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Speaker 2: nine o'clock tonight on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers fall to the White Sox tonight eight
Speaker 2: to two in the opener of this three game weekend
Speaker 2: series on the south side of Chicago, rat Field is
Speaker 2: where the White Sox play now, and they had a
Speaker 2: sellout crowd of thirty seven thousand, eight hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: two cheering them on to beat the back to back
Speaker 2: world champs eight to two, the final score. If you're
Speaker 2: leaving LA Stadium as they were calling it on the broadcast,
Speaker 2: watching USA, if you were lucky enough to beat the
Speaker 2: be there watching Team USA win their first match of
Speaker 2: the World Cup and you want some Dodger baseball in
Speaker 2: your life, or you just want to share with us
Speaker 2: the electricity at LA Stadium. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number we could
Speaker 2: talk Dodger baseball. We could get the vibe of what
Speaker 2: took place at the LA Coliseum, the watch party, or
Speaker 2: if you were there at Sofi Stadium aka LA Stadium,
Speaker 2: I love to hear from you as well. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy. Coming up at
Speaker 2: eight forty, we'll share our full conversation with you with
Speaker 2: former White Sox Aj Perzinski, who's on Foul Territory now
Speaker 2: and you see him on Fox Sports. He was part
Speaker 2: of the last World Championship team for the White Sox
Speaker 2: in two thousand and five. We'll share that conversation with you.
Speaker 2: Also will give you an update on Tommy Edmond and
Speaker 2: why Dave Roberts will be missing the final game of
Speaker 2: this series in Chicago. But tonight it wasn't It wasn't
Speaker 2: pretty what took place at Sofi Stadium the beautiful game.
Speaker 2: It was beautiful for Team USA. It was not pretty
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers in Chicago tonight as their offense only
Speaker 2: generated four hits, and Miguel Rojas had two of those
Speaker 2: four hits. It was another disastrous crooked inning for the
Speaker 2: Dodger pitching staff in the fifth, including Roki Sasaki, who
Speaker 2: walked in a batter and then gave way to Blake Trinen,
Speaker 2: who inherited four runners and allowed all four to score.
Speaker 2: So a two to one Dodger lead all of a
Speaker 2: sudden turned into a major major hole for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: to climb out of eight to two after five innings tonight,
Speaker 2: and that was the final score. A local kid by
Speaker 2: the name of Chase Mydrath out of Miracosta High School
Speaker 2: was three for three tonight with two RBIs. He was
Speaker 2: on base four times, and former Dodger Miguel Vargas had
Speaker 2: an RBI double in that seven run fifth inning. Vargas
Speaker 2: three for four with that RBI double. He thought it
Speaker 2: was a home run and made the play at second
Speaker 2: base a lot closer than what it should have been.
Speaker 2: But a little concerning that. Dave Roberts can't find a
Speaker 2: relief picture in the middle part of games. To you
Speaker 2: hold things where they are, and part of being a
Speaker 2: relief picture is coming in inheriting runners and stranding those
Speaker 2: inherited runners. Blake tried, in let's face it, a lot
Speaker 2: of miles on that arm. I'm not sure how much
Speaker 2: swing and miss you can really forecast night tonight when
Speaker 2: you have a guy in his twilight of his career,
Speaker 2: not saying he's done, but the reality is he's kind
Speaker 2: of in that Daniel Hutton since stage of his career,
Speaker 2: and you know certain nights are not going to be pretty.
Speaker 2: But you wouldn't expect that many runs to score off
Speaker 2: of Blake trining. And look, I'm all in on Roki Sasaki.
Speaker 2: I'm wishing for the best, but like I warned after
Speaker 2: each of his last four or five starts, especially the
Speaker 2: last two, this is still a work in progress. There
Speaker 2: were a lot of declarations out there by a lot
Speaker 2: of media people that, oh, anytime you see Roki, it
Speaker 2: could be a perfect game, it could be a no hitter.
Speaker 2: I don't think we're there yet, and I thought tonight
Speaker 2: was a perfect example of that. Should should Freddy Freeman
Speaker 2: have fielded that ground ball for a double play in
Speaker 2: that fifth inning? Yes, he should have, But does that
Speaker 2: mean that you just fold the tents because a play
Speaker 2: wasn't made behind you. How about the three other plays
Speaker 2: that were made behind Roki Sasaki tonight in the first
Speaker 2: few innings. Rojas off his knees falling down, made a
Speaker 2: great play, Alex Call had a diving catch and left field,
Speaker 2: and Freddie Freeman himself made a great play earlier in
Speaker 2: the game. So I don't really want to hear about
Speaker 2: the crowd a playoff like atmosphere. I don't want to
Speaker 2: hear about Freddie Freeman not making a play. Make pitches
Speaker 2: when there's some adversity, and that's the most adversity Roki
Speaker 2: Sasaki has faced in an inning in quite some time,
Speaker 2: and he did not pass the test tonight, as the
Speaker 2: White Sox chased him out of this game. He was
Speaker 2: only able to get one out in that fifth inning,
Speaker 2: and of course Blake Trening was not great. But I
Speaker 2: don't I'm not pointing the finger at one ground ball
Speaker 2: that should have been a double play that caused a
Speaker 2: seven run fifth inning. You could say, okay, a couple
Speaker 2: of runs scored and Freddy should have made that play.
