Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Here we go again. We're going running back.
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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Vase.
Speaker 3: We are in a rain.
Speaker 2: Delay, officially here at the Bank in Philadelphia. Welcome to
Speaker 2: a special rain delay edition of Dodger Talk. Yes, phone
Speaker 2: lines are open at eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy. If you're in Philadelphia, call in because
Speaker 2: you've certainly have been tweeting at me and sending me
Speaker 2: direct messages asking me when this game is going to start.
Speaker 2: I had no idea at one o'clock or two o'clock
Speaker 2: or even two hours ago. So if you were tweeting
Speaker 2: at me or dming me, call in and speak to me.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. The
Speaker 2: tarp is still on the field right now, so until
Speaker 2: they take that tarp off and by the time they
Speaker 2: take it off, it's going to take at least forty
Speaker 2: five to fifty minutes to get the field ready to
Speaker 2: get first pitch going. I will tell you this, This
Speaker 2: weather system has been in the Northeast, and the Red
Speaker 2: Sox at Fenway Park postponed their game today against the Orioles,
Speaker 2: and the Yankees again had rain issues and they postponed
Speaker 2: their game against the Pirates. So those two games in
Speaker 2: New York and Boston have been washed out. But here
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia early on this afternoon, we all thought that
Speaker 2: there was going to be a doubleheader tomorrow, but the
Speaker 2: weather system improved. I guess to give the Phillies some
Speaker 2: sort of optimism that they can get this game in tonight,
Speaker 2: and look, I think that would be for the best.
Speaker 2: I don't believe the Dodgers want to play two double
Speaker 2: headers within three days of themselves. So they finished out
Speaker 2: the series in New York with a doubleheader. I don't
Speaker 2: think they would love to finish this series in Philadelphia
Speaker 2: with a doubleheader. But the one thing both teams don't
Speaker 2: want to happen is that you start this game with
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski and Zach Wheeler and you have to stop
Speaker 2: the game for an hour plus, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: now these two teams have lost two really good starters
Speaker 2: and you're into a bullpen game. So that's the line
Speaker 2: of thinking these days in Major League Baseball. It's better
Speaker 2: to push the start time or maybe even just postpone
Speaker 2: the game entirely so you don't lose your starter and
Speaker 2: have to tax your bullpen because this day and age
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty six baseball, not the Dodgers in Phillies necessarily,
Speaker 2: but a lot of teams out there overuse their bullpens
Speaker 2: as it is, and you don't want to have to
Speaker 2: do that if it's not necessary. So right now, at
Speaker 2: the very least, we're looking at an hour from the
Speaker 2: time they take that tarp off, and right now the
Speaker 2: tarp is still on there, so we have time to
Speaker 2: dive into some Dodger baseball coming up in about fifteen
Speaker 2: minutes during these rain delays. And we haven't done this
Speaker 2: in a while because the Dodgers have not had a
Speaker 2: lot of raindlays over the course of the last couple
Speaker 2: of years. But back in twenty twelve, my first season
Speaker 2: hosting Dodger Talk, I had a chance to interview the
Speaker 2: legend himself, Vin Scully for the first time and had
Speaker 2: a chance to pick his brain about a lot of
Speaker 2: things he saw in Brooklyn, and we're going to share
Speaker 2: that with you again. It's one of my favorite things
Speaker 2: during a rain delay to hear Vin's voice again and
Speaker 2: for him to tell those magical stories of the boys
Speaker 2: a summer. So looking forward to sharing that with you
Speaker 2: over the course of the next hour, and we do
Speaker 2: have time for trade talk, mind numbing trade talk as well.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number David Vassey live at the Bank in
Speaker 2: Philadelphia with Rick Monday and Steven Nelson. In case you
Speaker 2: missed what the Dodgers starting lineup is going to look
Speaker 2: like today and moving forward against right handed pitching, Max
Speaker 2: Muncie is going to be the cleanup hitter and Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts is going to hit fifth. And after last night's
Speaker 2: game where Mooki had a four hit game and hit
Speaker 2: two home runs, he was still very humble and not
Speaker 2: ready to declare anything about him being back because it
Speaker 2: was just one game, even though it was an encouraging game.
Speaker 2: And Dave Roberts said earlier today that I'm sure Mooki
Speaker 2: slept better last night than he has in a while
Speaker 2: because he's been he's been struggling coming into the game
Speaker 2: last night. In the month of July, he only had
Speaker 2: six hits. He had four hits last night. Think about that.
Speaker 2: We're almost at the end of June and Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: only had six hits. He was coming into the game
Speaker 2: last night hitting a buck forty. So this team, obviously,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers one of the best teams record wise. The
Speaker 2: Brewers right now a win better than the Dodgers as
Speaker 2: far as the best record in baseball. But the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are sixty three and thirty eight. They're in a great spot.
Speaker 2: And if you examine this offense, which has been really
Speaker 2: good as a whole, they haven't gotten a lot out
Speaker 2: of Mookie Betts and Kyle Tucker. Ta Oscar Hernandez is
Speaker 2: in a big time slump right now. He's three for
Speaker 2: his last forty five and tonight Alex call is going
Speaker 2: to get the start and left field. So I know
Speaker 2: last year we were saying this the second half of
Speaker 2: last year that this Dodger offense has not reached its potential,
Speaker 2: And I think you could say that again until you
Speaker 2: get Mookie Beds and Kyle Tucker going in taoscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: back before, back to the guy he was before he
Speaker 2: got hurt. This offense is far from reaching what it
Speaker 2: can do, and you just hope that it happens at
Speaker 2: the right time. Eight six six nine seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. It's going to be Justin
Speaker 2: Robleski against Zach Wheeler. Once we get things underway, let's
Speaker 2: go out to the phones for the first time on
Speaker 2: rain delay.
Speaker 3: Dodger talks Steven in La.
Speaker 5: How you doing, How are you doing today? Thank you
Speaker 5: so much for having me on.
Speaker 3: My pleasure.
Speaker 5: I wanted to talk about Mooki a little bit. I
Speaker 5: feel that we're not giving him enough credit. Okay, I
Speaker 5: know that he's in a slump, we understand that, but
Speaker 5: he is a born leadoff hitter. In twenty twenty three,
Speaker 5: he set a franchise record for most leads off home
Speaker 5: runs twelve, uh huh. In twenty twenty four, sho Heyotani
Speaker 5: he was injured. Shohyo Tani came and took that first
Speaker 5: spot and he did greatness. He had the fifty to
Speaker 5: fifty clubs, and then Muki had four leadoff homers in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four, but he's never got Stephen.
Speaker 2: Let me stop you right there, do you I mean
Speaker 2: full disclosure here. You can't just lay something like that
Speaker 2: out there and not explain why Sho Heo Tani became
Speaker 2: the leadoff hitter. Mookie Betts got hit by a pitch
Speaker 2: and broke his hand. That took him out for six weeks.
