Speaker 1: He me, are your attention, your fire.
Speaker 2: This is world champion, Dodgers, World champions for a small salt.
Speaker 1: Time to get a people what they want to die
Speaker 1: too in a row two is special.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache.
Speaker 4: You'll host last time one of them. Come, this ball's gone.
Speaker 4: You ready to go old time show.
Speaker 2: Grab your phone to get in on the show called
Speaker 2: eight six six nine to eighty seven two five seven.
Speaker 2: Come to the show and now your host of Dodger Talk,
Speaker 2: David Vasse.
Speaker 4: We are live until eight o'clock right here on AM
Speaker 4: five to seventy LA Sports. You're a home of the
Speaker 4: back to back World Series champion Dodgers. That's right, back
Speaker 4: to back World Series champions for the first time in
Speaker 4: twenty five years in Major League Baseball. We do not
Speaker 4: have a guest tonight, but you will hear what Dave
Speaker 4: Roberts had to say about the way he manage Game
Speaker 4: seven of the World Series on Dan Patrick's show. And
Speaker 4: we also will share with you Clayton Kershaw's conversation with
Speaker 4: us after the stage and the rally and the parade
Speaker 4: was over with, so we'll get to that as well.
Speaker 4: And look, this is the last Dodger talk we have
Speaker 4: for you until December when the Winter meetings kick off,
Speaker 4: and coming up in our next segment, we'll get into
Speaker 4: the needle that Andrew Friedman has to thread this offseason
Speaker 4: to keep this thing going. But so let's all just
Speaker 4: check ourselves and this false narrative that it was the
Speaker 4: little old Blue Jays that took the Dodgers to seven games.
Speaker 4: It wasn't that the Blue Jays are a really good team.
Speaker 4: You may not have known about them, but everybody in
Speaker 4: the Al East knew and saw this coming. In fact,
Speaker 4: I asked Alex cor that I said, did you see
Speaker 4: this coming? He said, I saw this coming two years ago.
Speaker 4: For whatever reason, they had an off year last season,
Speaker 4: but this year everything clicked. So people that have been
Speaker 4: following the game, manage the game, play the game, know
Speaker 4: how good the Blue Jays are and are going to
Speaker 4: be for years to come if they can get some pitching.
Speaker 4: But it was a great parade in Los Angeles as too.
Speaker 4: You know, it was just great to be on one
Speaker 4: of those buses with a group of Dodgers and just
Speaker 4: to see the sea of people on the streets of
Speaker 4: downtown LA. It was great that the Dodgers and the
Speaker 4: city decided to make the parade route longer than a
Speaker 4: year ago. It gave more people opportunities to be part
Speaker 4: of it, to cheer on the Dodgers, and it was
Speaker 4: It was comparable to the first Kobe Shack Lakers championship.
Speaker 4: That was the first championship the Lakers had won since
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty eight. That was the caliber of this parade.
Speaker 4: It also matched when the Lakers with Kobe and Gasol
Speaker 4: had the rally at the Coliseum, but the coll scene
Speaker 4: was packed, but the parade route was limited. And this
Speaker 4: parade route was epic. And then the Dodgers get back
Speaker 4: to Dodgers Stadium and the entire stadium has sold out
Speaker 4: fifty thousand plus. It was an incredible scene. And I
Speaker 4: could tell you this. The players that I was on
Speaker 4: the bus with, and I just watched Key k Hernandez's
Speaker 4: POV video he did for the Player's Tribune, they all
Speaker 4: appreciated it. They all love making eye contact with you.
Speaker 4: They love seeing the signs that people came out, and
Speaker 4: there was one great sign that I actually posted on
Speaker 4: my Instagram. It was a must for me to take
Speaker 4: a picture of it because it was a tribute to
Speaker 4: a guy that wasn't able to participate in the world
Speaker 4: scene and obviously not there at the parade, and that
Speaker 4: was Alex Vesia. And there was a great sign that
Speaker 4: I saw that said for you, Vesia, hashtag Dodger Strong.
Speaker 4: There were a lot of great signs out there, creative signs,
Speaker 4: and the Dodger players, trust me, felt it this time.
Speaker 4: They felt it last year. Don't get me wrong, but
Speaker 4: this was incredibly enormous and a wave of emotion from everybody.
Speaker 4: And that's what sports is so great at doing in
Speaker 4: such a divided world. It brings everybody together. It brought
Speaker 4: everybody in this city together. And I would love to
Speaker 4: hear from you, and we did this on our Instagram
Speaker 4: page at am five seventy LA Sports. Where were you
Speaker 4: watching Game seven of the World Series. I would love
Speaker 4: to know. Eight six six nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 4: seventy is the phone number I could tell you where
Speaker 4: I was for the final I was right there in
Speaker 4: the camera well at Rogers Center watching it all unfold.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers just two outs away from their season being
Speaker 4: crushingly done, and instead they broke the hearts of Canada
Speaker 4: with Miguel Roja sitting a game tying home run, Miguel
Speaker 4: Rojas and Will Smith coming up big for the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: not only offensively with those home runs, but also defensively.
Speaker 4: You know, on that Dalton varshow ground ball with the
Speaker 4: infield in bases loaded, and Miguel Rojas somehow, some way
Speaker 4: is able to you know, keep his balance throw a strike,
Speaker 4: and Will Smith incredibly had his foot on home plate.
