WEBVTT - Off Season Dodger Talk (12-8-25) 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.320 This is off season Dodger Talk Winter Meetings edit. 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:07.600 Yar now everyone's favorite Dodger insight, David Basse. 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:13.960 Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Basse with you until eight 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:17.160 o'clock tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:21.200 Can't wait to talk Dodger baseball again with you. We 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:26.720 are going to be with you four times this week tonight, Tomorrow, Wednesday, 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.080 and then again on Friday. We are your home for 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.120 the NFL, so we do have Thursday Night football, so 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.720 four times this week during the week of the Winter 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:41.920 Meetings taking place in Orlando. We do have a very 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:46.400 special guest. It's like having him in studio, but via 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:51.519 you know, video conferencing, and that is the great actor 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.760 and longtime Dodger fan born and raised in LA saw 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.840 games in the coliseum, Brian Cranston is going to join 0:00:59.920 --> 0:01:02.240 us us. I had a chance to catch up with 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:06.679 him because he's in London, England right now being the 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:11.000 lead actor in a great play All My Sons. So 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:16.480 we recorded a very lengthy interview earlier today that you 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.240 will hear coming up in our next segment and also 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.400 you will be able to see on AM five to 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:27.640 seventy LA sports social media pages, Instagram, X, all that stuff. So, 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.520 Brian Cranston is going to join us to talk Dodger 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.520 baseball coming up in our next segment, and I'm not 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.480 sure we're gonna have a lot of time for phone 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.240 calls tonight, but we certainly will again tomorrow night at 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:46.160 seven o'clock. And our guest tomorrow night is the man 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.680 that I believe is going to be the breakout pitcher 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.360 for the Dodgers this season, River Ryan. He is going 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.480 to join us tomorrow night and we are going to 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.480 have more time for your phone calls. It's been a 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.080 great month since the parade. I have I've received all 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.880 of your messages on social media. Thank you so much 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.320 for the love. I did not record a single out, 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.240 I did not drive in a single run. I was 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:14.320 just there to bring it to life for you, and 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.880 I really appreciate being part of the run, being part 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:22.400 of the parade. It was awesome back to back seasons. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.200 None of us could ever dream of that, and it 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.600 certainly was a great ride. And Miguel Rojas is coming 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.280 back next year. I feel like Will Smith is not 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.760 getting enough shine for doing what he did during the 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.640 World series, but that's for another show later this week. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.800 I had a great weekend. Got to see Tommy Edman 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.760 at One Way Memorabilia Shop in Monterey Park on Saturday. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.000 Brought my little son Joseph to meet Tommy Edman. He 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:53.320 was nervous and Tommy's a great guy. But Tommy Edman 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.680 had surgery on his right ankle and he was in 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.079 a heavy boot on Saturday. If you saw him out 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.839 there at one Way Honore Park. Thanks to my guy 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.920 Jake Delance for hooking it all up. But I had 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.400 a chance to talk to Tommy. He's in a boot 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.760 for another three weeks, which makes me believe that he 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.720 probably is going to be a little bit behind other 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:18.720 players when spring training starts in Glendale, Arizona after the 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.880 Super Bowl. But he's in great spirits. He was on 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.040 a scooter if you were out there, so he can't 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.639 put a lot of weight on it. He's going to 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.240 be taking that boot off, he told me, in three 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.040 weeks and then and then he'll be able to put 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:37.000 some weight on that right leg. Also, yesterday had a 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.400 chance to go out to Jackie Robinson Stadium at UCLA. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.160 There is a high school showcase. My cousin, Mike, his 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.160 son was out there doing his thing, so had a 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.760 chance to go say hi to coach John Savage, who, 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.680 in my opinion, is the best college baseball coach in 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.640 the country a major league team. If you're hiring college coaches, 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.200 John Savage might be a really good pitching coach one day, 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.720 or a manager. He's done incredible things with UCLA Baseball. 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.520 Had a chance to say hello to one of his coaches, 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:13.720 who coincidentally is Austin Barnes's brother, Griffin Barnes out there 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.960 at UCLA. So it was a great weekend. From Monterey 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:22.240 Park to Jackie Robinson Stadium and look, the Winter meetings 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.600 are going on. Maybe the biggest news today is that 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.640 Dave Roberts said that ta Oscar Hernandez is his right 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.039 fielder for now. I heard Brandon Gome say as well 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:38.680 that Taioscar Hernandez is going to be a Dodger next year, 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.279 and he said he can't imagine a scenario where he's not, 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:48.400 which is interesting. I believe the Dodgers were fielding calls 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:53.040 for Taoscar Hernandez. Maybe that tells me they can't find 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.200 a match right now. But the Dodgers are not going 0:04:56.240 --> 0:05:00.200 to shop ta Oscar Hernandez all winter. I believe if 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:04.320 they can't trade him by Christmas, ta Oscar Hernandez is 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.040 going to be a Dodger and I'm not sure. If 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.200 you caught this on Instagram, you can get a lot 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:14.280 of information about players off seasons. Taoscar Hernandez was participating 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.880 in some sort of celebrities softball game over the weekend. 