Speaker 1: One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have.
Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 3: Let's not play one on Tom.
Speaker 4: Let's I love writing these guys after the show, just
Speaker 4: thank you, give me are.
Speaker 5: Your attention, your fire? Not a pisson?
Speaker 6: This is world champion, Dodger, world champion being put a
Speaker 6: small soft time they get up people.
Speaker 7: What they want to.
Speaker 5: Die to in a row two is special. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's not a headache one of them. Con this ball's gone.
Speaker 5: You ready to go?
Speaker 6: Hell, go to the SOUD, grab your phone to get
Speaker 6: in on the show called eight six six nine eighty
Speaker 6: seven two five seven and go to the show. And
Speaker 6: now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 8: We are live at Bush Stadium in Saint Louis as
Speaker 8: the Dodgers and Cardinals are in a rain delay as
Speaker 8: we are getting set for first pitch. Dodgers and Cardinals
Speaker 8: were scheduled to start about ten minutes ago, twelve minutes ago. Ah,
Speaker 8: and I have to endure here during this rain delay.
Speaker 8: The Cardinals video board showing highlights of the nineteen eighty
Speaker 8: five NLCS. Ah, they're upsetting me already here in Saint Louis.
Speaker 8: They just showed the highlights of Ozzie Smith's home run
Speaker 8: and gave five of the eighty five NLCS, And they
Speaker 8: just showed Jack Clark's go ahead home run in the
Speaker 8: ninth inning off of Tom need and fe were at
Speaker 8: Dodgers Stadium, the eighty five NLCS ending in six games.
Speaker 8: After the Dodgers won the first two games of that
Speaker 8: series at Dodgers Stadium, they went on to lose the next.
Speaker 5: Four to the Cardinals.
Speaker 8: Cardinals would go on to lose the World Series to
Speaker 8: Mark Gubazob, Brett Saberhagen and George Brett the Kansas City
Speaker 8: Royals in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 5: And I remind Mark Gubazov this all the time.
Speaker 8: The eighty five Dodgers would have wipe the floor with
Speaker 8: the eighty five Royals if they got there.
Speaker 5: So I'm upset already.
Speaker 8: Eight six, six, nine to eighty seven, two five seventy
Speaker 8: is the phone number Rain Dela Dodger talk probably for
Speaker 8: the next hour here live from Bush Stadium, so we
Speaker 8: do have phone lines open, and you know, coming to
Speaker 8: Saint Louis, it just reminds you of the rivalry of
Speaker 8: the Dodgers and Cardinals, and right on Q, as we're
Speaker 8: starting the show, they show one of my low points
Speaker 8: as a Los Angeles sports fan growing up in the
Speaker 8: San Fernando Valley. That NLCS in nineteen eighty five was
Speaker 8: coming off the heels of my worst Lakers traumatization as
Speaker 8: a sports fan, when the Celtics beat the Lakers in
Speaker 8: seven games of the nineteen eighty four NBA Finals, So
Speaker 8: I had back to back years. In fact, one of
Speaker 8: my first sports memories was the faux fou fou seventy
Speaker 8: six ers sweeping the Lakers.
Speaker 5: In the eighty three NBA Finals.
Speaker 8: And our guy Rick Monday in nineteen eighty two reminded
Speaker 8: me of another interesting Dodgers Giants rivalry. He was standing
Speaker 8: in right field when Joe Morgan hit his home run
Speaker 8: to end their season. I'm sorry, Rick, I'm sorry, it's
Speaker 8: just flooding all back to me right now, growing up
Speaker 8: in the San Fernando Valley, my first ten years of life.
Speaker 8: All right, sorry, Rick, Sorry, I'll never forget that. You
Speaker 8: told me you were standing there because the ball one
Speaker 8: flew over your head anyway, and also when you come
Speaker 8: back here, I mean I feel like I have to
Speaker 8: show up in Saint Louis as long as Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 8: is still active. And first guy saw on the field
Speaker 8: at Busch Stadium when I walked down there was Kershaw
Speaker 8: getting in his drills in the shadow of the arch
Speaker 8: here at Busch Stadium. And who can forget twenty thirteen
Speaker 8: and twenty fourteen Carpenter in Game six of the NLCS
Speaker 8: and Matt Adams ending the NLDS on a walk off
Speaker 8: home run in twenty fourteen. The Dodgers loane highlight in
Speaker 8: the last fifteen years over the Cardinals in the postseason
Speaker 8: was Chris Taylor's walk off home run in the twenty
Speaker 8: twenty one Wildcard Game. But not too many great memories
Speaker 8: here at Bush Stadium. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 8: two five seventy is the phone number David Vasse Live
Speaker 8: at Bush Stadium with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett and
Speaker 8: our producer engineer Dwayne McDonald, as we are awaiting first
Speaker 8: pitch between the Dodgers and Cardinals, the first of three
Speaker 8: games here in Saint Louis for the Dodgers. They're going
Speaker 8: up against Sonny Gray tonight and Justin Robleski was called
Speaker 8: up today to make this start for the Dodgers. So
Speaker 8: on paper, you would say it's a pitching mismatch with
Speaker 8: Sonny Gray on the mound. And here's something interesting about
Speaker 8: Sonny Gray, who you know, I thought was a great
Speaker 8: pitcher even ten years ago. He just keeps, you know,
Speaker 8: proving the doubters wrong that he can keep going. And
Speaker 8: the way he pitches certainly lends itself to his lasting,
Speaker 8: staying power in.
Speaker 5: A very good way in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 8: Sonny Gray coming into the start tonight's coming off his
Speaker 8: best start of the season against the Rangers, where he
Speaker 8: had ten strikeouts. And Sonny Gray and Trek Schouoble hold
Speaker 8: this distinction that no other pitcher in Major League Baseball holds.
Speaker 8: They have more starts of six plus scoreless innings this season.
Speaker 8: Nobody else besides Schooble and Sonny Gray have more. Schooble
Speaker 8: five Sonny Gray four. So when this game does start,
Speaker 8: the Dodgers have their hands full with Sonny Gray and
Speaker 8: tom Y Edman is in the starting lineup tonight, making
Speaker 8: his first return to Bush Stadium. He gets the start
Speaker 8: at second base, and many around here in Saint Louis
Speaker 8: and Bush Stadium are expecting a big standing ovation for
Speaker 8: Tommy Edman in his first plate appearance tonight when he
Speaker 8: comes to the plate, So that should be something fun.
