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Speaker 2: Welcome to off Night Dodger Talk. David Vase with you
Speaker 2: until eight o'clock tonight here on AM five to seventy
Speaker 2: LA Sports. And we do have phone lines open tonight
Speaker 2: at eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: Coming up at the bottom of the hour, we are
Speaker 2: going to be Jones joined by Joe Kelly. That's right, Mariachi.
Speaker 2: Joe Kelly, the king of the Inland Empire and the
Speaker 2: king of free sets that you see riverside at the
Speaker 2: Ontario Tower Buzzers and Anaheim Ducks Games, is going to
Speaker 2: join us. So you'll hear Joe Kelly coming up at
Speaker 2: seven point thirty. Also, you will get an update on
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets. We shared it with you after yesterday's game.
Speaker 2: We'll share it with you again. And you might have
Speaker 2: heard of the quotes from Nico Horner saying that he
Speaker 2: wished he would have done something about Dalton rushing bad
Speaker 2: mouthing one of his teammates, Miguel Emaya. Well he didn't,
Speaker 2: and the Nico Horner was on one of the Cubs
Speaker 2: or excuse me, Chicago sports talk shows, and I'll let
Speaker 2: you hear how it came out, and it's even worse
Speaker 2: than reading the quote. So we'll get to all that
Speaker 2: coming up in a little bit. But first, just want
Speaker 2: to make the big announcement as next Thursday, May seventh,
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Speaker 2: four to five o'clock next Thursday, May seventh at Downy Hunday. Me,
Speaker 2: Alex Vesia and you at Downey Hunday next Thursday, May seventh.
Speaker 2: So looking forward to that next week, and we have
Speaker 2: a big hour of Dodger Talk coming up as we
Speaker 2: lead you into a six game road trip that will
Speaker 2: take the Dodgers from Saint Louis to Houston tomorrow. Our
Speaker 2: coverage begins at four o'clock with Tim Kaits and Morongo
Speaker 2: Casino Dodgers on deck. First pitch in Saint Louis between
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and Cardinals at five point fifteen Emmitt Shean
Speaker 2: against left hander Matthew Libertor and the Cardinals are surprisingly good,
Speaker 2: at least through the first month of the season. They
Speaker 2: are just coming off a four game sweep of the
Speaker 2: Pirates in Pittsburgh. The Cardinals are part of the best
Speaker 2: division record wise in baseball. The NL Central top to
Speaker 2: bottom does not have a team under five hundred. The
Speaker 2: Reds are twenty and eleven leading the Central, while the Pirates,
Speaker 2: after losing four in a row to the Cardinals in
Speaker 2: five overall, are a five hundred team in last place.
Speaker 2: At sixteen and sixteen, the Cardinals are just two games
Speaker 2: back of the Reds. They're eighteen and thirteen after coming
Speaker 2: off that sweep of the Pirates, including beating Paul Schemes. Today,
Speaker 2: they beat the Pirates ten to five on a day
Speaker 2: that Paul Skins made a start for Pittsburgh. So Saint
Speaker 2: Louis is hot. They can hit home runs. They've hit
Speaker 2: the fifth most home runs in the National League. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers have hit forty five, they lead the National League
Speaker 2: and Major League Baseball. So just to put it into context,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers as a team have hit forty five home
Speaker 2: run while the Cardinals have hit forty one. So they
Speaker 2: can beat you with the long ball. Guys like Jordan Walker,
Speaker 2: who is finally having a breakout year, is having a
Speaker 2: big year for Saint Louis. But the Cardinals pitching is awful.
Speaker 2: They have a four to seventy six staff er, which
Speaker 2: is near the bottom of the National League, and they
Speaker 2: have allowed thirty seven home runs this year. That's the
Speaker 2: fourth most of any staff in the National League and
Speaker 2: part of the reason why their run differential, despite having
Speaker 2: forty one home runs and being eighteen and thirteen, is
Speaker 2: a minus three. The Dodgers run differential, just to show
Speaker 2: you the best compared to the rest, the Dodgers run
Speaker 2: differential is a plus sixty six, which is tied with
Speaker 2: the Atlanta Braves for the best in baseball. So there
Speaker 2: you have a tail of the tape coming up starting
Speaker 2: tomorrow night between the Dodgers and Cardinal And look, I
Speaker 2: said this yesterday, I get this all the time people
Speaker 2: ask me, where's your favorite city to go with the
Speaker 2: Dodgers too, what's your favorite city? Well, how about this,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you my five worst cities that I don't
Speaker 2: like going to, and Saint Louis would be right at
Speaker 2: the top. Saint Louis there's not much to do there. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: you ate some barbecue, congrats. What else are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: Not much. That's why everybody from the Midwest, like Saint Louis, Iowa.
Speaker 2: They all come to Manhattan Beach for like six months
Speaker 2: and spend all their life savings on three thousand dollars
Speaker 2: a month rent and take selfies and take pictures of
Speaker 2: the sunset at the pier and post them on social
Speaker 2: media to prove to all their Midwest friends that they
Speaker 2: made it. And then they sheepishly put their head down
Speaker 2: and go back to Saint Louis. There's a reason why
Speaker 2: everybody leaves Saint Louis to come to Manhattan be when
Speaker 2: they have a chance. So Saint Louis is right at
Speaker 2: the top of my bottom five in Major League cities, Baltimore, Houston, Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: and Cleveland are the others. So there you have it.
Speaker 2: Everybody always asked me, where should I go? Where should
Speaker 2: I take a road trip to see the Dodgers. I
Speaker 2: just gave you the five. You shouldn't unless you're trying
Speaker 2: to check off all thirty cities. Eight six, six, nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number. David
Speaker 2: Vasse with you until eight o'clock tonight. By the way,
Speaker 2: driving home yesterday, Look, can I just remind everybody the
Speaker 2: Dodgers record is twenty and eleven. They're tied for the
Speaker 2: second best record in Major League Baseball with a few
Speaker 2: other teams. The Braves have the best record in baseball
Speaker 2: at twenty two and ten. But if you were listening
Speaker 2: to the show before me, the Panic Brothers yesterday after
Speaker 2: the game, and look, it's not pretty to lose to
Speaker 2: the Marlins. But the Marlins that was there were series.
