Speaker 1: One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have.
Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 3: Let's not play one on Tom. Let's I love writing
Speaker 3: me these guys after the show.
Speaker 4: So just thank you, give me are your attention, your
Speaker 4: fire and not a pisson. This is world champion, Dodger,
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Speaker 5: Put a small soft time they get a people what
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Speaker 4: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vas say.
Speaker 7: We are live in Miami after the Dodgers defeat the
Speaker 7: Marlins by a final score of seven to four. David
Speaker 7: Va say, with you until eight o'clock on Dodger Talk,
Speaker 7: taking your phone calls at eight six six nine eighty
Speaker 7: seven two five seventy. It's been a while since I've
Speaker 7: been back in the saddle doing my day job of
Speaker 7: postgame Dodger Talk. We had a rain delay Dodger Talk
Speaker 7: in Atlanta. But it's great to be back with you here.
Speaker 7: I love doing Dodger talk. It was awesome filling in
Speaker 7: on sports Net LA on the sidelines. I hate to
Speaker 7: break it to everybody, but the Dodgers were four and
Speaker 7: oh with me being that close to the Dodger dugout.
Speaker 7: But nonetheless, it was seven game winning streak that came
Speaker 7: to an end last night in Atlanta, and I felt
Speaker 7: like last night was a great indication of what I
Speaker 7: say is often about this Dodger team and the games
Speaker 7: they play. I felt like the Braves survived the Dodgers
Speaker 7: more than beating the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: But you know, obviously they get the win.
Speaker 7: But the Dodgers won the series to start their longest
Speaker 7: road trip of.
Speaker 5: The year ten games and ten days.
Speaker 7: And the Dodgers have won the first three out of
Speaker 7: four tonight with a seven to four win over the Marlins.
Speaker 7: And how about Ben Casparius pitching four innings in relief
Speaker 7: bulk innings relief. Him and Yoshinubu Yama Moto now have
Speaker 7: the most wins on the Dodgers pitching staff. If I
Speaker 7: would have told you that in spring training that on
Speaker 7: single de Mayo, Ben Casparius and Yamamoto would have the
Speaker 7: most wins on the Dodger pitching staff. You might have
Speaker 7: looked at me a little crazy, but that's where they're at.
Speaker 7: Casparius four and zero, Kirby Yates with his first save
Speaker 7: of the year, a big night for Otani, for Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 7: and more importantly for Hayes Song Kim, who got his
Speaker 7: first major league start tonight, was two for four, drove
Speaker 7: in his first run, stole his second base, and like
Speaker 7: I mentioned during.
Speaker 5: The Clubhouse show, I loved.
Speaker 7: Seeing Otani get excited for Kim in the dugout more
Speaker 7: than his own home run. And we're starting to see that, right,
Speaker 7: We're starting to see Otani showed that other side of
Speaker 7: his personality, similar to what we saw if you were
Speaker 7: with us after that three hour rain delay in Atlanta
Speaker 7: at one thirty Eastern time. Otani joining us after the win,
Speaker 7: and when I asked him about his home run, he
Speaker 7: started with the answer talking about Roki Sazaki's first major
Speaker 7: league win. So all of a sudden, now we're seeing
Speaker 7: that unselfish side, not only on the field, but in
Speaker 7: his answers in his actions. By show, Hey Otani, and
Speaker 7: kudos to our guy Jonathan rb from cama Rio, the
Speaker 7: Dodgers trainer who is part of those bullpen dogs. He's
Speaker 7: the trainer that is out there just in case to
Speaker 7: monitor those relievers.
Speaker 5: He caught Otani's one hundred and.
Speaker 7: Eighteen mile an hour home run as he snow coned
Speaker 7: the catch with his glove out there, and all the
Speaker 7: relievers were going crazy for Jonathan IRBs, So congratulations to him.
Speaker 7: Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 7: I see you and I see we have a couple
Speaker 7: of lines open. Before we go to the phones, I
Speaker 7: want to head downstairs to the manager's office to hear
Speaker 7: from Dave Roberts, because maybe the only downer of this
Speaker 7: win for the Dodgers is the fact that tae Oscar
Speaker 7: Hernandez had to leave this game early due to left
Speaker 7: hamstring tightness. Let's hear from the Dodger manager to get
Speaker 7: more details.
Speaker 8: You know, he's, uh, he's gonna get it right tomorrow.
Speaker 8: So it's been uh, you know, I got worried that
Speaker 8: it was it was tight. You know, there's a hamstring
Speaker 8: and adductor and he's a guy that just doesn't come
Speaker 8: out of games, you know. By way of injuries. So
Speaker 8: that's a little concerning given the person. So we're going
Speaker 8: to get some pictures and see how it is tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Just considering that, I guess you talked about kind of
Speaker 9: the concern level. But is this something that you're hoping
Speaker 9: if maybe there was an Eyeleston it could just be that,
Speaker 9: or do you think it's something you're going to have
Speaker 9: to keep an eye on for some time or tomorrow
Speaker 9: will be very talent.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow be telling.
Speaker 8: We're in talks right now of who we're going to bring.
Speaker 8: We are going to bring someone to potentially activate our taxi.
