Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
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Speaker 2: That's a rule, all right. I got bad news and
Speaker 2: good news. Bad news for the rest of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are better than what they were last year
Speaker 2: when they won back to back World Series championships. Yeah
Speaker 2: that's true. Yeah, that's bad news for everybody else. The
Speaker 2: good news for everybody in Los Angeles is I am
Speaker 2: very confident the Dodgers will be in the World Series
Speaker 2: again this year, and if everybody is healthy, have a
Speaker 2: great chance to do something that has only been done
Speaker 2: two other times in modern baseball history, and that is
Speaker 2: to three pete. Can anybody tell me the two other
Speaker 2: teams that have threepeeded in Major League Baseball and modern
Speaker 2: baseball history.
Speaker 3: Here, some of you may not have been born.
Speaker 2: One was the seventies Yankees. David Howard was around for that.
Speaker 2: Seventies A's you were around for that, right, David Howard,
Speaker 2: You're around for that. Think about this There's even some
Speaker 2: people that are twenty two years old in college right
Speaker 2: now don't remember the Yankees th repeating in nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: eight to two thousand.
Speaker 3: So the Dodgers may do.
Speaker 2: Something that just hasn't been done before in a lot
Speaker 2: of people's lifetime. And what has made them better than
Speaker 2: last year is that they have filled the two greatest
Speaker 2: holes in their lineup, and that's Kyle Tucker in right
Speaker 2: field and Edwin Diaz as their closer that was a
Speaker 2: major hole in their lineup last year. Tucker moves te
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez back to left field. Tucker is going to
Speaker 2: blend in, does not want the attention, and certainly is
Speaker 2: going to thrive. You know that some people just don't
Speaker 2: want the attention, and they thrive better in their business
Speaker 2: when they're not the man. When they're not the person,
Speaker 2: some people are better assistant managers than they are managers.
Speaker 2: And Kyle Tucker is that type of guy. So things
Speaker 2: are looking a lot better. But before we continue to
Speaker 2: look forward, let's look back. Let's look back at last
Speaker 2: year's World Series. I have my own list of top
Speaker 2: five World Series moments from last year's exciting, thrilling Game
Speaker 2: seven World Series between the Dodgers and Blue Jays.
Speaker 3: So I actually have some production behind this as well.
Speaker 2: Before we get to that, though, since it is like
Speaker 2: cocktail hour here at the Ergan Butcher, can we all
Speaker 2: raise Can we all raise a glass?
Speaker 3: Can we raise our glasses to.
Speaker 2: The three peat, the run for the three peat, the
Speaker 2: back to back World Series champions LA Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Can we all raise a glass to a man.
Speaker 2: That spent his entire twelve year Major League career with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and when he retired, played more postseason games
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers than anybody else. And that is the
Speaker 2: Alo wearing white T shirt, Andre Eighthier. Tonight salute to
Speaker 2: Andre Eighthier. Yeah, hey, we could get you an endorsement.
Speaker 2: There's people here that can make Alo happen for you.
Speaker 2: Don't embarrass yourself in front of superior grocers. All right,
Speaker 2: Andre eighth is gonna join us at the bottom of
Speaker 2: the hour. He has a lot to trust me.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Here are my top five World Series moments. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: start from five, go to one. Here it is how
Speaker 2: many people stayed up all eighteen innings for Freddie Freeman's
Speaker 2: walk off home run in Game three of the World Series.
Speaker 2: If you didn't stay up. This is the way it
Speaker 2: sounded right here on Dodgers Radio and five to seventy
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Speaker 7: Full count on Freeman, Little delivers Freeman. It's one high
Speaker 7: in the air, straightaway center field.
Speaker 8: Marshal at the walk God, Freddie Freeman, mister World Series
Speaker 8: ends the marathon at midnight.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, Freddie Freeman's walk off home run in the
Speaker 2: eighteenth inning last year only player now in baseball history
Speaker 2: to have walk off home runs in two separate World Series.
Speaker 2: So there you go. That's the way it sounded. With
Speaker 2: Stephen Nelson on the call. All right, Now, here's my
Speaker 2: number four.
Speaker 3: To even get to a Game seven, you needed to
Speaker 3: win Game six if you were the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Here it is the final play of Game six to
Speaker 2: force a Game seven.
Speaker 3: One out, bottom of the ninth inning.
Speaker 2: Tyler glassnow already got Ernie Clement to pop out for
Speaker 2: the first out of the inning with one pitch. Addison
Speaker 2: Barger at second base got a litle little too excited.
Speaker 2: Here is the final play and the number four moment
Speaker 2: of last year's World Series.
Speaker 7: Then it's his zero for three with a strikeout so
Speaker 7: far in Game six. Al Right, he comes home and
Speaker 7: then its s flips it in the left field Hernandez charging.
Speaker 8: He mix the catch, the throwback to second. Here's a
Speaker 8: play the tag.
Speaker 1: He's out, Key.
Speaker 8: K Hernandez, Teleguel Rojas in the ball game is over.
Speaker 2: We got a fun fact earlier this week, Former Raiders
Speaker 2: quarterback Derek Carr was on Dodger Talk and he said
Speaker 2: he has that second base bag in his office. He
Speaker 2: and his brother David Carr have a podcast hosted by
Speaker 2: Iaheart Radio, and he has that second base bag in
Speaker 2: his office, that actual one that Rojas made an incredible
Speaker 2: short hop from the throw from Key k a Hernandez.
Speaker 2: And we have already arranged for Rojas and Key k
Speaker 2: Hernandez to sign that second base bag for Derek Carr.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 2: And defense, right, it wasn't just the home run to
Speaker 2: tie Game seven in the ninth inning. How about the
Speaker 2: play he made in the bottom of the ninth inning
Speaker 2: to Will Smith in field in the tying run, the
Speaker 2: winning run just ninety feet away. Here was Miguel Rojas
Speaker 2: to Will Smith. Our number three moment of last year's
Speaker 2: World Series.
Speaker 7: A ball in two strikes, Yamamoto is set round ball
Speaker 7: to second, Rojas has it, he's.
Speaker 9: Going home and they get in time.
Speaker 8: There was a brief stumble from Rojas at second base,
Speaker 8: but he recovered, planted and through home and kind of
Speaker 8: filefa is deemed out boy.
Speaker 10: That was a tough plame by Rojas, and he was
Speaker 10: able to make the good throw.