Speaker 2: They've only made the playoffs four times in their thirty
Speaker 2: three year franchise history. That meant a lot more to
Speaker 2: them than it did to the Dodgers, beating them two
Speaker 2: out of three. But nonetheless, the offense is in a
Speaker 2: bad place, no doubt. The starting pitching and the bullpen
Speaker 2: have been the biggest reasons why the Dodgers have a
Speaker 2: twenty and eleven record, the offense is cooled off considerably,
Speaker 2: and you hope that going on this road trip will
Speaker 2: spark something. But if you listen to Petro some Money
Speaker 2: aka the Panic Brothers, you would think you were listening
Speaker 2: to Philadelphia Sports Radio or New York Sports Radio where
Speaker 2: the Phillies just fired their manager. And maybe it's a
Speaker 2: simulcast of Weei. I mean that's the way they were
Speaker 2: making it sound yesterday and earlier today. Oh, five and
Speaker 2: five in their last ten games, five and seven in
Speaker 2: their last twelve, which is all true, but they still
Speaker 2: have a twenty and eleven record. Is would you rather
Speaker 2: be the Dodgers at twenty and eleven or would you
Speaker 2: rather be the Phillies who just fire their manager or
Speaker 2: the Red Sox who are completely dysfunctional and fire the
Speaker 2: best manager this side of la Or would you rather
Speaker 2: be the Mets who spend a half billion dollars in
Speaker 2: are ten and twenty one, eleven and a half games
Speaker 2: back of the Braves. Yeah, I'd rather be the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: And I think the Dodgers have a track record now
Speaker 2: over the last fourteen years to prove they know how
Speaker 2: to navigate a regular season. So they're doing all this
Speaker 2: without Blake Snell, without Brock Stewart, without Evan Phillips on
Speaker 2: their pitching staff, and now Edwin Diaz, and they're doing
Speaker 2: this offensively without having Tommy Edmund, without having kek Hernandez,
Speaker 2: and without having their starting shortstop, a guy by the
Speaker 2: name of Mookie Betts. So all things considered, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are doing really well. So don't fall into the panic
Speaker 2: trap of the panic bros that are on from three
Speaker 2: to seven. All right, we're gonna take a time out
Speaker 2: here on Dodger Talk. When we come back, you'll hear
Speaker 2: from Nico Horner, who just sounded spineless talking about what
Speaker 2: he should do what he didn't do with Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 2: And you also hear from Mookie Bets, who gave us
Speaker 2: an update on where he's at with that strained right obleak.
Speaker 2: And at the bottom of the hour you see riverside Zone.
Speaker 2: Joe Kelly will join us as we take it at
Speaker 2: eight o'clock right here on a five to seventy LA
Speaker 2: Sports Dodger Baseball off and running as we head into May,
Speaker 2: that's supposed to be the month that O'tani takes off
Speaker 2: that's what he told me in Toronto. May is his month.
Speaker 2: And as the Dodgers embark on this road trip that
Speaker 2: begins in Saint Louis tomorrow on May first, O'tani will
Speaker 2: be leading off and dhing and last year in the
Speaker 2: month of May, Otani hit more home runs than any
Speaker 2: other month last season fifteen Otani home runs last May.
Speaker 2: So we'll see whether or not he's right. He is
Speaker 2: starting to heat up, he is starting to have better
Speaker 2: at batso he knows himself better than anybody. So we'll
Speaker 2: see how this month of May treats show. Hey Otani
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers, who are twenty and eleven in first
Speaker 2: place in the nlst with the second best record in
Speaker 2: the National League to only the Atlanta Braves, who will
Speaker 2: be at Dodger Stadium a week from tomorrow. So we'll
Speaker 2: see the two best teams in the National League to
Speaker 2: begin this season next Friday night at Dodger Stadium. And
Speaker 2: we hope you're out there to join us, because it's
Speaker 2: not just a game, as you know, it's an event
Speaker 2: these days for Dodger Baseball. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Steven in Los Angeles. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with David vasse Hi, Steven, how you doing.
Speaker 3: How are you? Thanks for having me on tonight. I
Speaker 3: really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: My pleasure. Thank you.
Speaker 3: I wanted to talk a little bit about show Hey
Speaker 3: being and the Dodgers being fluid about moving show Hey
Speaker 3: in the order, and this is the reason. In twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four they put show Hey in the leadoff spot
Speaker 3: to put him in the best position possible, and what happened.
Speaker 3: He've made history fifty to fifty club first person ever.
Speaker 3: Now we have him as a pitcher, I want to
Speaker 3: see him in the best position possible because he is
Speaker 3: the heir apparent to Clayton Kershaw, and I want to
Speaker 3: see show Hey win a cy young as a Dodger.
Speaker 3: So if they can put the focus on whatever can
Speaker 3: put him in the best position to do that, he
Speaker 3: will accomplish if all greatness with the Dodgers, and I
Speaker 3: feel like that's where the focus should be. They did
Speaker 3: it back then with hitting. I think they need to
Speaker 3: focus it now on pitching and put him in the
Speaker 3: order where he can have the most rest and the
Speaker 3: best chances.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me ask you something, Steven. Let's say Otani
Speaker 2: is sitting just for the sake of argument third in
Speaker 2: the lineup on the night that he's pitching. What's to
Speaker 2: say that he's at Dodger Stadium, he's pitching right closes
Speaker 2: out the top of the fifth inning, and his spot
Speaker 2: is leading off the bottom of the fifth inning. How
Speaker 2: is that any different than leading off the bottom of
Speaker 2: the first inning as the first hitter. So there are
Speaker 2: My point is there are going to be points in
Speaker 2: time in the game where he may be leading off
Speaker 2: the inning after he's done pitching.
Speaker 3: Yes, I understand. I think he's getting more advaced as
Speaker 3: a leadoff hitter, so I feel like at the end
Speaker 3: of the day he might be able to get more rest.
Speaker 3: And also I think he might even incur more RBIs
Speaker 3: in the third spot, so I feel like there's a
Speaker 3: given a take there and I feel like he might
Speaker 3: get more rest. That was my point on why I
Speaker 3: think he would maybe be in third.
