Speaker 1: The Dodgers are not ruining baseball.
Speaker 2: People.
Speaker 1: The other twenty nine teams that could have easily put
Speaker 1: a package like this together and decided not to do
Speaker 1: it because they're so risk averse. Those are the ones
Speaker 1: that are ruining baseball. Hell everybody, and welcome to a
Speaker 1: brand new episode of Dodgers Territory. It is an emergency
Speaker 1: episode if you will on this Sunday, August second. We
Speaker 1: are your hosts. My name is Alana Rizzo. That is
Speaker 1: Katie Wu of the Athletic Clint Pesius of course you
Speaker 1: know him as real frg Oh my goodness, this is
Speaker 1: what I get for going to bed at nine thirty
Speaker 1: pm on a Saturday evening. I wake up to the
Speaker 1: news that Trek Schooble is headed to the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Dodgers in a trade. Will get into the pieces of
Speaker 1: the trade momentarily. I have so much much to say
Speaker 1: about this. It is now official. The Dodgers have tweeted
Speaker 1: it as well, so you know it's real.
Speaker 2: Katie.
Speaker 1: This is the time of year when you, as a
Speaker 1: beat reporter for the Athletic, are in the trenches. What
Speaker 1: do you make of it?
Speaker 2: I mean, are is anyone surprised? Look, as I think
Speaker 2: the Dodgers did their textbook downplay early in July, you know, hey,
Speaker 2: here's what we're working on behind the scenes. And then
Speaker 2: as we got closer and closer to this deadline and
Speaker 2: more and more questions, specifically with Shoheotani's status and his
Speaker 2: health injury or health status came into play, it became
Speaker 2: more and more obvious that these two were just kind
Speaker 2: of meant to be trade partners. They were the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were the industry favorite slams school all along. And then
Speaker 2: when we talked to Andrew Friedman on Wednesday, he said
Speaker 2: a line I'm paraphrasing here were anytime there are so
Speaker 2: few game changing stars available, anytime one is available, we're
Speaker 2: going to be in those discussions. You didn't have to
Speaker 2: say Terror School by name to know that's exactly who
Speaker 2: he was talking about. The Only thing that's surprising to me, guys,
Speaker 2: and we'll get into it, i'm sure, is just how
Speaker 2: quickly the steal game together. There's still more than twenty
Speaker 2: four hours away until the deadline actually expires. Usually for
Speaker 2: a team like the Tigers, who allegedly had all the
Speaker 2: leverage in this deal, you'll wait till the last minute,
Speaker 2: but clearly they were like, nothing is going to be
Speaker 2: what this Dodgers team is offering us. Let's just move
Speaker 2: it now and now Turks Google will be a Dodger,
Speaker 2: be in the dugout for today's game against the Red Sox,
Speaker 2: pitching at some point in the Chicago series next week.
Speaker 2: Dodgers somehow just got better.
Speaker 3: Somehow.
Speaker 4: It's because they they start at the bottom, and they
Speaker 4: start at the top and the sides everywhere around the organization.
Speaker 4: The way this package came together is so funny. Zire
Speaker 4: Hope is part of the trade package for Michael Bush.
Speaker 3: Two off seasons ago.
Speaker 4: You're like, looking, listen, you know, Michael Bush probably has
Speaker 4: the hit tool, could play for any other team, but
Speaker 4: the Dodgers right now, they send him away, get a
Speaker 4: couple of dudes back who immediately bump up their farms system,
Speaker 4: the rankings. And then River Ryan somebody I have talked
Speaker 4: so much about River Ryan for the last three years
Speaker 4: to have only seen twenty and one third innings of
Speaker 4: him pitching in a Dodger uniform. So that's a little frustrating,
Speaker 4: but still you get him for Matt Baty A what
Speaker 4: late round I think it was like a fourteenth thirteenth
Speaker 4: round pick a number of years ago. Trade him to
Speaker 4: the Padres another it's a great deal for the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: it's honestly a good deal for the Tigers, and it's
Speaker 4: a fleece all at the same time, Andrew Fleisman strikes again.
Speaker 4: Like when they build the statue, I pray, I hope
Speaker 4: to God or any deity you pray to, I hope
Speaker 4: it's in that damn robe, because that is what Friedman
Speaker 4: Friedman Statue needs to be and what we all deserve
Speaker 4: to see.
