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Speaker 3: Sax and Kate's in the AM on this Thursday morning.
Speaker 3: Thanks for being with us, say as you get up,
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Speaker 3: LA Sports. Thanks to Charlie Steiner. David Basse caught up
Speaker 3: with the voice of the Dodgers as he is now
Speaker 3: in remission, which is great news to hear battling melanim
Speaker 3: of blood cancer. He has been doing that all season long.
Speaker 3: That's why you haven't heard the great Charlie Steiner here
Speaker 3: on a FI seventy LAS Sports Bud fully expects to
Speaker 3: be ready to go in twenty twenty five. And pretty
Speaker 3: fitting to have Charlie talk about the Yankees and Dodgers
Speaker 3: since he called play by play for both of these franchises.
Speaker 1: Yea, he's seen a lot of it, boy, and we
Speaker 1: talk about seeing it all, you know. I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: he's seen it all for the amount of years he's
Speaker 1: been here, but he's seen a lot of it, and
Speaker 1: you know, to be with both franchises a pretty good
Speaker 1: perspective he's got on this particular world series too. But
Speaker 1: glad and so happy that Charlie's gonna beat this. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be back next year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so great to hear. If you missed it, you
Speaker 3: can podcast it on the iHeart Radio app. David Vassa
Speaker 3: will join us later on in the show as well.
Speaker 3: Steve Jaeger Boomer will join us the Boomer in eight
Speaker 3: o'clock hour get his thoughts on Fernando and certainly get
Speaker 3: his thoughts on this rematch of the nineteen eighty one
Speaker 3: World Series between the Dodgers and the Yankees. Saxon case
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Speaker 3: of the Dodgers. It's World Series time. Bring out the
Speaker 3: chef in you. We got into it last hour. The
Speaker 3: Dodgers already have two statues at it the center field
Speaker 3: plaza at Dodger Stadium, Jackie Robinson the first in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 3: and in twenty twenty two the Sandy Kofex statue was
Speaker 3: put in. The Dodgers will need to put in a third.
Speaker 3: But who would be? And we brought up Fernando Valenzuela,
Speaker 3: going right to the front of the line. Certainly Vinnie
Speaker 3: will get one. Certainly Tommy Lasorda well deserved, and we'll
Speaker 3: get one in due time. But brought it up the
Speaker 3: way that Fernando passed at the young age of sixty three,
Speaker 3: the what he did to the community, what it would
Speaker 3: mean for the community to have it as a rallying
Speaker 3: point at Dodger Stadium. And I got a couple of
Speaker 3: texts about that, for Buddy saying, you don't understand what
Speaker 3: it would mean to have a statue for Fernando at
Speaker 3: center field. We can only use it as a meetium spot.
Speaker 3: We can use it as a spot to take our
Speaker 3: kids who are younger. My buddy has a young kids
Speaker 3: that will teach him about Fernando and what he meant
Speaker 3: to him growing up, and he can go out to
Speaker 3: the statue and show him. It would mean so much
Speaker 3: for so many Dodger fans. I think it just makes sense.
Speaker 3: And again not to put Vinnie or Tomulas sort it
Speaker 3: to the side because they're gonna get statues. But I
Speaker 3: just think right now, in the moment where we're at,
Speaker 3: I think Fernando would be just the perfect one.
Speaker 1: And you know, you know what the statue is going
Speaker 1: to look like, right, We already know that.
Speaker 3: It's him looking to the sky right correct, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And being his wind up looking up, and that's a
Speaker 1: such a great picture. You know. I look at Fernando
Speaker 1: real quickly, Tim because I know you want to get up.
Speaker 1: But I look at Fernando as a is almost like
Speaker 1: a connector between the past. You know what it was,
Speaker 1: you know in la before, and you know certainly what
Speaker 1: he did in the present, but now it's especially looking
Speaker 1: forward to the future and what he does and bringing
Speaker 1: people together. The absolutely brought people together from before when
Speaker 1: he was playing, it was crazy. And now he's still
Speaker 1: bringing people together even in his even in his passing,
Speaker 1: he's going to be able to bring people together. So
Speaker 1: that transcends everything. And that's why you gotta have a
Speaker 1: big statue Fernando out there too, no question.
Speaker 3: Every Jackie Robinson Day when the Dodgers are home and
Speaker 3: they've been home, because it's Jackie Robinson Day on April fifteenth,
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts takes the team out to the center field
Speaker 3: place before the statue was up in the reserve area,
Speaker 3: and the last few years the visiting teams have come
Speaker 3: out as well with their managers and they'll gather around
Speaker 3: the statue of Jackie Robinson. And it's mostly for a
Speaker 3: history lesson for the young players, maybe the international players
Speaker 3: who don't know the history of Jackie Robinson, what he
Speaker 3: meant for baseball and what he meant for the Dodgers organization.
Speaker 3: And Dave Roberts does a great job explaining talking about Jackie,
Speaker 3: the importance of Jackie, the importance of baseball, and the
Speaker 3: influence of Jackie in nineteen forty seven and what he
Speaker 3: meant and It's a history lesson for these baseball players too,
Speaker 3: so they don't forget yeah, right, who came before them.
Speaker 3: This would be right in line for Fernando to go
Speaker 3: out there and talk about what Fernando meant to this community,
Speaker 3: what he meant to baseball. But hey, you're a Dodger now,
Speaker 3: this is what it would mean and what it means
Speaker 3: to be a Dodger based on Fernando, what he meant
Speaker 3: to this community. Look around when you drive to the
Speaker 3: stadium and you come up the one on one or
Speaker 3: the two, or the five or the ten freeway, and
Speaker 3: you're going through these communities rout here, it's Fernando. They
Speaker 3: love Fernando, and this is why you need to know
Speaker 3: about them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just just thinking as we talked before about
Speaker 1: how you know, Fernando could be that connection between now
Speaker 1: and what's happened before and certainly in the future. Jackie
Speaker 1: Robinson of course, really did that and still today, look
Speaker 1: at everybody still talks about they've retired number forty two.
