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 win this.
Speaker 3: I love writing me these guys after the show.
Speaker 4: So just thank you, give me are your attention, your
Speaker 4: fire and not a pisson.
Speaker 5: This is world champion, Dodgers, world champion thing.
Speaker 6: Put a small soft time they get a people what
Speaker 6: they want to die to in a row two is special.
Speaker 7: I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache.
Speaker 6: One of the con This ball's gone. You ready to go?
Speaker 5: Hell time go to the South, grab your phone to
Speaker 5: get in on the show called eight six six nine
Speaker 5: eighty seven two five seven. I'll go to the show
Speaker 5: and now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 8: As expected, rain has interrupted the first game of the
Speaker 8: Dodgers road trip in the first game in Queens, as
Speaker 8: the Dodgers and Mets are in a rain delay in
Speaker 8: the top of the third inning, no score with runners
Speaker 8: at the for Freddie Freeman when the rain really dumped
Speaker 8: at City Field.
Speaker 6: So we'll keep you updated.
Speaker 8: On when the Dodgers and Mets will resume this game,
Speaker 8: and hopefully it's sooner rather than later because it would
Speaker 8: not be beneficial to the Dodgers to have their starting
Speaker 8: pitcher taken out of the game because of rain after
Speaker 8: just two innings.
Speaker 6: And it would be even.
Speaker 8: Worse to have Clayton Kershaw taken out of this game
Speaker 8: and have to sit for an extended period of time.
Speaker 8: Considering where the Dodger bullpen is. I mean, we've been
Speaker 8: talking about this since the last homestand right the Dodger
Speaker 8: bullpen is thin.
Speaker 6: Starters are not.
Speaker 8: Going deep into games, and because of rain now it
Speaker 8: may prevent their starter from going deep into the game
Speaker 8: because mother Nature had something to say about it. So
Speaker 8: not ideal for the Dodgers or Kershaw right now in
Speaker 8: a rain delay in the top of the third inning
Speaker 8: with no score at City Field. David Vasse with you
Speaker 8: on rain delay Dodger Talk. We do have phone lines
Speaker 8: open at eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 8: We will hear from manager Dave Roberts. Because the Japanese
Speaker 8: media was well ahead of the American media covering the Dodgers.
Speaker 8: If you've been listening to Dodger Talk since last weekend,
Speaker 8: you would have heard me report that some members of
Speaker 8: the Japanese media relate to me that Dodgers trainer Thomas
Speaker 8: Albert let them know that Yes, indeed, tomorrow show Hey
Speaker 8: Otani will throw to hitters in a live batting practice
Speaker 8: setting at City Field. It will be the first time
Speaker 8: Otani will have will do this since his second elbow
Speaker 8: surgery about twenty months ago.
Speaker 6: So to me, when I saw Twitter.
Speaker 8: Blow up and all these news stories being written about
Speaker 8: Otani breaking news He's gonna throw a live batting practice
Speaker 8: session tomorrow, well it really wasn't batting. It wasn't really
Speaker 8: breaking news. If you were listening to Dodger Talk since
Speaker 8: last Saturday, we told you that was going to happen,
Speaker 8: and Dave Roberts just confirmed it. Eight six six nine
Speaker 8: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Another
Speaker 8: layer to all this and all the pitching injuries that
Speaker 8: the Dodgers have had and to a certain extent, some
Speaker 8: of their younger pitchers not stepping up when they've been
Speaker 8: given the opportunity. Is people wondering if the Dodgers would
Speaker 8: accelerate Otani's throwing program to make him available in the
Speaker 8: near future to be a starting pitcher for the Dodgers,
Speaker 8: rather than stick with their plan have Otani come back
Speaker 8: the second half of the year and.
Speaker 6: Be ready for October.
Speaker 8: Dave Roberts was our high and tight pregame guest before
Speaker 8: today's game.
Speaker 6: Here's what he said about the plan for Otani. You
Speaker 6: know the short answers.
Speaker 9: No, I think that show, hey, doctor elatross a training
Speaker 9: for all driving this sort of ramp up progression. I
Speaker 9: think it's separate. It's a separate issue, and I think
Speaker 9: that one part of it, or that I guess the
Speaker 9: main part of it is his value to us as
Speaker 9: a hitter as it is, as it stands, is so valuable, right,
Speaker 9: and so to try to speed something up to take
Speaker 9: on some type of downside just doesn't make sense. So
Speaker 9: I do think that we are being very methodical about it.
Speaker 9: I can safely say he's probably not going to pitch
Speaker 9: for us until after the break. But I don't think
Speaker 9: that the injuries that we've had is going to speed
Speaker 9: up his process.
Speaker 8: All Right, there's manager Dave Roberts, our pregame guest today
Speaker 8: in the manager's office saying, look, that makes sense. One
Speaker 8: thing that Dodgers have done better than any other team
Speaker 8: out there the last ten twelve years, and especially in
Speaker 8: the last few years.
Speaker 6: Is not panic.
Speaker 8: They're not going to panic and all of a sudden
Speaker 8: tell Otani, hey, ramp this thing up. We need you now.
Speaker 8: Glass now's down, Snell's not coming back for another month.
Speaker 8: We need you now.
Speaker 6: Landon Na's been ineffective. We need you now.
Speaker 8: Otani, ramp this up, Live BP tomorrow. You're in the
Speaker 8: rotation next week. No, the Dodgers have done a great
Speaker 8: job ever since Andrew Friedman has taken over. Is to
Speaker 8: perfect how to win the regular season. Yes, there's been
Speaker 8: some close calls over the course of the last twelve years.
Speaker 8: They had to go to a game won sixty three
Speaker 8: against the Rockies. The Giants had a miracle season in
Speaker 8: twenty twenty one, won the division. The Padres have pushed them,
Speaker 8: pushed them last year, But the Dodgers, even in those
Speaker 8: anomaly of seasons, have never panicked and try to put
Speaker 8: their players in a position that would affect their chances
Speaker 8: or the best chances for the postseason.
Speaker 6: And that's the reason.
Speaker 8: Why the Dodgers are not going to put the ass
Speaker 8: pedal on Otani and his throwing.
Speaker 6: Progression.
Speaker 8: So tomorrow Live BP, and he will not pitch still
Speaker 8: until after the all Star break, and I would venture
Speaker 8: you won't see Otani pitch until probably August, maybe after
Speaker 8: the All Star break, that first turn, that first Saturday,
Speaker 8: because remember, even when you do see Otani pitch, it's
Speaker 8: only going to be once a week, and it more
Speaker 8: than likely is going to be on Saturday, because the
Speaker 8: Dodgers have structured his throwing program where he does these
Speaker 8: aggressive bullpens on Saturdays. And it's not a coincidence Otani
Speaker 8: is going to throw his first live BP session tomorrow
Speaker 8: on a Saturday. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 8: five seventy is the phone number. This is rain delay
Speaker 8: Dodger Talk with David Vasse, the Dodgers and Mets in
Speaker 8: a rain delay top of the third inning, runners at
Speaker 8: the corners for Freddie Freeman. And before we go out
Speaker 8: to the phones and we have two lines open, I
Speaker 8: just wanted to applaud and give a lot of kudos
Speaker 8: to our very own Rick Monday.