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.359 A lot of Dominican players were out there, and Julio 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:26.640 Rodriguez of the Mariners posted a few photos of Tioscar Hernandez, 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:30.480 who did shave his beard. Trimmed his beard, no doubt, 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.200 but it looks like he lost at least fifteen pounds, 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.760 which tells me he's trying to evolve with father time 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:42.200 to be more mobile in the outfield. So don't sleep 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.800 on Taoscar Hernandez. What I can tell you about some 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.960 of the rumors, and we can get into that more 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.040 as the week goes along. The Dodgers did have interest 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:55.080 in Devin Williams and Raceal and Glacias, and Glacias opted 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.719 to go back to the Braves. Devin Williams opted to 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.960 sign with the Mets. Robert swar to me is one 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.600 of the more interesting names out there that I'm sure 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.159 the Dodgers are kicking the tires on. Thirty four year old, 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.640 hard throwing right hander. We know him well free agent now, 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.960 Padres are not bringing him back. If he's willing to 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.760 take a one year contract with the Dodgers, I could 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:21.200 see that being a match Kennelly Jansen. I wouldn't rule 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.680 that out either. He's obviously shown he would take a 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.919 one year contract with the Angels. Why wouldn't he do 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.880 it with the Dodgers. So two veterans that I think 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.680 you should keep your eyes on. I would say Kennelly's 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.760 more of a long shot. I'm not a big believer 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.320 in going back to where you were before, like going 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.080 back to your old girlfriend or reuniting with your ex wife. 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.400 But look, Kenley would love to be a Dodger again. 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:51.400 There's no secrets about that. If the fit's right, he's 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.080 gonna come back. But I don't know the level of 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.080 interest from the Dodgers' side. I'm sure they're going to 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:01.080 talk to his agents during this winter meetings. As far 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:05.400 as what may transpire, from what I'm being told, not 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.320 a whole lot during the next couple of days. But 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.720 a lot of groundwork is being laid, and I could 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.040 possibly see the Dodgers and Cardinals having a lot of 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:19.040 talks about Brendan Donovan and Lars Newpar. You know, Hein 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.320 Bloom is now in charge of the Cardinals. They seem 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.440 to be in a rebuild mode. They need pitching. The 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:28.920 Dodgers have pitching. Lars Newbar can play all three outfield positions. 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.560 Brendan Donovan can play second, he could play third, he 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:36.120 could play left field. So to me, that's a match, 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.320 that's a trade match. Whether or not they can come 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.640 up with something remains to be seen because the Dodgers 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.120 are not the only team that has interest in those players. 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:51.640 So Lars Newpar, Brendan Donovan, those are legit conversations. We're 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.440 gonna take a time out. When we come back, you'll 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:59.200 hear my extensive conversation with Brian Cranston, who has trade ideas, 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.400 wants to have my numbing trade talk with us on 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.320 Dodger Talk. The great actor Brian Cranston is next right 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.760 here on Dodger Talk on a five to seventy LA 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:13.600 Sports And yeah, he has done some things in Hollywood. 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.720 On stage in the theater. He may have won seven 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.120 Emmy Awards, he may have won two Tony Awards. He 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.640 may be the man that has brought those Owmbrace into 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.440 our lives as the best mess how you'll ever taste. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.520 But first and foremost, he is a great Dodger fan 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.000 and not one of those bandwagon fans that showed up 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.000 a few years ago. This man has been through it 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.320 and now is reaping the rewards a back to back 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:45.480 World Series championships. And that is the one and only 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:50.800 Brian Cranston from across the pond in London, England. Brian, 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.000 thanks a lot for the time and so great to 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:53.880 do this. 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.800 David. It's good to see you again. It's about nine 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.840 pm at night right here and on my day off, 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:07.200 I'm doing a play here, but I'm always ready to 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.000 talk baseball all my sons. 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.880 That's what Brian Cranston is starring in. It's Arthur Miller 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.920 played from way back in nineteen forty seven. So I 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.920 don't know whether you had a spring training for this 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.959 play or not, So can we just start at where 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.800 you were for Game six? In Game seven and where 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:31.120 you were when Rojas hit his improbable home run. 