Speaker 2: I feel like I wouldn't say he's getting more Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think rest is the wrong word. I would say
Speaker 2: he's getting more of a breather to ease into the
Speaker 2: game by not being the first guy up and I'm
Speaker 2: actually on board with you, Steven. On the nights that
Speaker 2: Otani pitches, I would have when he comes back, Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts lead off and have Otani hit third.
Speaker 3: I agree completely one hundred.
Speaker 2: Okay, Steven, thanks for the phone call. Appreciated. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Mookie Bets, I want to share with you
Speaker 2: what Mooki Bets had to say yesterday before the game,
Speaker 2: because it felt like before the last road trip, Mooki
Speaker 2: was very upbeat and optimistic that things were going in
Speaker 2: the right direction for his strained right oblique. But yesterday,
Speaker 2: his mood, his demeanor, his answers were a lot different
Speaker 2: than when I spoke to him before Denver. So here
Speaker 2: was Mookie Betts yesterday when I caught up with him
Speaker 2: after he was done doing some shortstop drills. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't really know.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just kind of wake up and see
Speaker 4: how it feels. Obliques turning something you really kind of
Speaker 4: mess with, you know, So when it feels good, then
Speaker 4: we keep progressing. But then if not, then we'll kind
Speaker 4: of take a rest day or whatever. But I mean
Speaker 4: we're getting closer. I mean starting to swing and add
Speaker 4: on a little intensity. Last time I added on some
Speaker 4: intensity with VP, it got sore after, so.
Speaker 2: You know, we just gotta slowly.
Speaker 4: So that's really the last piece, is just adding on
Speaker 4: a velocity, like hitting off the machine and everything. But
Speaker 4: I think I've kind of started to turn the corner
Speaker 4: to where every day I'm starting to wake up and
Speaker 4: it feels good.
Speaker 2: Do you think you could trust to just go to
Speaker 2: that next step?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We hate yesterday, hit today.
Speaker 4: I think we'll just keep slowly progressing, hitting you know,
Speaker 4: coach BP, and once that feels good and add on
Speaker 4: to you know, the next step to velosity. Last time
Speaker 4: I hit coach BP, I was kind of sore the
Speaker 4: next day, So I don't know, probably next day or so,
Speaker 4: I'll probably hit VP again and then we'll just take
Speaker 4: a step by step. It's just one of those things
Speaker 4: where actually it's kind of the opposite. It hasn't taken
Speaker 4: as long. I'm I'm actually kind of ahead of where
Speaker 4: most obliques are. But the boys have been playing well
Speaker 4: and so I don't have to overly rush back. I
Speaker 4: have to make sure I can. They're doing everything they
Speaker 4: need to do, so.
Speaker 2: I know you're really close with Ac. Have you had
Speaker 2: a chance to talk to him since what happened in Boston?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, that's that. Ain't got nothing to do
Speaker 4: with me, and I'll stay out of that.
Speaker 2: All right. Mookie Betts does not want to get into
Speaker 2: the Boston drama. But look, he has said repeatedly how
Speaker 2: close he was to Alex Kra and how much Alex
Speaker 2: Kra means to him. And that's what prompted my question
Speaker 2: because that was the first time he was available since
Speaker 2: Alex Korra got fired. But we got a lot out
Speaker 2: of Mooki, who was at the Laker game last night,
Speaker 2: saw the Rockets climb back into the series. But Mooki,
Speaker 2: if you go back and listen to how he sounded
Speaker 2: when I caught up with him before the previous road trip,
Speaker 2: he was more optimistic and upbeat. But he's in week
Speaker 2: three of this strain ride obleak rehab, so maybe towards
Speaker 2: the end of the next homestand when the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: in Anaheim, possibly he may return. So we'll see how
Speaker 2: Mooki's feeling when the Dodgers get back from Saint Louis
Speaker 2: and Houston. Eight nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number you're listening to Off day Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with David Vasse. We're with you until eight o'clock. We
Speaker 2: have two lines open at eight six six nine, eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. Coming up in five minutes, you'll
Speaker 2: hear from Joe Kelly Mariachi. Joe Kelly never short on
Speaker 2: opinions when it comes to anything baseball, So we'll ask
Speaker 2: Joe Kelly about the whole Otani pitching and hitting combo.
Speaker 2: Coming up in five minutes. But I want to get
Speaker 2: to Nico Horner. I love that Petros called Dalton Rushing
Speaker 2: basically mister April, because he gave us a lot to
Speaker 2: talk about. In the month of April, with a team
Speaker 2: that is so good and rushing finally getting some opportunities
Speaker 2: to play. He got forty four at bats in the
Speaker 2: month of April. He hit three p forty one. He
Speaker 2: has a twelve eighty four ops in the month of April.
Speaker 2: He has the second most home runs on the team
Speaker 2: to Max Munsey, who plays every day, Rushing seven home
Speaker 2: runs to Munsey's nine and rushing can you believe in
Speaker 2: just one month drove in seventeen runs. He's unbelievable with
Speaker 2: runners in scoring position. He has been outstanding with runners
Speaker 2: in scoring position. In the month of April. He has
Speaker 2: eleven hits this year with runners in scoring position. And
Speaker 2: not only did he create he had a stir with
Speaker 2: his play on the field, but also his fiery attitude.
Speaker 2: He's an emotional player. That's what I heard about him
Speaker 2: when he was in the minor leagues. He has an
Speaker 2: edge to him. Sometimes it goes a little too far,
Speaker 2: like we have seen. But if you go back to
Speaker 2: this month, starting in Denver, when he chose his words poorly,
Speaker 2: saying the Rockies were doing something fishy in an inning
Speaker 2: against Will Klein, Well, what he meant to say is
Speaker 2: they probably had Klein's pitches. They weren't cheating, but everybody
Speaker 2: took it as if they were doing a little bit
Speaker 2: something more and that's not what he meant. And then
Speaker 2: in San Francisco, fiery emotional play at the play tags
Speaker 2: out Jung Hu Lee for the final out in a
Speaker 2: big spot, and he's emotional and he said f it,
Speaker 2: he said FM. And look in a day and age
Speaker 2: where everybody's upset about how friendly opposing players are now
Speaker 2: you're gonna get on Dalton Rushing for being fiery and
Speaker 2: not want to help the guy out. And then you know,
Speaker 2: probably shouldn't have said that. I've gathered that from his teammates.