Speaker 8: I'm not sure who that is right now, but yeah,
Speaker 8: tomorrow will be telling, but we are. It's certainly an
Speaker 8: option of that.
Speaker 10: Did you deal with running the first or a hit
Speaker 10: or like one of these sorts?
Speaker 8: I think he felt it when he was breaking for
Speaker 8: that ball in the gap.
Speaker 10: How impressive was nice on Ken tonight?
Speaker 1: He was great?
Speaker 8: You know, just I think the other night, you know
Speaker 8: him on the basis shows his kind of fearlessness, and
Speaker 8: for him to come in here and thought a knock,
Speaker 8: get a couple of hits and you played good defense,
Speaker 8: it was just really exciting and he just does that
Speaker 8: sparked to our ball club, cat.
Speaker 10: Just step into this and sort of feel like you
Speaker 10: play free and easy right away for you guys.
Speaker 8: I think part of is he was one of the
Speaker 8: better players in the KBO. I think when you're elite
Speaker 8: at whatever level, there's a certain confidence that you have,
Speaker 8: and he just has that and he's just not afraid,
Speaker 8: which is good have received it.
Speaker 6: Probably has kind of felt his relationship to show Hey.
Speaker 10: I know, obviously Showy made sure to celebrate the moment
Speaker 10: with after that whole run.
Speaker 8: You know what, I think that yeah, with Showhey, But
Speaker 8: I honestly think that everyone loves Heyesng Kim. Everyone does.
Speaker 8: So everyone's pulling for him, Everyone's happy. He's just a
Speaker 8: great teammate, all right.
Speaker 7: There's manager Dave Roberts after tonight's seven to four win
Speaker 7: for the Dodgers, and he's right, everybody loves Hay Song Kim.
Speaker 7: Going back to spring training, he's a great teammate. Everybody
Speaker 7: loves being around him. So certainly a guy that is
Speaker 7: a popular teammate, and he had a great first start
Speaker 7: in the major leagues tonight. He was called up over
Speaker 7: the weekend in Atlanta and with the injury to Tommy
Speaker 7: Edmund going on the il at that sore right ankle,
Speaker 7: and Kim tonight got his first major league started second base,
Speaker 7: played great second base, had great baseball instincts there, and
Speaker 7: had great baseball instincts again on the basis like we
Speaker 7: saw last night in the ninth inning, saw it again tonight,
Speaker 7: stole another base, drove in his first run in the
Speaker 7: sixth inning, got his first major league hit in the
Speaker 7: fifth inning. So a really great night, and like Dave
Speaker 7: Roberts said, a different dimension that the Dodgers really haven't
Speaker 7: had that at the bottom of the orders. Certainly, as
Speaker 7: I mentioned with Jose Mota, Gavin Lux plus runner I guess,
Speaker 7: but no, nothing close to Hayesan Kim, and Miguel Rojas
Speaker 7: is thirty six years old now and a part time player.
Speaker 7: So the Dodgers kind of need that type of guy,
Speaker 7: and certainly would be a tremendous dynamic at the nine
Speaker 7: hole for the Dodgers to turn the line up over
Speaker 7: and have a guy like him on base more times
Speaker 7: than not. I'm not gonna say that he's gonna do
Speaker 7: this every single night, but if he can get on
Speaker 7: base at least twice a night.
Speaker 5: Every two to three games.
Speaker 7: That would be huge for the Dodgers because that would
Speaker 7: just make like we saw tonight's Sandy al Cantra be
Speaker 7: a little bit distracted where he makes a mistake pitch
Speaker 7: to show hey O Tani and he hits it a
Speaker 7: long way like he did tonight as the Dodgers win
Speaker 7: seven to four. Also, before we go back to the
Speaker 7: phone calls, I just want one pack what Dave Roberts
Speaker 7: had to say about Taoscar Hernandez.
Speaker 5: That doesn't sound good.
Speaker 7: And you may say, well, the Dodgers could call somebody
Speaker 7: else up. They got enough guys. I hate to break
Speaker 7: this to you, but Tony Edmond and Taoscar Hernandez have
Speaker 7: been the most consistent players for the Dodgers offensively all
Speaker 7: season long. Taoscar Hernandez is hitting three point fifteen after
Speaker 7: two more hits tonight, with an ops of nine thirty three,
Speaker 7: and he leads Major League Baseball with Aaron Judge in RBIs.
Speaker 7: He has been invaluable hitting behind Otani, Betts and Freeman.
Speaker 5: Who's going to take that role.
Speaker 7: It's one thing to say, Okay, we could call a
Speaker 7: player up and maybe move Pahez to right. Maybe have
Speaker 7: Kim play Moore's center field, But who's going to fill
Speaker 7: his shoes as the right handed hitter hitting cleanup behind Otani,
Speaker 7: Betts and Freeman.
Speaker 5: That's the bigger question.
Speaker 7: It's not who can fill in defensively and you move
Speaker 7: the puzzle pieces, especially if Taoskar's out for an extended
Speaker 7: period of time, and when you're talking about adductor and hamstrings,
Speaker 7: that's not a fifteen day period of time that you're out.
Speaker 7: You're out weeks and look big picture, the Dodgers can
Speaker 7: handle it, but that probably means Will Smith hitting cleanup.