Speaker 2: So that's when the Dodgers put Otani in the leadoff spot,
Speaker 2: and ever since then they've won two World championships. So
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what your point is. Are you saying
Speaker 2: that Mooki needs to go back to the leadoff spot
Speaker 2: as a two thirty hitter to get going again.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is we
Speaker 5: have to give Mooki credit for stepping back after he
Speaker 5: had the injury, not coming back and saying claiming that
Speaker 5: leadoff spot, letting things stay the way they are. And
Speaker 5: he's been moving around ever since and trying to figure
Speaker 5: it out. And I would like to give him some
Speaker 5: more credit for what he's done for the team. He
Speaker 5: didn't disrupt things, he didn't come back and say I'm
Speaker 5: not in after the injury. I want the leadoff. So
Speaker 5: I just wanted to give him a little more credit
Speaker 5: because I think he deserves it. He's a team player,
Speaker 5: and I think he's going to figure it out and
Speaker 5: he always does. He's a savant when it comes to
Speaker 5: baseball and solving things, so just like he did at shortstops.
Speaker 5: So I feel like it's his next challenge, is his
Speaker 5: next hurdle, and he will figure it out. And I
Speaker 5: just want to give him some credit because he didn't
Speaker 5: disrupt what was going on there after the injury.
Speaker 2: No, I think that lends to the reason why he's
Speaker 2: a four time World Series champion, because he is a
Speaker 2: winning player and he is a good teammate. And I
Speaker 2: think you could say the same about shille hay Otani,
Speaker 2: who to try to help Mookie Betts last year, say
Speaker 2: you know what, no problem, I'll let Mookie lead off
Speaker 2: and I'll hit second if that's going to jumpstart him.
Speaker 2: So I think you're talking about two guys that are
Speaker 2: willing to move spots in the order. And you could
Speaker 2: say the same about Freddie Freeman. So the three best
Speaker 2: players on this team are checking their egos at the door.
Speaker 5: Fantastic points. I agree, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Steven. Thanks for the phone call. Positive phone call,
Speaker 2: very I'm not used to that, Steven.
Speaker 5: I believe the Dodgers are positive, and I believe they're
Speaker 5: gonna turn it around and we're gonna head to another championship.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything to turn around, Steven, but
Speaker 2: I know what you're saying. Look, the Dodgers are two
Speaker 2: and five in their last seven games, but I feel
Speaker 2: like you have to wash away even though the record
Speaker 2: won't what took place going into the All Star breaks.
Speaker 2: So quite honestly, after the All Star Break, it's kind
Speaker 2: of a fresh slate the way I look at things.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers took two out of three at Yankee Stadium,
Speaker 2: and they lost a game that they very well could
Speaker 2: have won last night if it wasn't for some sloppy
Speaker 2: play and some pitches that were not made. Despite Trey
Speaker 2: Turner hitting two home runs and driving in five runs,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers very well could have won that game. Eight
Speaker 2: six six seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to seem me Valley. Sam, You're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk Live from Philly. How you doing, Sam, I'm doing.
Speaker 6: Good, Dave.
Speaker 7: I was watching the game yesterday, and I was just
Speaker 7: very frustrated with the way the first inning the batters
Speaker 7: were just swinging at nothing but balls and striking out.
Speaker 7: I think the first five or six pitches were out
Speaker 7: of the strike zone, and I don't know how they act,
Speaker 7: especially after Otani swung, yeah, three pitches.
Speaker 2: He was trying to hit a whole run in that
Speaker 2: first at bat. Sam Otani was trying to go deep.
Speaker 2: It's no secret he hasn't hit a home run in
Speaker 2: this ballpark, so I think he was expanding the strike zone.
Speaker 7: Oh but still by has swung at a ball that
Speaker 7: hit what the ground?
Speaker 3: That's Paz, you got take that look good.
Speaker 2: And he's had a he's had an all Star season,
Speaker 2: so yeah, it's gonna happen, Sam, Baseball's a grind.
Speaker 3: And they were facing, by the way, the best.
Speaker 2: Left hander in the game right now, so that's let
Speaker 2: let's not act they were facing the sisters of the
Speaker 2: poor last night. They were facing Christopher Sanchez.
Speaker 7: Of course, but if would have caught that ball in
Speaker 7: the outfield, that would have might have changed the outlook
Speaker 7: of the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if that's it doesn't give up a three
Speaker 2: run home run, it changes the game too. But it's
Speaker 2: one game in July, Sam, David, and they have the
Speaker 2: second best record in baseball. Them and the Brewers have
Speaker 2: the two best records. So I'm not that concerned, So.
Speaker 8: Neither am I.
Speaker 9: I just I tell everybody I says, they lose the games.
Speaker 7: We won two out of three out.
Speaker 9: Of the eighties, so you know, it doesn't really matter
Speaker 9: we won this game.
Speaker 2: They just want to win series and play good baseball,
Speaker 2: and that's one thing the Dodgers have done the majority
Speaker 2: of the season. Thanks for the phone call, Sam, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: David Vasse live at the Bank in Philadelphia. We're in
Speaker 2: a rain delay. Justin Robleski and Zach Wheeler will be
Speaker 2: the probables tonight.
Speaker 3: They're facing off against each other.
Speaker 2: One starter that said, yes, I'm very grateful to be
Speaker 2: invited to the All Star Game. Another that's super ungrateful.
Speaker 2: And I'm talking about Zach Wheeler who said, you know what,
Speaker 2: you didn't ask me in time, you didn't ask me
Speaker 2: the first time. No, no, I don't want to be
Speaker 2: part of it. We're Justin Robleski very grateful, and I
Speaker 2: think you're going to see the baseball gods tonight reward
Speaker 2: for that great karma. Don't know when this game is
Speaker 2: going to start. The tarp is still on the infield
Speaker 2: right now, so from what we've been told, once they
Speaker 2: take that tarp off, it's going to be about fifty
Speaker 2: minutes to get the field ready. So right now, the
Speaker 2: tarp is still on the field. And look, we went
Speaker 2: from people on both sides saying there might be a
Speaker 2: doubleheader tomorrow because the weather looks horrible to where we're
Speaker 2: at right now.
Speaker 3: Let's wait, let's wait.
Speaker 2: Well, they didn't wait at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium,
Speaker 2: and they call it both those games.
Speaker 3: So I'm not as.
Speaker 2: Confident as I was an hour or two ago because
Speaker 2: we're still sitting here waiting for mother nature to cooperate.
Speaker 2: And sometimes mother nature doesn't cooperate with baseball. That's just
Speaker 2: part of it. Let's go out to Eugene, Oregon. Tom
Speaker 2: listening on the iHeartRadio app. Hi, Tom, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Hey David, thanks for having me on. I haven't a
Speaker 8: question in his knee. Do you think it's affecting his
Speaker 8: swing or is it just the.
Speaker 10: Motion of delivering the ball off the mound that it bothers.
Speaker 2: He says that it only bothers him when he pitches,
Speaker 2: not when he hits. Because I asked him the last
Speaker 2: game before the All Star break on Sunday, I said,
Speaker 2: how do you do it? How does your knee hurt
Speaker 2: so bad that you can't pitch yet you can lead
Speaker 2: off the game with a home run? And he said, deadpanned,
Speaker 2: that's because it doesn't hurt when I when I hit.
Speaker 11: Fascinating, right, I mean, it really is.
Speaker 2: I feel like there's more to the story that he
Speaker 2: doesn't want us to know, or the Dodgers don't want
Speaker 2: us to know.
Speaker 3: I have a theory.
Speaker 12: Now.
