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Speaker 2: I am so happy to be here off day Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk until eight o'clock tonight here on AM five to
Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports, and we have a great show for
Speaker 2: you tonight coming up in fifteen minutes. We'll be joined
Speaker 2: by one of my good buddies, a guy that certainly
Speaker 2: was very inclusive with myself and all of his teammates
Speaker 2: when he got traded to the Dodgers back in twenty twelve,
Speaker 2: and that is the one and only l Titan. Adrian
Speaker 2: Gonzalez will join us at seven point fifteen. We'll ask
Speaker 2: him about Freddie Freeman and his baseball mortality and also
Speaker 2: where the Dodgers are at right now as we get
Speaker 2: closer to the beginning of June. So looking forward to
Speaker 2: having Adrian Gonzalez on the show tonight. Also, I have
Speaker 2: a pair of tickets to give away for tomorrow nights
Speaker 2: alex Vesia Bobblehead Night, So between now and eight o'clock
Speaker 2: we will give away a pair of tickets to tomorrow
Speaker 2: night's Dodgers Phillies game, the beginning of a three game
Speaker 2: series between these two teams that faced off in the NLDS.
Speaker 2: The good news for the Dodgers they don't have to
Speaker 2: face Christopher Sanchez, who beat the Padres, blanked them yesterday
Speaker 2: and now has pitched forty four consecutive scoreless innings, so
Speaker 2: the Dodgers won't see him, but they will see an
Speaker 2: undefeated Zach Wheeler tomorrow night. Justin Robleski will be on
Speaker 2: the mound for the Dodgers. Our coverage begins at six o'clock,
Speaker 2: with first pitch at seven point fifteen. It's an Apple game,
Speaker 2: so you know what that means. This is the only
Speaker 2: place to know what's going on with the game. And
Speaker 2: also if you're watching the game on Apple, if you
Speaker 2: happen to have that app and you're streaming it, they
Speaker 2: have a great feature where you can get the local
Speaker 2: radio broadcast overlapping with the video. So if you go
Speaker 2: to the bottom right corner, you can hear Rick Monday
Speaker 2: and Charlie Steiner at the beginning of tomorrow night's game,
Speaker 2: and as the game progresses, Rick Monday and Steven Nelson.
Speaker 2: So that's the best feature of the Apple broadcast. So
Speaker 2: looking forward to that Tomorrow night, looking forward to seeing
Speaker 2: Don Mattingley and Trey Turner. I've gotten to know Bryce
Speaker 2: Harper a little bit. I like Harper. I'm sure he'll
Speaker 2: be hitting up his favorite Mexican restaurant in All Hambra,
Speaker 2: If not tonight, maybe tomorrow after the game, So look
Speaker 2: out for Bryce Harper in All Hambra. We have phone
Speaker 2: lines open at eight sixty six nine, eight seven, two
Speaker 2: five seventy. What a day? What a day for me?
Speaker 2: Before we get into all this, had to wake up
Speaker 2: at seven this morning. I usually do to take my
Speaker 2: kids to school, but this time I had to drive
Speaker 2: my mom to Saint Joseph's and Burbank for a CT scan,
Speaker 2: and once I was done with that, had to charge
Speaker 2: my new Ionic nine at a supercharger place because I
Speaker 2: don't have an electrical outlet in my house. Thanks to
Speaker 2: shout out downy Hyundai for the Ionic nine, but I
Speaker 2: don't have an electrical panel in my house, so I
Speaker 2: have to go to a supercharger nearby virtually every other morning,
Speaker 2: and I've gotten my routine down doing that. But after that,
Speaker 2: I am my kids had to be picked up and
Speaker 2: then there was an open house and man, do I
Speaker 2: feel awkward ever time I go to my kids school,
Speaker 2: Like when I have to actually go inside the classrooms
Speaker 2: and have to interact with other parents. I just know
Speaker 2: they they can smell that I haven't been there very much.
Speaker 2: My wife does all of this stuff because obviously I'm
Speaker 2: traveling with the Dodgers, so when I do make an appearance,
Speaker 2: it's like completely foreign. It's like the first day of
Speaker 2: school for me every time I show up. So I
Speaker 2: had to go through the halls of their school. Today
Speaker 2: was open house day, and I just know the parents
Speaker 2: are like, what is this guy doing here? This guy,
Speaker 2: this guy doesn't know where he's going and I don't.
Speaker 2: And my wife was texting me, She's like, what's taking
Speaker 2: so long? I went down the wrong hallway. I don't
Speaker 2: even know where their classrooms are. So I'm back in
Speaker 2: my safe zone here with you on Dodger Talk until
Speaker 2: eight o'clock. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number before we get to the
Speaker 2: phone calls and before we get to Adrian Gonzalez just
Speaker 2: set the table of where the Dodgers are right now
Speaker 2: in the NL West. They have a four and a
Speaker 2: half game lead over both the Padres and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: The Padres where for twenty eight and are currently for
Speaker 2: twenty eight with runners in scoring position during their four
Speaker 2: game losing streak, including just being swept by the Phillies,
Speaker 2: so Arizona and the Padres are in second place now
Speaker 2: four and a half games back of the Dodgers. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers have won twelve to their last fourteen, including sweeping
Speaker 2: the Angels, taking two out of three from the Brewers,
Speaker 2: and also taking two out of three from the Padres
Speaker 2: on their last nine game road trip, and then you're thinking, Okay,
Speaker 2: the first game of this series against the Rockies, you
Speaker 2: could kind of feel like the adrenaline wasn't there for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. And then they start to smell a beginning
Speaker 2: a win in the seventh inning with a bad Rockies bullpen,
Speaker 2: and what do they do. They score four runs in
Speaker 2: the seventh inning and come from behind and steal that
Speaker 2: win and go on to sweep the Rockies by hitting
Speaker 2: eight home runs in the last two games of the series.
Speaker 2: They scored fifteen runs two nights ago, and they were
Speaker 2: very much in control last night with a four to
Speaker 2: one win after taking a no hitter into the eighth inning.
