Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
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Speaker 2: What a heavy workload this week, we got four Dodger Talks.
Speaker 2: Welcome to David Vasse's Dodger Talk Live from Camelback Ranch
Speaker 2: in Glendale, Arizona. We have a great show for you
Speaker 2: again tonight. Mookie Betts is going to join us. You'll
Speaker 2: hear our one on one conversation coming up at seven
Speaker 2: point fifteen and at the bottom of the hour. Can
Speaker 2: you believe Pete Crow Armstrong has doubled down his hate
Speaker 2: on Dodger fans. You know I played last night a
Speaker 2: clip of our interview from twenty twenty four where he
Speaker 2: was celebrating Dodger fans for bringing out the best with
Speaker 2: the intensity and the atmosphere at Dodger Stadium. In a
Speaker 2: Chicago magazine interview, he took a shot at Dodger fans,
Speaker 2: and then today at Cubs camp on foul Territory PCA
Speaker 2: from Harvard Westlake at LA Kid doubled down on ripping
Speaker 2: Dodger fans. So it's very difficult to defend picro Armstrong's words,
Speaker 2: and he certainly will hear the booze when he comes
Speaker 2: to Dodger Stadium at the end of April. So we'll
Speaker 2: get to all that later in the show. But today
Speaker 2: or right now, want to share with you what took
Speaker 2: place earlier today in case you missed it. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: improved their spring training record of five and zero with
Speaker 2: a ten to seven win over the Diamondbacks at Salt
Speaker 2: Rivers Field. A couple of the highlights for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: You know, we talked about the competition at second base
Speaker 2: between Alex Friedland and hay Son Kim. I kind of
Speaker 2: feel like Haysung Kim is really grabbing a hold of
Speaker 2: that job with the way he has come into camp
Speaker 2: and really starting to look like a major league hitter
Speaker 2: with the plan and also hitting the ball hard, making
Speaker 2: contact even against velocity. So Hay Song Kim not only
Speaker 2: in the first five spring training games, but also from
Speaker 2: what we have seen from Kim on the backfields, he
Speaker 2: resembles a guy that can be the eighth or ninth
Speaker 2: hitter in this Dodger lineup, similar to the function that
Speaker 2: Gavin Lux provided back in twenty twenty four. Plus the speed.
Speaker 2: The speed factor when Kim is starting or coming off
Speaker 2: the bench, that is a huge dynamic of his game.
Speaker 2: As far as the total package. Today Kim was two
Speaker 2: for three with an RBI. So I kind of feel
Speaker 2: like Hayesun Kim is the leader right now to be
Speaker 2: part of the second base solution until Tommy Edmund returns
Speaker 2: from his recovery of right ankle surgery. Also another highlight today,
Speaker 2: River Ryan made his return after missing last year with
Speaker 2: Tommy John surgery. River Ryan has certainly impressed a lot
Speaker 2: of the Dodgers brass with the work he has put
Speaker 2: in over the course of the last twelve fourteen months.
Speaker 2: He threw six different pitches in a scoreless third inning
Speaker 2: today and was looking like we have seen River Ryan
Speaker 2: look going back to the beginning of camp and everything.
Speaker 2: We heard that River Ryan was last September and October
Speaker 2: when he was over here starting to pitch in inner
Speaker 2: squad games. So River Ryan certainly had a good day.
Speaker 2: And that's coming off the heels of Gavin Stone in
Speaker 2: his first major league game in over a year with
Speaker 2: the fifteen pitch scoreless first st inning yesterday. So those
Speaker 2: two guys certainly continuing to make the case that, Hey,
Speaker 2: whether or not we are part of the starting rotation
Speaker 2: to begin the season, you are going to see us
Speaker 2: at some point in time in twenty twenty six. We
Speaker 2: have phone lines open, we are taking phone calls, and
Speaker 2: I have some questions for you tonight to answer. Mookie
Speaker 2: Bets is coming up in our next segment, and I'm wondering,
Speaker 2: and I've brought this up before, and I feel like
Speaker 2: my case for Mookie Bets is even stronger. Who has
Speaker 2: had the better career, Mookie Bets or Mike Trout. Who
Speaker 2: has had the better career Mookie Bets or Mike Trout.
Speaker 2: Now we could go with the tail of the tape,
Speaker 2: and yes, Trout is probably going to beat him in
Speaker 2: certain categories, maybe not as many or by as much
Speaker 2: as you think he would Muki's a lifetime two ninety hitter.
Speaker 2: Trout's a lifetime two ninety four hitter. The lifetime ops
Speaker 2: is eight eighty one for Mookie, nine to seventy six
Speaker 2: for Trout. Mike Trout has never won a Gold Glove.
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts has won six goal gloves, all in right
Speaker 2: field and was a runner up for Gold Glove at
Speaker 2: shortstop last year and wants to win it again. But
Speaker 2: here's the biggest difference between three time MVP Mike Trout,
Speaker 2: one time MVP, eight time All Star Mookie Betts. You
Speaker 2: know why I would say Mookie Betts has had the
Speaker 2: better career. He's a four time World Series champion, and
Speaker 2: he's been a big part of the Red Sox winning
Speaker 2: in eighteen, that's the year he won the MVP and
Speaker 2: the three championships the Dodgers have won since he got here.
Speaker 2: Mike Trout has only played in one playoff series, and
Speaker 2: if you look at it might be that Mike Trout's
Speaker 2: best years are behind him. Mookie Betts is still going strong.
Speaker 2: I know you say MOOKI had a down year last
Speaker 2: year offensively, and he did. He had his worst offensive season,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't as bad as Mike Trout's last two years.
Speaker 2: So if I had, if I had to choose a
Speaker 2: career and say who's had a better career, it's Mookie Betts.
Speaker 2: And you might say, well, Mike Trout's been on the Angels. Well,
Speaker 2: he had an opportunity to leave the Angels and chase
Speaker 2: rings with another team, and he chose to stay with
Speaker 2: the Angels. You know, he is a loyal guy and
Speaker 2: very loyal to Artie Moreno. I understand that Arty has
Speaker 2: meant a lot to him, and I respect that very much.
