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Speaker 4: the Game one recap of the nineteen eighty one World
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Speaker 4: and the loss of the Yankees. He'll join us next
Speaker 4: hour to relive the nineteen eighty one World Series to
Speaker 4: get his thoughts on this twenty twenty four World Series matchup.
Speaker 4: But joining us now as he makes his way to
Speaker 4: Yankee Stadium. He's covered the Yankees for a long time
Speaker 4: now with the athletic Brendan Cutty joins us here on
Speaker 4: Saxon Kates in the morning. Brandon, how you doing, Thanks
Speaker 4: for coming on.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, guys, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4: Absolutely this Yankees team, Aaron Aaron Boone yesterday said the
Speaker 4: chemistry is like no other team he's seen in recent memory.
Speaker 4: What is made this Yankees team so tight, so such
Speaker 4: a good group that Aaron's referring to.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of factors. We'll start with
Speaker 3: last year, how they had high expectations but finished in
Speaker 3: fourth place in the American League East, they missed the
Speaker 3: playoffs for the first time in eight years. That left
Speaker 3: a bad taste in the mouth of Yankees' leadership and
Speaker 3: most importantly, Yankees team captain Aaron Judge. A lot of
Speaker 3: Yankees' players showed up weeks early the spring training this year.
Speaker 3: They talked about Tom Roderi, they talked about not having
Speaker 3: an ego, and they talked about togetherness. And you kind
Speaker 3: of saw this team build around Aaron even as they
Speaker 3: brought in, you know, individualistic type of personalities in Marcus
Speaker 3: Stroman or Alex Ferdugo or Jazz Chishem as the trade
Speaker 3: dead line, you know this, Uh, they've been able to
Speaker 3: make it work around one goal to make last year
Speaker 3: a thing of the past.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 6: Brandan, good to be with you this morning.
Speaker 7: And uh, there's gonna be a lot of great factors
Speaker 7: obviously that are gonna come forth as we get closer.
Speaker 7: You know this, the superstar status of the players on
Speaker 7: both teams. I gotta figure, Brendan, this is gonna come
Speaker 7: down to maybe the bullpens, and both of them are
Speaker 7: really good. Maybe you can highlight a little bit, uh,
Speaker 7: some of the big talking points for this bullpen of
Speaker 7: the of the Yankees, which is outstanding.
Speaker 3: Uh look, yeah, the Yankees bullpen has been pretty good.
Speaker 3: But make no mistake, it's a it's a ragtag bunch,
Speaker 3: you know. It's there's a bunch of guys that you know,
Speaker 3: they're missedit a land of missit toys, if I have
Speaker 3: that phrase correct. You know, guys who were cut from
Speaker 3: other organizations and ended up maximizing their skills with the Yankees.
Speaker 3: You're looking at Luke Weaver as the closer, a guy
Speaker 3: who was a former first round pick, and I think
Speaker 3: he made staffs that sticks different organizations before he found
Speaker 3: his home in the bullpen with the Yankees. It's Tim Hill,
Speaker 3: who was dfaid by the historically awful Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 3: Same deal with with Jake Cousins, who they didn't They
Speaker 3: didn't want to keep Jake Cousins around, you know. Uh, sorry,
Speaker 3: I'm driving on the George Washington Bridge in this construction.
Speaker 3: It's load. I'm sorry. Yeah, And uh, you know, they
Speaker 3: don't want to keep Jake Cousins around. Play Homes was
Speaker 3: was their all star closer. He's been an All Star
Speaker 3: twice now, but they traded for him for spare parts
Speaker 3: with the Pittsburgh Pirates. So it's a it's kind of
Speaker 3: a and I mean this in the best way possible story.
Speaker 3: No name group. Yeah, it's a great story.
Speaker 4: Brendan Jen Carlos Stanton, local kid here in southern California
Speaker 4: and played baseball just a couple of minutes away from
Speaker 4: our studio and noted high school.
Speaker 8: A good regular.
Speaker 4: Season hit the home runs, didn't have the greatest of average,
Speaker 4: but he has certainly turned it on here in the postseason.
Speaker 4: What is it about him that he has flipped the
Speaker 4: switch here in October?
Speaker 3: The man is on a mission, and really he's been
Speaker 3: on a mission ever since he got in New York.
Speaker 3: Aaron Boone told the story recently, how in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: coming off of his twenty seventeen National League MVP Award win,
Speaker 3: you know, he came to the Yankees, hits forty home runs,
Speaker 3: drives in one hundred runs, and what happens. Yankees fans say,
Speaker 3: that's all you got, just forty homers in one hundred RBI.
Speaker 3: He got crap all year that year because you know,
Speaker 3: he struck out a lot. The team wasn't amazing. Aaron
Speaker 3: Judge was hurt and John Carlow realized, like, you know,
Speaker 3: I could be miserable here, or I could just turned
Speaker 3: it all off and try to win. And that's what
Speaker 3: he's trying to do. Look, he's been unhealthy for a
Speaker 3: lot of his time with the Yankees.
Speaker 5: You remember even last off season, Brian Cashman made waves
Speaker 5: when he said, you know, at some point John Carlo
Speaker 5: go on the il you know, you don't really say
Speaker 5: the quiet part out loud and ended up happening.
Speaker 3: But he doesn't let anything bother him. And you see
Speaker 3: it right now. Four hits all in the ALCS and
Speaker 3: they were all home runs right at crunch time. And
Speaker 3: the best thing he said so far and yet that
Speaker 3: will make Yankees fans happy, is that he hasn't done
Speaker 3: anything yet. Right, the Yankees are now in the World Series.
Speaker 3: He's never been in the World Series. But he's got
Speaker 3: that Kobe Bryant mentality. Job's not finished.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's well.
Speaker 7: You know, I wanted to ask you too about some
Speaker 7: of the guys hurt as well on this team. Anthony
Speaker 7: Rizzo playing with two fractured fingers on his right hand. Also,
Speaker 7: your lefty, Nester Jrtes has got the left elbow flexer strain.
