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Speaker 2: We are at Downy Hunday in the beautiful city of
Speaker 2: down Ay. We have many Dodger fans that have showed
Speaker 2: up and showed out for Dodger Talk with you until
Speaker 2: eight o'clock to here on a five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: We have so many things to get to between now
Speaker 2: and the end of the hour. We have ten pairs
Speaker 2: of tickets to give away to Alex Vesia's Babblehead Night
Speaker 2: on May twenty ninth. We're gonna do that here on
Speaker 2: site at Downey Hunday. We also have BJ gift cards
Speaker 2: to give away, and our friends from fourth Quarter have
Speaker 2: donated five hundred dollars of a gift card, so we're
Speaker 2: gonna do all that in the next hour. But you're
Speaker 2: here to see one man, and this is a story
Speaker 2: of perseverance, overcoming adversity and becoming a back to back
Speaker 2: World Series champion. He is the anchor of the Bullpen
Speaker 2: Dogs for the Dodgers, the one and only. Yeah, can
Speaker 2: I hear that? Can I hear the Can I hear
Speaker 2: the dogs? Or there it is. I think he's ready
Speaker 2: now and that beautiful beard and living color. Welcome Alex
Speaker 2: Vesia to Downey Hyundai. There it is. Look at that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, man, he's making his way up the runway.
Speaker 2: We got a stage, we got a big screen, you know.
Speaker 2: Thing here going Alex, VESSI and my guy man beautiful.
Speaker 2: How about this? I mean, look look behind you, Bessie,
Speaker 2: look at this Vessia. There you are. We got everything
Speaker 2: all right, guy, Sam the man, I'm learning that this Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's all him.
Speaker 3: Very cool.
Speaker 2: Thank you for coming out.
Speaker 3: This is awesome. Wow, I was traffic was traffic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is cool. This is the center of Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: right here in Downey, and as you can see, the
Speaker 2: city loves you very much. Fans are wrapped around the
Speaker 2: building for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. This is this is super cool.
Speaker 2: Hey, usually relievers don't get this type of love. I mean,
Speaker 2: I feel like this is a very very unique situation
Speaker 2: because relievers are kind of like offensive linemen. Nobody knows
Speaker 2: about them until the quarterback gets sacked, until maybe a
Speaker 2: home run's given up. But these fans appreciate and have
Speaker 2: wrapped their arms around you. I appreciate that for the
Speaker 2: last six years.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's it's a long, long, you know, long journey.
Speaker 6: But you know, I think the the time on the
Speaker 6: field and whatnot, and you know, I just I put
Speaker 6: it all out there and I think it's recognizable.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 6: Man, it's a little overwhelming, a little overwhelming, Dave, But no,
Speaker 6: it's super cool, really nice to be out with the fans.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It's wild is when we see you on the mound,
Speaker 2: you're so fired up. You hit that switch, and I
Speaker 2: feel like when you're on the streets of la you're
Speaker 2: on the streets of Downey, people expect you to have
Speaker 2: that type of personality, but you're nothing like who you
Speaker 2: are on the mound.
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, I think it's I mean, competition and competing
Speaker 6: and it's way different.
Speaker 3: It's way different. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I definitely go into a different mindset when I'm out
Speaker 6: on the mound.
Speaker 3: You have to. But I just still, you know, like normal,
Speaker 3: Like today, it's a normal day. I feel like I'm
Speaker 3: a regular guy.
Speaker 6: I'm just trying to live life like the rest of us.
Speaker 6: And you know, this is this is cool. I like
Speaker 6: just kind of hanging out and yeah, it' stuff. There's
Speaker 6: not as much tendency. There's not you know, like I
Speaker 6: don't have Red Bull going through my veins right now
Speaker 6: or anything like that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, man, no, this is super cool.
Speaker 2: Are you saying that when you walk up and down
Speaker 2: Firestone Boulevard and Downey you're not wearing your fifty one
Speaker 2: Vessie jersey?
Speaker 3: No? No, but I'll see a lot of them here today,
Speaker 3: which is really cool. Man.
Speaker 2: That's uh, Sam, I know, Sam's got it.
Speaker 3: I know That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Relievers never have jerseys made of them no, unless you're
Speaker 2: like the closer. Yeah, but a guy like you, I
Speaker 2: mean fifty one. There's a lot of fifty ones out there.
Speaker 3: There is, there is.
Speaker 6: It's gotten a lot more popular the last couple of years,
Speaker 6: So which is a good thing.
Speaker 3: That means I'm doing my job.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, exactly. And you had been doing your job
Speaker 2: ever since you became a Dodger. And you guys just
Speaker 2: got back from a road trip that felt like it
Speaker 2: was a month long, more than just six games. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when you go through something like that, and did number one,
Speaker 2: did you realize I wasn't on this road trip?
Speaker 6: No, I realized, Yeah, I realized that you weren't in
Speaker 6: the clubhouse bugging every player and getting into our business.
Speaker 3: No, no, yeah, this is uh, this road trip was
Speaker 3: really long. Yeah, but it was cool. I got to
Speaker 3: see d Ma. Yeah, that's my guy.
Speaker 6: We've been we were locker buddies, uh, you know, with
Speaker 6: it when he was with us, and then you know,
Speaker 6: with everything that he had had gone through with surgeries
Speaker 6: and and yeah, the sophagus stuff. Right, so you know,
Speaker 6: he's been really really good friend of mine, and so
Speaker 6: I got to see him, got to give him his ring.
Speaker 3: That was really cool.
Speaker 6: And then obviously playing in Houston, you know it was
Speaker 6: it was all right, we took two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was good. You gotta split on that road trip.
Speaker 2: We're almost at the quarter point of the season.
Speaker 3: Can you believe that that's so weird?
Speaker 2: The schedule has been played already and you guys are
Speaker 2: in first place in the n L West. I know
Speaker 2: Andrew Friedman and Dave Roberts understand how to navigate one
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two games, but as a guy that's
Speaker 2: in it every day, how do you navigate one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty.
Speaker 3: Two games one day at a time?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's.
Speaker 6: My routine is what keeps it kind of easy. I
Speaker 6: do the same thing every day. I eat the same
Speaker 6: thing every day. That's just kind of my thing. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: I just chicken rice and avocado is like my absolute
Speaker 6: favorite game, right, that's my thing. Chicken rice, avocado, Chick
Speaker 6: fil a sauce, chicken flate best, it's the best.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like that routine is kind of just what
Speaker 3: it's It's easy.