Speaker 2: But if this is about the game of baseball, the
Speaker 2: business of baseball, if he wanted to be a winner,
Speaker 2: he had the opportunity to take that challenge on and
Speaker 2: he chose not to. Eight six six nine, eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Going back to
Speaker 2: today's game, Roki Sasaki. Here's another question for you. Is
Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki deserving of a spot in this rotation? Doesn't
Speaker 2: he have to prove that he has to earn a
Speaker 2: spot in this rotation? And I know he's only going
Speaker 2: to pitch maybe once every eight nine days, but today's
Speaker 2: game was not very convincing. And I know it's only
Speaker 2: one game, but coming off last year and the way
Speaker 2: things went for him in spring training and in the
Speaker 2: regular season, doesn't Roki Sasaki have to prove that he
Speaker 2: is a starting pitcher And look, he saved the Dodgers
Speaker 2: in October. If Roki Sasaki can't be the closer for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers in the postseason last year during the Wildcard,
Speaker 2: during the NLDS and NLCS, the Dodgers don't even get
Speaker 2: to the World Series. So don't get it twisted. Roki
Speaker 2: Sasaki was very valuable out of the bullpen last year.
Speaker 2: Now he's trying to come up with a cutter. We
Speaker 2: didn't see that until the second inning. And his fastball
Speaker 2: command again was not great and he was not missing
Speaker 2: a lot of bats. So to me, we talk about competition.
Speaker 2: To me, why is he exempt of that? Why does
Speaker 2: he not have to earn a spot in the rotation?
Speaker 2: And the good news for Roki Sasaki and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: is the Dodgers' schedule lends itself to not needing six
Speaker 2: pitchers or even five starters if you don't want to
Speaker 2: use them, because the Dodgers have five days off in
Speaker 2: the first five weeks of the season, including after playing
Speaker 2: three games to open the year at Dodgers Stadium against
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks. They have a random Sunday off before they
Speaker 2: continue the home stand against the Guardians. So that lends
Speaker 2: itself to the Dodgers using the schedule in their favor
Speaker 2: to not necessarily have six pitchers in their rotation. They
Speaker 2: can skip a guy if they wanted to, or they
Speaker 2: could spot start a guy. Maybe Gavin Stone is part
Speaker 2: of this, so keep that in mind. It's just, you know, why,
Speaker 2: why is Roki Sasaki automatically given a spot in the rotation?
Speaker 2: Eight six six, nine, seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. And look, like I said, and I'll say
Speaker 2: it again, it's only one start. But if he has
Speaker 2: a rocky spring training, maybe it would do him better
Speaker 2: to stay back with the schedule the way it is
Speaker 2: and allow a guy like a Gavin Stone or a
Speaker 2: River Ryan to have that spot to begin the season
Speaker 2: because they are ready to go. And look, Andrew Friedman
Speaker 2: has been very, very transparent in all of this when
Speaker 2: it comes to Roki Sasaki. The Dodgers didn't sign him
Speaker 2: just for last year or this year. They've I got
Speaker 2: this guy for four more years after this season and
Speaker 2: Andrew Friedman said it last year. This is not something
Speaker 2: that the Dodgers were counting on to be an overnight sensation.
Speaker 2: They were very much prepared for this to be a
Speaker 2: development situation with Roki Sasaki, even with all the fanfare.
Speaker 2: So it's not like the Dodgers were expecting him to
Speaker 2: be Yamamoto right away. Now. They believe he has the
Speaker 2: talent to be that good, but they're very prepared with
Speaker 2: the fact that this is a guy that needs seasoning
Speaker 2: and needs some help to round into shape. And he
Speaker 2: did not have the same type of career as Yamamoto
Speaker 2: or Otani. The Japanese media believed that he kind of
Speaker 2: rushed his way to Major League Baseball and he never
Speaker 2: was as decorated or as accomplished as Yamamoto. He just
Speaker 2: threw one hundred miles an hour and could command it
Speaker 2: in He just hasn't been able to command it consistently
Speaker 2: so far with the Dodgers. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. So there you go.
Speaker 2: The table is set for you. Who has had the
Speaker 2: better career, Mookie Bets or Mike Trout And do you
Speaker 2: believe if Roki Sasaki does not have a good spring.
Speaker 2: He deserves a spot in the Dodger rotation to begin
Speaker 2: the year. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. When we continue, you'll hear
Speaker 2: from Mookie Bets our one on one conversation and we'll
Speaker 2: take your phone calls. We have phone lines open at
Speaker 2: eight sixty six nine, eight seven two five seventy. David
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Speaker 2: David vass Live at camel Back Ranching, Glendale, Arizona. We're
Speaker 2: with you until eight o'clock tonight here on AM five
Speaker 2: to seventy L Sports. Coming up. In just a moment,
Speaker 2: you'll hear our one on one conversation with Mookie Betts.
Speaker 2: We have phone lines open at eight six six, nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy. I have set the table
Speaker 2: for you tonight, Mookie Bets or Mike Trout, who has
Speaker 2: had the better career. I know the tail of the tape,
Speaker 2: the numbers, the four hundred and four home runs. The
Speaker 2: three MVPs for Mike Trout will wile you. And yes,
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he hasn't had a great career, but
Speaker 2: if I had to choose somebody's career, I would choose
Speaker 2: Mookie betts career over Mike Trout's eight six six, nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy. And also Roki Sasaki a
Speaker 2: rough first start in the Cactus League, trying to prove
Speaker 2: that he is ready to be part of this Dodgers
Speaker 2: starting rotation. To me, he has to earn it. I
Speaker 2: don't believe that you can just hand this guy a
Speaker 2: starting spot in the rotation and look, if these other
Speaker 2: two pitches don't play, did the Dodger and Rokie have
Speaker 2: to accept Maybe the best way to help the Dodgers
Speaker 2: is again coming out of the bullpen. Eight six, six
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Rancho Cucamonga. Paul,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 5: Paul, Hey, Dave, how's it going and calling you over
Speaker 5: the years, So happy you're out there in Arizona with
Speaker 5: our boys. But uh, and also by the way, you
Speaker 5: do an amazing job all the time, brother, I love you.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, Paul.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: I mean I'm hoping, dude, that that cutter coming along
Speaker 5: and this was just first day jitters. You know, he's
Speaker 5: out there in front of the you know, the whole
Speaker 5: crew and first time of the year, and you know,
Speaker 5: maybe he's got that jitters and can get it under
Speaker 5: his belt. But man, we can't keep all these young
Speaker 5: guys down, dude, Gavin Stone, River, Ryan, Robleski. I mean,
Speaker 5: how many lefties do we got in our lineup? Butting
Speaker 5: out Blakes now probably not ready for the start of
Speaker 5: the of the season. I mean, I don't know, man,
Speaker 5: I think he could just walk in like you did
Speaker 5: last year and you know, just be penciled in there
Speaker 5: because I mean, we got a lot of young dogs
Speaker 5: out there that they are chumping at the bit. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm not saying he's better than Landing next because I
Speaker 5: mean landing that doesn't shock, don't get me wrong, but
Speaker 5: we all give.
