Speaker 1: The right quiet.
Speaker 2: Dodgers Playoff baseball is back, and with it an annual
Speaker 2: postseason tradition.
Speaker 1: Scam is back. Baby.
Speaker 2: This is Sax and Cakes in the.
Speaker 3: A APPA go with Proway.
Speaker 2: Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your favorite Dodger
Speaker 2: pregame host, Tim Kates. If you want to talk Dodgers,
Speaker 2: get in on the show on eighty six six nine,
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seven now. While the Dan Patrick
Speaker 2: Show streams on the Ihearts radio app.
Speaker 4: We've been banished to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff
Speaker 4: run concludes. Here they are broadcasting live on AM five
Speaker 4: to seven e LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks.
Speaker 5: Is there anything better than October? Keyk I don't think so,
Speaker 5: keik Hernandez a huge two run home run, Dodgers go
Speaker 5: deep three times, Walker Buehler stud Dodgers take Game three
Speaker 5: at the NLCS last night, eight to nothing to win
Speaker 5: over the New York Mets. It's Sax and Kates in
Speaker 5: the AM here on your home of show Otani and
Speaker 5: the Dodgers a five to seventy LA Sports do is
Speaker 5: that Dodgers take a two to one series lead. In
Speaker 5: this best is seven NLCS Dodgers on Deck begins at
Speaker 5: four o'clock this afternoon. First pitch Game number four from
Speaker 5: City Field is at five oh eight live from the
Speaker 5: Galpin Motors Broadcast Booth. Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Jose Cantana the
Speaker 5: pitching matchup in this game four to night. Next hour,
Speaker 5: David veasts Say will join us from New York City.
Speaker 5: Sean Green, former Dodger, will join us as well. Coming
Speaker 5: up this hour. Plenty of your phone calls at eight
Speaker 5: six six ninet eighty seven to two five seventy one.
Speaker 5: Lucky Dodger fan is gonna win an autograph Steve Sachs
Speaker 5: Dodger jersey and you're not eligible, Saxy. No, okay, no,
Speaker 5: well you are not eligible to win your own jersey.
Speaker 5: So well, I did have two people my my family
Speaker 5: reached out to me last night, one being my wife
Speaker 5: and asking if she could win the jersey since you
Speaker 5: were her favorite player. It's very awkward going home and
Speaker 5: having to ask here from my wife how Steve Sack's doing.
Speaker 5: I'm like that he's doing great. Why well, just curious
Speaker 5: to how he's doing. You know, you guys sounded great
Speaker 5: this morning and everything good. It's like, you know, I
Speaker 5: know you had his poster as a kid, but you
Speaker 5: know this is really enough is enough?
Speaker 1: I didn't know about that. Enough is enough? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Oh oh, come on, she's not eligible. I told her.
Speaker 5: Then my mother in law reached out and asked if
Speaker 5: she was eligible to win. I said, no, not eligible
Speaker 5: to win.
Speaker 1: That would you would? People would cry nepotism. I think
Speaker 1: absolutely cannot do that.
Speaker 5: This is a show on the up and up, and
Speaker 5: everything's on the tabina. Absolutely absolutely, So one lucky Dodger
Speaker 5: fan is gonna win that Steve Sacks autographed jersey. We're
Speaker 5: we gonna throw the Dodger hat as well, so you
Speaker 5: can walk around and wear your Dodger gear tomorrow on
Speaker 5: the show. A two hundred and fifty dollars gift card
Speaker 5: to the Dodger clubout store at the Universal City Walk,
Speaker 5: the official clubhouse in merchandise store of Anfi seventy La
Speaker 5: sports Kei k Hernandez Last Night with the home run
Speaker 5: Mister October Here in twenty twenty four, getting it done
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers Showyotani goes deep and it's kind of
Speaker 5: a cool video. If you see it on social media
Speaker 5: or if you watched it in the moment last night.
Speaker 5: As soon as Kik hit the home run, did the
Speaker 5: bat flip In the background of one of the camera
Speaker 5: shots is showe Heyotani on the on deck circle and
Speaker 5: show hey bat in hand, both hands up in the air.
Speaker 5: So excited for Key k Hernandez and to see show
Speaker 5: Hey Otani kind of show some excitement, to show some life,
Speaker 5: to show some of his personality, Saxy. He was in
Speaker 5: baseball purgatory and Anaheim for six years. We didn't see
Speaker 5: this at all. He was very quiet, very subdued. Spoke
Speaker 5: to the media once a series. He was kind of
Speaker 5: down in Orange County. Didn't really see a lot of it.
Speaker 5: Knew who he was, certainly of the great players in baseball.
Speaker 5: We're seeing his personality now come out, and his teammates
Speaker 5: love him. He loves his teammates. He has a smile
Speaker 5: on his face all the time. It's almost like a
Speaker 5: coming out party for show Heyo Tani. We knew who
Speaker 5: he was, we know the offense that he can provide,
Speaker 5: but man, it's great to see.
Speaker 1: This guy with a smile on his face. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you know it's it's amazing to see how much he
Speaker 1: is unaffected. I mean, this guy is one of the
Speaker 1: most recognized people on the planet. He's certainly you know,
Speaker 1: over in Japan and in every place. Now baseball is
Speaker 1: becoming a global sport, and it's amazing to see how
Speaker 1: unaffected he really is. He's just like a big kid,
Speaker 1: you know, and he loves his teammates. Teammates love him.
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful world, you know, And I could be
Speaker 1: couldn't you just have that, you know, that that always
Speaker 1: smile on your face, that kind of that glow about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, seven hundred million will do a lot of that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that's a pretty good deal.
Speaker 5: I like to think that he was miserable in Anaheim
Speaker 5: and and now he's so happy to be wearing Dodger
Speaker 5: blue and put on that Dodger uniform and be around
Speaker 5: this group of winners that he is now with the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: joining the group that's already been successful, already won a
Speaker 5: World Series for the most part, this core group, and
Speaker 5: joins them to help try to win a championship in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four. I'm glad you brought up something. How
Speaker 5: recognizable is if you're not at a Dodger Stadium Dodger fans,
Speaker 5: and if you are, just look at the amount of
Speaker 5: Japanese media that is around covering show. Hey Otani, I'll
Speaker 5: give you a great example. On all off day for
Speaker 5: the workout of Dodger Stadium to the NLDS, we did
Speaker 5: the afternoon show out there with Petro some money, and
Speaker 5: we're doing the show on the field and walking around
Speaker 5: and you know, talking to players and you know, just
Speaker 5: doing the show from the field and show Yotani comes
Speaker 5: out of the dugout and it's like the world stopped.