Speaker 2: If not for what's his name, Willie Castro hitting a
Speaker 2: ground ball down the in between short and or second
Speaker 2: in first base, a ground ball through the right side
Speaker 2: between Freeman and Freeman, and that was a one hitter
Speaker 2: last night. Despite Otani going six no hit innings, he
Speaker 2: threw ninety nine pitches but was laboring. And I said
Speaker 2: this after the game last night, and I feel the
Speaker 2: same way tonight. I have no issues with Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: taking Shohotani out of that game because of the unique
Speaker 2: circumstances with the most unique player in Major League Baseball history.
Speaker 2: So I had no issues with that. And in case
Speaker 2: you're wondering what the last Dodger no hit was, it
Speaker 2: was a combined no hitter in Mexico City back in
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. So I still maintain Dave Roberts did the
Speaker 2: right thing. I'm not saying I've agreed with other removals
Speaker 2: of pitchers and perfect games in recent Dodger history, but
Speaker 2: last night I had no issues with that. And by
Speaker 2: the way, just to take a look at where the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are in the NL West, I just mentioned they
Speaker 2: won five in a row, won twelve of their last fourteen,
Speaker 2: have a four and a half game lead in the
Speaker 2: NL West. But if you look at the rest of
Speaker 2: the teams in the NL West, it's a complete disaster.
Speaker 2: Outside of Arizona, the Rockies are horrific. Again, don't let
Speaker 2: them fool you. Paul de Podesta has not waived any
Speaker 2: sort of magic computer over corus Field. They are awful
Speaker 2: still and that's going to take four to five years
Speaker 2: to rebuild. The Padres have no offense. Machado's hitting under
Speaker 2: two hundred. Fernando Tattis junior looks like a shit himself.
Speaker 2: He hasn't hit a home run the entire year, and
Speaker 2: it seems like for the first time in his entire career,
Speaker 2: baseball is hard for him, and he looks defeated even
Speaker 2: in batting practice. So that's a complete mess and the
Speaker 2: biggest mess. And I hate to use the term dumpster
Speaker 2: fire because that's something Ben Maller would do, a classless
Speaker 2: guy like Ben Mallard. That's not me. I'm not classless.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say the Giants are a dumpster fire,
Speaker 2: but they're awful. It is a mess. It is a
Speaker 2: hot mess in San Francisco, and I love it, and
Speaker 2: we all love it. The Giants can stay MS for
Speaker 2: as long as possible. Tony Voytello has not found major
Speaker 2: League baseball to be what it was in college baseball,
Speaker 2: and shocker who could have told him that. Buster Posey,
Speaker 2: who is one of the most arrogant people you'll ever meet,
Speaker 2: has not pushed any of the right buttons eight six, six, seventy.
Speaker 2: So nothing is going to change the fact the rest
Speaker 2: of the Division outside of Arizona is a complete hot mess,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers are on their way to winning the division. Again,
Speaker 2: don't know by how many games, but I feel comfortable
Speaker 2: in saying by at least five to seven games at
Speaker 2: this point in time. Now they have lost two hernandez
Speaker 2: is in the last two games, which I'm not thrilled about.
Speaker 2: Key k Hernandez, who just came back strained as left
Speaker 2: O Blake, you know all about that. They recalled Alex
Speaker 2: Friedland yesterday who started at second base, and then Taoscar
Speaker 2: Hernandez in the second inning trying to leg out an
Speaker 2: infield single, came up limping because he heard his left
Speaker 2: hamstring and it's a severe left hamstring strain. We don't
Speaker 2: know how severe, but Dave Roberts said he's going to
Speaker 2: be out for weeks. And the reports now the Athletic
Speaker 2: has reported that Ryan Ward is going to get the call.
Speaker 2: I talked about that last night, that it is probably
Speaker 2: going to be Ryan Ward because for the mere fact
Speaker 2: he's earned it and he's on the forty man roster
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers camp platoon Alex call and Ryan Ward
Speaker 2: and left field until Taoscar Hernandez comes back, and it's
Speaker 2: not just another player going down. Taoscar Hernandez was getting
Speaker 2: hot at the right time. And he is one of
Speaker 2: the more clutch players, a right handed power hitter not
Speaker 2: a lot of teams have. So the Dodgers are going
Speaker 2: to miss Taoscar Hernandez. But Alex Call is having a
Speaker 2: really good year and I feel like Alex Call, Ryan
Speaker 2: Ward platoon is going to be able to hold down
Speaker 2: left field until Taoscar Hernandez comes back. So that's where
Speaker 2: things stand. And also, any fan can go on MLB
Speaker 2: dot com and just click on their transaction page to
Speaker 2: find out what's going on. And if you did that today,
Speaker 2: you would have saw that Santiago Espinal did clear waivers
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers have outrighted him to Oklahoma City, so
Speaker 2: he may be back sooner rather than later, especially if
Speaker 2: Hayesan Kim struggling and not getting opportunities. All right, we're
Speaker 2: gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk. When
Speaker 2: we come back, your phone calls, I see the phone
Speaker 2: lines ringing right now. We'll get to you and we'll
Speaker 2: get to Adrian Gonzalez next. Right here on Dodger Talk
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Speaker 2: Dodgers will be back in action against the Phillies. Alex
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Speaker 2: to give away to tomorrow night's game to celebrate Alex Vesia.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Justin Robleski will be facing Zach Wheeler tonight.
Speaker 2: Our coverage begins at six o'clock, with first pitch at
Speaker 2: seven fifteen. All right, yes, sorry, people are calling in.
Speaker 2: I got this city wrong. Where the twenty eighteen combined
Speaker 2: no hitter was. It wasn't Mexico City. It was Monterey, Mexico,
Speaker 2: and I got news for you. I was there, so okay, sorry.