Speaker 2: That we're talking we're talking about Yeah, we're talking specifically River,
Speaker 2: Ryan and Gavin Stone, and yeah, I just it would
Speaker 2: be ideal if Roki Sasaki could be a starter coming
Speaker 2: out of camp because that would help things and help
Speaker 2: the depth situation, especially with Snell not being ready for
Speaker 2: opening day and both these young guys River Ryan and
Speaker 2: Gavin Stone coming back from pretty significant surgery. So I'm
Speaker 2: not saying I don't want it to happen. In fact
Speaker 2: it would. It would make things a lot better if
Speaker 2: it does happen. But I'm saying, you compromise your bullpen.
Speaker 2: If you throw this guy out there two three times
Speaker 2: to begin the year and he only goes four innings,
Speaker 2: that's just not going to help anybody.
Speaker 5: I hear you, and I got a little quick on
Speaker 5: the Mookie and Mike Trout fantastically. We're saying what we're
Speaker 5: talking here Dan Marino versus what Joe Montana because he's
Speaker 5: got five. Yeah, that's Goooki's on Tom Brady level, he's
Speaker 5: got seven.
Speaker 2: That's that's a good comparison. Definitely. Yeah, baseball's a little
Speaker 2: bit different of a sport. A quarterback can change the
Speaker 2: fortune of a franchise, and in crunch times, certainly Joe
Speaker 2: Montana was was the man. So it's not exactly the same.
Speaker 2: But I understand what you're trying to say. Mike Trout
Speaker 2: has the stats, but Mookie Betts has the rings. And
Speaker 2: I'm just saying Mike Trout and Mookie Bets are both
Speaker 2: Hall of famers, But if I had to choose one
Speaker 2: of these guys careers, I would choose Mookie Betts career
Speaker 2: in a heartbeat. Let's go out to mission Viejo Jim,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi, Jim good Indian.
Speaker 6: David, love your show.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Want me to comment on both of your very welcome.
Speaker 6: You do a great job. I wanted to comment on
Speaker 6: both the Slazaki and the Trout Bets thing. Obviously, they
Speaker 6: did put him in the bullpen last year if he
Speaker 6: didn't work If he doesn't work out, we could put
Speaker 6: him back in the bullpen. The only problem is is
Speaker 6: we're paying a lot of money to him to have
Speaker 6: him go in a bullpen.
Speaker 2: They're not paying him a lot of money, Jim, Jim,
Speaker 2: they're not paying him a lot of money. He's on
Speaker 2: a minimum contract, rookie contract. He's not getting paid three
Speaker 2: hundred four hundred million dollars. So no, they are not
Speaker 2: paying him a lot of money.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I thought he signed a big contract when
Speaker 6: he came over.
Speaker 2: No, it was a standard rookie international signing.
Speaker 6: Okay, I apologize, then then perfect put him in the bullpen,
Speaker 6: and then on your Bets and Trout. I'm a huge
Speaker 6: Bets fan. I'm from Massachusetts, so I loved him when
Speaker 6: he was with the Socks. Obviously been out here for
Speaker 6: forty years, so I'm a big Dodger fan. But here's
Speaker 6: the only thing I would say is when Trout came
Speaker 6: into baseball, for the first eight years of his career,
Speaker 6: he was probably the best player in baseball for six
Speaker 6: of those eight years. And I know he's gotten hurt,
Speaker 6: but Mike Trout saying the career it's a little bit different.
Speaker 6: But you can't even compare the two. Mike Trout has
Speaker 6: had a better career. He's just been on a losing
Speaker 6: team and you can't fault him for that. So I
Speaker 6: understand that. I mean, I still love Mukie. I think
Speaker 6: he's a fabulous player, and him moving positions all the
Speaker 6: time makes him even better. But to compare the two,
Speaker 6: when you could say that Mike Trout was the best player,
Speaker 6: hands down for six years in all of baseball, you
Speaker 6: can't compare them.
Speaker 2: I can make the argument Mookie Betts has been the
Speaker 2: best player for four or five years and still has
Speaker 2: a lot more left than Mike Trout does. But you're right.
Speaker 2: The first six years of Mike Trout's career, hands down,
Speaker 2: I'm best player in baseball and he's only been to
Speaker 2: one Playoff series and that was in twenty fourteen. So
Speaker 2: his first few years the Angels were pretty good. But
Speaker 2: obviously it's gone sideways, and he had an opportunity to leave,
Speaker 2: to sign with the team that would give him a
Speaker 2: better opportunity to win a championship, but he chose to
Speaker 2: stay with the Angels and kind of hide in anonymity
Speaker 2: in Orange County. Eight six six nine eighty seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number speaking of Mookie Bets,
Speaker 2: had a chance to catch up with him earlier today.
Speaker 2: Here is our one on one conversation with four time
Speaker 2: World Series champion Mookie Bets. I think guys are starting
Speaker 2: to get tired of me. It's that time of spring training.
Speaker 2: It's only been two weeks. Guys are getting tired of me.
Speaker 2: But my guy, Mookie Bets, has taken some time for
Speaker 2: us and I appreciate that. Hey, not bad, four rings,
Speaker 2: looking for a fifth. Thank you for the time, and
Speaker 2: great to see you out here again.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, you that's how you know we love you though,
Speaker 7: because we were messing with you, you know, every time
Speaker 7: you step foot around us. So it's good to see
Speaker 7: you again.
Speaker 6: Hey.
Speaker 2: I know you said this is the first normal spring
Speaker 2: training you've had with the Dodgers, and I was thinking
Speaker 2: about it, and you're right. You go back to twenty
Speaker 2: twenty and twenty one, the pandemic cut things a little
Speaker 2: bit different, and then obviously you've had to go on
Speaker 2: these trips to Tokyo and Korea. How does it feel
Speaker 2: to just ease into the season.
Speaker 8: It's kind of weird.
Speaker 7: It's kind of weird. I forgot what it feels like.
Speaker 7: So you know, I'm really this is really the first
Speaker 7: time I get to kind of take my time. You
Speaker 7: was ramped up and fully ready to go right now.
