Speaker 1: Ends his first half of the season not great by
Speaker 1: any stretch of the imagination, but for your sixth starter,
Speaker 1: he did what he needed to do tonight.
Speaker 2: Wow, that was a close one. Huh. How about that
Speaker 2: version of Tanner Scott.
Speaker 3: Hello everybody, and welcome to a live post game edition
Speaker 3: of Dodgers Territory. I'm Alana Rizzo. That is Clint Psius.
Speaker 3: We are psyche that you're here.
Speaker 2: Talk about it.
Speaker 3: What do you think? Get in the live chat. We
Speaker 3: want to know what you guys are thinking about right now.
Speaker 3: Let's get into this one. Clinton, you and I were
Speaker 3: briefly talking about the fact that the Rocky is not
Speaker 3: a good team right now. Rodgers, though, we're looking to
Speaker 3: avoid losing a series to the rock Show in LA
Speaker 3: for the first time in five years.
Speaker 2: What do you make of it? Good win for us?
Speaker 1: Listen, at the end of the day, it's a good win.
Speaker 1: This is what you want. We got a lot of
Speaker 1: things that I got a lot of things to say
Speaker 1: about Roki Sasaki in this one. It's things to say
Speaker 1: about the bullpen, things to say about the offense that
Speaker 1: very clearly can use the All Star break, but it
Speaker 1: dubs a dub Ris and they needed this. They could
Speaker 1: have definitely avoided getting not getting sweat, but losing a
Speaker 1: series to the Rockies. Like you said, have not lost
Speaker 1: a series to the Rockies in LA since what twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two? Is that what you said?
Speaker 3: Two? I believe, yes, yeah, that's that to be the case.
Speaker 3: I believe that's today night.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the night.
Speaker 3: It's funny because I knew when I was watching the game,
Speaker 3: I was like, I can't wait to hear Clint's opinion
Speaker 3: on Rokey Sisaki. And by the way, Katie Wu is
Speaker 3: not with us because she's in the clubhouse right now. Okay,
Speaker 3: so make sure you check out Katie on the Athletic,
Speaker 3: read her stuff. She's great, She's going to be back
Speaker 3: with us tomorrow. So yeah, I mean Roki Sasaki on
Speaker 3: the mound. Pretty quickly, it looked like it was gonna
Speaker 3: be another.
Speaker 2: Little sketchy but it wasn't. It wasn't horrible. Six innings,
Speaker 2: four hits, three earned runs, one walk.
Speaker 3: I know that you were shooting yourself in the foot
Speaker 3: because you were glazing as the kids say, Roki Sasaki,
Speaker 3: and then after his last.
Speaker 2: Outing, you you were not. You were not. So you
Speaker 2: know what's your overall assessment.
Speaker 1: Well, one, I'm very proud of you for I think
Speaker 1: you mostly use that correctly, because yeah, I did give
Speaker 1: Roki a lot of credit over that stretch of about
Speaker 1: five or six starts. He was trending in the right direction,
Speaker 1: or at least it seemed that way. But still, you
Speaker 1: look at the the baseline numbers or really the counting stats,
Speaker 1: the stuff that you see on MLB dot com or
Speaker 1: on Baseball Reference, or you know, the important stuff that
Speaker 1: says whether or not you've given up points and the
Speaker 1: other team has scored them and you've lost a game.
Speaker 1: He wasn't doing that great over that period. Still, always
Speaker 1: you know, two, three, maybe four runs in there. There
Speaker 1: was a seven run game in there where we're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, right here, Jeff perfectly kind of uh
Speaker 1: summarizes and I don't know where. Let's see if you
Speaker 1: pop in here, No, you don't pop in here, So
Speaker 1: we'll go to this screen here, Jeff says Rokie wasn't awful.
Speaker 1: And we had a lot of those type of starts
Speaker 1: where Rokie wasn't awful, and tonight was one of those nights.
Speaker 1: I did text Katie at one point after because I was.