Speaker 8: And we just got a start time here. We just
Speaker 8: got a text, a text that said start time will
Speaker 8: be at six thirty Pacific times, So we are getting
Speaker 8: closer to the official start time here at Bush Stadium
Speaker 8: as the Dodgers and Cardinals are getting set for first
Speaker 8: pitch here at Bush Stadium. So in about an hour
Speaker 8: we will have first pitch. Until then, Dodger Talk live
Speaker 8: from Bush Stadium with the phone lines open at eight
Speaker 8: six six nine, eight seven two five seventy. All right,
Speaker 8: here's a couple of Dodger updates for you. Because of
Speaker 8: the weather here, and tonight's not the only day this
Speaker 8: weekend that we are expecting rain. There is rain in
Speaker 8: the forecast the next two days as well, and they
Speaker 8: are both day games. So that does not lend itself
Speaker 8: to show Hao Tani throwing his weekly live batting practice
Speaker 8: throwing to hitters. So the Dodgers decided to push it
Speaker 8: back to Monday when they are in San Diego. Also,
Speaker 8: Kirby Yates and Michael Kopek are both on the trip
Speaker 8: with the Dodgers, but they are not going to be
Speaker 8: activated both during this series. I've been told the Dodgers
Speaker 8: are expecting to activate Copeck either Tomorrow or Sunday, and
Speaker 8: the Dodgers are not going to activate Kirby Yates, likely
Speaker 8: until Monday in San Diego at the earliest.
Speaker 5: But both are going to be active at some point
Speaker 5: on this.
Speaker 8: Road trip, which is great news for a weary Dodger
Speaker 8: bullpen to get back not only two relief pitchers, but
Speaker 8: two relief pitchers that can pitch in high leverage laden games.
Speaker 8: And Michael Kopek still has not thrown a single pitch
Speaker 8: this year for the Dodgers. He started the year on
Speaker 8: the IL and spring training really was not up to
Speaker 8: speed after pitching through some shoulder arm issues in the
Speaker 8: postseason last year to help the Dodgers win the World Series.
Speaker 8: So that's where things are at with Michael Kopek and
Speaker 8: Kirby Yates. Kopek has certainly been a big part of
Speaker 8: the Dodger bullpen since they acquired him and Tommy Edmund
Speaker 8: at the trade deadline last year, and it feels like
Speaker 8: that could have been the biggest trade made by any
Speaker 8: team at the deadline last year, a three way trade
Speaker 8: with the White Sox and Cardinals to be able to
Speaker 8: acquire Tommy Edman, who went on to win the NLCSMVP
Speaker 8: for the Dodgers and also played a big shortstop for
Speaker 8: the Dodgers, part of the reason why they won the
Speaker 8: World Series, and keik A Hernandez starting in center field.
Speaker 8: So you look back at the trade deadline, sometimes it's
Speaker 8: not the biggest names that are acquired, but that trade
Speaker 8: Kopek and Edmund coming to the Dodgers certainly play a
Speaker 8: huge role in then winning the World Series last year.
Speaker 8: Another update with an injured Dodger pitcher Blake Snell. I
Speaker 8: know everybody was jumping to conclusions that he threw a
Speaker 8: full bore bullpen session today at Dodger Stadium. Blake is
Speaker 8: going to rejoin the team in San Diego for his
Speaker 8: first bullpen session since going on the injured list. What
Speaker 8: you saw today on Snell's Instagram page was just ten
Speaker 8: pitches where he was throwing off the mound while the
Speaker 8: catcher was standing up. But I spoke to Snell actually
Speaker 8: just a half hour ago, and he told me that
Speaker 8: he felt good. It felt like the pitches were coming
Speaker 8: out at about eighty eight ninety miles an hour, and
Speaker 8: he is still planning on throwing a bullpen session on
Speaker 8: Tuesday in San Diego. So you're all caught up on
Speaker 8: the injury updates and wanted to share another story with you,
Speaker 8: going back to yesterday. I guess I don't know if
Speaker 8: it's a guilty pleasure or not, but I am a
Speaker 8: big John Mayer fan. And how many people can say
Speaker 8: they've been to a John Mayer concert with Kevin Kennedy.
Speaker 5: Rick Monday threw up his hand.
Speaker 8: Have you been to a John Mayer concert with the
Speaker 8: Skipper Kevin Kennedy?
Speaker 5: No? No, but Rick Monday, you've been to a John
Speaker 5: Mayer concert? All right? Would you consider John Mayer music
Speaker 5: a guilty pleasure? Are you very? All right?
Speaker 8: We're all in on John Mayer here in the booth,
Speaker 8: But I'm a big John Mayer fan, and Rick Monday
Speaker 8: is as well.
Speaker 5: But I was in the clubhouse getting postgame.
Speaker 8: Interviews while John Mayer and Freddie Freeman were on the
Speaker 8: field post game yesterday at Dodger Stadium visiting, and there
Speaker 8: was a photo taken of John Mayer and Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 8: and you could find it on my ex Twitter page
Speaker 8: at the real Underscore DV taken by the great Jan o'compo,
Speaker 8: a part of John Suho's crew at Dodger Stadium. But
Speaker 8: the story behind it was John Mayer apparently has become
Speaker 8: a big baseball fan over the course of the last
Speaker 8: five years, and he really loves to watch Francisco Lindor play.
Speaker 8: But he has become an enormous Freddie Freeman fan. How
Speaker 8: could you not the World Series MVP, the walk off
Speaker 8: Grand Slam in Game one of the World Series last year.
Speaker 8: So John Mayer came to the Dodger game yesterday and
Speaker 8: arranged to meet Freddie Freeman after the game yesterday. And
Speaker 8: John Mayer extended an open invite to Freddy to come
Speaker 8: to any one of his concerts.
Speaker 5: So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's a transcendent moment right there where music
Speaker 8: and baseball. Two of the biggest stars in music and
Speaker 8: in baseball meet after the game.
Speaker 5: So that's pretty cool. John Mayer wanted to meet Freddie
Speaker 5: Freeman after the game yesterday.
Speaker 8: Eight six six nine eight seven two seventy is the
Speaker 8: phone number. We're gonna take a time out here on
Speaker 8: Dodger Talk when we come back your phone calls, and
Speaker 8: also the question of whether or not show.
Speaker 5: Hey O Taani should remain in.
Speaker 8: The leadoff spot or be moved down to have more
Speaker 8: opportunities with runners in scoring position. The crowd goes wild.
Speaker 8: The tarf is being pulled off here at Bush Stadium.
Speaker 8: First pitch coming up in just under an hour.
Speaker 5: Right here on the Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network.
Speaker 6: Dodger Talk is available on AM five seventy LA sports
Speaker 6: dot com. Hand on the iHeartRadio app. Back to more
Speaker 6: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David bassaying.
