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: Fifth a spring training Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Here we go again.
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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Bassei.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm here to rescue you from that last segment
Speaker 2: of Petros and money and maybe even rescue you from
Speaker 2: the last four hours on Dodger Talk. We are with
Speaker 2: you tonight until eight o'clock. We are to have a
Speaker 2: great guest for you at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2: That is two time World Series champion Daniel Hudson, who
Speaker 2: was the last man standing on the mound for the
Speaker 2: Nationals in twenty nineteen and more importantly, one of the
Speaker 2: anchors and leaders of the Dodger bullpen that rescued the
Speaker 2: Dodgers to the twenty twenty four World Championship, and one
Speaker 2: of the smartest guys the Dodgers and baseball has had
Speaker 2: in the last fifteen years. So I feel like I
Speaker 2: feel like Heckel and Jekyl the last four years kind
Speaker 2: of put down Daniel Hudson. I know they had a
Speaker 2: very accomplished GM from the NFL on and then decide
Speaker 2: to replay it. I feel like that replay went one
Speaker 2: more time than it needed to. What's Tom Tolesco ever done? Win?
Speaker 2: What one playoff game? How long did he last as
Speaker 2: the Raiders GM? Four months? And he's an expert? Who's
Speaker 2: on tomorrow? John Paul Morosi still tracking Shoeo Tani's jet
Speaker 2: to Toronto. Oh man, we could do this too. We
Speaker 2: could do this too. I love it though. I love
Speaker 2: that Petros literally saved the segment by going through the
Speaker 2: bullpen roll call. I did enjoy that, now, I did
Speaker 2: enjoy that. That was good spirited fun. So I'm just
Speaker 2: having my own fun right there. I have some issues
Speaker 2: too with Little league dads that will get to in
Speaker 2: a moment. I might need your help on how to
Speaker 2: deal with that because I drove back from spring training
Speaker 2: just to see my son's first little league game, and
Speaker 2: some parents take it a lot more serious. Lee than
Speaker 2: others do. There's some guys that really really believe their
Speaker 2: ten year old is in the big leagues. And this
Speaker 2: one guy I got warned. I got warned when I
Speaker 2: showed up. I drove straight from Glendale, Arizona, to West
Speaker 2: Hills to watch my son's first game, and I got
Speaker 2: warned by one of the dads I know, and he's like, oh,
Speaker 2: this guy's a beauty. I was like, all right, how
Speaker 2: bad could he be? Well, his kid was catching the
Speaker 2: entire game, and every single pitch the dad was micromanaging him.
Speaker 2: And then it gets even better. He starts getting on
Speaker 2: the umpire and by the end of the game he's
Speaker 2: dropping F bombs and getting thrown out. So what do
Speaker 2: you do with a dad like that? I just literally
Speaker 2: came from watching the back to back world champion Dodgers
Speaker 2: and nobody was acting the way this guy was acting.
Speaker 2: Am I going to have to deal with this the
Speaker 2: entire season? I mean F bombs with ten year olds there.
Speaker 2: If you have any advice on how to deal with
Speaker 2: this guy, let me know. Eight six six nine, eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. Even the Hood Instagram legend the
Speaker 2: Hood of Los Angeles showed up coincidentally and witnessed all this,
Speaker 2: and uh, maybe I gotta bring Petros. Maybe I gotta
Speaker 2: bring Petros, you know, the morality police to my kids,
Speaker 2: literallygue game to figure all this out. So we'll see
Speaker 2: how it goes. I'm not sure if I'll be able
Speaker 2: to make it to Game two this weekend, but we'll
Speaker 2: see how it plays out. But I mean, literally, some
Speaker 2: of these parents, and I hope you're not one of them.
Speaker 2: It's embarrassing. You're embarrassing yourself, your kid, your family. It's
Speaker 2: really embarrassing ten year olds. Really, you think he's what
Speaker 2: will smith back there? Come on, I'm sure Tim Kates
Speaker 2: never acted that way or his family. Eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: I bet this dad would have gone really wild if
Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki was his son. Because Roki Sasaki in the
Speaker 2: first inning today did not get out of it. Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts had to roll the inning, as they like to say,
Speaker 2: and take him out in the middle of the inning
Speaker 2: after not being able to find the strike zone. He
Speaker 2: walked three and gave up a grand slam. But then
Speaker 2: he came back for the second inning and looked a
Speaker 2: little better. Retired the side in order did not give
Speaker 2: up a run, So that was a relief I think
Speaker 2: in some ways, considering now, the Dodger starting rotation is
Speaker 2: looking a little thinner than it was even a month ago.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers somewhat need Roki Sasaki to be a guy
Speaker 2: that they can rely on for at least five innings
Speaker 2: once a week. I mean, because this guy is not
Speaker 2: going to pitch every five days as we saw last year.
Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki is going to be a once a week pitcher,
Speaker 2: and you would hope once a week pitchers would be
Speaker 2: able to give you five, maybe six innings. Is that
Speaker 2: too much to ask? And look, this is still a
Speaker 2: work in progress, but there's some sort of responsibility. He
Speaker 2: has to not put the Dodger bullpen in a bad
Speaker 2: spot every time he goes out there, because that's what
Speaker 2: we saw most of the time early in the season.
Speaker 2: And look, Roki was huge to the Dodgers' run to
Speaker 2: the World Series. There's no arguing that. But they need him,
Speaker 2: if he's going to be part of the rotation, to
Speaker 2: be a five inning guy at the very least. Good
Speaker 2: news as far as the rotation goes, River Ryan again
Speaker 2: had a very good outing. He pitched in relief, pitched
Speaker 2: two no hit innings, had three strikeouts. But he's coming
Speaker 2: off Tommy John surgery. I kind of feel like the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are strategizing rolling him out the way they rolled
Speaker 2: out Emid Shehan last year in the second half of
Speaker 2: the season. But they may be forced to bring him
Speaker 2: along a little quicker right now. If you look at
Speaker 2: the Dodgers opening day rotation with Snell not being ready
Speaker 2: and Gavin Stone having a setback with coming back from
Speaker 2: shoulder surgery, you're looking at a starting five verse six
Speaker 2: of Yamamoto, Glass, now, Sheehan, Otani, Robleski, and Roki Sasaki.