Speaker 2: They said, I probably shouldn't have said that, and that's
Speaker 2: why he got hit by a pitch from Brandon Webb
Speaker 2: or excuse me, Logan web And then he decided he
Speaker 2: was angry and he slid a little too hard into
Speaker 2: Willia Domas. His teammates said, he probably shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 2: And then this past homestand when he tried to throw
Speaker 2: out the Cubs Miguel E. Maaya, he basically called him
Speaker 2: a fat guy, and in different words. And Nico Horner
Speaker 2: was the cub at the plate when Rushing tried to
Speaker 2: throw out a Maya a second Amaya was safe and
Speaker 2: Rushing upset and said what he probably shouldn't have said.
Speaker 2: And it seems like everything he says somehow the camera
Speaker 2: is zooming in on his lips for everybody to read.
Speaker 2: And here was Nico Horner a couple of days ago
Speaker 2: on Chicago's sports talk radio The Score six seventy. Here's
Speaker 2: what Nico Horner said, Because if you go back and
Speaker 2: look at that replay, he's looking at rushing and he shocked.
Speaker 2: And here's what Nico Horner said about what he should
Speaker 2: have done but didn't have the guts to do.
Speaker 6: You heard it out loud, what he seemed to say
Speaker 6: about Miguel Amaya. Did we read his lips right on
Speaker 6: that one?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, I wish that I had confronted him a
Speaker 7: little more directly. To be honest, I was pretty taken
Speaker 7: him back and in the middle of my bat and
Speaker 7: it was just kind of a strange thing to experience.
Speaker 8: So yeah, I felt a little weird about that.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean, you're you're in the middle of
Speaker 6: your work, You're trying to do your thing. What what
Speaker 6: what could you have done?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm not saying that I should have like tackled the.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just like a little little taken him back.
Speaker 5: Just at the end of the day, you just want
Speaker 5: to have your teammates back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, you know, Migge, you'll just steal on his
Speaker 6: ass again.
Speaker 8: That's right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's his gout too.
Speaker 2: Oh Okay, okay, guys, yes, speakgeling home six seventy the score. Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe you'll steal on him again. Okay, yo, Look, Nico Horner,
Speaker 2: it sounds worse than it was. Red When you saw
Speaker 2: the quote, you're like, wait, what you wish you would
Speaker 2: have done something? If you wanted to do something, or
Speaker 2: you had the guts to do something, you would have
Speaker 2: done something. But you just stood there. You didn't want
Speaker 2: any of the Rushing smoke. You were This guy is
Speaker 2: is emotional and maybe to a certain point, you're like, ah,
Speaker 2: maybe a little a little a guy I don't want
Speaker 2: to mess with between the lines. So Nico Horner, you
Speaker 2: probably shouldn't have said that because you didn't do anything,
Speaker 2: and you probably won't do anything if the situation presented
Speaker 2: itself again. But nonetheless, I think we can all agree
Speaker 2: that what Dalton Rushing has got himself into is a
Speaker 2: young rookie who's emotional, who really wants to do good.
Speaker 2: He's a great guy, he's a great kid. I love him.
Speaker 2: He cares. But and I honestly, I do love the edge.
Speaker 2: I do love the edge. But part of what the
Speaker 2: culture is with the Dodgers that everybody talks about don't
Speaker 2: give the other team extra bulletin board material and more importantly,
Speaker 2: don't give the other team more fire to maybe hurt
Speaker 2: one of your other teammates because of what you're saying
Speaker 2: or what you're doing. That's something that the Dodgers do
Speaker 2: not want. And he'll learn, and that's why there's the
Speaker 2: veterans to help him get back on track and maybe
Speaker 2: be a little less, maybe help him not go viral
Speaker 2: as much as he has. How about that? All Right?
Speaker 2: So I love Dalton Rushing. I don't want him to
Speaker 2: lose anything that he brings to the field, but I
Speaker 2: think his teammates would love for him not to go
Speaker 2: viral as often as he has. All Right, A guy
Speaker 2: that went viral a few times and he was playing
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. Joe Kelly is gonna join us next
Speaker 2: don't go anywhere Dodger Talk until eight o'clock right here
Speaker 2: on five seventy LA Sports. Well, since the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: in Saint Louis, I thought it would be a great
Speaker 2: time to revisit with our man that is the king
Speaker 2: of the Inland Empire, the man that has won two
Speaker 2: World Series Championships with the Dodgers and is still a
Speaker 2: cult hero, the one and only Mariachi. Joe Kelly is
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk. Joe Man I'm glad to spice up
Speaker 2: your life because I've seen what you're doing and you
Speaker 2: need me back in your.
Speaker 5: Life, spice on my life.
Speaker 8: I appreciate it. It's a pleasure talking to you. Are
Speaker 8: you only calling me because the team is in Saint
Speaker 8: Louis and that's where I started my career.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. A depressing start to your career. Thank god
Speaker 2: you got out of there and you got to two
Speaker 2: real teams.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I appreciate it to get to some real teams.
Speaker 2: How you been, buddy, Everything's great, everything's great.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: You know what bugs me, Joe about Saint Louis and
Speaker 2: the Cardinals. They always say it's the Cardinals way to
Speaker 2: play baseball. It feels like the Dodgers are doing a
Speaker 2: pretty good job of doing Dodger baseball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it was.
Speaker 8: I think it's like, you know, when you get one
Speaker 8: of those cool nicknames and they're like, oh, how did
Speaker 8: you get that nickname? And it was like, you know,
Speaker 8: self proclaimed, and it's like you don't want to tell anybody,
Speaker 8: like how you got that cool nickname?
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 8: I think the Dodgers if they would start saying the
Speaker 8: Dodger way and they'd be like who said that? And
Speaker 8: you can just make something up, be like, oh, the
Speaker 8: Cardinal fans told us it's a Dodger way, and then
Speaker 8: then you write a whole book or a movie what
Speaker 8: everyone do about it?
Speaker 2: I don't feel like Joe Kelly would fit into that
Speaker 2: box the Cardinals try to say everybody fit into.
