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Speaker 7: David Vasse.
Speaker 8: Welcome to Dodger Talk, David Bass say with you until
Speaker 8: eight o'clock tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 8: We are at the Rogers Center in Toronto. Today was
Speaker 8: media day. We'll get you a lot of conversations we
Speaker 8: had from both sides, from the Blue Jays, from the Dodgers,
Speaker 8: George Springer, Max Scherzer, Max Munsey, Tommy Edmund Yamamoto.
Speaker 4: So we'll get to all that.
Speaker 8: And also I have some caller receipts from fans freaking
Speaker 8: out during the during the summer and the regular season
Speaker 8: and can't wait to share those receipts with you. We
Speaker 8: also have a one on one conversation with Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 8: coming up at the bottom of the hour. But we
Speaker 8: do have breaking news that came down at about six
Speaker 8: thirty Eastern time three thirty Pacific time, and it does
Speaker 8: affect the Dodger roster and the bullpen, but it's bigger
Speaker 8: than baseball. The Dodgers posted on their social media that
Speaker 8: Alex Vesia is away from the team because of personal
Speaker 8: matters with him and his wife. In case you didn't know,
Speaker 8: Vessia's wife was pregnant, So obviously we're respecting their privacy
Speaker 8: and we're sending out our love.
Speaker 4: And prayers to them. Not sure exactly.
Speaker 8: What the specific reason is, but the Dodgers did post
Speaker 8: that Alex Vesia is away from the Dodgers, and I
Speaker 8: haven't seen a playoff roster yet, not sure if Vessia
Speaker 8: is on it.
Speaker 4: Vessi has been.
Speaker 8: Such a big part of the Dodgers roster and postseason.
Speaker 8: I mean, he is one of their best relievers. And
Speaker 8: if they're without him, at least for the first two games,
Speaker 8: that gives the Blue Jays a huge advantage. And the
Speaker 8: Dodgers need even more length out of their starters without Vessia.
Speaker 8: And obviously this is secondary considering whatever him and his
Speaker 8: wife are going through for him not to be here
Speaker 8: in Toronto. But it's funny. This may open the door
Speaker 8: for a Tanner Scott World Series. Roster spot without Vessia.
Speaker 8: Dave Roberts said earlier today they haven't decided whether or
Speaker 8: not to leave Vessia off the World Series roster, so
Speaker 8: there is still a chance that Vessia is on the
Speaker 8: World Series roster and joins them when they return in
Speaker 8: Los Angeles. Also, another possibility we found out from a
Speaker 8: Major League Baseball spokesman is that the Dodgers could put
Speaker 8: Vessia on bereavement and then bring him back later in
Speaker 8: the World Series, So there is a chance that they
Speaker 8: don't have to leave Vessia off the World Series roster.
Speaker 8: Bereavement is certainly in play, and I wasn't sure about
Speaker 8: that when the news broke, but we're starting to get
Speaker 8: some information from Major League Baseball that, yes, the Dodgers
Speaker 8: could put him on bereavement, and if the circumstances dictated
Speaker 8: and he was feeling good enough to come back and pitch,
Speaker 8: he would be available later in the World Series. So
Speaker 8: our thoughts and prayers go out to Alex Vesia, and
Speaker 8: certainly we'll see what other options the Dodgers have to
Speaker 8: fill his spot for a temporary basis. Could be Tanner
Speaker 8: Scott back in play, who hasn't pitched in over a month.
Speaker 8: All Right, we'll see where the Dodgers go with alex Vesia,
Speaker 8: but we want to get to some of the Blue
Speaker 8: Jays media Day and we had a chance to catch
Speaker 8: up with George Springer, who is at the center of
Speaker 8: the storm with the twenty seventeen Astros, and we did
Speaker 8: not shy away from that when we caught up with
Speaker 8: Springer at media Day.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of history between you and the Dodgers.
Speaker 8: What do you feel about this series and when you
Speaker 8: go back to l A the reception that you've gotten
Speaker 8: in the past, Is that a factor in any of this?
Speaker 9: I mean, it's ultimately at the end of the day,
Speaker 9: our team has to go play our game, go be
Speaker 9: who we are and you know who We'll see what happens.
Speaker 8: Which had been like to play behind not just one city,
Speaker 8: but an entire country and have them back in the
Speaker 8: World Series.
Speaker 2: It's special. No, it doesn't really hit you.
Speaker 9: You know that you're playing for a whole country up
Speaker 9: until it does, so you know this is this is awesome.
Speaker 9: I couldn't be more excited for for our fans.
Speaker 8: It's been a lot of talked about and rightfully so.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers starting pitching. How good it's been this postseason?
Speaker 8: When you're going against four starters like that, What's what's
Speaker 8: the mindset of an offense?
Speaker 9: You know, I just think you understand that there's not
Speaker 9: gonna be a lot to hit. You understand that, you
Speaker 9: know those are four, four or five elite guys, and
Speaker 9: you know that you know that they can control his own,
Speaker 9: can pound his own. So you know, you just have
Speaker 9: to kind of go grind it out, and you know,
Speaker 9: we'll see what happens.
Speaker 8: You're one of the the only guys that have played
Speaker 8: in the World Series on the team. Do you have
Speaker 8: any sort of message for him in the clubhouse? What's
Speaker 8: your role in trying to help these guys that don't
Speaker 8: have the experience.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm the old guy in the
Speaker 9: locker room. You know who besides Max, Max is ancient.
Speaker 9: I have some stuff that I'll let them know. You know,
Speaker 9: just to go go have fun, enjoy the moment. You
Speaker 9: know that these are moments that you don't know if
Speaker 9: you're ever going to get there. You don't know if
Speaker 9: you're ever gonna get back. Obviously, it's an extremely hard
Speaker 9: task with that team on the other side of the line.
Speaker 9: But you know, just just just go into joy the
Speaker 9: moment about be who you are as a player.
Speaker 8: George Springer was the twenty seventeen World Series MVP. He
Speaker 8: was the guy that sent the Blue Jays to this
Speaker 8: World Series, so his experience and clutch play is.
Speaker 4: Something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 8: From the Blue Jays side, we always talk about Keith
Speaker 8: a Hernandez and his love for October. Well, George Springer
Speaker 8: also has a knack for that type of October play
Speaker 8: and he has showed it already in this October for
Speaker 8: the Blue Jays had a chance to also catch up
Speaker 8: with former Dodger Max Scherzer. Scherzer was part of the
Speaker 8: Dodgers in twenty twenty one that lost to Freddie Freeman's
Speaker 8: Braves in Game six of the NLCS, and we all
Speaker 8: remember that mac Scherzer all of a sudden couldn't pitch
Speaker 8: in Game six of the NLCS when the Dodgers needed
Speaker 8: him the most. Scherzer earlier this year, when the Blue
Speaker 8: Jays were at Dodgers Stadium, decided that he really wanted
Speaker 8: a picture and exchange of jerseys with one of his
Speaker 8: fellow peers and a guy that has been there.
