WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (11-5-25) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.560 He me, are your attention, your fire. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:08.080 This is world champion, Dodgers, World champions for a small salt. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:09.799 Time to get a people what they want to die 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:11.559 too in a row two is special. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:12.880 I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:16.880 You'll host last time one of them. Come, this ball's gone. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.319 You ready to go old time show. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:22.959 Grab your phone to get in on the show called 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.920 eight six six nine to eighty seven two five seven. 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.280 Come to the show and now your host of Dodger Talk, 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:30.800 David Vasse. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:37.400 We are live until eight o'clock right here on AM 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.199 five to seventy LA Sports. You're a home of the 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:46.640 back to back World Series champion Dodgers. That's right, back 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.720 to back World Series champions for the first time in 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:54.320 twenty five years in Major League Baseball. We do not 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.200 have a guest tonight, but you will hear what Dave 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.960 Roberts had to say about the way he manage Game 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.360 seven of the World Series on Dan Patrick's show. And 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:09.399 we also will share with you Clayton Kershaw's conversation with 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.679 us after the stage and the rally and the parade 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.600 was over with, so we'll get to that as well. 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:19.360 And look, this is the last Dodger talk we have 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.600 for you until December when the Winter meetings kick off, 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.479 and coming up in our next segment, we'll get into 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:32.399 the needle that Andrew Friedman has to thread this offseason 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:36.720 to keep this thing going. But so let's all just 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.440 check ourselves and this false narrative that it was the 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:44.200 little old Blue Jays that took the Dodgers to seven games. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.240 It wasn't that the Blue Jays are a really good team. 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.720 You may not have known about them, but everybody in 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.360 the Al East knew and saw this coming. In fact, 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.120 I asked Alex cor that I said, did you see 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.240 this coming? He said, I saw this coming two years ago. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.240 For whatever reason, they had an off year last season, 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:09.919 but this year everything clicked. So people that have been 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:13.480 following the game, manage the game, play the game, know 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.000 how good the Blue Jays are and are going to 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.800 be for years to come if they can get some pitching. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.839 But it was a great parade in Los Angeles as too. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.120 You know, it was just great to be on one 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.200 of those buses with a group of Dodgers and just 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:35.000 to see the sea of people on the streets of 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.240 downtown LA. It was great that the Dodgers and the 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:42.040 city decided to make the parade route longer than a 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.280 year ago. It gave more people opportunities to be part 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.680 of it, to cheer on the Dodgers, and it was 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:56.000 It was comparable to the first Kobe Shack Lakers championship. 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.360 That was the first championship the Lakers had won since 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:04.520 nineteen eighty eight. That was the caliber of this parade. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:08.959 It also matched when the Lakers with Kobe and Gasol 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.799 had the rally at the Coliseum, but the coll scene 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:17.200 was packed, but the parade route was limited. And this 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:21.440 parade route was epic. And then the Dodgers get back 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.679 to Dodgers Stadium and the entire stadium has sold out 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.360 fifty thousand plus. It was an incredible scene. And I 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.600 could tell you this. The players that I was on 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.680 the bus with, and I just watched Key k Hernandez's 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:38.560 POV video he did for the Player's Tribune, they all 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:43.160 appreciated it. They all love making eye contact with you. 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.800 They love seeing the signs that people came out, and 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.440 there was one great sign that I actually posted on 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.320 my Instagram. It was a must for me to take 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.480 a picture of it because it was a tribute to 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.680 a guy that wasn't able to participate in the world 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.840 scene and obviously not there at the parade, and that 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.600 was Alex Vesia. And there was a great sign that 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:11.160 I saw that said for you, Vesia, hashtag Dodger Strong. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.560 There were a lot of great signs out there, creative signs, 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:20.520 and the Dodger players, trust me, felt it this time. 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.400 They felt it last year. Don't get me wrong, but 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:30.840 this was incredibly enormous and a wave of emotion from everybody. 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:35.160 And that's what sports is so great at doing in 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:39.640 such a divided world. It brings everybody together. It brought 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:43.159 everybody in this city together. And I would love to 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.560 hear from you, and we did this on our Instagram 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.760 page at am five seventy LA Sports. Where were you 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.159 watching Game seven of the World Series. I would love 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.320 to know. Eight six six nine eighty seven two five 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.039 seventy is the phone number I could tell you where 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.320 I was for the final I was right there in 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.680 the camera well at Rogers Center watching it all unfold. 