Speaker 7: I know he's been facing some hitters and some simulated games,
Speaker 7: but what's the status of these two And and will
Speaker 7: the Dodger bullpen or the Dodger pitching staff in general
Speaker 7: be able to exploit the situation with Rizzo in that
Speaker 7: right hand.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. I mean, unless you're gonna
Speaker 3: throw at the right hand again, Like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't know necessarily. What you know that.
Speaker 7: That right hand is extremely important to pulling the bat
Speaker 7: through the zone and if you can pitch him up
Speaker 7: and end.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 7: You know, That's what I kind of saw with Rizzo
Speaker 7: and as lasted bats he was able to, you know,
Speaker 7: flare that ball over the shortstops head for a base.
Speaker 7: It was a good piece of hitting, but it wasn't
Speaker 7: the same as you know, you see him before, you know,
Speaker 7: pulling the ball down the right field line.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: So I don't know that that Anthony Rizzo necessarily anymore.
Speaker 3: From being honest, he might be in the later stage
Speaker 3: of his career where he's more trying to be a
Speaker 3: content guy, trying to be a guy who digs it
Speaker 3: out the dirt at first base. You know, last year
Speaker 3: he dealt with the concussion that the Powers kind of
Speaker 3: staffed earlier this year, the Powers kind of staffed. That's
Speaker 3: that's before he broke his hands. So I'm not necessarily
Speaker 3: sure he's the thirty homer Anthony Rizzo anymore. Respectfully, you know,
Speaker 3: he he I think that his goal is to you know,
Speaker 3: make contact, spray the ball kind of like you said,
Speaker 3: sure you could bust him up and in, but his
Speaker 3: mo o his whole career. But he's the all time
Speaker 3: leader and being hit by pitches. Sorry, active leader, active
Speaker 3: leader and being hit by pitches. So you'll bust him
Speaker 3: up and in and he'll just take one off the shoulder.
Speaker 3: As far as Nesser Court has, it seems like he's
Speaker 3: going to be on the Yankees roster. He you know,
Speaker 3: got hurt in the last week of the regular season,
Speaker 3: had a strong season in the rotation for the Yankees,
Speaker 3: but as a lessie out of the bullpen. Look, Shootani
Speaker 3: is incredible, and he will probably hit a home run
Speaker 3: or to this World Series and has some incredible moments.
Speaker 3: But the Yankees might be looking at Nessor Cortes as
Speaker 3: a Otani killer, you know, left on left seventh inning.
Speaker 3: You know, Nestor is the kind of intense guy who
Speaker 3: doesn't wilt under pressure. I think he would like the
Speaker 3: challenge of in a tight spot needing to go up
Speaker 3: against a Shoeotani or Freddie Freeman BRITDA.
Speaker 4: What's the vibe in New York right now as far
Speaker 4: as the fans and the excitement level of facing the
Speaker 4: Dodgers in the first World Series matchup between these two
Speaker 4: franchises since nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 3: Oh, I haven't been out a whole lot. I live
Speaker 3: in Jersey and I've been trying to sleep because the
Speaker 3: Alcs just killed me. But I'll tell you what the
Speaker 3: vibe is in my group chat with my friends who
Speaker 3: are Yankees fans, and they're stoked. They're freaking out there.
Speaker 3: They I gotta I woke up to text the morning
Speaker 3: from friends of mine saying is it Friday yet? They
Speaker 3: can't wait to get this thing going. They you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm thirty seven and in two thousand and
Speaker 3: nine I was in college. It's just finishing up college.
Speaker 3: That's how long it's been since the Yankees have been
Speaker 3: in the World Series, and they can't wait to get
Speaker 3: this going. They're excited that it's against the Dodgers. All
Speaker 3: the history there, all the marquee names. They respect the
Speaker 3: Dodgers and the history, and I just think that it's
Speaker 3: gonna be a great series and everyone's really excited.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Brendan, I'm wondering what the overall game plan for
Speaker 7: the Yankees is. Obviously, with the big star quality on
Speaker 7: this team show hey Otani and Mookie Bettsy'd like to
Speaker 7: strike them out, you know, every time they get up
Speaker 7: and boom, we win. But is it try to limit
Speaker 7: that what they can do and really contain the bottom
Speaker 7: part of that lineup, which has been really good When
Speaker 7: the Dodgers get those bottom guys on Hotani has been
Speaker 7: absolutely just a barn burner as far as getting hits
Speaker 7: with guys on base. So I'm wondering, really what their
Speaker 7: attack mode is going to be on this I'm gonna be.
Speaker 3: I think there are attack mode is gonna be one
Speaker 3: batter at a time. I Mean, you hate hearing cliches
Speaker 3: from athletes, You especially hate hearing them from reporters who
Speaker 3: hate hearing them from athletes. But they're gonna have to
Speaker 3: go one batter at a time, right because that Los
Speaker 3: Angeles lineup is so dangerous it could hurt you in
Speaker 3: so many ways, and if you tire yourself out really
Speaker 3: trying to go crazy after the bottom half of the lineup,
Speaker 3: I mean, then you're gonna leave a fat slider over
Speaker 3: the place to show Aotani and he's gonna hit it
Speaker 3: to the in and out around the block. So I
Speaker 3: just don't I just don't know that there's a really
Speaker 3: a one size fits all attack plan for the New
Speaker 3: York Yankees other than just trying to get everybody out.
Speaker 4: Brandan, we appreciate a couple of minutes as you make
Speaker 4: your way to Yankee Stadium. What's the plan for the Yankees?
Speaker 4: Are they flying out later today? They're heading out tomorrow?
Speaker 4: When are they coming out to Southern California.
Speaker 3: I believe we're coming out tomorrow. They're gonna work out today.
Speaker 3: They'll probably do do some kind of light workout tomorrow,
Speaker 3: and then you get ready for all the pomp and
Speaker 3: circumstance right the World Series workout day. You know they'll
Speaker 3: be at their podiums taking questions from everybody and just
Speaker 3: you know, soaking it in before you get down the
Speaker 3: business on Friday.
Speaker 4: Well, Brendan, we appreciate some time. Look forward to seeing
Speaker 4: you out here in southern California. And thanks for talking
Speaker 4: a little Yankees Dodgers with us.
Speaker 6: Thanks, Brennan, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 4: All right, there, he goes Brendan Cundy from The Athletic.