Speaker 4: But home plate is a very slippery surface, and he's
Speaker 4: stretching like a first baseman, and for a split second
Speaker 4: his foot came off home plate, and luckily it tapped
Speaker 4: back down before Isaiah Conna Falafo got in there. And
Speaker 4: I know everybody's second guessing him. Why didn't you just
Speaker 4: run through it? Well, what do we always say? You
Speaker 4: slided home plate? So now everybody's second guessing him, and
Speaker 4: can't say enough about Yamamoto. We'll get into the story
Speaker 4: about Yamamoto and how that all came about. How about
Speaker 4: Justin Robleski never blinking after that bench's clearing brawl, after
Speaker 4: Andress and Menez got hit by a pitch, and from
Speaker 4: Robleski's point of view, he thought Jim Nez was trying
Speaker 4: to get hit on the previous pitch, so he was
Speaker 4: looking to get hit to get on base. And from
Speaker 4: what I was told from players, they said the Blue
Speaker 4: Jays closer Jeff Hoffman was chirping the most, and there
Speaker 4: were a few veteran Dodgers that were screaming at Jeff Hoffman,
Speaker 4: you don't want to get in this game. Don't get
Speaker 4: in this game now. And it was Jeff Hoffman that
Speaker 4: gave up the game tying home run to Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 4: So an incredible sequence of events, an incredible Game seven,
Speaker 4: the greatest Game seven I have ever seen in my life.
Speaker 4: I'm sure in your life. I mean that was that
Speaker 4: was incredible, the greatest World series we have seen. I
Speaker 4: haven't seen a more entertaining World series from Game one
Speaker 4: to Game seven, and rightfully so, there were so many
Speaker 4: things that happened in this World Series that we had
Speaker 4: never seen before. A pinchait grand slam from Addison Barger,
Speaker 4: two extra inning games, the eighteen inning Game three, Freddie
Speaker 4: Freeman's walk off home run, Meyle smith go ahead home
Speaker 4: run in the eleventh inning in Game seven, two extra
Speaker 4: inning homers, a walkoff homer, of course, a seven to
Speaker 4: four double play. Who could forget that? In Game six,
Speaker 4: Key Ky Hernandez to Miguel Rojas, a complete game from
Speaker 4: Yamamoto in Game two, the first twelve strikeout, zero walk
Speaker 4: game in a World Series, and that was by Y Savage.
Speaker 4: Who can forget Trey Ya Savage, who gave the Dodgers
Speaker 4: fits a player who reached base nine times in one game,
Speaker 4: Otani in the eighteen inning Game three, and a game
Speaker 4: tying ninth inning home run that flipped the World Series.
Speaker 4: Miguel Rojas and Andy Pajez and Key Key Hernandez I
Speaker 4: got stories about that as well. But just keep in
Speaker 4: mind what this means in baseball history. Number One, we're
Speaker 4: witnessing the greatest period of time in Dodger history from
Speaker 4: twenty thirteen to twenty twenty five, but especially twenty seventeen
Speaker 4: to where we are in twenty twenty five. There are
Speaker 4: only four repeat National League World Series champions. Only four
Speaker 4: teams in the National League have ever repeated as World champions,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers this year, the Big Red Machine in seventy
Speaker 4: five and seventy six, and then you have to go
Speaker 4: back to really the old age, the Stone Age of
Speaker 4: the Cubs in seven and eight and the Giants in
Speaker 4: nineteen twenty one. In nineteen twenty two. There has only
Speaker 4: been three three Pete champions, the ninety eight to two
Speaker 4: thousand Yankees, the seventy two through seventy four A's they
Speaker 4: won three in a row seventy two, seventy three, seventy four,
Speaker 4: the fifty three Yankees won five in a row, and
Speaker 4: the thirty nine Yankees won four in a row. So
Speaker 4: the Dodgers are looking to do what the Yankees did
Speaker 4: back in ninety eight, ninety nine in two thousand, if
Speaker 4: they're able to run it back eight six, six, nine
Speaker 4: eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number? All right?
Speaker 4: I want to hear from Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts was
Speaker 4: on Dan Patrick this morning. He talked about it was weird.
Speaker 4: Dan Patrick kind of pushed Dave Roberts buttons with this question.
Speaker 4: Is there something that you would do differently that you
Speaker 4: didn't do? Here? Was Dave Roberts on Dan Patrick.
Speaker 5: Well, the easiest one is hitting for Miguel Ross. He's
Speaker 5: a defensive guy. I inserted him in games six to
Speaker 5: add some infusion and energy into our club. And yeah,
Speaker 5: that's that's probably the one. But you know, looking at
Speaker 5: the bench, it's tough to pinch hit and anyone can
Speaker 5: say and you were probably second guessing me saying you
Speaker 5: should hit for them, and because the numbers say that,
Speaker 5: there's other guys that can hit home runs in this
Speaker 5: but it's hard to come off the bench. And I
Speaker 5: trusted my players, and you know, he made me look
Speaker 5: good and he deserved that moment. And in the postseason,
Speaker 5: what I have learned Dan, is you know, it's not
Speaker 5: about the numbers. You gotta trust your players. And my
Speaker 5: job is to know the players. That's my job. Ultimately,
Speaker 5: that's my job. It's not to know statistics. It's about
Speaker 5: to know the heartbeat of the player. And I do
Speaker 5: believe that, you know, to win eleven or this year
Speaker 5: thirteen games in October, you've got to trust your players,
Speaker 5: to know your players, and that's.
Speaker 6: What we did.
Speaker 7: But so you're saying, gut feeling still has a place
Speaker 7: in the game. It feels like we're so attached to analytics.
Speaker 7: How much of what you did in game seven was
Speaker 7: gut as opposed to analytics.
Speaker 5: It's it's all gut. I think that if you look
Speaker 5: back at twenty twenty four, in the postseason, it's the
Speaker 5: eye test, it's gut. But people, if you look at
Speaker 5: twenty twenty, it's eye test, it's gut. People can't get
Speaker 5: off the analytics for some reason. So these are people
Speaker 5: that are just stuck in their ways and you're never
Speaker 5: going to change them. But if people that really want
Speaker 5: to walk, that really watched the game and know the game,
Speaker 5: then they can see that analytics had nothing. It's about,
Speaker 5: you know, coaches trusting their players and players stepping up
Speaker 5: in big moments.
