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Speaker 2: Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual
Speaker 2: postseason tradition.
Speaker 1: Scam is back. Baby.
Speaker 2: This is Sax and Cakes in the A app back
Speaker 2: Go with Proway. Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by
Speaker 2: your favorite Dodger pregame host, Tim Kates. If you want
Speaker 2: to talk Dodgers, get in on the show on eighty
Speaker 2: six six nine, eighty seven two five seven now. While
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Speaker 2: We've been banished to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff
Speaker 2: run concludes. Here they are broadcasting live on AM five
Speaker 2: to seven e LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks.
Speaker 1: They did it. They are your twenty twenty four World
Speaker 1: Series champions. Good morning Los Angeles, ho Southern California. Sax
Speaker 1: and Kate to the Am are on the air here
Speaker 1: on A five seventy LA Sports. Thanks for being with
Speaker 1: us on this October thirty first, twenty twenty four, I
Speaker 1: am Tim Kates, joined by two times World Series Champion
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year. He is one hell of a guy.
Speaker 1: He is Steven Sack. Sexy. Good morning, Buddy, what up?
Speaker 1: Tim they did it. Yeah, here we are the morning
Speaker 1: after they did it. They pulled it out last night
Speaker 1: in Game five. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I want to see how many people around La now
Speaker 3: are dressed up for Halloween his bad World series rings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you what, Aaron, But Aaron Judge was
Speaker 1: dressed up last night as as a center fielder because
Speaker 1: he started an unwinding like no other for the Yankees
Speaker 1: last night. Wow, opening the door for the Dodgers in
Speaker 1: the fifth inning, opening the door for the Dodgers to
Speaker 1: come back and win Game five last night. What a game,
Speaker 1: What an emotional roller coaster.
Speaker 3: Last night's unbelievable yelling, screaming at the TV, clapping and jumping.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was amazing. And Aaron Judge, you know,
Speaker 3: it was such a roller coaster for him. I can
Speaker 3: imagine too. You remember the great play that he made
Speaker 3: in center field two, going against the wall and crashing
Speaker 3: in and then just taking his eyes off that ball
Speaker 3: at easy soft line drive that he took his eyes off,
Speaker 3: you know earlier in the game too, and in games
Speaker 3: passed he catches the ball fast and throws it in.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the hurry is. You know, you
Speaker 3: got to secure the ball, and he just took You
Speaker 3: can see in slow motion he took his eyes off
Speaker 3: of that right at the last second, and that cost him.
Speaker 1: It cost the Yankees. As the Dodgers come all the
Speaker 1: way back from a five to nothing deficit last night
Speaker 1: as they beat the New York Yankees seven to six.
Speaker 1: What a thrilling win it was for the Dodgers. The
Speaker 1: celebration went into the night, the early mornings. I had
Speaker 1: Dodger talking until midnight last night. Saxy here in the studio,
Speaker 1: went home and slept for three hours. Came back. I
Speaker 1: woke up before my alarm even went off. How got ready,
Speaker 1: came into the radio station. Been sitting here in the
Speaker 1: dark for the last half an hour just thinking they
Speaker 1: did it. I cannot believe this Dodgers team did what
Speaker 1: they did. And I know people will say they got
Speaker 1: a billion dollar roster, and they got salaries left and right,
Speaker 1: and they got the highest paid players in baseball. But
Speaker 1: they they had to overcome a lot of adversity this year.
Speaker 1: They had injuries, they had guys that had slumping seasons,
Speaker 1: and then despite all of that, they have to make
Speaker 1: a run in October. You have to win eleven games
Speaker 1: in the month of October to win a championship, and
Speaker 1: they did that last night in a thrilling win.
Speaker 3: You know what, you know, what I was really glad
Speaker 3: to see is, yeah, we know all about the talent,
Speaker 3: we know about the money off the chart that they're
Speaker 3: paying the players, but like you said, it was a
Speaker 3: lot of injuries involved. There were no egos on this team.
Speaker 3: It was all about getting excited about somebody else being successful.
Speaker 3: And what I saw down the stretched him. The team
Speaker 3: wanted it bad. They were hungry, they were eager to
Speaker 3: do whatever it took to win. They were selfless. That
Speaker 3: is what I'm oppressed about the team. That is what
Speaker 3: really stirs me up when you see a team that's
Speaker 3: got all these advantages that may seem but the team
Speaker 3: went down to its bare root minimum and they got
Speaker 3: after it as a unit and that's why they won.
Speaker 3: It's hey, success that's all put out there, that's not
Speaker 3: utilized correctly doesn't matter. These guys put it together and
Speaker 3: they played for everybody else and that's why they're champions
Speaker 3: of the world.
Speaker 1: It may not seem like a big thing, but it
Speaker 1: starts at the beginning with Mookie Betts getting hurt. It's
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman going through what he did this season. It's
Speaker 1: Max Munsey having an up and down season. It's a
Speaker 1: guy like Shohil Tani. From spring training, we knew that
Speaker 1: half of his game wasn't even going to be available
Speaker 1: this year in pitching, he was going to be solely
Speaker 1: a designated hitter. How would that affect him? Would he
Speaker 1: be able to produce? Would he still be as a
Speaker 1: dominant threat as he is as a two way player?
Speaker 1: The ups and downs of the young players, the necessity
Speaker 1: of having to go out and acquire guys to fill
Speaker 1: gaps throughout the season. Guys like Calvin Bigio who were
Speaker 1: here for a few weeks because the Dodgers needed help,
Speaker 1: and shortstop Nika med was here for a few weeks
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers. He played for I think every team
Speaker 1: in the NL West this season, helping it out during injuries.
Speaker 1: Of the course of a twenty twenty four season, it's
Speaker 1: guys like that. It's Ryan Yarborough who is with this
Speaker 1: team and then dfade midway through this season. It's a
Speaker 1: Dodgers collective group, and Dave Roberts gets this group together
Speaker 1: at spring training and says, you know what, look at
Speaker 1: everybody in this room. There's forty plus guys here, non
Speaker 1: roster on VID's everybody in the forty men roster, young guys,
Speaker 1: old guys, and everybody in between. All of you were
Speaker 1: going to play a part of this run during the
Speaker 1: regular season. It's not twenty six guys that break camp
Speaker 1: and opening day. This is it. We're stuck with. These
Speaker 1: twenty six guys will never change it throughout the year.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have to go back and look, but
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the twenty six man roster they broke
Speaker 1: up with and went to Soul, South Korea with looks
Speaker 1: a lot different than the twenty six man roster that
Speaker 1: just played Game five last night in the world.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know, things happened throughout the course of the
Speaker 3: season that you can't predict, and that's why you have
Speaker 3: a forty man roster. All those guys, most of them
Speaker 3: are going to play a role. Absolutely right about that.