Speaker 5: Right on two and one, Taylor flip all the left
Speaker 5: d H Taylor home run.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers are walking off to San Francisco.
Speaker 5: They went the wild Card three to one. Here comes
Speaker 5: Taylor to the plate. They are bothering him. The town
Speaker 5: is going crazy.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers advance to the National League Division Series with
Speaker 8: one the mighty swing.
Speaker 5: By Chris Taylor. Never forget Chris Taylor, clutch playoff performer
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers. There it was the.
Speaker 8: Walk off home run in the wildcard game back in
Speaker 8: twenty twenty one. I remember that walk off home run distinctly,
Speaker 8: and I remember that year in twenty twenty one, we
Speaker 8: were still not allowed in the Dodger clubhouse, so the
Speaker 8: celebration happened on the field. And when we were waiting
Speaker 8: for Taylor and the rest of the Dodgers to come
Speaker 8: out onto the field, I interviewed Juan Soto, who was
Speaker 8: sitting with Scott Boris behind home plate wearing a Washington
Speaker 8: Nationals Trey Turner jersey. Remember, Trey and Sodo won the
Speaker 8: World Series together with the Nationals in twenty nineteen. Sodo
Speaker 8: was not in the postseason that year with the Padres.
Speaker 8: I believe or it was right. It was right before
Speaker 8: he was traded to the Padres. So he was still
Speaker 8: on the Nationals and he was wearing Trey Turner's Washington
Speaker 8: Nationals jersey, and he was celebrating rooting on the Dodgers
Speaker 8: that night, specifically Trey Turners. So there was a great
Speaker 8: Dodger moment. Against the Saint Louis Cardinals, we are in
Speaker 8: a rain delay. We're waiting for first pitch to start,
Speaker 8: and that's going to happen at six thirty Pacific times,
Speaker 8: So the tarp is coming off and we are going
Speaker 8: to have pitch between first pitch between the Dodgers and Cardinals.
Speaker 8: Justin Robleski against Sonny Gray here in Saint Louis. Eight
Speaker 8: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
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Speaker 8: All right, let's go out to the phones. Darryl in Pasadena.
Speaker 8: You're on Dodger Talk Live from Saint Louis.
Speaker 4: Dave, I love your topic. I was gonna talk about
Speaker 4: Dave Robins, but I think he should be moved down
Speaker 4: because he has a lot of solo home runs. But again,
Speaker 4: that's Dave Roberts job that he will look at it,
Speaker 4: and I guarantee you he will make He will make
Speaker 4: the best decision to do his best for the team,
Speaker 4: because I will.
Speaker 5: Ask him about it tomorrow.
Speaker 8: But since we are in a range delay, I thought
Speaker 8: it was worth bringing up because I did some research.
Speaker 8: Daryl and many of the analytic people out there say, well,
Speaker 8: if you have your best hitter hitting lead off, he's
Speaker 8: going to get a lot more played appearances in a
Speaker 8: single game. But Darryl, do you know, on average how
Speaker 8: many more played appearances the leadoff hitter last year of
Speaker 8: any team in baseball had compared to the number three
Speaker 8: hitter in Major League Baseball last year? Wy, don't you
Speaker 8: give me a guess what the disparity was.
Speaker 4: I say about forty nine appearance more a.
Speaker 8: Very close, darrel, only thirty three more played appearances on average?
Speaker 8: Does a leadoff hitter in Major League Baseball last year
Speaker 8: have over the number three hitter?
Speaker 5: So you know there is an argument to be made.
Speaker 8: Why not have o'tani come up with more opportunities with
Speaker 8: runners in scoring position and move Mookie Betts back to
Speaker 8: the leadoff spot.
Speaker 5: Thanks for the phone call, Darrell, appreciate it.
Speaker 8: And since you brought it up, Yeah, I've been doing
Speaker 8: some research on all this, and you look at it.
Speaker 8: Last year in Major League Baseball, the number one hitter,
Speaker 8: the leadoff hitter, on average, had seventy seven one hundred
Speaker 8: and forty five played appearances compared to seven hundred and
Speaker 8: twelve plate appearances by the number three hitter, that's only
Speaker 8: thirty three. More so, yes, the best hitter in baseball
Speaker 8: comes up to lead off a game. And look, I'll
Speaker 8: qualify all this. The Dodgers are number one in offense
Speaker 8: in every single offensive category, home runs, batting average, all
Speaker 8: the ones that really matter. So we're really splitting hairs.
Speaker 8: But it is worth discussing. That's what we do here.
Speaker 8: So it isn't crazy to believe that a guy with
Speaker 8: twenty three home runs and thirty seven RBIs maybe would
Speaker 8: have more opportunities to drive in runs if he was
Speaker 8: hitting third.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have him hit fourth, but maybe third.
Speaker 8: Because if you look at Aaron Judge, he has a
Speaker 8: couple of less home runs twenty one home runs, yet
Speaker 8: he has fifty RBIs, And everybody starts looking at the
Speaker 8: number eight number nine hitters this year for the Dodgers,
Speaker 8: with an on base percentage hovering around the two twenties
Speaker 8: two thirties.
Speaker 5: Well I got news for you.
Speaker 8: If you go back to last year, the number eight
Speaker 8: and number nine hitters for the Dodgers had an on
Speaker 8: base percentage of under three hundred then as well, So
Speaker 8: it's nobody should be blown off. If you bring up this,
Speaker 8: this question, it's worth discussing. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 8: seven two five seventies the phone number.
Speaker 5: Let's go out to Lahabra. Eric, you're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 5: with David basse Hi.
Speaker 4: Eric oh Man.
Speaker 1: The first time I heard that I was gonna be
Speaker 1: on with you, I said, holy crap, Holy crap, holy crap.
Speaker 1: But hey, you know what, uh I think Tommy Edmond
Speaker 1: needs to be on the leadoff spot, switch hitting utility man.
Speaker 4: He needs to be up there.
Speaker 1: Maybe put Oswani second or third, get some runners on
Speaker 1: for him.
Speaker 8: It's worth talking because you could look at the totality
Speaker 8: of a season, or you can, you know, look at
Speaker 8: one singular game. But there's been a lot of times
Speaker 8: this year where Otani has led off innings and not
Speaker 8: just the first innings.
Speaker 5: So it is worth discussing.
Speaker 8: And I plan on asking Dave Roberts if there's been
Speaker 8: a group discussion among himself, Brendan Gomes and Andrew Friedman
Speaker 8: just constantly reevaluating whether or not it makes sense to
Speaker 8: have Otani lead off.