Speaker 1: What pisses me off about that robe picture is that
Speaker 1: Uraschmarkazi or whatever the frick his name is, was not
Speaker 1: supposed to take that picture and now it's like the
Speaker 1: one freaking picture all over the internet. But that's for
Speaker 1: a different podcast. Let me ask you this. I have
Speaker 1: so much freaking things that I want to say, but
Speaker 1: I want to go through the deal, and Katie is
Speaker 1: the one to go through the deal. So the Dodgers
Speaker 1: send a package of three prospects. Number six prospect outfielders
Speaker 1: are your hope. Of course. Number nine prospect or right
Speaker 1: handed pitcher River Ryan. We just discussed that. Number twenty
Speaker 1: seven prospect, right handed pitcher, Brady Smith. But Katie, there
Speaker 1: were other deals perhaps in play. What more can you
Speaker 1: tell us about that?
Speaker 2: So I think when you're the Dodgers and you have
Speaker 2: such a deep farm system, it's built to absorb hits
Speaker 2: like this, so when we're still piecing together things finding
Speaker 2: things out. But the Dodgers had multiple packages as they
Speaker 2: were looking at and it's interesting to see, like internally
Speaker 2: how this plays out. So you're thinking just based on
Speaker 2: and this is just my speculation based on very very
Speaker 2: clue reporting that maybe Kendall George is in one of
Speaker 2: the packages, maybe Emmett Shean. But eventually the Dodgers internally
Speaker 2: decide this is the package we are willing to offer
Speaker 2: for Scoogle. It's Hope, it's River Ryan, it's Brady Smith.
Speaker 2: And we knew based on a couple of days ago
Speaker 2: from reporting here at the Athletic that's the hero of
Speaker 2: those four outfielders to Paula Kutzero Serota Hope, that was
Speaker 2: the guy that the Dodger were most confident in moving.
Speaker 2: And let's to say nothing of is a here Hope,
Speaker 2: but very look at those numbers, A very talented young
Speaker 2: prospect lots of pop, lots of slug. He's going to,
Speaker 2: you know, if the productions pan out, be an impact
Speaker 2: bat for these Tigers in a couple of years. But
Speaker 2: because of the deep outfield systems and we've talked about
Speaker 2: all month, he was expendable. And the Dodgers were like, Okay, look,
Speaker 2: we're really high onto Paula. We think we have a
Speaker 2: true major league caliber player in Sarona Cantaro's coming along.
Speaker 2: We have to come up something to value though. We
Speaker 2: think that can be hope, So for him to headline
Speaker 2: this package. The interesting part was River Ryan because as
Speaker 2: we know, the injury history has been a lot and
Speaker 2: when you're looking at River Ryan and what he was
Speaker 2: supposed to project be for the Dodgers of the season,
Speaker 2: I mean, this is someone that Andrew Frieman said on
Speaker 2: our show, the picture one of the pictures he was
Speaker 2: most excited to see this season, and the stuff the below,
Speaker 2: all these things that the Dodgers' internal talent evaluators were
Speaker 2: jeweling over that made him what they hoped would be
Speaker 2: a valuable second half option, whether it was as a
Speaker 2: spot starter or maybe that be and the stuff plays
Speaker 2: up even more and relief after that second hamstring injury,
Speaker 2: though it became clear that that window was no longer
Speaker 2: as realistic, so the calculus changed. And for River Ryan,
Speaker 2: if he's not going to be an impact piece for
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six push to win three straight World Series,
Speaker 2: he also becomes expendable. The Dodgers are very good at
Speaker 2: generating starting pitching depth. He send them to the Tigers.
Speaker 2: He highlights that trade, But Tigers were always looking for young,
Speaker 2: controllable starting pitching with the highest ceiling. That's River Ryan. Yes,
Speaker 2: the injury concerns are going to be there, but for
Speaker 2: a two month rental, then you throw on Brady Smith.
Speaker 2: This is exactly the kind of package that makes the
Speaker 2: Dodgers able to do what they do. We're gonna care
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff. And I'm sure we'll get into
Speaker 2: this later on the show about how the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: ruining baseball. They buy everything agency. Yeah, they have no
Speaker 2: problem spending money. But they are able to do these
Speaker 2: trades because they are so good at looking at their
Speaker 2: farm system. And ya seta Alana, you said to Clint.