Speaker 5: I think it's why I got traded, Bro. I was
Speaker 5: only there for two and a half years because I
Speaker 5: don't necessarily think.
Speaker 8: I was the Cardinal's way. Now, looking back.
Speaker 2: At it, you are not very Saint Louis, that's true,
Speaker 2: but I do love Saint Louis food, so I tried.
Speaker 5: You know, that's one thing I do miss. If I
Speaker 5: was doing a job like yours, what do you?
Speaker 8: What do you? What do you call yours?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 8: On field talent? What is that even called?
Speaker 5: Bro?
Speaker 2: How about just you?
Speaker 5: Right now, I'd be.
Speaker 8: Right now with the boys. I'd be taking them out.
Speaker 8: I mean, you don't hang out with the boys. The
Speaker 8: boys don't like you. But I'd be taking them out
Speaker 8: to Pappy's in Saint Louis. You know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Get the boys some ribs, some good barbecue.
Speaker 2: You don't know, nap, take a nap after that, ide.
Speaker 5: Ready to watch the freaking Huh, there's not.
Speaker 8: That's for old men like you. That's for old men
Speaker 8: like you.
Speaker 2: Isn't that what you're doing now that you're retired. During
Speaker 2: the day, you're out there somewhere in the Inland Empire.
Speaker 2: You do your thing until eleven am. Then you take
Speaker 2: a nap, and then you take knocks to baseball practice,
Speaker 2: and then you show up at a hockey game or
Speaker 2: a single a baseball game.
Speaker 5: You know what, I just go for the best teams around.
Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying. It's just they call me
Speaker 8: the They call me the Inland Empire Drake. Dude, just
Speaker 8: a front runner, the nine nine.
Speaker 5: Drake.
Speaker 2: You are the biggest celebrity in in the Inland Empire.
Speaker 2: I actually told the Ontario Tower Buzzers Blake Snell's rehabs
Speaker 2: start the other night was the biggest thing since Joe
Speaker 2: Kelly's rehab starts out there.
Speaker 8: Hey, let's be serious, dude, I know that Blake Snell
Speaker 8: doesn't listen. Who got more people to show up by
Speaker 8: the game, Blake Snell or Joe Kelly.
Speaker 2: It was a toss up.
Speaker 5: No, don't throw the toss up. Dude, you know this clip's.
Speaker 8: Gonna air, just just you're not gonna hurt his feelings. Dude,
Speaker 8: you are.
Speaker 2: You are a legend in the in Lampire. You have
Speaker 2: more street cred in the nine oh nine than Blake Snell.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's true, Blake. Blake Snell's a lot better pictures
Speaker 8: though he's pretty I was just there for good times,
Speaker 8: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: No, you were more. You were there for more than that.
Speaker 2: And uh, I was wondering how much how much fomo
Speaker 2: do you still have? Do you have any fomo?
Speaker 8: No? Oh fear missing out?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: With the Dodgers, No, And I'm I like watching dude.
Speaker 8: It's fun. It's it's it's it's cool to see it
Speaker 8: from the outside. You know. Obviously I'd like to get
Speaker 8: some more games, but I mean it's there's only so
Speaker 8: many times that I could have walked past my face,
Speaker 8: you know, on the upper concourse level and have to
Speaker 8: say hi to the guy named David Besse. So I
Speaker 8: like watching it at home. It's been interesting, you know.
Speaker 8: It's ah the thing that I that come I with,
Speaker 8: you know, the the day that I don't follow any
Speaker 8: meta or nothing, right, but the day, the day that
Speaker 8: the two days go well, then yeah, two yars ago
Speaker 8: and show I started pitch great. But the day that
Speaker 8: he doesn't full blown hit, we scores a run. So
Speaker 8: that was very interesting.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm glad you brought that up, because we we
Speaker 2: can't figure out whether or not he's all in with
Speaker 2: this plan, but it makes sense. Do you believe that
Speaker 2: you know he Do you think he understands why the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are doing this? And do you feel like he bought.
Speaker 8: In ooh fest I can't answer for show Hey, but
Speaker 8: taking my own personal experiences, you know, they called me
Speaker 8: the show Hey of of h uc Riverside, even though
Speaker 8: I never actually played, even though I never actually took
Speaker 8: an official at bat in college baseball. But I went
Speaker 8: in as an outfielder obviously, right, and then I got
Speaker 8: turned into a picture. So originally thought I was going
Speaker 8: a two way right. I was like, oh cool, I'll
Speaker 8: just throw in ninety seven or whatever that I got
Speaker 8: clocked out as a young freshman, and then I'll and
Speaker 8: then I'll play the outfield. Quickly that I learn that
Speaker 8: I would be a po a picture only.
Speaker 5: Which which which which? Really? Which? Really?
Speaker 8: Uh kind of pissed me off. Obviously because I was
Speaker 8: a I never pissed and I wanted to be an Alfhilder.
Speaker 8: So knowing my own personal experiences, I wasn't happy and
Speaker 8: I was not bought in. I wasn't bought in even
Speaker 8: until the end of my whole first season closing at UCR.
Speaker 8: You know, not to too my own horn, but I
Speaker 8: was Big West Pitcher of the year. I was an
Speaker 8: All American. I had the most saves in one season.
Speaker 8: I made TMSA and even though I made TSAY, I
Speaker 8: was like, oh, maybe I could come back and they're
Speaker 8: going to let me hit my sophomore year, you know
Speaker 8: what I mean. So even though I was a picture
Speaker 8: only I still I was bought in that I was
Speaker 8: a good pitcher, Yes, but I wasn't bought in. I
Speaker 8: was leaving out hope like maybe I will hit. So
Speaker 8: that's my own personal experience. So now if I put
Speaker 8: myself in show he's mind where you know, I'm what
Speaker 8: two seasons removed from hitting fifty homers. You know, even
Speaker 8: though my batting average says I'm struggling at the plate,
Speaker 8: you know when I pitch, but when we could score
Speaker 8: zero runs and once being in the back, I can
Speaker 8: maybe create three runs. There's a possibility that, you know,
Speaker 8: it's in the back of his mind. But he's so
Speaker 8: respectful and he's just gonna do what the organization tells him. So,
Speaker 8: you know, it's hard to tell what he thinks or
Speaker 8: what he says. But from my own experience, you know,
Speaker 8: I still thought I'd be a two way player after
Speaker 8: a season of you know, pitching really really well.