Speaker 5: All right, thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Eric.
Speaker 8: You got on and you said, holy crap, holy crap.
Speaker 8: So I guess that major bucket list day. Let's go
Speaker 8: out to Irvine. Nick here on Dodger Talk Live from
Speaker 8: Bush Stadium.
Speaker 2: Hi Nick, heyday, it's been fun.
Speaker 4: You're growth and you are a real pastor now Brown,
Speaker 4: We're real proud of you, followed your whole career. Listen,
Speaker 4: I'm here to vent.
Speaker 3: I do not understand why movie I think he is. Nick.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna put.
Speaker 5: You on hold.
Speaker 8: I'm going to put you on hold because your cell
Speaker 8: is not very good, So get that in order and
Speaker 8: then we'll put you back on Ray and Georgia.
Speaker 5: You're on rain delay Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Hi, Ray, Hey David a little earlier this this week.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 2: And uh second, first of all, do you guys ever
Speaker 2: look at land and Knack on the mound and look
Speaker 2: like she's going through like a Sunday stroll out there,
Speaker 2: and his intensity level as a picture, I mean we
Speaker 2: all have different personalities, but I mean as a competitor
Speaker 2: and everything. Do you think that that that that the
Speaker 2: Dodgers look at that and say to said, wow, you
Speaker 2: know greg Na, I mean, I'm a big Dodger fan,
Speaker 2: but I mean he was amazing. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: he was called mad dog, but he was so casual
Speaker 2: on the mound, but he delivered a lot of great results.
Speaker 2: But does do the Dodgers ever look at that in
Speaker 2: like with Gonzol and he does the same thing, but
Speaker 2: he was an all star. About the temperament of the
Speaker 2: pitcher out on the mound.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that's part of what you call makeup
Speaker 8: for a pitcher. Ray And I've seen a little bit
Speaker 8: more edge from landon Nak this year than what I
Speaker 8: saw last year, ironically when he pitched so well. But
Speaker 8: what landon Nac has got to get better at. And
Speaker 8: I'm not sure if they're teaching this in the minor
Speaker 8: leagues or if they're just looking at the radar gun
Speaker 8: Landon Nac has to become more of a pitcher right now,
Speaker 8: He's very much of a thrower, and he had no
Speaker 8: command of his fastball, he had no command of his curveball,
Speaker 8: and everything was missing up And you can't live that
Speaker 8: way in the big league. So I asked Dave Roberts,
Speaker 8: this are these guys getting better when they go down
Speaker 8: to the minor leagues and when we see them. I
Speaker 8: really haven't seen that much growth from Landon Nac or
Speaker 8: Justin Robleski.
Speaker 5: Are they getting better? Who's teaching those guys?
Speaker 8: Mark Pryor and Connor McGinnis are the major league pitch coaches.
Speaker 5: What's going on in the minor leagues?
Speaker 8: What how are those pitching coaches helping them get better?
Speaker 5: Because I don't see it.
Speaker 2: And another thing is that we give up so many
Speaker 2: runs in the first and second innings, you know, especially
Speaker 2: the first innings. Are they throwing enough pitches in the
Speaker 2: bullpen to get ready for the game?
Speaker 5: And that's not that's not part of the equation.
Speaker 8: That's really not It's about becoming pitchers and not throwers,
Speaker 8: and having some better sense of pitch sequencing, and you
Speaker 8: know all that stuff and realize that you don't have
Speaker 8: all the answers. But I would love to see both
Speaker 8: these guys turn into more pitchers.
Speaker 2: Well maddis I mean the thing about Maddix, You Harley.
Speaker 5: Are over that ray.
Speaker 8: You can't you can't compare Landon Knack to Greg Maddix.
Speaker 2: That pumps out about having you're being able to understand.
Speaker 8: But he's a Hall of famer, he had a feel,
Speaker 8: he was a great pitch.
Speaker 5: Sure he was, you said, mad Dog.
Speaker 8: They also called him the professor because he was so
Speaker 8: smart with those Clark Kent glasses. When he wasn't pitching,
Speaker 8: he was a student of the game. He was next
Speaker 8: level intelligent when it came to pitching.
Speaker 2: But why isn't that being taught to these kids that
Speaker 2: are coming.
Speaker 8: You can't teach that, Ray, Ray, You can't teach that.
Speaker 5: That's inherent. You either have it or you don't.
Speaker 8: And that's what separates the great ones from the guys
Speaker 8: that get shuttled back and forth. That's the reality. Thanks
Speaker 8: for the phone call, Ray love It. Eight six six
Speaker 8: seven two five seventy is the phone number. We have
Speaker 8: three lines open as we are live at Bush Stadium
Speaker 8: waiting for this game to begin. Game one of a
Speaker 8: three game series between the Dodgers and Cardinals, Sonny Gray
Speaker 8: against Justin Robleski. And you look at the Dodgers starting
Speaker 8: lineup tonight. They got all the real guys in there.
Speaker 8: Dalton Rushing is catching tonight. That was a little bit
Speaker 8: of a prize. I know it was a day game yesterday,
Speaker 8: but first game of a series and they got Dalton
Speaker 8: Rushing catching instead of their all star catcher who's on
Speaker 8: another level, Will Smith. But it just shows you that
Speaker 8: the Dodgers are so intent on keeping Will Smith as
Speaker 8: fresh as they possibly can for the second half of
Speaker 8: the season because he has had a dramatic drop off
Speaker 8: from the first half to the second half each of
Speaker 8: the last two seasons. The Dodgers starting lineup looks like
Speaker 8: this tonight. Shoho Tani is going to lead off, Mookie
Speaker 8: Betts hitting second, Freddie Freeman hitting third, leading the National
Speaker 8: League in batting average three sixty three. Ta Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 8: is hitting cleanup months He's hitting the five hole.
Speaker 5: Andy Pajez is hitting sixth.
Speaker 8: Michael Conforto with the big hit yesterday, his first hit
Speaker 8: with a runner in scoring position since March is hitting seventh.
Speaker 8: Tommy Edmond returns to Saint Louis, hitting eighth and playing
Speaker 8: second base, and Dalton Rushing hitting ninth against Sonny Gray.
Speaker 8: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 8: the phone number.
Speaker 5: Let's go out to San Pedro. Rick. You're on Dodger
Speaker 5: Talk live from Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: Hi, Rick, heyday, Taks taking the call.
Speaker 9: You're working overtime today.
Speaker 2: Huh uh, Tawny leadoff?
Speaker 9: If it works, don't fix it? Number one, Number two
Speaker 9: I think the days he pitches, when that time comes,
Speaker 9: I don't like him in the leadoff spot the day
Speaker 9: he's gonna pitch, I would like him in the two hole.
