Speaker 1: Well with me, guys, have a few shows. Just thank you.
Speaker 2: We are your attention, your firing.
Speaker 3: This is world Champion, Dodgers, World champion for.
Speaker 2: A small song.
Speaker 4: Time they get up people what they want to die too?
Speaker 2: In a row two is special.
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache, O host one
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Speaker 3: Grab your phone to get in on the show called
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Speaker 7: Come to the show and now your host of Dodger Talk,
Speaker 7: David Vasse.
Speaker 3: We are on the eve of the Dodgers leaving for Canada.
Speaker 2: For Game one of the World Series.
Speaker 3: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vase with you until eight
Speaker 3: o'clock tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports
Speaker 3: and we have phone lines open at eight sixty six
Speaker 3: nine eight seven two five seventies. So many of you
Speaker 3: say you can't get in uh during or after a game,
Speaker 3: So this is a great time to get in and
Speaker 3: talk Dodgers as your Dodgers are headed back to the
Speaker 3: World Series for a second straight year, looking to become
Speaker 3: the first team in a quarter century to win back
Speaker 3: to back World Series championships. That was the three peat
Speaker 3: Yankees of Jeter Pasada, Bernie williams Andy Pettitt, those guys,
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers certainly would carve out some history for
Speaker 3: themselves if they're able to win this World Series and
Speaker 3: go back to back, because not many teams have done
Speaker 3: that over the course of baseball's history. You go back
Speaker 3: to the sixty one and sixty two Yankees, the seventy
Speaker 3: two seventy four A's that was a three peat. Seventy two,
Speaker 3: seventy three, seventy four, they beat the Dodgers back to
Speaker 3: back years. The Reds the Big Red Machine, went back
Speaker 3: to back in the seventies, as did the Yankees beating
Speaker 3: the Dodgers back to back years.
Speaker 2: And these Blue Jays.
Speaker 3: Last time the Blue Jays were in the World Series
Speaker 3: was when they went back to back in ninety two
Speaker 3: and ninety three Joe Carter's famous World Series ending walk
Speaker 3: off home run in nineteen ninety three. So not many
Speaker 3: teams in baseball's history have won back to back championships,
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers are looking to become just the first
Speaker 3: Dodger team ever to win back to back championships. That
Speaker 3: has never been done in franchise history. So we got
Speaker 3: a lot to talk about between now and eight o'clock.
Speaker 3: Of course, your Dodger coverage begins at six am here
Speaker 3: on a five to seventy LA Sports with Tim Kats
Speaker 3: and Steve sax scam every weekday morning during the postseason
Speaker 3: and back to back years. They have new life, extended
Speaker 3: life to be able to take it deep into October.
Speaker 3: And look, you could come up with all the different
Speaker 3: reasons why the Blue Jays can beat the Dodgers, similar
Speaker 3: to how you could come up with your nine reasons
Speaker 3: on how the Phillies can beat the Dodgers or your
Speaker 3: nine reasons why the Brewers can beat the Dodgers. The
Speaker 3: reality is these are two the top five payrolls in baseball.
Speaker 3: These are heavyweights in each coast. Just like last year,
Speaker 3: Yankees Dodgers, Blue Jays Dodgers both have a lot of
Speaker 3: heavyweights and superstar power in this series. And arguably the
Speaker 3: hottest player, hottest hitter in this World Series is not
Speaker 3: wearing a Dodger uniform. And no he's not George Springer.
Speaker 3: That's Vladimir Guerrero Junior, who has been red hot this
Speaker 3: postseason getting the J's to the World Series. So that's
Speaker 3: one guy you have to watch out for. If the
Speaker 3: Dodgers are able to execute their pitches. I already know
Speaker 3: they have a game plan and they actually showed it
Speaker 3: how to pitch Vladimir Guerrero Junior earlier in the summer
Speaker 3: because he didn't do much of anything against the Dodgers
Speaker 3: when the Dodgers took two out of three. And you
Speaker 3: may be wondering, why do the Blue Jays have home
Speaker 3: field advantage over the Dodgers. And it's not just because
Speaker 3: the Dodgers were a division wildcard team. That's not the
Speaker 3: reason why. The reason why is that the Blue Jays
Speaker 3: won one more game than the Dodgers did during the
Speaker 3: regular season. So you think back to the Angels sweeping
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, you think back to leads that were blown
Speaker 3: in the eighth and ninth innings this season, well, they
Speaker 3: do matter. It cost you home field advantage. But the
Speaker 3: Dodgers have gone into very hostile environments. The Phillies and
Speaker 3: Blue Jays have two of the best records at home.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers won the first two there and they won
Speaker 3: the first two in Milwaukee as well, so they're no
Speaker 3: stranger to not having home field advantage and shocking the
Speaker 3: other team quite frankly, and going back to Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 3: up two games to nothing, and that's something that they're
Speaker 3: hoping to do this time. It's gonna be, in my estimation,
Speaker 3: just as challenging as it was to win two in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: This is the Dodgers' biggest test this side of the
Speaker 3: Phillies in this postseason, with the Blue Jays right in
Speaker 3: front of them and in their way of trying to
Speaker 3: win four more games to win.
Speaker 2: The World Series. Similar to the Brewers.
