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Speaker 1: They say. The hardest thing in sports isn't winning a title.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to repeat seasons. It's winning it again this

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Speaker 2: yearning is.

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Speaker 3: Not trying to win a championship, They're trying to repeat.

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Speaker 1: It's October baseball for your world champion in La Dodger.

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Speaker 4: The twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National League's Western

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Speaker 4: Division champions.

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Speaker 1: And you know what that means.

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Speaker 2: Saxon Kates and AM is back.

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Speaker 1: This is Saxon Kates in the Morning with Tim Kates

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Speaker 1: and former World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 5: Reacting, taking your phone calls talking Dodgers playoff baseball all

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Speaker 5: postseason long.

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Speaker 1: Now here they are on AM five to seventy LA

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Speaker 2: Steve Sacks, Tim Kats.

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Speaker 1: Tim Kates and World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 2: Oh, the Fall Classic is said.

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Speaker 5: The Dodgers West for a repeat will have to go

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Speaker 5: north to the border Toronto, Canada, as the Dodgers will

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Speaker 5: take on the Blue Jays, who would make their first

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Speaker 5: World Series since nineteen ninety three. And it'll all began

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Speaker 5: on Friday right here on A five to seventy LA Sports.

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Speaker 5: Tims Kates, Steve Sacks, and you on this Tuesday morning,

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Speaker 5: as the Blue Jays punched their ticket with a Game

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Speaker 5: seven win last night over the Seattle Mariners. I feel

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Speaker 5: for the Pacific Northwest as they were nine outs away

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Speaker 5: from going to their first ever, first ever World Series

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Speaker 5: and they get it snatched by cheating George Springer and

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Speaker 5: his three run home run in the seventh inning. And

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Speaker 5: I say that because he was a member of the

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Speaker 5: twenty seventeen Houston Astros, who again cheated their way to

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Speaker 5: a World Series championship in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 6: I thought they had it when the big number went deep.

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Speaker 2: Man, they took a three to one lead, put them

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Speaker 6: To one, right, yeah, yeah, but it wasn't wasn't meant

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Speaker 5: No, And again there is a lot of questioning up

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Speaker 5: the stretch and who they didn't go to as far

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Speaker 5: as their big time, high leverage reliever and closer, one

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Speaker 5: of the best in baseball and munos. Instead, they elect

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Speaker 5: to go to another arm that's well George Springer had

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Speaker 5: seen the night before and take some deep in Game

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Speaker 5: seven on the Alcs. And so we'll have a matchup

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Speaker 5: of two organization. Steve Sachs that this time we can't

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Speaker 5: sit here and call one the average Joes.

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Speaker 2: We can't call in.

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Speaker 5: The other one just a blue collar, hard working city

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Speaker 5: team with a bunch of scrappy players. No, this is

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Speaker 5: the Dodgers against the Blue Jays, and we are being

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Speaker 5: just thrown at us the economics of baseball, and Jerry

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Speaker 5: Royce is going to join us at about twenty minutes. But

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Speaker 5: the LA Times today a big article. MLB owners say

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Speaker 5: lopsided spending is a serious problem.

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Speaker 2: What does the union say, Well, in the.

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Speaker 5: Last four days, all we've heard about is the Dodgers

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Speaker 5: are ruining baseball. The Dodgers spend too much, and the

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Speaker 5: Dodgers do this, and the Dodgers overpay, and the Dodgers

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Speaker 5: just throw money at players to bring him to LA

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Speaker 5: they're buying the championship. Well, look at the Toronto Blue Jays,

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Speaker 5: top five in baseball in salaries. They've got a five

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Speaker 5: hundred million dollar player on their team in Vlad Guerrero.

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Speaker 5: They've got four guys making over twenty million dollars a season.

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Speaker 5: This isn't a low pay roll, small market, little team.

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Speaker 5: That's just a feel good story that the baseball world

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Speaker 2: In this Fall Classic.

