WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:04.320 The right quot. 2 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:10.359 Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual 3 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:13.439 postseason tradition scam is back. 4 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:14.160 Baby. 5 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:16.399 This is Sax and Cakes in. 6 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:18.839 The a APPA go with Proway. 7 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:23.399 Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your favorite Dodger 8 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:27.559 pregame host, Tim Kates. If you want to talk Dodgers, 9 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.000 get in on the show on eighty six six nine, 10 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.000 eighty seven two five seven now. While the Dan Patrick 11 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:36.439 Show streams on the Ihearts radio app. We've been banished 12 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:40.039 to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff run concludes. Here 13 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:44.359 they are broadcasting live on AM five to seven LA Sports. 14 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:47.280 It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks. 15 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:48.679 Here we go. 16 00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:53.679 It's Sax and Kates on a Wednesday morning, October sixteenth. 17 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:58.679 Good morning, Southern California. Get ready for Game three of 18 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:02.880 the National League MPION Chip Series as the Dodgers have 19 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:06.719 met are in New York. Later on tonight. First pitch 20 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:08.439 right here on A five to seventy LA Sports is 21 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:10.840 coming up at five eight Moronggo Casino. 22 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:11.560 Dodgers on deck. 23 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:14.159 We'll get it all started at four pm. I am 24 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:16.439 Tim kath joined by a two time World series champion, 25 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:19.280 former Rookie of the Year, and one hell of a guy. 26 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:22.760 He is Steve sack Saxy. Good morning, Good morning, Tim. 27 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:26.200 How you doing. I'm doing good. You sound like you're 28 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:29.000 a little nervous for Game three. A little apprehension in 29 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.599 your voice right now, usually your mister positive going into 30 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:35.079 a big game here in the postseason. How are you 31 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:36.560 feeling going into Game three tonight? 32 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:41.000 Absolutely frightened? Are you really no? I'm kidding? 33 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:45.359 Oh my gosh, writing you gotta be worried. Because you're worried, 34 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:46.200 I'm even more. 35 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:50.599 Listen, listen, bring it okay, listen, No problems, no problems. 36 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:52.680 This is a big game, no question about it. The 37 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:55.599 winner of the Game three has gone on to win 38 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:58.959 sixty nine percent of the series. But no worries, man, 39 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:00.159 You're You're right where you want to be. 40 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:00.519 Uh. 41 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:03.359 You gotta start it going today. No bullpen game and 42 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:06.280 the Dodgers are locked and I look for. 43 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:07.400 Them to do some big things today. 44 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:08.919 Yeah, we got a lot to get to over the 45 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:11.520 next three hours. We're gonna hear from Dave Roberts coming 46 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:13.560 up in just a couple of minutes. We're gonna hear 47 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:17.479 from Walker Bueller, the Game three starter coming up next hour. 48 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:20.400 Rick Dempsey was gonna check in at seven point thirty 49 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:23.120 this morning. David Vese is in New York, it has 50 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:26.280 been since well two days ago, and so he'll check 51 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:29.159 in from New York City. Get the pulse of what's 52 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:32.120 happening there in New York. Certainly it's a NFL season. 53 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:34.560 The Jets and Giants are a big topic. The Yankees 54 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:37.039 are up two zero in the ALCS. So where does 55 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:40.159 this Mets Dodgers series fit in in New York right now? 56 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:42.280 With all the fan base, And we got your phone 57 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:44.680 calls at eight sixty six ninety seven, two five seventy 58 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:47.400 eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy coming 59 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:49.479 up in about fifteen minutes, We're gonna dive deeper into 60 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:53.599 this show. Hey Otani is struggling at the plate and 61 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:56.120 what the Dodgers should or should not do with him 62 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.039 at the top of the lineup here in the postseason. 63 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:01.639 That's coming up. But this Dodgers team in New York 64 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:05.120 since the early mornings really of yesterday's Saxi flying in 65 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:08.319 after Game two. They had to workout last night at 66 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:11.680 City Field, and I didn't realize it, but because we're 67 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:15.120 here in southern California. It is fall, and the temperatures 68 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:18.199 are starting to drop around places on the East Coast. 