Speaker 1: Most organizations have, I think they all have. They wear
Speaker 1: the number forty two on Jackie Robinson Day. This thing
Speaker 1: goes way beyond just what they did when they were here,
Speaker 1: It travels and it will forever. That's what Fernando brings.
Speaker 3: Armando in Ontario, Welcome to Saxon, Kate to the am
Speaker 3: here on Amphire seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Armando, Hi, this is.
Speaker 5: Veronica, Armanda's wife. He stepped away, But I have a
Speaker 5: lot to say about Fernando, all right, and what he
Speaker 5: is to the community. You know, there's that whole history
Speaker 5: of the Dodgers displacing the Mexican community, Mexican American community.
Speaker 5: Fernando brought us back. Give you a little trivia. I
Speaker 5: was born October twenty ninth, nineteen eighty one, hours after
Speaker 5: they played and One, and I grew up thinking Fernando's
Speaker 5: La Royalty and he really is what he did for
Speaker 5: the community in his later years. I had the opportunity
Speaker 5: to spend a whole day with him last year and
Speaker 5: the Dodgers on their community tour, And just to your
Speaker 5: point what you just said, he was a walking history
Speaker 5: lesson for those new Dodgers coming in. And the Dodgers
Speaker 5: organization has taken us through all these places in San
Speaker 5: Gabrio Valley in LA and telling these new Dodgers this
Speaker 5: is Dodger Country. These are Mexican American, you know, children
Speaker 5: of immigrants that Fernando brought back to the stadium. And
Speaker 5: to see his statue up there, like you said, you
Speaker 5: see a rally point. He's up there with Kobe. For me,
Speaker 5: he's my childhood and he's just a part of LA
Speaker 5: and he'll he'll be forever. It's his LA history.
Speaker 3: Well, Veronica, no offense to Armando, but we're proud we
Speaker 3: got to talk to you for Armando.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, Veronica, thanks for chiming in this morning and bring
Speaker 3: give us your thoughts.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, Take care all right, had.
Speaker 1: A nice, little pleasant surprise there. Who's Who's Armando? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Armando just came in there and nailed it.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Again
Speaker 3: is our number, eight sixty six nine eight seven two
Speaker 3: five seventy. The statue would be phenomenal at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: And to think of it, what they're trying to build
Speaker 3: in the center field plaza and to be a spot
Speaker 3: that is not just there when you go and watch
Speaker 3: a game for ninetings, that's great. You get to see
Speaker 3: great baseball in a in an awesome setting in the
Speaker 3: most beautiful area, and now you get to go. Make
Speaker 3: it a spot where you go visit the history at
Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium. And you can go to the top deck
Speaker 3: of the reserve area and see the Legends of Baseball
Speaker 3: plaques that are up there. You can go out to
Speaker 3: the center field area and also so the history of
Speaker 3: the Dodgers from the awards individually, rookies of the years,
Speaker 3: the MVPs of the cy Youngs, to see the retired
Speaker 3: jersey numbers up on the Ring of Honor in the
Speaker 3: left field, to see the World Championship years along the
Speaker 3: right field by the stadium club up there on the
Speaker 3: club level.
Speaker 1: It's a spot.
Speaker 3: Not to say it'd be like Yankee Stadium, because Yankee
Speaker 3: Stadium was the first to do it with the museum
Speaker 3: they have in center field and the rich history they
Speaker 3: have there. Yeah, the plaques, but it's the Dodgers Museum.
Speaker 3: It's a spot where you can go and just learn
Speaker 3: about the history of the Dodgers at a young age.
Speaker 1: Tim for our fans listening that haven't been to on
Speaker 1: a tour to Dodgers Stadium must go. You know, if
Speaker 1: you like history. I love history. I love Civil War history.
Speaker 1: I've gone to the battlefields and studied that and read
Speaker 1: as much as I can about Civil War and I
Speaker 1: still do. I love that. Well, you know what, you
Speaker 1: get a big dose of that in baseball when you
Speaker 1: go to Dodger Stadium. So when I go there, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm in. I'm underneath the underneath there near the locker
Speaker 1: rooms and looking at all this stuff. They're all the
Speaker 1: you know, the the the Hall of Famers, and you know,
Speaker 1: the most viable players and you know, the Gold Glove
Speaker 1: Award winners and all those things are in there. So
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium is a bastion of great of great history.
Speaker 1: For people that love to see that, you gotta go
Speaker 1: and take a tour and and really check out all
Speaker 1: the things there because they have a ton of it.
Speaker 3: It's going to be on full display tomorrow night, Game
Speaker 3: one of the World Series.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 3: Today is Media Day out of Dodgers Stadium. For those
Speaker 3: who don't don't know what media day is, It's think
Speaker 3: of the Super Bowl week that Monday night in which
Speaker 3: both teams go out in the field that that whatever
Speaker 3: stadium is hosting it, and you get all the international
Speaker 3: national media, and every player is set up in a podium.
Speaker 3: It's a little smaller venue being in the center field plaza,
Speaker 3: but each player is gonna have an area where they're
Speaker 3: set up, and you can go talk to these players
Speaker 3: and they're gonna be up there for forty five minutes.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers and then the Yankees will be out there
Speaker 3: for the forty five minutes, and you can talk to
Speaker 3: all the players and you're gonna get all those ridiculous questions.
Speaker 3: And I think it's good for baseball. I'll put it
Speaker 3: this way. Steve, as a purest, I know these players
Speaker 3: don't want to do this. These players are so locked
Speaker 3: into Game one tomorrow. They want to go over tape,
Speaker 3: they want to go over scouting reports, they want to
Speaker 3: get ready and are dialed in for this game.
Speaker 1: They're tolerating it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're tolerating it. I'm sure some of them are
Speaker 3: looking at it as a great opportunity to get their
Speaker 3: brand and their name out there, certainly, but I think
Speaker 3: the superstars per se probably don't want to do it
Speaker 3: and are feel like, you know what, this isn't football,
Speaker 3: where we are a helmet and we're faceless players for
Speaker 3: the most part. And now we get to take the
Speaker 3: helmet off and here we are in full display and
Speaker 3: outside of Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey, you know, we
Speaker 3: get to be on full display now because we're the
Speaker 3: other guys on this roster. I mean, we know who
Speaker 3: these guys are. We understand that there's no more storylines
Speaker 3: to be told.