Speaker 1: I was gearing up. I was gearing up to to
Speaker 1: let it eat as it were tonight. I texted Katie
Speaker 1: after he got through the sixth inning. You know, I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, I guess I got to put
Speaker 1: it in the holster here because he battled back, and
Speaker 1: she said, you know, he lives to fight one more day,
Speaker 1: and you know, ends his first half of the season
Speaker 1: not great by any stretch of the imagination, but for
Speaker 1: your sixth starter, he did what he needed to do tonight.
Speaker 3: And you know, isn't it funny though that he's our
Speaker 3: sixth starter. I mean, we had such high hopes for
Speaker 3: him coming into the season, and you've really discussed the fact, Clint,
Speaker 3: that you've wanted to see kind of a an outing
Speaker 3: from him. That was just an absolute start to finish,
Speaker 3: shut down type of outing from Roki Sasaki, and we
Speaker 3: have yet to see that in terms of just the
Speaker 3: dominance from the first pitch to his final out, and
Speaker 3: it's just so far it has not been there. He's just,
Speaker 3: you know, he's good for a couple of innings and
Speaker 3: then kind of blows it up. You were saying on
Speaker 3: our call the other day that maybe he should just
Speaker 3: just be the kind of a bulk inning guy in
Speaker 3: the bullpen. That's not their plan for him, certainly not.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just kind of a ho hum thing.
Speaker 3: If you're going to look at him as our sixth starter,
Speaker 3: then that's fine. He is serviceable, if you will correct.
Speaker 3: But this is not a guy that is just going
Speaker 3: to shove it down your throat now.
Speaker 1: And the thing that you know, where I'll give myself
Speaker 1: a little bit of grace in not being as hard
Speaker 1: on him in those air quote good starts, was that
Speaker 1: he can't you see the dominance. He has the ability
Speaker 1: to domin a lineup. And yeah, you know, you could
Speaker 1: say tonight it was the Rockies lineup, but they got
Speaker 1: some hitters in that line straight up. Thing.
Speaker 2: That's the thing about the Rockies, you guys.
Speaker 3: I want to say they have the third best overall
Speaker 3: team batting average in the league. They can hit, they
Speaker 3: can get on base, they can hit.
Speaker 2: It's the Hitting's not.
Speaker 3: The issue for the rock Show. It is the pitching.
Speaker 3: And it's always been pitching. It's very difficult to pitch
Speaker 3: at Corsefield. We all know that that's been the narrative
Speaker 3: since that park opened in nineteen ninety three, So ni
Speaker 3: rather nineteen ninety five that park opened, But.
Speaker 2: No, it was it was it was ninety five.
Speaker 3: They started playing at Mile the old old Mile Life
Speaker 3: Stadium in ninety three for two years until Coursefield opened
Speaker 3: and actually revitalized Lower Downtown. That's why they call it
Speaker 3: Loto Lower Downtown. Anyway, this is not a geography lesson.
Speaker 1: Big over there, huge, huge.
Speaker 3: I mean, I was born and raised in Colorado, right,
Speaker 3: so they you know I didn't have we didn't have
Speaker 3: Pro Ball in Colorado or Major League Baseball, I should say,
Speaker 3: not Pro Bowl until nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 1: Anyway, still thought, Oh, but back to the thought, you know,
Speaker 1: it's been a lot of excuses, a lot of kind
Speaker 1: of kicking the can, moving the goalposts. When we're talking
Speaker 1: about Roki Sasaki after his last start where he was atrocious,
Speaker 1: you know, there was kind of questions about whether or
Speaker 1: not he was tipping some pitches. Dave was asked about
Speaker 1: that before the game today. Didn't necessarily dismiss it. But
Speaker 1: what he did say is they, you know, quote cleaned
Speaker 1: up a lot of things. Didn't want to commit to anything.
Speaker 1: But you read between the lines. You speak enough, Dave,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, there was some tipping in there, he said.