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Speaker 5: This is a big time high pain Toronto Blue Jays

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Speaker 5: roster with a lot of talent they brought in in

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Speaker 5: that is going up against the Dodgers. So we can't

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Speaker 5: have this argument for the next seven games potentially, of well,

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Speaker 5: small market versus big market Canada versus US, there are

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Speaker 5: two teams that spend a lot of money and should

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a non issue. Nobody's buying it. They both

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Speaker 6: spend money, they're they're both really good teams. You've got

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Speaker 6: Canada versus a US. And maybe it's fitting that it's

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Speaker 6: That's the issue of who's going to be the best team,

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Speaker 6: not the most talent, but the best team. And if

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Speaker 6: this year, they're going to uh, They're going to slaughter

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Speaker 5: The Toronto Blue Jays just to put in perspective for

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Speaker 5: those they can all look small Toronto. They're not paying

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Speaker 5: in total payroll this season in Baseball two hundred and

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Speaker 5: fifty five million dollars. Vlad Guerre just signed a five

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Speaker 5: the last five years, they have ranked between ninth and

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Speaker 5: twelfth in total payroll in all of Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 5: They spend They tried to get showay Otani two off

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Speaker 5: was a lot of talk that he was even going

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Speaker 5: a report that he was on a plane leaving John

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Speaker 5: be the case, but this is a talk now in

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Speaker 5: baseball of the economics, Steve, and it's being shoved at us,

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Speaker 5: whether it's right or wrong, by the writers, by the media,

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Speaker 5: this team is bad, and this is not good, and

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Speaker 5: we're destined for a lockout. I don't want to hear

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Speaker 5: that anymore. Not right now. We have all offseason to

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Speaker 5: it's destined for a lockout, and it's going to be

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Speaker 5: a long, prolonged lockout in baseball in twenty two days.

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Speaker 5: Worry about that later. Let's enjoy this World Series. And

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Speaker 5: I don't think the fans. I don't think the fans

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Speaker 6: We have another year, tim, right.

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Speaker 5: I don't think the fans care, though about the economics

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Speaker 5: And if you're a Dodger fan, you want to see

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Speaker 5: And I don't want the economics of the game to

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Speaker 5: we can get into that for three months. We could

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Speaker 5: is it? The lockout's coming in twenty twenty seven. The

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Speaker 5: But I don't think fans care about this stuff.

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Speaker 6: Hey, listen, even if you say that the dot it's bad.

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Speaker 6: If they spend a lot of money, at least they're

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Speaker 5: Right, How do think Steve Cohen's feeling exactly? There you go,

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Speaker 5: exactly not getting any return on it. Didn't even make

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and lot Soto, that guy. They paid that guy

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Speaker 6: not even close, who's a better player. It's it's it's

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Speaker 6: Miles and it's it's universe is the part who's a

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Speaker 6: better player? It's not even close. Okay, Yeah, and they

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Speaker 6: I mean, if Steve Cohen wants to do that, that's

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Speaker 6: up to him. It's his money. He can spend it.

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Speaker 6: This is capitalism. He can spend it any way he wants.

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Speaker 6: But if he's gonna give you know, Juan Soto, the

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Speaker 6: ahead and believe me, there's no return on it there, right, none?

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Speaker 5: I think the only fans that do care about the

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Speaker 5: But in the Padres in San Diego. What the heck happened?

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Speaker 5: We spend all this money. We're supposed to be winners,

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Speaker 5: They spend a lot of money, both teams, and they've

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Speaker 5: So these are two teams that, yes, spend a lot

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Speaker 5: Unlike the New York Mets and some of these other

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Speaker 5: economic question. But we got two teams that have done

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Speaker 5: economic talk. I don't want to see things written anymore

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Speaker 2: Uh, they ruined this sport. No stop. I don't want

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Tim, do you have an opinion on this?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, just a little bit of an opinion on this.

