Speaker 1: The right quick.
Speaker 2: Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual
Speaker 2: postseason tradition.
Speaker 1: Scam is back. Baby.
Speaker 2: This is Saxon Cakes in the a app BA Go
Speaker 2: with Proway. Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your
Speaker 2: favorite Dodger pregame host, Tim Kates. If you want to
Speaker 2: talk Dodgers, get in on the show on eighty six
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five seven now. While the
Speaker 2: Dan Patrick Show streams on the Ihearts radio app. We've
Speaker 2: been banished to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff run concludes.
Speaker 2: Here they are broadcasting live on AM five to seven
Speaker 2: LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks.
Speaker 1: Our three Saxon Kate's and the AM on this Thursday morning,
Speaker 1: October twenty fourth. Thanks for being with us live in
Speaker 1: local on your home of the Dodgers Game one the
Speaker 1: World Series tomorrow night Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck starts
Speaker 1: at four, first pitch at five oho eight. We'll be
Speaker 1: live at a local all day tomorrow, beginning at six
Speaker 1: am with SCAM nine AM. Rogan and Rodney will take
Speaker 1: over at noon. Petro some money. We'll be flexed back
Speaker 1: and starting early leading up to Morongo Casino. Dodgers on
Speaker 1: deck at four again, first pitch at five eight to
Speaker 1: our World Series coverage here on SCAM, brought to you
Speaker 1: by Chef Manitos seasoning, your seasoning partner, the Dodgers. It's
Speaker 1: World Series time. Bring out the chef in you. Steve
Speaker 1: Jeger gonna join us at the bottom of the hour
Speaker 1: and talk a little Fernando talk about the nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: one World Series and that championship win over the New
Speaker 1: York Yankees. But yesterday, Saxe, Rogan and Rodney, We're live
Speaker 1: at Hollywood Park Casino from noon until three, and we
Speaker 1: had hundreds of Dodger fans show up and register to
Speaker 1: win Game one tickets to the World Series. Right here.
Speaker 1: When you're home with the Dodgers AM Phi seven e
Speaker 1: LA Sports, you register. Yesterday they were put into a
Speaker 1: hopper and one lucky Dodger fan was just selected during
Speaker 1: the break as the winner. And we're gonna call them
Speaker 1: right now on the air. Have not reached out to
Speaker 1: them at all. Hopefully they pick up the phone when
Speaker 1: they call. We've been telling you have your phone on
Speaker 1: you if you were right out and registered yesterday at
Speaker 1: Hollywood Park. So let's go ahead. Is this one or
Speaker 1: two tickets? It's two tickets. Wow, it's two tickets. So
Speaker 1: here we go. Let's call this person. Well let's try
Speaker 1: that again.
Speaker 3: We go.
Speaker 1: Uh all right, just called the person on the air.
Speaker 1: Here we go, should be ringing. There we go. Hopefully
Speaker 1: they pick up Saxy be very anti, they don't.
Speaker 4: Not too early to call.
Speaker 1: No, Aaron, please, Hey, how's it going? Hey, Aaron, you're
Speaker 1: live on the radio on n FI seventy l as words,
Speaker 1: Tim Kate, Steve Sacks. How you doing?
Speaker 5: Oh? Good, good in yourself?
Speaker 3: Hey.
Speaker 1: You know, we're just chilling here talking a little Dodgers
Speaker 1: Baseball about Otani, whether or not you'll pitch in the
Speaker 1: World Series, and just kind of kicking around all the
Speaker 1: scenarios and storylines leading up to Game one tomorrow. What
Speaker 1: are you doing tomorrow night?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Nothing, not much?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Yes you are doing something. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: doing something now. Congratulations there, and you're going to Game
Speaker 1: one of the World Series.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: Awesome man. Have you ever been to a World Series
Speaker 1: game before?
Speaker 5: No? I've never been there.
Speaker 1: No, No, No, how big of a Dodger fan. Are
Speaker 1: you I'm a.
Speaker 5: Huge Dodger fan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, who's that in.
Speaker 1: The background, my sister, sister? Now, oh, are you all right?
Speaker 1: Have you decided? I thought about maybe in the last
Speaker 1: twenty four hours since going out to Rogan and Rodney
Speaker 1: and maybe maybe dreaming of going to the World Series
Speaker 1: and winning these tickets. Have you thought about who maybe
Speaker 1: you're gonna take to the game tomorrow night?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Do you want to? Do you want to announce officially
Speaker 1: who you're taking to the World Series tomorrow night. It's
Speaker 1: going to disappoint a lot of people who are.
Speaker 4: He's not going to put himself in a bind right now?
Speaker 3: Erin?
Speaker 1: Where are you from? Where are you from? Erin East
Speaker 1: l A man? All right, So I imagine a big
Speaker 1: Dodger fan growing up. How about Fernando Valenzuela. Was he
Speaker 1: somebody you guys?
Speaker 3: I took a photo with him?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I met him.
Speaker 1: Nice. You were at it and you were at a
Speaker 1: Hollywood park yesterday with Rogan and Rodney. Easy signing, no
Speaker 1: problem signing up. It was an easy process.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Hey, Aeron, I got ask you a questions.
Speaker 4: Have you ever met Tim Kates?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: Well, you haven't You haven't meached the promm, reached the
Speaker 4: promised land yet. When you meet Tim Kates like you
Speaker 4: met Fernando, you'll say, Man, now I'm complete, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: exactly right.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to you. Thanks, thanks for listening to am FI
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports. Thanks for being out at the Hollywood
Speaker 1: Park Casino yesterday with Rogan and Rodney. It's give me
Speaker 1: a great Game one of the World Series tomorrow, Dodgers
Speaker 1: and Yankees and Aaron, You're going on, man, you are going.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1: Thank you all right, Aaron, congratulations. We'll put you on hold.
Speaker 1: We got your information, so we will reach out to
Speaker 1: you today aerin in East LA and get you your
Speaker 1: tickets for Game one of the World Series. How cool
Speaker 1: was that a guy wins tickets to Game one of
Speaker 1: the World Series and all he had to do Saxy
Speaker 1: would show up yesterday and fill out his information and
Speaker 1: register to win. Guess what we got another opportunity for
Speaker 1: you listening right now thinking dang it, I didn't win,
Speaker 1: or man, I missed out yesterday. I couldn't get out
Speaker 1: the Hollywood part. Another chance coming up, Another chance, today
Speaker 1: Wow the Inland Empire, Rancho Kuca Manga Bjay's Restaurant in
Speaker 1: brew House between noon and three today. The Rogan and
Speaker 1: Rodney Show will be out there from noon to three.
