Speaker 1: This is off season Dodger Talk.
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Speaker 3: Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vassey, upright, I'm still kicking
Speaker 3: at seven o'clock. We're with you until eight o'clock tonight
Speaker 3: here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. We have
Speaker 3: a great show for you tonight. We are going to
Speaker 3: get you what some of these gambling websites are saying
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers to win number of games over under
Speaker 3: on wins for the Dodgers this year. We'll share that
Speaker 3: with you in a moment coming up in fifteen minutes
Speaker 3: in case you missed it. Over the weekend they had
Speaker 3: the awards ceremony in New York for the MVPs and
Speaker 3: the cy Youngs and the Rookies of the Year. And
Speaker 3: show how Taani very fluent in English. We will share
Speaker 3: with you the four time MVP speech over the weekend
Speaker 3: in New York. There as another player that came off
Speaker 3: the free agent board today and signed with the San
Speaker 3: Francisco Giants. We'll share that with you and also the
Speaker 3: centerpiece of our show at the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 3: third base coach for the Dodgers, the best in the game,
Speaker 3: Dino Ebel will join us. We'll get his thoughts on
Speaker 3: what transpired in Game seven of the World Series and
Speaker 3: also he will be part of Mark Deros's coaching staff
Speaker 3: again for Team USA and the World Baseball Classic. Now,
Speaker 3: don't forget this Saturday, It's Dodger Fest. You can get
Speaker 3: your tickets at Dodgers dot com slash Dodger Fest. We
Speaker 3: will be broadcasting a special Dodger Talk this Saturday from
Speaker 3: ten am to one o'clock right here on the back
Speaker 3: to back World Series champions Home Dodgers Radio and five
Speaker 3: to seventy LA Sports. We will have all the players
Speaker 3: from Freddie Freeman to Mookie Betts to Blake Snell join
Speaker 3: us from Dodger Fest. So when you're taking the kids
Speaker 3: to their sporting events this weekend, tune in ten am
Speaker 3: to one o'clock and also on the iHeartRadio app, you
Speaker 3: can stream live. When you're at the volleyball game or
Speaker 3: the soccer game, or if you're really over zealous and
Speaker 3: sending your kids to fall ball baseball, you could listen
Speaker 3: to it as well. And spring training is right around
Speaker 3: the corner as well. Dodger Fest is kind of that
Speaker 3: thing that kicks off that baseball feeling, and spring training
Speaker 3: is right around the corner. The Dodgers first Cactus League
Speaker 3: game is going to be on February twenty first, Saturday,
Speaker 3: February twenty first against the Angels in Tempe, Arizona. We
Speaker 3: will have that for you, first pitch at twelve o'clock
Speaker 3: to kick off the Cactus League schedule, and then on
Speaker 3: opening Day it will be at Dodgers Stadium March twenty
Speaker 3: sixth against the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Dodgers their second consecutive
Speaker 3: championship banner on that day, and last year they handed
Speaker 3: out the rings the day after Opening Day, so we'll
Speaker 3: see if they do the same thing this year. But
Speaker 3: it should be a very celebratory first homestand three with
Speaker 3: the Diamondbacks and three with the Cleveland Guardians. Opening Day
Speaker 3: is kind of Opening Night. Five point thirty start on
Speaker 3: opening Day March twenty sixth. All right, let's get to
Speaker 3: the show now. First of all, Petro Some Money spent
Speaker 3: the majority of their four hour show obsessed with my
Speaker 3: Rams viewing party that I had with my cousin Tony
Speaker 3: and my best friend Mike Cain in Pasadena. They live
Speaker 3: all the way in Laverne, not as far as dino Ebol,
Speaker 3: all the way out there in Rancho Cucamonga, but far enough.
Speaker 3: And we met in the middle. I prefer staying in
Speaker 3: the eight Poe to eight, but you know, I'm an
Speaker 3: unselfish friend. So I met him out there again at
Speaker 3: kings Row and we saw the same group of fans
Speaker 3: that we saw a couple of weeks ago, huge Rams fan,
Speaker 3: huge Dodger fans. And when I first walk in, they
Speaker 3: always look at me awkwardly as just treat me like
Speaker 3: a normal person, because that's who I am. I'm not O'tani,
Speaker 3: I'm not Freddie Freeman. I'm just a guy that talks
Speaker 3: baseball with you. So it was great to be out
Speaker 3: there at kings Row. Had a good time, and yes,
Speaker 3: very frustrated with some of the decisions made and the
Speaker 3: muff punt that was upsetting as well. So it had
Speaker 3: a great time hanging out with the boys, but certainly
Speaker 3: would have wanted a better outcome for the Rams. And look,
Speaker 3: there is no rules. Where are the rules? Are there
Speaker 3: rules that say? The Raiders left La went to Oakland,
Speaker 3: then moved to Vegas and then brought in Tom Brady
Speaker 3: and Pete Carroll. That says, I can't have one foot
Speaker 3: in with the La Rams, who are right in my
Speaker 3: hometown of Woodland Hills practicing every single day. Maybe I'll
Speaker 3: start screaming over the fence kick the field goal. I
Speaker 3: thought the Rams made a huge mistake not kicking that
Speaker 3: field goal with four and four five minutes to go,
Speaker 3: two minute warning, two timeouts. You make it a one
Speaker 3: point game. You put a lot of pressure on Sam Donald,
Speaker 3: the new golden child that everybody's rooting for in LA.
Speaker 3: I had no idea LA loves Sam Donald so much.
Speaker 3: But anyway, if you kick the field goal, it's a
Speaker 3: one point game. You don't need a touchdown, and you
Speaker 3: could cut the field in half and kick a game
Speaker 3: winning field goal with the thicker kicker. So I thought
Speaker 3: a huge mistake. And I really do believe these offensive
Speaker 3: gurus at our head coaches. It's not analytics. Everybody talks
Speaker 3: about analytics. It's more about arrogance. So I just didn't
Speaker 3: agree with that decision, and today is I can't let
Speaker 3: the show keep going because I did cover the Lakers
Speaker 3: the last two years that they played at the Forum
Speaker 3: started covering the Lakers. Kobe Bryant's second year in the NBA.
