WEBVTT - Off day Dodger Talk (4-30-26) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.559 This is world champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:04.439 Here we go again, riga running. 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.320 Back hosted by Dodgers in signer David Basset. 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:09.040 Oh yeah, three pet in the mix. 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:12.320 Dodger Talk is brought to you by La County Public 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:17.520 Works Champions Recycled beverage Containers, make the play Recycle Today, 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.639 and by Children's Hospital LA from Colds to Cancer. We 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.120 got this to get in on the show called eight 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.960 six six nine eighty seven two five seven in and 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.480 be sure to follow Dodger Talk wherever you get your podcasts. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.559 Here's your host, David Vasse. 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.720 Welcome to off Night Dodger Talk. David Vase with you 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.800 until eight o'clock tonight here on AM five to seventy 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.280 LA Sports. And we do have phone lines open tonight 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.919 at eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.559 Coming up at the bottom of the hour, we are 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:56.200 going to be Jones joined by Joe Kelly. That's right, Mariachi. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:00.240 Joe Kelly, the king of the Inland Empire and the 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:04.120 king of free sets that you see riverside at the 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:08.920 Ontario Tower Buzzers and Anaheim Ducks Games, is going to 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.160 join us. So you'll hear Joe Kelly coming up at 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.560 seven point thirty. Also, you will get an update on 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:19.399 Mookie Bets. We shared it with you after yesterday's game. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.840 We'll share it with you again. And you might have 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.480 heard of the quotes from Nico Horner saying that he 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:31.399 wished he would have done something about Dalton rushing bad 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.880 mouthing one of his teammates, Miguel Emaya. Well he didn't, 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:40.280 and the Nico Horner was on one of the Cubs 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.960 or excuse me, Chicago sports talk shows, and I'll let 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.559 you hear how it came out, and it's even worse 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.760 than reading the quote. So we'll get to all that 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.400 coming up in a little bit. But first, just want 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:59.120 to make the big announcement as next Thursday, May seventh, 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.640 we have another off day Dodger Talk show and we 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:08.080 are going to be on location with our good friends 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.480 at Downy Hunday. That's right, we are going to have 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.720 Dodger Talk next Thursday, May seventh, from seven to eight 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:21.480 pm at Downy Hunday. Now here's the important part. You 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:26.200 want to come out at four o'clock because Alex Vesia 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.960 is going to join us in person from four to 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:34.240 five o'clock next Thursday at Downy Hunday located at seven 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:40.040 five five zero Firestorm Boulevard, seventy five point fifty Firestone Boulevard. 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.639 I'll be out there hosting Dodger Talk. Alex Vesia will 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:47.120 be out there from four to five o'clock. And it's 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.760 not just about the cars at Downy Hunday. It's about 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:55.640 the experience. Our guy Sam who owns Downy Hunday, He's 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.640 a guy that isn't just about selling you a car. 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.320 He's about making you part of the family and having 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:06.880 an incredible experience. It's like a nightclub at this car dealership, 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.560 Downy Hundai and Alex Vesia and Dodger Talk is going 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.720 to be out there. We're gonna have hot dogs, We're 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.680 gonna have drinks. It's going to be a party from 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:20.760 four to five o'clock next Thursday, May seventh at Downy Hunday. Me, 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:26.960 Alex Vesia and you at Downey Hunday next Thursday, May seventh. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.560 So looking forward to that next week, and we have 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.280 a big hour of Dodger Talk coming up as we 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.960 lead you into a six game road trip that will 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:39.560 take the Dodgers from Saint Louis to Houston tomorrow. Our 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.960 coverage begins at four o'clock with Tim Kaits and Morongo 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:47.320 Casino Dodgers on deck. First pitch in Saint Louis between 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.960 the Dodgers and Cardinals at five point fifteen Emmitt Shean 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:57.040 against left hander Matthew Libertor and the Cardinals are surprisingly good, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:01.080 at least through the first month of the season. They 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.640 are just coming off a four game sweep of the 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.800 Pirates in Pittsburgh. The Cardinals are part of the best 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.800 division record wise in baseball. The NL Central top to 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.760 bottom does not have a team under five hundred. The 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.840 Reds are twenty and eleven leading the Central, while the Pirates, 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.200 after losing four in a row to the Cardinals in 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.400 five overall, are a five hundred team in last place. 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.839 At sixteen and sixteen, the Cardinals are just two games 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.839 back of the Reds. They're eighteen and thirteen after coming 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:37.039 off that sweep of the Pirates, including beating Paul Schemes. Today, 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.560 they beat the Pirates ten to five on a day 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.560 that Paul Skins made a start for Pittsburgh. So Saint 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.720 Louis is hot. They can hit home runs. They've hit 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.800 the fifth most home runs in the National League. The 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.720 Dodgers have hit forty five, they lead the National League 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.080 and Major League Baseball. So just to put it into context, 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.720 the Dodgers as a team have hit forty five home 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.240 run while the Cardinals have hit forty one. So they 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.839 can beat you with the long ball. Guys like Jordan Walker, 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.000 who is finally having a breakout year, is having a 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:14.480 big year for Saint Louis. But the Cardinals pitching is awful. 