69 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:20.439 And so to see the Dodgers work out last night 70 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.759 and they had beanies on and sweatshirts on, and you know, 71 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:26.800 they're not running around and cut off T shirts and 72 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:29.479 eighty five degrees. It's it's in the fifties in New 73 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:30.240 York Saxy. 74 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:33.319 Yeah, fifties and sixties, which is great weather for them 75 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:36.439 back there. For the Dodgers, not so much. But remember 76 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:39.360 when when guys come into professional sports, you see it, 77 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:41.479 you know in football all the time. Well, they're playing 78 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:44.240 in Green Bay, it's gonna be freezing. How much is 79 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:47.879 this an advantage for Green Bay? You know, as opposed 80 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:51.120 to a team like Tampa. Well, you know what, there's 81 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:53.879 a lot of guys that play for Green Bay that 82 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:56.479 got drafted out of Florida State and got drafted out 83 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:59.800 of USC and whatnot. So this isn't like their whole lives. Ay, 84 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.479 they all of a sudden have adapted to some weather 85 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:04.560 in Green Bet. You know, It's the same thing with baseball. 86 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:07.439 I mean, there's there's plenty of guys that have played 87 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:09.439 in cold weather when they grew up guys in the 88 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:12.319 in the Northeast, and there's guys that haven't, So I 89 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:15.199 don't think that makes that big of a difference. Yeah, 90 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:16.839 you play in it more in the year than the 91 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:19.199 other guys do, but overall it's not going to make 92 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:21.680 a huge difference. Especially the guys from the Latin American countries. 93 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:22.959 They're not used to it at all. 94 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.120 I think mentally, more than anything, for me, it really 95 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:29.319 triggers the fact that this is postseason baseball. When you 96 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.360 start watching the Yankees and Guardians last night, and to 97 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:35.279 see guys in long sleeves and see the fans bundled up, 98 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:37.959 and to see the Dodgers again working out Crosstown in 99 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:43.199 Queens last night at City Field, it just it's postseason baseball. 100 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:46.079 I mean, it's not eighty five degrees anymore and sunny 101 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:48.680 and putting the sun block on and worrying about sweating 102 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:51.639 on the field of Dodgers Stadium. It just it feels 103 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.800 like postseason baseball. There's something to it that the colors 104 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:57.720 are changing back East and it's getting a little cool. 105 00:04:57.800 --> 00:04:58.360 I just like it. 106 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:01.839 I like that change, yeah, I do, because it just 107 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:04.720 sets a reminder of when things growing up when you 108 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:07.040 used to rush home from school and the games are 109 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:09.319 on TV during the day during the week, and it 110 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.160 was cold back East, and you know, it's great. It 111 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:15.639 really brings to light really what's at stake now. And 112 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:18.560 I can guarantee you the weather was not gonna be 113 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:20.079 bad back in New York. I mean, I'm here in 114 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:22.360 fifties and sixties, which is kind of pleasant for a 115 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:24.199 lot of guys like that. I liked it very hot, 116 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:27.199 the hotter the better, but a lot of guys like 117 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:29.800 it kind of more of a temperate, even keeled type 118 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:32.199 of a weather. But I think what we're gonna what 119 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:34.040 you're gonna see is the weather's not going to be 120 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:36.120 an issue. Even if it was cold, it really wouldn't 121 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:39.439 be an issue. There's so much at stake that you 122 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:41.920 don't even really notice it. It's not like during the 123 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:44.639 season or too hot in spring training. You know, this 124 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:45.680 isn't gonna make a difference. 