Speaker 1: No, I think some guys, like you said, they're going
Speaker 1: to want to improve their brand. And with this era
Speaker 1: of social media, you know, it took me a while
Speaker 1: to really understand just how impactful and how big it
Speaker 1: can be for these players. And you know, some guys
Speaker 1: are gonna really benefit from from being out there in
Speaker 1: social media and improving that brand and whatnot. But you know,
Speaker 1: for the guys that have been there and done that before,
Speaker 1: this is a tolerating part of the whole process. Right now,
Speaker 1: they just want to get through it and they're gonna
Speaker 1: smile and do the right thing, because most guys I've
Speaker 1: met in baseball are good dudes, and they're gonna do
Speaker 1: the right thing. But they want to they want to
Speaker 1: cut loose and get this thing on. They're actually gonna
Speaker 1: feel you know, what's you know, what's crazy about this
Speaker 1: is when these games start and they're often running and
Speaker 1: you're playing these games, they're gonna feel most comfortable and
Speaker 1: the most freedom that they felt in this whole scenario
Speaker 1: when they're actually playing the game. That's where they're gonna
Speaker 1: feel the most free and the and the most amount
Speaker 1: of freedom and the most natural when they're playing the game.
Speaker 1: All the other stuff is is hectic, it's tough, and
Speaker 1: they kind of tolerate through it.
Speaker 3: Do you think Aaron Boone and Dave Roberts have to
Speaker 3: gather his teams in the clubhouse before they walk out
Speaker 3: to the center Field Plaza today for media day for
Speaker 3: their respective teams and say, guys, just a reminder all
Speaker 3: of you, look at all you in the eyes right now.
Speaker 3: Don't say anything stupid. Don't put any bullets on board
Speaker 3: material out there. Yeah, don't say something that you think's
Speaker 3: gonna be funny and taken sarcastically and it's gonna be
Speaker 3: written and look differently in print, and all of a
Speaker 3: sudden they're using.
Speaker 1: It against us. I would think, So, I know that's
Speaker 1: Tommy said that to you guys. Yeah, Hey, guys, shut up,
Speaker 1: don't say anything. Yeah, there's been times when they say
Speaker 1: things like, remember that you're gonna always have to pay
Speaker 1: for what you say, and you're gonna be the you
Speaker 1: know you're doing to be the slave of that. You know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to be answered all that stuff, but
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to always be on top of
Speaker 1: things that you don't say. And so you know there's
Speaker 1: a there's a message in there is don't say something stupid.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to own it and don't go there.
Speaker 1: Why take that luggage on? And yeah, they they've said
Speaker 1: that to us before. Usually it's sometime in spring training
Speaker 1: when you have all those meetings with the Players Association
Speaker 1: and whatnot. They cover all that ground. They like to
Speaker 1: do it one day, but very very poignant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be an interesting day at a Dodgers
Speaker 3: stadium to see the masses of media, to see all
Speaker 3: the questions that are asked, to see show Altani on
Speaker 3: the biggest stage along with all these superstars that are
Speaker 3: playing in this World Series Game one tomorrow night right
Speaker 3: here on five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: Yeah, doesn't show Hey, really have it made in this
Speaker 1: whole thing? Seriously talk to the interpreter. Yeah, he doesn't
Speaker 1: have to talk much. Just talk to him. I can't
Speaker 1: speak Cling, I can't speak English.
Speaker 3: I wonder what else you could ask show Hey Altani
Speaker 3: that hasn't been asked already.
Speaker 1: Who knows what he's telling the interpreter. He probably hasn't
Speaker 1: mean with the interpreter, it says, say all the right stuff.
Speaker 1: If they ask me some I'll give you like a
Speaker 1: two word answer in Japanese and japan Japanese, and then
Speaker 1: you can tell them what you already think.
Speaker 3: It is interesting easy to see him give these long
Speaker 3: answers than Will Ireton give us a smaller answer.
Speaker 1: But I guess now where's Will from? Is he from here? Yeah?
Speaker 3: But he's a Japanese descent obviously, and has worked for
Speaker 3: the organization for a long time. Was an interpreter for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers about a decade ago, and then got into
Speaker 3: a role working in baseball ops with the team in
Speaker 3: athletic training as well. Uh And when the whole issue
Speaker 3: with show Hey before the season started with his previous interpreter,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers were scrambling and needed to get a new
Speaker 3: interpreter there, and Will Ireton, already working for the team,
Speaker 3: did a great job before was inserting it to that place,
Speaker 3: and uh, yeah, it has been has been a great
Speaker 3: uh guy to have stand next to show Ayotani because
Speaker 3: he's been a Dodger employee and on top of that,
Speaker 3: it's somebody that show Hey can trust and there's a
Speaker 3: there's a communication already there between the two of them,
Speaker 3: and again the organization trusts him. So it was a
Speaker 3: perfect person to have slide into that responsibility. And he's
Speaker 3: a great guy.
Speaker 1: Too, Tim, do you have more of a family background
Speaker 1: you can give me on on will? I mean, I'll
Speaker 1: just asked you a simple question and you gave me
Speaker 1: like the ten minute rendition of a very very well
Speaker 1: thought out into find answer. And I appreciate that. Well,
Speaker 1: I that is amazing. You ask you what time it is, nil,
Speaker 1: tell you how to make a watch? Amazing.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: It's a compliment.
Speaker 3: He actually began back in nineteen eighty eight, when he
Speaker 3: was the son of a Japanese American father Spanish mother.
Speaker 3: His family moved to Hawaii when he was fifteen. He
Speaker 3: was born in Japan in nineteen eighty eight. He spent
Speaker 3: his teenage years in Honolulu, where he played for the
Speaker 3: High school baseball team. Oh yeah, and his worked in
Speaker 3: baseball for a long time after graduating from Menlo College.
Speaker 1: Wow yeah, okay, geez.
Speaker 6: You go.