Speaker 5: And there's reasons make a big difference. Why would that
Speaker 5: make it?
Speaker 4: I think it does.
Speaker 9: Why Well, because I don't think I don't think you're
Speaker 9: gonna want him out there trying to steal bases and
Speaker 9: maybe picking up extra bases. That's a lot of stress.
Speaker 9: That's a lot of stress, and.
Speaker 8: You're going to put the clamps down on him doing
Speaker 8: that no matter where he's hitting. When he returns to pitch,
Speaker 8: that's gonna stop as frequent as you're seeing it.
Speaker 5: When he starts pitching again. Yeah, yeah, it's pitch again.
Speaker 3: Rick.
Speaker 8: There's a lot of former major leaguers that I talked
Speaker 8: to that are very weary of him pitching, but they
Speaker 8: understand that o'tani wants to do it. And look, the
Speaker 8: Dodgers feel like he can be a weapon that nobody
Speaker 8: else has in the postseason.
Speaker 4: Baseball. You gotta put him.
Speaker 8: Thanks for the phone call, Rick, Sorry you got a
Speaker 8: bad sell. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 8: seventy is the phone number. We have some phone lines
Speaker 8: rigging out there. We will get to your phone calls
Speaker 8: in a moment, but the Dodgers and Cardinals are in
Speaker 8: a holding pattern until first pitch at six thirty. The
Speaker 8: tarp is off the field, the grounds crew is getting
Speaker 8: the infield ready, so we are going to have first
Speaker 8: pitch between the Dodgers and Cardinals coming up at at
Speaker 8: six thirty. And look, the Cardinals got off to a
Speaker 8: great start, but they have cooled off in their last
Speaker 8: sixteen games. They were actually swept in a doubleheader here
Speaker 8: yesterday and are just eight and eight in their last
Speaker 8: sixteen games. And the Dodgers are hoping for the Cardinals
Speaker 8: to fade because they could be a trade partner at
Speaker 8: the deadline for a second straight year. Not for Nolan Arenado.
Speaker 8: Many of you are clamoring for Nolan Arenado still, and look,
Speaker 8: Nolan's still a really good player. I'm not against Nolan Arenado,
Speaker 8: but uh, Nolan right now is hitting just two twenty
Speaker 8: eight with a non base percentage of two ninety six,
Speaker 8: and his slugging percentage is shockingly at three seventy Nine's
Speaker 8: sitting sixth in the Cardinals lineup tonight at third base.
Speaker 8: That's not the guy I was thinking of if the
Speaker 8: Cardinals do fall out of the race, I'm thinking about
Speaker 8: their closer Ryan Helsley, who is going to be a
Speaker 8: very attractive rental at the trade deadline. His contract is
Speaker 8: up at the end of the year, and he's been
Speaker 8: one of the best closers in the National League the
Speaker 8: last couple of years. If the Cardinals are out of
Speaker 8: the race and they feel like that's it, they are
Speaker 8: going to trade Ryan Helsley. Also keep in mind, this
Speaker 8: is final year of John Moseylock being in charge of
Speaker 8: baseball operations for the Cardinals. They're turning things over to
Speaker 8: a guy named hem Bloom. Yes that heinm Bloom, the
Speaker 8: GM that forever will be remembered as the Red Sox
Speaker 8: GM trading Mookie Bets to the Dodgers. He worked under
Speaker 8: Andrew Freeman in Tampa Bay. He has taken over the
Speaker 8: Cardinals after this season. He's been part of their front
Speaker 8: office the last couple of years, So there is also
Speaker 8: that layer to all that. He's obviously big into player development,
Speaker 8: and if he feels and the Cardinals field, they could
Speaker 8: get a pretty good haul for a high demand closer
Speaker 8: at the trade deadline.
Speaker 5: Make no mistake about it.
Speaker 8: They will trade him, and they may even trade him
Speaker 8: in a lateral move if they believe they're in the
Speaker 8: wildcard race. So we'll see where it goes, but certainly
Speaker 8: Ryan Helsley is the guy to remember when it comes
Speaker 8: to who may be traded and who is the most
Speaker 8: attractive and most demanded cardinal if they fall out of
Speaker 8: it at the trade deadline. Eight six six nine seven
Speaker 8: two five seventy is the phone number. This is rain
Speaker 8: Delay Dodger Talk. David Vasse live at Bush Stadium in
Speaker 8: Saint Louis getting ready for first pitch, which was supposed.
Speaker 5: To happen at five point fifteen.
Speaker 8: Rain started to happen about two hours ago, and rain
Speaker 8: has stopped. The tarp is off the field, the ground
Speaker 8: screw is getting the field ready, and we will have
Speaker 8: first pitch coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 8: We're gonna take our final time out here on rain
Speaker 8: Delay Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: When we come back.
Speaker 8: More of your phone calls as we get you ready
Speaker 8: for first pitch between the Dodgers and Cardinals at six
Speaker 8: thirty right here on the World Champion Dodgers Audio Network.
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Speaker 8: We are in Arraindola at Busch Stadium in Saint Louis.
Speaker 8: First pitch has not even been been thrown. Dodgers and
Speaker 8: Cardinals coming up at the bottom of the hour. Game
Speaker 8: one of a three game series here at Busch Stadium
Speaker 8: and also the first of six games on this road
Speaker 8: trip for the Dodgers. After these three games in Saint Louis,
Speaker 8: the Dodgers will make their way back to southern California
Speaker 8: to see the San Diego Padres for the first time
Speaker 8: since beating them in five games of last year's NLDS.
Speaker 8: So hope to see you at Petco Parks starting Monday night,
Speaker 8: and that's where Blake SNeW will throw his first bullpen
Speaker 8: session before the game on Tuesday. As he makes his
Speaker 8: way back off the injured list. Blake is feeling a
Speaker 8: lot better. He's his demeanors changed a lot the last
Speaker 8: couple of weeks, and that tells me that he is
Speaker 8: getting real serious about coming back to pitch for the Dodgers.
Speaker 8: But obviously he can only do so much. You can't
Speaker 8: just show up and pitch after missing a couple of months.
Speaker 8: There's going to be some rehab assignments before he does
Speaker 8: return to the Dodgers, And you can do the math.