Speaker 1: Noon to three Rogan and Rodney Show, Bjay's Restaurant in
Speaker 1: brew In, Rancho Cucamonga. Get out there.
Speaker 4: It's free.
Speaker 1: All you do is sign up, Crazy, fill out your
Speaker 1: information and you're registered. And then tomorrow same time, eight
Speaker 1: am tomorrow morning, right here on Saxon Kate's in the am,
Speaker 1: We're gonna pull a winner and announce him and call
Speaker 1: him on the air for Game two of the World.
Speaker 4: Hey, Crazy, not to go. You gotta show up.
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you waiting for. You don't have
Speaker 1: to sign up and pay to do anything. You don't
Speaker 1: to register and give blood or anything. All you can
Speaker 1: do is sign up.
Speaker 4: And that's a great place to get a meal too. Absolutely,
Speaker 4: get one of those pazookies. You love those those cookies
Speaker 4: at the ice cream on top with all the caramel
Speaker 4: and whipped cream and all that. They're great. We haven't
Speaker 4: right by here where I live. Yeah, they're amazing.
Speaker 1: You're a glutton and you love eating all all all
Speaker 1: the sugar and stuff sexy. Look at you, you see
Speaker 1: what I mean right now? Of course, congratulations to Aaron
Speaker 1: and easta like it's that simple. He registered yesterday and
Speaker 1: he's a winner today. You wouldn't announce who he's taken
Speaker 1: to the world, you know what, Saxy. That sounded to
Speaker 1: me like a guy who didn't want to tell either
Speaker 1: his wife or somebody close to him that they weren't going, or.
Speaker 4: Some close friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, take it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's kind of like gonna, you know, not put
Speaker 4: that out on the airways right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, he said his sister was in the background
Speaker 1: yelling at how she's been. She probably thinks she's going. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he.
Speaker 4: Probably wanted to go, and he said, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: I promise Bob at work, I'm gonna take him or
Speaker 4: or somebody else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody else is going. I'm sure he's got some
Speaker 1: buddies now all ringing him up and texting him saying, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I heard you on five seventy. I want to go
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to Aaron again. Your opportunity for game two tickets
Speaker 1: is this afternoon at BJ's Restaurant and brew House in
Speaker 1: Rancho Cucamugga with the Rogan and Rodney Show. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go back out to the phones. Daniel in Pasadena, Daniel,
Speaker 1: thanks for wait. How you doing today?
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm doing great.
Speaker 4: About to drop my boys off.
Speaker 5: The school is listening to you guys, and been listening
Speaker 5: to you since the Dodgers in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Crawesome. Appreciate that, Daniel. You guys fired up for Game
Speaker 1: one the World Series. Are the boys ready?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're talking about what we want to make your dinner.
Speaker 4: You gotta make sure you put your stuff on. Tomorrow
Speaker 4: could represent tomorrow.
Speaker 5: We're scided, we're pumped.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's gonna be a fun.
Speaker 4: Kids are well indoctrinated.
Speaker 1: Way to go. Kids are ready to go, Daniel. Appreciate
Speaker 1: appreciate you checking in this morning.
Speaker 4: Meg.
Speaker 1: Get those kids to school, be safe and get ready
Speaker 1: for an exciting world series coming up here on About.
Speaker 4: That is is? Uh? Daniel has the kids listening to
Speaker 4: a five seventy Uh. You know, they sound like they're
Speaker 4: like in the second or third grade and they're already
Speaker 4: tuning in. They're they're they're indoctrinated for life.
Speaker 1: Oh, they're gonna be listeners forever, Michael and Torrens. Thanks
Speaker 1: for waiting patiently. You're on a five seventy l A
Speaker 1: Sports with Sax and Kates in the morning. Michael, go ahead,
Speaker 1: you're on the air.
Speaker 5: All right, Hey guys, good morning morning, Steve. I played
Speaker 5: against you in high school.
Speaker 4: You did last year?
Speaker 5: You played for Marshall High. Where'd you go to baseball game? Been?
Speaker 5: I went to Folesome, Okay, I was. I was a
Speaker 5: sophomore and I got called up to the show and
Speaker 5: an injury. Anyway, the most amazing baseball player I've ever
Speaker 5: seen until show. Heytni's game the other day and that
Speaker 5: was the best I've ever seen. I think it was
Speaker 5: your third at BET. I went out to the picture
Speaker 5: and I said, hey, you know, let's not waste our time.
Speaker 5: It's almost fastball across the outside corner. I hope he
Speaker 5: doesn't hit a triple. It was, it was, It was amazing.
Speaker 5: Now I want to talk about Fernando a little bit.
Speaker 5: You know, anybody who's ever known anything about baseball, even
Speaker 5: if they never saw him play, knows what pos he's
Speaker 5: going to be in in that statue, don't we all.
Speaker 5: I don't even have to describe it. We all know
Speaker 5: what it's going to be. And when I think of
Speaker 5: that picture, I hear Vin Scully talking about, you know,
Speaker 5: having spend a lifetime listening to Vinnie. And the thing
Speaker 5: about Fernando that keeps occurring to me is people talk
Speaker 5: about how nice he was and what a wonderful guy
Speaker 5: he was to meet. There was a way that he
Speaker 5: that he held himself and the way that he walked
Speaker 5: that that had a confidence that you know, didn't come
Speaker 5: out of his mouth. You know, we all walked, some
Speaker 5: of us strut you know, he strode, he broke well
Speaker 5: who was walking out to that mound? He said, this
Speaker 5: is what I'm gonna do. And when he was walking
Speaker 5: off and he was going, see, I told.
Speaker 4: You, yeah, awesome, You're right, Mike.
Speaker 1: I appreciate right, buddy. All right, somebody who competed against
Speaker 1: you in high school saxy and put you on that
Speaker 1: high I know right where that is. You guys spank
Speaker 1: full some imagine you guys probably both raised them right, just.