Speaker 3: But I thought one defining moment in this year is
Speaker 3: when the team had a meeting and they were talking
Speaker 3: about Max Munsey was talking about it to David vassaying
Speaker 3: what the team did. They threw everything else to the side.
Speaker 3: They asked their family to give them a little bit
Speaker 3: of leeway here, and we're gonna make a statement. We're
Speaker 3: gonna make a commitment. We're gonna step over the line
Speaker 3: and commit it to this. They were together all the
Speaker 3: you know, all those hours throughout the day and they
Speaker 3: just had some team unity, playing ping pong, whatever it is,
Speaker 3: telling jokes, but just being together all on the same page.
Speaker 3: That to me might have been a defining moment for
Speaker 3: this for this organization.
Speaker 1: It was huge because that's buy in. That's Landing Knack
Speaker 1: all the way up to Shoeo Tani and everybody in
Speaker 1: between saying okay, I'm in. You know, it has to
Speaker 1: take everybody. One superstar says why, I'm sure I'm gonna
Speaker 1: getting paid. I'm here, I'm doing my thing, I'm gonna produce.
Speaker 1: I'm not all about this raw ros stuff, and everybody
Speaker 1: has to buy in. And they did. It's because they
Speaker 1: all wanted to win. But you know what, they all
Speaker 1: wanted to win for different reasons, Saxy, and that's important.
Speaker 1: You've got the group who's been here, the core that's
Speaker 1: been here since seventeen, in eighteen and winning in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty during COVID and having to hear for the last
Speaker 1: three plus seasons going into this postseason. You know that
Speaker 1: was a shortened season. You know that's an asterisk next
Speaker 1: to that. Doesn't matter dad to hear it, though, And
Speaker 1: guys like Max Munsey last night even said, Hey, we
Speaker 1: don't have to hear that anymore. I don't have to
Speaker 1: hear people commenting about, oh, you wanted a shortened season.
Speaker 1: Try winning in one hundred and sixty two well game season.
Speaker 1: So those guys had that they had to overcome and
Speaker 1: wanted to win a World Series four. Then you had
Speaker 1: guys like show he Otani who's never even tasted October.
Speaker 1: You've got veterans on this team that have never won
Speaker 1: a championship before, to let alone been this close to
Speaker 1: doing it. I got like Taoscar Hernandez, who bet on
Speaker 1: himself this year. Yeah, the one year deal to go
Speaker 1: out and to prove to everybody else in baseball that
Speaker 1: he wasn't a guy that you know, shouldn't be considered
Speaker 1: an elite player and shouldn't be paid like it.
Speaker 3: You're gonna get paid like it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. You know, you have all these different different reasons
Speaker 1: for these guys wanting to win a championship, and you
Speaker 1: put it all together collectively, and they came together for
Speaker 1: a three and a half week run that was unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Taoskar, Not only is he going to get paid
Speaker 3: because he showed it offensively, Hey, he showed it defensively too.
Speaker 3: How about the throat to nail Stanton? He was outstanding.
Speaker 3: So this is a this is a top quality player.
Speaker 3: Plays a little bit under the radar. But but man,
Speaker 3: is he a good thirty three jacks right at one
Speaker 3: hundred RBIs stellar defense? Oh yeah, he's gonna be right there.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you another thing. You know they're talking about, well,
Speaker 3: you know we don't have to answer questions about this,
Speaker 3: you know, a strike shortened year or it was COVID
Speaker 3: or whatever it may be. I mean, you know we
Speaker 3: heard that back back in eighty one too. You know
Speaker 3: it was two seasons and whatever. So I'll tell you
Speaker 3: what the best, the best barometer you can get for
Speaker 3: how good this team is, ask the Yankees. I haven't
Speaker 3: seen any video or any tape about it, but I'll
Speaker 3: bet you those guys over there saying they're just marveling
Speaker 3: at how good the team is. I'll bet they're saying
Speaker 3: this is an incredible team that we faced. I hadn't,
Speaker 3: like I said, I haven't seen any video on it,
Speaker 3: but I'll bet you that's what they're saying. And lastly,
Speaker 3: when we talked about the togetherness that the team really,
Speaker 3: you know, put a stamp on for this club can
Speaker 3: pro I can guarantee you this, Dave I wasn't in
Speaker 3: the locker like David Vasse, but I'll tell you that
Speaker 3: was player driven. That was nothing to do with the manager.
Speaker 3: I can promise you the manager never came up to
Speaker 3: you know, Mookie Betts or one of the guys, Freddy
Speaker 3: or one of the guys on the team and say, hey,
Speaker 3: tell you what, why don't you do this thing and
Speaker 3: get the players together and and and just really make
Speaker 3: a statement and try to get this together and this,
Speaker 3: you know, with a foot forward in that direction. I
Speaker 3: can promise you that none of them that happened. This
Speaker 3: was all about the players doing it. And that's what
Speaker 3: you talk about leadership on a team. That is leadership.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't care what you say, let me
Speaker 3: see what you do. And that's what the Dodgers had done.
Speaker 1: He is Steve sax Iam, Tim Kats This is Saxon
Speaker 1: Kates in the AAM. We've been with you all month
Speaker 1: of October during the Dodgers playoff runs. Sometimes it's a
Speaker 1: week long show, sometimes it's a two day show. But
Speaker 1: this month here in twenty twenty four, we have been
Speaker 1: along during this journey, from the NLDS against the Padres
Speaker 1: in five games, to the NLCS and beating the New
Speaker 1: York Mets, and now a five game World Series for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, beating the Yankees last night seven to six
Speaker 1: in the Bronx. And we want you to be a
Speaker 1: part of it. This morning, Dodger fans, we want you
Speaker 1: to help celebrate this World Series Championship eight sixty six
Speaker 1: ninety seven two five seventy. Tomorrow there'll be a parade
Speaker 1: here in the city of Los Angeles, and we'll have
Speaker 1: it for you right here on your home of the
Speaker 1: World Series Champion Dodgers AFI seven y LA Sports. All
Speaker 1: the details have been posted. It starts at eleven am.