Speaker 4: And that was part of Dan Patrick's conversation with three
Speaker 4: times World Series champion Dave Roberts as a manager four
Speaker 4: times with the four Red Sox, if you're including the
Speaker 4: one that he won as a player, but I gotta
Speaker 4: be honest with you, I never never thought Dave Roberts
Speaker 4: should have pinchedh it for Miguil Rojas in Game seven.
Speaker 4: The reason why Rojas was even starting in Game six
Speaker 4: and Game seven because Andy pa has in the entire
Speaker 4: postseason was overmatched, and quite honestly, the Dodger bench was
Speaker 4: as thin as it's been in years. You had Justin
Speaker 4: Dean and Hassan Kim at the end of this bench.
Speaker 4: There was nobody better than Miguel Rojas to take that
Speaker 4: at bat for the mere reason to get on base,
Speaker 4: to turn the lineup over for Sho Hao Tani. Nobody thought,
Speaker 4: including myself, that he would hit the game tying home run.
Speaker 4: That's the reason why I never even thought that Dave
Speaker 4: Roberts should pinch hit for Miguel Rojas. There was no
Speaker 4: better option off the bench to pinch hit for him.
Speaker 4: And if you were listening to the show during the
Speaker 4: World Series, you know I was the one that presented
Speaker 4: the question to Dave Roberts before Game two about thoughts
Speaker 4: of benching Andy pah has. I thought Miguel Rojas should
Speaker 4: have been playing in this series since Game two, but
Speaker 4: luckily Dave Roberts got him in in Game six and
Speaker 4: Game seven, and that was the difference. He was a
Speaker 4: huge difference the final two games of the World Series. Obviously,
Speaker 4: Game seven two outs away from going home, and Miguel
Speaker 4: Rojas extended the Dodgers season to the eleventh inning when
Speaker 4: Will Smith took over, all right, we're gonna take a
Speaker 4: time out. When we come back, we have three lines open.
Speaker 4: We will get to you eight six, six, nine, eighty
Speaker 4: seven two five, seventy, we'll hear from Clayton Kershaw. I'll
Speaker 4: let you know with Shoho Tani's father envisions for his
Speaker 4: son's future in baseball, and we'll get into what the
Speaker 4: Dodgers may do this offseason. So a lot to get
Speaker 4: to between now and eight o'clock. I want to know
Speaker 4: where you were watching Game seven of the World Series,
Speaker 4: as your Dodgers are now back to back champions for
Speaker 4: the first time in franchise history. David vass with you
Speaker 4: until eight o'clock right here on a five to seventy
Speaker 4: LA Sports. David Vass with you until eight o'clock on
Speaker 4: our final Dodger Talk of the month of November. Will
Speaker 4: rejoin you in December, once the hot stove really gets
Speaker 4: going in the Winter Meetings next week GM meetings. That's
Speaker 4: where some of the groundwork is laid as far as
Speaker 4: trades and signings go. Kind of as a feel out session,
Speaker 4: but the Winter Meeting seems to have things a little
Speaker 4: bit more accelerated by that point in time. So we'll
Speaker 4: be back with you in December. So eight sixty six, nine,
Speaker 4: eight seven, two, five seventy we've got a full board
Speaker 4: of calls, so I want to get to you before
Speaker 4: I do. Since we are the home of the back
Speaker 4: to back World Series champions. I'm looking at all these
Speaker 4: stores and I peek my head into a couple and look,
Speaker 4: I love the Dodger clubhouse stores across southern California. But
Speaker 4: can we get more gear that says back to back
Speaker 4: World Series Champions? All I see is the generic twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five World Series Champions. Yeah, that's true. But the
Speaker 4: bigger thing here is that we all are celebrating, is
Speaker 4: that the Dodgers are the first team in a quarter
Speaker 4: century to win back to back World Series Championships. How
Speaker 4: about more back to back World Series champions gear out there?
Speaker 4: My guy, Brad Paisley agrees with me, and I know
Speaker 4: my girl, Elizabeth Olsen agrees with me too. Elizabeth Olsen
Speaker 4: was backstage at Jimmy Kimmel telling Sue, Joe and the
Speaker 4: rest of the Dodgers social media team how much she
Speaker 4: loves David Vasse and watches me breaking my arm going
Speaker 4: down that slide in Milwaukee over and over again. So
Speaker 4: Elizabeth Olson, love it, Thank you, Appreciate you. Eight six
Speaker 4: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 4: Let's go out to Eddie in Fontana. You're gonna lead
Speaker 4: us off tonight on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Eddie?
Speaker 8: Hey, alright, DV text for taking my call, brother. I
Speaker 8: appreciate you. I appreciate your your your criticism when needs be,
Speaker 8: you know, and uh, just, man, what really is there
Speaker 8: to say? You've pretty much hit out all the points,
Speaker 8: you know, the collision in centerfield, the the play at
Speaker 8: home plate, all Roberts, Roberts's decisions that he's made during.
Speaker 4: Well, I haven't. I haven't hit on where Eddie and
Speaker 4: Fontana was for Game seven of the World Series. Where
Speaker 4: were you, Eddie?
Speaker 5: You know what?
Speaker 8: I was at home in in uh in Fontana watching
Speaker 8: the game, and uh just it was incredible. It was
Speaker 8: unbelievable to watch a game like that.
Speaker 9: Steve V.
Speaker 8: That's something that we'll never see again. Bro, That's something
Speaker 8: that was just historic. And to watch something like that,
Speaker 8: you'll never forget where you were at when you've seen
Speaker 8: something like that.
Speaker 4: Love it, Eddie. The Dodgers have given us so many
Speaker 4: memories they'll pass to October really special. Freddie Freeman's walk
Speaker 4: off home run in game We're walk off Grand Slam
Speaker 4: in Game one last year his walk off home run
Speaker 4: in the eighteenth inning of Game three. This year, Walker
Speaker 4: Buehler last year being the pitching hero along with Blake Trining.
Speaker 4: This year, Ya'm a moto being the hero the World Series, MVP.
Speaker 4: Just so many great memories. Let's go out to CJ
Speaker 4: and Baldwin Park. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, CJ.
