WEBVTT - Dodgers on Deck (3-26-26) 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.360 For the back to back World champions of baseball. 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:05.840 One of the greatest runs in the history of baseball. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.400 Immortality is within their reach. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:12.520 Incredible and while others make excuses. 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:14.440 The only reason the Dodgers are doing this because they can. 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:15.280 They printing money. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.720 The Dodgers just can't continue. It's not fair are making 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:20.040 plans again. 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:25.079 It's a singular focus on controlling what they can control. 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:29.720 This is Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck now, your pregame 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.680 host of the world champion La Dodgers Tample Cats. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:40.159 Hi everybody, and welcome to another year of Dodgers Baseball. 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:45.880 This is Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck, your official pregame 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:50.519 show the back to back World champion Los Angeles Dodgers. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.320 It's been one hundred and forty five days since the 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.800 Dodgers celebrated a Game seven win over the Toronto Blue 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:02.360 Jays in the World Series. They start the process all 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.919 over again as they go for a third straight World 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:10.520 Series championship. It's the twenty twenty six season opener as 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:15.240 your Los Angeles Dodgers take on the Arizona Diamondbacks. Yoshinobu 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.920 Yabo Moto on the mound first pitch from Uniclo Field. 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.440 That Dodgers Stadium is coming up at five thirty. Between 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.440 then and now, we got a lot to get to 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.240 over the next ninety minutes. Here on Morongo Casino, Dodgers 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.200 on deck, you are gonna hear from the manager himself, 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.840 Dave Roberts, what are his thoughts going in to this 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.880 twenty twenty six season. We'll dive deeper into this pitching matchup. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.920 David Vast will join us throughout the hour. He'll go 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.959 one on one with Freddie Freeman. Coming up in about 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.800 an hour, we got your Dodgers magical moment you're not 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:47.680 gonna want to miss. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.120 Shortly we'll visit with Kirsten. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.800 Watson from Sports at LA and in just a few 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.160 minutes we'll head over to the galvin Ford broadcast booth 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.280 with Charlie Steiner and Rick Monday on the call to 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.440 start the game. Stephen Nelson will join us throughout the 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:06.040 broadcast as well well. After winning back to back World 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.639 Series championships, if you're the Dodgers. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:09.280 What do you do next? 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.880 How do you add to what is already the best 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.959 lineup in baseball? You go out, you sign one of 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.480 the top free agents on the market an outfielder Kyle Tucker. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.119 This organization from the top down is you know, first 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.880 class and the team that you know, these guys put 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.200 together and assembled to you know, give a great product 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.079 for the fan base in the city. To go out 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.760 there and compete for a championship kind of speaks for itself. 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.200 So just kind of taking everything into account, wanting to 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:35.880 be a part of. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.440 That, I think is very special. 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:42.360 You don't really get that very often, So it's it'll 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:43.840 be a lot of fun playing with these guys and 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.200 you know, competing for another you know, hopefully a three 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:46.720 pet here. 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.000 Kyle Tucker, a Gold Glove outfielder who could hit for power. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.960 He takes over and right field for the Dodgers, meaning 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:59.000 tay Oscar Hernandez will slide over to left field. Andy Pajas, Yep, 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:03.400 he's back in center fe. 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.400 And it hits one high and deep to left field. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:08.160 It is carrying well. It is con a hum run 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.040 for Randy Piez. You got a breaking ball and he 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:11.760 got all of it. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.360 Frandy pie has He's at the confidence that he has 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:19.560 gained now in understanding his swing much much better. He's 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.600 got some power, plenty of power. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.200 Andy pie is flexing his muscles. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.160 Solid spring hit three p forty one, the home run, 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.160 three doubles a triple, anchoring now center field for the 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.480 Dodgers for a second straight season. The Dodgers infield with 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.960 a pair of future Hall of Famers and Mookie Bets 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.600 and Freddie Freeman Bets coming off a Gold Gloves season, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.400 and shortstop Freddie Freeman. He's finally healthy. He's got that 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.360 ankle injury behind him. He's injury free, and he's already 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.080 in mid season form. 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.760 And he hits this one well in the left faield 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:53.760 and is heading back toward the law. 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.200 It is up the wall, Okay. 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.480 Already around third, he'll score Trony around second, he'll stop, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.720 and he'll settle with an Harbi double. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.120 And Freddie rips this one high and deep to right center. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.640 Fad Gone his first home run in the spring. 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.040 Yeah, Freddy Freeman is ready to go here in twenty 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.800 twenty six. That's the top tier play of the game, 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.560 rought to by Arco quality, top tier gas for less. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.000 He drove in ten runs over in the Cactus League. 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:26.640 Hit four nineteen over in Arizona. Max Munsey primed for 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.480 a big twenty twenty six at third base, while second 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.760 base is gonna be a couple of different guys getting 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.880 time there. With the injury to Tommy Edmond, newcomer Santiago 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.320 Espinal made the roster. He'll play at second base, as 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.320 will World Series hero Maguel Rojas. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.039 Rojas hits it in the air left field. This post 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:45.919 got some carry. 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:47.800 It is gone. 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:59.240 It's gone. In game seven, He's tied Miguerojas off the 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.760 bench in game six on the board in Game seven. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.679 This crowd, well, we talked about it in another series. 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:14.440 This has turned into a library here. Miguel Rojas. He 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.320 took the two to two pitch the slider upstairs, and 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.080 he took the next pitch out of the ballpark. 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:20.520 Man. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.360 This Dodgers first base dugout has exploded. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.360 Come on, Miguel Rojas, who will forget that ninth inning 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.680 home run Game seven of the World Series in Toronto 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.880 last October. Miguel Rojas in the line of tonight about 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.040 the ninth at second base. That's hide the game back 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:38.320 in game seven, send it. 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:38.960 To extra ning. 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:42.200 Speaking of heroes, Will Smith back behind the plate this 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.680 year for the Dodgers. He had to go home, go 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.080 ahead home run in Game seven last year in the 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.400 World Series. You know what, let's relive it, the too 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:54.160 old Smith with a smash in the air to t Pliftfield. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:55.920 This bowl is. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:05.600 Smith lets it fly and breaks the tie in Game seven, 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.720 as number sixteen stays. 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.000 Clutch, that never gets all. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.800 Come on, Will Smith the go ahead home run as 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:16.000 the Dodgers. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.520 Go on and beat the Blue Jays. 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:21.960 Americas catcher already has had a busy spring. Will Smith's 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.520 played for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic for 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.640 two weeks already this spring. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:28.520 He's been busy doing that. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.360 Came back to Camelback Ranch, played all three games of 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:35.039 the Freeway Series. Look at this Dodgers lineup one through nine. 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:39.040 The Dodgers are loaded. There's no real break for opposing pitchers. 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:43.279 Speaking of pitching, the Dodgers pitching staff no longer with 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.720 number twenty two in it. Clayton Kershaw has retired. He'll 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.640 be a Hall of Famer in a few years. Yoshinobu 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:55.120 Yamamoto now anchors a Dodgers staff that features show Hey Otani, 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.440 Tyler Glass, now Blake Snell, who's hurt, Rookie Sasaki, immit 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.120 she and he's earned himself a spot in the rotation. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.680 After a great spring, the Dodgers bullpen now has a 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.160 lockdown closer in it with Edwin Diz, the right hander 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.320 signed as a free agent this offseason. He had twenty 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.200 eight saves with the New York Mets last year one 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.480 sixty three era, he was dominant. The Mets didn't have 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.520 a very good team. The Dodgers fans hoping to hear 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:44.200 a lot of this this year. Timmy trumpets, Kimmy on 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.800 and blasting here at Uniclove Field at Dodgers Stadium here 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.520 in twenty twenty six, So ready or not, here we go, 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:56.680 Dodger fans. The Dodgers looking to defend their World Series. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.560 Championship tonight, game. 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:02.640 One of a long one hundred and sixty two game season, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:08.160 and then all begins against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Pregame festivities 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.600 still to come, with introductions down the first base line 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.680 and the third base line. Dodger fans starting to file 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.520 in long line of cars making their way into the 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:22.360 Ravine Dodger Stadium, expecting a sellout crowd. Yet again, four 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.120 million straw and came through the turnstiles in twenty twenty five. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.280 No doubt that same number in twenty twenty six, if 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.120 not more, and with more, let's head over to the 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.840 gallopin Ford broadcast booth as we welcome in Charlie Steiner 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.040 and Rick Monday. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:41.000 Guys, Thank you Tim. There's something special about Opening Day. 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.640 Doesn't matter your age, it doesn't matter how many times 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:44.880 you've come to the ballpark to. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:45.760 See opening day. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.040 World Series ended, by the way, one hundred and forty 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:53.439 five days ago. Oh, there's adrenaline, there's expectations, and for us, 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.360 it's really an opportunity to see the Dodgers there, defending 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.640 the two time defending world champions open up the twenty 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.400 twenty six season. It's always special, and for us it's 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:06.160 a little bit special too because by longtime broadcast partner 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.080 is here and raring to go talking about Charlie Steiner 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.480 and first of all, one hundred and forty five days ago, 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.960 the Dodgers clinched their World Series, their second in a row. 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.600 It was a I guess, a short off season. It 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.480 was a delightful lost season, and it's delightful to come 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.080 in and see you here today. 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.760 You don't know what you got until you've been gone, 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.400 and so I'm thrilled to be back. That's good to 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:33.480 see you and Dwayne and David and here are the 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.560 defending world champion Dodgers trying to do something no National 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.240 League team has ever done before, win three World Series. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:42.359 Yeah. 