Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, we're going next runings.
Speaker 2: A day long celebration of your back to back world
Speaker 2: champion Los Angeles Dodgers, presented by Strauss, the official workwere
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Speaker 3: Yeah Oh, the celebration continues live here at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 4: We're You're Home of the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Exclusive coverage brought to you by Strauss from the ballfield
Speaker 3: to the job site Strauss dot Com. It has been
Speaker 3: an absolute great day of celebration for your Dodgers. From
Speaker 3: the parade, all the way up and down Grand Figueroa,
Speaker 3: seventh Street temple where it all started, a temple on Broadway,
Speaker 3: and then coming back here to Dodger Stadium, the double
Speaker 3: decker buses unloading with Dodger players, coaches, their families. They
Speaker 3: were all introduced onto the center field stage. And what
Speaker 3: a celebration here in front of a sold out Dodger
Speaker 3: Stadium crowd. And looking around right now, the field level
Speaker 3: still pretty much filled with Dodger fans who have made
Speaker 3: their way down there, as Dodger players are still mingling
Speaker 3: around on the field. Clayton Kershaw right now is talking
Speaker 3: to the MLB Network down their third base line in
Speaker 3: front of their dugout and different players are coming out
Speaker 3: talking to beat riders. There's still a couple of other
Speaker 3: players mingling around with their families. But Dodger fans, players
Speaker 3: just don't want this to end. And what a magical
Speaker 3: ride it was to get all the way to Game seven,
Speaker 3: to win it in eleven innings, and to come back
Speaker 3: home as defending World Series champions yet again, just a
Speaker 3: magical run here in the month of October now November.
Speaker 4: Crazy to think. Steve Sacks reminded.
Speaker 3: Me of this earlier today scam which kicked off October
Speaker 3: baseball coverage here on a five seventy with me and
Speaker 3: Steve Sacks, started on September thirtieth, went through all of
Speaker 3: October and now here the championship parade.
Speaker 4: On Monday Nova. So it is a long run.
Speaker 3: It can just imagine these Dodger players starting the season
Speaker 3: as early as they did.
Speaker 4: I went back and looked it up.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers went to Tokyo and that first game of the
Speaker 3: season was back on March eighteenth. March eighteenth, You gotta
Speaker 3: go all the way back to Tuesday, March eighteenth, the
Speaker 3: Dodgers in Tokyo, Japan, playing the first of two games.
Speaker 4: Against the Chicago Cubs.
Speaker 3: I don't know about you that that feels like a
Speaker 3: lifetime ago. When they squared off against the Cubs in
Speaker 3: Tokyo and we saw Roki Sasaki and Yabamoda on the mound.
Speaker 4: I mean, now you.
Speaker 3: Fast forward to hear November three, and these guys are
Speaker 3: World Series champions.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 4: It has been a long ride, and.
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman said it there just a little while ago
Speaker 3: with David Dad. They're about one hundred days away from
Speaker 3: pitchers and catchers reporting and the start of spring training,
Speaker 3: which is amazing to me because the Dodgers just won
Speaker 3: and there's teams around baseball, all but two of them
Speaker 3: that have been sitting around for three to four weeks,
Speaker 3: just waiting for this season to be over. And now
Speaker 3: the Dodgers have a chance to rest in an exhale
Speaker 3: and there'll be a chance to look at this roster
Speaker 3: coming up in the next week's here. Free agency starts
Speaker 3: in a few days officially, and the Dodgers will have
Speaker 3: some players that go into free agency and they hope
Speaker 3: to bring back, and some players they probably won't.
Speaker 4: Bring back next year. In twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: And maybe they'll bring in different players, but that'll certainly
Speaker 3: be a big discussion here on an five seventy all
Speaker 3: offseason long, it'll be an abbreviated offseason, certainly as the
Speaker 3: shortened offseason with the Dodgers making it this deep into
Speaker 3: the World Series eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 3: five seventy. We did it last year after this parade
Speaker 3: covers in the celebration at Dodgers Stadium, David Vass and
Speaker 3: I just took calls and wanted to hear from you
Speaker 3: Dodger fans and just your your thoughts about the team
Speaker 3: and the celebration. And we're doing it again today all
Speaker 3: the way up until three o'clock.
Speaker 4: And we had hand things over to Petro.
Speaker 3: Some money eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 3: seventy as we celebrate this Dodgers championship. And it's now
Speaker 3: starting to file out the crowd, slowly but surely here
Speaker 3: at Dodger Stadium, as the ushers are asking everybody to
Speaker 3: leave down along the field level onlong the first and
Speaker 3: third base lines. But uh, let's go out to the
Speaker 3: phones if we can. Who do you want to go
Speaker 3: do first? Guys, who's the first up, Juliet, Julian R.
Speaker 3: Kady is our first call.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Hi, Julia sended On and Jdi loger F
Speaker 6: and Sherman Oaks And we have a question.
Speaker 7: Do you think k k will come back next season?
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a great question from the both of you.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Key k Hernandez in free agency,
Speaker 3: will he come back? We'll find out. He certainly wants
Speaker 3: to be back. He uh, he is a Dodger. I'd
Speaker 3: find it hard to believe they don't find some way
Speaker 3: to bring Key k Hernandez back. Now, the last time
Speaker 3: he entered free agency, he left and went to the
Speaker 3: Boston Red Sox and the Dodgers reacquired him after it
Speaker 3: didn't work out in Boston. Now, if he's willing to
Speaker 3: take for whatever money they have available, and certainly for
Speaker 3: as many years as they're willing to offer, that's all
Speaker 3: going to be figured out.
Speaker 4: And that's all something Andrew Freeman.
Speaker 3: And Brandon Gomes and you know, Keiky Hernandez are gonna
Speaker 3: have to figure out as far as negotiations. But certainly
Speaker 3: you want to have a glue guy like that back.
Speaker 3: And I say especially because you're losing Clayton Kershaw, who
Speaker 3: is one of the heartbeats of this Dodger's team, and
Speaker 3: if you lose him, you need to start making sure
Speaker 3: you keep guys who are our culture clubhouse. You know,
Speaker 3: guys that you can count on type of players. Then
Speaker 3: you want to make sure that Keiky Hernandez is around
Speaker 3: as long as possible, and that means bringing him back.
Speaker 3: And hear the round of applause here at Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 3: that is for Clayton Kershaw, who is saluting the fans
Speaker 3: one final time. He just got done talking to the
Speaker 3: beat writers and now he got done talking to MLB Network,
Speaker 3: And it looks like Clayton Kershaw is making his way
Speaker 3: back out onto the field and now back into the
Speaker 3: dugout one final time year at Dodger Stadium. Oh, he's
Speaker 3: actually making his way over to Sports in LA to
Speaker 3: join the oral Hirscheiser and John hartsung a crew over there.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 3: our number. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 3: seventy Joe and Fuller's and you're next up on a
Speaker 3: five seventy LA Sports. How you doing, Joe?
Speaker 8: I'm doing great.
Speaker 9: I was just still trying to recover on the voice there,
Speaker 9: because I lost it somewhere between six and seven and
Speaker 9: I just came back from the parade and about lost
Speaker 9: my mind.
Speaker 5: So sorry about that, but uhh, I.
Speaker 4: Love the six seven reference there, Chuck.
Speaker 3: Joe, how do you how do you think the crowd
Speaker 3: was compared.
Speaker 4: Maybe to a year ago?
Speaker 3: It seemed like it was insanely crowded and full of
Speaker 3: Dodger fans.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 9: It was nuts out there, but it was great. It
Speaker 9: was great to be out there surrounded by all the
Speaker 9: fans in blue, see everybody just celebrating, sharing the love,
Speaker 9: going crazy with you know, when the guy, when the guys,
Speaker 9: the crew, the whole staff was killing by on the buses.
Speaker 8: It was.
Speaker 9: It was phenomenal. And just to see the guys on
Speaker 9: the buses, you know, filming the fans and soaking it in.
Speaker 7: It was a great experience.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 9: I was glad to be there.
Speaker 4: So it was awesome, all right, Joe. Appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 3: Oh, real quick, did you happen to see David Vasse
Speaker 3: on top of the double decker bus with Blake Snell?
Speaker 4: Oh he's gone, all right. Appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 3: Joe eight sixty sixth nine, eight seven, two five seventy,
Speaker 3: Tim Kates, David vass live at Dodgers Stadium after the
Speaker 3: parade and party here at Dodger Stadium to celebrate back
Speaker 3: to back World Series championships. As there is confetti everywhere
Speaker 3: on the field here at Dodger Stadium, as the World
Speaker 3: Series trophies are still sitting on their little respective tables
Speaker 3: in center field on the center field stage at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: You see him there at twenty four at twenty five
Speaker 3: World Series Trophies as a David Vasse gets a round
Speaker 3: of applause for the folks here in the am FI
Speaker 3: seventy suite and Rifley, So what a great job David did?