Speaker 3: The regears, the colina confirmed and the.
Speaker 9: Runners out ground the band.
Speaker 2: Hey the call stand and the Dodgers were able to
Speaker 2: go extra innings, and that leads us to I don't know,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, the second best moment of last year's
Speaker 2: World Series. You may disagree with me because he doesn't
Speaker 2: talk a lot, but the number two moment for me
Speaker 2: the Dodgers down to their final two outs of the
Speaker 2: season was Miguel Rojas's game time home run.
Speaker 7: And Rojas fight his way on base, full count, Hoffman delivers,
Speaker 7: Rojas hits it in the air left field.
Speaker 6: This ball's got some carry.
Speaker 9: It is gone. It's gone. In Game seven, is tied.
Speaker 8: Miguel Rojas off the bench in Game six, on the
Speaker 8: board in Game seven.
Speaker 10: This crowd, well, we talked about it in another series.
Speaker 10: This has turned into a library. Miguel Rojas. He took
Speaker 10: the two two pitch the slider upstairs, and he took
Speaker 10: the next pitch out of the ballpark. Then this Dodgers
Speaker 10: first day's dugout has exploded.
Speaker 2: I feel like we needed more energy from Steven Nelson.
Speaker 2: I don't think we're getting enough energy out of him
Speaker 2: in a Game seven.
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: He actually reflected how you were feeling in your homes
Speaker 2: when Miguel Rojas hit his first home run against the
Speaker 2: right handed pitcher of the season, that's regular and postseason.
Speaker 2: Had not hit a home run against the right handed pitcher.
Speaker 2: That one off of Jeff Hoffman, who was chirping when
Speaker 2: the bench is cleared earlier in the game.
Speaker 3: So there you have it, you know.
Speaker 2: I just feel like Will Smith doesn't do a lot
Speaker 2: of media, doesn't really talk about himself a lot, but
Speaker 2: a game tying home run does not win the World
Speaker 2: Series for you. Here is the number one moment of
Speaker 2: last year's thrilling seven game World Series.
Speaker 7: Glad Guerrero Junior will lead off the bottom of the
Speaker 7: eleventh for the Dodgers, scratch a run across before then.
Speaker 6: The two o Smith with a smash in the air
Speaker 6: to deepliftfield. This bowl is.
Speaker 8: Smith lets it fly and breaks the tie in Game seven,
Speaker 8: as number sixteen stays.
Speaker 10: Clutch boy, this place has gotten silent all of a sudden.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet.
Speaker 2: Will Smith could hear his cleats cutting that dirt as
Speaker 2: he was rounding the bases.
Speaker 9: It was.
Speaker 2: It was eerily quiet after It was so raucous for
Speaker 2: the majority of that game, especially after Bobishet hit that
Speaker 2: go ahead home run off a show. Hey, Tawny, but look,
Speaker 2: I know the Rojas home run was one of the
Speaker 2: most improbable home runs in World Series history. But it
Speaker 2: was a game tying home run. It wasn't the game
Speaker 2: winning home run. And that's why for me, the Will
Speaker 2: Smith go ahead home run in the eleventh inning is
Speaker 2: the top moment of last year's seven game World Series.
Speaker 2: Since we are celebrating the Dodgers here tonight in downtown
Speaker 2: Phoenix with our friends at the Arrogant Butcher, let's celebrate
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and ever since Guggenheim ownership took over, it's
Speaker 2: been a party.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna share with you my.
Speaker 2: Top ten Dodger playoff home runs since twenty thirteen. When
Speaker 2: we continue right here on Dodger Talk live from the
Speaker 2: Arrogant Butcher in downtown Phoenix with all our friends and you,
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Speaker 2: It's going to be another great season. You got on
Speaker 2: board at the right time. I'll just put it that way,
Speaker 2: all right. It's not the twenty eleven Dodgers. It's the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six Dodgers going for the three pet and all.
Speaker 2: This started all the way back in twenty thirteen. This
Speaker 2: is the golden age of Dodger baseball, not just the
Speaker 2: last two years, but going back to twenty thirteen. This
Speaker 2: is unprecedented sustained success. The Brooklyn Dodgers didn't do this.
Speaker 2: The sixties Dodgers didn't do this. The seventies. Garvey Lopes,
Speaker 2: Russell and say they were great. They didn't do this
Speaker 2: The eighties Dodgers of Fernando and Oral Herscheizer. They won
Speaker 2: two championships in ten years. The Dodgers have won three
Speaker 2: in the last five years, including doing something that no
Speaker 2: other Dodger team had ever done, and that's went back
Speaker 2: to back championships. So this goes back to twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: It doesn't go back to twenty twenty four. It doesn't
Speaker 2: go back to twenty nineteen. It goes back to twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: And I have put together and you can disagree agree.
Speaker 2: You could tweet at me at the real underscore dv
Speaker 2: or send me nasty dms on Instagram at officially Vassy
Speaker 2: and I do get them. Andre Ethier was part of
Speaker 2: the beginning of all this in twenty thirteen. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna start from ten to one like we did for
Speaker 2: the seven game World Series Highlights, and I'm gonna start
Speaker 2: at number ten. You know, everybody just remembers the World Series.
Speaker 2: Nobody remembers what it takes to get to the World
Speaker 2: Series and the moments, the moments that helped the Dodgers
Speaker 2: get to the World Series. There was a very good
Speaker 2: chance the Dodgers don't ever get out of the first
Speaker 2: round against the Phillies. They never had home field advantage,
Speaker 2: and they were losing Game one. Remember this, how many
Speaker 2: people remember? The Dodgers were losing game one of a
Speaker 2: best of five nlds until Tale happened. You wanted to
Speaker 2: trade tail, You were on tail all year long. Who
Speaker 2: rescued the Dodgers in Philadelphia None other than my guy,
Speaker 2: ta Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 7: It has been a tough night for Taale zero for three,
Speaker 7: three strikeouts and part of the misplaying right field, and
Speaker 7: the Phillies scored three runs in the second inning. He
Speaker 7: can make up for it with one swing the pitch,
Speaker 7: get high in the air, right center field, bait her
Speaker 7: on the run on the warning track, he's at the wall.
Speaker 3: It's gone.
Speaker 9: Tale time.
Speaker 8: In Game one, he flips the scoreboard with a three
Speaker 8: run bomb.