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Speaker 5: I'm just tired of every you go to, every dot

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Speaker 5: the economics of it.

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Speaker 6: I'm so I'm I'm gonna put myself because you you've

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Speaker 7: I'm doing it all right. Hi Tim, Hi Steven.

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Speaker 5: We appreciate you coming on this morning. Jerry and another

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Speaker 4: Well, it's probably about as good as you're going to

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Speaker 5: This Dodger rotation. You know, they they planned this out, Jerry.

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Speaker 4: but it just didn't happen that way. But they did

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Speaker 4: develop a plan, and it seems like a lot of

437
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,359
Speaker 4: people were involved in the decision as to how to

438
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Speaker 4: go about doing it, and the way they saw the

439
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 4: chips fall, they said, let's go ahead, get these guys back,

440
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 4: have them ready for August and September, and then if

441
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Speaker 4: we are able to get into the postseason and have

442
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Speaker 4: them at full strength. You know, sometimes you make plans

443
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,680
Speaker 4: like that and they fall into place, which is exactly

444
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 4: what happened for the Dodgers this year.

445
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Speaker 6: Jerry, your career spanned over you pitched in four different decades,

446
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 6: and just from playing behind you, I mean, you had

447
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,760
Speaker 6: like the most wicked fastball. I think I've ever seen

448
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 6: that thing moved like a snake on a griddle. That

449
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 6: thing moves so much. You know, taking into consideration the

450
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,239
Speaker 6: evolution of the game going way back and going forward now,

451
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Speaker 6: how they just try to hit a lot of home runs, strikeouts,

452
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,359
Speaker 6: aren't an issue. Would you have to change the way

453
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Speaker 6: that you pitched, or would you just do what you

454
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:43,159
Speaker 6: normally had done and been even more of a strikeout pitcher.

455
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:48,120
Speaker 4: You know, that's a tough question to answer because I've

456
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,159
Speaker 4: tried to place myself into the mindset.

457
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Speaker 7: Of today's game. Remember, you and.

458
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Speaker 4: I both played at a time when the mindset was

459
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Speaker 4: different for a starting pitcher. Even though you were an infielder,

460
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 4: you were on the pitchers all the time, and the

461
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:06,159
Speaker 4: whole idea was to get through the game. You pitched

462
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 4: nine you were out there for twenty seven outs, and

463
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 4: you took it one.

464
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Speaker 7: At a time.

465
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Speaker 4: Today, that's not necessarily the focus. I don't know what

466
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 4: I would have done, how I would have handled it,

467
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,160
Speaker 4: but just one thing, and I'm going to go on

468
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 4: a tangent a little bit here. I see the velocities

469
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 4: that guys are throwing, and I'm seeing on a regular basis,

470
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 4: everybody that comes in there posts ninety plus and ninety

471
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 4: five to ninety eight is on a regular basis, you know, Stephen.

472
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Speaker 4: What I'd like to see is that same radar gun

473
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Speaker 4: used back in the days that we played in the

474
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,119
Speaker 4: seventies and in the eighties, and I would like to

475
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,719
Speaker 4: see what Nolan Ryan would have posted on that. In

476
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 4: my opinion, him along with JR. Richard in the National League.

477
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 4: I didn't see the American League that much. They would

478
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 4: have burned that radar gun because they would have it

479
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 4: would have been somewhere up above one hundred. There's no

480
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 4: question in my mind.

481
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,439
Speaker 6: Jerry, I saw make a mockup of Nolan Ryan, and

482
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 6: they tested it coming out of the hand like they

483
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 6: do today, not going across the plate, and it was

484
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:20,119
Speaker 6: somewhere between one oh six and one oh nine. Oh yeah,

485
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,879
Speaker 6: and nobody throws close to that hard today. And but

486
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 6: that's what it's that's what it showed. So there you

487
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 6: have it. I've been down in the pit since spring training. Jerry,

488
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 6: I don't see any difference. I think overall they throw

489
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 6: harder today. I think if you had to get every

490
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 6: player and put it in there, I think there's a

491
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 6: little bit, a little little fudge more on this side,

492
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 6: but not not dragted. There's not like one, you know,

493
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 6: one oh four and then everybody else is throlling ninety.

