WEBVTT - Off Season Dodger Talk (2-9-26) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.800 This is off season Dodger Talk. Get in on the 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:07.320 show by calling eight six six seven s four hashtag 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.560 Dodger Talk and now your host, David Basse. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.760 It is finally here, the week the Dodgers pitchers and 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:22.160 catchers officially report to Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona. We 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:26.639 will be out there beginning this Friday in spring training 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.200 and we will have Dodger Talk and all the latest 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:34.240 news from Arizona starting on Friday right here on AM 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.400 five to seventy LA Sports your home of the back 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:42.040 to back World Series champion Dodgers. We are taking phone 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.400 calls tonight. I know our last show was heavy interviews. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.479 We are going to take phone calls tonight eight six 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:53.440 six nine eight seven two five seventy. John Hartung, who 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:58.040 is the most gracious and unselfish host out there. He 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.080 is going to join us at seven third. He is 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.080 going to come on and I am going to prove 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.160 to you that he's not just another pretty face. He 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.000 knows Dodger baseball. He knows what he's talking about, but 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.480 serves it up for Jerry and No Mar and the 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:17.360 rest of the gang at sportsnet LA. So looking forward 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:21.840 to having John Hartung join us from Sportsnet LA at 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.920 the bottom of the hour. But you know what dawned 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:29.399 on me today and over the weekend. My wife actually 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.960 brought this up to me. My wife, and it's been 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.520 in the back of my mind. But basically, I've moved 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.399 forward because that's the way he wants me to handle this. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:44.120 And that's the first time since covering the Dodgers and 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.920 traveling with them and hosting Dodger Talk, this will be 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:53.160 the first time I walk into the Dodgers spring training 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:57.920 clubhouse and there won't be a twenty two locker. There 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.560 will not be Clayton Kershaw for the first time, and 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.560 I was asked, have you thought about that this will 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.680 be the first time that you walk into that clubhouse 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.960 and Kershaw will not be on the team, And you know, 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.400 I have thought about it. I haven't posted any sappy 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:20.120 Instagram reflection of the years from twenty twelve to twenty 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:24.960 twenty five with Kershaw because that's not the way he's 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.120 wanted to handle it. Just move forward. And if you 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.440 go back to listen to the final interview that we 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.880 did together or the second to last interview we did 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.160 together while he was a member of the team. It 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.800 was before Game seven of the World Series and he 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.360 was our pregame guest, and what he said was, don't 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.200 make it weird. And so that's been in the back 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.720 of my mind, and that's why I've hesitated to do 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.760 a Kershaw tribute show or a tribute on social media 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.359 to Kershaw, because I don't want to make it weird. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:02.160 But here's the thing that I'm thinking about as we 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:06.160 get closer to Friday and pitchers and catchers report to 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.880 kemel Back Ranch for the first time in twenty years 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:14.160 without twenty two Clayton Kershaw. And I know he's going 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.519 to be out there training with the World Baseball Classic 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.280 Team USA, but this is the first time he will 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.680 not have a locker, that locker that was right next 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:28.720 to the exit door to the weight room in the 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:33.679 clubhouse at camel Back Ranch. First time since I've been 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.160 hosting Dodger Talk. I'll walk in there and twenty two 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.600 will not be at that locker. But here's the thing. 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.560 And I feel like we've been swept up by the 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:48.280 emotions of and rightfully so, back to back World Series championships. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.000 Things are going great for the Dodgers. They're on their 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.720 way looking for a three pete. But this doesn't mean 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.080 much inside the clubhouse as much as it does for 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:04.040 a talk show like this. But now that Kershaw is 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:08.560 no longer wearing the Dodger uniform and he's retired, who 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.880 is the face of the Dodgers. Think about that. When 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:17.880 you said Dodgers for the last nineteen years, Kershaw's name 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:22.120 was the first one you thought about for the majority 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.960 of the nineteen years, I would say since at least 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.479 twenty eleven, maybe two thousand and nine. I know Matt 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.920 Kemp had a spurt right there. Andre Ethier played all 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.640 twelve of his major league career, all of his twelve 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:39.760 years in the major leagues with the Dodgers. But Kershaw's 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.839 the Hall of Famer. Kershaw's the guy that has three 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.120 Cy Youngs, an MVP, and is on his way to 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.960 the Hall of Fame in five years when he's eligible. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.000 So now that he's no longer, you're no longer going 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.240 to have the five day routine, And that's what I'm 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.440 going to miss most has seeing him out there giving 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.240 up six runs or pitching a no hitter, being the 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.280 first guy on the field the day after starting his 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.960 five day routine. And for you, it'll be the first 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.680 time every fifth day or sixth day that you don't 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.800 see Kershaw on the mound or know that he's on 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.640 the team. So who is the face of the Dodgers now? 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.239 Is it Otani? Is it that simple of an answer? 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.440 Is it Otani? Is it Mookie Betts? Who ever since 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.560 came to the Dodgers. Say whatever you want, but the 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:34.520 Dodgers have won three World Series since Mookie Betts was 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:38.120 traded to the Dodgers. Let everybody in Boston know that 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:42.279 after that Super Bowl yesterday? Or is it Freddy Freeman, 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:47.240 who this side of Kirk Gibson has the biggest postseason 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:52.960 moment in Dodger franchise history. I would argue Freddy Freeman's 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:57.640 walk off Grand Slam against the Yankees is the greatest 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:02.279 postseason moment the Dodgers have had since Kirk Gibson's walk 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.279 off home run in nineteen eighty eight. A moment, not 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.520 a game, not a sequence of games, but a moment. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.119 And then you follow it up with Freddie Freeman's walk 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.080 off home run in Game three of this year's World 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:19.720 Series to become the first player in baseball history to 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.600 have two walk off home runs in the World Series. 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.599 So who is it in your mind when somebody says 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.359 Dodgers or you're thinking about buying a jersey now, or 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.120 your son or your daughter wants you to buy a 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.599 jersey their first Dodger jersey? Who is it? Is it 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.960 automatically Otani? Is it that easy? I'm wondering. I'm wondering 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.840 how you feel about it. I think it is a 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:48.960 slam dunk. In some ways that Otani now is a 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.640 is a generational figure. He's a crossover figure for the 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.720 game of baseball. He was on Access Hollywood. Not too 0:06:55.760 --> 0:07:00.240 many players and transcend the game the way Otani as. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.680 So in a lot of ways, it is Otani. But 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.359 to me, Freddie Freeman is certainly right up there in 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.560 Mookie Betts. I would say those three, to me are 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.920 the first three names that come to mind when you 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.080 think about who is the face of the Dodgers now 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:21.600 without Clayton Kershaw wearing twenty two in that Dodger blue 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.280 eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:29.640 the phone number. As we get closer to Friday. The 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.680 Dodgers have a really good team. So we're poking some 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.440 holes in a Juggernaut. Let's get that straight. But for me, 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.320 the biggest question as far as the Dodgers pitching staff 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:46.840 surrounds two Blake's Blake Snell and Blake Trinan. Which Blake 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.520 Trinan are we going to get this year? Does Blake 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:54.240 Trinan have anything left in the tank or did he 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.880 empty the tank during the twenty twenty four World Series. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.360 I know we always seem to get about the twenty 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.320 four World Series and what happened between the comeback in 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.880 the fifth inning and Walker Buehler being the hero to 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.560 close out the game. Well, that was Blake Trinon who 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.040 threw more pitches to set up Bueller Soroics than he 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:19.840 ever pitched in any single game. So does Blake Trinon 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:24.120 have anything left? If he does, the Dodger bullpen is 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.400 that much better with Tanner Scott and Edwood Diaz at 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.080 the back end of it, with Alex Vesia coming back, 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:35.360 Bruce Star Graderol coming back at Gardo Enriquez, another year 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:39.079 of experience, the arms of Will Climb, Kyle Hurt. You 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.720 have to imagine Will Klein is a different guy coming 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.600 into camp with a lot more confidence than he had 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.280 a year ago at this time Jack Dryers sophomore season, 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:55.160 you got Brock Stewart, Kyle Hurt, Ben Casparius, maybe some Robleski. 0:08:56.000 --> 0:09:00.200 And the other big question is Blake Snell. Blake Snell 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:05.880 is behind other pitchers because he's only throwing one hundred 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.240 and twenty feet and talked about how his shoulder was 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.000 barking and how he is taking it a little bit slower. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:17.200 Now do I believe that there's anything significantly wrong with 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:22.200 Blake's Now? I would say he's continuing to maintain there's not. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.520 But when he says opening day is the goal, I'm 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.959 sure it is the goal. But I don't see any 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:33.840 way that he's on the Dodgers opening day roster. He's 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.720 at least three weeks behind everybody else. I mean, you 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.400 don't just start throwing one hundred and twenty feet a 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:45.960 week before spring training. And honestly, the Dodgers we saw 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.040 last year. You know, want to be sure with these 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:53.880 guys that they are at their healthiest when it matters 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.040 the most. Think about last year, the Dodgers barely won 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.840 the NLS by three games. They did not have a 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.359 first round by, they did not have home field advantage 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.960 in any one of their playoffs series outside of the 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:14.080 Wildcard against the Reds. They were the road team against 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.679 the Phillies in the NLDS, they were the road team 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:22.800 against the Brewers in the NLCS, and Game seven was 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:27.440 in Toronto. So they proved that what matters most to 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:31.000 them is not having the best record or winning one 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.520 hundred and five games, but having their pitchers at their 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:40.720 healthiest and pitching their best when it matters the most. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.280 So that's why I'm not sounding the alarm on Blake 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.000 Snell and being a little slower than the other pitchers. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:52.040 But to me, if you had to ask who are 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:56.880 the two biggest question marks, it's the two Blakes, Blake 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.920 Trinin and Blake Snell. Eight six six nine eight seven 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.240 two five seventy is the phone number when we continue 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.920 on Dodger Talk your phone calls. We have three lines 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.720 open at eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.559 When we continue, I'll let you know which former Dodger 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:20.960 World Series hero is still incredibly not signed with a team. Also, 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:26.120 we'll get into the Dodgers promotional calendar and how you 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.840 may get a glimpse of your Dodgers in spring training. 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:33.440 So got a lot to get to your phone calls First, 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.760 John Hartungue at seven point thirty right here on a 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:41.160 F five to seventy LA Sports. David Vasse with you 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.559 until eight o'clock tonight here on AM five to seventy 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:50.000 LA Sports. It's time for Dodger baseball. Ain't that the truth? 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:54.840 As baseball season is right around the corner. Dodgers pitchers 0:11:54.840 --> 0:12:00.719 and catchers report this Friday at Camelback Ranch officially Showani 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:04.440 and Roki Sasaki, among others already at camel Back Ranch 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.640 getting ready for the season. And in case you were wondering, 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:12.440 I got some messages on social media about when fans 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:16.400 can start to line up and check out the Dodgers 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:21.679 practicing on the backfields. Well, fans are allowed starting Friday 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.120 to go back there at Camelback Ranch on the backfields 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.599 and be able to catch a glimpse of their Dodgers 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:34.199 starting this Friday. And look, everybody always asks me like, hey, 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.240 what's the best way of getting an autograph? How do 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.000 I get close to these guys? Number One, I always 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.559 feel like they're phishing for me to offer an autograph, 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.080 which I'm not going to do because I don't even 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:51.959 do that for my kids. Number two, the best way 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.600 to get a photo opportunity or an autograph by a player, 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.240 A best chance to me is going to spring training 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:04.440 and be out there on the backfields. The earlier the better. Weekdays, 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.480 less crowded than weekends, of course, So that's that's my 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.040 tip to you. And the first day you can be 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:15.600 back out there on the backfields is this Friday. The 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:20.840 first Dodger Cactus League game is a week from this Saturday. 