Speaker 2: And that's why I mentioned the Petro some money that
Speaker 2: a guy that you may want to keep in mind
Speaker 2: is Cole Irvin. Cole Irvin is a veteran from the
Speaker 2: A's that can be a multi inning reliever to give
Speaker 2: the Dodgers some coverage. Because now Robleski, who the Dodgers
Speaker 2: do believe can be a very good starter, but they
Speaker 2: just didn't have a spot for him all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: now is going to get his opportunity to be in
Speaker 2: the starting rotation and river Ryan coming along in the
Speaker 2: second half. And you know, I thought part of the
Speaker 2: most obvious thing at camp the first couple of weeks
Speaker 2: is the fact that Blake Snow was not going to
Speaker 2: be ready for opening Day. I didn't need Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: to say that. It was apparent. He hasn't thrown off
Speaker 2: the mound. There's no bullpen session. What he's doing right
Speaker 2: now playing catch from ninety to one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: feet is what pitchers do to get ready for spring
Speaker 2: training in December, maybe January, but in December. So by
Speaker 2: the time spring training ends, he may be throwing bullpen sessions.
Speaker 2: He may have just started throwing to hitters, and that's
Speaker 2: a two month process. You've got to get six starts
Speaker 2: under your belt. That takes time. So I know I
Speaker 2: had the over under at single demile, but I certainly
Speaker 2: believe it's the over. It's going to be closer to June.
Speaker 2: So you know, Snell has an endearing quality that even
Speaker 2: though he's not ready for the beginning of most seasons,
Speaker 2: and when he is, he wins the cy young. But
Speaker 2: if you look back at the last few years, his
Speaker 2: endearing quality is that you can, especially if you're the
Speaker 2: Dodgers say all right, yeah, okay, you're it's not ideal.
Speaker 2: It's not ideal. But if you come back in June
Speaker 2: or July and you never look back and you pitched
Speaker 2: the way you did in the NLDS and the NLCS
Speaker 2: and gut it out in the World Series, all right,
Speaker 2: we can handle that. But Blake's now better be ready
Speaker 2: to perform when it matters the most, and he has
Speaker 2: shown an ability to do that, especially as recently as
Speaker 2: last year. Eight sixty six nine, eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. When we continue on Dodger Talk,
Speaker 2: you'll hear part of our conversation with JD. Martinez in
Speaker 2: case you missed it last Friday. He is the Mookie
Speaker 2: Bets whisperer and Team USA, as you heard Petro some
Speaker 2: money really detail had their first scrimmage against who was it.
Speaker 2: I don't even know who. They scrimmaged against. Kershaw. He's
Speaker 2: in Arizona, not with the Dodgers, but with Team USA.
Speaker 2: You'll hear from the future Hall of Famer as well.
Speaker 2: This is Dodger Talk, David Vasse. You until eight o'clock
Speaker 2: right here on a five to seventy LA Sports. It's
Speaker 2: a Tom Telasco Free Zone on Dodger Talk. No failed
Speaker 2: nflgms on this show. Only winners like Daniel Hudson, a
Speaker 2: two time World Series champion, coming up at the bottom
Speaker 2: of the hour. And you know, certainly the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: rolling in spring training nine to three after a five
Speaker 2: to four win. Miguel Rojas hit a two run home
Speaker 2: run today. So Rojas, in his final major league season,
Speaker 2: came to camp ready, just like virtually every Dodger did.
Speaker 2: And that's why I'm a firm believer the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: a great chance to at least get to the NLCS.
Speaker 2: And I'm starting to believe the people in Florida that
Speaker 2: have been texting me, calling me that letting me know
Speaker 2: that the Mets might be the toughest competition for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: And there are rave reviews of Nolan McClain, the young
Speaker 2: rookie right hander for the Mets who was supposed to
Speaker 2: join Team USA but had to stay back in Florida
Speaker 2: because he was experiencing vertigo. So he is going to
Speaker 2: join Team USA a little bit later. And in case
Speaker 2: you love the World Baseball Classic, Team USA finally got
Speaker 2: together yesterday and they played their first exhibition game today
Speaker 2: Roman Anthony homerd against the Giants in Scottsdale, and they'll
Speaker 2: be headed to Houston for the first round of the
Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic with the one and only Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 2: who you'll hear from in just a moment. Kershaw is
Speaker 2: number one, so are my friends at Downy Hunday. My
Speaker 2: guy Sam, number one dealer in the USSA, USA, USA
Speaker 2: number one, and now they're going for the repeat in
Speaker 2: twenty six, similar to the Dodgers going for the three peat.
Speaker 2: My guy Sam at Downey Hunday, he's got more selection,
Speaker 2: he's got more trust, he's got more reasons for you
Speaker 2: to choose Downy Hunday. And you never know, you might
Speaker 2: see me driving in a Downy Hunday on the way
Speaker 2: to Opening Day. Matted blue, I think is what I'm
Speaker 2: looking at there. So look out for me on the
Speaker 2: one oh one, I'll be exiting Alvarado, and look out
Speaker 2: for my guy Sam at Downey Hunday. They are the
Speaker 2: champs of USA and Southern California. Don't forget it. Eight
Speaker 2: six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Speaking of USA, we had America's DH on
Speaker 2: the show Friday night, JD Martinez who is playing in
Speaker 2: a celebrity pickleball tournament out there in Lakinta before the
Speaker 2: tennis tournament begins at Indian Wells, and he let us
Speaker 2: in on just how much he he helped Mookie Beds
Speaker 2: salvage his season in September.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean me and Muk go way back,
Speaker 5: so you know, for him, I definitely made the exception
Speaker 5: of coming out and going out there and spending a
Speaker 5: weekend with him and you know, trying to get him
Speaker 5: back on track. It was like God, a few times.
Speaker 3: We did it?
Speaker 6: Did it?
Speaker 3: I did it there?
Speaker 5: And then I did in l A too.
Speaker 2: Did you really?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 5: Yeah, help him with?
Speaker 2: What do you help him with? How? Why does j
Speaker 2: D Martinez connect with him so much?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think we both a want of trust.
