Speaker 1: Us right now alongside David Vassay our Dodgers World Series
Speaker 1: Championship celebration presented by Yamaba live from Dodgers Stadium. As
Speaker 1: we are minutes away from the parade at City Hall.
Speaker 1: Tim Kates inside Dodgers Stadium, David Vassay is on bus
Speaker 1: number three of a caravan of double decker buses that
Speaker 1: is getting ready to make its way to City Hall.
Speaker 1: Has already left Dodger Stadium. Dodgers Stadium is starting to
Speaker 1: fill up.
Speaker 2: DV.
Speaker 1: Where are you guys at in this caravan of buses
Speaker 1: making their way to the fans of the parade.
Speaker 3: We're about to jump on the one ten freeway here.
Speaker 3: We've stopped for a second just to get everything organized
Speaker 3: before they head to City Hall here, so all is
Speaker 3: well and everybody is very excited. Now they're screaming at
Speaker 3: each other from bus to bus, communicating with each other
Speaker 3: that way. So it's a good time. It's a good time.
Speaker 3: Everybody's having fun. And honestly, Tim, like taosca Hernandez said,
Speaker 3: I think back of how long these guys have been
Speaker 3: playing and really putting their bodies to the test since
Speaker 3: spring training. They went all the way to South Korea.
Speaker 3: I think people forget about that. You forget about the
Speaker 3: fact the Dodgers had to report earlier than any other
Speaker 3: team in Major League Baseball and played longer than any
Speaker 3: other team in baseball. The Padres were there in South Korea.
Speaker 3: They started at the same time as the Dodgers, but
Speaker 3: the Dodgers were the last team standing. That's what makes
Speaker 3: this championship run even more remarkable. They have played baseball
Speaker 3: longer than arguably any team in baseball history.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy to think about the long journey of
Speaker 1: this season. And you mentioned all the guys, David, that
Speaker 1: are on these buses, and it's great to see guys
Speaker 1: who contributed in some way or a lot of way,
Speaker 1: or were starters all season long, or guys that maybe
Speaker 1: got injured. You mentioned one name particular, Gavin Stone. This
Speaker 1: Dodgers team isn't winning a World Series without Gavin Stone. David,
Speaker 1: and what he did during the regular season, taking the
Speaker 1: ball every five or six days, and then it ultimately
Speaker 1: you know, he hurts his arm late in September, isn't
Speaker 1: able to pitch in October, but he has a big
Speaker 1: part of this Dodger team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you think back to some of the great
Speaker 3: moments of the season. You think back to Gavin Stone's
Speaker 3: complete game shutout against the White Sox in Chicago. That
Speaker 3: was unbelievable. That was one of the best pitch games
Speaker 3: all season long. That wasn't a no hitter. You think
Speaker 3: back to that game at coors Field, right. Remember, Jason
Speaker 3: Hayward was part of this team. The Dodgers were down
Speaker 3: what nine to five in that game in June at Corsefield.
Speaker 3: In the ninth inning, they come back with a grand
Speaker 3: slam from Hayward and the guy sitting behind me, te
Speaker 3: Oscar Hernandez, one of his biggest home runs of the year,
Speaker 3: a go ahead, three run home run to give the
Speaker 3: Dodgers an eleven to nine win at Coors Field. Those
Speaker 3: are the things that people that weren't following the Dodgers
Speaker 3: or get caught up in October, forget about what the
Speaker 3: Dodgers did in the postseason. Is what they were doing
Speaker 3: all season long. And that's why, you know, people don't
Speaker 3: give this team enough credit for the character they have
Speaker 3: on this team. And look, Dave Roberts sees taking a
Speaker 3: lot of incoming. You have to give him a lot
Speaker 3: of credit for the job he did this year. I thought, honestly,
Speaker 3: the last two years of managing for Dave Roberts have
Speaker 3: been his two best years with the Dodgers, and him
Speaker 3: just having a pulse for his team, And you think,
Speaker 3: I just I feel like Dave Roberts gets way more
Speaker 3: blamed than he deserves and in some ways gets way
Speaker 3: more credit than he deserves. He's only as good as
Speaker 3: the players are when he puts them in positions to succeed,
Speaker 3: and you think back to the great GM manager combinations.
Speaker 3: We're on the one ten right now, heading heading towards
Speaker 3: City Hall, and the one ten North is stopped bumper
Speaker 3: to bumper, and the fans have just stopped on their
Speaker 3: own and are taking video of the parade buses going
Speaker 3: in the opposite direction right now on the one ten freeway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, watching you guys Dodger Stadium, and you can hear
Speaker 1: the cheers here, David. They're now showing the team on
Speaker 1: the buses making your way on the one ten two
Speaker 1: City Hall, which you guys will be at in just
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. And then there's hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of Dodgers fans aligned the streets of LA for that
Speaker 1: one point two miles of this parade that will start
Speaker 1: after Mayor Bass gives a speech at Dodger Stadium. Hopefully
Speaker 1: the politicians will make a quick TV and the fans
Speaker 1: can get to see their favorite Dodger players.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. And going back to my point about
Speaker 3: the great GM manager combinations, Tim, you think back to
Speaker 3: Brian Cashman and Joe Tory, John Scherholtz and Bobby Cox.
Speaker 3: Don't you have to put Andrew Freeman and Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: in that category. I mean, they're right up there with
Speaker 3: Al Campanis and Tommy Lasorda right now.
Speaker 2: Put them in that category.
Speaker 3: All right. We're still moving towards the city Hall on
Speaker 3: the one ten South the one ten North headed to
Speaker 3: Pasadena right now. The traffic is stopped and everybody's honking
Speaker 3: their horns. I'm not sure if you could hear that.