Speaker 6: Who probably knows the rule book.
Speaker 8: Better than any other broadcaster in Major League Baseball. And
Speaker 8: that's the reason why if you were listening or making
Speaker 8: it a samulcast, because this game is being televised on
Speaker 8: Apple TV, Rick immediately was all over the play that
Speaker 8: was sent to review for an extended period of time.
Speaker 8: When Juan Soto on Tyrone Taylor collided in center field,
Speaker 8: the ball popped out of Taylor's glove or Soto's, and
Speaker 8: he juggled it, caught it, and Confordo tagged as soon
Speaker 8: as he saw Taylor and the ball be able to
Speaker 8: make contact with each other as far as the glove goes,
Speaker 8: and Rick knew immediately that's the rule. Once you see
Speaker 8: the ball going the glove, even if it pops out,
Speaker 8: you're allowed to tag up. And if you were watching
Speaker 8: the Apple broadcast, I like Wayne Randazzo a lot, but
Speaker 8: the reality is he's a former Mets radio play by
Speaker 8: play guy, and I feel like I'm watching an s
Speaker 8: NY hometown broadcast. He was livid over the fact he
Speaker 8: couldn't believe that they're taking this long.
Speaker 6: Of course he's out, he left too soon.
Speaker 8: Well, you gotta know the rules, especially on a national broadcast,
Speaker 8: and Dontrelle Willis had no clue either. So I advise you,
Speaker 8: moving forward, when this game resumes, make it a simulcast
Speaker 8: with Rick Monday and Steven Nelson, because that Apple broadcast,
Speaker 8: ain't it? Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 8: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to long beat.
Speaker 6: Sean. You're on Dodgery Talk. How you doing, Sean?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 7: Dave, I am calling about Mokey best and the fact
Speaker 7: that he doesn't lead off anymore. I know, amazing and
Speaker 7: he's amazing at leading off.
Speaker 3: But I remember, I don't know if you remember a
Speaker 3: few years ago.
Speaker 7: When that will be made, the rule that a pitcher
Speaker 7: had to pitch.
Speaker 3: Against three batters.
Speaker 7: Dave Roberts hitting the linet based on why and Moki
Speaker 7: was batting leadoff some days and in the two whole
Speaker 7: other days, and his splits were so crazy that Dave
Speaker 7: Robert Kane's mind and Mokey was leoff you know every
Speaker 7: day that was.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, weird, weird season, but yeah, and then MOOKI, you know,
Speaker 7: has broken its. Like isn't he top five all time
Speaker 7: in leadoff home runs? He's just an amazing leadoff.
Speaker 2: Hit It time show.
Speaker 7: Hey, I don't this is These are numbers from the
Speaker 7: other day, but sixteen home runs and thirty RB you
Speaker 7: got to do with thirty four?
Speaker 6: So what do you want to do? You're breaking up,
Speaker 6: so get to your point.
Speaker 7: Oh sorry, Mokey leading off again.
Speaker 3: That's what I.
Speaker 6: Want, okay. Uh So here's the thing, and I'm with you, Sean.
Speaker 8: At first I was against moving Mooki down to the
Speaker 8: two spots because of everything you said. But the reality
Speaker 8: is the Dodgers went on to win a World Series
Speaker 8: and it worked out really well to have Mooki in
Speaker 8: between Otani and Freddie Freeman. And you talked about a
Speaker 8: picture having to face the minimum three batters. So that's
Speaker 8: neutralizing what an opposing manager may do because you have
Speaker 8: a lefty in front of Muki and you have a
Speaker 8: lefty behind Muki. So let's say they come in to
Speaker 8: face the nine hitter. All of a sudden, you have
Speaker 8: to make a decision. Are you going with the lefty
Speaker 8: or are you going with the rioty? So that makes
Speaker 8: the strategy a little tougher for the opposing manager. And
Speaker 8: case in point, Mookie Betts has been outstanding the last
Speaker 8: two years. When the opposing manager decides to walk Otani
Speaker 8: intentionally in front.
Speaker 3: Of him, yeah, how about?
Speaker 8: And Muki's not the same player he was in twenty
Speaker 8: twenty either, and Mooki Betts the number one thing for him.
Speaker 6: He's got to.
Speaker 8: Buy in and he bought in, So that's why I'm
Speaker 8: okay with it. MOOKI bought in, So I bought in?
Speaker 7: What about what show was on paternity leave? Why didn't
Speaker 7: they put Mooky back as a leadoff then? Like that's
Speaker 7: what confused me as well.
Speaker 8: Uh yeah, you know, I think it's consistency, lineup, consistency.
Speaker 8: Mooki's your two hitter, Freddy's your three and four hitter,
Speaker 8: depending on if there's a lefty out there, So why
Speaker 8: get them in that leadoff spot and and then have
Speaker 8: to move him back to the two spot.
Speaker 6: That was only for a couple of games.
Speaker 7: Too, right, Okay, thanks Dave?
Speaker 6: All right, Sean, thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 8: Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 8: Let's go out to Javier and all Hambra. You're on
Speaker 8: rain delay Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 10: Javier, Hey, Dave, thanks taking my call.
Speaker 6: My pleasure.
Speaker 3: What do you got too bad for Kershaw?
Speaker 4: Huh uh?
Speaker 8: This is not good for the doddaw Javier, It's not
Speaker 8: too bad. It's worst case scenario right now.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the bullten's kind of taking on water right now.
Speaker 10: We're not like you said earlier, starters aren't going deep
Speaker 10: enough right and that fabled bulletin release is just not
Speaker 10: happening right now. But uh, I just want to talk
Speaker 10: about the Dodgers kind of aren't productive.
Speaker 4: When I lost my train of thought, Well that's.
Speaker 8: What shoan, Xavier. You got a little nervous. It's afternoon, drive,
Speaker 8: the sun is out. This is not midnight. We got
Speaker 8: to bring it right now, rain delay, Come.
Speaker 3: On, let's go. This is morning for me. I work
Speaker 3: at night. But so you just woke up, just woke up,
Speaker 3: just woke up. Uh anyways, just uh, I hope that
Speaker 3: bats kind of wake up.
Speaker 11: It was kind of nice seeing Tao come in and
Speaker 11: just come in with a bang like that, and.
Speaker 8: That happened two days ago, that you've been asleep for
Speaker 8: two days.
Speaker 6: Er, thank you for the phone call. Wow, I mean
Speaker 6: here's I know you work at night, Javier.
Speaker 8: Memo to you, don't pick up the phone right away
Speaker 8: after you wake up. That's a bad thing to do.
Speaker 8: Bad thing to do to pick up the phone right away,
Speaker 8: bad thing to do to text somebody right when you
Speaker 8: wake up. You're not yourself. Have a drink of water,
Speaker 8: Chug some water before you decide to call a sports
Speaker 8: talk show host in the middle of a rain delay
Speaker 8: at five point twenty in the afternoon, Let's go out
Speaker 8: to Montclair when else, Diaz Art, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: How you doing, good day?