Speaker 5: He trusts me, uh he you know, he values my
Speaker 5: opinion on everything, and from there it was kind of
Speaker 5: one of those things where we just we work well
Speaker 5: together and I don't know, I feel like I just
Speaker 5: have a really good understanding of his swing and his mind,
Speaker 5: you know, Muki's on Mook's you know, unbelievable unbelievable talent,
Speaker 5: as everybody knows. It's just sometimes this game it just
Speaker 5: derails you sometimes and you need someone to you know,
Speaker 5: lock it back in.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: Robert was that guy. Robert was that guy for me.
Speaker 5: You know, every time I would get derailed, Robert would
Speaker 5: kind of guide me back in and it was a
Speaker 5: lot of trust that I put into him, and it
Speaker 5: always kind of works. Sometimes you just got to turn
Speaker 5: your brain off and let someone else.
Speaker 7: Think for you, cause you just get in.
Speaker 5: Your own way.
Speaker 2: Mooky's coming to camp earlier than I've ever seen him
Speaker 2: come to camp to work since twenty twenty. Do you
Speaker 2: expect him you know, there's a lot of people that
Speaker 2: expect the beginning of the end last year for Mookie.
Speaker 2: Do you expect him to have, you know, more of
Speaker 2: a Mookie type year?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean, you just the thing with Muk is you
Speaker 5: just you know, you never know, he just turns on
Speaker 5: a switch and all of a sudden, he doesn't get
Speaker 5: out for freaking three months, and you're like, what the
Speaker 5: heck just happened. It's like Freddie, you know, they're.
Speaker 7: Able to just go on these runs.
Speaker 8: Where you're like, good luck.
Speaker 3: Yeah for me, I always expect Muki to have a
Speaker 3: great year.
Speaker 5: You know, I tell him every I tell him all
Speaker 5: the time. I said, Muke, I said, there's no reason
Speaker 5: that you can't win MVP every single year because you
Speaker 5: have that kind of ability.
Speaker 2: And if I mean too you again this year, would
Speaker 2: you answer the phone? Would they be able to suck
Speaker 2: you back into the cage?
Speaker 5: I mean, if Mooki called me, yeah, I definitely would,
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, Muki's my guy, so what interest.
Speaker 3: We've always had a big relationship there.
Speaker 2: He is JD Martinez, the Mookie Whisperer along with being
Speaker 2: America's DH. It was great having him on the show.
Speaker 2: And I know we were aware of the fact that JD.
Speaker 2: Martinez met up with Mooki at an off side batting
Speaker 2: cage when the team was in Tampa, and that's kind
Speaker 2: of where Mooki hit rock bottom offensively. And I had
Speaker 2: no idea that JD. Martinez came to LA after that
Speaker 2: to help him as well. And that's where Mookie salvaged
Speaker 2: his season. He was really good in September and he
Speaker 2: was good in the postseason. And when you hear JD.
Speaker 2: Martinez say he could flip that switch and go on
Speaker 2: a tear and never get out. Well, he never had
Speaker 2: that last year. But Mooky's in a great place coming
Speaker 2: into camp. And I'm not just you know, throwing out
Speaker 2: hyperboles out there. This is the look Mookie Betts had
Speaker 2: when he first came to the Dodgers in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: He has said this a couple of different times this spring.
Speaker 2: He's in a better place than he has been in
Speaker 2: a long time, starting the year with the Dodgers. So
Speaker 2: that is good for the Dodgers. And I'm sure he's
Speaker 2: heard the critics. People think he's thirty three years old
Speaker 2: and it's the beginning of the end. But he wants
Speaker 2: to win a Gold Glove at shortstop and he feels
Speaker 2: like his swing is in a great spot that it
Speaker 2: never was going into the season last year. Eight six, six,
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Ontario. Josh, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: How you doing, Josh, Hey, Dave, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 8: I actually love the recent injury deal with Chase Utley.
Speaker 8: And then I got me thinking, where's Matt Kent's whereabouts, Like,
Speaker 8: what's his exact role with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Matt Kemp does not have a role with the Dodgers. Josh.
Speaker 2: He's back in I think he lives in Oklahoma or Texas.
Speaker 2: He's got some things going on out there and hasn't
Speaker 2: made it back to the West Coast to Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 2: or dear Camp in a couple of years. So I
Speaker 2: would love to see Matt Kemp be more involved, come
Speaker 2: out like Ethier and Utley and Eric Carros does. But
Speaker 2: I guess he's he's got other things going on out
Speaker 2: there where he lives.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, all right, Well I was hoping to see him.
Speaker 8: I hopefully we see him.
Speaker 3: More opting I love.
Speaker 8: But I think you're for taking my call, dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no problem, Josh. Yeah, I would love to see
Speaker 2: Matt camp out there. It's been great to see so
Speaker 2: many former Dodgers that played as recent lee as two
Speaker 2: years ago, like Daniel Hudson did. He meant a lot
Speaker 2: to Walker Bueller when he came to the Dodgers the
Speaker 2: first time in twenty eighteen. They picked up where they
Speaker 2: left off when he joined back in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: and he was the guy in the bullpen when Walker
Speaker 2: Buehler was warming up. You know, I believe Daniel Hudson
Speaker 2: actually felt a tweak in his arm and that's the
Speaker 2: reason why he couldn't come in. So that's why the
Speaker 2: shoulder everything was on the shoulders of Walker Bueller, and
Speaker 2: Daniel Hudson is going to join us coming up in
Speaker 2: about five minutes. Before we get to him, I want
Speaker 2: to share with you that Clayton Kershaw showed up at
Speaker 2: Scottsdale Stadium to join Team USA's World Baseball Classic team.
Speaker 2: He was in great spirits. He has that retirement glow,
Speaker 2: and it feels like the burden of being part of
Speaker 2: this team is off the shoulders of him. It feels
Speaker 2: like everybody else has, you know, the constraints of their team.
Speaker 2: They have the expectations of the baseball world. But Kershaw
Speaker 2: is there to help out whenever innings are called for
Speaker 2: because he's retired and the Dodgers don't have any sort
Speaker 2: of leash on how many innings he can pitch. Everybody
Speaker 2: else has constraints like schoo ball or Paul's schemes. Rightfully so,
Speaker 2: and that's the reason why Mark Deurosa invited Kershaw to
Speaker 2: be part of this team. To be able to pitch innings.