Speaker 2: Calls Baseball Joe Kelly comparing his Division three UC riverside
Speaker 2: experience to show AOTO, what's.
Speaker 5: A respect on her idea?
Speaker 8: It's a Division one program?
Speaker 2: Oh is it? Is it Division one? Now?
Speaker 8: It's still Division one? You clown?
Speaker 2: All right, all seriousness? Since o'tani is wearing your number
Speaker 2: number seventeen, what do you believe is the solution to
Speaker 2: be able to get him through a full season at
Speaker 2: thirty one years old? Now, Joe, he's not twenty eight
Speaker 2: or twenty seven. What would you do? Let him hit
Speaker 2: on the same days that he pitches and maybe give
Speaker 2: him the next day off? Would you not lead him off?
Speaker 2: How would you manage it?
Speaker 8: How would I manage it? I would manage it just
Speaker 8: by a personal fill or a healthwive standpoint. Right, We
Speaker 8: don't know. What if he's barking from you know, taking
Speaker 8: swings and pitching, Like, what if his arm gets more tired,
Speaker 8: you know, in the past couple of starts while he's hitting.
Speaker 8: What if he's having those conversations behind the scenes. No
Speaker 8: one knows, right, So I would just probably you know,
Speaker 8: try to be in tune with Showhy as much as
Speaker 8: I can leading up to a start. You know, if
Speaker 8: he says he's ready to rock, and I'd let him
Speaker 8: swing if something's bugging him or or maybe the swings
Speaker 8: are messing with his mechanics or you know, I mean,
Speaker 8: he's dominating on the mountain, right and something you don't want.
Speaker 5: To mess up.
Speaker 8: He's one of the best pitchers in all of baseball,
Speaker 8: you know, American League, National League. So when that's happening,
Speaker 8: you know, as an organization, you're like, well, shoot, maybe
Speaker 8: he's more valuable as a pitcher, and we could just
Speaker 8: keep him at this high level of performance that he's
Speaker 8: doing now and we'll just skip the four at bets.
Speaker 8: He's gonna get that game, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: So if that's the case, I would, if you know
Speaker 8: that that's the reason why Show he could pitch that well.
Speaker 8: I would definitely as a as.
Speaker 5: A manager or as an organization, I'd be like, hey, show.
Speaker 8: Hey, you are the best pitcher in baseball right now, Like,
Speaker 8: do you want to mess that up? And I just
Speaker 8: asked him personally, and if he says no, they'll be like,
Speaker 8: all right, well you're not going to hit today. I
Speaker 8: mean so it just be those conversations that I have
Speaker 8: behind the scenes that no one knows. No one knows
Speaker 8: the real reason, right, We'll never get the real reason.
Speaker 8: You know, you know how baseball goes, but you know,
Speaker 8: if it's working, you know, hes dominating the mount like
Speaker 8: he is. You know, it's whatever he feels is he's
Speaker 8: most comfortable with to keep that high level of performance.
Speaker 2: Joe Kelly is our guest. No introduction needed for this guy.
Speaker 2: Here's something Joe, you would have to agree though, Like
Speaker 2: you said, have a feel for what's happening in the
Speaker 2: here and now on this past homestand it's a night
Speaker 2: game and then there's a twelve o'clock game the very
Speaker 2: next day that he has to pitch the night before.
Speaker 2: You can understand in that situation, like, hey, you got
Speaker 2: to pick one day that you're not going to hit right,
Speaker 2: I mean, that would be one of those feel situations.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's those quick turnarounds that are always good times
Speaker 8: to you know, for anybody, you know, an older position player,
Speaker 8: you know, to have it like a Migey road, to
Speaker 8: completely take it off where you know you're in ter
Speaker 8: or maybe you might pinch it, or maybe an older
Speaker 8: reliever right who's you know, is good to go back
Speaker 8: to back, But since it's a quick turnaround's like, hey,
Speaker 8: might as well stay away from them back to back
Speaker 8: to keep them, you know, healthy down the stretch. There's
Speaker 8: always those things that go into play that that the
Speaker 8: fans won't see or or realize until you know, conversations
Speaker 8: like me and you're having right now, it has happened.
Speaker 8: So those quick turnarounds are are are obviously tough. There's
Speaker 8: so much research now, there's so much you know underlying
Speaker 8: you know effects, you know, whether it's sleep, whether it's
Speaker 8: you know, my body hasn't you know, got rid of
Speaker 8: all the lactic acid yet, and I'm still sore from
Speaker 8: the day before. There's all these little things that go
Speaker 8: into it. So yeah, there there there's times to choose
Speaker 8: where you should completely have it offen and with a
Speaker 8: quick turnaround like that, I think you know, those days
Speaker 8: are obviously, you know, more easy to you know, have
Speaker 8: a conversation with the player saying like hey, this's quick turnaround,
Speaker 8: Like why don't you just take the day off? And
Speaker 8: sometimes the player is gonna tell you, like myself, I've
Speaker 8: done them a whole career where you're gonna go out there,
Speaker 8: you know, banged up or even actually physically hurt, and
Speaker 8: you're like, I'm still gonna prove a point, like I'm
Speaker 8: gonna do this for my teammates. But that's what the
Speaker 8: leaders are there for, that's the doctor's for, that's what
Speaker 8: the front office is there for, that's what pitching coaches
Speaker 8: and handy coaches there for. It's like, hey, we're taking
Speaker 8: you know, this option off the table because we know
Speaker 8: what the answer you would give us is. You're gonna play,
Speaker 8: but we're just gonna actually just not put you in
Speaker 8: the lineup on purpose, just to you know, kind of
Speaker 8: keep you away from you know, your own self harm.