Speaker 3: There's that full background. They got to start working as
Speaker 3: a translator in the World Baseball Classic and from there
Speaker 3: got into baseball.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: There's your will Ireton Info.
Speaker 1: Only get it from Tim Kate. That's right. I'm here
Speaker 1: for it if you need me.
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Speaker 3: Cole on the mound from Orange Lutheran, UCLA. He'll be
Speaker 3: on the mound for the Yankees against the Pride the
Speaker 3: eight one eight Jack Flaherty who will go for the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: and again both teams will meet the media later on
Speaker 3: today for their respective media days in the center field plaza.
Speaker 3: A little bit more on Will Ireton, the translator for
Speaker 3: Shoheo Tani. Yeah, for those who don't know, we came
Speaker 3: to the Dodgers in twenty sixteen when Kenta Maida was
Speaker 3: signed by the Dodgers and had previous experiences we mentioned
Speaker 3: before in the World Baseball Classic. He was born in Japan,
Speaker 3: grew up in Honolulu, went to college here in the
Speaker 3: United States, and a great guy and been with the
Speaker 3: organization since twenty sixteen. When kent I left and went
Speaker 3: to the Minnesota Twins, he did not follow.
Speaker 1: He stayed.
Speaker 3: In fact, he went to go work in Tripa, A,
Speaker 3: Oklahoma city and player development and analytics and has worked
Speaker 3: for the organization since then in different levels. And in
Speaker 3: this past spring when the Dodgers were over in Seul,
Speaker 3: Korea and the incident with the previous translator was Shoheyo Tani,
Speaker 3: Will Ireton was moved back into that position, and that's
Speaker 3: where he came from this season. So cool, nice rundown
Speaker 3: because people wonder about him too.
Speaker 1: You know what's really we we kind of knew the
Speaker 1: sad thing about the former transfer, but this but Will
Speaker 1: seems to be you know, he's off to a great start.
Speaker 1: People seem to really like him. He resonates good with
Speaker 1: the press, and so yeah, I think it's a great choice. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, and you see him all the time because
Speaker 3: wherever sho hey Otani goes, Will Ironton is right there
Speaker 3: on and off the field. So yeah, he is in
Speaker 3: tandem with show Hey, So you see him all the time,
Speaker 3: and now you know a little bit more about him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. Tim. You know it's gonna be another
Speaker 1: big question though, what's that is when they're going to
Speaker 1: deploy the bullpen game? Lots of questions about I hear
Speaker 1: that all the time. It's like the biggest question out there.
Speaker 3: Well, I would do a little bit more digging into
Speaker 3: why Dave Roberts went with Jack Flaherty, And the more
Speaker 3: and more I looked into it, the more and more
Speaker 3: it does make sense for this reason, which got you
Speaker 3: got Jack Flery can go in game one, You've got
Speaker 3: Yoshi Yomamoto in game two, right, and then both those
Speaker 3: guys can come back potentially for a game five and six, correct,
Speaker 3: And then if you go with Walker Bueller in the
Speaker 3: first game in the Bronx next Monday Game three, Game three,
Speaker 3: he can then can potentially go in game seven. So
Speaker 3: you set yourself up so one, two, three, five, six
Speaker 3: seven with your three quote unquote starters, leaving game four
Speaker 3: as the only bullpen game that you need that middle
Speaker 3: game in New York.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's here's the kind of like a little
Speaker 1: I agree with most of it, but you know, uh
Speaker 1: going if you have a bullpen game in three, that's
Speaker 1: going to guarantee that you're gonna have all those high
Speaker 1: leverage arms are gonna be available out of the bullpen
Speaker 1: after the off day, right right, And that would line
Speaker 1: up Walker Buller for Game four along with other you know,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I mean that, what does that
Speaker 1: do for Game seven?
Speaker 3: So that would make Okay seven a bullpen game.
Speaker 1: Right, it would be a bull coming game. So I
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean or Walker Bueler on really just
Speaker 1: short rest short rest? Would Walk or benefit from going
Speaker 1: into game four? Do you think? You know?
Speaker 3: The way you spend it makes sense. You go with
Speaker 3: the bullpen game after the travel day because games one
Speaker 3: to Friday Saturday, travel day Sunday, you have a fresh
Speaker 3: bullpen ready to go for Game three Monday, and then
Speaker 3: a starter boom game four on Tuesday, and then you
Speaker 3: hopefully get something out a Walker where you don't have
Speaker 3: to go back to your high leverage relievers and they'll
Speaker 3: be ready again for Game five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but him and every other starter on that roster
Speaker 1: is going to be available for the potential Game seven.
Speaker 1: So remember game seven is not only a bullpen game.
Speaker 1: Game seven is all the starters are available too, So
Speaker 1: that's kind of a difference, you.
Speaker 3: Know, who else could be available in game seven?
Speaker 1: Pitch, don't say it? You know who else could be available? Saxy.
Speaker 1: Let's ask Will what he thinks about that.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 3: Tony available to pitch game seven of the World Serio.
Speaker 1: Now you said all hands on deck, Well that's that's
Speaker 1: not a I don't know if that one counts. Really No,
Speaker 1: there's too many risks. I mean, god, but you got
Speaker 1: a weigh it. Just think it's game seven. If you're
Speaker 1: in the ninth inning, you're thinking about bringing in one
Speaker 1: of the other starter, thinking about bringing a Yo, sure,
Speaker 1: one of those guys. And then you got show hey
Speaker 1: o Tani for three outs? How hard do you think
Speaker 1: he'll be throwing one hundred miles an hour? And it's
Speaker 1: and it's like nine to eight, so game you know,
Speaker 1: bullpens have already been taxed about this game. Oh what
Speaker 1: do you think?
Speaker 3: Don't wake me up. I'm dreaming right now, Saxy. I'm
Speaker 3: loving this. Imagine the camera in the dugout in like
Speaker 3: the seventh and eighth and he's like, where where's where?
Speaker 1: Show is? Singers like nine to eight and you're facing one, two,
Speaker 1: three and the Yankees. Oh, come on, you know what
Speaker 1: Hollywood wouldn't buy the script two phony.
