Speaker 1: If somebody has a seven hundred and ninety nine thousand
Speaker 1: dollars to just spare, I will take it. What is
Speaker 1: going on? Party people, a different start to the show.
Speaker 1: I'm talking and that's how it's supposed to be. What
Speaker 1: is going on? My name is Clint was sys. That
Speaker 1: is a lot of Rizzo. You know her, you love her,
Speaker 1: you want some more of her? All Star Game is
Speaker 1: behind us? Is you were there? Sites sounds We're gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot of interviews today from friends of the show,
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts.
Speaker 2: We got Max Muntsey in.
Speaker 1: There, who, funny enough, hasn't been on the show, but
Speaker 1: has been on the show a bunch of times because
Speaker 1: usually we end up getting interviews with him at either
Speaker 1: Spring training or in situations like this. But before we
Speaker 1: get into all the interviews, how was the All Star
Speaker 1: Game experience? I know you're out there with the guys
Speaker 1: at Foul looked fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great. Good to be with you guys.
Speaker 4: Get your comments and quotquestions and concerns into the chat
Speaker 4: right here on a live episode of Dodgers Territory.
Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun. I have to say,
Speaker 3: Philadelphia showed out. It was a great experience.
Speaker 4: The fans were awesome obviously, all thirty teams being represented
Speaker 4: in terms of the fan base. Shout out also to
Speaker 4: Major League Baseball and Fox Sports and MLB on Fox
Speaker 4: because the stuff that happened during the All Star Game
Speaker 4: with the center field gates opening and the little kids
Speaker 4: riding out on their bicycles and going up against the
Speaker 4: you know, standing next to their player in their respective position,
Speaker 4: was so cool and kind of an homage to the Sandlot,
Speaker 4: right that one scene in the Sandlot where it's the
Speaker 4: fourth of July and it's the only game in town
Speaker 4: and you're playing baseball in your backyard on the backfield,
Speaker 4: you know, on a dirty, dusty field. You grab your
Speaker 4: glove and you just go. It was just a cool experience,
Speaker 4: great to see. Obviously all of the Dodgers represented. Sad
Speaker 4: not to see show Heyo Tani. We understand it, but
Speaker 4: we would have wished that he was there. All the
Speaker 4: fans would have wished to be able to see show
Speaker 4: Heyo Tani.
Speaker 3: But it was great.
Speaker 4: I loved catching up with Dave and catching up with
Speaker 4: the guys and talking to Justin Robleski, who you know,
Speaker 4: had to have a couple of things happened for him
Speaker 4: to get in there, but certainly well earned. And congratulations
Speaker 4: to every single person that was there, and congrats to
Speaker 4: Jordan Walker, a guy that has had his struggles and
Speaker 4: his adversity. It's making seven hundred and ninety nine thousand
Speaker 4: dollars this year, which listen, I'll take it. I'll take
Speaker 4: it in a heartbeat, right, But the one winning swing
Speaker 4: of the bat made him a million dollars.
Speaker 3: So overall, really cool to be there.
Speaker 4: You know, all eyes of the baseball world were on Philadelphia,
Speaker 4: and it was a really nice, nice week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if somebody has seven hundred and ninety nine thousand
Speaker 1: dollars to just spare, I will take it.
Speaker 2: It would definitely change a few things. Don't worry. I
Speaker 2: won't go big leagues.
Speaker 1: I might wear like shades during the show just to
Speaker 1: show that I'm better than everybody, but still we would
Speaker 1: still be doing content.
Speaker 2: Yeah. All Star Game was.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: I'm in a position where I'm not paid by anybody
Speaker 1: who put the All Star Game on.
Speaker 2: Not to say that you are, obviously you know I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't work for Fox, and I don't work exactly.
Speaker 1: You're you're gonna have critiques overall boring game, and I
Speaker 1: talked about this on my All Dodgers channel with Jeff Spiegel,
Speaker 1: who decided to just run away and go on vacation.
Speaker 1: But anyways, uh, just a dull game, and really the
Speaker 1: state of baseball is pitchers are so much better than hitters.
Speaker 1: If I just were focusing on that, like from what
Speaker 1: you're saying, you know, the the pomp and circumstance and
Speaker 1: the sandlot.
Speaker 2: For me, it's it's a lot.
Speaker 1: I understand Fox and MLB they're trying to take advantage
Speaker 1: of a lot of eyes on them.
Speaker 2: I think they overdo some of the stuff.
Speaker 1: Some of the I like to call it propaganda because
Speaker 1: it kind of is different things going on, Like can
Speaker 1: we focus on the game, focus on the players.
Speaker 2: But I understand the why.
Speaker 1: Some of the interviews were good sometimes sometimes maybe good,
Speaker 1: sometimes maybe shit. It's still good to get a perspective
Speaker 1: from the players while they're out there.
Speaker 2: Playing a meaningless game.
Speaker 1: But that much said, yeah, just a boring game because
Speaker 1: they're wasn't a lot of action pictures.
Speaker 2: A lot of are so much better.
Speaker 1: The elite pitchers are so much better than elite hitters
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think so.
Speaker 4: I mean, the National League just kind of looked flat, right,
Speaker 4: how about shout out to old friend Cody Bellinger the
Speaker 4: two run single that put the first two runs on
Speaker 4: the board for the American League. It kind of proved
Speaker 4: to be all they needed in terms of offense because
Speaker 4: the National League was just not good offensively. But to
Speaker 4: your point, the starting pitchers were good, but let's focus
Speaker 4: on the positive as far as that is concerned. I
Speaker 4: don't know if we're going to do it in order
Speaker 4: as far as that, But Justin Rableski, I mean, it
Speaker 4: was his birthday, first time All Star, the shark on
Speaker 4: the inside of his red star carpet jacket, so I
Speaker 4: think he's really enjoying that moniker given to him by
Speaker 4: Pedro Martinez and strikes out the side on his b day.
Speaker 4: So good day for him and good week for him,
Speaker 4: and obviously a good season for him. But I really enjoyed,
Speaker 4: you know, And as far as our guys were concerned, right,
Speaker 4: Justin Robleski striking out the side Freeman a really nice
Speaker 4: defensive play. I was actually very surprised at how long
Speaker 4: Dave kept our guys in. Yeah, I thought it was
Speaker 4: going to be you know, like maybe uninning or two,
Speaker 4: but I looked up and it was still, you know,
Speaker 4: the fourth inning, and these guys are still out there,
Speaker 4: Max Munsey, Freddie Freeman, those types of things. So I
Speaker 4: was a little surprised on the length. But you know what,
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts is the manager, he's.
Speaker 3: Allowed to do that. I think it's his fifth.
Speaker 4: Time managing the All Star Game. That shows you a lot,
Speaker 4: tells you a lot about about your manager. Right, If
Speaker 4: you can manage the All Star Game, it's because you
Speaker 4: took your team to the World Series the year prior,
Speaker 4: So he's doing something right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, well we'll hear from Dave a little bit
Speaker 1: later because you obviously asked him about that.