Speaker 5: It's almost like they stop throwing VP and he comes
Speaker 5: out of the dugout to start stretching and throwing the
Speaker 5: outfield and.
Speaker 1: It's just clicklick click click, click click click.
Speaker 5: There's probably a dozen photographers and then another there's six
Speaker 5: cameras and then other you know, newspaper, online reporters writing
Speaker 5: and taking with videos with their cell phones. The amount
Speaker 5: of media coverage he gets from Japan alone will blow
Speaker 5: your mind. If you haven't seen it already, we hear
Speaker 5: about it, we talk about it. But once you see it,
Speaker 5: and then you throw on the American media and then
Speaker 5: when you get to a stage like the playoffs, it
Speaker 5: gets even bigger because you get the kind of fringe media,
Speaker 5: the news media, the morning shows, you know locally, they
Speaker 5: all of a sudden sent out a reporter. They're wearing
Speaker 5: these brand new Dodger jersey nacks like they're Dodger fans
Speaker 5: and they're not really not. You get all those people
Speaker 5: out there, it's amazing to see what he has to
Speaker 5: deal with.
Speaker 1: Steve. Yeah, and he just does it with the smile
Speaker 1: on his face. He does and you can't miss him.
Speaker 1: I mean he's big, dude, you know, he's six ' five.
Speaker 1: It's hard hard to miss show. Hey, but I was
Speaker 1: just thinking, can you imagine what it would be like
Speaker 1: if Tommy Lasorda were in his prime and him and
Speaker 1: and he had show he as one of his players.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that combination? I mean, it would be
Speaker 1: it would be just a show those two by themselves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those two together would be incredible. How do you think
Speaker 1: the Japanese media would would adapt to Tommy? Would they
Speaker 1: go to him for that SoundBite every day they say
Speaker 1: something funny? Yeah? They would embrace the heck out of him.
Speaker 1: Those those two together would be incredible and you know,
Speaker 1: Tommy knew how to work it. You know, Showy being
Speaker 1: as big as star as he is, Tommy could work
Speaker 1: that thing pretty good. But I mean it would be
Speaker 1: good for show heyo too, because Tommy had a great
Speaker 1: way of keeping people grounded, keeping it real, you know,
Speaker 1: caving that family atmosphere in the locker room and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure he would just he would have loved him.
Speaker 5: You're telling me Tommy Lasorda liked to be around the cameras.
Speaker 5: He knewhen the cameras were.
Speaker 1: He kind of knew where they were at the time.
Speaker 1: And I remember one time in spring training he was
Speaker 1: he was giving us a a rendition, h kind of
Speaker 1: like an uh, you know, off the cuff rendition on
Speaker 1: how to steal bases. Tommy was telling us how to
Speaker 1: steal base and there was a special crew there. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was who was who was, you know,
Speaker 1: leading the crew, but it was a big crew. And
Speaker 1: Tommy was telling us how to steal bases. And he said,
Speaker 1: and you cross over here, and you cross and at
Speaker 1: the same time that he's talking to all of us
Speaker 1: in front of us with trying to act like he
Speaker 1: was sincere about it. He's looking over to the side
Speaker 1: where all the cameras are, and he said, and now
Speaker 1: watch as I cross over my step and he's looking
Speaker 1: over to the side of the cameras. At the same time,
Speaker 1: We're like, you gotta be kidding me. This guy just
Speaker 1: works it. You know, he got knew where they were
Speaker 1: the whole time.
Speaker 5: He got it, he understood, and when the cameras are around,
Speaker 5: he absolutely knew it. Eighty six eighty seven, two five
Speaker 5: seventy The Dodgers a two to one series lead. I'm
Speaker 5: optimally optimistically caught. How would I I'm optimistic the Dodgers
Speaker 5: are gonna get it done in this series, Saxy. But
Speaker 5: again I'm cautious. Yeah, I'm cautiously optimistic. Yeah, on the
Speaker 5: Dodgers tonight.
Speaker 1: I remember times like this and I'm trying to put
Speaker 1: myself in and my spikes and what it was like
Speaker 1: and what my feelings were, you know, because I'm so
Speaker 1: in touch with my feelings, you know, and I was
Speaker 1: thinking about, you know, what it was, what it was like,
Speaker 1: what was my mentality was, what was I thinking? And
Speaker 1: I always tried to temper it, you know, Hey, look,
Speaker 1: you know we're up to one it's great. Put that
Speaker 1: in the bank. Now we got a big task ahead
Speaker 1: of a tonight with Kintana, and how am I going
Speaker 1: to approach him? Just like Moncey said, it just brings
Speaker 1: back a lot of memories. You know, you get some
Speaker 1: food in us. You must enjoy the moment because that's
Speaker 1: what it's all about. Go have a great time, enjoy it,
Speaker 1: and then get a good night's rest and start thinking
Speaker 1: about this next guy and really get into him. And
Speaker 1: I just love the whole approach of the Dodgers. They're professional,
Speaker 1: they're talented, they're enthusiastic, but man, they want it. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen a Dodger team won it this bad, I think,
Speaker 1: because so many times, you know, they've been close and
Speaker 1: they haven't done it. They got bounced last year in
Speaker 1: three games, and you know, they won it in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: But some people think there's an asterisk there because oh,
Speaker 1: it was only you know, it wasn't a full season.
Speaker 1: I think that's a bunch of bs. It counts as
Speaker 1: much as it did any other time because all the
Speaker 1: rules were the same for everybody. But I think there
Speaker 1: would be something special about winning it. You know, this year,
Speaker 1: having Otani over et cetera. But I think I just
Speaker 1: since the team really really wants it bad, like you know,
Speaker 1: and that's sometimes hard to get what they you know,
Speaker 1: kind of a team that's got so much talent on
Speaker 1: it already, sure, you know, but they do. This team
Speaker 1: really wants it bad.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a fire in their belly across the board
Speaker 5: that is, You're right, we haven't seen in a few years,
Speaker 5: and you know, maybe coming up short as fuel that
Speaker 5: fire in their bellies. Some guys realizing maybe where they're
Speaker 5: also at in their careers, maybe they understand where a
Speaker 5: run could be coming to an end here in a
Speaker 5: Dodger uniform or in their baseball.
Speaker 1: Careers like Bueller.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely so, soaking it up as much as they
Speaker 5: can and knowing this opportunity may not be there next year,
Speaker 5: may not be there ever again for them to win
Speaker 5: a World Series.
Speaker 1: So certainly making the most of all.
Speaker 5: We got a lot of Dodger fans that want to
Speaker 5: weigh in again this hour, giving away Steve Sacks autograph,
Speaker 5: Dodgers jersey. It is a thing of beauty and a
Speaker 5: Dodgers had Rick and Wittier. Welcome to Saxon Case and
Speaker 5: am On this Thursday morning.