Speaker 6: It sticks, it's not super complex or complicated, but like,
Speaker 6: one day at a time, one pitch at a time
Speaker 6: is kind of the thing that you know, Barto and
Speaker 6: the bullpen kind of tell us, you know, and it
Speaker 6: worked the other night. You know, glass now coming out
Speaker 6: of the game, Jack Dryer coming in had a you know,
Speaker 6: super long, extensive warm up, and I mean he set
Speaker 6: the tone for that whole game. So that was super cool.
Speaker 6: I was really really proud of him. And I didn't
Speaker 6: have to go in that.
Speaker 3: Game, which that was good. I'll take it.
Speaker 6: But yeah, you know, it's you never know what you're
Speaker 6: gonna get man baseball one hundred and sixty two games.
Speaker 3: It's never it's never the same.
Speaker 2: All Right, you go back and Alex Bessie is our
Speaker 2: guest on Dodger Talk. We are at Downy hun Day
Speaker 2: seventy five to fifty Firestone Boulevard. Yeah you hear about guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah they work here, Yeah they do.
Speaker 5: They very Yeah, they.
Speaker 2: Like where they work. That's good, it's cool. Good. So
Speaker 2: guys like Will Climb Okay, nobody knew who Will Cline
Speaker 2: was until Game three of last year's World Series, right,
Speaker 2: and he's come back this year. I mean we knew
Speaker 2: who he was, Yeah, we did.
Speaker 3: It was on our team.
Speaker 2: But people in America, yeah, I'm sure many people in
Speaker 2: Downey knew who Will Cline was before Game three of
Speaker 2: the World Series.
Speaker 3: They know him now, Yeah, they do? They know him now?
Speaker 2: How you know? Everybody wants to know. How do the
Speaker 2: Dodgers make this work? Alex Vesia an unknown from the Marlins. Yep,
Speaker 2: you turn into Alex Vessia. You can't go anywhere and
Speaker 2: downy without people knowing. He now.
Speaker 3: That. But all right, okay, where are you going with this, Dave?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So Will Klein, how do you guys make him
Speaker 2: feel like feel like he belongs after what he did
Speaker 2: in that moment? Coming back a brand new season every
Speaker 2: year is unique and he's been able to, you know,
Speaker 2: take his game to the next level.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think it's there's a little bit
Speaker 6: of both, right and hang on with me, Right, It's
Speaker 6: he did something super special last year. Right, There's also
Speaker 6: this is a new season, this is new objective, this
Speaker 6: is new goals, this is everything is in front of him. Right,
Speaker 6: So it's being able to kind of still chase that
Speaker 6: and not live.
Speaker 3: Right in the past.
Speaker 6: Right, But last year was super cool man, watching him
Speaker 6: grow and just kind of become who he is now. Right,
Speaker 6: you know, he stepped up in a big way and
Speaker 6: I mean we knew he had really good stuff when
Speaker 6: we got him.
Speaker 3: I don't know how much he.
Speaker 6: Believed in his stuff, but you know, over the course
Speaker 6: of the season, you know, bouncing up and down, and
Speaker 6: you know he works really hard, and I mean it
Speaker 6: paid off in that moment and then now you're seeing
Speaker 6: it this year that you know, he's he's he's been.
Speaker 3: Really good for us.
Speaker 6: It's been really awesome to watch him throw and having
Speaker 6: a writing another writing in the bullpen to you know,
Speaker 6: take down right, he's lefties whatever whatever lane Doc wantson
Speaker 6: and you know he's ready.
Speaker 2: The dynamics of a bullpen are so interesting, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: big time. You've been through this for the last six years.
Speaker 2: Guys have come and gone, Guys have helped you grow.
Speaker 2: You're helping young guys grow. How do you guys? Have
Speaker 2: you guys started to find an identity for this bullpen
Speaker 2: because you guys in twenty four were called the dogs.
Speaker 2: I would say this version of twenty six is very
Speaker 2: similar to those guys.
Speaker 6: Yeah it is, No, it is, And I'm I'm really
Speaker 6: really looking forward to having uh Gradoll back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's back.
Speaker 6: He had his He's had one or two rehabits, rehab outings.
Speaker 6: I still keep in touch with them, you know, right,
Speaker 6: you know, just oh absolutely like asking him how's you know,
Speaker 6: rehabs going. You know, it's a it's a long process.
Speaker 6: We also we're also getting Evan Phillips back. That's another
Speaker 6: one that uh he'll text me from time to time
Speaker 6: and you know, keep me updated and whatnot. But uh,
Speaker 6: the identity. I still like the Dogs, I really do.
Speaker 6: I think that there's still that core group of guys
Speaker 6: that twenty four that you know, we'll be back for
Speaker 6: twenty six.
Speaker 3: So I think we'll have to you know, we'll have.
Speaker 6: To talk to everybody, because it's not I'm not making
Speaker 6: that decision on what we're gonna call each other.
Speaker 2: You're just the dogs as long as you're good with that.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 2: On the Dodgers, Yeah, it's the bullpen dog.
Speaker 3: I like that. Come on, I don't think anybody else would,
Speaker 3: uh would change it.
Speaker 6: But yeah, one one game at a time for us,
Speaker 6: and uh, you know, we still got a lot of baseball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, has Tanner Scott found the dog inside Tanner?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that man, that that guy. He's the funniest dude
Speaker 3: in the world.
Speaker 6: I think it like try a sense of humor round
Speaker 6: oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but sometimes I wonder if his humor connects with you,
Speaker 2: because then you'll be like, oh, Tanner's settled down or yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: whatever you say, Tanner. Yeah, I feel like you're like
Speaker 2: the elder statesman now, you're the adult now, which is
Speaker 2: incredible to believe in.
Speaker 6: That, you know, Yeah, he that man keeps me on
Speaker 6: my toes. I'll tell you what keeps me on my toes.
Speaker 6: But yeah, he uh, he's been really really good this year,
Speaker 6: and I'm just hoping that you know it, you know,
Speaker 6: we we keep going back and forth and and you know,
Speaker 6: when he pitches one night, maybe I'll pitch the next
Speaker 6: night and we will just kind of It's it's also
Speaker 6: fun like doing going over scouting reports with him, since
Speaker 6: like we're similar in like certain areas with like fastballs
Speaker 6: and sliders. Obviously he throws harder and his sliders a
Speaker 6: little different than mine, so it's like just kind of
Speaker 6: picking his brain on that you have to actually be
Speaker 6: in the bullpen to get those answers. If you're in
Speaker 6: the clubhouse, you're not getting those answers from him. So well, yeah,
Speaker 6: it's you know.