Speaker 1: The parade itself will last about forty five minutes to
Speaker 1: an hour. It will start at Gloria Molina Grand Park
Speaker 1: in front of the City Hall on Spring Street. It
Speaker 1: will then head them down First Street to Grand and
Speaker 1: then head to Grand to Fifth Street at Indian at
Speaker 1: Fifth and Flower Street. It is about one mile long
Speaker 1: and it's again supposed to take it between forty five
Speaker 1: minutes and an hour. And then after that there'll be
Speaker 1: a ticketed celebration for fans at Dodger Stadium beginning after
Speaker 1: twelve o'clock. Whi's a big ceremony there, food, merchandise available
Speaker 1: for purchase, and you'll be able to watch the parade
Speaker 1: and the coverage on the Dodger Vision scoreboard, so they
Speaker 1: encourage you. You're either gonna go to one or the other,
Speaker 1: and not everybody's gonna be able to get into Dodger
Speaker 1: Stadium because it's a ticketed celebration, So those who can't,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to go along the parade route
Speaker 1: for that one mile and celebrate and see all your
Speaker 1: favorite Dodger players close up as they go by in
Speaker 1: double decker buses, show Aotani to Will Smith, to Mookie
Speaker 1: Betts and everybody in between. You will be out there
Speaker 1: celebrating this championship. To morrow again, we'll have all the
Speaker 1: parade covers beginning at nine thirty am tomorrow morning. But
Speaker 1: this morning here on our final edition here in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four of sax and Kates in the Am. It's
Speaker 1: us and you taking your phone call. I checked in.
Speaker 1: I went to bed last night like it to something,
Speaker 1: and last time I looked at my phone and the
Speaker 1: last correspondence I had with David Vassy he said they
Speaker 1: were getting ready to take off, and he said, I'll
Speaker 1: check in with you and Saxy once we land about
Speaker 1: seven or eight o'clock this morning. So the team is
Speaker 1: in Root right now. They don't land for about another
Speaker 1: hour and a half or so roughly, depending on when
Speaker 1: they actually land, and then it'll be a fun day
Speaker 1: for them to relax, and then tomorrow will be a
Speaker 1: party for everybody here in southern California with the parade, Saxony,
Speaker 1: you remember your parade in nineteen eighty eight, right, You
Speaker 1: mentioned how everybody was sick during that parade.
Speaker 3: But well worth it, you know, you let your defenses
Speaker 3: down after all that stress, and it's gonna happen. But
Speaker 3: it was it was just a magic time. You'll never
Speaker 3: forget it. I remember having my two little kids on
Speaker 3: the parade and it was just a magic time, you know,
Speaker 3: to bring your family up there and it was so
Speaker 3: much fun. Never forget it. It's indelible, it's on your
Speaker 3: spirit and it's a great thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we mentioned, you know, the reasons why a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys wanted this championship so bad in
Speaker 1: that group that won in twenty twenty. Yeah, yeah, they
Speaker 1: wanted to shake that hole. Well it wasn't a full
Speaker 1: season talk. But also they want a parade. They got
Speaker 1: gypped in twenty twenty. They didn't get a parade because
Speaker 1: of COVID. Yes, Kershaw, Muncie, Mookie Bets, Austin Barnes, Will Smith,
Speaker 1: that whole crew didn't get to have a parade through
Speaker 1: the streets of LA. They don't know what it is like.
Speaker 1: They won a championship, flew back and then all dispersed
Speaker 1: because of COVID.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is tough. I mean, what are the chances
Speaker 3: of that happening, you know once in one hundred years. Right,
Speaker 3: that's tough thing. But you know what, it's all better
Speaker 3: now because they're gonna get a chance to celebrate this one.
Speaker 3: And you know what, it was so great to just
Speaker 3: how about the enthusiasm when you see these guys when
Speaker 3: they i mean, the gloves come off, the hat goes up.
Speaker 3: I mean they got to have you know, ten or
Speaker 3: twelve people are out there, you know, gathering that stuff up, right,
Speaker 3: because I'm sure there's poachers out there that would love
Speaker 3: to run up there and grab that. I mean, what's
Speaker 3: a Freddie Freeman glove worth? You know at winning the
Speaker 3: World Series. I mean, there's a lot of guys are
Speaker 3: probably targeting that thing. Oh but you know, it was
Speaker 3: really great. I don't think those two chumps down the
Speaker 3: right field line got to see this history happened. How
Speaker 3: about that?
Speaker 1: I love it. They didn't get a chance to be
Speaker 1: in there. I wish they kind of were to get
Speaker 1: in a front row seat there to watch Mookie Bets
Speaker 1: throw his glove up in the air and celebrate running
Speaker 1: in piling there in the middle of the field in
Speaker 1: the Bronx You mentioned the celebration. Was kind of fun
Speaker 1: to see Will Smith put the ball in his back
Speaker 1: pocket because that's always something you hear about what happened
Speaker 1: to the baseball. Yeah, and MLB had a behind the
Speaker 1: scenes on their social media. It was really cool. The
Speaker 1: authenticator that has all the stickers and writes everything down
Speaker 1: and authenticates all the memorabilia. When things happen fifty to
Speaker 1: fifty ball for showing all that kind of stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: they want to authentic date the baseball the final lot
Speaker 1: of the World Series, and so they followed this guy around.
Speaker 1: As soon as the last out happens, he pops out
Speaker 1: of the dugout and he sprints out to Will Smith
Speaker 1: and he's yelling at Will Smith. Well, well, well well,
Speaker 1: and Will Smith is celebrating, and the ball is in
Speaker 1: his back pocket, you can see it clearly, and so
Speaker 1: he asked Will for the ball. Will doesn't really want
Speaker 1: to give it up, but does hands it over, throws
Speaker 1: a sticker on it real quick, authenticates it, writes it down,
Speaker 1: puts the number, everything, and then Will puts it right
Speaker 1: back in his pocket. He says, this is going to
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller. Ah nice, Yeah, that's great, good for him.
Speaker 1: So happy for Walker Bueller. Unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Hey, how much has his stock shot forward just in
Speaker 3: the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It's like watching my doge coin just kind of go
Speaker 1: up and up and up.
Speaker 3: It's going to too. Hey. I hope, I hope the
Speaker 3: Dodgers sign him. This guy really is the heartbeat of
Speaker 3: the team. He is a great example of what's great
Speaker 3: about baseball, everything that he had to overcome, the two surgeries,
Speaker 3: you know, the doubts that people had, the stick to
Speaker 3: itiveness that he had throughout the course of the year
Speaker 3: to stay on it and just never give up one
Speaker 3: bit and then have the tenacity to come out there
Speaker 3: and ask for the baseball to come out there and
Speaker 3: shut this thing down. Was that curveball absolutely wicked last night?
Speaker 3: I mean, that is a great That is an unbelievable
Speaker 3: piece of work that he's putting out there with that curveball.
Speaker 1: That thing is absolutely filthy. Let's hear from Walker Bueller.
Speaker 1: It's brief, it's short, it's Walker bueller esque. It's David
Speaker 1: Vassey with the man who closed out the World Series
Speaker 1: last night, Walker Bueller inside the Dodger Clubhouse last night,
Speaker 1: Walker freaking Bueller.
Speaker 4: This is what legends are made of.