Speaker 1: How you doing Rick?
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning guys.
Speaker 6: Morning is taking my call?
Speaker 7: Hi? Rick?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 3: Just want to just want to say a couple of things.
Speaker 3: Number one about Kee getting on this it's crazy. We're
Speaker 3: one hit away from Game two from being three to zero.
Speaker 3: Stay hockey, k stay hot.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: The other point I want to bring up is my
Speaker 3: buddy and that we have an in arranging group. For
Speaker 3: the last ten years, we talked about Dodgers right before October,
Speaker 3: and this year we decided to. We talked about it
Speaker 3: and we said about how our two strengths this year
Speaker 3: is are bullpen in our offense. At least that's what
Speaker 3: we thought. And now that we see that the starting
Speaker 3: pitching is starting to wake up, it's just only going
Speaker 3: to make this team even better and tough for me.
Speaker 3: And so it's interesting because the media had everybody making
Speaker 3: every other team except the Dodgers this season, and typically
Speaker 3: it's the other way around, and that wasn't the cases here.
Speaker 3: So it's really nice to see that things are working
Speaker 3: out in regards to the bullp in our offense. So
Speaker 3: I think our biggest strength and it's working out, and
Speaker 3: I hope that they continue on and Lastly, I just
Speaker 3: want to say is that I catch myself watching these
Speaker 3: Dodger games rooting for Dave Roberts, and obviously that's something
Speaker 3: that I think a lot of Dodger fans were against.
Speaker 3: And it's really nice to see that Roberts is putting
Speaker 3: everything together. It obviously helps to have a great bullpen.
Speaker 3: He's putting, he's he's coaching really really well right now.
Speaker 3: I'm super happy for him, and I really hope I
Speaker 3: know it's early, but I hope that he can get
Speaker 3: that chip that everybody's waiting for. So thanks for taking
Speaker 3: my calls, guys, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: All right, there's a lot rick.
Speaker 5: He started off the call by saying something I think
Speaker 5: is worth repeating, and that is that this is a
Speaker 5: Dodger team that could very easily be up three to nothing.
Speaker 5: And I say that because they had opportunities in Game two,
Speaker 5: even though they fell behind six to nothing. On Monday
Speaker 5: at Dodger Stadium, that sixth inning was six to three game. Remember,
Speaker 5: bases loaded one out, Key Hernandez gets a base hit,
Speaker 5: it's a six ' five game. Maybe they tack on more. Heck,
Speaker 5: if he hits a home run, they take the lead
Speaker 5: and come back all the way from a six to
Speaker 5: nothing deficit and maybe win that game too. So yeah,
Speaker 5: they had their opportunities, and Kei k couldn't get that
Speaker 5: big hitting game two. He's right, they're a swing away Saxy.
Speaker 5: This thing being three to nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. That's true. And you know, I think
Speaker 1: Rick from Whittier made a great point too when he
Speaker 1: talked about the strength of the starters. You know, this
Speaker 1: was a great outing last night from Walker. Yamamoto had
Speaker 1: a great outing his last time out too, So you
Speaker 1: are getting some elements of, you know, pushback because the
Speaker 1: Dodgers starters have gone out there and did some shoven
Speaker 1: of their own, and that is a welcome thing because
Speaker 1: you know, kind of the narrative out there, Oh, every
Speaker 1: game is going to turn into a bullpen game and
Speaker 1: you're gonna do that hasn't been the case. You've got
Speaker 1: really good starts out of these guys. So that's that's
Speaker 1: a big plus.
Speaker 5: Oscar and Baldwin Park. Next up here on Saxon Kate today,
Speaker 5: am how are you doing?
Speaker 1: Oscar?
Speaker 9: Good?
Speaker 10: Good when gentlemen, mister Saxond morning, Kate, Hey, bro I
Speaker 10: talked to you after game too. Man, that was the
Speaker 10: most pissed off I think I've ever heard you on
Speaker 10: the radio man. After Game two. You you hey, yeah, hey,
Speaker 10: But I told you hey give It was one game
Speaker 10: that let them respond and look what happened. Man, I'm
Speaker 10: very happy for the guys k monthcy H, will Smith.
Speaker 11: They got going.
Speaker 10: Will Smith got that big hit in the with the
Speaker 10: third or some of the second, and I think later
Speaker 10: that you motivate the guys at the top of the order.
Speaker 10: That's what they can't through at the end. And I
Speaker 10: think it was the best game they played so far
Speaker 10: in the postseason. They're looking good, man, and let's let's
Speaker 10: put this chokeout tonight and stap their neck on Friday
Speaker 10: and put them out of the misery.
Speaker 1: Love it, Oscar, love it.
Speaker 5: Thanks for the phone call, man, Yeah, I think tonight
Speaker 5: is gonna be big for Yamamoto to go out there
Speaker 5: and immediately put up zeros of them. But you know again,
Speaker 5: I was fired up on Tuesday as Monday, as he mentioned,
Speaker 5: I did postgame on Monday after Game two, postgame Dodger talking.
Speaker 5: The more and more I kept taking calls and talking
Speaker 5: about it, the more and more I was getting mad.
Speaker 1: And you were getting fired.
Speaker 5: I just I felt like it was a game they
Speaker 5: they threw away. It was a wasted game for the
Speaker 5: Dodgers in the way that you know, the approach didn't
Speaker 5: work with the bullpen game.
Speaker 1: I know, that's that's Game two. We moved on.
Speaker 5: But it's just now that they won Game three last
Speaker 5: night in the fashion they did, the fact that they
Speaker 5: almost had a chance to come back and win Game
Speaker 5: two and were a big hit away from not doing
Speaker 5: it in the sixth inning and in the eighth inning,
Speaker 5: and it happened to be Key Hernandez both times. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and he came back last night to get the home run.
Speaker 1: I love that. I just love the fact that he
Speaker 1: came back that very next game and delivered. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: look at all the guys on the on the team,
Speaker 1: you think, oh, you can point that guy out, that guy,
Speaker 1: that guy's great talent. Some guys on the on the
Speaker 1: other teams would look around and say, who's going to
Speaker 1: be the big star on this team in postseason?
Speaker 9: Key k A.
Speaker 1: He's kind of like not an everyday player. I mean really,
Speaker 1: he's got something special and he's doing it big time.
Speaker 1: So loving that. But you know, look the Dodgers. They're
Speaker 1: expecting to win this next this game tonight, of course,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna expect to win the next two and
Speaker 1: take this thing back home. But remember this, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a fast series. I mean,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they win the next two,
Speaker 1: but I in the beginning thought that this would go
Speaker 1: six games, because you got to give that other team
Speaker 1: the respect. They're they're a good team, they're a formidable opponent.