Speaker 4: We'll covering the Yankees on the Yankees beat. It sounds
Speaker 4: like he I mean Aaron Booney. Yesterday Saxy made the
Speaker 4: comments that this is the tightest group he's had as
Speaker 4: manager of the Yankees. The team chemistry that we have
Speaker 4: is off the charts right now. The leadership that we
Speaker 4: have in this Yankees clubhouse is like nothing I've seen
Speaker 4: as I've been the manager here at the Yankees. I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't know if I buy in to it. Is
Speaker 4: Aaron Judge really that leader that can lead twenty six
Speaker 4: guys in that clubhouse never came across to me as
Speaker 4: that guy who's that clubhouse leader, the guy that everybody
Speaker 4: wants to follow.
Speaker 8: I could be wrong. I could be wrong.
Speaker 7: Okay, it gets a little tired when you're talking about
Speaker 7: leading guys.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 7: The one thing I didn't want when I was playing
Speaker 7: is just coming from my standpoint, is I didn't want
Speaker 7: some one of my teammates leading me. Okay, I don't
Speaker 7: think anybody else did either. They're not the leader. The
Speaker 7: manager is okay, that's the manager of the team. And oh,
Speaker 7: by the way, when guys say this is my team, now,
Speaker 7: it ain't your team. I don't think you own the team.
Speaker 7: The owner owns the team. It ain't your team. So
Speaker 7: when you hear that kind of thing, it's a bit overrated.
Speaker 7: The real leaders and the real way that the players
Speaker 7: will follow other players is by example guys that don't
Speaker 7: have to say a word. There's guys that are leaders
Speaker 7: on teams that don't say anything, and it's because they
Speaker 7: don't need to. They do it by example. Those of
Speaker 7: the leaders, the locker room lawyers with the lip service
Speaker 7: people just tune them out.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't need you to tell me to
Speaker 7: get excited. I'm a grown ass man and I'm excited.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 7: I went batting practice, I went some ground balls, and
Speaker 7: then move get out of the way, okay. And I
Speaker 7: don't need guys that are my teammates to telling me
Speaker 7: how I need to get ready. Okay, we all know
Speaker 7: how to do that. I want to see it. I
Speaker 7: want to see it. I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 7: That's what the leaders are.
Speaker 4: I can see where Aaron Judge has taken over as
Speaker 4: maybe the guy who needs to win. Now he's thirty
Speaker 4: two years old. The pressure's on him. He's got the
Speaker 4: big contract, came back in free agency a couple of
Speaker 4: years ago when he could have come out West and
Speaker 4: gone to the Giants and turned down that offer, and
Speaker 4: now the pressure's on for him to win a championship
Speaker 4: because they haven't have been back to the World Series
Speaker 4: since two thousand and nine. But I look at Aaron
Speaker 4: Boone as well. Aaron Boone's been the manager of this
Speaker 4: team since twenty eighteen. I mean we're in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: four now. He hasn't won a World Series. He hasn't
Speaker 4: even gotten to a World Series as a man. Yet
Speaker 4: it every year he's like Dave Roberts. But in New York,
Speaker 4: they're calling for his head and saying he's not the
Speaker 4: right guy, we got to move on. But yet they
Speaker 4: bring him back, and I can see where he's probably
Speaker 4: happy that the other Aaron, Aaron Judge, is probably taking
Speaker 4: a little bit of that pressure off of him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's it's great when you have guys
Speaker 7: in there that can you know, you have players that
Speaker 7: are almost like coaches themselves. They they police everything. They
Speaker 7: do a lot of the conversations at the locker and
Speaker 7: those type of things that that's what a you know,
Speaker 7: sometimes a manager will have to do. But you got
Speaker 7: players out there that that take the bull by the
Speaker 7: horns and whatever. They don't have to have group meetings.
Speaker 7: They just go and they you know, they talk to
Speaker 7: the guys individually. They leave by example, they see what
Speaker 7: the guys know. When guys are hurt, they're out there
Speaker 7: playing when they're hurt. They're not whining about it. And
Speaker 7: the other guys in the team like, oh, okay, so
Speaker 7: that's how you do it. You don't talk about it,
Speaker 7: you know, So that that's the real leaders on the team.
Speaker 7: And Aaron's like that, Aaron Place, look at that big body, dude.
Speaker 7: I guarantee you there's not probably a game throughout the
Speaker 7: season other than maybe the first week where he doesn't
Speaker 7: have a little something going on, little something something going
Speaker 7: on where he's you know, he's not one hundred percent.
Speaker 7: I don't know anybody that played in the World Series
Speaker 7: that didn't have you know, wasn't one hundred percent physically.
Speaker 7: There's always things like that, and the guys that go
Speaker 7: out and play through it. That's when guys take notice
Speaker 7: and they say, that's that's a guy I can follow.
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Speaker 4: And then I watched it. I'm listening, you know, break
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Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 4: Baseball fans may not know who Tommy Edmond is. So
Speaker 4: they broke down where'd he come from? Why he was
Speaker 4: he the nl NLCS MVP. And then they went over
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Speaker 4: who aren't the superstars, and Major League Baseball Network TV
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Speaker 4: you may not know who the superstars, and then the
Speaker 4: All Star Game every year, so I think that's kind
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Speaker 6: How you doing.
Speaker 10: I'm doing good, guys.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 11: Hey, it's gonna be a heavyweight fight. Uh, it's gonna
Speaker 11: go to the final round and we're gonna win by knockout.
Speaker 11: And also have a question for Steve. Hey, Steve, how
Speaker 11: did you guys prepare for the season, Like, did you
Speaker 11: guys work out on the off season or just show
Speaker 11: up to spring training? And did did you ever hit
Speaker 11: batty practice off Sandy Kofax or.