Speaker 2: I'm starting to be suspicious of all this. And the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have been so good, so good over the years
Speaker 2: in giving their starters a break, and who better to
Speaker 2: give a break to than show hey Otani? Then then,
Speaker 2: right now he couldn't go wire to wire, and I
Speaker 2: feel like this is a great time to give him
Speaker 2: a break in pitching. He's even gonna throw a bullpen
Speaker 2: session this weekend, according to Dave Roberts. So that just
Speaker 2: tells me that the left knee well, Number one, I'll
Speaker 2: say that Otani.
Speaker 3: Must have a high, high pain tolerance number two.
Speaker 2: If he's throwing a bullpen session, the left knee doesn't
Speaker 2: hurt him.
Speaker 8: That bad, right, Yeah, I think he could.
Speaker 3: Just be the Dodgers and Otani a green.
Speaker 2: Let's give him a three week break in the middle
Speaker 2: of the year so he's ready to go for the postseason.
Speaker 3: I don't I'm not.
Speaker 2: I was concerned at first, but the more I let
Speaker 2: it sink in and talk to former Dodger pitchers, they there.
Speaker 2: Their thoughts are that the Dodgers may be just giving
Speaker 2: Otani a break from pitching, just like they would any
Speaker 2: other pitcher if they had that luxury.
Speaker 10: You gotta go with Khannie.
Speaker 8: He hasn't you know, filled this yet?
Speaker 3: Huh No, I would say he has not. Tom, thank
Speaker 3: you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. David Vasseay live in Philadelphia. This is
Speaker 2: rain delay Dodger Talk. If you were expecting to hear
Speaker 2: Rick Monday and Steven Nelson with the words, I view,
Speaker 2: they're still here. Uh, just no baseball being played yet
Speaker 2: because the tarp is still on the field and we
Speaker 2: are expected to have baseball. So we'll see whether or
Speaker 2: not that takes place Justin Robleski and Zach Wheeler are
Speaker 2: going to be facing off against each other tonight. If
Speaker 2: this game gets underway, let's go out to Tennessee. Man,
Speaker 2: I am honored Patrick in Tennessee a truck driver. You
Speaker 2: know my godfather. His name happened to be Pete Rose
Speaker 2: and he was a proud Teamster truck driver for Roadway.
Speaker 3: Patrick.
Speaker 10: Awesome, Awesome. I can't believe my luck. Okay, I'm looking
Speaker 10: at the gopper right now. I stopped right now. I'm
Speaker 10: done for the night because I've got a big squall
Speaker 10: just north of me and it's coming my way.
Speaker 6: What I want to.
Speaker 10: Talk to you about Today's like the first.
Speaker 2: Well, hold on, hold on, you're a truck driver. You
Speaker 2: got to know the weather. What do you think you
Speaker 2: think they're going to play tonight? What is your radar
Speaker 2: and your big rig tell you.
Speaker 10: It's right on top of you, guys, But it is.
Speaker 7: It's going to be a cell. It's going to be
Speaker 7: a cell.
Speaker 10: That that e's a gonna o.
Speaker 9: Man, it's what I'm looking at you guys.
Speaker 7: Just you're just know you're just north of it.
Speaker 10: You might get away with this, Okay.
Speaker 3: The bulk of it is what I'm thinking it is.
Speaker 11: You.
Speaker 10: Yes, so you might get away with this.
Speaker 2: But so, Patrick, you're a big Dodger fan, you're a
Speaker 2: truck driver. How do you listen to Dodger games?
Speaker 10: Oh no, iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3: Oh baby, I love it.
Speaker 10: Oh well that's you can hear it anywhere. Okay, guys, gals,
Speaker 10: you can hear all these games, no problem, no matter
Speaker 10: where you're at.
Speaker 3: Yes you can, Yes, you can.
Speaker 10: I want I wanted to remind you.
Speaker 3: What's your questions?
Speaker 10: Well, I just want to remind them stay positive because
Speaker 10: we've been through this before.
Speaker 6: Where we lose.
Speaker 10: You'd rather lose now than September or the playoffs. So
Speaker 10: if you're gonna lose, lose it now. And you've got
Speaker 10: help coming anyway. So don't get discouraged. This is nothing.
Speaker 10: This is nothing. We're going to get through this, Okay.
Speaker 3: Seriously, get through what Patrick, I'm confused to get through.
Speaker 10: Well, people, they started hitting the panic button. If we
Speaker 10: start losing, okay, and it happens, you're going to lose
Speaker 10: some games. That's just baseball. You know, can't win them all.
Speaker 10: But we win enough to win. So I want to
Speaker 10: remind everybody. Hey, good times you're coming, bro, good times
Speaker 10: you're coming.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think we are living good times past. I
Speaker 2: gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't get where anybody would say we'll get through this,
Speaker 2: get through what. I don't want the Dodgers to get
Speaker 2: through it. I want them to continue it because they
Speaker 2: have the second most wins in baseball. So I have
Speaker 2: no issues with what's taking place so far this year,
Speaker 2: coming off back to back championships.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the phone call, Patrick Man.
Speaker 2: So cool that you're listening to us on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 2: app being able to do the truck driving thing across
Speaker 2: this country. Yeah, honestly, I don't know what the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are trying to get through. There's certain players that are
Speaker 2: trying to get through slumps, that's for sure, and get
Speaker 2: their season on track, but as a whole, there's nothing
Speaker 2: to get through. The Dodgers are doing better than anybody
Speaker 2: anticipated coming off back to back World Series championships, and
Speaker 2: they're only getting stronger. They didn't start the season with
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund or keith Y Hernandez. We've seen what impact
Speaker 2: Tommy Edman has made since coming back. Kei K is
Speaker 2: going to return when the Dodgers return home after this
Speaker 2: road trip, and when Diaz is going to return, when
Speaker 2: the Dodgers get back to face the Mariners in Red Sox,
Speaker 2: Blake Snell is on his way back. Tyler Glass now
Speaker 2: is throwing bullpens. So it's a scary proposition for the
Speaker 2: rest of the league because the Dodgers have had the
Speaker 2: best record, the second best record consistently all season long,
Speaker 2: and we're in July. Don't forget that we're in July now,
Speaker 2: So this is a big sample size. And the guys
Speaker 2: that I'm talking about that need to quote get through
Speaker 2: it are Mookie Betts and Kyle Tucker and Taoscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: needs to get through this slump. So that's where things
Speaker 2: are at. Eight six six nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. We have gotten word that
Speaker 2: first pitch between the Dodgers and Phillies will be at
Speaker 2: five o'clock Pacific time, eight o'clock East, and so Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk will take you all the way to the top.
Speaker 3: Of the hour.
Speaker 2: Rick Monday and Steven Nelson, we'll have the call between
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and Phillies Game two of this three game
Speaker 2: series let's go out to Northridge.
Speaker 3: Jack, You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Jack?
Speaker 13: I'm doing good?
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 2: Living the dream with the world champs?
Speaker 10: Darn right?
Speaker 13: So I have a question to see how what you
Speaker 13: think about how Cludpucker's sling is going? And so how
Speaker 13: much can he improve and really live up to his
Speaker 13: expectations of his huge contract?
Speaker 2: Well, number one, Jack, I think that's the biggest mistake
Speaker 2: anybody can make. He can't live up to sixty million
Speaker 2: dollars because that's not who he's been in his career.
Speaker 2: That's what the Dodgers did because they wanted a shorter
Speaker 2: term contract.
Speaker 3: But he's not.