Speaker 12: You're cracking me up from that last caller. Hey, I
Speaker 12: wanted a call and just see your comments.
Speaker 13: I'll listen.
Speaker 12: After I read an article today talking about teen chemistry,
Speaker 12: and then the good Doctor went on to say, how
Speaker 12: you know, losing Barnaby and losing CT is gonna mess
Speaker 12: up the teen chemistry a little bit. And so you know,
Speaker 12: they're talking about team slides and everybody get together, and
Speaker 12: I know how that oft time, everybody spends a lot
Speaker 12: of time together. And he just had to hit your thoughts.
Speaker 12: Do you think chemistring really pays that much of a factory,
Speaker 12: not just a lot of baseball talk.
Speaker 6: No, I mean I saw what you saw.
Speaker 8: Bill Plunkett talked to Freddie Freeman about it, and he
Speaker 8: described it perfectly. It changes the dynamics, no doubt about it.
Speaker 8: But you just keep moving forward and think about this.
Speaker 8: Last year, the Dodgers released Jason Hayward, who was Freddie
Speaker 8: Freeman's and still is Freddie Freeman's best friend. In baseball.
Speaker 8: How do you think he felt last year? Did he
Speaker 8: sul did he just pack it in? No, he kept
Speaker 8: going and won the MVP of the World Series. So
Speaker 8: you know, Austin Barnes was a presence with the pitching staff.
Speaker 8: He was a good guy to have around Chris Taylor,
Speaker 8: a little bit low energy, but obviously had not been
Speaker 8: playing a lot. Hard to make a difference chemistry or not.
Speaker 8: When you're not playing a lot, you're the twenty sixth
Speaker 8: man on the bench. And he wasn't a raw, raw guy.
Speaker 8: He never was, So take that for what it's worth.
Speaker 6: Art.
Speaker 8: Now, if the Dodgers all of a sudden decided to
Speaker 8: trade I don't know, Mookie Betts, or decided to trade
Speaker 8: taoscar Hernandez, yes the chemistry would be affected. But these
Speaker 8: are two guys at the end of the roster that
Speaker 8: you know. Unfortunately, the Dodgers felt that the younger players
Speaker 8: could help them out more. So, No, I don't think
Speaker 8: this is going to affect team chemistry.
Speaker 1: All right, Gay, Thanks all right, Art, thank you for.
Speaker 6: The phone call.
Speaker 8: Look, nobody loved Austin Barnes more than I did. And
Speaker 8: you know we debated this over the course of the
Speaker 8: last two or three years. He was not there to
Speaker 8: hit three hundred, no matter what you thought. He played
Speaker 8: once a week. His number one job was defense, and
Speaker 8: he was really good at handling the pitching staff, really
Speaker 8: good at game calling in game. But the throwing is
Speaker 8: an issue. I mean, there's no getting away around that.
Speaker 8: There's no way around it, right, and it was at
Speaker 8: an all time low this year. And the Dodgers understand
Speaker 8: the dynamics in baseball these days where a catcher needs
Speaker 8: to be able to throw runners out, especially now with
Speaker 8: the rules, the disengagement rules, the bigger bases, major League
Speaker 8: Baseball has made it much easier for base runners to
Speaker 8: want to go, be enticed to run, and you've got
Speaker 8: to be able to throw them out. And unfortunately, you know,
Speaker 8: and I'll say this, I don't believe Austin Barnes.
Speaker 6: All of a sudden couldn't throw.
Speaker 8: I believe there was something physically wrong with his arm
Speaker 8: that he never had fixed or was bothering him even
Speaker 8: more this year. I'm not going to concede that all
Speaker 8: of a sudden, a major league catcher cannot throw the
Speaker 8: ball to second base if there was not something fit wrong.
Speaker 8: And that's on Austin. Austin needed to say something. Austin
Speaker 8: needed to do something about it. He wanted to keep
Speaker 8: playing through it. He's a guy that has high tolerance,
Speaker 8: plays through a lot of things. Remember last year his
Speaker 8: foot was bleeding two separate times and he's still caught,
Speaker 8: didn't come out of the game. But the reality is
Speaker 8: he's a backup catcher that plays once a week and
Speaker 8: Dalton Rushing has been knocking on the door. The Dodgers
Speaker 8: wanted to see what they got with him. They want
Speaker 8: to get him acclimated, and more importantly, they wanted to
Speaker 8: feel confident that they could give will Smith two to
Speaker 8: three days off a week instead of just once every
Speaker 8: seven days on a day game on Sunday. So that
Speaker 8: is the thinking behind it. And look, it's hilarious now
Speaker 8: that I am getting calls every day about Chris Taylor
Speaker 8: and you being sad about Chris Taylor. I loved Chris Taylor,
Speaker 8: but you didn't the last two years. That's so hilarious
Speaker 8: and ironic about these phone calls. I had a full
Speaker 8: board of calls on days at Chris Taylor didn't even
Speaker 8: take a single at bat, and you were calling for
Speaker 8: the Dodgers to do what they did last week and
Speaker 8: release him. Now I'm getting calls about chemistry, questions about
Speaker 8: oh I feel bad about Chris Taylor. No, you didn't.
Speaker 8: You wanted him out for the last two years. It's
Speaker 8: just blows my mind. And now Michael Confordo is public
Speaker 8: Enemy number one and he's standing at third base right
Speaker 8: now in a rain delay, first and third. Yes, that's right,
Speaker 8: they stay at the base even in the rain.
Speaker 6: No, just kidding.
Speaker 8: When play resumes, Dodgers will have runners at the corners.
Speaker 8: Freddie Freeman will be at the plate. He has three balls,
Speaker 8: two strikes. It's three and one right now. When Freddy
Speaker 8: Freeman comes back to the plate, one out, runners at
Speaker 8: the corners, and the Dodgers trying to get a run
Speaker 8: across the board.
Speaker 6: But what's on.
Speaker 8: Fortunate is Clayton Kershaw's day is likely over. He only
Speaker 8: threw twenty six pitches in two innings before the rain
Speaker 8: came down in the top of the third inning. So
Speaker 8: not ideal and probably a combination now on Matt Soer
Speaker 8: Lou Trevino. And this is not ideal for the Dodger
Speaker 8: bullpen that has been taxed so much to start this six.
Speaker 6: Game road trip with the rain delay that you're.
Speaker 8: Gonna have to cover now the last six innings of
Speaker 8: this game. Eight six, six, nine, seven, two, five seventy
Speaker 8: is the phone number. Let's go out to Hollywood. Eric,
Speaker 8: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing Dodger Day?
Speaker 4: Shine?
Speaker 2: WHOA David?
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: I was getting to that point where I was last
Speaker 2: year when when I thought the sky was falling and
Speaker 2: and you know, a bunch of different things, and I
Speaker 2: was getting sabbage. Then I remember what you said last time.
Speaker 2: It's a long season and things will change, and yes
Speaker 2: and Barnsey, I am gonna miss them, but the team
Speaker 2: has to keep going. If you want to win World Series,
Speaker 2: then the team needs to get It's got to be
Speaker 2: something different every year, you know. And what's not different
Speaker 2: is the bullpen being used as much as it is.