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:26.040 If you can believe that February twenty first Dodgers Angels 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:30.280 at Tempe Diabolo Stadium, you'll hear that live right here 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.960 on five to seventy LA Sports. And opening Day coming 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:39.240 up on March twenty sixth against the Diamondbacks. It's a 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.280 five point forty game that I believe is going to 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:46.280 be broadcast on Peacock, and it's kind of official. I 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:50.560 guess that Clayton Kershaw is going to be broadcasting for 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.360 Peacock this year. My understanding is it's not going to 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.440 be a full load of games. I wouldn't expect to 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:02.040 see Kershaw every Sunday night for Sunday Night Baseball on 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.680 NBC and Peacock, but he'll be involved, and I could 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.160 tell you he'll be at Ring Day for the Dodgers 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:12.760 on Tuesday, likely to be the second day of the 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.560 regular season, March twenty seventh. If the Dodgers do what 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.920 they did last year, have Opening Day and the pomp 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:24.400 and circumstance of that day, and then have another great 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:29.240 celebration day with Ring Day game two home game number two. 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.320 So if they stay true to form with that, Ring 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:37.240 Day would be on March twenty seventh. Eight six six nine, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.360 eight seven, two five seventy is the phone number. Let's 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.360 go out to Pomona, Danny. You're on Dodger Talk. How 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:44.040 you doing, Danny? 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:45.680 Very good? 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.200 Thanks day for the opportunity. If I had to pick 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:52.000 one player right now, that signifies the commitit to the team. 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.080 Will Smith to me, Will Smith is going to be 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.280 or is should already be the face of the franchise. 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:58.840 Thank you very much for the opportunity. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.400 Doesn't talk much, though, Danny, how can he be the 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.280 face of the franchise. You got to be out in 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:05.240 front as well. 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.840 But let me ask you this. He keeps the battery moving, 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.680 He keeps those guys in line, those new pitchers, the 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:18.000 even your veterans, yes, Mookie and Freddie and even Showy too, 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:22.479 except they have all their accolades. But from other teams, well, Danny. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.240 I'm with you. I'm with you on all that with 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.800 Will Smith. But to be the face of the team, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.520 to be the face of a league, and to be 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.160 the face of a franchise, you got to be out 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.280 there more. And Will Smith, he just came out of 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:39.080 hibernation during the Chris Taylor and FanFest weekend. We haven't 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.360 even heard from him since the parade. He's not a 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.080 guy that wants to be out in front. Now, you 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.920 may be describing what I said on Sports and at 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:52.040 LA last week that he is the most important player 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.200 on the team, a guy they cannot afford to lose 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.160 because we saw last year how big of a drop 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.480 off it is offensively without him in the lineup. 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:05.960 You're right, You're absolutely right. He is the most important 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.400 piece that we have to to puzzle. But when I 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:13.960 see everything as far as the commitment this guy does he. 