Speaker 3: No know's no o Tani in the dugout. Next thing
Speaker 3: you know, the lights go out, the gate opens from
Speaker 3: the bullpen, and here comes show Hey, O Tani, holy
Speaker 3: man in a nine eight game in the night.
Speaker 1: And what do you think would be bigger when when
Speaker 1: show Hay come through the gates after not seeing him
Speaker 1: in And how much Dodger staying would he erupt? Or
Speaker 1: it's when Gibson limped out of the dugout to crash
Speaker 1: the home run? Which one would be bigger?
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm gonna defer to you you were the
Speaker 3: guy on deck behind Gibby. I mean, what was the
Speaker 3: crowd like as he got up to the plane and
Speaker 3: then certainly afterwards that place was rocking.
Speaker 1: When when they introduced him. That's the loudest I've ever
Speaker 1: heard Dodger Stadium. Really, the loudest I've ever heard it,
Speaker 1: no question, kind of dwarfed everything else. It was so
Speaker 1: loud when when they announced him. But man, I tell
Speaker 1: you what, Otani comes walking out out of the bullpen.
Speaker 1: Nobody's seen him comes out in the ninth facing one,
Speaker 1: two three with the Yankees nine to eight lead.
Speaker 3: Bullpen's taxed. Come on, I'm gonna be epic. I don't
Speaker 3: think he'd be walking out. I think the gate would open,
Speaker 3: it'd be dark, and it'd just be Otani sprinting, just
Speaker 3: a full on sprint from the bullpen, the warning track
Speaker 3: to the pictures Man with his music going. People at
Speaker 3: Dodger Stadium would.
Speaker 1: Froll come on to freak out. People in the country
Speaker 1: would freak out at home watching it. But could you
Speaker 1: see him. We were sprinting out of that bullpen with
Speaker 1: about five strides and he's at the He's at the
Speaker 1: mountain right.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, it is setting up for this to happen.
Speaker 3: Somebody should ask that question on media day. Is it
Speaker 3: possible in any scenario that we're gonna see show? Hey Otani,
Speaker 3: somebody's got to ask him. I'm hoping somebody's listening right now,
Speaker 3: and does in fact ask that somebody?
Speaker 1: David Vass say, if you're listening, you have to ask
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts that question. I mean, you know somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: ask it, Well, they have to. Roberts is gonna give
Speaker 1: you the old Well, you never know. It's uh, we'll
Speaker 1: see how things play out, but it's probably.
Speaker 3: Not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: My my guess is it probably won't happen, but you
Speaker 3: know you never say no, maybe should ask show hey?
Speaker 3: One hundred percent they have to ask. Somebody has got
Speaker 3: to ask, and then they got to follow up. If
Speaker 3: he doesn't give you the right answer, well, like, well,
Speaker 3: is there a scenario? Is there any scenario at all
Speaker 3: where you could come in to throw one pitch get
Speaker 3: one out?
Speaker 1: Or it's just oh my god, imagine that because.
Speaker 3: If he well, here's the thing. If they ask him
Speaker 3: today and he he he leaves the door open, I
Speaker 3: mean think about I mean, that's all people are gonna
Speaker 3: be talk about. I'm thinking about what the World Series
Speaker 3: is win win, win win. When are we gonna see
Speaker 3: showing Otani on the mountain?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What if he puts out a blurb on like
Speaker 1: his social media that's like he shows like his hand
Speaker 1: his fingers like on the on the seams of the ball,
Speaker 1: and he's just nodding it up and down like uh oh,
Speaker 1: you know he's like he might pitch. Wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 3: What's crazy is he's pitched for six years in Anaheim
Speaker 3: and I'm acting like he's never pitched in the big
Speaker 3: leagues before getting ready for a World Series outing possibly.
Speaker 3: I mean again, this is just pure speculation. Those you're
Speaker 3: driving around right now wondering what is Otani gonna pitch?
Speaker 3: Purely speculation and hope scam thoughts, scam thoughts.
Speaker 1: Exactly, that's all. They are.
Speaker 3: Little st there, little scam thoughts.
Speaker 1: But you never know. I mean it is it is
Speaker 1: like gonna grow. This question is going to grow as
Speaker 1: the series goes along, and depending how the Dodgers are doing,
Speaker 1: of course it'll become more curious.
Speaker 3: So I mean, he's they've got us either squash it.
Speaker 3: The opportunity impossible an issue, right, They have to, They
Speaker 3: have to, you know what.
Speaker 1: They don't They want to kind of screw with the
Speaker 1: minds of the Yankees too, of course, because you know,
Speaker 1: if you squash it, then the Yankees are gonna think, Okay,
Speaker 1: we don't have to worry about that anymore.
Speaker 3: Mind games are the best kind of games. Yes, they
Speaker 3: are messing with people's minds, messing with the Yankees, messing
Speaker 3: with the New York media.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: I mean, this would be fantastic. And you know, in
Speaker 3: these these pregame meetings they do with Fox and all
Speaker 3: the announcers, you know, or you know, they ask the managers,
Speaker 3: you know, what, what do you what's you're playing here
Speaker 3: on the seventh Where do you think you're gonna lean
Speaker 3: in this situation, They're all going to be asking.
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna raise it, there's no questions about it.
Speaker 3: But if you're the Dodgers, you got to keep it
Speaker 3: close to your vest. And I I now you mentioned
Speaker 3: mind games. I think it's even better if they leave
Speaker 3: that door open. Even if there's no shot of Otawni
Speaker 3: pitching we find out later down the road. Maybe just
Speaker 3: keep that door open. Maybe use this as a mind
Speaker 3: game like you did with the whole throwing the ball
Speaker 3: from Manny Machado towards Dave Roberts in the NLDS. Yeah,
Speaker 3: make it something.
Speaker 1: The thing is you have to get show Hey on
Speaker 1: board because if somebody asks him, you know, he's gonna
Speaker 1: tell the truth. He's he's he's that's what kind of
Speaker 1: guy is. He's not gonna he's not gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: try to be deceiving or anything, because he's such a
Speaker 1: straight up dude. Yeah me, I try to. I try
Speaker 1: to tell him, well, you know, we'll find out, won't
Speaker 1: we oh much show. He might just say no, of
Speaker 1: course I'm not available.
