Speaker 1: Even if you're listening to LA Dodgers Baseball on top
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Speaker 1: David Bassey with you until at least seven o'clock right
Speaker 1: here on AM five to seventy LA Sports you tuned
Speaker 1: in to hear Dodgers mets. Well, Mother Nature had something
Speaker 1: to say about it. There's a rain delay in the
Speaker 1: top of the third inning, runners at second and third
Speaker 1: with one out in a scoreless tie. The Dodgers have
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman at the plate when play resumes in the
Speaker 1: top of the third inning, threatening to put the first
Speaker 1: run of the game on the board. But the reality is,
Speaker 1: even if the Dodgers win this game, it's not ideal
Speaker 1: because we all know how taxed their bullpen has been
Speaker 1: so far to begin this season. They have thrown more
Speaker 1: innings than any other bullpen in baseball, two hundred and
Speaker 1: fourteen innings. And the Dodgers lose their starting pitch, or
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw, after just two innings and twenty six pitches,
Speaker 1: not because of injury, but because this delay is extended,
Speaker 1: so both starters out of the game after two innings.
Speaker 1: And in this day and age in baseball. Going back
Speaker 1: to that road trip in Atlanta where the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: Braves waited three hours to throw a first pitch, the
Speaker 1: reason why they waited three hours was because neither team
Speaker 1: and this goes across the board and baseball. These days,
Speaker 1: teams would rather wait to start the game even if
Speaker 1: there's a slim chance of rain, because neither team wants
Speaker 1: what's happening tonight to happen, and that is play the
Speaker 1: first two or three innings and lose your starter and
Speaker 1: go to your bullpen in a game that goes to
Speaker 1: the bullpen. More than ever, teams don't want to have
Speaker 1: to do it on nights they don't have to because
Speaker 1: of rain. So this shouldn't be a surprise that rain
Speaker 1: was going to be here. It's surprising they didn't push
Speaker 1: back the start time of this game. And now Griffin
Speaker 1: Canning and Clayton Kershaw are Nolan void after two innings
Speaker 1: and I don't know where the Mets bullpen is. I
Speaker 1: know they just came out of Fenway Park, but I
Speaker 1: could tell you where the Dodger bullpen is. And it's
Speaker 1: not ideal to have to cover six more innings tonight,
Speaker 1: even if you get four or five innings from Matt Soer.
Speaker 1: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 1: the phone number. We have two lines open at eight
Speaker 1: six six nine eight seven two five seventy. We will
Speaker 1: get back to your phone calls in a moment, but
Speaker 1: first we want to check in with our guy, Jose Moda.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Moda.
Speaker 1: All right, Jose Moda. I just laid it out. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers could win this game, but in some ways not
Speaker 1: ideal to start this road trip and the stretch of
Speaker 1: twenty five games against very good teams by having to
Speaker 1: cover six innings with your bullpen.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Always the impredictability of having the weather in the East
Speaker 4: and the things that obviously, as you talked about, they
Speaker 4: face in Atlanta, you know come through right away, and
Speaker 4: this tough stretch that they're going to come you know,
Speaker 4: go through. Well, this is where you have to really
Speaker 4: go back and look, David. The options that you have
Speaker 4: on guys can go long relief, and that's one of
Speaker 4: them is sour obviously, but the valuable casparrios and a dryer.
Speaker 4: It really comes into view, and you know what, before
Speaker 4: this trip they're already thinking about if we run into
Speaker 4: this situation, what are we going to be scrambling with.
Speaker 4: So this is not something that's you know, just caught
Speaker 4: them by surprise. Obviously, they're looking at the options as
Speaker 4: to who can come in if there's a delay, if
Speaker 4: there's a postponement or anything like that. But it's not
Speaker 4: the way you want to start it. But guess what,
Speaker 4: nobody's gonna wait for you or feel bad for you.
Speaker 4: Gotta go out there and pick it up where it
Speaker 4: is and hopefully they'll be able to stop the Mets
Speaker 4: and win a ball game somehow. Patching things up on
Speaker 4: the mountains, no.