Speaker 5: It's not gonna happen in a week. It's not gonna
Speaker 5: happen in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 8: If the Dodgers can get snailed back sometime before the
Speaker 8: All Star Break, that would be a huge victory. Also,
Speaker 8: you know, I was really excited not only about the
Speaker 8: Dodgers and Cardinals game tonight, but I also was very
Speaker 8: excited about our guy, Walker Buehler returning to Yankee Stadium
Speaker 8: tonight in a Red Sox uniform to pitch for the
Speaker 8: first time since last year's Game five of the World
Speaker 8: Series in the Bronx and obviously the hero or one
Speaker 8: of the heroes of Game five last year, closing out
Speaker 8: the Yankees. And it did not go as well for
Speaker 8: Walker Bueller tonight as it did in Game five of
Speaker 8: last year's World Series. Bueller was knocked out of the
Speaker 8: game after two innings, giving up seven runs. Gave up
Speaker 8: a three run home run in the first inning to
Speaker 8: Jazz Chisholm, so a disappointing night for Walker Bueller as
Speaker 8: he returned to Yankee Stadium tonight. Five earned runs and
Speaker 8: two innings of work. Seven runs were scored, and Bueller
Speaker 8: this year with the Red Sox as an ERA of
Speaker 8: five eighteen.
Speaker 5: So I'm not happy about that either.
Speaker 8: Eight six, six, nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 8: the phone number. Let's go out to Ernie and Bakersfield.
Speaker 8: You're on Dodger Talk live from Saint Louis.
Speaker 5: Hi, Ernie.
Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, you guys doing.
Speaker 5: Hey, Hey, how you doing? Ernie?
Speaker 3: Good? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Like I said, y'all was calling up.
Speaker 6: You know what.
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 3: I love a level Tony. I love him, but for
Speaker 3: some reason, I mean, when he misses the ball, he
Speaker 3: misses the ball. Egg.
Speaker 8: He does not get short changed on any swing, that's
Speaker 8: for sure.
Speaker 5: Ernie.
Speaker 8: Hey, Ernie, do you remember when the Dodgers single A
Speaker 8: team was in Bakersfield. They wore the Brooklyn b on
Speaker 8: their caps, the Bakersfield Dodgers.
Speaker 5: You old enough to remember that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers third base coach. That's as high as he
Speaker 8: got in the minor leagues Bakersfield.
Speaker 5: He was the shortstop there.
Speaker 8: Now he's one of the best, actually the best third
Speaker 8: base coach in all of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5: Let's go out to Bishop. Jeff.
Speaker 8: You're on Dodger Talk Bishop, by the way, Northern California.
Speaker 8: So are you a Dodger fan in Bishop or are
Speaker 8: you a Giant fan kind of trolling Dodger Talk, Jeff David.
Speaker 10: I'm a hereditary Giant fan from San Francisco. But I've
Speaker 10: been living up here for since two o eight, and
Speaker 10: I love the Dodgers and Manny and Hanley Ramirez and
Speaker 10: all that. I'm wondering. All right, rich Hill maybe be
Speaker 10: any help right now?
Speaker 8: He would have been helped. He would have been a
Speaker 8: help for sure. But Rich Hill actually signed a minor
Speaker 8: league contract.
Speaker 5: With the Royals.
Speaker 8: The Royals signed rich Hill about three weeks ago, and
Speaker 8: he's getting ready to help them out. And there's a
Speaker 8: possibility when the Dodgers are in Kansas City on their
Speaker 8: next road trip, rich Hill may be wearing a Kansas
Speaker 8: City Royals jersey.
Speaker 5: He might be on the team. Yeah, I was pitching
Speaker 5: in the Arizona Fall Leagues.
Speaker 8: He's going on some rehab assignments minor league starts. So yeah,
Speaker 8: Rich Hill's with the Royals, Jeff. But I love that
Speaker 8: you remembered America's pitcher. I'm gonna tell him somebody called
Speaker 8: in asking about him.
Speaker 10: We were always jealous of the Dodgers in San Francisco,
Speaker 10: and we still.
Speaker 5: Are, of course. I mean, the Dodgers have way more.
Speaker 8: Success on the West Coast than the Giants. Thank you
Speaker 8: for the phone call. Jeff eight sixty six seven two
Speaker 8: five seventy is the phone number. About three o'clock this afternoon,
Speaker 8: I had a chance to catch up with Max Munsey.
Speaker 8: Him and his wife Kelly are putting on a great
Speaker 8: event next Thursday, June twelfth, to help those that were
Speaker 8: affected by the wildfires. It's called Uncorked for a Cause.
Speaker 8: You can get tickets at uncourt for Acause dot com.
Speaker 8: We caught up with Munsey to talk about that event
Speaker 8: and also how his season has turned around.
Speaker 11: Yeah, thanks for having me. It's gonna be a fun event.
Speaker 11: I'm really looking forward to it.
Speaker 5: Are you a big wine drinker?
Speaker 11: I wouldn't say I'm a huge wine drinker, but you
Speaker 11: know I enjoy glass every now and then, and especially
Speaker 11: if Freddy's picking the bottle.
Speaker 7: It's you know, he always gets some good stuff.
Speaker 8: Now, an event like this would intimidate people like me,
Speaker 8: can you put everybody's minds at ease that you can
Speaker 8: get in you could support a cause and not feel
Speaker 8: intimidated by a fancy charity.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Absolutely, you know, it's kind of everybody and it's it's
Speaker 11: one of those things where there's gonna be tons of
Speaker 11: items that are available for auction, you know, and some
Speaker 11: will be cheaper, some will be a little more expensive,
Speaker 11: but uh, the only thing to know is that all
Speaker 11: of the proceeds from that one hundred percent of it
Speaker 11: are going to help the wildlife relief efforts and or
Speaker 11: the wildfire relief efforts, and you know, to me, that
Speaker 11: was the most important thing. Uncork for a Cause reached
Speaker 11: out to us about, you know, hey, we'd like to
Speaker 11: do doing a you know, an event with you guys.
Speaker 11: Is there're a charity you'd like to support, and uh,
Speaker 11: you know, Kelly immediately kind of looked at me and
Speaker 11: was like, hey, we could do something to help out,
Speaker 11: you know, the fire relief stuff.
Speaker 7: And uh, you know, for.
Speaker 11: Us sitting at home, you know during the off season,
Speaker 11: watching just the pure devastation happen really hit us hard.