Speaker 3: In the background, they're honking their horns and taking a
Speaker 3: cell phone video of the parade buses headed towards city Hall.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you this city is at a standstill. I
Speaker 3: know we had Blake Jolie on earlier. He's right. If
Speaker 3: you need to go to the DMB, today would be
Speaker 3: the day because nobody is working today. Everybody is in
Speaker 3: and around downtown, or they've got the TV's on wherever
Speaker 3: they're working. They got the radio on, the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 3: on in their offices right now, Tim, it's all brought
Speaker 3: to you by Yama Bah.
Speaker 1: You can hear the fans honking at you guys on
Speaker 1: the buses as you guys make your way on the
Speaker 1: one ten South. Those are all hanks of horns coming
Speaker 1: on the one ten North. And what a pleasant surprise.
Speaker 1: A lot of those people are getting right now as
Speaker 1: they're making their commute or their drive through downtown and
Speaker 1: they're seeing double decker after double decker bus make their
Speaker 1: way past them.
Speaker 3: Oh, we're going underneath and underpass. Everybody down, everybody down,
Speaker 3: everybody down. All right, we got underneath one of the
Speaker 3: overpasses here, Tim, We're all safe all as well.
Speaker 1: That was something in the King's Parade at twenty twenty
Speaker 1: twelve that the flayers had to be alert off because
Speaker 1: that low pass of the bridge there and the double
Speaker 1: decker buses get pretty close together.
Speaker 3: Hey, I just spotted the World Series Trophy. It's on
Speaker 3: the second bus with Andrew Freeman and Dave Roberts We're
Speaker 3: the bus behind the World Series Trophy with taoscar Hernandez,
Speaker 3: Jack Flaherty, Mookie Bed Show Hey Otani Yoshiamamoto. Otani, by
Speaker 3: the way, is at the back of the bus, sitting down, cool, calm, collected.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what he's thinking right now, but I'm
Speaker 3: looking at him. He's very relaxed back there. He's just
Speaker 3: taking videotape, and you got to wonder what's going on
Speaker 3: with him as far as his emotions when it comes
Speaker 3: to just what he's seeing, because he has never experienced
Speaker 3: this ever, He's never even come close to winning the
Speaker 3: World Series, let alone being in the postseason in his
Speaker 3: first six years. And he's just sitting back, relaxing and
Speaker 3: enjoying whatever he's seeing and whatever we're seeing as far
Speaker 3: as the fans go. Can you imagine if you're driving
Speaker 3: on the one ten North right now and you look
Speaker 3: to your left and you see the Dodgers parade buses,
Speaker 3: and you look over and you see showy Otani just
Speaker 3: sitting down with his hat backwards, just relaxing. I mean,
Speaker 3: come on, only in La, Baby.
Speaker 1: Only in La and they're showing fans on top of
Speaker 1: the overpasses, climbing the chain link fence, yelling down as
Speaker 1: the Dodger.
Speaker 2: Buses as they make their way by.
Speaker 1: If you look to your left or right up the
Speaker 1: in Bakvin's, David, they're showing fans that have pulled over
Speaker 1: on the off ramps and are getting out of their
Speaker 1: cars and looking and taking videos and pictures and waving
Speaker 1: at the Dodger buses, which looks like you, guys are
Speaker 1: now making your way closely into downtown as you exit
Speaker 1: the one ten freeway there. I believe it's sixth in
Speaker 1: Wiltshire or third Street there in downtown.
Speaker 3: Ever, being here, you don't know where we are. All
Speaker 3: of that frequent riverside drive.
Speaker 2: Is this close to Don Kuco's.
Speaker 4: Anybody any chance exactly?
Speaker 3: Are you taking the after party to Don Cuco's tonight, Tim.
Speaker 1: Dave will be there in full effect. We're gonna close
Speaker 1: that place down.
Speaker 3: Oh I love it, So you better go there. You
Speaker 3: better celebrate there. Yes, I see the fans now that
Speaker 3: have gotten off the out of their cars. I see
Speaker 3: them now as we are getting on the off ramp
Speaker 3: towards City Hall. This is amazing, Tim, This is amazing,
Speaker 3: especially in the cell phone age where you know, you
Speaker 3: could just get out of your car and take a videotape.
Speaker 3: I mean, now I know how OJ felt in the
Speaker 3: White Bronco. Now I know how it feels.
Speaker 2: A little bit. You know.
Speaker 1: I got Texas said, it's sort of like you're the
Speaker 1: captain of the Jungle Cruise at at Disneyland as they
Speaker 1: make their way and describing everything that you're seeing.
Speaker 2: This is very cool, David, that's a great call.
Speaker 3: Does this feel like the Jungle Cruise tail like at Disneyland?
Speaker 3: Do I feel like the guy driving the boat? Oh
Speaker 3: you will go. You gotta go to Disneyland. Now play
Speaker 3: Disneyland passes for tail.
Speaker 2: Oh way, beat us.
Speaker 3: They're gonna have a parade for you at Disneyland too
Speaker 3: one day.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Looking at those championship hats, Davids, those are kind of
Speaker 1: old school eighty eight looking with the trophy in the
Speaker 1: middle and the gold looks like champions across the front
Speaker 1: or Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I can't tell what that says, but.
Speaker 3: These are a little bit cooler than the ones from
Speaker 3: eighty eight because I remember the eighty eight World Series hat.
Speaker 3: It was just the World Series logo with the baseball
Speaker 3: diamond and it's just said World Series on it. These
Speaker 3: are definitely more stylish than those in eighty eight.
Speaker 2: David, I'm looking next door at the CBS booth. Next door.
Speaker 2: Steve Sacks is on the air.