Speaker 1: Doubt, Jose, But were you surprised, like in Atlanta when
Speaker 1: we were sitting there for three hours until ten pm
Speaker 1: Eastern time, they didn't do the same thing here.
Speaker 4: I am surprised by that, because, as you mentioned, that
Speaker 4: is the nightmare for any manager, general manager, anybody in
Speaker 4: the office, is if we cannot have our starter go
Speaker 4: out there, get wund up, go through the routine, throw
Speaker 4: fifteen pitches, twenty pitches, thirty pitches, and then lose them.
Speaker 4: That is ultimately what you want to avoid. And I
Speaker 4: was surprised that in fact, you know, the wave's been
Speaker 4: running there through that throughout the area. You know, for
Speaker 4: the last few days. Shot there was not presented that
Speaker 4: way because there's a couple of bands coming and obviously
Speaker 4: they got hit and might be getting hit again here soon.
Speaker 1: Jose. Motive is with us. Jose, what about that play
Speaker 1: in the third inning? Michael confordo tagging.
Speaker 4: Up, Yeah, Dave, here's one thing about that play. I
Speaker 4: learned that play in college. I learned that play in
Speaker 4: college to how to run on the basis when that happens,
Speaker 4: and it's very easy. It's first contact, the ball finds
Speaker 4: the glove, you go out there and tag up. And
Speaker 4: obviously we learned that in college because there's some tricks
Speaker 4: being put out sometimes by some of these teams who
Speaker 4: played in the fall, the junior colleges that wanted to
Speaker 4: be a cal state full listen, So coach HOGI clearly say, hey,
Speaker 4: this juggling thing that somebody tried on you just de minuted.
Speaker 4: The ball hits the glove, you go. So it is
Speaker 4: unfortunately the rule is not interpreted correctly on the booths.
Speaker 4: It's one of those things you've got to really be
Speaker 4: prepared to have your book with you, as we always do.
Speaker 4: But there's no doubt in my mind that when Dino
Speaker 4: Evil saw Comfordo get there, Comfordo did the right thing.
Speaker 4: He knew that he doesn't have to wait for that
Speaker 4: ball to go down. There's so many guys that will
Speaker 4: try any trick to fool you into not tagging, or
Speaker 4: to make you think that they're going to drop the baseball,
Speaker 4: and then even suspend the ball a little bit higher
Speaker 4: if they need to, and catch it lower just to
Speaker 4: throw you off. So I'm glad that the rule is
Speaker 4: so clear in size to the point, and Michael Comfortia
Speaker 4: knew exactly what the rule was.
Speaker 1: It's because they don't want to have an outfielder juggle
Speaker 1: the ball all the way into the infield.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. In fact, some frech employed sometimes you juggle
Speaker 4: it to the other outfield there just to say, let's
Speaker 4: confuse his base run as much as you can. But
Speaker 4: that's where you know guys that pay attention obviously with
Speaker 4: a base running instincts of players and the fact that
Speaker 4: details are covered so often from spring training. I mean, Dave,
Speaker 4: this is colored by Dino and Chris what it was
Speaker 4: covered also by Clay McCollough on things that can happen
Speaker 4: as you cover also ground rules, so many things that
Speaker 4: you are told do not play umpire just continue to
Speaker 4: run on other plays. Ay, you go out there and
Speaker 4: play the game correctly and know exactly what needs to
Speaker 4: happen for you not to be fooled by anybody. Just
Speaker 4: like the infield rule. I mean things like that that
Speaker 4: you've got to be very aware of when not two
Speaker 4: and one two. But you got to clear your head
Speaker 4: sometimes and actually you get a refreshing spring running here
Speaker 4: and there to make sure that nothing has changed, because
Speaker 4: we know there's some change and rules implemented every single season.
