WEBVTT - Spring Training Dodger Talk (3-17-26) 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.079 The quest for the three peat has begun. 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:07.160 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:08.800 three consecutive titles. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.479 The Dodgers are the favorites to become the fifth. 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.040 Fis a Spring training Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.239 Here we Go, Jenn we Go running. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.000 Back, hosted by Dodgers insider David Bassi. 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:21.800 Oh Yeah, three pet in the Mexic. 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.200 Get in on the show called eight sixty six, not 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.120 eighty seven, two five seven, and be sure to follow 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.680 Dodger Talk wherever you catch your podcasts. 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.440 Here's your host, David Bassin. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:41.160 It is a very special Dodger Talk from downtown Phoenix. 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:46.400 The Arrogant Butcher is hosting a five seventy LA Sports. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.080 We got a great show for you tonight from a 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:53.479 very vibrant downtown Phoenix. Andre Ethier is going to join 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.480 us at the bottom of the hour. He's taking photos. 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.440 He has that that bronze. 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.240 Glow that every but he loves to see. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.640 He's got a fancy alo white T shirt on crew neck, 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.120 not v neck. But we've got a great show for 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.600 you tonight. Ethier is going to join us at the 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:12.920 bottom of the hour. I want to say thank you 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:16.520 to all our partners and friends here. No word of 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.920 the Ethier Ethier, please, there's there's technical equipment here. Could 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.240 you please go around? We'll get you in a second. 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.000 I want to say thank you to our friends at 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:29.400 Superior Grocers. Not sure if Andre Ethier is going to 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.720 give the word of the day. 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Bad news for the rest of Major League Baseball. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:46.120 The Dodgers are better than what they were last year 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.560 when they won back to back World Series championships. Yeah 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.880 that's true. Yeah, that's bad news for everybody else. The 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.760 good news for everybody in Los Angeles is I am 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:02.400 very confident the Dodgers will be in the World Series 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:06.000 again this year, and if everybody is healthy, have a 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:10.120 great chance to do something that has only been done 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:14.840 two other times in modern baseball history, and that is 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.679 to three pete. Can anybody tell me the two other 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.519 teams that have threepeeded in Major League Baseball and modern 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:22.440 baseball history. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.760 Here, some of you may not have been born. 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.680 One was the seventies Yankees. David Howard was around for that. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.080 Seventies A's you were around for that, right, David Howard, 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.520 You're around for that. Think about this There's even some 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.840 people that are twenty two years old in college right 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:46.480 now don't remember the Yankees th repeating in nineteen ninety 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:47.440 eight to two thousand. 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:48.800 So the Dodgers may do. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.440 Something that just hasn't been done before in a lot 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:56.760 of people's lifetime. And what has made them better than 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.200 last year is that they have filled the two greatest 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.040 holes in their lineup, and that's Kyle Tucker in right 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:07.560 field and Edwin Diaz as their closer that was a 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:13.040 major hole in their lineup last year. Tucker moves te 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.839 Oscar Hernandez back to left field. Tucker is going to 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.600 blend in, does not want the attention, and certainly is 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:22.840 going to thrive. You know that some people just don't 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.200 want the attention, and they thrive better in their business 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.600 when they're not the man. When they're not the person, 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:35.200 some people are better assistant managers than they are managers. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.440 And Kyle Tucker is that type of guy. So things 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.839 are looking a lot better. But before we continue to 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:45.400 look forward, let's look back. Let's look back at last 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:49.080 year's World Series. I have my own list of top 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:54.880 five World Series moments from last year's exciting, thrilling Game 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:59.600 seven World Series between the Dodgers and Blue Jays. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.599 So I actually have some production behind this as well. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.640 Before we get to that, though, since it is like 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.680 cocktail hour here at the Ergan Butcher, can we all 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.560 raise Can we all raise a glass? 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.560 Can we raise our glasses to. 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.719 The three peat, the run for the three peat, the 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.240 back to back World Series champions LA Dodgers. 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.599 Can we all raise a glass to a man. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.479 That spent his entire twelve year Major League career with 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.400 the Dodgers and when he retired, played more postseason games 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.960 with the Dodgers than anybody else. And that is the 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:37.240 Alo wearing white T shirt, Andre Eighthier. Tonight salute to 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:45.200 Andre Eighthier. Yeah, hey, we could get you an endorsement. 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.840 There's people here that can make Alo happen for you. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:56.880 Don't embarrass yourself in front of superior grocers. All right, 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:58.839 Andre eighth is gonna join us at the bottom of 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:00.880 the hour. He has a lot to trust me. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:01.719 All right. 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.200 Here are my top five World Series moments. I'm gonna 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.840 start from five, go to one. Here it is how 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:13.320 many people stayed up all eighteen innings for Freddie Freeman's 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.279 walk off home run in Game three of the World Series. 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.640 If you didn't stay up. This is the way it 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.080 sounded right here on Dodgers Radio and five to seventy 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.200 LA Sports. 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:30.479 Full count on Freeman, Little delivers Freeman. It's one high 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.880 in the air, straightaway center field. 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:47.919 Marshal at the walk God, Freddie Freeman, mister World Series 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.360 ends the marathon at midnight. 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.960 Yes, indeed, Freddie Freeman's walk off home run in the 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:03.000 eighteenth inning last year only player now in baseball history 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:08.880 to have walk off home runs in two separate World Series. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.720 So there you go. That's the way it sounded. With 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.880 Stephen Nelson on the call. All right, Now, here's my 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:14.600 number four. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.720 To even get to a Game seven, you needed to 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.200 win Game six if you were the Dodgers. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.680 Here it is the final play of Game six to 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.280 force a Game seven. 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.640 One out, bottom of the ninth inning. 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.240 Tyler glassnow already got Ernie Clement to pop out for 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:39.040 the first out of the inning with one pitch. Addison 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.160 Barger at second base got a litle little too excited. 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.040 Here is the final play and the number four moment 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.400 of last year's World Series. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.680 Then it's his zero for three with a strikeout so 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:57.960 far in Game six. Al Right, he comes home and 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.640 then its s flips it in the left field Hernandez charging. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.960 He mix the catch, the throwback to second. Here's a 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:04.040 play the tag. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.720 He's out, Key. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:11.520 K Hernandez, Teleguel Rojas in the ball game is over. 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.160 We got a fun fact earlier this week, Former Raiders 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:21.600 quarterback Derek Carr was on Dodger Talk and he said 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:26.840 he has that second base bag in his office. He 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.760 and his brother David Carr have a podcast hosted by 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:35.000 Iaheart Radio, and he has that second base bag in 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:39.400 his office, that actual one that Rojas made an incredible 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.439 short hop from the throw from Key k a Hernandez. 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.679 And we have already arranged for Rojas and Key k 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:50.160 Hernandez to sign that second base bag for Derek Carr. 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:52.800 Speaking of Miguel Rojas. 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.760 And defense, right, it wasn't just the home run to 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.400 tie Game seven in the ninth inning. How about the 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.240 play he made in the bottom of the ninth inning 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:07.040 to Will Smith in field in the tying run, the 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.960 winning run just ninety feet away. Here was Miguel Rojas 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.439 to Will Smith. Our number three moment of last year's 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.360 World Series. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:22.280 A ball in two strikes, Yamamoto is set round ball 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.480 to second, Rojas has it, he's. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.760 Going home and they get in time. 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.760 There was a brief stumble from Rojas at second base, 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:36.160 but he recovered, planted and through home and kind of 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.400 filefa is deemed out boy. 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.960 That was a tough plame by Rojas, and he was 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.840 able to make the good throw. 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.280 The regears, the colina confirmed and the. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.679 Runners out ground the band. 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.760 Hey the call stand and the Dodgers were able to 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.760 go extra innings, and that leads us to I don't know, 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:05.520 in my opinion, the second best moment of last year's 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:09.320 World Series. You may disagree with me because he doesn't 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.600 talk a lot, but the number two moment for me 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.320 the Dodgers down to their final two outs of the 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:22.359 season was Miguel Rojas's game time home run. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:30.439 And Rojas fight his way on base, full count, Hoffman delivers, 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:32.960 Rojas hits it in the air left field. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:34.280 This ball's got some carry. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:41.360 It is gone. It's gone. In Game seven, is tied. 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:50.040 Miguel Rojas off the bench in Game six, on the 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.199 board in Game seven. 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:58.040 This crowd, well, we talked about it in another series. 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:03.120 This has turned into a library. Miguel Rojas. He took 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.120 the two two pitch the slider upstairs, and he took 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.520 the next pitch out of the ballpark. Then this Dodgers 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.719 first day's dugout has exploded. 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.920 I feel like we needed more energy from Steven Nelson. 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.080 I don't think we're getting enough energy out of him 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:19.280 in a Game seven. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:20.480 I'm just kidding. 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:24.520 He actually reflected how you were feeling in your homes 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.920 when Miguel Rojas hit his first home run against the 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:33.760 right handed pitcher of the season, that's regular and postseason. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.920 Had not hit a home run against the right handed pitcher. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.280 That one off of Jeff Hoffman, who was chirping when 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.360 the bench is cleared earlier in the game. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.720 So there you have it, you know. 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.839 I just feel like Will Smith doesn't do a lot 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.560 of media, doesn't really talk about himself a lot, but 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.319 a game tying home run does not win the World 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:59.800 Series for you. Here is the number one moment of 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.880 last year's thrilling seven game World Series. 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.400 Glad Guerrero Junior will lead off the bottom of the 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.640 eleventh for the Dodgers, scratch a run across before then. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.600 The two o Smith with a smash in the air 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.439 to deepliftfield. This bowl is. 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:29.199 Smith lets it fly and breaks the tie in Game seven, 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.280 as number sixteen stays. 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:41.920 Clutch boy, this place has gotten silent all of a sudden. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:44.760 Yeah, I bet. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:48.120 Will Smith could hear his cleats cutting that dirt as 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:49.400 he was rounding the bases. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:50.000 It was. 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:54.480 It was eerily quiet after It was so raucous for 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.800 the majority of that game, especially after Bobishet hit that 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.320 go ahead home run off a show. Hey, Tawny, but look, 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.000 I know the Rojas home run was one of the 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:09.520 most improbable home runs in World Series history. But it 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.160 was a game tying home run. It wasn't the game 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.640 winning home run. And that's why for me, the Will 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:18.640 Smith go ahead home run in the eleventh inning is 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.640 the top moment of last year's seven game World Series. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.400 Since we are celebrating the Dodgers here tonight in downtown 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:30.600 Phoenix with our friends at the Arrogant Butcher, let's celebrate 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.640 the Dodgers, and ever since Guggenheim ownership took over, it's 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:35.360 been a party. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:37.280 I'm gonna share with you my. 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:42.120 Top ten Dodger playoff home runs since twenty thirteen. When 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.480 we continue right here on Dodger Talk live from the 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:49.920 Arrogant Butcher in downtown Phoenix with all our friends and you, 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.800 of course you're a friend on a five to seventy 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.160 LA Sports. Want to say thank you again to our 0:13:55.200 --> 0:14:01.599 friends at Superior Grossers Strauss Children's Hospital Los Angeles, for Verizon, Sipporo, 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.840 Chumash Casino and Daniels Jewelers. Thank you all for coming 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:10.559 out and supporting Dodgers Radio, Dodgers Baseball. Without you, this 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.160 doesn't happen. So thank you again for all the support. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.760 It's going to be another great season. You got on 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.920 board at the right time. I'll just put it that way, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.920 all right. It's not the twenty eleven Dodgers. It's the 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.440 twenty twenty six Dodgers going for the three pet and all. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:29.560 This started all the way back in twenty thirteen. This 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.120 is the golden age of Dodger baseball, not just the 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.640 last two years, but going back to twenty thirteen. This 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:42.760 is unprecedented sustained success. The Brooklyn Dodgers didn't do this. 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:48.000 The sixties Dodgers didn't do this. The seventies. Garvey Lopes, 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.880 Russell and say they were great. They didn't do this 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.840 The eighties Dodgers of Fernando and Oral Herscheizer. They won 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:59.480 two championships in ten years. The Dodgers have won three 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:03.280 in the last five years, including doing something that no 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.720 other Dodger team had ever done, and that's went back 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.360 to back championships. So this goes back to twenty thirteen. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.160 It doesn't go back to twenty twenty four. It doesn't 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:17.479 go back to twenty nineteen. It goes back to twenty thirteen. 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.720 And I have put together and you can disagree agree. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.600 You could tweet at me at the real underscore dv 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:29.000 or send me nasty dms on Instagram at officially Vassy 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.360 and I do get them. Andre Ethier was part of 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.080 the beginning of all this in twenty thirteen. So I'm 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.800 gonna start from ten to one like we did for 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.520 the seven game World Series Highlights, and I'm gonna start 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:45.760 at number ten. You know, everybody just remembers the World Series. 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.880 Nobody remembers what it takes to get to the World 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:54.600 Series and the moments, the moments that helped the Dodgers 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.920 get to the World Series. There was a very good 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.640 chance the Dodgers don't ever get out of the first 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.640 round against the Phillies. They never had home field advantage, 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.160 and they were losing Game one. Remember this, how many 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.000 people remember? The Dodgers were losing game one of a 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:17.120 best of five nlds until Tale happened. You wanted to 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.400 trade tail, You were on tail all year long. Who 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:24.360 rescued the Dodgers in Philadelphia None other than my guy, 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:26.280 ta Oscar Hernandez. 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.880 It has been a tough night for Taale zero for three, 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:35.080 three strikeouts and part of the misplaying right field, and 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:39.160 the Phillies scored three runs in the second inning. He 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.400 can make up for it with one swing the pitch, 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.120 get high in the air, right center field, bait her 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.480 on the run on the warning track, he's at the wall. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:48.760 It's gone. 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:53.000 Tale time. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:57.680 In Game one, he flips the scoreboard with a three 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:58.720 run bomb. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:06.280 Stephen Nelson just encapsulated how everybody felt about Taoscar Hernandez. 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.720 Oh misplay, Oh you can make up for it right here? Well, yeah, 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.159 he did, and that's what he does. He did it 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.760 in twenty twenty four. He did it again last year. 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.080 Rescued the Dodgers they were down three to two in 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.040 the seventh inning in Philadelphia. And you want to talk 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.919 about a raucous crowd going quiet. They did in the 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.560 seventh inning with a go ahead three run home run, 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.119 and Tioscar Hernandez was the one that provided all that. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.280 So how about this, How about some ti Oscar Hernandez 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:37.400 appreciation in twenty twenty six? All right, number nine, let's 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.880 go back to twenty eighteen. You remember last year's eighteen 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.200 inning affair. I never thought I'd have to sit through 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.520 that again. Well, I was there in twenty eighteen Game 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:50.439 three of the World Series Dodgers Red Sox Nathan Valdi 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:54.679 against Max Muncy and the Dodgers were down two in 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:55.760 that World Series. 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:01.919 Baldy on three and two, Black Hall left center field, 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:04.080 well hit back. 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.880 At the wall, and the longest World. 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:10.800 Series game in history has come to an end a 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:15.400 mighty blast by Max Monthy. The Dodgers are back from 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.920 the dead. They win it three to two. They moved 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:22.760 back to within two games to one in the twenty 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:28.919 eighteen World Series, an historic game at Dodgers Stadium, and 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.960 Monsey is being pummeled at the plate. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.440 That was Charlie Steiner on the call. 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:39.520 Great to hear his voice and Max Munsey now that 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.560 many years later, has the most postseason home runs in 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:48.440 Dodger franchise history thirteen postseason home runs for that funky 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:49.840 month see all right. 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.920 Number eight on David Va says top. 