Speaker 3: Knew him well. Today's the anniversary of him and the
Speaker 3: rest of those youth coaches and players that unfortunately died
Speaker 3: in a horrific helicopter crash. We think about him on
Speaker 3: this day. I know. You know what's interesting is that
Speaker 3: his legacy, his spirit, lives on forever because he left
Speaker 3: such a big mark on everybody in the city of
Speaker 3: Los Angeles and across the world. But I knew Kobe
Speaker 3: really well. And I guess the one Kobe story that
Speaker 3: I believe you will appreciate the most is it was
Speaker 3: the year, the first year after Shaq was traded to
Speaker 3: the Heat, and it was not a great year. Right,
Speaker 3: Kobe was more in solitude than he usually was. And
Speaker 3: you know, I get to Doc Stadium about four hours,
Speaker 3: four and a half hours before first pitch, and that's
Speaker 3: about the time I used to get to Staples Center
Speaker 3: back then for a seven thirty tip. I would get
Speaker 3: there around three o'clock, three thirty. And on this particular afternoon,
Speaker 3: Kobe Bryant was shooting free throws and I went down there.
Speaker 3: I sent courtside and you know, started it counting, and
Speaker 3: Italian started counting in English, trying to throw them off.
Speaker 3: And he always loved the challenge, right even though he
Speaker 3: was trying to shoot one hundred free throws, make one
Speaker 3: hundred free throws. And after he was done shooting those
Speaker 3: free throws, like we usually would do when we had
Speaker 3: some you know, privacy, we could talk about the team
Speaker 3: and you know, how things were going, and he could
Speaker 3: vent and it was going to stay right there. So
Speaker 3: once we did that, after about twenty minutes, he went
Speaker 3: back to the locker room. He started to go across
Speaker 3: the court and he was in the visitors team tunnel
Speaker 3: and I realized that he left his shooting sweater on
Speaker 3: the chair next to me, and I yelled across the court.
Speaker 3: Nobody was there. I just said, hey, Cob, you you
Speaker 3: forgot your sweater, and he screamed across the arena and
Speaker 3: he said, oh, you could have it, keep it. And
Speaker 3: I still have his shooting sweater from that year two
Speaker 3: thousand and five, two thousand and six, and I certainly
Speaker 3: will cherish that. And I guess my only regret as
Speaker 3: far as my relationship with Kobe Bryant goes Is when
Speaker 3: he was at Game four of the twenty eighteen World Series,
Speaker 3: famous shot of him on his feed after Puig's Grand Slam.
Speaker 3: He was in the Dodger clubhouse before the game, and
Speaker 3: since it was so close to first pitch, I never
Speaker 3: I never felt like it would be my place to
Speaker 3: go down there to try to intercept him, to see him,
Speaker 3: because I hadn't seen him since I started covering the
Speaker 3: Dodgers on an everyday basis back in twenty twelve. I
Speaker 3: stopped seeing Kobe on an everyday basis in twenty eleven,
Speaker 3: and I guess that's my only regret when it comes
Speaker 3: to that that was my last chance to actually see him,
Speaker 3: and yeah, I didn't do it. I that was the
Speaker 3: Dodgers player's time and they were like kids, and you
Speaker 3: know that Kobe was a complicated person, but he was
Speaker 3: a good person at the root of it, and he
Speaker 3: certainly will be missed. Eight six nine eight seven two
Speaker 3: five seventy is the phone number since I was out
Speaker 3: watching the Rams. I'm sure all of you go out
Speaker 3: and watch the Dodgers, whether it's the playoffs or just
Speaker 3: any random Friday night, Saturday night with your friends, and
Speaker 3: it just bears asking again. Last year, we asked you
Speaker 3: where you were when Freddie Freeman hit his walk off
Speaker 3: Grand Slam. So I got two questions for questions for
Speaker 3: you tonight. You can answer either one or both. Where
Speaker 3: were you watching Game seven of the World Series while
Speaker 3: the Dodgers were winning it in Toronto? And if you
Speaker 3: really want to go deep, I'm a little scared to
Speaker 3: know where you may have been when Freddie Freeman hit
Speaker 3: another walk off home run, this one in the eighteenth
Speaker 3: inning of Game three of the World Series. So I
Speaker 3: love hearing these type of stories. Eight six six nine,
Speaker 3: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. And
Speaker 3: just to give you a heads up on the over
Speaker 3: under wins and this is as of today, so Kyle
Speaker 3: Tucker's in the fold. These gambling websites have set the
Speaker 3: Dodgers over underwins at one hundred and two and a
Speaker 3: half wins. I actually believe it's going to be over
Speaker 3: and not by a lot. I feel like they can
Speaker 3: win one hundred and three games. Remember, their most incredible
Speaker 3: win total season was one hundred and six in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one, and they didn't even win the World Series
Speaker 3: that year. They didn't even get to the World Series.
Speaker 3: That year, the Giants had that miracle season of one
Speaker 3: hundred and seven wins. The Dodgers, it seems whenever they
Speaker 3: don't hit one hundred wins, they win the World Series.
Speaker 3: So maybe I should change my mind and go under.
Speaker 3: I don't want the Dodgers to win one hundred games.
Speaker 3: I want them to win under one hundred games and
Speaker 3: give themselves the best chance to be ready to go
Speaker 3: for the postseason. So I'm I'm going under. How about that?
Speaker 3: I'm advising you to take the under. Eight six six nine,
Speaker 3: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number when
Speaker 3: we continue, Your phone calls, phone lines are lighting up.
Speaker 3: Where were you when the Dodgers uh one Game seven
Speaker 3: of the World Series, or where were you and Freddy
Speaker 3: Freeman hit that walk off home run in the eighteenth
Speaker 3: inning of Game three of the World Series? And yes,
Speaker 3: I'm going under one hundred and two and a half
Speaker 3: wins for the Dodgers. Also, when we continue, you'll hear
Speaker 3: Sho Heo Tani's acceptance speech of the MVP. No spoiler alert,
Speaker 3: No he didn't mention me. More Dodger talk around the
Speaker 3: corner until eight o'clock on A five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: This is Dodger Talk Advice A with you until eight
Speaker 3: o'clock tonight here on AM five seventy LA Sports. Coming
Speaker 3: up at the bottom of the hour, we will hear
Speaker 3: from the back to back World Series champion third base
Speaker 3: coach Dino Ebel, the best in baseball. And after we
Speaker 3: take some phone calls, we have two lines open we'll
Speaker 3: share with you show Hal Tani's MVP speech four MVPs
Speaker 3: now back to back MVPs with the Dodgers. Eight sixty
Speaker 3: six nine eight seven two, five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to one of my favorite cities in
Speaker 3: southern California, Long Beach. Courtney kick us off on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Courtney?
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm doing so good, dame.
Speaker 4: We have absolutely.
Speaker 1: Signed Kyle Tucker and I just love hearing all the
Speaker 1: hate from everybody else. So that's a beautiful thing. I
Speaker 1: you know, the people also don't talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger five years and one hundred and sixty two. But whatever,
Speaker 1: another conversation for another day.