Speaker 3: I mentioned this with Petros and Money earlier today, I
Speaker 3: kind of feel like the Blue Jays, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to say, are satisfied by going to the World Series,
Speaker 3: but it is the first time in what thirty three
Speaker 3: years that the Blue Jays Canada has an American League
Speaker 3: Championship team, and they will have World Series games for
Speaker 3: the first time since Joe Carter. I mean, it felt
Speaker 3: like that was the big victory. Similar to what Pat
Speaker 3: Murphy conceded after Game five excuse me after Game four
Speaker 3: of the NLCS, where he said playing the Cubs and
Speaker 3: that rivalry and just everything that was going on between
Speaker 3: Craig Council leaving and just how badly both cities wanted that.
Speaker 3: To me, it kind of feels like the Blue Jays
Speaker 3: might have emptied the tank to be able to get
Speaker 3: to the World Series. Certainly the empty the tank on
Speaker 3: a few pitchers, and all of their pitchers Chris Bassett
Speaker 3: Kevin Gossman were used last night in Game seven. Also
Speaker 3: Louis Varland, who has been used in ten postseason games already.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's on track to be used just as
Speaker 3: many times or pretty close to it, as Brandon Morrow
Speaker 3: was by the Dodgers in twenty seventeen. Brandon Morrow pitched
Speaker 3: in every single World Series game that year and through seventeen,
Speaker 3: and pitched in seventeen postseason games that year. Think about that,
Speaker 3: and Louis Varland is one of, if not the most
Speaker 3: relied upon reliever for the Blue Jays. So here's my question,
Speaker 3: how much do the Blue Jays have left for the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: who are extremely well rested. They will have their starting
Speaker 3: rotation on extra rest starting with the Game one starter
Speaker 3: in Blake snell Sneil Zilla again will start Game one,
Speaker 3: and this will be his first World Series since the
Speaker 3: Dodgers beat the Rays in twenty twenty and game two Yamamoto.
Speaker 3: And when the series comes back to LA, whether it's
Speaker 3: Game three or game four for Tyler glass Now and
Speaker 3: show hey Otani, certainly for glass Now because the Dodgers
Speaker 3: have been fortunate that glass Now has pitched at home
Speaker 3: number one and the start times were when the shadows
Speaker 3: were a big factor. All of these World Series games
Speaker 3: are starting at five o'clock Pacific time. Once this series
Speaker 3: returns back to Dodgers Stadium and glass Now is on
Speaker 3: the mound and show he Otani is on the mound,
Speaker 3: they are going to have a huge advantage with those
Speaker 3: shadows and that start time of five o'clock. And by
Speaker 3: the way, Rick Mundane, Stephen Nelson will be on the
Speaker 3: call right here on AM five to seventy LA Sports,
Speaker 3: and Joe Davis and John Smoltz will be on.
Speaker 2: The call for Fox Sports.
Speaker 3: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the phone number before we go to break and coming
Speaker 3: up on the show tonight, your phone calls, we have
Speaker 3: two lines open.
Speaker 2: We will hear from Dino Ebol who had one.
Speaker 3: Of the best views of the best game ever played
Speaker 3: by a single player. Shoe a Otani's incredible Game four
Speaker 3: and also coming up later in the show, Keik Hernandez
Speaker 3: will share his emotional feelings about being on the verge
Speaker 3: of tyme Justin Turner for playing the most playoff games
Speaker 3: in Dodger franchise history. And we had a chance to
Speaker 3: also catch up with Pedro Martinez and he had incredible
Speaker 3: things to say about the Dodgers Game one starter Blake Snell.
Speaker 3: But here's something to consider, and this kind of hit
Speaker 3: me earlier today. Isn't it about time Los Angeles embraces
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts. I know you have one foot in, but
Speaker 3: isn't it time for you to call in and really
Speaker 3: praise Dave Roberts. He's going to his second consecutive World Series.
Speaker 3: He did that in seventeen and eighteen. He's managing a
Speaker 3: veteran team that at times didn't give you everything you wanted,
Speaker 3: and he never panicked. And he had a couple of
Speaker 3: meetings with the hitters with a bullpen and with the
Speaker 3: entire team in September in Baltimore. It doesn't sit right
Speaker 3: with me if you're going to blame Dave Roberts for
Speaker 3: everything when it goes wrong and not give them credit
Speaker 3: for when things go right. And look, I've been pretty
Speaker 3: fair with Dave. I'm not just Dave does everything right
Speaker 3: type of guy. There have been times since he took over,
Speaker 3: since twenty sixteen where I have been critical and I
Speaker 3: feel fairly but at some point ever since twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: he has taken it to another level. And it just
Speaker 3: seems like him and Andrew Friedman are more on the
Speaker 3: same page in the last five seasons than they were
Speaker 3: in the first four years. And I think at a
Speaker 3: certain point in time you have to give Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: some credit. Eight six six nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 3: seventy is the phone number when we continue on Off
Speaker 3: Day Dodger Talk on this NBA Opening Night Tuesday, we'll
Speaker 3: hear from Dino Ebol, We'll hear from Key k Hernandez
Speaker 3: and Pedro Martinez, and we'll hear from you. Eight sixty
Speaker 3: six nine eight seven two five seventy David vass with
Speaker 3: you until eight o'clock right here on AM five seventy
Speaker 3: LA Sports advass a with you until eight o'clock right
Speaker 3: here on AM five to seventy LA Sports Off Day
Speaker 3: Dodger Talk World Series Week Edition, Game one will be
Speaker 3: Friday at five o'clock Pacific time from the Rogers Center
Speaker 3: in Toronto. Rick Monday and Steven Nelson will be on
Speaker 3: the call, Tim Cats. We'll get you set with Morongo
Speaker 3: Sino Dodgers on deck at four o'clock and game two
Speaker 3: Saturday night in Toronto, same time, same bat channel, all
Speaker 3: of that Dodgers Radio and five to seventy LA Sports
Speaker 3: coming up in a moment. I can't wait to share
Speaker 3: with you what Dino Ebel told me about his perspective
Speaker 3: in the third base coaching box when Shoe he Otani
Speaker 3: hit his three home runs, including one over the right
Speaker 3: field pavilion.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that. We'll also get to keyke.