Speaker 7: So you know, fortunately I'm at the stage in my
Speaker 7: career where I can kind of take my time and whatnot,
Speaker 7: and so I'm gonna see how it works.
Speaker 2: How does it feel coming off back to back World
Speaker 2: Series Championships and to have the same core group of
Speaker 2: guys with you to try to go for this three peet?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think does that and itself mean
Speaker 7: so much? You know, usually after stuff like this, you know,
Speaker 7: teams kind of break apart, guys want to go get
Speaker 7: their money or whatever it is, right, But no, not
Speaker 7: this group. This group is it's almost likely kind of
Speaker 7: will do everything to stay together, you know, because you
Speaker 7: never really get an opportunity to to love coming to
Speaker 7: work as much as we do, love each other as
Speaker 7: much as we do, and love playing as much.
Speaker 9: As we do.
Speaker 7: So very rarely have you do you see in sports
Speaker 7: all three of those things, and we got it.
Speaker 2: I asked Miguel Rojas about this, what you guys are
Speaker 2: on the verge of trying to accomplish making history. A
Speaker 2: lot of people weren't even born the last time a
Speaker 2: team won three in a row, but he said, you
Speaker 2: guys are embracing that and not shying away from it.
Speaker 2: Is that the way you've gone about it the last
Speaker 2: couple of years, and is that the way you guys
Speaker 2: have to approach it this year? Not shy away from success?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I mean I would say so, you know, having the
Speaker 7: hav an opportunity to win every year, you know, having
Speaker 7: those expectations, that's a blessing in itself. And then being
Speaker 7: able to We were ready to come through twice just
Speaker 7: to have this type of opportunity. I mean, people don't
Speaker 7: even get this opportunity, whether we do it or not.
Speaker 7: And so obviously we obviously we're embracing it and we
Speaker 7: know what's here. And it's not like it's, you know, anything,
Speaker 7: it's a huge thing. It's the history is so the
Speaker 7: only way to kind of get through that is just
Speaker 7: embrace and understand the battle and then figure out how
Speaker 7: to attack it.
Speaker 3: Muki.
Speaker 2: Everybody seems to always want to focus on individual numbers,
Speaker 2: but the reality is, ever since you came to the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: all they've done is win. How much pride do you
Speaker 2: take in that? Because when they trade it for you,
Speaker 2: that was the goal. And you're on a roll right now,
Speaker 2: even starting in twenty twenty. What does that mean to
Speaker 2: be considered a winner?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 7: Obviously that's why we play. You know, that's why we play.
Speaker 7: I want to be a winner. I mean obviously, you know,
Speaker 7: individual accolades are a great thing, right, but it doesn't
Speaker 7: mean anything unless unless you're winning, you know, and so
Speaker 7: you know, obviously hasn't been just me. You know, we've
Speaker 7: had some great teams here and they were winning before
Speaker 7: I got here. But you know, you know, with show
Speaker 7: Hey coming over, I mean you can argue that, you know,
Speaker 7: he's the number one reason why, which is amazing. He shoot,
Speaker 7: I'll take it, I'll take it. But you know, just
Speaker 7: being being what I feel like, I'm a winner and
Speaker 7: I feel like coming to winning organization with a lot
Speaker 7: of guys in here who are winners or aspire to
Speaker 7: be winners, it's just a really good match.
Speaker 2: A lot of these people don't remember or have short memories,
Speaker 2: but I remember your first spring training with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: how you demanded guys to practice like it was the game.
Speaker 2: You had the jar and here you are, you got
Speaker 2: four or five different shortstop gloves, get ready to go
Speaker 2: before anybody else. Do you feel like that tone has
Speaker 2: been set again this spring?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 7: Absolutely, I mean that's that tone I think since since
Speaker 7: then hasn't really hasn't really left. And so you know
Speaker 7: that's that's just kind of what it is. That's the
Speaker 7: way we'll we will get through this, uh, this history.
Speaker 7: This is how we'll create the history. It's just by
Speaker 7: taking every day, one one day at a time, one
Speaker 7: ground ball at a time, and making it to where
Speaker 7: we don't know the difference. I think that's the beauty
Speaker 7: of this team is we don't know the difference between
Speaker 7: pressure and no pressure, because if we view it all
Speaker 7: the same, it's the same. It's the same. So when
Speaker 7: it got down late in the season last year, it
Speaker 7: wasn't a panic. It wasn't like we needed to play
Speaker 7: harder or do this more. It was like, no, we
Speaker 7: just play our game. I mean, it's the same thing
Speaker 7: we've been doing all year. And so I think that
Speaker 7: was a beautiful, beautiful thing about that last year. And
Speaker 7: now just the culture we have.
Speaker 2: Hey, Mookie, speaking of all that, where you guys practice
Speaker 2: and then it shows up in Game seven of the
Speaker 2: World Series, what about in the NLBS against the Phillies,
Speaker 2: the whole wheel play? All that is the wheel play
Speaker 2: in practice in spring training? Or is that just instincts
Speaker 2: as the season goes on.
Speaker 7: That's just instincts. That's just instincts. We have a good
Speaker 7: veteran group here, and we've seen the game so much.
Speaker 7: We we know a lot of things about this game.
Speaker 7: And so that was just us kind of Doc trusting
Speaker 7: us to help him. You know, he helps us so
Speaker 7: much and puts us in so many spots to win,
Speaker 7: so that was our way to to kind of do
Speaker 7: it for him.
Speaker 2: All right, before I let you go, you got new
Speaker 2: tequila Providencia and also you got a new glove line.
Speaker 2: Can kids go out and buy that for the little
Speaker 2: league season?
Speaker 6: Yet?
Speaker 7: That that's two we can I can't. I can't talk
Speaker 7: about it just yet. You know, we'll h We've got
Speaker 7: a little time here. I'm just testing out some gloves
Speaker 7: right now. Let's just to see how it's going to
Speaker 7: play out. So stay tuned and I'll make sure you know.
Speaker 2: I feel like the real test would be a skinny,
Speaker 2: fat guy like myself if I could catch a baseball
Speaker 2: with your glove. I think it it's meant for everybody.
Speaker 7: We'll get you on and we'll find out.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Hey, Mooky, great to see you. Awesome to
Speaker 2: have you back for this run. And man, it's not
Speaker 2: a Dodger season without MOOKI bets, that's for sure. And
Speaker 2: he's got that twenty one on the back of his
Speaker 2: end in spring training.