Speaker 3: Would you rather have Would you rather have Cody for
Speaker 3: five years or Tucker for a high average salary.
Speaker 1: Nope, Sorry, Cody's been a traffic cone lately. I'll take
Speaker 1: We'll take Kyle. That's what we'll take. But No, I
Speaker 1: was calling in wanted to talk about where I was
Speaker 1: at the eighteenth inning. I have a son who is
Speaker 1: sixteen months old. At this time, he was probably thirteen
Speaker 1: months old, and I had absolutely struggled to get any
Speaker 1: kind of movement for him to get into his bed
Speaker 1: because I think he just felt the adrenaline. Finally he
Speaker 1: got to bed. I want to say it was probably
Speaker 1: close to ten thirty at night, laid him down. It
Speaker 1: was I want to say, probably close to the fifteenth inning,
Speaker 1: got him down. Kwine was in still or not still,
Speaker 1: but Quin was in. That was happening. Next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: three innings passed is probably one o'clock in the morning
Speaker 1: or so at this point, and absolutely just once he
Speaker 1: hit that ginger, I screamed so loud, so did my
Speaker 1: whole house. We were just like absolutely lost our mind.
Speaker 1: Woke my kid up, and had to absolutely start back
Speaker 1: from where we were. So yeah, I didn't get any
Speaker 1: sleep that night for various amounts of reasons, but I
Speaker 1: just will never forget that. I think it's probably this series.
Speaker 1: This world series has to be the most ethic of
Speaker 1: all time? Can you root for?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I feel like everybody agrees with you, Courtney. That's the
Speaker 3: consensus the best world series we've seen in a long time.
Speaker 3: And while everybody's saying it's the greatest World series they've
Speaker 3: ever seen, on the other side, they're saying the Dodgers
Speaker 3: are bad for baseball. Don't see how you can have.
Speaker 1: Both, right, you can have bad ownership, though, who doesn't
Speaker 1: want to test in your team?
Speaker 6: Exactly?
Speaker 4: Have that?
Speaker 7: Not anymore?
Speaker 3: Not anymore, Courtney. Thank you for the phone call. Let's
Speaker 3: stay in Long Beach, Ernie. You're on Dodger Talk. How
Speaker 3: you doing, Ernie?
Speaker 6: Hey brother, I'm doing good.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 6: Where was I on the eighteenth inning walk off that
Speaker 6: Freddy free Man? I was at home. I work in construction, man,
Speaker 6: so I have to wake up at three in the morning,
Speaker 6: and I was not going to miss that, you know,
Speaker 6: and I'm stayed up. I watched it because it's history.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 3: You didn't get any sleep? Did you take a nap
Speaker 3: before you had to get to work or you just
Speaker 3: ran through it, had a couple of extra cups of coffee?
Speaker 6: Uh? Yeah, I probably had one or two hours of sleep,
Speaker 6: but I wasn't gonna miss it for the world man.
Speaker 6: Just I agree with with the other caller. This is
Speaker 6: this has been probably the best World Series that I've
Speaker 6: ever witnessed.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 6: I'm just happy to be a part of it.
Speaker 3: You know. That's awesome. That's awesome, Ernie. Thank you for sharing.
Speaker 3: And do you have to go back to work at
Speaker 3: three am tomorrow?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 6: Actually, I have a pretty good start time. I have
Speaker 6: a seven o'clock start time, so yeah, man, Let's go Dodgers, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Ernie, thank you for the phone call. Love hearing
Speaker 3: all these stories of where you were when Freddy hit
Speaker 3: that walk off home run in the eighteenth inning of
Speaker 3: Game three, and also where you may have been biting
Speaker 3: your fingernails and extra innings when the Dodgers actually won
Speaker 3: back to back World Series championships. Let's go out to
Speaker 3: west Wood. Peter, you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Peter, Hey,
Speaker 3: super Dave.
Speaker 5: First of all, I want to give a shout out
Speaker 5: to those Notre Dame Knights baseball and also basketball that
Speaker 5: just dunked on Harvard Westlight Go Nights.
Speaker 3: I love that they have won every game that I
Speaker 3: haven't been at this year. I went to the Loyola
Speaker 3: game and they lost.
Speaker 5: Oh no, well, the eighteen inning, I was in scu
Speaker 5: at the stadium with my wife and daughter. I had
Speaker 5: a brief argument about the time of the game. Luckily
Speaker 5: I didn't have to get too deep into it, but
Speaker 5: unbelievable to be there, very blessed. And then for the
Speaker 5: World Series clinch, I had to actually step out of
Speaker 5: the house. I couldn't stand listening to our man Joe
Speaker 5: be a non partisan announcer and went in and sequestered
Speaker 5: myself from the car to listen to Steve and Rick
Speaker 5: do it the right way. I'm am five to seventy.
Speaker 3: You know, Joe can't win. It feels like Joe could
Speaker 3: not win in that World Series. I thought he did
Speaker 3: a great job.
Speaker 5: Oh there's no question. He's definitely the best of this
Speaker 5: next generation and we're blessed to have him. But you know,
Speaker 5: I had to be a homer, and I think I
Speaker 5: was fortunate and that I did. Hear over the radio,
Speaker 5: Rick Monday crack a smile after Steven yelled the ZAR
Speaker 5: when I won.
Speaker 3: I agree. I agree with that. Peter, Thank you for
Speaker 3: the phone call great memories. Let's go out to wineca Waldo,
Speaker 3: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9: How you doing Waldough, Hey David, I'm great. Looking forward
Speaker 9: to the new season. My granddaughter and I are going
Speaker 9: to be out at Dodger Fest. Hopefully we'll we'll run into.
Speaker 3: You out there, I hope.
Speaker 9: So we've gone the Yeah, we've gone the last two years.
Speaker 9: And look what happened the last two years. So three
Speaker 9: three in a row.
Speaker 3: You got to keep it going.
Speaker 9: My memories of last year. I also had to get
Speaker 9: up early the next morning works, so I was home
Speaker 9: alone on the couch in front of the big screen,
Speaker 9: and I was texting my granddaughter back and forth because
Speaker 9: she's a big Dodger fan and is also texting my
Speaker 9: cousin from Toronto. And I was actually all set to
Speaker 9: congratulate him at the end of the game, because I
Speaker 9: I thought that to johnest I'm a big Dodger fan,
Speaker 9: but I thought Toronto was gonna win Game seven.
Speaker 3: I was just they had a few chances. They were
Speaker 3: inches away a few different times. I mean winning it.
Speaker 9: If Miguel Rojas didn't put a little lecture on that throw.
