WEBVTT - Off Season Dodger Talk (12-17-25) 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.240 This is off season Dodger Talk. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:04.560 Get in on the show by calling eight sixty six 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:09.200 nine a seven four hashtag Dodger Talk and now your host, 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:10.880 David Basse. 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:16.200 Welcome to our final Dodger Talk of twenty twenty five. 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.479 That's right after tonight. We will talk to you in 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.480 twenty twenty six. We got a great show for you tonight, 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:24.880 and phone lines are open at eight six six nine 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.479 eighty seven two five seventy. Coming up at the bottom 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.200 of the hour, we are going to be joined by 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:36.120 Dodger pitching prospect River Ryan, who showed a glimpse of 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:41.519 how talented he is before undergoing Tommy John surgery in 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.720 twenty twenty four, missing all of twenty five, starting to 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.080 come back towards the end as far as pitching on 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.720 the backfields at Camelback Ranch. And the reason why I 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.200 wanted to have River Ryan on the show tonight is 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.600 because many of his teammates were raving about what they 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:04.600 saw from River Ryan the last month of the season, 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.680 and they were telling me about him during the October 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.640 postseason run about what they saw. They said he was 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.600 electric and even better than the way he was pitching 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:21.200 before he had Tommy John surgery. And the interesting part 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:25.560 about River Ryan is a the Dodgers traded Matt Batty 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:30.120 for River Ryan, who was a shortstop and pitcher somewhat 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.240 of a two way player. And when the Dodgers acquired 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:37.399 River Ryan, they said, forget about shortstop, you have the 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.920 goods to be a pitcher. And you know he's been 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:45.760 pitching exclusively probably for two and a half three years. 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.480 And River Ryan, to me, is going to be this 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:54.600 year's version of Emma Shean, a pitcher that has immense talent, 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.200 big stuff, and is not going to be rushed to 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.480 be part of the rotation the first half of the season. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:06.080 So to me, Dave Roberts said in spring training last year, 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.240 Emt Sheen was his sleeper pick to help the Dodgers 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.880 the second half of the season. Well, I am going 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:17.720 to bet on River Ryan and Dave Roberts saying the 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:22.160 same thing about River Ryan in spring training. If he's asked, 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.920 eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.839 the phone number. It was a great show last night 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.960 to kick it off with Mike Soshia and Mickey Hatcher. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.360 And as I mentioned last night, I got a great 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:39.120 tweet and usually tweet replies are not that great. But 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:43.480 I got a great comparison from a fan that responded 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.119 to those two guys being on the show last night 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.480 that they were the nineteen eighty eight Dodgers version of 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:55.600 Keik A Hernandez and Will Smith. I would say that's 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.720 as close of a good comparison of players that you 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.520 can make from twenty twenty five to nineteen eighty eight. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.120 There's a third and that would be Oral Herscheizer and 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:11.080 Yoshi Yamamoto. But when it comes to the guys we 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.960 had on the show last night, Mickey Hatcher had a 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.680 lot of edge. He was tough, don't get it twisted. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.560 But he also knew how to keep the clubhouse loose, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:24.400 how to have some fun, and that's what Keike Hernandez does. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.280 And Mike Sosha was the rock. He was the rock 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.960 of the Dodgers. Never got too high, never got too low, 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.320 and that's Will Smith. Now, their strengths as catchers are 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:40.360 much different, but their personality very much in line with 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:44.720 each other as catchers. So great comparison last night, And 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:46.520 if you have any thoughts on what they had to 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.520 say about what they were doing, how they broke down 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.200 the World Series. Now's the time our final show of 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.880 the year eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two, five seventy, 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.160 And I want to know you know, I'm not going 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.600 to say to you what is the most critical play 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:06.360 of Game seven of the World Series, because there were 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.880 three or four times if the Dodgers did not make 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.480 a play or did not hit a home run, they're 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.920 losing the World Series in Game seven instead of celebrating 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.960 back to back World Series championships. I guess the way 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.800 to phrase this is the way I feel. To me, 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.120 the ball was going to be caught in center field, 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.440 whether it was Pajez or keik A Hernandez. To me, 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:35.480 the most heartrenching and maybe the closest play that the 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.880 Dodgers may have lost the World Series was the play 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.880 at the plate Miguel Rojas thrown to Will Smith and 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.080 Isaiah kana Falafa not getting a big enough lead. Mickey 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:50.039 Hatcher and Mikezosha talked about that and they basically shot 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.839 down all the excuses people are trying to make for him, 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.760 and also Will Smith having his foot come off home 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.320 plate for a split second, so to for me, that 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:07.320 was the play of Game seven. What was yours? Eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.679 two five seventy. I know everybody wants to know what's next. Well, 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.120 what's next? We had Andrew Friedman on the show last 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.919 week and here's what he said, is next for the 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:20.320 Dodgers off season? 