Speaker 2: I think we can all agree. Even at his best,
Speaker 2: he's not a sixty million dollar player. What he is
Speaker 2: at his best is a two eighty hitter, a thirty
Speaker 2: home run guy, and a ninety to one hundred RBIs
Speaker 2: type of guy that plays pretty good defense in right field.
Speaker 2: And he hasn't even lived up to those career numbers yet.
Speaker 2: And it's not because he's thinking about that contract. It's
Speaker 2: not because he doesn't care. It's just been a struggle.
Speaker 2: Every year is unique, and it's unfortunate that it's taken
Speaker 2: this long for him to get going, but you just
Speaker 2: hope it clicks at some point.
Speaker 13: Yes, And I know we saw I think around June tenth.
Speaker 13: Then that week he had two home runs and like
Speaker 13: seven rbi. So whatever was happening that week, I think
Speaker 13: he should start carrying on with that.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll let him know, Jack, thanks for the phone call.
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Speaker 3: Let's go out to Virginia. Roy, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Roy?
Speaker 14: My guy, David vess, what's going on?
Speaker 7: Brother?
Speaker 14: Hey?
Speaker 3: Hey, very lucky that all you are listening to us.
Speaker 14: Okay, I'm sorry, brother, go ahead, I cut you off, David, No,
Speaker 14: I was.
Speaker 2: Just saying I'm humbled by all of you listening to
Speaker 2: Dodger talk across the country and not just in La
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 14: So thank you, Yes, sir, Dodger fan since late seventies, brother,
Speaker 14: and I think what people are referring to getting through
Speaker 14: as a Dodger fan, we've already done that with Court.
Speaker 6: Thank god.
Speaker 14: Leave that as as as it lies. But you know,
Speaker 14: being a Dodger fan now, we we're expecting you know,
Speaker 14: six wins a week, you know, five six wins a week,
Speaker 14: seven wins a week. It just doesn't have been. You know,
Speaker 14: we're expecting you got these guys just to hit three
Speaker 14: hundred every year or every every game, every week. It
Speaker 14: just doesn't happen. Baseball is hard, man. I'm so impressed
Speaker 14: with what we did against the Yankees, but they throw
Speaker 14: two hundred some pitches, teeing Sanchez getting him out of
Speaker 14: there before six. We just fell short. You know, we
Speaker 14: just ran out of time. This is gonna make us better, obviously,
Speaker 14: October November is when we're gonna shine when the lights
Speaker 14: are the brightest. But David, I got one question, brother.
Speaker 6: Catcher, what have you heard?
Speaker 14: I know it's gonna be a while for Will. We
Speaker 14: can't put a finger on what's going on in this timetable,
Speaker 14: But what's the scuttle butt as far as getting somebody
Speaker 14: in there? Back up to get another catcher in the polls?
Speaker 6: Er?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't mind a catcher too, right, because you
Speaker 2: need a third catcher in the minor leagues, and the
Speaker 2: Cardinals have an abundance of those. I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 2: to see, you know, the Dodgers maybe have conversations with
Speaker 2: the Cardinals. Heim Bloom now is the GM in Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: We all know Andrew Friedman and heim Bloom have a
Speaker 2: long standing relationship going back to Tampa Bay, and hem
Speaker 2: Bloom was the GM that traded Mookie Betts to the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: so there is a relationship there. But I would love
Speaker 2: to see the Dodgers, you know, look at a veteran
Speaker 2: catcher that is defense first, like a Luis Torrenz from
Speaker 2: the Mets or Victor Carrottini from the Twins. I think
Speaker 2: those two guys would be perfect backups going into the postseason. Torrentz,
Speaker 2: you know, he may not be a household name in LA,
Speaker 2: but you ask anybody that's watched him play. He's a
Speaker 2: great receiver, a great thrower, and his I'm up with
Speaker 2: some random big hits for the Mets this year, so
Speaker 2: he would be at the top of my list, especially
Speaker 2: with a Mets team that is going to sell off
Speaker 2: everybody not named Juan Soto.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I appreciate it, David. So Dodgers, and I'm hoping
Speaker 14: to get to Queens on Saturday.
Speaker 6: If I bump into you, hopefully I can buy you beer. Brother,
Speaker 6: take care of man.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 4: Roy.
Speaker 2: Thanks all right, Roy, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Look, the Dodgers don't have any needs. And
Speaker 2: you talk about being spoiled. We're talking about what the
Speaker 2: Dodgers should do at the trade deadline, and we're talking
Speaker 2: about acquiring a backup catcher. That's how good the Dodgers are.
Speaker 2: There are no holes right now in this lineup. You're
Speaker 2: getting back Edwin Diaz, Blake, Trinan Blake, Snell, Tyler Glass.
Speaker 2: Now you just got Evan Phillips back, who's shaking off
Speaker 2: that rust. The Dodgers are in a great spot, not
Speaker 2: to mention they're going to get mister October back Kei
Speaker 2: A Hernandez. So you tell me what the Dodgers need,
Speaker 2: I just don't see it. And for all you that
Speaker 2: jump on and jump off the Taoscar Hernandez bandwagon, I'll
Speaker 2: warn you don't jump off because you can't spell October
Speaker 2: without Tao. And I know we talk about Otani, but
Speaker 2: Taoscar Hernandez. Ever since he's gotten here, the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: won back to back championships and he's been a big
Speaker 2: part of it, including right here in Philadelphia in Game
Speaker 2: one of last year's NLDS when he gave the Dodgers
Speaker 2: the lead with one swing and that changed everything in
Speaker 2: that series. Justin Robleski is heading out to the Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 2: So things are looking good right now to get this
Speaker 2: game underway at five o'clock Pacific time. Eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to la Edward. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: Live from the Bank in Philly.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you, Dave, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: I tek.
Speaker 11: The most of the call was asked the same questions
Speaker 11: I was going to ask. I'll be especially on O'tani,
Speaker 11: like how can you run batting on his knee but
Speaker 11: it's still pitch? But I guess you answered that right.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make sense, Edward.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense for him to dominate at the
Speaker 2: plate and run on the line to beat out a
Speaker 2: ground ball.
Speaker 3: That's why I believe.
Speaker 2: There's a very big part of this where the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are saying, you know what, You're not going to win
Speaker 2: the cy young Otani sees that why not take a
Speaker 2: two or three week break to make sure this guy
Speaker 2: is ready to go for October and the stretch run.
Speaker 3: I just think that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: And I had a former Dodger pitcher call me this
Speaker 2: morning in Philly in my room, woke me up and
Speaker 2: we were talking and he brought that to my attention,
Speaker 2: and I said, you know what, that makes a lot
Speaker 2: of sense. So my concern level after that conversation about
Speaker 2: Otani's left knee is a lot lower. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: there's not an issue, but it just seems like the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are the best at managing pictures that have any
Speaker 2: aches or paints, and this might be a bigger one
Speaker 2: to give them a break during the season.
Speaker 3: And this may be it for Otani.
Speaker 11: Right exactly, Like when he hit the double the other day,
Speaker 11: you saw him run, he.
Speaker 2: Was hurting that bad, he wouldn't have been able to
Speaker 2: run the way he runs.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he made a double, would be on.
Speaker 2: The if it was that bad, he'd be on the il.
Speaker 2: That's why I believe this is more about taking a
Speaker 2: break as a pitcher to be ready for October as
Speaker 2: a pitcher and a two way player, right exactly.