Speaker 1: They've been through the trenches just getting here. I mean,
Speaker 1: look how many teams they've steamrolled through and they barely
Speaker 1: got in. So they're they're kind of going on that
Speaker 1: you know, we're not supposed to be here anyway type
Speaker 1: of thing. But you know what, Uh, you got to
Speaker 1: take it just today and then worry about the rest
Speaker 1: of it later. You just got so much on your plate. Tonight.
Speaker 5: He is Steve sax I'm Tim Kats and Saxon Kates
Speaker 5: in the am here live in Local on a five
Speaker 5: to seventy LA Sports Dodgers a two to one series
Speaker 5: lead in this NLS. He has Game four coming up
Speaker 5: tonight from City Field, and of course we're you're a
Speaker 5: home of showy Otani and the Dodgers. Dodgers on Deck
Speaker 5: starts at four o'clock. First pitch at five oho eight,
Speaker 5: live from the Galfa Motors Broadcast Booth. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Who's
Speaker 5: a cantana? The pitching matchup. David mats Our, Dodger insider,
Speaker 5: joins us. Coming up at forty five minutes. A little
Speaker 5: over an hour from now. Sean Green form Her, Dodger,
Speaker 5: former New York met He will join us. Get his
Speaker 5: thoughts on this series, the rivalry between the two, your
Speaker 5: phone calls next and the show Hey Otani effect. Yeah,
Speaker 5: some numbers just came in from Game five in the NLDS.
Speaker 5: How popular is Showytani? How much does he mean to
Speaker 5: the Dodgers and the game at baseball in October? And
Speaker 5: the numbers are pretty staggering. We'll give them to you
Speaker 5: your phone call Steve Sacks, Tim Kates and you on
Speaker 5: a Thursday morning. They should be with us on an
Speaker 5: FI seventy eight sports Sax and Kates in the am.
Speaker 5: They should being with us on this Thursday morning, October seventeenth.
Speaker 5: As you get up, get ready for work, take the
Speaker 5: kids to school, head to school yourself in the Milliard commute.
Speaker 5: We appreciate you keeping us with you here on AM
Speaker 5: five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: Looking for the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 5: You can listen to Dan the Boys via the iHeartRadio
Speaker 5: app on AMFI seventy LA Sports. Of course, on the
Speaker 5: AM FI seventy LA Sports and the iHeartRadio app the
Speaker 5: show Hey, Otani Effect is real Saxy. Major League Baseball
Speaker 5: just put out a release The NLDS Game five rankings
Speaker 5: are out, and that was Yoshiyamamoto against you Darvish, Dodgers
Speaker 5: against the Padres Friday night out of Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: We knew it was a big game.
Speaker 5: Of course, right here on a FI seventy LA Sports,
Speaker 5: you hear all the games. Major League Baseball announced that
Speaker 5: Game five of the nl DS ranks now is the
Speaker 5: most watched MLB postseason game ever in the country of Japan.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: Thirteen million people watched that decisive Game five with Otani,
Speaker 5: Yamamoto and you Darvish all participating. When you add in
Speaker 5: the American viewers here state side of the United States
Speaker 5: along with the Japanese viewers, over twenty million people across
Speaker 5: the globe. We're watching Game five of the NLDS on
Speaker 5: a Friday night between the Dodgers in the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 5: It is the most watched MLB postseason game on record
Speaker 5: in the country of Japan.
Speaker 1: Hmm, that's wonderful.
Speaker 5: It's Game five of the nl DS. It's not even
Speaker 5: an NLCS or ALCS, and it's not even.
Speaker 1: The World Series. No, no, And you know that's that's
Speaker 1: such a big game over there. So you know, baseball
Speaker 1: is their national sport, and you know they've got the
Speaker 1: great television audiences over there just in their own right
Speaker 1: in their country. But now when you see it be
Speaker 1: coming in such a global sport, I mean, this was
Speaker 1: the intention to of baseball for quite some time to
Speaker 1: you know, expand the reach of baseball at a deeper level,
Speaker 1: and they're certainly doing it now. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Unbelievable to see the numbers. And it shouldn't be surprising
Speaker 5: when you got three Japanese stars and Darvish and Yamamoto
Speaker 5: and a I mean.
Speaker 1: Not just players, so you're talking about frontline great players. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is yea.
Speaker 5: So it is unbelievable and I'm sure we'll see even
Speaker 5: more staggering numbers as the postseason continues. And hopefully that
Speaker 5: postseason is a Dodger World Series run. And they're up
Speaker 5: two games to one in this National League Championship Series
Speaker 5: after a win last night, walker Viewler four shutout innings,
Speaker 5: the Dodgers hit three home runs. Keiky Hernandez a two
Speaker 5: run blasts and then it was a three run bomb
Speaker 5: from Shohey O Tani and Maximunky also hit a ball
Speaker 5: deep there into right field at City Field.
Speaker 1: Continue on the.
Speaker 5: Phones, thanks for being patient, Armando in West Hills. Your
Speaker 5: next up here on Saxon Kates in the morning. How
Speaker 5: you doing, Armando?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 12: Here are you guys? Steve. I came on the radio
Speaker 12: last week on your show, and you know, I was
Speaker 12: talking about how that decision was made by Roberts of
Speaker 12: bringing in Pahez over KK at third when Miguel Rojas
Speaker 12: got injured. And then I say, you know why not
Speaker 12: Kek has been consistent in October, and I mean, it's
Speaker 12: it's paying off, right and seeing him in the lineup
Speaker 12: every day now, it's it's incredible to see how basically
Speaker 12: that that philosophy has has turned out to be true.
Speaker 12: And then also I just want to talk about show
Speaker 12: Hey real quick in that leadoff, leadoff spot or wherever
Speaker 12: he's in the lineup. He's over twenty one this postseason
Speaker 12: runners on base, oh for twenty two now, and with
Speaker 12: runners either on base or in scorting position, he's like
Speaker 12: six for eight or something crazy like that with a
Speaker 12: homer in three whiles whatever that crazy seven for nine.
Speaker 12: I got to get updated on my stats, guys. So yeah,
Speaker 12: I mean it's crazy to see uh where show he
Speaker 12: is when when runners are on base or not on base,
Speaker 12: And I just want to get your thoughts. Call me crazy,
Speaker 12: but is it worth moving show Hey in the lineup
Speaker 12: or do the Dodgers just keep.
Speaker 6: It as is?