Speaker 1: Mozay, we're going to put you on hold. We're going
Speaker 1: to continue this conversation on the other side. Jose mode
Speaker 1: is with us during raindo laid Dodger time. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take another time out when we come back more Jose Mota,
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls at eight sixty six nine,
Speaker 1: eight seven, two five seventy. David Vass with you on
Speaker 1: m five to seventy. LA Sports.
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Speaker 1: We continue on on raindo lay Dodger Talk. David Vassay
Speaker 1: with you in a raindelay. Top of the third inning,
Speaker 1: runners at second and third for the Dodgers, one out
Speaker 1: and Freddie Freeman at the plate. We have great news.
Speaker 1: They have announced at City Field that first pitch will
Speaker 1: resume at six thirty five. That's right, So in about
Speaker 1: twenty minutes baseball will be played and we'll see what
Speaker 1: the Meds and Dodgers do with their pitching. I personally
Speaker 1: believe a specially on the Dodgers side, second start for Kershaw,
Speaker 1: this long of a delay, especially now the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: hitting threatening, they're not going to bring Kershaw back. So
Speaker 1: I would say fifty to fifty with Griffin Canning as well.
Speaker 1: Jose motives sticking with us on the other side, Jose,
Speaker 1: what do you think about what the Mets and Dodgers
Speaker 1: do with their starters. Do you agree it's a little
Speaker 1: too long for Kershaw to come back?
Speaker 4: It's too long, it's too risky for both of them.
Speaker 4: In Griffin Canning is still on the wall well, and
Speaker 4: I got my clock running here at one twelve right now,
Speaker 4: our thirteen minutes right now since the LA started. So
Speaker 4: one thing you were talking about that was very important
Speaker 4: usage of the bullpen for the Mets, They're in very
Speaker 4: good shape of their bullpen. They used two relievers two
Speaker 4: days ago, then one reliever, and then through relievers and
Speaker 4: they have not repeated relievers. They'll figure that out. The
Speaker 4: best staff in basebaow and they have so many options
Speaker 4: right now because their pitchers are giving them length. That's
Speaker 4: what happens. So obviously we'll see how the Dodgers map
Speaker 4: it up. But certainly what you hoping you were talking
Speaker 4: about Bobby Miller before that one of these guys that's
Speaker 4: going to challenge somebody is able to go out there
Speaker 4: and say I'm here to stay when he gets a
Speaker 4: call up. Because they're patching up with a bullpen and
Speaker 4: the bullpen games, it's not the appropriate stretch. I have
Speaker 4: those things happening right now, so I hope somebody really
Speaker 4: sticks their head out and says, hey, I'm here to stay,
Speaker 4: and hopefully, you know, one of the guys from the minors,
Speaker 4: we'll be able to do that unless he goes, hey,
Speaker 4: cuse parents the starter now, and I have no reason
Speaker 4: to believe that he can't be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know the Dodgers believe he can be too,
Speaker 1: but with the state of their pitching staff, it feels
Speaker 1: like they get more out of Caspirius in the role
Speaker 1: that he's in right now than just having to use
Speaker 1: them once every five days.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it is a valuable piece with him when
Speaker 4: you consider that his stuff plays so good. His stuff
Speaker 4: is one that he doesn't try from the strike zone.
Speaker 4: He can go out there and fill the zone. This
Speaker 4: guy wants the baseball, very in tune with what's happening
Speaker 4: in the game. One thing that really catches my ear
Speaker 4: when I talk to him is how much he knows
Speaker 4: about what happened, Like in the first thing, the batter, well,
Speaker 4: the guy was chasing two later in the game when
Speaker 4: he comes in to know exactly what it needs to
Speaker 4: go to. That's why he His misses are a lot
Speaker 4: of times on purpose to see how much a guy
Speaker 4: was going to xmund the zone. And there's very knowledgeable
Speaker 4: young man to a nail that number one a manager's
Speaker 4: dream because he wants the baseball. He's not going to
Speaker 4: go out there and try to go, you know, thirty
Speaker 4: five to forty pitches and get out of there. He
Speaker 4: wants the baseball for five or six innings, if it's
Speaker 4: a middle relief, known that the state of the picture
Speaker 4: rotation is the way it is. But crly a guy
Speaker 4: that you can trust in any type of situation, in fact,
Speaker 4: even to close a game where he came to do
Speaker 4: with that here very close, just a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: Jose Mode is joining us during rain delay Dodger talk.