Speaker 11: You know, for all those Dodgers founds concerned, like, like
Speaker 11: you said a couple of minutes ago, we're missing five
Speaker 11: key players, but we did bets Freddie Tucker, TK Kasker,
Speaker 11: and we're still have the second best record, and not
Speaker 11: to mention the three starting pitchers that have been out,
Speaker 11: and we still have the second best record in baseball,
Speaker 11: So I'm not concerned about that. One more question. You
Speaker 11: mentioned that if the game got be laid another hour,
Speaker 11: the starting pitchers, like Rob Blessi, would not be pitching.
Speaker 11: Why is that? Why wouldn't they be pitching?
Speaker 3: Well, if the.
Speaker 2: Game started, let's say the game starts and then there's
Speaker 2: a rain delay for an hour plus. You don't send
Speaker 2: your pitcher back out there. That's just too long of
Speaker 2: a time to be sitting around. After the pitcher warmed up,
Speaker 2: went through his whole pregame, ritual, pitched in the game,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden is sitting and getting
Speaker 2: cold again for an hour.
Speaker 11: Got you. Yeah, it's about rituals, right, Awesome, Well, it's
Speaker 11: not about that.
Speaker 2: It's about it's about getting hot and really going to pitch,
Speaker 2: and then you pitch and then you cool down like
Speaker 2: the game is over. That is uh, that's reckless to
Speaker 2: send your pitcher back out there after an hour delay.
Speaker 2: So that's why teams don't want that to happen anymore.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I got it, I got it.
Speaker 1: So who they put in.
Speaker 2: You would go to a bullpen game where if you
Speaker 2: had a long reliever back in the day. But that's
Speaker 2: why the game is not going to start until the
Speaker 2: weather's clear. And right now, the ground screw thanks for
Speaker 2: the phone call. Edward is getting ready to take the
Speaker 2: tarp off because we are going to have baseball first
Speaker 2: pitches coming up at five o'clock Pacific time. Hey, I
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Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. We're gonna take a time out here
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk Live from the Bank in Philadelphia and
Speaker 2: want to share with you my conversation with Vin Scully
Speaker 2: from twenty twelve. It's a lot of great stories of
Speaker 2: the boys this summer, and only Vin could share those
Speaker 2: first hand experiences. So don't go anywhere you'll hear Vin
Speaker 2: Scully and we'll take more of your phone calls as
Speaker 2: we lead you up to first pitch between the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and Phillies coming up at eight o'clock Eastern, five o'clock
Speaker 2: Pacific time, right here on your back to back world
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Speaker 1: Don't miss a moment all season long.
Speaker 2: David Vasse live at the Bank in Philadelphia alongside Rick
Speaker 2: Monday and Steven Nelson, our producer, engineer Dwayne McDonald, and
Speaker 2: the tarp has been taken off. We have baseball coming
Speaker 2: up at five o'clock Pacific time. As the Dodgers and
Speaker 2: Phillies have been waiting for Mother Nature to cooperate it has.
Speaker 2: Rick Monday mentioned during the pregame show that he sees
Speaker 2: another cell of weather coming in at eight o'clock Pacific
Speaker 2: time eleven Eastern. So it's a good thing that Justin Robleski,
Speaker 2: a strike thrower, a fast worker, is on the mount
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers tonight going up against Zach Wheeler, and
Speaker 2: we will have first pitch coming up with Rick Monday
Speaker 2: and Steven Nelson at five o'clock Pacific time. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: The way the Dodgers are stacking their lineup against Zach
Speaker 2: Wheeler is with Otani always leading off as the DH
Speaker 2: PAZ in center field, Freddie Freeman hitting third, who has
Speaker 2: had a lot of success against Zach Wheeler. He has
Speaker 2: Max Munsey in the cleanup spot at third base, Mookie
Speaker 2: Beds hitting fifth at shortstop. Kyle Tucker, who did not
Speaker 2: start last night against Sanchez, is back in there in
Speaker 2: right field. Tommy Edmond, who started at third base last night,
Speaker 2: will started second base, Alex call hitting eighth, and Fonsi
Speaker 2: Elizier Alfonso is behind the plate doing the catching tonight.
Speaker 2: Before we get back to the phone, calls, rain delays,
Speaker 2: especially especially once that are as extensive as this one,
Speaker 2: gives us the opportunity to hear the voice of a
Speaker 2: dear friend, right all of our friends.
Speaker 3: And that was the one and only Vin Scully who called.
Speaker 2: Dodger games for sixty seven glorious seasons.
Speaker 3: And I'll just preface this.
Speaker 2: It was my first season twenty twelve hosting Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: I was a nervous wreck when I asked Vin Scully
Speaker 2: if he could sit down for an interview that I
Speaker 2: could use fifteen years later whenever necessary. We went back
Speaker 2: at the time in the press box they had a
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk studio. We went back there, just me and Vin.
Speaker 2: He was a dressed to the nines as he always was,
Speaker 2: and he was gracious enough to give a first year
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk host some time to ask him questions about
Speaker 2: his years in Brooklyn. So we started with Jackie Robinson
Speaker 2: because I had always wondered about a photo of Vin
Speaker 2: Scully and Jackie Robinson on skates, and I actually showed
Speaker 2: that photo to Brad Paisley over the weekend in New
Speaker 2: York and he had never seen it. But it's something
Speaker 2: that I always saw in programs when I went to
Speaker 2: Dodger games. So enjoy our conversation from twenty twelve, A
Speaker 2: young nervous David Bassay with Vince Scully. I was looking
Speaker 2: back at an old program and had a picture of
Speaker 2: you and Jackie Robinson on ice skates. I believe it
Speaker 2: was back in Brooklyn. Talk about those times when you
Speaker 2: first started and the relationships you cultivated with a man
Speaker 2: like Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 15: Well, I think, first of all, when I first started.
Speaker 15: I was the same age as many of the rookie players.
Speaker 15: I can remember sitting in the back of the bus
Speaker 15: with Dick Williams, who was a rookie outfielder for the
Speaker 15: Dodgers who eventually became a Hall of Fame manager. So
Speaker 15: a lot of years go by, and in those days
Speaker 15: with Jackie and I, we were sent to the Catskill Mountains.
Speaker 15: There were a resort up there called Grossingers, pretty famous
Speaker 15: in the East, and it was dead of winter and
Speaker 15: we were going to hold a Q and A with
Speaker 15: the guests and do whatever we could do to entertain.
Speaker 15: So I brought my ice skates because I was a
Speaker 15: kid from the East, and I skated and Jackie and
Speaker 15: Rachel came, and Rachel was about eight months pregnant, and
Speaker 15: Jackie said, oh, you're going to go skating and I
Speaker 15: said yeah. He said, well, I'll go with you. I said, okay,
Speaker 15: so Rachel said I'll go too.
Speaker 12: Well.
Speaker 15: We went to the rink right at Grossingers, and there
Speaker 15: was a lady named Maureen Mellerrick and she took Rachel
Speaker 15: off to get her skates, and Jackie and I went
Speaker 15: in the locker room and Jackie got a pair of
Speaker 15: rented skates and I was putting on mine and Jackie said,
Speaker 15: when we get out there, I'd like to race you.
Speaker 15: And I was shocked, and I said, jack I didn't
Speaker 15: know that you raced her from southern California. I knew
Speaker 15: about basketball, I knew about football, but I didn't know
Speaker 15: you ice skated.