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.760 The Dodgers just two outs away from their season being 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:13.120 crushingly done, and instead they broke the hearts of Canada 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.839 with Miguel Roja sitting a game tying home run, Miguel 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:21.280 Rojas and Will Smith coming up big for the Dodgers, 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:26.119 not only offensively with those home runs, but also defensively. 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.159 You know, on that Dalton varshow ground ball with the 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:34.360 infield in bases loaded, and Miguel Rojas somehow, some way 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.400 is able to you know, keep his balance throw a strike, 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:42.120 and Will Smith incredibly had his foot on home plate. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.440 But home plate is a very slippery surface, and he's 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.799 stretching like a first baseman, and for a split second 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.640 his foot came off home plate, and luckily it tapped 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:59.160 back down before Isaiah Conna Falafo got in there. And 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.440 I know everybody's second guessing him. Why didn't you just 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.120 run through it? Well, what do we always say? You 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.720 slided home plate? So now everybody's second guessing him, and 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.120 can't say enough about Yamamoto. We'll get into the story 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.440 about Yamamoto and how that all came about. How about 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.840 Justin Robleski never blinking after that bench's clearing brawl, after 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.840 Andress and Menez got hit by a pitch, and from 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.920 Robleski's point of view, he thought Jim Nez was trying 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.480 to get hit on the previous pitch, so he was 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.279 looking to get hit to get on base. And from 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.760 what I was told from players, they said the Blue 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:38.279 Jays closer Jeff Hoffman was chirping the most, and there 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:43.279 were a few veteran Dodgers that were screaming at Jeff Hoffman, 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.880 you don't want to get in this game. Don't get 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.560 in this game now. And it was Jeff Hoffman that 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.880 gave up the game tying home run to Miguel Rojas. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:57.640 So an incredible sequence of events, an incredible Game seven, 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.799 the greatest Game seven I have ever seen in my life. 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.560 I'm sure in your life. I mean that was that 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.440 was incredible, the greatest World series we have seen. I 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.200 haven't seen a more entertaining World series from Game one 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:17.920 to Game seven, and rightfully so, there were so many 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.200 things that happened in this World Series that we had 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:25.440 never seen before. A pinchait grand slam from Addison Barger, 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.400 two extra inning games, the eighteen inning Game three, Freddie 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.600 Freeman's walk off home run, Meyle smith go ahead home 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.280 run in the eleventh inning in Game seven, two extra 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.960 inning homers, a walkoff homer, of course, a seven to 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.880 four double play. Who could forget that? In Game six, 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.080 Key Ky Hernandez to Miguel Rojas, a complete game from 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:52.120 Yamamoto in Game two, the first twelve strikeout, zero walk 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:56.120 game in a World Series, and that was by Y Savage. 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.560 Who can forget Trey Ya Savage, who gave the Dodgers 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.360 fits a player who reached base nine times in one game, 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:06.560 Otani in the eighteen inning Game three, and a game 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.520 tying ninth inning home run that flipped the World Series. 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:13.920 Miguel Rojas and Andy Pajez and Key Key Hernandez I 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.280 got stories about that as well. But just keep in 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:22.360 mind what this means in baseball history. Number One, we're 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:26.080 witnessing the greatest period of time in Dodger history from 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:30.480 twenty thirteen to twenty twenty five, but especially twenty seventeen 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.959 to where we are in twenty twenty five. There are 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:39.360 only four repeat National League World Series champions. Only four 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:43.319 teams in the National League have ever repeated as World champions, 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.760 the Dodgers this year, the Big Red Machine in seventy 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.440 five and seventy six, and then you have to go 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.240 back to really the old age, the Stone Age of 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.880 the Cubs in seven and eight and the Giants in 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.679 nineteen twenty one. In nineteen twenty two. There has only 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:05.640 been three three Pete champions, the ninety eight to two 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:10.840 thousand Yankees, the seventy two through seventy four A's they 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.760 won three in a row seventy two, seventy three, seventy four, 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.840 the fifty three Yankees won five in a row, and 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.440 the thirty nine Yankees won four in a row. So 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.280 the Dodgers are looking to do what the Yankees did 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.880 back in ninety eight, ninety nine in two thousand, if 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.480 they're able to run it back eight six, six, nine 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.959 eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number? All right? 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.520 I want to hear from Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts was 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.800 on Dan Patrick this morning. He talked about it was weird. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:45.120 Dan Patrick kind of pushed Dave Roberts buttons with this question. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.600 Is there something that you would do differently that you 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.400 didn't do? Here? Was Dave Roberts on Dan Patrick. 