Speaker 2: He turns into a different guy when he's in the bullpen.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, oh yeah, and that that is a very special,
Speaker 6: very special human right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would say so, so is Alex Vessia.
Speaker 2: Right who doesn't love Alex Vessia. Yeah, we're down a
Speaker 2: hum day seventy five fifty Firestone Boulevard. I got it.
Speaker 2: I got an idea that I wanted to run by you.
Speaker 2: Joe Kelly was on the show last Thursday. Joe Kelly,
Speaker 2: Joe Kelly was Mariachi Joe. All right, he's got a
Speaker 2: new fancy Mariachi Joe hat that new era made for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that. What's what is he up to
Speaker 3: these days? What is he doing?
Speaker 2: He is the He calls himself the self proclaimed Drake
Speaker 2: of the Inland Empire, because he'll show up at an
Speaker 2: Ontario Tower Buzzers game, he'll show up at an Anaheim
Speaker 2: Ducks hockey game, all right. And I said, we got
Speaker 2: to get you at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the idea was to have Joe Kelly, Mariachi Joe
Speaker 2: Kelly sit in one of those seats that overhangs the
Speaker 2: Dodger bullpen. Just show up and sit there and surprise
Speaker 2: his old teammates. Man, would you.
Speaker 3: Be I'm in on that. Yeah, I'm in on that.
Speaker 3: I think. I mean, I think we could get him.
Speaker 6: Like you know the spot that's right next to the
Speaker 6: bullpen door. It's the first seat and that looks over
Speaker 6: it like actually into the field. I think if we
Speaker 6: got him right there, that would be even better.
Speaker 2: But what do you think he'd do?
Speaker 6: Oh, he would He would chirp us for sure. All
Speaker 6: his his comments would be not airable.
Speaker 2: No, that's for sure. But they get the dumb button
Speaker 2: ready when he comes on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, yeah, he that would be that'd be fun.
Speaker 3: I'm in on that.
Speaker 2: Okay. It was very available these days.
Speaker 3: I bet he has a lot of time on his hands.
Speaker 6: But he's got he's got a few kids to take
Speaker 6: care of.
Speaker 3: He does. Yeah what is kursh call it his starting
Speaker 3: five and.
Speaker 2: Do you miss Kershaw talks about.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: We we were in Colorado. Thomas the trainer, he uh.
Speaker 3: He facetimed him, so that was I was asking what
Speaker 3: he was doing. He was like, I did some bench.
Speaker 3: I'm done for the day. It was so funny. Man.
Speaker 3: So he's he's keeping active, for sure. But but how much.
Speaker 2: What was your relationship like with him?
Speaker 6: Uh, my relationship with him, we competed in the gym
Speaker 6: every single day and not there was It wasn't weightlifting,
Speaker 6: it wasn't uh cardio. It was just who could be
Speaker 6: in the gym first, who would show up first first?
Speaker 2: And how many times would you beat him?
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm definitely gonna give him. He beat He
Speaker 3: beat me more.
Speaker 6: His routine was also just way different being a starter
Speaker 6: in mind being a reliever. But yeah, no, he his guidance,
Speaker 6: his you know, just veteran presence day in and day.
Speaker 3: Out, is definitely why I do certain things the way
Speaker 3: I do them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we've had multiple conversations with you know, having bad outings,
Speaker 6: having adversity, you know, holding yourself accountable in a standard.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Without Kersh, I definitely would not be in the
Speaker 3: in the position that I am.
Speaker 6: So yeah, he's been a great mentor for me, and
Speaker 6: I just will always remember that. Like, you know, he's
Speaker 6: it doesn't matter how like good of a baseball player,
Speaker 6: It's always was how good of a person you are,
Speaker 6: And that's you know why he's one of the best
Speaker 6: Dodger pitchers ever.
Speaker 3: You know. So, yeah, he's Uh, yeah, so shut him.
Speaker 2: I think that's why all these people respond to you.
Speaker 2: Maybe got great character as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe that's a I like that you care.
Speaker 2: You care, all right, they want to meet and greet
Speaker 2: with you. So I'm gonna ask you one more question. Okay,
Speaker 2: we have ten pairs of tickets to give away to
Speaker 2: the Dodgers Phillies game on May twenty ninth. It's Alex
Speaker 2: BESSI is Babblehead night.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 2: Ahead?
Speaker 3: And it's unbelievable. It's so perfect. Yeah, it's so perfect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they missed, but this time they hit.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: When they send it to me, the purple glove was awesome,
Speaker 6: and but then like the facial expression, yeah, and then
Speaker 6: like how like the picture that I wanted when I
Speaker 6: you know, my parents had asked me, even Kaz asked
Speaker 6: me about what babhood. I like, it's the exact picture
Speaker 6: of like what I wanted. So that was cool and
Speaker 6: I didn't have really any saying it. They just kind
Speaker 6: of said it to Hey, this's your ball ahead, But yeah,
Speaker 6: it's perfect. I'm I'm so happy about that. I think
Speaker 6: my dad's thrown out the first pitch, so I think.
Speaker 2: I thought maybe I thought you were gonna announce that no,
Speaker 2: I was throwing out the first pitch.
Speaker 3: Sorry, not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Okay, hey, coming back. We love you. All the fans
Speaker 2: are ready to meet you. Reet you, kiss some babies,
Speaker 2: maybe throw them up in the air, maybe throw some
Speaker 2: adults up in the air. Right, but protect that left arm.
Speaker 2: This is the golden left arm. Thank you to Alex
Speaker 2: Vessia to coming out to Downey Hyundai seventy five fifty
Speaker 2: fire Throne Boulevard. Thanks to our guys, Sam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very cool, Thank you.
Speaker 2: All of us, and we will continue with Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Alex Vessi is jumping off the stage and going to
Speaker 2: start introducing himself to all you fans out there for
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk around the corner right here on A five
Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: Thanks Dave.
Speaker 1: On air at AM five to seventy, online at amfive
Speaker 1: seventy LA sports dot com and available my podcast on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassam.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you to Alex Vesia for stopping by
Speaker 2: here at Downey Hyundai Dodger Talk our first remote for
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk, and it's a party. Out here when you
Speaker 2: come to Downey Hyundai. This is a nightclub. It's not
Speaker 2: a car dealership. It's an experience, and our guy Sam,
Speaker 2: he knows how to get it going here. They've been
Speaker 2: giving out T shirts Downy Hyundai T shirts with that
Speaker 2: Dodger D script on the front. So it's been an
Speaker 2: awesome experience. So many fans have come out here to
Speaker 2: say hello to the friends here at Downey Hyunday and
Speaker 2: meet and greet Alex Vesia kind enough on an off
Speaker 2: day to come down here and be on the show.