Speaker 4: And oh their chanting Day's name? How about that? How
Speaker 4: about that?
Speaker 5: You know what?
Speaker 3: I don't get that when I walked in, but Dave
Speaker 3: gets that when he walked That's an that's a pretty
Speaker 3: unbelievable nowadays, actually taking pictures with people that we work
Speaker 3: with on a daily basis and hugging people that we
Speaker 3: work with on a daily basis.
Speaker 4: But saluted David a great job.
Speaker 3: He was on the double decker bus with Blake Snell
Speaker 3: and crew did a fantastic job.
Speaker 4: Today.
Speaker 3: Our own Colin Yee is here in the AM FI
Speaker 3: seventy sweet today. Colin doesn't get to come out to
Speaker 3: any Dodger games all season long because he's in studio
Speaker 3: for a one hundred and sixty two regular season games
Speaker 3: and eighteen spring training games in all of October baseball,
Speaker 3: which included a run through Game seven of the World
Speaker 3: Series against the Toronto Blue Jays. So great to have
Speaker 3: Colin Yee here in the AM five to seventy suite
Speaker 3: where we are broadcasting from today on this glorious Monday
Speaker 3: here in southern California, A celebrate, celebratory Monday here in
Speaker 3: La as the Dodgers went back to back World Series
Speaker 3: champions eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventies
Speaker 3: in number. We're gonna be here for one more hour,
Speaker 3: David Vassa. When he's done signing autographs and taking we'll
Speaker 3: join us here on A five seventy and Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Let's go back out to the phones. Where should we head?
Speaker 3: Where should we he? Andy and San Dimas you are
Speaker 3: next up here on AI seventy LA Sports. After the
Speaker 3: parade in the party here at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 4: How are you doing? Andy?
Speaker 7: Hey Sam?
Speaker 8: Great, go Dodgers.
Speaker 6: You do an awesome job. I'd ask for a picture
Speaker 6: with you if if I was there.
Speaker 10: Don't worry.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that.
Speaker 6: But I just want to say, Man, I moved to
Speaker 6: LA in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 11: I'm forty one, so.
Speaker 6: You know the Kings, the Dodgers have had really great
Speaker 6: runs since I've lived here. It's been awesome. This is
Speaker 6: really cool.
Speaker 5: Cool to see.
Speaker 6: Kershaw retire as a Dodger and get it.
Speaker 7: How he did?
Speaker 6: I remember, like five years ago, the conversation was, Oh,
Speaker 6: it's he's baseball Dan Marino. You know here he is,
Speaker 6: and it's pretty great. I just want to say I
Speaker 6: came here from Buffalo, so everyone knows my teams haven't won.
Speaker 6: Do not take this for granted.
Speaker 5: La.
Speaker 6: Next year, everyone's got to show up the same way,
Speaker 6: same fire, same energy. Don't get lazy as a fan.
Speaker 6: Do not take this for granted.
Speaker 4: Do not.
Speaker 6: Oh a lot of people I've watched, my mother died,
Speaker 6: my family died. The Bilgie Sabers have never won. We've
Speaker 6: got three. Don't take it for granted.
Speaker 3: So Dodgers, all right, Andy appreciate the phone call. Wells said,
Speaker 3: you come from Buffalo, where you know about heartbreak, you
Speaker 3: know about coming so close to winning a championship, and
Speaker 3: being from Buffalo.
Speaker 4: Toronto is close to Buffalo.
Speaker 3: So I can only imagine what they're feeling there as
Speaker 3: well as they were two outs away from a World
Speaker 3: Series championship. And as I mentioned earlier, seeing Max Schurz
Speaker 3: are on the replay in the dugout holding up to
Speaker 3: two more guys, two more and we're gonna win a
Speaker 3: World Series championship.
Speaker 4: But that did not happen.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six, ninet eighty seven, two, five seventy. How
Speaker 3: about Charles and Lancaster. You're next up on a five
Speaker 3: seventy LA Sports, Charles, How you doing with Tim Kats
Speaker 3: and v David Vassa.
Speaker 12: I made it back. I made it back.
Speaker 13: A lot of photos in the stairwell, Charles, Christian vass
Speaker 13: How you doing?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 12: How can you not? Weel great?
Speaker 13: Everybody loves everybody today in La Canada?
Speaker 4: Not one so much.
Speaker 5: I got two, I got two points. I want to say,
Speaker 5: is the greatest game I've ever watch. I've been watching
Speaker 5: the Dodger since they played in the in the coliseum.
Speaker 5: I seen him. My father tripped me and uh, I
Speaker 5: wanted to say that that was the greatest game I've seen.
Speaker 5: He got all the all the pictures in the pitch
Speaker 5: and and Dave and mister Robertson pushed all the right buttons.
Speaker 5: Yes the other day, it was two days ago, and
Speaker 5: that was like and he don't get no set, no
Speaker 5: gratification from anybody.
Speaker 13: Now everybody's talking about Dave Roberts. Now you got to
Speaker 13: get that respect.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what I know about him. You know
Speaker 5: what I know about him is my son and him
Speaker 5: played room together in the minor leagues. My son and
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts say, pray for Vice Tellia Oats and they
Speaker 5: room together.
Speaker 4: Very cool, Charles, Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 5: My son says. That's all they ever do is talk baseball.
Speaker 5: And one last thing, let's get my boy Bellinger back
Speaker 5: this year.
Speaker 12: I like that.
Speaker 13: I'm all in with Cody Bellinger. If I had a
Speaker 13: pick between Kyle Tucker and Cody Bellinger, bring back Belly, Charles.
Speaker 4: We appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 3: I mean it's enough right Dave Roberts talk about he
Speaker 3: hasn't done this, haven't done that. Three World Series rings
Speaker 3: as a manager ten seasons now nine in l West, titles,
Speaker 3: five trips to the World Series, three World Series championships.
Speaker 3: He said a Baseball's the greatest game enver invented. And
Speaker 3: now he's up there with Joe tory Tonyo LaRussa as
Speaker 3: the most career postseason wins as a manager.
Speaker 13: I mean he is on a Hall of Fame trajectory
Speaker 13: right now. There's no doubt about that. He's a Hall
Speaker 13: of Famer, no doubt. And he managed the last two
Speaker 13: playoffs the best I've ever seen him manage. You always
Speaker 13: talk about players developing into the players they eventually become.
Speaker 13: This is not a slide at Dave Roberts. But when
Speaker 13: he took over the Dodgers, who are ready to win,
Speaker 13: he was a rookie manager in twenty sixteen. We have
Speaker 13: seen him get better and take more chances on his
Speaker 13: players than we saw early on in his career. The
Speaker 13: last two years he has managed flawlessly, and at some point,
Speaker 13: if you're going to point the finger on Dodger talk
Speaker 13: when things don't go right, you got to give this
Speaker 13: guy his due, because now he's a three time World
Speaker 13: Series champion. I feel like he in twenty twenty. I
Speaker 13: know we weren't there. I was, but very high. Twenty
Speaker 13: twenty was the year that he really came into his
Speaker 13: own as a manager.
Speaker 3: Do you think he turned from being a manager that
Speaker 3: maybe followed the book a little closer to now managing
Speaker 3: more with his gut feel, so to speak, and all right,
Speaker 3: I get this, I'm in the moment of the game,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that, and
Speaker 3: I'm gonna manage a little bit differently then I started
Speaker 3: as a manager in twenty thirteen or fourteen, whatever it was.
Speaker 13: Well, I think a couple of things happened. Danny Lehman
Speaker 13: becoming a real voice next to him in the dugout,
Speaker 13: that stringy haired bench coach. He understands the game plan
Speaker 13: really well. Mark Pryor has helped him out a lot
Speaker 13: as well. You see him discussing what he's going to
Speaker 13: do with both those guys before anything happens.
Speaker 12: So I think it's Dave Roberts.
Speaker 13: But Dave Roberts is such a great manager that he
Speaker 13: understands you have to get out of the ways sometimes,
Speaker 13: and he's a great delegator of responsibilities to his coaches
Speaker 13: and he trusts his coaches to steer him in the
Speaker 13: right direction along with you know, before the game. Every hour, Yeah,
Speaker 13: there's a game plan meeting because the Dodgers are the
Speaker 13: most prepared team in baseball. I'm not taking a shot
Speaker 13: at the Blue Jays, but they have a knack of
Speaker 13: being able to filter information to the players and to
Speaker 13: Dave Roberts to simplify things and get the job done.