Speaker 12: And he said, oh, I've never been on skates in
Speaker 12: my life.
Speaker 15: So I looked at him and I said, well, jack
Speaker 15: I mean, I'm not a great skater, but I can skate,
Speaker 15: and there's no way that you're going to beat me
Speaker 15: in a race. And he said, I know, but that's
Speaker 15: the way I'm going to learn. And that really was
Speaker 15: the competitive fire inside of Jackie Robins.
Speaker 2: Can you talk about what you went through and how
Speaker 2: you witnessed everything that he did go through as one
Speaker 2: of the pioneers not only in baseball but in American society.
Speaker 15: My first taste of what it was like to travel
Speaker 15: with Jackie was the spring of nineteen fifty and we
Speaker 15: went from Verra Beach to Texas on our way to Brooklyn.
Speaker 15: So it was a long, long trip and we came
Speaker 15: back from Texas through the South and that's when I
Speaker 15: realized the impact that he had made on the country.
Speaker 15: Jackie was very forceful, however, with the people if the
Speaker 15: black community came out, and they did, they were in
Speaker 15: right field and center field and some of the small ballparks,
Speaker 15: and Jackie would go out and if he saw one
Speaker 15: or two, let's say, who were over celebrating, who perhaps
Speaker 15: had gone to the hard stuff, Jackie would really not
Speaker 15: ball him out, but he would say to them, this
Speaker 15: is not.
Speaker 12: The way to behave.
Speaker 15: You can be happy, but you don't want to show
Speaker 15: some bad habits while trying to be happy. So he
Speaker 15: was very concerned about the reaction of the black people
Speaker 15: in the South. But he was a remarkable man. And
Speaker 15: I've often said this, most of us lose some of
Speaker 15: our skills when we get angry. Jackie actually excelled when
Speaker 15: he got angry, certainly on the baseball field. That's why
Speaker 15: Leo Durocher and other managers used to said, leave him alone,
Speaker 15: let him sleep, because if you got him angry, he
Speaker 15: could do the most remarkable things. And I remember in
Speaker 15: Pittsburgh one time they threw at him and he got angry.
Speaker 15: So he had a base hit, then he stole second,
Speaker 15: then he stole third, and then he stole home and
Speaker 15: so that's the kind of a player he was. The
Speaker 15: fire in his belly was amazing.
Speaker 2: Talk about another one of the boys this summer that
Speaker 2: I know you have a fondness for, and that's Gil Hodges,
Speaker 2: one of the most I would say, underrated first basemen
Speaker 2: in the history of baseball, overlooked for the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: Could you talk about him and how much of an
Speaker 2: impact he had, not only in Brooklyn, but in the
Speaker 2: game of baseball.
Speaker 15: He was a complete player and a complete human being.
Speaker 15: Gil would be the model for youth of America. He
Speaker 15: was that straight arrow, that remarkable strong faith, unwavering and
Speaker 15: following principles. He was really a classic human being. He
Speaker 15: was also a very very good player. And I certainly
Speaker 15: don't mean to diminish Tony Perez, who was in the
Speaker 15: Hall of Fame, but Gil had better numbers, really, and
Speaker 15: Tony played much longer because Gil was in the Marine Corps. Hodges,
Speaker 15: I don't understand it. In fact, I had two wishes
Speaker 15: before I leave this mortal coil. One was for Walder
Speaker 15: Omalley to get into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 12: He made it.
Speaker 15: The other is for Gil Hodges, and I cannot understand.
Speaker 12: Why he's not in there. I just don't know.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Walter O'Malley, you started with the Dodgers in
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty. I've heard so many different ranges of emotions
Speaker 2: and temperament from mister O'Malley. What was your relationship like?
Speaker 15: After one year with mister Rickey, mister O'Malley took over
Speaker 15: to give you insight of what kind of a man
Speaker 15: he was. I was home with my mother and dad
Speaker 15: and sister and the phone rang one morning in the
Speaker 15: dead of winter, and I picked it up and the
Speaker 15: boy said then I said yes. He said, this is
Speaker 15: Walter O'Malley, and I said, yes, sir. I didn't know
Speaker 15: him well at all. And he said, I just want
Speaker 15: you to know that I'm sure you're wondering about the
Speaker 15: future with the management change. We're happy with your work
Speaker 15: and we'd be more than happy to have you come
Speaker 15: back next year. And I said, thank you very much.
Speaker 15: And you can understand I was quite relieved, and I
Speaker 15: hung up the phone, and then I was overwhelmed with
Speaker 15: the feeling. My gosh, it wasn't a secretary who called me.
Speaker 15: It wasn't a pr man who called me. It wasn't
Speaker 15: the vice president of communications. It was the boss, Walter
Speaker 15: O'Malley calling the third announcer. He had the great Red Barber,
Speaker 15: the equally fine Connie Desmond.
Speaker 12: And I was just a kid.
Speaker 15: I just did a couple of innings here and there.
Speaker 15: And the fact that he would personally call me to
Speaker 15: reassure me and to tell me that I could come
Speaker 15: back gave you an insight into just what kind of
Speaker 15: a man he was.
Speaker 2: Jack can Cook was very hands on with Chick hern
Speaker 2: and Bob Miller.
Speaker 3: Was he the same with you?
Speaker 12: No, not at all.
Speaker 15: In fact, I really think one of mister O'Malley's reasons
Speaker 15: for success he would hire the best people that he
Speaker 15: could find, and then he would let them do their work,
Speaker 15: and that was it. I mean, he would oversee, but
Speaker 15: he never interfered. Never He never said to me, I
Speaker 15: wish you'd pump more. The only thing he did do
Speaker 15: was ask me one question when we moved out here,
Speaker 15: and he said, we're all alone in Los Angeles. Do
Speaker 15: you think it would be better if you started to
Speaker 15: root for the team? And I said, mister Malley, I'm
Speaker 15: raised in New York. Three teams. I was raised to broadcast,
Speaker 15: saying to myself, it's not only a Dodger fan listening
Speaker 15: to the game. It's a Giant fan, a Yankee fan,
Speaker 15: a Cub fan. So I really think I should go
Speaker 15: down the middle, because that's the only thing I know.
Speaker 15: He said, if that's your reasoning, fine, we'll go that way.
Speaker 15: That was typical in him.
Speaker 2: Don Drysdale a great pitcher. What was it like from
Speaker 2: covering him as a pitcher to being a broadcast partner
Speaker 2: with him?
Speaker 15: Well, Donn was a competitor anyone who ever saw him pitch.
Speaker 15: He had that almost sneer on his face as he
Speaker 15: was attacking the hitter.
Speaker 12: And that's what he did. He attacked the hitter.
Speaker 15: And interestingly enough, when he came up into the booth,
Speaker 15: where I'm pretty relaxed about whatever happened on the field,
Speaker 15: not don He was still a player, and he would
Speaker 15: get angry and he would slam down things, and I
Speaker 15: would say, easy, big guy, easy, it's just one game.
Speaker 15: The thing that would anger him the most would be
Speaker 15: exactly what you would think a player whom he thought
Speaker 15: was not giving one hundred percent, And if he ever
Speaker 15: spotted that, if he thought somebody was dogging it or
Speaker 15: lazy or whatever the word might be. He would be
Speaker 15: like Mount Vesuvius and I'd be trying to cap a
Speaker 15: chain easy pow. But yeah, that was don He never
Speaker 15: quit playing, even when he was in the booth.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: So there was my conversation from twenty twelve with Vince Gully.