Speaker 2: We still have ten pairs of tickets to give away
Speaker 2: to Alex Vesia's Babblehead Night May twenty ninth at Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium Dodgers versus Phillies. We have two forty three inch
Speaker 2: Visio televisions to give away. We got a five hundred
Speaker 2: dollars gift card to the fourth Quarter in Highland Park
Speaker 2: courtesy of our friends at fourth Quarter who are in
Speaker 2: the house today, and of course two BJ's fifty dollars
Speaker 2: gift cards to give away and you can use that
Speaker 2: in Downy next week because Petros and Money are going
Speaker 2: to be hanging out at b Jayson Downey next week,
Speaker 2: So you win one of those fifty dollars gift cards
Speaker 2: and you take it down to B Jason Downey, which
Speaker 2: is very close to Downey Hyundai. So great synergy between
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk and Petros and money. Coming up at the
Speaker 2: bottom of the hour, we're going to get into show
Speaker 2: hal Tani and my plan that could help ease the
Speaker 2: burden on Otani this season. Also, it's it's just so
Speaker 2: ridiculous how everybody is starting to really frame Dalton Rushing
Speaker 2: like a guy that needs some defending from his teammates.
Speaker 2: It's just a little bit over the top as far
Speaker 2: as my opinion goes on that. So we'll get we'll
Speaker 2: set the record straight when it comes to that. Alex
Speaker 2: Vessi knows Dalton Rushing is a great guy. He doesn't
Speaker 2: need any defending. By the way, this weekend a big
Speaker 2: weekend at Dodger Stadium beginning Tomorrow night, Dodgers versus Braves.
Speaker 2: The Atlanta Braves are back. They have the best record
Speaker 2: in the National League. They're going to be at Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium beginning tomorrow night. Emmett Shehan against Chris Saale Tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki against Spencer Streyder on Saturday, and Justin Robleski
Speaker 2: against Bryce Elder on Mother's Day on Sunday afternoon. So
Speaker 2: make your plans to join us at Dodger Stadium this weekend.
Speaker 2: Dodgers Braves definitely a possible ability for a playoff matchup
Speaker 2: down the line because the Braves had a lot of injuries.
Speaker 2: Matt Olson and Austin Riley were not themselves last year
Speaker 2: and the Braves did not make the postseason. But with
Speaker 2: the Phillies and Mets starting off really poorly this year,
Speaker 2: there's a very good chance the Braves could run the
Speaker 2: table and at the very least become a wildcard team
Speaker 2: if they don't hold on to their lead in the
Speaker 2: National League East, but I feel like they will also
Speaker 2: got some updates on Mookie Betts. We had breaking news
Speaker 2: earlier today. Mookie Betts is getting closer to returning to
Speaker 2: the Dodger lineup. In case you missed the news earlier today,
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts is going to Oklahoma City to start a
Speaker 2: rehab assignment. He usually doesn't do this. In fact, it's
Speaker 2: the first time with the Dodgers that he's going out
Speaker 2: on a rehab assignment. He is going to play Friday
Speaker 2: and Saturday in Oklahoma City. And you know, I don't
Speaker 2: see Mooki spending too much time in Oklahoma City. If
Speaker 2: he's out there and he's running around and he's swinging
Speaker 2: and he doesn't feel any pain with his right oblique area,
Speaker 2: I don't see any reason why he wouldn't come back
Speaker 2: during the Giant Series. And speaking of next week in
Speaker 2: the Giant Series, snell Zilla Blake Snell is making his
Speaker 2: final rehab start on Saturday for Ontario. But the game
Speaker 2: is in Rancho Cucamunga. That's right, Ontario versus Rancho Cucamonga.
Speaker 2: Rancho Kook now is the affiliate of the Angels, and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers obviously have their single a affiliate with Ontario now.
Speaker 2: So snell Zilla will be pitching for Ontario in Rancho
Speaker 2: Cucamunga on Saturday, And if you do the math, that
Speaker 2: means he would be returning probably Friday, a week from tomorrow,
Speaker 2: as the Dodgers will be in Anaheim to take the
Speaker 2: take on the Angels. So the Dodgers are getting closer
Speaker 2: to having to make some roster decisions. You heard Alex
Speaker 2: Vesi has say he's been texting with Bruce Starr Graderol
Speaker 2: the Bazuka. He probably is not coming back for another
Speaker 2: few weeks, but he's on the way back. And he
Speaker 2: hasn't pitched in professional games since Game five of the
Speaker 2: twenty four World Series, so that's great news. Brock Stewart
Speaker 2: just came back yesterday pitched a scoreless ninth inning for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: So uh.
Speaker 2: The Dodger bullpen has been exceptional even without Edwin Diaz,
Speaker 2: and Alex Vesia has been a big reason why. I mean,
Speaker 2: Vessia has been the anchor of that bullpen in more
Speaker 2: ways than one. Tanner Scott has bounced back with a
Speaker 2: really good year, and I don't hear too many Tanner
Speaker 2: Scott critics anymore. It feels like when he comes in now,
Speaker 2: there's not that uneasy feeling as there was last year,
Speaker 2: and he's back to being Tanner Scott with the Padres
Speaker 2: and the Marlins, and that's a good thing for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: So the Dodgers come back off a road trip that
Speaker 2: saw them split six games, took two out of three
Speaker 2: from the Astros. Andy Pajez had a big game yesterday,
Speaker 2: three home runs, six RBIs, and he looked like a Dodger,
Speaker 2: the only Dodger over the course of the last five
Speaker 2: games that actually had a decisive swing. They weren't guessing,
Speaker 2: trying to guess what pitcher, what pitch was coming. And
Speaker 2: I had a chance to talk to Reggie Smith yesterday.