Speaker 1: There was something about like he mentioned cameras, and you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a revisit of your lovely
Speaker 1: Houston Astros cheating scandal sort of thing. I think it's
Speaker 1: just more so a lot of highly paid people on
Speaker 1: the other team looking at where the baseball, where they
Speaker 1: hand is, where the glove is at different things, and
Speaker 1: probably load and set and all that. You gotta figure
Speaker 1: this is a guy who's still learning a couple of
Speaker 1: different pitches along the way, learning the difference between how
Speaker 1: he wants to kind of come set with that fork
Speaker 1: versus the split and all that kind of stuff, and
Speaker 1: big league hitters can pick that up. So to give
Speaker 1: the Dodgers a little bit of credit here, maybe there
Speaker 1: was some tipping in there, and maybe it took a
Speaker 1: little bit of time for them to fit, for Rokie
Speaker 1: to think about or to apply some of the fixes,
Speaker 1: the changes that they wanted to see, the alterations to
Speaker 1: the maybe the set up, the delivery or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: And that's where we saw him kind of lock it in.
Speaker 1: You know, there was a point where he was about
Speaker 1: to break. I think he had runners on second and
Speaker 1: third and nobody out and he escaped that inning, and
Speaker 1: then the next two innings same thing. So maybe they filed.
Speaker 3: Maybe, But do you feel like there's just not been
Speaker 3: quite an outing where he's put it all together. Like,
Speaker 3: sometimes it's the mechanics, sometimes it's the poise, sometimes it's
Speaker 3: the pitching. Sometimes it's the stuff. I mean, you're gonna
Speaker 3: have they you know, Let's say, let's say you make
Speaker 3: thirty starts in a season, right, which these guys probably
Speaker 3: won't because there's six of them.
Speaker 2: But let's say you make thirty starts in the season.
Speaker 2: They talk about one.
Speaker 3: Third are going to be really really good, one third
Speaker 3: are going to be really really bad, and then ten
Speaker 3: of those starts, of course.
Speaker 2: Are going to be you know, kind of average.
Speaker 3: I feel like with Roki Sasaki, he has yet to
Speaker 3: put it all together in one where everything seems to
Speaker 3: be going. And again, I understand still a young guy,
Speaker 3: I get it. And again, if he's going to be
Speaker 3: our sixth starter, that's that we can we can use that,
Speaker 3: we can get by with that. But there's just not
Speaker 3: something every day I'm like, oh sweet, it's a Rokye
Speaker 3: Sasaki start.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Because again it's it's a it's a work in progress.
Speaker 3: But I'm wondering how long that will play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, it's the old Uh. Sometimes it may
Speaker 1: be good, sometimes it may be shit. You know, it
Speaker 1: sounds a lot like my golf game. You know. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you have the driver going, the irons aren't going. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you have to let just go in. The putter is
Speaker 1: ship that day. There have been two starts where Broki
Speaker 1: has been front to back elite. Both of those starts
Speaker 1: came against the Angels. So do with that what you will.
Speaker 1: But one seven innings.
Speaker 2: There's still a big league ball club. The Angels are.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not taking I know, it's this is
Speaker 3: the this is the I hate Ardie Marino moment for
Speaker 3: Clint because he loves doing that.
Speaker 1: I hate that man so much. But since seven innings,
Speaker 1: four hits, one earned, and then the next time seven innings,
Speaker 1: two hits, no earned, ten punch outs in that second.
Speaker 2: What was that date? Remind me of that date?
Speaker 1: That was at the start of June. That was June fifth, So.
Speaker 2: A month ago, a month ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well not today, but yeah, right. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: we know it's in there, and we saw it in
Speaker 1: the final two innings here, and you know, if this
Speaker 1: is how he ends his first half, what do we
Speaker 1: have here? Have the numbers somewhere, you know, uh, three
Speaker 1: and five for five, forty e r A eighty.