Speaker 5: Sick.
Speaker 7: It's sick.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I saw kursh with it when I first got here,
Speaker 7: so I always said I wanted one, and I got it, Yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 2: And you got rings more to come. Thank you, Mooky.
Speaker 2: There he goes, Mookie Bets. Appreciate the time, and that
Speaker 2: was early in the morning, mooki Bets, so since games
Speaker 2: have started, just to lay out what's happening here at
Speaker 2: camp in the morning, Mookie Bets and Miguel Rojas go
Speaker 2: out on field two before the meeting that starts at
Speaker 2: about eight thirty am. This is the same Mookie Bets
Speaker 2: that I saw and heard of in twenty twenty. We
Speaker 2: didn't see him a lot because he was always working,
Speaker 2: whether it was in the cave or on the field.
Speaker 2: This is a similar spring training to that one is
Speaker 2: first one with the Dodgers, him just continuing to get
Speaker 2: here early, putting in the work early, and then being
Speaker 2: able to do more work after the team meeting when
Speaker 2: guys go out for live BP and regular batting practice.
Speaker 2: But Mookie Betts has come to camp noticeably bigger, stronger,
Speaker 2: and certainly ready for this marathon to try to make
Speaker 2: history and go for the three peat. First time in
Speaker 2: twenty six years, second time in the last what fifty years?
Speaker 2: I mean, there's only two teams in the last fifty
Speaker 2: years that have gone for the three peat. That's the
Speaker 2: Oakland A's and the mid seventies and the Yankees from
Speaker 2: ninety eight to two thousand. Many of you were not
Speaker 2: born for either one of those. I wasn't born for
Speaker 2: the A's three peat in the mid seventies, and I
Speaker 2: know there's a lot of you listening that weren't born
Speaker 2: when the Yankees repeated twenty six years ago. Themselves in
Speaker 2: an opportunity to do, and that's make history to three
Speaker 2: peat in baseball. Many of you, your kids have never
Speaker 2: seen that happen before in their lifetime. And the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have that opportunity this season. And you heard what Mookie
Speaker 2: Bets had to say. The reason why they were able
Speaker 2: to execute the little things in Game six and Game
Speaker 2: seven is because number One, they're mentally tough. They don't
Speaker 2: put extra pressure on themselves. Number Two, they practice the
Speaker 2: way they play and it starts in spring training. And
Speaker 2: they have headed players. They have smart players, they have
Speaker 2: baseball players, they have guys that have high baseball IQs
Speaker 2: and guys that don't panic. A lot of these guys,
Speaker 2: we have to start recognizing this. A lot of these
Speaker 2: guys have been there now times and that's a huge
Speaker 2: advantage when the Dodgers play a team like the Blue
Speaker 2: Jays in Game seven, when the Dodgers play a team
Speaker 2: like the Yankees. I know the franchise has had twenty
Speaker 2: seven championships, but Aaron Judge had never played in the
Speaker 2: World Series before. That's a huge difference that the Dodgers
Speaker 2: will have going into the postseason. Eight sixty six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number, And honestly,
Speaker 2: that was the difference in the NLDS against the Phillies.
Speaker 2: The Phillies made a lot of bad mistakes, nothing bigger
Speaker 2: than oriyan Keckering throwing the ball away on a comebacker
Speaker 2: to end the NLDS and the Dodgers win it at home.
Speaker 2: That was the difference in that NLDS. That was a
Speaker 2: lot closer than people give it credit for. There's a
Speaker 2: very good chance the Dodgers don't win that NLDS best
Speaker 2: of five against a one hundred plus win Phillies team
Speaker 2: if Yamamoto and Blake Snell and Taoscar Hernandez don't shock
Speaker 2: Philly in the first two games of that series. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. We have three lines open when we continue
Speaker 2: more of your phone calls eight six six nine eighty
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. I'm not backing down. If I
Speaker 2: had to choose between Mookie Bed's career or Mike Trout's
Speaker 2: incredible career, I'm taking Mooki's career. He's had six Gold gloves,
Speaker 2: an MVP, and more importantly, four championship rings. I'm sorry
Speaker 2: that means more to me than three MVPs and five
Speaker 2: hundred home runs. Eight six six nine eighty seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. And can you believe
Speaker 2: p Crow Armstrong has doubled down on his criticism of
Speaker 2: you Dodger fans. You'll hear what he had to say
Speaker 2: next right here on a five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: David Vasse live that Camelback Branching Glendale, Arizona with you
Speaker 2: until eight o'clock tonight here on a five to seventy
Speaker 2: LA Sports. Thanks again to Mookie Betts who took time
Speaker 2: out for us today. In case you missed that conversation,
Speaker 2: you can find it on the iHeartRadio app. In case
Speaker 2: you missed it, the Dodgers did not have any of
Speaker 2: their regulars in the starting lineup today, and they still
Speaker 2: beat the Arizona Diamondbacks at Salt River Fields ten to
Speaker 2: seven to improve their record to five and zero. The Dodgers,
Speaker 2: who have only had basically one game of their regulars
Speaker 2: or the majority of their regulars in the lineup, and
Speaker 2: that was yesterday, have scored double digits three times this spring.
Speaker 2: So that just shows you, you know, not just so
Speaker 2: much about the Dodgers' offense, but which shows you just
Speaker 2: a huge drop off and quality pitching that these teams
Speaker 2: are thrown out there early on in spring training. Speaking
Speaker 2: of that, tomorrow, the Dodgers are going to be here
Speaker 2: at home with a spring training game. You'll be able
Speaker 2: to watch that on Sports and at LA at twelve o'clock.
Speaker 2: Our next broadcast right here or simulcast will be on
Speaker 2: Friday from Scottsdale Stadium Dodgers Giants for the first time
Speaker 2: this spring. Our coverage begins on Friday at eleven thirty
Speaker 2: with first pitch at twelve oh five, and on Friday
Speaker 2: night that will be our another Dodger Talk at seven
Speaker 2: o'clock from Scottsdale Stadium eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number before I let
Speaker 2: you hear Pete Crow Armstrong double down on taking shots
Speaker 2: at you. Let's go out to the phones. Philip in La.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Philip.
Speaker 3: Doing all right?
Speaker 10: Doing alright? I love the Mookie Bets Mike Trout discussion.