Speaker 2: So I mean much love to those guys. I mean,
Speaker 2: those guys are just carrying us right now. And I
Speaker 2: am very patient. I know this season is gonna be long.
Speaker 2: I know we're gonna turn this around. And I know
Speaker 2: comforda is Michael and is public enemy number one, and
Speaker 2: poor guy Man, I hope he turns it around too. Man,
Speaker 2: because he's the Dodger. Nation's gonna be like, all right,
Speaker 2: so it's trying to pick on somebody's trying to pick
Speaker 2: on Mi Conforto. But DV, I know this isn't the
Speaker 2: gossip sports talk, But what do you know about those
Speaker 2: idiots down there in San Diego fighting each other down there?
Speaker 2: I personally I love it, I love it, But what
Speaker 2: do you know about that?
Speaker 6: I know that it's fake news.
Speaker 8: Everybody got got that was a parody account that everybody
Speaker 8: thought was real fake news.
Speaker 2: Oh oh oh ah, god, never mind, then then forget
Speaker 2: about it. Forget about it.
Speaker 1: Then.
Speaker 3: Look, I love our team.
Speaker 2: I love where we're going. I don't want to change
Speaker 2: a thing. I would like the starters to go a
Speaker 2: little bit longer. But once Snell and Glass now get
Speaker 2: off of that, get get back together, I think we're
Speaker 2: gonna I think that I think we're gonna start humming again.
Speaker 2: But it's not gonna be anytime soon. So the guys
Speaker 2: just have to keep batting around as much as they can.
Speaker 2: Man And uh yo, DV, what's up? What's up in
Speaker 2: New York? Any any spots out that you're gonna recommend
Speaker 2: to us?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 8: I got a lot of spots for you. Are you
Speaker 8: planning on going out there? Eric, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: I love?
Speaker 3: I love New York man.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, man, my buddy's moving out there soon.
Speaker 3: And uh I love New York.
Speaker 2: I mean I've been to the usual spots out there,
Speaker 2: like cats Galley and stuff like that. But I mean,
Speaker 2: being the sports caster that you are, you probably go
Speaker 2: sit down a nice place, just like keeping stake outs
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But give give give a blue
Speaker 2: collar guy like me like a restaurant where he can
Speaker 2: afford though, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: Oh, you got to go to John's Pizza on Broadway there, Eric,
Speaker 8: That's the place to go if you want some good
Speaker 8: New York pizza, good New York vibes. That's a blue
Speaker 8: collar type of place that we can all afford.
Speaker 2: I see, That's what I'm talking about. You are a
Speaker 2: man of the people, even though you're gonna go to
Speaker 2: King Steakhouse with the rest of the ball players.
Speaker 6: I heard of that. I make my living in.
Speaker 8: The meatpacking district, soho Greenwich Village, That's where we make
Speaker 8: my bones.
Speaker 6: Eric.
Speaker 8: When I get fancy, you are a humble man, DV.
Speaker 2: You are a humble man that's why you that's why
Speaker 2: you're the conductor of this train. Brother all the time,
Speaker 2: Bro Dodger dationon loved you.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Eric, appreciate the phone call. Yeah, fake news.
Speaker 8: By the way, if you saw on social media or
Speaker 8: some of these websites that said after the Padres got
Speaker 8: beat in Toronto twelve to nothing, that there was a
Speaker 8: fight in the clubhouse amongst players, and trust me, there
Speaker 8: were a lot of people out there that thought it
Speaker 8: was real. But dank social media, throw these social media
Speaker 8: apps into the water.
Speaker 6: It was fake news.
Speaker 8: There was no freaking fight, as much as we would
Speaker 8: love to believe it, and it is believable that never happened. Actually, now,
Speaker 8: I would be surprised because Jason Hayward is on the
Speaker 8: Padres and he's known for being the adult in the room.
Speaker 8: I couldn't see Jason Hayward allowing that to happen. Hey,
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Speaker 8: Friday night when there's a rain delay. They are the
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Speaker 8: sixty six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 6: We are in a deep rain delay right now.
Speaker 8: Just got word from our producer engineer at Cityfield, Dwayne
Speaker 8: McDonald MLB. The Dodgers and Mets have been alerted that
Speaker 8: there's another wave of rain expected here coming through any
Speaker 8: minute now. And the Dodger relievers have just left the bullpen.
Speaker 8: So this is not good for the Dodgers' bullpen situation.
Speaker 8: The already lead Major League Baseball with two hundred and
Speaker 8: fourteen innings pitched. They're going to have to add on
Speaker 8: at least six more innings tonight because Kershaw's night is over.
Speaker 8: Despite him pitching really well.
Speaker 6: He had his.
Speaker 8: Fastball only at eighty eight tonight, but he was able
Speaker 8: to land his curveball for strikes. He had his slider
Speaker 8: that appears like a cutter working for him, freezing guys
Speaker 8: like Brandon Nemo. He was doing what it took the
Speaker 8: first time threw the lineup, and unfortunately his second start
Speaker 8: of the year abbreviated because of rain, and he only
Speaker 8: threw twenty six pitches. So you're going to see Matt
Speaker 8: Soer in a game like tonight. When play does resume,
Speaker 8: it will be top of the third inning, Freddie Freeman
Speaker 8: at the plate three to one count against Griffin. Well,
Speaker 8: not Griffin canning anymore, and runners will be at second
Speaker 8: and third base. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 8: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
Speaker 8: shy town Bob in Chicago listening on the iHeartRadio app. Hi, Bob,
Speaker 8: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 13: Great to be on the show.
Speaker 3: Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 6: My pleasure.
Speaker 8: What are you doing in Chicago listening to the Dodgers
Speaker 8: and Mets.
Speaker 13: I'm a big Dodgers fan. I listened all the time.
Speaker 13: I was on my way home from work and had
Speaker 13: the game on on the radio and kept it on
Speaker 13: when I got home.
Speaker 6: Love it, Love it all right, Bob? What do you
Speaker 6: got for us?
Speaker 13: I just wanted to compliment you on pointing out how
Speaker 13: nice it was to hear Rick Monday know the rules
Speaker 13: and I was just a great point you made, and
Speaker 13: I totally agree with you. It's just leakes the game
Speaker 13: so much more enjoyable to listen to when you're listening
Speaker 13: to guys that actually know what's going on.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, if you're in the play by playbooth, that's.
Speaker 8: Your job to know the rules and explain it to
Speaker 8: us the listeners, and especially if you're on a national broadcast,
Speaker 8: instead of just cheerleading for the team that you used
Speaker 8: to broadcast for, you got to know the rules. And
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, I'm not a guy that jumps all over
Speaker 8: national broadcasts.
Speaker 6: But.
Speaker 8: It wasn't a good look for somebody to be whinding
Speaker 8: in the booth that Michael Confordo should have been out
Speaker 8: and basically calling the umpiring crew and the people in
Speaker 8: New York dummies because they weren't giving it to the Mets.