Speaker 2: Let's say there's a blowout either way. Why waste innings
Speaker 2: of a guy that you can only use in certain
Speaker 2: certain ways. You have a cap on innings and games,
Speaker 2: why use them. Kershaw is fully aware of that, and
Speaker 2: he joined MLB Network yesterday to just go through what
Speaker 2: his role and his expectations are being part of this team.
Speaker 9: You know, I don't have a season to prepare for,
Speaker 9: so I'm here just if there's an innings problem, if
Speaker 9: there's a pitchcount problem.
Speaker 3: I'm here.
Speaker 9: I can pitch every day.
Speaker 3: This is it for me.
Speaker 9: So if they want me to throw a thousand pitches,
Speaker 9: I'm in for it. And you know it might not
Speaker 9: be pretty, but I'll get the job done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he will. I mean the one thing that he
Speaker 2: does and he has done throughout his entire career, and
Speaker 2: that's compete no matter if he was feeling great, if
Speaker 2: he was feeling mediocre, if he was feeling great, he
Speaker 2: goes out there and competes. And that's probably the only
Speaker 2: interest I have in the World Baseball Classic until it
Speaker 2: gets to the final game, is Kershaw and how he
Speaker 2: does and how he gets into games. So I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to seeing twenty two and the Red, White and
Speaker 2: Blue get out on the mound and do his thing
Speaker 2: and see what he's got in retirement. This was kind
Speaker 2: of a late forming thing in December. Feels like his
Speaker 2: body exiled and then he had to kind of get
Speaker 2: it going. He was throwing to high school kids in
Speaker 2: Texas to somewhat get ready for this. And I know
Speaker 2: he's been self depreciate that if he has to come
Speaker 2: in to face Otani, team USA is not in a
Speaker 2: great spot. But Otani, in case you don't know, this
Speaker 2: is zero four eleven against Kershawn his career when they
Speaker 2: faced each other when Otani was pitching playing for the Angels.
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna take a time out when we continue.
Speaker 2: Daniel Hudson, two time World Series champion and the leader
Speaker 2: of the bullpen Dogs that led the way for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in twenty twenty four, will join us next right
Speaker 2: here on Dodger Talk on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you until
Speaker 2: eight o'clock tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. Well,
Speaker 2: it's been a great spring training for the Dodgers, not
Speaker 2: only as the players get ready for the three peat,
Speaker 2: but also so many of the former Dodgers over the
Speaker 2: years have come back in uniform and out of uniform,
Speaker 2: whether it's Andre Ethier or Eric Carross or Chase Utley.
Speaker 2: It's been great to see those guys. But what's even
Speaker 2: more special is when you see guys that have been
Speaker 2: part of the twenty or twenty four World Series championship.
Speaker 2: And I ran into one of them last week, and
Speaker 2: that is one of the bullpen Dogs from twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: a two time World Series champion, but especially a Dodger
Speaker 2: champion in twenty twenty four, and that is Daniel Hudson. Hodey,
Speaker 2: thanks a lot for coming on. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: No prom David, You're too kind.
Speaker 2: Hey. I was driving around Arizona. I heard some sports
Speaker 2: talk show say that you're gonna be their baseball correspondent.
Speaker 2: I said, Hey, I gotta jump these guys. He's Dodger
Speaker 2: Talks own first. They got to come through Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: to get Daniel Hudson.
Speaker 10: Hey, there's plenty, plenty of hours in the day. You know,
Speaker 10: we can all have a little bit, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Okay, I got something for you since you were
Speaker 2: out there at Camelback Ranch. When you're around the guys
Speaker 2: and you see spring training starting again, you're a couple
Speaker 2: of years removed. Now does the itch, does the desire
Speaker 2: to want to come back and pitch start to take
Speaker 2: over you? Or are you feeling like pain is optional
Speaker 2: these days?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I was a little I was a little nervous my
Speaker 10: first spring training. Not playing last year, how I was
Speaker 10: gonna feel. But once spring training came, I towards the
Speaker 10: end of my career, I came to loads spring training,
Speaker 10: so I was not missing that very much at all.
Speaker 10: Opening day, I stayed busy, didn't really didn't try not
Speaker 10: to think about it too much. And then you know,
Speaker 10: I just got kind of got busy doing life. And
Speaker 10: you know, I definitely don't miss the grind of every
Speaker 10: day prepping for games. And you know, spring training obviously
Speaker 10: miss I miss competing, I missed playing, and I miss
Speaker 10: the guys. But at the same time, I'm really enjoying
Speaker 10: my time here at home with the family, and you know,
Speaker 10: it's been really good so far.
Speaker 2: I've told a few different players, and I'm a true
Speaker 2: believer in this. You had a lot of adversity in
Speaker 2: your fifteen year career and you continue to purse, serve
Speaker 2: and the game rewarded you. We always talk about Kershaw
Speaker 2: going out as a World Series champion, but how rewarding
Speaker 2: and gratifying was it for you to retire as a
Speaker 2: World Series champion? To go out the way you did
Speaker 2: a healthy season and you pitched sixty five games plus
Speaker 2: the postseason and you were such a big part of it.
Speaker 2: Does that make you feel more at peace than maybe
Speaker 2: other players that retire who don't get that opportunity.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 10: I always had the the the idea, that thought, you know,
Speaker 10: I wanted to go out on my own terms always,
Speaker 10: you know, going what I going through, what I went
Speaker 10: through at the beginning of my career with a couple
Speaker 10: arm surgeries and not knowing how much longer I was
Speaker 10: going to be able to play, and then turning that
Speaker 10: into sticking around ten plus years after that, you know,
Speaker 10: towards the end of my career, I really was like,
Speaker 10: I need to kind of find a runway here so
Speaker 10: I don't stick around too long. You know, I saw
Speaker 10: guys throughout my career, you know, whether it was monetarily
Speaker 10: motivated or you know, they just fel like they were
Speaker 10: good enough to keep going kind of stick around too long,
Speaker 10: or at least in my opinion, I thought they did,
Speaker 10: you know, And I never really wanted to go out
Speaker 10: like that. So to be able to kind of, you know,
Speaker 10: latch on with the Dodgers there in twenty twenty two
Speaker 10: through twenty twenty four and get opportunity to do that, Obviously,
Speaker 10: my injuries in twenty two and twenty three didn't help,
Speaker 10: but I knew going into twenty four that if I
Speaker 10: got another chance to play that it was going to
Speaker 10: be my last year. And you know, like you said,
Speaker 10: to be able to go out on top of like
Speaker 10: it's just a dream come true, and you know, I
Speaker 10: really got to fulfill my dream of going out of
Speaker 10: my own terms.