Speaker 1: The game will be resuming here in fifteen minutes at
Speaker 1: City Field, top of the third inning, runners at second
Speaker 1: and third, with Freddie Freeman at the plate in a
Speaker 1: scoreless tie, and Jose we talk about the Dodgers state
Speaker 1: of pitching, and we go back to last year's postseason run.
Speaker 1: I still don't feel like this offense gets enough credit,
Speaker 1: because if the Dodgers are going to get through this
Speaker 1: tough stretch, the way to take the burden off their
Speaker 1: staff is by scoring runs. And the Dodger offense has
Speaker 1: scored the second most runs in baseball, so they're doing
Speaker 1: their job. And I still don't feel as a unit
Speaker 1: they're getting enough credit.
Speaker 4: And I don't think as a unit they have really
Speaker 4: hit stride. I mean there's some nice stretches, you know,
Speaker 4: win five to six in a row. One of the
Speaker 4: discrepancies I've had is that home they average a full
Speaker 4: run over the road in terms of runs per game.
Speaker 4: But to average five point six per game, it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 4: But davidt some point also the pitching has to pick
Speaker 4: up the offense. We know that, you know, it's great
Speaker 4: to hit. It's not fun to be in a differencet
Speaker 4: every night and play from behind. It's very exciting to win,
Speaker 4: you know, combat games and come from behind games. But
Speaker 4: I just hope that there's more stability in allowing the
Speaker 4: offense to play their game a little bit more on
Speaker 4: the smother side without having the press into these certain
Speaker 4: situations of windows that happened during the game. It that's
Speaker 4: gonna happen about the guys throwing some most early because
Speaker 4: they're gonna still some runs. But you can say, you
Speaker 4: can always say when these these there's a little more
Speaker 4: distress in scoring runs when the opportunities are not there,
Speaker 4: when the windows are closing in the offensive side, when
Speaker 4: you just can't get it done. But uh, I just
Speaker 4: hope that we can flip things around. And going back
Speaker 4: to the postseason last year, no doubt, no doubt, it
Speaker 4: was about the offense scoring a lot of runs and
Speaker 4: torching other teams and at the same time capitalizing on
Speaker 4: every single mistake made. And it started with the Pottery
Speaker 4: series where the ball was outstanding, give them the ball
Speaker 4: to Yabamolta and things like that. But they pretty much
Speaker 4: made it on two and a half starters, considering that
Speaker 4: the state of injuries and all the you know, things
Speaker 4: that were lacking there. But glad to see the offense clicking.
Speaker 4: Hopefully they'll continue to do that, but I just want
Speaker 4: to see kind of things even out a little bit
Speaker 4: more and having the pitching pick up the offense sometimes.
Speaker 1: All right, Jose Mota. Before I'll let you go, a
Speaker 1: little known fact about the mysterious Jose Mota is that
Speaker 1: he is the true foodie on this show and the
Speaker 1: pizza talk earlier on. I did hear that what you
Speaker 1: got for us in New York? Jose, If somebody wants
Speaker 1: to go get a slice a pie, where would you
Speaker 1: recommend in New York to get a good pizza.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go to John's, There's no doubt about it. Okay,
Speaker 4: John's Yes on Bleaker Street. Yes. And now for a
Speaker 4: good Italian I like the old Tom Italian. So I'm
Speaker 4: going to go to Primona. Okaymola's on the east Side.
Speaker 4: Just an old throwback boning, uh Vill Palmer, John Clovers
Speaker 4: your entire place. So things like that are good. But
Speaker 4: I can't beat going New York because it's Dominican town.
Speaker 4: Washington Hikes, Vince Kelley's the area Dominican so he could
Speaker 4: go find anything you want from the dr.