Speaker 11: You know, for us being in LA as long as
Speaker 11: we've been and you know, seeing how we've become a
Speaker 11: part of the community. We've built our home there, our
Speaker 11: kids have grown up there. You know, LA is as
Speaker 11: much at home to us as anywhere else now at
Speaker 11: this point, and so to see that kind of devastation
Speaker 11: was truly heartbreaking to us, and you know, we wanted
Speaker 11: to find a way to reach out and help and
Speaker 11: went Uncork for cause, you know, came at us to say,
Speaker 11: hey we can throw an event. Is there a charity,
Speaker 11: Like I said, Kelly immediately was like, hey, this is
Speaker 11: a good opportunity. We should do this, and so we
Speaker 11: kind of jumped on it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the month sees certainly have been a big part
Speaker 8: of the La fabric playing for the Dodgers since twenty eighteen,
Speaker 8: and so many of us want to do so much more,
Speaker 8: but things like this that present themselves certainly can make
Speaker 8: a difference.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it really can. And for those that aren't able
Speaker 11: to attend, there's still a way you can. You know,
Speaker 11: you can sign up on the website and the items
Speaker 11: that aren't bought at the event can still be you know,
Speaker 11: you can still have a chance to you know, get
Speaker 11: in there even if you're not attending the event. So
Speaker 11: that way we're you know, we're hoping everything goes and
Speaker 11: like I said, one hundred scent of the proceeds are
Speaker 11: going to go to help out people.
Speaker 7: And you know, we got some really cool items. We've
Speaker 7: got some wine.
Speaker 11: Bottles, we got some bats, some balls with some jerseys,
Speaker 11: and you know they're all signed by the players, and
Speaker 11: it's just it's it's gonna be a really fun event,
Speaker 11: and you know, it's just it'll be a nice night
Speaker 11: for one to kind of get away from baseball and
Speaker 11: you know, just enjoy each other's company and you know,
Speaker 11: do do something them good for the community.
Speaker 8: On Quirk for a Cause dot com is where you
Speaker 8: can bid on those items and also buy your event
Speaker 8: tickets for June twelfth.
Speaker 5: It's right around the corner.
Speaker 8: Max Mounsey is our guest, all right, getting away from
Speaker 8: a great cause and into baseball month. See, you certainly
Speaker 8: have turned your season around since the.
Speaker 5: Beginning of May.
Speaker 8: Everybody's looking at those eyeglasses sunglasses, but there's gotta be
Speaker 8: more than just that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, it is hard to deny that I
Speaker 11: started playing better as soon as I started wearing them.
Speaker 11: But you know, for me, it was just fine refinding
Speaker 11: the confidence of myself. You know, you get off to
Speaker 11: that kind of start and it's tough to deal with,
Speaker 11: especially at the beginning of the season. You know, threat
Speaker 11: throughout the course of seven eight months, everyone's going to
Speaker 11: go through a slump at some point. Unfortunately, I just
Speaker 11: happened to have one right out of the gate, and
Speaker 11: that makes it look worse than what it actually is.
Speaker 11: And you know, I was hitting the ball hard, it
Speaker 11: just wasn't getting any results for it. And you know,
Speaker 11: I obviously wasn't having any power numbers. And for a
Speaker 11: guy like me, that's kind of tough when you know
Speaker 11: that's what everyone looks for when it comes to me,
Speaker 11: and you know, finally getting some success with that has
Speaker 11: you know, really given me, you know, just newfound confidence
Speaker 11: back in myself. And you know, any positivity you can
Speaker 11: get in this game goes a long way.
Speaker 8: Everybody talked about the Soto shuffle when you were playing
Speaker 8: the Mets, but when you were hitting those home runs
Speaker 8: against the Yankees and Mets, I know when you got
Speaker 8: your confidence back by the way you just flip your
Speaker 8: bat and just your demeanor when you get a hold
Speaker 8: of one. Am I seeing it correctly? The confidence is back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean a couple of those were you know, a
Speaker 7: little emotional.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 11: I talked about that the second one the other day
Speaker 11: after the mistake I made. And you know, people always
Speaker 11: ask me where the bat flips come from, and that's
Speaker 11: usually it's just the emotion coming out of me at
Speaker 11: the time. It's never planned. It's just, you know, that's
Speaker 11: just what comes out. And you know, I'm glad that
Speaker 11: everyone has fun with it and they enjoy it. And
Speaker 11: you know, for me, it was always just a thing
Speaker 11: that you know, we're celebrating a home run. It was
Speaker 11: never about any you know, anyone on the other side.
Speaker 11: It's never ever been about that. It's just been about
Speaker 11: me and the and the teammates, and you know, I
Speaker 11: try to keep it that way.
Speaker 8: Uncork for a Cause dot com is the website for
Speaker 8: the great event that the month Sees are hosting on
Speaker 8: June twelfth. Max Munsey is our guest. Speaking of another teammate,
Speaker 8: You've been talking about him, other guys have been supporting him,
Speaker 8: Michael Conforto. How big of a hit was that for
Speaker 8: him yesterday? And a big win for you guys.
Speaker 7: Oh, it was huge.
Speaker 11: You know, we were all so pumped in the dugout one.
Speaker 11: It gave us a lead in too. Just for Mikey
Speaker 11: to get that hit, you know, that's something that can
Speaker 11: change your season around right there.
Speaker 7: You get a big hit in that situation, and you.
Speaker 11: Know, as I was just talking about, you get a
Speaker 11: little positivity, a little confidence back in yourself. That can
Speaker 11: be all the difference you need in the world. You
Speaker 11: can tinker with mechanics and you know, approaches and anything
Speaker 11: you want, but if you don't have any confidence in yourself,
Speaker 11: it's tough. And you know, I don't I'm not speaking
Speaker 11: for Mikey on that. I don't know what he's been
Speaker 11: going through. But for me personally, if you're in that
Speaker 11: moment and you get that big hit, sometimes that changes
Speaker 11: things for me. When we were in Arizona, I got,
Speaker 11: you know, the big hitoff Ginkle to kind of tie
Speaker 11: the game up or get us ononder and closer, and
Speaker 11: for me that was kind of what started changing things
Speaker 11: around for me. And so you know, you get a
Speaker 11: big hit in that moment that can change your season.
Speaker 8: It seemed like for Tanner Scott that tenth inning to
Speaker 8: set up your heroics, the team's heroics, striking out Soto
Speaker 8: and Alonso to get you guys to the bottom of
Speaker 8: the tenth inning. And then yesterday, same thing for a closer.
Speaker 8: I would imagine it's for everybody. It doesn't matter what
Speaker 8: your position is. You know, closing is one of the
Speaker 8: hardest things to do in this game. You have to
Speaker 8: have a different mindset to be able to do that.
Speaker 11: And you know, for for Tanner those two innings, he
Speaker 11: looked like the Tanner Scott that we've seen in the past.
Speaker 7: And you know, as I said postgame.
Speaker 11: One of those days, the stuff just from the side
Speaker 11: just felt like I had a little bit more jump on.
Speaker 7: It felt a little bit crisper.