Speaker 2: It was Monterey, Mexico, three game series against the Padres.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers were in and out and guys like Adam
Speaker 2: libertore Yimi Garcia, Chris Hatcher were the relievers that completed
Speaker 2: the no hitter after Walker Bueler started that game in Monterey,
Speaker 2: Mexico against the San Diego Padres, and that was such
Speaker 2: a cool trip because Julio Urias was emerging as a star.
Speaker 2: He was there and the Dodgers brought Fernando Valenzuela with
Speaker 2: them to be an ambassador as well, So it was
Speaker 2: it was a really great trip to Monterey, Mexico. And
Speaker 2: the very next day, after the Dodgers threw that I
Speaker 2: no hitter against the Padres, the great team photographer John
Speaker 2: Suhu took a photo of all those pictures that were
Speaker 2: able to throw that combined no hitter. Eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 2: in case you missed the news. Santiago Espinal did clear
Speaker 2: waivers and he will be part of the Dodgers organization again.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers, you know, had to designate for assignment
Speaker 2: Santiago Espinal. When keyk Hernandez uh was reinstated from the
Speaker 2: sixty A sixty day il and I thought it said
Speaker 2: a lot about who keyk is as a person. As
Speaker 2: a teammates, keyk Hernandez really really understood what it meant
Speaker 2: to not only be hurt now for a couple of
Speaker 2: couple of days, a couple of months because the Dodgers
Speaker 2: let Santiago espinal goal, and now they will bring him back.
Speaker 2: He's going to be part of it all right there
Speaker 2: he is ceeg Zach. He made Adrian Gonzalez call a
Speaker 2: regular phone line. Oh my god, I am so and
Speaker 2: beira embarrass. This is part of the brand, you know.
Speaker 2: I try to impress my fancy friends. A guy that
Speaker 2: had two thousand and fifty hits, a guy that really
Speaker 2: revitalized and was a symbol that the Dodgers were back.
Speaker 2: When the Dodgers made the trade for Adrian Gonzalez, Nick Punto,
Speaker 2: Josh Beckett and Carl Crawford. Adrian Gonzalez one of the
Speaker 2: greatest hitters of his generation. Three hundred and seventeen home runs,
Speaker 2: a two to eighty seven batting average, and eight forty
Speaker 2: three ops. And he does everything. He's a star on
Speaker 2: sports at a LA. He's the owner of slis Rita
Speaker 2: and thrace those thres at the block on Olympic and
Speaker 2: Adrian Gonzalez joints Dodger talk.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Adrian, Dave, how are you doing?
Speaker 5: It's great to hear f It's great to hear your boys.
Speaker 5: And the first the first part was was actually on
Speaker 5: me because my phone is set to this where I
Speaker 5: know numbers don't really go through, and so I was
Speaker 5: worried about that. But luckily I got I got the voicemail.
Speaker 4: And that they gave me a callback number.
Speaker 2: I mean, now that you're retired, are you still concerned
Speaker 2: about Rando's calling your cell phone?
Speaker 5: You know nowadays with all the with all those weird
Speaker 5: calls that you get all over the place, and.
Speaker 4: It has nothing to do with people.
Speaker 5: It has to do with, you know, all the spam calling.
Speaker 2: Yes, kind of a spam call right here for sure.
Speaker 2: You know, Adrian and I agree on a lot of
Speaker 2: things in life and baseball, but the one thing we
Speaker 2: really disagree on is NFL teams. You're you've stuck with
Speaker 2: the Chargers from their move from San Diego to LA
Speaker 2: and I have one foot in with the Raiders. Now, Adrian,
Speaker 2: I'll make this announcement to you. I have one foot
Speaker 2: in with the Raiders, but since the raid, the Rams
Speaker 2: moved their headquarters to Woodland Hills, my home town. I
Speaker 2: have one foot in with Matthew Stafford and the rams.
Speaker 2: Now you're not.
Speaker 5: You know, you need to be a little more loyal
Speaker 5: to your team.
Speaker 2: I am loyal. I am loyal, but I mean they
Speaker 2: left LA, so I feel like I have this out
Speaker 2: clause in our relationship.
Speaker 4: Okay, I mean I can see that. I mean I
Speaker 4: have no problem with that.
Speaker 5: But you know, I've I've I've stuck some targeters and that.
Speaker 4: Good to them. Of your copefully can take to enough level.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, hopefully this year is your year to a
Speaker 2: certain extent. Adrian, you you're now an analyst for sports
Speaker 2: at l A. You know how it is. You were
Speaker 2: you were one of the most even keel guys, and
Speaker 2: you were some of you were the first guy to
Speaker 2: help me stay off the roller coaster of wins and losses,
Speaker 2: win streaks, losing streaks. Where do you see the Dodgers
Speaker 2: right now, after a couple of weeks of where they
Speaker 2: kind of look flat, it seems like they've come back
Speaker 2: to life.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, the way I see the team
Speaker 5: is preparation for the the consecutive World Series. This is
Speaker 5: all you know that, and so you have to go
Speaker 5: have to go through, uh, you know, some good times
Speaker 5: and and feel great about where you are and and
Speaker 5: and you know how the team is coming together, and
Speaker 5: unfortunately there's gonna be some injuries along the way, which
Speaker 5: they've been seeing lately with the Kika and Tail.
Speaker 2: Remember when you were playing every spring training, they would
Speaker 2: say you had too many outfielders. It seems like you
Speaker 2: can never have enough outfielders or players. And the Dodgers
Speaker 2: seem to have the depth to sustain injuries to a
Speaker 2: guy like a Taoscar Hernandez when most teams don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that's that's the thing is, you know,
Speaker 5: the team is so deep, you have so many players,
Speaker 5: and you know you're you're you're in a good spot,
Speaker 5: you know, And and calling up a guy who's who's
Speaker 5: who's put up some great numbers in Triple A like
Speaker 5: Ryan ward Is it's really cool to see. So they
Speaker 5: have players, you know, in abundance, especially in the outfield
Speaker 5: in the minor leagues, and and they're they're able to
Speaker 5: dig into those those players, uh and call them up
Speaker 5: and give them opportunities.