Speaker 10: It's uh, it's fun. And when you asked which career
Speaker 10: you'd rather have, I agree with you. I think Mookie's
Speaker 10: career is the one you'd want, primarily because he's been
Speaker 10: able to stay on the field. I think the most
Speaker 10: frustrating thing about Trout's career is that he just hasn't
Speaker 10: been able to physically be able to stay on the field.
Speaker 10: But I would I think you pointed out something a
Speaker 10: minute ago that is critical with Trout's career, and it's
Speaker 10: a fascinating debate as to if he'd made a different decision,
Speaker 10: or if something had different had happened in his life,
Speaker 10: had he been where Mookie was, had he played center
Speaker 10: field for Boston and then gone to the Dodgers, or
Speaker 10: if he had done what Showhey had done and left
Speaker 10: Anaheim and gone to Los Angeles. I mean, look at
Speaker 10: show Hay's career after he left Anaheim.
Speaker 2: I mean he just I mean Trout is that every
Speaker 2: freaking Eagles playoff game he had an opportunity to join
Speaker 2: Bryce Harper in Philadelphia and go to all the Eagles
Speaker 2: games he wants. I mean, Trout has been to more
Speaker 2: Eagles playoff games than he's played in in his career.
Speaker 10: That's point. I mean, ultimately, the single biggest factor in
Speaker 10: Trout's career is a choice he made to stay in
Speaker 10: Anaheim because he could have left, and what would his
Speaker 10: career have been had he left. He might have even
Speaker 10: stayed healthy had he left, but he chose to stay
Speaker 10: in an organization that didn't do well for him. And
Speaker 10: I don't dislike the Angels, but clearly it's not a
Speaker 10: good organization. They have not put players around him to
Speaker 10: help him reach his full potential. So yeah, you're right,
Speaker 10: Mukie's had a better career. But I do think I think.
Speaker 2: The question the better question, Philip, is the better question
Speaker 2: is which career would you choose?
Speaker 10: I want to win, so clearly you'd want Muki's career.
Speaker 10: There's a degree I would agree with you. There's no debate.
Speaker 10: You want to win at the highest level. I just
Speaker 10: think it's a sad thing when you I don't believe
Speaker 10: you've ever gotten to see what Trout could have done
Speaker 10: had he chosen to leave.
Speaker 2: I'm just a believer, Philip. There's certain winning players and
Speaker 2: then there's certain players that really I don't want to
Speaker 2: call uh losing players, because Mike Trout's not a losing player,
Speaker 2: but there's certain players that are winning players. And Mookie
Speaker 2: bats is a winning player. I'm not sure I could
Speaker 2: say that about Mike Trout because after what we've heard
Speaker 2: from Arty Moreno in the last week. If I'm Mike
Speaker 2: Trout and I care about winning, and winning right now
Speaker 2: is not something that's attainable in the organization's eyes. If
Speaker 2: I'm Mike Trout, I'm saying I want out. I want
Speaker 2: to win right If he cares about winning that much.
Speaker 1: I think I think.
Speaker 2: I think he's very comfortable. I think he's very comfortable
Speaker 2: in Anaheim and going under the radar.
Speaker 10: He's comfortable now. I think he was optimistic when he
Speaker 10: was younger.
Speaker 2: I that's I agree with that. I agree with that
Speaker 2: for sure. All right, Philip, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Great Thank you, Philip, great phone call. And look, Mike
Speaker 2: Trout's a hall of Famer, great career. I like I said,
Speaker 2: I think the better question is whose career would you choose?
Speaker 2: Would you choose to have Mike Trouts or would you
Speaker 2: choose to have Mookie betts career. I would choose and
Speaker 2: Philip would choose Mookie's career. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. All right, here
Speaker 2: we go in case you missed it. I tried to
Speaker 2: back up Pee Crow Armstrong. We played his clip with
Speaker 2: me from twenty twenty four where he did give praise
Speaker 2: to Dodger fans and just playing at Dodger Stadium, and
Speaker 2: in the Chicago Magazine interview he took shots at Dodger
Speaker 2: fans saying that they're just there to take pictures. Well,
Speaker 2: today he was on foul territory and given the opportunity
Speaker 2: to clarify his comments, and he made it worse.
Speaker 8: I didn't get a chance to really, like like, back
Speaker 8: that statement up with the fact that that has nothing
Speaker 8: to do with Doc, that has nothing to do with show. Hey,
Speaker 8: any of the players over there. I love MOOKI Betts
Speaker 8: look up to him like crazy. Freddy's only ever been
Speaker 8: great to me. If anything, those are the guys that
Speaker 8: have given these fans a reason to be fans. And
Speaker 8: you know, I grew up going to Dodgers games when
Speaker 8: they weren't always good, when they had like Manny would
Speaker 8: pop up. But it's like they go in phases and
Speaker 8: and I remember, like you know, all fans fighting stuff
Speaker 8: like putting the Giants fan in the calmba like that
Speaker 8: stuck with me as a kid, like just little things,
Speaker 8: you know, and and sitting in the stands, just nasty
Speaker 8: stuff goes on. I didn't always experience that at other ballparks.
Speaker 8: But like I said, that has nothing to do with
Speaker 8: who's actually on the field for them. I love playing
Speaker 8: against them, and I love I just love what they're
Speaker 8: doing right now because they're they're creating a dynasty. But
Speaker 8: I want to take them down too, And and again
Speaker 8: I love it.
Speaker 10: All the people that are like for sports man, Robberries,
Speaker 10: let's go.
Speaker 2: Fade out, fade out. Pete Crow Armstrong, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: I tried to help you out last night, and now
Speaker 2: you double down and start to bring up the Brian
Speaker 2: Stone incident. I mean, come on, man, that is so
Speaker 2: low below the belt. And I got news for you.
Speaker 2: I see fights at a lot of stadiums, and quite honestly,
Speaker 2: I have known Dodger fans that were coming to Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium around the time that you referenced many Wood, and
Speaker 2: it wasn't as safe of a stadium as it is now.
Speaker 2: I got news for you, and I know actual friends
Speaker 2: that refused to come back to Dodger Stadium because they
Speaker 2: felt like it wasn't safe around that period of time.