494
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 6: That is not true. That is not the case.

495
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:53,439
Speaker 4: Well, it's a transition of baseball and baseball grows. Uh,

496
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 4: it seems on a daily basis into something that goes

497
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 4: further from the type of game that we play back then.

498
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:02,919
Speaker 7: Was our game better? I don't know.

499
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 4: I guess in some ways yes, and in some ways no.

500
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 4: But this is what you have today. You have the

501
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 4: velocity and you have the hitters that are trying to

502
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:18,199
Speaker 4: turn that velocity around and convert it into one swing

503
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 4: of the bat runs produced. So to me, it's just

504
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 4: a different kind of game.

505
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Speaker 7: I enjoy it just as much. It's just different. Yeah.

506
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Speaker 5: Jerry Royce with us here on AMPI seventy LA Sports.

507
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Speaker 5: I'm curious, Jerry, have you ever gotten payback on Steve

508
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 5: Sacks for the shaving cream pie during the live TV

509
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,919
Speaker 5: interview way back when? Is Steve still head on a

510
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 5: swivel wondering if you're gonna get him one day or

511
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 5: did you ever get him back?

512
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:47,919
Speaker 6: He got me many times?

513
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,119
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that's probably true. I got you many times,

514
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 4: but in that particular instance, you got me. Boy, was

515
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 4: it good?

516
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Speaker 7: You nailed me.

517
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,400
Speaker 4: All I could do was laugh and try to keep

518
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 4: a straight face while I'm doing the interview. I remember

519
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 4: wiping the shaving cream from my eyes and mouth and

520
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 4: answering the question, which I thought was pretty good. But

521
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 4: if I remember this correctly, I never did anything to

522
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 4: you after that. And after about a week, maybe ten days,

523
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 4: you finally came up to me, put your arm around

524
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 4: me and say, please get me now so I can

525
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 4: stop worrying about this and move on with my life.

526
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Speaker 6: I wanted to move on to with life, and Tim,

527
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 6: I wanted to tell you, in all my all your

528
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 6: great listeners out there, Tim, that Jerry Royce was by

529
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 6: far maybe the best one of the definitely one of

530
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 6: the best teammates anybody could ever have. I think he

531
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Speaker 6: made me feel really relaxed. I remember one time in

532
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 6: a Sunday day game I was. It was in Saint Louis.

533
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Speaker 6: It was a nationally televised game. My first one Jerry

534
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 6: called He he called me over from second base, was

535
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 6: right in the middle of the game, and I'm thinking,

536
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 6: pictures like him, of his stature, don't like guys like

537
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 6: me going to the mound. I mean, if I went

538
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 6: up there, he'd just say get the hell out of here,

539
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 6: you know, and I would understand that. But he says,

540
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 6: come over here, and I said, what is this? So

541
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 6: I go up to the mound for no reason, and

542
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 6: Jerry tells me, he says, how's it going on here?

543
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 6: What I'm gonna think of? What's going on? He says,

544
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,120
Speaker 6: I just want you to get a little extra TV time.

545
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 6: I know your family's probably watching. Now, get your ass

546
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 6: back to second base. And and he did that for me.

547
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 6: I mean it was it was amazing that how how

548
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 6: relaxed he made you feel. And uh, definitely one of

549
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,160
Speaker 6: the greatest teammates ever. Just amazing. And I must say

550
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 6: this too before I shut up. Is the time when

551
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 6: Jerry dressed up in the grounds crew on the last

552
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 6: day of the season, because he obviously wasn't pitching that day,

553
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 6: dressed up in the ground screw and was dragging the

554
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 6: infield under you know under you know the guys of

555
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 6: just being a ground screw guy. Nobody noticed it till

556
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 6: till later on in the drag, but but he was there.