Speaker 2: Reggie Smith, if you're old enough to know, one of
Speaker 2: the great Dodgers. He was part of the quartet, the
Speaker 2: first quartet on a team teammates to hit thirty home
Speaker 2: runs in the same year back in nineteen seventy seven, himself,
Speaker 2: Dusty Baker, Ronse and Steve Garvey. And Reggie Smith also
Speaker 2: learned from one of the greatest Japanese players this side
Speaker 2: of Shoho Tani, and that's Sadahara Oh who understood hitting
Speaker 2: mechanics from my understanding, better than most. And Reggie Smith
Speaker 2: understands hitting mechanics and the way he was explaining it
Speaker 2: because he watches Dodger game still and he said, it
Speaker 2: looks like they're guessing and they're trying to cover too
Speaker 2: much of the plate. And what he told me was
Speaker 2: and it makes so much sense if you're a hitter
Speaker 2: and you're facing a pitcher that has what three or
Speaker 2: four different pitches, I mean, McCullers has six, and he
Speaker 2: couldn't command any of them. Yesterday, the Dodgers scored their
Speaker 2: first three runs on wild pitches. That hadn't That hasn't
Speaker 2: happened since nineteen sixty nine for a team to score
Speaker 2: their first three runs on wild pitches, Dodgers or any team.
Speaker 2: It was actually the Braves against the Phillies in nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty nine. But nonetheless, he couldn't command any of his pitches,
Speaker 2: So why are you even looking at him? The way
Speaker 2: Reggie explained it is, if a pitcher's not commanding one
Speaker 2: of his pitches, you don't even have to worry about
Speaker 2: it because he can't throw it for a strike. So
Speaker 2: why are you even considering that that it may be
Speaker 2: in your hitting zone. You gotta know who you are.
Speaker 2: You gotta know your hitting zone. And to me, Pahz
Speaker 2: and Freddie Freeman on this road trip where the two
Speaker 2: that really exuded what Reggie Smith was talking about. And
Speaker 2: of course Freddie Freeman's one of the greatest hitters in
Speaker 2: modern day baseball. He's on his way to Cooperstown and
Speaker 2: it was great to see Freddie come alive on this
Speaker 2: road trip. I'm sure he saw my tweet when I
Speaker 2: said there are signs of life from Freddie Freeman on
Speaker 2: this road trip. He hit three seventy five, he had
Speaker 2: nine hits, he had four RBIs, two doubles, so he's
Speaker 2: starting to come along. And Kyle Tucker actually played really
Speaker 2: well in Houston. The Dodgers need him. They need to
Speaker 2: help out show hey Otani, who's doing something that he
Speaker 2: hasn't done in nearly five years, and that's be a
Speaker 2: full time two way player. And we'll see where it
Speaker 2: goes with Otani. I have my thoughts on which direction
Speaker 2: the Dodgers should go with Otani moving forward. I mentioned
Speaker 2: it on Dodger Talk yesterday. We'll mention it again when
Speaker 2: we come up in our next segment. But yeah, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are more than just one player, and you can't
Speaker 2: just put it all on Otani. Miguel Rojas had said
Speaker 2: that after the game yesterday or two days ago. So
Speaker 2: when Mookie Bett's coming back, that is going to be
Speaker 2: huge because the Dodgers need their right handed hitters to
Speaker 2: come alive, which they really haven't. The Dodgers only have
Speaker 2: two home runs right handed. Dodgers only have two home
Speaker 2: runs against lefties this year, one from PAJZ one from Rojas,
Speaker 2: Taoscar Hernandez and Will Smith do not have a home
Speaker 2: run against the left handed pitcher, and that's got a change,
Speaker 2: which I expected to because the lefties are doing their job.
Speaker 2: Now you just need your right handed bats, the big
Speaker 2: guys to be able to be who they've been traditionally
Speaker 2: in their entire career. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number, David Vassay out
Speaker 2: of Downy Hundais, seventy five fifty Firestone Boulevard. Get down here.
Speaker 2: This is a nightclub. This is a nightclub. It is
Speaker 2: not a show, it is not a dealership. It's an experience.
Speaker 2: And everybody here is a huge Dodger fan. They've showed
Speaker 2: up and they showed out for Alex Vesia. So this
Speaker 2: is a place. If you're a Dodger fan, or if
Speaker 2: you're anywhere in the city of la you got to
Speaker 2: get down to Downy Hundai because they will treat you
Speaker 2: first class and they will have a party doing it.
Speaker 2: Seventy five fifty Firestone Boulevard. So thank you to our
Speaker 2: guy Sam for having us out here. When we continue
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk, our final time out. We're gonna take
Speaker 2: your phone calls at eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy. We'll get you an update on Tyler Glass.
Speaker 2: Now I have an Otani pitching plan. And also I'm
Speaker 2: going to set the record straight for Dalton Rushing. This
Speaker 2: guy's a great guy, great character guy. I don't know
Speaker 2: why everybody's starting to write stories about him having to
Speaker 2: change his reputation around the game. David Vassey out at
Speaker 2: Downy Hyundai with our guy Alex Vesia. We are rolling
Speaker 2: until eight o'clock right here on a five to seventy
Speaker 2: LAS Sports seventy.
Speaker 1: Dodger Talk is available on AM five seventy LA sports
Speaker 1: dot com, hand on the iHeartRadio app. Back to more
Speaker 1: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Vasse.
Speaker 2: All right, David Vasse, wrapping up our final segment of
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk out here at Downey Hyundai. We still have
Speaker 2: our giveaways. Don't go anywhere after the show is over.
Speaker 2: We have ten pairs of tickets to give away to
Speaker 2: Dodgers Phillies May twenty ninth, which happens to be Alex
Speaker 2: vesia Bubblehead Night. And also we have two big screen
Speaker 2: TVs forty three inch TVs Visio TVs to give away
Speaker 2: as well. And we also have a five hundred dollars
Speaker 2: gift card to the fourth Quarter a lot of Dodger merch.
Speaker 2: You see it on that table over there. Thank you
Speaker 2: to the fourth Quarter for coming out to Downey and
Speaker 2: being part of this very special broadcast of Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Alex Vesia as well for coming out. He's
Speaker 2: still here taking pictures with little kids, really engaging the fans,
Speaker 2: and that's really special to have Alex Vesia out here
Speaker 2: at Downy Hunday seventy five point fifty Firestone Boulevard. And
Speaker 2: I know at the end of the show it's going
Speaker 2: to be really rushed, so I just want to thank
Speaker 2: the people that put this all together, first and foremost Sam,
Speaker 2: the man that is the leader of Downy Hyundai that
Speaker 2: has really leaned into being partners with us. And I'll
Speaker 2: be driving my brand new Ionic nine to Dodger Stadium
Speaker 2: all season long thanks to my guy Sam at Downey Hunday.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I got a new Carvesia. I'll give you
Speaker 2: a ride. We could carpool no, no, you're not gonna
Speaker 2: ride Okay, no problem, no problem. Uh yeah, So new
Speaker 2: Dodger Blue Ionic nine Hyundai. Thanks to Downey Hunday for
Speaker 2: hooking that up. Thanks to Sam, and thank you to
Speaker 2: Da Dave's. He really put together an incredible event here.