Speaker 3: A Hernandez and Pedro Martinez. And just in case you
Speaker 3: were wondering who the special guest may have been calling in, well,
Speaker 3: that special guest got.
Speaker 2: A better offer.
Speaker 3: He got tickets to the Laker game and that was
Speaker 3: the game one starter himself, Blake Snell. He's probably courtside
Speaker 3: right now, hob nobbing it up with Luco over there.
Speaker 3: Eight six six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the phone number. Let's get out to the calls. Let's
Speaker 3: go out to Manuel and Guardina. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: Lead us off, Oh, DV Man just excited, brou What
Speaker 4: can we say not only about Roberts, about Freedman, but
Speaker 4: first off, Man Am five seventy, from scam, from working
Speaker 4: Kate's twenty five hours a day, from you being so
Speaker 4: accessible down there, you know, in the champagne showers and
Speaker 4: all that. Man, none of it would be possible without
Speaker 4: Am five seventy. And that's why I always say, man
Speaker 4: La is lucky to have Am five seventy. As far
Speaker 4: as smells Hiller Man, who could blame him? Right? I
Speaker 4: mean Opening Night or calling into Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: You know, are you saying that's a better offer than
Speaker 3: calling into Dodger Talk and talking to his boy?
Speaker 4: Well, he could talk to you all the time, man,
Speaker 4: so you know, yeah it is, Dave.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 4: You know you would have done the same thing.
Speaker 2: You'd be right. But I'm stuck here. I'm stuck here
Speaker 2: talking to Mana.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm stuck here talking to Manny and Guardena instead
Speaker 3: of being with snell Zilla at the Laker game.
Speaker 4: I'm an egginget. But aye, that's why we appreciate you.
Speaker 1: DV.
Speaker 4: Hey, five five games. This thing's gonna go tops. You know,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers are primed right now. They're running on all cylinders.
Speaker 4: Like you say, They're that free train coming down the
Speaker 4: track that you can't avoid. And uh, I'm just hyped
Speaker 4: up for it. Man Let's kick Canada's ass, Baby Gold
Speaker 4: Dodgers back to back.
Speaker 3: Love it, Manny, Thank you for the phone call. I
Speaker 3: guess like his order was coming up right there. We
Speaker 3: heard the drive through in the background. Eight six six
Speaker 3: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 3: The best part of the Dodgers not having home field
Speaker 3: advantage in this year's World Series is that with the
Speaker 3: two three two format, it gives them an opportunity to
Speaker 3: do something that they have only done once in their
Speaker 3: franchise's history, including Brooklyn in nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have.
Speaker 3: Only won the World Series clinched the World Series at
Speaker 3: home once. Can you believe that nineteen fifty five? That
Speaker 3: was at Yankee Stadium. It wasn't at Ebbitts Field. The
Speaker 3: only time the Dodgers celebrated a World Series championship in
Speaker 3: front of their home fans was when the Dodgers swept
Speaker 3: Mickey Mantle Roger Maris in the nineteen sixty three World Series.
Speaker 3: That's the last time and only time the Dodgers have
Speaker 3: ever won the World Series on their home field.
Speaker 2: Think about it.
Speaker 3: Nineteen fifty nine, that was against the Twins, Game seven,
Speaker 3: they beat them in Minneapolis. Nineteen sixty five, same thing,
Speaker 3: they beat the Twins in Minnesota. Fast forward to nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty one. That was at Yankee Stadium, Game six. Nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty eight, the Dodgers beat the A's in Oakland in
Speaker 3: Game five, famous photo of Oral Herscheizer being hoisted up
Speaker 3: by Rick Dempsey in their road grays twenty twenty, the
Speaker 3: pandemic obviously in Texas, and last year at Yankee Stadium
Speaker 3: Game five. So with this format of two three to two,
Speaker 3: if the Dodgers can win at least one game in Toronto,
Speaker 3: they will have a chance to do something that they
Speaker 3: have only done once in their franchise's history, and that
Speaker 3: celebrate winning the World Series on their home field.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Northridge. Jd. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with David basse I.
Speaker 8: Jd oh, Dave, Hey, it's great to hear your show.
Speaker 8: I've been living in New York the last couple months
Speaker 8: and following the Dodgers late night. But then the playoffs
Speaker 8: come around, and I had to be with my people
Speaker 8: and I'd go what games and bars and for Godden
Speaker 8: Friendly And that's been awesome now that the playoffs started.
Speaker 8: I watched that gut wrencher in Game one against the
Speaker 8: Brewers and in a bar called Tuckeria Grammercy and high
Speaker 8: fives all around after trying got that last out, and
Speaker 8: then the barkeep handed out free victory shots, and that
Speaker 8: great night to be a Dodger fan in Manhattan.
Speaker 3: Where are you gonna watch Game one this year? Maybe
Speaker 3: Monty's and Woodland Hills.
Speaker 8: You know, I'm it's good to be home. I may
Speaker 8: just be here in my living room, but you never know.
Speaker 3: HQ Grow Pub in Woodland Hills. Those would be my
Speaker 3: top choices in the valley right there.