Speaker 2: They turned Michael Bush and Matt Beattie into school. That
Speaker 2: is your textbook. Dodgers cycle They're going to go out
Speaker 2: and try to clip Alex, callin Eric Lauer for the
Speaker 2: same prospects nobody's talking about, develop them, let them again
Speaker 2: to another superstar, and the cycle goes on. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: are not just good at this because they can spend money.
Speaker 2: They're good because they draft, develop, and scout better than
Speaker 2: any organization in the league. It's evidenced again by the strait.
Speaker 1: I would almost wonder and go out on a limb
Speaker 1: and say they do it better than any league ever.
Speaker 1: They do it better than any team in any league
Speaker 1: in any sport of in terms of being able to
Speaker 1: continue to build up your farm system and put a
Speaker 1: perennially competitive, championship caliber product on the field. What I
Speaker 1: love about what Katie was saying is the fact that
Speaker 1: Zayre Hope and I'm not trying to dismiss their value
Speaker 1: in terms of being I don't want missus Hope and
Speaker 1: missus Ryan and missus Brady calling me and saying that
Speaker 1: these kids aren't worth anything. My point is Zire Hope, River,
Speaker 1: Ryan Brady Smith were not going to be the pieces
Speaker 1: that the Los Angeles Dodgers needed in twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: to win their third straight World Series Championship. Able to
Speaker 1: move those guys to other organizations, which honestly they're going
Speaker 1: to have more opportunity to play with than they would
Speaker 1: have in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization because they have
Speaker 1: too many people blocking them with LA And you're able
Speaker 1: to get Terrek Scooble back for only nine point five
Speaker 1: million dollars. And again he's going to go to free agency,
Speaker 1: right we know that his agent is Scott Boris. Will
Speaker 1: he parlay that into an extension? Maybe, but maybe not.
Speaker 1: And I know that we're going to do this in
Speaker 1: the second segment of the whole situation of not my problem,
Speaker 1: but I have to get this off of my chest.
Speaker 1: If you are the Milwaukee Brewers or you are the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays, which were likely landing spots for Terrek
Speaker 1: Scooble in addition to the Los Angeles Dodgers, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to pull this up here Adam mccalvey, who covers
Speaker 1: the Brewers in Milwaukee for MLB dot Com, and I
Speaker 1: have a tremendous amount of respect for He's been covering
Speaker 1: baseball for twenty five years. I asked about a relative
Speaker 1: comp to the package the Dodgers gave up for three
Speaker 1: months of school and heard this and response, listen to
Speaker 1: these names, Logan Henderson, Luis Penya, Bishop Letson or Josh
Speaker 1: nth Would you have done it? First of all?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 1: Second of all, absolutely, a frickin' lutely absolutely, if you're
Speaker 1: going to get I mean really for an opportunity to
Speaker 1: get trek scouble back to Backsie Young Award winner, a
Speaker 1: guy that is unbelievably one of the best pitchers in
Speaker 1: the game for three months for nine And by the way,
Speaker 1: this is not about money. This is not about buying
Speaker 1: terror schoobl It's nine and a half million. That is
Speaker 1: what Katie makes a year, nine and a half billion dollars.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is give up. All you
Speaker 1: have to do is give up those three prospects, not
Speaker 1: even a top five prospect. The Dodgers are not ruining baseball. People.
Speaker 1: The other twenty nine teams that could have easily put
Speaker 1: a package like this together and decided not to do
Speaker 1: it because they're so risk averse, those are the ones
Speaker 1: that are ruining baseball.
Speaker 3: You're upsetting the Dogs.
Speaker 4: I got thoughts. I know Katie's got thoughts. We're going
Speaker 4: to get more into the Dodgers ruining baseball in the
Speaker 4: second segment. But yeah, preach, absolutely preach there because any
Speaker 4: other so many other teams could have done this. The
Speaker 4: Tigers could have ponied up the dough to keep their
Speaker 4: homegrown superstar in the organization. The Boston Red Sox could
Speaker 4: have ponied up the dough to pay Mookie Betts a
Speaker 4: fair wage after paying him pennies for the first seven.
