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Dodger Fans, 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.040 eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.800 the number. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.160 Jump on board. Let's talk Dodgers Baseball at busy hour, 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.120 talking to you and coming up at seven forty five, 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:07.560 you are gonna get a farm report as I give 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.080 you an update in the top minor league prospects for 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.360 the Dodgers. A lot of names you heard and saw 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.760 during spring training here on the radio, you watched on 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.240 Sports at LA. You saw out a Camelback Ranch, names 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:25.600 like host Wadea, Paula, Zaiar, Hope Jackson, Ferris, Charles Davilan, 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:30.440 James Tibbs, the Third, Zach Root, Kendall, George. They got 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.200 a lot of playing time during the spring, especially late 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:35.319 in games, so you heard the names, you got to 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.600 see him. We're gonna tell you where they're at to 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.320 start twenty twenty six at the minor leagues, what level 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.280 and what kind of start are they off to. So 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.520 that's coming up at seven forty five. I like to 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.319 do that when I'm here on off night Dodger Talk 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.640 during the season. We of course know what's happening with 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:49.960 the big league team, but I like to give you 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.240 a quick update on some of the Dodgers' top minor 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:56.320 league prospects and names of the future where they're at 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.559 right now. So that's coming up at seven forty five. 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.960 BIZ road trip for the Dodgers, who go five to 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.200 one on the road trip and they return home to 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:09.040 start a homestand tomorrow night at nine and three overall 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.520 on this season. We're officially now two weeks in to 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.960 the start of the twenty twenty six baseball season. We 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.240 have got two weeks of baseball underneath our belt. The 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.280 Dodgers at nine and three sitting atop the division, the 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:26.720 Arizona Diamondbacks at seven and six overall, the Colorado Rockies 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.480 and the San Diego Padres as we speak, both at 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.679 five hundred, and the San Francisco Giants, with a new 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.000 head coach and Tony Fotello, are five and eight to 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.400 start this season. What surprises you, if at all, to 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.600 start this season in the NL West and across Major 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.600 League Baseball eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to two, 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.520 five to seventy. I'll tell you what. The Colorado Rockies 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.800 playing five hundred baseball winners of four in a row. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.040 A young team that quite frankly, the last two years 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.519 have been awful one hundred lost seasons in twenty four 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.000 and twenty five. The fact that they've already gotten the 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.360 six wins here in the first two weeks of the season, 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:03.799 that tells me right away that this is a team 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.000 that's taken his lumps and at least off to a 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.560 good start. Can they maintain it? We'll find out, and 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.480 that's a big part of this great starts in April. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.799 Where are you in May, June, and July. Yonder Alonso 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.639 was on with Petros and I earlier in the Petros 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.920 and Money Show at five point thirty, and he said 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:24.120 something interesting, and I think it's worth repeating. Baseball players 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.880 generally look at April is put your head down, get 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.560 your bats in, play baseball, and then when you start May, 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.160 first look up and see where you're at in the 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.640 standings and on the scoreboard. What do your stats look like, 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.600 and what does the team look like? One month in 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.320 roughly into this season. Well, we're at two weeks into 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.160 this season. I can tell you right now, I feel 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.920 pretty confident in saying the Dodgers are the runaway team 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.760 in the NL West. I think it's gonna be an 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:56.040 absolute dogfight after that between the Diamondbacks, Rockies, and Padres 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:00.040 to see where they slot in behind the Dodgers and 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.840 they get a wild card spot in the National League. 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.400 The NL East is loaded with the Marlins, the Braves, 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.680 and the Mets. And I didn't even mention the Phillies 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.240 who got into the postseason a year ago. There are 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:17.479 four legitimate contenders as far as playoff contenders in the 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:22.200 National League East, the NL Central, the Milwaukee Brewers Cincinnati Reds, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.599 two teams who are quite frankly the favorites in those 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.960 in the NL Central to go back to the postseason. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:33.320 The Cardinals still young, giving up. I don't think they're 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.120 gonna be around too long. But right out of the 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.640 gate two weeks into this season, you're starting to see 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.880 who are the teams that are going to start rising 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.440 to the top. Who are the teams playing above their 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.080 skis and out in front and are gonna come back 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.839 to the pack, And who are some of the teams 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.320 that are just off to bad starts and need to 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.960 get better, get healthy, and get back into the playoff race. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.440 When it's all said to done, it's still early, but 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.640 twelve games in for the Dodger, I certainly like where 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.080 the Dodgers are sitting eight six six nine eighty seven 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:08.839 two five seventy. Yesterday the bullpen reared its ugly head 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.160 for the first time this season. And maybe it's a 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:16.039 hiccup at speed bump. We'll find out moving forward, But 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.880 for the Dodgers, going five and zero on the road 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.040 trip and a chance to close it out with a 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.200 perfect six and zero road trip. Yesterday, had a three 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:28.120 to one lead in the seventh inning, and shoe Heotany, 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.520 quite frankly didn't pitch great yesterday. He admitted it. Will 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.719 Smith said he was out there, he was efficient getting 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.440 guys out, and he was. He had a high pitch 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.080 count and a couple of innings and quite frankly had 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.680 a lot of traffic on the base pass, but worked 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.120 around it. And shoey Otani yesterday went the six innings, 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.000 one run, four hits, didn't get a lot of swinging misses, 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.640 only two strikeouts. They were putting the ball in play, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.400 but he was getting out of it and working around 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.960 the traffic on the base pass. Jack Dryer came in 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:01.039 and absolutely did not have it yesterday. In the seventh inning, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.839 Blake Trining came in bailed him out, not before the 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.599 tying runs came across though, to tie the game at three. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.360 And then in the eighth inning, Ben Casparius on in 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:14.320 relief and Casparius, as it turns out, gives up a run. 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:16.840 It's an unearned run. Well, actually they did give it 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:18.279 an earned run because it was a walk to turn 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.839 around to score, but Ben Casparius the run scored on 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.640 the wild throat to second base that Miguel Rojas probably 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.400 should have had and dropped ball goes into center field, 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.680 winning run comes across and the Dodgers lose. What a 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.039 way for the Dodgers lose, by the way for the 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.159 bullpen to give it up in the seventh and eighth inning. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.040 I don't think this is going to be something we 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.080 see a lot of this year. Quite frankly, there's a 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.760 lot of arms down there, and I think nine times 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:49.760 out of ten, Jack Tryers gonna get out and pitch 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.240 better than he did yesterday and have the control which 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:56.200 he did not have yesterday. Blake Trining certainly came in 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.279 and pitched well. Took him only nine pitches to get 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:02.200 two outs. He had a in between. I think it's 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.440 a blip on the radar. I'm not worried about it, 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.839 and I think this team is so good they will 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.240 be able to overcome it. You know, most times. Unfortunately 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.960 they just over couldn't overcome it yesterday. And with that 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.320 being said, they still had an opportunity. Down four to three, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.000 they had runners on first and second with one out 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.000 against Jeff Hoffman, the closer who they got after yet 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.000 last year in the World Series. They almost got to 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.800 him yesterday, but he was able to walk the tight 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.880 rope and get off that type rope and get the 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.840 win over the Dodgers. So yesterday at disappointing seventh and 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.880 eighth inning for the Dodgers' bullpen, certainly something I don't 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.040 think we're gonna see a lot of this year. They 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.480 have been really good the first eleven games of the season. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.480 They let one get away yesterday, But when it's all 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.120 said and done, a five and one road trip eight 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.520 six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Yesterday also 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.840 a sad day in the Dodger nation with the passing 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.800 of Davy Lopes. Yesterday just sad news that came out, 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.880 and certainly for those who knew he had been been 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:08.560 battling Parkinson's and struggling as of late and was surrounded 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:14.640 by family and friends in the Northeast and yesterday succumbed 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.320 to that at the age of eighty, and it just 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:20.440 brought back so many memories for so many Dodger fans. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:25.520 Yesterday in hearing, the passing, the Davy Lopes, and those 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.000 were some of the great days of Dodger baseball, certainly 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.160 some of the great days of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball, 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:35.320 with Lobes and Say and Russell and Garvey out there 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.040 in the infield for eight and a half years, four 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.360 trips to a World Series, finally winning it in nineteen 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:45.960 eighty one. That group, the eighty one group, just got 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.960 the one championship. But I mean that was for the 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:53.280 most part a decade of them either going to the 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:57.559 World Series, certainly going to the playoffs and dominating, and 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.240 it was a great stretch. Then he had Fernando come 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.680 in in eighty and eighty one and take over and 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.640 pass the baton. But that that group, that group that 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.719 came up together burst onto the scene and for eight 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.480 and a half seasons was together. Ron Say was on 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.520 the station yesterday with the Petrols and Money Show and 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.920 was reminiscing about one of his good friends. So certainly 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:22.360 a sad day. And if you want to call in 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.480 and talk about Davy Lobes and the great Dodger infields 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.600 of the past, we can certainly talk about that as well. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:31.040 Eight sixty six ninety seven, two, five, seventy's. It's an 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.120 air of Dodgers baseball, whether you were young or old 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.960 at the time, that touched a lot of people and 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.000 it was a part of their lives for so many years. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.520 That force some of the infield something we'll never see 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:48.200 ever again in professional baseball. A group like that that 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.240 came up together, and a group like that that spent 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:55.240 that much time together and were so good together. I 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.640 mean in Davey Lopes, four time All Star, I mean overall, 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.040 he spent ten years with the Dodgers. You know, a 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:06.040 franchise record for games played at second base, second all 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.840 time to order only Moriy Wills as far as batting 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:13.960 leadoff in the Dodgers organization. He was twenty seven years 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.560 old when he made his major league debut at the 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.280 end of the seventy two season. I mean, think about that. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.360 It's a group that the following year, Garvey Russell saying 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.319 him would start really that eight and a half years 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:31.920 straight together in the infield. Twenty seven years old he 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.000 made his major league debut. You don't see guys at 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:39.640 that age coming up at twenty seven now and lasting 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.679 as long as they do. But Davy Lobes was one 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.440 of the greats. Led the majors in steels many years. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.640 I mean nineteen seventy eight, he sold forty five bases 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.120 on forty nine attempts. He won a Gold Glove in 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.240 nineteen seventy eight. You know, after leaving the Dodgers, a 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:58.839 lot of Dodger fans thought that was it. Oh, he 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.000 went and played for the Eighties, went and played for 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.800 the Cubs. Finished his career at the Houston Astros. Finished 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.480 with five hundred and fifty seven career stolen bases, twenty 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:12.360 sixth in Major League history. One of the great competitors. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:17.000 Many who played with them, played against them, coached with them, 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:23.280 coached against him. Paid tribute to Davy Lobes yesterday on 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.600 social media. Saw a lot of great tributes on the 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.280 MLB network. I mean, he won a second World Series 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.080 as the Phillies first base coach back in two thousand 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.360 and eight. He was with the Dodgers as their first 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:38.040 base coach twenty eleven to twenty fifteen. He was around 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:41.040 the game up until twenty seventeen, when he was a 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.360 first base coach with the Washington Nationals. He was a 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:53.160 baseball lifer. Davy Lobes a Dodger great, no doubt, baseball lifer, certainly, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.560 and he deserves all the respect that he has get 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.960 in the last twenty four hours since the unfortunate past 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.319 at the age of eighty. Davy Lopes a Dodger great 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:08.320 in the seventies and eighties World Cheeries champion as well. 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.480 Eight to sixty six nine, eight seven, two, five seventy 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.800 is the number uh Major League Baseball coming out with 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:19.200 the annual salaries for teams and how much they're spending 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.800 and how many teams are not spending. It's just kind 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.600 of eye opening as well to see all the talk 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.680 all off season and really the last few offseasons about 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.079 how much money the Dodgers are spending and how much 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.480 they're going out in free agency and signing guys to 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.480 the huge deals, and people are saying the Dodgers are 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.600 bad for baseball. Well, the Mets have gone out and spend, 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.000 the Yankees have gone out and spend. The teams that 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:47.120 are competitive and winning. Let's be honest, there are teams 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.520 that go out and spend. And Major League Baseball came 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:53.440 out today and said the average salary rose across baseball 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:57.120 nearly four percent and talked about the Mets payroll and 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.680 where it's at, and the Dodgers payroll where it's at. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:08.880 The major league average overall is up. Six clubs with 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.360 payrolls of two hundred and fifty million dollars are up. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.040 That's a rise from four teams a year ago. Ten 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.720 teams now in baseball are spending over two hundred million dollars. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:25.120 That's all positive for the game. Eight teams are now, though, 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:30.080 under one hundred million dollars in total salaries, up from 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.000 five a year ago. You have got to be kidding me. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:38.640 Eight teams in Major League Baseball under one hundred million 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:45.280 dollars in payroll. That right there, folks, is a glaring problem. 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.000 As the numbers on the other side have gone up, 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.520 the numbers on the bottom side have also gone up 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:57.280 as teams shedding payroll. The Saint Louis Cardinals, the jewel 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.000 of the Midwest. You play baseball the right way, the 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.800 Cardinal way, as they say, Well, what has happened to 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.439 that their opening day payroll has gone from one hundred 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.880 and forty one million dollars to one hundred million dollars. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.160 And that's including money they owe guys like Nolan Aaronado 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.000 still on their contracts even though not even playing with them. 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.920 He's in Arizona, and Sonny Gray and Wilson Contrere's dead money, 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.440 so to speak. Other teams with big cuts the Cleveland 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.880 Guardians cutting forty million dollars in salary from last year, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:32.400 the Washington Nationals somehow shedding another twenty three million dollars, 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:37.240 the Texas Rangers cutting payroll thirty seven million dollars. The 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.240 fact that there are eight teams under one hundred million 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:47.600 dollars in total payroll in twenty twenty six is a problem. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:53.960 Why aren't they spending where's the money going? Baseball is 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.640 bringing in riches for the owners. The players are making money, 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:02.000 and let's be honest, the owners are making money. And 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:06.320 the difference between good teams and bad teams there is 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.720 a clear line being drawn in the sand. The owners 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.840 that turn around, make the money and spend it back 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.560 on the team to improve are winning or attempting to 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.560 win if they haven't yet. And the teams that are 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:27.480 annually at the bottom, annually picking high, annually trading off 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:32.080 whatever talent they have, they're there for a reason because 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.720 they're not spending the money What in the world are 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.880 the owners doing with that kind of money If they're 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.840 not spending it on their team. That is a problem 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:42.920 that's going to be addressed to the next CBA. You 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.720 don't want to go down too far that road of 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.560 collective bargaining talk and what's going to happen at the 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.120 end of the season. But when numbers like this come 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.080 out released by Major League Baseball, and you know what 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.400 the payrolls look like, what the average major league salary is, 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:58.840 and how it's gone up or down, which teams are 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.440 spending more, which teams are spending less, how it's affecting baseball. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.160 These are all numbers being computed and put out there 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.120 for a reason. This is showing that there is growth 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.960 in the game. There's money being made on both sides, 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:14.520 the players and owners and again the haves and the 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.280 have nots. The teams that are spending are the teams 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.040 making money and putting it right back into their team. 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:24.920 The teams that are losing teams will continue to be 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.640 losing teams when they don't put the money in to 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:32.360 the organization, the salaries the players. I mean that, that 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.440 to me is just sad. It is sad to see 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.040 that they're owners like that, and again it shouldn't be 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:39.640 a surprise, but when you see the numbers and it 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.800 hits you right in the face like that, Now eight 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.960 teams that are under one hundred million dollars and that 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.800 has gone up from five a year ago. What are 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.280 they doing with their money? How is a team like 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:56.360 the Saint Louis Cardinals who isn't an expansion team, isn't 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.280 a team that never got any footing in baseball, not 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:03.280 a team that's bad ownership, just continually over the years, 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.119 the Saint Louis Cardinals are one of the one of 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:11.960 the jewels of baseball in the Midwest, all the history 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:19.040 and the Saint Louis Cardinals slashing payroll forty one million dollars, 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.520 a lot of dead money out there just to save 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.439 money as that to me is unbelievable, and it's a 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.920 sad state for where some of the teams are in baseball. 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.560 The game is healthy, don't get me wrong. Money's being made. 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:37.160 TV deals are through the roof. Apple TV has got 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:41.040 too broadcasts tomorrow. They're paying a fortune to the Major 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.679 League Baseball to broadcast the games. NBC just did a 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.960 new deal taking over Sunday Night Baseball on NBC and Peacock. 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:53.119 They're paying a lot of money. There is money being 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.439 made in the game of Major League Baseball, and to 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:01.840 have owners eight of them can not spend it on 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.880 their payroll. Well, if they're not spending on their payroll, 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.679 you think they're putting it into other parts of their organization. 