Speaker 3: I'm doing good.
Speaker 10: David.
Speaker 3: I just want to say I really appreciate your inside
Speaker 3: every night after the postgame. One of the things that
Speaker 3: I did want to mention was, I know you talked
Speaker 3: about those Yankees teams, especially Derk junior team, the Athletics,
Speaker 3: a lot of those teams that don't have to go
Speaker 3: through so many series and games to win those World Series.
Speaker 3: So we are the we are the new evil Empire.
Speaker 3: I love the hate that we get. Los Angeles is
Speaker 3: the city of champions. And I was at Universal Studios
Speaker 3: and being a Dodger fan who's gone so many heartbreaks
Speaker 3: every October, I'm glad to see the team coming through
Speaker 3: all the win all it takes to win, mentality that
Speaker 3: the ownership has brought, and seeing all the new fans
Speaker 3: that have come out. You know, we're at universe when
Speaker 3: it sounded like the malin echoed, when make you hit
Speaker 3: that that home run? And then you heard it again
Speaker 3: when Will Smith hit that game winning home run.
Speaker 4: Thank you, David Hey, that's cool. What a cool place
Speaker 4: to be. When the Dodgers won Game seven of the
Speaker 4: World Series, Universal Studios, that's pretty cool. Yeah, he's right.
Speaker 4: By the way, the Dodgers are the first World champions
Speaker 4: to win these many games, to have to win the
Speaker 4: World Series thirteen wins, they had to win two extra
Speaker 4: ones because they were the number three seed in this
Speaker 4: expanded postseason. And he's right as well. When you go
Speaker 4: back to the seventies and before that, even the early eighties,
Speaker 4: it was you win your division and you're going to
Speaker 4: you know, the Championship Series, or you going straight to
Speaker 4: the World Series. In the fifties and before that, So
Speaker 4: he's right the Dodgers now, in every team now, you
Speaker 4: have to appreciate the fact that these are expanded postseasons
Speaker 4: and a lot more traps along the way. It's not
Speaker 4: just you win your division, you're the National League Pennant winner,
Speaker 4: you're going on or you just have to win the
Speaker 4: NLCS and you're going to the World Series. Now the
Speaker 4: Dodgers and other teams. There are extra rounds, and the
Speaker 4: Dodgers are the first team to win thirteen games on
Speaker 4: their way to the World Championship. Not to mention, and
Speaker 4: a few of the guys did after Game seven and
Speaker 4: at the parade. The Dodgers started twenty twenty four before
Speaker 4: every other team. They finished later than any other team.
Speaker 4: They played more days, were engaged more days. Because they
Speaker 4: started the year in South Korea twenty twenty five. They're
Speaker 4: coming off a World Series championship against the Yankees, have
Speaker 4: to report sooner than everybody else in early February, play
Speaker 4: all the way through to the second day of November.
Speaker 4: After starting the year in Tokyo. I said it for
Speaker 4: a reason to remind the world from Tokyo to Toronto,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers are the world champions. Don't discount the road
Speaker 4: the Dodgers had to drive and be on this whole
Speaker 4: last two years to win back to back championships. That's
Speaker 4: more impressive than anything any other champion has ever done,
Speaker 4: including the Yankees with Jeter Pasada Pettit those guys, they
Speaker 4: did not have to be a world tour rock band
Speaker 4: like the Dodgers have been. The last two years. Let's
Speaker 4: go out to Gilbert though in San Diego. Gilbert, though,
Speaker 4: you're on Dodger Talk, dodo bien champions. Sorry, that wasn't Spanish.
Speaker 4: That was just like East La accent stuff. Sorry, Gilberto,
Speaker 4: that was bad at me. That wasn't good. Be honest,
Speaker 4: not a.
Speaker 11: Pro coopers, Thank you. Listen, listen. I knew it was
Speaker 11: gonna be a roller coaster of a season. I heard
Speaker 11: the caller throughout the whole season. The people that didn't
Speaker 11: believe in Brothers, didn't believe in this and that, and
Speaker 11: you always kept us informed about what was going on.
Speaker 11: I never had a doubt. I was with my son
Speaker 11: at a Chicken Wings place in San Diego throughout the
Speaker 11: post throughout the post season, except when my son went
Speaker 11: to a lady to watch the Dodgers. He went to
Speaker 11: a game for every single series, and in the seventh game,
Speaker 11: same as last year, when Freddy keep the home run
Speaker 11: the Grand Slam, or when the Dodgers beat the Yankees
Speaker 11: in the fifth game, we were at the same place.
Speaker 11: This time they were about seventy percent Dodger fans and
Speaker 11: the rest word Toronto uh Doesger haters. It was great.
Speaker 11: It was a great game. And one of the things
Speaker 11: that I'm more grateful for is for you, my friend,
Speaker 11: because you always tell us the truth. You always kept it,
Speaker 11: keep you kept it. You know, even killed letting us
Speaker 11: know what was going on, criticizing the team when he
Speaker 11: needed to be criticized, because what were they were doing,
Speaker 11: and let us just know, like hold on, things are
Speaker 11: gonna They're gonna get healthy, they're gonna get better. And
Speaker 11: my god, they gave us the greatest gifts this year.
Speaker 11: That team. I've seen many champion Dodgers since the eighties.
Speaker 11: Eighty one was my first Dodger war fearies this team,
Speaker 11: what they accomplished, and especially Dave Roberts, he doesn't get
Speaker 11: the credit he deserves. He should not be ignored no
Speaker 11: more by the media about being the best manager in
Speaker 11: baseball because it's very difficult to handle superstars. Anybody can
Speaker 11: handle average players, average things, but very few people can
Speaker 11: handle superstars and held them, hold them accountable. And we
Speaker 11: have a great team. I'm looking forward. I'm going to
Speaker 11: enjoy these post season and it's spring, spring training, the
Speaker 11: World Series, and then we'll go at it again next year.