Speaker 2: Adrian and Zalez is our guest, Where are you going, Adriana?
Speaker 2: Are you going from thrace those thrace to slice area?
Speaker 2: Where are you going? Are i mean, you're you're really
Speaker 2: slinging pizzas and tacos now, And I feel like it's
Speaker 2: great because people, uh, you're not just the owner of
Speaker 2: those places on Olympic at the block, but people will
Speaker 2: see you randomly in there behind the counter in the
Speaker 2: kitchen and sometimes enjoyin the food.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I'm there. I'm there once or twice a
Speaker 5: week for sure, you know, making sure everything everything, and
Speaker 5: you have to taste of food in order to make
Speaker 5: sure that you know the the customers are gonna like it.
Speaker 5: So you know, I gotta I gotta taste it. I
Speaker 5: gotta make sure the flavors are right. So when the
Speaker 5: customers come, they come away, you know, they walk away satisfied.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So when you're there and people aren't expecting to
Speaker 2: see you, how surprised do some of the fans get
Speaker 2: when they show up and there's Adrian Gonzalez?
Speaker 5: You know some of them some of them are super
Speaker 5: you know, hey, how's it going? Great to see and
Speaker 5: some people you can tell that they get a little shy.
Speaker 5: But you know, I'm always hoping to be able to
Speaker 5: give them, you know, a great welcoming and thank you
Speaker 5: for being there, and and you know, if they.
Speaker 4: Want to picture, I'm there for that. So you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's it's it's always fun to see to see the.
Speaker 2: Fans, Adrian, You were the symbol of this Dodger ownership
Speaker 2: making a commitment to the fan base, to the city
Speaker 2: that they were here to win. All these years later,
Speaker 2: with all the success the Dodgers have had back to
Speaker 2: back World Series championships, a twenty twenty championship, does it
Speaker 2: still blow you a way how the fans still appreciate
Speaker 2: what you did and how much you mean to Dodger
Speaker 2: fans even in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I think I was fortunate that
Speaker 5: this ownership group, you know, thought of me to come
Speaker 5: in and be one of those players that you know
Speaker 5: was gonna was gonna, you know, do what.
Speaker 4: They've set out to do, which is.
Speaker 5: You know, bringing a winning product and continue to go
Speaker 5: and get the players that you know, they thought would
Speaker 5: would be great for the organization. And so you know,
Speaker 5: they were able to make that trade happen, and you know,
Speaker 5: I was fortunate to to come in and and and
Speaker 5: be able to start a run that the team has
Speaker 5: has been able to sustain and maintain and and uh
Speaker 5: and gotten better as as as it went. Ownership continues
Speaker 5: to invest in the product, invest in the players, so
Speaker 5: so the fans can have a great a great experience,
Speaker 5: and you know, the the ability for ownership to go
Speaker 5: get show hay And and Snell and you know, the
Speaker 5: players that they've gotten lately with Tucker and everything, it's
Speaker 5: it's it's pretty impressive and it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think about Kyle Tucker so far, Adrian?
Speaker 5: You know, I think he obviously got off to a
Speaker 5: slow start, but he's starting to pick it up. He's
Speaker 5: starting to have his his games where he shows.
Speaker 4: You know, the type of player he is.
Speaker 5: I really feel like he's going to continue to to
Speaker 5: show and and and get better as the season goes on.
Speaker 5: And you know, a guy like Tucker, you bring him
Speaker 5: in so he can get that big, big hit or
Speaker 5: two in the playoffs that you're gonna need. So, you know,
Speaker 5: there when when we signed him and people were like
Speaker 5: super excited, I was like, well, what do you expect
Speaker 5: out of him? And a lot of the expectations were
Speaker 5: a little too much in my opinion. You know, they
Speaker 5: were thinking, oh, we're gonna get a guy that hits
Speaker 5: close to three hundred with thirty five homers and one
Speaker 5: hundred and.
Speaker 4: Twenty everybody else.
Speaker 5: I was like, I don't think you're gonna get that
Speaker 5: out of him. I think you gonna get you know,
Speaker 5: a guy that that hit protects your lineup, sits in
Speaker 5: the middle of the order and comes up with some
Speaker 5: big hits and uh. And so for me, I think,
Speaker 5: obviously he got off to this little start, but I
Speaker 5: think he's starting to show who he is and and
Speaker 5: what we need out of him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you I mean, it feels like, obviously
Speaker 2: the salary for one year is astronomical, But how unfair
Speaker 2: is that to him to say, well, you're making that,
Speaker 2: so you should do X, Y and Z, when that's
Speaker 2: something he's never done in his career.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think last year he got off to a great start,
Speaker 5: which made people feel that way, But then you know,
Speaker 5: he had a few injuries. But a lot of times,
Speaker 5: the salary is a big number, and so like that
Speaker 5: is a part that you have to pay a.
Speaker 4: Pay attention to.
Speaker 5: But to me, you know, he is an all star,
Speaker 5: he is a great player. But I would not put
Speaker 5: that kind of pressure to say you need to go
Speaker 5: out there and hit three hundred with thirty five and
Speaker 5: one twenty on him like, that's that's that's that's putting
Speaker 5: a little too much expectations there. I think he's he's
Speaker 5: a great to eighty with with twenty five homers and
Speaker 5: a hunter RBI guy. And if you can put your
Speaker 5: mind on that, I think you'll enjoy the player he
Speaker 5: is and what he brings to the table, playing great defense,
Speaker 5: running the bases right, being a great teammate, and helping
Speaker 5: the team win another championship.
Speaker 2: Now Freddy Freeman is hitting in front of him. Now,
Speaker 2: he's gone from three number three hitter to a number
Speaker 2: two hitter, back to a number three hitter. Freddie Freeman's
Speaker 2: thirty six years old, Adrian, you took your last at
Speaker 2: bat in the major leagues at thirty six years old.