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.440 They have a four to seventy six staff er, which 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.400 is near the bottom of the National League, and they 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:26.240 have allowed thirty seven home runs this year. That's the 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.800 fourth most of any staff in the National League and 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:34.760 part of the reason why their run differential, despite having 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.120 forty one home runs and being eighteen and thirteen, is 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:42.559 a minus three. The Dodgers run differential, just to show 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.000 you the best compared to the rest, the Dodgers run 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.800 differential is a plus sixty six, which is tied with 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:53.800 the Atlanta Braves for the best in baseball. So there 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.719 you have a tail of the tape coming up starting 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:01.160 tomorrow night between the Dodgers and Cardinal And look, I 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.520 said this yesterday, I get this all the time people 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.880 ask me, where's your favorite city to go with the 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.720 Dodgers too, what's your favorite city? Well, how about this, 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.680 I'll tell you my five worst cities that I don't 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.560 like going to, and Saint Louis would be right at 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:22.039 the top. Saint Louis there's not much to do there. Okay, yeah, 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:26.520 you ate some barbecue, congrats. What else are you gonna do? 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:32.040 Not much. That's why everybody from the Midwest, like Saint Louis, Iowa. 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.120 They all come to Manhattan Beach for like six months 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.320 and spend all their life savings on three thousand dollars 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.919 a month rent and take selfies and take pictures of 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.000 the sunset at the pier and post them on social 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.600 media to prove to all their Midwest friends that they 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.760 made it. And then they sheepishly put their head down 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.680 and go back to Saint Louis. There's a reason why 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.720 everybody leaves Saint Louis to come to Manhattan be when 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.520 they have a chance. So Saint Louis is right at 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:10.440 the top of my bottom five in Major League cities, Baltimore, Houston, Pittsburgh, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.000 and Cleveland are the others. So there you have it. 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:16.080 Everybody always asked me, where should I go? Where should 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.240 I take a road trip to see the Dodgers. I 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.880 just gave you the five. You shouldn't unless you're trying 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:24.640 to check off all thirty cities. Eight six, six, nine 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.559 eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number. David 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.760 Vasse with you until eight o'clock tonight. By the way, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:35.040 driving home yesterday, Look, can I just remind everybody the 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:40.400 Dodgers record is twenty and eleven. They're tied for the 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.760 second best record in Major League Baseball with a few 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.680 other teams. The Braves have the best record in baseball 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.480 at twenty two and ten. But if you were listening 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:54.280 to the show before me, the Panic Brothers yesterday after 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.680 the game, and look, it's not pretty to lose to 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.640 the Marlins. But the Marlins that was there were series. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:05.120 They've only made the playoffs four times in their thirty 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.960 three year franchise history. That meant a lot more to 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.680 them than it did to the Dodgers, beating them two 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.440 out of three. But nonetheless, the offense is in a 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.040 bad place, no doubt. The starting pitching and the bullpen 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.480 have been the biggest reasons why the Dodgers have a 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:26.080 twenty and eleven record, the offense is cooled off considerably, 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.560 and you hope that going on this road trip will 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:33.679 spark something. But if you listen to Petro some Money 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.320 aka the Panic Brothers, you would think you were listening 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:42.319 to Philadelphia Sports Radio or New York Sports Radio where 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:46.080 the Phillies just fired their manager. And maybe it's a 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.880 simulcast of Weei. I mean that's the way they were 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.560 making it sound yesterday and earlier today. Oh, five and 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.480 five in their last ten games, five and seven in 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.880 their last twelve, which is all true, but they still 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.880 have a twenty and eleven record. Is would you rather 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.320 be the Dodgers at twenty and eleven or would you 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.360 rather be the Phillies who just fire their manager or 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.800 the Red Sox who are completely dysfunctional and fire the 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.640 best manager this side of la Or would you rather 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.240 be the Mets who spend a half billion dollars in 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.320 are ten and twenty one, eleven and a half games 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:27.120 back of the Braves. Yeah, I'd rather be the Dodgers. 