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:57.160 Dodgers playoff home runs going back to twenty thirteen. Twenty twenty, 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.600 a year we don't want to remember in some ways, 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:04.120 but Cody Bellinger gave us a great memory Game seven 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.760 of the NLCS. Remember the Dodgers were down three games 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.440 to one to the Braves in that twenty twenty NLCS. Well, 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.320 they forced a Game seven, and in the seventh inning, 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.360 Belly hit a g galahead home. 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:22.520 Run against Atlanta and Chris Martin two balls, two strikes, 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:22.960 two out. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.840 Martin's twenty third pitch Bellinger. 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.520 For the fly ball the right field. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:33.040 Cody Bellinger has just given the Dodgers a four. 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:33.800 To three lead. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.840 Yeah, and then Key Hernandez separated his shoulder with a 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:44.240 huge forearm shiver, so uh, just remember the celebrations keep 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.160 him under control. But that was a huge home run 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:50.199 and sent the Dodgers to the World Series for the 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:52.439 third time in four years at that point, and they 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.399 went on to beat the Rays in Game six. Number 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:59.760 seven Chris Taylor fan favorite so many big home runs 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.320 for the Dodgers, so many big plays in the postseason. 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:04.360 How about the wildcard? 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.879 The Dodgers won one hundred and six games in twenty 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.680 twenty one, but the Giants had that lucky year, winning 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.440 one hundred and seven, So the Dodgers were forced to 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:17.040 play a wildcard game at Dodgers Stadium against the Saint 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.360 Louis Cardinals. It was a tie game in the bottom 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:24.080 of the ninth inning until Chris Taylor sent the Dodgers 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:25.960 to the NLDS. 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:31.359 Race on two and one. Taylor fly ball the left 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:39.320 and deep and don Chris Taylor oh walk up home run. 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:44.120 But Dodgers are walking off to San Francisco. They win 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:49.359 the Wildcard, create a one. Here comes Taylor to have played. 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:53.280 They are bobbing him, but Crown is going crazy. 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:58.800 The Dodgers advance to the National League Division Series and 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:02.800 won swing by Chris Taylor. 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:07.280 That was a great year for Chris Taylor, capped off 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.080 by that walk off home run in the wild card game. 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:13.200 And I'll never forget that night. As we were waiting 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:15.520 for the Dodgers to come out and do the interviews, 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:19.840 Juan Soto was sitting behind home played and I interviewed 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:24.440 Juan Soto after Chris Taylor's walk off home run, speaking 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:27.320 of big time home runs that you may have forgotten about. 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.120 How about number six won your Reba? Who remembers won 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.520 your Rebay? Oh there we go, Johnny, Yeah, you remember him? 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:38.600 Do you remember Game four of the NLDS Dodgers Braves. 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:41.720 At that point in time, the Dodgers were in the 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:45.040 postseason for the first time in a long time, first 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:48.720 time since Andre Ethier's Dodgers were in the NLCS in 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:51.920 two thousand and nine. Well Ethier and the Dodgers were 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:55.120 back in there for the first time and trying to advance. 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:59.480 Kershaw pitched on three days rest. Don Mattingly try to 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:02.840 have one your Reba bunt for a base hit or 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.480 a sacrifice In the bottom of the eighth inning, he 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:08.720 couldn't bunt, didn't want to bunt, and thank god he. 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:12.400 Didn't, And the two to two pitch, your Rebay hits 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.360 a high fly ball into deep left field. 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.600 Way down the line and gone. 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:21.520 And the Dodgers lead four to three on a two 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:24.240 run home run by one your Rebay. 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:27.960 Isn't it amazing what somebody. 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:28.840 Will do when you can't bunt? 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:33.560 One your Rebay got a fastball and hit it back 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:37.840 right in the area of the bullpen, and it is 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:40.400 four to three Dodgers in the bottom of. 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:41.080 The eighth inning. 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:45.000 Yeah, that was that famous image of Craig Kimberl standing 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:47.960 with his hands on his hips in the Braves bullpen. 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:51.040 Not sure where Andre Ethier was when one your Rebay 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:53.280 hit that big home run in the bottom of the 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:56.240 eighth inning. We'll ask him coming up in our next segment. 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:58.520 All right, we're getting to the top five. How about 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:01.200 another fan favorite, a guy that made his career nine 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:02.440 years with the Dodgers. 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:07.200 His biggest hit with the Dodgers Game two of the. 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:11.640 NLCS in twenty seventeen, on the same date that Kurt 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:15.440 Gibson hit his walk off home run back in nineteen 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:19.080 eighty eight. Justin Turner helping the Dodgers get to the 0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:23.360 World Series. Since Gibson's or yeah, since Gibson's eighty eight 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:27.480 Dodgers John Lackey on the mound at Dodgers Stadium, Justin 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:31.159 Turner sent everybody home happy and the Dodgers had a 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:33.720 two to zero lead in the NLCS. 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:39.200 Turner in the postseason with the Dodgers he's twelve or 0:23:39.359 --> 0:23:48.520 seventeen during the regular season, three walk off hits Turner 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:50.919 for the fly ball the center field. 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:53.160 It's way back at the wall. 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:55.480 A three run walk. 0:23:55.200 --> 0:23:57.919 Off home run for Justin Turner. 0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:04.160 The Dodgers are up two games to none and they 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:05.600 are going crazy. 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:09.560 No doubt that was redemption. 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:13.520 Remember the Cubs beat the Dodgers in twenty sixteen's NLCS 0:24:13.760 --> 0:24:15.919 and they were on their way to the World Series 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:18.600 for the first time since nineteen eighty eight. And we 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:23.240 all know that twenty seventeen belongs to the Dodgers. All right, 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:25.679 We heard an eighteen inning home run from Muncie in 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:29.919 twenty eighteen. How about this year's eighteen inning affair in 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:33.800 this year's World Series. Freddie Freeman sending andre Ethy and 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:35.560 everybody else home happy. 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:40.880 Full count on Freeman, Little delivers Freeman. It's one high 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:44.240 in the air, straightaway center field, Marshall. 0:24:44.040 --> 0:24:44.879 At the wall. 