Speaker 8: Hey, you're making a great case. I also have to
Speaker 8: tell you this yesterday, because I just got home. I
Speaker 8: went to the final resting place of George Herman Ruth Alien. Really,
Speaker 8: I just had to go there because of all of
Speaker 8: the comps to Otani and just at one hundred years apart,
Speaker 8: these two guys, the only two men of the what
Speaker 8: more than twenty two thousand have played Major League baseball
Speaker 8: that could be compared to each other at the top
Speaker 8: of the heap, and it was.
Speaker 7: It was.
Speaker 8: It was an important pilgrimage for me being a Dodger
Speaker 8: fan and a baseball junkie.
Speaker 3: All Right, well, it's great to visit a dead person.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the phone call, JD. Appreciate it. Let's celebrate
Speaker 3: the people that are living, including show Heo Tani, who
Speaker 3: is doing things that not even Babe Ruth was doing
Speaker 3: back then. And speaking of show Heo Tani, I did
Speaker 3: have a chance to speak to Dodgers third base coach
Speaker 3: Dino Ebol last night at the workout and had to
Speaker 3: ask him he was there. He was the one high
Speaker 3: fiving show Hao Tani when he rounded third base. He
Speaker 3: had a great vantage point along with Chris Woodward at
Speaker 3: first base in the coaching box there of Otani's three
Speaker 3: home runs, and I was wondering what it was like
Speaker 3: to be on the field as history was being made.
Speaker 3: Is that the single greatest performance by any player in
Speaker 3: postseason history?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 9: And of like you said, been in a lot of
Speaker 9: postseason games and World Series and just in and that
Speaker 9: you know, the normal uh one hundred and sixty two
Speaker 9: game season. Anybody who goes deep three times in one game,
Speaker 9: that's special. But to go out there and pitch the
Speaker 9: way he did, had ten punch outs. And you know what, David,
Speaker 9: I could honestly sit sit here and tell you today
Speaker 9: that in the box, in the moment, and it's first
Speaker 9: at bat, the way he started taking pitches, I knew
Speaker 9: he was locked in because he wasn't flying out. He
Speaker 9: was staying in himself. It looked like now the head
Speaker 9: was more you know, steel, He wasn't moving. And after
Speaker 9: that first homer, I said, this is what the show, hey,
Speaker 9: you know is about, because once he wasn't moving a
Speaker 9: whole lot with a body movement. I said, he's locked
Speaker 9: in and his strength is to left center. I know
Speaker 9: he hit some bombs to right. Both the show, hey,
Speaker 9: I know is when he's hitting the ball, well, you know,
Speaker 9: he's staying in there and driving that battle left center field,
Speaker 9: which he hit a home run and his lastly.
Speaker 3: Bat, the one that he hit over the right field
Speaker 3: pavilion four hundred and sixty nine feet, could you tell
Speaker 3: it was going over the roof and when it did
Speaker 3: go over the roof, did you have to do a
Speaker 3: double take? And I'm just curious from your standpoint, could
Speaker 3: you tell it went over?
Speaker 9: I could honestly sit here today and tell you the
Speaker 9: ball was so high I knew it was gone, And
Speaker 9: when it was hit, it was so high. When I
Speaker 9: looked up in the bill of my helmet, I got
Speaker 9: like a blur in the lights.
Speaker 2: I actually had to.
Speaker 9: Put my hand in front of me to block the
Speaker 9: lights because it was so high. And I go, this
Speaker 9: ball has a chance to hit like in that upper
Speaker 9: tank there where the people are walking. And when I
Speaker 9: saw it go over the roof, I said, I cannot
Speaker 9: believe it.
Speaker 2: I just witnessed.
Speaker 9: I mean, nobody even does that in batting practice, which
Speaker 9: he did when he took batting practice out.
Speaker 2: Like a few days earlier.
Speaker 9: But to go that far over the pavilion something that
Speaker 9: I'll never forget.
Speaker 3: What was it like before the game, when you maybe
Speaker 3: passed by him in the cage or in the dugout.
Speaker 3: Could you sense a different look about him?
Speaker 9: Yes, because one he's he is a little different when
Speaker 9: he pitches. He's more locked in on the pitching side
Speaker 9: of it. Again, we need him as an offensive player.
Speaker 9: But there's something about that first at bat that I
Speaker 9: even told our guys in the dugout. I said, I
Speaker 9: like what I'm watching right now with show Hey. And
Speaker 9: I'm not a hitting coach. I'm that's not one of
Speaker 9: my lanes that I ever get involved in. But as
Speaker 9: standing out here all the years I've been watching good hitters.
Speaker 9: That's when I saw show Hey in his first at bat,
Speaker 9: the way he was taking pitches, I said, look out,
Speaker 9: he's he's going to run into one, but to run
Speaker 9: into three something I'll never forget something in the world,
Speaker 9: would never.
Speaker 2: Forget anything extra.
Speaker 3: When he came around third base on any one of
Speaker 3: those three home runs.
Speaker 9: Nope, same same show Hey. He gives me the little
Speaker 9: you know, you know, high five, and I just saw,
Speaker 9: you know, I saw a little smile as he looks
Speaker 9: in our dugout.
Speaker 2: But what a moment.
Speaker 9: One for himself, one, two for the Dodgers, and three
Speaker 9: to do it at home and here at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 9: See our fans, I mean, just.
Speaker 2: As loud as you can get. It was.