Speaker 2: There should have been a double play. But you're trying
Speaker 2: to tell me seven runs are going to score because
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman didn't field a ground ball cleanly. Come on,
Speaker 2: that doesn't add up. That's just excuse making for Roki Sasaki.
Speaker 2: That's all it is. And you didn't hear Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: make up any excuses for Roki. He just didn't pitch
Speaker 2: well tonight. And like I said, this is development at
Speaker 2: the major league level. The last seven starts, he's been
Speaker 2: taking big strides towards being a major league starter? Is
Speaker 2: he a number one? Am I going to declare, like
Speaker 2: Dylan Hernandez, at anytime Roki Sasaki takes the mountain now
Speaker 2: you might see a no hitter. Absolutely not. That was
Speaker 2: such a huge tabloid type story over statement by Dylan
Speaker 2: Hernandez and anybody else that was thinking the same thing.
Speaker 2: It's still a work in progress, and you hope by
Speaker 2: the end of the year that he can help you
Speaker 2: coming out of the bullpen, because I don't see Roki
Speaker 2: Sasaki being one of the playoffs starters. Eight six, six, nine,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. So the Dodger
Speaker 2: offense only generated four hits. They did not have show
Speaker 2: Heo Tani in the starting lineup, as I advised last night,
Speaker 2: So cooler heads prevailed Show Heyotani, though may play tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts spoke about that after the games.
Speaker 3: Got treated.
Speaker 4: So talking to the training staff just right now, I'm optimistic,
Speaker 4: but I want to, you know, get him through tonight,
Speaker 4: get him here, go through some semblance of a workout,
Speaker 4: getting his body ready, and then we'll go from there.
Speaker 3: Optimistic for tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, there's Dave Roberts on sports net LA. Look,
Speaker 2: he's optimistic, but the reality is there's no need to
Speaker 2: force the issue with show Heyotani, even tomorrow. Tomorrow. It's
Speaker 2: a day game after a night game. You heard Rick Monday,
Speaker 2: Tim Neverritt, Steven Nelson, Eric Carrosol talk about out the
Speaker 2: fact that the team got to their hotels at four
Speaker 2: am this time or four am this morning Central time.
Speaker 2: We all know Otani is big on sleep. Probably not
Speaker 2: a lot of sleep. Maybe he got to sleep in
Speaker 2: a little bit longer because he wasn't in the starting lineup.
Speaker 2: But the reality is, you don't need to push this guy.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts clarified his comments before the game. It's not
Speaker 2: anything to do with his hamstring. It is all knee
Speaker 2: inflammation of his left knee, which he had surgery on
Speaker 2: back in twenty nineteen. You don't need to force anything.
Speaker 2: There's nothing to prove in Chicago. Yes, the sellout crowd
Speaker 2: of thirty seven, eight hundred and eighty two acted like
Speaker 2: it was the nineteen fifty nine World Series. It's not.
Speaker 2: It's not. It's for them, it is. They're very excited,
Speaker 2: and they should be because they have waded through some
Speaker 2: horrible years, three one hundred loss seasons and really haven't
Speaker 2: had anything to cheer about in a decade in Chicago
Speaker 2: for the White Sox. So I love this team. I
Speaker 2: love what I saw from the White Sox. They're a
Speaker 2: great Cinderella story and I understand why the fans were
Speaker 2: treating this like it was the biggest game of the
Speaker 2: year for them, considering it's the back to back champs
Speaker 2: and they're David and Goliath in this spot for sure
Speaker 2: in this series. So congrats to the White Sox for
Speaker 2: winning a game in the middle of June and giving
Speaker 2: their fans even more to cheer about. But this is
Speaker 2: not a make or break series for the Dodgers, which
Speaker 2: makes me want to lean on the fact don't even
Speaker 2: have Otani play in the last two games of this series.