Speaker 3: He is David Vasse, I'm Tim Kase. We are live
Speaker 3: at Dodgers Stadium. One hour to go here in our
Speaker 3: parade party coverage. We want you to be a part
Speaker 3: of it. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to two
Speaker 3: five seventy. As they start to empty out Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 3: the celebration doesn't end, though.
Speaker 4: We want it to continue with you.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, we're going next readings A.
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Speaker 4: But we're back.
Speaker 3: Our coverage continues live a Dodgers Stadium. Tim Kaits along
Speaker 3: with David Vasse. A great day here at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 3: as we watch Clayton Kershaw walk off the field, hands
Speaker 3: up in the air, and the remaining fancier at Dodger
Speaker 3: Stadium saluting the future Hall of Famer as he makes
Speaker 3: his way into the Dodger dug out one final time here.
Speaker 4: David Besse, Yeah, that was surreal.
Speaker 13: You know, I've been with Kershaw every single day since
Speaker 13: twenty twelve. I've seen how much he puts into each
Speaker 13: and every start and into his teammates, and that's why
Speaker 13: everybody loves him and respects him. I think that's why
Speaker 13: everybody gets emotional, because he doesn't just show up play
Speaker 13: with the bad shoulder, a bad back. Over the years,
Speaker 13: you think back to when the Dodgers started the year
Speaker 13: in Australia. I mean, that's when he heard the back
Speaker 13: of his shoulder kept pitching six weeks later, when the
Speaker 13: cy Young and MVP in twenty fourteen. Was at the
Speaker 13: top of his game. From twenty ten to twenty twenty, yeah,
Speaker 13: I would say, yeah, I mean was he was the
Speaker 13: best pitcher in baseball between those ten years.
Speaker 3: It's kind of cool to see him understand the moments
Speaker 3: and be in the moment and absorb the moment. I
Speaker 3: feel like this year he knew he was going to
Speaker 3: go into this in retirement, right, and so he absorbed
Speaker 3: every single start, single day out here with his kids,
Speaker 3: with his family, with his teammates, with the media. It
Speaker 3: was kind of cool to see that not a guy
Speaker 3: just grinding every single day like you did for a
Speaker 3: lot of his career, but at least kind of maybe
Speaker 3: step back a little bit and soak it all in.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, I would say the last two years,
Speaker 13: he's enjoyed the moments more than he ever has before.
Speaker 4: That's for certain.
Speaker 13: He has enjoyed the moments more than ever before these
Speaker 13: last two years. And yeah, it's just one of those
Speaker 13: things that he he's meant so much to this organization
Speaker 13: and I think the things that will stand out to
Speaker 13: me are those things. Tim It's not the starts that
Speaker 13: he made, but just seeing how he would be the
Speaker 13: first one out here before everybody else. He would be
Speaker 13: the guy that would you know, be there for teammates.
Speaker 13: He would wash away starts, even after his no hitter,
Speaker 13: he would start the next five day routine. He was
Speaker 13: so routine oriented. That's what will stick out to me.
Speaker 13: And I've never been around a guy more prepared or
Speaker 13: works harder than Clayton Kershaw this side of Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 13: because I was around him a lot, and those two
Speaker 13: guys had the best work ethic as far as the
Speaker 13: greatest talent to go along with it.
Speaker 4: This clubhouse is going to feel a little different moving forward.
Speaker 4: This team's going to.
Speaker 3: Feel a little different moving forward without number twenty two there.
Speaker 4: Every single day.
Speaker 3: I wonder how it looks, how how the leadership differs,
Speaker 3: if it does it all with Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts
Speaker 3: maybe taking more of a role.
Speaker 4: Or is it just stay the same.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's a great question.
Speaker 13: I really do believe that Blake Snell has to be
Speaker 13: that guy in his own way. When you look at
Speaker 13: the starting staff, Yamamoto obviously a language barrier, but after
Speaker 13: what he did this year, there's a lot of respect
Speaker 13: for him. But to me, Blake Snell needs to take
Speaker 13: another leap of growth next year to kind of not
Speaker 13: feil Kershaw's voice or shoes. Because Kershaw wasn't or isn't
Speaker 13: really a bit big raw ross speech guy.
Speaker 12: He isn't. Yeah, he led by example.
Speaker 13: That's put pressure on everybody else to work as hard
Speaker 13: as he did. So Blake Snell has got to lead
Speaker 13: by example in that way, and quite honestly, I think
Speaker 13: we're forgetting about show Heyo Tani. He's that guy as
Speaker 13: well that can lead by example. If he's going to
Speaker 13: be a two way player, people are going to look
Speaker 13: to him to lead. I think at some point now
Speaker 13: you start to look at Freddy Freeman, show Heo Tani
Speaker 13: as leaders on this team, and Mookie Betts isn't a
Speaker 13: vocal leader either.
Speaker 12: He does his own thing in some ways.
Speaker 13: But those two guys have led in a lot of
Speaker 13: different ways. Freddie's organized team Dinners on the Road. He
Speaker 13: was one of the guys that thought flying on their
Speaker 13: own was a big h was advantageous, which it turned
Speaker 13: out to be the Dodgers only lost one road game
Speaker 13: in the playoffs this year. So Freddie Freeman and show
Speaker 13: heo Tani to me? Will that void eight.
Speaker 3: Six six eight seven two five seventy is our number.
Speaker 4: We're live at.
Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium as the party wraps up, but we continue
Speaker 3: it on the phones with Mike in Dallas, Texas. Joins
Speaker 3: us here on the iHeartRadio app on I AM five
Speaker 3: to seventy.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Mike?
Speaker 8: Hey, Tim dude, how are you phenomenal?
Speaker 10: Phenomenal? Hey? I just wanted to say a couple of things. First,
Speaker 10: thank you guys so much, you and Dave and Tetris
Speaker 10: and Money for just everything you can talk about work ethic.
Speaker 10: You guys just make me feel like I'm still in
Speaker 10: Angelino at heart, even though I moved out to Texas.
Speaker 10: So just thank you guys for doing what you do
Speaker 10: every day.
Speaker 13: Thank you, and look, there's nowhere else that you could
Speaker 13: get this type of coverage. Tim Kates, you want to
Speaker 13: talk about a guy that needs a nap show. Hal
Speaker 13: Tani loves to sleep. Tim Kates has not slept since
Speaker 13: September thirtieth, when the playoffs began, So maybe you could
Speaker 13: tell the raiders in uh, Nebraska.
Speaker 12: You need some time off on the weekends.
Speaker 13: Never all right, what's your question? What's did to you
Speaker 13: the most about this world series? Who stood out to
Speaker 13: you the most about this world series?
Speaker 10: You know, everything stood out And I was just I
Speaker 10: was reflected with my son on the way to school
Speaker 10: this morning. He's eight years old. I told him I
Speaker 10: was eight years old when the Dodgers won in nineteen
Speaker 10: eighty eight, and just that we're living in a golden
Speaker 10: era of Dodger baseball and just to really consider how
Speaker 10: lucky he is and that we don't have to wait
Speaker 10: another how many years before we get to the next championship.
Speaker 4: Awesome, Mike, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thanks for listening from Dallas, Texas, and Uh, congratulations to
Speaker 3: you and your son. Ray and Lejabro was at the
Speaker 3: parade today, one of the thousands that were in attendance.
Speaker 12: Where were you sitting, Ray?
Speaker 6: This call is being recorded.
Speaker 12: This guy wants to record calls.
Speaker 13: I know this Guyaz, you're the record the call guy.
Speaker 12: I got you. Where were you sitting?
Speaker 8: We're sitting the first baseline.
Speaker 13: It was tremendous, tremendous see cruise OCLT that way.
Speaker 9: I've ever seen him his first, very.
Speaker 8: First game of the pitched.
Speaker 6: I was there for that game.
Speaker 7: It was a great experience here with my goddaughter.
Speaker 12: That's awesome. Ray, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 13: That was a great recorded call and your god daughter
Speaker 13: will appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Keep that forever you know, it was it.
Speaker 13: I got a little fun fact since we're reflecting on Kershaw,
Speaker 13: because eighteen years is a long time. Where were you
Speaker 13: in two thousand and eight? Tim, What were you doing?
Speaker 13: How many kids did you have in oaight?
Speaker 3: I had two kids at that time, and when Kershaw
Speaker 3: made his debut, we were expecting our third. And as
Speaker 3: my daughter, Sadie, who's seventeen years old, said Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 3: that's all she knows is him as a Dodger, and
Speaker 3: his career is longer than she's been alive, and so
Speaker 3: she's sad to see him not be here next year.
Speaker 4: And it's kind of.