Speaker 2: I'd say, yeah, you guys sometimes protect the player from himself,
Speaker 2: especially a guy like you that had a high pain tolerance,
Speaker 2: or a guy like Otani who's the greatest player on
Speaker 2: the planet. I mean, guys like you and him in
Speaker 2: different ways. You're built differently, and somebody's got to step in.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there someone has to step in. And it's like,
Speaker 8: you know, you're on a you're on a race horse,
Speaker 8: and the horse could you know, be physically hurt, but
Speaker 8: you mean you smack him on the butt, he's gonna
Speaker 8: he's gonna run, you know what I mean? They just
Speaker 8: know nothing about competition. And that's like professional athletes. So
Speaker 8: there's ways that you know, the smarter people in the
Speaker 8: room should be able to step in them and just
Speaker 8: you know, kind of put it into their own hands
Speaker 8: and take the player out of a game.
Speaker 5: And that's what those guys get paid the big bucks for.
Speaker 2: All Right, Joe Kelly, since you are a great LA
Speaker 2: sports fan, there's no denying your Dodgers have eclipsed the Lakers.
Speaker 2: Has been the greatest show in Los Angeles? Right, Otani,
Speaker 2: Freddie Mookie way bigger than Lebron and Luca at this point,
Speaker 2: right even with the Lakers in the playoffs, or do
Speaker 2: you feel like it's still a very close race on
Speaker 2: if you had to choose to watch or go to
Speaker 2: one of these games, it would be a coin flip.
Speaker 2: Who what do you think LA is feeling right now?
Speaker 8: Well, it's a tough question to go in watch in person.
Speaker 8: Obviously myself, I'm going to choose an NBA game just
Speaker 8: because it's so it's so fun for me to watch
Speaker 8: as as a non NBA player, right.
Speaker 5: I just have so much respect to those guys.
Speaker 8: But overall, yes, I think southern California, you know, the
Speaker 8: whole state, or let's just put l A. I think
Speaker 8: the Dodgers have now surpassed every organization, not including NBA,
Speaker 8: not including you know, NFL. I think they're the greatest
Speaker 8: organization in all of sports to watch or to be
Speaker 8: a part of. But yeah, the Lakers are obviously, you know, something,
Speaker 8: something that's close to my heart. You know, I'm not
Speaker 8: not saying that the three to zero lead has is
Speaker 8: gonna is gonna fall, right. I felt confidence, But eventually
Speaker 8: a record like that has to break, right, So I'm
Speaker 8: I'm I'm not very optimistic. I'm optimistic that the Lakers
Speaker 8: are are the better team. But when you see those
Speaker 8: stats of three oh teams coming back, it's never been
Speaker 8: done in the history of NBA, and you know, it's
Speaker 8: something that. I like to see that the Lakers come
Speaker 8: out the next game, you know, be a little bit
Speaker 8: more physical from the from the start. They put a
Speaker 8: good in the fourth last night. You know, they battled,
Speaker 8: took some errand shots that that were you know, they
Speaker 8: make sense. You know, the pressure of the game's high.
Speaker 8: It's like everyone wants to be a hero and try
Speaker 8: to win the game. But they played the last like
Speaker 8: five minutes of that fourth quarter last night.
Speaker 5: Uh, for the.
Speaker 8: Whole entire game there, there's no doubt in my mind
Speaker 8: will move on to the next round.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see if that happens. So you're you're all
Speaker 2: in with the Lakers. But here's the most random thing
Speaker 2: you'll ever see. The Drake of the Inland Empire and
Speaker 2: Joe Kelly sitting rinkside right on the glass at an
Speaker 2: Anaheim Ducks playoff game wearing the orange jersey. I never
Speaker 2: heard you once talk about the Ducks. Now all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, you're the biggest celebrity in Anaheim at a
Speaker 2: Ducks game.
Speaker 8: Hey, hockey is an amazing sport, right, so, especially when
Speaker 8: the tickets are free. Yes, that's true. So obviously I
Speaker 8: was born in Anaheim. I lived in Anaheim half my life.
Speaker 2: I never heard you mention Aheim once.
Speaker 8: Okay, get out here. But you know, my wife, Ashley
Speaker 8: and her parents have been season ticket holders, uh, all
Speaker 8: the way up until you know a few years back,
Speaker 8: and they were always Ducks fans. And for me it
Speaker 8: was something that you know, I started getting a little
Speaker 8: more into since it stop playing, I've been watching pretty
Speaker 8: much all sports. And when you know, the Ducks are
Speaker 8: are are a great young team to watch, very exciting.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 8: What's crazy to me is that they're still rebuilding right
Speaker 8: and they're they're doing this well. So it's it's been
Speaker 8: one of the things that I've I've became a a
Speaker 8: an Anaheim Ducks fan as of recent and I have
Speaker 8: no problem saying that. You know, I am the the
Speaker 8: drake fan of the Inland Empire, but hey, you got
Speaker 8: you gotta you gotta pick a winner, and and and
Speaker 8: the Ducks is what I'm picking. And it doesn't hurt
Speaker 8: that they're a lot closer to my house. It's a
Speaker 8: lot easier drive than than going to l A.
Speaker 2: So here he is the drake of the I e
Speaker 2: at an Anaheim Ducks game right there, front and center,
Speaker 2: and then at an Ontario Tower Buzzers Game high A
Speaker 2: Baseball and then the Lakers now have relocated their G
Speaker 2: League team to the Coachella Valley. So you're gonna see
Speaker 2: the drake of the Ie Joe Kelly courtside at a
Speaker 2: Lakers G League game next year.
Speaker 5: Bro the CV Lakers, Baby. Then I'll head up.
Speaker 8: Then I'll head up up to Joshua Tree and you know,
Speaker 8: spend a couple of days out there on my own
Speaker 8: trying to figure out the life's greatest questions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's true. I mean you are really wandering
Speaker 2: in that Inland Empire desert out there without me and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. You need you need to. We'll get you
Speaker 2: an uber to come back to the big League's Joe
Speaker 2: to Dodgers Stadium. I'll get you some tickets. I could
Speaker 2: get tickets for you, I know the Ducks. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: could pull some strings for you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, are they gonna be like you know Doug
Speaker 8: out Club.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be where your mural is up there on
Speaker 2: the reserve level, So you could be close to your mural.
Speaker 5: See that.
Speaker 8: See no, see I don't want any part of that.
Speaker 2: Why not you could take It'd be like a meet
Speaker 2: and greet on the reserve level with you.