Speaker 2: Just hold them out for the first game back at
Speaker 2: home against Tampa Bay. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. The White Sox
Speaker 2: are a really good team. Six games of above five
Speaker 2: hundred overall, they've won thirty seven games already. They only
Speaker 2: won thirty seven games in twenty twenty four, and at
Speaker 2: home they're even better. They've won nineteen of their last
Speaker 2: twenty two at home, including their eighth in a row
Speaker 2: tonight over the Dodgers. They have the second best home
Speaker 2: record of any team in baseball this side of Saint Petersburg, Florida.
Speaker 2: That's right, the Rays have the best home record at
Speaker 2: Tropicana Field. Them and their three thousand fans get to
Speaker 2: see that every night. Sorry, I know, low hanging fruit
Speaker 2: right there. Eight six six ninety eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. We have three lines open
Speaker 2: if you're coming back from the soccer game. Would love
Speaker 2: to hear from you. If you were one of the
Speaker 2: few Dodger fans at raid Field tonight, I would love
Speaker 2: to hear from you as well. Because our feeling was
Speaker 2: that it was a all White Sox crowd. There were not
Speaker 2: a lot of Dodger fans out there. You did not
Speaker 2: hear any Dodger chance. It was all about the White
Speaker 2: Sox tonight, and that's what you expect to see on
Speaker 2: the road. But it was a fun atmosphere out there
Speaker 2: in Chicago, and it saw Miguel Vargas, the former Dodger,
Speaker 2: have three hits and an RBI double in that seven
Speaker 2: run fifth inning. This is a win win for Miguel Vargas,
Speaker 2: the White Sox and the Dodgers. If you remember, in
Speaker 2: that trade deadline deal, that three way trade, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: traded Vargas to the White Sox the Cardinals big piece
Speaker 2: in that trade was starter by the name of Eric Fetti,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers got two key pieces on their way
Speaker 2: to their twenty four championship in Michael Kopek and NLCSMVP
Speaker 2: Tommy Edman. And we'll get you an update on edmund
Speaker 2: a little bit later. The Cardinals got the worst end
Speaker 2: of that three way deals and the Dodgers it was
Speaker 2: a win win for both of them. There was no
Speaker 2: place for Vargus to play months He had third base,
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman had first base. He did not look good
Speaker 2: in the outfield. He did not look good at second base,
Speaker 2: and all the while trying to hit at the big
Speaker 2: league level and looking over his shoulder and if he
Speaker 2: didn't perform, he was sitting. So this in the last
Speaker 2: few years has given Miguel Vargas an opportunity to grow
Speaker 2: with the White Sox, and here he is a guy
Speaker 2: that is going to make the All Star team, whether
Speaker 2: as a starter or as a bench player, as a reserve.
Speaker 2: Miguel Vargas couldn't be happier for him. It's been. It's
Speaker 2: worked out great for both teams. And you don't usually
Speaker 2: see trades like that. Let's go out to Downey Juan,
Speaker 2: home of Downy Hyundai. Hi Wan, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: And I did see either a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 5: when Beshall was here.
Speaker 2: Hey, we're gonna see this Saturday. Do you know a
Speaker 2: week from tomorrow I'm gonna be out there with Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts aid Downy Hunday, I.
Speaker 5: Will be there. All right, great question here day. Could
Speaker 5: you know how we're out there trying to, you know,
Speaker 5: look for a starting picture of school, because what if
Speaker 5: we go after some middle relief. Our middle relief has
Speaker 5: been struggling right now, I can't count We can't count
Speaker 5: any of these guys. I don't know if they're tired
Speaker 5: or what if anyone of them are tired, because but
Speaker 5: what did we go after some middle relief? We need
Speaker 5: middle relief?
Speaker 2: Well, I just like, yeah, I'm all in on that one.
Speaker 2: I'm all in on middle relief, but not at the
Speaker 2: price that it cost the Phillies to get Joe on Duran.
Speaker 2: But I will say this, the cavalry is on the way.
Speaker 2: Evan Phillips is on his rehab assignment with Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2: Brock Stewart started his first or made his first rehab
Speaker 2: appearance tonight coming off that left foot injury. So you're
Speaker 2: gonna get back to key pieces to your bullpen, which
Speaker 2: is gonna you know, I'm gonna fill in where there's
Speaker 2: some holes right now in the bullpen.
Speaker 5: Perfect. That sounds good to me. It's just I know
Speaker 5: that we're all everyone in all school. But you know what,
Speaker 5: we just really were hurting with that mittle relieve because
Speaker 5: he could not be able to hold anyone on any batters.
Speaker 5: Any runners can sustain work. They're just hitting us.