Speaker 7: And Will Smith has been one of the best hitters
Speaker 7: with runners in scoring position, so now well he is
Speaker 7: going to have to be that guy hitting cleanup to
Speaker 7: be able to deliver in those situations. Eight six, six,
Speaker 7: nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 7: We'll head back downstairs for a more more postgame reaction
Speaker 7: later in the show, and also you'll hear from Joe
Speaker 7: Tory our extended conversation with the Hall of Fame manager
Speaker 7: coming up at seven forty tonight. Let's go out to
Speaker 7: Hemmett Glenn. You're on Dodger Talk Live from Miami, Hi Glenn.
Speaker 10: Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3: I wanted to talk to you about Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 10: How has he been doing?
Speaker 1: Where is your schedule to start?
Speaker 3: I hope it's on May nineteenth with then Scorry babehad night.
Speaker 7: Well, Kershaw can be activated on May seventeenth. That's the
Speaker 7: time that he can be activated. Dave Roberts mentioned May tenth,
Speaker 7: but I counted sixty days being May seventeenth, so right
Speaker 7: there in that week of May tenth to seventeenth, so
Speaker 7: that's when he should be back.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, thank you?
Speaker 7: Is that it all right? Thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 7: Let's go out to Artie and El Segundo. You're on
Speaker 7: Dodger Talk with David Vassay.
Speaker 3: Hi, Artie, thank you for having me. It's a fortunate
Speaker 3: you know, the OSCO has done this, you know went out,
Speaker 3: you know the league leading RBI. But my question is
Speaker 3: off topic of baseball. What do you think about these patches?
Speaker 3: You know, I've been trying to ask and I can't
Speaker 3: get an answer. You know, they have these Google hand
Speaker 3: patches and the Fernando patches. Some players have them opposite
Speaker 3: than others. Why is that? I mean, it shouldn't be
Speaker 3: uniform being all similar.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 7: I haven't taken a close enough look at that, but
Speaker 7: it could be what hand they throw with, or if
Speaker 7: you're a pitcher, which arm you throw with, because you
Speaker 7: don't want to have it's kind of clunky those patches,
Speaker 7: especially the big Guggenheim one, so I could imagine them
Speaker 7: having it on their glove side.
Speaker 3: I'll take you very much.
Speaker 7: All right, thanks for the phone call, already appreciated. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I guess those are the things that make you go hmmm.
Speaker 7: As our Sineo Hall used to say, let's go out
Speaker 7: to my hometown of Woodland Hills A Meir. You're on
Speaker 7: Dodger Talk Live from Miami.
Speaker 6: Hi, am here, Hey Dave, first time caller, A huge
Speaker 6: fan of yours. I just wanted to ask you if
Speaker 6: I can get your If I could get your your
Speaker 6: your special edition makers Mark uh Dodgers bottle, I couldn't
Speaker 6: find one, so could I have yours?
Speaker 3: My what.
Speaker 10: You're to your Maker's Mark La Dodgers the World series
Speaker 10: one that you got?
Speaker 7: Geez, you follow me on Instagram, don't you?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I did post that during the holidays. They sent
Speaker 5: me one.
Speaker 7: I can't remember if I still have it or I
Speaker 7: gave it to somebody else some here.
Speaker 3: All good, All good.
Speaker 10: I just had two questions. The first is, I'm not
Speaker 10: really too worried about the offense, even with ta Oscar
Speaker 10: and Edmund being out, I'm not worried about it. My
Speaker 10: question is with with Michael Conforto, with the struggles he's
Speaker 10: having right now, if he doesn't really pick it up,
Speaker 10: and who would And if I Sung Kim keeps playing well,
Speaker 10: who's the odd man out in that situation? And next,
Speaker 10: my second question is what do you think about the
Speaker 10: Dodgers defense overall as have made improvement since the beginning
Speaker 10: of the season.
Speaker 3: That's it, all right?
Speaker 7: And here, if I haven't given away that Maker's mark
Speaker 7: Dodger bottle, I don't know if I could give it
Speaker 7: to you, but I'll see what I could do in
Speaker 7: place of it. But anyway, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 7: And yes, I do believe the Dodger defense has improved.
Speaker 7: And as far as Michael Conforto goes, I feel like
Speaker 7: he has been the least talked about slumping Dodger because
Speaker 7: into the sixth inning, coming into the sixth inning tonight,
Speaker 7: he was oh for his last thirty one, he got
Speaker 7: a single and I'm sure he was exhaling in that
Speaker 7: sixth inning, so he snapped an zero for thirty one slump.
Speaker 7: He's not going anywhere. The Dodgers signed him to big
Speaker 7: money during the off season. The Dodgers believe he's going
Speaker 7: to hit. I know a lot of coaches believe that
Speaker 7: he's going to hit. It's just unfortunate he went into
Speaker 7: that extended slump. And as far as who would take
Speaker 7: his spot or who's taken whose spot in the outfield
Speaker 7: right now, it's not as crowded as it was before
Speaker 7: the game with the injury to Taoscar Hernandez. Now, who
Speaker 7: are the Dodgers considering It would be one of three
Speaker 7: players I would imagine that they are considering calling up
Speaker 7: from their forty man roster. Number one would be James Outman,
Speaker 7: who has started to swing the bat a lot better
Speaker 7: in the minor leagues. He gives the Dodgers a left
Speaker 7: handed bat, something that they really don't have. They did
Speaker 7: sign a Stereo Ruiz, who's a speedster from the oh
Speaker 7: Glenn Slash Vegas as he's on the forty man roster,
Speaker 7: and another player that's not on the forty man roster,
Speaker 7: but is going to be a major league player for
Speaker 7: the Dodgers sooner rather than later.
