WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (10-23-25) 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:02.280 Put a small salt time to get at people what 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:03.040 they want to die. 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:04.800 Who is special? 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:06.120 I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:06.840 You'll host. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:09.079 This. 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.160 Ball's gone to. 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.200 Grab your phone to get in on the show called 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.119 eight six six nine eighty seven two five seven. 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.520 Come to show and now your host of Dodger Talk, 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:23.960 David Vasse. 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.120 Welcome to Dodger Talk, David Bass say with you until 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.440 eight o'clock tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.199 We are at the Rogers Center in Toronto. Today was 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.559 media day. We'll get you a lot of conversations we 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.240 had from both sides, from the Blue Jays, from the Dodgers, 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:47.640 George Springer, Max Scherzer, Max Munsey, Tommy Edmund Yamamoto. 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:49.000 So we'll get to all that. 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.640 And also I have some caller receipts from fans freaking 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.880 out during the during the summer and the regular season 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.000 and can't wait to share those receipts with you. We 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.200 also have a one on one conversation with Clayton Kershaw 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.120 coming up at the bottom of the hour. But we 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.360 do have breaking news that came down at about six 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:15.680 thirty Eastern time three thirty Pacific time, and it does 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:19.520 affect the Dodger roster and the bullpen, but it's bigger 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.319 than baseball. The Dodgers posted on their social media that 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:28.000 Alex Vesia is away from the team because of personal 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.280 matters with him and his wife. In case you didn't know, 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:37.600 Vessia's wife was pregnant, So obviously we're respecting their privacy 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:39.600 and we're sending out our love. 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:43.120 And prayers to them. Not sure exactly. 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.680 What the specific reason is, but the Dodgers did post 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.320 that Alex Vesia is away from the Dodgers, and I 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:54.640 haven't seen a playoff roster yet, not sure if Vessia 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:55.360 is on it. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:56.600 Vessi has been. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.680 Such a big part of the Dodgers roster and postseason. 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.040 I mean, he is one of their best relievers. And 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.800 if they're without him, at least for the first two games, 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.400 that gives the Blue Jays a huge advantage. And the 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.799 Dodgers need even more length out of their starters without Vessia. 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.720 And obviously this is secondary considering whatever him and his 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.560 wife are going through for him not to be here 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:25.560 in Toronto. But it's funny. This may open the door 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:30.000 for a Tanner Scott World Series. Roster spot without Vessia. 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.679 Dave Roberts said earlier today they haven't decided whether or 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.760 not to leave Vessia off the World Series roster, so 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.560 there is still a chance that Vessia is on the 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:43.120 World Series roster and joins them when they return in 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.000 Los Angeles. Also, another possibility we found out from a 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.399 Major League Baseball spokesman is that the Dodgers could put 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.600 Vessia on bereavement and then bring him back later in 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.799 the World Series, So there is a chance that they 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.840 don't have to leave Vessia off the World Series roster. 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.880 Bereavement is certainly in play, and I wasn't sure about 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.800 that when the news broke, but we're starting to get 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.520 some information from Major League Baseball that, yes, the Dodgers 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:17.239 could put him on bereavement, and if the circumstances dictated 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.239 and he was feeling good enough to come back and pitch, 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.520 he would be available later in the World Series. So 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.520 our thoughts and prayers go out to Alex Vesia, and 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.920 certainly we'll see what other options the Dodgers have to 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:34.079 fill his spot for a temporary basis. Could be Tanner 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.080 Scott back in play, who hasn't pitched in over a month. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.920 All Right, we'll see where the Dodgers go with alex Vesia, 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.200 but we want to get to some of the Blue 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.920 Jays media Day and we had a chance to catch 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.080 up with George Springer, who is at the center of 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.840 the storm with the twenty seventeen Astros, and we did 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.000 not shy away from that when we caught up with 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:56.480 Springer at media Day. 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.920 There's a lot of history between you and the Dodgers. 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.480 What do you feel about this series and when you 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.080 go back to l A the reception that you've gotten 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.280 in the past, Is that a factor in any of this? 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:08.480 I mean, it's ultimately at the end of the day, 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.240 our team has to go play our game, go be 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.200 who we are and you know who We'll see what happens. 