Speaker 4: Beat him dirty. You know. Our our team, Uh, my
Speaker 4: brother and I when we were I was a fresh
Speaker 4: I was a sophomore on the varsity. My brother was
Speaker 4: a senior. My brother four to one hitters in high school.
Speaker 4: Just mowed people down just through the fastball. That's all
Speaker 4: he did. He didn'tven put fingers down. And anyway, our
Speaker 4: school was like not even seven hundred people in the
Speaker 4: whole school, and we were spanking schools that had like
Speaker 4: three four thousand people, just whooping them because my brother
Speaker 4: was just mowing them down.
Speaker 1: So the Saxon brothers were just carrying the martials.
Speaker 4: Brothers were just putting some whooping on some people. I
Speaker 4: mean this little tiny school out in the sticks, little
Speaker 4: tiny school, Marshall High School, James Marshall High School, and
Speaker 4: we were beating school's way over three thousand kids. And yeah,
Speaker 4: my brother was like the best player in northern California.
Speaker 4: He was just dominating people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome, it's great, that's awesome. Eight six six
Speaker 1: nine eight seven two five seventy is our number here.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to Aaron from East LA. He was our winner
Speaker 1: of the Game one World Series tickets. He did it
Speaker 1: by registering at Hollywood Park Casino yesterday with Rogan and
Speaker 1: Ronnie and again. Your chance to win Game two World
Speaker 1: Series tickets is at BJ's Restaurant in brew House in
Speaker 1: Rancho Cucamunga between noon and three today, it'll be Fred
Speaker 1: Rogan and Ned Pillti will be out there joining Fred today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Ned one of the architects of the Dodgers in
Speaker 1: the early in the mid two thousands, and then handed
Speaker 1: it off to Andrew Freeman, who continued this run of
Speaker 1: Dodgers winning divisions and going to the playoffs now twelve
Speaker 1: straight years. He'll be out there with Fred today between
Speaker 1: noon and three this afternoon, I sent you a pitcher
Speaker 1: of sexually. Somebody tweeted at me some photos of you
Speaker 1: playing in Venezuela in nineteen eighty one, because you mentioned
Speaker 1: yesterday that you didn't go to the parade in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty one, that when the World Series was over, Steve
Speaker 1: Sacks got on a plane went down to Venezuela to
Speaker 1: play a little winter ball, and somebody has some photos
Speaker 1: of you down there.
Speaker 4: I saw that. I saw it, and that thing about
Speaker 4: me running around third right there, there was a picture
Speaker 4: of me doing the trot. You know, there was a
Speaker 4: home run trot, and I never hit very many, so
Speaker 4: I knew when I was doing it that was off
Speaker 4: at Dave Stewart.
Speaker 1: Was it really? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Hit dead center field. I remember it very well. Yes, yep, wasn't.
Speaker 1: Dave Stewart a Dodger. Yeah, you guys played on different
Speaker 1: teams in Venezuela.
Speaker 4: He was with Zulia and I was with Racas Leon
Speaker 4: de Caracas.
Speaker 1: So how long is the Winter League down? There's like
Speaker 1: three months?
Speaker 4: Four months? Really, I was down there, right. I think
Speaker 4: I missed the parade. I had to go down there.
Speaker 4: I was down to the whole time, and I miss Christmas,
Speaker 4: I missed Thanksgiving, I missed all that, missed my birthday
Speaker 4: and got back, I had like three or four days
Speaker 4: off and I was going to Big Lee camp. That
Speaker 4: was it. Three or four days off the whole winner
Speaker 4: and I was in Big Lee camp. Its just like fast.
Speaker 1: How much did that help you going into that nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty two season which you wanted to helped a lot.
Speaker 4: And what really helped a lot is the fact that
Speaker 4: I got to come up in eighty one and you know,
Speaker 4: have like a little over one hundred at bats. It
Speaker 4: wasn't a full season, it wasn't counted the season, so
Speaker 4: the next year was my rookie year. But it helped
Speaker 4: a lot. But going down in Venezuela, it was really
Speaker 4: good brand of baseball too. It was a solid triple
Speaker 4: A maybe low big leagues, you know that, that kind
Speaker 4: of right in there, and it was It was great.
Speaker 4: It helped a lot, very much a cultural experience on anything.
Speaker 1: That's a great experience to go down that's where you
Speaker 1: learn your Spanish down there and journey those Spanish Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I took it in high school and then I
Speaker 4: tried to practice as much as I can when I
Speaker 4: was down there and with your teammates you liked. I
Speaker 4: like to practice it because I love the Spanish language.
Speaker 4: I think it's beautiful and it's not a real difficult
Speaker 4: language to learn. Now you try to throw some Japanese
Speaker 4: or German at me, nah, I don't think I could
Speaker 4: do it, but Spanish is pretty.
Speaker 1: Is Marshall High School closed now in Sacramento.
Speaker 4: James Marshall High School closed when I graduated in seventy eight.
Speaker 4: They closed it afterwards and they combined our school, James Marshall,
Speaker 4: with our crosstown rival, which is Washington High School, and
Speaker 4: they made this big, beautiful school now called River City
Speaker 4: High School. So now Marshall High School is a is
Speaker 4: a River City High School is a derivative of Marshall
Speaker 4: and Washington High School.
Speaker 1: So all your records though, carry over though, right.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know. I think they did because
Speaker 4: I was so I was so grateful and so humbled
Speaker 4: that when they they started River City High School, they
Speaker 4: retired my number and gave me my jersey, and I
Speaker 4: think they said that the records are going to stay
Speaker 4: there through through River City. So I haven't checked. I
Speaker 4: don't know if they're there now, and maybe they're broken,
Speaker 4: but I don't know. It was just such an honor
Speaker 4: though it was. It was great, great ceremony.
Speaker 1: What number did you wear in high school that's now
Speaker 1: retired there?
Speaker 4: I were number threeumber three, yep, And that's why I
Speaker 4: wanted it in the big leagues. I love number three.
Speaker 4: That's just my favorite number.
Speaker 1: How come you weren't a Grant High School pacer?
Speaker 4: That they got some good athletes over there. Grant High
Speaker 4: School is always in the top in baseball, football, and basketball.