Speaker 5: Is Alex Freeland.
Speaker 7: He could play third, he could play short, so he
Speaker 7: gives you an option at third base if Munsey continues
Speaker 7: to struggle. So those would be my three picks of
Speaker 7: who is going to be called up with Teoscar Hernandez
Speaker 7: likely going on the injured list. We're gonna take a
Speaker 7: time out here live from Miami. When we come back,
Speaker 7: more of your phone calls at eight sixty six, nine
Speaker 7: eighty seven two five seventy a fan favorite retire Today,
Speaker 7: we'll share which former Dodger announced his retirement on Instagram.
Speaker 7: You'll hear from the legend Joe Torre as well, and
Speaker 7: we'll hear from Ben Casparius after he improves his record
Speaker 7: of four to oh out of the bullpen for the
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Speaker 5: One and Freddie Hammers won the center field. This Paul
Speaker 5: heading back, This Paul on the way, he is gone.
Speaker 2: Home run Freddy Freeman a tu uh two run homer
Speaker 2: Hamma Dodgers later three and up in home run number
Speaker 2: seven for Freeman.
Speaker 5: He extends his hitting straight to ten games, and he.
Speaker 7: Is now tied for the most home runs against the
Speaker 7: Marlins all time with forty one. Freddie Freeman forty first
Speaker 7: career home run against the Marlins tyson with Ryan Zimmerman
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Speaker 7: hits his three hundred and fiftieth career home run, making
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Speaker 7: Eight six, six, nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 7: the phone number the Dodgers come back and beat the
Speaker 7: Marlins after losing on Sunday Night Baseball last night. They
Speaker 7: have won three of the first four on this road trip,
Speaker 7: the longest road trip of the season, ten games in
Speaker 7: ten days, and you have to give the Dodgers some credit.
Speaker 7: I know they're highly paid professional athletes. I get it,
Speaker 7: but you have to take into consideration. They start the
Speaker 7: road trip in Atlanta, they have to endure a three
Speaker 7: hour and six minute rain delay before first pitch is thrown.
Speaker 7: Game ends at one thirty one, forty Eastern time. They
Speaker 7: have to come back the next day play Sunday Night
Speaker 7: Baseball and then fly to Miami overnight and arrive at
Speaker 7: their hotel close to three a m. And then play
Speaker 7: in front of a sparse crowd here in Miami and
Speaker 7: generate the adrenaline and energy to beat the Marlins. They
Speaker 7: were able to do that seven to four tonight against Miami,
Speaker 7: and they went with basically a bullpen game. It started
Speaker 7: with Jack Dryer, it ended with Kirby Yate's first save
Speaker 7: as a Dodger. But in between a big way, Ben
Speaker 7: Casparius being the most versatile pitcher on this staff comes
Speaker 7: in in bulk relief for four innings and only gives
Speaker 7: up one earned run to improve his record of four
Speaker 7: to ozhero. Let's head downstairs right now to the Dodger
Speaker 7: Clubhouse to hear from the very strong and casparious. Yeah.
Speaker 11: I felt like the first inning was just kind of
Speaker 11: getting the rust off a little bit. Then I started
Speaker 11: to settle in the next three or so and I
Speaker 11: felt good overall. It was good to kind of, you know,
Speaker 11: get to that seventy pitch mark. It's been a while
Speaker 11: since I've done that, and overall felt pretty good.
Speaker 9: You find it's just kind of like a natural build
Speaker 9: up for you. I mean, Dave Roberts was saying he
Speaker 9: kind of wants to keep you in that sixty seventy range.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I felt like I felt solid after fifty four
Speaker 11: last week, and again I figured it was going to
Speaker 11: be closer to seventy and I'm glad to reach that mark,
Speaker 11: but I felt good.
Speaker 9: Sounds like the next one will be more of like
Speaker 9: a yes, traditional routine. That's something I guess it will
Speaker 9: be kind of nice to have, just considering whether it's
Speaker 9: kind of a bullpen. And now in a sense stepping
Speaker 9: into the rotation.
Speaker 11: For sure, and again like whatever the role is, whether
Speaker 11: it's you know, following an opener like Jack getting a
Speaker 11: traditional start, I think just getting back on that routine.
Speaker 11: It's been encouraging obviously, you know, not having to be
Speaker 11: ready to go every single day out of the book,
Speaker 11: and just the changes are really more just in the
Speaker 11: training room, in the weight room and kind of how
Speaker 11: I'm distributing my time. But I feel comfortable with.
Speaker 5: That, all right.
Speaker 7: There's Ben Casparius, and that's what he told me when
Speaker 7: I asked him at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 5: If you're thrust into.