Speaker 8: Instead of having a guy like Rick Munday, who's a
Speaker 8: Dodger broadcaster won the World Series for the Dodgers, left
Speaker 8: his leg out on the field for the Dodgers, take
Speaker 8: a step back and.
Speaker 6: Know the rule.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's great. I mean it's gotten really bad in
Speaker 13: the NFL. The announcers don't know the rules to a
Speaker 13: point where they've actually hired a rules analyst to tell
Speaker 13: the announcers what the rules are exactly.
Speaker 8: And that was probably the highlight of the Apple broadcast tonight.
Speaker 8: They brought in a former umpire as well, Brian Gorman,
Speaker 8: to explain the rule to us. So if it wasn't
Speaker 8: for Brian, the viewers on Apple would have no clue
Speaker 8: on why Michael can foh at third base. Tagging up
Speaker 8: was not a call to be overturned. So I'm glad
Speaker 8: you're listening, Bob, And like I said, when this game resumes,
Speaker 8: I strongly suggest making it a simulcast. Turn up Rick
Speaker 8: Monday and Steven Nelson. Let's go out to El Carriso
Speaker 8: Golf Club. Are you Are you at some golf country
Speaker 8: club right now?
Speaker 6: Oscar? You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: Hey, Dave, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 6: Where is that?
Speaker 8: Colin just throws up these things that I have no
Speaker 8: idea about.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, you're more than welcome. Come out and
Speaker 4: play around with us. Alt In Stilmar brother on the
Speaker 4: way to Magic Mountain, stop by, play around Al Carriso
Speaker 4: Golf course. Man, beautiful place afill.
Speaker 8: Drive your golf cart if you have a couple of
Speaker 8: Modello's in there for me.
Speaker 4: That's the extent about how how did you know that
Speaker 4: was my beer of choice?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 4: You know me so well. Hey, hey listen, man, that
Speaker 4: the other caller took my thunder a little bit. But
Speaker 4: I wanted to give you credit for calling out that
Speaker 4: guy out of New York such a homer. My son
Speaker 4: and I were watching the game at home and we
Speaker 4: were like, what is this guy talking about?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: We also didn't know the rule. I have to admit
Speaker 4: awesome rule, but such an idiot for not knowing it
Speaker 4: on the national broadcast. And also, what's up with our
Speaker 4: boy Dantree Will is not backing us up? Man, that's
Speaker 4: your colleague. You need to call him out the next
Speaker 4: time you see him.
Speaker 8: He's not my colleague, he's a part timer and he
Speaker 8: just didn't know the rule either. Oscar and Yeah, I
Speaker 8: mean we're all we're They were trying to sell us
Speaker 8: that Michael Confordo was a dummy and he left too soon.
Speaker 6: Instead, he made the right play. So you know, that's
Speaker 6: that's the worst part of it.
Speaker 8: If you don't know the rule, don't try to act
Speaker 8: like everybody else is the dummy when maybe you should
Speaker 8: take the look in the mirror. Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 8: Let's go out to j in La. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: How you doing jay Yo?
Speaker 14: David?
Speaker 15: I also wanted to commend you for calling out d
Speaker 15: Chain and everybody on the Apple TV broadcast.
Speaker 3: Absolutely one hundred percent. You need to know everything before
Speaker 3: he spark off.
Speaker 8: David as a national podcast, right, you got to play
Speaker 8: it down the middle, Lea.
Speaker 3: Don't be a homer.
Speaker 15: Come on, bro, you're there to talk about the game,
Speaker 15: not you know, be a one sided guy. And to
Speaker 15: top it off, I've been having issues with d Train because, Bro,
Speaker 15: that guy during the postseason run last year. Yes, he
Speaker 15: chose the Dodgers to win some game, but you can
Speaker 15: tell he did not have confidence and did not want
Speaker 15: to choose the Dodgers, especially during the Padre series. And
Speaker 15: I can tell, Oh, he's on the payroll, so he's
Speaker 15: got to choose the Dodgers. But reality is he doesn't
Speaker 15: want to choose the Dodgers, So D Train.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 16: Man, Maybe he should go to San Diego and.
Speaker 3: Be a loser down there as well.
Speaker 8: Damn all right, gee, I'm not going that far on
Speaker 8: our guy, Dontrell Willis.
Speaker 6: Thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 8: By the way, Dontrell never did pitch for the Dodgers,
Speaker 8: so he doesn't have that type of connection to the franchise.
Speaker 8: He's a solid broadcaster, but obviously they did not know
Speaker 8: the rule. And maybe Rick Monday can let the Apple
Speaker 8: broadcast team borrow his rule book. I mean he taught
Speaker 8: me early on. Have the rule book in your bag.
Speaker 8: Him and Kevin Kennedy actually taught me that early on.
Speaker 8: And I keep a rule book in my bag and
Speaker 8: it's very available now online as well. Eight sixty six
Speaker 8: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers and Mets are in a scoreless tie in
Speaker 8: the top of the third inning, runners at second and
Speaker 8: third for the Dodgers, with Freddie Freeman at the plate,
Speaker 8: one out in a three to one count, and both
Speaker 8: starting pitchers now have been burned because of this extended
Speaker 8: rain delay. Griffin Canning, who by the way, has had
Speaker 8: a renaissance to his career with the Mets, and so
Speaker 8: have a lot of these starters with the Mets that
Speaker 8: have been discarded by other teams. They've kind of done
Speaker 8: what the Dodgers have done to a certain extent, where
Speaker 8: they've helped them reinvent themselves and maybe give them a different.
Speaker 6: Repertoire to their pitch mix.
Speaker 8: Because Griffin Canning was an average pitcher for the Angels,
Speaker 8: up and down pitcher, and I was listening to the
Speaker 8: Baseball Tonight podcast with Buster only and Jorge Castillo, who
Speaker 8: was on off day Dodger Talk last night, covers the
Speaker 8: Mets and Yankees, and he said that a lot of
Speaker 8: these starting pitchers have been taught by the Mets pitching
Speaker 8: coach this new changeup that kind of serves as a
Speaker 8: split change up, a harder type of change up, and
Speaker 8: they're calling it a kick change up. And Gryffin Canning
Speaker 8: was using that pitch early and often in this game.
Speaker 8: So I guess that's the good news for the Dodgers
Speaker 8: is that Griffin Canning is now out of this game
Speaker 8: and the Dodgers will get the Mets bullpen, and the
Speaker 8: Dodgers now will go to Matt Sower, who has been mister.
Speaker 6: Versatile for them.
Speaker 8: I don't know if they're going to go to him
Speaker 8: right away in the bottom of the third inning, but
Speaker 8: you can only imagine to have a weapon like Matt
Speaker 8: Sour Dave Roberts can go to him because he's a
Speaker 8: guy that can go four or five innings. Eight six, six,
Speaker 8: nine seventy is the phone number. This is rain delayed
Speaker 8: Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you on a five to
Speaker 8: seventy LA Sports. Let's go out to Boyle Heights. Robert,
Speaker 8: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Robert?
Speaker 16: Hi, Dave, how's it going?