Speaker 1: He was with us earlier and of course hard of
Speaker 1: scam and to see him looking out and watching the
Speaker 1: TV coverage and certainly watching the Dodger fans here at
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. A member of the eighty eight team is
Speaker 1: in awe right now. What are you seeing a bit
Speaker 1: the celebration.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be interesting to see if he Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, there's fans in the ivy on the off
Speaker 3: rams here in downtown LA. It's pretty cool to see
Speaker 3: all these fans that are just trying to get a
Speaker 3: glimpse of their favorite players. I'm looking back at the
Speaker 3: bus right now. I see Chris Taylor. I see Mookie
Speaker 3: Betts with his wife, his kids, his mom. I see
Speaker 3: Bobby Miller, I see Tommy Edmond. I see Otani with
Speaker 3: his wife. I see Yamamoto at the very back with
Speaker 3: Hero as an interpreter. I see who else do I
Speaker 3: see on this bus? Obviously ta Oscar Hernandez is right
Speaker 3: behind me. Andy Pajes is right behind me. Jack Flaherty
Speaker 3: and Tyler Glass now are sitting across from each other
Speaker 3: here as well, So it's a pretty cool bus. And
Speaker 3: the bus behind us has Chi k Hernandez has World
Speaker 3: Series MVP Freddie Freeman on it as we are exiting Broadway,
Speaker 3: and the overpass here is full of Dodger fans. You know,
Speaker 3: anytime I see you overpass a full of people when
Speaker 3: I'm on the freeway, I get a little nervous, but
Speaker 3: very We feel very safe here, Tim. This has been
Speaker 3: organized great by the LAPD, who we love, the CHP,
Speaker 3: who we love. They've done a great job of keeping
Speaker 3: law and order here for this parade.
Speaker 2: Law and order every time.
Speaker 1: Dodger's World Series Championship celebration is presented by Yamavah We
Speaker 1: of course you're a home of the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: World Series champion LA Dodgers. You're listening to AM five
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tim
Speaker 1: kates inside Dodger Stadium, which is quickly filling up, watching
Speaker 1: the celebration on the Dodger vision boards, and of course
Speaker 1: after the parade, it will all come back here for
Speaker 1: an on field celebration. David Vasse, the Dodger Insider, is
Speaker 1: live on bus number three. Nobody else in southern California
Speaker 1: has that. The TV stand ups there's somewhere else, nobody
Speaker 1: else has a Dodger reporter on a team bus like
Speaker 1: a seventy LA Sports does. And Dave is on bus
Speaker 1: number three right now.
Speaker 2: As you guys get closer and closer, DV, I see it.
Speaker 1: You're along the one O one it looks like, or
Speaker 1: the one ten, maybe getting closer to city Hall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we are, We're getting closer. You got a lot
Speaker 3: of streets blocked off. Do I see city Hall in
Speaker 3: the distance. I do not see city Hall in the
Speaker 3: distance from where we're at right now. But what I
Speaker 3: do see is guys starting to get up and certainly
Speaker 3: move around and starting to feel that celebration vibe. Tim,
Speaker 3: that's when you know. That's when you know things are
Speaker 3: getting real. Because guys were sitting down on the bus,
Speaker 3: they feel a little bit more comfortable and ready to
Speaker 3: stand up and feel it. Right now, I see the
Speaker 3: bus behind me has Gavin Stone, Anthony Banda, Keiky Hernandez,
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman. Some guys have lit up some cigars, here
Speaker 3: the bus, so everybody's feeling it here, Tim, We're about
Speaker 3: to make a rite on Spring Street. So City Hall
Speaker 3: is just around the corner. And can't wait to see
Speaker 3: the crowd of fans that are there. I see a
Speaker 3: lot of government workers that have come out in their
Speaker 3: suit and ties, and there it is, there is City Hall. Wow,
Speaker 3: this is amazing really to have this vantage point, Tim,
Speaker 3: as the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers are headed there
Speaker 3: right now to be celebrated. They're starting to feel it
Speaker 3: as well. Everybody's on their feet on the buses now
Speaker 3: to really enjoy all this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys are making a right on the Spring Street.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see City Hall there and in a minute, David,
Speaker 1: and after that, I'm looking at a wide shot, Curzy
Speaker 1: are friends at Sports and at LA an aerial shot
Speaker 1: of the area, and you guys are going to get
Speaker 1: into a sea of Dodger fans. And for those listening,
Speaker 1: have a great time. Be safe out there. The buses
Speaker 1: will be towards you shortly as there will be a
Speaker 1: few minutes of Mayor Bass congratulating the Dodgers championship run.
Speaker 1: And then of course we'll have the parade right here
Speaker 1: on FI seventy LA Sports David Veasse on bus number three. David,
Speaker 1: I'm watching the players. You're right, they're starting to stand up.
Speaker 1: They're starting to get moving around because they know this
Speaker 1: place is gonna be going crazy here in just a
Speaker 1: few minutes. I see tay Oscar's up. He's excited as well.
Speaker 3: Dave. Yeah, tails up, he's ready. He's feeling it now.
Speaker 3: He woke up. Now he's feeling good now. As we
Speaker 3: get closer to Temple Street here, Teoscar Hernandez and David
Speaker 3: Bassey live from the parade route on the bus. This
Speaker 3: is the championship bus here. This is a great bus
Speaker 3: with a lot of great people. I think that's what
Speaker 3: everybody loves about this team. Tim. Not only are they
Speaker 3: great players, but certainly great people. And like I said,
Speaker 3: I'll say it again, Miguel Rojas said it perfectly when
Speaker 3: he talked about this is not just a team with talent,
Speaker 3: it's a team with character and they certainly have showed that.
Speaker 3: As we are getting closer to City Hall.
Speaker 1: The buses are moving closer to the start of the parade,
Speaker 1: and then they'll head for one point two miles on
Speaker 1: the parade route starting at Grand Park in front of
Speaker 1: City Hall on Spring Street. They will continue down First
Speaker 1: Street March four blocks to South Grand Avenue.
Speaker 2: From there, the parade heads the.
Speaker 1: Fifth and Flower by the LA Central Library, and Dave,
Speaker 1: I can see it right now, the fans eight nine,
Speaker 1: ten people deep. As you guys start to make your
Speaker 1: way into that sea of people.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we got the fire truck here on our right.
Speaker 3: As we get closer to Temple Street, everybody a sea
Speaker 3: of blue for these Dodgers. I'm not sure any of
Speaker 3: these guys realize how great they are, how much these
Speaker 3: fans love them, how much this city bleeds Dodger blue.