Speaker 2: The fact that he's he's.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of you know, All Star Game managing
Speaker 1: credentials under his belt, now that's usually a good sign
Speaker 1: for a team. Going back to the Ribleski side of things,
Speaker 1: I didn't prep the tweet to post it, but of
Speaker 1: Dodgers All Star pitchers with he is third, now I
Speaker 1: think is the specifically Dodgers Dodgers All Star pitchers, I
Speaker 1: have more strikeouts in a single All Star Game. Don Drysdale,
Speaker 1: Fernando Vealezuela, Justin Ribleski, exactly the three names you'd expect
Speaker 1: to be uttered in the same sentence. Don Drysdell was
Speaker 1: in fifty nine, Fernando in nineteen eighty six. But that's
Speaker 1: a pretty cool lore to etch yourself along. And I
Speaker 1: mean that is not indicative of the growth and maturity,
Speaker 1: and not so much maturity, but just the growth of
Speaker 1: the shark as we call him robo if you're nasty
Speaker 1: as well, just showing off the growth of where this
Speaker 1: kid has come this year from being a guy that
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure was the starting material to be in well,
Speaker 1: he was pitching in relief.
Speaker 2: That's maybe why he was so dominant. But it's really cool.
Speaker 2: Five strikeouts is really cool.
Speaker 3: It is, and I'm happy for him and proud of him. Again.
Speaker 4: We talked about it when he was on our show
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago, about the Dodgers giving him
Speaker 4: the ability to just be who he was and trying
Speaker 4: not to make him into something that he isn't, and he's.
Speaker 3: Very well aware of who he is.
Speaker 4: When we were doing media availability, the pitching Ninja was
Speaker 4: next to me getting ready to ask questions and you
Speaker 4: could just see Rableski's eyes light up when they were
Speaker 4: going to start talking about tinkering of the pitches and
Speaker 4: all of the different grips and then you know, armslot
Speaker 4: and and all of that stuff too. So he enjoys
Speaker 4: the craft of pitching. He's not a thrower, he's a pitcher.
Speaker 4: He enjoys the science behind everything. I know that gets
Speaker 4: you too, plant you love that stuff. So Justin's really
Speaker 4: evolved into a very I talked to Dave about this,
Speaker 4: the unheralded ace of this staff. On a staff that
Speaker 4: has the names and the likes of the oh she
Speaker 4: you know, Yoshiobu Yamamotos and the Shoheo Tanis and the
Speaker 4: Blake Snells and the Tyler Glasnows and this, that and
Speaker 4: the other thing. He's really emerged as somebody that has
Speaker 4: absolutely posted every fifth or sixth day to put this
Speaker 4: upon the schedule ten and two. With the sub three era,
Speaker 4: you can't beat.
Speaker 2: That, No, not even slightly.
Speaker 1: I wish we would have a little more offense from
Speaker 1: our boys. Good to see Muncie back in there. I
Speaker 1: just love the narrative of monthsy all around, you know
Speaker 1: the game. And again we'll hear more from that, but
Speaker 1: all in all, again doll game, boring game. Looking forward
Speaker 1: to the second half of the season kicking off. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about Dodgers Yankees a little bit later in the show,
Speaker 1: but a little bit of a gauntlet here if we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about this for just a minute, little bit
Speaker 1: of a gauntlet here to enter the second half. You
Speaker 1: got Yankees, you got Phillies, who obviously we have I
Speaker 1: don't say fears about but Phillies are always ready to win.
Speaker 1: And then the New York Mets. That's a tough you know,
Speaker 1: little East Coast roadie. We already saw a lot of
Speaker 1: the Dodgers flying out there, including Will Smith where people
Speaker 1: are looking at how he's kind of bending his neck
Speaker 1: back to take this photo.
Speaker 2: Well, what's going on with that neck?
Speaker 1: But Glass now is also on the plane, you know,
Speaker 1: some of the guys getting healthier.
Speaker 2: What are you looking forward to?
Speaker 1: Just you know, quickly before we take a break, and
Speaker 1: then hear from all the players and Doc, are you
Speaker 1: looking forward to like immediately in the second half?
Speaker 4: Well, I think the biggest thing is your thank if
Speaker 4: you're Doc and Max Munsey and Freddie Freeman and Jessterra
Speaker 4: Blisky and Andy Pajas and yo Yoshiobayamamoto because you're already
Speaker 4: in Philadelphia, so you're already on the East coast, right,
Speaker 4: So those guys are like, whoa.
Speaker 3: It's quick, quick, forty five minute flight. That's great.
Speaker 4: What I'm looking forward into the second half is just
Speaker 4: who are we getting back? Right? We are three weeks
Speaker 4: away or whatever it is from the trade deadline, and
Speaker 4: we've talked about it at length. How we're going to
Speaker 4: get guys back off of the il. That's almost as
Speaker 4: good as just getting these guys off the free agent
Speaker 4: market or the trade market. Obviously not free agent in
Speaker 4: the middle of the season, but you guys know what
Speaker 4: I'm trying to say. The point is we're getting some
Speaker 4: reinforcements coming, and I just want them to start the
Speaker 4: season strong, but moreover, just be healthy. I mean, they
Speaker 4: can continue to toe the line the way that they're
Speaker 4: towing it. They have an eleven and a half game lead.
Speaker 4: I don't need them to do anything differently in the
Speaker 4: first half or the second half than they did in
Speaker 4: the first half, with the exception of maybe more of
Speaker 4: the passing the baton, getting more guys on base, getting
Speaker 4: you know, moving guys over a little bit more offense
Speaker 4: because it does seem to come offensively feast or famine.
Speaker 4: And while the post is going to be very much
Speaker 4: driven by starting pitching and defense, you can't just rely,
Speaker 4: in my opinion, to win postseason games on the long ball.
Speaker 3: So I'd like to.
Speaker 4: See more consistent offense up and down the lineup. We
Speaker 4: talked about it our X factor for the second season,
Speaker 4: or who we want more out of. For me, it's
Speaker 4: ta Oscar Hernandez And what's Kik going to be like
Speaker 4: when it matters October?
Speaker 3: Okay, you listen to this show.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of you. I don't even listen to the show.
Speaker 3: How dare you?
Speaker 2: How daring?
Speaker 1: It is funny that you know I did mention that
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Speaker 1: As we've teased a whole bunch a lot of you
Speaker 1: had a mic in your hand out there, and I'll
Speaker 1: say I always love when you have a mic in
Speaker 1: your hand, because you've seen me in the clubhouse.
Speaker 2: I try to care, I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not great at coming up with things on the
Speaker 1: spot as where you are a professional and.
Speaker 2: Damn good at your job. So what do you want
Speaker 2: to hear from?
Speaker 7: First?
Speaker 1: And we've talked a lot about Rableski, Maybe we should
Speaker 1: hear from Robo friend of the show.
Speaker 3: That sounds great.
Speaker 4: I caught up with him on media availability on Monday.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 4: We got some so we spoke congratulations again, by the way,
Speaker 4: nice to see you. We spoke about how your path
Speaker 4: was anything but linear. Obviously you just talked about it. Oh,
Speaker 4: I don't have swing and miss stuff. I'm gonna come
Speaker 4: out of the pen and look at you now, an
Speaker 4: All Star? What does that mean to you? If you've
Speaker 4: even had a moment to reflect on how you got here?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it means a lot obviously, Like just getting the
Speaker 8: chance to be here amongst you know, the best in
Speaker 8: the game is super cool. And that's always been something
Speaker 8: I've dreamed of and something I've wanted to do. So
Speaker 8: I'm super cool to get that opportunity but yeah, it
Speaker 8: means the world. It's super cool. It's like I said,
Speaker 8: it's just I'm just super blessed to be here, and
Speaker 8: like I said, I'm going to try to enjoy every
Speaker 8: second of it.