Speaker 4: A parallel of his career as far.
Speaker 8: As when they started being two members that are active
Speaker 8: of the three thousand strikeout club, and that was Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 8: And started out the interview at Media Day with Scherzer
Speaker 8: talking about that moment and the fact that the Dog
Speaker 8: and Blue Jays are in the World Series, meaning those
Speaker 8: two future Hall of famers will be on the mound
Speaker 8: and one of them will be a champion.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 10: We didn't necessarily say that, but I said, man, this
Speaker 10: can't be the last time. We gotta do this again.
Speaker 10: It's too much fun when we compete against each other.
Speaker 10: And uh, you know, I think the thing is high
Speaker 10: as of any player I can think of it, you know,
Speaker 10: when I think about him, what he's meant to the game,
Speaker 10: and definitely when he's meant to.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers' organization.
Speaker 10: So, uh, you know, obviously a great picture and that
Speaker 10: love competing against him.
Speaker 8: You and Donnie have been inside the Dodgers, you know,
Speaker 8: and understand their method.
Speaker 4: Does that give you any.
Speaker 8: Sort of sort of advantage or strategic help to your
Speaker 8: other teammates, No.
Speaker 10: Because they're gonna adapt to what you know our thing is.
Speaker 10: And just like we're gonna do to that. Like, you know,
Speaker 10: it doesn't give us a competitive avantage. You know, we
Speaker 10: were gonna be humans playing baseball. They're gonna make decisions.
Speaker 10: We're gonna make decisions.
Speaker 8: What do you remember about that twenty one season with
Speaker 8: the Dodgers and just you coming out of the bullpen
Speaker 8: in San Francisco and just the way things ended. A
Speaker 8: lot of guys say that on that team, said that
Speaker 8: was the most talented team they ever played on.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it really was a really special team,
Speaker 10: really talented team.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, we were loaded, but so were the Giants.
Speaker 2: The Giants. You know, sometimes when you get into those.
Speaker 10: Division series, I mean, those those division series can absolutely
Speaker 10: kill you.
Speaker 2: I mean it takes.
Speaker 10: Every last guy, uh to be able to go out
Speaker 10: there and do that to win win a series in
Speaker 10: that situation. You know, we got caught in that coming
Speaker 10: from the wildcard game, you know, going into you know,
Speaker 10: playing against the Giants.
Speaker 2: I mean they were really really.
Speaker 10: Good team, and you know I was I had to
Speaker 10: come out of the whole playing to close out Game five.
Speaker 10: So you know, you know, we can always look back
Speaker 10: at how that all transpired and play the couldas should
Speaker 10: would a game, But you know, my time in LA,
Speaker 10: I always have good memories of it. I got to
Speaker 10: have some really cool moments there and uh definitely in
Speaker 10: the Clubhoufs two and get to know those guys, So
Speaker 10: you know, I only I only think highly of my
Speaker 10: time there in LA.
Speaker 8: It seemed like you guys may have been emotionally spent
Speaker 8: after having to play the wildcard game then playing a
Speaker 8: rival like the Giants for five.
Speaker 2: Is there any danger of.
Speaker 8: The Blue Jays and you guys maybe being emotionally spent
Speaker 8: after a seven game series like that coming into the
Speaker 8: World Series.
Speaker 10: You know, I guess that's a fair question. But we've
Speaker 10: had a little bit more time. Uh you know, there's
Speaker 10: like three days. Uh there's Monday's, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Yeah,
Speaker 10: there was three days in between that series. So kind
Speaker 10: of let's everybody, you know, catch your breath. I think
Speaker 10: when you move from DS to you know, the NLCS,
Speaker 10: you only have like a day. So we got of
Speaker 10: got you know, like that kind of played a role
Speaker 10: into it. So hopefully that help that helps us getting
Speaker 10: a few days off here before we actually start game one.
Speaker 4: They might take a lot out of you.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I can answer questions all day log it's easier
Speaker 10: and throwing the baseball.
Speaker 8: Hey, I wasn't scared. Mac Surezer is a talker and
Speaker 8: he's a veteran. He's not going to shy away from anything.
Speaker 8: So a good professional conversation there with Max Scherzer, who
Speaker 8: is a former Diamondback, and so is Blue Jays center
Speaker 8: fielder Dalton VARs Show, who had his best year since
Speaker 8: being traded to Arizona the year before the Diamondbacks went
Speaker 8: to the World Series. Now he's here finally and certainly
Speaker 8: is familiar with the dominance of the Dodgers. Obviously you've
Speaker 8: seen the Dodgers and seeing what they've built over the
Speaker 8: years playing in the NL West. To have this opportunity
Speaker 8: to beat them in the World Series, is it somewhat surreal.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Obviously they're a really really good team.
Speaker 11: I've played my whole career, and they've got really good
Speaker 11: leaders and being able to know what it's like to
Speaker 11: be in this position and kind of being in the
Speaker 11: World Series, So they obviously have that feeling.
Speaker 2: But I mean, we also have good leaders.
Speaker 11: Over here too, have been there with Max and George,
Speaker 11: so obviously taking in one step at a time, understanding
Speaker 11: what we need to do to be prepared.
Speaker 2: They're going to be really prepared to go out there
Speaker 2: and play a game.
Speaker 8: When you size up the Dodgers and just the tail
Speaker 8: of the tape between your team and their team, what
Speaker 8: stands out to you the most as a guy that's involved.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think it's their experience. They have a bunch
Speaker 11: of guys over there who were on the team last
Speaker 11: year when they want it, so I think it's more
Speaker 11: experience than anything else. But it's about who can kind
Speaker 11: of control their adrenaline. That's really what it comes down to.
Speaker 11: And obviously being in the position like we played a
Speaker 11: really good team with Seattle of going to seven games,
Speaker 11: So I think overall we do a really good job
Speaker 11: of being able to control that part of it and
Speaker 11: being able.
Speaker 2: To go play a game. We just can't do anything
Speaker 2: more than that.
Speaker 8: Watching from Dodger Stadium, it seemed like you guys really
Speaker 8: emptied the emotional tank in game seven. How do you
Speaker 8: refill it and do you feel like you guys have
Speaker 8: been recharged after such an emotional series and emotional win.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think overall, I think every series is like that.