Speaker 8: I'd like to be close enough to see the players,
Speaker 8: you know, have a little bit of sweat on their face,
Speaker 8: or or you know, try to try to see if
Speaker 8: the pitchers tipping here and there on the other team.
Speaker 5: You can wear your brand too far away from the game.
Speaker 8: That far away. I spent plenty of years being that
Speaker 8: far away from from the action, sitting out there in
Speaker 8: the bullpen. So you know, now now as a non player,
Speaker 8: I'd like to actually be closer down to the field level,
Speaker 8: if you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: You know, the greatest thing would be if we surprise
Speaker 2: your old teammates with you sitting in one of those
Speaker 2: seats that hangs over the Dodger bullpen. You just been
Speaker 2: there staring at God.
Speaker 8: That would be amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to make that happen.
Speaker 8: We will, all right.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I know you're still trying to figure
Speaker 2: out to do with your life, So good luck with
Speaker 2: your life, and if you need me, we could do
Speaker 2: a show together twelve to three. You know, I feel
Speaker 2: like Rogan and Rodney might be might be retiring soon,
Speaker 2: so it might be time for Mariachi Joe.
Speaker 8: The twelve to three spot is a good time for me,
Speaker 8: you know what I mean? Does that fiture Rodney? They're great,
Speaker 8: but it's time for some new faces.
Speaker 2: You never know ooh, I know, I know, you never
Speaker 2: know where Joe Kelly could be. I mean he has
Speaker 2: connections with the Ontario team, with the Ducks. I mean
Speaker 2: those are the premier franchises in LA.
Speaker 8: I mean in Orange County and Inland Empire. But yeah,
Speaker 8: I know what you mean.
Speaker 2: Hey, Joe, I know everybody loves hearing your voice. Let's
Speaker 2: do this more often and thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate it. And we'll see whether or not
Speaker 2: the Lakers hold onto this series and then we could talk.
Speaker 8: Yeah, let's go Lakers.
Speaker 5: Thanks TV.
Speaker 2: There it goes Joe Kelly. He has put Rogan and
Speaker 2: Rodney on notice. He wants twelve to three. He's coming
Speaker 2: for you, all right. That was awesome great to hear
Speaker 2: from Joe Kelly. He is actually at the Ducks game
Speaker 2: right now against the Oilers. So if you're at the
Speaker 2: Ducks game or on your way you're a little late,
Speaker 2: keep your eye out for mister Ie Drake. Drake of
Speaker 2: the Ie Joe Kelly and I thought it was interesting
Speaker 2: he had his opinion on Otani the days that he pitches,
Speaker 2: whether or not he should hit or not, and how
Speaker 2: the Dodgers should manage it, how O'tani may be feeling
Speaker 2: about it. So that's from a guy that was in
Speaker 2: the same clubhouse that gave Otani number seventeen. So always
Speaker 2: great to hear Joe Kelly's hot sports takes and look,
Speaker 2: that guy would be a great sports talk show host.
Speaker 2: The only problem would be could you count on him
Speaker 2: the show up Monday through Friday at noon every day
Speaker 2: or whenever he's supposed to show up. You never know
Speaker 2: Levite Loka of Joe Kelly. I mean, he's on his
Speaker 2: own schedule there. So it was a I think we'll
Speaker 2: just start with Dodger talk whenever he wants to call in.
Speaker 2: But uh, definitely, I would love to do a talk
Speaker 2: show with Joe Kelly. Man that would be electric. Joe
Speaker 2: Kelly every day in La talk about a guy that
Speaker 2: might go viral. I mean Joe Kelly every day with
Speaker 2: this type of three hour platform, there's a very good
Speaker 2: chance he would have the hottest takes in the city.
Speaker 2: So thank you to Joe Kelly for jumping on. He's
Speaker 2: a huge LA sports fan and h yeah, he'll go.
Speaker 2: If you have free tickets and the seats are close enough,
Speaker 2: he'll be there. Reach out to him, you know, whoever
Speaker 2: you are, reach out to him. If the tickets are close,
Speaker 2: he'll be there. And if it's off the two ten
Speaker 2: or the fifty seven or the fifteen, even better for
Speaker 2: Joe Kelly. All right, I wanted to give you an
Speaker 2: update on another Dodger reliever, actually brock Stewart, who has
Speaker 2: not thrown a pitch yet this year. Brock Stewart just
Speaker 2: went back to back games for Oklahoma City and the
Speaker 2: second half of that back to back was tonight, and
Speaker 2: he has been really good. I believe he has like
Speaker 2: nine strikeouts in his rehab appearances there in Oklahoma City
Speaker 2: in less than seven innings. So he's been really good.
Speaker 2: And usually when a guy like brock Stewart's on a
Speaker 2: rehab assignment like that, pitching rehab games who did not
Speaker 2: have a spring training, usually the last box to check
Speaker 2: is pitching back to back games. So with him doing
Speaker 2: all this and now completing pitching back to back games,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if the Dodgers decided to activate
Speaker 2: brock Stewart at some point on this road trip, maybe
Speaker 2: not in Saint Louis, maybe the last day in Saint Louis,
Speaker 2: but certainly Houston is in play for brock Stewart after
Speaker 2: finding out that he pitched back to bag day. So
Speaker 2: that's great news for the Dodger bullpen to bring in
Speaker 2: another big right handed arms. And the Dodger bullpen's been
Speaker 2: really good even with the absence of Edwin Diaz. You
Speaker 2: know what's made it even better is the Dodgers starting
Speaker 2: pitchers going as deep as they have in games and
Speaker 2: not forcing these guys to cover four or five innings
Speaker 2: three out of five nights. So that's been a big
Speaker 2: reason for the Dodger bullpen success and for the team
Speaker 2: success to have a twenty and eleven record. Tomorrow, Emmitt
Speaker 2: Sheen's coming off his best start of the season. He'll
Speaker 2: be on the mound in Saint Louis to open up
Speaker 2: the series. He's going up against left hander Matthew Libertor.
Speaker 2: Our coverage begins at four o'clock with Morongo Casino Dodgers
Speaker 2: on deck at first pitch at five point fifteen from
Speaker 2: Saint Louis with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett will be
Speaker 2: on the call. I believe so looking forward to that,
Speaker 2: looking forward to the road trip. In case you missed
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