Speaker 1: Walker. When did you know you were going to the
Speaker 1: bullpen win the sixth?
Speaker 3: I think I told Doc, if you need alday out.
Speaker 4: There, what does it mean to you to come through
Speaker 4: when the team needed you the most?
Speaker 1: Every day? Man, I thought I was gonna.
Speaker 4: Get released off this. I don't think you're gonna get
Speaker 4: released now.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to enjoy.
Speaker 5: This see you later.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's great.
Speaker 1: That's Walker Bueller in a nutshell, just wants to have
Speaker 1: a good time, celebrate with his teammates. And oh man,
Speaker 1: I love the rottenness there. And he said, I don't
Speaker 1: even know if I was gonna be on this team.
Speaker 3: I thought it was gonna be released this something team.
Speaker 3: But hey, that's okay, that's okay, that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, I mean, hey, I'm not gonna put things in
Speaker 3: people's minds. They already know a lot more about this
Speaker 3: than I do. But if I'm this team, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: sign that dude. I'm gonna get him. Hopefully he doesn't
Speaker 3: go and sprint out in the free agent market, but
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's gonna explore. But that guy, you got
Speaker 3: to have him on your team. I mean, you need
Speaker 3: guys like that. They just don't print out guys like
Speaker 3: this at the in the baseball machine. All right, this
Speaker 3: guy is special, and you know what, he's thirty years old,
Speaker 3: he's got the great makeup. Right now, he's got a
Speaker 3: new arm. There's not a lot of mileage on Walker
Speaker 3: Bueller's arm right now. They rebuilt it twice, So you
Speaker 3: know what, it's it's maybe he's twenty six right now,
Speaker 3: because that's a new arm. I'm going out there and
Speaker 3: I'm gonna just stack it up for him.
Speaker 1: I remember having a conversation with somebody a few days ago,
Speaker 1: and I think there might have been you, Saxony. We
Speaker 1: were talking about Walker Bueller and his you know, what's
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen after the season.
Speaker 3: I remember when it happened, when you pick me up
Speaker 3: and we're making the walk into the studio.
Speaker 1: That's right, And I said, I don't know, maybe two
Speaker 1: three year deal. I can see him going somewhere. Somebody
Speaker 1: wanted to have a guy maybe at the front end
Speaker 1: of the rotation. We've got a name. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: absolutely boosted the years and the dollar amount up now,
Speaker 1: no doubt, has put himself up there, you know, and
Speaker 1: probably I haven't looked at the free agent class yet,
Speaker 1: but I would have to imagine he's one of the
Speaker 1: top five pictures. Oh that'll be out there in free
Speaker 1: agency because you just mentioned it. He's only thirty. Listen,
Speaker 1: he's a postgame picture. He's got to rebuilt arm.
Speaker 3: And long as he's healthy, long as they can confirm that,
Speaker 3: there's no and I don't see you see him just
Speaker 3: he is slinging that ball down in the in the
Speaker 3: in the bullpen, getting ready to come in. He's holding
Speaker 3: nothing back, you know, the mental part of it. Oh
Speaker 3: my okay or not, that's that's gone for sure. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm this this guy. You gotta have him up there
Speaker 3: at the top of your rotation. He was fantastic last night. Sorry,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry to buy. I don't want to forget this.
Speaker 3: But did you hear what he said? I told him
Speaker 3: I was ready in the sixth Inny. You know you
Speaker 3: know who else did that? Clayton Kershaw? Yeah, and orl Hrscheiser,
Speaker 3: remember Orle just walked down there. Yes, he just said
Speaker 3: I'm going down. He told him down there. They sent
Speaker 3: me down. He didn't even tell Tommy. He just wins.
Speaker 3: And that's that's just what walker. It's a same makeup,
Speaker 3: same same kind of go get it attitude. Right, that's
Speaker 3: what you need right there, same thing, look, same blueprint
Speaker 3: as oral, same thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not everybody's wired that way. No, not everybody wants
Speaker 1: the ball. Guys will huddle in the corner.
Speaker 3: Maybe they won't call my name.
Speaker 1: You know, some if you're a failure.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I don't see Walker Buehler with that. He's gonna
Speaker 3: let me have it, man, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It was a beautiful thing to see that. They David
Speaker 1: Vasse tweeted it out once he saw him make the
Speaker 1: walk out there, and people started getting pumped up, started thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: if the Dodgers can come back here, all right, Okay,
Speaker 1: they tied the game, all right, all right, they're down
Speaker 1: six to five. Oh they take the lead. Okay, Dodgers
Speaker 1: come all the way back and beat the Yankees last night,
Speaker 1: down five to nothing, they win it seven to six.
Speaker 1: They celebrate on the field in the Bronx, and they
Speaker 1: win their eighth World Series championship. And the party has
Speaker 1: been going on all night here in southern California for
Speaker 1: the most part, safe for the most part. And they'll parade.
Speaker 1: It'll happen tomorrow. It'll continue all weekend long, and we'll
Speaker 1: have to pray for you tomorrow right here on I
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports. Your phone calls coming up all morning long.
Speaker 1: We want to celebrate with you, Dodger fans. Where were
Speaker 1: you last night? Who were you celebrating with? What does
Speaker 1: this mean to you as a Dodger fan to see
Speaker 1: them fly back home with that hardware on the plane
Speaker 1: and come back as World's Series champions. He is Steve Sacks,
Speaker 1: I'm Tim Kates. It's Sax and Kates and a and
Speaker 1: here on your World Series Champion, Los Angeles Dodger Station,
Speaker 1: m FI seventy I Sports. All the Dodgers do is win, win, win, divisions, pennants,
Speaker 1: and now they're eighth World Series Championship, defeating the New
Speaker 1: York Yankees in five games with a seventy six win
Speaker 1: last night in the Bronx. Tim Kats along with Steve
Speaker 1: Sacks here on AM five seventy LA Sports, You're a
Speaker 1: home of the World Series Champion LA Dodgers. And the
Speaker 1: Dodgers will have a parade tomorrow through downtown LA and
Speaker 1: then a celebration at Dodgers Stadium, all presented by Yamavah
Speaker 1: and it begins right here on MFI seventy LA Sports
Speaker 1: at nine thirty in the morning. The parade will start
Speaker 1: at eleven am. It'll go a little more than a
Speaker 1: mile through downtown starting at City Hall, and then they
Speaker 1: will head to Dodger Stadium for a celebration. A ticketed
Speaker 1: celebration for fans beginning sometime afternoon. They'll have merchandise and
Speaker 1: food for sale at Dodger Stadium for those who are
Speaker 1: in attendance. Absolutely wild, Saxey. I'm gonna just cards on
Speaker 1: the table. Full disclosure here. I may or may have
Speaker 1: not started sending text messages out last night about the
Speaker 1: third or fourth inning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe to you. Yeah, I got one, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I sent them to David Vasse. I sent them
Speaker 1: to different people, saying, hey, game six on Friday, this
Speaker 1: is the plan, this is what we're doing as a station.