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.360 Earlier today, Dave robertson's asses said, you know, if you 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.680 reflect back in your very first year as the manager 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.120 of the Los Angeles Dodgers, he said, would you give 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.120 yourself a little bit of advice? He said, first of all, 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.000 don't take things personally. And the second thing is learn 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.520 to trust your players. And that really kind of exemplifies 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.240 what Dave roberts has set the tone, because I remember 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.960 that first spring training meeting that he had. He goes, hey, look, 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.440 you guys can play better than you have been playing. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.440 The question is in twenty six how good can these 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.319 guys play for one hundred and sixty two? 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.560 What's fascinating to me watching this team and watching the 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.160 lineup today, and go on ahead, you look at the 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.160 other teams around Major League Baseball Again, this if we're 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.080 not just blowing smoke, this is as good a team 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.480 as at Dodgers we have seen in all the years 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:35.839 we've been here, and from top to bottom hitting, pitching, defense, 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:37.240 they're loaded. 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.280 Yeah, And I think if we look at Spring twenty two, Charlie, 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.520 I know that you were watching and listening from the 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.560 Arizona portion of it. I think that I has checked 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.040 off all the boxes and checked them off very strongly. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.240 From an offense defense, the hitting aspect of it. The 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.280 pitching is still trying to work on the back end 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:58.160 of the bullpen itself right now. But your impressions of 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.600 this team, We've got a new facing Kyle Tucker. He's 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.480 batting second in his starting lineup, and a guy that 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:05.920 if he doesn't hit a home run with went out 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.480 in the top of the ninth inning, the Dodgers will 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.040 look at the Toronto Blue Jays at the World Series 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.439 champions because Miguel Rojas, who hit that gigantic home run 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.040 to Tide and the ninth is starting batting ninth and 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:18.120 playing at second base. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.880 We remember when he first came up and he was 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.400 an iffy kind of guy. Eventually we traded the Marlins 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:28.360 and then come back and watching him grow and watching 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.679 him become one of the team leaders, and of course 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:35.960 the legendary home run that he hit back in October. 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:37.440 Here's back. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.840 He says, it's going to be his last year. Maybe 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:44.200 maybe not, but again, just watching him grow as a 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.400 man as a player has been wonderful. 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.680 You and I have been privileged enough to be participants 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.760 of a lot of different aspects of Opening Days throughout 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.000 all the years. There's something special about even going to 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.120 sleep last night. I don't know what your drenaline level was, 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:03.040 but the something special aut opening days and this morning, 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.840 I'm not certain that many of us even needed an 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:07.120 alarm clock to wake up. 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.640 I couldn't wait to get here for many, many reasons, 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:14.320 and it's just wonderful to be back at Uniclok Field 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:18.240 at Dodger Stadium as the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks opened 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:22.080 this one hundred and sixty two game championship season. We 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:26.599 got a lot to go before the first pitch, dem. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.840 Charlie, great to hear your voice as we cut you 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.360 down in the first pitch. 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Otani 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.760 has been sensational show. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:24.720 Hey, Otani already has had a very busy spring. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:25.880 What has he done? 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:26.200 Oh? 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.080 Playing the World Baseball Classic over in Tokyo. You heard 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.000 the Grand Slam there, played for Team Japan. Unfortunately they 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.640 were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the WBC. Comes back 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.800 to Camplback Ranch gets a start in Arizona, and just 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.280 the other night here at Dodger Stadium, struck out eleven 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:45.160 in his last outing, his last tune up before the 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.120 start of the twenty twenty six regular season. 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And 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.120 because it's a little later in the afternoon, currisen a 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.080 chance to kind of look around southern California, the city 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:27.840 of Angels and see how excited people are. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.400 When I tell you, just driving in, driving down Sunset, 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.480 seeing so many people in Dodger shirts, use in Dodger blue, 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.280 it felt like all of the bars, there are lines 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:38.800 out the door. 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.120 It's it's so early in the afternoon. 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.360 I mean, the fact that it just really reminds you 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.880 how special this team and this sport is to the 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.480 city of Los Angeles. You know, obviously Opening Day is 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.360 huge for so many things, and the baseball season is 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.040 truly a marathon and not a sprint. But to see 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.240 how much joy these players bring to this city, to 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.320 the fans, for all of them to be up early, 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.280 already excited for Opening Day and for one sixty two, 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.240 it just puts things in perspective. 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:07.600 And so. 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:13.200 It's already been an exciting year. Obviously we've come we're 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.280 back in Los Angeles from being in Arizona for about 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.520 six weeks and seeing this team grind and get things going. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.360 Of course, there was the World Baseball Classics, so that 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.160 added a different layer of excitement. 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.880 But now it's time for meaningful. 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.880 Baseball games and this team set a very big goal 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.960 to make some history, have a three peat, and it 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:32.640 begins today. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:34.600 I think it's interesting the last couple of years the 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.160 Dodgers have been in Korea, and they've been in Japan 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:41.000 for Opening Day and now true opening day around baseball 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.240 here at Dodgers Stadium for the defending World Series champs, 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.000 and tonight Yoshinobu Yamamoto for the second straight year. He 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.720 got his start last year in Tokyo Opening day starter tonight. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.120 Yeah, but you know what he did say when he 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.640 was asked about just being named opening day starter, and 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.600 he said, look, first and foremost, it's an honor for 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:57.880 your team to see you as that guy is the 0:16:57.880 --> 0:16:59.880 ace of this group. To set the tone in game one, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.200 that is huge. But for him to be able to 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.920 do it here at uniqueo feel at Dodger Stadium, it's 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:06.840 going to be an exciting one, it said. He talked 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.159 about just being able to be in front of these fans. Obviously, 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.800 coming off of being the World Series MVP, he has 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.159 had so much success already in this league, but still 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.119 has his eyes and goals on you know, being the 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.240 National League. Say Young, there are some other guys on 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.000 this team who also want that. So this is just 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.159 this is the beginning of It's funny. It kind of 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.120 feels like it's the beginning of an exciting new year 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.320 for him, but it also feels like the carryover of 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.480 last year because of what he did in the world he. 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.200 Help, he carries it over what he did last year, 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.400 the thirty starts, and certainly what he did in October. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.720 It's funny talking to people earlier today, they said, well, 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.920 how does this team stay motivated for a third championship? Well, 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.080 it's like, well, it hasn't been done in almost thirty years. Yeah, 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.080 with the New York Yankees. And I said, the Dodgers 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.160 do so such a great job, and guys are hungry 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.280 to win, and they bring in one or two, three, 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.960 four different guys And when Diaz, Kyle Tucker, guys who 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:56.960 haven't won with this squad. Now you bring a little 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.000 hunger in with these new guys, you do. 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.480 But you know what all so it's like there's something 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:04.800 about the makeup of these guys. 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.480 They have just in who they are. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.920 They're such competitors and they want to be the best. 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.960 They understand, Yes, to win a World Series championship takes 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.200 a lot, and now they have learned what it took 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:18.720 the last two years and even I mean, and you 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:20.800 talk it to guys when they look at how last 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.359 year ended outside of the postseason, let's look at the 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:27.040 regular season. They weren't playing their best per se. I mean, 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.320 we know what happened in Baltimore. It felt like we 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:33.560 were gonna see Yoshinobu Ammoto throw a complete game, but 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:37.040 no hitter, and things went sideways relatively quickly. I mean, 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.040 there were more moments like that than we probably would 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.440 have liked to close out the regular season last year. 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.320 But they switched gears, they got ready for October. They 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.399 became closer than I think we've ever seen before. So 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.159 now you have a group, as you mentioned, there is 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.520 some added fire because you have a player like Edwin Diaz. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.120 This team officially has a closer, which they haven't had 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:01.639 since Kenley Jansen. Now you've got Kyle Tucker, who I 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:03.760 swear to you it feels like with Kyle he is 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:08.920 someone who just wakes up and is so talented and 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.320 what he does, it's just it's who he is as 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.000 a baseball player. You know, he even listening to h me. 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.520 He doesn't doesn't take much for him to get going. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:18.879 And so you now add that to a group in 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.960 which you have others who you know, do to do, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.400 have to do a lot to get going and want 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:26.680 Mookie Bets is out there for hours pre game. 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:27.120 Things like that. 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:31.120 But you have such a large group of individuals who 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:35.560 are such highly successful and high performative athletes, and they 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.000 want to be the best and whatever that means, they're 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:39.240 going to find ways to do that. 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:41.680 So this is what we're seeing right now. 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.560 They have this goal and opportunity to do win it 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:46.320 three times in a row, and if they could do that, 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.280 it'll be incredible. And they're but like, it's crazy to 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.840 me that they were having this conversation when they want 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.120 back to back, Like we I felt like we got 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.240 to the parade and it wasn't even about like, wow, 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.240 we just made history and being back to back. It 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.359 was like, so repeat, So what we're gonna do is 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:04.760 we're gonna do this again. So I love the celebration 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.040 we're having right now. You know, year one, it was 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.080 finally getting the prey that the guys in twenty twenty 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:10.359 weren't able to have due to COVID. 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.160 Then it was okay, now let's do back to back. 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:14.399 They achieved back to back. 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.760 And immediately it was it's time for a three P 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.800 And I think that's a perfect way and a perfect 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.120 example of describing who these guys are to their core 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:22.760 real quick. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:24.680