125 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:45.879 You know. 126 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.439 I'm watching Game one and two of the Alcs the 127 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:51.319 last two nights, and really last night, something stuck out 128 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:55.560 to me in the Guardians Yankees game, in a high 129 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.240 fly ball hit by Aaron Judge in the infield, I mean, 130 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:01.480 this thing was a towering shot. If he hits it 131 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:05.439 straight on the line, it's out of the stadium. But 132 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:09.480 he hits it a towering fly ball right around the 133 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:13.600 grass and dirt at second base, and the shortstop for 134 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:17.959 the Guardians drops it. And the night before the Yankees 135 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:21.000 scored two of their runs on wild pitches. And I'm 136 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:24.279 watching this Guardian's team thinking maybe the moment's too big 137 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:27.160 for this Cleveland team on the stage in New York, 138 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:30.720 facing the big bed Yankees, the Bronx Bombers with Judge 139 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.879 and Stanton and man, the Guardians just can't match up. 140 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:37.199 They seem to be hurting themselves and unraveling in the 141 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:39.680 first couple of games of this series. And I watched 142 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:43.079 this Mets Dodgers series, and yeah, the first two games, 143 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:45.720 the teams that have made the mistakes here in these 144 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:48.839 games are the teams that end up losing. Pitching mistakes, 145 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:52.240 defensive mistakes. Game one, the Dodgers get great pitching from 146 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:54.800 sloppy play from the Mets, and the Dodgers win Game two, 147 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:58.639 vice versa. It gets magnified in October Sex and I 148 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:01.879 think that's people need to really understand, is how important 149 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:05.079 every play is a dropped ball here, a wild pitch 150 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:07.439 here can really get magnified here in the post. 151 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:11.120 Oh, there's no question about it. I mean that's why 152 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:14.040 defense is at such a premium. Everything is magnified. And 153 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:16.279 this is, uh, this is huge. I mean, you can't 154 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:20.199 make mistakes like that. Especially. Okay, this is where it 155 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:24.120 really kind of chaps my you know what, okay, castile 156 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:27.560 is is see who was catching that fly ball? 157 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:31.800 It was Castile right the short stoud Oh rochio okay. 158 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:34.240 And the balls popped in the air. Why are you 159 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:35.160 catching the. 160 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:40.920 Ball with one hand? I don't get it. Okay, it 161 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:44.240 really ticks me off when I see that. And I 162 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:47.079 guarantee you one thing. Here's what have happened when I 163 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:48.480 and I don't want to get into the well when 164 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:50.240 I played thing, you know, because I know it sucks 165 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:53.879 when people say that, but but when I play, Look 166 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:57.879 at if I did that, or Mariano Duncan did that, 167 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:01.240 or you know Alfredo grit And did that. A middle 168 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:05.360 infielder dropping the ball and then you walk into the dugout. 169 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:08.639 I guarantee you the pitcher would slug you. You'd have 170 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:11.560 a fight. No, you would have a fight in the dugout, 171 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:16.000 no question about it, and your teammates would just there 172 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:18.800 would be there would be no holds barred. They would 173 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:21.040 be up your you know what, and you might be 174 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.000 excommunicated for a while. That's that you want to you 175 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:25.839 want to trade in your guy card. You want you 176 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:28.240 want to trade in your athletic card. Pull one of 177 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:32.000 those jokers on on your team and embarrass everybody. That 178 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:35.600 is a joke telling you what dropping a fly ball 179 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:39.440 with one hand that flat out sucks, that's all. That 180 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:40.559 is so unprofessional. 181 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:43.519 And that happened early, and you want to be cool. Yeah, 182 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:46.240 it happened early in the game last night in New York, 183 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:49.559 and it didn't seem like Cleveland can rebound because a 184 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:52.120 Mets tacked on two more. They tacked on one of 185 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:53.879 the sixth a couple more in the seventh on a 186 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:56.399 Judge home run, who, by the way, absolutely crushed the 187 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:59.720 ball to center field. And the Yankees look like the 188 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:01.919 team that are going to probably advance. And I know 189 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.480 it's only a two nothing lead, but the Guardians just 190 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:06.879 don't look the same like they have all postseason. The 191 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:09.519 moment is too big for this Guardian's team, at least 192 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:11.879 it seems that way in New York. Maybe we'll see 193 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:14.120 if the things change when it goes back to Cleveland 194 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:16.200 and the Yankees need to get one of those wins 195 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:19.279 there in order to really, you know, knock off this 196 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:22.120 Cleveland team and finish off this series. But you know, again, 197 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:25.360 it's just for Dodger fans who are wonder well Game 198 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:27.600 two to Game one, how can things be so different? 