Speaker 11: Because I know Roberts already got the okay from pat
Speaker 11: Riley for a three piece and I'm looking forward and
Speaker 11: my friend, thank you very much for all what you've
Speaker 11: done this season. My friends, thank you very much because
Speaker 11: through you we know what's going on. And I really
Speaker 11: enjoy listening to you and your insight, and I wish
Speaker 11: you the best.
Speaker 4: My friend, Hey, thank you, good Bruto. We'll talk to
Speaker 4: you in December. Thank you for those kind words, and
Speaker 4: I obviously can hear the emotion, the passion, the love
Speaker 4: of the Dodgers from you, and those are memories that
Speaker 4: you always have, your son will always have, and that's
Speaker 4: what baseball is better at doing than any other sport
Speaker 4: out there, creating those type of memories and bonds with
Speaker 4: the next generation. Eight six, six, nine, seven, two, five
Speaker 4: seventy is the phone number. And I agree with him.
Speaker 4: If you're going to be the guy that says Dave
Speaker 4: Roberts should have done this, Dave Roberts should have done that,
Speaker 4: you gotta start giving Dave Roberts a lot of love
Speaker 4: and a lot more credit because he is one of
Speaker 4: the main reasons the Dodgers were in a position to
Speaker 4: be able to beat a very good, tenacious Blue Jays team.
Speaker 4: And also last year, using his gut, as he said,
Speaker 4: to go out to the man, look at Blake Trinen
Speaker 4: and say, all right, I'm gonna trust you. Freddie Freeman
Speaker 4: trusts you. These guys on the mound trust you. I'm
Speaker 4: going with you, and I'm going to trust Walker Bueer
Speaker 4: to close out the game. So uh, he has built
Speaker 4: such a good bond with the players, and he certainly
Speaker 4: knows his pitching staff better than most. And look, the
Speaker 4: reality is it's Andrew Friedman and Dave Roberts. These two
Speaker 4: guys together have done incredible things together. And I have
Speaker 4: said this before with certain players that believe there's greener
Speaker 4: grass on the other side. Dave Roberts and Andrew Freeman
Speaker 4: are better together than they would be a part. That's
Speaker 4: for certain. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 4: seventy is the phone number we're gonna take our final
Speaker 4: time out on Dodger Talk. When we come back, we'll
Speaker 4: get to more of your phone calls. Eight sixty six
Speaker 4: nine eighty seven two five seventy, and you'll also hear
Speaker 4: from Clayton Kershaw. Don't know how much hot Stove I'll
Speaker 4: be able to get to, but I'll fill you in
Speaker 4: on a little preview of what to be expected. Dodgers
Speaker 4: are back to back World Series champions, and this is
Speaker 4: your home for the back to back champs and five
Speaker 4: seventy LA Sports and five seventy LA Sports. You're back
Speaker 4: to back World Series champions, Los Angeles Dodgers, and to
Speaker 4: relive Game seven of the World Series. You don't have
Speaker 4: to wait that long. We have a great special feature
Speaker 4: for you at three o'clock this Friday. We are going
Speaker 4: to rebroadcast Game seven of the World Series beginning at
Speaker 4: three o'clock, so on your drive home from school from work,
Speaker 4: you can listen to that magical Game seven. Many believe
Speaker 4: that is the greatest World Series Game seven we have
Speaker 4: ever seen, and you'll be able to hear that again
Speaker 4: this Friday, beginning at three o'clock, we will rebroadcast Rick
Speaker 4: Monday and Steven Nelson's call of the Dodgers winning Game
Speaker 4: seven and becoming back to back World Series champions and
Speaker 4: sending Clayton Kershaw out a winner as he goes into
Speaker 4: retirement after eighteen Hall of Fame seasons. We had a
Speaker 4: chance to catch up with a very emotional Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 4: after the parade after the rally at the stadium, him
Speaker 4: holding his youngest son. Just a beautiful scene at Dodger
Speaker 4: Stadium for one of the greatest pitchers we have ever
Speaker 4: seen in Major League Baseball. It is Game seven of.
Speaker 1: The World Series. Not a lot of players in their
Speaker 1: careers get to go out with a team in the
Speaker 1: World Series, let alone a Game seven of the World Series.
Speaker 1: But our guy, Clayton Kershaw has that opportunity. How do you, well,
Speaker 1: Number one, thank you for the time before your last
Speaker 1: game in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4: Oh sorry, I sent Ronnie the pregame interview from the
Speaker 4: first one from the first from the last from Game seven.
Speaker 4: That was the pregame interview from Game seven. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: send Ronnie right now the postgame interview there that we
Speaker 4: had with Kershaw from the rally. So while we do that,
Speaker 4: let's go back out to the phones. James and Buena Park. Wow,
Speaker 4: you really got a peek behind the curtain. I spoke
Speaker 4: to Kershaw before his last game, that epic Game seven,
Speaker 4: and we had a chance to catch up with him
Speaker 4: at the rally. James, so very lucky to be with
Speaker 4: him every day the last fourteen seasons.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Hey, how are you doing, David Great? Hey, I'm
Speaker 12: probably the biggest Dodgery fan out there. I was at
Speaker 12: my first Dodger game back in nineteen seventy seven and
Speaker 12: Don Sutton was a pitcher. I was at Fernando's first
Speaker 12: game against the Ashtros in eighty one, and I was
Speaker 12: at the Kirk Kitchen home run in eighty eight.
Speaker 4: That's amazing.
Speaker 12: And where I watched the game was. I got a
Speaker 12: hotel room on Sunset Boulevard and Vince Scully Drive at
Speaker 12: the hotel and watched the game by myself and had
Speaker 12: a big Chacaroni pizza and a six pack of Doctor Pepper.
Speaker 4: Are you saying on the corner of Sunset and Vin
Speaker 4: Scully Boulevard or vincecar Way? That hotel that's right there,
Speaker 4: That's where you watched it.