Speaker 2: Innings, sixteen stars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and and uh, you know the whip just
Speaker 1: a little under uh you know, a walk or a
Speaker 1: hit per inning. It's not good, it's not great. But again,
Speaker 1: this is the Dodgers, this is their number six guy,
Speaker 1: so feel exactly.
Speaker 3: And then so then the Dodgers go to their bullpen.
Speaker 3: Jack Dryer, the first guy up. Somebody in the chat
Speaker 3: said something about Dryers about his walkout song.
Speaker 2: They thought it was cool.
Speaker 1: I think I think it's what's it called, isn't it
Speaker 1: not Nickelback?
Speaker 2: But the other one.
Speaker 1: Listen create a Nickelback. It's the same guy. They're the
Speaker 1: same people.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I think I think it's more
Speaker 2: than one person. I don't think it's just one dude.
Speaker 2: I think I think Nickelback is certainly a band. Why
Speaker 2: does everybody hate Nickelbacks so much?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was just one of those things
Speaker 1: that my generation decided to do, Like when I was
Speaker 1: in high school and we stuck to it. But the
Speaker 1: thing is now I'm older, I'm wiser, and me and
Speaker 1: the boys will get down to some nickelback on karaoke
Speaker 1: night here, so like sue me creative.
Speaker 3: It's Eric j Eric, excuse me, Eric Jeller, Eric Jeller,
Speaker 3: what's up?
Speaker 2: Good to have you in the chat.
Speaker 3: But he Dryer's cream coming out to create huge power move.
Speaker 1: It is honestly, that is a power move right there.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, hell Eric, Eric, Eric knows what's up. We've
Speaker 1: got a couple of other super chats. By the way,
Speaker 1: while we're here talking to the chat. David with four
Speaker 1: ninety nine in the chat, appreciate the support here. Appreciate
Speaker 1: everybody who supports the show in any way that you do,
Speaker 1: says if Rushing was starting instead of Alfonso, what do
Speaker 1: you have fought? Alex Call for using all the challenges?
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Speaker 1: how Call a little bit later. Friend of the show.
Speaker 1: I love the dude, but god damn, they need to
Speaker 1: take that fucking challenge ability away from.
Speaker 2: Him, away from him.
Speaker 1: I guess I already blew my load there. Five bucks
Speaker 1: from Jy Kim in the chat, saying Schoobl's era in
Speaker 1: the first two seasons were five five six three and
Speaker 1: four three four. He didn't develop into a cy Young winner,
Speaker 1: or if he hadn't, you know, he would have or
Speaker 1: he would not have. I should probably actually just read
Speaker 1: it instead of paraphrasing while I'm in the middle of
Speaker 1: reading it. But he wouldn't have become a cy Young
Speaker 1: Award winner if he had been under Dodger fan scrutiny.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's crazy that he brings this up.
Speaker 3: I don't remember Scooble ever having Yeah, that high isn't
Speaker 3: it funny?
Speaker 2: Isn't it funny?
Speaker 3: How easy we forget and how we have that recency
Speaker 3: bias of like, oh my god, I can't wait until
Speaker 3: Arrek Scooble isn't a Dodger's uniform in his first two seasons,
Speaker 3: we would have been like this guy suck.
Speaker 2: Send him to the moon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, that's that's how it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be here. I'll put him up for you right now.
Speaker 1: Here's twenty twenty Tererek Schooble five sixty three. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously short sample size there.
Speaker 2: Six years ago, my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the four three four before he started
Speaker 1: becoming an absolute long school and you know the guy
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Speaker 1: get the game winning hit. Take some credit for that.
Speaker 2: Take it man, take it for you. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: The final little bits we'll talk about here on the
Speaker 1: pitching side before we take a break and talk about
Speaker 1: the offense are mostly lack thereof you know you mentioned
Speaker 1: Jack Dryer. We get into the song factor of it.