Speaker 11: And you know, the vela can always say whatever the
Speaker 11: villa wants, but you can notice things from the side.
Speaker 11: In the batter's box, the ball just feels different sometimes,
Speaker 11: and you know, for me, it just looked it looked
Speaker 11: different coming out of his hand.
Speaker 8: It looked good before I like you go, you talked
Speaker 8: about the defense. I saw Mookie Betts working with you
Speaker 8: the other day. How much has Mookie clicked with you
Speaker 8: as far as the left side of the infield and
Speaker 8: just what he was showing you.
Speaker 11: Oh, he's been huge, you know, he's been helping me
Speaker 11: out a bunch. He's just trying to, you know, help
Speaker 11: me understand things. And we we we bounce ideas, you know,
Speaker 11: back and forth off of each other. And you know,
Speaker 11: for Mookie, he had to gain a wealth of knowledge,
Speaker 11: you know, transferring from the outfield back to shortstop.
Speaker 7: And you know.
Speaker 11: For for him, he feels like getting that wealth of knowledge,
Speaker 11: he can help spread that to me. And you know,
Speaker 11: he talks about a lot of stuff that I've never
Speaker 11: even thought about on defense before.
Speaker 7: And so it's it's he's.
Speaker 11: Been, you know, unbelievably helpful and again he's been trying
Speaker 11: to help me get my confidence back over there. And
Speaker 11: you know, it's one of those things where we're out
Speaker 11: there every single day and we're we're talking, we're communicating,
Speaker 11: and it's been been amazing having him over there.
Speaker 8: It's amazing to have Max Munsey back for another year.
Speaker 8: Two time World Series champion. Him and his wife Kelly
Speaker 8: obviously have their hearts for all those affected by the wildfires,
Speaker 8: and the event Uncorked for a Cause is on June
Speaker 8: twelfth to benefit all those and you can get tickets
Speaker 8: at uncorkfor a Cause dot com. Max thanks a lot.
Speaker 5: For the visit. You know we love you, and uh,
Speaker 5: we'll have.
Speaker 8: A we'll have a celebration, a happy flight to San
Speaker 8: Diego after this series in good old Saint Louis, AH.
Speaker 7: It sounds great. Thanks for having me, all right.
Speaker 8: There's Max Muncie doing great things for the community and
Speaker 8: obviously has turned his season around, trying to get the
Speaker 8: defense on par with his offense as well. Eight six
Speaker 8: six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 5: This is rain delay Dodger talk.
Speaker 8: The sky's got a little darker, but the tarp is
Speaker 8: off the field. Both teams are warming up. Both starters
Speaker 8: are warming up in the bullpen. First pitch coming up
Speaker 8: at the bottom of the hour with Rick Monday and
Speaker 8: Tim Neverett. Sonny Gray on the mound for the Cardinals,
Speaker 8: their ace going up against Justin Rope.
Speaker 5: Let's go out to Alan in San Diego.
Speaker 8: You're our final caller before we hand things over to
Speaker 8: Rick and Tim Neverett.
Speaker 5: So make it good. Alan. What do you got?
Speaker 3: I got an idea? I have been thinking, why are
Speaker 3: we worried about making a part of everyday picture. Why
Speaker 3: don't we just make him our closer. We're going to
Speaker 3: lead his bat much longer than his arm.
Speaker 8: I've heard that before. It's not a crazy idea. If
Speaker 8: he didn't hit, how is he going to warm up
Speaker 8: in the bullpen to come into the ninth inning if
Speaker 8: he's due to bat in the half inning before, so
Speaker 8: it logistically I don't think it works. But if it did,
Speaker 8: it's a weapon. But that's why it wouldn't work, because
Speaker 8: if he's coming up in the half inning after he
Speaker 8: closes the game or before he closes the game out,
Speaker 8: how is he going to warm up?
Speaker 3: Good point? Good point. I didn't think about that, But
Speaker 3: I'm more concerned about his bat in our lineup for
Speaker 3: the next few years in case Mookie step take a
Speaker 3: step back or you know. I'm just more concerned about
Speaker 3: his bat. I don't think we're wrong with you to
Speaker 3: be worried about his arms.
Speaker 8: He's a much better hitter because he's not pitching. He's
Speaker 8: focused all on hitting here. But it's still impressive. Right
Speaker 8: alan last weekend he was throwing a live BP and
Speaker 8: then on Monday he's gonna throw a live VP in
Speaker 8: San Diego and going to lead off for the Dodgers.
Speaker 8: What he's even doing at this stage is pretty impressive
Speaker 8: once a week, and that's how he's.
Speaker 5: Going to pitch.
Speaker 8: He's only going to pitch once a week, and that's
Speaker 8: why they had the schedule lined up where he does
Speaker 8: these live BPS every Saturday. It's been pushed to Monday
Speaker 8: because of the weather. Thanks a lot for calling in.
Speaker 8: Hope to see you at Petco Park next week.
Speaker 3: Now do be COO. I'll be up at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 3: on the nineteenth for the Black History Night.
Speaker 8: Hey, that's a great night to be there. Thanks for calling, Alan,
Speaker 8: appreciate it. Great walk off phone call. We're gonna take
Speaker 8: our final time out before first pitch as we get
Speaker 8: ready for the national anthem. Dodgers and Cardinals right around
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Speaker 8: Dodgers and Cardinals coming up at the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 8: Justin Robleski going up against Sonny Gray, game one of
Speaker 8: a three game series here at Busch Stadium. Rick Monday
Speaker 8: and Tim Neverett, we'll have the call. Hey, just want
Speaker 8: to let you know that you might be driving to
Speaker 8: the Greek Theater tonight. We were talking music and baseball
Speaker 8: and John Mayer wanting to meet Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 5: How about our guy, Brad Paisley.
Speaker 8: He's playing at the Greek Theater tonight, so by the
Speaker 8: time he comes off the stage he'll know whether or
Speaker 8: not his Dodgers beat the Cardinals. And his guy, Clayton
Speaker 8: Kershaw is going to start on Sunday. So if you're
Speaker 8: on your way to see John or excuse me, Brad
Speaker 8: Paisley at the Greek Theater, keep it right here on
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Speaker 8: Let's see if that truck still works for Justin Robleski
Speaker 8: and the Dodgers. As the three MVPs are going to
Speaker 8: get this game started, Otani betson Freeman. Tommy Edmond gets
Speaker 8: the start at second base tonight. It will be an
Speaker 8: emotional return, I'm sure when he steps to the plate.
Speaker 8: Edmund is hitting eighth for the Dodgers, so looking forward
Speaker 8: to the Dodgers and Cardinals.
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