Speaker 3: Reflective for me because you see guys come and go,
Speaker 3: You see guys you know, play long times for different teams,
Speaker 3: short times for different teams. But when your kid is
Speaker 3: born and all of a sudden, this player retires and
Speaker 3: that's all they know, it's kind of weird.
Speaker 13: Exactly a lot can happen between now and eighteen years ago.
Speaker 13: Kids were barely in grade school that are now in college.
Speaker 13: Eighteen years ago, I actually set up my first date
Speaker 13: with my wife at Kershaw's major league debut in two
Speaker 13: thousand and eight. I was with big Head James Kelly
Speaker 13: at the time. We came to the game because we
Speaker 13: both wanted to see Kershaw make his major league debut.
Speaker 13: We both went down to the bullpen there to watch
Speaker 13: him warm up wearing number fifty four. My wife, who
Speaker 13: was not my wife at the time, was coincidentally at
Speaker 13: the same game and we had organized for her to
Speaker 13: come meet.
Speaker 12: Me at the stadium club.
Speaker 4: How about that?
Speaker 13: And James Kelly luckily did not swoop me because he
Speaker 13: had a reputation at the time. He tried, Yeah, I
Speaker 13: boxed him out and at that point in time, we
Speaker 13: set up our first date and the rest is history.
Speaker 13: How about that first date at shaj in Santa Monica,
Speaker 13: Another legendary spot in LA.
Speaker 4: Eighteen years it go? When you met your wife? Yes,
Speaker 4: how about that, David, I never knew that we're.
Speaker 12: Still married too.
Speaker 4: Does she know that?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 13: Well, I think I remember Charlie Manuel telling me, who
Speaker 13: was the manager of the Phillies at the time, Stay
Speaker 13: with this job and you'll stay married longer because she'll
Speaker 13: miss you for those two weeks at a time that
Speaker 13: you leave for the road trip.
Speaker 4: That's good advice. Yeah, that's great advice.
Speaker 13: She gave me a free pass for tonight too, so
Speaker 13: uh Daddy daycare starts tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Hello Jeff in Thousand Oaks. Next up here on a
Speaker 3: FI seventy LA Sports David vass a tim Case live
Speaker 3: at Dodger Stadium. Is the cleanup now starts here at
Speaker 3: Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4: Jeff Yellow.
Speaker 7: Yeah, hey, guys, Hey, thanks taking my call. First of all,
Speaker 7: shout out to you guys, k LAC. Every time I
Speaker 7: was on the road and I could not be in
Speaker 7: front of a television, the next best thing on the radio.
Speaker 7: I loved it. Yeah, yeah, really really helped.
Speaker 8: You know. I loved it.
Speaker 7: It was a great Game seven. My stomach was not,
Speaker 7: of course, like everybody else. And about the temph inning,
Speaker 7: I'm starting to starting to worry. I'm concerned, and I'm
Speaker 7: thinking how many times could the Dodgers have lost this.
Speaker 7: They could have lost it in Game six, they could
Speaker 7: have lost it a couple of times in Game seven.
Speaker 7: At some point, I'm not really superstitious, not that kind
Speaker 7: of guy. I had this epiphany and I'm thinking, the
Speaker 7: Dodgers are meant to win this. I know it sounds
Speaker 7: a little hokey, but I immediately relaxed, my stomach got better,
Speaker 7: and I just said, they've got this. It's in the card.
Speaker 7: Not taking anything away with their tenacity and their stick
Speaker 7: to itiveness. Anyway, that's my story. I'm sticking to it.
Speaker 7: It was meant to be. It was one for the ages,
Speaker 7: and I'm still living and breathing it as long as
Speaker 7: I can until it's time to move on to the Lakers.
Speaker 7: I guess the Lakers.
Speaker 12: You don't want to move on to them, trust me.
Speaker 13: But Mark Walter will change that narrative pretty soon here
Speaker 13: in the next year. Thank you for the phone call,
Speaker 13: thanks to hearing what you had to say there. And look, Tim,
Speaker 13: there's so many different moments from this postseason, not just
Speaker 13: the World Series, but a few of the things that
Speaker 13: stick out to me.
Speaker 12: We talked about this earlier today. Game six.
Speaker 13: There is no Game seven without the Dodgers holding on
Speaker 13: some miracle way in Game six, because if you're thinking
Speaker 13: to yourself like we all are. How the heck did
Speaker 13: the Dodgers pull out Game seven being two outs away
Speaker 13: from losing, and this parade being in Canada today?
Speaker 12: How about Game six?
Speaker 13: They were hanging on by a thread, the ball getting stuck.
Speaker 12: In the wall. How lucky is that? I mean that
Speaker 12: a million, one in a million.
Speaker 13: And then Tyler Glass now gets Ernie Clement, who is
Speaker 13: the best two strike hitter on the Blue Jays, to
Speaker 13: pop up to Freddie Freeman for the first out of
Speaker 13: that inning with runners at second and third.
Speaker 12: And then keik A Hernandez.
Speaker 13: Going against what the scouting report said on his own,
Speaker 13: his own baseball savvy, moving in to be more shallow
Speaker 13: to allow him not only to catch the ball, but
Speaker 13: to throw it to Miguel Rojas, who did not make
Speaker 13: a routine catch on a bounce. And he told me,
Speaker 13: actually after we were after we got off the bus,
Speaker 13: I told you this morning that he was playing hurt
Speaker 13: that injury that he sustained by trying to tag third
Speaker 13: base in the NLDS when Alex Boehm and him were
Speaker 13: racing to third base, that's where he injured his left
Speaker 13: He said, it's not his shoulder was somewhere like his
Speaker 13: rib because it was hard for him to get ring.
Speaker 3: Costal strain is what I think they that it was,
Speaker 3: which is like underneath your armpit.
Speaker 4: Here we go along your side.
Speaker 13: And he reaggravated it when he was celebrating Game six
Speaker 13: and he was so emotional. That's where he reaggravated it.
Speaker 13: And you know he's playing hurt. He hits the game
Speaker 13: tying home run with two outs to send it to
Speaker 13: extra innings. I think about all of that, and I
Speaker 13: think about the new mister November Will freaking Smith unbelie
Speaker 13: by the way, that makes two number sixteens that are
Speaker 13: not welcoming Canada anymore because of Blue Monday. In nineteen
Speaker 13: eighty one, our very own Rick Monday ended the Montreal
Speaker 13: exposseason in Game five of that year's NLCS to send
Speaker 13: the Dodgers to the World Series. And how about this,
Speaker 13: another clutch sixteen sends the Dodgers to a World championship
Speaker 13: in Game seven.
Speaker 3: The word luck or unlucky has been thrown around a
Speaker 3: lot in the last week or so. David I didn't
Speaker 3: belie it as far as baseball is concerned. You hear
Speaker 3: about the baseball gods and was it in the cards
Speaker 3: for the team to win or lose, or this play
Speaker 3: to happen or that play happened. But after what we
Speaker 3: saw in Game six, the ball getting stuck, the keyk play,
Speaker 3: the pick by Miguel Rojas' second, then all the stuff
Speaker 3: that happened in Game seven, you have to start to
Speaker 3: believe that there's something about lucky or unlucky in baseball.
Speaker 4: It just really is you.
Speaker 12: Make your own luck.
Speaker 13: True, I would say the only luck was the ball
Speaker 13: getting stuck. That's the only lucky part about it.
Speaker 12: What else is lucky? That would be the one lucky thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was it.
Speaker 13: I mean, Isaiah Connor Fileffa not getting a big secondary
Speaker 13: lead off at third base is not it. I mean,
Speaker 13: I guess in some ways the Dodgers are lucky that
Speaker 13: Will Smith put his foot back down on home plate
Speaker 13: on that force play, or the game's over, world series
Speaker 13: is over. But that's not really luck. That's him having
Speaker 13: the field awareness to know where he's at. Yeah, honestly,
Speaker 13: the only thing that stands out to me as luck
Speaker 13: is the ball getting stuck in Game six.
Speaker 12: And here's the thing.
Speaker 13: I talked to a couple of the Dodgers advance scouts
Speaker 13: and Bob Garran, the Dodgers bench coach. They do not
Speaker 13: teach and they did not tell their players if the
Speaker 13: ball gets stuck in the wall to just hold up
Speaker 13: your hands and stop playing.
Speaker 4: They don't teach that.
Speaker 13: They told him to play it through and then be
Speaker 13: able to replay.
Speaker 12: We'll be able to review it.