Speaker 1: But five pitch one, two, three inning for Dryer. Vessia
Speaker 1: comes in, loads the bases, does not have much help
Speaker 1: for Max Munsey with the error there, but had Edgardo
Speaker 1: Henriquez comes in, gets Kyle Carros with with dad in
Speaker 1: the booth.
Speaker 3: I know that's got to be so weird, And of
Speaker 3: course tann Man Tanner Scott rebounds.
Speaker 1: And I saw somebody in the chat saying earlier like
Speaker 1: how Tanner Scott could do that now but not not then?
Speaker 1: Actually I think I might have there we go Eric, oh,
Speaker 1: the same guy. Eric says, uh, why is Tanner lights
Speaker 1: out tonight? Because the other night he just plainly didn't
Speaker 1: have it tonight.
Speaker 2: Well, but that's it.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna be You're not gonna be Mariano Rivera
Speaker 3: every single day. But there was somebody else that said
Speaker 3: one eight hundred flowers for those of us that owe
Speaker 3: Tanner Scott an apology. There it is, mister flowers for
Speaker 3: those of us who Tanneros, who oh Tannerists and Syria apology. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean again, that's coming into the season. He was
Speaker 3: our guy in terms of the bullpen, Clint that you
Speaker 3: and me and Katie said that they need, we needed
Speaker 3: to see improvement out of him, and he's he's done
Speaker 3: his job this year.
Speaker 1: I love this from La Joya. Poppy says, well, Clint
Speaker 1: hates someone. I don't believe it. You're a gentle, silly,
Speaker 1: sexy giant. Thanks mom, we appreciate you. All caps, All
Speaker 1: caps Looya Poppy knows what's up. But the final thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about on the bullpen side, particularly
Speaker 1: the the Henriquez factor. Here he comes in again. He
Speaker 1: gets Kyle Carross escapes that inning to set up the
Speaker 1: Dodgers to go on and win that game. So only
Speaker 1: the second time all year he has come in with runners,
Speaker 1: with ducks on the pond. Is he moving up the
Speaker 1: trust tree? For Dave? Here got love? He just got love.
Speaker 2: He's moving up. We love him. And it's what don't
Speaker 2: you call it? It wasn't the track, it's the trust tree.
Speaker 3: It's a confidence cacus, confidence cactus.
Speaker 1: Trademark, cashtag, confidence cactus. But something to watch, something to
Speaker 1: what as we started seeing Kyle Hurt move up a
Speaker 1: little bit, I think we're now seeing those roles deservedly
Speaker 1: so Flip because Edgardo Henriquez has been fantastic. We got
Speaker 1: more DT coming up. We haven't talked about the offense
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Speaker 3: Whiskey Wellington twenty three was.
Speaker 2: Like, also this did I miss it? Yeah, Court for.
Speaker 3: Medical back, we love you all forgiven for Alex Call
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Speaker 1: He is a friend of the program. I like Alex Call, but.
Speaker 4: Held on, let me.
Speaker 1: You can't use both of your challenges in the first
Speaker 1: your first bet in the first inning. Come on, that
Speaker 1: is absurd, Like, like, I'm I they won, So not
Speaker 1: all is forgiven, but I think the privileges are revoked
Speaker 1: because he started the season out pretty hot on the
Speaker 1: challenges on the old helmet tat. But dude has gone
Speaker 1: to ass and I think he's recognized that he saw
Speaker 1: the smirk on his face. You know, the boys in
Speaker 1: the clubhouse are giving him a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of shit GI and the chats and purely idiotic move
Speaker 1: by call like the first one. It was a one
Speaker 1: to ozer pitch at the time to move it to
Speaker 1: one one that one. You know, I'm I'm surprised with
Speaker 1: as outspoken as Eric Carross has been in the broadcast
Speaker 1: Booth over the last three fucking weeks about people and
Speaker 1: their usage of the challenge. I'm surprised he didn't say
Speaker 1: something there. He actually did say that he kind of
Speaker 1: liked it. It was somewhat leverage. Yes, there's two runners on base,
Speaker 1: but yeah, the second one both you know, Joe and
Speaker 1: and Ek just we're not having it. And rightfully, so,
Speaker 1: you can't lose both of your challenges in the first
Speaker 1: I mean, we played baseball without challenges for a bajillion years,
Speaker 1: so I guess, I guess, give or take, So I
Speaker 1: guess you can survive without you are without challenges in
Speaker 1: the game. But I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's just I don't think you should ever have challenges
Speaker 3: in the first inning. I mean unless it's absolutely egregious.