Speaker 11: Long time listener for his time caller, just wanted to
Speaker 11: ask you about Emma Chian. I heard that he's been
Speaker 11: throwing to He's been throwing a live bolt into two batters,
Speaker 11: and I was wondering, do you have any updates in
Speaker 11: terms of when he's going to begin a rehab start
Speaker 11: or like, you know, start to get back on the mound.
Speaker 6: Oh? Yeah, how about this, Robert Dave.
Speaker 8: Roberts said on the last homestand because Emitt Sheen threw
Speaker 8: to hitters on the last homestand early on, and he said,
Speaker 8: Emmitt Shean is a great sleeper, sneaky pick to help
Speaker 8: the Dodgers' rotation in the second half of the season.
Speaker 8: And Emmett when I saw him in spring training, I
Speaker 8: hadn't seen him since last year. He took this time
Speaker 8: off of not being able to throw the baseball to
Speaker 8: get into the weight room and he got bigger and
Speaker 8: stronger from the lower half all the way up to
Speaker 8: his shoulders. So he's coming back a stronger pitcher and
Speaker 8: a guy that certainly can be a big weapon. For
Speaker 8: the Dodgers the second half of the season. But keep
Speaker 8: in mind, guys come back from Tommy John surgery in
Speaker 8: the first few months the first year back. Yes, they're
Speaker 8: not injured anymore, but a lot of them have told
Speaker 8: me they just don't have the same feel for their
Speaker 8: pitches that they did before until the following season. So
Speaker 8: it's great that he's coming back. It's great that he's healthy.
Speaker 8: But let's see how he looks when he comes back.
Speaker 8: I believe we all should give him that kind of
Speaker 8: grace to understand where he's at. But certainly Dave Roberts
Speaker 8: is picking Emage Sheen to be a big part of
Speaker 8: the second half of the Dodger pitching staff.
Speaker 16: Yeah that sounds great. I mean, you know, considering us
Speaker 16: all the injuries that are going through with the entire
Speaker 16: pitching staff, I was, I have my fingers crossed. You
Speaker 16: know that he'll come back soon to help lead the
Speaker 16: second half.
Speaker 6: Robert, you better be there. You better leave Boyle Heights.
Speaker 6: When Emma Shean's pitching at Dodgers Stadium this year.
Speaker 3: You better believe I'll get tickets.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 8: Thanks for the phone call, Robert, appreciate it. Yeah, I
Speaker 8: mean look, right now, the Dodgers are in a very
Speaker 8: tough stretch with their schedule starting tonight against the Mets.
Speaker 8: Then they go to Cleveland, who's the leading American League
Speaker 8: wildcard winner. Right now, they're in the lead for the
Speaker 8: wildcard race in the American League. They're a very good
Speaker 8: team going back to last year. They have great pitching,
Speaker 8: So runs are going to be at a premium when
Speaker 8: the Dodgers are in Cleveland next week. But after that,
Speaker 8: as you know, everybody's been anticipating, the next home stand
Speaker 8: seven games against the New York teams, the two teams
Speaker 8: the Dodgers played on their way to the World Championship,
Speaker 8: three against the Yankees and four more against these Mets.
Speaker 8: After that, the next road trip takes the Dodgers to
Speaker 8: Saint Louis and San Diego, and then they come back
Speaker 8: home to play the Giants and Padres again. So right now,
Speaker 8: the next twenty five games the Dodgers are going to
Speaker 8: be tested. This is the toughest part of the first
Speaker 8: half of their schedule, make no mistake about it. And
Speaker 8: right now, going into it, they're not at full strength
Speaker 8: with their pitching staff. And when I say pitching staff,
Speaker 8: not just their starting rotation, but their bullpen. So the
Speaker 8: Dodger offense is going to have to put up some
Speaker 8: runs to help out this pitching staff and take some
Speaker 8: pressure off that bullpen to not have to use these
Speaker 8: high leverage relievers three out of four nights. So just
Speaker 8: keep that in mind as we're moving through the next
Speaker 8: two and a half weeks that this is not the Angels,
Speaker 8: the A's, the Rockies, the Pirates. These are playoff contenders
Speaker 8: that are probably making the playoffs, and they're really good.
Speaker 6: Right now.
Speaker 8: Eight sixty six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 8: Let's go out to Silver Lake. Alan wants to give
Speaker 8: us some pizza Rex in New York.
Speaker 3: What you got, Alan, Well, Dave John's is on Bleeker Street.
Speaker 6: The good John's my Bleeker Street.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I have the rule book on pizza right here
Speaker 3: with me.
Speaker 8: I know, I feel like the Apple broadcast. I said Broadway,
Speaker 8: not Bleaker. But the one thing is I'm from La.
Speaker 3: I know, and I'm actually into documentary called The Best
Speaker 3: Pizzas in La So we'll get to that later.
Speaker 6: But is this a free plug? Did you call in
Speaker 6: to plug your documentary?
Speaker 2: I'm not, I'm just in it.
Speaker 3: I'm not making any money, but maybe all right, all right, so.
Speaker 8: Give us some Okay, we established John's, no matter if
Speaker 8: it's on Broadway or Bleaker.
Speaker 6: Okay, Alan, I got the right place. So what else
Speaker 6: you got for mal?
Speaker 3: The full leven Pizza in Little Literally it's the first
Speaker 3: place where they ever made pizza in America. The bedside
Speaker 3: is first pizza dot com I think, and very affordable.
Speaker 3: I recommend the meat falling onions.
Speaker 6: All right, I love it. What about the place? Uh?
Speaker 8: That was in the Spider Man movie with Toby maguire.
Speaker 8: I've eaten there with Andre Ethier, but I forgot the
Speaker 8: name of that spot.
Speaker 6: Is that John's on Bleeker? Is that another one?
Speaker 3: That sounds right? But I don't know. It's been too long.
Speaker 8: Come on, you said with a pizza expert, and you
Speaker 8: don't know. I mean that was in a movie, a
Speaker 8: very famous movie.
Speaker 14: Dave.
Speaker 3: This is a Spider Man question. That's not a pizza question.
Speaker 8: Save it, Alan, I'm not I might dabble with your documentary.
Speaker 8: You want to go ahead, give us a plug on
Speaker 8: your doc. You don't even know about the pizza place
Speaker 8: in Spider Man.
Speaker 6: Let's go. What do you got?
Speaker 3: It's called actually it's called the best Pizza is in La.
Speaker 3: It's got h it's got a bunch of people, weirdly
Speaker 3: who are in Beverly Hill's nine O two one O.
Speaker 3: We're in it, and uh, it really makes.
Speaker 8: Brandon Walsh and David silver or in your documentary or
Speaker 8: is it Steve Sanders and Andrea Zuckerman.
Speaker 3: It's a Tory spelling and Brian Austin Green Ah, my.
Speaker 8: Two least favorite characters. We're struggling right now, Alan, We're
Speaker 8: not on the same page right now.
Speaker 3: Well, let me make the case for La, which is
Speaker 3: actually that the reason La is the best pizza town
Speaker 3: is here. You can get New York pizza, Chicago pizza,
Speaker 3: Detroit style. We're a blending pot of all the best
Speaker 3: pizzas in America.