Speaker 5: Call you crazy, Armando? Okay, yeah, you said, go ahead
Speaker 5: and call me crazy. I'm calling you crazy. Appreciate the
Speaker 5: folk call. And I say that jokingly. Yeah, they're they're
Speaker 5: not moving show Hey out of the top spot.
Speaker 1: No they're not. I mean, you know, this guy produced
Speaker 1: uh ridiculous numbers.
Speaker 9: He's the m v P.
Speaker 1: He was thriving there all year. You're not moving him
Speaker 1: just because of a glitch here or there or in
Speaker 1: a game or two. No way, and you know what,
Speaker 1: you live and die with it. That's that's the way
Speaker 1: it goes. You don't change that thing up. Imagine if
Speaker 1: he changed that thing up and show hey had four
Speaker 1: punch outs or something like that, Oh my god, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? And rightfully so, you know, this game
Speaker 1: doesn't go like that. It's like even a great stock,
Speaker 1: you know, look at n video stock. It has it
Speaker 1: has pullbacks at times, but the general trend is upward.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what it's like in a baseball career.
Speaker 1: I hear people talking to me, you know that aren't
Speaker 1: around the game all the time. They said, hell, he
Speaker 1: struck out. Yeah, yeah, that happens. It's part of the deal,
Speaker 1: you know. In a little deeper level than that, sometimes
Speaker 1: you have games, you know, that are glumped together that
Speaker 1: they call a slump or whatever. That it's a bit
Speaker 1: of a pullback. It's part of the game. It happens.
Speaker 1: It's too hard to play. You don't just shoot straight
Speaker 1: to the moon in baseball. Nobody does. Ted Williams didn't
Speaker 1: do it, William Mays didn't do it. William McCovey or
Speaker 1: any of those great players, Hank Aaron, none of them
Speaker 1: did it. You know, it's it's too hard to play.
Speaker 5: It is interesting, though, you would have to admit a
Speaker 5: guy seven for nine with runners in scoring position, but
Speaker 5: oh for twenty two in the postseason, Yeah, when there's
Speaker 5: nobody on.
Speaker 1: That to me is, yeah, I don't think that's coincs.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's coincidence or not. Is No,
Speaker 1: it's it's not a coincidence. It's it's absolutely the case
Speaker 1: when there's people on base, they have to pitch to him.
Speaker 1: And that's I'm not as shocked about that number, the
Speaker 1: seven for nine as I am more about the over
Speaker 1: twenty two or twenty three. Because the way that this
Speaker 1: guy can hit, and the way that he can run
Speaker 1: and legout hits that that aren't hit that well and whatnot,
Speaker 1: you figure that there'd be a few of those in there,
Speaker 1: and over the course of the year it will happen.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm a bit more you know, taken aback
Speaker 1: by the fact that he has such a drought with
Speaker 1: the way that he can hit, and some of that
Speaker 1: is is lent to the fact that he does strike out,
Speaker 1: you know sometimes, and you know, so it's a that's
Speaker 1: more of a strange thing for me, though, to go
Speaker 1: over twenty three.
Speaker 5: Miguel in La is next up here on Saxon Kates
Speaker 5: and the am here on AMPI seventy LA Sports Dodgers
Speaker 5: a two to one series lead in this NLC has
Speaker 5: Miguel good morning.
Speaker 6: Hey, good morning guys. How you guys doing good man, Miguel,
Speaker 6: that was that was that was such as I got
Speaker 6: to sleep really well last night after this dodge of victory.
Speaker 6: I'm I mean, such a full team, like the big
Speaker 6: pitches in the big moments. I mean, like you have
Speaker 6: trying to come in. This guy's pitches are so filthy
Speaker 6: right now. Struck out the Francisco Lindor on three pitches,
Speaker 6: swinging miss on all three Brangier bases, loaded double play.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm a big Will Smith fan, and this
Speaker 6: guy's catching, like I know he's hitting. He finally got
Speaker 6: a hit, and it was like a big moment to
Speaker 6: finally see him get a good hit yesterday, but to
Speaker 6: see him catch these shout out games this guy did,
Speaker 6: there's a lot of credit. I mean, Will Smith is
Speaker 6: so key for the Dodgers right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Miguel, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: I think I'll put up with the the two for
Speaker 5: whatever he was in the postseason and then last night
Speaker 5: finally breaking through with the two for four performance. I
Speaker 5: think I'll deal with that as much as it pains me,
Speaker 5: because we expect more offense out of Will Smith. But
Speaker 5: if he continues to be the defensive catcher and getting
Speaker 5: the praise and accolades that he is from Walker Buell
Speaker 5: or everybody else who is talking about how what a
Speaker 5: great job he's doing out there calling games, dictating the pitches,
Speaker 5: and really keeping the flow out there for these starting
Speaker 5: pitches and the bullpen, I mean, I guess I'll put
Speaker 5: up with this accue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, the good thing about it. A
Speaker 1: couple of things about this is Will Smith can be carried,
Speaker 1: you know, by his team, because he's gone such a
Speaker 1: prolific offensive club that you can carry some downtimes with him.
Speaker 1: It's expected. He's a great receiver, he can catch and
Speaker 1: throw well. He catches the pitching staff and works with
Speaker 1: those guys as another general on that field, if you will.
Speaker 1: He's an extension of the bench and he's got it
Speaker 1: together as far as that goes. I think offensively, from
Speaker 1: what I see with Will Smith, it's pretty basic. He's
Speaker 1: expanded his zone quite a bit. You saw him foul
Speaker 1: off some pitches that he didn't need to that were
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes a foot out of the zone. And
Speaker 1: so I think if he just tightens that thing up
Speaker 1: a bit and lots of times that's easier said than done.
Speaker 1: But I think he's gonna be okay. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's anything drastic wrong with him. You know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: have a bit of a down year off defensively, but
Speaker 1: you know, he can turn this thing around. It's a
Speaker 1: good hitter. He's got popping the bat like crazy. I
Speaker 1: mean for his size, he's got some amazing strength and
Speaker 1: able to hit the ball, you know, a long way.
Speaker 1: So I'm not really worried about his offense. I think
Speaker 1: it's going to come back.
Speaker 5: Antonio and Fullerton is next up here on Saxon Kate
Speaker 5: toonay Am on this Thursday morning. Hi Antonio, who, Good
Speaker 5: morning Dodger fans.
Speaker 9: How we doing morning? I hope everyone slept well. Their
Speaker 9: coffee is extra charge this morning. Feeling really great about
Speaker 9: this this team. We just deliver. It's got to keep
Speaker 9: going forward and continue to get these ws, no.
Speaker 1: Doubt about it.
Speaker 13: YEP.
Speaker 5: Appreciating Antonio eight sixty six ninety seven five seventy.
Speaker 1: Mike and long Beach next.