Speaker 1: Yes, Was that not an option for you up there
Speaker 1: in the Sacramento area?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: It was, it was.
Speaker 4: No, I wasn't. I didn't live in that area, Okay,
Speaker 4: so you have to go, you know kind of where
Speaker 4: you lived. I lived way out in the country. I
Speaker 4: lived out on a farm and so James Marshall was
Speaker 4: the only one I could go to.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Yeah, see, I picture Sacramento is like, you know,
Speaker 1: fort city square blocks and then it's there's just farmland
Speaker 1: after that.
Speaker 4: Oh no, it's it's pretty big. Now there's probably you know,
Speaker 4: with the A's coming here and they wonder if people
Speaker 4: can support up here in northern California. There's no question.
Speaker 4: I'd say there's probably with all the surrounding areas well
Speaker 4: over a million and a half people that will support it.
Speaker 4: And you know, right now, the tickets for the Sacramento A's,
Speaker 4: I don't know if they're going to be called the
Speaker 4: Sacramento A's, but they're basically sold out now. They're they're
Speaker 4: already gone. So how many is it going to hold?
Speaker 4: Like seventy five hundred tenth thos No, it holds just
Speaker 4: under fifteen thousand.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they're gonna triple. They're gonna triple the attendance
Speaker 4: that they've had at Oakland, which is about five thousand
Speaker 4: a game.
Speaker 1: I think right now that's crazy.
Speaker 4: And so they're gonna get all the way to fifteen thousand,
Speaker 4: you know, just right out of the gate. So that's
Speaker 4: good for them.
Speaker 1: That is awesome. That's gonna be a fun atmosphere up
Speaker 1: in Sacramento when they start playing up there this next season.
Speaker 1: I don't know they're gonna call them the Sacramento As
Speaker 1: or I.
Speaker 4: Think they're just gonna call me athletics, okay, because they're
Speaker 4: not sure. You know, I know the owner up here,
Speaker 4: the vague he wants to buy the team. He already
Speaker 4: bought the River Cats. Of course, he owns the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 4: Now he wants to buy the A's and if he does,
Speaker 4: he's ready to build the stadium and it's gonna beautiful.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Le Let's get a final call in here
Speaker 1: before we take a break, and we hear from Steve
Speaker 1: Jeger coming up at the bottom of the hour, Carlos
Speaker 1: and downy. Thanks for being patient, Carlos, how you doing?
Speaker 1: Oh we lost Carlos. I think I might have hung
Speaker 1: up on him there, so I apologize the River City Raiders.
Speaker 1: That's the high school there, Yes, okay, yep, that's school.
Speaker 1: Now I'm getting flooded with text message just right now.
Speaker 1: That is awesome. All right, we'll take a break we'll
Speaker 1: come back. We'll get to Steve Jeger, We'll get to
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls. It's media day for the
Speaker 1: World Series. Yes, both teams will meet the media, talk
Speaker 1: to the media for forty five minutes, go through workouts,
Speaker 1: do all the photos, the video shoots. Get that all
Speaker 1: out of the way, and get ready for Game one
Speaker 1: of the World Series tomorrow night. Don't forget you want
Speaker 1: tickets to Game two, just like Aaron and East La
Speaker 1: won tickets to Game one. Here on AI seventy. All
Speaker 1: you gotta do is be out at BJ's restaurant in
Speaker 1: brew House. Sign up for free, and then listen to
Speaker 1: saxon Kates in the morning at eight am tomorrow when
Speaker 1: we announce one lucky winner. Out of all those who registered,
Speaker 1: there was hundreds yesterday. Expect hundreds more to sign up
Speaker 1: today for Game two. Steve Sacks, Tim Kates, and you
Speaker 1: Steve Yeger. Next, you're on NFI seventy I Sports. It's
Speaker 1: Sax and Kate's in the am here on a M
Speaker 1: five seventy LA Sports. You're a home for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Game one of the World Series is tomorrow. Night's first
Speaker 1: bitch at five eight. Congratulations to Aaron in East La.
Speaker 1: Well tickets to Game one just by going out and
Speaker 1: signing up and registering with Rogan and Rodney yesterday at
Speaker 1: Hollywood Park Casino. Today between noon and three, head out
Speaker 1: to Ranchokouckamonga, the BJ's restaurant in brew House between noon
Speaker 1: and three, Rogan and Rodney show another chance for you
Speaker 1: to win World Series tickets to Game two on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Well announced the winner tomorrow at eight o'clock right here
Speaker 1: on NFI seventy LA Sports. Don't forget MLB tonight on
Speaker 1: MLB Network as you're a home this World series with
Speaker 1: live covers before and after every game with highlights, interviews,
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Speaker 4: But Saxony, yeah, tell learn to wear a red shirt
Speaker 4: and stand up and wave so we can see him
Speaker 4: on TV.
Speaker 1: I will tell him that red shirt so we can
Speaker 1: make sure we see you. So yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 4: We can pick him out of fifty six thousand, oh.
Speaker 1: Easy easily with red shirt. That'll be easy to do.
Speaker 1: That basket to be all blue. He see of blue
Speaker 1: at a Dodger stadium tomorrow nights Join us now Saxy,
Speaker 1: one of your former teammates, thirteen years with the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: a World Series champion, a World Series MVP in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty one. It's forty three years since the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: Yankees last squared off in the World Series. He is
Speaker 1: the great Steve Jaeger, and he joins us now here
Speaker 1: on a him y seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4: Steve.
Speaker 1: How you doing so, Steve?
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm doing Vine, And good morning to everybody. How
Speaker 3: you doing okay.
Speaker 1: Zach me Yes, sir, yes, sir, you bet appreciate you
Speaker 1: coming on Steve. Here. We are now forty three years later,
Speaker 1: we get into the World Series. In a second, but
Speaker 1: certainly the last twenty four hours the tragic passing of
Speaker 1: Fernando Vealezuela at the age of sixty three. I saw
Speaker 1: you on Sports in at La yesterday. Just your thoughts
Speaker 1: on on Fernando and losing him so young.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, first of all, I mean, Michael Dolans
Speaker 3: just go out to Linda and you know, his wife,
Speaker 3: his kids, his grandkids for their loss. But you know,
Speaker 3: we lost a good from a really good man, and
Speaker 3: he came a long way in his young life starting
Speaker 3: from you know, a small town in Mexico to do
Speaker 3: what he did as a player, getting the opportunity coach
Speaker 3: is show you that anybody can do that if they
Speaker 3: if they got to desire and then believe in themselves.