Speaker 2: Now I felt like that was an overreaction, but they
Speaker 2: came back a couple of years ago and they said,
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium is night and day different than it was
Speaker 2: around that period of time that Frank McCourt owned the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: around a nine and ten. Dodger Stadium is one of
Speaker 2: the most family friendly stadiums now in baseball. Yes, of course,
Speaker 2: there's going to be overserved fans at a football game,
Speaker 2: at a basketball game, at a baseball game, and they're
Speaker 2: going to be idiots. You're telling me at Wrigley Field,
Speaker 2: where it's known for having daytime beers, there's no fights
Speaker 2: at Wrigley Field. PCA, really really, and you're contradicting what
Speaker 2: you said. You said basically, Dodger Stadium is a stadium
Speaker 2: that fans only go there to take selfies. Now you're
Speaker 2: saying that they're too intense and they start fights. Which
Speaker 2: one is it? It seems like you don't really know,
Speaker 2: and that's why you're sounding, quite frankly, not Phi Beta Kappa.
Speaker 2: So I mean, you had your chance, you doubled down,
Speaker 2: and now you're gonna hear when you come to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2: You're probably on the Fernando Tattoos junior list right now.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's the booze that you're going to get.
Speaker 2: And when you're in center field, you will hear those booze.
Speaker 2: And look, Dodger fans are going to let you hear it,
Speaker 2: because they're well within their rights to let you hear it.
Speaker 2: And I do not condone throwing anything that fans were
Speaker 2: thrown at Tattoos a couple of nl ds as ago.
Speaker 2: I thought that was horrible and I would never condone that.
Speaker 2: But fans can boo as loud as they want at
Speaker 2: p Crow Armstrong. He just doubled down and completely contradicted
Speaker 2: a what he said originally, and now he's going, you know,
Speaker 2: below the belt. In my opinion, let's go out to
Speaker 2: Andrew in La, You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse
Speaker 2: Hi Andrew.
Speaker 3: David, I'll worry Ben, I'm doing good.
Speaker 2: I can't believe my guy PCA is doing this. He's
Speaker 2: going down this road.
Speaker 3: I am a big Dodger fan, huge, like I schedule
Speaker 3: my things. I got to do as a dad around him,
Speaker 3: so I don't miss a pitch. But I got to
Speaker 3: agree with him. Okay, So so onset, right, so kick
Speaker 3: me out to hear me out?
Speaker 2: Okay, hold on, hold on, no, you hear me out
Speaker 2: really quick? Which part do you agree with? Because in
Speaker 2: the original interview he said, basically, Dodger Stadium is a
Speaker 2: tourist stadium where everybody just takes pictures. And now he's
Speaker 2: saying when he used to go to games, you know,
Speaker 2: he was there for many wood in the bad times,
Speaker 2: they went to the NLCS Anda And now he's saying
Speaker 2: that there's fights and he didn't feel safe. Do you
Speaker 2: think do you think Picrow Armstrong ever sat in the pavilion?
Speaker 3: Andrew, No, No, but but hear me out real quick
Speaker 3: on why I want to say what he's what I
Speaker 3: think he's trying to say. Okay, if you go to
Speaker 3: Dodger Stadium, Dodger Stadium. You know it's the Lakers show
Speaker 3: of the showtime, right. There's a bunch of business people
Speaker 3: around LA that buy season ticket They do in centers
Speaker 3: and they let their coworkers go, their colleagues go.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: When you sit below in the field level, you hear
Speaker 3: side conversations and it's never about the game. I've been
Speaker 3: to many different stadium when I travel to watch the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: and it's all baseball talk that I could agree with.
Speaker 3: When it's crucial situations, playoff time, we can't get handed.
Speaker 3: We get handed a rally talent to pump up our pictures,
Speaker 3: to motivate the hitters and all that. With two strikes,
Speaker 3: what are we doing. We're sitting down, faces loaded two strikes,
Speaker 3: well even one, you know first any we're sitting down.
Speaker 3: We're not there like to cheer on our boys in blue.
Speaker 3: It's like we're just there just because we got to
Speaker 3: pick it and we could take a selfie and post
Speaker 3: it on social media. That part I agree with him,
Speaker 3: But the comments he made today, he took it too
Speaker 3: far right. But I think what he was trying to
Speaker 3: say is that we're not involved in the game as
Speaker 3: much as other stadiums are. And it is because, yeah,
Speaker 3: I disagree with that.
Speaker 2: I think there's certain games that the fans are more
Speaker 2: engaged with. And I'm a believer that when a team
Speaker 2: is scoring runs, everybody's on their feet. They're excited. When
Speaker 2: you know things are dragging a little bit, and baseball's
Speaker 2: a great sport to hang out with your friends and
Speaker 2: talk and catch up and watch the game. That's how
Speaker 2: a lot of us do it, Andrew, and I don't
Speaker 2: begrudge anybody for doing that, especially before there was a
Speaker 2: pitch clock.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as before a lot of people were saying like, oh,
Speaker 3: we sell out games, we win games. Yeah we do.
Speaker 3: But he's not referring to that, Andrew.
Speaker 2: Four million fans, and I think I think Dodger Stadium
Speaker 2: is pretty loud. You hear the Dodger players say that.
Speaker 2: And I travel with them, Andrew. I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: pull a John Ireland here to say I travel with them,
Speaker 2: just to say it. I travel with them. I go
Speaker 2: to other stadiums, and trust me, the atmosphere is not
Speaker 2: electric like it is at Dodger Stadium. Trust me. The
Speaker 2: reality is those seats behind home played and by the
Speaker 2: dugout are very expensive. You're right, those are business corporation
Speaker 2: seats for the most part. The fans that there are
Speaker 2: affordable tickets for fans in the field level, the loge level,
Speaker 2: the pavilion, the reserve level, And now, you know, I
Speaker 2: think I think part of it, Andrew. The Dodgers have
Speaker 2: done such a great job of building different things around
Speaker 2: the concourse where families can go and hang out if
Speaker 2: their kids are a little too wiggly, and and that
Speaker 2: center field plaza beer garden area. A lot of fans
Speaker 2: hang out there if they have seats in the reserve levels,
Speaker 2: so they're not actually in the bowl. And I think
Speaker 2: sometimes that works against what you're talking about.
Speaker 10: Yep, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3: So I just wanted to just, you know, go ahead,
Speaker 3: come out there and say we got it. As Dodge
Speaker 3: fans can play off easy, we got to do a
Speaker 3: better job of beat in our seats light moment too.
Speaker 2: They how about all the fans that stayed for eighteen innings?
Speaker 2: Is anybody going to give Dodger fans that that credit.
Speaker 4: I'm one of them.
Speaker 3: I'm one of those.