Speaker 2: Well. One here's a sobering reminder as far as Otani
Speaker 2: being a starter in the playoffs. Number one, he only
Speaker 2: had one good start in the postseason last year. Number two,
Speaker 2: he's doing something where he's pushing his body to the
Speaker 2: red line every single night, and there's no guarantees Otani
Speaker 2: is going to be in any shape to start the postseason.
Speaker 2: Maybe just DH so uh. The Dodgers have the wherewithal
Speaker 2: to be able to make a trade for Trek Scouble
Speaker 2: and bring in another reliever. But getting Evan Phillips back
Speaker 2: and brock Stewart is a is a big boost because
Speaker 2: instead of Blake Trining in that situation, you probably have
Speaker 2: Brock Stewart or Evan Phillips in that fifth inning.
Speaker 5: God sounds good to me. Well, day, I gotta let
Speaker 5: you go off. See you in a couple of weeks
Speaker 5: at Downy Hondai Way.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts, all right, not a couple of weeks. A
Speaker 2: week from tomorrow, me and Dave Roberts are going to
Speaker 2: be out at Downy Hunday from eleven thirty to twelve thirty.
Speaker 2: It's a meet and greet with the Dodgers three time
Speaker 2: World Series winning manager. Come out show, Dave Your Love
Speaker 2: eleven thirty to twelve thirty seventy five fifty Firestone Boulevard.
Speaker 2: We're gonna interview Dave and have a great time in
Speaker 2: front of the people. We got prizes and a lot
Speaker 2: more to hang out and do at Downy Hunday next
Speaker 2: Saturday from eleven thirty to twelve thirty seventy five point
Speaker 2: fifty Firestone Boulevard. When we continue on Dodger Talk, speaking
Speaker 2: of Dave Roberts during our managers meeting on Monday, presented
Speaker 2: by Downey Hunday, Dave filled us in that he will
Speaker 2: not be in Chicago on Sunday. We'll let you know why.
Speaker 2: Also coming up, you'll hear from aj Prazinski and we'll
Speaker 2: get you an update on Tommy Edmund on the other side.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers fall to the White Sox eight to
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Speaker 2: This is Dodger Talk with David vas Send Dodgers fall
Speaker 2: to the White Sox tonight eight to two in Chicago.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Dodger Talk. David Vassay with you until
Speaker 2: nine o'clock tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: With the loss, the Dodgers are forty four and twenty six.
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Speaker 2: own the dream all right. Every week we have a
Speaker 2: chance to catch up with the manager, Dave Roberts, and
Speaker 2: on this week's managers meeting, he shared with us that
Speaker 2: family is coming first this weekend because his only daughter
Speaker 2: is graduating from Stanford on Sunday, So how is he
Speaker 2: going to be there when the Dodgers are in Chicago
Speaker 2: in the middle of a three game series against the
Speaker 2: White Sox. Well, he explained after tomorrow night's game he
Speaker 2: is leaving Chicago to be able to make it to
Speaker 2: the Stanford graduation to support his daughter Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 4: And I'll get the first two in Chicago and then
Speaker 4: I'll fly back to my daughter's graduation on Saturday night,
Speaker 4: which is on Sunday, and she's graduating from Stanford. So
Speaker 4: I'm really proud. And it is weird though, because you
Speaker 4: never want to miss a game, but I think that's
Speaker 4: this is a good reason.
Speaker 2: Hey, the Rangers manager Skip Schumacher left the team for
Speaker 2: a day to be at his son's high school graduation.
Speaker 2: What's the balance for you, because obviously you have a
Speaker 2: lot of responsibility, but also your family comes first, you know.
Speaker 4: I think the one thing for me is that the
Speaker 4: world has evolved, and many can argue not in a
Speaker 4: good way. In some ways good, some ways bad. But
Speaker 4: I do think in a lot of ways from the
Speaker 4: workplace sense of things, it's more open to kind of
Speaker 4: people spending time with their families and knowing that those
Speaker 4: moments are important. They're fleeting and so you know, the
Speaker 4: job is going to get done with it without you.
Speaker 4: And so for me, I encourage my coaches to enjoy,
Speaker 4: you know, graduations, things like that. One of our coaches
Speaker 4: had leave for a surgery for their daughter, and I
Speaker 4: certainly welcome that because there's nothing more important than family.
Speaker 4: And it also I think when you get to do
Speaker 4: moments with your family and other things that are really important,
Speaker 4: I think you do your job better and then you
Speaker 4: feel better about the people you work with and.
Speaker 2: For You've done this before with your son, Cole. I'm
Speaker 2: curious when you're at your daughter's graduation, will you be
Speaker 2: looking at your phone a lot? How are you able
Speaker 2: to be present in the moment.