Speaker 3: And Freddie had a marveled, a marvelous career uh as
Speaker 3: a player. And when he came to La and Stevie
Speaker 3: was there, he took off like a rocket. It was
Speaker 3: just unbelievable what this kid could do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, Timmy, I gotta I gotta say this to Steve.
Speaker 4: I'm so glad you're with us today. And Steve Yeager
Speaker 4: is one of the guys I watched growing up. And
Speaker 4: when I finally got in the big leagues, I was
Speaker 4: he was one of the guys I was, you know,
Speaker 4: enamored of just being around because he was such a
Speaker 4: big leaguer. But Steve, Steve Yeager is the only guy
Speaker 4: I can tell you that actually really hurt my hand
Speaker 4: when he was throwing the ball down to second Basely
Speaker 4: he had Tim tim People talk about, uh, you know
Speaker 4: Johnny Bench, how great of a catcher Johnny Bench was.
Speaker 4: And you have many, many people, not just a smattering
Speaker 4: of people. Many people say, well, you know, Steve Yeger
Speaker 4: was as good and some people will say it's Jaeger
Speaker 4: then bench as far as being a great catcher, that's
Speaker 4: how great Steve Yeger was behind the.
Speaker 3: Dish, that's very nice.
Speaker 1: Absolutely cure Steve.
Speaker 4: And we all know it is an absolute truth. And
Speaker 4: so Steve catching Fernando, tell tell the world what it
Speaker 4: is like about that screwball that he had, How he
Speaker 4: could vary the pitch, the height on it, the you know,
Speaker 4: the speed, and he was able to use that thing
Speaker 4: almost like a right handed curveball.
Speaker 3: Wasn't he Well he was, And I think with Fernando
Speaker 3: and I gotta go back and see that at twenty
Speaker 3: years old, he pitched like he was twenty seven, twenty
Speaker 3: eight years old. He pitched like a true veteran. Wasn't
Speaker 3: He wasn't flushed in any way, shape or form. But
Speaker 3: I ever saw him. I never saw him upset. Even
Speaker 3: if he was in a jam, he managed to get
Speaker 3: himself out. And it was just remarkable that the maturity,
Speaker 3: that's just shuk Man hand. And as far as that
Speaker 3: curveball and shrewball, it was like reminds me of Tommy John.
Speaker 3: All I had to do was tell Fernando where the
Speaker 3: hit or was he was up on the plate, which
Speaker 3: just went along further outside. If it was back, we
Speaker 3: can bring it on the plate more. And if he's
Speaker 3: up in the box, all those things just mattering. It's
Speaker 3: just a little things that Freddy had the ability to make.
Speaker 3: You just look for it and look for it and
Speaker 3: look for it, and all of a sudden, here comes
Speaker 3: a little eighty five on hour fastball and your froze.
Speaker 3: You have no idea what's going on because you're looking
Speaker 3: for that screwtball. And he could throw it anytime. That
Speaker 3: was That was the amazing thing. He had the accomfidence
Speaker 3: in himself to uh to throw it at anytime three
Speaker 3: and two, three and oh he didn't care. He threw
Speaker 3: it and whenever it felt like he threw it and
Speaker 3: was able to throw strikes. And that's the key is
Speaker 3: being able to throw strikes.
Speaker 4: Steve.
Speaker 1: When you watch baseball now and catchers nowadays dropping to
Speaker 1: one knee, nobody blots the setting up too early. The
Speaker 1: PitchCom device. Uh it's I imagine it's maddening sitting watching
Speaker 1: a baseball game and as a catcher, you're watching these
Speaker 1: guys not block balls go to one knee, set up
Speaker 1: too early, and I guess, what, what do you want
Speaker 1: when you're watching games? What are you thinking?
Speaker 3: I try to watch it, you know, as much I can,
Speaker 3: because it's they move their gloves so much that if
Speaker 3: I was on part of that, if I saw you
Speaker 3: move it to the ball, I don't care. I mean,
Speaker 3: they take a perfectly good pitch, is on the plate
Speaker 3: and they move their glove. Why just receive the ball properly.
Speaker 3: I don't care. If you're on your knees, run your head,
Speaker 3: receive the ball properly, you know, keep the ball in
Speaker 3: the striking zone, and don't be moving it two feet
Speaker 3: when you don't have to move it at all.
Speaker 1: This pitch frame is ridiculous. It's become an art now
Speaker 1: for current catchers about how to properly catch a ball
Speaker 1: and get it and steal an extra strike.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's it, you said a word frame of strike.
Speaker 3: I mean when they said about framing with me, I
Speaker 3: thought you were building a dish on your house. But
Speaker 3: I always thought that if I received the ball properly
Speaker 3: and receive the ball in the strike zone and make
Speaker 3: sure that the guy behind me got a good view
Speaker 3: of the pitch I could, I could, I could get
Speaker 3: pitches that might be a all off the plate. And
Speaker 3: if I you know, I didn't make if I made
Speaker 3: you up, I look good. I was looking good. And
Speaker 3: that was the I kept the pinchers off of him
Speaker 3: and I was getting some pitches. So it's changed over
Speaker 3: the ear. I think they feel that you're down on
Speaker 3: one knee. You can, you can get the low pitch better.
Speaker 3: But I saw some balls in the last playoff section
Speaker 3: that I'm surprised the guy never broken thumb.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Steve, along those lines. Next year, there's some talk
Speaker 4: that they may be going to the automatic balls and strikes,
Speaker 4: the A B S. I don't I mean, I I
Speaker 4: don't know where this is going. Steve. I'm with you
Speaker 4: on this stuff. I'm okay with going with the flow.
Speaker 4: But man, how about all these rule changes and talk
Speaker 4: about the abs, the automatic balls and strikes. I'm not
Speaker 4: for it myself.
Speaker 3: No, no, you know, the human error has been around
Speaker 3: for a long time. And then we're gonna have robot players.
Speaker 3: We're not going you know, so you program a robot
Speaker 3: to go out and play so you don't have any mistakes.