Speaker 2: He finally got his wish. Kill Hodges did make it
Speaker 2: to the Hall of Fame. And as you can tell,
Speaker 2: I was a nervous wreck listening to this man my
Speaker 2: entire life and obviously one of, if not the greatest
Speaker 2: broadcaster in sports history. He was in my presence and
Speaker 2: gave me that much time to basically unload all my
Speaker 2: brain memories questions over my life that I always wanted
Speaker 2: to ask him and get more in depth about. So
Speaker 2: hope you enjoyed that. And that is the greatest blessing
Speaker 2: of this rain delay, that we could bring the voice
Speaker 2: of Vin Scully back to life. And that's the quality
Speaker 2: of Vin himself. Right even though he has passed on
Speaker 2: and he's not with us on this as he would say,
Speaker 2: mortal coil anymore, He'll live on forever because of the highlights,
Speaker 2: the broadcast moments that we can always go back to
Speaker 2: listen to interviews like that. He'll live on forever, just
Speaker 2: like John Lennon and the Beatles will live on forever,
Speaker 2: Elvis Presley, that's Vin Scully because their music will always
Speaker 2: live on. Tom Petty one of my favorites. I went
Speaker 2: to three or four Tom Petty concerts. I wish I
Speaker 2: could go to another Tom Petty concert. But you know
Speaker 2: what I can do is listen to his music Getting ready,
Speaker 2: driving in the car.
Speaker 3: That is Vince Gully.
Speaker 2: We are so blessed to be able to allow his
Speaker 2: legacy to always live on. Eight six six nine seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. David Vasse live
Speaker 2: at the Bank in Philadelphia as we await first pitch
Speaker 2: between the Dodgers and Phillies that's coming up at five
Speaker 2: o'clock Pacific time. We have time for more phone calls,
Speaker 2: so let's go out to Sam Bernardino. Terry, You're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk with David Vasse. Hi, Terry, Hi.
Speaker 16: Yeah. Will Smith is my all time favorite player, and
Speaker 16: I'm really wondering how he is actually doing. I understand
Speaker 16: that he's got inflammation on his neck and such, and
Speaker 16: I'm just really concerned about how it is hate well
Speaker 16: for me, and fore, according.
Speaker 2: To Dave Roberts today, Terry, he's pain free and I
Speaker 2: don't see him coming back until mid August at the earliest.
Speaker 2: But there's still optimism around the Dodgers that he will
Speaker 2: be back before the postseason. Let's go out to Cincinnati, Ohio. Kyle,
Speaker 2: listening on the iHeartRadio app. Hi, Kyle, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 17: Hey, Dave, yep, serious X them and good stuff, so
Speaker 17: love it.
Speaker 11: Hey.
Speaker 5: I have a trade idea.
Speaker 9: Don't know who the Dodger was sent back, but what
Speaker 9: would you.
Speaker 5: Think about maybe an innings eater like Brady.
Speaker 17: Singer coming over from the Reds just in the back
Speaker 17: of the rotation for us.
Speaker 2: And when you say the back of the rotation, they
Speaker 2: have a six man rotation right now. If you were
Speaker 2: to bring Brady Singer over, who's the odd man out
Speaker 2: because he can't go with a seven man rotation And
Speaker 2: you're getting back Glass now and Snell.
Speaker 3: So who's out?
Speaker 8: Maybe Sheen?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 2: Maybe Sheen has not pitched well this year, Kyle. But
Speaker 2: I just feel like you start to bring in more starters.
Speaker 2: I guess you could do that if you feel like
Speaker 2: Sheehan is not doing the job.
Speaker 3: But here's the catch.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are getting back to starting pitchers after the
Speaker 2: trade deadline, essentially acquisitions in some way because they haven't
Speaker 2: had them all season long. And that's Blake Snell and
Speaker 2: Tyler Glass now, so you're getting back two other starters.
Speaker 3: So I just don't see it.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, thank you for the phone call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. Look,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are getting Snell and Glass now back.
Speaker 3: They have a six man rotation.
Speaker 2: Most teams don't even have enough pictures to fill a
Speaker 2: five man rotation, as they're gonna have more than enough pitching.
Speaker 2: When Snell and Glass now come back, she and May
Speaker 2: go back to the bullpen, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: now you got a guy that can go multiple innings
Speaker 2: coming out of the bullpen. So you know, I know
Speaker 2: injuries can happen, but the last day that you can
Speaker 2: make a trade is August third, and I just don't
Speaker 2: feel like bringing in another starting pitcher, whether it's Trek
Speaker 2: scoobl or Joe Ryan, is going to happen, And quite honestly,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want Joe Ryan. Joe Ryan is not made
Speaker 2: for the lights in my opinion. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Antonio and Santa Anna. You're on Dodger Talk. By the way,
Speaker 2: Joe Ryan gave up six home runs in his last start?
Speaker 3: Six? Did that news make it out to Santa Anna? Antonio?
Speaker 18: Go ahead, I interrupted you shame on me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you hear about Joe Ryan giving up six
Speaker 2: home runs? Antonio? Did that make it out there?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 18: I did hear that, and it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 3: Okay, what do you got, Antonio?
Speaker 18: Well, Dave, I just want to say thank you first
Speaker 18: and foremost for sharing that amazing interview with the greatest
Speaker 18: Vin Scully. I know a lot of Dodger fans were
Speaker 18: very lots of words, lots of mix of emotions. Hearing
Speaker 18: all that going on and even hearing you is awesome,
Speaker 18: So thank you for sharing.
Speaker 16: David.
Speaker 18: That was pretty cool man.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: Antonio, that's the best part about a rain delay to
Speaker 2: be able to bring that out of the archives. But
Speaker 2: you can hear a guy that was still raw in
Speaker 2: me and nervous and then being as gracious as ever
Speaker 2: to tell those stories. I mean, he really was generous
Speaker 2: with his time and was as candid as you can
Speaker 2: be with some of those stories that he shared.
Speaker 18: Yeah, exactly, you said it best. But I also want
Speaker 18: to say, Dave, I feel the same nervous wreck when
Speaker 18: I talk to you.
Speaker 3: Oh Starvin, No, you don't.
Speaker 18: I squear to you. In twenty twenty, when I called
Speaker 18: after the Dodgers crushed the Braves, I just got super nervous.
Speaker 18: I'm surprised I made it through that.
Speaker 8: Call with you.
Speaker 2: All good, Antonio. You don't need to be nervous with
Speaker 2: the guy like me. But I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 2: On Antonio. I stumbled on a tweet from somebody that
Speaker 2: played the highlights quick highlights big moments of Game seven
Speaker 2: of the twenty NLCS between the Braves and Dodgers. I
Speaker 2: had forgotten some of those big moments, so check it out.
Speaker 2: I think it's out there.
Speaker 6: I will absolutely do that.
Speaker 4: Dave.
Speaker 18: You're very important with Dodger fans. Two Am five seventy.
Speaker 18: We love you at our home here, our whole family.
Speaker 18: Baby on the way she loves you already, so we
Speaker 18: love you.
Speaker 6: Keep it going.