Speaker 1: I made a comment to you, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun show tomorrow. I met that sarcastically, and as it
Speaker 1: turns out, maybe I was right. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun show this morning, Saxony, it's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be best exactly right. Yeah, you were talking about
Speaker 3: you win Pennants World Championships. You forgot people's hearts.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah. People are emotional about this, this this series
Speaker 1: win over the Yankees. I think, you know the I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's so many reasons for it, but I
Speaker 1: think the ups and downs of this season, the expectations
Speaker 1: of winning the championship, and I think for a lot
Speaker 1: of Dodger fans, they felt like a lot of players
Speaker 1: did that. We're here in twenty twenty. They didn't get
Speaker 1: their respect for winning that championship in the bubble. They
Speaker 1: didn't get their respect because it was a sixty six
Speaker 1: game season. They didn't get the respect because they did
Speaker 1: it down in Arlington and I'd have to travel and
Speaker 1: play actual road games or get home games. They were
Speaker 1: on a neutral site down to the Rangers Park there
Speaker 1: in Arlington. For all those reasons. I think Dodger fans
Speaker 1: sort of feel the same way, like, hey, this is
Speaker 1: a load off our shoulders. We can finally boast now
Speaker 1: that our team is championed and we did it outside
Speaker 1: of a shortened season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, anything can happen in a seven game series.
Speaker 3: We all know that, no question about it. And no
Speaker 3: absolute disrespect to the Yankees. This was a phenomenal team
Speaker 3: with a great organization all that, but Padres maybe the
Speaker 3: toughest opponent.
Speaker 1: Oh for them, absolutely hundred percent. Yeah, that series was
Speaker 1: off the charts. I mean we talked about the beginning.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's you know, looking ahead and projecting out
Speaker 1: what could possibly happen? Then this might be the toughest
Speaker 1: one right now, getting out of the gate with the Padres,
Speaker 1: that team was stacked. Yeah. We talked about to be
Speaker 1: a letdown against the Mets after the emotional five game
Speaker 1: series winning the NLDS and coming back and beating the Padres. Nope,
Speaker 1: they checked that box. They beat the Meds and then
Speaker 1: the Yankees. Yeah, as you mentioned, kind of felt like
Speaker 1: I have all the three teams they faced in October,
Speaker 1: they were the third best behind the Meds and then
Speaker 1: then be course behind the Padres there as well.
Speaker 3: No no letdown though with the team. The team. You
Speaker 3: know that this is just what I admire about this
Speaker 3: team so much. I can't say it enough. Is is
Speaker 3: none of that mattered to them. It was it was
Speaker 3: the professional attitude. It was the you know, the work
Speaker 3: ethic and together it's all that stuff that that you
Speaker 3: just don't naturally get. I mean sometimes it just doesn't
Speaker 3: gel that way. Everything gelled with this team. It was
Speaker 3: all about the other guy, and that's what makes winners.
Speaker 3: I mean, they bring other people with them. They don't
Speaker 3: go by themselves. They want to bring everybody with them.
Speaker 3: And when you get excited about somebody else doing something great,
Speaker 3: who there's some magic can happen with that, and that's
Speaker 3: what this team had.
Speaker 1: You know, last night early on, Jack Flaherty didn't have it.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers' offense struggled against Garrett Cole. But you say
Speaker 1: it all the time. Put the ball in play, make
Speaker 1: the defense have to make plays. Put the pressure on them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's what happened. In that fifth inning. Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: misplays a ball in center field that cracks open the
Speaker 1: door for the Dodgers. Anthony Volpi a ball hit to
Speaker 1: his right side. Nine times out of ten, he makes
Speaker 1: a clean throw over to Chisholm at third for the
Speaker 1: force out. But the one time he doesn't last night,
Speaker 1: he won hops Chisholm, who can't make the clean pick
Speaker 1: comes off. The base runners safe at third. That opens
Speaker 1: the door for the Dodgers. Mookie Betts hits the ball
Speaker 1: off a Q shot off the end of the bat
Speaker 1: goes to Anthony Rizzo, who doesn't charge the ball, waits
Speaker 1: for it, and Garrett Cole thinks he's just gonna take
Speaker 1: it himself to the bag. He stops. How about that
Speaker 1: midway between the mount and first they're looking at each other. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: run scores and bases are loaded again as Mooky safe.
Speaker 1: At first, things had to go right for them, and
Speaker 1: they did exactly right.
Speaker 3: And you know, that's what happens when when you win
Speaker 3: a game like that, you have some things you can't
Speaker 3: even see, you know, like we talked about you and
Speaker 3: I talked about this off the aras. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of things, many things are gonna happen in this game
Speaker 3: that we can't even you know, look at, look at
Speaker 3: and predict, and so many little nuances about this game.
Speaker 3: And that's what just makes it absolutely beautiful. And that's
Speaker 3: what happened in this game. You have Aaron Judges dropping
Speaker 3: a ball, Like you said, all those miscues, they gave
Speaker 3: the Dodgers six outs in that inning. You can't give
Speaker 3: a juggernaut, an offensive, absolutely behemoth, six outs in an
Speaker 3: inning and expect that you're gonna come back and cap
Speaker 3: those guys off. It's not gonna happen. They're gonna score runs.
Speaker 3: And that's exactly what happened that inning.
Speaker 1: No, they opened the door, Dodgers took full advantage of it.
Speaker 1: Nihly did get some help to start the scoring, but
Speaker 1: then Freddie Freeman delivered with a two run single and
Speaker 1: then you get to Oscar Hernandez, who hits the ball
Speaker 1: off the wall in center field to score two. More
Speaker 1: So they did their part delivering with big hits. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask you kind of a dumb question, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know the answer or not. I
Speaker 1: know the answer because Rick Monday mentioned it last night.
Speaker 1: By the way, you have many airs during the regular season,
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge had.
Speaker 3: Not very many, and I would boast out there big time.
Speaker 3: He should probably be a strong consideration for go glove
Speaker 3: in centerfield.
Speaker 1: He had zero airs in twenty twenty four. Wow, he
Speaker 1: had one air in twenty twenty three. He had zero
Speaker 1: airs in the outfield in center field, left and right.
Speaker 1: Having played all three positions for the Yankees, mostly in centerfield,
Speaker 1: he had zero airs the entire regular season, and come
Speaker 1: Game five of the World Series, he boxes a ball
Speaker 1: in center field misplaying it.