Speaker 3: Mistakes are part of the game. You know, middle mistake,
Speaker 3: So a player you want to eliminate as much as
Speaker 3: you can. Physical physical mistakes and physical heirs are part
Speaker 3: of the games that around one hundred and fifty sixty years,
Speaker 3: So it's there. But as far as calling balls and strikes,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I you know, I mean, they're going
Speaker 3: to go too far.
Speaker 1: The Great Steve Vieger with us here on AM five
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports as we get ready for Game one
Speaker 1: of the World Series tomorrow night. Is the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: the Yankees. Last time these two teams met up was
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one. You were a co MVP of that
Speaker 1: World Series, a World Series champion eighty one, Steve, and
Speaker 1: it was finally an opportunity for this Dodgers team to
Speaker 1: get over the hump and beat that Yankees team that
Speaker 1: you guys had lost to two previous years in the
Speaker 1: late seventies. That World Series win?
Speaker 4: How much?
Speaker 1: How much were you guys going into that series just
Speaker 1: looking to beat this Yankees team finally and then finally
Speaker 1: doing it. What was that feeling like?
Speaker 3: Well, I think it was the greatest feeling you could
Speaker 3: have because we we thought that we had a pretty
Speaker 3: good team of seventy seven and seventy eight and didn't
Speaker 3: quite do the job. So eighty one we felt like
Speaker 3: collectively that if we were ever going to do it together,
Speaker 3: that was going to be here, because we had, uh,
Speaker 3: we had rumors of down down in the minor leagues
Speaker 3: that there was a few young guys down there, and
Speaker 3: and Stevie and and uh, Mike Marshall and Greg Brock
Speaker 3: were were pounding at the door. So we might not
Speaker 3: have the opportunity after this. And I think the Game
Speaker 3: three that Fernando pitched, uh and It's a complete game
Speaker 3: kind of kind of set the thing that, Okay, we
Speaker 3: can do this. And then we went on to win
Speaker 3: the game. And then of course you know that big
Speaker 3: controversy between Tommy John and the manager and left Tommy
Speaker 3: chuck him out and we opened up the game at
Speaker 3: that point in time. But I think this World series
Speaker 3: right here is going to be a terrific one.
Speaker 5: I mean, the.
Speaker 3: Yankees have got four guys with Stanton and Judge and so,
Speaker 3: and we got some power with Bates and and o'tawney
Speaker 3: and uh and Friedman and h Hernandez. We we got
Speaker 3: some teams. And I looked for this to be, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, a very interesting world series. I think that
Speaker 3: we have a lot of we have a lot of players,
Speaker 3: We've got some good arms in the bull fit, as
Speaker 3: you saw with a couple of games that they use
Speaker 3: a bullpen on every inning, so we got some chances.
Speaker 3: I look forced to meet him again, I really do.
Speaker 3: I think we got the horses to pull the wagon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Steve, I got a million questions I want to
Speaker 4: ask you, but I guess I want to ask you specifically.
Speaker 4: One of them about Smith behind the plate. I'm sure
Speaker 4: you've worked some with him, and this guy is a
Speaker 4: pretty good catcher in my estimation, he's one of the
Speaker 4: better guys in there. When he's hitting, of course, he
Speaker 4: kind of separates himself from the field. How do you
Speaker 4: assess Will Smith behind the plate? And how's his progression
Speaker 4: coming in the big leagues?
Speaker 5: Think?
Speaker 3: I think Silly does a terrific job. He's got a
Speaker 3: great arm, He's able to handle the pitching staff. He
Speaker 3: may not block as many balls as they did in
Speaker 3: the past, but he does a good job of picking
Speaker 3: it back there. Not too many balls get behind. But
Speaker 3: I think in all I think this young man has
Speaker 3: done a torrific job, and I think the Dodgers still
Speaker 3: he's done, is going to be around for a long time.
Speaker 3: I look forward to be around every day. I mean,
Speaker 3: he he's that type of guy. He just gets better.
Speaker 3: I think he's more consistent and he's there and you
Speaker 3: know he's gonna he's gonna swing the back pretty good
Speaker 3: and he takes sri of the pitching step. That's how
Speaker 3: you can answer this young man to do, and he
Speaker 3: does a terrific job.
Speaker 1: I just keep thinking about all the pictures he's got
Speaker 1: a you know, game plan for and get ready for
Speaker 1: every night. I mean bullpening games aside three four five
Speaker 1: guys coming out of that bullpen after a starter almost
Speaker 1: every single game. Now, that's a lot of game play.
Speaker 1: As a catcher, you got to go into a game
Speaker 1: with a certain plan with your starter, certainly, but then
Speaker 1: you gotta start worrying about all these other pictures. And
Speaker 1: you know it's to me, I think he's doing a
Speaker 1: heck of a job having to balance all that.
Speaker 3: Well, he is, you know, That's that's That's the thing
Speaker 3: about all of the pipeline of information that teach young
Speaker 3: men have today, you can you can break it down
Speaker 3: and get a good idea of the strength and weakness
Speaker 3: of your pictures is mainly what you want to want
Speaker 3: to want. I want to figure out for me, and
Speaker 3: then's strength weakness that they hit her, and how I
Speaker 3: can take take strength against weakness. And sometimes I might
Speaker 3: have to go strengths against strength in a certain situations.
Speaker 3: But it's figger a couple of things down and trying
Speaker 3: to keep it simple and remember what you're going to do.
Speaker 3: And I think in a lot of cases the hitter
Speaker 3: will tell you what he can hit and what he
Speaker 3: will hit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Steve, with the with the way baseball is going today,
Speaker 4: being down there in the dugout, when I was coached
Speaker 4: that year with the DBACS, it looked like a damn
Speaker 4: meeting at Google in the dugout with there was binders
Speaker 4: and iPads and sheets and spreadsheets, and how do you
Speaker 4: assimilate this much information? I guess my question to you,
Speaker 4: Steve is how much is too much?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: I think you can only absorb so much and when
Speaker 3: you figure out enough you've got enough, you know that
Speaker 3: that's it. And that's so I think that, And I'm
Speaker 3: sure they guys do it. They they they take what
Speaker 3: they need, not necessarily everything, and that that to me
Speaker 3: is what I would do. It Take what I can do,
Speaker 3: what applies to me, What can help me do my
Speaker 3: job better, what can help me be a better hitter,
Speaker 3: what can help me be a better defensive player, the
Speaker 3: tendencies of the picture that send to see of the hitter.