Speaker 9: It was a special night.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 3: He is the Dodgers third base coach, Dino Ebol with
Speaker 3: a front row seat to history in Game four the NLCS,
Speaker 3: when shoe Heotani not only pitched six scoreless innings and
Speaker 3: had ten strikeouts, but also hit three home runs, and
Speaker 3: the second one over the right field pavilion four hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty nine feet, And Janet Marie Smith, who does
Speaker 3: a great job at Dodgers Stadium and has been an
Speaker 3: integral part of the renovations at Dodgers Stadium, I'm sure
Speaker 3: she'll have a four to sixty nine home plate sign
Speaker 3: attached to that right field pavilion. And that's a place
Speaker 3: that everybody can go and check out and remember one
Speaker 3: of the greatest games ever played by a single player
Speaker 3: in shoe Aotani in Game four of the NLCS. And look,
Speaker 3: I'll tell you this, you know, talking to people around
Speaker 3: the team the night that Otani came out to take
Speaker 3: batting practice on the field, something that he hasn't done
Speaker 3: since he joined the Dodgers. His name was on the
Speaker 3: list and guys were saying, hey, is this right? Are
Speaker 3: you really hitting on the field, And he was joking
Speaker 3: on I'm not good at baseball, And the day of
Speaker 3: Game four, there wasn't an anger about him. Maybe a
Speaker 3: more focus a more edge because he's pitching. But everybody
Speaker 3: told me they never sensed anger from Shoho Tani. Never
Speaker 3: sensed anger before that game, just a lot of focus,
Speaker 3: the same demeanor. But you have to believe that focus
Speaker 3: maybe came from so many people doubting him leading up
Speaker 3: to that game, and he certainly made a statement NLCSMVP
Speaker 3: And look, he has a flair for the dramatics on
Speaker 3: the biggest stages, right, whether it's his babbohead night, whether
Speaker 3: it's you know, the game in Miami where he's three
Speaker 3: or four or home runs away, or a couple of
Speaker 3: home runs away, three or four, stolen bases away, fifty
Speaker 3: to fifty boom in one game, in a dramatic, theatrical way,
Speaker 3: walk off Grand Slam last year at Dodgers Stadium. He
Speaker 3: just seems to have a sense for the biggest lights
Speaker 3: and delivers, and that's what separates the not only great players,
Speaker 3: but the elite of the elite from the others. And
Speaker 3: that's show Hao Tani eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 3: two five seventy is the phone number. Game one of
Speaker 3: the World Series is on Friday at five o'clock. You
Speaker 3: will hear it as you have heard every single Dodger
Speaker 3: game all season long. Right here on A five to
Speaker 3: seventy LA Sports. I will be live at Rogers Center
Speaker 3: in Toronto. I'm flying out with the team tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 3: I'll be there for Media Day on Thursday. We will
Speaker 3: have a Dodger Talk show from Media Day in Toronto.
Speaker 3: So we have you covered wall the wall from six
Speaker 3: am to eight pm every single night leading through the
Speaker 3: Dodgers hopefully having another parade, which I fully expect to happen.
Speaker 3: We're gonna take a time out when we come back
Speaker 3: more of your phone calls and also Keith Ernandez and
Speaker 3: Pedro Martinez on Dodger Talk until eight o'clock right here
Speaker 3: on AM five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: I say with you.
Speaker 3: Until eight o'clock tonight here on AM five seventy LA
Speaker 3: Sports Dodger Talk. The week of the World Series, the
Speaker 3: Dodgers headed back to the World Series for the fifth.
Speaker 2: Time in the last nine years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how about that. My son was born in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers have gone to the World Series five times
Speaker 3: in his lifetime. During my lifetime, before this stretch of time,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers only went to the World Series twice. And
Speaker 3: it was far and few between, and and certainly a
Speaker 3: lot of heartache between nineteen eighty one and nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 3: and certainly a long time between nineteen eighty eight and
Speaker 3: the Dodgers going back to prominence in twenty thirteen. So this,
Speaker 3: without a doubt, is the greatest time to be alive
Speaker 3: if you're a Dodger fan. This franchise has never seen
Speaker 3: anything like this type of sustained success. And Dave Roberts,
Speaker 3: Mookie Bets, Keik Hernandez, they're all on the verge of
Speaker 3: winning more rings. Dave Roberts would have you know. Obviously
Speaker 3: he won the World Series as a player with the
Speaker 3: four Red Sox, but as a manager, he certainly would
Speaker 3: put himself and rarefied elite company with guys like Joe Torre,
Speaker 3: Sparky Anderson, those type of guys. If he wins back
Speaker 3: to back World Series championships, let's go out to Torrence.
Speaker 2: Ilana. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Hey, BV.
Speaker 5: I'm great. I just wanted to call and tell you
Speaker 5: exactly where I was for the Freddie Freeman Grand Slam.
Speaker 2: Game one last. I love this.
Speaker 3: This is perfect since we are getting closer to Game
Speaker 3: one of the World Series, maybe we'll have another hero.
Speaker 3: But go ahead, Ilana, I can't wait.
Speaker 2: To hear this.
Speaker 5: I know it because you know it's so special. We
Speaker 5: need to have these moments going into this next series here.
Speaker 5: But I was honestly at my house on my couch
Speaker 5: making homemade Dodger dogs with my family and my friends,
Speaker 5: and it was fricking awesome, and the whole neighborhood was
Speaker 5: going off. You could hear people honking and screaming outside
Speaker 5: of their houses. We were, you know, doing a champagne shower,
Speaker 5: our version of it in our living room. It was
Speaker 5: incredible and those memories will last a lifetime. My sister
Speaker 5: and I were fortunate enough to go to the World
Speaker 5: Series Game six in twenty seventeen. We were at Game
Speaker 5: two last year, and I'm really hoping to bring some
Speaker 5: of that energy into this next series and I really
Speaker 5: hope to go. That's something that we're genuinely looking forward to.