Speaker 3: We are now at the intersection of Sprinting and Temple As.
Speaker 3: The fans are going wild here for their love of
Speaker 3: the Dodgers and the love of their World Series Championship teams.
Speaker 3: They have been waiting for so many years to be
Speaker 3: able to celebrate their team, and they are finally getting it.
Speaker 3: This is awesome.
Speaker 1: David Vesse live on bus number three en.
Speaker 2: Route to City Hall.
Speaker 3: You still got me, Tim, We got.
Speaker 5: You, Dave.
Speaker 1: It is a sea of Dodger fans around City Hall.
Speaker 1: As you guys approach a scene like no other.
Speaker 3: Sweeter. Yeah it is. We're now a few hundred feet
Speaker 3: away from City Hall as the Dodger Oh man, I
Speaker 3: see the park. It is full, Tim, Wow, I told
Speaker 3: you have never seen these many fans for a championship p.
Speaker 6: Eight.
Speaker 3: I mean this levels and tops with the two thousand
Speaker 3: Lakers enjoyed after their first championship since nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 3: This is, this is overwhelming. I see signs out there.
Speaker 3: These fans are just looking for any sort of attachment
Speaker 3: to say they were here to celebrate this Dodger team.
Speaker 1: I'm watching Clayton Kershaw look out over the sea of
Speaker 1: people from the bus that he is on, just looking
Speaker 1: over at the sea of Dodger fans, and the face
Speaker 1: that he has right now is a face of amazement,
Speaker 1: a face of a man who has put his soul
Speaker 1: into this franchise for seventeen years, won a championship, wanted
Speaker 1: a parade, and now just looking out about he is amazed.
Speaker 1: You can see it in his face, in his eyes,
Speaker 1: how amazed he is of the crowd right now there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great point, Tim. He's the guy that has strived
Speaker 3: his entire career to win the World Series, and when
Speaker 3: he did he did not get a parade, but here
Speaker 3: he is finally experiencing what a championship parade for a
Speaker 3: world championship Dodger team is like. He cannot be forgotten
Speaker 3: in all of this. Kei k a Hernandez is at
Speaker 3: the front here. Man, this is amazing. This really is
Speaker 3: a amazing And I can't see Kershaw from my vantage point,
Speaker 3: but such a great point to be made. Tim how
Speaker 3: he never got to experience this. He came back one
Speaker 3: more year to have an opportunity at this, and now
Speaker 3: he's experiencing it. Even though he wasn't able to pitch
Speaker 3: the last two months of the season, he did pitch
Speaker 3: and he was part of this team. And here he
Speaker 3: is on a championship parade. Flow very happy for him.
Speaker 1: Dave, Your covers will continue from the bus once Mayor
Speaker 1: bass is done speaking.
Speaker 2: We gotta take a quick time out. We'll come back.
Speaker 1: Tab will be on bus number three when the parade
Speaker 1: officially starts where he's in the middle of it right now.
Speaker 1: We'll take a quick break here on exclusive parade covers
Speaker 1: presented by Yah Bah Bah and we'll come back. We'll
Speaker 1: hear for the Mayor and David Vassay as the parade
Speaker 1: will get under way right here on an FI seventy
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Speaker 1: David vass on Bus number three seven different buses making
Speaker 1: their way down First Street as they started on Spring
Speaker 1: in front of City Hall. Com Mayor Karen Bass got
Speaker 1: it all started with the Let's Go Dodgers chant. The
Speaker 1: confetti streams were then streamed out all cross First Street
Speaker 1: and here we are now the Dodgers players on double
Speaker 1: decker buses, seven of them I count as they make
Speaker 1: their way up First Street, just passing Olive Avenue. Are
Speaker 1: Olive Street as we make our way towards Grant in
Speaker 1: which the caravan of double decker bustles will then head
Speaker 1: off to make its way too, of course Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: Let's go out to David Vassa, Who's day Live with
Speaker 1: the Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 2: Let's go to David Love the last.
Speaker 4: Champion, Taoscar Hernandez.
Speaker 3: Sorry, all right, I'm.
Speaker 7: Here at Taoscar Hernandez around the paragram, Tara, did you
Speaker 7: realize how much this.
Speaker 3: City loves you?
Speaker 6: This is Crasey man. I love this. This is a
Speaker 6: dream for me, and I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: I honestly love the sooth.
Speaker 6: And thank you for all the support, always been there
Speaker 6: and for welcoming into the Little Sandals. It made me
Speaker 6: feel part of this family.
Speaker 7: What does it mean to you to have them chant
Speaker 7: your name on a championship parade?
Speaker 6: It means the war. This is everything for me. This
Speaker 6: is why I play, and this is the last thing
Speaker 6: that I wanted in my career. And here we are
Speaker 6: celebrating with the fast and this is law right here.
Speaker 7: You believed in yourself when you sign with the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: Do you feel like the game rewarded you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think I got a little more than I was expected.
Speaker 6: But it's been a year and I'm hoping to be
Speaker 6: part of this.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we can run it back next year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hopefully enjoy the parade. We love you, Thank you,
Speaker 4: we too.
Speaker 1: All right, there is Tay Oscar Hernandez with David Vassi
Speaker 1: on bus number three as the Dodger caravan continues here
Speaker 1: to Dodger Stadium. As it makes its way through the
Speaker 1: streets of downtown LA. Are coverage presented by Budweiser. This
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Speaker 1: the LA Dodgers. The Dodger double decker buses making their
Speaker 1: way up First Street and now they are making the turn,
Speaker 1: the left handed turn on too Grand Avenue. So we're
Speaker 1: about a third of the way through this parade through
Speaker 1: the streets of downtown LA and the crowd is enormous.