Speaker 13: That's why I watched by myself.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, that's amazing. Wow. What was the scene
Speaker 4: like around that area when the Dodgers got the funnel out?
Speaker 14: It was incredible.
Speaker 12: People were hawking their horns and it was just it
Speaker 12: was intense. Let me tell you, it was intent.
Speaker 4: Wow. James, that's aggressive. Great move by you. Thank you
Speaker 4: for sharing that with us. I've never met anybody that
Speaker 4: has stayed at that hotel. I've seen people renovated hotel
Speaker 4: right there on the corner of Vinscully Wayne Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 4: I do love Bar Flores on Sunset Boulevard. I like
Speaker 4: that scene. I like that vibe. Let's go out to Bellflower. Maria.
Speaker 4: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: How you doing, Maria, I'm doing well.
Speaker 9: Thanks for taking my call, David.
Speaker 13: Please, I wanted to share with you my Game seven story.
Speaker 13: So I was at home with my family and my niece.
Speaker 9: Who's two years old, who's obsessed with the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: It was her first.
Speaker 9: Sleepover that night, and she every night when she goes
Speaker 9: to bed, we ask her who do you want to
Speaker 9: pray for? And the game is going on, and unprompted,
Speaker 9: she says, I want to pray for the Dodgers. And
Speaker 9: then she gave me a rosary and I held on
Speaker 9: to the rosary the rest of the night, and when
Speaker 9: they won, I was able to hug my dad. So
Speaker 9: it was a very special evenion at our house.
Speaker 4: Oh, Maria, that's amazing. That's that's a memory that you'll
Speaker 4: have for a lifetime. And were you holding that rosary
Speaker 4: a little extra tighter. When Miguel Rojas came to the
Speaker 4: plate with two with one out.
Speaker 13: I was and I think I scared.
Speaker 9: My niece because I yelled so loud and she might
Speaker 9: to startle her.
Speaker 13: Honestly, like, it was such an amazing experience and that
Speaker 13: was such an amazing game. And I also want to
Speaker 13: say thank you to you and one on the radio side,
Speaker 13: because I've been listening to you guys all year and
Speaker 13: you guys are just continuing Vinscully's legacy. So I'm just
Speaker 13: so happy that we have the best in the business.
Speaker 4: I love hearing that, Maria, because that's what it's all about.
Speaker 4: You gotta understand the responsibility that you have broadcasting part
Speaker 4: of the Dodger games, and you know, the play by
Speaker 4: play guys especially have that responsibility to be not Vin Scully,
Speaker 4: but be as impartial and down the line as Vin
Speaker 4: Scully was. We all knew Vin wanted the Dodgers to win,
Speaker 4: but you never heard him say we or us. He
Speaker 4: called it down the line, and that's what I think
Speaker 4: we all grew up with and appreciated. We knew Vin
Speaker 4: wanted the Dodgers to win, but he never went over
Speaker 4: the top. Eight six six eight seven two five seventy
Speaker 4: is the phone number Kellen in La. Where were you
Speaker 4: for Game seven? Were you holding on to a rosary
Speaker 4: like Maria? Where were you at?
Speaker 15: I was holding on to my wife's sweat.
Speaker 4: Damn, I bet yours were sweaty too, the whole thing.
Speaker 15: Yeah, we watched that thing at the house. I was
Speaker 15: at Game three all three, every inning. Got home around
Speaker 15: two o'clock in the morning. I was at Game two
Speaker 15: last year in the World Series, in Game six and
Speaker 15: twenty seventeen. Still get patsd watching all the highlights from
Speaker 15: that World Series, specifically the Game seven, but so many
Speaker 15: monumental events during that game that still make me gag
Speaker 15: and dry heave as I watched through them, even though
Speaker 15: I know what the outcome is going to be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you got twenty twenty five to be able
Speaker 4: to relive, and we'll rebroadcast the game at three o'clock
Speaker 4: on Friday twenty seventeen. Is a distant memory, obviously, one
Speaker 4: that should have been the Dodgers, and I'll always believe
Speaker 4: that and the guys that were on that team. Unfortunately
Speaker 4: a lot of them did not get an opportunity to
Speaker 4: try to win one. But yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 4: talk about seventeen. I'm just trying to enjoy twenty five.
Speaker 4: Thanks for the phone call, Kellen appreciated. Yeah, you think
Speaker 4: back to twenty seventeen, guys like rich Hill, Chase Utley,
Speaker 4: Andre Ethier, just to name a few, never got another
Speaker 4: opportunity to be able to try to win a championship
Speaker 4: because that was it for them. Eight six six are
Speaker 4: at least for Ethier and Utley. Rich Hill went on
Speaker 4: to other teams and he still hasn't announced his retirement,
Speaker 4: but yeah, as a Dodger, that was it for those
Speaker 4: three eight six, six, nine, eight seven, two, five seventy
Speaker 4: is the phone number. How about Tyler Glass now who
Speaker 4: obviously had his ups and downs during the season, and
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts really work with him to just change his mindset.
Speaker 4: And if he doesn't change his mindset going into the
Speaker 4: postseason and the last month of the year, he couldn't
Speaker 4: do what he did come out of the bullpen multiple
Speaker 4: times in that eighteen inning affair, and then you know,
Speaker 4: be able to actually he started Game three of the
Speaker 4: World Series, that eighteen inning game and then come out
Speaker 4: of the bullpen in Game six and uh, you know,
Speaker 4: get get huge outs. I mean without Tyler Glassnow getting
Speaker 4: Ernie Clement to pop out on the first pitch in
Speaker 4: the ninth inning in Game six, the Dodgers probably don't
Speaker 4: win that maybe it goes to extra innings again, and
Speaker 4: that's not something the Dodgers wanted to see. And then
Speaker 4: obviously glass Now was on the mound when when Keiy
Speaker 4: Hernandez was able to double off Addison Barger at second
Speaker 4: base to end Game six and give the Dodgers the
Speaker 4: opportunity at a game seven eight six, six, seven two
Speaker 4: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
Speaker 4: Noah in Wittier. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: How you doing Noah, I'm doing good and thank you
Speaker 10: for answering my call. I would just want to say
Speaker 10: I was at a wink stop after my homecoming and
Speaker 10: seeing everybody in that wink stop come together and celebrate
Speaker 10: after the Dodgers win was just amazing. It shows how
Speaker 10: much this team means to everyone over here and it
Speaker 10: was just beautiful to see.