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.040 Yeah, I think adding a bat would be great and 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.840 it would just take some pressure off some of our 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:31.120 younger guys. That being said, things happen over the course 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.159 of the season and getting our younger guys sim at 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.800 bats is going to be really important. Things play out 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.960 in that way. But I think just building out the 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:44.159 depth more, adding a really interesting kind of position player 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.840 that fits into our group really well is very high 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:47.360 on the list. 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.280 All right. That was Andrew Friedman on Dodger Talk last week, 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.800 and if you missed the show or the interview, you 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:57.080 can find it on the iHeartRadio app. You know, here 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:00.960 are the names that fit that description. First and foremost 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:05.240 Brendan Donovan of the Cardinals. Will the Dodgers be able 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.880 to pull off a trade for Donovan and beat out 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.320 whatever the Cardinals are being offered for him remains to 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:15.640 be seen. Lars Newbar, I feel a little overrated. I 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.120 know people have mentioned his name, and yes, his versatility 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:23.000 to play all three outfield spots is nice, but to me, 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.920 it's not the guy that I would want. Number two, 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.360 Jared Duran I don't believe the Dodgers are as high 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.560 on Jared Durant as everybody wants to make you believe. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:40.560 The other players that have been connected to the Dodgers. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.760 Harrison Bader, who they had interest in at the trade 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:47.480 deadline last year, he would have interest in playing here. 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.800 He's got some edge, plays great center field and can hit. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.200 And the other is still with a team. And the 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.840 Astros are listening to offers on Jake Myers, who they 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.560 drafted in twenty seventeen, and he had his breakout season 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.560 last year. Offensively hit two ninety three, had a high 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:09.960 on base and slugging percentage. So that's an interesting name 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.920 as well, that plays great center field defense and offensively 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:18.200 started to make things happen. Now, last night, I didn't 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.400 have a chance to really get into this, but all 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.840 I said it on Petro some money. I'll say it again. 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:27.680 I know Tyler Glass now went on serious XM Radio 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.400 and said the Dodgers reassured him that he's not being traded. 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:37.600 You know, it's probably something to put his off season 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.880 at ease. But you can't tell me if the Dodgers 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:45.400 and Tigers are talking about a trade for Trek Scouobele 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.160 and the Tigers say, you know, we need a pitcher 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.400 that is going to help us win this year and 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.680 they ask for Tyler Glass. Now, for example, you can't 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.680 tell me Andrew Friedman's going to tell the Tigers now 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.920 you know what them in December, we're not trading him. 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:06.120 Can't do it, Sally, I find that very hard to believe. So, 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.600 you know, things are very fluid in the off season, 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:15.240 and I'm sure Tyler took whatever conversation he had as 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.040 if the Dodgers were not going to trade him, and look, 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.920 they very well might not. But I don't believe any 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:27.320 player on the Dodgers is untouchable outside of Otani Yamamoto, 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.520 Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts. I'll put it that way. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.280 And as far as the latest on school Bol goes, 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.480 it's in a holding pattern. The ball is in the 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.600 Tiger's court. Are you going to trade him or are 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.079 you not going to trade him? And I don't believe 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.760 that decision is going to be made by the Tigers, 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.880 and not just their GM, but by their ownership until January. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.840 And oh, by the way, the Tigers signed the all 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:56.959 time Dodgers saves leader Kennley Jansen, who I can't believe 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.440 accepted that contract. He could have got a lot more 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.480 on the open market than what he got from the Tigers. 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.000 I mean, he made ten million dollars with the Angels 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.240 last year and there was no question about him being 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.520 the closer. The Tigers gave him a club option and 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.280 a two million dollar buyout on top of nine million guaranteed, 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:21.439 so he got one million dollar more to pitch in Detroit. 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.000 Come on with some of those reliever contracts. He could 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.640 have done a lot better in my opinion. And if 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.760 he needs me to represent him next year, let me know, 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.920 ken Lee. I'm available during the off season. When we 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.760 continue on Dodger Talk, your phone calls, we have two 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.120 lines open, and also we'll get into bo Bischett and 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.640 how he may fit coming up. At the bottom of 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.800 the hour, River Ryan will join us and as we 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.000 go to break, I just want to send out my 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:52.760 condolences to the Reiner family. Rob Reiner was a huge 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.400 Dodger fan that's been talked about over the last few days. 