557
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 6: He was dragging the infield on the jumbo tron.

558
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 4: You know, that's very kind to you to say, I'm

559
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 4: just glad you didn't say that I was in dragging

560
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 4: the inside.

561
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 6: No, that's not what I meant, but Tim, you know

562
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 6: what I mean. It was the greatest. I had such

563
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 6: a great time with him.

564
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 5: Jerry, how important was that for you to keep things loose,

565
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 5: to have a good time with your teammates during the

566
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 5: grind of one hundred and sixty two game season.

567
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 4: Well, it's a marathon, it's not a sprint, and they're

568
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 4: just sometimes that the focus is on the game and

569
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 4: you have a sense about the people that are playing

570
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 4: behind you. And if I sensed that something was a

571
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 4: bit awry, I wanted to put everybody at ease, because

572
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 4: to have everybody relax meant to me that they were

573
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 4: playing better. And if I got the best possible production

574
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 4: out of the guys behind me, it meant that we

575
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 4: were off the field as defensive unit and went in

576
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 4: as an offensive unit. And anytime that your team is

577
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 4: on offense more than they are in defense, a lot

578
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 4: of good things are going to happen.

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Speaker 6: That's truth. And Jerry, look, I look at your career

580
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 6: and your stats. Twenty two years that you went up

581
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 6: there and were just hurling your your tail off. One

582
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 6: of the years you pitched two hundred and seventy nine innings.

583
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 6: It was right in the middle of several years of

584
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 6: way over two hundred innings I mean it had to

585
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 6: be eight or nine years of two hundred innings plus.

586
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 6: I mean, that's double the workload that a lot of

587
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 6: pitchers do today. They get one hundred innings and the

588
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 6: light starts blinking. All right, they're ready to come off, Jerry.

589
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 6: What's the difference. Is the evolution of the arm or

590
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 6: is it the de evolution of the arm taking place?

591
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 6: Or what is it? How were you able to pitch

592
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 6: twice as much as people today?

593
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 4: Well, fortunately I was blessed the Good Lord, it seems

594
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 4: when I was born tapped me on the left shoulder,

595
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 4: looked me in the eye and said, you'll figure it out.

596
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 4: And I was able to progress from a kid through

597
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 4: Little League, through high school, American Legion, the minor leagues,

598
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 4: and be fortunate to be one of the one in

599
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 4: a million that actually made it to the big leagues.

600
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 4: And then once I got there, I made a lot

601
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 4: of decisions, many of them good, some of them not

602
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 4: so good. But I was able to last for twenty

603
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 4: two different seasons, So that's a lot of it. The

604
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 4: other thing is that I did the work that was involved,

605
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 4: and that's how you get to the big leagues, that's

606
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 4: how you stay there, you did it yourself. How many

607
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 4: hours did you put in during spring training with Lesorda

608
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 4: throwing batting practice and also getting you a number of

609
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 4: ground balls that only made you a better player, both

610
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 4: offensively and defensively. That's what it takes to last that long.

611
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Speaker 2: Well, well, Jerr, we appreciate you joining us.

612
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 5: It's become an annual now that the Dodgers are continually

613
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 5: back into the postseason in October. Really appreciate you jumping

614
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 5: on this morning, and hopefully the Dodgers have four more

615
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 5: wins than them and then get another World Series championship.

616
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 5: Here to the city, Los Angeles. Thanks for doing it.

617
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 7: Well, Tim, Thanks for having me.

618
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 4: Steven. Always great to hear from you. I hope you're

619
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 4: feeling better after that surgery earlier this year.

620
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 7: Jerry like it.

621
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Speaker 6: I'm doing great, Jerry. I got no restrictions and everything

622
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 6: is full speed ahead. Feel great. Thank you.