Speaker 7: Tommylsorta, Thank you well, Tommy, Sandy Kofax, No, because I
Speaker 7: didn't want to strike out work out. Yes, we did
Speaker 7: that in the off season and Tommy thesorta too many
Speaker 7: times batting practice. Tommy would Tommy would like live out
Speaker 7: his fantasies of playing in the big leagues in spring
Speaker 7: training when he throw batting practice to us and he
Speaker 7: thought he had this unbelievable great curveball that was like,
Speaker 7: you know, it was like storytelling type. And he'd be
Speaker 7: out there in batting practice in Florida, sweating like a
Speaker 7: I mean really bad, and he'd throw this big curve
Speaker 7: ball up there and he's and you know, we'd whack
Speaker 7: it out there and he go, wow, you must be
Speaker 7: really on it to hit that curveball, and and whatnot,
Speaker 7: and just talking up trash like you could not believe.
Speaker 7: I think Tommy invented trash talking because it was like
Speaker 7: real bad and we're laughing at him because this is
Speaker 7: all you got. I mean, you're throwing this gooky up
Speaker 7: here and you think you're gonna trash talk behind it.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, So I had too many hours of hitting
Speaker 7: batting practice off of Tommy.
Speaker 8: Did you ever hit one right back at him?
Speaker 7: Tried, tried a lot, but he he'd hide behind the screen,
Speaker 7: you know, so he'd throw it and then duck behind there.
Speaker 7: But man, he was trash talking big time. And as
Speaker 7: far as Sandy Kofax, I saw him in spring training
Speaker 7: out there throwing batting practice.
Speaker 6: I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 7: I didn't hit against him, but I saw other guys
Speaker 7: he was popping the glove. I mean, he must have been,
Speaker 7: what in his fifties at least, and he's popping the
Speaker 7: glove over eighty miles an hour.
Speaker 4: I mean, at that age. Crazy Sandy was incredible, unbelievable
Speaker 4: joining us now from High Heat on MLB Network. Covered
Speaker 4: the Dodgers for many years on Sports at LA. She
Speaker 4: is great at what she does, and she joins us
Speaker 4: now here as we lead job to Game one of
Speaker 4: the World Series on Friday. Here on AI seventy LA Sports,
Speaker 4: it's a lot of rizzo, a lot of good morning,
Speaker 4: How you doing?
Speaker 12: Good morning, Tim Kates Vaxi, how are.
Speaker 10: You guys doing?
Speaker 4: Fantastic? Is we get LA ready for Game one on Friday?
Speaker 4: We get to enjoy watching you and the Mad Dog
Speaker 4: on High Heat on MLB Network. We got it on
Speaker 4: in the studio right now as well. But overall, from
Speaker 4: the national perspective, this matchup Yankees Dodgers, certainly both cities excited.
Speaker 4: Both franchise excited. I imagine Major League Baseball is pretty
Speaker 4: darn excited about this matchup.
Speaker 12: Well, you got to think about the networks and what
Speaker 12: the amount of eyeballs are going to be. And you
Speaker 12: have to know that Fox is super psyched that it's
Speaker 12: Los Angeles and New York. And if you could get
Speaker 12: past the fact that if you're a Yankee hater Dodger hater,
Speaker 12: if you can just get past that fact and understand
Speaker 12: that it truly is Star Wars in this World series.
Speaker 12: I mean, you have the best players in the game
Speaker 12: not named Mike Trout all in the same game. And
Speaker 12: that's really really exciting and impressive. I mean you think
Speaker 12: about the amount of MVPs and already World champions, superstars
Speaker 12: in the game, superstars in the making that are going
Speaker 12: to be in the same game at the same time.
Speaker 12: It's really an exciting time for the sport. I mean,
Speaker 12: on both sides, there's massive star power in the lineup,
Speaker 12: there's star power in the starting rotation if you're talking
Speaker 12: about Garrett Cole. It's just an exciting time for our sports.
Speaker 12: So if you could even a casual fan knows to
Speaker 12: the Yankees and the Dodgers are right. So if you can,
Speaker 12: like I said, if you can get past the fan
Speaker 12: or the fact that you may not like the Yankees.
Speaker 12: You may not like the Dodgers, but you love the
Speaker 12: game of baseball and you want to see the best
Speaker 12: doing it on the biggest stage. This is the World
Speaker 12: Series for you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Alana, good to be with you this morning.
Speaker 7: And you know, hey, we're going to see this thing
Speaker 7: broken down on the surface very easily, you know, with
Speaker 7: all the star quality out there with Shohy and Mookie
Speaker 7: Betts and you know, Aaron Judge and et cetera. But
Speaker 7: how far down to the micro level are we going
Speaker 7: to see everybody you know at the networks breaking this
Speaker 7: thing down? I mean, are they going to go down
Speaker 7: and talk about you know, diet. Are they going to
Speaker 7: talk about you know, way deep into the prep before
Speaker 7: the game. Are they going to talk about you know,
Speaker 7: Wade bog scratching in you know, the Jewish symbol in
Speaker 7: the home plate before he goes there and running at
Speaker 7: seven seventeen meat and chicken.
Speaker 6: Is it going to go like that again?
Speaker 7: Or what are we going to see from that?
Speaker 12: You know what exactly? I think it has to just
Speaker 12: because there's so much airtime that needs to be filled, right,
Speaker 12: I mean, unfortunately, we still have to wait three games
Speaker 12: for the three days for the games to start. So
Speaker 12: you know, if the World Series would have started two
Speaker 12: days after the CSS ended, it would be a different story.
Speaker 12: But considering we have all of the different radio programs,
Speaker 12: all of the different television shows, you know, twenty four
Speaker 12: hour news coverage, twenty four hour sports coverage, it gets
Speaker 12: down to that micro level of everything being talked about
Speaker 12: and considered and over analyzed and you know, paralysis by
Speaker 12: analysis type of situation. But once that first pitch is
Speaker 12: thrown on Friday, I think it just goes back to
Speaker 12: who's the better team? And yes, you're going to find
Speaker 12: out every single thing you've ever probably didn't want to
Speaker 12: know about all of these players because we have so
Speaker 12: much time leading up to the first pitch. But once
Speaker 12: the game starts on Friday, it goes goes back to
Speaker 12: basics and who performs better and who executes the best.
Speaker 4: Well, I want to ask you about team chemistry. Aaron
Speaker 4: Bone you mentioned yesterday at his press conference, he's not
Speaker 4: seen a Yankee team this tight, this come together this
Speaker 4: season that he's ever had as manager of the Yankees.