Speaker 3: That would be so great. Let's go out to the phones.
Speaker 3: A lot of Dodger fans want a weigh in. Also,
Speaker 3: the statue next up Fernando Valezuela center Field Plaza. It
Speaker 3: makes sense, Hector in La you are next up on
Speaker 3: Saxon Kates and am how you doing?
Speaker 1: Hector?
Speaker 6: Good morning?
Speaker 1: How you guys doing doing great things? Hector?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I have a Fernando story man uh me
Speaker 6: growing up as a kid. Uh you know, my dad
Speaker 6: wasn't the father that took us to amusement POGs, to
Speaker 6: the beach, none of that. But I remember at the
Speaker 6: age of four he always took us to Dodger Stadium
Speaker 6: to watch Fernando Venezuela. And I remember my father, you know,
Speaker 6: putting on a Dodger hat and he has to hear
Speaker 6: it is like Fernando. So I became a Fernando fanatic
Speaker 6: from the age of four and made some diary. Very
Speaker 6: unfortunate that he left us too soon. And it's very
Speaker 6: ironic that the day before he passed away, I was
Speaker 6: watching highlight videos where my younger son which says ten
Speaker 6: now and you know he started watching the video, but
Speaker 6: you know I had talked to him about Fernando when
Speaker 6: he was growing up, and we were watching the highlight video,
Speaker 6: especially when Vin Scullia called out the no hitter about
Speaker 6: throwing those some rato up in the air, and very
Speaker 6: very unfortunate. Man, My father's heart broken, my mother's heart
Speaker 6: broken up because we came from Mexico in nineteen seventy seven,
Speaker 6: so we got here in the naked time when everything
Speaker 6: was kind of rough, and Fernando was that light of
Speaker 6: inspiration for that. You know, no matter where you come
Speaker 6: from Mexico, whatever part of the country, we had that
Speaker 6: vision of hope in Fernando, and he kept it on
Speaker 6: for many years until the last day. Man, and Uh,
Speaker 6: I have an altar Fernando body swell in my office
Speaker 6: right now. I took his babbo in, I took his jersey.
Speaker 3: Hector, what would what would it mean to you and
Speaker 3: your family to have Fernando having a statue in Centerfield Plaza.
Speaker 6: Oh, that's gonna be like the icing on the keg.
Speaker 6: You know, that's our Kobe Bryant, you know, for the
Speaker 6: Mexican community, the Hispanic community. Uh, that's our Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 6: you know, and then uh looking forward to Game one
Speaker 6: and uh, you guys gave me a point of reference
Speaker 6: right now when you guys were tired about that show. Hell,
Speaker 6: tiny thing, that's gonna be the conversation I worked this morning.
Speaker 6: You know, Oh my god, that's gonna be the talk.
Speaker 7: Of the day.
Speaker 3: Hector, make sure you tell him when you heard it.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Scam on AM five seven, right.
Speaker 6: Right, I sure will. You guys are doing great, man,
Speaker 6: I love you guys, and you guys.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, man, great to hear from you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know his dad didn't take him to the beach,
Speaker 1: but he took him to Dodgers. He took him to
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. And that's pretty darn good.
Speaker 3: Even better, even better. Yeah, of course both places you
Speaker 3: get a sunburn, but you at least you have fun
Speaker 3: doing it, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, But isn't that a great story that Hector
Speaker 1: just told us about about how you know, moving it
Speaker 1: was to Fernando. He gave him hope he's coming here
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy seven from Mexico, and now you know, uh,
Speaker 1: just all the all the movement that Fernando gave them
Speaker 1: in Hope. And that's just what it's all about, man,
Speaker 1: right there. That's what that's why you need a statue
Speaker 1: of Fernando. That's what what the difference is.
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Speaker 3: he next in line at Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 1: Believe so?
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy and show
Speaker 3: hey Otani? Will the door stay open or they shut
Speaker 3: it closed? On the opportunity of pitching in the World Series.
Speaker 3: Mine games, Mine games with the Yankees. Nothing better than that.
Speaker 3: He is Steve Saxon, Tim Kates, Thanks for being with us,
Speaker 3: say if I seventy LA Sports Saxon Kates in the
Speaker 3: AM on a five to seventy LA Sports Live and
Speaker 3: local on your home of the Dodgers, leading you up
Speaker 3: to Game one of this World Series tomorrow night. Added
Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium, Saxy. I know you're gonna find this hard
Speaker 3: to believe, but tomorrow, at first pitch, you know what
Speaker 3: the weather's supposed to be a Dodger stadium for Game
Speaker 3: one of the World Series.
Speaker 1: First pitch is five oh eight. I would say it's
Speaker 1: probably going to be uh.
Speaker 3: Seventy eight, seventy two degrees and beautiful.
Speaker 1: Well would you expect?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And they're saying by the time the game ends
Speaker 3: a couple hours later, it'll be down to sixty three
Speaker 3: degrees and Dodger fans will be celebrating a Dodger Game
Speaker 3: one win hopefully.
Speaker 1: You know, there's it's so beautiful down there. You never
Speaker 1: get tired of those beautiful sunset in southern California. But
Speaker 1: I must say I got to stick up for the
Speaker 1: nine to one six up here in the mother Load Country.
Speaker 1: We have some beautiful historic sunrises and sunsets here up
Speaker 1: in No Cow. I mean it's it's beautiful up here too,
Speaker 1: but nothing more beautiful than so Caw, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: That is for sure.
Speaker 3: Game one at five oh eight tomorrow, Saxon Kates in
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Speaker 3: sixth ninety seven, two five seventy coming up in just
Speaker 3: a couple of minutes, you're gonna hear from Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: him and Aaron Boone the two managers in this world
Speaker 3: series have a rivalry going back all the way to college.
Speaker 3: What yeah, Not only do they have a rivalry now
Speaker 3: is the managers in this world series, but they're playing
Speaker 3: days for the Red Sox and Yankees squaring off in
Speaker 3: the ALCS back in the day, but it goes all
Speaker 3: the way back to UCLSC yes, thirty years ago. Well,
Speaker 3: here from Dave Roberts on that. In just a couple
Speaker 3: of minutes, let's go out to Joe and Sam Piedro. Joe,
Speaker 3: thanks for being with us here on an FHI seventy.