623
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Speaker 7: Well, there you go. I'll tell you what.

624
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 4: Let's enjoy the World Series and perhaps next year we

625
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 4: can repeat and we'll talk about this same time, same

626
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 4: time of year.

627
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 2: Sounds good. Thanks a lot, Jerry, Thank.

628
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 7: You, Jerry. Okay, guys, all right, there.

629
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Speaker 2: He goes the great Jerry Royce twenty two years he pitched.

630
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Speaker 6: One of my favorite teammates, Tim.

631
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Speaker 5: Yeah, how long did you have that head on this swivel?

632
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 5: Even though he told you it's okay after that shaving

633
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 5: cream pied to the face there when he was doing

634
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 5: a TV interview, I think postgame back when he said

635
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 5: he was going to get you and he never did.

636
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 5: But how long were you a guy always looking around

637
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 5: looking for Jerry Royce.

638
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 6: Every day, every day went in the locker room. I

639
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 6: finally I just went up to him and I said, look, hey,

640
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 6: can we just call a truce or just get me

641
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 6: right now? Because I want to concentrate on this other

642
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 6: stuff you're you know, I know the reputation. I've seen it,

643
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 6: and you don't want to be in that in that

644
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 6: web right there when you got one coming from Jerry Royce.

645
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 6: But I'll tell you what. He was just such a

646
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 6: great guy to have on the team, you know, just

647
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 6: he has a very serious side to him too, you know,

648
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 6: you see the fun loving guy. But boy, I'll tell

649
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 6: you what. One time when I got hit by a pitch.

650
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 6: We were in Saint Louis, oddly where Jerry grew up.

651
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 6: I got hit by a pitch in the first inning,

652
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 6: and you know, the side was retired and I'm getting

653
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Speaker 6: ready to go out there for defense. Jerry's glove just

654
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 6: happened to be right next to me where I was

655
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Speaker 6: sitting on the benches. We're getting ready to go out

656
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Speaker 6: to the bottom of the first. Remember, I just get

657
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Speaker 6: been hit. So Jerry Royce comes to pick up his glove,

658
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 6: he looks at me and he winks and he goes out.

659
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 6: What do you think he did with the first first hitter?

660
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 6: Drilled them, freaking drilled him right in the ribs. Love it.

661
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 6: And that's what he was like.

662
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 7: He was.

663
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 6: He was a dogged competitor and boy, if you mess

664
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Speaker 6: with anybody on his team, he'd take care of it.

665
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 6: And that's a great thing about baseball being able to

666
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 6: police itself. And back then it was all good. There

667
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 6: was no fight in the game. You know, the Cardinals

668
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 6: knew what was coming. They hit me, so our guy

669
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Speaker 6: Jerry Royce is going to hit them, and he did

670
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Speaker 6: and it was over.

671
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 2: It's part of baseball, part of baseball.

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Speaker 6: Love it.

673
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Speaker 5: Thanks to Jerry for PAP and I we'll come back.

674
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Speaker 5: We'll wrap things up here on Saxon Kates to the am,

675
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 5: as we are one day closer to Game one of

676
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Speaker 5: the World Series and it's set yep, Dodgers in the

677
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Speaker 5: Toronto Blue Jays Game one Friday night from the Rogers

678
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 5: Center in Toronto, Canada. As we'll come back, get you

679
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 5: more of your phone calls and hand things off to

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Speaker 5: Colin Cowhard Rodney noon to three, Petro some money three

681
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Speaker 5: to seven. We got a special off night Dodger Talked

682
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Speaker 5: tonight from seven eight pm with the one and only

683
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 5: David Vassa, Steve Sacks, Tim Katson. You right here on

684
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 5: ANFI seventy LA Sports, Saxon Kates in the am wrapping

685
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 5: things up on this Tuesday morning. Is the World Series

686
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 5: is set Dodgers Blue Jays, and it'll start north of

687
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 5: the border in Toronto on Friday night, Game one from

688
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Speaker 5: the Rogers Center, where last night the Blue Jays celebrated

689
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 5: at Game seven ALCS win over the Seattle Mariners and

690
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 5: the Dodgers now get ready for the best of seven,

691
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 5: winner takes all World Series, beginning right here on m

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Speaker 5: FI seventy LA Sports on Friday night, first.