Speaker 3: Now, is Aaron Judge going to be the goal glover
Speaker 3: in centerfield? I mean, I don't want to scan the
Speaker 3: rollodacks and see who else is out there, but that guy,
Speaker 3: I always say so underrated defensively. I mean, you saw
Speaker 3: the play he made in left center field where he
Speaker 3: almost tore down the wall right the guy. The guy
Speaker 3: is so underrated. He's so mechanically really really good. And
Speaker 3: that's why I'm saying in the other games before this game,
Speaker 3: why is he catching the ball quickly and throwing it in.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit not like him. He's two handed.
Speaker 3: He's absolutely for sure going to catch the ball with
Speaker 3: two hands. He's very mechanically sound. You see when he
Speaker 3: catches the ball in the outfield, he always hits the
Speaker 3: cutoff man. He's straight over the top. He throws a
Speaker 3: four seam fastball to the cutoff guy. He's always throw
Speaker 3: into the right base, great routes in the outfield, and
Speaker 3: I just just catch and throw real quick. That's why
Speaker 3: he dropped that ball, my friend, he took his eye
Speaker 3: off at the very last millisecond and that caused the
Speaker 3: air and open the floor gates. Very unlikely with Aaron
Speaker 3: Judge to see him do this.
Speaker 1: We'll get to your phone calls in just one second.
Speaker 1: But you asked a question about Gold Glove finalist in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four in left field in the American League. Yep.
Speaker 1: Alex Ridugo is one of three finalists. Okay, in right
Speaker 1: field in the American League for gold glove. Juan Soto
Speaker 1: is a finalist. That's a joke right there. For a
Speaker 1: gold glove. That is a freaking joke. Yes, I said it.
Speaker 1: That guy is a well below average, well below average
Speaker 1: right fielder. Go ahead in center field for the American League.
Speaker 1: Your three finalists Dalton Varshow of the Blue Jays, Jake
Speaker 1: Myers of the Astros yep, and you mentioned him, Jared
Speaker 1: Durant of the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 3: Okay, Jared Durant can go get it, Okay, I get
Speaker 3: that guy's legit. You don't put Aaron Judge out there. No,
Speaker 3: that's sick.
Speaker 1: Not one of the three final sodo out there? Yeah,
Speaker 1: okay for Dugo and soda or finalist for gold gloves
Speaker 1: and Aaron Judge is not in. Just goes to what
Speaker 1: we talked about a couple of days ago. Freddie Freeman's
Speaker 1: not a goal glove.
Speaker 3: Final that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, I don't know who's to sign
Speaker 1: this stuff, but they need to be re examined. I
Speaker 1: will tell you this.
Speaker 3: I will tell you this a lot of times when
Speaker 3: the gold glove stuff, it's that has to do with
Speaker 3: hitting two. I mean, you can't get better than Aaron Judge.
Speaker 3: But how is Soto out there for a finalist? He's
Speaker 3: he's well below average outfielder, doesn't run well, doesn't throw well.
Speaker 3: He is not even close to a five tool player.
Speaker 3: He can hit, he can hit, he's got pop, and
Speaker 3: he knows the strike zone. He knows that he can
Speaker 3: draw the walks. He's a legitimate hitter, much better hitter
Speaker 3: in Yankee Stadium with the short porch. Legit, no question,
Speaker 3: legit outfielder, way below average. I put him in the
Speaker 3: twenty percentile.
Speaker 1: Joe Odell, the Angels Wiler a bray you of the
Speaker 1: Red Sox is a finalist. He actually led outfielders with
Speaker 1: eighteen defensive run saved drs.
Speaker 3: I see these guys in the Red Sox play because
Speaker 3: my nephew on the team. And yeah, so I see that.
Speaker 1: I get that question because he's got ten outfield des cists.
Speaker 3: So because he doesn't play deep, I don't know, you know,
Speaker 3: he's he's not not in my book, that.
Speaker 1: Scratcher, absolute scratcher, scratch. Would you think he's not a
Speaker 1: he's not a Gold Glove outfielder. Hell no, I mean,
Speaker 1: on the biggest stage of the World Series.
Speaker 3: You think four after the ball in the bow territory
Speaker 3: when you know when uh, you know they're going to
Speaker 3: get it with you know.
Speaker 1: Down the line, So down the line, I mean, did
Speaker 1: you see that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he doesn't make it ear because he doesn't get
Speaker 3: to anything. That's why.
Speaker 1: Let's go out to the phones. It's gonna be you
Speaker 1: and us all morning long this morning as we celebrate
Speaker 1: Los Angeles a twenty twenty four World Series championship. Oscar
Speaker 1: Baldwin Park. Start things off here on this Halloween morning
Speaker 1: on scam. How you doing, Oscar, mister Tomie Case one
Speaker 1: of DS, well, doc Jers, we did it? Whoa, well yeah,
Speaker 1: did you just celebrate last night, Oscar?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, yeah with the family. You know, everybody was happy,
Speaker 5: happy for the city, everybody, all the familiars out there, everybody.
Speaker 5: It's a good time right now. Man, good good, good time.
Speaker 5: A couple of seats on the game that but that
Speaker 5: come back in that fifth and it was man, Man
Speaker 5: ninety percent of the playoffs I hurt on the radio, gentlemen,
Speaker 5: So thank you for the good putting it out there.
Speaker 5: So heard that and it was man. Then after that
Speaker 5: we're ce sex ut burd I haven't seen it, ton nobody.
Speaker 5: The only thing I remember the eighty eight World Series
Speaker 5: was a clinching game. I was only six years old.
Speaker 5: I believe I remember the kitching guy. I remember Arl
Speaker 5: Herscheizer clothing it out, straking our social running from on
Speaker 5: the mountain. That's exactly what Builer reminded me of last night. Man,
Speaker 5: same thing came out in nineteen he got him mount
Speaker 5: and boom, we got it, man, we got it. So,
Speaker 5: you know, just just it was. You know, I'm happy
Speaker 5: for everybody's beautiful day. And hey, I'm hoping looking back
Speaker 5: to you guys next year.
Speaker 1: We're talking about a bat bo a Oscar. Let's do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the roster is gonna be intact. They're gonna add some pieces,
Speaker 1: you know. Andrew Freeman Brandon Gomes have already talked about
Speaker 1: it on the flight home from New York overnight, about
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do going into twenty twenty five, and
Speaker 1: thinking about all the players that are coming back from injuries,
Speaker 1: all the arms that are coming back from injuries, including
Speaker 1: an arm on show Heo Tani that should be good
Speaker 1: to go in twenty twenty five. It's scary. They've got
Speaker 1: an entire starting rotation injured right now that you can
Speaker 1: just take and drop in next year and it'll be
Speaker 1: good to go.
Speaker 3: Plunk.