Speaker 4: That's a great question. So I don't know what I
Speaker 4: did for Cole's graduation, but Emmy, it is going to
Speaker 4: be a day game, and I think they are going
Speaker 4: to overlap, so I think I might just try to
Speaker 4: put my phone down be completely present, all right.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts is going to be missing Sunday's game. He'll
Speaker 2: rejoin the Dodgers on Monday. And that was Dave's exclusive
Speaker 2: interview with US on Monday, where he revealed that he
Speaker 2: won't be at Sunday's game, leaving after Tomorrow night's game.
Speaker 2: Hopefully happy flight for Dave Roberts back to Northern California
Speaker 2: to be there for his only daughter's graduation. At Stanford. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's pretty fancy Stanford all right. Anyway, congratulations Todave, Congratulations
Speaker 2: to his family, and Danny Lehman will take over the
Speaker 2: managing duties and we'll have a lot of great support
Speaker 2: with Dina Eebele, Mark Pryor and Bob Garn around him.
Speaker 2: So the Dodgers are in good hands.
Speaker 5: Hey.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts, speaking of him before the game today, gave
Speaker 2: everybody an update on when we may see Tommy Edmund
Speaker 2: finally make his season debut, and it may be as
Speaker 2: soon as Tuesday, because Dave said Tommy Edman will rejoin
Speaker 2: the Dodgers in LA on Tuesday after completing his rehab assignment.
Speaker 2: So far, Tommy Edmond has played twelve games, including tonight,
Speaker 2: and he has forty two at bats. So, just like
Speaker 2: any other spring training a hitter wants to get somewhere
Speaker 2: between fifty at bats. Edmund is going to get that.
Speaker 2: He'll return to the Dodgers and we'll see where he
Speaker 2: plugs in. He's not gonna play every day right away,
Speaker 2: so we'll see whether or not it's Alex Freeland, whether
Speaker 2: or not it's Ryan Ward, whether or not it's Santiago
Speaker 2: Espinal to make room for Tommy Edmond, who was one
Speaker 2: for two tonight with two walks, and played all nine
Speaker 2: innings tonight at Oklahoma City in center field. By the way,
Speaker 2: Edmund's only hitting two thirty eight and forty two at bats,
Speaker 2: but that's not the point of all this. It's about
Speaker 2: him testing the ankle, feeling good, bouncing back the next
Speaker 2: day and being ready for the season because he's a
Speaker 2: big part of it and that'll be a big boost
Speaker 2: to the Dodger offense and to the of the lineup.
Speaker 2: So great to know that tom Yedman is on his
Speaker 2: way back. All right. We were joined before the game
Speaker 2: today by former White Sox, former Brave, former Giant, former
Speaker 2: Minnesota win now the host on Foul Territory and also
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports. He's part of the broadcast crew with
Speaker 2: Adam wayIn. Wright had a chance to really get to
Speaker 2: know him in Milwaukee a couple of weeks ago, and
Speaker 2: aj Prazinski joined us, and it was great to have
Speaker 2: him on the show.
Speaker 3: No prob happy to be on you know, since I
Speaker 3: saw you in Milwaukee. I hope you've gotten better because
Speaker 3: you really stuck to doing pull tabs.
Speaker 2: I know, right, who knows Aj Prasinski and I could
Speaker 2: bond in Milwaukee just being able to try to get
Speaker 2: some poll tabs, which are essentially traps of baseball cards
Speaker 2: and lottery tickets combined into one, right, Aj, Exactly, I.
Speaker 3: Don't think you have to be from the Midwest, even
Speaker 3: though what a pull tab is and I think I
Speaker 3: think that might be the only place where we have them.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so basically like an instant scratch off lottery
Speaker 3: ticket that you pay like a dollar for and you
Speaker 3: win nothing out of by like fifty of them, you
Speaker 3: win like zero dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Instead of looking at your phone, you're pulling
Speaker 2: these tabs and you're coming up with nothing.
Speaker 3: Exactly. But they're fun. They're fun. They are fun.
Speaker 2: I'll say that they were fun and you got you
Speaker 2: got to see the Dodgers in Milwaukee and obviously keep
Speaker 2: tabs on them. Are the Braves the only team that
Speaker 2: could possibly stop the Dodgers at this point in October?
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. I think the most of
Speaker 3: the Dodgers are still the best team going. But I
Speaker 3: think the Phillies now with their starting pitcher, I mean
Speaker 3: Christopher Sanchez, Dak Wheeler, Aaron Nola, pass Wizardo and the
Speaker 3: back end of Duran and the rest of that back
Speaker 3: end Brad Keller are healthy in their lineup because they
Speaker 3: can hit homers and they have guys that have been there.