Speaker 9: If Andie Pie has had made the catch well, you know,
Speaker 9: I mean, it was just so many chances, and I
Speaker 9: was all set to congratulate them on a good World Series.
Speaker 9: And then of course when they when the Dodgers won,
Speaker 9: I didn't hear back from him, So.
Speaker 3: You know, of course, not until opening day.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 9: If you go back one year, I'll tell you where
Speaker 9: I was when Freddie hit that home run. Game one
Speaker 9: earlier in the day, my son called me and said, hey, Dad,
Speaker 9: I can get two tickets to the game one World Series,
Speaker 9: but they're not great seats.
Speaker 6: What do you think?
Speaker 9: And I said, are you kidding?
Speaker 6: The Dodgers in the World Series.
Speaker 9: I'm there. So we were. We were there, and that
Speaker 9: was the most exciting Dodger game I've ever been to.
Speaker 3: No doubt, Freddie Freeman's a legacy player. Now he's got
Speaker 3: to finish his career with the Dodgers. I know he'll
Speaker 3: be turning thirty seven during the season, but he's got
Speaker 3: two more years left on his contract and he's got
Speaker 3: to stay with the Dodgers for as long as he
Speaker 3: wants to play. Thanks for the phone call, Waldough, great memories.
Speaker 3: Let's take one more phone call before we say hello
Speaker 3: to Dino Ebel and then we'll get back to your
Speaker 3: calls in a moment. Jose in Tijuana, Mexico. Jose, are
Speaker 3: you listening on the iHeartRadio app? How you doing, Jose, Yes.
Speaker 11: Sir, I'm definitely using the app. I'm doing great, great.
Speaker 11: I'm just wanted to share my story. I was on
Speaker 11: vacation for the eighteenth inning game. There we were down,
Speaker 11: My girlfriend and I were down in the resort down
Speaker 11: in Koleema, central part of Mexico, hanging out at and
Speaker 11: so we went to three bars.
Speaker 3: Before before you keep moving. That's a humble brag. You
Speaker 3: were at some fancy resort while the rest of us
Speaker 3: were at some divy bar. Okay, Jose, and another lady
Speaker 3: was taking care of her baby while you're you're having
Speaker 3: a great time in Mexico. Okay, what else you got, Jose?
Speaker 3: Continue with your story?
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, sir, Yeah, yeah, I would have done through
Speaker 11: the World Series, but this vacation was planned, you know,
Speaker 11: about eight months prior, so I won't make that mistake again.
Speaker 11: But yeah, we were hanging out. There was about a
Speaker 11: dozen Canadians down there, so that made it even more
Speaker 11: wow that game. So yeah, yeah, we were giving each
Speaker 11: other you know, the business. So about the twelve or
Speaker 11: thirteen inning, my girlfriend goes, hey, you know, why don't
Speaker 11: we just you know, take a break and go upstairs.
Speaker 11: And we had been in the water, so we needed
Speaker 11: to take a quick shower and whatnot. So we went upstairs,
Speaker 11: and you know, my girlfriend, you know, were falling a
Speaker 11: leap or whatnot, and I didn't. I stayed up so
Speaker 11: seventeen and then comes around eighteen and then you know,
Speaker 11: I'm like, dude, I'm gonna let's.
Speaker 9: Take a quick shower.
Speaker 11: So so Freddie. I'm watching the game on my phone
Speaker 11: in the swer so you know, I'm done with this hour.
Speaker 11: And then Freddie hits the ball the ball, and I'm
Speaker 11: like screaming. I knew he hit it, you know, pretty good.
Speaker 11: And I'm screaming at my girlfriend. She goes, what's wrong,
Speaker 11: what's wrong? She's hap to sleep. I'm running from from
Speaker 11: the bathroom to our room and we're watching the game,
Speaker 11: I mean, the celebration in our room. We were just
Speaker 11: going crazy. So I'm like, dude, let's go downstairs and
Speaker 11: talk to the Canadians. Sure enough, you know, they were
Speaker 11: all gone, nobody was there. But we were just like
Speaker 11: two little running up and up and down, and it
Speaker 11: was just crazy. So it is, you know, amazing what
Speaker 11: the Dodgers have done for us and just creating memories
Speaker 11: that we'll never forget.
Speaker 3: All right, Jose, thanks a lot for sharing that and
Speaker 3: making us all jealous that you're at some great resort
Speaker 3: in Mexico. There he goes, Jose and Tijuana. Wow. A
Speaker 3: great story, but certainly a humble brag. All right, we
Speaker 3: gotta take a time out. Dinu Ebel is going to
Speaker 3: call in back to back World Series championship third base coach,
Speaker 3: a key member of Dave Roberts' coaching staff. He'll join
Speaker 3: us next as we continue on Dodger Talk right here
Speaker 3: on AM five seventy LA Sports. David Vasse with you
Speaker 3: until eight o'clock tonight here on AM five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: We'll get back to your phone calls in a moment
Speaker 3: eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. But
Speaker 3: we are joined running now, but by one of my
Speaker 3: favorite people. He has been a key member of Dave
Speaker 3: Roberts coaching staff on their way to back to back
Speaker 3: World Series championships. He is the best third base coach
Speaker 3: in all of Major League baseball and that is the
Speaker 3: one and only pride of Barstow Dino Ebol. Dino, thanks
Speaker 3: a lot for calling in. Hey, you're at a hibernation.
Speaker 3: Thank you for calling in.
Speaker 6: Hey.
Speaker 8: Thanks David. Always great talking to you and looking forward
Speaker 8: to another championship season. You can't can't wait and getting
Speaker 8: ready to get to spring training.
Speaker 3: Have you have you worked with any of the players
Speaker 3: this offseason, Dino? Have you seen any of the guys?
Speaker 8: Well, this week started with Kim's in town. Months he's
Speaker 8: in town, so there's gonna be guys coming in and
Speaker 8: out of the stadium. So yeah, we guys are coming
Speaker 8: in and getting work all winter long, especially in the
Speaker 8: weight room. But now they're starting to get their routine down,
Speaker 8: getting some fly balls on ball. So uh, it's it's
Speaker 8: getting closer to spring training and that's when guys will
Speaker 8: start to come in at Dodger Stadium and and start
Speaker 8: to getting prepared for spring training.
Speaker 3: Do you know, before we look forward, let's look back
Speaker 3: at an incredible World Series. First question is have you
Speaker 3: watched one of Game six or Game seven all the
Speaker 3: way through or is there a particular play that you
Speaker 3: go back to watch the most Since you guys won
Speaker 3: Game seven.