Speaker 2: We all know Freddie wants three thousand hits, but lately
Speaker 2: it seems like he's really questioning his own baseball mortality.
Speaker 2: How do you deal with that when you're in the
Speaker 2: middle of it, fighting every day, and do you feel
Speaker 2: like Freddy's gonna have to come to a tough decision
Speaker 2: in a couple of years.
Speaker 5: That's a question that's answer that only Freddie will know,
Speaker 5: because you know, I think the one thing that Freddy's
Speaker 5: got going for himself is that he's playing in a
Speaker 5: place where you know, he can call home, and that makes.
Speaker 4: It a lot easier.
Speaker 5: But let's say he, you know, Dodger's contract ends and
Speaker 5: he wants to play a couple more years and he's
Speaker 5: got to go play somewhere where now the home isn't there.
Speaker 5: That's that's really what you know, for me personally, that's
Speaker 5: what it came down to. If if I would have
Speaker 5: had an opportunity to play, you know, on the West Coast,
Speaker 5: I would have kept playing. My opportunities were in Detroit,
Speaker 5: in Miami and places like that. And after spending half
Speaker 5: a season and and you know, with the Mets, I
Speaker 5: didn't want to be away from home. And so for
Speaker 5: me that my family was more important than being you know,
Speaker 5: away from the family to keep playing just for the
Speaker 5: sake of numbers or or for something like that. So
Speaker 5: if he can stay in a place where he can
Speaker 5: have his family next to him, I think he can
Speaker 5: keep playing. Now if he's got to go somewhere where
Speaker 5: you know, his kids are getting older, they're starting to
Speaker 5: go to school and all these things where you know
Speaker 5: it's not as easy for the family to travel. You
Speaker 5: know that's going to play a play a role. But
Speaker 5: as long as he's able to play here in LA,
Speaker 5: let's say he can play those years and get to
Speaker 5: those three thousand hits.
Speaker 2: Do you think Freddy Freeman would ever you know, as
Speaker 2: he gets older, maybe it's not looking the way that
Speaker 2: it's looking right now. Do you think he could ever
Speaker 2: reconcile not being an everyday player or you feel like
Speaker 2: if he's going to continue to play, he would want
Speaker 2: to be out there every day.
Speaker 5: I think he would want to be out there at
Speaker 5: least eighty percent of the games.
Speaker 4: You know, maybe maybe not.
Speaker 5: A fool everyday player, but still be out there for
Speaker 5: most but definitely against every right hand there and then
Speaker 5: play against like half the lefties.
Speaker 2: Adrian Itzalez is our guest, all right. Just a few
Speaker 2: days ago, Adrian, it was the anniversary of Josh Beckett's
Speaker 2: no hitter in Philadelphia. You were playing for a base
Speaker 2: that day. That was back in twenty fourteen. You played
Speaker 2: on a lot of talented Dodger teams that one consecutive
Speaker 2: division championships. Are there any is there any team or
Speaker 2: any moments that stand out to you the most. I
Speaker 2: never really asked you that before, but now that you're
Speaker 2: a little bit more removed from your playing days, do
Speaker 2: you reflect on anything more than and then another year
Speaker 2: or another moment.
Speaker 5: I mean, I really think twenty thirteen, the team that
Speaker 5: we had in the playoffs was probably the best team
Speaker 5: that I played on. You know, we all we all
Speaker 5: talk about, you know, Handley's ribs in that series against
Speaker 5: the Cardinals, and you know, if he wouldn't have been sidelined,
Speaker 5: what could have been?
Speaker 4: You know, he was he was, you.
Speaker 5: Know, best hitter in the first round, middle of the
Speaker 5: lineup guy, you know, difference maker, and you take him out.
Speaker 5: You know, I guess the reference would be if they
Speaker 5: were to take out Otani right now, right, how does
Speaker 5: that change your team in the middle of a series
Speaker 5: or at the start of a series for that So
Speaker 5: that was That's one, and you know, and honestly, to me,
Speaker 5: it was it was just a lot of fun to
Speaker 5: be in the playoffs every year and and you know,
Speaker 5: get really close and you know see the fans really,
Speaker 5: you know, come alive in the playoffs and in a
Speaker 5: sense of like they're obviously a lot during the season,
Speaker 5: but in the playoffs, that stadium just you know, it rattles,
Speaker 5: you can you can feel the energy through the through
Speaker 5: the ground.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you and Justin Turner really made it come
Speaker 2: to life, Adrian, And we always remember I posted the
Speaker 2: photo of the selfie celebration after the home runs. You
Speaker 2: guys had a little bit more style than these weird,
Speaker 2: awkward celebrations that were seeing from these Dodgers. I'll go
Speaker 2: selfie all day.
Speaker 5: Oh, I mean the selfies, you know, it's you know,
Speaker 5: it's it's it's it's.
Speaker 4: A great celebration.
Speaker 5: I really enjoyed the bubble too after home runs, the
Speaker 5: bubble party.
Speaker 2: Yeah, bubble, that.
Speaker 4: Was like the first celebration.
Speaker 5: And when it comes to home runs and the dugouts
Speaker 5: of any team, you know, we started that trend and
Speaker 5: now everybody has the celebration of the dugout for home runs. So,
Speaker 5: you know, but I think Miguel te Hota started to
Speaker 5: get a hit. You know, show the show the flashlight
Speaker 5: on the player when you know, when they're on the field,
Speaker 5: and have the player recognize the dugout and the dugout
Speaker 5: recognize the player. But you know, we started the home
Speaker 5: run and the dugout trend, and you know, it's fun
Speaker 5: to see every team have their own little little celebration
Speaker 5: for home runs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. Whatever didn't Major League Baseball tell you
Speaker 2: guys to take the bubble machine out?
Speaker 4: They did?
Speaker 5: They they they they forced us to to stop that.
Speaker 4: You know, I think I think it was too early
Speaker 4: for its time for MLB. It was too early for that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you were, you were ahead of our time.