Speaker 2: Stephen Nelson just encapsulated how everybody felt about Taoscar Hernandez.
Speaker 2: Oh misplay, Oh you can make up for it right here? Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: he did, and that's what he does. He did it
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four. He did it again last year.
Speaker 2: Rescued the Dodgers they were down three to two in
Speaker 2: the seventh inning in Philadelphia. And you want to talk
Speaker 2: about a raucous crowd going quiet. They did in the
Speaker 2: seventh inning with a go ahead three run home run,
Speaker 2: and Tioscar Hernandez was the one that provided all that.
Speaker 2: So how about this, How about some ti Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: appreciation in twenty twenty six? All right, number nine, let's
Speaker 2: go back to twenty eighteen. You remember last year's eighteen
Speaker 2: inning affair. I never thought I'd have to sit through
Speaker 2: that again. Well, I was there in twenty eighteen Game
Speaker 2: three of the World Series Dodgers Red Sox Nathan Valdi
Speaker 2: against Max Muncy and the Dodgers were down two in
Speaker 2: that World Series.
Speaker 11: Baldy on three and two, Black Hall left center field,
Speaker 11: well hit back.
Speaker 3: At the wall, and the longest World.
Speaker 11: Series game in history has come to an end a
Speaker 11: mighty blast by Max Monthy. The Dodgers are back from
Speaker 11: the dead. They win it three to two. They moved
Speaker 11: back to within two games to one in the twenty
Speaker 11: eighteen World Series, an historic game at Dodgers Stadium, and
Speaker 11: Monsey is being pummeled at the plate.
Speaker 3: That was Charlie Steiner on the call.
Speaker 2: Great to hear his voice and Max Munsey now that
Speaker 2: many years later, has the most postseason home runs in
Speaker 2: Dodger franchise history thirteen postseason home runs for that funky
Speaker 2: month see all right.
Speaker 3: Number eight on David Va says top.
Speaker 2: Dodgers playoff home runs going back to twenty thirteen. Twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: a year we don't want to remember in some ways,
Speaker 2: but Cody Bellinger gave us a great memory Game seven
Speaker 2: of the NLCS. Remember the Dodgers were down three games
Speaker 2: to one to the Braves in that twenty twenty NLCS. Well,
Speaker 2: they forced a Game seven, and in the seventh inning,
Speaker 2: Belly hit a g galahead home.
Speaker 3: Run against Atlanta and Chris Martin two balls, two strikes,
Speaker 3: two out.
Speaker 11: Martin's twenty third pitch Bellinger.
Speaker 3: For the fly ball the right field.
Speaker 11: Cody Bellinger has just given the Dodgers a four.
Speaker 3: To three lead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then Key Hernandez separated his shoulder with a
Speaker 2: huge forearm shiver, so uh, just remember the celebrations keep
Speaker 2: him under control. But that was a huge home run
Speaker 2: and sent the Dodgers to the World Series for the
Speaker 2: third time in four years at that point, and they
Speaker 2: went on to beat the Rays in Game six. Number
Speaker 2: seven Chris Taylor fan favorite so many big home runs
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers, so many big plays in the postseason.
Speaker 3: How about the wildcard?
Speaker 2: The Dodgers won one hundred and six games in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, but the Giants had that lucky year, winning
Speaker 2: one hundred and seven, So the Dodgers were forced to
Speaker 2: play a wildcard game at Dodgers Stadium against the Saint
Speaker 2: Louis Cardinals. It was a tie game in the bottom
Speaker 2: of the ninth inning until Chris Taylor sent the Dodgers
Speaker 2: to the NLDS.
Speaker 11: Race on two and one. Taylor fly ball the left
Speaker 11: and deep and don Chris Taylor oh walk up home run.
Speaker 11: But Dodgers are walking off to San Francisco. They win
Speaker 11: the Wildcard, create a one. Here comes Taylor to have played.
Speaker 3: They are bobbing him, but Crown is going crazy.
Speaker 11: The Dodgers advance to the National League Division Series and
Speaker 11: won swing by Chris Taylor.
Speaker 2: That was a great year for Chris Taylor, capped off
Speaker 2: by that walk off home run in the wild card game.
Speaker 2: And I'll never forget that night. As we were waiting
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers to come out and do the interviews,
Speaker 2: Juan Soto was sitting behind home played and I interviewed
Speaker 2: Juan Soto after Chris Taylor's walk off home run, speaking
Speaker 2: of big time home runs that you may have forgotten about.
Speaker 2: How about number six won your Reba? Who remembers won
Speaker 2: your Rebay? Oh there we go, Johnny, Yeah, you remember him?
Speaker 2: Do you remember Game four of the NLDS Dodgers Braves.
Speaker 2: At that point in time, the Dodgers were in the
Speaker 2: postseason for the first time in a long time, first
Speaker 2: time since Andre Ethier's Dodgers were in the NLCS in
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine. Well Ethier and the Dodgers were
Speaker 2: back in there for the first time and trying to advance.
Speaker 2: Kershaw pitched on three days rest. Don Mattingly try to
Speaker 2: have one your Reba bunt for a base hit or
Speaker 2: a sacrifice In the bottom of the eighth inning, he
Speaker 2: couldn't bunt, didn't want to bunt, and thank god he.
Speaker 12: Didn't, And the two to two pitch, your Rebay hits
Speaker 12: a high fly ball into deep left field.
Speaker 1: Way down the line and gone.
Speaker 12: And the Dodgers lead four to three on a two
Speaker 12: run home run by one your Rebay.
Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing what somebody.
Speaker 3: Will do when you can't bunt?
Speaker 12: One your Rebay got a fastball and hit it back
Speaker 12: right in the area of the bullpen, and it is
Speaker 12: four to three Dodgers in the bottom of.
Speaker 3: The eighth inning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that famous image of Craig Kimberl standing
Speaker 2: with his hands on his hips in the Braves bullpen.
Speaker 2: Not sure where Andre Ethier was when one your Rebay
Speaker 2: hit that big home run in the bottom of the
Speaker 2: eighth inning. We'll ask him coming up in our next segment.
Speaker 2: All right, we're getting to the top five. How about
Speaker 2: another fan favorite, a guy that made his career nine
Speaker 2: years with the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: His biggest hit with the Dodgers Game two of the.