Speaker 4: And I bring that up because you're around the Dodgers
Speaker 4: for a lot of years, the Championship years, the World
Speaker 4: Series years in seventeen and eighteen, and you saw a
Speaker 4: tight group in seventeen that which could be one of
Speaker 4: the best Dodger teams they've had in recent memory. But
Speaker 4: this twenty twenty fourteen Max Munsey after they win, look
Speaker 4: at the last couple of days ago, said Wow, this
Speaker 4: group is special. We are a bond, We are together.
Speaker 4: There's no egos. The bullpen calls themselves the dogs. Now
Speaker 4: coming out of the bullpen, being around these Dodger teams
Speaker 4: like you were and traveling with the team, you've seen
Speaker 4: team chemistry, you've seen non team chemistry. It says a
Speaker 4: lot that this group, these veterans like Munty and Kershaw
Speaker 4: and et cetera, I have all said that this group
Speaker 4: is like no other group they've ever had.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's crazy because I remember, obviously that twenty seventeen team,
Speaker 12: which I still will go to the grave saying was
Speaker 12: the best Dodger team as far as talent that I
Speaker 12: ever covered. But you think about the fact that there's
Speaker 12: a team plane now just for the players and then
Speaker 12: there's a whole other plane for like family and staff,
Speaker 12: and that Max Monthy is basically saying, Listen, the next
Speaker 12: three weeks, it's all about the boys. It's not about family.
Speaker 12: You're not going to be called a bad dad, You're
Speaker 12: not going to be called a bad father, You're not
Speaker 12: going to be called a bad husband, a bad partner.
Speaker 12: For the next three weeks, we have to be one
Speaker 12: thousand percent committed to each other. And there's something to
Speaker 12: be said about that. It's kind of like, you know,
Speaker 12: from the outside looking in, some folks are like, listen,
Speaker 12: he's a dad first, and a father first and a husband. Yes,
Speaker 12: of course, but in order to get to the World
Speaker 12: Series and win a World Series, you have to be
Speaker 12: so flip and dialed in. And it's interesting because you
Speaker 12: heard Dave Roberts say it too before they started popping
Speaker 12: bottles on the Daughters club House after they won the CS,
Speaker 12: that this is the team that he can honestly say
Speaker 12: he has never loved or cared about more. Now, what
Speaker 12: is he going to say, like, oh, I really loved
Speaker 12: the twenty eighteen team more. But you know, of course
Speaker 12: he's going to say that, But I truly believe that
Speaker 12: there's a special bond with this group and think about
Speaker 12: the adversity and listen, all thirty teams have gone through
Speaker 12: the adversity. But if you think about what the Dodgers,
Speaker 12: who are expected to win the NL West every single year,
Speaker 12: had to go through to get to the World Series,
Speaker 12: with the amount of injuries they've had the key players,
Speaker 12: I would venture to say this is Dave Roberts's best
Speaker 12: managerial job in his tenure. I mean, he got decimated
Speaker 12: by injuries. Hey, guys, both in the pitching staff and
Speaker 12: up and down that lineup. So there's something to be
Speaker 12: said for that chemistry. There's something to be said about
Speaker 12: you know, Max Munsey, a veteran player with David Vasse
Speaker 12: on AM five seventy in the Clubhouse saying, you know what,
Speaker 12: he won game five. In terms of Brett Honeywell, he
Speaker 12: pitched so well in Game five, he'd allowed us to
Speaker 12: win Game six. And for Honeywell, who's been up and
Speaker 12: down and could have you know, with Dfade could have
Speaker 12: elected to go to another team, decided he wanted to
Speaker 12: stay with the Dodgers for an opportunity. When you hear
Speaker 12: that from a veteran player, that can't do anything.
Speaker 10: But give you a boost.
Speaker 12: So I do believe that they love each other. I
Speaker 12: do believe that they're playing for one another. I do
Speaker 12: believe that, you know, they have this unbelievable bond. And
Speaker 12: you know, Keith Dave and said that they came out
Speaker 12: of spring training like blood brothers. And you know, it's
Speaker 12: a special group for sure. And I've said this my
Speaker 12: entire career. I will maintain it. Always money buys good players,
Speaker 12: but money doesn't guarantee championships, and you have to want
Speaker 12: to play for one another. And I highly believe that
Speaker 12: this group is doing that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you got that right. And you know I believe too.
Speaker 7: This team has completely bought in. They've stepped over that line.
Speaker 7: The chips are in the middle, and they've completely sold
Speaker 7: into this thing. And I think it's going to pay
Speaker 7: dividends for them. But Alon, I wanted to ask you
Speaker 7: about the layoff. Certainly there's injuries on both sides, with
Speaker 7: Rizzo in that right hand and the two fingers that
Speaker 7: are broken, Arnesto Cortez coming back with that elbow injury,
Speaker 7: and of course the Dodgers starters and Freddie Freeman, who
Speaker 7: does this layoff help or hurt the most, you think
Speaker 7: between these two teams.
Speaker 12: You know, I think it does both, honestly, saxy on
Speaker 12: both sides. I hate the long layoff. It bums me
Speaker 12: out because you want to continue with that momentum. And
Speaker 12: I was hoping that, you know, they would be able
Speaker 12: to move up the games a little bit, which they
Speaker 12: would have if the CS has ended earlier than they did.
Speaker 12: But because they went to six games, they you know,
Speaker 12: NLB is not doing that. There's a lot of other
Speaker 12: contractual and television pieces to that. But of course it's
Speaker 12: going to help, you know, Freddy, but it's not his
Speaker 12: ankle is still broken, you know, or his ankle is
Speaker 12: still messed up. It's not going to you know, two
Speaker 12: more days of resting. It is not going to give
Speaker 12: you one hundred percent in terms of Freddy Freeman. You know,
Speaker 12: it'll be interesting to see if Miguel Rojas and Alex
Speaker 12: Bessia are able to be on the roster. That's really
Speaker 12: going to change some things. I would still like to
Speaker 12: see Miguel Rojas coming off the bench. I do not
Speaker 12: want to take Peek or Tommy Edmond out of the
Speaker 12: starting lineup. Alex Bessia back in that bullpen would be
Speaker 12: because he's a bulk innings guy, right, he eats a
Speaker 12: bunch of innings that would really lengthen the bullpen a
Speaker 12: little bit. You know, I don't know who you take
Speaker 12: off of the roster to put him back on, but
Speaker 12: I would love to see Alex Vesia back in that
Speaker 12: Dodgers' bullpen. The lineup, don't mess with it. I want
Speaker 12: keyk in there every single day. I want Edmond in
Speaker 12: there every single day. I love the order that Dave
Speaker 12: is doing it. You know, it will help Anthony Rizzo
Speaker 12: a little bit as far as the fingers are concerned.