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:58.800 God, Freddy Freeman, mister World Series. 0:24:59.040 --> 0:25:12.840 Ends the merri fun at midnight, his mob at home 0:25:12.920 --> 0:25:16.760 place as the Dodgers walk it off him. 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:18.720 The bottle of the eighteenth sinning. 0:25:19.200 --> 0:25:22.640 Six to five in the final to grab a two. 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:24.359 To one series lead. 0:25:25.440 --> 0:25:30.000 You want Drummers come to Dodgers Stadium. 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:32.880 Rick Monday and Stephen Nelson on the call. You heard 0:25:32.880 --> 0:25:35.600 Will Smith go ahead home run in the eleventh inning 0:25:35.600 --> 0:25:38.240 in our last segment. That was number three. How about 0:25:38.320 --> 0:25:42.760 number two? Let's relift Freddie Freeman's walk off Grand Slamm 0:25:42.760 --> 0:25:46.280 in Game one of the twenty four World Series against 0:25:46.560 --> 0:25:49.159 Nestor Cortes and the Pinstripes. 0:25:49.840 --> 0:25:52.080 The Yankees free the Dodgers two. 0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:56.600 The bases are loaded to out bottom of the tenth thitting. 0:25:57.960 --> 0:26:01.440 The scenario you dream about. How are Who's living? First 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:02.440 pitch swinging Hi? 0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:05.440 Why ball hit Dad back head? 0:26:16.560 --> 0:26:19.280 Freddie Freeman channeling is inner? 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:22.639 Kurt Diitson, Oh walk up home. 0:26:22.480 --> 0:26:26.800 Run in Game one of the World jerries hey walk 0:26:26.880 --> 0:26:30.359 off Grand Flam. 0:26:31.040 --> 0:26:31.880 Yeah, there it is. 0:26:31.960 --> 0:26:36.720 Freddy Freeman's walk off Grand Slam again, parallel to Kirk 0:26:36.760 --> 0:26:41.040 Gibson's home run in nineteen eighty eight, two Hobbled Superstars 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:43.040 and Freddie Freeman a legacy Dodger. 0:26:43.119 --> 0:26:44.240 Now and I went. 0:26:44.080 --> 0:26:47.320 Back and forth Roejas's home run or Freddy's Grand Slam. 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:50.480 I went Freddy's walk off Grand Slam number two and 0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:55.600 Roejas's improbable Game seven game tying home run number one. 0:26:55.840 --> 0:26:59.480 All right, when we continue from downtown Phoenix, my guy 0:26:59.680 --> 0:27:02.119 on that's Ray Ethier, is going to join us. He 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:04.840 was part of a lot of these teams since twenty 0:27:04.880 --> 0:27:09.960 thirteen that had so many memorable postseason wins. Mister Clutch 0:27:10.359 --> 0:27:13.200 is next. Captain Clutch they called him back in the day. 0:27:13.800 --> 0:27:14.840 Still looks pretty. 0:27:14.600 --> 0:27:16.840 Good, you know, for a retired guy. 0:27:17.800 --> 0:27:21.920 Andre Ethier's next right here on A five seventy LA Sports. 0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:23.480 It's been a. 0:27:23.359 --> 0:27:26.240 Great Dodger talk show or with you until eight o'clock 0:27:26.280 --> 0:27:29.440 tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports from 0:27:29.480 --> 0:27:34.160 downtown Phoenix, opening day less than two weeks away, March 0:27:34.240 --> 0:27:39.320 twenty sixth against the Arizona Diamondbacks on the Peacock Network. 0:27:39.359 --> 0:27:42.320 But more importantly, right here on AM five to seventy 0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:46.560 LA Sports, where you hear every single game of Dodger 0:27:46.640 --> 0:27:47.440 Baseball and. 0:27:47.440 --> 0:27:48.720 Dinner has been served. 0:27:49.119 --> 0:27:51.640 But more importantly, we're joined right now by a man 0:27:51.680 --> 0:27:56.199 that's spent his entire twelve year major league career with 0:27:56.400 --> 0:27:59.479 the Dodgers, and I can't believe it. He mentioned it 0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:02.119 to everybody here in the room that it's becoming his 0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:04.720 twentieth anniversary and the Dodger organization. 0:28:04.880 --> 0:28:10.080 That's my guy with his alo white T shirt. Andrey here, 0:28:10.400 --> 0:28:11.520 thanks for coming down here. 0:28:11.640 --> 0:28:14.280 I'm keeping it clean, and yeah, thank you. This is fun. 0:28:14.320 --> 0:28:15.280 What a great event here. 0:28:15.760 --> 0:28:17.720 Second year I've been able to come down here and 0:28:18.200 --> 0:28:20.480 be a part of this probably and five seventy partners 0:28:20.520 --> 0:28:23.720 and and yourself, and thank you for wishing me a 0:28:23.760 --> 0:28:25.520 happy twentieth anniversary. 0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:29.880 I can't believe it, you know, looking back. 0:28:31.280 --> 0:28:33.600 Into that spring training, my first spring training the Dodgers 0:28:33.600 --> 0:28:36.560 in two thousand and six, not where not knowing where 0:28:36.560 --> 0:28:38.239 I was going or where I would be, and then 0:28:38.280 --> 0:28:41.760 sitting here today twenty years later, what a ride, and 0:28:42.120 --> 0:28:42.960 you know, what a what a. 0:28:44.520 --> 0:28:45.560 Change of organization. 0:28:45.680 --> 0:28:47.960 Where this place has come and where it was when 0:28:48.000 --> 0:28:50.280 I first showed up, and now where the Dodgers said 0:28:50.280 --> 0:28:52.400 today on the top of everything and where they were 0:28:52.400 --> 0:28:54.720 trying to get back to, is you know, a great 0:28:54.720 --> 0:28:57.000 testament to this organization in the city. 0:28:57.320 --> 0:29:01.440 I remember where I was when the Dodgers traded Milton 0:29:01.520 --> 0:29:07.040 Bradley for some guy from the A's organization double a modesto. 0:29:07.480 --> 0:29:10.320 I can remember the guy that told me about Andre Ethier. 0:29:10.440 --> 0:29:13.160 He was one of Dave Reese's right hand guys. 0:29:13.240 --> 0:29:14.400 His name was Brent Blau. 0:29:14.680 --> 0:29:17.360 He went to Arizona State when you played college baseball. 0:29:17.400 --> 0:29:20.440 He said, Oh, man, this guy's the Manamal, who is 0:29:20.480 --> 0:29:20.960 this guy? 0:29:21.640 --> 0:29:23.880 We're I've never asked you this. 0:29:24.480 --> 0:29:28.080 What was your reaction when you found out a double 0:29:28.120 --> 0:29:31.360 A player with the Modesta A's was just traded to 0:29:31.440 --> 0:29:32.040 the Dodgers. 0:29:32.120 --> 0:29:34.040 Well, I didn't look at it the way you just 0:29:34.400 --> 0:29:35.640 painted it. I looked at it. 0:29:35.720 --> 0:29:38.960 I was kind of actually angry because I had spent 0:29:40.240 --> 0:29:42.200 you know, two and a half years of the A's 0:29:42.280 --> 0:29:46.480 organization at that time, which was known to promote young 0:29:46.560 --> 0:29:49.080 players pretty quickly right into the big leagues. And I 0:29:49.120 --> 0:29:51.560 had just come off a double A season where I 0:29:51.600 --> 0:29:55.200 won the MVP of the league, batting title of the league. 0:29:55.320 --> 0:29:57.640 I was an All Star game MVP from Texas League. 0:29:57.760 --> 0:29:59.920 Until you had a great league, played in the Fall League, 0:30:00.200 --> 0:30:04.800 hit tremendously well the following the ACE sat me down 0:30:04.960 --> 0:30:08.160 last week in the Fall League and we're like, hey, 0:30:08.160 --> 0:30:09.640 you're going to come to spring trading this year and 0:30:09.800 --> 0:30:10.200 you're going to. 0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:12.080 Compete for a big league job for us. So I 0:30:12.080 --> 0:30:12.840 had that in my mind. 0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:18.200 Fast forward three weeks later, I'm walking into a Barnes 0:30:18.240 --> 0:30:21.680 and Noble actually, and I see a phone number pop 0:30:21.800 --> 0:30:26.440 up on my phone from California area code, and I 0:30:26.480 --> 0:30:29.720 look at it, hang up. It calls back again. I 0:30:29.840 --> 0:30:32.680 hang up, and then finally they leave a message and 0:30:32.720 --> 0:30:35.800 it's Ned Coletty saying, Hey, this is Ned Cletty. 0:30:36.240 --> 0:30:37.320 Gentlemenager of the Dodgers. 0:30:37.320 --> 0:30:38.840 I'd like to be the first one to welcome you 0:30:39.280 --> 0:30:41.720 to the Los Angeles Dodger you just traded. 0:30:41.520 --> 0:30:42.520 For you give me a call back. 0:30:43.360 --> 0:30:45.360 So I was trying to call him back, and as 0:30:45.360 --> 0:30:46.960 soon as I did that, I get another phone call 0:30:47.400 --> 0:30:49.640 from Oakland. 0:30:49.320 --> 0:30:50.720 Area code and it was. 0:30:52.360 --> 0:30:55.640 I believe Dave Forrest, who was the assistant GM at 0:30:55.680 --> 0:30:57.360 the time under Billy Bean, called me to tell me 0:30:57.400 --> 0:30:59.360 that they just traded me to the Dodgers and thanks 0:30:59.360 --> 0:31:01.800 for everything you did days and good luck with your career. 0:31:02.880 --> 0:31:04.680 So yeah, I was having a lot of motion. I 0:31:04.720 --> 0:31:06.520 was like, really, you just traded me when you just 0:31:06.560 --> 0:31:08.960 told me three weeks ago that I would be competing 0:31:08.960 --> 0:31:10.960 for a job with you guys in the big leagues, 0:31:10.960 --> 0:31:14.080 and now I have to go to another organization, which obviously, 0:31:14.880 --> 0:31:16.760 in hindsight, they had a plan for me. 0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:19.000 But I was like, why do I stand out? 0:31:19.880 --> 0:31:21.320 Of course I go and look up, and you have 0:31:21.360 --> 0:31:23.800 Matt Camp, you have James Loney, you have all these 0:31:23.920 --> 0:31:26.840 I think the Dodgers just one organization of the year 0:31:26.880 --> 0:31:28.920 for all those prospects they had, and le Road, which 0:31:28.920 --> 0:31:32.080 all those guys. But that Ville five, Yeah, the Jacksonville five, 0:31:32.360 --> 0:31:34.960 Russell Martin, And I'm like, how do I fit in 0:31:35.160 --> 0:31:36.960 with these great players over here? 0:31:37.160 --> 0:31:38.880 Where am I going to get my big league shot? 0:31:39.880 --> 0:31:41.800 But like I said, you've got a trust the process, 0:31:41.840 --> 0:31:44.760 and they traded me two big leaguers for me for a, 0:31:45.080 --> 0:31:48.800 like you said, a lowly double a player, And sure 0:31:48.840 --> 0:31:49.360 enough I was in. 0:31:49.280 --> 0:31:52.719 The big leagues three weeks after the season started. That's amazing. 