Speaker 2: I mean egregious.
Speaker 3: Because you don't know in a key moment. I mean,
Speaker 3: you still have nine innings to go, you know, eight
Speaker 3: innings to go. It's like you don't know what's going
Speaker 3: to happen in the rest of the game. Yeah, he's
Speaker 3: not allowed, he's a he's in the corner right now,
Speaker 3: he's in time out, time out, he's in the challenge
Speaker 3: timeout box. Because that was that was Nicole Taylor seven
Speaker 3: to one three. That was galactically stupid.
Speaker 1: Lactically anytime, anytime we get the opportunity to put galactically
Speaker 1: stupid on the screen, we are going to do that.
Speaker 1: That's that. Again, the Dodgers win. That doesn't make it
Speaker 1: all the way better, But yeah, I guess that's all
Speaker 1: we'll say about that. Get you gotta stop challenging, you
Speaker 1: gotta stop challenging, Alex. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: That's that's soon in the game, and that's.
Speaker 1: Just the period for a while, like two months.
Speaker 2: You wow, Well he's in the timeout.
Speaker 1: In the hole, two months in the hole right there.
Speaker 1: One of the first things I had put in our
Speaker 1: rundown notes tonight was hashtag Tommy too hole or two
Speaker 1: hole Tommy. That's what it was. Nobody clipped that, and
Speaker 1: I know it sounds weird, but anyways. He starts the
Speaker 1: game off, you know, hitting second, gets on base, scores
Speaker 1: the game's first run, ends up getting on base again
Speaker 1: in the eighth inning, scoring the game's last run. For
Speaker 1: a team that has had zero success findings success from
Speaker 1: their number two hitters, I've kind of wanted to see
Speaker 1: Tommy here for a little bit. We got we got
Speaker 1: to see Tommy Tanks there and you know he chipped
Speaker 1: in a couple of knocks. What do you think about
Speaker 1: Tommy Taters there? Tommy Edmund in the two hole?
Speaker 2: Yeah, two for four.
Speaker 3: As you mentioned, you know, I think it's still that
Speaker 3: to me with Tommy, I feel like, again timing is
Speaker 3: important and he's just getting back, right. We have to
Speaker 3: remember he hasn't been back for that length of time.
Speaker 3: But yeah, the two hole has been an issue the
Speaker 3: entire season for this team. So regardless of Tommy, toole
Speaker 3: is making me uncomfortable at final Boss for one st
Speaker 3: saying again, but we know what we're going to get
Speaker 3: with him defensively, Am I concerned?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: What I like to see more production from that spot. Sure,
Speaker 3: as long as he continues to play well defensively, I'm
Speaker 3: fine with that. Three fifty one average is pretty But
Speaker 3: remember he hasn't had that many at bats yet, So
Speaker 3: I mean, do I want to see a guy in
Speaker 3: that spot hitting five? Sure?
Speaker 2: But well that is not to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Dodgers, Dodgers two whole hitters. I forget what
Speaker 1: the number is. We'll have it ready tomorrow when we're
Speaker 1: all together with Katie. But again, it has been it
Speaker 1: has been pretty rough, but still the fact again he
Speaker 1: scored the first run for the Dodgers, scored the last
Speaker 1: run for the Dodgers. In between that point, my god,
Speaker 1: they didn't really do much of anything. I think they
Speaker 1: had one base runner between or after the first inning
Speaker 1: up up until like the seventh inning or something like that.