Speaker 4: And in two sub three ra you've been one of
Speaker 4: the most consistent starters every time you've taken the ball
Speaker 4: in a rotation that has the likes the names of
Speaker 4: the Otanis of the World, the Yamamotives of the world.
Speaker 3: Blake snails on his.
Speaker 4: Way back, hopefully Tyler as well. What does that mean
Speaker 4: to you to be you know, maybe under the under
Speaker 4: the radar, this team's eight.
Speaker 2: It's uh, it's fun.
Speaker 8: It's fun to be a part of this team. And
Speaker 8: I think a lot of the reason that that I've
Speaker 8: pitched to all this year is just learning from those guys,
Speaker 8: even if it hasn't been through asking them direct conversation,
Speaker 8: direct questions or whatever, just kind of watching how they
Speaker 8: prepare and watching how they pitch and obviously understanding, you know,
Speaker 8: my like watching it through the scope of what I'm
Speaker 8: good at and how I can take what they do
Speaker 8: to my game. And you know, it's obviously super cool
Speaker 8: to to be performing in a in a rotation like
Speaker 8: this because at the start of the year, you know,
Speaker 8: there's talks about me not being a starter, maybe me
Speaker 8: not being good enough to be a starter, maybe me
Speaker 8: not me being better bullpen arm and all this stuff.
Speaker 8: So it's been super fun to kind of for some
Speaker 8: of those people wrong and also just go out there
Speaker 8: and just get a consistent run as a starter. And
Speaker 8: that's something I wanted and I voiced out this off
Speaker 8: season and getting the chance.
Speaker 7: To do it's been super cool.
Speaker 4: Last question for me, pinching Ninja jump in here, Rob,
Speaker 4: But you've talked about my game, and one thing about
Speaker 4: the Dodgers is that they allow you to be who
Speaker 4: you are and not try to make you or turn
Speaker 4: you into something that you're not. How much has that
Speaker 4: allowed you to kind of prove the doubters wrong?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you know, they've helped me a lot
Speaker 8: just understanding why I'm good, what I do that that
Speaker 8: makes me good, and then it's just a matter of
Speaker 8: you know, I'm a guy. Every pitcher is a guy
Speaker 8: that wants to tinker and wants to change things and
Speaker 8: wants to get a little better, and wants to create
Speaker 8: a new pitch and do this and that and just
Speaker 8: trying to keep me in the guardrails. And they know
Speaker 8: that I can do a lot of things at the
Speaker 8: baseball but keeping me within the guardrails of what is
Speaker 8: good and what is what makes sense for me and
Speaker 8: my delivery, and that's been super helpful.
Speaker 2: Really appreciate Robo there. What's cool about this?
Speaker 1: Obviously we talked to him not terribly long ago, asked
Speaker 1: him about the All Star Game, kind of what that
Speaker 1: would mean to him. This then, obviously he's kind of
Speaker 1: a little you don't want to You don't know if
Speaker 1: you're gonna make the All Star Game, so you're not
Speaker 1: going to be being like, yeah, this would He was
Speaker 1: sort of this would mean so much to me. But
Speaker 1: ultimately this is like the realization all of this, the work,
Speaker 1: the effort, the growth.
Speaker 2: This nod is a handshake.
Speaker 1: It's a pat on the back, like you did it, buddy,
Speaker 1: Now keep going like you figured it out.
Speaker 2: You did. You have reached your.
Speaker 1: Kind of childhood goal, your lifelong goal to be a
Speaker 1: major league starter, maybe be an All Star. He's already
Speaker 1: a World Series champion. But this is a dude who
Speaker 1: persevered and you know.
Speaker 2: Is an All Star. You can't take that away. It's
Speaker 2: really cool just the growth of this. Dude.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you'd sit around and you're walking into the dugout
Speaker 4: or the clubhouse that you're just kind of looking around
Speaker 4: you You're like.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: You know, there are so many unbelievable people here. The
Speaker 4: game's best, whatever the game's best has to offer, it's
Speaker 4: all in the same place. And you could say, you
Speaker 4: know what, I'm there. I'm just I'm as much of
Speaker 4: an All Star as these guys are. And Dave Roberts
Speaker 4: talks about it, and we're going to run the interview
Speaker 4: here that when I caught up with Dave on Monday
Speaker 4: at VP about what Justin Orbleski has gone through. You
Speaker 4: mentioned the adversity and those types of things, and I'm
Speaker 4: sure the doubt that people had about him, maybe doubt
Speaker 4: crept into his mind. I don't know, but the point
Speaker 4: is what he went through last year. Sometimes you need
Speaker 4: to be taken down a peg in terms of the
Speaker 4: game doing it to you, right, not because he thought
Speaker 4: he was. You know, I'm not saying he's like arrogant
Speaker 4: or anything like that. That's not what I mean. But
Speaker 4: the game will take you down. The game will humble you.
Speaker 4: The game humbles the best of us. So what he
Speaker 4: went through last year, and Dave talked about what he
Speaker 4: went through last year to get to this point now,
Speaker 4: not even a full year later.
Speaker 3: That's pretty special for Robo.
Speaker 4: And I'm happy for him, and not to sound condescending,
Speaker 4: what I'm proud of him too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I really like Dave's point.
Speaker 1: Maybe we get some Dave tape now, because I loved
Speaker 1: you on the field with Dave. None of the bs
Speaker 1: of the red carpet or any of that. It's just
Speaker 1: you guys, a couple of guys being dudes.
Speaker 2: One of them is a lady. But here's Riz. Here's
Speaker 2: Riz with Doc I as.
Speaker 4: An honor man. I've known you a long time and
Speaker 4: I'm not surprised at all that you're once again at
Speaker 4: the helm of a National League team in the All
Speaker 4: Star Games. It means you're doing something right with your
Speaker 4: own club. You don't take anything for granted. You've worked
Speaker 4: in this game a long time. What does this mean
Speaker 4: to you?
Speaker 5: You know what you know? Honestly, I try not to
Speaker 5: take anything for granted. I think this is my fifth
Speaker 5: All Star Game. It obviously means you're doing something right.
Speaker 5: But I think for me, Alana, you've known me for
Speaker 5: a long time. I think it's just being grateful for
Speaker 5: all the people that you've been around. And shoot, it
Speaker 5: never gets old being around the best players on the
Speaker 5: planet are here in Philadelphia, and it's it never gets old.
Speaker 5: And I turned into a fanboy, you know sometimes, and
Speaker 5: I see all these names, and that's a good thing.
Speaker 4: Some of the names are obvious. Shohyo Tani, Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 4: Max Munsey, we get it. Justin Rableski. We were screaming
Speaker 4: off of the rooftops that this man should be an
Speaker 4: All Star ten and two sub era or sub three era.
Speaker 4: He gets in, needed a couple of things to go
Speaker 4: his way, but he got in. What's made him so special?
Speaker 4: I feel like he's he's the un you know, the
Speaker 4: the unmentioned ace of the staff.
Speaker 3: Almost.
Speaker 5: That's fair, that's fair. And I think the thing is
Speaker 5: that I told the guys once we announced that he
Speaker 5: was an All Star, you know, last April eighth, he
Speaker 5: was in my office pretty much in tears. Once we
Speaker 5: sent him out, and he gave up eight to the
Speaker 5: Nationals that day, and to his credit, he went back,
Speaker 5: looked in the mirror and said, how do I get better.