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.480 Which had been like to play behind not just one city, 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.160 but an entire country and have them back in the 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:19.839 World Series. 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.159 It's special. No, it doesn't really hit you. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.680 You know that you're playing for a whole country up 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.880 until it does, so you know this is this is awesome. 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.279 I couldn't be more excited for for our fans. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.440 It's been a lot of talked about and rightfully so. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.560 The Dodgers starting pitching. How good it's been this postseason? 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.920 When you're going against four starters like that, What's what's 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:43.320 the mindset of an offense? 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.440 You know, I just think you understand that there's not 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.200 gonna be a lot to hit. You understand that, you 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.520 know those are four, four or five elite guys, and 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:54.280 you know that you know that they can control his own, 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.599 can pound his own. So you know, you just have 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:58.040 to kind of go grind it out, and you know, 0:04:58.320 --> 0:04:59.239 we'll see what happens. 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.239 You're one of the the only guys that have played 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.599 in the World Series on the team. Do you have 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.880 any sort of message for him in the clubhouse? What's 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.640 your role in trying to help these guys that don't 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:12.560 have the experience. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.120 Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm the old guy in the 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.480 locker room. You know who besides Max, Max is ancient. 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:20.880 I have some stuff that I'll let them know. You know, 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.400 just to go go have fun, enjoy the moment. You 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.279 know that these are moments that you don't know if 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:26.560 you're ever going to get there. You don't know if 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.840 you're ever gonna get back. Obviously, it's an extremely hard 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:31.480 task with that team on the other side of the line. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.599 But you know, just just just go into joy the 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.080 moment about be who you are as a player. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:40.960 George Springer was the twenty seventeen World Series MVP. He 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.440 was the guy that sent the Blue Jays to this 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.680 World Series, so his experience and clutch play is. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.320 Something to keep an eye on. 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.000 From the Blue Jays side, we always talk about Keith 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:56.160 a Hernandez and his love for October. Well, George Springer 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:01.240 also has a knack for that type of October play 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.400 and he has showed it already in this October for 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.520 the Blue Jays had a chance to also catch up 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:12.120 with former Dodger Max Scherzer. Scherzer was part of the 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.000 Dodgers in twenty twenty one that lost to Freddie Freeman's 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:20.039 Braves in Game six of the NLCS, and we all 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.040 remember that mac Scherzer all of a sudden couldn't pitch 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.599 in Game six of the NLCS when the Dodgers needed 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.960 him the most. Scherzer earlier this year, when the Blue 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:35.120 Jays were at Dodgers Stadium, decided that he really wanted 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.640 a picture and exchange of jerseys with one of his 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.760 fellow peers and a guy that has been there. 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.120 A parallel of his career as far. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.120 As when they started being two members that are active 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:51.440 of the three thousand strikeout club, and that was Clayton Kershaw. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:56.280 And started out the interview at Media Day with Scherzer 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.920 talking about that moment and the fact that the Dog 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.479 and Blue Jays are in the World Series, meaning those 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.159 two future Hall of famers will be on the mound 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.359 and one of them will be a champion. 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:08.679 Again. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.760 We didn't necessarily say that, but I said, man, this 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.120 can't be the last time. We gotta do this again. 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.240 It's too much fun when we compete against each other. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.840 And uh, you know, I think the thing is high 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.520 as of any player I can think of it, you know, 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.200 when I think about him, what he's meant to the game, 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:27.280 and definitely when he's meant to. 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:28.200 The Dodgers' organization. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.120 So, uh, you know, obviously a great picture and that 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:32.160 love competing against him. 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.760 You and Donnie have been inside the Dodgers, you know, 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.040 and understand their method. 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.000 Does that give you any. 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:44.080 Sort of sort of advantage or strategic help to your 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:45.400 other teammates, No. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:47.840 Because they're gonna adapt to what you know our thing is. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.920 And just like we're gonna do to that. Like, you know, 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:56.480 it doesn't give us a competitive avantage. You know, we 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.600 were gonna be humans playing baseball. They're gonna make decisions. 0:07:58.600 --> 0:07:59.560 We're gonna make decisions. 