Speaker 7: A new role where either you're starting or coming in
Speaker 7: every fifth day as the bulk innings pitcher and Dave
Speaker 7: Roberts indicated before the game, this is not going to
Speaker 7: be the last time Casparius does this. Five or six
Speaker 7: days from now, he's going to be in the same role,
Speaker 7: maybe even starting. And he said, you know what, it's
Speaker 7: not going to change. If I need to come into
Speaker 7: a game two days before I'm going to pitch, that
Speaker 7: would substitute as.
Speaker 5: My bullpen games.
Speaker 7: So he told me the biggest difference is what and
Speaker 7: when he goes into the weight room and how much
Speaker 7: he does before or in between these starts. So that's
Speaker 7: the biggest adjustment for Caspiraus. And he told me candidly, basically,
Speaker 7: I want to do whatever they want me to do
Speaker 7: because I don't want to go to Oklahoma City. So
Speaker 7: if they want me to start, I'll do it. If
Speaker 7: they want me to come out of the bullpen for
Speaker 7: an inning, I'll do it. If they want me to
Speaker 7: come in for multi innings, I'll do it. I'll do
Speaker 7: whatever it takes to stay in the big leagues. And
Speaker 7: he's not going anywhere. And let's not forget he was
Speaker 7: unflappable as a rookie making his first start for the
Speaker 7: Dodgers in a World Series game at Yankee Stadium, Game four,
Speaker 7: and he pitched really well. So kudos to benk Casparrius.
Speaker 7: All Right, we're gonna get to our interview now with
Speaker 7: Joe Torrey. I had a chance to catch up with
Speaker 7: the Hall of Fame manager that won four World Championships
Speaker 7: in pinstripes and really was the guy that steered the
Speaker 7: ship for that dynasty with Jeter and Pasada and Pettit
Speaker 7: and those guys, and Joe Torre's Yankees were the last
Speaker 7: major league team to repeat his champions twenty five years ago.
Speaker 7: I wanted to tap into a guy that knows about
Speaker 7: navigating a winning team a winning culture more than anybody,
Speaker 7: since they were the last team not only to repeat,
Speaker 7: but to repeat in Major League Baseball. So here's my
Speaker 7: conversation with the Hall of Fame manager Joe Tory.
Speaker 1: You know, David, it's great coming back. You know, you
Speaker 1: you come to Los Angeles and I know when I left,
Speaker 1: When I left the Yankees and I had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to come out here, you don't know really what to expect.
Speaker 1: You know. The first thing that comes to your mind
Speaker 1: is that when I was a player, you couldn't escape.
Speaker 1: It was always drysdown in Kofax. So it was a
Speaker 1: little frightening to come out here at that time. The
Speaker 1: one thing I did learn when I came out here
Speaker 1: is the passion the fans have. And you know, I
Speaker 1: know the Lakers are huge and uh, but the Dodgers
Speaker 1: really have a following. That that was was so reassuring me.
Speaker 7: Joe, I saw you from across Camelback Ranch this spring.
Speaker 7: You obviously were patrolling those fields when you were managing
Speaker 7: the Dodgers were you taken aback by the popularity of
Speaker 7: the Dodgers even in spring training?
Speaker 1: You know, I was fortunate enough David to come on
Speaker 1: board in two thousand and eight when they were still
Speaker 1: in Bureau, and I got a little taste of the history.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: You walk in in through that clubhouse and you see
Speaker 1: all the photos from the Dodger teams that I used
Speaker 1: to hate because I was a Giants fan. But you
Speaker 1: always respected, you know, because they were always there. I know,
Speaker 1: they said wait till next year, wait till next year,
Speaker 1: and they finally won a World Series in fifty five,
Speaker 1: but they were always right there on the precipice. And
Speaker 1: you know, whether you liked him or you didn't like him,
Speaker 1: they were always there and you had to respect that fact.
Speaker 5: Joe.
Speaker 7: Before we get back in to baseball, I definitely want
Speaker 7: to shine a light on the reason why you are
Speaker 7: back in Los Angeles. It's your annual Joe Tory Safe
Speaker 7: at Home gallop. This is a special one because the
Speaker 7: proceeds benefit Safe at Homes Margaret's place, and with the
Speaker 7: fires that have displaced not only families but students, a
Speaker 7: lot of these proceeds are going to help build a
Speaker 7: safe at home at the Series building on Third Street
Speaker 7: Promenade for all those Pally High kids and the kids
Speaker 7: that are affected from K through twelve.
Speaker 1: Well, it was so devastating. I mean, my wife Ali
Speaker 1: and I came through La actually right at the start
Speaker 1: of the fires. We were on our way to Hawaii,
Speaker 1: and it just was devastating. It was so frightening. And
Speaker 1: then to see the result, you know.
Speaker 3: And of course.