Speaker 2: We were, we were in a lot of ways. Hey,
Speaker 2: it's great to hear your voice. Everybody got to get
Speaker 2: down to Threstos Thrace and slice Maria on olymp They
Speaker 2: got the block, you know where it is, and you
Speaker 2: never know. You're gonna get good pizza. You're gonna get
Speaker 2: good Mexican food. And you may even see Adrian Gonzalez
Speaker 2: organically randomly trying to steal your guacamole. So come on,
Speaker 2: go go down there and see Adrian and Adrian can't
Speaker 2: wait to see you back at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you, Dave. It's always great to hear
Speaker 4: from you. And I didn't hear that. Did you make
Speaker 4: it down?
Speaker 5: Did you make it down the slide this time around?
Speaker 4: Or you stayed away.
Speaker 2: There wasn't enough momentum from the clubhouse really pushing me
Speaker 2: to go down the slide. So if there's a group
Speaker 2: of guys that really felt like I needed to go
Speaker 2: back down, it probably would have been your teams. But
Speaker 2: this one was a They weren't feeling it, so I
Speaker 2: just left it alone. But I will if they push it,
Speaker 2: and maybe they put some Verde de Niro in a
Speaker 2: Dodger hat, maybe it would entice me to go down.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what, next year, if I can make it,
Speaker 5: I'll fly down to Milwaukee with the team, and you know,
Speaker 5: kind of like when you do when you're a dad
Speaker 5: and you have your kid.
Speaker 4: I'll put you in front of me and we can
Speaker 4: go down together.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you. I appreciate that, Papa. Thanks Adrianda. We'll
Speaker 2: talk to you soon.
Speaker 4: All right, Dan, good talking to you.
Speaker 2: There. He goes Adrian Gonzalez, one of my favorites. Uh man.
Speaker 2: We had so many good times when he was playing
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers because the vibes were always high. As
Speaker 2: soon as he got there, a lot of winnings started
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers, and it's continued through twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: When we continue on Dodger Talk, we'll get to your
Speaker 2: phone calls at eight sixty six nine eighty seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy. We still have a pair of tickets to
Speaker 2: give away for tomorrow night's game against the Phillies Alex
Speaker 2: Vesia babbohead Night. And also you'll hear from Joey Vado,
Speaker 2: another first baseman. He had some high praise for Sho
Speaker 2: Hao Tani on the Dan Patrick Show this morning. A
Speaker 2: lot to get to between now at eight o'clock, and
Speaker 2: thank you again to my guy lt Don Adrian Gonzalez
Speaker 2: for calling in more Dodger Talk around the corner on
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Speaker 2: Thanks again to Adrian Gonzalez for joining us. You'll see
Speaker 2: him on Sports Net LA. You'll see him at Thrace,
Speaker 2: those Thrace and Slice Aria down an Olympic at the Block.
Speaker 2: So awesome we have Adrian come on the show and
Speaker 2: certainly had some unique perspective on Kyle Tucker and what
Speaker 2: we should expect, and also Freddie Freeman dealing with what
Speaker 2: every player eventually deals with, and that's their own baseball mortality.
Speaker 2: But Freddy's still going strong, don't get me wrong. He
Speaker 2: still has a lot left in the tank to help
Speaker 2: the Dodgers get to a three pet But obviously, moving forward,
Speaker 2: it's something that isn't on his mind because Ken Rosenthal
Speaker 2: was asking him about it. Others have asked him about it,
Speaker 2: so it certainly is not at the forefront of his mind,
Speaker 2: but certainly something that is right around the corner for him.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine seven two, five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Let's go out to Joe and Glen Dora.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Joe Dave.
Speaker 6: I'm doing great. I'm super happy to be on the
Speaker 6: air with you. Hey, I just want to talk real
Speaker 6: quick about how excited I am to see this three
Speaker 6: peat and see the Dodgers go back to back to
Speaker 6: back and win another championship. What makes this the Golden
Speaker 6: era of Dodgers baseball is the depth that we have
Speaker 6: and you know, a lot of other teams when they
Speaker 6: lose glass Now and Snell and Edwin Diaz and we
Speaker 6: haven't seen Gratterol in half a decade, and we all
Speaker 6: of the Hernandez is any other team, it takes them
Speaker 6: out of contention. Our fans look at it and say, oh,
Speaker 6: are we gonna be able to keep this four game
Speaker 6: lead in a tough division where everybody's trying to catch
Speaker 6: up to us? And then when we do, when these
Speaker 6: players start to come back, and we start looking at
Speaker 6: it and going, ooh, we should be able to be
Speaker 6: up by ten or fifteen games when we get the
Speaker 6: entire roster back. See, what makes this the Golden Era
Speaker 6: of Dodgers baseball is the fact that all of the
Speaker 6: guys who are filling in when these all stars are
Speaker 6: on the il, all of those guys, we're not going
Speaker 6: to guys who are negative war players. We have players
Speaker 6: coming in that are able to hold their own and
Speaker 6: prove that they could be All Stars on any other team.
Speaker 2: So it's just Hey, the Dodgers have their own all
Speaker 2: star emerging right now, and that's the center field or
Speaker 2: Andy pa Has, who leads major League Baseball with fifty RBIs.
Speaker 2: He's top five in hits and has six outfield assists,
Speaker 2: which leads all major league outfielders as well. Joe, I
Speaker 2: love the enthusiasm you have for the Dodgers. Can you
Speaker 2: make it to the game tomorrow night?
Speaker 6: Heck, yeah, I can. I'll be there. We're gonna take
Speaker 6: down the Phillies.
Speaker 2: And who's giving you tickets?
Speaker 6: Joe am five seventy and David.
Speaker 2: Was, oh baby, all right, Joe, hold on, you get
Speaker 2: him and don't forget. You can live stream all the
Speaker 2: Dodger games on the iHeartRadio app. And it should be
Speaker 2: a fun night out there, Dodgers, Phillies, alex Vesia, babblehead night.