Speaker 8: Well, David, to tell you the truth, being at home
Speaker 8: and you know, watching, you know some highlights I just
Speaker 8: I don't go through all all, you know, pitch to pitch,
Speaker 8: inning to inning. But the highlights that I just keep
Speaker 8: going back to is Game six when Kyk you know,
Speaker 8: throws the ball on the soft you know, Lin's ride
Speaker 8: to left field and doubling up and Rojas's making that
Speaker 8: great pick. And then Game seven just numerous defensive plays,
Speaker 8: one on Rojas and then you know the Paz and
Speaker 8: Kik and left center and then seeing Yoshi come in
Speaker 8: and close that game out. So those are the things
Speaker 8: that just you know, the home run, Rohas's home run,
Speaker 8: Will Smith in the eleventh goes deep to win it.
Speaker 8: But just going back to the Philly series, the comebacker
Speaker 8: and the pitcher throws it away, just highlights, you know,
Speaker 8: parts of each series with the Brewers, you know, the
Speaker 8: dominant pitching we had in four game series. So show
Speaker 8: Hayes ten punchouts and three home runs. So that's kind
Speaker 8: of what I usually look at. But what an incredible run,
Speaker 8: what an incredible series from Game one from Cincinnati to
Speaker 8: the Game seven in Toronto. Never will forget it and
Speaker 8: what an exciting year.
Speaker 3: Two of the guys that you know really well were
Speaker 3: on the show before Christmas, and that was Mickey Hatcher
Speaker 3: and Mike so and you obviously are one of the
Speaker 3: best third base coaches out there, and you understand the
Speaker 3: value of ninety feet and each actually taking big leads
Speaker 3: from third base. They each said that Isaiah Kana Filefa,
Speaker 3: he should have taken a more aggressive lead and if
Speaker 3: he did, we may not be celebrating back to back
Speaker 3: World Series championships. What did you think about that play?
Speaker 3: How close was it?
Speaker 8: Well, you're looking back and you know the game of inches,
Speaker 8: and yeah, if you know, if he gets off a
Speaker 8: little bit more left handed hitter, the odds are that,
Speaker 8: you know, he's probably not going to hit into a
Speaker 8: line drive on the left side of the diamond to
Speaker 8: double up the runner at third base. But you know,
Speaker 8: going back in the moment and then the dugout and
Speaker 8: down there in the uh, you know, far into the
Speaker 8: dugout watching our defense, and I see the coach, third
Speaker 8: base coach fabulous, who's a good third base coach, go
Speaker 8: over to the line and he draws a line with
Speaker 8: his foot, so it's on it's on the it's on
Speaker 8: the video where you know, this is what can't blame
Speaker 8: the For me, you can't blame the player. This is
Speaker 8: what they teach in the organization. So Febulus goes down,
Speaker 8: draws the line and then you know, the runner goes
Speaker 8: and puts his right foot on the line and doesn't move,
Speaker 8: which was a short lead. They were worried about getting
Speaker 8: doubled up or back door by the catcher with a
Speaker 8: left handed batter. So uh, you know, I know everybody
Speaker 8: goes back and looks at the player and says, well,
Speaker 8: he should have got a little bit more. But for me,
Speaker 8: this is what Toronto teaches. This is what the third
Speaker 8: base coach put, you know, the line in the in
Speaker 8: the dirt, and the player did exactly what he was
Speaker 8: supposed to do. Now going back, yeah, now we don't
Speaker 8: do that. We're a little bit more aggressive. You know.
Speaker 8: It's uh, you know, you get off I you know,
Speaker 8: I try to teach pitch to pitch. Now I look
Speaker 8: to see where the third basement is and if you
Speaker 8: do take a shorter primary lead, then we got to
Speaker 8: get a better secondary lead. But if you get a
Speaker 8: bigger lead, then you got to cut down on the
Speaker 8: secondary lead. So one or the other what we do, Uh,
Speaker 8: that's what we would have done in that moment. But
Speaker 8: you can't blame the player. He did exactly what he
Speaker 8: was supposed to do with the organization teaches.
Speaker 3: Another key play in game seven was when Andy po
Speaker 3: Has was fresh into the game after that play and uh,
Speaker 3: you know you talk about being at the far end
Speaker 3: of the dugout. My understanding is that's where Paes was
Speaker 3: with his hoodie on when Dave Roberts said, go into
Speaker 3: the game for Tommy Edmund. Can you take us through
Speaker 3: what what you saw and how how it transpired. Where
Speaker 3: Paz was into the game and he has that collision
Speaker 3: with Key Kanan catches the ball.
Speaker 8: Right, he's down down there by me. He's you know,
Speaker 8: watching the game where everybody's standing up on here. You know,
Speaker 8: the game is on the line, and then you know
Speaker 8: his name is called, so Danny Lehman, the bench coach,
Speaker 8: runs over until pa has grabs his glove and then
Speaker 8: you know they call time out and boom, there he goes,
Speaker 8: which you know, he's running out to center field and
Speaker 8: in the moment, you know, I look at Edmund who's
Speaker 8: coming in from center field. He thinks we're going to
Speaker 8: run a five man infield. You know, he's he's looking
Speaker 8: at me like, where's my glove? And then I look
Speaker 8: down at the end of the bench and and Bob Garrin.
Speaker 8: You know, it's signaling to me that hey, he's out
Speaker 8: of the game. So I tell Tommy that you're done.
Speaker 8: So he comes in the dugout and now you know
Speaker 8: it's we're not going to the five man infield. They
Speaker 8: decided not to, and you know we got the chopper.
Speaker 8: That's when you know, Varshow chops the ball to Rojas.
Speaker 8: He makes the plate to play. But we had all
Speaker 8: the infielders in. But in that moment, yes, it was
Speaker 8: just you know, Dave thought, let's put in our best
Speaker 8: center fielder with the best arm, give us a chance.
Speaker 8: If it is hitting the outfield, we're in shallow So
Speaker 8: in that in that situation, they've got to go over
Speaker 8: our head to beat us some type of limes ride
Speaker 8: shallow fly ball. We can have a plate to play.
Speaker 8: So yeah, that's that's looking back, that's living the moment.
Speaker 8: That's what happened, all right.
Speaker 3: Dino Ebel, the Dodgers third base coach, nobody has a
Speaker 3: best review of home runs than you do, and an
Speaker 3: experience of high fiving these guys every time they hit one.
Speaker 3: Take us through what you saw when Miguel Rojas tied
Speaker 3: the game when you were down to your final two out,
Speaker 3: saying what was it like congratulating him when he rounded
Speaker 3: third base?