Speaker 1: Last time I was here, we went out to Pally
Speaker 1: High to you know, just hang out with the with
Speaker 1: the baseball team, and Billy Crystal was was nice enough
Speaker 1: to come out and join me and we had a little,
Speaker 1: you know, a little chat with the baseball team, you know,
Speaker 1: because it's devastating all of a sudden. You know, you're
Speaker 1: a young man, you're going to school, you're playing on
Speaker 1: the baseball team, and all of a sudden your school
Speaker 1: is gone. It's you know, it's frightening. But the one
Speaker 1: thing about it, and we tried, Billy and I tried
Speaker 1: to did stress to the team. You know that's that
Speaker 1: really reunites you and unite you, I should say, unite
Speaker 1: you together and you rely on each other because it's
Speaker 1: tough going through life. By yourself and then you know,
Speaker 1: I think the team concept really really was magnified at
Speaker 1: this point in time.
Speaker 3: But it was so.
Speaker 1: Devastating what happened in LA and it I'm just pleased
Speaker 1: now that we, you know, we were able to do
Speaker 1: some good and go out and talk to the kids
Speaker 1: at Pally and and in fact, I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: head over there tomorrow to spend some time. But it
Speaker 1: was it was great that they were able to, you know,
Speaker 1: have a Margaret's Place, Margaret's Place obviously is named after
Speaker 1: my mom, and be there for the kids because that's
Speaker 1: our future, David, as you know, and you know, we're
Speaker 1: we're pleased to do it. And I'm very touched that,
Speaker 1: you know that it's been received so well in the
Speaker 1: in the LA area, we have we have more Margaret's
Speaker 1: Places in schools here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Than we do in New York.
Speaker 1: And that's where that's where we originally got started.
Speaker 5: That's really special.
Speaker 7: Eighteen Margaret's Place is in the area of Los Angeles.
Speaker 7: And to support this great cause that Joe Tory started
Speaker 7: in honor of his mother, go to Joetory dot org.
Speaker 7: And Joe, like you said, as adults, we always have
Speaker 7: to worry about how we're going to support the family
Speaker 7: when disasters like this happened in Alta, Dina and the Palisades.
Speaker 7: But through your own experience, sometimes the kids are the
Speaker 7: ones that we forget, and those are the ones that
Speaker 7: have a lot of trauma that they need a place
Speaker 7: like Margaret's Place to go to.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, I grew up with that, and
Speaker 1: that's how we originally came to start our Safe at
Speaker 1: Home Foundation. My dad was abusive to my mom. I
Speaker 1: never was physically abused, but you know, I learned as
Speaker 1: a grown up. You know, first off, I was a
Speaker 1: very shy kid. I didn't even go out didn't even
Speaker 1: go out for the high school baseball team as a
Speaker 1: freshman because I didn't think I was good enough. So
Speaker 1: I come to learn how later on that you know what,
Speaker 1: my dad, the fear that he brought to the home,
Speaker 1: our home every day, it took effect on me. Even
Speaker 1: though I wasn't physically abused, the emotional scars they that
Speaker 1: never go away. And once I was able to, you know,
Speaker 1: feel I needed to talk about it. It was something
Speaker 1: I kept inside. And having a Margaret's Place gives these
Speaker 1: youngsters a chance to realize they're not alone and they're
Speaker 1: not the only ones that are going through this, so that,
Speaker 1: you know, if I think back, and you know, had
Speaker 1: some place to go or share it with anybody, because
Speaker 1: I never did share it with any of my friends
Speaker 1: growing up. And I just felt very blessed that I
Speaker 1: had the ability to play baseball because it gave me
Speaker 1: a place to hide.
Speaker 7: Jill, like you said, you didn't have a Margaret's place,
Speaker 7: You didn't have a Joe Tory that would set up
Speaker 7: eighteen in Los Angeles or New York. Where did you
Speaker 7: turn the corner in your life? Where did you find
Speaker 7: that inner strength?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it was interesting.
Speaker 3: I was just.
Speaker 1: I was with the Cardinals and I was fired in
Speaker 1: June of ninety five, and my wife Ali was pregnant
Speaker 1: with our daughter, Andrea, and we were living in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: at the time because when I was fired in Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: my Alli is from Cincinnati and she has plenty of
Speaker 1: family there. So I knew if I was going to
Speaker 1: go look for a job, that she was going to
Speaker 1: be surrounded by family. I wouldn't leave her, you know,
Speaker 1: by herself. So we moved to Cincinnati and then it
Speaker 1: was like late November. There was like a seminar that
Speaker 1: was going on at a holiday inn symposium type thing,
Speaker 1: and Alie says to me, you want to go with me? Well,
Speaker 1: she's eight months pregnant. I'm not about to say no
Speaker 1: to anything she asked me to do. And we went
Speaker 1: to this holiday end and it turned out to be
Speaker 1: like a self help type situation, a four day affair,
Speaker 1: And what it amounted to is if, like if you
Speaker 1: wanted to quit smoking or some you know, self help
Speaker 1: area where you needed some help doing those things. That's
Speaker 1: what it was there for. As soon as you walk
Speaker 1: in the front door, they separated Ali and I and
Speaker 1: they put us in a group of six or eight people.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think it was day two or
Speaker 1: three that there was a speaker and I can't tell
Speaker 1: you what he said. The only thing I could tell
Speaker 1: you is that he struck a nerve with me. Now,
Speaker 1: I thought I was born with this nervousness and and
Speaker 1: and the low self esteem, and just from what this
Speaker 1: speaker was talking about was letting me know that what
Speaker 1: my dad was doing to us in the home is
Speaker 1: what caused it. And it just freed me up to
Speaker 1: talk about it. Even though to this day it's still
Speaker 1: emotional for me, but at least I know it was
Speaker 1: something that happened to me, you know, during my lifetime,
Speaker 1: as opposed to being born this way, and it was
Speaker 1: something I was embarrassed to talk about before, but once
Speaker 1: I realized what the cause was, I wanted to share it.