Speaker 1: Yep. That unbelievable.
Speaker 3: What about May What do you think is gonna happen
Speaker 3: with him? Is he gonna be ready to go? This
Speaker 3: guy's got more talent, but just can't get off the
Speaker 3: can't get out.
Speaker 1: Of the tub. Yeah, he can't get off the injured list.
Speaker 1: Arm injury after arm injury, and then he had an
Speaker 1: esophagus injury that slowed things down. I hope he can
Speaker 1: get right. I hope he can get healthy and stay healthy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he's still young. He's still got an electric arm
Speaker 1: when healthy. I don't think his role necessarily moving forward,
Speaker 1: Sacksy is as a starter.
Speaker 3: Maybe the pen, Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 1: That Josh Hater roll a close out, you know, a
Speaker 1: reliever for them. They can come in and get you
Speaker 1: three outs, throw one hundred and one. They have guys
Speaker 1: off balance with that nasty curves and sweeper that he throws, like.
Speaker 3: What Trion does. Yeah, yep, exactly.
Speaker 1: By the way, I saw the Daniel Hudson after the
Speaker 1: game last night announced he's retiring. Wow, he has done that.
Speaker 1: He can't go through one hundred and sixty two game
Speaker 1: season anymore. And okay, you know what for him, he's
Speaker 1: been through a lot. He's a double Tommy John surgery guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I had him at Arizona when I was there.
Speaker 3: Oh he did you really?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 3: Great guy. Oh, he's a he's a he's an animal.
Speaker 3: And that's a compliment. You know, he'll be You could
Speaker 3: be in the foxhole with him. That that dude's go
Speaker 3: get her. Oh yeah, all man, that's all man right there.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's thirty seven years old. He'll be thirty
Speaker 3: eight for Opening Day next year, will probably you know
Speaker 3: what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely what a World Series in nineteen with the
Speaker 1: Nationals closing it out, and like I said, he just
Speaker 1: he's battled injuries the last couple of years to hit
Speaker 1: him and Blake trying hard. He had a great career,
Speaker 1: absolutely great career. He caps it off with the World
Speaker 1: Series victory. Absolutely good. Good for him. No better time
Speaker 1: to go out than on top. That's it, you know,
Speaker 1: World Series champion. The exhaustion of a lot of the season,
Speaker 1: and uh, to say good night to a career is
Speaker 1: a is a wonderful thing for him. Fred in LA
Speaker 1: is next on here with Sax and Kates and the
Speaker 1: am Fred. Where'd you party last night? How'd you watch them?
Speaker 1: Listen to the game?
Speaker 5: I parted at home?
Speaker 6: Tim, Good morning, Sax, Good morning for I'm actually at
Speaker 6: I'm actually working. My brother called you guys yesterday the
Speaker 6: bullpen was going to show up. It was a marshity
Speaker 6: buffit to put this thing to sleep. So I just
Speaker 6: want to say congratulations Dodgers. Let's get Tim ring. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and I gotta go back. I gotta go back to
Speaker 6: work because we got to work for the cities, So
Speaker 6: I gotta prep this parade route.
Speaker 1: So to work right off. Enjoy that's fun, Fred, appreciate it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: get those streets ready, Fred, that's it. Let's get ready
Speaker 1: for a parade tomorrow and you'll be able to hear
Speaker 1: it right here on a five seventy LA Sports Beginning A.
Speaker 1: Nine to thirty in the morning is when our coverage starts.
Speaker 1: The parade starts at eleven am at City Hall in downtown,
Speaker 1: will go down Spring Streets A First Street, down Grand
Speaker 1: over to Fifth and Flower. The players will then head
Speaker 1: to Dodger Stadium for a ticketed celebration. But whether you
Speaker 1: get into Dodger Stadium or not, you can line up
Speaker 1: the streets of downtown and see your favorite Dodger players
Speaker 1: go by as they celebrate a twenty twenty four World
Speaker 1: Series championship. Steve Sacks, Tim Kaits and you on this
Speaker 1: Halloween morning, No trick, no treat, just the truth. A
Speaker 1: celebratory morning here in southern California, as the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: bringing home a World Series championship. Thanks you being with it.
Speaker 1: To Saya FY seventy LA Sports. The city of La has
Speaker 1: another championship, the eighth in the history of the franchise
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers, the second of the last four years,
Speaker 1: as the Dodgers beat the New York Yankees last night,
Speaker 1: winning Game five of the World Series seven to six
Speaker 1: and bringing home the hardware at a celebration tomorrow with
Speaker 1: the Dodgers Championship Parade. We'll have the coverage beginning a
Speaker 1: nine to thirty right here on AFI seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: The parade itself will start at Gloria Molina Grand Park
Speaker 1: in front of City Hall on Spring Street will kick
Speaker 1: off the parade. Then we'll make its way down First
Speaker 1: Street March four blocks to Grand Avenue, From there, the
Speaker 1: parade heads to Fifth Street and ends at Fifth in
Speaker 1: Flour and then the players will head to Dodger Stadium
Speaker 1: for a ticket a celebration for fans that will schedule
Speaker 1: sometime after twelve o'clock tomorrow afternoon. You can go to
Speaker 1: the parade route, you can try to get tickets for
Speaker 1: this event at Dodger Stadium, or you can just sit
Speaker 1: back and enjoy it right here on AMFI seventy LA
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Speaker 1: The Dodgers now celebrate a World Series championship. And for
Speaker 1: a lot of folks, the uh talk was have been
Speaker 1: all about Dave Roberts Zaxy and well, Dave Roberts blamed
Speaker 1: him for this. Let's bring him blame him for that.
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts can't get over this hurdle. Dave Roberts is
Speaker 1: the reason why they lost to the Diamondbacks last year.
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts was the reason why they lost to the
Speaker 1: Padres two years ago. He can put all that behind
Speaker 1: him now. Dave Roberts is a two time World Series
Speaker 1: Championship manager. How about that?
Speaker 3: And on his way to the Hall of Fame. Most
Speaker 3: likely so you know, now you've got a guy that's
Speaker 3: desined for the Hall of Fame, and you're gonna think
Speaker 3: about what's his fault? Look, I mean this is this
Speaker 3: these games and and all these playoffs are they're so subjective.
Speaker 3: Anything can happen. Look, look, if you're the Yankee standpoint,
Speaker 3: Aaron Judge drops a fly ball, how can you predict that?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: You just don't know? Is that Aaron Boone's fault? Absolutely not? No, Okay,
Speaker 3: so you can't blame Aaron Boone for that? Are you
Speaker 3: gonna blame I mean, do you think Vulpe should have
Speaker 3: gone to second on that play?
Speaker 1: To his right?