Speaker 5: Up here on a five seventy on a sports Mike,
Speaker 5: Good morning, how you doing, Good.
Speaker 14: Morning, gentlemen. Let me cut right to the chase here. Yeah,
Speaker 14: we're not changing the lineup. Give me a break, tony
Speaker 14: fifty five to fifty five during the season batting first. Okay, now,
Speaker 14: let's talk about the real reason why the Dodgers won
Speaker 14: yesterday was the lack of defense for the Mets versus
Speaker 14: the Dodgers making the plays. Defense wins championship. Sebarino could
Speaker 14: not field two comebackers to him in the same inning.
Speaker 14: One of them went for a single. He would have
Speaker 14: had monthly dead to ride at home. The other one
Speaker 14: could have been a double play. Meanwhile, on the flip side,
Speaker 14: you got Freeman scooping balls in between hops a clinic
Speaker 14: at first base. If the Dodgers make the plays and
Speaker 14: the Mets keeps up with that shotty defense, it's going
Speaker 14: to be a short series. They need to step it
Speaker 14: up on defense. You don't want to give the team
Speaker 14: like the Dodgers multiple chances, multiple extra chances. They will
Speaker 14: kill you every single time.
Speaker 12: Thanks guys, All right, thanks a lot, Mike.
Speaker 5: Speaking of defense, actually we mentioned it earlier. Freddy Freeman
Speaker 5: should be a Gold Glove winning first baseman this year.
Speaker 5: The double play ball that Ryan Brasier got to get
Speaker 5: out on the inning to Moncy to Lux to Freeman
Speaker 5: and lucks one hopped Freddie Freeman over at first trying
Speaker 5: to get a quick throw off. Because the runner down
Speaker 5: the line. Freddie Freeman doesn't make that pick, the door
Speaker 5: is still open for the New York Mets to possibly
Speaker 5: walk through that door and make it a tighter game.
Speaker 5: Gonna run on the board. Who knows what happens in
Speaker 5: that sixth inning, But that was a huge defensive play.
Speaker 5: The Mets made some not so good defensive plays last night,
Speaker 5: and it opened the door for the Dodgers in the
Speaker 5: second inning, Freddie Freeman and he just goes unlood this
Speaker 5: what bothers me? It just goes unlooked like, Oh, Freddy
Speaker 5: Freeman's supposed to make that pick. Yes, Freddie Freeman was
Speaker 5: supposed to backhand that ball every single time and make
Speaker 5: it look as easy and effortless as he does. That's
Speaker 5: a hard play to make. He saved Lux's butt and
Speaker 5: it got the Dodgers out of the inning.
Speaker 1: He does it all the time, I mean, and we
Speaker 1: just kind of take it for granted, and I wish
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman would win the goal Glove because man, it's
Speaker 1: just such an intricate part of this defense. I think
Speaker 1: first base is way underrated as far as defense goes.
Speaker 1: How many times have you seen a play made where
Speaker 1: you know, he hit to the infield that's brought in,
Speaker 1: he throw home and they throw it like way away,
Speaker 1: you know, like I was doing an eighty three, like
Speaker 1: not even close. And Freddy Freeman. I was gonna mention
Speaker 1: his throwing arm when I was coaching for the d
Speaker 1: Backs that one year at first base, Freddy Freeman in
Speaker 1: the sea when he was with the Braves, who's there,
Speaker 1: they're shortstop? That had a crazy good throwing arm. It
Speaker 1: was a great fielder his name, and he wasn't who's
Speaker 1: that call? No, he went to the Angels and play too.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to remember his anyway, one of the
Speaker 1: best throwing arms at shorts up. Freddy Freeman him would
Speaker 1: throw the ball back and forth together in between innings
Speaker 1: and Seedy Simmons Andreton Simmons, and Freddy's arm was as
Speaker 1: good as his. I mean he was throwing lasers back
Speaker 1: to first base. I mean, like with a hop on
Speaker 1: it about three feet off the ground and taking this
Speaker 1: dude just got a crazy good arm. So I think
Speaker 1: number one that the defense at first base in baseball
Speaker 1: today is underrated, and Freddie is vastly underrated for what
Speaker 1: he does at first base.
Speaker 5: You know how many gold gloves Freddy Freeman has won
Speaker 5: in his career. One?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's that's absurd. He's so good over there. One.
Speaker 1: And he's doing it on one leg right now too, Tim, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean that's uh, that's no, that's no
Speaker 1: fluff over there, what he's going through. And you know
Speaker 1: how important is the base of anything you do, especially
Speaker 1: in sports and hitting and fielding. It's all about that base,
Speaker 1: and he only has half of it, and he's still
Speaker 1: doing this. He's still getting hits, he's still a force
Speaker 1: in the lineup, and he's picking it over there at
Speaker 1: first base, like like nobody's full.
Speaker 5: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two, five seventy one
Speaker 5: is next up here on Saxon Kates in the am
Speaker 5: here on a five seventy How you doing one.
Speaker 11: Good morning? How you doing good?
Speaker 1: Good good?
Speaker 11: So I was talking to my wife the other night,
Speaker 11: so I was born in nineteen eighty seven, and they
Speaker 11: won it all in nineteen eighty eight, so I would
Speaker 11: just dog turning. My son was born this year, and
Speaker 11: then he's gonna be a year.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 10: He was born last year, so he's gonna be a
Speaker 10: year this year.
Speaker 11: And now I'm gonna man, history's gonna repeat itself. We
Speaker 11: winning it all this year.
Speaker 5: Let's go Dodgers, all right, one, he's got folk calls. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's uh, he's figured it out. He was born a
Speaker 5: year later. You guys went in eighty eight. His son
Speaker 5: was born last year, and yeah, the Dodgers is gonna
Speaker 5: win here in twenty twenty four. Jake and Burbank next
Speaker 5: up here in Sax and Kate in the am. How
Speaker 5: you doing, Jake.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's on the other end of the spectrum here.
Speaker 13: I know it's probably surprise, but I'm a Mets fan
Speaker 13: all the way from New York living out in Burbank.
Speaker 13: I was actually born in the day they won the
Speaker 13: World Series in sixty nine, so I have an attachment
Speaker 13: kind of like your last caller. But I'm really curious
Speaker 13: to know what you thought. I thought the Mets made
Speaker 13: a terrible strategic move by throwing senor who they knew
Speaker 13: wouldn't throw a lot of innings and basically ending up
Speaker 13: with a bullpen game in Game one when Manaia would
Speaker 13: have been on regular rest. And I think the Mets
Speaker 13: are going to pay for it throughout this series.