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:41.319 David. Every single game started at one ten am in London, 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.800 no matter whether they were playing, and so it was. 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.960 It was crushing me to be to try to sleep 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:54.760 and then set the alarm for one am and get 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.880 up out of a sound sleep and then watch for 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:01.080 three hours and then try to go back to sleep 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.640 for another hour or two before going to rehearsal at 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.240 ten am. It was I was like in a daze. 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.800 I was in a but you know what, I would 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.800 do it again. Look looking back, what a great series, 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:20.320 you know, back and forth? And how odd was it 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.800 is that the first time maybe you know, Dave set 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.240 the first time, and I believe this is true. I haven't. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.440 I didn't double check this. But didn't the visiting team 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:31.520 win every. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:37.360 Game except one? The Dodgers won that eighteen inning marathon. 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.240 Oh that's right, And they did win one in Toronto. 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.800 They did win one in Toronto. But I think the 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.280 point is is that was the greatest World Series that 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.160 we have seen, maybe in our lifetimes, as far as 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:55.120 just how competitive and the momentum swings. I mean, the 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.920 Dodgers in Game seven, Brian, they could have lost four 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:03.160 or five different times before Rojas even has that chance. 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:09.280 The idea of Miggy Roe getting up in the top 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.520 of the ninth with one out. They just needed two 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.520 more outs and they got and he hits it out. 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:22.040 Oh my, I was screaming. Now remember it's now about 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.440 three o'clock in the morning, and I'm screaming, and my 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.199 wife was saying, what happened, what happened, And as she goes, 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.880 You're gonna wake everybody up in the whole building, and 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.480 I said, I didn't care. It was it was too big. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:39.040 And then in the tenth when when Smith does the 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:43.240 same thing, it was like it seemed destined. Then it 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.520 seemed like it was ours. At that moment, it was like, okay, 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.520 you have these two things happen in the top of 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.559 the ninth and the top of the tenth. This is ours. 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:54.719 We're gonna wrap this up. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.480 I find this so fascinating, just to see your timeline 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:04.760 of event. It's across the globe. So eighteen innings goes 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.320 on again and Freddie Freeman hits his walk off home 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.400 run in the bottom of the eighteenth inning. What was 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.640 Were you able to stay up the whole time? Did 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:18.800 you take a nap between innings twelve and seventeen? I mean, 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:19.679 what was going on. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.640 It was like I was in a It was seemed 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.920 like I was in a drug and do stupor it was, 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.920 you know, by that time, it was it was something 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.280 like five point thirty in the morning, and I was 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.360 already holding my head, going, I don't I don't know 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.640 how I'm gonna make it through this day. But and 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.520 the other thought, it truly came to me. If the 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.760 Dodgers win this, I'll somehow make it through the day. 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:52.320 But if they lose, oh my god, it would. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:53.440 Be all show's canceled. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.480 Yeah, I can't do it, can't do it. Tell the 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:57.480 audience to go home. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.680 You know what's surreal about all this is how you're 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.520 there in London for all my sons, but at Dodger 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.679 Stadium for those three games. And I believe even throughout 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:14.800 the entire postseason in the highlights and hyping up the 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:18.960 crowd at Dodger Stadium with Dodger visions. So you may 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.000 not have been physically at Dodger Stadium, but certainly your 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:23.600 spirit was and your voice. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:30.040 You know, I'm happy to be a sliver of a 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:35.800 part of the celebration. It was fun to do. And 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.240 as you said, David. I was born and raised in 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:42.480 Los Angeles, so this is my team. I was born 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:47.280 in nineteen fifty six. My first Dodger game was in 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:51.079 nineteen sixty one when I was five and a half 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:56.400 years old, and it was at the La Coliseum. I 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.679 don't remember much of it. I went with my older 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:02.360 brother and my father, and I just remember the the 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.160 It was huge, there was a lot of celebration going on, 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.920 and it was probably the first time I ever felt that. 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.920 But I did remember one thing, and that was the 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.920 name of a of a Dodger player called Wally Moon. 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:22.680 Remember Wally, And it was the first shot as a 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:27.080 as a young boy that I thought, oh, so his 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.600 name could be the same as as something else. You know. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.479 It's like my name was Brian, but there's no object 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:39.520 for a star name Brian. So so I just didn't 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:44.000 understand that, and so that I remembered that name, and 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.720 as Vince Gully dubbed him the Moon shots that he 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.960 used to hit like a chip shot over the screen 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.600 in left field because they didn't want to pitch to 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.240 the inside. He was a left handed batter, and and 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.920 I was so impressed with that and the and the 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.160 symbol behind that. It was what it meant to hit 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:09.440 a moonshot was to overcome an obstacle. Here's a dilemma. 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:14.200 How do you do this? How do you figure out 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:18.160 this problem? And he figured out the problem, and so 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.640 I was so enamored by that that I named my 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:22.920 production company Moonshot Entertainment. 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:25.480 No kidding, I didn't know that. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.200 Yeah, wow, wow, that's awesome. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.720 What a tip of the cap to Wally Moon and 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:36.920 well the Moonshot Well Colisseum, Brian, you remember obviously what 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:41.440 it was. The Colisseum had a short porch. Yeah, two 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:45.120 hundred and fifty feet away enough, and I don't I 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.880 forgot how high that screen was that Wally Moon used 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:48.560 to hit him over. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:54.160 It was about forty four feet tall the screen because 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:59.400 it was so short. Now, center and right field were enormous, 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.200 they were vast, and so they didn't want to give 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.760 left handed hitters that freedom to hit and run like crazy. 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.800 So they used to pitch a little outside to left 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.880 handed hitters and force them to hit to left field, 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.400 hit off the screen, and the most they'd get as 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:22.640 a single because it was so short. But yeah, he 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.520 figured out how to solve a problem, and I was 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:27.520 very impressed with that. 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.000 So Brian Cranston. When you used to go watch Wally 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.880 Moon and the Dodgers at the coliseum. We have heard 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.200 the stories of fans like yourself and your dad that 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.840 would bring their transistor radio to the Colisseum and you 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:46.320 could actually hear Vin Scully's call throughout the Colisseum and 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:52.160 eventually at Dodger Stadium. Do you remember those memories vividly 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.440 of hearing Vin Scully for the first time. 0:16:56.200 --> 0:17:00.480 It's indelible. Once you hear Vin Scully, it becomes part 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:05.119 of your life. And he was with Brooklyn, as we know, 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.200 and so he came out. And that's all I knew 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.600 was Vin Scully since the very first time I heard 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:17.960 his voice. And you know, I didn't have a great childhood. 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:22.119 It was probably not as bad as some worse than others, 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.959 but I knew that during the three hours that I 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.960 was listening to a Dodger game with Vin Scully's voice, 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.880 at least during that time, all was well and he 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.080 was able to paint a picture and allow me, as 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:43.000 a young boy, to escape the hardships that I was 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:48.639 feeling and be able to fantasize about being a baseball player. 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:53.360 Myself and what that would be like. And I remember 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.760 sneaking in my transistor radio with my little ear plug 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.840 and I used to put it down my sleeve and 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.240 I and I would would hold it up to my 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:09.120 ear in class. Because in the sixties, all the all 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:13.080 the World Series games that he used to announce, they 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:16.920 were all during the day. There are very few night 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.320 games in the World Series. And so all through the 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.639 sixties I used to listen to to Vin do the 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.240 the World Series games and any day games that happened 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.960 to be, you know, like the Businessman special games they 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:35.000 used to have in in midweek, and you know, I mean. 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:41.480 And I was fortunate enough about eight years ago, just 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.439 a couple of years before he retired, UH to be 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:51.800 able to present Vin with the ESPN Award for Broadcaster 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:56.560 of the Century, you know. And and I was able 0:18:56.560 --> 0:19:00.359 to do that. And I was actually doing a play 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:02.919 in New York at the time, but it was on 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:07.439 a Sunday night, So I flew out Sunday morning to 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:11.239 be in Los Angeles to do this award. And then 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.040 as soon as it was over, I got on a 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.240 red eye and flew back to New York so I 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:18.199 could be in the show the next day, so but 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:19.080 it was worth it. 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:19.680 Amazing. 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:23.439 He was my hero. I was able to bring my 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.560 daughter and my daughter to meet him, and she grew 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:30.360 up with him, and they took some pictures together and 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:32.040 those are cherished memories. 