Speaker 1: How could want Soto be sad he's still in New
Speaker 1: York with all that great Dominican food.
Speaker 4: How can he have this body language? One, Toto? Come
Speaker 4: on now, all the people supporting you there. But I
Speaker 4: mean that's another topic and we can get into a
Speaker 4: little bit more about.
Speaker 1: Hey, we'll do that during the next ring delay.
Speaker 4: Let's do it.
Speaker 3: Talk.
Speaker 4: I mean, the whole documentary thing. I got to follow
Speaker 4: that too. That's a good stuff you got today. The
Speaker 4: guy waking up and hitting his phone bit. I mean,
Speaker 4: come on now, that blue light, Dave. You got to
Speaker 4: give some advice here too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, blue light, get the blue light before you
Speaker 1: call into.
Speaker 4: The show about the kmart one right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks a lot, Jose, and great to hear your voice.
Speaker 1: And before we let you go, this is the best
Speaker 1: time than any. Can you give us an update on
Speaker 1: how your dad, the legendary Mani Mota is doing.
Speaker 4: Pops was actually riding a tricycle today in his rehab
Speaker 4: where I get to take him two or three times
Speaker 4: a week, and he was quite happy. So I keep asking, like, Okay,
Speaker 4: when can he do this because he is dying to
Speaker 4: write that trike at down your stadium in the hallway.
Speaker 4: So they're like, little by little he's getting there. Maybe
Speaker 4: another week or so he'll be able to go to
Speaker 4: the stadium and ride his trike. Somebody next to him though,
Speaker 4: make sure he's you know, they'll lose his vout. But
Speaker 4: Dad is doing quite well, and thankfully, as always, I
Speaker 4: appreciate all the prayers and thoughts from so many people
Speaker 4: all over the world that have shunt up the talks
Speaker 4: to all of us, So thank you so much. Pops
Speaker 4: is uh what in fact? Pops is like, where's the
Speaker 4: game tonight? I can't find the game?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's on a five seventy, that's where the game is.
Speaker 3: Dad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's all believed that he was turning right away
Speaker 4: between between A five seventy and Pepe, and you know,
Speaker 4: he's he's quite happy.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 1: All right, Jose, thanks a lot, and we're so happy
Speaker 1: your dad is on the way back and can't wait
Speaker 1: to see number eleven back at Dodgers Stadium. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you tomorrow. You take care there, he goes Jose Mota,
Speaker 1: part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast, and the Dodgers
Speaker 1: and Mets in rain delay here top of the third inning.
Speaker 1: But first pitch is coming up at six thirty five.
Speaker 1: Let's go out to our guy, Ira Craig in Long Beach.
Speaker 1: Can't have a rain delay Dodger talk without Iray Craig.
Speaker 3: What they I'm doing great?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 3: I am doing my mighty fine. My friend. Listen, how
Speaker 3: old is Many Mota.
Speaker 1: I don't know how old he is, but he's in
Speaker 1: great shape. And that's the reason why he survived.
Speaker 3: Gollie Man, I mean that guy was old when he
Speaker 3: was still pinch hitting back in the seventies.
Speaker 1: That he will tell you. Whenever he pinch hit for
Speaker 1: guys like Dusty Baker or Willie starg Old, they did
Speaker 1: not like it. He was not a popular guy when
Speaker 1: he was sent to the on deck.
Speaker 4: Circle, but he was affected.
Speaker 1: Yes, he was a great teammate, and everybody loves many
Speaker 1: Mota and we're all really happy that he's on his
Speaker 1: way back. Hey, II, Ray Craig, you could appreciate that
Speaker 1: since the Dodgers are playing the Mets. Not only was
Speaker 1: Many Mota one of the greatest pinch hitters in baseball history,
Speaker 1: he also was one of the great hitting coaches and
Speaker 1: first base coaches in Dodger history. He was the first
Speaker 1: base coach in eighty eight when a Mike Soosha hit
Speaker 1: his big home run off of Dwight Gooden in Game
Speaker 1: four to tie the game, and he was the first
Speaker 1: base coach slapping Kirk Gibson when he hit his walk
Speaker 1: off home run against Dennis Eckersley.