Speaker 5: How did I become a major league pitcher? Cleaned up
Speaker 5: his closet, got better, And I think for me, it's
Speaker 5: like he's felt the pain. He's a tough kid. He
Speaker 5: goes after guys. He's learned what you know because I
Speaker 5: always tell the pictures the hitters will tell you what
Speaker 5: you need to work on, right, And he took that
Speaker 5: to heart. And now he's an All Star. And like
Speaker 5: you said, he is an unheralded ace. And we talked
Speaker 5: about Snell Glass now Yamamoto. But I'll tell you right now,
Speaker 5: is we wouldn't be where we're at without Jessin.
Speaker 4: Erbleski, no doubt about that. You mentioned Snell, you mentioned Glass.
Speaker 4: These are guys that you're getting back Snell first, Tyler later,
Speaker 4: Edwin Diaz is coming back, Key K is gonna be
Speaker 4: back soon. It's almost like you're getting these amazing remaining,
Speaker 4: amazing signings rather but they're already part of your team.
Speaker 4: A team that has an eleven and a half game
Speaker 4: leading the division is about to get better.
Speaker 5: It is, it is. And that's the funny thing is
Speaker 5: that you know, as we approach the deadline, and there's
Speaker 5: gonna be a lot of talk about what the Dodgers
Speaker 5: need to do. But you know, for us, you know,
Speaker 5: you mentioned Evan Phillips, and we're gonna get Eddie Diaz back,
Speaker 5: We're gonna get Snell back, We're gonna get Glass back,
Speaker 5: We're gonna get Will Smith. So those guys in themselves
Speaker 5: are trade deadline acquisition. So we're gonna get whole at
Speaker 5: some point. But we do got a nice lead, but
Speaker 5: we got to play better baseball, you know, coming out
Speaker 5: of the break, because going into the break we didn't
Speaker 5: play our best baseball.
Speaker 4: That's fair, but that's okay because you are check the
Speaker 4: box of if the season ended today, you win the division, Okay,
Speaker 4: then you got to worry about home field advantage, those
Speaker 4: types of things. What's impressed you the most about what
Speaker 4: you were able to accomplish in the first half with
Speaker 4: not having all of the big puzzle pieces.
Speaker 5: I think the thing that impressed me most is, you know,
Speaker 5: there's always a talk of is there going to be
Speaker 5: a letdown, There's always unforeseen things about performance injury that
Speaker 5: didn't take us away from the focus of stacking wins.
Speaker 5: And also to see guys like Edgarda Henriquez, Andy Payes
Speaker 5: is now an All Star. We got Dalton rushing a
Speaker 5: lot of opportunities since Will smith'sman down so to see
Speaker 5: the pitching, and we talked about Robleski's kind of growth
Speaker 5: and now he's an All Star. So you know, while
Speaker 5: some guys are are kind of getting back, you know,
Speaker 5: we persevered and kept going.
Speaker 3: I always appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Congratulations, Skip, Thanks Alana, thank you.
Speaker 1: Appreciate those two together anytime we can get them. You
Speaker 1: and Doctor are fun and a lot of Doc clearly listens,
Speaker 1: you know, his friend of the show talking about getting
Speaker 1: those trade deadline acquisitions off of the IL. But we
Speaker 1: know things are trending in the right direction for Blake Snow,
Speaker 1: Tyler Glass. Now we're getting some good updates there. Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll find out with Katie on Monday, but maybe
Speaker 1: back ahead of that Mets series. I think he's got
Speaker 1: that very much circled and highlights.
Speaker 2: On his calendar.
Speaker 1: But yeah, to kind of, I mean everybody had a
Speaker 1: little bit of a Robleskie thought in there. Some of
Speaker 1: the Pie has thought as well, just kind of you know,
Speaker 1: what was your biggest takeaway from your chat with Dave?
Speaker 4: Which is good to see him, you know, and I
Speaker 4: got to see him and Tricia on the red carpet
Speaker 4: and they.
Speaker 3: They're just so appreciative of the opportunity.
Speaker 4: I mean, there were times when you know, Dave had
Speaker 4: wanted to be a manager, and I remember him getting
Speaker 4: passed over to be the manager of the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 4: And he has a great amount of respect obviously for
Speaker 4: Bud Black and for the other guys. But can you imagine,
Speaker 4: you know, Andy Green being your manager for the Dodgers
Speaker 4: instead of Dave, you know what I mean. And I
Speaker 4: say that with the most respect in the world for
Speaker 4: Andy Green, who is now with the helm of the
Speaker 4: Mets because they fired Carlos Mendoza. So I just I'm
Speaker 4: just so grateful that they were final somebody finally gave
Speaker 4: him the opportunity, because I think he's the best in
Speaker 4: the business. And I'm not just saying that because Dave
Speaker 4: is our manager. He truly has a way of connecting
Speaker 4: with people, but you know, he has a way of
Speaker 4: communicating with them. He knows and he's really good at
Speaker 4: the off the field stuff too. He understands the role
Speaker 4: and the job and he always seems to have his
Speaker 4: team in a position to win and a team in
Speaker 4: guys in positions to win and not trying to take them,
Speaker 4: you know, in positions that are not good for them,
Speaker 4: trying to make them who they're not. So it's just
Speaker 4: been fun. It's been fun to see him involve as
Speaker 4: a manager. And one thing I did like what he
Speaker 4: said when I talked to him on the red carpet
Speaker 4: about just him managing for ten years. I remember in
Speaker 4: twenty sixteen, Clint, when he won the Manager of the
Speaker 4: Year award, he goes, I still think I'm getting better,
Speaker 4: And that's interesting, right. I mean, the man's gone to
Speaker 4: five different World Series. He's won three as a manager,
Speaker 4: one to one as a player. I think he'll be
Speaker 4: in Cooper's town as a manager. Certainly if Bruce Bochi
Speaker 4: is with three, then Dave should be too, because Dave's
Speaker 4: not done. So I do feel that he is getting better.
Speaker 4: And I like the way that.
Speaker 3: That he said that too.
Speaker 4: You know, he's still learning, he's still willing to learn,
Speaker 4: but he thinks he's getting better.
Speaker 2: And and you know that's kind of the narrative.
Speaker 1: If you guys missed him, by the way, missed our
Speaker 1: chats with Dave at spring training the last two years.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of good stuff and they're
Speaker 1: still pretty evergreen conversation. But last year when we talked
Speaker 1: to Dave, that was kind of one of the biggest
Speaker 1: things that I wanted to ask him about is the
Speaker 1: growth the evolution of Dave Roberts and not only just
Speaker 1: his decision making, but in being a captain of that
Speaker 1: clubhouse and kind of, you know, the growth.
Speaker 2: Of him knowing when to hold him, when to fold him, or.
Speaker 1: More so when he needs to step in and put
Speaker 1: an arm around somebody as we've seen, or when it's
Speaker 1: still up to the guys like you know, Muncie Freddie
Speaker 1: going up to a Dalton rushing a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff in the past, justin Turner being
Speaker 1: a guy to do that, maybe a little bit of
Speaker 1: you know, some of the other vetors. Having keithky Hernandez
Speaker 1: back in that clubhouse, not only do you get the
Speaker 1: vibes and all that stuff, I know, the vibes above
Speaker 1: a place our tops in the league, but having somebody
Speaker 1: that Keik can talk to people in a much different
Speaker 1: way than Freddy might be able to. And that's the
Speaker 1: thing is Dave knowing where he's I don't want to
Speaker 1: say where he's needed or wanted, but it's kind of
Speaker 1: what it is that has changed. And then of course
Speaker 1: to the big field stuff, which people in the chat
Speaker 1: will know a whole lot about.