Speaker 3: I think the Phillies are a threat. I think the
Speaker 3: Brewers are a threat. I think if the Brewers can
Speaker 3: go out and find one more pitcher. Listen, you have
Speaker 3: Mizz and Kyle Harrison going. That's pretty good one two
Speaker 3: punch the back end of their bullpen with your Revey
Speaker 3: and McGill and some of their other guys. They mix
Speaker 3: the matches great. But if they go out and find
Speaker 3: a hitter, a legitimate hitter and this is not a
Speaker 3: knock on Bryce rang, Christian Yelich and some of the
Speaker 3: other guys that they have, William Contrere's. But if they
Speaker 3: could go out and find a hitter. When I say
Speaker 3: a hitter, I mean a guy that is a force,
Speaker 3: like I don't know who that could be, but if
Speaker 3: they could find a guy that is an absolute force
Speaker 3: where the Dodgers or any other team goes man, we
Speaker 3: got a really game plan for this guy because he
Speaker 3: could at any point can hit a homer against us
Speaker 3: and change his game. I think they could be dangerous
Speaker 3: just because Pat Murphy knows how to handle his team.
Speaker 3: He knows how to mix a match with the best
Speaker 3: of them. So there are other teams in the America
Speaker 3: and the National League that could derail the Dodgers. And
Speaker 3: let's not forget the Dodgers for the last few years
Speaker 3: have been considered the greatest team in history and there
Speaker 3: about four inches away from losing the World Series last year.
Speaker 3: So it is possible. Is it likely? I don't think so,
Speaker 3: but it is possible.
Speaker 2: Hey, when you were calling that game in Milwaukee between
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and Brewers, there is a report by Ken
Speaker 2: Rosenthal that kind of went under the radar during that
Speaker 2: broadcast that the Brewers might actually kick the tires on
Speaker 2: bringing in Schooble the way they brought in C. C. Sabbathia.
Speaker 2: Do you buy in that they would actually consider that?
Speaker 3: I would if I was them, because then you go
Speaker 3: school wolm Asarowski and Harrison, So absolutely I would consider that.
Speaker 3: But I don't know. I actually was surprised when Ken
Speaker 3: did that. I told Ken this after the game that
Speaker 3: after he did the report, I thought he was gonna say, Dodgers,
Speaker 3: We're going to get Terry School and then the whole
Speaker 3: baseball world would go crazy. But when he dropped the Brewers,
Speaker 3: I was like, wait, Brewers, wait second, what are we
Speaker 3: talking about here? But they did do that the year
Speaker 3: they brought in CC. We saw how well it went
Speaker 3: for him. Would they do that again? I don't know
Speaker 3: if Matt Arnold and the Brewer's front office would be
Speaker 3: willing to do that and meet the prospect costs, but
Speaker 3: I think it would be great for the game if
Speaker 3: the team, like the Brewers went out and made a
Speaker 3: crazy move like that. Now, for me, I'd rather see
Speaker 3: it be a pitch I hit her, But hey, Terry
Speaker 3: School will look good at any uniform.
Speaker 2: AJ. You had a lot of stops in your career.
Speaker 2: One of them was in Atlanta while Freddie Freeman was
Speaker 2: playing there. What was your experience as a teammate with
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman And did you ever believe that he would
Speaker 2: be going strong and get age thirty six? Did you
Speaker 2: see that when you were playing in Atlanta?
Speaker 3: Freddy Freeman was a monster back then and a great
Speaker 3: I mean you guys, Dodger fans have gotten to know
Speaker 3: what a great person Freddy is. Yes, there was never
Speaker 3: a doubt Freddy was always special. I mean, every every
Speaker 3: coach I talked to that knew Freddy. I knew the
Speaker 3: hitting coach for the Braves before I got there. He
Speaker 3: told me all about it. He's like, this guy's a monster.
Speaker 3: This is like two thousand, a couple of years before
Speaker 3: I even went and played there. He's like, you got
Speaker 3: to see this guy and what he can do with
Speaker 3: the bat. And then when I got to play with
Speaker 3: him and seeing on a first hand basis, it only
Speaker 3: it only made it more. It just amplified it even
Speaker 3: more to a point where I'm like, man, this guy
Speaker 3: really is special. He had to play with him for
Speaker 3: two years, seeing him on a daily basis, the way
Speaker 3: he goes about his work, it has not surprised me
Speaker 3: at all that he's got a chance to get three
Speaker 3: thousand hits. And you know, the one thing about Freddy
Speaker 3: that was so funny is that when I when I
Speaker 3: played with Freddy, all he cared about was he just said,
Speaker 3: I like, Freddie, man, you're going to go to the
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame probably one day with it you as
Speaker 3: good as you are, And he would laugh, he goes,
Speaker 3: you know, what all I want is one ring He's like,
Speaker 3: you have a ring. I don't have a ring. I
Speaker 3: haven't come closed at the time in Atlanta to getting
Speaker 3: a ring because we weren't very good. And now I look
Speaker 3: at Freddy and I'm like, Freddy, you got like ten rings, dude.