Speaker 3: Years of his contract.
Speaker 4: It was more than pennies, but still Freddy Freeman, the
Speaker 4: Braves could have given him one more goddamn year on
Speaker 4: that free agent deal for him to remain a franchise icon.
Speaker 4: It's not the Dodgers' fault that these poor, defenseless players
Speaker 4: were left without jobs or left without good paychecks or whatever.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers are in this position where yes, they have
Speaker 4: the money they could flex, but they all so have
Speaker 4: the talent.
Speaker 3: They can move and they it shit or get off
Speaker 3: the pot.
Speaker 4: And the Brewers didn't want to get off the pot,
Speaker 4: and they are that is a stacked farm system. By
Speaker 4: the way, They could have made this deal happen very
Speaker 4: easily and not really bad at an eyelash. But the
Speaker 4: thing is those guys are going to be cheap for
Speaker 4: years to come. And as we've seen, we saw them
Speaker 4: trade away Freddy Peralta, you saw them trade.
Speaker 3: Away Devin Williams.
Speaker 4: They don't want to pay their stars either, because these
Speaker 4: billionaires are fucking cheap and they just want to make
Speaker 4: as much money and while maintaining a.
Speaker 3: Little bit of you know what am I looking for here?
Speaker 3: The team being good. That's how I'm gonna say it tonight,
Speaker 3: this morning, whatever time has no meaning. Dodgers are good.
Speaker 4: Dodgers are good. They're built for this kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: And one last thing I will add, with somebody like
Speaker 4: a Zaire Hope fifty twenty five years ago, twenty years ago,
Speaker 4: sire Hope would have been the type of Dodge player
Speaker 4: to come up with the Dodgers. Think of Matt Kemp
Speaker 4: coming up with the Dodgers as a twenty one year
Speaker 4: old making an impact on the organization.
Speaker 3: It takes time.
Speaker 4: Dodgers don't have the benefit of time anymore to let
Speaker 4: these prospects figure themselves out at.
Speaker 3: The big league level.
Speaker 4: So this is what you do when you're able to win,
Speaker 4: You go out there and do it. And thank God
Speaker 4: Andrew in his robe is able to do it.
Speaker 1: Not for nothing. But there's another thing, And I'm drawing
Speaker 1: a lot on what other people are saying that have
Speaker 1: been in the trenches far more than I have. For example,
Speaker 1: our boy Jerry Herson Junior, who is a clown but
Speaker 1: I love him to death, but he knows a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff in terms of all of these types of things.
Speaker 1: When you look at the fact that he was win
Speaker 1: this team going through the bankruptcy era, right, And then
Speaker 1: the new ownership group came in and Mark Walter and
Speaker 1: Goggenheim and all of the things and said, we promise
Speaker 1: you guys that we're going to put a winning product
Speaker 1: on the field. Nobody wanted to talk about the Dodgers
Speaker 1: when we were in the Frank McCourt era and we
Speaker 1: were absolutely sucking wind at everything. It didn't seem to
Speaker 1: mod to bother them. Then, But then you get an
Speaker 1: ownership group that actually cares about winning, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the Dodgers are the evil Empire. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something, The Mets spend just as much as
Speaker 1: the frickin' Dodgers do, and they're going in a completely
Speaker 1: different direction. You don't think Steve Cohen First of all,
Speaker 1: Steve Cohen has more money than Mark Walter, more money
Speaker 1: than God. And the Mets are terrible. So you know what,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. When the Dodgers were sucking
Speaker 1: so badly in the mccurt era, no one wanted to
Speaker 1: say anything. Then you have an ownership group that comes
Speaker 1: in and actually gives a shit about winning, and everybody
Speaker 1: hates the Dodgers, and all of a sudden, this is
Speaker 1: for a whole other topic. I can't I have so
Speaker 1: much to say about this and the lockout and this,
Speaker 1: that and the other thing, because everyone's like loving to
Speaker 1: like pour into the narrative that, oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is absolutely why we're going to have a lockout. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you something, kids, owners we're gonna lock out
Speaker 1: the players any way, regardless, if Eric Schooble went to
Speaker 1: play for the Savannah Bananas.