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.680 Well, the easiest one is hitting for Miguel Ross. He's 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.720 a defensive guy. I inserted him in games six to 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:06.559 add some infusion and energy into our club. And yeah, 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.960 that's that's probably the one. But you know, looking at 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.720 the bench, it's tough to pinch hit and anyone can 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.079 say and you were probably second guessing me saying you 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.240 should hit for them, and because the numbers say that, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.800 there's other guys that can hit home runs in this 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.120 but it's hard to come off the bench. And I 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.000 trusted my players, and you know, he made me look 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:29.160 good and he deserved that moment. And in the postseason, 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.360 what I have learned Dan, is you know, it's not 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.920 about the numbers. You gotta trust your players. And my 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.600 job is to know the players. That's my job. Ultimately, 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.600 that's my job. It's not to know statistics. It's about 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:41.720 to know the heartbeat of the player. And I do 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.679 believe that, you know, to win eleven or this year 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.800 thirteen games in October, you've got to trust your players, 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.120 to know your players, and that's. 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:50.400 What we did. 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.840 But so you're saying, gut feeling still has a place 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.800 in the game. It feels like we're so attached to analytics. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.240 How much of what you did in game seven was 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:04.080 gut as opposed to analytics. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.800 It's it's all gut. I think that if you look 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.520 back at twenty twenty four, in the postseason, it's the 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.960 eye test, it's gut. But people, if you look at 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.079 twenty twenty, it's eye test, it's gut. People can't get 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.160 off the analytics for some reason. So these are people 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.520 that are just stuck in their ways and you're never 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.520 going to change them. But if people that really want 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:25.280 to walk, that really watched the game and know the game, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:29.280 then they can see that analytics had nothing. It's about, 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.600 you know, coaches trusting their players and players stepping up 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:33.600 in big moments. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.920 And that was part of Dan Patrick's conversation with three 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:41.720 times World Series champion Dave Roberts as a manager four 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.320 times with the four Red Sox, if you're including the 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.839 one that he won as a player, but I gotta 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:52.200 be honest with you, I never never thought Dave Roberts 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.880 should have pinchedh it for Miguil Rojas in Game seven. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.080 The reason why Rojas was even starting in Game six 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.600 and Game seven because Andy pa has in the entire 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:07.800 postseason was overmatched, and quite honestly, the Dodger bench was 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.520 as thin as it's been in years. You had Justin 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.120 Dean and Hassan Kim at the end of this bench. 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.640 There was nobody better than Miguel Rojas to take that 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.400 at bat for the mere reason to get on base, 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.040 to turn the lineup over for Sho Hao Tani. Nobody thought, 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.280 including myself, that he would hit the game tying home run. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.000 That's the reason why I never even thought that Dave 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.240 Roberts should pinch hit for Miguel Rojas. There was no 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.400 better option off the bench to pinch hit for him. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.840 And if you were listening to the show during the 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.319 World Series, you know I was the one that presented 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.559 the question to Dave Roberts before Game two about thoughts 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.520 of benching Andy pah has. I thought Miguel Rojas should 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.160 have been playing in this series since Game two, but 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.079 luckily Dave Roberts got him in in Game six and 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.480 Game seven, and that was the difference. He was a 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:05.599 huge difference the final two games of the World Series. Obviously, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.600 Game seven two outs away from going home, and Miguel 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.439 Rojas extended the Dodgers season to the eleventh inning when 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.160 Will Smith took over, all right, we're gonna take a 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.600 time out. When we come back, we have three lines open. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.160 We will get to you eight six, six, nine, eighty 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:26.040 seven two five, seventy, we'll hear from Clayton Kershaw. I'll 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.280 let you know with Shoho Tani's father envisions for his 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:34.000 son's future in baseball, and we'll get into what the 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.840 Dodgers may do this offseason. So a lot to get 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.720 to between now and eight o'clock. I want to know 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.480 where you were watching Game seven of the World Series, 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.600 as your Dodgers are now back to back champions for 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.760 the first time in franchise history. David vass with you 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.720 until eight o'clock right here on a five to seventy 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:58.800 LA Sports. David Vass with you until eight o'clock on 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:02.760 our final Dodger Talk of the month of November. Will 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.079 rejoin you in December, once the hot stove really gets 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.520 going in the Winter Meetings next week GM meetings. That's 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.439 where some of the groundwork is laid as far as 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.800 trades and signings go. Kind of as a feel out session, 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.920 but the Winter Meeting seems to have things a little 