199 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:28.000 Oh? 200 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:30.879 Man, it's a pitch here, it's a mistake there by 201 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:34.200 one guy can change the momentum of a game and 202 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:34.879 a series. 203 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:37.200 Question about it. I mean, it isn't a question about it. 204 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:38.559 And the Dodgers is going to be looking to, you 205 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:40.919 know who to kind of change things up at the 206 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:43.919 top of the order. Besides, you'll set that table, you know, 207 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:45.879 hit that ball in the gap, maybe a home run. 208 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:47.919 You know, is it asking too much? 209 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:48.279 I don't know. 210 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:50.559 He did it all year long, and so they're gonna 211 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:54.360 be looking for a big spark, and I think everybody 212 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:56.279 else is too, And you know, I think we're gonna 213 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:58.039 see something like that. By the way, the reference I 214 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:01.080 made to Luis Castillo, that's when he dropped Alex Rodriguez's 215 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:04.519 pop fly. Remember that with the Mets up by one 216 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:07.559 and and you know he popped up that's back in 217 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:10.320 two thousand and nine. But this was Rochio that did this. 218 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:12.559 And I'm sorry. It's hard to get off of this thing. 219 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.679 When you see somebody do this, it's it's just really unprofessional. 220 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:19.159 And I don't like to I don't like to say 221 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:21.360 things about players because I know how hard the game is. 222 00:10:21.399 --> 00:10:24.600 But when you make the game triple hard by being 223 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:27.159 super cool and dropping a fly ball, you got to 224 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:29.000 God gave you two hands, why are you using one? 225 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:29.440 You know? 226 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:33.960 And and that really just burns my backside when I 227 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:35.039 see guys do that. 228 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:37.360 When I see them not slide and. 229 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:40.440 Get tagged out because they didn't slide for some reason, 230 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:44.799 or you drop a fly ball using one hand, forget it, man, 231 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:46.120 that that is gotta go. 232 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:48.440 Not to go on a tangent here, but just to 233 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:51.600 kind of sidebar all this. Does it bother you when 234 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:54.559 you see guys slide into second base nowadays, and it's 235 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:57.320 a smart play by the middle dfielders, keep on them, 236 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:01.000 hold the slide, hold the tag. I don't remember there's 237 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:05.039 ever being an issue in baseball and other level until recently. 238 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:08.440 Guys over sliding second base never an issue. 239 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:09.879 It's a simple thing. 240 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:11.000 What just happened? 241 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:14.399 I don't know. I mean, why does everybody slide head first? 242 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.200 Why are there's so many thumb injuries and hand injuries? 243 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:19.480 And then I mean they think it's faster, they just 244 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:21.360 tag you on the foot, I mean, because your foot's 245 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:21.840 up in the air. 246 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:22.639 What's I mean? 247 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:23.159 Really? 248 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:27.120 I thought sliding feet first was obviously the better way. 249 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:30.000 You're not gonna get hurt, you're not gonna mash up 250 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:33.799 your hands. You can pop up way faster. It's called 251 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:36.360 a pop up slide. You can see everything because the 252 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:38.559 dirt's not going in your face when you slide head first. 253 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:39.399 That happens too. 254 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:41.919 You can slide and you can see the ball goes 255 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:43.559 in the outphat just pop up and run a third. 256 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:45.399 I mean they've been doing it for over one hundred 257 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:47.440 years and then all of a sudden, one hundreds of years, 258 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:49.440 and now all of a sudden banged everybody slide to 259 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:52.480 head for You're not Ricky Henderson. Okay, there's there's one 260 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:55.399 guy like that. Everybody else is not like that. But 261 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:57.519 why are you sliding head first? 