Speaker 2: NLCS in twenty seventeen, on the same date that Kurt
Speaker 2: Gibson hit his walk off home run back in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty eight. Justin Turner helping the Dodgers get to the
Speaker 2: World Series. Since Gibson's or yeah, since Gibson's eighty eight
Speaker 2: Dodgers John Lackey on the mound at Dodgers Stadium, Justin
Speaker 2: Turner sent everybody home happy and the Dodgers had a
Speaker 2: two to zero lead in the NLCS.
Speaker 11: Turner in the postseason with the Dodgers he's twelve or
Speaker 11: seventeen during the regular season, three walk off hits Turner
Speaker 11: for the fly ball the center field.
Speaker 3: It's way back at the wall.
Speaker 1: A three run walk.
Speaker 3: Off home run for Justin Turner.
Speaker 11: The Dodgers are up two games to none and they
Speaker 11: are going crazy.
Speaker 3: No doubt that was redemption.
Speaker 2: Remember the Cubs beat the Dodgers in twenty sixteen's NLCS
Speaker 2: and they were on their way to the World Series
Speaker 2: for the first time since nineteen eighty eight. And we
Speaker 2: all know that twenty seventeen belongs to the Dodgers. All right,
Speaker 2: We heard an eighteen inning home run from Muncie in
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. How about this year's eighteen inning affair in
Speaker 2: this year's World Series. Freddie Freeman sending andre Ethy and
Speaker 2: everybody else home happy.
Speaker 7: Full count on Freeman, Little delivers Freeman. It's one high
Speaker 7: in the air, straightaway center field, Marshall.
Speaker 9: At the wall.
Speaker 13: God, Freddy Freeman, mister World Series.
Speaker 14: Ends the merri fun at midnight, his mob at home
Speaker 14: place as the Dodgers walk it off him.
Speaker 8: The bottle of the eighteenth sinning.
Speaker 13: Six to five in the final to grab a two.
Speaker 6: To one series lead.
Speaker 10: You want Drummers come to Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: Rick Monday and Stephen Nelson on the call. You heard
Speaker 2: Will Smith go ahead home run in the eleventh inning
Speaker 2: in our last segment. That was number three. How about
Speaker 2: number two? Let's relift Freddie Freeman's walk off Grand Slamm
Speaker 2: in Game one of the twenty four World Series against
Speaker 2: Nestor Cortes and the Pinstripes.
Speaker 6: The Yankees free the Dodgers two.
Speaker 7: The bases are loaded to out bottom of the tenth thitting.
Speaker 6: The scenario you dream about. How are Who's living? First
Speaker 6: pitch swinging Hi?
Speaker 9: Why ball hit Dad back head?
Speaker 13: Freddie Freeman channeling is inner?
Speaker 1: Kurt Diitson, Oh walk up home.
Speaker 13: Run in Game one of the World jerries hey walk
Speaker 13: off Grand Flam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there it is.
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman's walk off Grand Slam again, parallel to Kirk
Speaker 2: Gibson's home run in nineteen eighty eight, two Hobbled Superstars
Speaker 2: and Freddie Freeman a legacy Dodger.
Speaker 3: Now and I went.
Speaker 2: Back and forth Roejas's home run or Freddy's Grand Slam.
Speaker 2: I went Freddy's walk off Grand Slam number two and
Speaker 2: Roejas's improbable Game seven game tying home run number one.
Speaker 2: All right, when we continue from downtown Phoenix, my guy
Speaker 2: on that's Ray Ethier, is going to join us. He
Speaker 2: was part of a lot of these teams since twenty
Speaker 2: thirteen that had so many memorable postseason wins. Mister Clutch
Speaker 2: is next. Captain Clutch they called him back in the day.
Speaker 2: Still looks pretty.
Speaker 3: Good, you know, for a retired guy.
Speaker 2: Andre Ethier's next right here on A five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: It's been a.
Speaker 2: Great Dodger talk show or with you until eight o'clock
Speaker 2: tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports from
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Speaker 3: Dinner has been served.
Speaker 2: But more importantly, we're joined right now by a man
Speaker 2: that's spent his entire twelve year major league career with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and I can't believe it. He mentioned it
Speaker 2: to everybody here in the room that it's becoming his
Speaker 2: twentieth anniversary and the Dodger organization.
Speaker 3: That's my guy with his alo white T shirt. Andrey here,
Speaker 3: thanks for coming down here.
Speaker 9: I'm keeping it clean, and yeah, thank you. This is fun.
Speaker 9: What a great event here.
Speaker 4: Second year I've been able to come down here and
Speaker 4: be a part of this probably and five seventy partners
Speaker 4: and and yourself, and thank you for wishing me a
Speaker 4: happy twentieth anniversary.
Speaker 9: I can't believe it, you know, looking back.
Speaker 4: Into that spring training, my first spring training the Dodgers
Speaker 4: in two thousand and six, not where not knowing where
Speaker 4: I was going or where I would be, and then
Speaker 4: sitting here today twenty years later, what a ride, and
Speaker 4: you know, what a what a.
Speaker 9: Change of organization.
Speaker 4: Where this place has come and where it was when
Speaker 4: I first showed up, and now where the Dodgers said
Speaker 4: today on the top of everything and where they were
Speaker 4: trying to get back to, is you know, a great
Speaker 4: testament to this organization in the city.
Speaker 2: I remember where I was when the Dodgers traded Milton
Speaker 2: Bradley for some guy from the A's organization double a modesto.
Speaker 2: I can remember the guy that told me about Andre Ethier.
Speaker 2: He was one of Dave Reese's right hand guys.
Speaker 3: His name was Brent Blau.
Speaker 2: He went to Arizona State when you played college baseball.
Speaker 2: He said, Oh, man, this guy's the Manamal, who is
Speaker 2: this guy?
Speaker 3: We're I've never asked you this.
Speaker 2: What was your reaction when you found out a double
Speaker 2: A player with the Modesta A's was just traded to
Speaker 2: the Dodgers.
Speaker 9: Well, I didn't look at it the way you just
Speaker 9: painted it. I looked at it.
Speaker 4: I was kind of actually angry because I had spent
Speaker 4: you know, two and a half years of the A's
Speaker 4: organization at that time, which was known to promote young
Speaker 4: players pretty quickly right into the big leagues. And I
Speaker 4: had just come off a double A season where I
Speaker 4: won the MVP of the league, batting title of the league.