Speaker 11: So obviously, like a lot of guys who have never
Speaker 11: made it this far in the playoffs or guys, it's
Speaker 11: the first time coming through it. Like there is gonna
Speaker 11: be a lot of emotion every series, but it's about
Speaker 11: understanding that stress and anxiety that was filled all up
Speaker 11: into that Game seven and you poured it out because
Speaker 11: you love the guys on this team and you cared
Speaker 11: for everybody, and so for us to win that series
Speaker 11: is great, but obviously it was onto the next like
Speaker 11: we kind of were able to flip our minds really
Speaker 11: quick and say, hey, we still have four more games
Speaker 11: to win.
Speaker 8: All right, last thing for you, first World Series, this
Speaker 8: World Series Media Day. I'm sure you've seen it now
Speaker 8: that you're here. What's your impressions of World Series Media Day?
Speaker 11: It's controlled chaos. But just go enjoy it. I mean,
Speaker 11: there's really nothing about it. Like they all want to
Speaker 11: talk to you, and they all want to know a story,
Speaker 11: but it just go enjoy it, enjoy every moment of it,
Speaker 11: and soak.
Speaker 2: It all in.
Speaker 8: Var Show likely not going to start tomorrow night in
Speaker 8: Game one of the World Series against Blake Snell. The
Speaker 8: Blue Jays do have a platoon in center field, so
Speaker 8: VARs Show will be out there for Game two against Yamamoto.
Speaker 8: All right, before we wrap things up and get to
Speaker 8: the receipts, and you are going to love to hear
Speaker 8: receipts I pulled out from this past summer of Dodger
Speaker 8: talk callers. Let's get to Don Mattingly, the former Dodger
Speaker 8: manager who is now the bench coach for the Blue Jays.
Speaker 8: First time in his major league career that he is
Speaker 8: going to the World Series, albeit not as a player,
Speaker 8: not as a manager, but as the Blue Jays bench coach.
Speaker 8: And that has been a big time storyline. He's gotten
Speaker 8: a lot of attention over it. And I had a
Speaker 8: chance to sneak into his Blue Jays media day.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, a couple of hundred ticks, some different people.
Speaker 13: But no, it's it's been a really humbling feeling that people,
Speaker 13: you know, kind of want that for you. But for me,
Speaker 13: you know, I'm happy about that, but it does keep
Speaker 13: going back to our players. It's it's really about them.
Speaker 13: I'm a kind of.
Speaker 12: Blended into the woodwork here, not really.
Speaker 13: You know, John's the manager, He's the ones that's that's
Speaker 13: doing all the legwork, making a lot of the tough decisions,
Speaker 13: a lot of different departments are doing all the work
Speaker 13: with the hitters and the.
Speaker 12: Pitchers and things like that.
Speaker 13: I think, like Tomorrow and myself, what kind of here
Speaker 13: to support john support anybody that we can within the group.
Speaker 12: I kind of look at myself as a perspective coach
Speaker 12: more than anything else right now.
Speaker 13: As the season went on, it's like, hey, let's keep
Speaker 13: this from perspective.
Speaker 12: We lose a couple of games, We're fine. Things like that.
Speaker 8: But Johnny, in all the years as a player, coacher, managers,
Speaker 8: which one before this one did you feel like, I
Speaker 8: think we're going to make it a sure?
Speaker 13: I like the ninety four ninety five teams I played
Speaker 13: on felt really good.
Speaker 12: The eighty five team was really good. Teams in LA.
Speaker 13: The teams I had in LA, I felt like I
Speaker 13: had really good shots. The year we got beat by
Speaker 13: the Mets, I thought was a tough We got.
Speaker 12: Beat in game five.
Speaker 13: I think out in LA we had to grom on
Speaker 13: the ropes and we didn't.
Speaker 12: We weren't able to put him away.
Speaker 13: That one good about There's been a there's been a
Speaker 13: few teams that you know.
Speaker 12: I think the biggest thing you know is when you
Speaker 12: get into the playoffs.
Speaker 13: Anything can happen in a short series. It's not one,
Speaker 13: six and two, it's seven. Who gets hot?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 12: You know who makes the big play, who gets the
Speaker 12: big hit.
Speaker 13: You get momentum, roll in your way, get pressure on
Speaker 13: somebody else.
Speaker 12: Anything can happen. So I think all of those teams
Speaker 12: you feel like you can. Even in Miami.
Speaker 13: You know the year of COVID. You know, we went
Speaker 13: that first round in Chicago, and you know what we got.
Speaker 13: We got a couple of good young pitchers out there
Speaker 13: that could have got hot, uh, and we could have
Speaker 13: moved on, but we weren't able to.
Speaker 12: But you always believe that you can.
Speaker 8: Everybody very happy for Don Mattinglee. I'm not as excited
Speaker 8: as everybody else. It would have meant more. I feel
Speaker 8: if he was the manager of the Blue Jays than
Speaker 8: just the bench coach, although he has had a big
Speaker 8: influence on Blue Jays manager John Schneider. But I kind
Speaker 8: of feel like this is an East Coast thing. A
Speaker 8: lot of Yankees people care more than anybody else that
Speaker 8: Don Mattingly finally made it to the World Series. Isn't
Speaker 8: it a little watered down that he's going with the
Speaker 8: Blue Jays as the bench coach instead of the Dodgers
Speaker 8: manager or a Yankees player.
Speaker 4: That's the way I feel. Well.
Speaker 8: Well, wow, look who walked into the Dodger Talk radio booth.
Speaker 8: Rick Krajeuski, who has taken on the lifestyle of the
Speaker 8: Canadian Mounties with a great mustache out here. He's been
Speaker 8: alongside Joe Davis for the entire American League postseason, and
Speaker 8: Joe Davis and John Smoltz and Rick Krajuski will be
Speaker 8: in the booth again for the World Series coming up
Speaker 8: tomorrow night. All right, when we continue on Dodger Talk,
Speaker 8: we will get to the receipts I pulled out from
Speaker 8: Dodger Talk callers over the past summer, and you are
Speaker 8: going to enjoy it. It will give you a great
Speaker 8: laugh considering how freaked out some of you were about
Speaker 8: this Dodger World Series champion team. Dodger Talk from Roger
Speaker 8: Center in Toronto continues right here on a f five
Speaker 8: to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4: We're with you until eight o'clock. Coming up.
Speaker 8: At the bottom of the hour, you'll hear our conversation
Speaker 8: with Clayton Kershawn will also try to get to some
Speaker 8: of the other Dodgers at media day, you heard from
Speaker 8: the Blue Jays was not afraid to present to George Springer.
Speaker 8: He will hear a lot of booze before Game three.
Speaker 8: During Game three, and also Max Scherzer just wanted to
Speaker 8: remind him that some of us have not forgotten about
Speaker 8: twenty twenty one. It was great to hear from Dalton
Speaker 8: Varshow as well. And Don Mattingley of course, very cool
Speaker 8: to hear him reference the twenty fifteen NLDS and that
Speaker 8: Dodger team that was in a great position to win
Speaker 8: the World Series, just unfortunately came up short in Game five.