Speaker 7: How you doing, Hey guys, good morning, good morning. You
Speaker 7: know there's so many ties to San Pedro and the
Speaker 7: La Dodgers. Of course with Tim Lasord of the Italian community,
Speaker 7: and there was a moment in recognizing and paying tribute
Speaker 7: to Fernando these last few days that as a kid,
Speaker 7: I remember her first son. There was a rumor he
Speaker 7: was the first one was born in San Pedro in
Speaker 7: nineteen eighty two, but there was a rumor in town.
Speaker 7: There was a buzz at Fernando's first child gonna be
Speaker 7: born in Pedro. He lived in TV at the time,
Speaker 7: and everyone converged to San Pedro Hospital and when he
Speaker 7: came out with the child, with this Fernando Junior, everyone
Speaker 7: went wild. And this moment where we all recognized how
Speaker 7: important he was to the city, in this town in Saxony.
Speaker 7: I know you dated a girl in sam Pedro, if
Speaker 7: you recall.
Speaker 4: That was a big buzz too.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, I'm glad of it's been a long time, Joe,
Speaker 1: it's been a long time. It's been a quiet wow.
Speaker 4: A while back.
Speaker 7: But listen, as you know, what Fernando did to this
Speaker 7: city really brought people together. And how truly he's going
Speaker 7: to be missed in what he did for l A
Speaker 7: and the game of baseball. So yeah, I appreciate you
Speaker 7: guys recognizing them and paying tribute. And uh, clearly we're
Speaker 7: h time of mourning for this, for this town, for
Speaker 7: the city. It gave so much too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt, Joe, great to hear your voice. Appreciate
Speaker 3: you checking in this morning.
Speaker 1: Thanks Joe.
Speaker 3: Thanks all right, Joe and Sam Pedro appreciate that. Eight
Speaker 3: sixty six nine, eight seven seventy. Ken and Tarzana next
Speaker 3: up here on sax of Icates in the AMS.
Speaker 1: Ken, How you doing.
Speaker 4: I'm doing really well. How are you guys today?
Speaker 1: So good? Ken?
Speaker 4: Well, First of all, Steven, I've never heard that until
Speaker 4: a couple of days ago. Actually, and Timmy were you
Speaker 4: were a little bit surprised you heard from Steven that
Speaker 4: Fernando was called Freddie. Yeah, and I remember that all
Speaker 4: the time. And Fernando was just he hit everyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: And he also, uh, you know, I had I was
Speaker 4: in college at the time, and uh, there's a fraternity
Speaker 4: brother of mine and he loved to vertake Fernando at
Speaker 4: our parties pitching. That was great stuff. But I also
Speaker 4: wanted to talk about a couple of instances where Fernando
Speaker 4: was in the field but he wasn't pitching. Uh, Steve,
Speaker 4: you might remember a game that went the extra innings
Speaker 4: against the Cubs. I think it was twenty one innings.
Speaker 4: You went three for nine and had a walk, and uh,
Speaker 4: Freddie went out there and played left field in right field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and we weren't worried about his defense either, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I think the year after you you left the
Speaker 4: Dodgers and joined the dreaded Yankees, he went and played
Speaker 4: first base in the game that lasted over seven hours,
Speaker 4: twenty two innings. I also wanted to talk to you
Speaker 4: about the eighty six All Star Game where he signed
Speaker 4: the record for five k's in a row. And you
Speaker 4: actually you got to knock in that game, remember.
Speaker 1: That, Yeah, knuckleball for Charlie Charlie Huff, I remember it, yep.
Speaker 1: And Fernando was stellar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know that he was in five All
Speaker 4: Star Games. He didn't give up any run, seven to
Speaker 4: two thirds innings. It was nails.
Speaker 1: He was ken.
Speaker 3: Great to hear from you, as always, Thanks for checking
Speaker 3: in on this Thursday morning. Zaxtually, the rival reatweing the
Speaker 3: Dodgers and Yankees goes back so long, and this is
Speaker 3: the twelve time these two franchises are going to square off.
Speaker 3: The Yankees own an eight three advantage. The Dodgers, most
Speaker 3: recently nineteen eighty one, won that World Series matchup. As
Speaker 3: we have been talking about all week, we'll hear from
Speaker 3: Steve Yeager coming up next hour. The two managers in
Speaker 3: this world series Dave Roberts Aaron Boone, two Southern California
Speaker 3: guys managing in this world series. Aaron Boone went to
Speaker 3: USC Dave Roberts went to UCLA. Their one year part
Speaker 3: in age. Dave Roberts is fifty two, Aaron Boone is
Speaker 3: fifty one. They got the rivalry between the two when
Speaker 3: Aaron was playing for the Yankees and Dave Roberts was
Speaker 3: playing outfield for the Red Sox. In those matchups a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago, well almost twenty years ago, when
Speaker 3: they squared off, and then the great home run from
Speaker 3: Aaron Boone, he had the stolen base from Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: against the Yankees and the Alcs. And now here they
Speaker 3: are squaring off his managers. And yesterday Dave Roberts was
Speaker 3: talking to the media and was asked about his relationship
Speaker 3: with Aaron Boone, the Yankee manager.
Speaker 1: And here's the what do you have to say?
Speaker 8: So Aaron and I have a good history. We played
Speaker 8: against each other at college. He went to s COLGCLA.
Speaker 8: We've got a lot of mutual friends, so we we
Speaker 8: sort of have similar circles. I know that we talked
Speaker 8: before he got the Yankees job, and so we have
Speaker 8: a very good relationship. During the season, we talked a
Speaker 8: little bit. I think we talked. We talked a little
Speaker 8: bit when we played him this summer. Haven't reached down
Speaker 8: in the postseason either way. So we'll catch up on Friday, though.
Speaker 8: It's gonna be exciting.
Speaker 9: And you guys ever talked about, you know, your big
Speaker 9: stolen base for the Red Sox and his big home
Speaker 9: run for the Yankees.