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Speaker 2: Pitch at five o eight pm.

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Speaker 5: Mix to Jerry Royce for joining us here, got a

695
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Speaker 5: special guest coming up on Thursday show. Already, Saxon, you're

696
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 5: gonna love this as a football fan, this gentleman is

697
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 5: a fan of the Dodgers, grew up Dodgers fan, rooting

698
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers now and very excited. On Thursday, We're

699
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 5: going to talk to former Raiders quarterback Derek Carr. We'll

700
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 5: be on the show talk a little well football and

701
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,240
Speaker 5: Derek and yeah talking man.

702
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 6: Yep, he's a Ethn Slinger. I guy is a great athlete.

703
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 6: He's a fan of Derek Carr.

704
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 5: Big Dodger fan as well. Saw him out at Dodger

705
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 5: Stadium during the summertime. He was out there with his

706
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 5: kids enjoying the Dodger pregame, batting practice on the field

707
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 5: and watching the game there as well. So he'll be

708
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,479
Speaker 5: joining us on Thursday, get his thoughts on this World

709
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 5: Series and maybe talk a little Silver and Black and

710
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 5: little football with him as well. He's got a new

711
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 5: podcast with his brother that he is doing. So new

712
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 5: things he's doing post retirement now as he has hung

713
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 5: up the cleats and now got into doing some broadcasting.

714
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 6: So nice. He'll be really good at it, no question.

715
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely his brother does it for the NFL Network,

716
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 5: and Derek started now and again big Dodgers fans, so

717
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 5: we'll check in with him coming up on a Thursday.

718
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 5: Game one starter most likely going to be Blake Snell.

719
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,839
Speaker 5: Game two most likely Yoshi Noble Yamamoto. And keep in mind,

720
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 5: Dodger fans, The Dodgers did see the Toronto Blue Jays

721
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 5: three times at Dodger Stadium during the regular season, and

722
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 5: the Dodgers won two of those three games, and we're

723
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:15,320
Speaker 5: close to a three game sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays.

724
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 5: And that was a series in which Tyler glass Now

725
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 5: got to start, and we saw Clayton Kershaw get a

726
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 5: start and pitch really well in a victory over the

727
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Speaker 5: Toronto Blue Jays. I'm curious to see Steve what Clayton

728
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 5: Kershaw's role is going to be here in this World series.

729
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 5: Been very limited so far, not a great sample size

730
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 5: to worry to work with in the postseason here, but

731
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 5: he's on the roster. He'll be one of the left

732
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 5: handers available. I imagine we see him at some point.

733
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Speaker 5: I would tend to believe probably a Dodger Stadium in

734
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Speaker 5: one of those games three, four, and five against the

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Speaker 5: Toronto Blue Jays. But I wouldn't be shocked if we

736
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 5: see Clayton Kershaw at some point in this World Series.

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00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so too. Probably not as a starter.

738
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 6: I would think probably in Game three, four five. They'll

739
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 6: keep what they've had so far that's been very successful

740
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 6: and only one loss so far in this whole whole postseason.

741
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 6: So I sound like a Canuck right there, right, a

742
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 6: bold season. I suppose they get that all the time, right,

743
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 6: I mean, these guys hear that all the time about

744
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 6: their about their accent. But look, I think we'll hear

745
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,760
Speaker 6: or we'll see Clayton at some time. But I probably

746
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:25,720
Speaker 6: don't think it's gonna happen as a starter.