Speaker 5: And if you need an assistant in the house for
Speaker 5: I could be.
Speaker 2: Available, Okay, Alana, I'll keep that in mind.
Speaker 3: Thank you for the phone call and great story, and
Speaker 3: I have enjoyed all of them all year long. Fans
Speaker 3: calling in letting me know where they were they when
Speaker 3: they watched Freddie Freeman hit his dramatic heroic Game one
Speaker 3: walk off Grand Slam in last year's World Series. And
Speaker 3: who knows who's going to be the hero this year.
Speaker 3: You know there is going to be a hero that
Speaker 3: is going to emerge to help one of these teams
Speaker 3: win the World Series. And look, I'm not gonna say
Speaker 3: it's the Dodgers of slam Dunk that they're gonna win this,
Speaker 3: but this team has an incredible focus about themselves. They're
Speaker 3: not acting like they're lucky to be there. You saw it,
Speaker 3: and other former players were marveling at the fact after
Speaker 3: they swept the Brewers in Game four, they lined up
Speaker 3: for their high five line the way they do after
Speaker 3: every single one of their wins, and then.
Speaker 2: Celebrated with each other. That's why I believe the Dodgers
Speaker 2: their experience. The Blue Jays only have George Springer, who
Speaker 2: has had World Series experience. The Dodgers have so much experience,
Speaker 2: so much talent, so much starting pitching, that I don't
Speaker 2: believe the the Blue Jays have enough to keep up
Speaker 2: with and the Brewers.
Speaker 3: Didn't have enough. They had the best record in the
Speaker 3: National League. Everybody thought the Phillies were gonna knock off
Speaker 3: the Dodgers. That did not happen. So what makes anybody
Speaker 3: believe the Blue Jays, after going in a seven game series,
Speaker 3: emptying everything, their bullpen, their starting staff, and their emotional
Speaker 3: guest tank have enough to come back and beat the
Speaker 3: Dodgers in.
Speaker 2: The World Series. And let's face it.
Speaker 3: Blake Snell set the tone in Game one of the NLDS,
Speaker 3: and he's set the tone in game one of the
Speaker 3: NLCS on the road. I'm looking at Blake Snell to
Speaker 3: set the tone again in Game one of the World Series.
Speaker 3: And that guy is hungry and he's locked in. Don't
Speaker 3: get it twisted. This guy came to sign with the
Speaker 3: Dodgers for this opportunity and he is not going to
Speaker 3: let it slip away. He is not going to try
Speaker 3: to perform at his best. And look, nobody feels their
Speaker 3: best this time of the year. But it's the ones
Speaker 3: that pushed through that really separate themselves, and Blake Snell
Speaker 3: is that guy. Let's go out to Arthur in Marina
Speaker 3: del Rey. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: Hi, Arthur, Hi, David to take my call.
Speaker 10: I've been saying my friends, heeri is one of the
Speaker 10: best years in baseball forever. You know, at the data
Speaker 10: and it goes back to this came up, didn't explaining
Speaker 10: the seasons with the parade, and I just had a
Speaker 10: good feeling about this year. And it's just amazing because
Speaker 10: the things that happen, like Chris Shaws this struck out
Speaker 10: and the celebration of that, and then uh, the the
Speaker 10: one hitter, which was we were suping a no hitter. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and it's just been it's.
Speaker 1: Just been a I mean go on and on.
Speaker 10: Then if we talk about well it's happened, on it
Speaker 10: with this latest round and I say, the best is
Speaker 10: not is that to come. I just feel something's going
Speaker 10: on here and I'm just enjoying it. I'm during the season,
Speaker 10: you know, even to office September, you know, Uh, it's
Speaker 10: just staying president being Uh. I'm hearing up for the
Speaker 10: players too from aniversial, but Clayton.
Speaker 2: Especially, nobody wants to go home.
Speaker 3: Arthur, nobody has wanted to go home. They have all
Speaker 3: wanted to stay and let this ride go to the
Speaker 3: very end. Dan, I think it would be great, you know,
Speaker 3: once this season is over. After the Dodgers are done
Speaker 3: celebrating that, we replay some of those great games and
Speaker 3: let you enjoy those again, because you're right. It's been
Speaker 3: a great year. It's been a great last two years,
Speaker 3: and certainly the Dodgers deserve it. And the Blue Jays
Speaker 3: they're a team that is very resilient. They started off slow,
Speaker 3: overtook the Yankees. Everybody thought that was.
Speaker 2: Not real.
Speaker 3: I mean, Michael Ka from the Yankees broadcast was demeaning
Speaker 3: the Blue Jays because their run differential didn't match up.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: I guess it paid off at the end and they
Speaker 3: had fifty two come from behind victories. So you can't
Speaker 3: discount the Blue Jays. They're a really good team. I
Speaker 3: don't believe their lineup is as deep as the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: There's word that bobashett is going to try to give
Speaker 3: it a go, but is that going to ruin any
Speaker 3: sort of chemistry the Blue Jays had. So there's a
Speaker 3: lot in play here, but I just don't believe. It
Speaker 3: just comes down to the fact the Dodgers have too
Speaker 3: much talent up and down their lineup, too much experience,
Speaker 3: and too much great starting pitching. I mean it's it's
Speaker 3: historic what the Dodgers are doing starting pitching wise. Hey,
Speaker 3: key K Hernandez, speaking of history, he his next game,
Speaker 3: which will be Game one in the postseason, will be
Speaker 3: his eighty sixth postseason game in a Dodger uniform. So
Speaker 3: in this World Series, Key K a Hernandez is going
Speaker 3: to tie Justin Turner in Game one and past Justin
Speaker 3: Turner for the most games played in the Dodgers' postseason history.