Speaker 2: Okay, come on, Andrew, Come on, Andrew, that's a general statement.
Speaker 2: You and PC Air are making about Dodger fans. Come on, yeah,
Speaker 2: go go watch the Dodgers in Cincinnati or Pittsburgh. Tell
Speaker 2: me how that atmosphere is.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a dead zone.
Speaker 2: Thank you all right, Andrew, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm not buying that. Dodger fans are very knowledgeable, you know.
Speaker 2: The Cardinal fans get this. In my opinion, kudos for
Speaker 2: being the best fans in baseball, the smartest fans in baseball.
Speaker 2: I've never seen a crowd like I've seen at Bush Stadium.
Speaker 2: A fly ball to shallow left field and they get
Speaker 2: up like they think it's a home run. To me,
Speaker 2: that's not a smart fan base Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Vicki and La. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 4: Vicki, Hi David, it's I know you don't remember me,
Speaker 4: but I met you at Wrickley Field. I've seen you
Speaker 4: a few times at Dodger Stadium and I had to
Speaker 4: call when I heard that Andrew guy call say he
Speaker 4: was a Dodger fan, and he agreed with some of
Speaker 4: the comments. No, he is not a Dodger fan. I
Speaker 4: doubt he was there for that eighteen inning game like
Speaker 4: me and my family were. I actually fought Toronto fans
Speaker 4: leaving the game when during that eighteen inning game. And
Speaker 4: anyone who believes anything about those Dodger fans and what
Speaker 4: they think that is dangerous. It is not. I have
Speaker 4: grown up at Dodger Stadium. I grew up in the pavilions.
Speaker 4: I'm a season ticket holder, and he is not a
Speaker 4: true Dodger fan. I've been to wrigley Field, and I've
Speaker 4: been to the UB.
Speaker 2: To the just jealous that he doesn't have the tickets
Speaker 2: that are a little bit closer than where he sits.
Speaker 2: That's what it sounds like, VICKI and I can understand that.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers have done a great job over the
Speaker 2: course of the last ten years where if you have
Speaker 2: top deck or reserve tickets, you don't have to be
Speaker 2: stuck up there. You can move down and get a
Speaker 2: better look from a different vantage point.
Speaker 4: I totally agree. I love actually sitting up on top deck.
Speaker 4: That's where I sit, and I have a lot of
Speaker 4: friends up there. But yes, you can move around. Dodger
Speaker 4: Stadium is a family friendly place, and anyone who doesn't
Speaker 4: feel that way or says they're a real Dodger fan
Speaker 4: and they think otherwise and they're not a real Dodger fan.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, David.
Speaker 2: All right, VICKI thank you for the phone call. And look,
Speaker 2: I would say four million fans for the first time
Speaker 2: in Dodger Stadium history, first time in baseball history. I believe.
Speaker 2: Disagree with Pete crow Armstrong in his comments let's go
Speaker 2: out to Louis in Anaheim. You're on Dodger Talk. How
Speaker 2: you doing, Louise.
Speaker 9: I'm doing well, best saying nice to talk to you.
Speaker 9: I'm a big fans thank you.
Speaker 2: Bigger fan of me than Pete crow Armstrong.
Speaker 9: Oh definitely, for sure, especially up to these comments. I
Speaker 9: do really like him. But I do got to say
Speaker 9: I've been a longtime Dodger fan, and I do remember
Speaker 9: the times when it was a little bit more violent,
Speaker 9: but nowadays it really is a lot more safe. Like
Speaker 9: I have a young daughter that I actually bring to
Speaker 9: the games. I brought her at three months old and
Speaker 9: she was totally happy to be there. And then for
Speaker 9: the comment he said about the pictures, I mean, of course,
Speaker 9: everybody's going to take pictures at the Stadium. You know,
Speaker 9: you're at Dodger Stadium with big all star names that
Speaker 9: people want to come see. Like I live in Anaheim,
Speaker 9: and I see what happens at Angels Stadium where people
Speaker 9: are not excited and it's not a static at all,
Speaker 9: Like like, Dodger Stadium is just the place to be.
Speaker 9: I've taken an uncle that lives in Mexico, the big
Speaker 9: where big baseball films at their big Dodger fans as well,
Speaker 9: and he literally cried he did not want to leave
Speaker 9: Dodger Stadium because of how emotional he felt there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, it's a great place. It's the third
Speaker 2: oldest ballpark and the Dodgers have done a great job
Speaker 2: under Stancasten and Janner Marie Smith to make it more
Speaker 2: of a twenty first century modern ballpark even though it
Speaker 2: was built in nineteen sixty two. So I'm with you, Luis,
Speaker 2: and I'll leave you with this. I took my family
Speaker 2: to a game or got them tickets at Petco Park
Speaker 2: a few years ago, and we saw fights as I
Speaker 2: was taking them around. I sat with them for a
Speaker 2: few innings, and then when I left, I found out
Speaker 2: the person behind them sitting and their seats were in
Speaker 2: right field. The person sitting behind my wife and kids
Speaker 2: threw up because they were overserved. So come on, I mean,
Speaker 2: there are ridiculous people at every stadium that don't know
Speaker 2: how to handle themselves. So let's not just put this
Speaker 2: on one place or one sport. Picro Armstrong has no
Speaker 2: idea what he's talking about. I'll just put it at that,
Speaker 2: he has no idea what he's talking about, and he
Speaker 2: should probably shut his mouth moving forward when it comes
Speaker 2: to this. All right, that'll do it for us on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk tonight. We'll be back with you on Friday
Speaker 2: with our pregame coverage at eleven thirty before first pitch
Speaker 2: between the Dodgers and Giants at twelve oh five, and
Speaker 2: we'll have Dodger Talk at seven o'clock. And we already
Speaker 2: have two guests lined up. Dave Roberts is going to
Speaker 2: join us and JD Martinez, America's DH is going to
Speaker 2: join us as well. Looking forward to that conversation, to
Speaker 2: be reunited with JD Martinez and to have Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk for the first time this spring. Thanks
Speaker 2: to Ronnie Foscio for all his help. Thanks to you
Speaker 2: for listening, and you are the greatest fans in baseball.
Speaker 2: I don't care what Picrow Armstrong has to say or
Speaker 2: anybody else. Dodger fans are the best. They come out
Speaker 2: loud and proud, and I'll see you at Opening Day
Speaker 2: and it will be electric coming up next Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2: Have a great rest of your night. See you