Speaker 12: But you know, guys, it's still broken. His hand is
Speaker 12: still broken. So you know, I think what the layoff
Speaker 12: does is the crushes momentum. So whoever is, you know,
Speaker 12: it's like, you know, this sacks be better than anybody
Speaker 12: you play forever. It's like you're you're only as good
Speaker 12: as that day's starting pitcher. So if the Dodgors elect
Speaker 12: to go a flarerty in Game one, which sounds like
Speaker 12: they're going to do, we already know we're going up
Speaker 12: against Garrett Cole. You know, Clarity has to shove that
Speaker 12: Game one is a massive statement game in a seven
Speaker 12: game series.
Speaker 4: Yes, a lot of final thing for me. Keyk Hernandez.
Speaker 4: I know it does surprise you because what he's done
Speaker 4: in the past, But it's kind of crazy here that
Speaker 4: ten years later, after he's been a Dodger and left
Speaker 4: and come back, what he still means to the fans,
Speaker 4: what he still means in October. I mean the flip
Speaker 4: he switches every October and produces from seventeen in those
Speaker 4: three home runs to clench the NLCS at Wrigley Field
Speaker 4: to what he met in twenty twenty during the World
Speaker 4: Series run. And he can have an average year during
Speaker 4: six months of the season, but come October, keyk turns
Speaker 4: into a different KEYK.
Speaker 8: It's truly amazing.
Speaker 12: Kate, I have said this until I'm pantone two ninety
Speaker 12: four Blue in the Face. Key k Hernandez needs to
Speaker 12: be in every single postseason lineup. I don't care if T.
Speaker 12: K Hernandez does not record a base hit once in
Speaker 12: the regular season. There is something about when the calendar
Speaker 12: changes to October that Key k Hernandez just flips that switch.
Speaker 12: It's unbelievable and the energy he's just built for that
Speaker 12: moment you know, you hear Nick Castanos of the Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 12: Maybe he's not there anymore because he's a free agent.
Speaker 12: But of the Phillies, say, listen, I have a really
Speaker 12: hard time focusing defensively in the regular season. It's different.
Speaker 12: You know, a Tuesday game in Cincinnati in April is
Speaker 12: a lot different than any game in October. And KEYK
Speaker 12: just has the flair for the dramatic. And that's why
Speaker 12: I want him in that line. If I've been saying
Speaker 12: that for a thousand years, Kik has to start, start,
Speaker 12: not come off the bench, not be on the roster.
Speaker 12: Kek needs to start in every single postseason lineup. And
Speaker 12: he's just he has the numbers to back it. You know,
Speaker 12: he just has this unbelievable postseason ops. He just is
Speaker 12: mister clutch in the postseason. And certainly no disrespect to
Speaker 12: Reggie Jackson, you know, mister October. But for the Dodgers,
Speaker 12: k K is mister October.
Speaker 6: Yeah a lot.
Speaker 7: I'll go out on this one and you know, highlighting
Speaker 7: Kyk for the Dodgers. I want to talk about, just
Speaker 7: for a brief moment, the the uh surge, I guess
Speaker 7: you will.
Speaker 6: Of Juan Soto.
Speaker 7: This guy I thought when he was with you know,
Speaker 7: his San Diego and whatnot, and even with Washington, not
Speaker 7: the same player as he is with the Yankees, with
Speaker 7: that short porch, the surrounding cast that he has that
Speaker 7: can absolutely pulverize the baseball With the Yankees, this guy,
Speaker 7: to me is turning into the absolute real deal. Not
Speaker 7: I still don't think he's a five tool player, but
Speaker 7: what he does offensively for that club in these situations
Speaker 7: is is this guy is scary in the middle of
Speaker 7: that lineup, no, no.
Speaker 12: Question about it. And I'm in accordance with you, Saxy.
Speaker 12: He's not a five tool player to me. How how
Speaker 12: Juan Soto was a finalist for a Gold Glove and
Speaker 12: right field and Francisco Lindor was not a finalist for
Speaker 12: a Gold Glove at the shortstop position for the Mets.
Speaker 3: Blows my mind.
Speaker 6: That's crazy.
Speaker 12: However, Juan Soto is an unbelievable offensive player. I think
Speaker 12: he gives you one of the most patient and professional
Speaker 12: at bats out there. The guy can get on base
Speaker 12: with the walks because he is patient. He doesn't, you know,
Speaker 12: go outside of his strike zone. He doesn't chase, and
Speaker 12: obviously he has the power, and you're right with that
Speaker 12: short porch and right, he is a perfect fit for
Speaker 12: the New York Yankees. Again, there's some guys that can
Speaker 12: handle the big lights in the big city. There's some
Speaker 12: people that just prefer not to do so. And Wan
Speaker 12: Soto is a guy that can do that. You know,
Speaker 12: he's very much like that type of player like that
Speaker 12: just loves playing in those types of situations and the
Speaker 12: pressure that New York you know, that comes with playing
Speaker 12: in New York. I mean, he's gonna get a bazillion
Speaker 12: dollar contract, then you know he's probably worth it. You
Speaker 12: see what he did already in this postseason for them.
Speaker 12: I think though, what you know, you look back at
Speaker 12: that trade with San Diego and you know it's almost
Speaker 12: a trade in which you kind of they both win
Speaker 12: the trade. I mean, you think about the pitcher that
Speaker 12: San Diego was able to get, you know, for Wan
Speaker 12: Soto and good for the Nationals too of having to
Speaker 12: like figure out that, you know what, we need a moment.
Speaker 12: We've won a World Series.
Speaker 1: We need a moment to rebuild.