Speaker 2: You have a great perspective on what the Dodgers were
Speaker 2: and what they've become because you were with them two
Speaker 2: separate times. You were with them in eighteen when they
Speaker 2: went to the World Series against the Red Sox and lost,
Speaker 2: and then you came back and you know, obviously in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two and ended it with the championship in
Speaker 2: twenty four when Otani arrived. So can you describe to
Speaker 2: us where what the Dodgers were in twenty eighteen, and
Speaker 2: how they become this juggernaut in the last two years.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think, well, I mean just going back even farther,
Speaker 10: going back to win. You know, obviously the sale of
Speaker 10: the Dodgers in the early twenty tens. You know, this
Speaker 10: kind of whole deal. This run for them started I
Speaker 10: think with like twenty thirteen or twenty fourteen. You know,
Speaker 10: they've always just kind of been a model of consistency
Speaker 10: since then. And you know, they've gotten the right people
Speaker 10: in the right places in the front office that are
Speaker 10: really aggressive and always want to win.
Speaker 3: They've got the right ownership in.
Speaker 10: Place to always be able to back it up with
Speaker 10: the checks, to be able to bring in the right people,
Speaker 10: and they always seem to get the right guys in
Speaker 10: the clubhouse to make it a good culture, and guys
Speaker 10: that want to come from other places and play for them.
Speaker 10: You know, Yes, they spend a lot more money than
Speaker 10: everybody else. That is also a big draw for players.
Speaker 10: But I think when you play against the Dodgers, or
Speaker 10: at least from my perspective, when I played against them
Speaker 10: at the beginning of my career, you know, it always
Speaker 10: seem like a good, good culture, good clubhouse, and you know,
Speaker 10: it's something that guys want to be a part of.
Speaker 10: So I think it starts and starts with that. And then,
Speaker 10: like you said in twenty seventeen twenty eighteen, going to
Speaker 10: back to back World Series losing both of them, I
Speaker 10: think really probably a little fire under a lot of
Speaker 10: people in that front office and ownership, and they really
Speaker 10: wanted to kind of take a stranglehold and get past
Speaker 10: that little homp. And you know, they've won three World
Speaker 10: Series in the last five years, and I think that
Speaker 10: shows do you.
Speaker 2: What do you make of I call it envy and
Speaker 2: jealousy of the rest of the league. What do you
Speaker 2: How do you you feel the way things have kind
Speaker 2: of turned the Dodgers into I guess in what everybody
Speaker 2: is calling the Evil Empire. There's a lot of talk
Speaker 2: that they're ruining baseball. Some people, like myself, believe they're
Speaker 2: helping baseball. Where do you think all this comes from.
Speaker 10: I think it's just, you know, people throw around the
Speaker 10: term parody all the time. You know, growing up in
Speaker 10: the nineties and two thousands watching baseball, you know, everybody
Speaker 10: hated the Yankees. They spent more money than everybody else.
Speaker 10: They were the biggest brand in sports, you know, outside
Speaker 10: maybe the Cowboys. But you know, it's just I don't
Speaker 10: it's easy to hate the team that wins if you're
Speaker 10: not a team a fan of that team, And I
Speaker 10: think that's kind of what's going on in LA. Obviously,
Speaker 10: you know, they have bigger check books and everybody else,
Speaker 10: they can sign more players, but like I said, it
Speaker 10: starts with the culture and bring in the right guys.
Speaker 10: They always seem to bring in the right guys.
Speaker 3: They have smart.
Speaker 10: People to you know, identify who they want to bring
Speaker 10: in every single off season. H Yeah, everybody talks about
Speaker 10: the big names, the show Hayes, the Yaoamotos, Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 10: rookie bats, bringing all those guys in, but there's so
Speaker 10: much under the surface of you know, DFA guys that
Speaker 10: they claim and guys off the trash heap, so to speak,
Speaker 10: that they fix and they create this depth that really
Speaker 10: helps out for when guys like Blake Snell and Tyler
Speaker 10: Glass now go down last year, they have guys that
Speaker 10: can step in like ms she Han. Hopefully Gavin Stone
Speaker 10: will be one of those guys this year. It's just
Speaker 10: it's just a very, very wealth of depths that they
Speaker 10: have underneath all those big name stars. And I think
Speaker 10: that's really a big envy for a lot of people,
Speaker 10: a lot of teams, a lot of fans, And I'm
Speaker 10: with you, I think it's I think it's good for
Speaker 10: the game. I don't know what people would rather the
Speaker 10: goog Andheim group do with all their billions of dollars
Speaker 10: in revenue. Would they rather than pocket it and not
Speaker 10: put it back onto the field. I just don't really,
Speaker 10: I don't really understand what they want them to do,
Speaker 10: just sit on their twitterle their thumbs with all their cash,
Speaker 10: like like, just let's let's spend the money that we
Speaker 10: made and keep winning. I don't understand why that's a
Speaker 10: bad thing.
Speaker 2: Doesn't this come down to show heeo Tani as well,
Speaker 2: wanting to win and deferring as much of his salary
Speaker 2: as he did so the Dodgers could bring in really
Speaker 2: good players to build around him.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm not so convinced that the Dodgers wouldn't have
Speaker 10: spent all the money they have anyways, even if show
Speaker 10: Hey didn't defer sixty eight million dollars a year. But
Speaker 10: at the same time, yes, for sure, and from what
Speaker 10: I've read and understood, there was a couple other teams
Speaker 10: that offered show Hey the exact same deal with deferred money.