747
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, I don't think so either, unless they desperately

748
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 5: need them, you know, in a Game five. But I just

749
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 5: don't see that happening.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 2: I see him more coming out.

752
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 5: And eating out innings and out for the Dodgers in

753
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 5: a in a middle part of the game, you know

754
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 5: what I mean, you know, to bridge the gap between

755
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,240
Speaker 5: a starter and the back end of that bullpen.

756
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 6: So yeah, probably that's where i'd probably see him fit in.

757
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 6: I'm glad that we've gone actually a whole you know,

758
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 6: a couple of days now and we haven't brought up

759
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 6: the uh, the the slang of a you know, it

760
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,879
Speaker 6: gets old when you're talking about people from Canada. Oh

761
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 6: they say A you know what, because I played in Canada.

762
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,800
Speaker 6: My first year in professional baseball was in Lethbridge, Alberta.

763
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 6: And when I came home, how was Canada A?

764
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Speaker 7: I say?

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Speaker 6: Really? I mean they they talk better than that.

766
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

767
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:20,240
Speaker 6: It's like that's all you can say is a come on, really,

768
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Speaker 6: you know what.

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Speaker 2: Tim Hortons is in Canada.

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Speaker 5: It's it's a restaurant, right, the donuts, the donut donuts. Yeah, okay,

771
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 5: known for their donuts, and in particular in Canada, consistently

772
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Speaker 5: one of the most popular and top selling donuts in

773
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Speaker 5: all of Canada, and not just to Tim Hortons, but

774
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:41,320
Speaker 5: in all of Canada.

775
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 2: Is the apple fritter.

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Speaker 6: Oh wow, how about that.

777
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 7: Great?

778
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 6: You've had the apple fritter, right.

779
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 2: I love an apple fretter, but easy.

780
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Speaker 5: I've never had Tim Hortons No, And I don't know

781
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Speaker 5: if it's.

782
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Speaker 2: Like one of these like mustabs.

783
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Speaker 5: When you go to Canada, you got to try these

784
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 5: Tim Horton's Donuts because there's so much different than you know,

785
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 5: your local donut shop, which you can go to anywhere,

786
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 5: and every city's got those spots. It doesn't have to

787
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 5: be a chain, you know place. But yeah, I mean,

788
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 5: donut is a donut is a donut in my opinion.

789
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 6: Well, I think if I do happen to be in

790
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 6: studio to finish off the last week or the postseason,

791
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 6: yep in the World Series, will scam Oh yeah, maybe

792
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,479
Speaker 6: we could have somebody send in a fritter from Tim

793
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 6: Hortons in Canada.

794
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 2: We can make for us. We could absolutely make that happen.

795
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 6: Worst Day Scam Jersey to come or the scam shirt.

796
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 5: Still working on those, but we could definitely get some

797
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 5: donuts in here and uh and taste test Tim Hortons

798
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 5: versus La Donuts, which is of course Randy's Donuts. Will

799
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 5: be a good spot to get some in. Shout out

800
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 5: to you guys over Randy's Donuts. We'd love to get

801
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,959
Speaker 5: some donuts in with little Dodger blue frosting on top.

802
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 5: That's good if you're listening, Call all right, Saxy, one

803
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 5: more day closer to Game one of this World Series.

804
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:55,240
Speaker 2: We'll be back at it tomorrow.

805
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 5: David Vesta will check in, the Dodgers will work out today,

806
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 5: and I assume the Dodgers probably gonna fly out tomorrow,

807
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 5: get settled, work out on Thursday, Media day on Thursday

808
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 5: for this World series, and then back at it of

809
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 5: course on Friday for Game.

810
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 6: One, tomorrow being the penultimate day. Yes, before the game.

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Speaker 2: Let's go getting ready.

812
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Speaker 5: There you go, Steve Sacks, Tim Kath thanks to Michelle

813
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Speaker 5: Colin Coward coming up next