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:00.960 Rob and Michelle, we send our condolences to your family 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.640 and you will be sorely missed at Dodger Stadium. And 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.360 we're hearing so many great things that Rob Reiner did 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:13.040 to help everybody instead of just himself and his direct interests. 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:18.040 How about this. One of his friends tweeted that Rob 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:22.400 Reiner who had dugout seats for years at Dodger Stadium, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.040 and when he knew he couldn't use the tickets, he 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.719 would share them with American gold Star Mothers. It was 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.840 an organization created to help parents deal with the loss 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.360 of their kids in the line of duty for the 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:41.160 United States Armed Forces. That was Rob Reiner and he 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:45.079 will be missed. And we'll continue with Dodger Talk next 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:49.959 right here on five seventy LA Sports. Hey, check out 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.840 Petro's and Money tomorrow two to four at the BJS 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:59.559 in West Covina, their last remote show on the Streets 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.640 of LA. They'll be at the BJ's in West Covina 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.280 two to four o'clock. I will not be there, and 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.520 I look forward to the day that Petros and Money 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.840 come out to the Woodland Hills bjays. I'll show up 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.040 to that one anyway. Had a lot of good times 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.800 in West Covina back in the day. In that shopping 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.920 center there was a National Sports Grill back in the day, 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.319 and that was a very very fun place. I actually 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.400 produced a Joe McDonald show there once where Kirk Gibson 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:34.800 showed up in nineteen ninety eight and he was doing 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:38.640 a promotion with cors Light and they had his image 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:43.080 of rounding the bases after hitting his legendary walk off 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.120 home run on the can of course light and I 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:50.800 remember Kirk Gibson signing those cans of beer for Big Joe. 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.680 Don't know where that went because Joe never drank, so 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.720 I'm not sure where those cans of beer went. And 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.480 I stayed for the after party. It was a good time. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.520 And tomorrow at Bjason, West Covina, I'm sure it's gonna 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.000 be a great time as well. Petro. Some money will 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:06.840 be there two to four, but I encourage you to 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:10.920 stay for after they're gone, because they're gonna be giving 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.800 away prizes until five o'clock and then you could see 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:18.280 my rams take on the Seattle Seahawks. Eight six six 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.840 nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.080 we're gonna hear from River Ryan coming up at the 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.440 bottom of the hour. But first let's go out to 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.480 the phones and David in Paramount. You're on Dodger Talk. 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.680 David, I hear you on the radio. I see you 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.640 on TV. You know, I watch your show sometimes on 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.080 the Thank You Gusk on TV with when when you 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.560 come on and talk to the other sports people on TV. 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.199 On the screen here it says that you were a 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:50.640 Game three of the World Series and you caught the 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.600 show heo Tani game tying home run in the seventh inning? 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:55.320 Is that true? 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.080 That is correct, sir, Yes, it is. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.360 I heard about this because there's an auction going on 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:07.000 for that baseball right now at scpauctions dot com and 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.040 it closes tomorrow. It's crazy. I was just looking to 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.800 see what the bidding's at. It's at one hundred and 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:18.440 eighty thousand dollars last check, David. So you caught this 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.600 ball and you decided to auction it off. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.320 It took me a little while, you know, after consulting 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.000 with the family, you know, I felt that it was 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:32.400 a great thing to do and see where this ends up. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.400 This is I'll be just obviously my first time ever 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.679 involved in such a moment. So I wanted to give 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:43.640 it a try. I wasn't going to, but we just 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:44.040 went for it. 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.280 This could be make the family a very happy merry Christmas, 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:49.079 I'm sure. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:54.680 Or a three wise Man Day in January, or even 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:59.680 my wife's birthday, which is on January twenty fifth. 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:04.360 That's awesome. That's awesome. Hey David, where were you sitting 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.520 and did did you catch this home run from Otani 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.720 in Game three cleanly? Did you catch it clean or 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:12.679 did it bounce and you had to scramble for it. 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.679 I was sitting in section three or seven of the 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:24.000 left field pavilion, occupying seat seventeen, and when Showhy came 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:28.520 up to bad, we were down. Went out in the 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:34.720 seventeen first pitch off of mister Sir Anthony Domingez, yahoom. 