Speaker 8: Oh? Man, that was just what a thrill. You know,
Speaker 8: I've been in some big moments, some big games where
Speaker 8: you know, last year, Freddie Threeman Game one hits the
Speaker 8: Grand Slam, which we'll never forget that. But you know
Speaker 8: you're down, You're down to two outs and it's a
Speaker 8: three to two count. You know it's one out and
Speaker 8: you're just hoping that he can put the ball in play.
Speaker 8: You got show Hey on deck, You get a guy
Speaker 8: on so you know, maybe show Hey can hit a
Speaker 8: two run homer, you know, to put you ahead. But
Speaker 8: you know the count goes to three and two, and
Speaker 8: you know, all I'm thinking out there is just come on, Rojas.
Speaker 8: He's a contact guy. I felt he was not gonna
Speaker 8: you know, strike out. Knew, like you know what, anything
Speaker 8: around the plate, he's going to put a good swing
Speaker 8: on it. But when he hit it, my hand went
Speaker 8: straight up. I knew it was gone soon as he
Speaker 8: hit hit. You know the sound of the bat. I
Speaker 8: look up and you know it acts it just it
Speaker 8: went quiet, and just it was so quiet that when
Speaker 8: that ball went over the fence, I turned around. I mean,
Speaker 8: it's just pure chills, you know, in my body, and
Speaker 8: I see I see like our family section behind our
Speaker 8: dugout just going crazy. And that was the only thing
Speaker 8: I heard was our family section. So in the moment,
Speaker 8: it wasn't like a Dodger Stadium, you know, home run,
Speaker 8: because we're on the road, but it felt like it
Speaker 8: because of the crowd that was behind our dugouts, mainly
Speaker 8: off family section. But him coming around third base was
Speaker 8: probably the best feeling I had, just because he tied
Speaker 8: the game, giving us a chance to go into extra innings,
Speaker 8: and I felt we had a great chance winning if
Speaker 8: we went to extra innings on that one with help White.
Speaker 3: It was at Rogers Center after Rojas tied the game
Speaker 3: in the ninth inning, Dino, when he was coming around
Speaker 3: third base, could you hear his cleats come off the dirt?
Speaker 3: Was it that quiet that you could hear that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was. He was, you know, yelling, you know, like,
Speaker 8: you know, yeah, come on and let's go. And I
Speaker 8: looked over at our dugout and it's like, this is
Speaker 8: you know, everybody's out, you know, in front of that
Speaker 8: dugout and just the emotion of playing baseball and having
Speaker 8: fun and you know, you look back as a kid
Speaker 8: and it didn't matter. You're in Game seven. He ties
Speaker 8: it up with a home run with you know, one
Speaker 8: out in the ninth inning, you're on the road, and
Speaker 8: it's just pure excitement. That momentum just shipped it on
Speaker 8: our side and they knew it. You know, you saw
Speaker 8: the look on Hoffman's face. I looked at him, I
Speaker 8: looked at their dougout. It was like they couldn't believe
Speaker 8: what happened. And all we heard, all I heard at
Speaker 8: third base was our family section and our dougout going crazy.
Speaker 8: That's what that's living the moment, what I went through
Speaker 8: in that in that in that period of.
Speaker 3: Time, that's amazing. Deno Ebel, Dodgers third base coach, back
Speaker 3: to back World Series champion third base coach, is our guest,
Speaker 3: Was it similar when Will Smith hit his go ahead
Speaker 3: home run in the eleventh inning? Do you know similar
Speaker 3: experience with only hearing the family section.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, and you know Will, I mean when he
Speaker 8: hits them, it was a no doubt or it was high. Uh,
Speaker 8: you know, I as soon as he hits it, I
Speaker 8: know it's gone. And I look to our dugout. Everybody's
Speaker 8: jumping up over the railing there and they're coming out
Speaker 8: of that dugout and I see Will. And when Will
Speaker 8: comes around, he's one of those guys that's got like
Speaker 8: super super strength that he doesn't you know, doesn't really realize,
Speaker 8: but his his adrenaline emotion. When he hit my hand,
Speaker 8: I thought, there goes my right fingers and just he
Speaker 8: crushed him so so hard. I said, you know what,
Speaker 8: I didn't even feel it. But afterwards I told Will,
Speaker 8: I said, man, you came close to breaking my whole hand,
Speaker 8: but you know what, I didn't care. And I just
Speaker 8: I love the moment and just just pure excitement is
Speaker 8: just you know, here in our crowd here and seeing
Speaker 8: our doug out going crazy as uh, you know, that's
Speaker 8: what we played for. And then went in at on
Speaker 8: that double play. I'll never forget it. So that's uh,
Speaker 8: it was a what a what a game seven?
Speaker 3: What a world series? The Dodgers celebrating back to back
Speaker 3: World Series championships looking for a three Pete and Dina
Speaker 3: Ebel is a big part of Dave Roberts coaching staff.
Speaker 3: Now Dino Uh. Everybody was a little surprised that the
Speaker 3: Dodgers were able to pull off signing Kyle Tucker. Did
Speaker 3: you have any hint that you were closing in on
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker? And how much more improved is your outfield
Speaker 3: going to be? With Tucker and right, tay Oscar and
Speaker 3: left and Paez and center.
Speaker 8: Well, you know, you never you know, you hear stuff,
Speaker 8: you know, like in the media, and you you know,
Speaker 8: you hear Andrew and Brendan Gome saying that we're always
Speaker 8: open to you know, getting better. So you know, there
Speaker 8: was a rumor out there that we were looking for
Speaker 8: an outfielder. You know, we lost, we're losing a comforto.
Speaker 8: So you know, there's call and there's you know, you
Speaker 8: know you have call there and you got you know,
Speaker 8: some guys who can platoon out there. But I just
Speaker 8: in the back of my mind, I felt like Andrew
Speaker 8: and Brandan Gomes and our ownership was going to do
Speaker 8: something very special. And you know, the Tucker got out
Speaker 8: there and you know, I'm thinking, I'm not going to
Speaker 8: get excited until you know you've been in this game
Speaker 8: long enough to where you hear all these rumors and
Speaker 8: whispers and you know things can fall in the last second.
Speaker 8: But uh, what a what an exciting moment when I
Speaker 8: found out before they announced it that we came to
Speaker 8: an agreement with Kyle Tucker. Now I had him in
Speaker 8: the WBC. What a great player. He's gonna Dodger fans
Speaker 8: are going to fall in love with this guy. Uh,
Speaker 8: he puts the ball in play, he's got power, he's
Speaker 8: a plus outfielder, plus arm. So I think I saw.
Speaker 8: I haven't talked to Dave yet, you know, probably this
Speaker 8: week sometime we always get together before spring training. But
Speaker 8: he made the comment that Pale is probably going to
Speaker 8: move over to left and Tucker and right, but our
Speaker 8: outfield now is going to be really good. Kyle. Kyle's
Speaker 8: going to really help us try to repeat this thing.