262 00:11:57.679 --> 00:11:58.279 I don't get it. 263 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:00.879 And they don't even pop up slide anymore? Into the bag. 264 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:03.799 They slide through the bag or on top of it, 265 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:07.440 which is a mind bog Otani got thrown out already 266 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:09.919 in this series for sliding past second base when he 267 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:12.919 clearly had stolen the base and got there before the throw, 268 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:15.240 but because he slid past the bag and it for 269 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:18.279 a millisecond, didn't have anything touching the bag, and the 270 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:21.320 hold was on him the entire time, replay shows. 271 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:22.879 He's out and the bags are bigger. 272 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:26.120 Yes, grab that thing, I mean it's huge, looks like 273 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:29.600 a pizza box. You know, It's just I mean, we 274 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:32.279 see it all the time. But the art of sliding, 275 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:35.080 when you ever see a hook slide, why are guys 276 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:38.720 sliding headfirst into home plate? You want to get your 277 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.879 shoulder ripped off. I mean, if the ball and the 278 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:45.240 player arrive at the same time, the rule is even 279 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:48.480 in this you know day and age. You can sit 280 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:51.480 down on that player and I see guys diving head 281 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:52.320 first in the whole plate. 282 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:53.440 Are you nuts? 283 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:53.960 Well? 284 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:57.360 The bust or posey play has changed everything. Now guys 285 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:00.320 are scared to go through a catcher near a catcher. 286 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:03.639 Everybody wants to go round yeah, or try to avoid 287 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:05.480 the tag at all. Costs because they don't want to 288 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:07.960 be called for the uh buster or posy rule on 289 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:09.759 both sides, either the runner or the catcher. 290 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:10.720 Another wim factor. 291 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:12.679 Clearly, you have to get a clear lane. 292 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:15.440 Don't we like to see? Don't we like to see 293 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:20.440 the runner? Just evisceerate that catcher? Cancers got that sucker, 294 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:22.720 you know what I mean? We you know what the 295 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:25.600 weird thing about it is you you talked to catchers. 296 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:25.759 You know. 297 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:28.000 I talked to my brother about, you know, catching all 298 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:29.600 the time. He was a big league catcher. You know 299 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:32.080 what he told me. He likes the action. He likes 300 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:34.480 the fact that guys can run into you. And catchers 301 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:36.960 are like that. They they're like hockey goalies, man, they 302 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:39.519 like the action. They like the you know that that 303 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:43.759 uh that competition like that. But today it's just, you know, I. 304 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:45.840 Need a lane to go into. 305 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:48.159 And let's review it. Did he give him a clear 306 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:50.279 lane to get you the at second base? 307 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:50.720 Oh my god? 308 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:53.840 Turning the double play today, I can't imagine how great 309 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:57.360 and easy, much easier it would be back in when 310 00:13:57.399 --> 00:14:01.440 we were playing. They were trying to cut you in half, guaranteed, 311 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:03.759 trying to take your legs apart today. 312 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:08.279 You don't want to engage the Chase utin twenty fifteen 313 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:11.639 when he's out Ruben Tahana during the NLDS. 314 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:14.000 Dodgers and guess what, Chase did it exactly how you're 315 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:14.799 supposed to do it. 316 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:16.679 But they changed the rule because of them. 317 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:18.000 Yeah, because he did it right. 318 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:21.600 So instead of having the the middle infielder get his 319 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:24.159 rse out of the way like he's supposed to do 320 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.080 and and you know, evade the runner coming down there, 321 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:30.720 the guy's got you know, he's got a lot of 322 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.039 spirit in his legs coming down, you know, trying to 323 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:34.600 take you out. They've been doing it for one hundred 324 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:36.639 and thirty some years and now all of a sudden 325 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:39.840 he does it right. Instead of teaching the middle infielder 326 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:41.679 how to do it his job right, which is to 327 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:43.720 get the heck out of the way, now it'll just 328 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:45.960 changed the rule and make it so you can't hit 329 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:46.320 that guy. 330 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:47.240 That's I don't know. 331 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:49.320 I don't like that not trying to say, well, the 332 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:51.759 money's at stake, and you know what, so what how 333 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:52.759 about the games at stake? 334 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:55.600 Absolutely, I'm one hundred percent with you. He is Steve Sacks. 