Speaker 3: That fact was presented to him before Game four the
Speaker 3: nw CS by Eric Steven and Key.
Speaker 2: K got a lot a little emotional.
Speaker 7: This is not just any franchise man. This this is
Speaker 7: the La Dodger. They've been around for a long time
Speaker 7: and they have a lot of history and for guy
Speaker 7: like me from Puerto Rico kind of swamp swam against
Speaker 7: the current my entire life, to be sitting in this
Speaker 7: position is pretty special. But at the same time, I
Speaker 7: haven't really wanted to reflect too much on it, because
Speaker 7: There's going to be a time for that once I'm
Speaker 7: done playing, and I'm gonna have a lot of years
Speaker 7: to reflect on it.
Speaker 8: But for now, I'm just.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's as cool as that is, and I'm
Speaker 7: going to take that to the grave with me. I'm
Speaker 7: just focused on today and it would be cool if
Speaker 7: my name is up there with the most Dodger World
Speaker 7: series ever.
Speaker 2: You know, But.
Speaker 7: To be creeping out, creeping up on, you know, one
Speaker 7: of playing the most playoff games as a dog, something
Speaker 7: that I never really dreamed of or thought that would happen.
Speaker 7: So that's something that's pretty special. And I wasn't really
Speaker 7: aware of it till you just said that. So that's
Speaker 7: why I'm caught a little off guard.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Yeah, a little emotional for Key k Hernandez. This
Speaker 3: franchise means a lot to him and the city of
Speaker 3: La means a lot to him, and I think we
Speaker 3: see that every time he plays the game and how
Speaker 3: much emotion he has before, during, and after playoff games.
Speaker 3: And Game one he'll tie Justin Turner for the most
Speaker 3: postseason games played in Dodger franchise history, and in Game
Speaker 3: two he'll pass Justin Turner for the most games played
Speaker 3: in postseason history. You're likely to see Key Case starting
Speaker 3: in left field in both of those games. I can't
Speaker 3: think off the top of my head which lefty, if any,
Speaker 3: the Blue Jays have in their rotation and you know
Speaker 3: what I want. It would be phenomenal for Max Scherzer
Speaker 3: to come back to Dodgers Stadium and start one of
Speaker 3: those World Series games and the Dodgers win the World
Speaker 3: Series that game. That's what I would love. You talk
Speaker 3: about karma. This guy tapped out on his teammates for
Speaker 3: free agency in game six of the twenty one NLCS.
Speaker 3: And also George Springer was part of the twenty seventeen
Speaker 3: Astros and he won the World Series MVP, and look
Speaker 3: that will never be forgotten.
Speaker 2: In Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Eight six six nine, eight seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the phone number. Let's go out to Manny in LA.
Speaker 3: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Manny?
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 9: Dave?
Speaker 1: First of all, I've been trying so hard to get on.
Speaker 1: I tried ninety eight times to get.
Speaker 6: On after well, here you are, Manny, here I am,
Speaker 6: And first all day, really gotta give you, give me
Speaker 6: your flowers and apologize to you because when you first
Speaker 6: took over as a Dodging guy, I was like, come on, David.
Speaker 1: Baty, say who's this guy? He doesn't know much, but man,
Speaker 1: you showed me so much. You're You're bad you're a
Speaker 1: bad man, Dave.
Speaker 2: Hey, thank you.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 2: I gotta earn it, gotta win you over, Manny, I
Speaker 2: gotta earn it. That's the way I want it.
Speaker 1: You know what. And you did, you did because I'd
Speaker 1: rather listen to dodging Dog when you're on against Kates.
Speaker 2: But you know, a lot of a lot of bad
Speaker 2: handed compliments tonight, Manny.
Speaker 1: Well look, Kate is very row Rod Dodgers, and you
Speaker 1: sell it to them straight. They they they're horrible. You
Speaker 1: called them out on it, you know so. And and
Speaker 1: I was gonna try to justify it. I was there
Speaker 1: for a game Game three when you called out the
Speaker 1: fans for being too quiet. Yeah we yeah, yeah, well
Speaker 1: I was. But it's like this, this is my my
Speaker 1: attempt at justifying the crickets in the stand. We have
Speaker 1: to give credit where credit is due, like I just
Speaker 1: did for you. And that the miss was he took
Speaker 1: us out. He took out the fans. Did I took
Speaker 1: out the fans? And Milwaukee did I? We took out
Speaker 1: the fans out in Philly, you know. And it felt
Speaker 1: like even the batters. The better is the advants were
Speaker 1: just quiet and they were just walking up there strit
Speaker 1: once strike to'll see you later. I'll be back next
Speaker 1: time until Temmy Edmond came through.
Speaker 2: All right, well it was you got a rally. You
Speaker 2: got to rally.
Speaker 3: You can't let the miss or anybody else shut you
Speaker 3: guys down. So hopefully that doesn't happen in the World
Speaker 3: Series because the Dodgers have spoiled this fan base for
Speaker 3: the last fourteen years. I don't want us to just
Speaker 3: sit on our hands and wait for these guys to
Speaker 3: get to the World Series. To get behind them. Manny,
Speaker 3: thank you for calling in. Awesome to hear from you.