Speaker 8: It's Game one of the World Series right here on
Speaker 8: AM five to seventy LA Sports. Rick Monday and Stephen
Speaker 8: Nelson will have the call. Our coverage begins at four o'clock,
Speaker 8: with first pitch at five o'clock from the Rogers Center
Speaker 8: here in Toronto on Snell Zilla Day. Blake Snell with
Speaker 8: an era under one this postseason, being mentioned in the
Speaker 8: same sentence as Kershaw as Cofax with this type of
Speaker 8: run and look, there's a reason why he's starting Game one.
Speaker 8: He set the tone in the NLDS, He's set the
Speaker 8: tone in the NLCS and the Dodgers are expecting him,
Speaker 8: and Blake is expecting himself to set the tone in
Speaker 8: Game one of the World Series. Remember this is the
Speaker 8: second time Snell has pitched in the World Series. He
Speaker 8: pitched for the Rays against the Dodgers. Of course, in
Speaker 8: the twenty World Series, that infamous Game six where Kevin
Speaker 8: Cash took out of Blake Snell that was dominating the Dodgers.
Speaker 8: So Dave Roberts is going to push Snell tomorrow night
Speaker 8: like he has all postseason, and Snell has expressed to
Speaker 8: me many times how badly he wants this and how
Speaker 8: badly he wants to hoist the World Series trophy with
Speaker 8: the Dodgers. We'll get to Kershawan the Dodgers coming up
Speaker 8: in our next segment. But right now, I have receipts,
Speaker 8: and thanks to the help of calling Yee, we have
Speaker 8: receipts from you during the regular season, panicking over games
Speaker 8: in April, panicking and games in May, panicking in games
Speaker 8: even as late as September. Take for example, this receipt
Speaker 8: Mike and Rancho kuckamonga as late as September, anxious over
Speaker 8: the Dodgers playoff hopes.
Speaker 3: Hey, DV, you know It's been a while since I
Speaker 3: called in. Normally I'm calling in when things go wrong,
Speaker 3: but you know, this season, I decided to take a
Speaker 3: step back from from the anxiety of baseball and just
Speaker 3: you know, trust in the process. But you know, after
Speaker 3: yesterday and today's games, I'm pushing.
Speaker 12: The panic button.
Speaker 3: I know, you know the World Series isn't one in September,
Speaker 3: but my gosh, you know we're not looking good going
Speaker 3: into October baseball at all, and so I just wanted
Speaker 3: to see your thoughts on you know, where's your confidence
Speaker 3: level in going into October from what you've seen lately.
Speaker 8: Out of the boys, I want you to take a
Speaker 8: deep breath. I know it's hard to do in Rancho Cucamonga.
Speaker 8: That's that's where Dino Evil pioneered that city, that great
Speaker 8: city now that has emerged out of the ashes out there,
Speaker 8: out of the dirt. I mean, there were no ashes really,
Speaker 8: So I want you to take a deep breath, relax
Speaker 8: and enjoy the games and enjoy the riot. The Dodgers
Speaker 8: are the defending World Series champions. It wasn't that long
Speaker 8: ago they were celebrating, so they still have great players.
Speaker 4: Let's see what happens. Mike, Well, Mike and Rancho Kukamonga.
Speaker 8: I hope your anxiety has calmed down because the Dodgers
Speaker 8: are back in the World Series as I predicted.
Speaker 4: How about Max Mounsey.
Speaker 8: I feel like he's the guy you didn't appreciate until
Speaker 8: he was gone.
Speaker 4: How about our friend.
Speaker 8: Carlos Carlos in May just going full blown get rid
Speaker 8: of Max Mounsey.
Speaker 4: Carlos, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: How are you doing, Carlos, Listen about the Max Munsey.
Speaker 6: You know, keeping everything in perspective.
Speaker 15: You know, the Dodgers are on pace to win one
Speaker 15: hundred and twelve games, so so you know theyve look
Speaker 15: crappy these last few games, but you know it's it's it's.
Speaker 6: Week two or whatever. Having said that, like, I hate
Speaker 6: to dump on Monsey, but but you are the heels
Speaker 6: of an on the heels going already terrible twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6: This dude is us to an atrocious start. I mean,
Speaker 6: and it's not just the numbers. He can't catch up
Speaker 6: at the fastball. He's fooled by any off speed. And
Speaker 6: not to mention he's he's an average defender at best.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think they need to give. I would say,
Speaker 6: Chris Taylor playing a few games.
Speaker 8: Wow, Carlos, I hope you call back because I had
Speaker 8: the receipts on your months.
Speaker 4: He hate.
Speaker 8: How about all of you that were out on Mookie
Speaker 8: Betts during the regular season. Yes, the first one hundred
Speaker 8: games were not pretty, but considering and as I have
Speaker 8: stated over and over again, it reminded you you don't
Speaker 8: count out great players and you have to believe their
Speaker 8: personal pride, their professional pride will win out. And that's
Speaker 8: what's happening with Mookie Betts. He has turned around his season.
Speaker 8: The last sixty games, he's hitting nearly three hundred with
Speaker 8: a slugging percentage of over five hundred while playing really
Speaker 8: good shortstop. One of my favorite callers, though, Diana in
Speaker 8: Granada Hills, was just ready to say, MOOKI go back
Speaker 8: to right field and never see shortstop again.
Speaker 4: Let's go out to Granada Hills. Diana. You're on Dodger
Speaker 4: Talk with David Vasse. How you doing, Diana.
Speaker 16: I'm doing well. Hi, David. You know I recall you
Speaker 16: saying so many times, especially last season on the Dodgers
Speaker 16: go as Mooky goes, and Mooki's not going, and I
Speaker 16: just don't understand. You know, in business, we always have
Speaker 16: the saying don't mess with what works, And why do
Speaker 16: the Dodgers insist on messing with what works, which is
Speaker 16: keeping Mooki in right field?
Speaker 4: Diana wasn't alone.
Speaker 8: How about this guy just completely just completely discounting the
Speaker 8: preparation Mookie that's put in that shortstop and the fact
Speaker 8: that even at that time he was playing pretty good there.
Speaker 14: And you know, look, the middle end feels so important. Man,
Speaker 14: you can't have like I love Bets. I love that
Speaker 14: he's trying to do that. Let me ask you another question.
Speaker 6: Let me this is little question I'm to leave with you. One.
Speaker 14: Was the last time a player in the middle of
Speaker 14: his career moved from one position to shortstop? That is
Speaker 14: absolutely unheard of. Man, I admire the best trying to
Speaker 14: do that, But man, come on now, yeah.