Speaker 9: I was an All Star game MVP from Texas League.
Speaker 4: Until you had a great league, played in the Fall League,
Speaker 4: hit tremendously well the following the ACE sat me down
Speaker 4: last week in the Fall League and we're like, hey,
Speaker 4: you're going to come to spring trading this year and
Speaker 4: you're going to.
Speaker 9: Compete for a big league job for us. So I
Speaker 9: had that in my mind.
Speaker 4: Fast forward three weeks later, I'm walking into a Barnes
Speaker 4: and Noble actually, and I see a phone number pop
Speaker 4: up on my phone from California area code, and I
Speaker 4: look at it, hang up. It calls back again. I
Speaker 4: hang up, and then finally they leave a message and
Speaker 4: it's Ned Coletty saying, Hey, this is Ned Cletty.
Speaker 9: Gentlemenager of the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: I'd like to be the first one to welcome you
Speaker 4: to the Los Angeles Dodger you just traded.
Speaker 9: For you give me a call back.
Speaker 4: So I was trying to call him back, and as
Speaker 4: soon as I did that, I get another phone call
Speaker 4: from Oakland.
Speaker 9: Area code and it was.
Speaker 4: I believe Dave Forrest, who was the assistant GM at
Speaker 4: the time under Billy Bean, called me to tell me
Speaker 4: that they just traded me to the Dodgers and thanks
Speaker 4: for everything you did days and good luck with your career.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I was having a lot of motion. I
Speaker 4: was like, really, you just traded me when you just
Speaker 4: told me three weeks ago that I would be competing
Speaker 4: for a job with you guys in the big leagues,
Speaker 4: and now I have to go to another organization, which obviously,
Speaker 4: in hindsight, they had a plan for me.
Speaker 9: But I was like, why do I stand out?
Speaker 4: Of course I go and look up, and you have
Speaker 4: Matt Camp, you have James Loney, you have all these
Speaker 4: I think the Dodgers just one organization of the year
Speaker 4: for all those prospects they had, and le Road, which
Speaker 4: all those guys. But that Ville five, Yeah, the Jacksonville five,
Speaker 4: Russell Martin, And I'm like, how do I fit in
Speaker 4: with these great players over here?
Speaker 9: Where am I going to get my big league shot?
Speaker 4: But like I said, you've got a trust the process,
Speaker 4: and they traded me two big leaguers for me for a,
Speaker 4: like you said, a lowly double a player, And sure
Speaker 4: enough I was in.
Speaker 9: The big leagues three weeks after the season started. That's amazing.
Speaker 9: What a story.
Speaker 2: I've never asked you that, and I don't believe I've
Speaker 2: ever heard you tell that story. So fast forward we
Speaker 2: are in spring training.
Speaker 6: You were part of.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers when they moved from Vero Beach to Camelback
Speaker 2: Ranch here in Glendale, Arizona. You have that unique perspective
Speaker 2: of being a guy, contemporary player that got to have
Speaker 2: spring training at Dodgertown at Vero Beach. Yeah, what was
Speaker 2: that like in your first spring training and What was
Speaker 2: it like going to Florida for those two years?
Speaker 4: Honestly? And that was another angry thing. I'm like, I was,
Speaker 4: I had spring training? What eight minute drive from Arizona
Speaker 4: State Campus? You know localan as spring training is maybe
Speaker 4: eight minutes from Arizona State Campus. So, you know, I
Speaker 4: get drafted by the A's, I'm basically living in my
Speaker 4: same apartment that I lived in college to go to
Speaker 4: spring trading up.
Speaker 9: Were you living on.
Speaker 3: Mill Avenue when you were training with the A's.
Speaker 4: Close close to Bell Avenue. I was still spending quite
Speaker 4: a few so I have been a timetown of Mill Avenue.
Speaker 4: But yes, I was, you know, still living in the area.
Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden, they're like, you're getting
Speaker 4: traded Dodgers. Well, where's the Dodger spring training. It's at
Speaker 4: Vero Beach. Where's zero Beach? You know what I'm trying to,
Speaker 4: you know, and doctrinate myself with this, you know, Dodgers,
Speaker 4: you know, lower of Vera Beach.
Speaker 9: I get there, I'm like, what is this place?
Speaker 6: First?
Speaker 4: Free training was awful? You know, obviously I showed up.
Speaker 4: I didn't perform very well, So I was reassigned to
Speaker 4: minor league camp pretty quickly after, you know, three weeks
Speaker 4: in major league camp, and then that season comes, and
Speaker 4: then obviously it was a short suit and the shortest
Speaker 4: off season I ever had, because I you know at
Speaker 4: that you know major league season is a is a
Speaker 4: month longer. First time the Dodgers had been in the
Speaker 4: playoffs again in a while was in O six, so
Speaker 4: we had a playoff run and then you know, fast
Speaker 4: off season, all the motions of being in the big leagues,
Speaker 4: and then you look up and it's February ninth, and
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, I got to go back to Vero
Speaker 4: Beach again. And you're like, I got it all the
Speaker 4: way across the country to go have spring training in Florida.
Speaker 9: I'm like, what am I doing? And I can say
Speaker 9: we had three and a half them was four spring
Speaker 9: trainings are before the Dodgers moved out.
Speaker 4: And then it was a happy day when I heard
Speaker 4: their announce team and I think it's a happy day
Speaker 4: for the organization and obviously our partners and everyone's happy
Speaker 4: to have the team this close to it. But at
Speaker 4: the end of my career, I realized the specialist of
Speaker 4: being at a place like Barol Beach. What it meant
Speaker 4: I had a full circle moment. Actually this past us
Speaker 4: this past fall, my oldest sudden had a baseball tournament
Speaker 4: in Jupiter area and one of the games happened to
Speaker 4: be one of the days at Baro Beach And that
Speaker 4: was the first time I was back since two thousand
Speaker 4: and nine. Was this past fall and so many floods
Speaker 4: and you know, emotions coming through me. That was my
Speaker 4: first time walking on that and just seeing where I
Speaker 4: kind of got my start in the dodge orarization where
Speaker 4: the first time I I you know, I walked on
Speaker 4: that campus, stayed in one of those the housing you know,
Speaker 4: the old hotel rooms, the marriage So yeah, you saw
Speaker 4: the first time, you know, I walked to the old
Speaker 4: the old food room.