Speaker 3: Call back anytime. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 3: five seventy is the phone number. Speaking of keeping receipts
Speaker 3: on Thursday Night show, I have some receipts of during
Speaker 3: the season when you called in and gave up on
Speaker 3: this team. But there was one man that believed in
Speaker 3: the resume and the credibility of these players, and you're
Speaker 3: listening to them right now. So sorry, I got some
Speaker 3: receipts that I'm going to bring out on our next
Speaker 3: off day show the night before Game one of the
Speaker 3: World Series this Thursday night at seven o'clock before we
Speaker 3: close it out Game one, starter. Blake's now he's really
Speaker 3: coming into his own and he's won two cy Young Awards,
Speaker 3: and people believe there's a lot more in there which
Speaker 3: is scary, including Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez. Uh.
Speaker 11: It is an honor to be here, back where I
Speaker 11: I was developed to be uh, to be honest, and UH,
Speaker 11: where I made my debut. A lot of uh, you know,
Speaker 11: memories in here, A lot of great memories and one
Speaker 11: nuts of great which was having to leave the Dodgers.
Speaker 11: I remember crying like a baby because I didn't know
Speaker 11: what what I was gonna do. Actually, I was so young.
Speaker 11: I didn't know what to expect, what the future will
Speaker 11: hold for me. And but now I'm glad I finally
Speaker 11: mature and I understand that baseball can also be business
Speaker 11: as well.
Speaker 3: No doubt, you had a great career, a Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame career, and you talk about maturity and changing teams
Speaker 3: and learning how to grow. When you had that postgame
Speaker 3: interview with Blake Snow the other day, he really appreciated
Speaker 3: the questions that you had for him and how much
Speaker 3: growth have you seen in him?
Speaker 11: Well, I'm really impressed with his growth right around us,
Speaker 11: in front of our eyes, and I wanted to ask
Speaker 11: him because I see him so elite. It's such a
Speaker 11: player that it's intriguing to actually get to know Blake Snell.
Speaker 11: Blake Snell is one of those rare breed of players
Speaker 11: that you can actually say has everything that you want
Speaker 11: to see in a picture and then the area that
Speaker 11: he has for the big moment. I played for eighteen
Speaker 11: years and in a lot of post season games, but
Speaker 11: to see a guy that can be so dominant during
Speaker 11: the postseason.
Speaker 2: He's a rare breed of player.
Speaker 11: He's a rare breed, and I think that's a guy
Speaker 11: that everybody should should be keeping an eye on to
Speaker 11: see how everything just comes around for him.
Speaker 3: He has a great change up. He had a great
Speaker 3: change up. Do you see any similarities on how he
Speaker 3: uses it? Because he was really excited about the fact
Speaker 3: that he had three different speeds for his changeup.
Speaker 11: I was the same way, but for some reason for him,
Speaker 11: it seemed like it came later than it did for me.
Speaker 11: But the way he's using it now, it's actually scary because.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say this for the first time.
Speaker 11: I still think he's got a space to improve and
Speaker 11: to become better, which is really really impressive from a
Speaker 11: guy like Blake Snell. I think Blake Snell still has
Speaker 11: a little ways to go when it comes to developing
Speaker 11: everything he has. I think he's gonna have some space
Speaker 11: to improve even more his location. I think his change
Speaker 11: up is gonna get even better than it is. I
Speaker 11: think his fat ball he's gonna learn how to locate better.
Speaker 2: Just carry the thing.
Speaker 11: As good as he is, he still has ways to
Speaker 11: go when it comes to improving everything is and what
Speaker 11: he can do.
Speaker 3: All right, there's Pedro Martinez, who obviously knows a thing
Speaker 3: or two about pitching.
Speaker 2: I believe he's the.
Speaker 3: Best in studio analyst any baseball network has. Pedro Martinez
Speaker 3: is the best. He's got a great personality, he knows
Speaker 3: the game, he understands the game, and he's entertaining on
Speaker 3: top of it. And for him to say that Blake
Speaker 3: Snell's changeup can be better and his fastball command could
Speaker 3: be better, I know Blake always feels like there is
Speaker 3: no ceiling for him. And as good as he's pitched,
Speaker 3: he could pitch even better. So that just falls in
Speaker 3: line with what Blake believes about himself. So awesome to
Speaker 3: catch up with Pedro Martinez, who obviously is one that
Speaker 3: got away from Dodgers, no doubt about it. That'll do
Speaker 3: it for us tonight on Dodger Talk. Thanks to Ronnie
Speaker 3: Fosso for all his help. Thanks to you for listening.
Speaker 3: In case you missed any of the show, you can
Speaker 3: find it on the iHeartRadio app. Don't Forget. Game one
Speaker 3: of the World Series is this Friday, five o'clock First
Speaker 3: Pitch with Rick Monday and Steven Nelson. We will be
Speaker 3: live from Rogers Center in Toronto and tomorrow morning Scam
Speaker 3: with Sax and Kate's at six am.
Speaker 2: And our next.
Speaker 3: Dodger Talk show will be on the eve of Game
Speaker 3: one of the World Series this Thursday night at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2: We'll bring you all the.
Speaker 3: Interviews from Media Day the day before Game one of
Speaker 3: the World Series, so you want to come back for
Speaker 3: that as well. Have a great rest of your Tuesday.
Speaker 3: We'll talk to you tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: See you