Speaker 4: I know that's what the kids say.
Speaker 8: But I got the receipts and I had it on
Speaker 8: you just completely ripping Mookie Bets. Here he is, and
Speaker 8: somebody with the Dodgers on the flight here to Toronto
Speaker 8: told me watch out for a big World Series from
Speaker 8: Mookie Bets. He did not win the World Series MVP
Speaker 8: in eighteen or twenty or even last year. He wants
Speaker 8: to remind people how big of a part he is
Speaker 8: in this Dodger offense. And John Schneider walked o'tani at
Speaker 8: Dodgers Stadium whenever first space was open. So Mookie Bets
Speaker 8: is determined to make the Jay's pay if that happens again,
Speaker 8: speaking of criticism of management and Mookie Bets and the roster,
Speaker 8: this really paid me to pull this receipt out from
Speaker 8: Matt in Woodland Hills. Woodland Hills is my town, and
Speaker 8: it really hurt my heart to hear a guy like
Speaker 8: this go after the Dodgers. We got to start out
Speaker 8: in my hometown, Woodland Hills. Matt, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing.
Speaker 5: I'm doing all right, Dave. So Yeah, I wanted to
Speaker 5: talk a little bit just about this roster construction in general.
Speaker 5: I think there's a larger issue here, Like we've got
Speaker 5: the highest payroll, We've got the oldest roster. Old rosters
Speaker 5: in any sport have the most injuries. It's been that way,
Speaker 5: the most aisle games for any team in the last
Speaker 5: three years. The Dodgers are always on top and the
Speaker 5: far system is overrated. I mean, who's the last really
Speaker 5: good person that's come up since Will Smith that's really made?
Speaker 4: Is you know? I?
Speaker 5: Well? Okay, one, okay, the coveted of the coveted GM,
Speaker 5: that is, you bestowed with three hundred million in payroll
Speaker 5: against like the Brewers with one thirteen, like last three
Speaker 5: two years. It's just struggle after struggle, underperform, underperform.
Speaker 8: Well, Matt, I guess that roster of veterans turned out
Speaker 8: to be pretty good. But because here they are in
Speaker 8: the World Series again, and speaking of hate for the
Speaker 8: roster and management and Dave Roberts, how about our guy
Speaker 8: Dan and Camio. Now, I'm gonna play a lot of
Speaker 8: this receipt because Dan and Camario said Dave Roberts was
Speaker 8: no good all the way back in May, just four
Speaker 8: months removed from winning the World Series. Again, Let's go
Speaker 8: out to Camio. Dan, you're on Dodger Talk. How you
Speaker 8: doing Dan?
Speaker 17: Hey? Dave love your shoe.
Speaker 14: Hey.
Speaker 17: The toughest job a professional manager has is to get
Speaker 17: these multi gazillion dollar players to play at their highest level. Well,
Speaker 17: I'm sorry, Dave Roberts is not able to do that anymore.
Speaker 17: He's lost to Alley. They need to move on.
Speaker 4: When did he lose it? Did so?
Speaker 8: When did Dave Roberts lose it? Was it after Game
Speaker 8: five of the World Series? When exactly did he lose
Speaker 8: it this year?
Speaker 17: And there's there's a time you have to move on.
Speaker 4: All of a sudden, he just lost it.
Speaker 8: The world, going to Blake Trining in Game five and
Speaker 8: then going to Walker Bueller.
Speaker 17: They won in spite of him. Look at what he's
Speaker 17: doing now.
Speaker 4: Dodgers record.
Speaker 8: I think I'll end it on the receipts right there,
Speaker 8: Ken in Newport Beach honorable mention, But I'm not going
Speaker 8: to play it. You're too big of a Dodger fan.
Speaker 8: But just remember the receipts I pulled out from you
Speaker 8: and how upset you were over a team that had
Speaker 8: just won the World Series and now showed you they
Speaker 8: know how to pace themselves for the regular season. And
Speaker 8: I'll admit some guys more than others turned on the switch,
Speaker 8: but guys like Mookie Betts never gave up on his season.
Speaker 8: And the Dodgers starting rotation was not healthy. They had
Speaker 8: it in their minds to make sure they were healthy
Speaker 8: for the start of the playoffs and there has been
Speaker 8: no other four better starters this postseason or in any
Speaker 8: time recently that are pitching as elite as Snell, Yamamoto,
Speaker 8: Otani and Glass now are. They're gonna have to finish
Speaker 8: it off or it won't mean anything.
Speaker 4: But just keep in.
Speaker 8: Mind the Dodgers not only care about games in the
Speaker 8: regular season, but more importantly, they care about winning the
Speaker 8: World Series, because that's all you'll care about. When we
Speaker 8: continue from Rogers Center in Toronto on Dodger Talk on
Speaker 8: the eve of Game one of the World Series, we'll
Speaker 8: catch up with Clayton Kershaw in his final season back
Speaker 8: in the Fall Classic. Don't go anywhere more Dodger Talk
Speaker 8: with David Bassey from Canada right here on a five
Speaker 8: to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4: We're from Canada. That's right.
Speaker 8: We're at Rogers Center until eight o'clock Pacific time tonight,
Speaker 8: as we are on the eve of Game one of
Speaker 8: the World Series between the Dodgers and Blue Jays. Blake
Speaker 8: Snell the Dodgers Game one starter. Our coverage begins tomorrow,
Speaker 8: of course, with Sax and Kate's in the morning at
Speaker 8: six am, taking you all the way to Dodgers on
Speaker 8: Deck at four o'clock and first pitch from the Center
Speaker 8: here in Toronto at five o'clock Pacific time with Rick
Speaker 8: Monday and Steven Nelson on the call. How about those
Speaker 8: caller receipts. Maybe we should play some of those back
Speaker 8: tomorrow night as well. I mean, you could go back
Speaker 8: and listen to that on the iHeartRadio app as many
Speaker 8: times as you want. And thank you to our guy,
Speaker 8: our screener and producer calling Yee for pulling those receipts again,
Speaker 8: that was phenomenal. You're lucky I didn't share those You're
Speaker 8: lucky I didn't share those receipts with Clayton Kershaw. Instead,
Speaker 8: we reflected on his final opportunity to win a World
Speaker 8: Series championship, and we had a chance to catch up
Speaker 8: with the Greg Kershaw at media day earlier this afternoon.
Speaker 8: All right, Clayton, your final World Series Media Day. I
Speaker 8: know this is what you really lived for, coming back
Speaker 8: for one final year.
Speaker 2: This is it, This is why I'm here. Good to
Speaker 2: talk to everybody here. This is it.
Speaker 8: Have you been able to enjoy the moments of this
Speaker 8: and the last couple of months of the season more
Speaker 8: than you've allowed yourself to enjoy other moments of your career.