Speaker 2: So thank you to Dave Weis. He is awesome and
Speaker 2: really appreciate him putting this all together. Thank you to Stacy.
Speaker 2: Thank you to Betty Betty Day who has converted from
Speaker 2: an Angel fan to a Dodger fan the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. So good for you to see the light.
Speaker 2: It's a party with the Dodgers. Betty. You know that
Speaker 2: things are happening. And thank you to Stacy, David Howard
Speaker 2: for coming out as well, and thank you to all
Speaker 2: of you for coming out to hang out and meet
Speaker 2: Alex Vesia and certainly a great day out here at
Speaker 2: Downey Hunday. So I know that at the end of
Speaker 2: the show you're always rushed and you can't get to everybody,
Speaker 2: So thank you to everybody, and don't forget Tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are back in action at Dodger Stadium against
Speaker 2: the team that right now has the best record in
Speaker 2: the National League, the Atlanta Braves. So, like I say,
Speaker 2: it's not just games anymore at Dodger Stadium. They are
Speaker 2: events and this weekend is going to be really speed.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's go back out to the phones. Eight
Speaker 2: sixty six two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 2: start out with Dave in La. Lead us up, Dave,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: I've been listening to the Dodgers for over two decades.
Speaker 5: And Los Angeles is a city of champions, and I
Speaker 5: am Dodgers all day. And the one question I just
Speaker 5: can't understand is if we're a city of champions, how
Speaker 5: are you the voice of the Dodgers for all these years?
Speaker 5: I just don't understand it, because well, you just don't
Speaker 5: seem very qualified.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, I think I recognize that voice. Can
Speaker 2: you laugh for me, Dave in La? And then it'll
Speaker 2: confirm if it is who I think it is. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's Dave Roberts. What do you do with Dave Ray?
Speaker 5: Hey, Dave, I'm on my off Dave right now. And
Speaker 5: I heard you were having a party in Downey right now,
Speaker 5: Downey Hyundai. And Sam is a good buddy of mine,
Speaker 5: so I've never called into Dodger Talk, but I had
Speaker 5: to say hello, and I wish you and all these
Speaker 5: Dodger fans a good time. Man.
Speaker 2: How about that? The three time World Series manager for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, Dave Roberts, calling into Dodger Talk as we
Speaker 2: are out here broadcasting from Downey Hyundai. The fans love
Speaker 2: Alex Vessia, Dave, but they certainly love you. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you feel a lot of love these days whenever you
Speaker 2: go out, and the city of LA really showing you
Speaker 2: the love that you deserve.
Speaker 5: No, I do, and Alice Vessi is one of my
Speaker 5: favorites as well. And I'm telling you that there's nothing
Speaker 5: like the Dodger fans. And I know we got a
Speaker 5: big one with the Lakers tonight, but I just love
Speaker 5: what you do. I love our fans, and like I said,
Speaker 5: I love Sam, I love the city of Downey and
Speaker 5: greater Los Angeles. Well, I just love what you're doing
Speaker 5: for our fans. And you keep everybody connected, Dave. So
Speaker 5: I hope you know we got to bring a third championship.
Speaker 5: We got to go for that three peat this year
Speaker 5: though we need we need our fans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who wants that three peat? The manager sett in
Speaker 2: the tone on Dodger talk for that three peat. Yeah,
Speaker 2: everybody wants it. Everybody's still hungry. And the way that
Speaker 2: we connect Dodger players and their manager, Dave Roberts is
Speaker 2: by showing their true selves. Bessie, it was on earlier
Speaker 2: people got to see that side of him and Dave.
Speaker 2: We are going to do it with you every week,
Speaker 2: a pregame interview with Dave Roberts, and we'll share that
Speaker 2: after the games as well. So I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 2: Courtesy of our guys Sam at Downey Hyundai and of
Speaker 2: course our friends at Wellness Wellness Care.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. Dave. I think for
Speaker 5: me is you know, I think people you know speaming
Speaker 5: manage and get to know a little bit of me
Speaker 5: as far as pre and postgame, but this will be
Speaker 5: a it'll be different. So you and I have a
Speaker 5: conversation once a week, and I just want to give
Speaker 5: the fans, the listeners more of an inside scoop, a
Speaker 5: peak behind the curtain. And I think that's what my
Speaker 5: hope is. You know, it's been eleven years for me
Speaker 5: managing the Dodgers, so I want to do something special
Speaker 5: for you, and obviously I've known you for a long
Speaker 5: time and for our fans as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've known Dave since he played and he's one
Speaker 2: of the best people you'll ever meet, a guy that
Speaker 2: you know when you talk about local credibility, Dave Roberts,
Speaker 2: you have that UCLA playing for the Dodgers. Maury Will's
Speaker 2: your mentor. It just seems like you're the best fit
Speaker 2: for this city, for this team, and that's part of
Speaker 2: the reason why you and Andrew Friedman have been together
Speaker 2: this long. Marriages don't last as long as you and
Speaker 2: Andrew Friedman.
Speaker 5: You know what it's what LA is all about, you know, loyalty,
Speaker 5: consistency and passion. So I know, personally speaking for our
Speaker 5: whole organization, Andrew in particular, our players in particular, is
Speaker 5: we just feed off the passion from our fans. And
Speaker 5: I know you get it every night. Man, you defend
Speaker 5: our players. You're the voice of the fans, and so
Speaker 5: you know, and you hear that passion every single night
Speaker 5: on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dave, And since I have you on the line,
Speaker 2: and Dave Roberts has surprised us with the call Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts has headed out to Oklahoma City for rehab games
Speaker 2: over the weekend. Do you feel like Dodger fans if
Speaker 2: they came to a game on one of those four
Speaker 2: against the Giants, they may see Mookie Betts in the lineup.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, you know, if he's going to go on his
Speaker 5: rehab assignment, So that's exciting for all Dodgers. So he
Speaker 5: the plan is, if it goes well, he'll be back
Speaker 5: joining us on Monday night. So the hope is that
Speaker 5: we get him for three of them, those four games
Speaker 5: against the hated Giant.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Baby, we love to hear that. That'll be great.