0:31:52.800 --> 0:31:53.320 What a story. 0:31:53.360 --> 0:31:55.120 I've never asked you that, and I don't believe I've 0:31:55.120 --> 0:31:58.160 ever heard you tell that story. So fast forward we 0:31:58.200 --> 0:31:59.240 are in spring training. 0:31:59.680 --> 0:32:00.440 You were part of. 0:32:00.440 --> 0:32:04.160 The Dodgers when they moved from Vero Beach to Camelback 0:32:04.280 --> 0:32:08.480 Ranch here in Glendale, Arizona. You have that unique perspective 0:32:08.640 --> 0:32:11.960 of being a guy, contemporary player that got to have 0:32:12.160 --> 0:32:15.360 spring training at Dodgertown at Vero Beach. Yeah, what was 0:32:15.440 --> 0:32:17.520 that like in your first spring training and What was 0:32:17.560 --> 0:32:20.400 it like going to Florida for those two years? 0:32:20.480 --> 0:32:23.120 Honestly? And that was another angry thing. I'm like, I was, 0:32:23.800 --> 0:32:28.800 I had spring training? What eight minute drive from Arizona 0:32:28.800 --> 0:32:32.240 State Campus? You know localan as spring training is maybe 0:32:32.320 --> 0:32:35.280 eight minutes from Arizona State Campus. So, you know, I 0:32:35.280 --> 0:32:37.640 get drafted by the A's, I'm basically living in my 0:32:37.680 --> 0:32:40.320 same apartment that I lived in college to go to 0:32:40.400 --> 0:32:41.120 spring trading up. 0:32:41.280 --> 0:32:41.800 Were you living on. 0:32:41.840 --> 0:32:43.920 Mill Avenue when you were training with the A's. 0:32:43.800 --> 0:32:47.800 Close close to Bell Avenue. I was still spending quite 0:32:47.800 --> 0:32:49.880 a few so I have been a timetown of Mill Avenue. 0:32:50.120 --> 0:32:53.320 But yes, I was, you know, still living in the area. 0:32:53.320 --> 0:32:54.560 And then all of a sudden, they're like, you're getting 0:32:54.560 --> 0:32:57.080 traded Dodgers. Well, where's the Dodger spring training. It's at 0:32:57.160 --> 0:32:59.840 Vero Beach. Where's zero Beach? You know what I'm trying to, 0:33:00.000 --> 0:33:03.480 you know, and doctrinate myself with this, you know, Dodgers, 0:33:04.000 --> 0:33:05.120 you know, lower of Vera Beach. 0:33:05.240 --> 0:33:06.720 I get there, I'm like, what is this place? 0:33:07.200 --> 0:33:07.360 First? 0:33:07.440 --> 0:33:09.880 Free training was awful? You know, obviously I showed up. 0:33:09.920 --> 0:33:12.440 I didn't perform very well, So I was reassigned to 0:33:12.480 --> 0:33:15.400 minor league camp pretty quickly after, you know, three weeks 0:33:15.440 --> 0:33:18.520 in major league camp, and then that season comes, and 0:33:18.560 --> 0:33:21.280 then obviously it was a short suit and the shortest 0:33:21.320 --> 0:33:23.200 off season I ever had, because I you know at 0:33:23.200 --> 0:33:25.000 that you know major league season is a is a 0:33:25.080 --> 0:33:27.080 month longer. First time the Dodgers had been in the 0:33:27.120 --> 0:33:29.600 playoffs again in a while was in O six, so 0:33:29.680 --> 0:33:32.640 we had a playoff run and then you know, fast 0:33:32.680 --> 0:33:34.640 off season, all the motions of being in the big leagues, 0:33:34.640 --> 0:33:37.520 and then you look up and it's February ninth, and 0:33:37.560 --> 0:33:39.760 you're like, oh, I got to go back to Vero 0:33:39.800 --> 0:33:41.480 Beach again. And you're like, I got it all the 0:33:41.520 --> 0:33:44.520 way across the country to go have spring training in Florida. 0:33:44.560 --> 0:33:47.840 I'm like, what am I doing? And I can say 0:33:47.840 --> 0:33:50.160 we had three and a half them was four spring 0:33:50.240 --> 0:33:52.240 trainings are before the Dodgers moved out. 0:33:52.280 --> 0:33:53.560 And then it was a happy day when I heard 0:33:53.560 --> 0:33:55.320 their announce team and I think it's a happy day 0:33:55.320 --> 0:33:58.080 for the organization and obviously our partners and everyone's happy 0:33:58.120 --> 0:34:01.959 to have the team this close to it. But at 0:34:02.000 --> 0:34:04.360 the end of my career, I realized the specialist of 0:34:04.440 --> 0:34:06.480 being at a place like Barol Beach. What it meant 0:34:06.800 --> 0:34:11.279 I had a full circle moment. Actually this past us 0:34:11.880 --> 0:34:16.000 this past fall, my oldest sudden had a baseball tournament 0:34:16.280 --> 0:34:19.560 in Jupiter area and one of the games happened to 0:34:19.600 --> 0:34:21.960 be one of the days at Baro Beach And that 0:34:22.080 --> 0:34:23.800 was the first time I was back since two thousand 0:34:23.800 --> 0:34:28.840 and nine. Was this past fall and so many floods 0:34:28.840 --> 0:34:30.800 and you know, emotions coming through me. That was my 0:34:30.840 --> 0:34:33.680 first time walking on that and just seeing where I 0:34:33.800 --> 0:34:35.839 kind of got my start in the dodge orarization where 0:34:36.160 --> 0:34:38.279 the first time I I you know, I walked on 0:34:38.360 --> 0:34:41.719 that campus, stayed in one of those the housing you know, 0:34:41.760 --> 0:34:44.799 the old hotel rooms, the marriage So yeah, you saw 0:34:45.160 --> 0:34:46.640 the first time, you know, I walked to the old 0:34:47.120 --> 0:34:48.680 the old food room. 0:34:48.920 --> 0:34:51.320 The cafeteria is exactly the same. Well, that's what I 0:34:51.400 --> 0:34:51.960 wanted to ask you. 0:34:52.040 --> 0:34:54.560 I've heard the old timers talk about that food room 0:34:54.600 --> 0:34:57.920 where yeah, double A players would be sitting next to 0:34:58.080 --> 0:34:58.680 an All stars. 0:34:58.760 --> 0:35:02.120 Yeah you're we're to sit That's my first Tommy's experience. 0:35:02.200 --> 0:35:05.520 You know, I show up to campus the first night, 0:35:06.280 --> 0:35:09.800 you know, I have no Rendell Carr, James Loney's my roommate. 0:35:10.120 --> 0:35:11.120 I'm like what do we do now? 0:35:11.200 --> 0:35:13.000 And he goes, will you walk across and you go 0:35:13.040 --> 0:35:15.760 over to the cafeteria eat in the middle of the campus, 0:35:15.760 --> 0:35:18.400 and you know, kind of kind of and I'm like, oh, okay. 0:35:18.760 --> 0:35:22.000 So I walk in and it's you know, it's kind 0:35:22.040 --> 0:35:23.440 of like the first day of school. You're like, where 0:35:23.480 --> 0:35:23.920 do I sit? 0:35:24.280 --> 0:35:26.279 What do I do? All that stuff? And you turn 0:35:26.360 --> 0:35:28.680 to sit in the corner and there's Tommy Lesorta sitting 0:35:28.719 --> 0:35:29.480 there in the corner of. 0:35:29.520 --> 0:35:31.680 A couple of Johnny Padres, all those guys, you know, 0:35:31.760 --> 0:35:33.719 some of those old players that were around back and 0:35:33.760 --> 0:35:37.239 they'd Sammy, Sandy Cofax sitting in there, to major league 0:35:37.239 --> 0:35:39.600 players sitting in there, you know, some of the old 0:35:39.680 --> 0:35:42.319 coaches that were former players sitting in there. 0:35:42.360 --> 0:35:43.880 See if all these guys sitting. 0:35:43.600 --> 0:35:46.680 In this place with minor leaguers and You're just like, 0:35:47.640 --> 0:35:50.080 what's going on? And and that was the first actually 0:35:50.160 --> 0:35:52.279 night that I actually, I think it was the second 0:35:52.400 --> 0:35:56.280 night that I came in to the cafeteria and Tommy 0:35:56.360 --> 0:35:58.600 called me out and said, hey, come sit with me 0:35:58.640 --> 0:36:01.200 at the table. And then I had the hour Tommy 0:36:01.560 --> 0:36:04.320 dinner in the cafeteria telling me all about Dodgers and 0:36:04.440 --> 0:36:07.520 Dodger history and all the great players, and you know, 0:36:07.640 --> 0:36:10.480 pointing at me with his crooked finger, Uh, that you 0:36:10.560 --> 0:36:12.360 could one day be a great Dodger if you do 0:36:12.440 --> 0:36:15.120 all the things, you know, you know, the typical Tommy 0:36:15.520 --> 0:36:19.720 pep up pep talk. And yeah, I just didn't realize 0:36:19.760 --> 0:36:21.560 that end of my career until I was done, what 0:36:21.680 --> 0:36:23.839 a special place that was. And then when you walk 0:36:23.920 --> 0:36:26.920 around thinking, you know, I was like, I was getting 0:36:27.000 --> 0:36:29.279 to walking my boys around because she's showing them where 0:36:29.280 --> 0:36:32.200 I the you know, the the hotel room I stayed 0:36:32.239 --> 0:36:35.319 in the backfield where they would make me go back 0:36:35.360 --> 0:36:38.960 and hit curveballs. You know, Uh, the locker room in 0:36:38.960 --> 0:36:41.960 the old stadium. Of how the old stadium now has 0:36:42.640 --> 0:36:44.800 covers of the dugout. We didn't have covers on the dugout. 0:36:44.800 --> 0:36:47.360 They were open air dugouts. You know that there was 0:36:47.400 --> 0:36:49.600 an old military base and you have the old berms 0:36:49.640 --> 0:36:50.880 from the military base. 0:36:50.800 --> 0:36:52.920 For the outfield and the stands are built on. 0:36:53.760 --> 0:36:56.160 All that stuff is just unique to Dodger, you know, 0:36:56.280 --> 0:36:59.759 to Dodgertown and to have the history and to like 0:37:00.200 --> 0:37:02.640 have that all come back and and know now that 0:37:02.760 --> 0:37:04.520 I was a part of that, you know, Dodger in 0:37:04.600 --> 0:37:06.360 history that was a part of there. And there's not 0:37:06.480 --> 0:37:08.440 one player left I think me and you've talked about this. 0:37:08.840 --> 0:37:12.840 Clayton was the last player I think an act in baseball, 0:37:13.280 --> 0:37:15.040 not only on the Dodgers, but it acted baseball that 0:37:15.120 --> 0:37:18.120 had a spring training. There's actually one more still, oh 0:37:18.840 --> 0:37:21.919 Canley Jensen. I forgot Canley Jens is still there. But yes, 0:37:22.160 --> 0:37:25.680 I mean when Candley retires, that that officially closes the 0:37:25.800 --> 0:37:28.799 era of any player that had a spring training at 0:37:30.040 --> 0:37:31.799 Bara Beach. I think that's gonna be a sad day 0:37:32.080 --> 0:37:34.960 just in you know, memory and meaning because of how 0:37:35.040 --> 0:37:39.360 special Dodgertown is to you know, Dodgers, to Brooklyn, to 0:37:39.719 --> 0:37:42.680 la and all those great players that had a chance 0:37:42.719 --> 0:37:43.640 to have a spring trained there. 