Speaker 8: You know what we don't because yeah, so I would
Speaker 8: probably give him a lot of grief if he brought
Speaker 8: up that homer to beat the Socks, and he would
Speaker 8: return the favor to me if I brought up the
Speaker 8: stolen base. So we don't talk about that very often,
Speaker 8: but I do think it's it's very cool that, you know,
Speaker 8: we played against each other in college and now you
Speaker 8: know college rights and then now you know, you could
Speaker 8: just see that this rivalry with you know, the Dodgers
Speaker 8: and the Yankees, it's pretty specially goes way back, and
Speaker 8: so now we're doing it again, you know, opposing one another.
Speaker 8: So it's a pretty good story.
Speaker 9: That was thirty plus years ago that you and Aaron
Speaker 9: competed against each other in college. You were both I
Speaker 9: think nineteen years old when with the first time you
Speaker 9: got UCLA and USC played. What do you remember about
Speaker 9: those games? And were you friends off the field or
Speaker 9: didn't Bruins and Trojans mingle back then?
Speaker 8: Now, we weren't friends. I think at that point in time,
Speaker 8: I didn't care too much for him. I don't think
Speaker 8: he cared too much for me, and I do recall
Speaker 8: they probably got the best of us back in the day,
Speaker 8: so I probably enhanced my distaste for him and the Trojans.
Speaker 8: But he was always the heck of a ballplayer. You knew,
Speaker 8: I mean we played against each other and in the
Speaker 8: big leagues, and so he was always a smart baseball player,
Speaker 8: obviously a great pedigree, so you knew he was going
Speaker 8: to be in the game for a long time and
Speaker 8: just could be more excited for him.
Speaker 3: If we didn't need any more storylines for this World
Speaker 3: Series Dodgers Yankees, yet another one Aaron Boone Dave Roberts,
Speaker 3: going back to nineteen ninety two when they played against
Speaker 3: each other UCLA and USC and now both managers for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers and Yankees. This is unreal how these things
Speaker 3: lining up.
Speaker 1: Kind of a neat too, is you can kind of
Speaker 1: see these things way back and they fester into both
Speaker 1: being managers. You could see that with Mike Soosha, you
Speaker 1: could see that with a bunch of different guys. Corey Lavallo,
Speaker 1: you know, he's another guy that you could tell that
Speaker 1: just had that aptitude to become something bigger once the
Speaker 1: game was over and become something like a manager. And
Speaker 1: that's what happened with these two guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is unbelievable to see the two of them
Speaker 3: at the stage that they're at now. And not only
Speaker 3: are they talking about the history between the two and
Speaker 3: now the bigger conversation is which one of these managers
Speaker 3: needs to win this World Series more to save their job?
Speaker 1: I mean, do you really think their jobs on the
Speaker 1: line if they don't win it.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's the narrative is I mean, one of
Speaker 3: these is going to lose their job if they don't win,
Speaker 3: because this means so much.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that's fair. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I know it's, you know, win the World Series or
Speaker 1: go home gets bust. I get it. I understand the
Speaker 1: mentality but to fire somebody to lose their job with
Speaker 1: all the great things. Dave Roberts with ninety eight wins,
Speaker 1: the best team in baseball. Now he gets past the Padres,
Speaker 1: probably the best team in postseason besides the Dodgers. I
Speaker 1: think now he's in the World Series. If they don't win,
Speaker 1: his job's gone. I don't think that's right at all.
Speaker 3: No, I saw a whole question.
Speaker 1: I know you don't, Tim, I can't believe that from.
Speaker 3: Some riders saying which manager needs to win this World
Speaker 3: Series more to keep their job? And they were debating
Speaker 3: whether it was Aaron Boone or Dave Roberts. And in
Speaker 3: New York, certainly they think Aaron Boone needs to do
Speaker 3: something because he hasn't won a World Series and hasn't
Speaker 3: gotten to a World Series since taking over as manager
Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen. So I would say he needs this
Speaker 3: more than anybody Dave Roberts for what he's done. I mean,
Speaker 3: they shouldn't even be a question in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Well, look, yeah, when they say you know who needs
Speaker 1: to win this more and who's gonna lose your job?
Speaker 1: Well I guarantee one thing. Dave Roberts and Aaron Boone.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna be swinging the bat, pitching, running, fielding,
Speaker 1: doing anything. So this this whole thing, you're gonna can
Speaker 1: the guy. If they don't win, they're not they're not playing.
Speaker 1: All they can do is manage a team. All the
Speaker 1: officionados in baseball knows that anything can happen. You could
Speaker 1: have the Pittsburgh Pirates, put them supplant the Pittsburgh Pirates
Speaker 1: now for for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and you know what,
Speaker 1: they probably wouldn't, but it wouldn't be unheard of for
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Pirates to beat the Yankees in seven games
Speaker 1: could very well happen. So baseball is so unpredictable to
Speaker 1: can a guy and lose the job over everything that
Speaker 1: Aaron Boone and Dave Roberts have done great to manage
Speaker 1: these two teams, which is not easy. I just think
Speaker 1: that would be crazy wrong to do.
Speaker 3: If either one of these managers was managing the Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: Pirates and got them to a World they would.
Speaker 1: Be in last place.
Speaker 3: They'd have a statue built right off the clementing Hey
Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh David World Series.
Speaker 1: They would both finish. No, the Pirates would finish right
Speaker 1: where they finished this year. If both of those, either
Speaker 1: of those guys manage his team, Yeah, the Pirates would
Speaker 1: finish right where they did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it. They're not going anywhere if
Speaker 3: not the seller. Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy.
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Speaker 3: and they're gonna give you that winner's name and phone number,
Speaker 3: and then I'm gonna call you on the air. Oh,
Speaker 3: so have your phone on be ready to get a call.
Speaker 3: If you were out there and one of the hundreds
Speaker 3: that signed up up yesterday for a chance to win
Speaker 3: tickets to Game one in the World Series. Eight sixty
Speaker 3: six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the number.
Speaker 3: But be listening. Next we come back. One lucky winners
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