Speaker 10: I think it was show Hay's idea that I heard anyways,
Speaker 10: that it was his idea to defer most of the
Speaker 10: money so that we could that they could sign more
Speaker 10: guys and not go spend six hundred million dollars on payroll,
Speaker 10: although they're getting close to that right now anyways. But
Speaker 10: you know, I think it just goes to show you
Speaker 10: that any team can can kind of do the exact
Speaker 10: same thing that they did, and some teams just chose
Speaker 10: not to and show Hey. Ultimately, I think I'm convinced
Speaker 10: that if there was a DH in the National League
Speaker 10: in twenty whenever he came over and played for the Angels,
Speaker 10: that he probably would have signed with the Dodgers then.
Speaker 10: So I think that once there was a DH and
Speaker 10: the National League, that kind of seal the deal that
Speaker 10: he was coming over.
Speaker 2: Daniel Hudson is our guest one of the twenty four
Speaker 2: bullpen dogs that started the back to back championship as
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are looking for at three pete all right,
Speaker 2: since where he brought up Otani. Was there a perception
Speaker 2: of him that you had and then was torn down,
Speaker 2: or you got to know something more about him being
Speaker 2: teammates with him. Albeit in twenty four he was just
Speaker 2: a fifty to fifty hitter. But what was he like
Speaker 2: as a teammate to you? As a bullpen.
Speaker 3: Dog, he was awesome.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: I didn't really get to know him too much.
Speaker 10: I was actually in spring training with the Angels in
Speaker 10: twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, before he was rehabbing his first
Speaker 10: Tommy John, so he wasn't around a whole lot. He
Speaker 10: stood in on some bullpens that I threw, talked to
Speaker 10: him a little bit.
Speaker 3: Just a really really good guy.
Speaker 10: Like I said, I don't think if he wasn't a
Speaker 10: good guy, regardless of how good of a ballplayer he was,
Speaker 10: I'm not sure that the Dodgers would have brought him
Speaker 10: in if he wasn't a guy like I said. They're
Speaker 10: just so you know, in tune with with that clubhouse
Speaker 10: and what needs to be brought in. And you know,
Speaker 10: he's just a really, really fantastic teammate. I really enjoyed
Speaker 10: playing with him. Obviously him being the best baseball player
Speaker 10: to ever play the game really helps out when he's
Speaker 10: on your side. It's literally, it's just a it was
Speaker 10: just a privilege to be able to to watch it
Speaker 10: from the bullpen gates every single night.
Speaker 2: Before I let you go, I'm not I know you're
Speaker 2: enjoying your three girls, your family. You got a chance
Speaker 2: to go back to your hometown in North Carolina this
Speaker 2: past year. But since you are in Arizona and so
Speaker 2: many players reside out there, and you always hear about,
Speaker 2: you know, hitters training there in Arizona, could you ever
Speaker 2: envision yourself being a guy that would would open the
Speaker 2: doors to what you have to offer, even as like
Speaker 2: a personal pitching coach or one of those guys that
Speaker 2: instead of a hitter going to see maybe they they
Speaker 2: come to see Daniel Hudson for some pitching help.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, there's always an opportunity like that out here.
Speaker 10: Like you said, there's there's just really good place for
Speaker 10: guys to kind of settle down for the off season.
Speaker 10: There's really good weather obviously in the off season to
Speaker 10: be able to get outside and actually throw outside. I
Speaker 10: know a lot of teammates that are in the Midwest
Speaker 10: or the East Coast, you know, they have to do
Speaker 10: a lot of throwing indoors. It's really good spot to
Speaker 10: be able to to get outside and really just kind
Speaker 10: of let it loose, and you know, there's always that
Speaker 10: kind of opportunity. The guys that I played with always
Speaker 10: know that my cell phone's always on if they need anything.
Speaker 10: I've always I've let all of them know that. You know,
Speaker 10: there's there's there are many different avenues that that this
Speaker 10: can go down. Right now, like I said, like you said,
Speaker 10: I'm enjoying my family time, but there's also you know,
Speaker 10: if somebody calls me and needs me for a certain thing,
Speaker 10: there's definitely things that I'd look into for sure.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. You have so much to offer, Daniel, And
Speaker 2: I know how much everybody that you played with really
Speaker 2: respect you and what you stood for and just the
Speaker 2: way that you prepared and fought through so many things.
Speaker 2: So I'm glad I got to see you out there.
Speaker 2: It was bad luck for you because maybe maybe a
Speaker 2: Dodger talk will tap into you just as much as
Speaker 2: Burns and Gambo out there in Arizona.
Speaker 10: Anytime, David, my phone's always on, Like I said, my.
Speaker 2: Guy, Daniel Hudson love it, and I'll have the fingers
Speaker 2: over my lips as we hang up. Thanks for the time,
Speaker 2: appreciate it.
Speaker 3: No prom buddy, anytime there it goes.
Speaker 2: Daniel Hudson, awesome guy. Contributed so much to the game
Speaker 2: and especially the Dodgers in twenty twenty four. And if
Speaker 2: you're a Dodger fan, you know what I was referring
Speaker 2: to right there as we were hanging up Daniel Hudson.
Speaker 2: Regular season and twenty twenty four, the Dodgers were kind
Speaker 2: of spiraling when they were in City Field at that
Speaker 2: point in time, it was June. They were playing a doubleheader.
Speaker 2: Things were not looking good. In the first game of
Speaker 2: that doubleheader, Daniel Hudson comes in, gets out of a
Speaker 2: jam that he created, and as he's coming off the field,
Speaker 2: he put his two fingers over his mouth to silence
Speaker 2: the crowd. And he said after that it wasn't for
Speaker 2: just the crowd, it was for his teammates to remember
Speaker 2: that they are the Dodgers. And from that point forward,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers swept the doubleheader. They actually swept the Mets
Speaker 2: in that three game series. That's where one of the
Speaker 2: Mets relievers threw his glove over the netting and they
Speaker 2: kicked him off the team, and the Mets started a
Speaker 2: spiral out of control at that point in time, until they,
Speaker 2: thanks to JD. Martinez by the way, righted the ship
Speaker 2: and found a way to get back into the postseason,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers beat them in the NLCS. But Daniel
Speaker 2: Hudson met a lot to the Dodgers in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: And it's kind of incredible when you look back twenty
Speaker 2: years from now, especially at these first two championships the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have won, and if they win a third one
Speaker 2: in a row, I'm sure there'll be something unique about
Speaker 2: the way they went about it this time, but I
Speaker 2: can't remember. I mean, you look back at the last
Speaker 2: team to win back to back championships, the Yankees, who
Speaker 2: three peeded from ninety eight to two thousand. They basically
Speaker 2: did it the same way. Jeter Posada, Pettitt, Clemens Soriano,
Speaker 2: Tino Martinez. They did it that way. They did have
Speaker 2: different heroes. Aaron Boone was a hero, Scott Broches was
Speaker 2: a hero. They did have different heroes, but they essentially
Speaker 2: went about it the same way. The Dodgers in the
Speaker 2: last two World Series did it in completely different ways.