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.960 bit more accelerated by that point in time. So we'll 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.840 be back with you in December. So eight sixty six, nine, 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.640 eight seven, two, five seventy we've got a full board 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.200 of calls, so I want to get to you before 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.680 I do. Since we are the home of the back 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.520 to back World Series champions. I'm looking at all these 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.680 stores and I peek my head into a couple and look, 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.800 I love the Dodger clubhouse stores across southern California. But 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.080 can we get more gear that says back to back 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.080 World Series Champions? All I see is the generic twenty 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:58.160 twenty five World Series Champions. Yeah, that's true. But the 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.560 bigger thing here is that we all are celebrating, is 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.840 that the Dodgers are the first team in a quarter 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.720 century to win back to back World Series Championships. How 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:15.040 about more back to back World Series champions gear out there? 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.040 My guy, Brad Paisley agrees with me, and I know 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:22.760 my girl, Elizabeth Olsen agrees with me too. Elizabeth Olsen 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.320 was backstage at Jimmy Kimmel telling Sue, Joe and the 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.800 rest of the Dodgers social media team how much she 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:33.360 loves David Vasse and watches me breaking my arm going 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.080 down that slide in Milwaukee over and over again. So 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:42.200 Elizabeth Olson, love it, Thank you, Appreciate you. Eight six 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:46.280 six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.840 Let's go out to Eddie in Fontana. You're gonna lead 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.440 us off tonight on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Eddie? 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.960 Hey, alright, DV text for taking my call, brother. I 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:03.320 appreciate you. I appreciate your your your criticism when needs be, 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:08.200 you know, and uh, just, man, what really is there 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.040 to say? You've pretty much hit out all the points, 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:17.120 you know, the collision in centerfield, the the play at 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:23.800 home plate, all Roberts, Roberts's decisions that he's made during. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.800 Well, I haven't. I haven't hit on where Eddie and 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:29.000 Fontana was for Game seven of the World Series. Where 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:29.840 were you, Eddie? 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:31.440 You know what? 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.960 I was at home in in uh in Fontana watching 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:39.440 the game, and uh just it was incredible. It was 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.320 unbelievable to watch a game like that. 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:42.400 Steve V. 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.240 That's something that we'll never see again. Bro, That's something 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:51.240 that was just historic. And to watch something like that, 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.920 you'll never forget where you were at when you've seen 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:54.720 something like that. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.040 Love it, Eddie. The Dodgers have given us so many 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:03.280 memories they'll pass to October really special. Freddie Freeman's walk 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.440 off home run in game We're walk off Grand Slam 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.640 in Game one last year his walk off home run 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.880 in the eighteenth inning of Game three. This year, Walker 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.600 Buehler last year being the pitching hero along with Blake Trining. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.880 This year, Ya'm a moto being the hero the World Series, MVP. 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.280 Just so many great memories. Let's go out to CJ 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.720 and Baldwin Park. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, CJ. 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:29.760 I'm doing good. 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:30.159 David. 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.600 I just want to say I really appreciate your inside 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.680 every night after the postgame. One of the things that 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:37.880 I did want to mention was, I know you talked 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:42.240 about those Yankees teams, especially Derk junior team, the Athletics, 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:43.600 a lot of those teams that don't have to go 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:47.480 through so many series and games to win those World Series. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.960 So we are the we are the new evil Empire. 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.119 I love the hate that we get. Los Angeles is 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.080 the city of champions. And I was at Universal Studios 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:01.640 and being a Dodger fan who's gone so many heartbreaks 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:05.560 every October, I'm glad to see the team coming through 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.760 all the win all it takes to win, mentality that 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.679 the ownership has brought, and seeing all the new fans 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.680 that have come out. You know, we're at universe when 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.560 it sounded like the malin echoed, when make you hit 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.680 that that home run? And then you heard it again 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.040 when Will Smith hit that game winning home run. 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.920 Thank you, David Hey, that's cool. What a cool place 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.399 to be. When the Dodgers won Game seven of the 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:31.840 World Series, Universal Studios, that's pretty cool. Yeah, he's right. 