Speaker 1: The offense is looking sluggish and I want to dive
Speaker 1: into this more tomorrow when we have Katie with us,
Speaker 1: But the offense has been rough, particularly in July, and
Speaker 1: it looks like a team that knows that All Star
Speaker 1: break well.
Speaker 2: That's the thing. I do believe that.
Speaker 3: I do believe that they need it. You know, I
Speaker 3: think the All Star break is coming at a good time.
Speaker 3: I mean, any break in baseball in the season that
Speaker 3: is this long with the team that you know is
Speaker 3: going to go deep into the postseason at least you
Speaker 3: hope is going to go deep into the postseason, could
Speaker 3: obviously need the time off. I mean to rest, to relax,
Speaker 3: to regroup, to reset, to pick whatever.
Speaker 2: Our word you want.
Speaker 3: You know, this is a team that needs other than
Speaker 3: those that are going to the All Star Game, that
Speaker 3: you know, and that's that's a whole other job, that's
Speaker 3: a full time job, going to the All Star Game.
Speaker 3: I know it sounds silly because it's it's a reward,
Speaker 3: but they are pulled in a million different directions in
Speaker 3: that All Star Game. So take this opportunity to reset
Speaker 3: because when they come back, obviously, and then you have
Speaker 3: a whole trade deadline piece to see what's gonna happen,
Speaker 3: which is less than a month away now it's August
Speaker 3: started is later this year than typical, but you know,
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens in terms of do they make
Speaker 3: any actual news signings or do they just assume their
Speaker 3: signing is getting you know, Blake Snell back and Tyler
Speaker 3: glasnew back and Edwin Diaz back in those types of things,
Speaker 3: because nobody else, as you've pointed out a million times,
Speaker 3: no other team can sign can sign those guys. So
Speaker 3: I'm happy that they're going to get a break. But
Speaker 3: you know, at the end of the season, it all
Speaker 3: depends on who's playing the best and who's healthy. And
Speaker 3: since we haven't had these guys for so long, they
Speaker 3: should be very well rested. I'm talking about the Blake
Speaker 3: Snells of the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: The most important part of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and we have a Blake Snell update. Good,
Speaker 1: a big Blake Snell update. We are going to talk
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Speaker 1: Continue the conversation here there, Rokie and Alex call thoughts
Speaker 1: over there before we sign Offriz, you're talking about some
Speaker 1: of the guys the Dodgers are going to be getting back,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully at some point you get a Tyler
Speaker 1: Glasnow update, this good, but we have an update about
Speaker 1: Blake Snell, who threw another bullpen session today. This comes
Speaker 1: from our friend of the show, Bill Plunkett, amongst everybody
Speaker 1: else there who covers the game as a beat writer.
Speaker 1: But anyways, the point is what he said is this
Speaker 1: is probably the best I've felt in two years. Here
Speaker 1: that procedure to remove the bone chips from his left elbow.
Speaker 1: Another thing he had also mentioned that this shoulder feels better.
Speaker 1: You know, come on, hey, shoulders stop being hurt. The
Speaker 1: shoulder feels better as well, having those loose bodies removed
Speaker 1: from the elbow. What else did he say.
Speaker 3: What was striking to me was that it wasn't just
Speaker 3: a nano needle procedure. He was saying, listen, it was
Speaker 3: two completely different surgeries obviously, so you know, that's a
Speaker 3: lot to put your body through.
Speaker 2: And again the fact.
Speaker 3: That somebody in the chat said, too, why do I
Speaker 3: feel like this team sucks even with the record that
Speaker 3: we have, And that's just how that's how we've gotten right,
Speaker 3: It's to the point where we're like, if you're not
Speaker 3: one sixty two and oh, you're a terrible team, and
Speaker 3: what's going on? And Pets, you know, Pet's heads are
Speaker 3: falling off, as you always like to say. But again,
Speaker 3: this is a team that has a fourteen and a
Speaker 3: half game lead in the division and we are, oh,
Speaker 3: nitpicking it everything. But to get Blake Snell back whenever
Speaker 3: it is, two weeks now, whatever the heck it's going.