Speaker 8: And what an explosive bat that you're gonna add into
Speaker 8: that lineup and we're deep all the way from one
Speaker 8: to nine. So I can't wait.
Speaker 3: Since you're the only guy on the team that has
Speaker 3: been around him since you are part of Mark Durosa's
Speaker 3: coaching staff as well. What type of guy is Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3: I know he's not a raw row type of guy,
Speaker 3: but do you believe he does have the enthusiasm to
Speaker 3: grind out a season with the Dodgers?
Speaker 8: One hundred percent. This guy, he's a winner. He wants
Speaker 8: to win. That's why one of the reasons he chose
Speaker 8: to come to the Dodgers because he wants to win
Speaker 8: another World Series. So he's quiet, you don't know he's
Speaker 8: in the room. But those are the guys kind of
Speaker 8: reminds me like Mannarism type guy like Chris Taylor. When
Speaker 8: Chris or talks, everybody listens, and uh, he just goes
Speaker 8: about his business. He's gonna be ready to play every day,
Speaker 8: every game, every inning. This is who he is. So
Speaker 8: you know that he'll, uh, he'll come into that clubhouse
Speaker 8: and there's some leadership in there. He'll add leadership to
Speaker 8: the to that clubhouse too. Because he's been in a
Speaker 8: championship game and he's got a ring. So I think
Speaker 8: he's gonna be a great addition to this club. And uh,
Speaker 8: he's he's gonna go about his business and and our
Speaker 8: club is great. You know they're gonna they're gonna get
Speaker 8: along fine, and he's gonna be uh, you know, a
Speaker 8: big help for us whinning. Uh you know this, uh
Speaker 8: this year's World Series once once we get started, so.
Speaker 3: Much to tap the brain of Dino Ebel for I mean, man,
Speaker 3: you talk about a lifetime of experience. How about just
Speaker 3: the last year. What an incredible ride for Dino. And
Speaker 3: you're gonna be back with Team US saying the World
Speaker 3: Baseball Classic again. How about Uh, your old buddy Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 3: He's gonna be or the team this year. What uh
Speaker 3: what effect is he going to have on Team USA?
Speaker 8: Uh, it's gonna be huge, you know to have a
Speaker 8: guy like Clayton and uh you know he goes out
Speaker 8: as back to back World Series champion and now he
Speaker 8: gets to put that USA jersey on and you know
Speaker 8: the goal is to win a gold medal. So uh,
Speaker 8: he's going to add a lot to our pitching staff. Again.
Speaker 8: Mark de Rosa is managing how he uses them, I
Speaker 8: don't know. You know, we all get together on March first,
Speaker 8: We'll have five days of practice in Arizona and then
Speaker 8: we head to Houston. But uh, if I'm a Pitcher
Speaker 8: on that pitching staff. Man, I'm gonna be all ears
Speaker 8: and be asking, you know, a ton of questions to
Speaker 8: a first ballot Hall of Famer. So I can't wait
Speaker 8: till when they announce his name. I'm sure, uh, he's
Speaker 8: going to be excited. Uh. When I heard when Mark
Speaker 8: Durosa called us and Tota said Kershaw's joining us, man,
Speaker 8: I got the chills. And I can't wait to see Clayton.
Speaker 8: I know, uh uh he's ready for this moment and
Speaker 8: help us win a gold medal. So look forward to.
Speaker 3: It, so are we. It'll be great to see twenty
Speaker 3: two with the stars and stripes on his jersey. Do
Speaker 3: you know before I let you go, you already have
Speaker 3: been at camel Back Ranch. You were there for the
Speaker 3: Adult Fantasy camp with a lot of the members of
Speaker 3: the eighty eight Dodgers. What was that experience like again
Speaker 3: with seeing so many guys that you've known for so long.
Speaker 8: Oh, it's always fun. You know. You go there for
Speaker 8: five days and all you do is you talk baseball,
Speaker 8: You bring up you hear stories that you know. I
Speaker 8: first signed in nineteen eighty eight, and I'm here in
Speaker 8: Sacks and Mickey Hatcher Mike Soosha and Kenny Lando, and
Speaker 8: Steve Garvey and just Billy Russell, just name after name.
Speaker 8: Guys are just and you know they're just talking baseball
Speaker 8: and you're hearing, you're learning every day. I asked baseball
Speaker 8: questions to those guys. You know, they've managed in the
Speaker 8: big leagues, Rick Dempsey and I just it's always a
Speaker 8: thrill for me to be there for five days, and
Speaker 8: it's a blast to be with the campers and to
Speaker 8: be a go It's just a thing that I never
Speaker 8: say no to. Love going to him. But I was
Speaker 8: there four days earlier for Camp Blake Snell, and he
Speaker 8: put on a great camp for the thirteen, fourteen, and
Speaker 8: fifteen you at Camelback. He's got something really good going
Speaker 8: with the young youth in the generation of today's game.
Speaker 8: So it was a good ten days for me in Arizona.
Speaker 8: Now I'm home. Now, I'm looking forward to get back
Speaker 8: on February eleven, get on the field on the twelfth.
Speaker 3: Can't wait to see ninety one back in that third
Speaker 3: base coaching box this year. Dino, thanks a lot for
Speaker 3: the time. Great catching up with you, and you are invaluable.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers are very lucky to have you back in
Speaker 3: the organization because you are a wealth of knowledge and
Speaker 3: certainly a great person as well. So thank you for
Speaker 3: the time and can't wait to see you out there.
Speaker 8: Thanks David, always the pleasure talking baseball with you, and
Speaker 8: Go Dodgers. Can't wait to get it going.
Speaker 3: Go Dodgers. No doubt, don know Ebel part of Tommy
Speaker 3: Lasorda's coaching tree. He learned from the best, not only
Speaker 3: Tommy but also Joe Amalfitano. So certainly Dave Roberts Andrew
Speaker 3: Friedman picked a great one to be the third base coach,
Speaker 3: and it was awesome to hear his experience being in
Speaker 3: the coaching box third base coaching box when Miguel Rojas
Speaker 3: hit his game tying home run and what it was
Speaker 3: like for him being on the field and hearing only
Speaker 3: the family section behind the dugout at a very quiet
Speaker 3: Rogers Center. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 3: seventy is the phone number. We still have some fans
Speaker 3: on the line that want to share where they were
Speaker 3: for this year's World Series moments. Let's go up to
Speaker 3: Santa Barbara Sheldon. You're on Dodger Talk. Thanks for holding.