Speaker 3: There you go, there's some key information right there. I
Speaker 3: can remember that night, man. I remember what I was
Speaker 3: doing where I was. I was a go and see
Speaker 3: Judas Priest that night when he away at Homer at
Speaker 3: Irvine Meadows, and I.
Speaker 1: Am not surprised.
Speaker 3: I was sitting right by, right by Irvine Medos watching
Speaker 3: the TV, and I was like, hold on, man, because
Speaker 3: if they get if they get, somebody on Gibson's coming up,
Speaker 3: I'm telling you. And sure enough you did and you
Speaker 3: hit that home run and we ran all the way
Speaker 3: through the strawberry fields. That Judus priest walked in, bought
Speaker 3: a beard, Knights went out, concert started. Rob Halford comes
Speaker 3: out and says, oh, here, you dogs just won a
Speaker 3: big game.
Speaker 1: That's correct, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Listen, you want some good pizza, dude, I got great
Speaker 3: pizza for you in Long Beach, Belmont Shore on Second Street.
Speaker 3: The oldest business on Second Street is Dominico's Italian Food.
Speaker 1: I've been there.
Speaker 3: Have you to Dominico's.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've been to Dominico's. I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's solid. It's solid, Creg.
Speaker 3: Well, their Italian food is good, but their ground sausage
Speaker 3: pizza is awesome.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a man of the people type of pizza.
Speaker 1: So we'll try that out. Thank you for the contribution.
Speaker 3: You also use the dipping the salad dressing to dip
Speaker 3: it ind.
Speaker 1: Oh come on, if you got to dip the pizza,
Speaker 1: it's not at the top, Craig, I'm sorry, dude.
Speaker 3: The salad dressing there is just.
Speaker 1: Why don't we just get a side of ranch, Craig.
Speaker 3: No ranch, bail on that same thing.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. If I have to dip my
Speaker 1: pizza and ranch or sauce, then I'm talking about Papa
Speaker 1: John's or Domino's. That ain't for me. Hey, that's the
Speaker 1: first thing we've ever disagreed upon. That's the first thing
Speaker 1: we've ever disagreed on. All Right, Greg, you're the man.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for the phone call. We got to
Speaker 1: run eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree. If somebody says this
Speaker 1: is the greatest pizza and you dip it into something,
Speaker 1: it's not the greatest pizza. Eight six six nine eighty seven,
Speaker 1: two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers and Mets.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get things going here shortly. The Mets are
Speaker 1: going to bring out their reliever, Max Kranick in place
Speaker 1: of Griffin Canning, who was the starter for the Mets
Speaker 1: when the rain came down. And I would venture to say,
Speaker 1: in some form or fashion at some point here, you're
Speaker 1: going to have You're gonna have Matt Sower in some
Speaker 1: form or fashion in this game, because he's a starter
Speaker 1: in TRIPAA. He's been extended as a reliever out of
Speaker 1: the bullpen so so he's essentially your long reliever and
Speaker 1: in games like this you need Matt soer Hey, by
Speaker 1: the way, speaking of pizzas and all that, a quick
Speaker 1: good pizza, I gotta say, if you're from the valley,
Speaker 1: Baron's pizza is a pretty good one. On Ventura Boulevard.
Speaker 1: Let's go out to north Ridge. Carlos, Hey, you know
Speaker 1: the great one A Carlos You're on Dodger Talk, David.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the opportunity, Thank you very much. So I
Speaker 2: was not gonna, you know, talk about any specific player
Speaker 2: per se or anything like that. What I was gonna
Speaker 2: comment about was how, you know, the fan base for
Speaker 2: our team has grown over the year, especially last year
Speaker 2: after the World Series win, and how many players, how
Speaker 2: many fans who are new to baseball, you know, panic
Speaker 2: in May, we had a four game losing street recently,
Speaker 2: you know, and then it was just panic online, you know,
Speaker 2: all the Dodger groups like on Facebook, you know, negative comments,
Speaker 2: fire Roberts. There was fans that were happy that Barnsey
Speaker 2: left and the seat three left, you know, bashing you know,
Speaker 2: kersh because he got touched up a little bit. I
Speaker 2: think that we shouldn't do that. You know, as fans,
Speaker 2: we got to be more supportive of our team, good
Speaker 2: times and bad times. Unfortunately, some of these new fans,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of bums me out. And I know
Speaker 2: that there's a lot of fans out there who feel
Speaker 2: the same way. You know as well.