335 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:57.519 I am Tim Gates and Sacks and Kates in the 336 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:00.000 am here on this Wednesday morning leading up to get 337 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:03.320 three of the NLCS Dodgers in New York to take 338 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:06.720 on the Mets. Walker Bueller, Lewis Severino, the pitching matchup, 339 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:09.120 a lot of the talk yesterday at the workouts around 340 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:11.960 show he Otani and where he is struggling at the 341 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:15.120 leadoff spot for the Dodgers. Also Walker Buehler being a 342 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:18.039 big game pitcher in October over his career. Let's go 343 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:20.519 back to yesterday and here from the manager of the Dodgers, 344 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:22.399 Dave Roberts his thoughts to the media. 345 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:27.519 I think in totality with Walker, I would want the 346 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:35.559 same effort, execution, focus, and certainly a different result. And 347 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:39.000 I say that a lot of it was Walker's you know, 348 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:42.919 not doing so Yeah, I think a lot of the same. 349 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:48.279 And obviously in this situation series at one to one, 350 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:51.840 you know, here on the road again, which we feel 351 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:54.639 really confident in Walker, I expect he's going to come 352 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:56.960 out with the same kind of conviction and focus. 353 00:15:57.200 --> 00:15:59.879 Will Smith only has two hits this postseason. Is there 354 00:15:59.879 --> 00:16:02.720 an any thoughts about shuffling the lineup for the rest 355 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:03.440 of the series. 356 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:11.559 No, there isn't. I just think that, you know, you know, 357 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:15.159 early on, it's just funny how things change. Where there 358 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:17.240 was a lot of concern about show Hay not being 359 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:19.200 able to get hits with the runners in scoring position, 360 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:23.399 and now we're all trying to find ways that he's 361 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:25.679 have to get guys on base so we can hit, right. 362 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:28.720 So I kind of find that comical a little bit. 363 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:33.639 So I think that I don't think anyone can predict 364 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:37.039 who's going to get on base in Game three or 365 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:42.519 Game four. So I feel that, you know, kind of 366 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:45.320 there's some tweaks that I do make as far as 367 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:49.159 you know, Tail Freddie the five, six, maybe the seven, 368 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:53.960 eight nine. But to think that you know, I'm gonna 369 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:56.720 move show Hey to the four or the three, that's 370 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:58.039 just not gonna happen, Dave. 371 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:00.919 When you've looked at show haysfficulties that he's had in 372 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:04.599 the postseason, they've been against Manaiah and you Darvisho are 373 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:06.039 both difficult pitchers. 374 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:09.920 Deliveries are unnasual Tanner Scott, Right. 375 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:11.720 Do you see that as kind of like the all 376 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:13.279 the other at bats have been fine? 377 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:17.759 I do, I do, And I think that you know, I, 378 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:23.039 you know, certainly. I think I appreciate the guys that 379 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:27.119 he's faced and understanding that that's probably some of the 380 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:33.599 reason why whatever his production or average or whatever anyone 381 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:36.640 wants to look at, he's faced some tough pictures and 382 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:40.839 they're pitching them very tough. So for me, I'm looking 383 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:45.119 at tomorrow. I feel really good about tomorrow. Probably not 384 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:47.039 going to see Minio till game six, if there is 385 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:52.000 a game six, and so yeah, I mean, I feel 386 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:54.279 good with it. But I do feel that he's got 387 00:17:54.279 --> 00:17:59.519 to continue to, you know, manage his hitting zone regardless 388 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:02.400 of who's pitching. And I do think that he can 389 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:06.640 hit anyone, as we all know, but he's still got 390 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:09.720 to be kind of stubborn in his own and I 391 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:12.400 do feel that he's got to get back to the 392 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:14.160 big part of the field, and if he can do that, 393 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:17.680 it should bode very well for all of us. 394 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:20.519 All Right, there's Dave Roberts talking about the lineup show 395 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:23.559 Hey Otani, and of course Walker Buehler getting the start 396 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:25.279 in Game three, and I like what he said that 397 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:27.759 if Walker just does what he did in that Game 398 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:33.000 four against the San Diego Padres or game three, excuse me, 399 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:35.000 against the Padres down San Diego, where he didn't get 400 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:36.880 a lot of help. They had the big inning with 401 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:39.160