Speaker 3: It feels like I feel like you're winning a ring
Speaker 3: every year. So one thing about Freddy is Freddie wanted
Speaker 3: to win at all times and he's kind of proven
Speaker 3: out the way. He'll play through paying, he'll play injured,
Speaker 3: and he just shows up every day wanting to make
Speaker 3: his team better. And that is a big thing for
Speaker 3: Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 2: Aj Prasinski, you were behind the scenes with Freddy. Is
Speaker 2: it true that he takes minimal amount of swings in
Speaker 2: the cage to get ready for a game and how
Speaker 2: abnormal is that, especially in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Well, I think I took less of him. I was
Speaker 3: pay Wow, one of the few guys that actually did
Speaker 3: take lesson Freddy. But one thing Freddy figured out was
Speaker 3: it's not how hard you listen when you take minimal swings.
Speaker 3: They have to be really good swings. But Freddy developed
Speaker 3: a routine and he would take minimal swings and he'd
Speaker 3: find the one thing he was looking for. Now, I
Speaker 3: see Freddy take a lot of swings when he's struggling,
Speaker 3: but there are times where you know what, if you're
Speaker 3: feeling it, just take a few swings and go on.
Speaker 3: And Nick mark Akas was there at the time, and
Speaker 3: one thing Freddy learned from Nick was Nick was the
Speaker 3: first guy and never saw take VP on the field.
Speaker 3: He took it. He took it in the cage a lot, right,
Speaker 3: and I was like, man, what does this guy doing?
Speaker 3: But all Nick Markakos to do is go out there
Speaker 3: and get hit after hit after hit, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 3: there's something to this. Freddy picked up on it. So
Speaker 3: Freddy kind of became another guy that didn't want to
Speaker 3: take a lot of VP on the field. And hey,
Speaker 3: for some people that work, some people like me, I
Speaker 3: wanted to feel it. I wanted to see it on
Speaker 3: the field. So I was a little bit different. But
Speaker 3: Freddy knew no, especially now that he's a veteran guy.
Speaker 3: He knows what it takes for him to be ready
Speaker 3: to play, and he shows up every day and he
Speaker 3: wants to play. He's ready to play. So you can
Speaker 3: never question Freddy Freeman's work ethic or hey, he takes
Speaker 3: not as many swings. Who care? As long as he
Speaker 3: shows up at seven oh five, takes zero swings, take
Speaker 3: a million swings. Just be ready to go. That clock
Speaker 3: strikes no.
Speaker 2: Doubt, and he always is. Aj Prasinski is our guest.
Speaker 2: All right, you have a strong connection to the White Sox.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers will be in Chicago to start a three
Speaker 2: game series against the Chai Socks on Friday night. What
Speaker 2: can you tell us about the change in Miguel Vargas.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows about Miguel Vargas being one of those hyped
Speaker 2: up prospects, and the trade that the Dodgers made with
Speaker 2: the Cardinals and White Sox seem to have paid off
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers in White Sox more than the Cardinals,
Speaker 2: so it wasn't even trade. But how has Miguel Vargas
Speaker 2: come into his own Did you see this coming?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think the biggest thing that happened to
Speaker 3: Miguel Vargus is he went to a place in Chicago
Speaker 3: where he gets to play every day. Right, you got
Speaker 3: to find a place where you get to play and
Speaker 3: you get to develop in la that wasn't going to
Speaker 3: happen because they were trying to win World Series. They're
Speaker 3: trying to do all these special things, which obviously they're doing.
Speaker 3: But you got to trade into Chicago. Listen, say what
Speaker 3: you want about La. There's a little more pressure on
Speaker 3: your in LA when you're trying to win than there
Speaker 3: is in Chicago when you're losing one hundred and twenty games. Well,
Speaker 3: what it allowed for Miguel Vargas to do is he
Speaker 3: made some adjustments in the swing. He didn't have to
Speaker 3: go up there saying, man, I want to, I want to.
Speaker 3: I got to get a hit because I want to
Speaker 3: play tomorrow, right So if I don't get a hit,
Speaker 3: that I'm not going to play and then I'm gonna
Speaker 3: get platoons and I'm gonna have to do this. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have to do that. They're like, hey, just go
Speaker 3: out and play every day. It makes some adjustments and
Speaker 3: learn from it, and that's been a good thing. Some
Speaker 3: players need that, and then they find themselves after a
Speaker 3: couple of years. Not everyone is ready the day they
Speaker 3: get to the big leagues. You have to make that adjustment.