Speaker 1: It is absolutely amazing to see the love and support
Speaker 1: from Dodger fans for this team. A parade that we
Speaker 1: waited for for years, thirty six years since the nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight parade, and here they are in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: able to celebrate a World Series championship. More confetti being
Speaker 1: sprayed as the Dodgers make their way through downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Just when you think they make the turn on the ground,
Speaker 1: we got Dodger fans hanging from the street lights on
Speaker 1: Grand Avenue. We got Dodger fans waving flags, hanging from
Speaker 1: the street lights at First and Grand as it makes
Speaker 1: its turn down to Grand Avenue. The seventh World Series
Speaker 1: title in the city of Los Angeles, the eighth in
Speaker 1: franchise history. As the celebration continues here on a five
Speaker 1: to seventy LA Sports, the turn being made, they just
Speaker 1: see of Dodger fans making their way along the parade route,
Speaker 1: many camped out since five four o'clock this morning. We
Speaker 1: heard from Blake Trolley earlier, Corbyn Parson from KFI News
Speaker 1: along the parade route telling us about the fans, talking
Speaker 1: to the fans who have been waiting for this moment,
Speaker 1: and it's certainly fitting that today be in November first,
Speaker 1: Fernando Valenzwala's birthday, the Dodgers are able to celebrate a
Speaker 1: World Series championship, and doing so in grand style here
Speaker 1: on five seventy LA Sports Again, Tim Kates live inside
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium where it is starting to get near capacity. Dignitaries,
Speaker 1: family members hanging out on the field where the celebration
Speaker 1: will continue on the field with a ceremony just past
Speaker 1: second base in shallow center field, a circular stage is
Speaker 1: set up. They are starting to get seated in their
Speaker 1: positions with chairs surrounding the stage, and certainly Dodger fans
Speaker 1: here watching the celebration on the Dodger vision boards as
Speaker 1: the parade makes its way through downtown LA in a
Speaker 1: sea of humanitys ten fifteen in some spots on Grand Avenue,
Speaker 1: twenty people deep, and the blue and white confetti streaming
Speaker 1: right now across Grand Avenue as the fans wave hopefully
Speaker 1: for a collampse just for a second of eye to
Speaker 1: eye contact, waiting for just somebody to wave back to
Speaker 1: them aboard those double decker buses, as the Dodger fans,
Speaker 1: a lot of them in awe right now, pointing celebrating
Speaker 1: this championship team and what they were able to accomplish,
Speaker 1: and it's.
Speaker 2: Gotta be well worth it.
Speaker 1: The grind from Soeul, South Korea in March, to the
Speaker 1: ups and downs of one hundred and sixty two game season,
Speaker 1: to the playoffs being down two games to one of
Speaker 1: the Padres, the NLCS being the Mets in six games,
Speaker 1: and then going to New York and winning a championship
Speaker 1: on the field the Yankee Stadium. The exhaustion that you
Speaker 1: saw from a lot of these players this morning was
Speaker 1: that of a sigh of this is it the culmination
Speaker 1: of a long season? Finally, But as soon as they
Speaker 1: made that turning, you heard it right here with David Vasse.
Speaker 1: As soon as they made that turn on to Spring
Speaker 1: Street and they saw for the first time the wall
Speaker 1: and sea of fans standing by with TV. All right,
Speaker 1: it was amazing to see that. Let's go back out
Speaker 1: to David Vassy standing by, standing by with Jack Flernity,
Speaker 1: the bride of the eight to one age, David Vassy
Speaker 1: standing by with the Game five starter, big part of
Speaker 1: this Dodger team. In September and October, Jack Flerity back home.
Speaker 1: You've heard about him, being from the valley from Burbank,
Speaker 1: winning a championship, a CIF title, now a World.
Speaker 3: Series title, celebrating all of you.
Speaker 4: This is on believable life. Seeing Freddy Pickers everywhere, Freddy
Speaker 4: the fricke man. I love that dude. I would give him.
Speaker 4: How give a kiss right now? Like Hayes, the city
Speaker 4: showing out. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 7: Did you realize how much you guys meant to this city?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I did not, not until right now.
Speaker 7: People fucking lighting up on the freaking buildings and everything
Speaker 7: It's unbelievable. Rep the cause, it's oh my god. Well
Speaker 7: you've seen Linker parades. This has doubled that size.
Speaker 4: This is unbelievable. I love this city.
Speaker 3: I never want to leave. Let's run it back.
Speaker 4: I never want to leave Jack clarity.
Speaker 7: Hometown, Ken making hometown dreams come true.
Speaker 4: Celebrate the believe.
Speaker 1: Thank you to you Jack Clarity there with David Vassay
Speaker 1: from the eight one eights, and to hear him in
Speaker 1: his excitement and to hear him talk about what this
Speaker 1: means to him, and to see his face right now
Speaker 1: and to hear it in his voice what this means
Speaker 1: to him, having a championship in his hometown. He may
Speaker 1: have talked about it, he may have thought about it,
Speaker 1: he may have dreamt about it, but this has got
Speaker 1: to be above any of those expectations, as far as
Speaker 1: winning a World Series championship and doing so as a
Speaker 1: member of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Tim Kates, David Vasse,
Speaker 1: we are live here on m five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: The parade continues.
Speaker 1: The celebratory parade will end at Fifth and Flower, and
Speaker 1: then we'll come to Dodger Stadium for an on field
Speaker 1: celebration with a sold out Dodger Stadium that is starting
Speaker 1: to fill up.
Speaker 2: The excitement is off the charts.
Speaker 1: The buzz in this city continues even after the clinching
Speaker 1: of the championship on Wednesday night in Yankee Stadium in
Speaker 1: the Bronx.
Speaker 2: We'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from more Dodger players, David Vase, Kirsten Watson
Speaker 1: on the buses, all on the parade route. We'll get
Speaker 1: to them when we come back. The parade continues. The
Speaker 1: celebration continues right here on an FI seventy LA Sports
Speaker 1: Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app here right here.
Speaker 8: This is amazing.