Speaker 5: It's a It's certainly a question they're going to be
Speaker 5: talking about a lot in New York in sports talk
Speaker 5: radio all off season if the Mets end up losing
Speaker 5: this series to the Dodgers, no doubt about it. To
Speaker 5: have single go out and flame out as the way
Speaker 5: he did in Game one, and then to see what
Speaker 5: Manaia did in Game two, if you would have reversed them,
Speaker 5: who knows, Maybe they steal Game one from the Dodgers
Speaker 5: and it's not a blowout went it's a pitcher's duel,
Speaker 5: betray Manaia and Flaherty and we're talking about a different series.
Speaker 1: You could have said the same thing about Yamamoto and
Speaker 1: when he came back and gave us five strong innings,
Speaker 1: you know. So I don't know. I mean, basically, the
Speaker 1: hindsight is twenty twenty, and he did, and he flamed
Speaker 1: out early. I just didn't see it out of the gate.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know what they were seeing on
Speaker 1: their side, but out of the gate, I didn't see
Speaker 1: I didn't see that snap and the crisp pitch from Singa.
Speaker 1: So it wentn't good for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Though, absolutely damn And they gave the ball to a
Speaker 5: guy in a game one of the NLD nlcs who
Speaker 5: has pitched in two games all season, one of them
Speaker 5: mid season, got hurt again, had one start in the postseason,
Speaker 5: not very long, and gets to start in Game one
Speaker 5: over everybody else. Hey, that's the decision that they decided
Speaker 5: to go with. And the Dodgers capitalized with a Game
Speaker 5: one win, and now they got a two to one
Speaker 5: series win, a lead here in this best of seven series.
Speaker 5: We'll take a break, we'll come back, get to more
Speaker 5: of your phone calls. David Vesse joins us. Next hour.
Speaker 5: Sean Green, former Dodger, former met will join us talk
Speaker 5: about this series, talk about this rivalry between New York
Speaker 5: and LA Plenty of time for your phone calls as well,
Speaker 5: and a Steve Sacks autographed jersey for one lucky Dodger
Speaker 5: fan eight sixty six ninet eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 1: He is Steve Sacks.
Speaker 5: I am Tim Kates, and you're listening to the Home
Speaker 5: of the Dodgers ANFI seventy la Sports, Sax and Kates
Speaker 5: in the am on this Thursday morning. Thanks for joining
Speaker 5: us as you make your way to work, school, sitting
Speaker 5: in trafficing on the commute, wherever you're headed. We appreciate
Speaker 5: you taking us with you on a FI seventy la Sports.
Speaker 5: Steve Sacks, Tim Kates. Game four of the NLCS is
Speaker 5: coming up tonight. Dodgers a two to one series lead
Speaker 5: after an eight to nothing shutout over the Mets last
Speaker 5: night at City Field. Dodgers on deck. We'll get it
Speaker 5: all started at four pm. First pitch at five to
Speaker 5: eight from the gallupin Motors Broadcast Booth, Yoshanova, Yamamoto and
Speaker 5: Jose Cantana the pitching matchup. We'll dive deeper into that
Speaker 5: coming up in just a little bit. David Vassa will
Speaker 5: join us after the top of the hour live from
Speaker 5: New York City. Sean Green for where Dodger will join
Speaker 5: us as well around eight thirty this morning. We'll get
Speaker 5: Steve's keys to a Game four win. He's been spot
Speaker 5: on so far this postseason. Will it continue. We'll find
Speaker 5: out in about an hour from now. Daniel and Anaheim. Daniel,
Speaker 5: thanks for joining us here on an five seventy.
Speaker 15: HOWI doing and I'm doing great? Another big Dodger win
Speaker 15: last night, hoping for another one tonight. I just wanted
Speaker 15: to come in. I know a lot of people are saying, hey,
Speaker 15: move Otani down the lineup to get people in front
Speaker 15: of him. But who what other team has the other
Speaker 15: pitcher on edge pitching to the seven, eight, nine hitter
Speaker 15: because they know if I put one of these guys on,
Speaker 15: I gotta face Otawny and probably give up another donger
Speaker 15: or something like that. So keep him where he is,
Speaker 15: let him keep rolling, and then shout out to Will Smith.
Speaker 15: I think that's gonna be a big getting on base
Speaker 15: there off the glove of Severino last night. I think
Speaker 15: that's going to turn him around. He's going to get
Speaker 15: a couple knocks tonight and another Dodger win.
Speaker 1: O dubt about it, Daniel. Did you grow up watching
Speaker 1: Steve Sacks at all?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 15: I was born in eighty five, so I was three
Speaker 15: when they won. My dad was actually at the Gibson game,
Speaker 15: so that was I got to hear a lot of
Speaker 15: stories about that. But other than that, I was I
Speaker 15: think it was a little too little to see Steve
Speaker 15: set But I love you guys on the morning. Love
Speaker 15: you guys talking more baseball in the morning.
Speaker 1: Baseballs old right now, Daniel.
Speaker 15: No, I'm twenty, I'm thirty nine.
Speaker 5: I'll just kidd it, all right, Daniel Shade, thanks for
Speaker 5: checking in at eight six six eighty seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 5: Eddie and Ontario was next up. You're on a five
Speaker 5: seventy Eddie.
Speaker 7: Hey, hey, morning guy.
Speaker 1: How you doing doing great? How about you? Eddie?
Speaker 11: Hi, I'm pretty good.
Speaker 4: I call it.
Speaker 11: Say Heisty Sacks my idol, grin up, I've got a
Speaker 11: die a.
Speaker 3: Post review Dodger kid, I'm play your eight tbate too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they want to say hi and gluck. All right, Eddie,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Eddie.
Speaker 5: I wish you had a little bit more to say,
Speaker 5: because we would have given you the jersey, Eddie, But
Speaker 5: you know, you just fan boyd it out right there
Speaker 5: with Steve Sacks a little a little uncomfortable for all
Speaker 5: of us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a little it's got a little I
Speaker 1: had a little little reset right here.
Speaker 5: But anyway, let's go to Omar the four oh five.
Speaker 5: He's taking it with us on his commute. Thank you, Omar,
Speaker 5: Are you.
Speaker 1: Doing hey man?
Speaker 7: Good good morning guys. I actually had a question for
Speaker 7: sex as a as a somebody that grew up in
Speaker 7: the game and I was the hitter. Like with Show
Speaker 7: Hate Going Oh for twenty two, I think you guys said,
Speaker 7: are twenty one with nobody on base? Do you approach
Speaker 7: the game differently? Because in your mind, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 7: he realizes that he is not hitting with nobody on base,
Speaker 7: and he's not seeing the pitches that you normally would
Speaker 7: see and them having the pitch to him when guys
Speaker 7: are on base. Would your approach me different or you know,
Speaker 7: ask somebody that has a wealth of knowledge in the game.