Speaker 5: I'd pay to see that, to be honest, they is
Speaker 5: this the best starting rotation ever assembled?
Speaker 1: Feels like when Healthy went Healthy?
Speaker 2: I mean, isn't that like we're me at least I
Speaker 2: was begging for a storyline in August because they were
Speaker 2: going to go on cruise control. You know, they're not
Speaker 2: going for the wind record, they respectfully do not care
Speaker 2: about the regular season. And now guess what, we have
Speaker 2: a talking point because this rotation. I honestly think the
Speaker 2: way that this stacked up. If the Dodgers have Smell
Speaker 2: and Glass now back, maybe two weeks earlier, I wonder
Speaker 2: how much that changes the calculus. Because we said all
Speaker 2: along the Dodgers they don't need schoobl We don't think
Speaker 2: we don't have any acute needs. Okay, but you have
Speaker 2: some wants and desires. And when Andrew Pruveman wants something,
Speaker 2: he's gonna go get it, as we've seen time and
Speaker 2: time again. But let's look at the state of this rotation.
Speaker 2: Right now. It's Sunday. It's Sunday, Tuesday, Blake Snell will
Speaker 2: make what a scheduled to be his final rehab start
Speaker 2: with OKAC five innings, seventy five pitches, you know the drill.
Speaker 2: Tyler Glass now also starting a rehab assignment two innings
Speaker 2: with Class A Ontario in Lake Elsnore. So you're looking around,
Speaker 2: maybe the who next homestand I believe it's Royal's Brewers.
Speaker 2: When Blake Snell can come back, Tyler Glass now is
Speaker 2: gonna need three probably four rehab assignments, so later in August,
Speaker 2: you know you're getting your big guns back. You don't
Speaker 2: know what they're gonna look like healthwise, but you're feeling
Speaker 2: pretty confident about it. You're not feeling although the Dodgers
Speaker 2: say that they are confident about where Shoheo Twani stands.
Speaker 2: He hasn't pitched in the game since July third, has
Speaker 2: not thrown a bullpen since July twenty second. Andrew Friedman
Speaker 2: said that he expects Tani will throw a bullpen relatively soon,
Speaker 2: so very open ended, have no idea what that means.
Speaker 2: And they've said, okay, well a Tawny's gonna throw, we
Speaker 2: know he's gonna come back to the rotation and be
Speaker 2: available for October. That's a lot of ifs and a
Speaker 2: lot of question marks. And once he had all those
Speaker 2: kind of floating together, the fact it just made Schoogle
Speaker 2: so much more likely. It just started to make sense.
Speaker 2: And that's when you kind of saw the Dodgers were
Speaker 2: doing their their due diligence, their typical Dodgers downplay. But
Speaker 2: reading Schoogle here, think about this. In a playoff rotation,
Speaker 2: you need four max. So the Dodgers have one with
Speaker 2: three in any particular order, Yamamoto, Schoogle, Snell, Glass, Snell, Otani,
Speaker 2: one of those guys go to the bullpen, or this
Speaker 2: is the conversation down down the road. When we know
Speaker 2: have more clarity about Otani's health, the Dodgers could say,
Speaker 2: you know what, show hey, you have the most value
Speaker 2: to us as a hitter only, so we're gonna just
Speaker 2: keep you out of the playoff rotation, will use you
Speaker 2: when necessary. He doesn't count against them, and the arms
Speaker 2: you can carry on the roster. Because it's the whole
Speaker 2: two way thing. It really works out in such an
Speaker 2: ideal way for the Dodgers where even if they do
Speaker 2: need Otani to throw one, they can do that and
Speaker 2: so that and the lineup. So there's so many different
Speaker 2: ways they could look at this rotation. And that's not
Speaker 2: even including All Star Justin Robleski triple digit Roki Sasaki,
Speaker 2: who said three really really encouraging stars to start in
Speaker 2: the second half. Those guys along with them and she
Speaker 2: and go to the bullpen with Edwin Diaz and Tylor Scott.