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.760 And I think the Dodgers have a track record now 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.959 over the last fourteen years to prove they know how 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.400 to navigate a regular season. So they're doing all this 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.439 without Blake Snell, without Brock Stewart, without Evan Phillips on 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.959 their pitching staff, and now Edwin Diaz, and they're doing 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:50.479 this offensively without having Tommy Edmund, without having kek Hernandez, 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.559 and without having their starting shortstop, a guy by the 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.560 name of Mookie Betts. So all things considered, the Dodgers 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.360 are doing really well. So don't fall into the panic 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.560 trap of the panic bros that are on from three 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.200 to seven. All right, we're gonna take a time out 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.800 here on Dodger Talk. When we come back, you'll hear 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:15.240 from Nico Horner, who just sounded spineless talking about what 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.360 he should do what he didn't do with Dalton Rushing. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.120 And you also hear from Mookie Bets, who gave us 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.200 an update on where he's at with that strained right obleak. 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:29.480 And at the bottom of the hour you see riverside Zone. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.400 Joe Kelly will join us as we take it at 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.160 eight o'clock right here on a five to seventy LA 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:40.240 Sports Dodger Baseball off and running as we head into May, 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.080 that's supposed to be the month that O'tani takes off 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.040 that's what he told me in Toronto. May is his month. 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.760 And as the Dodgers embark on this road trip that 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.960 begins in Saint Louis tomorrow on May first, O'tani will 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.280 be leading off and dhing and last year in the 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.440 month of May, Otani hit more home runs than any 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:08.880 other month last season fifteen Otani home runs last May. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.880 So we'll see whether or not he's right. He is 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.080 starting to heat up, he is starting to have better 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.800 at batso he knows himself better than anybody. So we'll 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:21.479 see how this month of May treats show. Hey Otani 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:25.160 and the Dodgers, who are twenty and eleven in first 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.280 place in the nlst with the second best record in 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.280 the National League to only the Atlanta Braves, who will 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:36.360 be at Dodger Stadium a week from tomorrow. So we'll 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.400 see the two best teams in the National League to 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:43.400 begin this season next Friday night at Dodger Stadium. And 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.600 we hope you're out there to join us, because it's 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.480 not just a game, as you know, it's an event 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:52.520 these days for Dodger Baseball. Eight six six nine eight 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.400 seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.880 out to Steven in Los Angeles. You're on Dodger Talk 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.680 with David vasse Hi, Steven, how you doing. 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:04.720 How are you? Thanks for having me on tonight. I 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:05.600 really appreciate it. 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:07.520 My pleasure. Thank you. 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.080 I wanted to talk a little bit about show Hey 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.680 being and the Dodgers being fluid about moving show Hey 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.160 in the order, and this is the reason. In twenty 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.480 twenty four they put show Hey in the leadoff spot 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:25.600 to put him in the best position possible, and what happened. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:29.360 He've made history fifty to fifty club first person ever. 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.520 Now we have him as a pitcher, I want to 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.840 see him in the best position possible because he is 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:39.079 the heir apparent to Clayton Kershaw, and I want to 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.920 see show Hey win a cy young as a Dodger. 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.079 So if they can put the focus on whatever can 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.800 put him in the best position to do that, he 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.240 will accomplish if all greatness with the Dodgers, and I 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.720 feel like that's where the focus should be. They did 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.800 it back then with hitting. I think they need to 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.240 focus it now on pitching and put him in the 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.640 order where he can have the most rest and the 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:01.520 best chances. 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.640 Okay, let me ask you something, Steven. Let's say Otani 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.840 is sitting just for the sake of argument third in 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:12.439 the lineup on the night that he's pitching. What's to 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:17.559 say that he's at Dodger Stadium, he's pitching right closes 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.599 out the top of the fifth inning, and his spot 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.600 is leading off the bottom of the fifth inning. How 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.360 is that any different than leading off the bottom of 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.120 the first inning as the first hitter. So there are 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.440 My point is there are going to be points in 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.440 time in the game where he may be leading off 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.320 the inning after he's done pitching. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.040 Yes, I understand. I think he's getting more advaced as 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.480 a leadoff hitter, so I feel like at the end 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.160 of the day he might be able to get more rest. 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.400 And also I think he might even incur more RBIs 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.840 in the third spot, so I feel like there's a 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.400 given a take there and I feel like he might 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.280 get more rest. That was my point on why I 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:58.680 think he would maybe be in third. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.480 I feel like I wouldn't say he's getting more Yeah, 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.920 I think rest is the wrong word. I would say 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.960 he's getting more of a breather to ease into the 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.040 game by not being the first guy up and I'm 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.400 actually on board with you, Steven. On the nights that 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:17.520 Otani pitches, I would have when he comes back, Mookie 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.920 Betts lead off and have Otani hit third. 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.400 I agree completely one hundred. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.280 Okay, Steven, thanks for the phone call. Appreciated. Eight six 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.360 six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.960 Speaking of Mookie Bets, I want to share with you 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.120 what Mooki Bets had to say yesterday before the game, 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.960 because it felt like before the last road trip, Mooki 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.720 was very upbeat and optimistic that things were going in 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.520 the right direction for his strained right oblique. But yesterday, 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:54.040 his mood, his demeanor, his answers were a lot different 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.760 than when I spoke to him before Denver. So here 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.520 was Mookie Betts yesterday when I caught up with him 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:04.600 after he was done doing some shortstop drills. I mean, 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:05.240 I don't really know. 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.360 I mean, it's just kind of wake up and see 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.720 how it feels. Obliques turning something you really kind of 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.120 mess with, you know, So when it feels good, then 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:18.760 we keep progressing. But then if not, then we'll kind 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.560 of take a rest day or whatever. But I mean 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.400 we're getting closer. I mean starting to swing and add 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.680 on a little intensity. Last time I added on some 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.120 intensity with VP, it got sore after, so. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:33.280 You know, we just gotta slowly. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.360 So that's really the last piece, is just adding on 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.240 a velocity, like hitting off the machine and everything. But 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.880 I think I've kind of started to turn the corner 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.120 to where every day I'm starting to wake up and 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:45.360 it feels good. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.000 Do you think you could trust to just go to 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:48.880 that next step? 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:49.920 I don't know. 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.240 We hate yesterday, hit today. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.920 I think we'll just keep slowly progressing, hitting you know, 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:03.600 coach BP, and once that feels good and add on 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.560 to you know, the next step to velosity. Last time 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.120 I hit coach BP, I was kind of sore the 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:11.120 next day, So I don't know, probably next day or so, 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.800 I'll probably hit VP again and then we'll just take 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.840 a step by step. It's just one of those things 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:18.920 where actually it's kind of the opposite. It hasn't taken 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.600 as long. I'm I'm actually kind of ahead of where 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.880 most obliques are. But the boys have been playing well 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:29.320 and so I don't have to overly rush back. I 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.320 have to make sure I can. They're doing everything they 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:33.040 need to do, so. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.480 I know you're really close with Ac. Have you had 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.880 a chance to talk to him since what happened in Boston? 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.800 No, no, no, no, that's that. Ain't got nothing to do 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:44.640 with me, and I'll stay out of that. 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.120 All right. Mookie Betts does not want to get into 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.960 the Boston drama. But look, he has said repeatedly how 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.000 close he was to Alex Kra and how much Alex 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.840 Kra means to him. And that's what prompted my question 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.720 because that was the first time he was available since 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.440 Alex Korra got fired. But we got a lot out 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.720 of Mooki, who was at the Laker game last night, 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.959 saw the Rockets climb back into the series. But Mooki, 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.120 if you go back and listen to how he sounded 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.000 when I caught up with him before the previous road trip, 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.000 he was more optimistic and upbeat. But he's in week 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:26.080 three of this strain ride obleak rehab, so maybe towards 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.719 the end of the next homestand when the Dodgers are 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:33.320 in Anaheim, possibly he may return. So we'll see how 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.240 Mooki's feeling when the Dodgers get back from Saint Louis 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:40.439 and Houston. Eight nine eighty seven two five seventy is 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.000 the phone number you're listening to Off day Dodger Talk 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.960 with David Vasse. We're with you until eight o'clock. We 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.560 have two lines open at eight six six nine, eight 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.840 seven two five seventy. Coming up in five minutes, you'll 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.800 hear from Joe Kelly Mariachi. Joe Kelly never short on 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.520 opinions when it comes to anything baseball, So we'll ask 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:03.560 Joe Kelly about the whole Otani pitching and hitting combo. 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.480 Coming up in five minutes. But I want to get 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.800 to Nico Horner. I love that Petros called Dalton Rushing 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.720 basically mister April, because he gave us a lot to 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.040 talk about. In the month of April, with a team 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:21.920 that is so good and rushing finally getting some opportunities 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.959 to play. He got forty four at bats in the 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.000 month of April. He hit three p forty one. He 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.400 has a twelve eighty four ops in the month of April. 