Speaker 9: The cafeteria is exactly the same. Well, that's what I
Speaker 9: wanted to ask you.
Speaker 2: I've heard the old timers talk about that food room
Speaker 2: where yeah, double A players would be sitting next to
Speaker 2: an All stars.
Speaker 9: Yeah you're we're to sit That's my first Tommy's experience.
Speaker 4: You know, I show up to campus the first night,
Speaker 4: you know, I have no Rendell Carr, James Loney's my roommate.
Speaker 9: I'm like what do we do now?
Speaker 4: And he goes, will you walk across and you go
Speaker 4: over to the cafeteria eat in the middle of the campus,
Speaker 4: and you know, kind of kind of and I'm like, oh, okay.
Speaker 4: So I walk in and it's you know, it's kind
Speaker 4: of like the first day of school. You're like, where
Speaker 4: do I sit?
Speaker 9: What do I do? All that stuff? And you turn
Speaker 9: to sit in the corner and there's Tommy Lesorta sitting
Speaker 9: there in the corner of.
Speaker 4: A couple of Johnny Padres, all those guys, you know,
Speaker 4: some of those old players that were around back and
Speaker 4: they'd Sammy, Sandy Cofax sitting in there, to major league
Speaker 4: players sitting in there, you know, some of the old
Speaker 4: coaches that were former players sitting in there.
Speaker 9: See if all these guys sitting.
Speaker 4: In this place with minor leaguers and You're just like,
Speaker 4: what's going on? And and that was the first actually
Speaker 4: night that I actually, I think it was the second
Speaker 4: night that I came in to the cafeteria and Tommy
Speaker 4: called me out and said, hey, come sit with me
Speaker 4: at the table. And then I had the hour Tommy
Speaker 4: dinner in the cafeteria telling me all about Dodgers and
Speaker 4: Dodger history and all the great players, and you know,
Speaker 4: pointing at me with his crooked finger, Uh, that you
Speaker 4: could one day be a great Dodger if you do
Speaker 4: all the things, you know, you know, the typical Tommy
Speaker 4: pep up pep talk. And yeah, I just didn't realize
Speaker 4: that end of my career until I was done, what
Speaker 4: a special place that was. And then when you walk
Speaker 4: around thinking, you know, I was like, I was getting
Speaker 4: to walking my boys around because she's showing them where
Speaker 4: I the you know, the the hotel room I stayed
Speaker 4: in the backfield where they would make me go back
Speaker 4: and hit curveballs. You know, Uh, the locker room in
Speaker 4: the old stadium. Of how the old stadium now has
Speaker 4: covers of the dugout. We didn't have covers on the dugout.
Speaker 4: They were open air dugouts. You know that there was
Speaker 4: an old military base and you have the old berms
Speaker 4: from the military base.
Speaker 9: For the outfield and the stands are built on.
Speaker 4: All that stuff is just unique to Dodger, you know,
Speaker 4: to Dodgertown and to have the history and to like
Speaker 4: have that all come back and and know now that
Speaker 4: I was a part of that, you know, Dodger in
Speaker 4: history that was a part of there. And there's not
Speaker 4: one player left I think me and you've talked about this.
Speaker 4: Clayton was the last player I think an act in baseball,
Speaker 4: not only on the Dodgers, but it acted baseball that
Speaker 4: had a spring training. There's actually one more still, oh
Speaker 4: Canley Jensen. I forgot Canley Jens is still there. But yes,
Speaker 4: I mean when Candley retires, that that officially closes the
Speaker 4: era of any player that had a spring training at
Speaker 4: Bara Beach. I think that's gonna be a sad day
Speaker 4: just in you know, memory and meaning because of how
Speaker 4: special Dodgertown is to you know, Dodgers, to Brooklyn, to
Speaker 4: la and all those great players that had a chance
Speaker 4: to have a spring trained there.
Speaker 2: It's funny that you say that. And Andre Ethier is
Speaker 2: our guest in downtown Phoenix. Kenley Jansen every time that
Speaker 2: I talked to him, and obviously you know, he has
Speaker 2: such a special place in his heart for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: even though he's pitched for a few different teams. He
Speaker 2: always talks about that, how he and Kershaw and you
Speaker 2: are the last guys. Yeah, trained at Garo Beach and
Speaker 2: it seems like that's a badge of honor for you guys.
Speaker 2: One is because it's a badgine honor because the players.
Speaker 2: It's a badger arnor because a Jackie. It's a badger
Speaker 2: because it's Roy, Roy Campandell. It's a badge of honor
Speaker 2: because all these Rick Mondays bad because all these great
Speaker 2: Dodger of players.
Speaker 9: If you, if you were a great Dodger player.
Speaker 4: Before you know what, twenty twelve and you had a
Speaker 4: you had to spend training at at Dodgertown, at.
Speaker 9: Daryl Beach, you you got a chance to do that.
Speaker 9: Life is slow.
Speaker 4: We don't have downtown Phoenix. We have there now, but
Speaker 4: sure we haven't had to use up there. You know
Speaker 4: you you just had a slow life going on. You
Speaker 4: showed up to spring trainers about babs. It's all about baseball.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I lived on campus. Did you ever
Speaker 4: hop the wall like Mike Beyonce and Eric Harrows walk? Yeah,
Speaker 4: I hop over the fence to get Yeah, they closing
Speaker 4: the gate on you and going through I mean the
Speaker 4: countless hours you spending the batting cage. There After after
Speaker 4: a game, things might not feel well.
Speaker 9: You go shower, locker, room.
Speaker 4: You take your little five minutes stroll over to the
Speaker 4: to your little motel room. Yeah, you lay around. All
Speaker 4: of a sudden you look up at seven, seven thirty,
Speaker 4: you walk across, you know, a little two minutes, stroll
Speaker 4: to the cafeteria. You have your your meal, and you
Speaker 4: go back to the room and you wake up next
Speaker 4: morning at six am, and you rinse and repeat, like
Speaker 4: you know, there's it was just all about me.
Speaker 9: It was a baseball camp. Yah, his baseball camp.
Speaker 4: And there's nothing like that again in in you know,
Speaker 4: professional in professional baseball, any minor league set, you know,
Speaker 4: any spring training setup that's similar, and it's a it's
Speaker 4: a it's a bygone air. That's that's left and it's
Speaker 4: in the past. And and it's nice to see that
Speaker 4: I was able to be a part of something that
Speaker 4: was like a touch of like the old the old
Speaker 4: school baseball. You know, the photos, the videos that would
Speaker 4: that would probably make our parents reminiscent go demn memory Lane.