Speaker 2: What are we doing here? It's the best pitching staff
Speaker 2: in baseball, maybe the best pitching one of the best
Speaker 2: pitching staff's ever assembled. The Dodger all about taking their
Speaker 2: best fourteen arms available. They got them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you look at it, according to MLB
Speaker 1: MLB Network Research Department, which I love those guys over there,
Speaker 1: they're incredibly, incredibly helpful. The rich, get richer guys. Google
Speaker 1: joins the starting rotation in Los Angeles that already leads
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball with a three three six er, just
Speaker 1: a fraction of a percentage point ahead of the Brewers
Speaker 1: at three point three six And to add to the fund,
Speaker 1: as Katie just said, the Dodgers expecting to get both
Speaker 1: Blake Snell elbow and Tyler Glasnow back from the IL
Speaker 1: over the next month. Much more to come on.
Speaker 2: Here, you guys.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys letting me scream and ramp, but
Speaker 1: this is exciting. Don't hate the player, hate the game,
Speaker 1: and don't hate the Dodgers, hate the league.
Speaker 4: We don't have WU on this graphic, but it is
Speaker 4: time for not my problem presented by Fox one. And
Speaker 4: we keep hearing that what the Dodgers, obviously we already
Speaker 4: talked about what the Dodgers are doing, it's not fair
Speaker 4: for baseball. They're going to ruin baseball? What does this
Speaker 4: do for baseball? With the expiration of the CBA come
Speaker 4: in in the lockout already looming. And by the way,
Speaker 4: you know Fox one is streaming now, Katie. I've bitched
Speaker 4: a little bit and had my thoughts. Alana has gotten
Speaker 4: on her soapbox greatly too much to the joy of
Speaker 4: the people in the chat.
Speaker 3: How how does like are the Dodgers running baseball?
Speaker 4: The Dodgers breaking baseball right now with another insane.
Speaker 2: Move and this is all allowed within the CBA. And
Speaker 2: part of the reason why I think this deal got
Speaker 2: done so quickly, because again it was surprising that this
Speaker 2: went down at nine pm on a Saturday night. Usually
Speaker 2: with these deadline deals for like counting seconds till that
Speaker 2: like you know, pencils down moment. But I think it's
Speaker 2: because the other teams were to be in this. The Brewer,
Speaker 2: the Rays weren't willing, like Alana said, to involve their
Speaker 2: top prospects. And the Dodgers have a farm system that
Speaker 2: can absorb moving three top thirty prospects. They're just fine.
Speaker 2: And this is again with all respects of the players
Speaker 2: that they moved. It speaks more to the depth of
Speaker 2: the Dodgers system. So if you're going to be upset
Speaker 2: about the Dodgers spending money, okay, I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 2: here and be naive and say, you know, a team
Speaker 2: with the market size like New York and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: can compete with the market size of Cincinnati or Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: But all teams are capable of spending money on players
Speaker 2: that they want. Risk averse was a phrase that a
Speaker 2: lot of use that I thought was spot on because
Speaker 2: it comes to the Brewers. They are so so good
Speaker 2: at player development, but they're not very good at taking risks.
Speaker 2: And maybe part of that is the market size, sure,
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers, because they are so good at all
Speaker 2: of the fundamental foundation things of building a baseball team, drafting,
Speaker 2: both internationally, professionally amateur scouting, you look at what they
Speaker 2: could do player development wise, they continue to be able
Speaker 2: to make these trades and make these packages. And I
Speaker 2: think the Tigers were looking at what the Brewers and
Speaker 2: the Rays were willing to offer and just knew their
Speaker 2: best way to lineup and they weren't going to get
Speaker 2: anything better was what the what the Dodgers were offering.
Speaker 2: Because you don't make a deal like this, Again, when
Speaker 2: you're the Tigers and you're supposed to have all of
Speaker 2: the leverage in a seller's market, already you have the
Speaker 2: best available not just name of the deadline, but pitcher
Speaker 2: in baseball to trade and you go forty eight thirty
Speaker 2: six is showers before the deadline. That to me just
Speaker 2: speaks to what the Dodgers are able to do with
Speaker 2: their system. You can't buy a system, but you can
Speaker 2: invest in the technology and the staffing that make sure
Speaker 2: that your system is as running, is on as much
Speaker 2: steam as possible. And just hearing about how, and again
Speaker 2: these things are all fluid because there are still trades
Speaker 2: to be done, but hearing how the Dodgers' trade room
Speaker 2: is going right now, all the exacts have flown to
Speaker 2: LA and they've really expanded the room to include a
Speaker 2: lot of different people with their opinions. So you're talking
Speaker 2: when you're looking at, you know, putting together packages, what
Speaker 2: is this scout saying, or what is this talent evalue
Speaker 2: you're saying, and who's voting on what? And that kind
Speaker 2: of whole organization input is what makes the Dodgers special.