Speaker 2: And you know, before you called in, I was going
Speaker 2: to get into defending my guy, Dalton Rushing. Don't you
Speaker 2: think it's crazy that articles are being written about how
Speaker 2: he has to defend his character? I mean, what can
Speaker 2: you say about Dalton Rushing and just who he is
Speaker 2: as you've gotten to know him. It feels like it's
Speaker 2: a little misrepresentative of who he really is. All these
Speaker 2: stories being and people talking about him.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, Don's a great young kid. He's going to be
Speaker 5: a great Dodger for a long time, you know. And
Speaker 5: I like the fire that he plays with. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 5: when you're in the heat of the moment, there's things
Speaker 5: that you say and probably you know would love to
Speaker 5: take back, but it certainly not meant to harm anyone
Speaker 5: or disrespect anyone. He plays with that fire that I
Speaker 5: think has made him the player that he is. Maybe
Speaker 5: at times we all can temper certain things, but he's
Speaker 5: going to be a great Dodger for a long time time,
Speaker 5: and certainly a lot of the stuff that's being said
Speaker 5: about him has been overblown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go, Dave. If anybody else asks you
Speaker 2: about Dalton Rushing, I'll step in during those media scrums.
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 5: Feel free too? Thank you very much. I appreciate that, David.
Speaker 2: Hey Dave, I don't know if you know this about me,
Speaker 2: but I do the infrared sauna at least twice a week.
Speaker 5: Well, i've noticed, man, your skinless good, your weight loss good.
Speaker 5: So I was wondering if you've found that fountain of you. So,
Speaker 5: like I said, I've known you for thirty years, So
Speaker 5: the infrared sauna has got to be the key. I
Speaker 5: thought it was rest and diet and things like that
Speaker 5: and hitting the weights, but it's the infrared sauna, I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I was watching your interview with John Schneider
Speaker 2: while I was in the infrared sauna today, and I'm
Speaker 2: just wondering when Schneider told you you actually you were
Speaker 2: better than the guy asking the questions because you got
Speaker 2: the best answer out of John Schneider. You asked him
Speaker 2: when he walked show heo Tani four times intentionally during
Speaker 2: Game three of that eighteen inning marathon. Was it about
Speaker 2: him pitching the next day? And when you said in Houston,
Speaker 2: you were watching Otani and just decided it would be
Speaker 2: best for him not to lead off in DH and
Speaker 2: just pitch. I was wondering if you heard John Schneider's
Speaker 2: answer in your head when you were watching Otani the
Speaker 2: night before, you know what?
Speaker 5: I was, you know what, and I felt that, you know,
Speaker 5: it was one of those things that he was on
Speaker 5: base eight or nine times that game in Game three
Speaker 5: in the World Series, And I've always wanted to ask him,
Speaker 5: if I had an opportunity after that game, if that
Speaker 5: was with some intent behind it, And I think he
Speaker 5: answered truthfully, and like you said, you never want anybody
Speaker 5: on base. But I do think that it was a
Speaker 5: tax on show Hay the next day, and I think
Speaker 5: it kind of sparked something in me to keep an
Speaker 5: eye on him and his workload and not try to
Speaker 5: take for granted and feel that although we think that
Speaker 5: he is Superman, that he still is Clark Kent and
Speaker 5: is human at times. And we still got to be
Speaker 5: mindful because we got a lot of baseball left to play.
Speaker 2: No doubt, and Dave Roberts always has his finger on
Speaker 2: the pulse, a lot of information that he has that
Speaker 2: we don't have that goes into his decisions. And can't
Speaker 2: wait to do this once a week with you.
Speaker 5: Dave.
Speaker 2: Thank you again for calling in. I love I love
Speaker 2: the surprise, and certainly everybody here in Downey loves Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts and Downy Hunday loves you very much. Our guy
Speaker 2: Sam is right here in Avesia, Jersey, and he's starting
Speaker 2: the wave out here at Downey Hunday for you.
Speaker 5: I love it. Well. Tell us Sam and all those
Speaker 5: Dodgers Anti said hello, and I'll see them out there
Speaker 5: at some point sone the summer.
Speaker 2: All right, Dave, thanks a lot. We'll see you tomorrow
Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 5: Take care of Dave. Bye, guys.
Speaker 2: There he goes Dave Roberts, Dave in La trying to
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Speaker 2: dot com slash blue. So we hit on a couple
Speaker 2: of topics there that I wanted to get into. As
Speaker 2: far as Mookie Bets going out on a rehab assignment
Speaker 2: this weekend, you heard Dave Roberts say, if all goes
Speaker 2: well Friday and Saturday, you will see Mookie Bets back
Speaker 2: in the starting lineup on Monday night against the San
Speaker 2: Francisco Giants. So he just broke news on his first
Speaker 2: appearance on Dodger Talk while we're out here at Downey Hyundays.
Speaker 2: So Mookie Bets going to Oklahoma City. Our guy Sam
Speaker 2: will not go to Oklahoma City. He's staying here in Downey.
Speaker 2: He'll wait for Mookie at Dodger Stadium on Monday night.
Speaker 2: So that is great to hear, and I love that
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts, short and simple, short and sweet, set the
Speaker 2: record straight on the character of Dalton Rushing, you know,
Speaker 2: because he's a guy that has a lot of fight
Speaker 2: in him, a lot of edge in him. And in
Speaker 2: a day and age where everybody's so offended by players
Speaker 2: being friends with other players on other teams and not
Speaker 2: having that competitive spirit. Hey, there we go. We got
Speaker 2: a guy with a Vessy ipa Benny Boy brew it
Speaker 2: right there. Hello, there we go. I tasted that beer
Speaker 2: and I had friends that tasted that beer, and there
Speaker 2: was nothing left. They righted my fridge. There was nothing
Speaker 2: left of that VESSI great ipa. So I hope we
Speaker 2: do it again at Benny Boy Brewing as well. Hey
Speaker 2: watch out, Sam, Sam might want that beer. Hey, I
Speaker 2: just want to remind you about John Wooden. We all
Speaker 2: love John Wooden, and one of his famous sayings was,
Speaker 2: worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is
Speaker 2: who you are. Your reputation is who people think you are.
Speaker 2: And I think Dalton Rushing needs to put that in
Speaker 2: his locker because his reputation is not the character of
Speaker 2: who he is. He's a great kid, and I think
Speaker 2: it's completely unfair that he's getting this label put on him,
Speaker 2: that he's some sort of villain. The California Post Star
Speaker 2: to write about it. The Athletic wrote a big thing
Speaker 2: on it today. It doesn't need to be written about
Speaker 2: because it's about players that are upset with his competitiveness
Speaker 2: on other teams. If it was his own teammates saying
Speaker 2: that he was a villain, okay, then we would have
Speaker 2: an issue. Alex Vessi is not saying Dalton Rushing's a villain.