Speaker 2: Hey, love you too. Thank you, Antonio, God bless you
Speaker 2: and your family. Let's go out to Riverside home with
Speaker 2: the Austin Barnes hy Peter, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9: You and Antonio want to get a room or what.
Speaker 9: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, he got emotional, he got emotional. Peter, You're
Speaker 2: just ruined a great moment. Yea, I guess you're a hater, Peter.
Speaker 3: Living in Riverside, I wouldn't expect anything less.
Speaker 9: No, I'm just kidding, Dave, I love you for real.
Speaker 9: But a quick question. So I'm tell you when the
Speaker 9: shock when.
Speaker 17: The Dodgers released Barnes last year.
Speaker 9: So how about you know getting an.
Speaker 2: Before you go on with that, let's just establish you're
Speaker 2: not part of the Barnes family, because they are very
Speaker 2: big and Riverside. The Barnes family is aware what al
Speaker 2: Capone was to Chicago.
Speaker 8: I'm aware.
Speaker 9: No, I'm not part of the Barnes family, but.
Speaker 17: I am a big Barnes fan and I thought he
Speaker 17: was a good part of the team last year, and
Speaker 17: I was shocked that he was relieved. But now that
Speaker 17: we need a catcher, you know, hop.
Speaker 6: Out we call Barby.
Speaker 2: Well, he's enjoying the retired life, even though he hasn't
Speaker 2: done it officially. He was on with Petro some money
Speaker 2: at some bar out there in Rancho Cucamonga. He went
Speaker 2: on with Striker at a bar. He's tanned, he's swallen,
Speaker 2: he looks happy. I think his playing days are behind him.
Speaker 2: He might even be on peptides. I don't even know.
Speaker 9: All right, David, thank you for answering that question.
Speaker 3: All right, Peter, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Look, there's other catchers out there not named Austin Barnes
Speaker 2: or Ben Rhortfitt. Okay, there are other catchers out there
Speaker 2: not name Roortfitt or Barnes. As much as I love
Speaker 2: both those guys, I gave you the two names that
Speaker 2: I would love to have with the Dodgers if they
Speaker 2: could pull off a trade. It does take two to tango,
Speaker 2: and I do. I am a believer, especially now that
Speaker 2: there is a Dodger's tax. So whatever teams are asking
Speaker 2: from other teams, they're going to ask more from the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: So I was thinking Luis Porentz from the Mets. I
Speaker 2: was thinking Victor Carrottini from the Twins. So there are
Speaker 2: guys that are willing and able out there that are
Speaker 2: not named Ben Rortfitt or Austin Barnes. And by the way,
Speaker 2: you bring back Ben Rohtfitt on the Dodgers, what do
Speaker 2: you think that's going to do to the psyche of
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing. You have to put that into the equation
Speaker 2: as well. Let's go out to Gino Lynn. You're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. How you doing Lynn?
Speaker 6: Hey, Dave, mister smooth love you man. Hey, that interview
Speaker 6: with Fully was awesome. Man. I never get tired of that.
Speaker 6: I've heard it several times, and I make sure I
Speaker 6: listened to the whole thing.
Speaker 10: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you ignore me and you just focus on Vin.
Speaker 2: That's the point of it.
Speaker 6: Nah, you're sticking around for a reason. You're amazing. Hey, listen, Dave.
Speaker 6: One year Dwight Howard was in high school, everybody went
Speaker 6: out to public pavilion, Tim play right, and star after
Speaker 6: star kept coming into the house. I had my wife
Speaker 6: with me. She doesn't usually like to go and where
Speaker 6: crowds are, and she's like, uh, we were seeing all
Speaker 6: the stars and then we saw Vin Scotti. She says,
Speaker 6: who's the old white guy with the white hair with
Speaker 6: his white there. I says, he's only the most popular guy,
Speaker 6: only the most popular guy who ever lived in the
Speaker 6: sports world. And then everybody lined up to talk to him.
Speaker 6: The crowd went crazy. I talked to Ben. He was
Speaker 6: so grateful. He's an amazing guy, amazing smile the whole time.
Speaker 6: But to tell you how popular and how wonderful that
Speaker 6: guy is, man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt, Lynn, I gotta run. The national anthem
Speaker 2: is about to start. We're gonna take a time out
Speaker 2: here and thank you for the phone call. We're gonna
Speaker 2: take a time out here from the bank in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: When we continue, will lead.
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Speaker 2: We are getting closer to first pitch between the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and Phillies, Robleski versus Wheeler, Rick Monday and Steven Nelson.
Speaker 3: We'll have the call at the top of the hour.
Speaker 2: This game was supposed to start at six forty Eastern time,
Speaker 2: three forty Pacific time, so we've been in quite a
Speaker 2: rain delay waiting for mother nature to cooperate. Our understanding
Speaker 2: is there is another rainstorm coming in at about eleven
Speaker 2: Eastern times, so want to get this game in quickly
Speaker 2: so there is not another delay at the back end
Speaker 2: of this game. And they got two good guys to
Speaker 2: be able to get this game moving at a quick
Speaker 2: pace with Justin Robleski the strikethrower, the attacker, and Zach
Speaker 2: Wheeler on the mound. I will say this, Zach Wheeler
Speaker 2: dominates the rest of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of Dodgers that have made Zach.
Speaker 2: Wheeler look very human, including Freddie Freeman and Max Munsey.
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Speaker 2: of a Fighter. Let's take one more phone call before
Speaker 2: we hand things over to Rick Monday and Steven Nelson.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Honolulu, Hawaii.
Speaker 2: Gil, you are going to walk us off on this
Speaker 2: rain delay edition of Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Will Aloha alohaha. I listened to that interview with Vince
Speaker 8: Gohe and I brought that many memories. I went to
Speaker 8: elementary school with Danny Ozark's son. We went to school together,
Speaker 8: and he used to tell us that Don Drysdale and
Speaker 8: Duke Snyder world at the house.
Speaker 3: That was like years amazing.
Speaker 8: What I wanted to question is O'shani. O'tani had his
Speaker 8: knee operated on when he was with the Angels. I
Speaker 8: was wondering if it's the same need that he seems
Speaker 8: to be having problems.
Speaker 2: With it is he had his kneecap fused, because when
Speaker 2: he was born, most of us have one bone for
Speaker 2: our kneecap. His was in two separate bones, and they
Speaker 2: had that fused in September of twenty nineteen. So yes,
Speaker 2: that is still the same bone, and who knows. You know,
Speaker 2: he did not have his knee drained. He had a
Speaker 2: lubricant injection, so maybe he needed that because of the
Speaker 2: bone situation, the kneecap situation, Gil. But like I said,
Speaker 2: my concern level is a lot lower after talking to
Speaker 2: a former Dodger pitcher this morning because he has been
Speaker 2: through the Dodger's load management during the season. And look,
Speaker 2: everybody can still enjoy Otani the hitter. They're just gonna
Speaker 2: have to wait a few weeks for Otani the pitcher.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five is the
Speaker 2: phone number. That's the phone number for tomorrow because we're
Speaker 2: backing out of here now. We're getting set for first
Speaker 2: pitch between the Dodgers and Phillies. Rick Monday and Steven
Speaker 2: Nelson on the call right around the corner, live from
Speaker 2: the bank with the Philly fanatic and rain gear and
Speaker 2: a poncho.
Speaker 3: This is going to be a great game. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2: Rick and Steven will have the words I view when
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