Speaker 7: Would you give him any you know inside? Or would
Speaker 7: you say, hey man, just keep doing what you're doing
Speaker 7: because at the time, you're doing what needs to be
Speaker 7: done with runner on the base basis.
Speaker 1: Thank thanks Omar, and I hey a great point. Would
Speaker 1: you do something different? Well, he doesn't need any advice
Speaker 1: from me, that's for sure. But the only thing that
Speaker 1: I would do is, I, you know, we have a
Speaker 1: tendency when there's nobody on base to kind of expand
Speaker 1: his zone a little bit, because you you know, you're
Speaker 1: trying to make contact. This is a very very lethal hitter,
Speaker 1: and he can make a mistake on a ball that
Speaker 1: he hits and still hit it out of the park.
Speaker 1: So that the fact that he gets tempted uh to
Speaker 1: kind of expand a little bit totally. I get it.
Speaker 1: I mean happens with with all those guys that have
Speaker 1: that kind of crazy power, but with with guys on base,
Speaker 1: he realizes they're going to have to pitch to him,
Speaker 1: maybe take a little bit of that philosophy and tighten
Speaker 1: it up a little bit the best you can when
Speaker 1: you don't have anybody on base. But the look, he
Speaker 1: doesn't get the same pitches when nobody's on base. They
Speaker 1: don't challenge show Heyo Tani. The only the only time
Speaker 1: he's going to get a chance to hit with nobody
Speaker 1: on base is when they make a mistake, and that's
Speaker 1: what he has to look for. Otherwise they're gonna try
Speaker 1: to They're gonna try to pitch him on the fringes
Speaker 1: of the plate, not challenge him in any meaty parts
Speaker 1: of the plate. But so it's it's tough sledding for
Speaker 1: him to get a really good pitch to hit. And
Speaker 1: by the way, on that previous caller to him, when
Speaker 1: you mentioned, you know, yeah it got weird.
Speaker 5: Yeah it did, it did. It was very uncomfortable for
Speaker 5: everybody in the room, very uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: It got weird. Alright, those listening were probably uncomfortable.
Speaker 11: K K and l A.
Speaker 5: Welcome to SAX and Kate's and am Kay, Hi hat
Speaker 5: it going doing fantastic? How are you this morning?
Speaker 1: Kay?
Speaker 8: I'm doing well, So I'm gonna bring in a little
Speaker 8: bit of basketball for you. We know that Lebron is
Speaker 8: probably retiring on his way out, so what would it
Speaker 8: take for Otani to become the La gate La Goat?
Speaker 8: And then I was just wondering. I don't know if
Speaker 8: you talked about it earlier in the show, but it
Speaker 8: looked like he got injured. I couldn't see what happened
Speaker 8: like it seemed like it hit his seemed like it
Speaker 8: hit his chest or something. But I was just wondering
Speaker 8: if you could say what happened to that?
Speaker 9: Kay?
Speaker 1: Did you grow up a Steve Sacks fan? Were you
Speaker 1: too young? You sound you.
Speaker 8: No, I'm new to the show, so I turned it
Speaker 8: on and wanted to hear all the postgame like commentary.
Speaker 8: So I'm so excited to see you guys and like
Speaker 8: be introduced and that that previous color was very awkward.
Speaker 5: It was very awkward. Okay, we're not going to make
Speaker 5: this awkward. You sound like you're a Steve Sax fan. Congratulations,
Speaker 5: you got an autograph Steve Sacks Dodgers jersey coming your way.
Speaker 5: Thanks for listening. You just you and Dan. You just
Speaker 5: became a part of the show. We appreciate that. Are
Speaker 5: you gonna be continuing to listen to a five seventy?
Speaker 1: Come on all right?
Speaker 5: Congratulations, k we got you for sure. We'll put you
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Speaker 5: in l A. See, it pays to be a Dodger fan.
Speaker 5: You tune in, you want to talk a little postseason baseball,
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Speaker 5: Yeah and show.
Speaker 1: Hey, he did punish himself in that at bat, right,
Speaker 1: he did when he gets hit in the in the
Speaker 1: shoe right kind of like on the on the toe
Speaker 1: on the outer part, and then he gets hit in
Speaker 1: the junk.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's that's like the solar plexus, as we
Speaker 5: say in w W E.
Speaker 1: I don't think so so, I mean, and he's such
Speaker 1: a nice guy. He's like embarrassed, like, oh my god.
Speaker 5: He starts playing to his hip right, like'sn't there they say,
Speaker 5: we have a slow motion bro.
Speaker 1: Yeah, song word hits you, we know, right, word hits you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I mean, I don't know how
Speaker 1: he would say that in HAP And he's like, I
Speaker 1: got hit in the wiener.
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But it's such a I mean, it's such a terrible thing. Hey,
Speaker 1: my brother got hit there once on a when he
Speaker 1: was catching right after a rain delay and the field
Speaker 1: was soaked and the guy was throwing ninety six with
Speaker 1: with with some with a you know, like a two seamer,
Speaker 1: and that thing hit the plate when they resumed play
Speaker 1: and hit him right in the cup ninety six with
Speaker 1: a skip off the plate. Can you imagine that. Oh,
Speaker 1: they had to bring the ambulance on the field stop
Speaker 1: he was throwing up. He passed out completely. They brought
Speaker 1: the ambulance on the field and had to escort him
Speaker 1: and me take him to the hospital. This is in
Speaker 1: triple A take him to the hospital. On the way
Speaker 1: to the hospital, the AMT says, I want to ask you.
Speaker 1: I got to ask you if you've already had your kids? No,
Speaker 1: because oh yeah, it was the worst ever. He said,
Speaker 1: the worst pain of his life and completely passed out
Speaker 1: from the pain. Can you catch that kind of pain? Oh? Whoa,
Speaker 1: that's something I really want to think about on a
Speaker 1: Thursday morning. But no, but why we're talking about? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Foulling went off the you know that's that's problematic.
Speaker 5: Wow, yeah, show hey, stop pointing to your hip, dude, Yeah,
Speaker 5: you get hitting the hip.
Speaker 1: He's such a nice guy. He's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I can't say where it hit me.
Speaker 5: They were booting him when he got hit on the
Speaker 5: toe because it kind of hit his toe, kind of
Speaker 5: didn't hit his toe really hit you.
Speaker 1: Come on, Yeah, Then the next one he hits it
Speaker 1: off is junk. I mean, that's gotta be tough. Oh well,
Speaker 1: then he hit it out later. That's for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: That is a tough dude. Yeah, oh for sure.
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