Speaker 4: You know, that was still a thing happening in two
Speaker 4: thousand and eight, two thousand and nine in Florida for
Speaker 4: his daughters.
Speaker 2: Maybe I can recreate that, Maybe I can invite the
Speaker 2: team to your house. Don't you have a batting cage
Speaker 2: in your backyard?
Speaker 9: I do, but I don't. I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think my house is as nice as not
Speaker 4: is Dodgertown. But uh yeah, it's a special place. And
Speaker 4: I encourage anyone you know listening right now, if you
Speaker 4: ever have a chance, you're on the.
Speaker 9: On the East coasters Florida.
Speaker 4: You're in the in the Miami even Orlando area. It's
Speaker 4: not two it's an hour and a half drive I think,
Speaker 4: from Miami and to Orlando to get there. But if
Speaker 4: you want a chance to see, you know, Dodger history,
Speaker 4: it's still completely dodgered out every all the streets are
Speaker 4: named after the Dodger grates, the memory lane you get there.
Speaker 4: If you have a chance to get and see this cafeteria,
Speaker 4: it's gonna bring you back. You know, all their sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties,
Speaker 4: all your favorite players have a picture.
Speaker 9: You know, a photo.
Speaker 4: And to look at this old cafeteria that's still sitting
Speaker 4: there with the old rails that you'd slide your your
Speaker 4: tray on, the whole thing, the old the serving buffet
Speaker 4: areas that's all sitting there, the old the old soda fountain,
Speaker 4: the Jews found. Everything is still in this place, the
Speaker 4: Dodger themed uh Napkin dispensers in the middle. Everything's still there.
Speaker 4: It's it's a it's it's like a museum, and it's
Speaker 4: it's fun to go see that and be a part
Speaker 4: of that.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, Andre Ethier is joining us in downtown Phoenix.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are getting ready for opening Day, gooing for
Speaker 2: the three peat. Andre was in uniform for a for
Speaker 2: a week or two at camel Back Branch. I think
Speaker 2: everybody wants to know what you think about Kyle Tucker
Speaker 2: and how he's going to fit in with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: It feels like he wants to blend in and this
Speaker 2: might be the perfect place for that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: I think you know, he's a great player. But every
Speaker 4: every player out there, whether they're they're they're really high
Speaker 4: high level, whether you're you know you're a star, whether
Speaker 4: you're you're a role player, has different personalities and how
Speaker 4: they fit on the team. I don't know Kyle too well.
Speaker 4: I've I've seen him from so far. I think he's
Speaker 4: a guy who you know, is you know, classic, walks softly,
Speaker 4: humbly and carry a big stick and and you know,
Speaker 4: it's work really well for him. I think LA is
Speaker 4: the perfect place where it's tough to be a star
Speaker 4: ahead of Atani and no one knowing in the league.
Speaker 9: Is no one in the world is.
Speaker 4: So you have a great, great person you can play
Speaker 4: behind and do your game, and then you have guys
Speaker 4: like you know, no doubt, Hall of famers like Freddie
Speaker 4: Freeman and soon to be probably pretty close here if
Speaker 4: he keeps, you know, another year or two with Luki.
Speaker 9: You got guys like that. It's it's tough to overstep them.
Speaker 9: What they're doing. You can probably be doing.
Speaker 4: In performance, but those guys is, you know, their aura
Speaker 4: and their presence is just a lot. And I think
Speaker 4: Kyle will fit in perfect with that. And you know,
Speaker 4: if he goes and does what he's done the last
Speaker 4: seven eight years of his career, he's gonna be a,
Speaker 4: you know, a very key part to this team and
Speaker 4: moving forward. And you know, I hope the best and
Speaker 4: I hope it works out that you know he's able to,
Speaker 4: you know, contribut the way you know that he's been
Speaker 4: doing the.
Speaker 9: Last couple of years.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks for putting on the headset, the salads out,
Speaker 2: the dinner's being there's a great foot Yeah, I mean there,
Speaker 2: I thought that sweets was gonna get some try tip.
Speaker 9: But okay, I love me.
Speaker 3: Do you really.
Speaker 9: Get the meta?
Speaker 3: I love Cotton, fitz Simmons.
Speaker 4: Great coach, right there. Yeah, Greg Cotton, the old madhouse
Speaker 4: on me down.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know all about Hey, you are the king
Speaker 4: of Phoenix. I don't know about that, but uh, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm happy that, you know, for the Dodgers success.
Speaker 9: I'm happy for uh, you know what.
Speaker 4: It's bringing to the city, what's bringing to all the
Speaker 4: all the Peri field obviously, Uh, it's it's a special
Speaker 4: place to be a part of. You know.
Speaker 9: It's unbelievable how this.
Speaker 4: Team, you know, this team's you know, keeps just going
Speaker 4: to New Heights and obviously this the city has supported
Speaker 4: them through the lean times, has been there and the
Speaker 4: way they're doing it now, the fans keep coming up
Speaker 4: and showing out.
Speaker 9: Do you have a lot to show up for?
Speaker 3: But they they love them.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you this, they haven't forgotten your teams
Speaker 2: and yeah, and your Dodgers because you were there from
Speaker 2: the beginning.
Speaker 3: Guys like you, Matt Camp, Justin Turner is still a.
Speaker 2: Big fan favorite, rightfully, so really good and I think
Speaker 2: that's special that Dodger fans haven't forgotten how great you
Speaker 2: guys were too.
Speaker 4: Well, you hope they don't. But at the same time
Speaker 4: you understand that there's been a lot of success. But yeah, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, things have changed, Things change involved so quickly,
Speaker 4: and I think this teams have changed and evolved quickly.
Speaker 9: Obviously organizationally wise, it has.
Speaker 4: I mean the stadium if I didn't step footing it
Speaker 4: again from the day I left to now, I probably.
Speaker 9: Wouldn't even recognize the stadium. You know how how much
Speaker 9: has changed.
Speaker 4: And everything's improving, proving for the fans, proving for the players,
Speaker 4: and proving for everything out there. And it should be
Speaker 4: because you know, the supports that that city gives. You
Speaker 4: should be putting best product on there. You shouldn't be
Speaker 4: having a great fan experience. You should have all the
Speaker 4: nice stuff that that stadium that for that ownership's giving uh,
Speaker 4: to the players, to the city, and it's.