Speaker 2: I think so, I think so.
Speaker 18: I Yeah, I usually try not to get too wrapped
Speaker 18: up and everything, but yeah, once I kind of came
Speaker 18: out and said that I was finished, it's hard not to,
Speaker 18: you know, it's hard not to be a little bit reflective.
Speaker 18: And you know, the few moments I had, you know,
Speaker 18: the last home game at Dodger Stadium, the last game
Speaker 18: in Seattle is just.
Speaker 2: Is really special.
Speaker 18: And then getting to celebrate you know, the victories in
Speaker 18: the postseason all that, like, I know, I maybe have
Speaker 18: one more time to.
Speaker 2: Get to do that.
Speaker 18: So it's yeah, all that stuff you can't help but
Speaker 18: kind of look back and just be grateful for it all.
Speaker 8: During this journey of the postseason, I've seen players from
Speaker 8: other teams, you know, workouts or before the games, go
Speaker 8: out of their way to kind of just salute you.
Speaker 8: Have you noticed that, how guys that you may not
Speaker 8: have expected come up to you and just you know,
Speaker 8: say congratulations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think everybody.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 2: It's I'm super honored by that. You know, not.
Speaker 18: Do you never expect anybody to say, you know, nice things,
Speaker 18: especially when you're playing against you, But to have guys
Speaker 18: say you know, great career, you know, enjoyed playing against
Speaker 18: you or competing all that stuff is uh, is very
Speaker 18: is awesome. You know, it really is because the peers.
Speaker 18: You know, your peers are kind of that's who the
Speaker 18: opinions matter. You know, there's a lot of people outside
Speaker 18: this game that will say things that don't understand. So
Speaker 18: to have have your peers respect is uh. I've always
Speaker 18: said that guys inside your clubhouse and guys around the game,
Speaker 18: that's the that's the most important thing as far as
Speaker 18: your reputation has.
Speaker 8: The some of the more uncomfortable things is for you
Speaker 8: to hear that and hear people celebrate you, and even
Speaker 8: guys in your own clubhouse have that type of respect
Speaker 8: and vocalize it, even maybe making goat sounds at times.
Speaker 18: I just tell them not to make it weird, Dave,
Speaker 18: I just tell them, don't make it weird. And so
Speaker 18: you know, but yeah, we've got we've got a lot
Speaker 18: of awesome guys. I think everybody it's just a I
Speaker 18: think it's a mutual thing. I'm so grateful for all
Speaker 18: these guys, and it's just it's just pretty cool.
Speaker 8: Is there something to be said about everything you've accomplished.
Speaker 8: Certain players on this team have accomplished individually and as
Speaker 8: a group that you guys are still hungry for more.
Speaker 8: Are there guys playing with a chip on their shoulder
Speaker 8: to prove something for themselves and for the group?
Speaker 18: Is that part of this No, I just think we're
Speaker 18: a great team and this is what we're supposed to do.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's as.
Speaker 18: Simple as that, Like we don't have We've got one
Speaker 18: goal at the beginning of every season, and it takes
Speaker 18: the right type of superstars. You know, and Andrew does
Speaker 18: a great job. You know when you look at show, Hey, Mookie, Freddie,
Speaker 18: the top three guys on down, they're superstar players, but
Speaker 18: their mindset is just to win the World Series, and
Speaker 18: so they do everything that they possibly can to help us.
Speaker 2: Win the World Series.
Speaker 18: So I've been around guys where they've been great players
Speaker 18: that might that might not necessarily be the case at times,
Speaker 18: and so to have that is just like that that
Speaker 18: trickle down effect makes everybody realize that that's that's why
Speaker 18: we're here, and that's why we are a Dodger. That's
Speaker 18: what we signed up to do, and we're going to
Speaker 18: try to do that over the course of the next
Speaker 18: ten days.
Speaker 8: Doesn't that make this team unique because you have been
Speaker 8: teammates with guys that had a lot of talent but
Speaker 8: didn't have the work ethic to be able to fulfill it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I don't know if it's work ethic.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 18: I just know that there's kind of like a a
Speaker 18: factor of wanting to win and what that looks like.
Speaker 18: And you saw last year with Freddie's ankle. You see
Speaker 18: it this year with Mookie becoming a goal glove shortstop.
Speaker 2: You see it with Shohey.
Speaker 18: Doing everything he can to be the best hitter and
Speaker 18: the best pitcher. And that trickles all the way down,
Speaker 18: like Will Smith trying to play through a broken hand,
Speaker 18: or you know, like just just everybody pitcher's stepping up,
Speaker 18: you know, pitching all the time, all bullpen guys throwing constantly.
Speaker 2: You know, just different.
Speaker 18: Stuff like they see these guys do it, so that
Speaker 18: means that they they're going to fall in line too,
Speaker 18: And that's that's just pretty cool.
Speaker 8: Before I'll let you go, you've been a game one
Speaker 8: starter many times in your career. Blake is kind of
Speaker 8: setting the tone every series. What have you seen as
Speaker 8: far as the growth from when he first started pitching
Speaker 8: to where he's at right now with you guys.
Speaker 18: I've always said that Blake when he's right, is top
Speaker 18: top two to three pitchers in the game. I've said
Speaker 18: that when he was in Tampa, I said that when
Speaker 18: he was in San Diego of San Francisco.
Speaker 2: He's he's special, he really is. And you're seeing that now.
Speaker 18: He's got four pitches that are elite and he uh,
Speaker 18: he loves to compete, he really does. So it's uh,
Speaker 18: I'm excited.
Speaker 2: To watch tomorrow. Have you seen Donnie yet.
Speaker 18: Haven't seen Donna yet. Haven't seen don yet. I'll get
Speaker 18: him a hug and tell him I'm happier here. But
Speaker 18: this is as far as it goes. Thank you, Clayton,
Speaker 18: all right, Thanks.
Speaker 8: Last dance for Clayton Kershaw. Not too many players get
Speaker 8: to go out as a champion, let alone a back
Speaker 8: to back World Series champion, and that's the opportunity that
Speaker 8: Kershaw and the Dodgers have in front of them as
Speaker 8: it all gets started tomorrow night. Game one here in
Speaker 8: Toronto had a chance to catch up with a few
Speaker 8: of the other Dodger players on media Day. Some of
Speaker 8: the guys that you don't really hear too often from,
Speaker 8: including Max Munci, who many of you, as you just
Speaker 8: heard from the caller receipts counted out a little prematurely.
Speaker 19: I've been asked the dynasty question a lot over the
Speaker 19: last week. You know, they always say, like another sports,
Speaker 19: you have to win three titles to be a dynasty.