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.160 What do you remember about that twenty one season with 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.440 the Dodgers and just you coming out of the bullpen 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.760 in San Francisco and just the way things ended. A 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.680 lot of guys say that on that team, said that 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.720 was the most talented team they ever played on. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.760 Yeah, I mean it really was a really special team, 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:16.680 really talented team. 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:16.960 Uh. 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.800 You know, we were loaded, but so were the Giants. 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:22.880 The Giants. You know, sometimes when you get into those. 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.080 Division series, I mean, those those division series can absolutely 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:26.480 kill you. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:28.120 I mean it takes. 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.600 Every last guy, uh to be able to go out 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.560 there and do that to win win a series in 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.240 that situation. You know, we got caught in that coming 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.880 from the wildcard game, you know, going into you know, 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:38.960 playing against the Giants. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:40.559 I mean they were really really. 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:44.560 Good team, and you know I was I had to 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.720 come out of the whole playing to close out Game five. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:51.280 So you know, you know, we can always look back 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.040 at how that all transpired and play the couldas should 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.160 would a game, But you know, my time in LA, 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:57.959 I always have good memories of it. I got to 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.440 have some really cool moments there and uh definitely in 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.160 the Clubhoufs two and get to know those guys, So 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.600 you know, I only I only think highly of my 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:06.440 time there in LA. 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.120 It seemed like you guys may have been emotionally spent 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.160 after having to play the wildcard game then playing a 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:13.840 rival like the Giants for five. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.440 Is there any danger of. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.520 The Blue Jays and you guys maybe being emotionally spent 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.520 after a seven game series like that coming into the 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:22.200 World Series. 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.400 You know, I guess that's a fair question. But we've 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.680 had a little bit more time. Uh you know, there's 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:32.079 like three days. Uh there's Monday's, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Yeah, 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:33.800 there was three days in between that series. So kind 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.800 of let's everybody, you know, catch your breath. I think 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.319 when you move from DS to you know, the NLCS, 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.600 you only have like a day. So we got of 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.719 got you know, like that kind of played a role 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.360 into it. So hopefully that help that helps us getting 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.960 a few days off here before we actually start game one. 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:51.240 They might take a lot out of you. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:55.720 Yeah, I can answer questions all day log it's easier 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:56.600 and throwing the baseball. 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:01.200 Hey, I wasn't scared. Mac Surezer is a talker and 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.680 he's a veteran. He's not going to shy away from anything. 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:09.440 So a good professional conversation there with Max Scherzer, who 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.200 is a former Diamondback, and so is Blue Jays center 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.800 fielder Dalton VARs Show, who had his best year since 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.959 being traded to Arizona the year before the Diamondbacks went 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:25.040 to the World Series. Now he's here finally and certainly 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.959 is familiar with the dominance of the Dodgers. Obviously you've 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:32.000 seen the Dodgers and seeing what they've built over the 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.520 years playing in the NL West. To have this opportunity 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.400 to beat them in the World Series, is it somewhat surreal. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:40.680 Yeah. Obviously they're a really really good team. 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.720 I've played my whole career, and they've got really good 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:45.920 leaders and being able to know what it's like to 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:47.520 be in this position and kind of being in the 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.920 World Series, So they obviously have that feeling. 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:51.679 But I mean, we also have good leaders. 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.560 Over here too, have been there with Max and George, 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.040 so obviously taking in one step at a time, understanding 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:58.280 what we need to do to be prepared. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.600 They're going to be really prepared to go out there 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:01.120 and play a game. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.760 When you size up the Dodgers and just the tail 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.440 of the tape between your team and their team, what 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.040 stands out to you the most as a guy that's involved. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.280 Yeah, I think it's their experience. They have a bunch 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.120 of guys over there who were on the team last 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.040 year when they want it, so I think it's more 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.719 experience than anything else. But it's about who can kind 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.160 of control their adrenaline. That's really what it comes down to. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.360 And obviously being in the position like we played a 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.800 really good team with Seattle of going to seven games, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.679 So I think overall we do a really good job 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.760 of being able to control that part of it and 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:32.439 being able. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:33.840 To go play a game. We just can't do anything 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:34.240 more than that. 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:39.120 Watching from Dodger Stadium, it seemed like you guys really 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.960 emptied the emotional tank in game seven. How do you 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.480 refill it and do you feel like you guys have 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:49.680 been recharged after such an emotional series and emotional win. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.559 Yeah, I think overall, I think every series is like that. 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.560 So obviously, like a lot of guys who have never 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.000 made it this far in the playoffs or guys, it's 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.800 the first time coming through it. Like there is gonna 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.199 be a lot of emotion every series, but it's about 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.840 understanding that stress and anxiety that was filled all up 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.000 into that Game seven and you poured it out because 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.480 you love the guys on this team and you cared 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.439 for everybody, and so for us to win that series 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.679 is great, but obviously it was onto the next like 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.360 we kind of were able to flip our minds really 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.280 quick and say, hey, we still have four more games 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:17.559 to win. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.880 All right, last thing for you, first World Series, this 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.720 World Series Media Day. I'm sure you've seen it now 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.960 that you're here. What's your impressions of World Series Media Day? 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:31.839 It's controlled chaos. But just go enjoy it. I mean, 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.400 there's really nothing about it. Like they all want to 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.560 talk to you, and they all want to know a story, 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.120 but it just go enjoy it, enjoy every moment of it, 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:39.720 and soak. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:39.920 It all in. 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.480 Var Show likely not going to start tomorrow night in 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.400 Game one of the World Series against Blake Snell. The 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.560 Blue Jays do have a platoon in center field, so 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.880 VARs Show will be out there for Game two against Yamamoto. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.200 All right, before we wrap things up and get to 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.800 the receipts, and you are going to love to hear 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:04.080 receipts I pulled out from this past summer of Dodger 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:08.079 talk callers. Let's get to Don Mattingly, the former Dodger 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.880 manager who is now the bench coach for the Blue Jays. 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.920 First time in his major league career that he is 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.240 going to the World Series, albeit not as a player, 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.920 not as a manager, but as the Blue Jays bench coach. 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.040 And that has been a big time storyline. He's gotten 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.400 a lot of attention over it. And I had a 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:32.640 chance to sneak into his Blue Jays media day. 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.560 Oh yeah, a couple of hundred ticks, some different people. 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:39.640 But no, it's it's been a really humbling feeling that people, 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.240 you know, kind of want that for you. But for me, 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.680 you know, I'm happy about that, but it does keep 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.080 going back to our players. It's it's really about them. 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:51.720 I'm a kind of. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.600 Blended into the woodwork here, not really. 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.400 You know, John's the manager, He's the ones that's that's 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.600 doing all the legwork, making a lot of the tough decisions, 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.840 a lot of different departments are doing all the work 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:04.800 with the hitters and the. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:05.880 Pitchers and things like that. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.240 I think, like Tomorrow and myself, what kind of here 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:14.000 to support john support anybody that we can within the group. 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.079 I kind of look at myself as a perspective coach 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:19.680 more than anything else right now. 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:21.680 As the season went on, it's like, hey, let's keep 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:22.560 this from perspective. 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.400 We lose a couple of games, We're fine. Things like that. 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.640 But Johnny, in all the years as a player, coacher, managers, 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.120 which one before this one did you feel like, I 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.440 think we're going to make it a sure? 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.920 I like the ninety four ninety five teams I played 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:38.840 on felt really good. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:44.520 The eighty five team was really good. Teams in LA. 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:46.720 The teams I had in LA, I felt like I 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.200 had really good shots. The year we got beat by 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.360 the Mets, I thought was a tough We got. 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:53.040 Beat in game five. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:54.800 I think out in LA we had to grom on 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.320 the ropes and we didn't. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:57.600 We weren't able to put him away. 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.280 That one good about There's been a there's been a 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:02.400 few teams that you know. 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:04.720 I think the biggest thing you know is when you 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.240 get into the playoffs. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.040 Anything can happen in a short series. It's not one, 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.520 six and two, it's seven. Who gets hot? 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:13.200 Uh? 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.440 You know who makes the big play, who gets the 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:15.880 big hit. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.680 You get momentum, roll in your way, get pressure on 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:19.400 somebody else. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.120 Anything can happen. So I think all of those teams 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:24.720 you feel like you can. Even in Miami. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.760 You know the year of COVID. You know, we went 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.880 that first round in Chicago, and you know what we got. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.080 We got a couple of good young pitchers out there 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.960 that could have got hot, uh, and we could have 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:39.560 moved on, but we weren't able to. 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.640 But you always believe that you can. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:46.160 Everybody very happy for Don Mattinglee. I'm not as excited 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.960 as everybody else. It would have meant more. I feel 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.920 if he was the manager of the Blue Jays than 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.040 just the bench coach, although he has had a big 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:59.160 influence on Blue Jays manager John Schneider. But I kind 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.160 of feel like this is an East Coast thing. A 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:06.320 lot of Yankees people care more than anybody else that 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.040 Don Mattingly finally made it to the World Series. Isn't 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.520 it a little watered down that he's going with the 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:17.000 Blue Jays as the bench coach instead of the Dodgers 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.240 manager or a Yankees player. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.280 That's the way I feel. Well. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.320 Well, wow, look who walked into the Dodger Talk radio booth. 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.800 Rick Krajeuski, who has taken on the lifestyle of the 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.040 Canadian Mounties with a great mustache out here. He's been 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:35.000 alongside Joe Davis for the entire American League postseason, and 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.360 Joe Davis and John Smoltz and Rick Krajuski will be 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.120 in the booth again for the World Series coming up 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:45.080 tomorrow night. All right, when we continue on Dodger Talk, 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.840 we will get to the receipts I pulled out from 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.560 Dodger Talk callers over the past summer, and you are 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.760 going to enjoy it. It will give you a great 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.760 laugh considering how freaked out some of you were about 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:03.520 this Dodger World Series champion team. Dodger Talk from Roger 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:07.040 Center in Toronto continues right here on a f five 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.520 to seventy LA Sports. 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.360 We're with you until eight o'clock. Coming up. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.200 At the bottom of the hour, you'll hear our conversation 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.480 with Clayton Kershawn will also try to get to some 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.400 of the other Dodgers at media day, you heard from 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:29.000 the Blue Jays was not afraid to present to George Springer. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.440 He will hear a lot of booze before Game three. 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.800 During Game three, and also Max Scherzer just wanted to 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:40.040 remind him that some of us have not forgotten about 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.199 twenty twenty one. It was great to hear from Dalton 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.560 Varshow as well. And Don Mattingley of course, very cool 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:50.520 to hear him reference the twenty fifteen NLDS and that 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.800 Dodger team that was in a great position to win 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:58.679 the World Series, just unfortunately came up short in Game five. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.919 It's Game one of the World Series right here on 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:07.000 AM five to seventy LA Sports. Rick Monday and Stephen 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.760 Nelson will have the call. Our coverage begins at four o'clock, 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.119 with first pitch at five o'clock from the Rogers Center 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.240 here in Toronto on Snell Zilla Day. Blake Snell with 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:23.080 an era under one this postseason, being mentioned in the 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:27.480 same sentence as Kershaw as Cofax with this type of 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.000 run and look, there's a reason why he's starting Game one. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:34.199 He set the tone in the NLDS, He's set the 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:38.200 tone in the NLCS and the Dodgers are expecting him, 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.800 and Blake is expecting himself to set the tone in 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:45.320 Game one of the World Series. Remember this is the 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.520 second time Snell has pitched in the World Series. He 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.760 pitched for the Rays against the Dodgers. Of course, in 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.520 the twenty World Series, that infamous Game six where Kevin 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:59.400 Cash took out of Blake Snell that was dominating the Dodgers. 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.600 So Dave Roberts is going to push Snell tomorrow night 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.840 like he has all postseason, and Snell has expressed to 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:10.120 me many times how badly he wants this and how 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:13.520 badly he wants to hoist the World Series trophy with 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:17.560 the Dodgers. We'll get to Kershawan the Dodgers coming up 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:21.240 in our next segment. But right now, I have receipts, 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.679 and thanks to the help of calling Yee, we have 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:29.840 receipts from you during the regular season, panicking over games 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:34.480