Speaker 3: But go Martins to turn him into a heck of
Speaker 3: a player, and he's got a chance to do something
Speaker 3: that hasn't happened in like ninety years, and that to
Speaker 3: be a starting third baseman from the Chicago White Sox
Speaker 3: in an All Star Game. And if you'd have told
Speaker 3: Dodgers fans out a couple of years ago, they said
Speaker 3: no chance, even maybe White Sox fans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, AJ. And could you imagine Max Munsey's
Speaker 2: starting at third base for the National League and Vargas
Speaker 2: starting for the American League in the All Star Game.
Speaker 2: That would be pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I love Max, so I hope Max gets
Speaker 3: everything he can get. He's one of my he's one
Speaker 3: of our favorite guests on Foul Territory. He's awesome. I
Speaker 3: love Max to death and I wanted to of course,
Speaker 3: I want him to start.
Speaker 2: Of course you do. He's a connection to Foul Territory. AJ.
Speaker 2: I could talk to you all day. We could spend
Speaker 2: two hours again like we did together in Milwaukee, but
Speaker 2: I know you got a busy day. And it's awesome
Speaker 2: to share you with La Dodger fans and certainly great
Speaker 2: to get to know you over the years, but especially
Speaker 2: bonding in Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, of course. And Listen for Dodgers fans that
Speaker 3: think they're going to go into Chicago and just have
Speaker 3: an easy three games. I'm telling you right now, this
Speaker 3: White Sox team, and they're fun to watch. Man. They
Speaker 3: got some offensive power. They're a little bit better. If
Speaker 3: you guys see Davis Martin and Sean Burke and some
Speaker 3: of their other young starters. They got some arms. So
Speaker 3: you know it's not gonna be a cakewalk like it
Speaker 3: used to be for the Dodgers. Just just know that
Speaker 3: going into.
Speaker 2: It, all right, fair warning, fair warning, And I'm sure
Speaker 2: the young White Sox want to prove something to the
Speaker 2: Dodgers that they can be on the same field.
Speaker 3: Of course, listen, every team when you're a two time
Speaker 3: defending world champion. I remember when I used to play
Speaker 3: the Yankees, right, the Yankees had Jeter and that whole team,
Speaker 3: Bernie and a Rod and they were coming off all
Speaker 3: their World Series and I was on the Young Twins
Speaker 3: team and you played the Yankees it was the World Series.
Speaker 3: You're I could compete with these guys. Right when you
Speaker 3: face the Pedro Martinez back in the day, You're, yeah,
Speaker 3: I want to prove to everybody that I can hit
Speaker 3: this guy, well Yankees. Yankees used to get everyone's best shot.
Speaker 3: And guess what now the Dodgers do, no doubt.
Speaker 2: AJ Prazinski World Series Champion, All Star, nineteen year Major leaguer.
Speaker 2: And you could see that backwards hat and that beautiful
Speaker 2: beard ten to noon Monday through Friday on Foul Territory.
Speaker 2: Thanks Aj, thank you appreciate it. Hey, AJ Prisinski, try
Speaker 2: to warn us. The White Sox wear for real. And
Speaker 2: they certainly came out big tonight to beat the Dodgers
Speaker 2: eight to two and win their thirty seventh game of
Speaker 2: the season. Just to put it into context, how high
Speaker 2: the White Sox are now six games above five hundred
Speaker 2: with their thirty seventh win in June. They didn't win
Speaker 2: their thirty seventh game of the season in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four until September twenty fourth, and that's all they had
Speaker 2: thirty seven wins and one hundred and twenty losses. They
Speaker 2: lost one hundred games again last year, and here they
Speaker 2: are six games above five hundred at the top of
Speaker 2: the Al cent So the Dodgers had their hands full
Speaker 2: with the White Sox in the last two games of
Speaker 2: this series. As they saw tonight, I would not expect
Speaker 2: anything less than a sellout crowd Tomorrow night with Yamamoto
Speaker 2: on the mound for the Dodgers going up against Sean Burke.
Speaker 2: Yama Moto is six and four with an ERA of
Speaker 2: two sixty eight. Sean Burke is three and three with
Speaker 2: an ERA of three eighty eight. Our coverage begins tomorrow
Speaker 2: at noon, first pitch at one ten with Rick Monday
Speaker 2: and Tim Neverett from Chicago. That's What's on deck, brought
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Speaker 2: to the White Sox eight to two. Have a great
Speaker 2: rest of your night see them season down. Just done.
Speaker 3: It just