Speaker 2: Is the decision.
Speaker 1: It's the pitching decisions in particular pinch hitting, like as
Speaker 1: the kids might say, bro is in his pocket these days,
Speaker 1: and it's come from eleven years of learning and pain
Speaker 1: and growth and all of that kind of stuff he
Speaker 1: learns each and every day.
Speaker 2: And it's fully, fully legit to say that much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a couple of things I want to do address
Speaker 4: really quick. Boom must die thirty four oh six. You're
Speaker 4: absolutely right, Boach. He does have four World Series titles,
Speaker 4: three with the San Francisco Giants and one, of course
Speaker 4: most recently with the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 3: My apologies on that.
Speaker 4: I wanted to address something else in here because I
Speaker 4: want to give Micah Johnson, former Dodger, a shout out
Speaker 4: Referee five eighty three asking what's the story behind the
Speaker 4: astronaut baseball statue with the crossed bats behind you?
Speaker 3: Is that a custom Dodger's piece?
Speaker 4: What it is is former Dodger infielder, also former Chicago
Speaker 4: White Sox infielder Micah Johnson is a tremendous, tremendous artist,
Speaker 4: and these are the AKHU sculptures and collectibles. It's a
Speaker 4: limited edition that Major League Baseball came up with with
Speaker 4: with obviously in collaboration with Micah. It's the dream Gazer sculpture.
Speaker 4: And if you don't know about AKHU, just google Akhu
Speaker 4: and Michael Micah Johnson and see what he has created.
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable the artwork that Micah does. And it was
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts who encouraged Micah to really pursue an art
Speaker 4: career in addition, obviously when he was still being a
Speaker 4: baseball player, and he has blown up.
Speaker 3: He's been on the cover of Time magazine. So that's
Speaker 3: what that is.
Speaker 4: It's the AKHU statue. Mikah Johnson. Check it out, check
Speaker 4: it over. I wanted to.
Speaker 3: I wanted I wanted to.
Speaker 4: I wanted to address that too, because there was a
Speaker 4: question in the chat and Mike, I'm so proud of Micah.
Speaker 4: So anyway, there's that's neither here nor there, but there
Speaker 4: you go.
Speaker 1: The more we know, and obviously we got more video
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: To get to not through too.
Speaker 1: I want to talk more about what Dave said about
Speaker 1: Rableski and and somebody had it in the chat here
Speaker 1: b d A Barrock and say, hey, mann't talk about
Speaker 1: me crying. Uh, that was his first start last year.
Speaker 1: That was That was April eighth, eight runs allowed against
Speaker 1: the Nationals, who were a lot worse last year than
Speaker 1: they are this year. Not to say that they're great
Speaker 1: this year, but you know, you come up, you're expecting
Speaker 1: this opportunity, another opportunity to start, does not go your way.
Speaker 1: You get sent back down immediately, and it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of up and down for him. It makes a
Speaker 1: couple more starts and then kind of say banished to
Speaker 1: the bullpen, but banished too like a bulk roll and
Speaker 1: a bullpen. And and again going back to what I
Speaker 1: had said about the realization of all of the sweat equity,
Speaker 1: the work to get to that point, to think about
Speaker 1: that moment, to go back to that moment.
Speaker 2: Like that's a changing point for him.
Speaker 1: That that what said, Yeah, that April eighth, that's really cool.
Speaker 2: It's I mean, it's.
Speaker 1: Not cool that you got a dude crying because he's
Speaker 1: being sent down and he feels he failed, failed the
Speaker 1: team or whatever.
Speaker 3: But you know what, I'd rather that.
Speaker 4: I'd rather that than somebody that didn't care, somebody that
Speaker 4: was like whatever, you know, I'm just here so I
Speaker 4: don't get fined. You want the guy that is going
Speaker 4: to be upset that he's getting sent down. You want
Speaker 4: the guy that's embarrassed or whatever. You want the guy
Speaker 4: that is willing to do what it takes to be
Speaker 4: able to get to where he's at now and be
Speaker 4: an all star.
Speaker 3: I mean the talk about Flip on the switch.
Speaker 1: Hello, Yeah, yeah, for real, another Flip switch type of dude.
Speaker 2: You did talk.
Speaker 1: I mean, other players also talked about Andy Paez, but
Speaker 1: you did talk to to.
Speaker 2: Andy for what it's worth.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously Andy prefers to speak in his native
Speaker 1: tongue before anything else in Spanish. So I did edit
Speaker 1: this down to get some of the translation.
Speaker 2: Not out of the way, but whatever, just get through
Speaker 2: that helpful.
Speaker 4: Helpful for most of our listeners and our and our
Speaker 4: viewers for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So here's Andy Payas.
Speaker 4: What does it mean for you to be here and
Speaker 4: finally to be able to talk to your parents and
Speaker 4: let them know that you were in this.
Speaker 9: Yeah, really, I'd be, you know, really proud of all
Speaker 9: the work that I put in to get to this moment,
Speaker 9: and finally was able to talk to my parents and
Speaker 9: they were super proud to see me get to this.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Max Menzy just said a moment that he remembers where
Speaker 4: he felt like you were an All Star was an
Speaker 4: at bat that you had against Mason Millar where you
Speaker 4: just kept fouling off the pitches and running up his
Speaker 4: pitch count. At what point in this season, especially after
Speaker 4: what happened last postseason, did you feel like you took
Speaker 4: your game to another level to be here.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, really proud of being able to get here,
Speaker 9: really proud of the work. Obviously, Mason Miller's an incredible picture.
Speaker 9: He's really good. He's a real talent, you know. But
Speaker 9: I'm also I also put in a lot of work,
Speaker 9: put in a lot of time to getted bats like that,
Speaker 9: and obviously super proud of the bat. But it's one
Speaker 9: of those things I'm going to remember from time. I'm
Speaker 9: going to remember for the rest of my career just
Speaker 9: being able to not wit them throughout the dune. But
Speaker 9: I also know there's going to be multiple opportunities to
Speaker 9: face him again.
Speaker 4: The illn momental Bratti Kippensada, get kipensastica at Eleinardrea.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I'm really proud of the work that
Speaker 9: I put in. You know, there wasn't like a specific
Speaker 9: moment where I realize it, But it's just more of
Speaker 9: the work to continue his work and being able to
Speaker 9: have a lot of convince of the things that I'm doing,
Speaker 9: and being able to kind of see myself in this game.
Speaker 2: Seeing himself in the game is earning a spot. Honestly,
Speaker 2: he earned a spot, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean not only did he earn a spot,
Speaker 4: but he was one of the high vote getters for outfielders. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, I didn't think people were paying attention. And
Speaker 4: you know, good job Dodgers fans for showing up and
Speaker 4: showing out and voting. But I have to think that
Speaker 4: there were other people that are paying attention also outside
Speaker 4: of the Dodgers fan base, that are paying attention to
Speaker 4: what Andy Pott has is doing to be able to
Speaker 4: get him the amount of votes.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a no doubt.