Speaker 13: Play it through, grab the ball, get it back to
Speaker 13: the infield, raise your hands, and then from there Dave
Speaker 13: Roberts could review it and the umpires would have made
Speaker 13: that decision. But what Justin Dean did was not follow
Speaker 13: what they told him by just stopping and staring at
Speaker 13: the ball. It was keyk a Hernandez who had his
Speaker 13: arms up. We see that in the replay, but it
Speaker 13: was Key a Hernandez screaming at Justin Dean to grab
Speaker 13: the ball, throw it back in. He knew the scouting report,
Speaker 13: he knew the rules. People don't know that.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 3: As it turns out, it was ruled ball stuck ground
Speaker 3: rule double runner who scored has to go back runners
Speaker 3: on second to third, A huge, huge moment in that game,
Speaker 3: and again that goes back to David. Everybody on this
Speaker 3: team contributing from Dean to Will Klein, who will always
Speaker 3: be remembered for what he did in Game three.
Speaker 4: Everybody had a little piece.
Speaker 3: Even Clayton Kershaw had a huge part in that eighteen
Speaker 3: inning Game three, coming out and getting a huge out
Speaker 3: in late in the extra inning time.
Speaker 13: Yeah, every Lucas. He got Lucas. That was the game
Speaker 13: on the line. That wasn't a ceremonial like, hey, let's
Speaker 13: bring in Kershaw right in the twelfth inning to get
Speaker 13: this guy, let him face this guy. No, the game
Speaker 13: was on the line. It was a full count. If
Speaker 13: he walks Lucas, the Dodgers are in real trouble. And
Speaker 13: Kershaw told me, I'm not sure if you noticed this
Speaker 13: on TV or if Rick Monday and Stephen Nelson mentioned this,
Speaker 13: but Clayton Kershaw was worn up the batter that Yamamoto
Speaker 13: face that grounded into the game ending double play.
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
Speaker 13: If he gets on or even if there's just a
Speaker 13: fly ball out, there's two outs left in the game.
Speaker 13: In the eleventh inning, Clayton Kershaw was getting ready to
Speaker 13: come in to face Dalton varshow whoa in the eleventh inning.
Speaker 13: He told me that when we got off the bus,
Speaker 13: he said, I never saw Will Smith's home run. I
Speaker 13: never saw how Isaiah kna Fileffo got to third base
Speaker 13: because I was locked in warming up, getting ready to
Speaker 13: come in to face Dalton Varshow.
Speaker 4: How about that?
Speaker 13: And then when the it happened, the game ending double play,
Speaker 13: he didn't know the game was over. He told me
Speaker 13: he thought he was coming in. He had no idea
Speaker 13: what was taking place because he was so focused on
Speaker 13: warming up to come into the game. Kershaw was next
Speaker 13: if there were two outs in the eleventh inning of
Speaker 13: Game seven, to face the lefty Dalton Varshow.
Speaker 3: It explains why he was a little late to the party,
Speaker 3: so to speak. Yeah, winning out on the field out
Speaker 3: of the Dodgers' bullpen.
Speaker 13: He literally told me that once the buses parked at
Speaker 13: Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 4: That is awesome. That is David Vasse. I'm Tim Kase.
Speaker 3: We're live here at Dodger Stadium as the cleanup now
Speaker 3: starts from the celebration here at Dodger Stadium eight sixty six,
Speaker 3: nine eighty seven, two five to seventy. Let's check in
Speaker 3: with Manuel and Guardina, who actually was out at the
Speaker 3: parade today here in downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: Manuel how you doing, my friend, so the.
Speaker 8: Wall and the voice of Dodger fans d b Oh
Speaker 8: my goodness, man, you know what. I'm on the one
Speaker 8: ten right now. But that's what this series was. One
Speaker 8: ten like on everything, Like holy smokes, I feel like
Speaker 8: I aged probably a few years in the last week
Speaker 8: just from all those games, man, and uh, the heart
Speaker 8: of a champion, man, that's what sticks out to me
Speaker 8: the most. Doc Roberts with just a masterpiece of managing
Speaker 8: Andrew Friedman putting together a roster deep enough to withstand
Speaker 8: every valley that it came to. I mean, the Dodgers
Speaker 8: were just tremendous. Mickey Rojas Pie is coming out of nowhere,
Speaker 8: you know, the power to come out of freaking not
Speaker 8: only Rojas but Will Smith to end it all. I mean,
Speaker 8: this this team is just the best, man. I'm so
Speaker 8: proud of this team. I'm proud of the Dodger fans. Uh, heart, heart,
Speaker 8: all thoughts.
Speaker 12: And are you proud of Steve saying.
Speaker 8: Hey, I was on hold for scam sax and k
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Speaker 13: I think Hernandez Key k Hernandez made proficial Manny and Guardina,
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Speaker 8: Hello, that's all right, no man, All of you guys
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Speaker 12: Oh that it's not Roo, another guy.
Speaker 4: Man. Well, we appreciate the nice words.
Speaker 3: Thank you for all the great comments, Thanks for listening
Speaker 3: as always, Buddy, really appreciate that. Glad you're out at
Speaker 3: the parade today with the masses that were in downtown
Speaker 3: in La from Temple to Grand to Seventh all the
Speaker 3: way back up Figaro to Fifth Street. David, we've seen
Speaker 3: Laker parades with thousands of people there going to the
Speaker 3: coliseum in front of what used to be a parking
Speaker 3: lot in front of Staples Center.
Speaker 4: Back of the day to today.
Speaker 3: I honestly believe this year's parade was bigger size wise
Speaker 3: with people than last year's parade.
Speaker 13: Great job by the Dodgers and the city to coordinate
Speaker 13: the path and the route to make it longer and
Speaker 13: for more fans to be able to be on the
Speaker 13: parade route to get a glimpse of their back to
Speaker 13: back World Series champion Dodgers.
Speaker 12: And being on the.
Speaker 13: Bus with guys that I was on the bus with
Speaker 13: last year, Will Smith, Tommy Edmund Tyler Glass, now they
Speaker 13: were blown away by the enormity of.
Speaker 4: You could tell the size. You could tell.
Speaker 13: We were talking about it and I would say, hey,
Speaker 13: is this bigger or better than last year? They said,
Speaker 13: I wouldn't say it's better, it's just bigger. And we
Speaker 13: love that it was longer. They loved that it was longer.
Speaker 13: And they never took a break from giving back to
Speaker 13: the fans. They never took a break sat down ever.
Speaker 13: Number One, there were no seats on the bus except
Speaker 13: a row in the back. That's where Taascar Hernandez was
Speaker 13: sitting with his kids. But there were no seats this year,
Speaker 13: so these guys were standing up the whole way giving
Speaker 13: it back and Blake's Now, I know you you make
Speaker 13: fun of me, But this guy was the life of
Speaker 13: our bus. He was engaging fans. Will Smith was engaging fans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can see the personality coming out on Will Smith.
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, how about that.
Speaker 12: I want to party with Will Smith after today.
Speaker 4: He is David Vasse. I'm Tim Kaide.
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Speaker 12: Who's got it better than us?
Speaker 4: Nobody?
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Speaker 13: We were just talking about the best speeches on stage.
Speaker 13: I would say, hands down, Yamamoto was the winner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a Freddie Freeman who made a comment
Speaker 3: about twenty twenty four, done, twenty twenty five, done, twenty
Speaker 3: twenty six.
Speaker 13: Starts now love it. I love that too. And Mark Walter,
Speaker 13: the owners set the tone because he said we're back.
Speaker 13: He said that at the beginning. Yeah, Dave Roberts, Andrew
Speaker 13: Freeman doubled down than Dave Roberts.
Speaker 12: So when the owner, see, that's the thing.
Speaker 13: When you have an owner like that that has invested
Speaker 13: and given Andrew Friedman the resources to build this and
Speaker 13: he says we're going to be back next year, that
Speaker 13: sets the tone for everybody else. Means that he wants
Speaker 13: more too, and that trickles down.
Speaker 3: How about shoey Otani saying let's do it again, Yeah
Speaker 3: next year.
Speaker 4: I would I like to speech more last year.
Speaker 13: I thought Yamamoto was the winner this year because I
Speaker 13: think we talked about this as well this morning. Not
Speaker 13: only did he pitch the day after, but he also
Speaker 13: warmed up for a possible nineteenth inning in Game three.
Speaker 13: So what this guy did to push himself where no
Speaker 13: other pitcher has ever pit done before. You could talk
Speaker 13: about Oral Hirsch, and yes, what he did was extraordinary,
Speaker 13: But did he come into essentially three games, four games?
Speaker 13: He came in in relief the day after for one out.
Speaker 13: He said that on Rogan and Rodney. What Yamamoto did
Speaker 13: was pitch a complete game in Game two, then in
Speaker 13: Game three warm up as he was going to come
Speaker 13: in for a nineteenth inning, then pitches in Game six,
Speaker 13: six innings, and then in Game seven comes in and
Speaker 13: pitches two plus innings to end the game. Nobody in
Speaker 13: the history of baseball has ever done that. Nobody, I'll
Speaker 13: say it right now, nobody has ever done that.