0:37:43.800 --> 0:37:46.160 It's funny that you say that. And Andre Ethier is 0:37:46.200 --> 0:37:49.520 our guest in downtown Phoenix. Kenley Jansen every time that 0:37:49.640 --> 0:37:52.839 I talked to him, and obviously you know, he has 0:37:52.920 --> 0:37:55.680 such a special place in his heart for the Dodgers, 0:37:55.840 --> 0:37:58.600 even though he's pitched for a few different teams. He 0:37:58.719 --> 0:38:02.800 always talks about that, how he and Kershaw and you 0:38:03.680 --> 0:38:07.279 are the last guys. Yeah, trained at Garo Beach and 0:38:07.360 --> 0:38:09.719 it seems like that's a badge of honor for you guys. 0:38:10.160 --> 0:38:12.920 One is because it's a badgine honor because the players. 0:38:12.920 --> 0:38:14.799 It's a badger arnor because a Jackie. It's a badger 0:38:15.120 --> 0:38:17.640 because it's Roy, Roy Campandell. It's a badge of honor 0:38:17.719 --> 0:38:20.600 because all these Rick Mondays bad because all these great 0:38:20.680 --> 0:38:21.400 Dodger of players. 0:38:21.600 --> 0:38:23.480 If you, if you were a great Dodger player. 0:38:23.400 --> 0:38:27.360 Before you know what, twenty twelve and you had a 0:38:28.080 --> 0:38:30.920 you had to spend training at at Dodgertown, at. 0:38:30.880 --> 0:38:32.640 Daryl Beach, you you got a chance to do that. 0:38:32.960 --> 0:38:33.680 Life is slow. 0:38:35.120 --> 0:38:38.200 We don't have downtown Phoenix. We have there now, but 0:38:38.239 --> 0:38:39.800 sure we haven't had to use up there. You know 0:38:39.920 --> 0:38:43.880 you you just had a slow life going on. You 0:38:43.920 --> 0:38:46.680 showed up to spring trainers about babs. It's all about baseball. 0:38:47.000 --> 0:38:50.520 Like I said, I lived on campus. Did you ever 0:38:50.600 --> 0:38:53.399 hop the wall like Mike Beyonce and Eric Harrows walk? Yeah, 0:38:53.400 --> 0:38:55.280 I hop over the fence to get Yeah, they closing 0:38:55.320 --> 0:38:57.759 the gate on you and going through I mean the 0:38:57.880 --> 0:39:00.919 countless hours you spending the batting cage. There After after 0:39:01.000 --> 0:39:02.640 a game, things might not feel well. 0:39:03.480 --> 0:39:04.640 You go shower, locker, room. 0:39:04.960 --> 0:39:07.520 You take your little five minutes stroll over to the 0:39:07.920 --> 0:39:11.560 to your little motel room. Yeah, you lay around. All 0:39:11.560 --> 0:39:13.319 of a sudden you look up at seven, seven thirty, 0:39:13.400 --> 0:39:16.120 you walk across, you know, a little two minutes, stroll 0:39:16.200 --> 0:39:18.680 to the cafeteria. You have your your meal, and you 0:39:18.760 --> 0:39:20.200 go back to the room and you wake up next 0:39:20.239 --> 0:39:22.239 morning at six am, and you rinse and repeat, like 0:39:22.400 --> 0:39:24.120 you know, there's it was just all about me. 0:39:24.200 --> 0:39:26.279 It was a baseball camp. Yah, his baseball camp. 0:39:26.320 --> 0:39:30.560 And there's nothing like that again in in you know, 0:39:30.680 --> 0:39:33.480 professional in professional baseball, any minor league set, you know, 0:39:33.520 --> 0:39:36.520 any spring training setup that's similar, and it's a it's 0:39:36.560 --> 0:39:39.440 a it's a bygone air. That's that's left and it's 0:39:39.480 --> 0:39:42.320 in the past. And and it's nice to see that 0:39:42.640 --> 0:39:44.080 I was able to be a part of something that 0:39:44.560 --> 0:39:46.200 was like a touch of like the old the old 0:39:46.280 --> 0:39:50.319 school baseball. You know, the photos, the videos that would 0:39:50.560 --> 0:39:53.560 that would probably make our parents reminiscent go demn memory Lane. 0:39:53.719 --> 0:39:55.839 You know, that was still a thing happening in two 0:39:55.840 --> 0:39:57.840 thousand and eight, two thousand and nine in Florida for 0:39:57.960 --> 0:39:58.440 his daughters. 0:39:58.719 --> 0:40:01.000 Maybe I can recreate that, Maybe I can invite the 0:40:01.080 --> 0:40:03.239 team to your house. Don't you have a batting cage 0:40:03.239 --> 0:40:04.000 in your backyard? 0:40:04.000 --> 0:40:05.919 I do, but I don't. I don't. 0:40:05.960 --> 0:40:07.520 I don't think my house is as nice as not 0:40:08.400 --> 0:40:12.160 is Dodgertown. But uh yeah, it's a special place. And 0:40:12.280 --> 0:40:15.480 I encourage anyone you know listening right now, if you 0:40:15.560 --> 0:40:16.719 ever have a chance, you're on the. 0:40:17.040 --> 0:40:18.440 On the East coasters Florida. 0:40:18.800 --> 0:40:22.239 You're in the in the Miami even Orlando area. It's 0:40:22.280 --> 0:40:23.960 not two it's an hour and a half drive I think, 0:40:24.040 --> 0:40:26.400 from Miami and to Orlando to get there. But if 0:40:26.400 --> 0:40:29.520 you want a chance to see, you know, Dodger history, 0:40:29.960 --> 0:40:33.120 it's still completely dodgered out every all the streets are 0:40:33.200 --> 0:40:36.680 named after the Dodger grates, the memory lane you get there. 0:40:37.080 --> 0:40:39.279 If you have a chance to get and see this cafeteria, 0:40:40.640 --> 0:40:45.320 it's gonna bring you back. You know, all their sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties, 0:40:45.719 --> 0:40:48.799 all your favorite players have a picture. 0:40:49.120 --> 0:40:50.160 You know, a photo. 0:40:50.200 --> 0:40:53.000 And to look at this old cafeteria that's still sitting 0:40:53.040 --> 0:40:55.960 there with the old rails that you'd slide your your 0:40:56.040 --> 0:41:00.400 tray on, the whole thing, the old the serving buffet 0:41:00.440 --> 0:41:03.400 areas that's all sitting there, the old the old soda fountain, 0:41:04.040 --> 0:41:06.640 the Jews found. Everything is still in this place, the 0:41:07.280 --> 0:41:11.759 Dodger themed uh Napkin dispensers in the middle. Everything's still there. 0:41:12.120 --> 0:41:15.680 It's it's a it's it's like a museum, and it's 0:41:15.800 --> 0:41:17.279 it's fun to go see that and be a part 0:41:17.320 --> 0:41:17.440 of that. 0:41:17.640 --> 0:41:18.240 That's amazing. 0:41:18.400 --> 0:41:21.840 Yes, yeah, Andre Ethier is joining us in downtown Phoenix. 0:41:22.520 --> 0:41:24.960 The Dodgers are getting ready for opening Day, gooing for 0:41:25.080 --> 0:41:28.840 the three peat. Andre was in uniform for a for 0:41:28.960 --> 0:41:32.160 a week or two at camel Back Branch. I think 0:41:32.200 --> 0:41:35.440 everybody wants to know what you think about Kyle Tucker 0:41:35.560 --> 0:41:37.720 and how he's going to fit in with the Dodgers. 0:41:37.800 --> 0:41:40.279 It feels like he wants to blend in and this 0:41:40.440 --> 0:41:41.840 might be the perfect place for that. 0:41:42.520 --> 0:41:43.080 Yeah, for sure. 0:41:43.120 --> 0:41:46.960 I think you know, he's a great player. But every 0:41:47.160 --> 0:41:50.359 every player out there, whether they're they're they're really high 0:41:50.600 --> 0:41:53.399 high level, whether you're you know you're a star, whether 0:41:53.480 --> 0:41:57.840 you're you're a role player, has different personalities and how 0:41:57.880 --> 0:42:01.399 they fit on the team. I don't know Kyle too well. 0:42:01.480 --> 0:42:03.879 I've I've seen him from so far. I think he's 0:42:03.880 --> 0:42:07.200 a guy who you know, is you know, classic, walks softly, 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:09.600 humbly and carry a big stick and and you know, 0:42:09.640 --> 0:42:11.759 it's work really well for him. I think LA is 0:42:11.800 --> 0:42:14.120 the perfect place where it's tough to be a star 0:42:15.000 --> 0:42:17.760 ahead of Atani and no one knowing in the league. 0:42:17.680 --> 0:42:18.920 Is no one in the world is. 0:42:19.239 --> 0:42:21.399 So you have a great, great person you can play 0:42:21.440 --> 0:42:23.520 behind and do your game, and then you have guys 0:42:23.600 --> 0:42:27.680 like you know, no doubt, Hall of famers like Freddie 0:42:27.680 --> 0:42:30.719 Freeman and soon to be probably pretty close here if 0:42:30.760 --> 0:42:32.920 he keeps, you know, another year or two with Luki. 0:42:33.719 --> 0:42:37.440 You got guys like that. It's it's tough to overstep them. 0:42:37.560 --> 0:42:39.040 What they're doing. You can probably be doing. 0:42:39.000 --> 0:42:42.239 In performance, but those guys is, you know, their aura 0:42:42.320 --> 0:42:44.520 and their presence is just a lot. And I think 0:42:44.560 --> 0:42:46.600 Kyle will fit in perfect with that. And you know, 0:42:46.600 --> 0:42:47.960 if he goes and does what he's done the last 0:42:48.080 --> 0:42:50.200 seven eight years of his career, he's gonna be a, 0:42:50.880 --> 0:42:53.040 you know, a very key part to this team and 0:42:53.160 --> 0:42:56.880 moving forward. And you know, I hope the best and 0:42:56.920 --> 0:42:59.200 I hope it works out that you know he's able to, 0:42:59.360 --> 0:43:01.520 you know, contribut the way you know that he's been 0:43:01.560 --> 0:43:01.960 doing the. 0:43:02.040 --> 0:43:02.799 Last couple of years. 0:43:03.239 --> 0:43:05.719 Well, thanks for putting on the headset, the salads out, 0:43:05.840 --> 0:43:10.879 the dinner's being there's a great foot Yeah, I mean there, 0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:13.359 I thought that sweets was gonna get some try tip. 0:43:13.440 --> 0:43:15.320 But okay, I love me. 0:43:16.200 --> 0:43:16.880 Do you really. 0:43:18.520 --> 0:43:19.160 Get the meta? 0:43:20.200 --> 0:43:22.480 I love Cotton, fitz Simmons. 0:43:23.800 --> 0:43:27.160 Great coach, right there. Yeah, Greg Cotton, the old madhouse 0:43:27.239 --> 0:43:27.880 on me down. 0:43:27.840 --> 0:43:28.279 That's right. 0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:31.480 Yeah, I know all about Hey, you are the king 0:43:31.560 --> 0:43:33.960 of Phoenix. I don't know about that, but uh, you know, 0:43:34.000 --> 0:43:36.400 I'm just I'm happy that, you know, for the Dodgers success. 0:43:36.520 --> 0:43:38.640 I'm happy for uh, you know what. 0:43:38.719 --> 0:43:40.320 It's bringing to the city, what's bringing to all the 0:43:40.640 --> 0:43:44.360 all the Peri field obviously, Uh, it's it's a special 0:43:44.440 --> 0:43:47.080 place to be a part of. You know. 0:43:47.080 --> 0:43:48.000 It's unbelievable how this. 0:43:48.040 --> 0:43:51.200 Team, you know, this team's you know, keeps just going 0:43:51.280 --> 0:43:54.520 to New Heights and obviously this the city has supported 0:43:54.600 --> 0:43:57.640 them through the lean times, has been there and the 0:43:57.680 --> 0:44:00.400 way they're doing it now, the fans keep coming up 0:44:00.440 --> 0:44:01.040 and showing out. 0:44:02.400 --> 0:44:04.080 Do you have a lot to show up for? 0:44:04.640 --> 0:44:07.040 But they they love them. 0:44:07.360 --> 0:44:10.120 But I'll tell you this, they haven't forgotten your teams 0:44:10.400 --> 0:44:13.400 and yeah, and your Dodgers because you were there from 0:44:13.440 --> 0:44:13.960 the beginning. 