Speaker 4: This wasn't like we're coming in through the back door,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. This was like he was
Speaker 4: the top vote getter, one of the top folk getters
Speaker 4: for the outfield, So congratulations to him, and thank you
Speaker 4: Wondrado for that interpretation and translation for Andy Pass. I
Speaker 4: think this is the highest amount of Cuban born players
Speaker 4: that have been represented at the All Star Game. Former
Speaker 4: Dodger Miguel Vargas and talked about trajectory and that poor
Speaker 4: bastard with is that meme when you got traded over
Speaker 4: to the White Sox and he's, oh my god, he
Speaker 4: was so miserable, and now look at him. He's an
Speaker 4: All Star. He's doing really, really well. I talked to
Speaker 4: him momentarily too, So congratulations too.
Speaker 1: Seeing the joy, seeing the joy back on Magey Vargas's face.
Speaker 2: That's cool. That's cool. And the White Sox they're fun
Speaker 2: baseball team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they are are leading it. They're leading Central. Season
Speaker 4: ends today, they're in good for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like saying that's that's the fastest man with
Speaker 1: a broken.
Speaker 2: Leg right there. You know, Central al Central's if.
Speaker 3: You're being chased by a bear, you only have to
Speaker 3: run your slowest friend. Okay, so it is, it is
Speaker 3: what it is.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty slow.
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Speaker 1: interviews you had with with Dodgers All Star Dodgers at.
Speaker 2: The bank there. I really liked what Freddy had to say.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna I'm gonna pocket Freddy because Monsi monce.
Speaker 1: He's also just always so great, but he had some
Speaker 1: thoughts about guys. We've talked a whole lot about Rableski
Speaker 1: and Andy paieis so here comes, Here comes months.
Speaker 10: But Andy being in his first one, what have you
Speaker 10: seen the growth from him and his game and being
Speaker 10: able to be here for the first time.
Speaker 11: I think this year has been an extremely special year
Speaker 11: for Andy when you consider what he went through in
Speaker 11: the postseason last year. For a young player, it would
Speaker 11: have been extreme, extremely easy for someone to crumble to.
Speaker 11: You know, obviously he wanted to perform in the postseason
Speaker 11: last year. It didn't go how he wanted it to.
Speaker 11: But for him to come back this year put all
Speaker 11: that behind him and continue to grow as a player
Speaker 11: and you know, grow as a person also, it's just
Speaker 11: been really really cool to watch for me personally. You know,
Speaker 11: I've always thought that he was going to be a
Speaker 11: great player for us, and you know he's he's really
Speaker 11: drown into that. And also the work that he's put
Speaker 11: in for centerfield. I know that was something that a
Speaker 11: lot of people doubted. We never did, but a lot
Speaker 11: of people had doubted his ability in centerfield, and for
Speaker 11: him to become one of the best defensive center fielders,
Speaker 11: I think it's absolutely incredible.
Speaker 2: When he speaks to who he is as a person.
Speaker 10: What moment did you see from him, you know, playing
Speaker 10: your times with him, notice that you know this kid's
Speaker 10: going to be an All Star since.
Speaker 11: How man it could be? You could pick any number
Speaker 11: of moments, but you know a personal moment for me
Speaker 11: is h Mason Miller in San Diego as ninth inning
Speaker 11: or we were an extra innings, I can't remember, but
Speaker 11: the bat that he put together fouled off, you know,
Speaker 11: seven or eight pitches, was able to get a sac
Speaker 11: fly drove in the I think it was the tying
Speaker 11: run of the winning run for US. I can't remember,
Speaker 11: but just that a bat really sticks out of my head.
Speaker 11: For him to have the composure and to put together
Speaker 11: that kind of battle against a guy as good as
Speaker 11: Mason Miller was manned.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 4: Max, you had talked about your game and not wanting
Speaker 4: personal goals, but yet you if you look at the
Speaker 4: numbers that you're not paying attention to, and I won't
Speaker 4: say what they are, you're always so consistent. How do
Speaker 4: you find that consistency without paying attention to the results,
Speaker 4: just the process.
Speaker 11: Well, I think you show up every single day knowing
Speaker 11: that you know. And this is something that I learned
Speaker 11: from Jim. Tellmey, there's always something you can put in
Speaker 11: the bucket to help the team win every single day.
Speaker 11: It could be a play on defense, it could be
Speaker 11: in a walk. It could be spotting something on the
Speaker 11: picture from the dugout and relaying it to your you know,
Speaker 11: your teammates. Uh, It could be you get on base
Speaker 11: and you have a good dirt read, or you go
Speaker 11: first at third. There's any number of ways you can
Speaker 11: help the team win. And when you show up every
Speaker 11: single day with that being your main goal is to
Speaker 11: just put something in the bucket to help, you know,
Speaker 11: move the needle forward for the guys, I've you know,
Speaker 11: everything else kind of takes care of itself. You show
Speaker 11: up every day, you work, and you the ultimate goal
Speaker 11: is to win, and then that's when that's all you're
Speaker 11: focused on. You're now you don't care if you go
Speaker 11: zero for three or three for three. I kind of
Speaker 11: feel like everything just take takes care of itself.
Speaker 4: After that Robo and all start, we were screaming off
Speaker 4: the mountaintops to get him in here because I don't know,
Speaker 4: if you're not watching the Dodgers, maybe a lot of
Speaker 4: people don't know Justin Robleski, but he's tending to sub
Speaker 4: three E ra A. The kid has posted every single
Speaker 4: time he's taken the ball. What have you enjoyed about
Speaker 4: watching him go about his business? Specifically from your vantage point, He's.
Speaker 11: He's fun, you know, he's he's uh. He has a
Speaker 11: certain attitude on the mound it's kind of a dual
Speaker 11: personality guy, and uh, it's fun to see the personality
Speaker 11: come out on the mound. And you know, I think
Speaker 11: the whole world got to see it in Game seven
Speaker 11: last year. And you know, that's just kind of who
Speaker 11: he is. He's very fiery, he likes to attack, and uh,
Speaker 11: he's been very successful and I think, you know, for
Speaker 11: me personally, the biggest change I've seen from him is
Speaker 11: finding a way to translate his mindset from coming out
Speaker 11: of the bullpen to being a starter and that's that
Speaker 11: that can be tough for some guys, but he's found
Speaker 11: a way to do that, and that's why I think
Speaker 11: he's had the success he's had this year.
Speaker 1: I want to focus on the pie Haz factor of that.
Speaker 1: Really good observations from months he there and you and
Speaker 1: I were texting each other, messaging each other during that interview,
Speaker 1: just how good months he's gonna be in my opinion,
Speaker 1: you know, in the dugout in some capacity, you know,
Speaker 1: as a coach or on TV. You see future manager
Speaker 1: also definitely in his future there. Guy's gonna be able
Speaker 1: to do anything he wants, you know, hopefully for you know, selfishly,
Speaker 1: i'd love to see him on SNL A you know,
Speaker 1: with with Hardtungu after a couple more years of playing
Speaker 1: in a couple more rooms. That much aside the po
Speaker 1: has factor, and yeah, like Andy being you know, ell
Speaker 1: benchoed for games six and seven, I'm not gonna do
Speaker 1: the gesture that.
Speaker 2: Could very easily just thank you. That's that's huge, right there.
Speaker 1: Noah clip that that could very easily be something that
Speaker 1: just derailed Now I would.
Speaker 2: Say derails your career, but very hard to battle back from.
Speaker 1: Had just an abysmal postseason run, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: for him to put up an all star caliber second half, uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's impressed. Sorry, first half, it's very very impressive.
Speaker 1: It's an impressive follow up. And yeah, you know he's
Speaker 1: fallen on kind of harder times of late.