Speaker 2: I want to go out to my guy, Teddy Tannenbaum,
Speaker 2: who is a longtime Dodger fan and lives out here
Speaker 2: in LA and he is one of the best executive
Speaker 2: leaders out there, but even more a passionate baseball fan,
Speaker 2: a passionate Dodger fan. He plays in a southern California
Speaker 2: league called Dodger Town West. He's done that for the
Speaker 2: last thirty five years. It's kind of a breakoff of
Speaker 2: the alumni of the adult baseball and Teddy has such
Speaker 2: a great passion for the game of baseball. He published
Speaker 2: a poem book about the game that he loved so much, Teddy.
Speaker 2: Great to have you on Dodger Talk. Hope you're doing
Speaker 2: good tonight.
Speaker 7: Thanks David, just elighted to be here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So you obviously have a deep love for the
Speaker 2: game of baseball, and for the Dodgers. To play in
Speaker 2: those adult fantasy camps, I'm sure was a dream come
Speaker 2: true for all of us to be able to not
Speaker 2: only meet some of these Dodger greats, but to put
Speaker 2: on a Dodger uniform and to be coached up by
Speaker 2: some of these guys.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, I had never played as a kid, so I
Speaker 7: was forty three when I went to the camp and
Speaker 7: I met a guy named Duke Snyder. And Duke Snyder
Speaker 7: was my first year in baseball back in New York.
Speaker 7: I saw him playing at its Field, probably fifty six
Speaker 7: or fifty seven. I had a Duke Snyder glove, and
Speaker 7: you know, I oiled that glove and looked like he
Speaker 7: had signed it to himself. And that first game I
Speaker 7: went to at seven eight years old, he hit a
Speaker 7: home run and it's been a love affair ever since.
Speaker 2: The Dream Life of Teddy Baseball is the name of
Speaker 2: the book. You can find out an Amazon, Barnes and
Speaker 2: Noble anywhere you buy them. And what inspired these poems?
Speaker 2: Was it a moment in time at a doll camp,
Speaker 2: Was it a moment in time meeting a Dodger? Was
Speaker 2: it just a collection of lifetime memories?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I started writing things back in the late eighties. In fact,
Speaker 7: the first poem I wrote was an Oats Oral Herscheizer
Speaker 7: from the eighty eight season, and it's called Strikeout, and
Speaker 7: it was something just observing or to remember. During the
Speaker 7: World Series, he asked permission to reach into his pocket
Speaker 7: to look at a car for some hymns that he
Speaker 7: wanted to come to himself. Now everyone's looking at a
Speaker 7: carc sousee. We're position themselves defensively. But it was very
Speaker 7: unique at that time, and just watching him it inspired
Speaker 7: me to write a little poem for him, and I've
Speaker 7: been writing ever since and in my career. You know,
Speaker 7: in late leadership work, some of the most surprising and
Speaker 7: enlightening things about leadership, life and human nature often arise
Speaker 7: at unexpected places. And for me, that place has always
Speaker 7: been baseball.
Speaker 2: That's pretty special, and Oral Herscheizer, obviously, to this day,
Speaker 2: has such a special place in Dodger fans. Hearts for
Speaker 2: what he did in nineteen eighty eight, and Christopher Sanchez
Speaker 2: Teddy is trying to catch him with that fifty nine
Speaker 2: consecutive scoreless innings streak. We got to put a stop
Speaker 2: to that, Teddy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, too bad. We may not have a chance to
Speaker 7: see him this week.
Speaker 2: And Louis no, no, he pitched against the one of
Speaker 2: the worst offenses in the Padres and I think he's
Speaker 2: going to see the Blue Jays next. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know where this is going, but I don't
Speaker 2: like it.
Speaker 7: Well, we'll keep a hole close to our hearts and
Speaker 7: hope his district last forever.
Speaker 2: Is there one Dodger outside of Duke Snyder Teddy that
Speaker 2: you met that really was one of your childhood heroes?
Speaker 2: I mean everybody automatically says that grew up in the sixties,
Speaker 2: Sandy Kofax. Did you ever get to meet Kofax?
Speaker 7: Of course he has just briefly and got to shake
Speaker 7: his hand, not his left hand, but his right hand.
Speaker 7: And what a thrill having grown up in New York
Speaker 7: and just watching him blossomed, especially when the Dodgers left town.
Speaker 7: Of course it was a sad time. And when the
Speaker 7: Meds showed up in sixty two and played in Polo
Speaker 7: Grounds for those few years. Every time the Dodgers came
Speaker 7: to town. I was at every game. So I got
Speaker 7: to see Sandy in sixty two, sixty three, sixty four,
Speaker 7: right through sixty six, and what a pleasure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Can you believe you know this that when Sandy
Speaker 2: Kofax pitched his one and only perfect game, there wasn't
Speaker 2: even thirty thousand fans at Dodgers Stadium that week night
Speaker 2: against the Cubs.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and memorialized by Vin's call, of course.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, when you talk about a baseball poet,
Speaker 2: Vince Scully is the first person that comes to mind, Teddy,
Speaker 2: I'm sure just like all of us that grew up
Speaker 2: listening to Vinn, he had a major, a major impact
Speaker 2: on your love affair with the game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he did, And I wrote about I wrote a
Speaker 7: pieceful Transistor about listening when the trendistor radio came out
Speaker 7: and I'd be on the beach in New York and
Speaker 7: I listened to the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball games. What I
Speaker 7: noted was that he never called him the Dodgers. It
Speaker 7: was always Brooklyn, Brooklyn that would head for to two Brooklyn,
Speaker 7: trailing buyer run with two who needs to play? And
Speaker 7: my favorite basis FLD full of Brooklyns.
Speaker 2: I never knew that because in LA he would always
Speaker 2: say the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: Never call them the Dodgers, as I recall listening to Dorcaster,
Speaker 7: New York, always Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: The Dream Life of Teddy Baseball a book of poems
Speaker 2: from Teddy and his love for baseball. All right, Teddy,
Speaker 2: before we move on, And certainly I love your story.