Speaker 2: In more ways than one. The pitching. It was the
Speaker 2: bullpen that carried the Dodgers pitching in twenty twenty four. Offensively,
Speaker 2: it was Freddy Freeman that carried the Dogs Dodgers through October.
Speaker 2: It was basically the Freddie Freeman, Tommy Edman show, Ta
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez show, keyk Hernandez contributing. But really it was
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman, the aircraft carrier that carried those Dodgers to
Speaker 2: the championship and eventually won the World Series. MVP. Who
Speaker 2: can't forget Freddy meet or Gibbe meet Freddy the Grand
Speaker 2: Slam in Game one. And then last year, as you're
Speaker 2: well aware of, it was the Dodgers starters that carried
Speaker 2: the pitching staff. And it was everybody from Miguel Rojas
Speaker 2: to Will Smith, to Freddie Freeman to you know, Max Munsey.
Speaker 2: Everybody contributed one through twenty six to help win that
Speaker 2: World Series, and just specifically the pitching. The Dodger bullpen
Speaker 2: had nothing left. They were ineffective. There were a lot
Speaker 2: of things going on, injuries, the attacks of the previous year,
Speaker 2: Alex Vesia not on the World Series roster, and Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts had to deploy guys like Tyler Glassnow and Emmitt
Speaker 2: Shean and Blake Snell and Clayton Kershaw, Justin Robleski to
Speaker 2: cover the innings because there were very few and far
Speaker 2: relievers that were effective last year. And Roki Sasaki of course.
Speaker 2: So when you look back at the way the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have won these last two championships, Daniel Hudson was a
Speaker 2: huge part of the Dodgers winning it in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: And like I've told a few of those guys from
Speaker 2: twenty four, without the first one, there is no back
Speaker 2: to back championship. You might want to act like it
Speaker 2: never happened. I mean, we're all talking about Yamamoto, and
Speaker 2: I feel like we've all forgotten what Walker Bueller did
Speaker 2: and his heroics in the World Series. He was Yamamoto.
Speaker 2: And that's how quickly things change in this game. Walker
Speaker 2: Bueller went to Boston, got released, signed with the Phillies
Speaker 2: at the end of the year, never pitched in the NLDS,
Speaker 2: and now had to sign a minor league deal with
Speaker 2: the Padres. That's going to be weird. And the Padres
Speaker 2: now have what three of the twenty eighteen Dodgers on
Speaker 2: their team very emotional guys and Manny Machado, Alex Verdugo
Speaker 2: and Walker Bueller and oh speaking of the Padres, mister
Speaker 2: irrelevant Jerkson Profar popped again for performance enhancing drugs. He
Speaker 2: has suspended for the entire season after being a second time,
Speaker 2: second time offender. The players Association is going to appeal,
Speaker 2: but they're not going to win. Profar cheating and was
Speaker 2: caught twice after signing a big deal with the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 2: So I guess he is somewhat relevant for the wrong
Speaker 2: reasons right now, but as the season goes along, mister irrelevant,
Speaker 2: eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. We have three phone lines open. I
Speaker 2: guess many of you are like that parent that I
Speaker 2: encountered at my son's little league game because nobody has
Speaker 2: any answers for an embarrassing performance from an over zealous parent,
Speaker 2: you know, screaming, dropping f bombs at umpires. I guess
Speaker 2: many of you are that guy. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Kenoga Park. Duke. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Duke?
Speaker 6: Very good? How you doing?
Speaker 2: I say, I'm doing great? You got any advice on
Speaker 2: how to deal with a dad like that.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, I want to have to Why don't
Speaker 7: you like the fans that were the championship gear? I
Speaker 7: heard you did saying like, oh, you're not gonna catch
Speaker 7: me wearing the twenty twenty five championship gear stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, I wasn't bashing that. I want to
Speaker 2: see the back to back. I feel like you're short
Speaker 2: changing the Dodgers when all you see is twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: I'm winning, and I felt like they kind of deprived
Speaker 2: us a good back to back championship gear.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, yeah, no, are you assuming that they're new fans?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm just saying that. I you know,
Speaker 2: when the Lakers won back to back championships, the Lakers
Speaker 2: with uh with Kobe and Gasol. You know, they had
Speaker 2: the Muppet hand with Kobe's rings. I hope Nike does
Speaker 2: that for Mookie. If the Dodgers win another ring, put
Speaker 2: up five rings with the Muppet hand for him. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's my only issue. And hopefully when Opening Day rolls
Speaker 2: around at Dodgers Stadium, we'll have some back to back gear.
Speaker 7: All right, sounds good man, I'll be there.
Speaker 2: Okay, dude, thanks a lot for the phone call. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I'm just wondering what happened to the gear? Where's the
Speaker 2: back to back World Series gear? You know, That's what
Speaker 2: I'm looking for there. I'm not I know, Dodger fans
Speaker 2: are loyal. I know you're not just coming around at
Speaker 2: the last minute for sure. No, No, I'm just saying
Speaker 2: that if I have, you know, a certain amount of
Speaker 2: dollars to spend on Dodger gear, I'm going to Uh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna wait till it says back to back champions.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what they do for every other sports
Speaker 2: team that wins back to back titles. They don't just
Speaker 2: say twenty twenty five champions. And I haven't seen I
Speaker 2: haven't seen it. Let's go out to Steven Riverside, who's
Speaker 2: got some advice for me on Little League parenting? How
Speaker 2: do I deal with this?
Speaker 7: Dad?