Speaker 2: Since moving into that two hole games.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say sped up on him, of the league
Speaker 1: has caught up and he's done his part to make
Speaker 1: some adjustments. Still, Max also mentions the growth in the outfield.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of chatter about this guy is
Speaker 1: absolutely not a center fielder. Maybe you're lucky to put
Speaker 1: him in one of the corner spots. We knew he
Speaker 1: had a cannon. But he worked, he humped, he hustled,
Speaker 1: and he is an All Star starter in center field.
Speaker 1: And it's not like when to put him in center field.
Speaker 1: Now he belongs there.
Speaker 2: It's just really cool the growth of Andy paie.
Speaker 1: Has, another one of those homegrown Dodgers, Alana.
Speaker 4: You know what I think about when I think about
Speaker 4: Andy pai Has in the postseason. I don't think about
Speaker 4: any of that bats. I think about the saving the
Speaker 4: saving catch that he made. Keith Hernandez thought we lost
Speaker 4: the World Series because he didn't catch the ball. And
Speaker 4: here comes Andy pa haz off the wall with the
Speaker 4: ball in his glove, just like walking off the field
Speaker 4: like bro, I got it. That's what I remember when
Speaker 4: it comes to Andy pa Has in the postseason because
Speaker 4: that defensive play. We could have lost the World Series
Speaker 4: had they not caught that ball. Okay, So that's what
Speaker 4: I think about. That's what I think about.
Speaker 3: When I think about Andy pas in the postseason.
Speaker 4: Yes, would we have liked to have had him more
Speaker 4: productive offensively, But if you're banking on Andy Payez to
Speaker 4: be the off defensive savior of the Los Angeles Dodgers
Speaker 4: with names like we have that, you're putting your your
Speaker 4: balls in the wrong basket, I believe. And he has
Speaker 4: really emerged as a hell of a defensive center fielder
Speaker 4: when I was on the leading the charge of let's
Speaker 4: send this.
Speaker 3: Man to the Moon camp.
Speaker 4: So he is absolutely a wonderful, deserving All Star. And
Speaker 4: this is a guy that has has been through it also.
Speaker 4: I mean he can't even reach his parents to tell
Speaker 4: them that they made the All Star Game. I mean,
Speaker 4: he finally was able to, but I mean there's a
Speaker 4: lot of stuff going on behind the scenes that we
Speaker 4: have no idea. So congratulations to Paz. That's what I
Speaker 4: think about when I think about the postseason. And by
Speaker 4: the way, not for nothing, nobody is hitting in the
Speaker 4: two hole. Okay, that's why Andy po Has has been
Speaker 4: moved up to the two hole because the production by
Speaker 4: and large across the team in the two hole is
Speaker 4: the worst offensive production spot in the lineup.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, Kyle Tucker didn't walk, so Andy po Has
Speaker 1: couldn't score runs. I think that's that's how That's not
Speaker 1: really how it goes. That's not my sound borders on.
Speaker 2: I would one hundred percent be booing myself. So if
Speaker 2: you guys hated that hit, that thumbs up button.
Speaker 1: One final bit of interview, and we save one of
Speaker 1: the Dodgers for last. We got some Freddy in his
Speaker 1: tenth All Star game, and that meant something to him.
Speaker 3: Here's Freddy Freddy.
Speaker 4: This is old hat too, obviously, but I would imagine
Speaker 4: you never want to take it for granted. So what
Speaker 4: is is your perspective? As you just mentioned, you may
Speaker 4: never know when it's your last.
Speaker 12: Yeah, for me, it's it's him over there. My other
Speaker 12: two boys will be on the field for Homer and Derby,
Speaker 12: and he's really into baseball cards now. So it's just
Speaker 12: creating those kind of memories and trying to take it in.
Speaker 12: It's a lot, it really is.
Speaker 11: These two days.
Speaker 12: Is a lot going on. But to try and take
Speaker 12: a step back and realize the guys in the clubhouse,
Speaker 12: the first timers, you don't want to be that old
Speaker 12: guy who thinks it's not cool to be here anymore.
Speaker 12: It really is special to be here. It's an honor
Speaker 12: and when the especially when the fans vote you in.
Speaker 12: So try and take it all in and try and
Speaker 12: create the memories with the boys first timers.
Speaker 4: Andy pot has justin riblest Game should be should be
Speaker 4: and Justin here is here, Thank goodness.
Speaker 3: What do you want them to know about this?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 12: I told Justin to just take it all in. He
Speaker 12: might probably pitch tomorrow because he doesn't pitched price since
Speaker 12: what Tuesday or Wednesday? So what a great experience for
Speaker 12: your first one and probably pitching it. It's a lot.
Speaker 12: It's just more of just trying to stay grounded for
Speaker 12: a second. It's hard to my first one. I felt
Speaker 12: like I didn't belong it was, But it's just trying
Speaker 12: to help him get navigate the two days of making
Speaker 12: sure they take a step back and realize how special
Speaker 12: this is and still get to have a little fun
Speaker 12: in between.
Speaker 4: All Right, finally for me this team, obviously, you guys
Speaker 4: need the break. I'm sure everybody kind of limping around here,
Speaker 4: but you still have.
Speaker 3: An eleven and a half game lead in the division.
Speaker 4: That's that's the first box, right when the division get
Speaker 4: the home field advantage type of thing.
Speaker 3: How would you assess your first half?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean when you end twenty five games over
Speaker 12: five hundred, I think everyone's going to be pretty thrilled
Speaker 12: about how we played. Obviously, the last this past weekend
Speaker 12: wasn't the best, but the break came out the right time.
Speaker 12: We get a few days off, hopefully show he can
Speaker 12: get get healthy. We have a couple of guys coming
Speaker 12: back after the All Star break. You have Key k
Speaker 12: gonna come back, Blake Snell's going on it, come back,
Speaker 12: Tyler's back starting to feel better. So, uh, we got
Speaker 12: reinforcements coming and we still had a really good first half.
Speaker 12: So I like how we are playing great baseball and
Speaker 12: to start in the East Coast against these teams that
Speaker 12: we're going to face, really kicks off the energy to
Speaker 12: high intensity. So that kind of what we needed.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Freddie using the right word reinforcements. It's not
Speaker 1: trade deadline acquisitions.
Speaker 2: You got. Oh okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: Man, we're listen. It's not us we blame. We blame
Speaker 1: Katie for that one. She's the one who keeps bringing
Speaker 1: it up.
Speaker 3: Not really, it's not fair.
Speaker 4: We can't blame her when she's not here to defend herself.
Speaker 4: By the way, Katie is en route to New York,
Speaker 4: I would imagine from Philadelphia. That's why she's not here today.
Speaker 4: She's on assignment or or en route to start the
Speaker 4: Yankee series too.
Speaker 1: The only thing I really wanted to randomly dive into
Speaker 1: quickly on the Freddie stuff. We appreciate you guys hanging
Speaker 1: out with us if you're still here on a longer
Speaker 1: episode of the show, but him enjoying it, he said,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't want to be that old guy
Speaker 1: who thinks it's not cool to be here. And there
Speaker 1: was a lot of All stars, a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I mean, the whole Zach Wheeler thing was kind of
Speaker 1: you know, probably more than it needed to be. Just
Speaker 1: accept that you were an All Star and you know
Speaker 1: you don't need to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but if Zach was in for Justin's out.
Speaker 2: Well he wouldn't have pitched. I think they would still
Speaker 2: need a replacement for him.