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.240 Wow. That gives me chisen. I feel like part of 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:41.159 the reason why people love what you do, whether it's 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.160 you know, on TV and the movies or on stage, 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.679 is because of how relatable you are. And for people 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.040 like myself who grew up my entire life in the 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:54.840 San Fernando Valley, that's all very relatable twenty years later obviously, 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.800 but I mean we all listened to him, and I 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:00.119 did the same thing. I would have the radio go 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.240 on until I went to bed. I mean that was 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.280 my comfort, yeah, going to sleep. 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:11.840 Well games, going to the stage. Yeah, how many times 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:16.760 I've gone, hundreds of times. I'd always want to bring 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.000 a radio to listen to Vin, you know. I mean 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:20.720 that was that was just part of it. 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.679 Yeah, And I don't know if this is me just 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:29.320 being too nostalgic, but I do wonder what it would 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:32.000 sound like if Vin would have called that Rojas or 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:36.040 will Smith home run or Freddie's Grand Slam, those are 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.800 the things that sometimes go through my mind because Chick 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.960 hern and Vin Scully to me brought the Dodgers and 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.240 Lakers to life for all of us. 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.959 They sure did. And even you know, even King's Hockey 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.080 Bob Miller was was a terrific annouswer as well. We 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:55.040 really got very lucky here in Los Angeles. 0:20:56.560 --> 0:21:00.720 Brian Cranston, you're so excited about this Dodger team, but 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:05.159 everybody always wants more. I'm not sure if you experienced 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:08.040 this in the in Hollywood, but yeah, you were great 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:11.119 in this show, but we want more. What are you 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:13.800 gonna do next? And it feels like that's the Dodgers 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:17.440 as well. You went back to back World Series championships 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:21.120 for the first time in franchise history, but we want 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:24.679 a three peat. And Brian Cranston is so excited about 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:26.120 playing Andrew Friedman. 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:30.560 Maybe one day he will, but you you actually feel 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:34.480 like you have some hot stove in you to maybe 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:36.960 pull off and solidity three pete. 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:40.800 I do I have some proposals? 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:43.600 You have a Miritt down. 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:49.159 Yeah. Uh. One proposal is in house, so no trades, 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:52.320 and then there's a there's a couple of trade proposals. 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:55.840 But I first started with, you know, every Dodger fan, 0:21:56.040 --> 0:22:00.400 and I've talked to many, and they're so remarkably intenseligen 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:03.480 about it, and so you're passionate about it, but you 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:06.480 also have to be sensible and a realistic. When we 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:10.199 were kids making these fantasy trades in our heads, they 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:14.760 always favored the Dodgers by a long shot. You know, 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:17.440 why don't we just trade so and so? And it's like, oh, 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:20.600 come on, but now you have to be realistic in 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:25.639 my fantasies. I'm being realistic. So I first started with 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:30.320 what we know. Last year, our outfield was Conforto, Paz, 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:34.960 and Hernandez left or right right. The only let's be honest, 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:40.520 the only good defensive player was Paz. Okay, it will 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:44.640 not be the same this year. We cannot. Conforto was well. 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:47.720 He was a low cost experiment. It just didn't work 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:50.160 and he's gone and I wish him well. I heard 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:54.960 he was a good guy. Pahz started out cold at 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:58.320 the plate and then he got red hot at mid 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:00.399 season and they got cold again. So we're going to 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:04.159 look for a little more consistency out of him and 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:07.680 Hernandez ended up with what twenty five home runs, which 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:12.520 is great, but I think he struck out too much 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:16.640 and he didn't get enough walks, so his on base 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:20.080 percentage I think was down and and so. But the 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:22.960 biggest thing about him is that the Dodgers cannot, must, 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:26.040 not will not put him out in right field again. 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:32.000 He was a defensive liability to us. And you know, 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:34.440 I can say that. You you have to talk to him, 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:37.520 but I can say that, and and we know that 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:43.280 to be true. The War numbers explain that specifically he was. 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:45.720 I think he was thirty three out of thirty six 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:47.600 right fielders in it. 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:50.560 And so one of the defensive right fielders. You're right, 0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:53.719 and man ta Oscar is one of my favorite people. 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:56.280 So I'm racing myself for what's coming here. 0:23:57.119 --> 0:24:01.960 Well, okay, but see why I wasn't when he played 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:05.040 left field a year and a half two years ago. 0:24:05.680 --> 0:24:09.920 Why was it hidden? Is right field really that much 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:14.399 more demanding? And I suppose it is. But when he 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:17.399 was in left field, we didn't really talk about his 0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:22.080 defensive liability very much. It was really his offense was 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:25.120 so good and he was he was an adequate outfielder 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:28.240 in left field. So the way to do it, because 0:24:28.240 --> 0:24:31.040 we have a hole in left field is to move 0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:34.960