of knowledge that you guys have having been successful winners
Speaker 1: on the field, it's so it's so fun.
Speaker 3: I mean, I look at this guy and I think
Speaker 3: what team wouldn't benefit from Mike Marshall that. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm surprised he's not with the club's doing something like
Speaker 3: a you know, advanced scout, you know, being an assistant
Speaker 3: the GM or something. This guy's like a wealth of knowledge.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many people who work in the
Speaker 1: front offices nowadays for all these teams, and there's a
Speaker 1: collective group that come up with these brain trusts. It's
Speaker 1: not just the GM and the assistant GM anymore. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's advisors and assistance to this person, and you know,
Speaker 1: there's got to be a role. The Dodgers need to
Speaker 1: find a role for Mike Marshall, bring him back, a
Speaker 1: roving instructor, somebody that can help out at different levels
Speaker 1: and instruct these young players and how to play the
Speaker 1: game of baseball. Maybe, as you mentioned, an advanced scout,
Speaker 1: since he lives in the Bay area up there and
Speaker 1: scouting the different teams up there and just being around
Speaker 1: the dodge. How happened already, I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I know one thing.
Speaker 3: That guy on the bench would consistently talk strategy, talk
Speaker 3: about breaking down. He would break down at bats and
Speaker 3: pitches as they were going along, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: You could just work with them and we would talk
Speaker 3: like that a lot in the bench. The guy's count
Speaker 3: he's a baseball encyclopedia. You guys came up to God
Speaker 3: right talking baseball. What's that?
Speaker 1: You guys came up.
Speaker 3: Together right same time. We were born, just days apart,
Speaker 3: both in January his birthdays January twelfth and minds of
Speaker 3: twenty ninth, same year.
Speaker 1: Up through the minors in eighty one, you guys both
Speaker 1: major debuts with this Dodgers team and then we're off
Speaker 1: and running throughout the eighties. Of course, the championship team
Speaker 1: in eighty eight. But yeah, that's that's cool.
Speaker 3: You guys came up together recently, well, you know, within
Speaker 3: a couple of years, and he looks exactly the same
Speaker 3: as he did back then. He's in great shape. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's one of these guys that like, you think, wow,
Speaker 3: where did time go? You know, So he's he's doing
Speaker 3: it right, But man, I just love to see him
Speaker 3: in the big way. He should be there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, It's squeeze in one call Roque Raquel in
Speaker 1: Santa Clarina, Good morning, Good morning, Hi Raquel.
Speaker 12: I just want to say it's only game two. We've
Speaker 12: been in this position before. Physically we played better when
Speaker 12: we're not home field advantage this season, so it's only
Speaker 12: game two. We can do it, and I believe in
Speaker 12: our Dodgers And thank you for all the information you
Speaker 12: gave us every morning.
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate it, Thank you, rock hell. Appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Let's squeeze in Alfred in La Real quick before the
Speaker 1: top of the hour. Alfred, good morning, how you doing.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Amphi seventy.
Speaker 11: Good morning, Hey Saxy. A quick note. I spent about
Speaker 11: five years with Mike Marshall at New Mexico Highlands in
Speaker 11: Las Vegas, New Mexico, when he was coaching baseball, and
Speaker 11: I spent a lot of time in his office. I
Speaker 11: learned a lot of stories, a lot of backstories behind
Speaker 11: Kurt gets his stuff and all his minor league things.
Speaker 11: I learned a lot of knowledge from Mike Marshall. That
Speaker 11: was great, man, great. Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 3: He's got he's a wealth of knowledge and he's he's
Speaker 3: like a baseball rat. He's he's constantly in the game
Speaker 3: and he just loves it. That's why he's still in it.
Speaker 11: He even cuts me out one time because I said
Speaker 11: the Dodgers' pitching was struggling, and he said, I didn't
Speaker 11: know what I was talking about. That's great, dude, man.
Speaker 11: I love Mike Marshall.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you thank you, Alfred. Appreciate you checking in
Speaker 1: and saying that about Mike mar Yeah, that's great to
Speaker 1: hear from him. Great to hear you guys reconnect and
Speaker 1: talking about the eighty eight team, which is in the
Speaker 1: same situation NLCS against the New York met We went
Speaker 1: to a game seven. We're going to a game three
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. One more hour to go, Sax and Kates
Speaker 1: and am yeah.
Speaker 3: Can you hear me grooving? I do listen, hang on,
Speaker 3: hang on this ready boom boom.
Speaker 1: Dodgers were grooving after game one, lost to groove in
Speaker 1: game two. We need to get it back for game three,
Speaker 1: which is tomorrow night in New York. Mike Stanton will
Speaker 1: join US World Series champion, former reliever for the Yankees,
Speaker 1: now MLB Series XM Radio will join us. Get his
Speaker 1: thoughts on this series, this bullpen game that happened yesterday,
Speaker 1: and your phone calls, thanks for being with us on
Speaker 1: this Tuesday morning, and Saxon Kate's.
Speaker 3: And to him, I'm chimmying right now. I'm shimmying.
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