Speaker 2: Steve?
Speaker 7: That's all radio well, me and my wife.
Speaker 11: As matter fact, we're just talking about this earlier on
Speaker 11: the way home, and about.
Speaker 12: How some of these parents act like they.
Speaker 11: Got the next King Griffy Junior or the next joi
Speaker 11: Otani and they want their kid to be out there,
Speaker 11: you know, just thinking that they're gonna make the millions
Speaker 11: of dollars later on. But you know, one thing, we
Speaker 11: just used to ignore it, and bat we get these
Speaker 11: parents they are you know, so I was just ignored.
Speaker 2: It just makes the experience. Uh, it just makes the
Speaker 2: experiment experience of watching your kid. Now I'm not just
Speaker 2: speaking for myself, but other parents that were around, it
Speaker 2: just doesn't make it enjoyable. And then you have the
Speaker 2: guy dropping f bombs. I just don't understand. Too many
Speaker 2: of these parents are trying to live through their ten
Speaker 2: year olds and it's like, dude, you missed your chance.
Speaker 12: Oh no, that's one hundred percent. And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 12: It happens at every park and every place. And we
Speaker 12: we've even moved our kids from Little League to Pony
Speaker 12: and back to Little League because of that situation back
Speaker 12: when they were playing when they're younger. And then you know,
Speaker 12: then you got the whole daddy ball aspect when you
Speaker 12: got there one manager who plays this kid or tells,
Speaker 12: you know, these other teams who want to get you know,
Speaker 12: stacked the deck with the team, and then they don't
Speaker 12: pick your kid for All Stars because.
Speaker 2: You know, that's a lot of drama, Steve, I don't
Speaker 2: care about that. I feel like, if you're good enough,
Speaker 2: you'll rise above all that. But yeah, I'm with you
Speaker 2: the pony. And this is the first time I've ever
Speaker 2: encountered I've heard about parents like this, but I've never
Speaker 2: never encountered it. But you'd be safe out there in
Speaker 2: Riverside and you're on the Dodgers, the real pros.
Speaker 12: Oh, of course, no doubt, Dave.
Speaker 7: All right, you have a good evening.
Speaker 2: Thank you, be safe. Let's go out to Fullerton. Antonio,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk with David Vasse.
Speaker 13: Hi, Antonio, David Vasse, it's an honor talking with you.
Speaker 13: Twenty twenty six Dodger Baseball and full of fag Spring
Speaker 13: training is on there. I just wanted to say thank you,
Speaker 13: David for everything you do for us Dodger fans, for
Speaker 13: Dodger Talk and by sevent y you do a lot,
Speaker 13: and I really appreciate it. We'll keep in touch this season.
Speaker 7: Go Dodgers.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Antonio. I appreciate it. I don't
Speaker 2: do anything. I don't swing a bat, I don't throw
Speaker 2: a pitch, but I'm here just to tell the story
Speaker 2: of the greatest period of time in Dodger baseball, the
Speaker 2: most successful period of time in Dodger baseball. I'm very
Speaker 2: fortunate to be doing this show during this period of
Speaker 2: time to document unprecedented success the Dodgers have had the
Speaker 2: last fourteen years and especially now the last five years,
Speaker 2: winning three championships and looking for a three p Let's
Speaker 2: take one more phone call my guy, Jim in Mission
Speaker 2: Viejo may have some advice for some of you parents
Speaker 2: out there. How are you doing, Jim, I'm doing good.
Speaker 6: I'll make it quick. I know it's too late for this,
Speaker 6: but beginning of every season, I would always call a
Speaker 6: meeting for just appearance, no kids, none of the players
Speaker 6: to be there, and I would say, you need to
Speaker 6: set your expectations here first. None of your kids or
Speaker 6: at least one of these kids might play high school baseball,
Speaker 6: so keep that in your mind. It's about fun. The
Speaker 6: second thing is is that if you're having problems with
Speaker 6: this parent right now, I would still call a meeting
Speaker 6: of just the parents, don't tell them what it's gonna
Speaker 6: be for, and I would call him out in front
Speaker 6: of the other parents and make him understand that it's
Speaker 6: not making it fun. Baseball at this level is not
Speaker 6: do or die. It is about having fun. And if
Speaker 6: you don't, if you call him out in front of
Speaker 6: the other parents, it might make a difference before you
Speaker 6: get farther into your season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. This guy doesn't have a lot
Speaker 2: of self awareness. So hopefully it gets better starting this weekend.
Speaker 2: So thank you, Jim, level headed guy right there. We
Speaker 2: need more of those parents around Pony and little leagues
Speaker 2: and let the kids enjoy it, don't burn them out,
Speaker 2: don't make them feel so scared to make a mistake
Speaker 2: and disappoint you. So that's the way it goes anyway.
Speaker 2: And also, you know, at a ten year old level,
Speaker 2: I don't think there should be catchers interference being called
Speaker 2: when you're ten years old. Come on, I mean, come on.
Speaker 2: The rules need to change and the expectations need to change.
Speaker 2: All right, Then I'll do for us on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for tuning in. We'll be back with
Speaker 2: you on Thursday night at seven o'clock, and then we'll
Speaker 2: have Dodgers Spring training baseball for you again on Saturday
Speaker 2: and Sunday. In case you missed our conversation with two
Speaker 2: time World Series champion bullpen dog himself, Daniel Hudson. You
Speaker 2: can find it on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks to Ronnie
Speaker 2: Fossio for all his help. Thanks to you for listening
Speaker 2: and calling in. Can't wait for this season to start.
Speaker 2: Opening Day is right around the corner March twenty sixth,
Speaker 2: and don't forget March twenty seventh, Game two of the season.
Speaker 2: That's a special day as well. Clayton Kershaw and the
Speaker 2: rest of the twenty twenty five World champion Dodgers will
Speaker 2: be receiving their rings. Yeah, the ring ceremony is before
Speaker 2: Game two of the season. Opening Day Festivities gets its
Speaker 2: own shine on March twenty six So a lot of
Speaker 2: time between now and then, but we are building up
Speaker 2: to that big homestand to celebrate the back to back
Speaker 2: World Series champion Dodgers coming up next Fox Sports Radio.
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