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:09.960 You think they're putting it into scouting. You think they're 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.720 putting into analytics. Do you think they're doing anything else 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.200 to prop up their team if they're cutting their major 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.680 league salary of forty million dollars here getting to under 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:22.800 one hundred million dollars. If they're cutting one spot, there's 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:27.000 no way the other area is they're just dumping all 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.040 that money in that that doesn't make any sense. And 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.560 that is sad that there's eight teams in baseball that 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.000 can't even get over one hundred million dollars in salary 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.639 and won't pay the guys that eight six, six, nine 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.520 eighty seven to two five seventy. I bring that up 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:47.159 because Major League Baseball announced that earlier today, and the 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.600 Dodgers get hit hard nationally for a team that goes 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.960 out and spends and paying players and bringing guys into 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.479 free agency. You know what, I'm glad they do what 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:01.040 they do. I am excited to be a Dodger. I'm 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.160 proud to be a Dodger fan and to see ownership 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.320 do what they do, spending the money, putting it back 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.359 on the field, investing in their team. Because now now, 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:13.840 and they're on the verge of a three peat. They've 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:17.800 gone to World Series over the last decade, win divisions 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:22.439 constantly every year, go to the playoffs every year. That 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:26.280 to me shows a front office and ownership that cares 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.240 and in just another example what the Dodgers are doing, 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:31.080 you know what, and tip of the cap to the 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:34.679 other organizations like the Mets and the Yankees and the 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.480 teams that are spending and that are trying to better 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:41.280 their clubs and contend. That's what it's about. Putting the 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.320 best product on the field for your fans because you 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:48.879 deserve it, you spend the money. Ticket prices get raised, 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:53.600 concessions are high. Parkings through the roof wouldn't be worth it. 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.240 If you go out to a game and the team 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.560 that's on the field, well, not worth the price of admission. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:05.200 But that's not the case with the Dodgers. The great team, 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:09.560 great ownership, and man, you look around the league. Eight 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.639 other teams in baseball with a payroll of one hundred 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:17.679 million dollars or less compared to what the Dodgers, the Mets, 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:23.080 the Phillies, the Yankees, the Blue Jays are doing out 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:26.880 there to better their teams. The Padres eight six six 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:28.640 nine eighty seven two five say we'll take a break, 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:30.520 we'll come back and we'll get to your phone lines 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:31.840 two line in dope. What if you want to jump 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.760 on board, grab him if you can. Eight sixty six 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:36.960 nine eight seven two five to seventy coming up in 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:39.320 about twenty five minutes. We'll get you a farm report. 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:41.359 Play with the Dodgers. Top minor league prospects are up 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.399 to to start this season. Tim Kates off Night Dodger 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.359 Talk as the Dodgers back home tomorrow to start a 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:50.040 road trip or excuse me, a home stand against the 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.919 Texas Rangers and the New York Mets. And it all 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.879 begins tomorrow night at seven to ten, six o'clock. We'll 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:58.560 get it all started with Moroco Casino Dodgers on deck. 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:02.120 Tim Kates Off Night Dodgers continues on this Thursday night 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.040 here on Anti seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:10.480 iHeartRadio app Off Night. Dodger Tak continues here on ANFI 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.359 seventy LA Sports Tim Kates, Ronnie Fossil and you on 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:17.080 this Thursday night as the Dodgers enjoy a night off 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:21.119 after a five to one road trip. They're back at 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:27.760 it tomorrow on showhy Otani Bobblehead Night as the home 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:30.280 stand starts off with the bang. It's gonna be exciting 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:32.960 at at Dodger Stadium. Now, if you got a ticket 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:36.160 to the game tomorrow night, you need to be one 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:39.720 of the first fifty four thousand in attendance to get 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:43.040 the bobblehead. It is a Dodger Stadium that holds just 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:47.560 over fifty six thousand, so almost everybody will get a 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:52.280 bobblehead tomorrow and it's the first of two Greatest Game 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:58.280 Bobbleheads presented by synchron The second installment of the bobblehead 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:00.879 for the Greatest Game will come on eighth against the 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:05.520 Colorado Rockies. It's a two part bobblehead series commemorating show 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:09.679 Hayes outstanding performance in Game four of last year's NLCS 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:12.600 against the Milwaukee Brewers. We know the game. He homered 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:15.560 three times, he struck out ten batters on the mound 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:19.440 in six shutout innings. So that is Tomorrow night the 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:23.240 first of two Greatest Game bobbleheads. And the first one 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:26.800 is him hitting a home run and holding the bat 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:29.639 looking up into the pavilion. So the first one of 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:32.760 his him hitting a home run. I can imagine the 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:35.679