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.840 By the way, the Dodgers are the first World champions 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.520 to win these many games, to have to win the 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:43.160 World Series thirteen wins, they had to win two extra 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.239 ones because they were the number three seed in this 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.520 expanded postseason. And he's right as well. When you go 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:54.440 back to the seventies and before that, even the early eighties, 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.439 it was you win your division and you're going to 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.520 you know, the Championship Series, or you going straight to 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.359 the World Series. In the fifties and before that, So 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:07.080 he's right the Dodgers now, in every team now, you 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:11.240 have to appreciate the fact that these are expanded postseasons 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:15.040 and a lot more traps along the way. It's not 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.560 just you win your division, you're the National League Pennant winner, 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.199 you're going on or you just have to win the 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.119 NLCS and you're going to the World Series. Now the 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.919 Dodgers and other teams. There are extra rounds, and the 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:32.119 Dodgers are the first team to win thirteen games on 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.960 their way to the World Championship. Not to mention, and 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.280 a few of the guys did after Game seven and 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:43.359 at the parade. The Dodgers started twenty twenty four before 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.960 every other team. They finished later than any other team. 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:51.360 They played more days, were engaged more days. Because they 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:55.320 started the year in South Korea twenty twenty five. They're 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.760 coming off a World Series championship against the Yankees, have 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.640 to report sooner than everybody else in early February, play 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.359 all the way through to the second day of November. 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.520 After starting the year in Tokyo. I said it for 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:12.800 a reason to remind the world from Tokyo to Toronto, 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:17.680 the Dodgers are the world champions. Don't discount the road 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:21.480 the Dodgers had to drive and be on this whole 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:25.640 last two years to win back to back championships. That's 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:29.920 more impressive than anything any other champion has ever done, 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:34.880 including the Yankees with Jeter Pasada Pettit those guys, they 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.200 did not have to be a world tour rock band 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:42.040 like the Dodgers have been. The last two years. Let's 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.920 go out to Gilbert though in San Diego. Gilbert, though, 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:54.600 you're on Dodger Talk, dodo bien champions. Sorry, that wasn't Spanish. 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.800 That was just like East La accent stuff. Sorry, Gilberto, 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:00.679 that was bad at me. That wasn't good. Be honest, 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:02.359 not a. 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:09.119 Pro coopers, Thank you. Listen, listen. I knew it was 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:12.560 gonna be a roller coaster of a season. I heard 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:16.960 the caller throughout the whole season. The people that didn't 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:20.520 believe in Brothers, didn't believe in this and that, and 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:24.880 you always kept us informed about what was going on. 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:28.399 I never had a doubt. I was with my son 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:33.679 at a Chicken Wings place in San Diego throughout the 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:37.440 post throughout the post season, except when my son went 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:39.320 to a lady to watch the Dodgers. He went to 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:45.359 a game for every single series, and in the seventh game, 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:50.280 same as last year, when Freddy keep the home run 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:53.600 the Grand Slam, or when the Dodgers beat the Yankees 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:56.800 in the fifth game, we were at the same place. 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:01.320 This time they were about seventy percent Dodger fans and 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:06.280 the rest word Toronto uh Doesger haters. It was great. 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:09.680 It was a great game. And one of the things 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.040 that I'm more grateful for is for you, my friend, 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:16.480 because you always tell us the truth. You always kept it, 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:20.719 keep you kept it. You know, even killed letting us 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:23.920 know what was going on, criticizing the team when he 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:26.240 needed to be criticized, because what were they were doing, 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.399 and let us just know, like hold on, things are 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:32.439 gonna They're gonna get healthy, they're gonna get better. And 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:36.240 my god, they gave us the greatest gifts this year. 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:42.240 That team. I've seen many champion Dodgers since the eighties. 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:46.600 Eighty one was my first Dodger war fearies this team, 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:51.960 what they accomplished, and especially Dave Roberts, he doesn't get 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:56.000 the credit he deserves. He should not be ignored no 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:59.080 more by the media about being the best manager in 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:04.600 baseball because it's very difficult to handle superstars. Anybody can 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:08.880 handle average players, average things, but very few people can 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:14.240 handle superstars and held them, hold them accountable. And we 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:16.840 have a great team. I'm looking forward. I'm going to 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:19.720 enjoy these post season and it's spring, spring training, the 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:23.360 World Series, and then we'll go at it again next year. 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:26.359 Because I know Roberts already got the okay from pat 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:30.679 Riley for a three piece and I'm looking forward and 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:34.640 my friend, thank you very much for all what you've 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:37.560 done this season. My friends, thank you very much because 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:41.160 through you we know what's going on. And I really 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:45.040 enjoy listening to you and your insight, and I wish 0:23:45.119 --> 0:23:45.520 you the best. 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:48.680 My friend, Hey, thank you, good Bruto. We'll talk to 0:23:48.720 --> 0:23:51.080 you in December. Thank you for those kind words, and 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:54.040 I obviously can hear the emotion, the passion, the love 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:57.560 of the Dodgers from you, and those are memories that 0:23:57.600 --> 0:24:00.199