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.880 It came off, It flew up and we were all 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:40.400 looking at it. I was looking at it. I was 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.760 looking at it, and then I've seen it fall off 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.160 to my left about maybe ten to fifteen feet, bounced 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:51.600 off a fan and it bounced directly into my hands 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.880 and I felt it hit my left arm. I gripped it. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:15:00.600 Just pandemonium, It just went crazy. Everybody, my son was excited, 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.520 everybody in our section was excited, and I just didn't 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.320 let go that ball. I enjoyed it. 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:07.960 So is that where you sit when you usually go 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.960 to Dodger games? Or was that that's just where you 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:12.280 sat for the World Series? 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.200 That's normally where where my son and I sit. Yeah, 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.840 because he's a season ticket holder, and you know, every 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:20.720 now and then I'll catch a ball again with him, 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:21.720 and that's where we were. 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.320 That's amazing, that's so cool. And did you stay for 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:26.360 all eighteen innings? 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:31.160 All eighteen innings? We were not going to leave because 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.520 we already knew that after that game was tied and 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:37.520 it went into extra innings, and it just kept going 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.320 and kept going, and just kept hoping that the Dodgers 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.680 would win the game. And it happened when Freddie Freeman 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.160 hits that home run, and it was like, oh my god, 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.800 you know, we went nuts. Yes, we stayed. We stayed 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:52.200 until it was over. 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.400 That's so awesome. Hey, congratulations on being so lucky to 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.680 have that ball bounce right into your hands. It was 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:04.200 the game tying home run. O'tani that game a major 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:08.160 league record on base nine times. Going into extra innings. 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:11.000 He was trying to carry the Dodgers to a win 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.240 in nine innings, and luckily for the Dodgers, they got 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:18.000 it in eighteen. So man, David, thank you for calling, 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.760 and congratulations and Merry Christmas to you and your family. 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.160 And we'll keep tabs on where this ball ends. It 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.640 ends tomorrow night the auction I was checking it out. 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:32.800 So if you want this baseball, scpauctions dot com is 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.000 where you go. All right, David, Merry Christmas and call 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:36.800 back anytime. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.960 Thank you, sir, God mess you take care. Happy Merry Christmas, 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.040 Happy New Year, see you and your family and stay safe. Please. 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:48.160 Hey, happy Merry Christmas to you too, David, thanks for calling, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.680 appreciate it. How about that the guy that caught Otani's 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.200 game tying home run in the seventh inning of Game 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.960 three of the World Series calling in, And you know 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.920 I did see this online at cp auctions dot com 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.320 that this ball is being auctioned, and last checked it 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:09.200 was close to two hundred thousand dollars. It closes tomorrow, 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.320 so I don't begrudge him. You know, it's great to 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.680 have a baseball, but it's even better to have two 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.920 hundred thousand dollars eight six six nine eighty seven. Two 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:22.119 five seventy is the phone number. Man Well and Guardina. 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.440 If you were in David shoes, would you have kept 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.439 the baseball or would you put it up for auction? 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:28.160 Nah? 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.119 Man, you gotta go with David Man got option that 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.720 that bad boy. That's a life for your family. A 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:41.159 speaking of family, am five seventy guys like you the 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:45.720 real DV my Man, Ronnie Fossio, my man calling ye. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.920 I'm just so thankful man for you guys, for everything 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.879 you guys give us all year long. You guys are 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:58.240 the gift that keeps giving man like Sanna Sack all 0:17:58.359 --> 0:17:58.920 year long. 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:00.000 You know what I mean? 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.320 And so I love it man, all the Dodger Info. 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:08.080 Looking forward to this new upcoming season with Edwin Diaz 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:12.119 and all the moves that the brain trust is gonna 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.240 make with Gombs and Freedmen, you know, because I know 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.840 it's gonna be some moving parts. But we were talking 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:24.399 about it on hold me and Ronnie. It's not impossible 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.160 to three Pete And I'm thinking it's more like it's 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:32.560 impending because the way that this organization handles their business 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.199 is second to none. And I'm so proud to be 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:38.640 a Dodger fan, and like I said before, man, I'm 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.399 just thankful for you guys at five point seventy for 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.120 keeping us in the loop every day. 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.640 All right, Well, Marry Christmas, have a. 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.359 Great day day season. You deserve the time off. 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.000 Thank you many appreciate it. Merry Christmas and Happy New 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:59.080 Year to you as well. Look, it's not impossible to threepete. 