Speaker 8: Recently, I think you're the guy I saw on Instagram
Speaker 8: doing a podcast that was making that case.
Speaker 3: I am, I do have, I am a journalist, Dave,
Speaker 3: and I do have a semi public president, Alan Selton.
Speaker 8: But uh, okay, all right right, so we go at
Speaker 8: Pizza in La, New York Pizza.
Speaker 3: And your sheets quarter sheets in Echo Park. All right,
Speaker 3: there's a place called Secret Pizza in.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 3: Also on the East Side that I think Robert de
Speaker 3: Niro actually invested in, and it's going to have more places.
Speaker 3: And honestly, the best pizza in LA is probably a
Speaker 3: place called Pizzai Sai or say at the I. It's
Speaker 3: actually a Japanese chef and he has perfected Neapolitan pizza
Speaker 3: and very hard to get a reservation. It's in I
Speaker 3: think it's in West Hollywood.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 8: Most of my listeners recommend West Hollywood for pizza.
Speaker 6: Beverly Hills.
Speaker 3: Oh, come on, they drive.
Speaker 8: We're not doing that. We want something easy. We want
Speaker 8: to go get a slice somewhere Alan. We don't want
Speaker 8: to have to fight for a reservation.
Speaker 3: Well that's another thing. LA's not a slight town. LA's
Speaker 3: a pie town. But I was listening silver Lake Hot Tongues.
Speaker 8: You can't say that we're not just We're a slice
Speaker 8: town too. We like slices.
Speaker 3: Uh da, Maybe we.
Speaker 6: Need more slices in La.
Speaker 3: Huh, we do need more slices, said, look, New York.
Speaker 3: The thing about New York is it's fast. You go
Speaker 3: in before you can even take the money out of
Speaker 3: your wallet. You've got to slice a hot piece in
Speaker 3: front of you. You've made the transaction. You're out the
Speaker 3: door in a New York minute. Here it's it's just
Speaker 3: it's not a town where with a fast transaction. I
Speaker 3: love LA, I love it here. I live in New
Speaker 3: York Alongsting, but I want to fast. The beauty of
Speaker 3: pizza in New York is not just how good it is,
Speaker 3: it's how fast you can get it and go on
Speaker 3: with your day. And we need more fast pizza.
Speaker 8: I agree with you, all right, we agreed on something, Alan,
Speaker 8: Thanks for the phone call and appreciate the pizza knowledge.
Speaker 3: Thanks Dave, all right, take care.
Speaker 8: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 8: the phone number.
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Speaker 6: That's right, we're in a rain delay. Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers and Mets try to get this game in
Speaker 8: without interruption, but the sky opened up in the top
Speaker 8: of the third inning, rain fell with Freddie Freeman at
Speaker 8: the plate facing Griffin Canning three to one count runners
Speaker 8: at second and third with one out, So Freddy will
Speaker 8: be back at the plate, but there will be a
Speaker 8: new picture on the mound. Considering we are getting close
Speaker 8: to about forty five minutes an hour of a rain
Speaker 8: delay and doesn't seem like it's going to be stopping
Speaker 8: anytime soon. Eight six, six, nine, seven, two five seventy
Speaker 8: is the phone number. Jose Mora is going to check
Speaker 8: in at the top of the hour, but first let's
Speaker 8: take more phone calls. Wess and Wittier. You're on Dodger
Speaker 8: Talk with David Vasse. How you doing, Wes.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. So I have a problem with the
Speaker 1: way the seating goes for the Major League Baseball I
Speaker 1: don't think that the winning a division should have any
Speaker 1: effect that as far as the seating goes, you should
Speaker 1: just go strictly by the record. And the perfect example
Speaker 1: was in twenty twenty one the Dodgers have one hundred
Speaker 1: and six wins, but they came in second in their division,
Speaker 1: the Braves with only eighty eight wins. They were the
Speaker 1: home team, and their argument, the Braves argument, is look,
Speaker 1: we won our division. So the Dodgers could answer and say, look,
Speaker 1: so what you're saying is not only did you have
Speaker 1: fewer wins than us, but you played a weaker schedule.
Speaker 1: So what does what does winning?
Speaker 3: You're saying it.
Speaker 6: You're saying record.
Speaker 1: Yes, just like basketball.
Speaker 6: Guess I wouldn't be opposed to that.
Speaker 8: But here's the problem West that separates baseball from other sports.
Speaker 8: It's one hundred and sixty two games, Then why are
Speaker 8: we playing these many games? If your regular season record
Speaker 8: doesn't count, but in what you're describing it would count.
Speaker 8: You won one hundred and six games in the regular season,
Speaker 8: and that should mean something in the postseason. So I'm
Speaker 8: with you to a certain extent, Wes, But you fight
Speaker 8: to win your division, and I think that's the debate
Speaker 8: that's going on, right You don't want to water down
Speaker 8: winning your division and not get the benefits of that.
Speaker 6: Some years it works out, some years it doesn't. So
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I just feel like that one year was a tough
Speaker 8: year for the Dodgers in a lot of ways, starting
Speaker 8: with Max Scherzer tapping out in Game six of the NLCS.
Speaker 6: So I don't know.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't be opposed to it, But my concern is,
Speaker 8: you don't want to devalue the regular season, and you
Speaker 8: don't want to devalue winning your division.
Speaker 1: Okay, but but if the Dodgers have one hundred and
Speaker 1: six wins and the Braves only have eighty eight, I.
Speaker 8: Understand, but that's just the way it goes. The Dodgers
Speaker 8: didn't win their division. If they would have won two
Speaker 8: more games, they would have won.
Speaker 1: It, right, Okay, So that's that's my In.
Speaker 8: Basketball, they play eighty two games, right, and they have
Speaker 8: virtually every team make the playoffs. The regular season, as
Speaker 8: you have seen with the NBA, means absolutely nothing.
Speaker 6: Nobody's interested.
Speaker 8: So if you're baseball in a long marathon season, you
Speaker 8: start to devalue the regular season, nobody's going to care
Speaker 8: about it.
Speaker 6: You can't do that in baseball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, you know, the NFL makes the same mistake
Speaker 1: as baseball because the NFL also go by division winner,
Speaker 1: and so the Minnesota Vikings there was something like what
Speaker 1: were they like, fourteen and two or something.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they value the regular season, even in sixteen and
Speaker 8: seventeen games. There's a you don't just fast forward to
Speaker 8: the playoffs West. The regular season in these sports has
Speaker 8: to carry some weight.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, all right, Wes?
Speaker 6: Or why are we even doing?
Speaker 8: Why are we even waiting for an hour plus in
Speaker 8: a game in May.
Speaker 6: If it means nothing to you?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 8: All right, Wes, thank you for the phone call. Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 8: I'm not you. It's such a fine line if you
Speaker 8: start to recede in baseball because of records. Look, there's
Speaker 8: years where it works out, there's years that it looks
Speaker 8: a little sideways. But you've got to keep the integrity
Speaker 8: of the regular season because if you start to water
Speaker 8: it down and devalue it in one hundred and sixty
Speaker 8: two games, you're going to be in real trouble.