Speaker 20: I don't know if that's true, but we have the
Speaker 20: chance to do that.
Speaker 19: I feel like for us, we've been in the postseason
Speaker 19: last thirteen years in a row, or twelve years in
Speaker 19: a row, whatever it is. You know, we've had that
Speaker 19: chance to win a title every single year. I feel
Speaker 19: like that has to.
Speaker 20: Count for something.
Speaker 19: And you know, for this group, this organization, from office,
Speaker 19: the coaching stuff, the players, the culture we've created. To me,
Speaker 19: that's been everything. And I feel like that in its
Speaker 19: own is its own dynasty. Just the culture that we've
Speaker 19: created that everyone else now knows about and you hear
Speaker 19: other people talk about it.
Speaker 8: At this point in time in the season, after everything
Speaker 8: you guys have been through the last year and a half,
Speaker 8: where are you guys emotionally and physically to be able
Speaker 8: to pick yourselves up to get here and to win
Speaker 8: four more already.
Speaker 20: I mean, we better be ready. If not, then why
Speaker 20: why are we here?
Speaker 8: You know, you feel you get like a second life,
Speaker 8: like a second win once you get here, because nobody's
Speaker 8: one hundred percent at this time.
Speaker 20: There's there's there's things you can do.
Speaker 12: Dave.
Speaker 19: You know you've heard me say that, there's there's there's
Speaker 19: lines you willing the cross at this time of year.
Speaker 19: You're not going to cross in in in June.
Speaker 20: But you know we're gonna be ready to go. Guys
Speaker 20: are gonna be ready to go.
Speaker 19: Like I said, this is the whole reason you play
Speaker 19: this game is to get to this point, and you're
Speaker 19: not gonna.
Speaker 20: Let anything hold you back out there.
Speaker 8: What do you make of Otani putting his NLCS MVP
Speaker 8: trophy in the middle of the clubhouse.
Speaker 20: I think it's awesome.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 19: The first part of that is I think it's awesome
Speaker 19: because you know, he said it was a team effort,
Speaker 19: and really was the you know, there was there was
Speaker 19: a guy each game and happened to be most of
Speaker 19: our starting pitchers, but there was a guy each game
Speaker 19: that won us those games. And you know, I think
Speaker 19: that was just an incredible team effort to win four
Speaker 19: games in an NLCS. Just the starting pitching, big timely hits,
Speaker 19: big plays on defense. And so I think that's how
Speaker 19: Schow felt about it was just, you know, there wasn't
Speaker 19: one guy that won the series.
Speaker 20: It was everybody.
Speaker 19: And then the other part of that is, I guess
Speaker 19: he's got so many MVP trophies he doesn't care.
Speaker 20: About that one. You know, I gotta throw a joke
Speaker 20: in there for you, Dave.
Speaker 4: Thank you Monsey. I appreciate it. You really delivered today.
Speaker 8: Of course, Max Mounsey will be a big part of
Speaker 8: this World Series. He already has made two of the
Speaker 8: best defensive plays of this postseason for the Dodgers at
Speaker 8: third base the nlds that we all play and obviously
Speaker 8: crashing and making a heads up throw to third base
Speaker 8: with the aggress some brewers in the NLCS. Tommy Edmund
Speaker 8: has been grinding through a right ankle right foot injury
Speaker 8: all season long, and here he is trying to help
Speaker 8: the Dodgers win the World Series for a second straight year,
Speaker 8: his second year with the Dodgers, first full season with
Speaker 8: the Dodgers. You guys started the season in Tokyo quicker
Speaker 8: than everybody else.
Speaker 4: You're playing longer than everybody else.
Speaker 8: You obviously have you know, had to manage your ankle
Speaker 8: throughout the year. How do you pick yourself up every
Speaker 8: day and as a group be able to be here
Speaker 8: to have this opportunity.
Speaker 20: Yeah, it's a long seaton.
Speaker 7: Last year is a long season and this year is
Speaker 7: about as long as it could possibly be with you know,
Speaker 7: the early start and going to the World Series now.
Speaker 7: But I think it's a lot easier when you truly
Speaker 7: enjoy being around the guys on the team. You know,
Speaker 7: we all enjoy coming to the ballpark and being with
Speaker 7: one another. You know, we have a brotherhood on this team,
Speaker 7: and I think that's one of the things that makes
Speaker 7: us special is just the bond that we have.
Speaker 20: Have We create that.
Speaker 7: Bond through you know, being at the field every day,
Speaker 7: road trips, you know, playing cards on the plane. So
Speaker 7: you know, there's just a lot of things that that
Speaker 7: we enjoy about being with each other every single day,
Speaker 7: and that's what makes the grind of a season easier.
Speaker 8: Could you be here without enjoying being around each other
Speaker 8: and having the chemistry you have between the.
Speaker 2: Lines, you mean, being in the World Series?
Speaker 8: Yeah, could you enjoy being around this team or could
Speaker 8: you be here at the World Series if without enjoying
Speaker 8: each other.
Speaker 7: I think it's very hard for a team to make
Speaker 7: the World Series if you don't have that clubhouse chemistry
Speaker 7: when you're playing for each other. It just makes things
Speaker 7: a lot easier, and you know, and I think it
Speaker 7: just allows you to perform better.
Speaker 8: Do you think as a group you have something to
Speaker 8: prove and do you believe individually there's guys on this
Speaker 8: team that play or pitch with the chip on their
Speaker 8: shoulder that kind of feeds into the focus and hunger
Speaker 8: that you guys have maintained this year.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think everybody on our team has has
Speaker 7: the desire to be great and has the desire to
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 20: Perform as well as we possibly can.
Speaker 7: And you know a lot of guys on the team
Speaker 7: have accomplished just about everything you could accomplish in a career,
Speaker 7: and they're still hungry, you know, still hungry for more,
Speaker 7: and you know, still some of the hardest workers that
Speaker 7: you see, and just the way to go about their
Speaker 7: routine and there's no sense of, oh, I've already completed everything.
Speaker 7: I'm just you know, going through my career just trying to,
Speaker 7: you know, check a few boxes, but rather everybody has
Speaker 7: that pursuit of greatness. So you know, that's one of
Speaker 7: the things that makes it special is the way that
Speaker 7: those guys go about their day to day routines and
Speaker 7: trying to do everything they can to get better.
Speaker 8: I'll end this before I ask you the words to
Speaker 8: O Canada.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 4: That's why I'm ending it right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Hey, I said this when Tommy Edmund came back from
Speaker 8: the injured list. Even his outs from the left side
Speaker 8: and the right side have been hard hit. He is
Speaker 8: swinging the bat really well and has been ever since
Speaker 8: he came back from the injured list last year's NLCSMVP
Speaker 8: again is going to be another big part of this
Speaker 8: very deep Dodger team. The pitching staff the starters obviously
Speaker 8: have set the tone for the Dodgers all postseason long.