Speaker 1: And you know, I remember the first school that we
Speaker 1: went to, you know, when we were just starting, say
Speaker 1: at home in New York, and I was talking to
Speaker 1: a classroom of young people and I said, we'll talk
Speaker 1: to We'll talk baseball in a minute, because there was
Speaker 1: a camera crew that followed us to do some b
Speaker 1: roll for our dinner, our first dinner, and I said,
Speaker 1: I'll talk about baseball in a minute. I said, but
Speaker 1: I just want to let you know what this camera
Speaker 1: crew is doing here. And I started talking about my
Speaker 1: dad was doing to my mom, and I looked out
Speaker 1: there and there was probably six or eight kids shaking
Speaker 1: their head yes. In other words, they know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. So I knew we struck a nerve at
Speaker 1: that point in time. And it was my wife who
Speaker 1: really had the idea to do, you know, start a
Speaker 1: foundation and do it through education, because if we're going
Speaker 1: to do our part to try to end the cycle
Speaker 1: of domestic violence. I think education is the way you
Speaker 1: have to, you know, go about it, because young people,
Speaker 1: if their only role model is an abusive parent, you
Speaker 1: got to let them know that that's not the right
Speaker 1: way to go about your life. So we realized that
Speaker 1: we struck a nerve. We touch a lot of kids,
Speaker 1: and we have twenty five thirty thousand kids that we're
Speaker 1: able to reach every year, and it's been really, really
Speaker 1: a great feeling for me because we know what we
Speaker 1: do works.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's really powerful, Joe, and I'm sure many of
Speaker 7: us would be surprised how many people we interact with
Speaker 7: that have been either physically or emotionally abused at home
Speaker 7: as a kid. And it's beautiful that Joe Torre and
Speaker 7: his wife Ali have started this safe at home program
Speaker 7: and you can support them at Joetory dot org. They
Speaker 7: have eighteen Margaret Places here in Los Angels and they
Speaker 7: are trying to help those that were displaced, those kids
Speaker 7: that were displaced by the fires in Altadena and the
Speaker 7: Pacific Palisades. Joe Tory is our guest, and Joe, since
Speaker 7: you're with us, I got to ask you. There's been
Speaker 7: so much hype around the Dodgers, and there's been so
Speaker 7: much talk about trying to do something that only your
Speaker 7: Yankees have done in the last twenty five years, and
Speaker 7: that's repeat as champions. What does it take to repeat
Speaker 7: as world champions in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 1: You know, that's a great question, David. You know, even
Speaker 1: the Red Sox when you know, when we had that
Speaker 1: rivalry all the time in New York, the Red Sox
Speaker 1: when they was, you know, finally did win a World Series,
Speaker 1: and then they won another World Series in another World Series,
Speaker 1: but they had trouble repeating. I think, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's just social media, but that's a
Speaker 1: big part of it. You know, you set your goals,
Speaker 1: and you know, when you finally, you know, achieve winning
Speaker 1: a World Series. I can't say you celebrate it all
Speaker 1: the time, but you know, if you if you say,
Speaker 1: you know, you reach the top of the mountain and
Speaker 1: you sort of exhale, it's so important to realize that
Speaker 1: you have to validate that and you still have to
Speaker 1: go and start all over again the next spring and
Speaker 1: and realize that, you know, you have to prove that
Speaker 1: what you did last year was not a fluke, and
Speaker 1: that was that was my mentality my first meeting, believe
Speaker 1: it or not, David with the Yankees, which I was
Speaker 1: very nervous to give because I knew how important it
Speaker 1: was if I was going to go into that situation,
Speaker 1: especially to a ball club that had gone to the
Speaker 1: playoffs the year before, and I had I had said
Speaker 1: and that I don't want to win one World Series,
Speaker 1: I want to win three in a row. And I
Speaker 1: said that the based on the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: I've watched all sports. I've watched you know, the team
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: disappear the next year. And I just had a sense that,
Speaker 1: you know, we're not finished working at it. I think
Speaker 1: once you stop to admire what you've accomplished, you stop
Speaker 1: doing it. And I had a good group obviously that
Speaker 1: just never got tired of winning and just felt an
Speaker 1: obligation to go out there and and try to get,
Speaker 1: you know, get back to the top of the mountain again.
Speaker 7: Being around these Dodgers, it doesn't seem there like there's complacency, Joe,
Speaker 7: but it is a long regular season to even get
Speaker 7: to October. How did you treat the one hundred and
Speaker 7: sixty two game marathon the following year.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you you go and you know you've
Speaker 1: got the great manager, Dave Roberts, who you know, he
Speaker 1: always has that that half full attitude, the glass half full.
Speaker 1: You know, you really have to find a way to
Speaker 1: get things done. You can't dwell on things you don't have.