Speaker 2: He loves Dalton Rushing. He loves the people of Downy
Speaker 2: out here at Downey Hunday, Right, VESI, you love Dalton Rushing?
Speaker 2: Just say yes, you do? Shake shake that beard up
Speaker 2: and down. Yes, he's not a villain. That's right. There
Speaker 2: we go. He's a multitasking Oh how about this? A
Speaker 2: young lady and a Dodger bandana with a fifty one
Speaker 2: Vesia jersey On loving that and she wanted to measure
Speaker 2: her hands against Vessias. Yeah, that's a great thing. These
Speaker 2: baseball players, these really good pictures. Their hands are extremely humongous.
Speaker 2: I don't like to talk about other men's hands. But
Speaker 2: Vessia's hands are incredibly large, and that's how he's able
Speaker 2: to throw his slider. So I think that's it. I'm
Speaker 2: not talking about his hands anymore because it'll get creepy, right,
Speaker 2: nobody wants that here at Downy Hundai. I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to explain your hands and how they work with your pitches,
Speaker 2: and that's it. I'm not talking about your hands anymore, Vessi. Anyway,
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing deserves better than what he's gotten. If his
Speaker 2: teammates had an issue with him, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: I can understand why articles would be written. Of course,
Speaker 2: it's not great to go viral. That's not what the
Speaker 2: Dodger's culture is all about. They don't want to give
Speaker 2: any good answers. They just want to be playing Jane
Speaker 2: and don't go viral. But I love his edge, I
Speaker 2: love his competitiveness, and I don't feel like it's in
Speaker 2: a derogatory way towards other players. I think Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: said it best in The Athletic Story that he kind
Speaker 2: of blacks out during games, which I guess is okay
Speaker 2: kind of, but you got to be conscious. You got
Speaker 2: to have conscious awareness when you're on the field, and
Speaker 2: I think he's learning that, and guys like Alex Vesia,
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman, Miguel Rojas, Key Key Hernandez can all help
Speaker 2: him with that. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Just want to also
Speaker 2: throw this out there again, as I did after yesterday's game.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers, if they can, could do Shoho Tani a
Speaker 2: huge favor by adjusting his start days to Sunday. Sunday games,
Speaker 2: as you know, are usually one ten, so he could
Speaker 2: have the rest of Sunday to sleep, to regenerate, and
Speaker 2: his throat day, his bullpen day would not be until Wednesday.
Speaker 2: So you can give him all of Sunday, don't hit
Speaker 2: him on Monday, and then he comes back Tuesday and
Speaker 2: doesn't I have to throw his bullpen session. If you
Speaker 2: look at what the Dodgers did to begin the year,
Speaker 2: they set up his start days to be Wednesday. So
Speaker 2: the first six weeks of the season, Vessie and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have had a lot of Thursdays off. Well that's
Speaker 2: not the case anymore. So I don't know how they
Speaker 2: do it or if they can do it, but that's
Speaker 2: just my suggestion to try to ease the burden. Have
Speaker 2: his start days on Sunday, and even if it is
Speaker 2: a nationally televised game, the game's at four o'clock, not
Speaker 2: seven o'clock, so you can give him basically two and
Speaker 2: a half days of rest before he really has to
Speaker 2: step on the gas pedal again and throw his bullpen
Speaker 2: session two days later. So that's my suggestion. I don't
Speaker 2: know if anybody will take it. Maybe I'll talk to
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts about it. I feel like he doesn't want
Speaker 2: me to bring it up to him. Anyway, there you go,
Speaker 2: if he's still listening, I just gave it to him,
Speaker 2: all right. That'll do it for us on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Thank you to everybody for coming out. Thank you to
Speaker 2: Alex Vesias for being such a great guy, not only
Speaker 2: a great pitcher, a back to back World Series champion,
Speaker 2: but a great person. And that's the reason why this
Speaker 2: city the fan base responds to him because they could
Speaker 2: tell how genuine of a person he is, and you
Speaker 2: could see it today here at Downey Hunday, just how
Speaker 2: much time he has taken with every person that has
Speaker 2: waited in line to see him. So thank you to
Speaker 2: Alex Vessia. Thank you to Dave Roberts. Hey is that
Speaker 2: Alex Freeland holding the baby that looks like Alex Freeland Vesia?
Speaker 2: I don't know he got in line. Alex Freeland got
Speaker 2: in line to meet Vessia. We got a dappel ganger
Speaker 2: of Alex Freeland out here. Anyway. Thank you to everybody
Speaker 2: at Downy Hundai. Thank you to our great promotion staff.
Speaker 2: Thank you to Matt Demiche for doing all the great
Speaker 2: social media work. He's an MVP again. Thank you to
Speaker 2: Dave Weis. Thank you to Bert Weiner, who gets a
Speaker 2: bad rap as well from Petro some money. He has
Speaker 2: not asked for a piece of food once out here.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's some street dogs out there. And thank
Speaker 2: you to our guy DJ Cruz, who does a lot
Speaker 2: of different things out here at Downy Hunday and of
Speaker 2: course are masters of ceremonies. Sam. You see Sam with
Speaker 2: a Vessia jersey on. He's the man that makes Downey
Speaker 2: Hunday go. And thank you to you for listening. In
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Speaker 2: you tomorrow night from Dodgers Stadium. Our coverage begins at
Speaker 2: six o'clock with Dodgers on Deck and Tim Kate's first
Speaker 2: Pitch with Rick Monday, Charlie Steiner and Tim Never Tomorrow
Speaker 2: night at seven to ten. It's a big series, Dodgers Braves,
Speaker 2: Emmit Sheehan against Chris Sale. So we'll see you out
Speaker 2: there at Dodgers Stadium tomorrow night. And Happy Mother's Day
Speaker 2: to all the moms out there. This is a great
Speaker 2: one right here, start it off. That's right. Without the moms,
Speaker 2: we got nothing. And Alex Vesia, he made everybody's mother's
Speaker 2: day coming out here to Downey Hunday. There's the gift
Speaker 2: that keeps giving right there. We'll see Vesia wearing his
Speaker 2: tomorrow at Dodger Stadium. Thank you to everybody for coming out.
Speaker 2: We still got those prizes to give away, so don't
Speaker 2: go anywhere Dodger. Talk back with you tomorrow night after
Speaker 2: the game. See you