Speaker 9: Great and no apologies, no no apologies at all.
Speaker 4: When you have that type uh of people behind you,
Speaker 4: when you have that many millions of people who are
Speaker 4: who are hanging on their seat and who want to
Speaker 4: see the success of the team. You're you shouldn't be
Speaker 4: apologizing because it's not like it's uh, you know, uh
Speaker 4: people like to give a hard time. Dodger and fans
Speaker 4: leave early, you know, leave early from the game, don't
Speaker 4: you know, don't show up to whatever. Well, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe there's a lot of stuff going on. They show
Speaker 4: up when they show up, and no one said, you know,
Speaker 4: no one says the questions in anywise, no, no Dodger,
Speaker 4: no Dodger players. Do we know what's going on there
Speaker 4: in La? If you don't understand LA and you understand
Speaker 4: the Dodgers, just don't mind your own business. I don't
Speaker 4: love that's the best that that's the best way I
Speaker 4: would say it, but drop the mic on that for sure.
Speaker 4: But you know, and then I said it here to
Speaker 4: everyone before you on the radio.
Speaker 9: You know, everyone listen out in the radio out there.
Speaker 4: I don't think uh, you know, everyone gets to say
Speaker 4: thank you enough to am you know five seventy for
Speaker 4: you know, providing this.
Speaker 9: Kind of medium.
Speaker 4: You do a great job at, you know, kind of
Speaker 4: being the you know inside look, you know, I do
Speaker 4: they do it with some of the you know, some
Speaker 4: of the backstage stuff, some of the social media stuff,
Speaker 4: but to get try to get the players on the
Speaker 4: mic and have them say stuff and talk and see
Speaker 4: some of the personality. It's a little different than when
Speaker 4: there's a camera in your.
Speaker 9: Face when you just having micro Yeah we were the first.
Speaker 9: My favorite is when when people question if guys are
Speaker 9: actually being mean to you or be serious with you,
Speaker 9: or actually like you.
Speaker 3: There's only one that questions, we know.
Speaker 4: Who you know?
Speaker 9: Yeah, Lizzy, that's right, shadow, Liz Olsen. Uh yeah. Questions
Speaker 9: whether guys are actually like you, or they're or there,
Speaker 9: or they're bullying you or stuff like that. But I
Speaker 9: think you guys do a great job. I know the
Speaker 9: fans love it.
Speaker 4: It's a it's an other avenue of the way for
Speaker 4: them to be a part of the team in here,
Speaker 4: just another uh you know, another way to you know,
Speaker 4: be connected to it. And you know, I hope everyone
Speaker 4: out there enjoys it and looks forward to hearing all
Speaker 4: your great great interviews like tonight, Yeah, like tonight with you,
Speaker 4: great interviews to say it and interviews after the game
Speaker 4: breaking down the game, whether it's good or bad, and
Speaker 4: and telling the truth, tell the.
Speaker 9: Truth of what it is, because, uh.
Speaker 3: Did you ever listen to Dodger talk when you drove home?
Speaker 9: I did all the time. WHOA all the time?
Speaker 4: This is it was.
Speaker 9: I didn't like that. It's what I liked you. I
Speaker 9: don't like you now.
Speaker 4: So that's my prayer life. I don't like you now
Speaker 4: because I listened to you too much. You critique my
Speaker 4: game too much. So that was what I liked you,
Speaker 4: and I I can't liking you less. Every time i'd
Speaker 4: go that drive.
Speaker 3: I have that effect that my wife starting to feel
Speaker 3: the same way.
Speaker 9: Well, I don't want to get your personal person. We're
Speaker 9: talking Dodger baseball here.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, thanks a lot for stopping by.
Speaker 2: You mean a lot to the city, You mean a
Speaker 2: lot to all of us here on AM five seventy
Speaker 2: l A Sports, And you mean a lot to you know,
Speaker 2: people that followed what you stood for as a player.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, apprecire you are and how you represent
Speaker 3: the Dodgers now, So thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, looking forward to three peet this year, and nothing
Speaker 4: will be more special. I think that would be just
Speaker 4: a special, this first one in this if the Dodgers
Speaker 4: would be.
Speaker 9: A third home.
Speaker 4: I think that would be the kind of like big
Speaker 4: exclamation point of being like this is the way to
Speaker 4: do it, and you hear it constantly.
Speaker 9: You know, no one, no one is doing what the.
Speaker 4: Dodgers are doing, not only for the winning side, but
Speaker 4: from the organizational side, from the fans side, from the
Speaker 4: media side.
Speaker 9: No one's doing it the way they're doing.
Speaker 4: It's a it's a it's a beast. It's an entity
Speaker 4: of its own, and everyone's trying to replicate that. It's
Speaker 4: tough to do if you don't have the support and
Speaker 4: the and the partners and the fans out there like
Speaker 4: the Dodgers do. And I think it's a testament to
Speaker 4: what la as rally behind a team like the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: All right, Andre, thanks a lot for stopping by. Anytime, really, anytime,
Speaker 4: some time. Just don't text me again.
Speaker 9: For a while.
Speaker 2: Hey, can we all say thank you to Andre Ethier
Speaker 2: for stopping by. Put down the forks and knives and
Speaker 2: get my guy around of applause. Don't worry, we got
Speaker 2: more foods. Don't worry, Joel Kelly, We'll get you more.
Speaker 2: Get you another played. Okay, you just want to get
Speaker 2: to your meat loaf. That's getting cold.
Speaker 3: Hey, mom, where's my meat loaf? All right? There he
Speaker 3: is Andre Ethier.
Speaker 2: It's been a great night here in downtown Phoenix at
Speaker 2: the Arrogant Butcher. Thank you to Miranda who is serving
Speaker 2: the greatest cocktails in downtown Phoenix. And I want to
Speaker 2: say thank you again to our friends at Superior Grocers.
Speaker 3: What's the word of the day.
Speaker 9: You got a word of the day, us a word
Speaker 9: of the day today. What is our word today?
Speaker 3: Meatloaf? All right, meat loaf.
Speaker 2: Thank you to Strauss Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Verizon, Sapporo,
Speaker 2: Schumash Casino, and Daniels Jewelers. We got more Dodger baseball
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