Speaker 1: World Series Championship celebration here on a five seventy LA
Speaker 1: Sports continues presented by Yamava as we are live at
Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium, and the celebration will continue here as the
Speaker 1: parade continues along the streets of Los Angeles. Our coverage
Speaker 1: also presented by Budweiser at this bunch for you Bank
Speaker 1: of America, the official bank of the LA Dodgers, and
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Speaker 1: let's head back out to the parade. David Vase Kirson
Speaker 1: Watson are on the team buses giving you exclusive coverage
Speaker 1: with the players. Shirts are coming off, beers are flowing.
Speaker 1: Let's head back out. Kirson Watson standing by with Gavin Lutz.
Speaker 7: Angeles to this Dodgers organization.
Speaker 5: Kevin to be up here, that's a rat. But at
Speaker 5: the media, Oh.
Speaker 4: This is awesome.
Speaker 9: Uh, this is these are the best fans.
Speaker 4: In baseball right here.
Speaker 9: I think they said two million people are coming out
Speaker 9: and this is unbelievable right here on Yeah, just seeing how.
Speaker 10: Many people love us and we love them.
Speaker 4: This is this is these best fans in baseball.
Speaker 5: Is everything you imagine it, Mar, this is more.
Speaker 4: This is better than I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 10: Right here.
Speaker 4: This is amazing.
Speaker 5: Can you believe that you're a World Series Sambi.
Speaker 9: No, that's what you drew about your whole life if
Speaker 9: you play baseball, and this is special.
Speaker 5: Right here, enjoint Gavin.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Gavin Lux with Kirston Watson. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Kirsten. Kirson is on one of the buses. David Bassey
Speaker 1: is on one of the buses as the buses now
Speaker 1: make a right handed turn. They started at City Hall
Speaker 1: on Spring Street. They made a right on to First,
Speaker 1: They've made a left onto Grand, and now they have
Speaker 1: concluded that four blocks along Grand and a absolute sea
Speaker 1: of Dodger fans that are making the turn with them,
Speaker 1: a right handed turn going from Grand Avenue to Fifth Street,
Speaker 1: and then the parade will come to a conclusion at
Speaker 1: Fifth and Flower in front of La Central Library. Unbelievable,
Speaker 1: the see of humanity that is out there right now,
Speaker 1: the Dodger fans representing Gavin Lucks.
Speaker 2: Two million people. Yeah, I wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker 1: I would not doubt the fact that they have two
Speaker 1: million people out for this parade here in downtown Los
Speaker 1: Angeles as we celebrate this twenty twenty four Dodgers World
Speaker 1: Series title that will come back here for an on
Speaker 1: field celebration that will get underway maybe in about a
Speaker 1: half an hour or so, but the players are gonna
Speaker 1: have to disembark and come down to Dodger Stadium for
Speaker 1: the ceremony, which again is gonna be a capacity crowd
Speaker 1: here and is already close to that as Dodger fans
Speaker 1: enjoyed the parade.
Speaker 2: On the Dodger vision Board, it looks.
Speaker 1: Like Kirsten Watson getting ready to stand by with Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 2: When he does, we will go to that. So let's go.
Speaker 1: Kirsten Watson, I see her ready to go. Let's send
Speaker 1: it out to her in the bus. Clayton Kershaw standing
Speaker 1: by with Kirsten.
Speaker 5: You're partly getting a sprain. How incredible it is.
Speaker 10: It's the best thing under the partners. I've never seen
Speaker 10: so many people in my.
Speaker 4: Life, and they're all Dodger.
Speaker 10: Fans and they all love it as much as we
Speaker 10: do here.
Speaker 5: It's unbelievable. When you think about Los Angeles Baseball, I
Speaker 5: think everything is in David Last right here, Dodgers Facebook.
Speaker 10: I don't even know what you're asked, but I'm so excited.
Speaker 5: Right now when you see all these fans here, get
Speaker 5: pity me. I've lost Angeles Dodgers Facebook time.
Speaker 3: That's incredible.
Speaker 10: I've never never did you experience anything like this and
Speaker 10: it makes everything worth this may matter of it.
Speaker 5: You're a two times world champion? What did that mean?
Speaker 4: You're two time?
Speaker 5: Thank you?
Speaker 10: Thank you?
Speaker 1: All right, there's Karson Watson with Clayton Kershaw. It is
Speaker 1: deafening out there on the on the parade route right
Speaker 1: now along Grand Avenue as they make their way towards
Speaker 1: the end of this parade that started about twenty minutes
Speaker 1: to go in front of City Hall and is now
Speaker 1: zigzag through downtown LA.
Speaker 2: It is an absolute sea of.
Speaker 1: Dodger fans along the parade route all the way along
Speaker 1: when it started and now to when it's going to
Speaker 1: come to a conclusion. Of course, we have it for
Speaker 1: you right here on AFI seven e LA Sports. You're
Speaker 1: a home of the Dodgers. You're a home of the
Speaker 1: world the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, and our
Speaker 1: coverage of this championship celebration is presented by Yamava the Again,
Speaker 1: the parade will come to a conclusion and then the
Speaker 1: Dodger buses will make their way back to Dodger Stadium
Speaker 1: for the on field celebration. Here at the ravine, and
Speaker 1: you've seen members of ownership, the media is starting to
Speaker 1: make their way down to behind second base. There is
Speaker 1: a circular blue stage there for the Dodger players and
Speaker 1: coaches to all speak at. We got some led screen setup.
Speaker 1: We certainly got a blue carpet that has been put
Speaker 1: out from center field all the way to around second
Speaker 1: base for the start of this on field celebration when
Speaker 1: they finally do get back here to Dodger Stadium. It
Speaker 1: is truly a scene here at Dodger Stadium and on
Speaker 1: this parade route with it has got to be it's
Speaker 1: got to be close to two million people watching this
Speaker 1: parade along the streets of Los Angeles, which again started
Speaker 1: in front of City Hall, went to First Street, Grand Avenue,
Speaker 1: and now they are making their way on Fifth Street
Speaker 1: in down town Los Angeles. It looks like Tyler Glass
Speaker 1: now could be joining David Vasse here in just a minute.