Speaker 3: Well maybe it depends on the jump. I'm not I
Speaker 3: couldn't see the jump from the runner at first. But
Speaker 3: but are you gonna you know, you're gonna blame Aaron
Speaker 3: Boone because Vulpe, you know, throw it in the in
Speaker 3: the ground. I mean, you can't, but we're gonna gonna happen.
Speaker 1: We're gonna blame Aaron Boone though for Anthony Rizzo not
Speaker 1: getting the first in time though, right, well.
Speaker 3: You know what that's now, that's that's still a Rizzo thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't get that was the ball cute,
Speaker 3: it looked like it might have been cute was and
Speaker 3: and Rizzo, Rizzo is a great defender at first base too.
Speaker 3: He he kind of, you know, let the ball come
Speaker 3: back on him. He backed up on the ball. I mean,
Speaker 3: Garrett Cole was going to first base, just like in
Speaker 3: spring trending when they do PfP pitchers fielding practice, like
Speaker 3: he's supposed to. And then for some reason he backed off,
Speaker 3: and he backed off at the same time that Rizzo
Speaker 3: backed up, and it was a perfect storm that that
Speaker 3: that just nailed him. He backed off when Rizzo was
Speaker 3: backing up and there was nobody at first base, and that,
Speaker 3: I mean because the ball was cued in that perfect situation. Yeah,
Speaker 3: can you blame Aaron Boone for that? No, It's just
Speaker 3: that the way it goes. And you know, I'm glad that,
Speaker 3: you know, people are saying, well, you know, and you know,
Speaker 3: finally Dave, you know, Dave Robert gets his Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: gets his due and whatnot. You know what, he had
Speaker 3: his due along before that. He's a really good manager.
Speaker 3: And I'm finally glad that people kind of back off him,
Speaker 3: you know. And is he different now that he won
Speaker 3: the world. No, same guy he was years ago. It's
Speaker 3: just now he doesn't have to worry about that stuff.
Speaker 1: Right yep. Nine years as Dodger manager, nine playoff appearances,
Speaker 1: eight divisional titles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, who can do that?
Speaker 1: Four pennants in the National League, and now two World
Speaker 1: Series championships and here he is last night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, who wants a parade?
Speaker 1: Urki?
Speaker 4: I'm just so first and foremost, I thank god.
Speaker 1: I think my.
Speaker 4: Players, their families, the coaching staff, training staff, ownership, scouting,
Speaker 4: player development, as Andrews said, the fingerprints on Dodger Nation.
Speaker 4: This trophy belongs to everybody, Dave.
Speaker 7: This team's so resilient, obviously, the incredible winning game one.
Speaker 7: You're down five to nothing in this game. How unbelievable
Speaker 7: was it to watch your guys keep fighting back?
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: We had a great season, went to a lot of adversity.
Speaker 4: A lot of people counted us out. But every single
Speaker 4: one of these guys, and a lot of people that
Speaker 4: aren't here with us on this stage made it impack.
Speaker 4: And these guys believed in one another. Even when we
Speaker 4: were down five to nothing, they persevered and kept fighting.
Speaker 4: And now we're world champions.
Speaker 7: There you are, Dave one last one about this game,
Speaker 7: specifically big moment.
Speaker 1: There were so many.
Speaker 7: But you go out to the mound in the eighth
Speaker 7: and you talk to Blake trying it and you leave
Speaker 7: him in the game. Tell us about that conversation and
Speaker 7: why you.
Speaker 3: Left him in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to look in Blake's eyes. Blake's our guy,
Speaker 4: Blake's been our guy. I just wanted to slow the
Speaker 4: game down a little bit. I looked in his eyes.
Speaker 4: I said, how you feeling? How much more you got?
Speaker 4: He said, I wanted?
Speaker 7: I trusted him World champs Hounds.
Speaker 1: That sound Dave, Oh my what chump? Yeah it's Dave Roberts.
Speaker 1: Game was beautiful.
Speaker 3: You can't say it any better than that. I looked
Speaker 3: in his eyes, he said, I want it, and I
Speaker 3: trusted him. That's what it's about right there. That says
Speaker 3: everything about the unity of this club.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's called managing right there, going out asking your
Speaker 1: guy how he feels, getting the answer you want to hear?
Speaker 1: You got it all right? Hang on, let me get
Speaker 1: into the saber metrics file and look this up. Oh,
Speaker 1: it says that he's not supposed to be there.
Speaker 3: Well, he went out there, pounded on his chest, looked
Speaker 3: him in the eye, and there was his answer. The
Speaker 3: guy says, I want it, and that's why he left
Speaker 3: him in. I'll tell you what, there's no numbers that's
Speaker 3: going to read that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt it. Let's go to Ronnie on the
Speaker 1: one ten freeway. Ronnie, thanks for being patient. Good morning, Ronnie,
Speaker 1: Good morning her.
Speaker 5: Are you guys doing fantastic Halloween morning?
Speaker 1: Doing great? How did you celebrate last night? How excited
Speaker 1: are you though? Dodgers won a game.
Speaker 5: All about the La Kings game and they were playing
Speaker 5: it on the big screens.
Speaker 1: Oh, very cool. Yeah, I saw the highlights that they
Speaker 1: put it on the big screen after the Dodgers won.
Speaker 1: That was exciting.
Speaker 5: No, we watched it side by the side with the
Speaker 5: game the whole time.
Speaker 3: Nice, very cool.
Speaker 1: Thanks for checking in, Ronnie, Sure, thank you.
Speaker 5: We're both series champions.
Speaker 1: YEP.
Speaker 3: I just gonna ask her about, you know what she
Speaker 3: thought about when Dave Roberts came out. There were I
Speaker 3: mean some people were probably yelling take him out, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, I was, cause usually when Mark Pryor comes
Speaker 1: down the pitching coach.
Speaker 3: Oh, hang on boom.
Speaker 1: Usually when Mark Pryor comes out, that means a talk
Speaker 1: with the pitcher and he's not taking him out Anytime
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts comes out to get to the mound, that
Speaker 1: means he's making a pitching chain. So when he came
Speaker 1: out off those steps, I thought he was going to
Speaker 1: the pen. Yeah, but he didn't have a lot of
Speaker 1: options down there in the pen.
Speaker 3: No, he didn't.
Speaker 1: They had the guys who had pitched the night before.
Speaker 1: In Walker Bueller, he.
Speaker 3: Got some stud nearing Walker that says, uh, I can
Speaker 3: enter the game.
Speaker 1: Oh what a beautiful thing it was.
Speaker 3: What a curveball he had last night.
Speaker 1: My Lord Walker Bueller raising his hand, wants to be
Speaker 1: a part of it, comes in and closes it out,
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers are your twenty twenty four World Series champions.
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