Speaker 4: Love it. Noah, What, how Spicey do you get your wings?
Speaker 10: I love him? Really spicy man. Gotta there you go
Speaker 10: really spicy.
Speaker 4: There you go. You could play for the Dodgers with
Speaker 4: that attitude for sure.
Speaker 10: Thank you, Thank you. Also, I just want to say
Speaker 10: Kershaw is the man for coming out in that very
Speaker 10: tense situation in Game three, just to get that one
Speaker 10: out in a three to two count. Just that's just
Speaker 10: got stuff right there, man, nothing else you can ask
Speaker 10: for him.
Speaker 4: That's a guy that will outcompete anybody that he's facing.
Speaker 4: That's what he always talks talks about its competition, just
Speaker 4: trying to go monoemno against that hitter and who's gonna
Speaker 4: be the guy that blinks? And you're right, that was
Speaker 4: a big out because if he walks Nathan Lucas, the
Speaker 4: Blue Jays have the lead in extra innings, and if
Speaker 4: he gives up a base hit, the blue Jays score too.
Speaker 4: So that wasn't just a charity offering by Dave Roberts.
Speaker 4: They needed Clayton Kershaw to get that out. And speaking
Speaker 4: of Clayton Kershaw, he actually told me when we got
Speaker 4: off the bus at the parade when we arrived at
Speaker 4: Dodger Stadium that he never saw the play at the
Speaker 4: plate with Isaiah Kanna Filefa and he never even saw
Speaker 4: him get to third base. He never even knew how
Speaker 4: he got to third base, and he never even saw
Speaker 4: will Smith's home run because he was getting ready to
Speaker 4: come into the game to face Dalton Varshow. If Yamamoto
Speaker 4: can't get that game or game ending double play the
Speaker 4: eleventh inning, when Varshow comes to the plate, Kershaw was
Speaker 4: coming in. That was it for Yamamoto if he doesn't
Speaker 4: get that game ending double play. So that's a little
Speaker 4: behind the scenes of Kershaw's vantage point and what he
Speaker 4: was doing in the Dodger bullpen and part of the
Speaker 4: reason why he was so late to the dogpile because
Speaker 4: he was warming up to come in to face the
Speaker 4: lefty Dalton Varshow if it got to him in the
Speaker 4: eleventh inning. Speaking of Clayton Kershaw, here was our conversation
Speaker 4: after Game seven was all said and done and the
Speaker 4: parade was said and done.
Speaker 16: Oh hey, Dave, how are you doing.
Speaker 4: I'm doing great.
Speaker 1: I'm like one of the kids, you know, you just
Speaker 1: show up and here I am.
Speaker 16: I think we can handle one more interview or a
Speaker 16: question or whatever you got for me.
Speaker 1: Well, last year you were incredibly emotional. How are you
Speaker 1: able to keep it together. You did not cry like
Speaker 1: you said you might.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think it's I'm just at piece man, Like
Speaker 16: this is uh, there's not a sad bone in my body.
Speaker 16: It's just so it's just so happy to be able
Speaker 16: to celebrate your last game ever, your last time at
Speaker 16: Dodger Stadium ever, with fifty thousand fans and getting to
Speaker 16: tell them how much they mean to you, and getting
Speaker 16: to be here with my teammates and how much they
Speaker 16: mean to me. Like you can't script it. You can't
Speaker 16: script it, you know, And.
Speaker 4: So I just.
Speaker 16: I'm just so grateful, thankful for every part of this.
Speaker 16: That parade was the most epic parade. I mean, I'll
Speaker 16: remember that for a lifetime. So yeah, I think that's
Speaker 16: how I kept together. I'm just happy. Man. That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: What a group to go out with, right, Clayton, you're
Speaker 1: a guy that really cares about the team. Doesn't make
Speaker 1: it more special that you guys go out as back
Speaker 1: to back chickins.
Speaker 4: But with the character of this.
Speaker 16: Team, well, I mean, let's be honest, back to back champs.
Speaker 16: You'll do that with anybody, but this group is not
Speaker 16: just anybody. You know, this group you kind of heard
Speaker 16: a little bit. There's a lot of different personalities, there's
Speaker 16: a lot of different guys that can say a lot
Speaker 16: of things, do a lot of things. But at the
Speaker 16: end of the day, we're one team and we had
Speaker 16: one goal and everybody pushed towards it. And I know
Speaker 16: it all sounds cliche, one band, one sound, all that stuff,
Speaker 16: but it really is true. Man Like, it's just not
Speaker 16: about one guy. Like we got a lot of great ones,
Speaker 16: but it's not about one. So I'm pretty happy with that.
Speaker 16: It's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, the game rewards certain players, and the game has
Speaker 1: rewarded Clayton Kershaw because of how he's honored it all
Speaker 1: these years, going out after eighteen seasons as a back
Speaker 1: to back World Series champion. Congratulations, Thank you.
Speaker 16: Ben, thank you. It's special. It has been. It's been awesome.
Speaker 4: FaceTime you tomorrow.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm mean give it a couple days, Okay, a
Speaker 16: couple days, all right.