Speaker 1: And as soon as we get that, we will go
Speaker 1: out to DV with Tyler Glass. Now, of course, the
Speaker 1: pride of Heart High School and coming over into the
Speaker 1: Dodgers in the off season in a trade signs and
Speaker 1: contract extension has meant so much to this, to this
Speaker 1: Dodger team. Let's go out to David Vasse and Tyler Glass.
Speaker 7: Now, Tyler, you grew up a Dodger finn, You're part
Speaker 7: of a World Series champion. Now, first team to experience
Speaker 7: this since nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 4: This is I had no idea it was gonna be
Speaker 4: like this. I didn't even know this many people existent.
Speaker 4: This is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Like it seems like the entire city of La came
Speaker 3: out today.
Speaker 4: It's phenomenal.
Speaker 3: A lot of you guys are so locked in.
Speaker 7: Did you realize how much the city and how much
Speaker 7: you mean to the city.
Speaker 3: It's incredible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like, I think the support for every single player
Speaker 4: on this team is unbelievable. It's transcends baseball. It's bigger
Speaker 4: than baseball.
Speaker 2: Just to be a part of it, all right, thank you, David.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a sea of humanity as the Dodger
Speaker 1: fans are celebrating, and there's Tyler Glass now even more
Speaker 1: than he expected.
Speaker 2: Whoa.
Speaker 1: The shirts are coming off for the Dodger players as
Speaker 1: they are enjoying themselves in Dodger World Series gear.
Speaker 2: Shirts which have.
Speaker 1: Come off, hats which have been turned backwards, the Budweisers.
Speaker 2: This Bud's for you.
Speaker 1: They are flowing on those caravan of buses making their
Speaker 1: way along Fifth Avenue here in downtown Los Angeles. Fifth
Speaker 1: and Flower is where this parade will come to it
Speaker 1: in and again. It is a tremendous day here in
Speaker 1: southern California, the celebration for Dodger fans and Dodger players
Speaker 1: finally being able to come together and not be able
Speaker 1: to celebrate in twenty twenty, but to do so here
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. You heard the build up, You
Speaker 1: heard the talk from the players. Dave Roberts talked about
Speaker 1: it almost every day at the podium pre and postgame
Speaker 1: when talking to the media about the importance of winning
Speaker 1: a World Series. So they can share with you the
Speaker 1: Dodger fans here in southern California. It is an unbelievable
Speaker 1: scene here in downtown LA for Dodger fans, Dodger players,
Speaker 1: coaches to celebrate together. The players on double decker buses
Speaker 1: in downtown Los Angeles waving. Walker Bueller is hanging over
Speaker 1: his bus waving.
Speaker 2: At Dodger fans.
Speaker 1: I see Andy Pajez, Keik Hernandez both shirtless, Anthony Bonda shirtless.
Speaker 1: Dodger players enjoining themselves waving to Dodger fans up and
Speaker 1: down this parade route which started at City Hall and
Speaker 1: now is winding down at Fifth and Flower. Our own
Speaker 1: David Vase on the bus, Kirston Watson on the bus.
Speaker 1: See Tony Gonsolin sitting on the back of one of
Speaker 1: the buses along with Alex Vesia, who's holding up a
Speaker 1: Dodgers championship bells. How about the Dodgers' bullpen, this group
Speaker 1: that came together as one, the dogs as they called themselves,
Speaker 1: wearing the mask for mister Cartoon, being the group together
Speaker 1: that's selfless and said, we don't care what our role is.
Speaker 1: We're an opener or the closer or the mid relief guy,
Speaker 1: where the bulkanny guy doesn't matter. We are one together
Speaker 1: as a bullpen. Taoscar Hernandez standing on the bus. We
Speaker 1: just heard from him and David vassa Dave's on bus
Speaker 1: number three, Walker Bueller. There's Tommy Edmund holding his young child,
Speaker 1: waving at Dodger fans along Fifth Street.
Speaker 2: Let's head back out now to David Vass.
Speaker 1: Looks like he's about to stand by, hopefully with Tommy edmundus.
Speaker 1: It is a chaotic scene out there, but in a
Speaker 1: good way. As the celebration continues with the Dodger players.
Speaker 4: Asking for live.
Speaker 2: Let's go back out to David Vasse.
Speaker 1: If we get oh, it's like Dave's not ready, but
Speaker 1: we will check in with David Vass standing by with
Speaker 1: Tommy Edmond again. Is that the breat hat slowed down
Speaker 1: a little bit here as they're trying to navigate their
Speaker 1: way out of this parade route. Hey, get back to
Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium. Let's go back out, David Batsay, Tommy edmittt
Speaker 1: go ahead, David.
Speaker 7: These pictures inside the Dodgers club House. Well, we just
Speaker 7: heard from the World Series mvpay. How about the National
Speaker 7: League Championship Series MVP?
Speaker 2: Dad, Tommy edmon Is with David Vesse, take it away, dB.
Speaker 7: I'm here at NLCS MVP and his teammates keep calling
Speaker 7: him b MVP.
Speaker 5: You get you on.
Speaker 3: Eli's here too, broadcaster.
Speaker 4: Do you have any questions for your dad?
Speaker 2: Eli? What do you got?
Speaker 4: Addy?
Speaker 2: Are you gonna say? How much fun you having today?
Speaker 2: We're having a blast. Thanks for asking, Eli. I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Tommy, Is this succeeded your expectations?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: This is amazing.
Speaker 8: I mean this, this has gotta be way more than
Speaker 8: two million people. That's what they said at the beginning.
Speaker 8: But it feels like the whole city of la is
Speaker 8: out here to support us today.
Speaker 2: It's been amazing.
Speaker 7: Did you realize how much this city loves this team?
Speaker 8: You know, I had a good idea, but I feel
Speaker 8: like I didn't fully comprehend it until until today, you know,
Speaker 8: just seeing everybody out here, it's been amazing, really really
Speaker 8: special feeling.