Speaker 1: If you become a fan the last ten or twelve years, Carlos,
Speaker 1: you've been spoiled because we all know it wasn't like that,
Speaker 1: even as recently as twenty eleven. I think we all
Speaker 1: need to have that perspective that this is the golden
Speaker 1: age of Dodger baseball, and it's hard to acknowledge that
Speaker 1: when you're in it, because twenty thirty years people will
Speaker 1: look back in sports history and they'll say that was
Speaker 1: the greatest time to be a Dodger fan right there,
Speaker 1: and we're living it right now absolutely all right, Carlos,
Speaker 1: thanks for the phone call you made sense. I like that.
Speaker 1: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 1: the phone number I wanted to share with you. Player
Speaker 1: A and player B that are playing in tonight's game.
Speaker 1: Player A is Juan Sota, who signed the richest contract
Speaker 1: in North American sports history. Player b is Taoscar Hernandez,
Speaker 1: who re signed with the Dodgers for three years and
Speaker 1: sixty six something million dollars. And we all know how
Speaker 1: great of a teammate Taoscar Hernandez is, and that should
Speaker 1: factor into all this. Look, I've confirmed the Dodgers had
Speaker 1: real talks with Scott Boris and they were a real
Speaker 1: player for Juan Soto. If they signed Juan Soto, they
Speaker 1: probably don't re sign ti Oscar Hernandez. And I may
Speaker 1: be in the minority, And I know how good of
Speaker 1: a hitter Juan Soto is, but that's all he is.
Speaker 1: He's a good player. He's a good hitter. Not even
Speaker 1: a good player. He's a good hitter. He doesn't play
Speaker 1: the outfield that well. We have seen him have lapses
Speaker 1: of hustle, not only this year but in years past.
Speaker 1: He's a great hitter, but just in this season. Small
Speaker 1: sample size of the first fifty games to Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 1: has one less hit than Juan Soto. He has two
Speaker 1: more home runs than Juan Soto. He has way more
Speaker 1: RBIs than Juan Soto. Taascar Hernandez has ten home runs
Speaker 1: and thirty eight RBIs, while Juan Soto has eight home
Speaker 1: runs and twenty one RBIs Taascar Hernandez coming into the
Speaker 1: game tonight hitting three oh seven Juan Soto two forty three.
Speaker 1: Taoscar Hernandez has a better slug in percentage ops ops
Speaker 1: plus And if you're into that silly stat of war,
Speaker 1: Taascar Hernandez beats Juan Soto in that category as well.
Speaker 1: Not to mention the great teammate and inclusive teammate, and
Speaker 1: the great fielder and the heart and soul of the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: ta Oscar Hernandez is. Give me eight other ta Oscar
Speaker 1: Hernandez is, and I'll beat your eight other Juan Sotos
Speaker 1: without a doubt. Don't ever forget that eight six six nine,
Speaker 1: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number that'll
Speaker 1: do it for us on rain delay Dodger Talk. Hopefully
Speaker 1: no other rain delays, and after the game we'll have
Speaker 1: the postgame show, all the highlights and postgame reaction as well,
Speaker 1: But for now we're sending it back to Rick Monday
Speaker 1: and Steven Nelson at City Field, top of the third
Speaker 1: inning in a scoreless tie with Freddie Freeman at the
Speaker 1: plate and runners in scoring position, Rick and Steven right
Speaker 1: around the corner on a five to seventy LA Sports
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