Speaker 3: Take those things and kind of keep it and modify
Speaker 3: it some so it helps me so I'm not overload
Speaker 3: my brain. Yeah, it wasn't much overload anyway, but it
Speaker 3: was there.
Speaker 1: Now, Steve, you were a part of one of the
Speaker 1: greatest baseball movies of all time in Major League Major
Speaker 1: League two. You were there when when Barringer put the
Speaker 1: butt down at the end of the game and helped
Speaker 1: win the game for the Indians at that time in
Speaker 1: Major League. I know it's a movie, but my point is,
Speaker 1: the bunts, we don't see the butt anymore, the small
Speaker 1: ball like in the great movie Major League. You guys
Speaker 1: were doing it back in Major League. You guys did
Speaker 1: obviously when you played as well. But to see the
Speaker 1: Dodgers as a team that slugs and the Yankees are
Speaker 1: a team that slugs, and now we the last three
Speaker 1: days we keep hearing about how many home runs might
Speaker 1: be hit in this World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees.
Speaker 1: I think it'd be interesting to see one of these teams,
Speaker 1: if it's the Dodgers, play a little smart ball, you know,
Speaker 1: instead of small ball, a little smart ball and bring
Speaker 1: the hit and run and the stealing and the base
Speaker 1: running and the button back.
Speaker 3: Well, you know that that might be a lot of start.
Speaker 3: But you never know what's going to happen. You don't
Speaker 3: know what manager's got up those sleeves. And certainly we
Speaker 3: being a Dodgers because I'm kind of partial, as you
Speaker 3: well know, uh with with with the Dodgers, but you
Speaker 3: never know what's up the daby sleeve. He might have
Speaker 3: you butt a little bit, hit and run here there
Speaker 3: in some situations. So you know, just keep your hat on,
Speaker 3: sit out, and have a good time to watch it.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Hey, hey, Steve, my last one for you. I
Speaker 4: wanted to kind of put out, you know, my most
Speaker 4: egregious new rule in baseball, and then I wanted to
Speaker 4: ask you about this fact that you can only throw
Speaker 4: over twice to first base. I think this is absurd.
Speaker 4: It just doesn't give the catcher a chance to throw
Speaker 4: the guy out. But I think the first crazy role
Speaker 4: is putting the guy on second base in the extra
Speaker 4: innings so he can run.
Speaker 3: I don't like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but but what's this rule about two times over
Speaker 4: the first and then then then you can't throw over there?
Speaker 4: This just no chance for the picture of the catcher.
Speaker 3: Well, well, now as you can't throw over the third time,
Speaker 3: I think if you troll over, you got to pick
Speaker 3: him off.
Speaker 1: You do, it's crazy, you know, in otherwise.
Speaker 3: It's a market he goes to second base anyway, So yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, I think they're trying to sleet up the game,
Speaker 3: which is fine in that, but one and second base
Speaker 3: entire game. I still can't give used to that because
Speaker 3: to me, that's a disadvantage and then Danny's to one
Speaker 3: club and disadvantage from another club. If your ninth man
Speaker 3: made the last out and leads off to's ther second basement,
Speaker 3: you got your your first three hitters on lineup, and
Speaker 3: you should haven't been able to get a run at
Speaker 3: that point in time. Whether you know, you just start,
Speaker 3: we keep on playing. I don't like that. When you
Speaker 3: know what, they talk bigger than I am, and they
Speaker 3: fill us best for the game, and everybody agrees and
Speaker 3: That's all you can do is just go to the
Speaker 3: ball game and cure for your favorite team and hopefully
Speaker 3: come up victorious.
Speaker 1: Stee, We appreciate the time. Great catching up with you.
Speaker 1: It's a rematch of the nineteen eighty one World Series
Speaker 1: here in twenty twenty four with two great franchises going
Speaker 1: at it, Dodgers and Yankees. Love catching up with you.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on this morning.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys. You guys, be good and happy holidays.
Speaker 1: Steve Yeger boomer joining us here on Saxon Kate's and an.
Speaker 4: Amazing catcher, Oh man, I'm telling you, and crazy good.
Speaker 1: The the defense that he played at that time. As
Speaker 1: you mentioned, I wish he gets recognize more than you know.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, the Johnny Benches of the world get
Speaker 1: get put up there. But you know, Steve Yeger was
Speaker 1: a hell of a catcher.
Speaker 4: You could not get a ball by him. He was
Speaker 4: built like a you know what, brick house, so you
Speaker 4: couldn't run him over. Uh And man could he throw.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I'm telling you, I've never seen a catcher
Speaker 4: throw like that. He was. He was at least as
Speaker 4: good as Johnny Bench. I've seen him both, and he's
Speaker 4: right there with him.
Speaker 1: Great to catch up with Boomer. Coming up. We'll get
Speaker 1: to your phone calls or wrap things up. Get ready
Speaker 1: for media day today out of Dodgers Stadium, Dodgers and
Speaker 1: Yankees both. We'll be out there talking to all the
Speaker 1: members of the international and national media. He is gonna
Speaker 1: be a zoo out at Dodger Stadium today and then
Speaker 1: Game one of the World Series tomorrow right here on
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Speaker 1: out of tomorrow, bright and early at six am. We'll
Speaker 1: dive deeper into Game one of this World Series, the matchups,
Speaker 1: the storylines, the Big three of the the Yankees against
Speaker 1: the Big Three of the Dodgers, Dave Roberts versus Aaron
Speaker 1: Boone Dodgers Yankees. What this rivalry means. It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1: It is gonna be awesome. Cannot wait.
Speaker 4: East West? Do you like that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? East West? I mean it's the states in between.
Speaker 1: I heard somebody talking about this yesterday and that, well,
Speaker 1: nobody outside of the East Coast and the West Coast
Speaker 1: is gonna care about this game. One hundred percent disagree
Speaker 1: because they are Dodger fans everywhere, and they are Yankee
Speaker 1: fans everywhere. It's not just an East Coast West Coast.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be everybody watching this World Series, whether
Speaker 1: it's a Dodger Stadium beginning tomorrow night or going back
Speaker 1: to Yankee Stadium beginning on Monday. In the Bronx. I mean,
Speaker 1: people are fired up throughout.