Speaker 6: And in games like this, why even play it? Right?
Speaker 8: Why even make these guys sit around for an hour
Speaker 8: two hours if it means nothing to you, if you
Speaker 8: don't even need to win your division. So I guess
Speaker 8: this game means nothing to the Dodgers. It means nothing
Speaker 8: to the Mets. If you were to receive eight six
Speaker 8: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 8: David Vasse with you probably until seven o'clock. That's when
Speaker 8: we'll sign off for our Los Angeles Dodgers Audio network
Speaker 8: and send it back to the affiliates and here on
Speaker 8: AM five to seventy LA Sports. We'll hand things over
Speaker 8: to Fox Sports Radio at seven o'clock. But for now,
Speaker 8: we're with you until we figure out if this game
Speaker 8: is going to get played. Maybe resumed tomorrow, maybe resumed
Speaker 8: in two hours.
Speaker 6: We'll see.
Speaker 8: But the one thing that's for sure is it's not
Speaker 8: a good thing for the Dodgers. This game got interrupted because,
Speaker 8: like we talked about, they're in a bad spot right
Speaker 8: now with their pitching staff. They've been talking about having
Speaker 8: their starters go deeper into games, lessening the burden on
Speaker 8: their bullpen. Well, tonight, Mother Nature and Major League Baseball
Speaker 8: had a greater say to play this game on time,
Speaker 8: knowing rain was in the area. And now Kershaw's been
Speaker 8: burned after two innings and twenty six pitches, You're gonna
Speaker 8: have to go to Matt Sour You're probably gonna have
Speaker 8: to go to lu Trevino and then you're going to
Speaker 8: have to make roster changes tomorrow to get a fresh
Speaker 8: arm in here. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 8: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
Speaker 8: Patricia in Seal Beach. You're on Dodger Talk. You call
Speaker 8: it from Hennesy's. Patricia, where are you calling from?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 14: I wish, I wish I was there.
Speaker 9: I'm not.
Speaker 14: Oh, thank you for taking my call. I have a
Speaker 14: question I've always wondered about, and it's about the home
Speaker 14: ruby and I can't figure out why the batters don't
Speaker 14: use a pitching machine. It seems like that there would
Speaker 14: be a better balance across the board for all the batters,
Speaker 14: that the odds would be with the pitching machine.
Speaker 8: And of course it would be I'd be great against
Speaker 8: the pitching machine. I'm always better to growing up. Yeah,
Speaker 8: we were better in the batting cage with the pitching
Speaker 8: machine than a guy. But how about the stories, Patricia,
Speaker 8: you hear about where dads are throwing to their sons,
Speaker 8: dads that were baseball coaches. I love those storylines when
Speaker 8: you have a connection between whoever's throwing to those hitters.
Speaker 8: So again, I love the human element to baseball, and
Speaker 8: I want to keep that.
Speaker 6: I want to preserve it because it means a lot.
Speaker 8: And I would not want to replace Dino Ebol with
Speaker 8: a hitting machine or I don't know, Bryce Harper's dad
Speaker 8: with a hitting machine.
Speaker 14: Okay, So it's more of an emotion old thing with you.
Speaker 6: I like people, Patricia. I don't know about you. I
Speaker 6: like people.
Speaker 1: I do too.
Speaker 14: I just sometimes, just watching it, I'm thinking, oh, that
Speaker 14: he could hit the ball better, if if his uncle
Speaker 14: could get the ball.
Speaker 8: That's the that's the variable of it. He can't.
Speaker 14: Know that, Okay, I I'll shut up.
Speaker 6: Are you a big, big Dodger fan, Patricia?
Speaker 8: How long have you been a Dodger fan for forever?
Speaker 14: I was? I'm old, very old. I'm ninety, and I
Speaker 14: was a Dodger fan when they were in the world.
Speaker 6: You sound better than most people younger than you.
Speaker 8: You sound better than the guy that just woke up
Speaker 8: and decided to call the show.
Speaker 14: I heard that well. I told the fellow that answered
Speaker 14: the machine. I told my husband. I used to tell
Speaker 14: my husband that I would dump him for Sandy Kolpak.
Speaker 14: So that's how long I've been a Dodger fan.
Speaker 6: That's great.
Speaker 14: Anyway, thank you, thank.
Speaker 8: You for all back any time, your your sunshine to
Speaker 8: the show.
Speaker 6: You call back anytime.
Speaker 14: Oh You're very nice and I've enjoyed a lot of
Speaker 14: the comments. Sometimes I wondered though the last time, who
Speaker 14: cares where you sit? Uh? Anyway, I'll let that go
Speaker 14: okay during a game.
Speaker 8: Thank yousha, thanks a lot. Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 8: How about that ninety years young right there? She had
Speaker 8: more energy than some of you out there. Eight six
Speaker 8: six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 8: Dodgers and Mets in a rain delay, top of the
Speaker 8: third inning, runners at second and third for Freddy Freeman,
Speaker 8: who has a three to one count with one out,
Speaker 8: as the Dodgers hope this game gets started, but quite honestly,
Speaker 8: now it doesn't matter when this game resumes. Kershaw's been
Speaker 8: lost and they're going to have to go to their bullpen.
Speaker 8: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 8: phone number. Here are three things we have learned in
Speaker 8: the first hour of this broadcast of raind lay Dodger
Speaker 8: Talk number one, make it a simulcast. Rick Monday is
Speaker 8: one of the best broadcasters in baseball. In fact, I
Speaker 8: would venture to say Rick Monday deserves to be considered
Speaker 8: for the broadcasters wing in Cooperstown because he has done
Speaker 8: it all play by play analyst tv UH. Anyway, we
Speaker 8: learned that you should make it a simulcast because the
Speaker 8: Dodger home broadcast is more impartial than a nationally televised
Speaker 8: broadcast on an app that doesn't know the rules. Number two,
Speaker 8: we found out that one of our callers works nights
Speaker 8: and just wakes up and listens and calls into a
Speaker 8: radio show. And he found out also that John's in
Speaker 8: New York is not on Broadway. It's on Bleeker Street
Speaker 8: from a very fancy bougie pizza guy.
Speaker 6: Eight sixty six.
Speaker 8: Nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 8: When we continue in our next hour of rain delay
Speaker 8: Dodger Talk, I am going to prove to you that
Speaker 8: Teoscar Hernandez is greater value to the Dodgers than if
Speaker 8: they would assigned old Mopi, Juan Soto and also Jose
Speaker 8: Moto will check in. We got one line open full
Speaker 8: border calls here as the Dodgers and Mets are in
Speaker 8: a rain delay. We'll get to all of you and
Speaker 8: more between now and seven o'clock right here on AM
Speaker 8: five to seventy LA Sports David Vasey Dodger talk right
Speaker 8: here on Freeform Frogman Friday, whatever they call it on
Speaker 8: that other wacky show, Don't go Anywhere. More Dodger talk
Speaker 8: around the corner.