Speaker 2: I love just how much passion you have for the
Speaker 2: game to be able to put together this book. But
Speaker 2: what do you think about the boys in Blue and
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six? I know you still follow them closely,
Speaker 2: So as a Dodger fan, do you feel like the
Speaker 2: three pete is inevitable?
Speaker 7: Well, it's hard to say it's inevitable. I go back
Speaker 7: to what Tommy used to say, every team's going to
Speaker 7: win sixty, every team's going to lose sixty. It's the
Speaker 7: other forty that makes the difference. And the Dodgies are primed.
Speaker 7: Look at in twenty seventeen, right, the Cobage just had
Speaker 7: this band run two ten game losing streak and a
Speaker 7: ten game winning streak, and everyone recollected. In twenty seventeen,
Speaker 7: Job just had two ten game losing streaks, that ten
Speaker 7: game winning streak. And if you go back to the days,
Speaker 7: and I'm sure some of your listeners will remember Bug Farillo,
Speaker 7: the steamer, and he used to say, hey, you're in
Speaker 7: here on the bus or you're off with us. So
Speaker 7: you know, one of the beautiful things start voting for
Speaker 7: a team is you get to fold him with all
Speaker 7: the ups and downs. And it's a long season, so
Speaker 7: as you know, when they have a losing streak, people go,
Speaker 7: oh that's it. They'll never repeat and have winning streak.
Speaker 7: How could they ever lose? That's the beauty of watching
Speaker 7: the season unfold. That's what the love is for me.
Speaker 2: All right, Teddy, thank you for calling in. Appreciate it,
Speaker 2: and we'll look forward to seeing you at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 2: very soon. Don't forget. It's called the dream Life of
Speaker 2: Teddy Baseball. Teddy tenem Bomb a big time Dodger and
Speaker 2: baseball fan and just want to share a story with you.
Speaker 2: So thanks Teddy, we'll see you soon.
Speaker 7: Appreciate it, David, thank you all.
Speaker 2: Right, Teddy Tannembomb, big time Dodger, fan playing in those
Speaker 2: adult camps. Let's go out to the phones again. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to West with Sassan. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How are you doing, Sassan, I'm doing great.
Speaker 7: Thanks for taking my call, David.
Speaker 2: Thanks for hanging in there, Sassan. I appreciate you holding
Speaker 2: on for so long.
Speaker 8: No problem, I just yeah, I just wanted to ask
Speaker 8: you about so today major League Baseball.
Speaker 4: They proposed a hard.
Speaker 8: Salary cap today and I just wanted to get your
Speaker 8: thoughts on how that might affect the Dodgers it is
Speaker 8: coming next season and how they construct their roster.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm not full disclosure, Sassan. The Dodger zone
Speaker 2: forty nine percent of this radio station, right, so just
Speaker 2: keep that in mind when we get go through these
Speaker 2: labor negotiations. But I will say this, this has nothing
Speaker 2: to do with the Dodgers. This has a lot to
Speaker 2: do with the rest of Major League Baseball. They're trying
Speaker 2: to put their problems on the players, and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: don't need to apologize for how smart and how good
Speaker 2: they are. I mean, they've completely dominated professional sports since
Speaker 2: this ownership group took over, and they have no apologies
Speaker 2: for that, including the lucrative TV deal they made that
Speaker 2: has really separated them as far as resources before Otani,
Speaker 2: now with Otani even more so. Really, to me, it
Speaker 2: feels like the rest of the owners are trying to
Speaker 2: put their issues on the players with a salary cap.
Speaker 2: How about the Cincinnati Reds putting a salary cap on
Speaker 2: their ticket prices or their beer prices or their hot
Speaker 2: dog prices. How about that, Sassan, how about that for
Speaker 2: a hard salary cap. But here's the thing. Both sides
Speaker 2: are giving the other side the extremes. That's like their
Speaker 2: wish list. This is our wish list, this is my
Speaker 2: wish list. And at some point theasan they will meet
Speaker 2: in the middle. So it's way too early to start
Speaker 2: freaking looking out over what major League Baseball proposed to
Speaker 2: the union and what the Union proposed to major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: It is so early and right now it's trying to
Speaker 2: win the court of public opinion right now by making
Speaker 2: their negotiations so public this early. So I'm not concerned
Speaker 2: about it, and I hope soisan that the media doesn't
Speaker 2: focus on this more than the great season that we
Speaker 2: are witnessing, not only from the Dodgers, but by the
Speaker 2: entire sport, you can't cast a shadow over this season
Speaker 2: with all this nonsense.
Speaker 7: I will thank you for your well came answer.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Have a great one.
Speaker 2: Thanks asan appreciate it. Yeah, that's my only gripe right now.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've never been a big fan of talking
Speaker 2: about players salaries, collective bargaining agreements. That's just not why
Speaker 2: you're here for all that. And when the time comes
Speaker 2: after the season's over, obviously it'll be more of a
Speaker 2: focal point. But right now I'm not gonna talk about
Speaker 2: it every night because I don't care about it. Right now,
Speaker 2: it's not affecting anything during this season. So let's just
Speaker 2: sit back, enjoy this season. And I'm a believer, maybe
Speaker 2: I'm an optimist. I've talked to some players. They are
Speaker 2: not going to accept a salary cap, and look, that's
Speaker 2: just the reality of it. Okay, that'll do it for
Speaker 2: us on Dodger Talk. Thanks to and Adrian Gonzalez for
Speaker 2: calling in. Thanks to Zach Gilcaldi for all his help.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night, we'll be out at Dodger Stadium. Justin Robleski
Speaker 2: will be on the mound going up against Zach Wheeler.
Speaker 2: Our coverage begins at six o'clock, first pitch at seven
Speaker 2: point fifteen. Coming up next Fox Sports Radio. We'll talk
Speaker 2: to you tomorrow night. See you