Speaker 4: All right, sounds good. All right, there he goes Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 4: I did not FaceTime him today. I'm letting him breathe
Speaker 4: a little bit. But look, I always said this the
Speaker 4: last fourteen years, you knew the world was right every
Speaker 4: fifth day when Layton Kershaw was on the mound, and
Speaker 4: that's not gonna happen anymore. And that's gonna be a
Speaker 4: big adjustment for everybody that's been around the Dodgers for
Speaker 4: the last eighteen years and for me the last fourteen years.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be different, no doubt about it. All Right,
Speaker 4: let's take more phone calls. Eight sixty six nine eight
Speaker 4: seven two five seventy is the phone number. We got
Speaker 4: a full board a call. So, Luke and Glendale, where
Speaker 4: were you for Game seven? I'm trying to get to
Speaker 4: all y'all.
Speaker 14: DV I was at my house with my fiance, who
Speaker 14: normally doesn't watch baseball with me, and she said it
Speaker 14: was the most entertaining baseball game she's ever watched.
Speaker 4: So wedding's still on after Game seven? Maybe Game seven seals? Okay, okay, Look, I'm.
Speaker 14: A first time calling, a long time listener, and cameo
Speaker 14: purchaser myself.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Yes, yes, you did it.
Speaker 14: On the night that they signed show Hey, which I
Speaker 14: greatly appreciate. One thing that I will also say is
Speaker 14: that my dad, after every.
Speaker 6: Dodger game, he says it's either happy Dodger talk or
Speaker 6: sad Dodger talk. It's nice all post season, for all
Speaker 6: this summer, I mean summer, all this winter. We get
Speaker 6: to listen to happy Dodger talk because we are world champions.
Speaker 4: Nothing sweeter than that. Luke, thank you so much for listening.
Speaker 4: And uh, you know, if you ever need another Cameo,
Speaker 4: let me know.
Speaker 14: You're always there.
Speaker 16: DV.
Speaker 14: Thank you so much for all you do.
Speaker 4: Hey, thank you, thank you for the love. Eight six
Speaker 4: six seven two five seventy is the phone number. Yet
Speaker 4: it's not a joke. Cameo asked me to join. I
Speaker 4: was like, really me, okay, so yeah I do cameos
Speaker 4: eight six six eight seven two five seventy. Uh, let's
Speaker 4: go out to Luis in La. Where were you for
Speaker 4: Game seven of the World Series? Luise?
Speaker 17: All right, I was on my way to work and
Speaker 17: the sad, sad, sad part. I was my way to
Speaker 17: desert ponds. No signal, Oh, no signal, no no signal.
Speaker 4: Where what do you mean your radio? And five seventy no.
Speaker 17: Radio, no signal radio station. I have the on on
Speaker 17: my phone heavy app for the TV. It's the cable.
Speaker 17: No nothing, no signal.
Speaker 4: Oh you gotta go. iHeartRadio app next time I don't
Speaker 4: know what was happening right there. It's the desert, Louise,
Speaker 4: hard to get it. But yes, do you want to leave?
Speaker 4: Do you want to end this call on a happy note?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 17: I am very happy that we won. I was jumping around.
Speaker 17: I was making phone calls to everybody that back in
Speaker 17: the lad I was watching the game. I was very
Speaker 17: happy because we finally did it back to back. And
Speaker 17: I never want to remember that twenty seventeen because we
Speaker 17: know that we had that one too.
Speaker 4: All right, well you brought up seventeen. That's not a
Speaker 4: happy note. We got to take a happy car before
Speaker 4: we say good night, Luis. Come on, life is good.
Speaker 4: Let's go out to North Hollywood. Harry. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Harry? Make me feel good? Harry?
Speaker 11: Is this?
Speaker 18: Did I reach the home of the back to back
Speaker 18: world series? Los Angeles Dodgers, the champions?
Speaker 4: Yes you did?
Speaker 18: Hello, so sweet, so sweet, David, It is so great.
Speaker 18: I watched it at home in my backyard and my brother.
Speaker 18: My brother had just gotten married in June and moved out,
Speaker 18: and the whole postseason he would watch at his house.
Speaker 18: We would I was with my cousins, at my house
Speaker 18: and we were on the text together that day, out
Speaker 18: of the blue, my brother wats them comes to the backyard.
Speaker 18: We watched the game and it was just we've been
Speaker 18: watching it our whole lives together, and it was the
Speaker 18: greatest game Game seven, for sure, that I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: All Right, Harry, thank you for the phone call. That's
Speaker 4: a good way to end the show. A happy call
Speaker 4: right there. Thank you to everybody that called in. If
Speaker 4: I couldn't get to you, We'll do it again December first,
Speaker 4: as the Dodgers and the hot stove really heat up.
Speaker 4: I'll leave you with this. Sho Hao Tani's father wrote
Speaker 4: an open letter to his son after the Dodgers won
Speaker 4: the World Series. Dylan Hernandez, who did a great job
Speaker 4: chronicling Yamamoto's journey in the World Series, and now this
Speaker 4: translated that Otani's dad wrote, show, Hey, you're thirty one
Speaker 4: years old. I think as a baseball player you're in
Speaker 4: your prime. But there will come a time when you
Speaker 4: have to decide between pitching and hitting. When you can't
Speaker 4: pitch anymore, you can be an outfielder. I think that
Speaker 4: if you practice, you can definitely do it. That was
Speaker 4: show Hao Tani's father an open letter in a japan newspaper.
Speaker 4: So how about that something to come. Maybe that'll do
Speaker 4: it for us on Dodger Talk. Thank you to all
Speaker 4: of you for listening all season long. It's not like
Speaker 4: it's old, but we're not gonna I need to reboot.
Speaker 4: I gotta reintroduce myself to my kids and my wife.
Speaker 4: So we'll do this again at the beginning of December.
Speaker 4: You'll see me on sports and at LA from time
Speaker 4: to time, and whenever there's breaking Dodgers news, obviously I'll
Speaker 4: be on with Petros and money So and Rogan and Rodney.
Speaker 4: So we got you covered. And don't forget this Friday,
Speaker 4: three o'clock, we are rebroadcasting Game seven of the World Series.
Speaker 4: Thanks to Ronnie Foscio for all his help, and thanks
Speaker 4: to you. Coming up next Fox Sports Radio. See ya,