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.280 He has the second most home runs on the team 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:38.880 to Max Munsey, who plays every day, Rushing seven home 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.359 runs to Munsey's nine and rushing can you believe in 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:47.560 just one month drove in seventeen runs. He's unbelievable with 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.159 runners in scoring position. He has been outstanding with runners 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.000 in scoring position. In the month of April. He has 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.960 eleven hits this year with runners in scoring position. And 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:00.919 not only did he create he had a stir with 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.560 his play on the field, but also his fiery attitude. 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.000 He's an emotional player. That's what I heard about him 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:10.480 when he was in the minor leagues. He has an 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.400 edge to him. Sometimes it goes a little too far, 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.159 like we have seen. But if you go back to 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:20.520 this month, starting in Denver, when he chose his words poorly, 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.600 saying the Rockies were doing something fishy in an inning 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.280 against Will Klein, Well, what he meant to say is 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:32.280 they probably had Klein's pitches. They weren't cheating, but everybody 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.640 took it as if they were doing a little bit 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.160 something more and that's not what he meant. And then 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:41.719 in San Francisco, fiery emotional play at the play tags 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.240 out Jung Hu Lee for the final out in a 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.199 big spot, and he's emotional and he said f it, 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.640 he said FM. And look in a day and age 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:55.240 where everybody's upset about how friendly opposing players are now 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.600 you're gonna get on Dalton Rushing for being fiery and 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.399 not want to help the guy out. And then you know, 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.760 probably shouldn't have said that. I've gathered that from his teammates. 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:08.320 They said, I probably shouldn't have said that, and that's 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.440 why he got hit by a pitch from Brandon Webb 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.600 or excuse me, Logan web And then he decided he 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:15.800 was angry and he slid a little too hard into 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.520 Willia Domas. His teammates said, he probably shouldn't have done that. 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:23.240 And then this past homestand when he tried to throw 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:27.400 out the Cubs Miguel E. Maaya, he basically called him 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:32.960 a fat guy, and in different words. And Nico Horner 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.080 was the cub at the plate when Rushing tried to 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.560 throw out a Maya a second Amaya was safe and 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:43.280 Rushing upset and said what he probably shouldn't have said. 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:46.719 And it seems like everything he says somehow the camera 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.440 is zooming in on his lips for everybody to read. 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:53.720 And here was Nico Horner a couple of days ago 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:58.440 on Chicago's sports talk radio The Score six seventy. Here's 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:00.879 what Nico Horner said, Because if you go back and 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.880 look at that replay, he's looking at rushing and he shocked. 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:08.359 And here's what Nico Horner said about what he should 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:10.479 have done but didn't have the guts to do. 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:13.920 You heard it out loud, what he seemed to say 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:16.720 about Miguel Amaya. Did we read his lips right on 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:17.080 that one? 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:17.800 Uh? 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:21.680 Yeah, Yeah, I wish that I had confronted him a 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.920 little more directly. To be honest, I was pretty taken 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:27.520 him back and in the middle of my bat and 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:31.399 it was just kind of a strange thing to experience. 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:34.439 So yeah, I felt a little weird about that. 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:38.359 But yeah, I mean, you're you're in the middle of 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:41.680 your work, You're trying to do your thing. What what 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:43.280 what could you have done? 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:45.840 Yeah, I'm not saying that I should have like tackled the. 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:49.880 Yeah, just like a little little taken him back. 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:51.480 Just at the end of the day, you just want 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:52.720 to have your teammates back. 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:55.840 Yeah, Well, you know, Migge, you'll just steal on his 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:56.760 ass again. 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:57.120 That's right. 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:58.720 Yeah, that's his gout too. 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:03.760 Oh Okay, okay, guys, yes, speakgeling home six seventy the score. Yeah, 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:09.000 maybe you'll steal on him again. Okay, yo, Look, Nico Horner, 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:13.640 it sounds worse than it was. Red When you saw 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:16.119 the quote, you're like, wait, what you wish you would 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:19.439 have done something? If you wanted to do something, or 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:22.199 you had the guts to do something, you would have 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:25.600 done something. But you just stood there. You didn't want 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:29.520 any of the Rushing smoke. You were This guy is 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:32.560 is emotional and maybe to a certain point, you're like, ah, 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:35.520 maybe a little a little a guy I don't want 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:39.960 to mess with between the lines. So Nico Horner, you 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:43.760 probably shouldn't have said that because you didn't do anything, 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:48.960