Speaker 12: Here, they get rid of Rendon, who I've played more
Speaker 12: Major leaguinnings in the last five years than RENDONAZ and
Speaker 12: you know, Steven Strasburg retires so good on the Nationals
Speaker 12: too for having the foresight to kind of cut some payroll,
Speaker 12: and you know, one so has an opportunity and it
Speaker 12: all kind of worked out. So you know, imagine how
Speaker 12: pissed the Yankees fans are going to be if one
Speaker 12: Soto ends up in free agencies signing someplace else, and
Speaker 12: you know they got rid of a really, really really
Speaker 12: good pitcher. So yeah, I think one Soto is obviously
Speaker 12: a threat. Aaron Judge is a threat obviously in the postseason,
Speaker 12: as Jean Carlos Stanton is a ridiculous threat. But the
Speaker 12: Dodgers have a lot of threats too, So it's going
Speaker 12: to come down to bottom part of the order. That
Speaker 12: X factor. I mean, if anybody had Tommy Edmund winning
Speaker 12: NLCS MVP on your wingo card, you're line. So it's like,
Speaker 12: who's who's the X factor there? Because you know, punch
Speaker 12: for punch, these are two pretty equally matched teams.
Speaker 4: Well, a lot of Dodger fans miss you on sports
Speaker 4: and at LA I miss our daily conversations on the
Speaker 4: pregame show with the Rizzo Report, but we get to
Speaker 4: see you every day with the Mad Dog on high Heat.
Speaker 4: You're killing it. Love watching you daily on the MLB Network.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much for coming on here and leading up
Speaker 4: to Game one of the World Series and talking some
Speaker 4: baseball with us.
Speaker 8: We really appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Thanks.
Speaker 12: It is truly my pleasure. I miss you guys very much.
Speaker 12: Go Dodgers.
Speaker 10: Tucked in.
Speaker 4: All right, there goes a Lota Rizzo from sports and
Speaker 4: at LA previously. Now you check her out on the
Speaker 4: m l him. We learned something there, Freddy Freeman. No, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: a lot of broken ankle. Yeah, maybe it's just misspoke.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's you know, it could be.
Speaker 4: I mean, it could be a tidbit a sprained ankle,
Speaker 4: is torn tendance, you know.
Speaker 6: My ears shot way up.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it could be.
Speaker 7: Be surprised me his ankle's broken and he's still playing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's bad.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was a bad enough spraying that one
Speaker 4: of the toughest guys out there, who plays through broken
Speaker 4: fingers like he did this year, no doubt, who plays
Speaker 4: through everything and the family issues.
Speaker 6: He had to go through this year with his little boy,
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 8: Absolutely one tough guy out there. He is powering through it.
Speaker 4: Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy coming
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Speaker 4: the Dodgers Game one of the World Series coming up
Speaker 4: on Friday night, first pitch at five oh eight, and we,
Speaker 4: of course you're home of show Hey Otani and the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: MFI seventy LA Sports. Later on today, Max Munsey, Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 4: and Dave Roberts are all scheduled to talk to the media.
Speaker 4: We talked to Brendan Cuddy from The Athletic covers the
Speaker 4: Yankees last hour and the Yankees right now as we
Speaker 4: speak in ready to take the field. The Yankee Stadium
Speaker 4: and go through a light workout and they will head
Speaker 4: out to Los Angeles tomorrow.
Speaker 6: There will be a.
Speaker 8: World Series Media Day workout session on Thursday.
Speaker 4: Out of Er Stadium, which is going to be an
Speaker 4: absolute mad house with all the media that's going to
Speaker 4: be out there. I can tell you already Saxy as
Speaker 4: somebody who's got a credential for the World Series, and
Speaker 4: I had one through the NLPs and NLC and I'm
Speaker 4: not selling it, by the way, can I do that?
Speaker 6: How many friends have suddenly perked up?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 4: Friends and family? I mean, uh, I had had a
Speaker 4: daughter come back from college over the weekend. Both of
Speaker 4: them fact came back and both are like, well, we're
Speaker 4: cool as staying.
Speaker 8: For the week.
Speaker 4: You know, we can do our classes remotely if we
Speaker 4: need to to tell our professors we're good, or you know,
Speaker 4: got some family issues or something. Ye, and uh, is
Speaker 4: Game one or Game two the one we're going to.
Speaker 4: I said, you're crazy, you know.
Speaker 7: So they're they're doing the assumptive close right, you know.
Speaker 4: They they're assuming like all Dad's going to get his
Speaker 4: tickets to the World Series, Like, you're crazy, go back
Speaker 4: to school. So we put them on a plane last
Speaker 4: night and send him back to college. So they're not
Speaker 4: they're not going to the World Series. That's crazy. I mean,
Speaker 4: but my parking alone, I mean, I got a season
Speaker 4: credent Shrowl, I go to a ton of Dodger games,
Speaker 4: is doing all the pre games and Dodger talks. And
Speaker 4: my parking for the World Series is down by the
Speaker 4: respiratory hospital. I'm off site parking in lot thirteen and
Speaker 4: fourteen for auxiliary media. Because there's so much national and
Speaker 4: international and local media coverage you can take. You're taken
Speaker 4: uber from there, you know what. I was just talking
Speaker 4: to Michelle about that, that it might be easier if
Speaker 4: I just, yeah, if I park off off site a
Speaker 4: couple of blocks away, a mile away. Rix Berger's is
Speaker 4: right off the five Freeway. There's some bars around there.
Speaker 4: I can just park there. Taco Tico, Oh yeah, that
Speaker 4: was a.
Speaker 7: Good place when I was playing at Taco Tico.
Speaker 8: I might just I might just do that rather than
Speaker 8: park off site and have to take a shuttle, you know.
Speaker 8: And I'm not complaining.
Speaker 4: I'm not complaining, but yeah, I'm just giving the listeners
Speaker 4: a little pull back at the curtain about how much
Speaker 4: media is going to be out there that I'm being
Speaker 4: relegated out to the auxiliary parking lot.
Speaker 7: And they they are relegating you out there, and you
Speaker 7: are Tim Kate, I know, don't they know who I am?