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.360 Okay, our definition of the face of the team is 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.640 a little bit different, but I agree with everything you 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.680 said as far as Will Smith goes. Thanks for the 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.440 phone call. Danny Hey. I even told Will Smith, I've 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:32.080 had to be the Marching Chowder Society for Will Smith 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.920 this offseason because he's not talking that much. He doesn't 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.200 like to do interviews. And this guy hit the go 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:43.240 ahead in eventual rent winning home run in the eleventh 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.800 inning of Game seven of the World Series. Yes, the 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:51.720 heroics of Miguel Rojas were incredible and improbable, with the 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.480 Dodgers down to their last two outs of the season 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.280 and Miguel Rojas and Will Smith teaming up in the 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:02.400 ninth inning defensively, but it was Will Smith and Miguel 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:07.919 Rojas who homered and made incredible defensive plays in the 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:12.240 ninth inning to give the Dodgers the World Championship. Speaking 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.880 of Game seven, Jack in Santa Clara wants to let 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.240 us know where he was for Game seven. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.640 How you doing, Jack, I'm doing great, DV. 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:22.400 How about you? 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:27.760 Awesome. I had a reset weekend, my last weekend without 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.760 the Dodgers, and ready to go, ready to go and 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:35.480 get this thing started with a possible three peat, very 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:36.600 real possibility. 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.600 I can't wait. I'm chopping at the bit to start 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.480 baseball season. I wanted to talk real quick about where 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.959 I was in my game seven. So usually I'm watching 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.840 the broadcast, the Fox broadcast, but something about me is 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.800 I get stressed out a lot. And so ninth Inning 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.160 comes on. Tell my roommate, you know what, I gotta 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.479 put on the radio. I got to listen to Rick 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.040 and Steven in case they need to let me down. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:03.760 I need to do something. So I went out on 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.439 a walk, and I'm walking those same streets that I 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.280 walked during game seven, kind of just reminiscing right now, 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:16.840 and Kei k Hernandez makes it out and my head's down. 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.240 Miguel Rojas comes up and he hits that home run, 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.440 and I throw my arms up in the air. I'm screaming. 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.520 I start sprinting back to my apartment, and all the 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.159 while I scare the living daylights out of this. This 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.159 Uber Eats delivery driver who was just walking along the 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:37.040 sidewalk delivering some food and suddenly he sees some guy 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:41.080 turn around and start screaming and sprinting at him, and 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.320 so I ran back. I high five my roommate, and 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.400 then I said, you know what, I got to stay 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.520 back outside. I'm superstitious like that. So the game kept 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.359 going on and I stayed outside for the next hour 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.840 hour and a half. I don't even I don't even 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.520 know how long that was, but I heard the will 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:02.240 Smith home run stayed out there, and it was It's 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:03.439 a night. I'll never forget. 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:06.000 What part of LA do you live in. 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:09.920 I don't live in LA. I live in Northern California, 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.560 believe it or not. I was raised by La natives, 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.919 So I'm an enemy territory up here. 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.360 Okay, I mean, hopefully you got your ten thousand steps 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:21.720 from the ninth inning. 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.960 On, oh I had to have. 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:28.480 Okay, all right, Jack, Santa Clara, which is not San Francisco. 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.480 Even though the forty nine ers try to still claim 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.560 they are the San Francisco forty nine ers, they are 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.760 more like the San Jose forty nine ers. Do you 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.080 agree with that? 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.359 That is one hundred percent accurate. It's about an hour 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.280 drive from San Francisco to Santa Clara. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.080 Yeah, that's what I heard with everybody that went up 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.840 there for Radio Row and the Super Bowl. The secrets 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.560 out where that stadium is Levi Stadium. It's nowhere near 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:01.119 San Francisco. So all right, Jack, glad we settled all that. 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:03.320 Thank you for calling in and calling anytime. 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.760 Yeah, thank you and shout out David Vasse. You do 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.960 a great job. And all the folks at A five 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.120 seventy Thanks Jack. 