Speaker 3: Probably will never do it again because of the way
Speaker 3: the game is structuring away guys. Hey, the way the
Speaker 3: guys just don't want to go out and do that.
Speaker 13: And it goes back to mechanics, right, Pitching mechanics Yama Moto,
Speaker 13: you know the javelin throws that's all focused and centered
Speaker 13: about his lower half and oral Herscheizer explained that really, well, well,
Speaker 13: the reason why he was able to do what he
Speaker 13: did is because the arm is coming along for the
Speaker 13: ride with his lower half generating all the power.
Speaker 3: Let's hear real quick what Yama had to say on
Speaker 3: the stage today earlier here at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 13: The winner, Yeah, I love it than that.
Speaker 4: He cave Los Angeles right away.
Speaker 13: He came on stage and said losing is not an
Speaker 13: option because he told his teammates that during the NLCS.
Speaker 4: How much have you seen him grow?
Speaker 3: Dave in the last two seasons from a maybe a
Speaker 3: quiet shy guy, battle through the injuries that rookie season
Speaker 3: and then really had that coming out party in Game
Speaker 3: five here of the NLDS against the Padres. That to
Speaker 3: me was that moment where all right, he felt like
Speaker 3: I'm here now, I'm at the big leagues.
Speaker 13: Well, Key Ky Hernandez had a lot to do with
Speaker 13: that as well. It's true there's that famous meeting they
Speaker 13: had after his first start against the pod and he
Speaker 13: was getting ready to make another start and Keicky Hernandez
Speaker 13: famously took him out to coffee without Hero his interpreter,
Speaker 13: and just fired him up and reassured him, reinforced self confidence.
Speaker 12: And be ready to go. Wait, we got the bulldog.
Speaker 13: The nineteen eighty eight What World Series MVP, the Cy
Speaker 13: Young Award winner, Sports Illustrated's Man of the Year nineteen
Speaker 13: eighty eight, the only pitcher to win the ALCS and
Speaker 13: NLCS MVP, and a guy that knows everything about being
Speaker 13: a bulldog and leaving his shoulder on the mound here
Speaker 13: at Dodgers Stadium, and now he does a great job
Speaker 13: on sports net LA. The one and only Oral Hersheizer Bulldog.
Speaker 13: You heard me talking about you, Gill.
Speaker 11: I was getting a believe it or not, I was
Speaker 11: getting a police escort out of Dodger Stadium. I mind
Speaker 11: down on sunset now, working my way to the one
Speaker 11: ten to get back to Pasadena, and I heard you
Speaker 11: and Katseie talking about it, and I'm like, I want
Speaker 11: to reiterate. What Yamamoto did might not ever be done again,
Speaker 11: but it'll have to be done with somebody that's his
Speaker 11: precise and well trained and understands how to use his
Speaker 11: bones so that the muscles can just take it long
Speaker 11: for the ride, So it was very very special. I
Speaker 11: brought one of my jerseys and signed it to him,
Speaker 11: from one MVP to another. I've got my Yamamoto jersey
Speaker 11: here in the car with me, and hopefully next year
Speaker 11: he'll sign it for me. But I am so have
Speaker 11: so much admiration for that young man and what he
Speaker 11: did for this ball club, what he did for this city, or.
Speaker 13: How did he do it? You talked about the mechanics
Speaker 13: this morning. You just mentioned the bones, the alignment, the mechanics,
Speaker 13: but it's extraordinary that his body responded.
Speaker 12: I heard.
Speaker 13: I was told by Mark Prior that when he was
Speaker 13: warming up for coming in for the ninth inning, they said,
Speaker 13: let's see how you feel, and he dotted ninety seven
Speaker 13: in the bullpen for his first real throw.
Speaker 12: How does he do that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 11: You know, I learned an awful lot from Sandy Kofax,
Speaker 11: and I know you know Yoshinobu has learned a lot
Speaker 11: from his throwing coaches, and Dave Wallace was part of
Speaker 11: my crew, and Rick Honeycutt and Ron Peranowski, And it's
Speaker 11: just really paying great attention to detail and understanding that
Speaker 11: if you build a foundation. There's no sense for you
Speaker 11: to really get tired if you can put the bones
Speaker 11: in the right order and you've got a chance to
Speaker 11: reach your full potential. And so the only thing that
Speaker 11: was strong in my body, in my upper body was
Speaker 11: the grip on the ball. Is just to make sure
Speaker 11: that the grip on the ball was firm enough to
Speaker 11: hold it as you create the arm speed after that,
Speaker 11: from my wrist to my elbow, from my elbow to
Speaker 11: my shoulder.
Speaker 13: Oh, I know where he is. He's an echo park somewhere. Well,
Speaker 13: there we go. You drop for a second orl yeah,
Speaker 13: we got you.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, I'm just clearing over the bridge here to Chinatown.
Speaker 11: But you just get the bones in the right order
Speaker 11: and leverage the ball and you're you can. I've threw
Speaker 11: many a pitch where my arm was just like jello
Speaker 11: and just like a catapult.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 11: You just leverage the ball, keep going downhill in the
Speaker 11: right direction, get your hips in the right thing, have
Speaker 11: the right X factor between your hips and your shoulders,
Speaker 11: and just let it happen. And just like in golf,
Speaker 11: any of our listeners that are listening and you you
Speaker 11: do something in sports that you go, wow, I didn't
Speaker 11: feel a thing and that was my best. That's what
Speaker 11: you're looking for when you're throwing an object. And he
Speaker 11: can throw a javelin, he can throw a baseball, you
Speaker 11: can throw whatever you want. You can be a quarterback.
Speaker 11: It's about getting it all in order. And once you
Speaker 11: get it in order, it's a lot easier and a
Speaker 11: lot less wear and tear.
Speaker 13: Okay, Oral, you name the bulldog because Tommy Losorda want
Speaker 13: to bring something out of you. You maintained that nickname
Speaker 13: not only because of everything that you detailed as far
Speaker 13: as great pitching mechanics and you know everything you described,
Speaker 13: but your heart was a heart that nobody else had
Speaker 13: to do what you did in nineteen eighty eight and
Speaker 13: in other parts of your career, to do what you
Speaker 13: did with the Indians when people thought your career was over,
Speaker 13: what about you know the testicular fortitude that Yamamoto showed.
Speaker 12: You can't do it without that, right.
Speaker 11: No, you can't, and you know there's a lack of fear.
Speaker 11: But the fear comes into play. Then you use that
Speaker 11: energy in the right way. I mean, I always think
Speaker 11: about heroes, and these guys are all heroes. The accumulation
Speaker 11: of all their heartbeats and all their hearts. I think
Speaker 11: about a hero is in the midst of tremendous trouble,
Speaker 11: and especially if you're thinking with the war example, there's adrenaline,
Speaker 11: there's bullets firing everywhere, there's mortar fire, there's everything going on.
Speaker 11: But a hero doesn't give up, and a hero doesn't quit,
Speaker 11: and a hero feels the fear, but he functions within it.
Speaker 11: And that's what you have to do. You have to
Speaker 11: learn to channel that energy. And when you've got a
Speaker 11: manager like Tommylsorda, or you got a manager like Dave Roberts,
Speaker 11: you pick up the heart of the lion from the
Speaker 11: leadership and then you just magnify it and you just
Speaker 11: keep going from what Dave Roberts is saying all year
Speaker 11: to these guys is that I trust you. And in
Speaker 11: the midst of him pulling him out of the lineup
Speaker 11: or pinch hitting for them, or taking a guy out
Speaker 11: of the game and bringing in a reliever, in the
Speaker 11: midst of that, he's built relationships at such a level
Speaker 11: that they still know that they are trusted in a
Speaker 11: big part of the team. And that is huge from
Speaker 11: your leadership.
Speaker 3: Speaking of leadership, oral from Mark Walter to the front office,
Speaker 3: to the star players, all of them today saying let's
Speaker 3: do it again next year in twenty twenty six. What
Speaker 3: is to stop this team? I mean, Clayton Kershaw won't
Speaker 3: be back. But you look on that stage, you see
Speaker 3: all the talent that'll be back in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: You see the leadership, and you see the love of
Speaker 3: this city to this team. This could be a run
Speaker 3: that we can see for a long time here.
Speaker 11: Well it really could. And you know, and then hook
Speaker 11: in the Laker ownership now and what could happen to
Speaker 11: the Los Angeles Lakers. This city could be in for
Speaker 11: a huge run as the sports capital of the world.