Speaker 1: But regardless of how that all works, like too many
Speaker 1: people not showing up to this thing. Yeah, it's taken
Speaker 1: away from the allure of the I mean, Misowski didn't
Speaker 1: pitch in the game. You know, like going back to
Speaker 1: what we said earlier, like all these elite pitchers are
Speaker 1: better than the elite hitters, and we still didn't have
Speaker 1: like that top one percent of some of the best
Speaker 1: pitchers in the game, with Skeens and Misrowski and Cam Schlitzler,
Speaker 1: you know, stuff like that didn't pitch.
Speaker 2: In the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but again, then the other side of that argument
Speaker 4: that that's why if you're gonna want these guys to pitch,
Speaker 4: then it has to be when it's not in season
Speaker 4: and their regular season is it on the line.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, these guys are these guys are
Speaker 3: trying to get into the postseason.
Speaker 4: I mean, can imagine if the if the Yankees lose
Speaker 4: Cam Schlitzler, the front runner for the American Leed Sayag
Speaker 4: Award winner because he I felt so bad when junior
Speaker 4: kemen Arro got hit. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: Kevin Cash just had a heart attack somewhere on thecation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, one hundred percent. It's tough. Yeah, there's I
Speaker 2: don't know if there's a right answer.
Speaker 1: This is still in like, in my opinion, the best
Speaker 1: All Star game of all the major sports, Like Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl is garbage. NBA All Star Game had its kind
Speaker 1: of moment for a second trying to come back, but
Speaker 1: it's still just I.
Speaker 3: Honestly like, I don't know what the answer is, Like,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Freddy was also asked before I was asking him those
Speaker 4: questions about baseball in the Olympics He's like, when would
Speaker 4: you do it? Like, it's just so difficult because you'd
Speaker 4: have to take a two week hiatus from your regular season,
Speaker 4: kind of like the NHL does. So there's you're always
Speaker 4: going to be upsetting somebody. There's no right answer for this,
Speaker 4: but I do appreciate his approach about the All Star Game.
Speaker 4: You can't take that type of stuff for granted, because
Speaker 4: I'm sure these guys would like an extra couple of
Speaker 4: days off. It's a long season, right and it's like
Speaker 4: the guys that are the best in the game get
Speaker 4: less time off than the guys that aren't.
Speaker 3: And they're on vacation right now. Yes, yeah, you know, but.
Speaker 1: Quickly before we moved to last legs. But there's all
Speaker 1: the interviews, good stuff, a lot of shout out to FanDuel. FanDuel,
Speaker 1: what are they called foul Territory. Those are the people
Speaker 1: we work with and work for, haven't you know, bringing
Speaker 1: the family together out there. I'm sure you guys had
Speaker 1: a great time. But Brandon in the chat had a
Speaker 1: question about Super Chat two bucks. We appreciate, Brandon said,
Speaker 1: asking any news on Bruce dark Grat are all real quick.
Speaker 1: He had the back surgery a couple weeks ago, maybe
Speaker 1: a month and change ago. He is up to walking
Speaker 1: now and he is actually running on like a zero
Speaker 1: gravity treadmill. Still highly unlikely that he returns the sea,
Speaker 1: but happy for Bazooka to be trending in the right direction. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: you know he's able to find himself either a minor
Speaker 1: league deal with the Dodgers in the off season, which
Speaker 1: seems to make a lot of sense, or in some
Speaker 1: way back with the team as he continues to rehab
Speaker 1: in the next year. But that much said, Riz, I
Speaker 1: want you to tell people about a dog.
Speaker 4: Let's get to the last links, all right, guys, let
Speaker 4: me introduce you to Frankie. He's a cute little guy.
Speaker 4: He is three years old. He is a mixed breed.
Speaker 4: Lots of stuff going on here. As far as Frankie
Speaker 4: is concerned. He is Minpin. He is also mixed with poodle,
Speaker 4: as you can see. That gives him his curly Further so,
Speaker 4: it's Minpin, poodle and Chihuahua. Those are his three main breeds.
Speaker 4: He's up to date on all of his shots. He's neutered.
Speaker 4: We're looking for a home with older kids, So if
Speaker 4: you have like teenage kids.
Speaker 3: That's fine.
Speaker 4: The reason being is we believe he was absolutely abused
Speaker 4: and tormented by kids, and we don't want him to
Speaker 4: be in a house with young kids. Again, it's just
Speaker 4: not good for anybody involved in that situation. He's currently
Speaker 4: being fostered in southern California. He's available for adoption in California.
Speaker 4: Great with other dogs. He's a sweet boy.
Speaker 3: If you're interested in learning more about Frankie, please reach out.
Speaker 2: Cool cool. Yeah, don't have does nobody have kids ever?
Speaker 4: That's an important thing, and certainly if you do, please
Speaker 4: don't let them abuse animals.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, big series coming up, Dodgers Yankees.
Speaker 2: Let's see what we got.
Speaker 1: We don't have matchups yet, but here's a little bit
Speaker 1: of tail of the tape against the Yankees. There fifty
Speaker 1: ft two in the Al East. Are those Yankees? These
Speaker 1: are always fun series, you know, And yeah, I love
Speaker 1: it And be interested in hearing our friend Derek Lewandowski's
Speaker 1: thoughts and opinions about you know, Dodgers Yankees. If you
Speaker 1: guys want a different opinion, different outlook at it.
Speaker 2: Check out pinstripe territory. Derek is is absolutely great.
Speaker 1: But what do you need to see if anything, in
Speaker 1: this particular series, you should have Yama getting the ball.
Speaker 2: In Day Game one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you should have Yamamoto.
Speaker 4: I mean, you're also wanting to take advantage of Yankees
Speaker 4: club that doesn't have Aaron Judge in the lineup. You know.
Speaker 4: Obviously Ben Rice is probably their toughest at bat right now.
Speaker 4: He's having a really great year. He too was an
Speaker 4: All Star. Cody Bellinger an All Star, the All Star MVP.
Speaker 4: Of course for Belly, who I got to give him
Speaker 4: a lot of credit. I even told him this, I said, listen,
Speaker 4: when I found out that you were going to New York,
Speaker 4: I didn't know if this was going to work out
Speaker 4: for you because I just with his personality, I didn't
Speaker 4: think like that New York was going to be it.
Speaker 3: But it's been it.
Speaker 4: He's looked great, and he's obviously having a tremendous year.
Speaker 4: There so nothing. I want to see the same thing
Speaker 4: that we're doing, you know. I want to see continued
Speaker 4: starting pitching, going as deep as you can into the
Speaker 4: ball game. We'll see what happens, you know, in this series.
Speaker 4: But this is a fun one, right It's the rematch
Speaker 4: of the twenty twenty four World Series. Let's play the
Speaker 4: fifth inning the way that we did in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: four in.
Speaker 3: The last game of of the World Series. There, so
Speaker 3: do that. Let's do that again. That's what I want
Speaker 3: to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it should be some good, really good pitching matchups
Speaker 1: in the series as well. What a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: four o'clock games or something like that. We will be
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Speaker 1: Open the year at home on March twenty fifth against
Speaker 1: the Bravest. A lot of work to be done between
Speaker 1: MLB and MLBPA before then, because they are.
Speaker 4: Still I mean when the season starts on July third,
Speaker 4: like it did in two thousand and whatever the.
Speaker 2: Hell it was, Oh, God right, guys, we'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Night.
Speaker 2: Bye, m
Speaker 4: M hm