Speaker 8: I had a chance to catch up with who probably
Speaker 8: will be the Game three starter at Dodgers Stadium, Tyler
Speaker 8: Glass now and just the big plan the Dodgers have
Speaker 8: had all along for him and the other guys that
Speaker 8: started the season on the injured list.
Speaker 21: Yeah, I think that's like the whole goal. I think
Speaker 21: when I signed here, like you have the postseason in mind.
Speaker 21: I think anyone who signs here, that's like the expectation
Speaker 21: you have as a Dodger. You have to come and
Speaker 21: win and the postseason, not just get there, but win,
Speaker 21: And I think that's everyone's main goal. So I think
Speaker 21: whatever you can do to put yourself in a good
Speaker 21: situation for the postseason, for the World Series, everyone's on
Speaker 21: board with that. So there's a little part of you that, like,
Speaker 21: I guess if you feel ready to come back early.
Speaker 21: But I think for me specifically, it kind of just
Speaker 21: timed out to where we both were like perfect time,
Speaker 21: like let's go get healthy now and pitch.
Speaker 17: Well.
Speaker 8: You and Blake were kind of in that same boat
Speaker 8: this year, and you guys obviously have been together a
Speaker 8: long time. And what's the growth you've seen in him
Speaker 8: over the time that you weren't tamping together.
Speaker 21: Yeah, Blake's always had a really good work ethic, and
Speaker 21: he's always been like a unique pitcher and the way
Speaker 21: that he pitches and goes about his business. I think
Speaker 21: him just being able to throw any pitch in any
Speaker 21: count the confidence he has. He never gives in. I
Speaker 21: think that's always been consistent. I think him being a
Speaker 21: dad has made him grow too. But I've always been
Speaker 21: a big fan of Blake. He's always been a good teammate.
Speaker 21: But yeah, it's nice to see him this many years
Speaker 21: down the road and just to see that, like he's
Speaker 21: matured and grown. But he's also the same guy. You know,
Speaker 21: he's still the same funny dude, good work, ethic, good dude.
Speaker 4: Would you be all in for him to drop a
Speaker 4: new rap if you guys win, sure, I'm down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if he wants to, I'm all for it.
Speaker 4: Would you be the awkward guy on the wall with
Speaker 4: your hat down, your head down?
Speaker 2: No, I probably wouldn't be in the video. I'd probably
Speaker 2: stay out of it.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Glass Now again is gonna be tough to beat
Speaker 8: at home because the Shadows will be there at five
Speaker 8: o'clock in the afternoon at Dodger Stadium. And it's lined
Speaker 8: up perfectly for the Dodgers all postseason to have glass
Speaker 8: Now start games at Dodger Stadium. And it's worked out
Speaker 8: even better because he's been pitching at three o'clock in
Speaker 8: the afternoon, which has made him that much tougher to
Speaker 8: hit and see the ball coming out of his hand
Speaker 8: and then all of a sudden, it's ninety eight on you.
Speaker 8: All right, Let's close out the show tonight with one
Speaker 8: of the good hearted guys out there, Yamamoto, Yoshi Yamamoto
Speaker 8: and his trusty interpreter, Hero, who was written about a
Speaker 8: big feature in the La Times by Dylan Hernandez and
Speaker 8: he got a little candid about some of the superstitions.
Speaker 8: Yamamoto and Hero.
Speaker 4: Have you think Hero is wearing his lucky boxer shorts today?
Speaker 6: Kill?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Kill?
Speaker 2: I's up there last today after tomorrow? Oh, my game day.
Speaker 8: How do you feel this year this time around with
Speaker 8: the World Series having the experience of last year?
Speaker 2: I know, Kike.
Speaker 22: And Ginz, I know stuff, I know, I know, I'm
Speaker 22: feeling really good and I think I can go out
Speaker 22: there and perform with the confidence.
Speaker 8: How much do you feel the not burden, but the
Speaker 8: responsibility of the starting pictures? Yourself and Snell to set
Speaker 8: the tone for the first two games of this series.
Speaker 2: He say, so, no.
Speaker 1: Game one of the committed to you.
Speaker 2: My buddy. That is an a.
Speaker 3: Card, you.
Speaker 4: Know, just like CS.
Speaker 22: You know, in the first two games, that kind of
Speaker 22: said to tone. You know, so I think, you know,
Speaker 22: because our responsibility for these two games are very important,
Speaker 22: and then that might determine the flow of the whole series.
Speaker 8: One last question, why why do you believe Otani's n
Speaker 8: l C S M v P trophy was put in
Speaker 8: the middle of the clubhouse during the workouts or during
Speaker 8: the work up.
Speaker 4: It was in the middle of the clubhouse and.
Speaker 23: Nas no, then you no, I know, I meant me no.
Speaker 17: Hi.
Speaker 22: I think he just wanted to express and then just
Speaker 22: to make sure everybody knows that was kind of like
Speaker 22: his ion though.
Speaker 20: That you know, because team work. And then but everybody thinks,
Speaker 20: you know, because he did it. Yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 20: because he was the.
Speaker 2: One, you know, I could leave this team to one.
Speaker 4: So he wanted to remind people not that part of
Speaker 4: the front. Thank you Oshi, great to see you.
Speaker 5: Hero.
Speaker 8: Always a good time with Yamamoto and Hero. Great guys,
Speaker 8: great spirited guys. But as Yamamoto has said in the past,
Speaker 8: as Yamamoto said after his last start, losing is not
Speaker 8: an option, and.
Speaker 4: He'll be ready to go and it'll be an interest.
Speaker 8: It will be an interesting matchup in game two between
Speaker 8: Yamamoto and these Blue Jays hitters who liked to swing
Speaker 8: early in the counts. That'll do it for us tonight
Speaker 8: on Dodger Talk. Thank you so much to Ronnie Fossio
Speaker 8: back at our burd Bank Studios for hanging.
Speaker 4: Out an hour extra with us.
Speaker 8: Appreciate that, Ronnie, and can't wait to see you at
Speaker 8: Game three of the World Series.
Speaker 4: And thank you for listening.
Speaker 8: In case you missed any of the show or our
Speaker 8: conversation with Clayton Kershaw, you can find it on the
Speaker 8: iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4: We'll have Dodger Talk for you after Game one of
Speaker 4: the World Series tomorrow night.
Speaker 8: That'll do it for us tonight from Canada in the
Speaker 8: Rogers Center, a great Dodger Talk on the eve of
Speaker 8: the World Series. It all gets started at five o'clock tomorrow.
Speaker 8: Have a great rest of your Thursday.
Speaker 4: Seal the perfect Date