Speaker 11: So our ownership group and especially Mark at the top,
Speaker 11: but all the others, you know, you have Billy, Jean
Speaker 11: King and Magic Johnson. You got champions throughout here, from
Speaker 11: the business world to the sports world to whatever you
Speaker 11: want to name. And they all get hungrier when they win,
Speaker 11: they all get hungrier when they lose. It's never going
Speaker 11: to leave them. It's part of their DNA. And it's
Speaker 11: so exciting to work for an organization like that, to
Speaker 11: be around people like that, because it brings out the
Speaker 11: best in you, and you want to give your best
Speaker 11: every day because the people around you are given their best.
Speaker 11: Eight type personalities don't enjoy b's and c's, and so
Speaker 11: you have an organization that is all a and they're
Speaker 11: like A pluses. And I don't mean as far as
Speaker 11: grading them like in school. I mean like grading their
Speaker 11: passion and their execution of what they want to do
Speaker 11: and their detail oriented. They are all about people. And
Speaker 11: when I think when this ownership took over and when
Speaker 11: Ned stepped aside and Andrew cook over, you know, everybody
Speaker 11: labeled them as, oh, this is going to be data
Speaker 11: and we're not going to have hard and they're not
Speaker 11: going to know how to recognize real players that are gritty.
Speaker 10: It's like it is the complete opposite.
Speaker 11: They have been supplied the money that the fans have
Speaker 11: provided by drawn four million people. They have then supplied expertise,
Speaker 11: and they have supplied data, and they have supplied just crazy,
Speaker 11: crazy amounts of emotional skills of what as a champion
Speaker 11: and what type of player do we want? And they
Speaker 11: add it all together and you get back to back champion.
Speaker 12: Or I'll come clean with you this morning.
Speaker 13: I'm not sure if you heard driving in but Kate's
Speaker 13: and Sax and myself were doing the first two hours,
Speaker 13: and I asked Steve about the difference or what it
Speaker 13: was like for the eighty eight parade compared to you know,
Speaker 13: twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five, and he immediately
Speaker 13: mentioned your sweater, your ugly sweater from the eighty eight parade,
Speaker 13: and I told him, you still have that sweater?
Speaker 10: I still do.
Speaker 11: Yeah, And a fan actually sent me an extra one
Speaker 11: because at Kooji from back in the eighties, you know,
Speaker 11: they're probably a little bit harder to find now, and
Speaker 11: there's actually two of them. I have the original and
Speaker 11: I think Joe Davis has the other one.
Speaker 13: What about what can you say about why Sax wore
Speaker 13: a full suit to the parade on a parade flow,
Speaker 13: we've never seen that before.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I you know, I don't remember if it was
Speaker 11: a chilly day and that's why I picked a sweater,
Speaker 11: or I was just the Johnny Carson Show.
Speaker 12: So I was wearing a full suit. He told us
Speaker 12: he wear a full suit.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't know why he would do that, because
Speaker 11: if you were going to look at that roster and say,
Speaker 11: who would be the last guy to wear a full suit.
Speaker 11: Number one probably would be Mickey Hatcher. I'm about to
Speaker 11: go through the tunnels. I'm about to throw through the
Speaker 11: tunnels on the one ten, so you might have to
Speaker 11: fill so uh, I would say saxtually be in the
Speaker 11: top five of guys who wouldn't have a suit.
Speaker 13: Hey, I told Steve this this morning. This Dodger team
Speaker 13: back to back World Series championships will go down as
Speaker 13: the greatest because nobody has ever done this before.
Speaker 12: But the most magical team.
Speaker 13: In Dodger history was the eighty eight Dodgers, the greatest
Speaker 13: underdogs in baseball history this side of the sixty nine Mets.
Speaker 4: And you were such a big part of it.
Speaker 12: Oral.
Speaker 13: So for me personally, that has grown up in Los
Speaker 13: Angeles in my life. You know, I wasn't old enough
Speaker 13: to recognize what the eighty one guys did. But in
Speaker 13: my lifetime, the eighty eight Dodgers and these back to
Speaker 13: back World Series champions are you know, are on another
Speaker 13: level for me personally.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I joined the Dodger organization as a seventeenth round draft
Speaker 11: pick in nineteen seventy nine, and I was a suspect,
Speaker 11: not a prospect, and all you wanted to do was
Speaker 11: to have a shot, and then all you want to
Speaker 11: do is you go up to the miners, is maybe
Speaker 11: I can make it to the big leagues. And once
Speaker 11: you get to the big leagues and you get to contribute,
Speaker 11: and then you'd become a champion. You're still feel humbled
Speaker 11: by the people that came before you, the Cofaxes and
Speaker 11: the Drysdals and the Campanellas and the Jackie Robinson's and
Speaker 11: the Tomulas Sordas and the Fernando Avenezuelas and all the guys.
Speaker 11: And now it's it's great to stay humble and to
Speaker 11: be just want to be a part of a great
Speaker 11: organization because this generation might surpass every generation that has
Speaker 11: ever put a Dodger uniform, and we will just be
Speaker 11: glad to say that we were there once. But wow,
Speaker 11: what a run these guys are having. And these guys
Speaker 11: are the best of the best of the best.
Speaker 13: Perfectly said, love that you were listening the bulldog Oral Herscheizer.
Speaker 13: Your voice means so much to the city of Los
Speaker 13: Angeles calling these games oral. Your voice carries so much weight.
Speaker 13: It was a great season for you and I can't
Speaker 13: wait to hear you again next year.
Speaker 10: You do a great job.
Speaker 11: And I think with fans if they watched our broadcast
Speaker 11: today as you toddled over to TV and you see
Speaker 11: the hugs and the love that the players give you
Speaker 11: after the interviews and as saying the goodbyes. They know
Speaker 11: you're a straight shooter, they know you're honest. They know
Speaker 11: you will you tell them like it is, but you'll
Speaker 11: also have fun with them and they respect you the
Speaker 11: next day and they absolutely loved you, loved the station.
Speaker 11: Kasey Nny, Rogan and Rodney everybody. You guys do an
Speaker 11: amazing ya. I'm covering us.
Speaker 12: Thank you? Orl you got a three? Ain't bad?
Speaker 4: Right there?
Speaker 12: Who you mentioned?
Speaker 5: All right, we love you?
Speaker 13: Or Claremont Legends Adic, I'll be at Legends attic l
Speaker 13: all right, thank.
Speaker 11: You, my favorite highway. I love the curves.
Speaker 10: All right, let's do it.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 13: There he goes Oral Hersheizer. You'll see him in Pasadena.
Speaker 13: He might see him at a steakhouse. You never know,
Speaker 13: but probably will. I don't know Tim oral Herscheizer. People
Speaker 13: always ask me, don't you get nervous talking to Freddie
Speaker 13: Freeman or Clayton Kershaw? I can honestly say I don't
Speaker 13: get nervous, but I have a lot of reverence for
Speaker 13: their place and history. But I still get butterflies when
Speaker 13: I speak to Oral Herscheizer, or I go into the
Speaker 13: booth and he's there and we're talking. I still get
Speaker 13: butterflies whenever Mike Soshia is around, or Mickey Hatcher or
Speaker 13: Magic Johnson, who is my all time idol growing up.
Speaker 13: That's who I still get nerve for. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 13: I know these guys are on a different level now.
Speaker 13: The team has gone to a different level. Three World
Speaker 13: Series in the last six years, back to back championships.
Speaker 13: But the little kid and me will always hold the
Speaker 13: eighty eight Dodgers in high regard.
Speaker 3: He is David Vasai. I'm Tim Case. Will take one
Speaker 3: final break. We'll come back, we'll wrap things up, We'll
Speaker 3: get to as many calls as we can, and we'll
Speaker 3: say our thank you as all Kates eight sixty six,
Speaker 3: ninety seven, two, five seventy will come back and take
Speaker 3: your calls and hand things off to Petro some money.
Speaker 3: It's a five to seventy LA Sports, your home of
Speaker 3: the back to back World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, We're going next readings.
Speaker 2: A day long celebration of your back to Back World champion,
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Dodgers, presented by Strauss, the official workwear provider
Speaker 2: of MLB, live at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 3: As we continue our coverage here of the celebration for
Speaker 3: the back to Back World champion of Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Tim Kates, David Veasse here with you at the top
Speaker 3: of the hour. We had the parade coverage, we had
Speaker 3: pre parade coverage, we got post parade coverage, and post
Speaker 3: party celebration as the confetti is still streaming all over
Speaker 3: the field here at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 12: Great rats in the suite and tastic graphs.
Speaker 13: I mean, I've never had the food in here before,
Speaker 13: but no, no.