Speaker 7: How much do you love being on this team with
Speaker 7: these group of guys.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's nothing better, nothing better in the world. This
Speaker 8: is these group of guys, best best, the best team.
Speaker 4: I've been a part of.
Speaker 8: You know, welcome me with open arms right away when
Speaker 8: I got here, just like Eli's welcoming to this microphone
Speaker 8: right now. But yeah, Betty yah, it's it's been amazing.
Speaker 8: I've loved every moment of it.
Speaker 7: Congratulations Tommy, you deserve all of this. You've been such
Speaker 7: a big part of this team ever since you joined it.
Speaker 7: And man, you are a world champion, World champs.
Speaker 2: Baby, thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: You and Eli.
Speaker 8: Let's go you all right, your fancy line.
Speaker 4: Thanks Tommy, thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, there's David Vassa and Tommy Edmund. Nowhere else
Speaker 1: are you getting this, folks? David Vassay on bus number
Speaker 1: three talking to taoscar Hernandez, Tommy Edmund. We heard from
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw, We heard from Jack Flaherty, Tyler Klass. Now
Speaker 1: every Dodger soaking it in right now, as are the fans.
Speaker 1: Two million fans expected in the streets of LA and
Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium for the first World Series celebration in
Speaker 1: Dodger history since.
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1: Let's head back out to the parade route. Looks like
Speaker 1: Kirston Watson. Yep, she's ready to go, standing by with
Speaker 1: the MVP of the World Series, Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2: Here's to take it away, Freddy?
Speaker 5: How amazing is just right? All these fans for you guys?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is incredible. LA really showed out today.
Speaker 5: Can you believe just not about thirty six hours ago
Speaker 5: you became a two time world terrace champion. Now you're
Speaker 5: celebrating this moment.
Speaker 2: I know it's hard to believe.
Speaker 8: Really, I'll be sunk in yet, but I think this
Speaker 8: is made up for twenty twenty two. These fans are
Speaker 8: going crazy and this is fun to be a part of.
Speaker 5: When you think about celebrating something with all these guys,
Speaker 5: what does it mean to you?
Speaker 2: And how special is this scrump? Yeah, it means a lot.
Speaker 10: This is all for the fans.
Speaker 8: Though, because you know, on those Tuesdays in June there's
Speaker 8: still fifty three thousand people at Dodger Stadium, and that's
Speaker 8: what it's all about and they came out and support
Speaker 8: us and these great book guys.
Speaker 4: This is this is this is special.
Speaker 5: This is a long year for so many reasons. To
Speaker 5: be here and celebrate with your family these guys.
Speaker 2: Can you believe it?
Speaker 8: It's hard to even putting the words. Max is over
Speaker 8: here having blast, Charlie's throwing things right here. It's been
Speaker 8: a long year. But everybody's healthy on our bus and
Speaker 8: this makes everything so much better.
Speaker 5: Enjoy all of these moments. I know Southern California can't
Speaker 5: get into us in LA.
Speaker 2: It's got to be special.
Speaker 10: I know.
Speaker 8: This is amazing to meeting from Telling California.
Speaker 10: I'm seeing a brain like this.
Speaker 2: This is even better congratulation.
Speaker 5: It's fready.
Speaker 2: Thank you your job all right, they're scarce than Thank
Speaker 2: you very much.
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman on one of the buses there on the
Speaker 1: parade route, which has now come to a stop as
Speaker 1: they try to clear a path for the Dodger caravan
Speaker 1: of double decker buses to get through. They have started
Speaker 1: and ended their parade now in Fifth and Flower, and
Speaker 1: the Dodgers players are on the buses. We just heard
Speaker 1: from Freddie Freeman as they await in escort to get.
Speaker 2: Through the sea of Dodger fans.
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller's David Vatas told us and broke the news
Speaker 1: earlier that he is wearing Oral Hersheiser's nineteen eighty eight
Speaker 1: World Series gray jersey. As he makes his way through
Speaker 1: the parade road, he was doing beer bongs. The players
Speaker 1: are celebrated, and rightfully so. It's a day of celebration
Speaker 1: here in southern California. And for somebody who was born
Speaker 1: and raised here in LA, who grew up a Dodger fan,
Speaker 1: who grew up watching the Laker parades in the eighties,
Speaker 1: who then was a part of covering the Laker parades
Speaker 1: in the early in mid ten two thousands, to see
Speaker 1: the crowds they had there, tremendous, unbelievable. I remember two
Speaker 1: thousand and that pre LA Live parking lot that they
Speaker 1: had built across from Staples Center still in the works,
Speaker 1: and the just see a people that were there watching
Speaker 1: Shaquille O'Neil and Kobe Bryant celebrate the first NBA championship
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty eight. It was twelve years since then,
Speaker 1: and then they win a championship and now here in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four to see the magnitude of this Dodger celebration.
Speaker 1: It is more than I ever thought, more than I
Speaker 1: ever remember for the Lakers Championships twenty twenty four. It's
Speaker 1: a whole new level for this Dodger franchise and for
Speaker 1: Dodger fans to be able to finally celebrate together a
Speaker 1: World Series title. It's our World Series Celebration coverage here
Speaker 1: presented by Yamava on your home of the Dodgers, am
Speaker 1: FI seventy LA Sports as we are also on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. We'll take a quick time out, we'll come
Speaker 1: back and we'll get ready for the on field celebration.
Speaker 1: As the Dodger caravan of buses now makes its way
Speaker 1: back to Dodger Stadium, they have to get off the
Speaker 1: buses and then they'll make their way in to Dodger
Speaker 1: Stadium on a blue carpet that has been rolled out
Speaker 1: for royalty here at Dodger Stadium. Him as the champions
Speaker 1: are coming home to Dodger Stadium to celebrate with you.
Speaker 1: The on field celebration and so much more is coming
Speaker 1: up right here on am FI seventy LA Sports Live
Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.