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.080 Appreciate it. Thank you for listening. And I'm sure Steven 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:19.439 and Rick are flattered to know that you decided to 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:23.080 turn off Joe Davis and the Fox National broadcast and 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.280 let them paint the picture for you. So hopefully you 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.480 do that. I'm not gonna say for every game this year, 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:33.200 but I would say we want at least fifty games 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.720 of you taking walks around your neighborhood and getting those 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:40.840 ten thousand steps. Speaking of the upcoming season, the Dodgers 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:45.560 announced their giveaway schedule or partial giveaway schedule. I love 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:49.720 the giveaways that they got the bobbleheads ice cube in 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:55.080 his low Rider car Otani's home run in the NLCS. 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:59.119 They got some Game seven World Series moment bobbleheads with 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:04.280 Yamamoto celebration, Miguel Rojas's game tying home run and Will 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:09.280 Smith stoic go ahead home run. I love that they 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:12.200 have a Shaquille O'Neal bobblehead this year. I hope shaq 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:15.560 comes out to the ballpark for that. But here's the 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.560 one that they missed, and they did leave the door 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:24.520 open for more giveaways and additions to their promotional schedule. 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:30.400 How about the bobblehead of Andy Paz making the catch 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:34.280 over keyk Hernandez in the World Series. How great of 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:37.640 a bobblehead would that be? I mean, that's the bobblehead 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:41.119 that needs to happen. I love the Yamamoto one, the 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:44.240 celebration with the hat off and all that. I love 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:48.600 these other ones, but you know, the one that everybody 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:52.400 would love to have, that I believe would be as 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:57.080 popular as the ice cube or the Otani bobbleheads would 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:01.840 be Paz knocking Keik to the ground for the catch 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:05.120 in Game seven of the World Series. I mean, that's 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:08.960 one of the iconic moments of Game seven. I would 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.720 love to see that bobblehead. They made Christmas ornaments out 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:15.760 of it. How about a bobblehead of that incredible moment 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:19.119 as well. Let's go out to Chino. Jimmy, you're on 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:21.199 Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:27.560 Jimmy, Hey, what's up David? A couple of things. Brad 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:29.800 Paisey him on a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, I 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:32.760 didn't get to make the call. But have you always 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:35.679 talked about him coming up with a baseball song like 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:36.520 center Field? 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:43.359 Yes, he has thought talked about it. But I feel 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:47.960 like he does have a baseball metaphoric song that he 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:50.119 came out with a couple of years ago. He should 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:53.720 check it out. So many summers. That is about a 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:58.000 father and son, and what is more baseball than passing 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:00.920 it down to your son. So listen to that song, 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:03.600 and I feel like if you listen to that song, 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:08.080 you could put it up with any montage of baseball highlights. 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:11.320 Major League Baseball is missing out not to have that 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:17.640 song as some sort of as a theme song this summer. 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:21.000 Take a listen to it. It applies to any summer, 0:23:21.160 --> 0:23:24.200 and baseball is summer. So listen to that song. 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:29.359 Awesome. And then second question, you mentioned in the past 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:31.679 that Freddie would be your guy if you need a 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:35.680 hit in a key situation bomb and ninth, what would 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:38.720 be your game Staven picture if you needed somebody you've 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:40.119 seen lots of dogs are great? 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:43.720 Hey, Jimmy, I mean, is there any other answer other 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:45.280 than Yamamoto? 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:49.439 Oh? I want to see how law yours is? 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:49.639 Now? 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:50.000 Zilla? 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:51.600 David not right? 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:54.760 Now it would be Yamamoto. It would be Yamamoto. I mean, 0:23:54.800 --> 0:23:58.200 snell Zilla is only throwing one hundred and twenty feet 0:23:58.240 --> 0:24:03.119 right now, but snell Zillah stood tall in Philadelphia, Jimmy, 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:06.040 without him pitching the way he did in Game one 0:24:06.080 --> 0:24:09.440 of the NLDS, the Dodgers don't win that series. 0:24:12.119 --> 0:24:14.199 Why did you pick your brain? Damma, You're great at 0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:14.520 what you do. 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:18.280 Man, Appreciate you all right, Jimmy, thank you, Appreciate you too. Yeah, 0:24:18.400 --> 0:24:21.960 check out so many summers. I mean, i'll I came 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:25.159 clean with Brad. I don't know his catalog that well. 0:24:25.520 --> 0:24:27.719 I would say my favorite songs are the ones that 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:30.560