0:44:14.080 --> 0:44:17.080 Guys like you, Matt Camp, Justin Turner is still a. 0:44:17.080 --> 0:44:20.719 Big fan favorite, rightfully, so really good and I think 0:44:20.800 --> 0:44:24.120 that's special that Dodger fans haven't forgotten how great you 0:44:24.239 --> 0:44:24.920 guys were too. 0:44:25.160 --> 0:44:26.960 Well, you hope they don't. But at the same time 0:44:27.200 --> 0:44:30.239 you understand that there's been a lot of success. But yeah, uh, 0:44:31.920 --> 0:44:34.280 you know, things have changed, Things change involved so quickly, 0:44:34.320 --> 0:44:36.320 and I think this teams have changed and evolved quickly. 0:44:36.400 --> 0:44:38.000 Obviously organizationally wise, it has. 0:44:39.000 --> 0:44:41.960 I mean the stadium if I didn't step footing it 0:44:42.040 --> 0:44:44.160 again from the day I left to now, I probably. 0:44:43.880 --> 0:44:46.640 Wouldn't even recognize the stadium. You know how how much 0:44:46.680 --> 0:44:47.200 has changed. 0:44:47.239 --> 0:44:50.320 And everything's improving, proving for the fans, proving for the players, 0:44:50.520 --> 0:44:54.239 and proving for everything out there. And it should be 0:44:54.440 --> 0:44:59.320 because you know, the supports that that city gives. You 0:44:59.360 --> 0:45:01.279 should be putting best product on there. You shouldn't be 0:45:01.360 --> 0:45:03.960 having a great fan experience. You should have all the 0:45:04.080 --> 0:45:07.880 nice stuff that that stadium that for that ownership's giving uh, 0:45:08.160 --> 0:45:09.920 to the players, to the city, and it's. 0:45:09.840 --> 0:45:13.880 Great and no apologies, no no apologies at all. 0:45:14.440 --> 0:45:17.320 When you have that type uh of people behind you, 0:45:17.719 --> 0:45:20.200 when you have that many millions of people who are 0:45:20.480 --> 0:45:21.840 who are hanging on their seat and who want to 0:45:21.840 --> 0:45:24.120 see the success of the team. You're you shouldn't be 0:45:24.160 --> 0:45:27.200 apologizing because it's not like it's uh, you know, uh 0:45:28.160 --> 0:45:29.919 people like to give a hard time. Dodger and fans 0:45:30.000 --> 0:45:33.439 leave early, you know, leave early from the game, don't 0:45:33.480 --> 0:45:36.040 you know, don't show up to whatever. Well, you know, 0:45:36.200 --> 0:45:38.919 maybe there's a lot of stuff going on. They show 0:45:39.000 --> 0:45:42.040 up when they show up, and no one said, you know, 0:45:42.120 --> 0:45:44.760 no one says the questions in anywise, no, no Dodger, 0:45:45.080 --> 0:45:46.960 no Dodger players. Do we know what's going on there 0:45:46.960 --> 0:45:49.240 in La? If you don't understand LA and you understand 0:45:49.239 --> 0:45:51.560 the Dodgers, just don't mind your own business. I don't 0:45:51.600 --> 0:45:53.759 love that's the best that that's the best way I 0:45:53.960 --> 0:45:56.879 would say it, but drop the mic on that for sure. 0:45:57.000 --> 0:45:59.279 But you know, and then I said it here to 0:45:59.320 --> 0:46:00.480 everyone before you on the radio. 0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:03.359 You know, everyone listen out in the radio out there. 0:46:04.320 --> 0:46:06.959 I don't think uh, you know, everyone gets to say 0:46:07.080 --> 0:46:09.680 thank you enough to am you know five seventy for 0:46:10.239 --> 0:46:11.000 you know, providing this. 0:46:11.080 --> 0:46:11.640 Kind of medium. 0:46:11.920 --> 0:46:14.320 You do a great job at, you know, kind of 0:46:14.360 --> 0:46:18.080 being the you know inside look, you know, I do 0:46:18.280 --> 0:46:19.560 they do it with some of the you know, some 0:46:19.640 --> 0:46:21.880 of the backstage stuff, some of the social media stuff, 0:46:21.960 --> 0:46:24.200 but to get try to get the players on the 0:46:24.280 --> 0:46:26.799 mic and have them say stuff and talk and see 0:46:26.840 --> 0:46:29.799 some of the personality. It's a little different than when 0:46:29.800 --> 0:46:30.600 there's a camera in your. 0:46:30.520 --> 0:46:34.520 Face when you just having micro Yeah we were the first. 0:46:35.120 --> 0:46:37.799 My favorite is when when people question if guys are 0:46:37.800 --> 0:46:40.279 actually being mean to you or be serious with you, 0:46:40.719 --> 0:46:41.440 or actually like you. 0:46:41.640 --> 0:46:44.160 There's only one that questions, we know. 0:46:44.200 --> 0:46:44.880 Who you know? 0:46:45.400 --> 0:46:50.200 Yeah, Lizzy, that's right, shadow, Liz Olsen. Uh yeah. Questions 0:46:50.239 --> 0:46:52.480 whether guys are actually like you, or they're or there, 0:46:52.880 --> 0:46:56.480 or they're bullying you or stuff like that. But I 0:46:56.560 --> 0:46:58.000 think you guys do a great job. I know the 0:46:58.040 --> 0:46:58.640 fans love it. 0:46:59.360 --> 0:47:01.000 It's a it's an other avenue of the way for 0:47:01.120 --> 0:47:02.440 them to be a part of the team in here, 0:47:02.600 --> 0:47:05.279 just another uh you know, another way to you know, 0:47:05.440 --> 0:47:07.919 be connected to it. And you know, I hope everyone 0:47:07.960 --> 0:47:10.799 out there enjoys it and looks forward to hearing all 0:47:10.840 --> 0:47:14.320 your great great interviews like tonight, Yeah, like tonight with you, 0:47:14.600 --> 0:47:17.719 great interviews to say it and interviews after the game 0:47:17.800 --> 0:47:19.480 breaking down the game, whether it's good or bad, and 0:47:19.800 --> 0:47:21.000 and telling the truth, tell the. 0:47:21.000 --> 0:47:22.359 Truth of what it is, because, uh. 0:47:23.360 --> 0:47:25.640 Did you ever listen to Dodger talk when you drove home? 0:47:25.840 --> 0:47:28.080 I did all the time. WHOA all the time? 0:47:28.239 --> 0:47:29.880 This is it was. 0:47:30.160 --> 0:47:32.759 I didn't like that. It's what I liked you. I 0:47:32.800 --> 0:47:33.440 don't like you now. 0:47:33.680 --> 0:47:36.560 So that's my prayer life. I don't like you now 0:47:37.480 --> 0:47:40.120 because I listened to you too much. You critique my 0:47:40.200 --> 0:47:42.840 game too much. So that was what I liked you, 0:47:42.840 --> 0:47:45.280 and I I can't liking you less. Every time i'd 0:47:45.360 --> 0:47:46.000 go that drive. 0:47:46.040 --> 0:47:48.560 I have that effect that my wife starting to feel 0:47:48.600 --> 0:47:49.080 the same way. 0:47:50.040 --> 0:47:51.920 Well, I don't want to get your personal person. We're 0:47:51.920 --> 0:47:53.040 talking Dodger baseball here. 0:47:53.160 --> 0:47:55.799 Oh okay, okay, thanks a lot for stopping by. 0:47:55.920 --> 0:47:57.440 You mean a lot to the city, You mean a 0:47:57.480 --> 0:47:59.880 lot to all of us here on AM five seventy 0:48:00.120 --> 0:48:02.480 l A Sports, And you mean a lot to you know, 0:48:02.760 --> 0:48:05.920 people that followed what you stood for as a player. 0:48:06.000 --> 0:48:08.400 Well, thank you, apprecire you are and how you represent 0:48:08.480 --> 0:48:09.719 the Dodgers now, So thank you. 0:48:09.920 --> 0:48:12.600 Yeah, looking forward to three peet this year, and nothing 0:48:12.640 --> 0:48:14.440 will be more special. I think that would be just 0:48:14.480 --> 0:48:17.160 a special, this first one in this if the Dodgers 0:48:17.200 --> 0:48:17.520 would be. 0:48:17.680 --> 0:48:18.239 A third home. 0:48:18.320 --> 0:48:21.919 I think that would be the kind of like big 0:48:22.760 --> 0:48:25.360 exclamation point of being like this is the way to 0:48:25.440 --> 0:48:26.840 do it, and you hear it constantly. 0:48:27.960 --> 0:48:29.960 You know, no one, no one is doing what the. 0:48:29.960 --> 0:48:31.960 Dodgers are doing, not only for the winning side, but 0:48:32.040 --> 0:48:34.840 from the organizational side, from the fans side, from the 0:48:34.920 --> 0:48:35.560 media side. 0:48:35.920 --> 0:48:37.319 No one's doing it the way they're doing. 0:48:37.680 --> 0:48:40.080 It's a it's a it's a beast. It's an entity 0:48:40.160 --> 0:48:43.160 of its own, and everyone's trying to replicate that. It's 0:48:43.239 --> 0:48:44.960 tough to do if you don't have the support and 0:48:45.080 --> 0:48:47.160 the and the partners and the fans out there like 0:48:47.239 --> 0:48:49.719 the Dodgers do. And I think it's a testament to 0:48:49.800 --> 0:48:53.440 what la as rally behind a team like the Dodgers. 0:48:53.760 --> 0:48:58.200 All right, Andre, thanks a lot for stopping by. Anytime, really, anytime, 0:48:58.920 --> 0:49:00.520 some time. Just don't text me again. 0:49:00.280 --> 0:49:00.680 For a while. 0:49:01.760 --> 0:49:03.880 Hey, can we all say thank you to Andre Ethier 0:49:03.920 --> 0:49:06.480 for stopping by. Put down the forks and knives and 0:49:06.600 --> 0:49:10.200 get my guy around of applause. Don't worry, we got 0:49:10.280 --> 0:49:13.120 more foods. Don't worry, Joel Kelly, We'll get you more. 0:49:13.360 --> 0:49:15.359 Get you another played. Okay, you just want to get 0:49:15.360 --> 0:49:16.640 to your meat loaf. That's getting cold. 0:49:16.960 --> 0:49:19.400 Hey, mom, where's my meat loaf? All right? There he 0:49:19.520 --> 0:49:20.400 is Andre Ethier. 0:49:20.440 --> 0:49:23.239 It's been a great night here in downtown Phoenix at 0:49:23.280 --> 0:49:26.280 the Arrogant Butcher. Thank you to Miranda who is serving 0:49:26.440 --> 0:49:30.360 the greatest cocktails in downtown Phoenix. And I want to 0:49:30.360 --> 0:49:33.160 say thank you again to our friends at Superior Grocers. 0:49:33.400 --> 0:49:34.359 What's the word of the day. 0:49:34.440 --> 0:49:36.600 You got a word of the day, us a word 0:49:36.640 --> 0:49:39.200 of the day today. What is our word today? 0:49:39.719 --> 0:49:44.160 Meatloaf? All right, meat loaf. 0:49:44.440 --> 0:49:48.840 Thank you to Strauss Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Verizon, Sapporo, 0:49:49.040 --> 0:49:53.800 Schumash Casino, and Daniels Jewelers. We got more Dodger baseball 0:49:53.880 --> 0:49:55.560 for you this week. We will talk to you later 0:49:55.719 --> 0:49:58.640 this week on Dodgery Talk. Thanks for staying with us, 0:49:58.680 --> 0:50:00.360 and you can listen to the show on. 0:50:00.440 --> 0:50:03.160 The iHeartRadio app. We'll talk to you then see you