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.639 It happened five years ago when the Yankees did it, 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.240 the A's did it in the seventies, of course. I 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:10.119 mean when we talk about modern day three peats, those 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.959 are the two that really stand out to me. So 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:17.520 it can be done. And the Dodgers are in that mindset, 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:21.800 from Mark Walter to Andrew Friedman, to Dave Roberts to 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.399 the players to want to go for a three peat, 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.240 and they have the players to do it. They're going 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.560 to add more players to try to achieve that. And 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:35.560 there are no apologies to be had the Dodgers. You know, 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:40.560 thirteen fourteen years ago we're the laughing stock of baseball. 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:45.600 Under Frank McCort and Mark Walter, Magic Johnson, Todd Bowley 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:50.280 and the rest of that ownership group has resurrected this 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:54.760 franchise and made it the best in baseball. And these 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:59.440 last fourteen years are the best fourteen years the Dodgers 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:05.000 have ever enjoyed in their franchise illustrious franchise history. As 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:09.879 far as sustained success goes, it's been remarkable compared to 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:13.760 where they were just merely in twenty eleven, twenty twelve. 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:18.679 It wasn't that long ago. So there are no apologies 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.640 needed for what the Dodgers are doing. They're playing within 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:24.960 the rules. But as I have said many times before, 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:30.400 whether it's the Dodgers television deal, whether it's the Dodgers 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.240 deferring payments, which by the way, all the teams do 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:37.560 it started. You know, they have Bobby Bonia day for 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:42.280 a reason. His salary was deferred by the Mets back 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.000 in the late nineties, and that was the brainchild of 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:48.800 his agent, Dennis Gogo Gilbert. So for those that have 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:53.280 sour grapes and are salty about the Dodgers deferring contracts, 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:57.280 it's been going on for a long time. Okay, it's 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.960 been going on for quite some time. And now they're 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.919 a luxury tax and there are three or four steps 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:06.040 ahead of everybody else. And now you're starting to see 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:10.320 other teams this offseason start to defer contracts, including the 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:14.720 Blue Jays with Dylan c. So again, the Dodgers are three, four, 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:19.480 five steps ahead of everybody else. And when you talk 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:23.639 about the Dodgers pursuing a guy like Tarrek's scooble has 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:26.679 nothing to do with their payroll, has everything to do 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:32.000 with their player development. They're scouting and cultivating young players 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:35.439 that other teams covet for a picture the caliber of 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:39.080 Trek's scouble. Let's go out to Ed and Wittier. You're 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:40.400 on Dodger Talk. How you doing? 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:40.600 Ed? 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.240 Doing great? Dave? Thank you so much for taking my call. 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:48.680 I just want to say thank you for the whole 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:51.600 entire year and all this time you've been with the Dodgers. 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:54.960 It's amazing. I've talked to you a couple of times 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:57.080 this season and it's always a pleasure to be on 0:21:57.119 --> 0:21:58.040 the radio with you. 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:00.560 Hey, thank you, edpreciate it. 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.760 So my question is, is I know we're going for 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:09.800 a three P. This year was an amazing year followed 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:13.920 up with the twenty twenty four World Series to get 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:17.600 that three P. Who do you believe is our biggest contender? 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:20.800 I know it's still super early in the offseason and 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:22.879 there's a lot more thought are going to happen. But 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:25.199 who do you see is gonna be our kind of 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:28.520 biggest hurdle? And then where do you think the Padres 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:32.919 are at and the Orioles as well, with that signing 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:37.200 that they did earlier. I'll hang out on here. You respond, thank. 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:39.800 Dave, all right, ed, thank you for the phone call. Well, 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:42.000 here's something that I brought up on Sports and at 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:45.439 LA last week, when you're talking about the Orioles signing 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:48.320 Pete Alonso, who I thought was going to sign with 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:52.119 the Red Sox. But the Red Sox are trying to 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:57.320 play too rational. Andrew Friedman made the saying famous now 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:00.919 and infamous in some ways that if you're going to 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:04.120 be rational in free agency, you're not going to sign 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:07.119 the player. You've got to be irrational to sign the 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:11.040 best players in free agency. And I am shocked the 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:14.000 Red Sox did not land Peede Alonzo. I thought the 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:17.520 Orioles had one of those anomaly seasons where they have 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:20.240 so much good young talent that they just took a 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:23.520 step backwards. But I fully expect them to take a 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:27.760 big step forward. And since twenty eighteen when the Dodgers 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:32.440 and Red Sox met in the World Series. Every Al 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:36.199 East team has played the Dodgers in the World Series 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:41.120 since twenty eighteen, except the Baltimore Orioles. Does it mean 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:45.719 it's their turn? Think about it. Every Dodger Championship or 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:50.280 every Dodger World Series matchup since twenty eighteen has been 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:55.320 Dodgers versus the Red Sox in eighteen, Dodgers versus the 0:23:55.440 --> 0:24:00.000