Speaker 2: To be, after the All Star break or whatever.
Speaker 3: Probably a healthy, a healthy, a healthy Blake Snell that
Speaker 3: feels good, feels the best he's felt in two years.
Speaker 3: According to him, what a you know, what a get.
Speaker 3: But then then you guys start thinking like, all right, Roky,
Speaker 3: what what does that mean for you?
Speaker 2: You know, does that mean you go to the bullpen?
Speaker 2: What does that mean for you? But that's a that's.
Speaker 3: A huge arm, huge piece being added to a rotation
Speaker 3: that's already pretty dang good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean you go back a month from our
Speaker 1: month ago, you would have said, oh, easily, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Eric Lower, he's gonna be a short shirt timer.
Speaker 1: And then whoever's back first between glassnow and Snell, they're
Speaker 1: gonna take that spot in the rotation. Now, there is
Speaker 1: a lot of conversation to be had because you know,
Speaker 1: there's just the inconsistency with Rochi and as we've already
Speaker 1: said a few times, though he is the sixth starter
Speaker 1: for this team right now, you could argue the fifth
Speaker 1: and Emma Chian is the sixth starter. Between those two guys,
Speaker 1: I said that earlier this week somewhere I keep Lower
Speaker 1: and Shean or I keep Lower in the rotation over
Speaker 1: those two. If it comes to you know, whoever you
Speaker 1: need to to get Blake Snell on, like Eric Lower
Speaker 1: is safe in my opinion, and it's funny. One last
Speaker 1: thing before I continue on with what Snell said, and
Speaker 1: then we could sign off and you can go to bed,
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Speaker 1: wrong with you? But I lost my train to thought.
Speaker 1: What I was gonna say there? What were we talking
Speaker 1: about something?
Speaker 2: But you're talking er ericlawer safe, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Eric Lower Uh. You know, pitches six innings, gives a
Speaker 1: three ear and runs and we're like, hell, yeah, my man,
Speaker 1: you are him. And Roki pitches six innings gives a
Speaker 1: three ar just like said this guy straight to hell.
Speaker 3: Well, I think it is because the amount of expectations
Speaker 3: we had for Rogi Sasaki, you know, ever since he
Speaker 3: was posted.
Speaker 2: It was like if there was.
Speaker 1: A lot of noise, a lot of noise last offseason.
Speaker 1: But back to this on Snow the final thing, he says,
Speaker 1: I'm pain free. I've always had some sort of pain,
Speaker 1: but you just battle through it as pictures do. I
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna be there forever and you know,
Speaker 1: something I have to deal with. But he had the
Speaker 1: surgery and as soon as he started throwing again is like, hey,
Speaker 1: my shoulder feels good. So maybe maybe those loose bodies
Speaker 1: were hitting some sort of nerve that was going up
Speaker 1: to that shoulder. Even with the bad shoulder, still was
Speaker 1: an absolute weapon for this team in the postseason. So
Speaker 1: Dodgers keep getting better. If you guys want Terry Schoob, well, hey,
Speaker 1: you're also getting another two time Cy Young Award winner back.
Speaker 1: And I would amen probably say in about a month
Speaker 1: more so.
Speaker 3: Our girl, Elisheva Jones sixty seven thirty. Eric Lawer is
Speaker 3: our innings eater an important job.
Speaker 2: She's not wrong, She's not wrong, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like that is such an important role to have that
Speaker 3: guy that can eat up innings, save the bullpen when
Speaker 3: you need to, and they're gonna you know, getting Blake
Speaker 3: snowback will force some decisions to be made.
Speaker 2: Again, we always talk about having good problems to have.
Speaker 3: Dave says that a lot, and this team is loaded
Speaker 3: with weapons and we're fortunate because of that lux ace
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