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 13: I feel like it's like, uh, do not touch the
Speaker 13: food during the season. Okay, I don't know if that
Speaker 13: policy's changed or not. No, but the food is fantastic.
Speaker 13: The people are fantastic. Before we're rushed at the end
Speaker 13: of the showcase, you wanted to say you're thank you,
Speaker 13: so why don't you say your thank yous right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a lot of people to thank for
Speaker 3: everything today and really all season long. First and foremost,
Speaker 3: thank you to you, David Vass for all your great
Speaker 3: coverage and hard work, from traveling to Tokyo to back
Speaker 3: to state side, going across the country, traveling with this team,
Speaker 3: and then of course all October long. It is a grind,
Speaker 3: but he grinds harder than you, So thank you. Thanks
Speaker 3: earlier today to Steve Sacks, he was with us all
Speaker 3: the month long in October. Special thanks to Colin Yee,
Speaker 3: who is with us every single day so stud in
Speaker 3: the studio, spring training, regular season, postseason. He's here two
Speaker 3: hours before every game, and he is in the studio
Speaker 3: an hour after Dodger Talk concludes.
Speaker 12: So unsung hero Colin Yee.
Speaker 13: Such a great kid, such a humble kid, and without him,
Speaker 13: this would not go.
Speaker 3: Thanks to Dwayne McDonald as well, because he is your
Speaker 3: traveling partner. You are with him on the road, he
Speaker 3: sets up on the road, he sets up at home,
Speaker 3: and he is one of the best as well. I've
Speaker 3: been with this broadcast for a long long time as well,
Speaker 3: Dwyn McDonald.
Speaker 13: I can tell you this tim Without Dwayne McDonald, the
Speaker 13: play by play guys would not be as happy and
Speaker 13: ready to go every single day He makes things so smooth.
Speaker 13: You don't have to worry about anything with Dwayne. And
Speaker 13: he's more than just an engineer. He's a producer. He
Speaker 13: loves the game in baseball. He's always handing out post
Speaker 13: its to give all of us some extra nuggets. So,
Speaker 13: Dwayne McDonald, you're a great guy. You're great to work with.
Speaker 13: Don't ever leave. I told Kershaw I would leave when
Speaker 13: he left. Yeah, but if Dwayne leaves, then I'll really leave.
Speaker 3: You have to a question whether or not you're gonna
Speaker 3: stick around then thanks to social media, Matt Dave, Weez Wacko,
Speaker 3: Craig Robbins, Michelle Gonzalez, Ronnie Fossio, Zach Lcaldy, Kevin Figures,
Speaker 3: Rogan and Rodney Petro some money, Bob schmid Sochi Conseco,
Speaker 3: who is behind the scenes putting together the logs and
Speaker 3: the commercials, her the Little Sister. Yes, so truly, No,
Speaker 3: I'm not related at all. Our it and engineering staff
Speaker 3: who have helped all your long Doug Irwin, Ricky Sarabilla,
Speaker 3: Richard Ramos, David Shatira, Matt Anderson, Casey Truer, and everyone
Speaker 3: in our sales department, but especially David Howard and Joe Danner,
Speaker 3: our market manager Paul Corvino, Brian Blackmore, and of course
Speaker 3: our new boss Brian Long.
Speaker 12: Can I say my thank you?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, go ahead.
Speaker 13: I love to say thank you to the Dodger organization
Speaker 13: who has brought me in and treated me like family.
Speaker 13: Thank you, first and forem to Lon Rosen, who without
Speaker 13: him I wouldn't have a mic today. Thank you to
Speaker 13: Andrew Friedman, who has trusted me and brought me in
Speaker 13: in certain situations. They understand that I'm walking this fine
Speaker 13: line and they allow me to do my thing and
Speaker 13: allow me to have that freedom with the players, with
Speaker 13: the coaches, with the manager, and speaking of those guys,
Speaker 13: thank you to Dave Roberts as well. I mean, he
Speaker 13: has been so gracious with his time with me. I
Speaker 13: can't say enough about Dave, even though at times, you
Speaker 13: know this is my job not to just be like, yeah,
Speaker 13: everything Dave Roberts does is great. Everything that Freddie Freeman
Speaker 13: does is great. That's the reason why people listen. They
Speaker 13: know you're not going to get a Homer broadcast. And last,
Speaker 13: but not least, thank you to the players. Thank you
Speaker 13: for your trust. Thank you for letting me be in
Speaker 13: your inner circle and be privy to things that others aren't.
Speaker 13: And without you, there is no back to back World
Speaker 13: Series championships.
Speaker 12: And thank you to Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 13: This is the last time that I'll be able to
Speaker 13: say that we were together for a season, that I
Speaker 13: was able to cover his illustrious Hall of Fame career.
Speaker 13: And can't say enough for how much he has cared
Speaker 13: about my career. Tim you know how many times he
Speaker 13: stopped for interviews for us. Can't say enough thank yous
Speaker 13: to him and gratitude I have for him because he
Speaker 13: cared about me more than just you know, a radio guy.
Speaker 12: He cared about my career.
Speaker 3: The relationship David, that you have with the players, the
Speaker 3: coaching staff in the front office is not like anybody
Speaker 3: else in town or quite frankly around professional sports. Being
Speaker 3: somebody who travels with the team. As you said, you
Speaker 3: walk that fine line of reporter and telling people what
Speaker 3: they need to know, giving your opinion, but also making
Speaker 3: sure you don't cross the line and the information you
Speaker 3: get and the people you talk to. It's a hard
Speaker 3: line to walk. You do it great, you have for
Speaker 3: twelve thirteen years now, and that's why people come to
Speaker 3: m I seventy LA sports to get the best Dodger information,
Speaker 3: whether it's callings with Petrol some money every single day
Speaker 3: during the season and getting by those guys, yeah, and
Speaker 3: getting you know, texting Petrol's quite I'm just kidding. I'm
Speaker 3: and the pregames and the post games and the traveler.
Speaker 3: It's a grind and it's aware and it's like today
Speaker 3: you just exhale, You're like, wow, this is it.
Speaker 4: This is the final day of the season.
Speaker 13: I gotta say thank you to my wife Tessa, who
Speaker 13: has been so supportive to Without her this, I would
Speaker 13: not be here for my fourteenth season fourteen years.
Speaker 12: Wow, this would not keep going. And thank you.
Speaker 13: Thank you to sports Net LA for allowing me to
Speaker 13: be part of their broadcast today and during the season.
Speaker 12: Stu Mitchell you know him well, love.
Speaker 13: Do John Hartongue, Johnny Hartoe, Davis, Stephen Nelson or Herscheizer,
Speaker 13: No Ma, even Jay Hare, even Jay.
Speaker 12: So thank you to those guys.
Speaker 3: The lone dog James Loney, I mean he's a part timer.
Speaker 12: I never see him fifteen games he gets a ring.
Speaker 13: Yeah yeah, any let's not get into that Kates anyway,
Speaker 13: it takes a village and to bring you the best
Speaker 13: coverage on Sports Net LA and AM five seventy LA
Speaker 13: Sports and Tim take about yourself because you have worked
Speaker 13: a lot of hours back in a cushy studio in
Speaker 13: Burbank since the beginning of spring training. No, but seriously,
Speaker 13: this is the hardest time of year for you to
Speaker 13: not only host a morning show but also produce Petro
Speaker 13: some money. So you deserve to take a bout as well.
Speaker 13: Are you are very valuable to this team. You are
Speaker 13: the Tommy Edmund, the Chris Taylor of this team.
Speaker 4: Why my wife loves me apparently cause I look like
Speaker 4: Chris Taylor. I wouldn't say that. Okay, he got a beard.
Speaker 4: Well that's gonna do it.
Speaker 3: From Dodger Stadium again, thanks everybody for all their help today,
Speaker 3: from Ronnie Fostio to to everybody here, Craig and Dave,
Speaker 3: we everybody on hand.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: Coming up next to Petro some money show from three
Speaker 3: to six thirty. Guess what you got? Exciting Clippers basketball
Speaker 3: Tonight pregame is six thirty, seven thirty against the Miami Heat.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 13: Thank you again to the Dodgers media relations staff as well. Joe,
Speaker 13: Jeric and Juan Dorado. Great job, Haley, thank you for everything.
Speaker 13: You guys are awesome. Thank you so much. That's Strus
Speaker 13: from Dodger Stadium. Petros and Money are next. A great
Speaker 13: parade day. We will relive it as many times as
Speaker 13: you want. Petro send money next. That'll do it for us.
Speaker 13: From Dodgers Stadium, where the Dodgers are back to back
Speaker 13: World Series champions.
Speaker 4: See us.
Speaker 8: Kiddy, that's
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