Speaker 1: You just have to, you know, accentuate the things you
Speaker 1: do have. My first year, we lost David Cone early
Speaker 1: in the year. He had an aneurysm, and I remember
Speaker 1: Don Zimmer saying to me, you know, if we lose Cone,
Speaker 1: we're you know, we're in big trouble. But you have
Speaker 1: to find a way to move on, you know, you
Speaker 1: just that that's the nature of the Beasts. You know,
Speaker 1: you work for six seven weeks in spring training, you
Speaker 1: get get ready for the season, and you owe it
Speaker 1: to yourself, You owe it to your team, and you
Speaker 1: owe it to the fans to go out there and
Speaker 1: find a way to get it done. And Dave Roberts
Speaker 1: is that guy in my mind, even though I didn't
Speaker 1: like him very much when he stole Second Date back
Speaker 1: in oh four, but we I got over that. I
Speaker 1: finally got over that, by the.
Speaker 5: Way, and it's how many years later.
Speaker 1: I still have waked, you know, I still wake in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night sometimes, but I maybe it'll
Speaker 1: roll over. So but it's it's it's not easy to do. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, once you get to the top of the mountain,
Speaker 1: everybody's shooting at you. And they they always put on
Speaker 1: their Sunday best when they play you because they know
Speaker 1: it's a feather in their cap if they beat the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and they're the world champs. So it's just it's
Speaker 1: just something that you know, you you've got to you know,
Speaker 1: have a strong backbone and uh, and understand, nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: feel sorry for you, so you better get out there
Speaker 1: and work hards.
Speaker 7: Great wisdom from experience from one of the great men
Speaker 7: to ever put on the uniform as a player or
Speaker 7: a manager, and that is the one and only Joe Tory. Joe,
Speaker 7: thank you so much for the time and man, thank
Speaker 7: you again for doing what you're doing in Los Angeles.
Speaker 7: The Safe at Home Gala is on Thursday. If you'd
Speaker 7: like to donate to a great cause that is helping
Speaker 7: so many kids out there, go to Joetory dot org.
Speaker 7: Joe hope to see you out the ballpark soon and thank.
Speaker 1: You for your time anytime. Take care.
Speaker 7: All right, There was Hall of Fame manager Joe Tory.
Speaker 7: I had to share that full conversation with Joe Tory
Speaker 7: because a he's doing a great thing to help the
Speaker 7: people that were affected and the kids especially that were
Speaker 7: affected by the Palisades fire and also the fires in
Speaker 7: Alta Dina. We need to keep all of those people
Speaker 7: still in our forethoughts because they are still grinding through
Speaker 7: each and every day, and their homes are not rebuilt,
Speaker 7: and they're still looking for some normalcy in their lives.
Speaker 7: And certainly Joe Torrey and his wife Ali have done
Speaker 7: a great job with their foundation. You can help them
Speaker 7: out at Joe Tory dot org. And I loved his
Speaker 7: insight on what it will take to repeat as world champions,
Speaker 7: because the Dodgers seem to have that focus. And I
Speaker 7: loved what Joe Torrey had to say there. You can't
Speaker 7: admire what you did last year, and I've heard Freddie
Speaker 7: Freeman and Mookie Betts talk about it. Yeah, they've handed
Speaker 7: out the rings to teammates that are no longer wearing
Speaker 7: Dodger blue, but they are not admiring what they did
Speaker 7: last year. Case in point, what they've done on this
Speaker 7: road trip already, the longest road trip of the year,
Speaker 7: that saw three hour rain delay in Atlanta Sunday Night
Speaker 7: baseball last night, arriving in their hotel rooms at two
Speaker 7: thirty yesterday, and they come out in a stadium that
Speaker 7: has zero energy and they beat the Marlins seven to
Speaker 7: four in resounding fashions. So the Dodgers have the veteran
Speaker 7: group to be able to hold each other accountable and
Speaker 7: do exactly what Joe Torrey's Yankees did. So a great
Speaker 7: message there from Joe Tory, the Hall of Fame manager,
Speaker 7: and the Dodgers, like I said, are applying that that'll
Speaker 7: do it for us. Tonight on Dodger Talk from Miami.
Speaker 7: Coming up tomorrow, Game two of this three game series
Speaker 7: between the Dodgers and Marlins. Tony Gonsolin we'll be making
Speaker 7: a second start of the season, second time facing the Marlins.
Speaker 5: In the last week.
Speaker 7: He went six innings, allowed US three earned runs, going
Speaker 7: up against Cal Quantrell, who got beat up by the
Speaker 7: Dodgers last week as well. Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck
Speaker 7: begins at two thirty tomorrow with first pitch at three forty.
Speaker 7: Thanks to Colinie back at our Burbank Studios, thanks to
Speaker 7: Dwayne McDonald out here at Lone Depot Park, and thanks
Speaker 7: to you for listening.
Speaker 5: In case you missed any of the show.
Speaker 7: Or our pregame interview with Marlin's manager Clayton McCullough and
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Speaker 5: App once again.
Speaker 7: The final score tonight from Miami, the Dodgers defeat the
Speaker 7: Marlins seven to four.
Speaker 5: Have a great rest of your night. See um