Speaker 4: This global event. Yes, this is this is Japan, this
Speaker 4: is everybody in Europe is gonna be what this is
Speaker 4: gonna be a huge global event. The best players in
Speaker 4: the world. It's East, it's West, it's American National This
Speaker 4: is this is it. It doesn't get bigger better than this.
Speaker 1: Somebody tweeted at me and said, stop him. Dave Roberts
Speaker 1: already said Shoi Otani's not pitching this postseason. He may
Speaker 1: have said that already, But now that the World Series
Speaker 1: is here, and now that we're here at the end
Speaker 1: of October, and with the magnitude of this series, I'm
Speaker 1: I'd like to think they'd ask him again. Somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: ask show Hey and Dave Roberts again if there's an
Speaker 1: opportunity in this World Series for show Hey to pitch
Speaker 1: that he might pitch. I mean, he may have said
Speaker 1: it before in the previous series, but I want to
Speaker 1: know now that we're here, if there's a chance, Dave, you.
Speaker 4: Say no, but your eyes say maybe yes. I mean,
Speaker 4: really right, it is not a is it? I would say?
Speaker 4: Is that a hard no? Or is that just no?
Speaker 4: You know what I mean, there's a difference.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to follow up questions if he just says, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see or that I don't think.
Speaker 4: So, you know what if this this scenario we talked about,
Speaker 4: what about that, Dave, would you yeah, if it was
Speaker 4: on the line, right, and you could smell the World
Speaker 4: Series victory and you need one out and AJ was
Speaker 4: coming up, what would you.
Speaker 1: I ultimately think it comes down to whether show he
Speaker 1: wants to pitch or not, because they're gonna go to
Speaker 1: him and say, how do you feel? This is what
Speaker 1: we feel. We don't want you to But he says,
Speaker 1: I'm in. I want to pitch one inny one at bat,
Speaker 1: give it to me for one whatever.
Speaker 4: I say, one at bad. But is he he's throwing
Speaker 4: in the pen, right yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And when we say pitching the world So I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about getting starting Game four, Yeah, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: coming out in the seventh, eighth, ninth inning, one at bat,
Speaker 1: one inning, close the game, whatever the situation.
Speaker 4: Is, it's got to be the end of the game. Right,
Speaker 4: he shuts somebody down, it's over. He's on the mound
Speaker 4: with the glove high and that's it. Fire works everywhere,
Speaker 4: you know, come on, it just wouldn't be real.
Speaker 1: It would be unbelievable. And I think the question needs
Speaker 1: to be re asked today to Dave Roberts and to
Speaker 1: Showyo Todi also today with the media day, You're not
Speaker 1: gonna just get the baseball questions. Now, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: these questions about well, well, you know, if you know,
Speaker 1: if you're back in California, is it in and out
Speaker 1: Burger better than a habit Burger? Auger five guys? Or
Speaker 1: what are we a fat burger? What do you like
Speaker 1: out there? I would ask a question like this.
Speaker 4: Okay, so the Dodgers win, Okay, they're a five or
Speaker 4: six billion dollar, you know, enterprise right now? What do
Speaker 4: they become if they win the World Series? That's a
Speaker 4: good question?
Speaker 1: Uh add a couple of billion onto that?
Speaker 4: Can you imagine that?
Speaker 1: Right? I mean, yeah, I saw something today.
Speaker 4: And do's pulling for this big time?
Speaker 1: Or what he's got he's got an investment in this
Speaker 1: in this I saw somebody today put out that the
Speaker 1: the value of show how Tania? What he has meant
Speaker 1: to this Dodgers team in one year? How do you?
Speaker 4: How do you measure that?
Speaker 1: I don't know how they do it, but I want
Speaker 1: to say it was like seventy five million dollars more
Speaker 1: than any of their previous years. What he's meant to
Speaker 1: this team financially again, marketing, I mean, merchandise, whatever, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know how you put umber.
Speaker 4: Merch all over the world. I mean, I'm sure they
Speaker 4: all get a cut of that, right, So that's got
Speaker 4: to be just it's got to be the biggest selling
Speaker 4: jersey on the planet right now, you know.
Speaker 1: So there you go, and it's crazy going to Dodger
Speaker 1: games because everybody's there for the first time coming over
Speaker 1: from Japan. You heard about Anaheim when Anaheim, when he
Speaker 1: was pitching, and he pitched on the weekends only a
Speaker 1: lot of times, you know, every once a week on Saturdays.
Speaker 1: They would have special weekend trips from Tokyo to fly
Speaker 1: over like the day before, see an Angel game, watch
Speaker 1: him pitch, and then you fly out that Monday. So
Speaker 1: it was a whole flight just to come out of
Speaker 1: centered around the Angels and Otani when they were home
Speaker 1: for a weekend series. And most likely he was pitching
Speaker 1: all those games because he pitched once a week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's just down to Anaheim, and I'm sure that's
Speaker 1: happening now about that.
Speaker 4: There entre coming into Dodger Stadium for the first time.
Speaker 4: What a jewel, What a freaking great stadium. A few
Speaker 4: three hours today, Zaxy will do it again tomorrow. We're
Speaker 4: gonna dive deep into this game one matchup, so appreciate it.
Speaker 1: You're talking tomorrow. Thanks to Zach, Thanks to Michelle, Thanks
Speaker 1: to you for being a part of the show. Great
Speaker 1: day to day, Thanks to Steve Jeger for joining us.
Speaker 1: Great to hear from Charlie Steiner as well, who is
Speaker 1: now in remission. Check it out and on the La
Speaker 1: Times a great article from Bill Plashki about Charlie Steiner,
Speaker 1: who has missed all of twenty twenty four here battling
Speaker 1: cancer and has battled and is now in remission. And
Speaker 1: our thoughts continue to be with Charlie and his recovery
Speaker 1: and watching this World Series matchup in which he called
Speaker 1: both the Dodger games for the last twenty years and
Speaker 1: previously that calling Yankee games. So our best thoughts with
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