Speaker 6: Have some of these other lower people?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but all of a sudden you get you know,
Speaker 4: international media and all the sixty minutes, and then the
Speaker 4: national TV shows that send their reporters out they all
Speaker 4: want to be a part of it, you know. And
Speaker 4: then you think of the local morning shows in New
Speaker 4: York like good Morning, good Morning New York, Welcome Manhattan,
Speaker 4: all those shows like we have out here, good l
Speaker 4: good to La. All those shows are gonna want to
Speaker 4: be out there doing a lot.
Speaker 6: Of all there.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: They all show up for prime time, right yeah. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: they don't know who the players are. They go out there.
Speaker 4: They got this fresh and new gear they've put on,
Speaker 4: and the Yankee fans are so excited, Dodger fans so
Speaker 4: excited it tries.
Speaker 7: All got seventeen's on their on their backs.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Then they call you, oh, mister Steven Sacks, can we
Speaker 8: talk to you. It's like Steve, please, you know, well,
Speaker 8: the media guy says Steven on here.
Speaker 7: You know what, Nobody in my family, nobody that my friends,
Speaker 7: nobody that I know. Well, nobody's ever called me Steve.
Speaker 6: Nobody.
Speaker 7: It's only in baseball only when I got to the
Speaker 7: ballpark was I called. Nobody ever called me Steve.
Speaker 8: What are we supposed to call you?
Speaker 7: My name is Stephen, my whole family, my friends, everybody.
Speaker 7: No call me Steven. That's my real name.
Speaker 8: How many people outside of me call you Saxy?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 6: Just in baseball? Okay?
Speaker 7: But Tim, I think you know what, we might want
Speaker 7: to turn that page for you and me. I kind
Speaker 7: of like it because you and I knew each other.
Speaker 7: When you call me Saxy.
Speaker 6: You know that's fine.
Speaker 7: But you know what, I could see you call me
Speaker 7: by my real name someday.
Speaker 8: Stephen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's my real name, because you know, I've gotten
Speaker 4: at least a handful of people who are like, stop
Speaker 4: calling Saxy Saxy.
Speaker 6: No, No, I don't mind it.
Speaker 8: It drives people crazy.
Speaker 7: But I think it's a term of endearment. I think
Speaker 7: you're you know, I think we really.
Speaker 4: It's a baseball nickname, like a hockey nickname. You put
Speaker 4: a y on everything or an on everything.
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I'm good with it. I think it's cool
Speaker 7: you can continue to call me that. But you know what,
Speaker 7: maybe someday when we get when we leave Baseball World,
Speaker 7: you know you you would call me Steven. And it's
Speaker 7: funny that I hear, you know, a Steve or what
Speaker 7: nobody's ever called my brother Dave. I mean, we hear
Speaker 7: like Dave sax Is in baseball right. Nope, nope, nobody is.
Speaker 7: His name is David, and that's all we call him.
Speaker 8: So he is Steven Sacks.
Speaker 4: I am Tim Gates here on a five second sport,
Speaker 4: Timothy Kates.
Speaker 8: That's right.
Speaker 4: You can call me my full name. Let's check you
Speaker 4: with Frank in LA or we call him Frankie. Frank,
Speaker 4: how you doing?
Speaker 10: Oh thanks for taking me on, guys. Listen. I was
Speaker 10: a Yankee stadium in nineteen sixty three, a Yankee fan,
Speaker 10: and I watched Andy Kofax and the Dodgers kill the
Speaker 10: Yankees four straight. I think the Yankee scored three runs
Speaker 10: in that World Series. And I remember Mickey Mantle saying
Speaker 10: he felt like a little leaguer, he was so dominated
Speaker 10: by that pitching staff. And I gotta tell you I
Speaker 10: have Dodger blood and Yankee blood in me. I am
Speaker 10: so excited for these two teams. This is the best
Speaker 10: thing for baseball. And I have to Stevens Sacks. I
Speaker 10: have to add last night I was watching the special
Speaker 10: on the Gibbe home run on Fox One. It was
Speaker 10: really you know, every time I watch it, I get
Speaker 10: a tear in my eye. I forgot you were on
Speaker 10: deck when Gibby was up, and I was thinking last
Speaker 10: night I was telling my wife, what the heck was
Speaker 10: he thinking if he walked? If Eersley had walked, Gibby Mayor,
Speaker 10: the pressure for sure would have been on you. Uh. Also,
Speaker 10: I gotta say your interview with Mike Marshall last week
Speaker 10: or earlier. I was with a pitching friend who played
Speaker 10: in the major leagues and we loved that whole commentary
Speaker 10: on miles per hour and your guys taking on it.
Speaker 10: You're invaluable. I love your input, guys, and what Steve,
Speaker 10: steven you gotta tell us what were you thinking and
Speaker 10: run out on deck circle? Thanks?
Speaker 8: Thanksks for checking in.
Speaker 7: Yeah, what a nice guy. Okay, Frank, this is what
Speaker 7: I was thinking of. I know you're listening off the air.
Speaker 7: I was thinking, you know, there's a good chance they're
Speaker 7: gonna walk him because Mike Davis just stole second. I
Speaker 7: know there was two strikes on him, but you know
Speaker 7: he had the lefty righty matchup. But Eckersley was throwing
Speaker 7: the ball right by him. He was throwing fastballs by Gibby.
Speaker 7: He had no chance. And then he was speed it
Speaker 7: up his bats, sped up his bat by throwing them
Speaker 7: that back door slider that he hit out. But I
Speaker 7: was thinking, if he walks him, oh yeah, by the way, boom.
Speaker 7: I was thinking, I gotta get a fastball and I
Speaker 7: got to drill this and I'm gonna hit it right
Speaker 7: back up the middle. We're gonna score and tie the
Speaker 7: thing up. That's what I was thinking. And I was
Speaker 7: gonna be uber aggressive on him because he's gonna come.
Speaker 6: At you, and you would have delivered.
Speaker 8: You would have delivered.
Speaker 7: And then I heard click, and I thought, oh, I
Speaker 7: don't have to worry about this anymore. This game is ova.
Speaker 4: Throw the bat on the ground. Yeah, go find Gibby
Speaker 4: and yippie. He is Steve Sackson. I'm Tim Kates and
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