Speaker 10: What's up, Dave?
Speaker 5: So funny enough.
Speaker 10: I actually called in after Game three because I was there,
Speaker 10: but my line dropped because of the service. So I'm
Speaker 10: falling back and I'm excited to share my story with you.
Speaker 10: So I actually had a business trip to Mexico and
Speaker 10: I changed my flight because I was waiting to see
Speaker 10: if the Mariners were gonna win or the Blue Jays
Speaker 10: were gonna win. And to make sure I got was
Speaker 10: able to go to a game, I changed my flight
Speaker 10: from Santa Barbara to LA for a red eye. So
Speaker 10: I was joking with all my coworkers, saying, hey, the
Speaker 10: game is still going on, I might miss my flight,
Speaker 10: and you already know I missed my flight, without a
Speaker 10: without a doubt, miss my entire work trip. Totally worth it.
Speaker 10: Game three, No doubt.
Speaker 3: That was the right move right there, Sheldon, You still
Speaker 3: have your job, right. You didn't lose your job over that.
Speaker 10: I did not lose my job, and I was willing
Speaker 10: to lose my job for the for the game though,
Speaker 10: but we're still here. So it worked out perfectly And
Speaker 10: just a fun fact. Game seven, I was watching the
Speaker 10: game at a bar here in Santa Barbara, right next
Speaker 10: to Brad Paisley and that guy knows ball. He loves
Speaker 10: to talk about the dog and he's a great guy
Speaker 10: to watch the game with.
Speaker 4: Two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a big time fan. That's cool.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He he splits time between Nashville and Santa Barbara. Yeah,
Speaker 3: very cool. Thanks for calling in. Appreciate it, Sheldon. Let's
Speaker 3: go out to my guy Kevin in Culver City. Thanks
Speaker 3: for being patient, Kevin.
Speaker 5: David, what is up man?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 4: Kyle Tucker, great signing and all those haters talking about
Speaker 4: salary tip get out of here. Steve Cohen could have
Speaker 4: paid extra money for Kyle Tuck.
Speaker 6: He didn't do it.
Speaker 4: We built the coach here.
Speaker 5: Players want to play here.
Speaker 4: And real quick about the RAMS. I'm going through everything.
Speaker 4: You're going through, all the RAMS depression. You gotta give
Speaker 4: the ball to Kyron Williams on third down if you
Speaker 4: know you're gonna go for it on fourth down, and
Speaker 4: Sean McVay, if you want to call the time out,
Speaker 4: call the timeout and talk it over the seasons on
Speaker 4: the line. The Seahawks were in a soft coverage. You
Speaker 4: could have ran the ball with kyrone and got the
Speaker 4: four yards, or even have Matthew Stafford pull out the
Speaker 4: quarterback option and run the ball. Nobody would have seen
Speaker 4: him running the ball there, quarterback drop, run up the
Speaker 4: me I'll get the four yards or even a touchdown.
Speaker 4: The Seahawks weren't thinking Matthew was going to run the ball.
Speaker 4: You were spot on with your whole assessment. I thought
Speaker 4: that was a turning play of the game. The fumble.
Speaker 4: Kyn Williams should have been back to return to punts.
Speaker 2: He should have.
Speaker 4: Never since Smith back out there after the first time.
Speaker 4: And that's the hard part about this game was it
Speaker 4: was right there for us to take and I thought
Speaker 4: we had it right there. And let's talk about that
Speaker 4: Cooper Cup play. That was not a catch. The ball
Speaker 4: cannot call the ball to drop. That's either a fumbar
Speaker 4: and in complete pass. The referees completely missed it. They
Speaker 4: should have releast looked at it.
Speaker 3: The referees have not had a very good playoffs. I
Speaker 3: don't care what anybody tells you. I don't care about
Speaker 3: those experts in the booth. Their job is not to
Speaker 3: embarrass their former peers on the field. So I'm with you, Kevin.
Speaker 3: Thank you for the phone calling. Petros himself told me
Speaker 3: before the game the rams run a beautiful stretch right
Speaker 3: run play with Kyron Williams and that great offensive line.
Speaker 3: You didn't see that third down, especially Kevin brings up
Speaker 3: a great point. If you know it's going to be
Speaker 3: a four down situation, then run the ball when they're
Speaker 3: playing nine back. Let's go out to Londale. Jorgey walk
Speaker 3: us off on Dodger Talk. How you doing?
Speaker 7: Jorgey doing great here, just on the couch with with
Speaker 7: my wife, Rebecca and our daughter, and you know, just
Speaker 7: really looking forward to spring training. You know, you know
Speaker 7: all this stuff.
Speaker 2: That's happening out there. And he's like, no one has
Speaker 2: everyone forgotten about Edwin Diaz. We just got the Mets
Speaker 2: closer out from under them. And it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: I what was it that John Taturo, Like.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Nicholas Totum who's in the valley. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: see him. I saw him and seeing a little league. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm with you, Jorgey. And look if Tanner Scott can
Speaker 3: have a bounce back here, all of a sudden, the
Speaker 3: Dodgers have maybe the best left right reliever combo in baseball,
Speaker 3: and I would fully expect Tanner Scott. Now the pressure's
Speaker 3: off the spotlights off of him. He's gonna be more
Speaker 3: in the role that he's more comfortable with. If he's
Speaker 3: able to do what Tanner Scott did two years ago.
Speaker 3: And you've got Edwin Diaz closing out games all of
Speaker 3: a sudden and Bruce star Graderol coming back along with
Speaker 3: Alex Vesia to shorten the game. That is going to
Speaker 3: be tough for any team to beat. If the Dodger
Speaker 3: bullpen and Tanner Scott's a big key to all this.
Speaker 3: If he can come back and be the Tanner Scott
Speaker 3: from two years ago, all of a sudden, you shortened
Speaker 3: the game and the last nine outs are almost a
Speaker 3: certainty as close as they can be in a Major
Speaker 3: League Baseball game. All Right, that'll do it for us
Speaker 3: on Dodger Talk tonight. Thanks to everybody that called in.
Speaker 3: We'll be back with you on Wednesday night at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3: Thanks to Dino Ebol for his time all the way
Speaker 3: out there in Rancho Kuckamonga. And I'm sorry we couldn't
Speaker 3: share O Tani's MVP speech, but we'll get to it
Speaker 3: on Wednesday night. And just in case you missed it,
Speaker 3: the Giants signed Harrison batter to a two year, twenty
Speaker 3: million dollar contract earlier today. Thanks to Ronnie Foscio for
Speaker 3: all his help back at our Burbank studios. Great to
Speaker 3: have him back. In case you missed any of the show,
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