Speaker 2: So opposing fans who are in the nitty gritty, every
Speaker 2: day kind of day rundown and stuff. I get why
Speaker 2: they'd be frustrated. I get why it's so easy to
Speaker 2: say the Dodgers buy all their talent, But the Dodgers
Speaker 2: also invest in their resources and their foundation more consistently
Speaker 2: and more effectively than any other team in baseball. That's
Speaker 2: not ruining baseball. That's just running a good organization. Andrew
Speaker 2: Freeman is the best at this. Four reason.
Speaker 4: Plus the the you know, the people that maybe aren't
Speaker 4: as in the weeds with all of this day and
Speaker 4: day out that.
Speaker 3: We are, they're going to see the media narrative.
Speaker 4: Media wants to not you, not the athletic, but media
Speaker 4: wants it to be, Oh, the Dodgers are evil. They
Speaker 4: spend all this money, they're ruining baseball because that gives
Speaker 4: them storylines, It gives them clicks, It gets the idiots
Speaker 4: on Facebook, it ruffles their feathers, and then that is
Speaker 4: more shares and you know, the almighty dollar. Speaking of
Speaker 4: the dollar, though, Alta, I want your thoughts on this
Speaker 4: because I think it speaks to what we were already
Speaker 4: talking about in the first segment.
Speaker 3: This was from Jared Diamond, who I believe is with
Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4: But his thought his tweet here, Wait, are people genuinely
Speaker 4: arguing that the Dodgers' money isn't the primary reason.
Speaker 3: They won the sweepstakes for Terrek scouble.
Speaker 4: I didn't see them exchange any money to get Trek's
Speaker 4: scouble Here.
Speaker 1: It's not about the money. It's nine and a half
Speaker 1: million dollars. The point is that, as far as I know,
Speaker 1: in order to make a trade, it takes two teams. Right,
Speaker 1: It's like any relationship, it's two to tango. And if
Speaker 1: you want to be mad at the Dodgers, how about
Speaker 1: being mad at the Tigers for accepting the deal? Like,
Speaker 1: why is it the Dodgers' responsibility to make everybody happy
Speaker 1: when the Tigers didn't have to accept the prospects that
Speaker 1: they got. Do I want Hope and Smith and whoever
Speaker 1: to go and have a great career?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: But do I care more about the Dodgers winning right
Speaker 1: now with the opportunity river Ryan? Obviously? Do I care
Speaker 1: that they have an opportunity to repeat? Yes, it's not
Speaker 1: just about the money. It's about the fact a Trek
Speaker 1: Scoogle not. I mean, he didn't have a choice in this.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think, although with the caliber of player that
Speaker 1: he is, a two time back to back Sye Young
Speaker 1: Award winner. I'm sure he had a conversation with like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I really don't want to go to whatever. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: mind going to LA. Do they have to listen to him. No,
Speaker 1: he's not in a position yet to where he's a
Speaker 1: free agent or he you know, he has a you know,
Speaker 1: a long enough time in the league where he can
Speaker 1: say those things. But I think they respect him enough
Speaker 1: to actually have a conversation towards, you know, with him
Speaker 1: about where he wants to go. And again, he's going
Speaker 1: to go to free agency. This is for a three
Speaker 1: month rental. You still don't have to give up massive,
Speaker 1: massive prospects. You still all of this after dealing away
Speaker 1: to top one hundred prospects the Dodgers. You guys still
Speaker 1: have seven players in the top one hundred and host
Speaker 1: Suay depaula number four overall. He's still in the Dodgers system.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of things that go on in
Speaker 1: this type of situation. It's not just about the money.
Speaker 1: It's it's not and again be mad at the Brewers
Speaker 1: for not giving up the same type of prospect package.
Speaker 1: Be mad at the Rais for not doing I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear like, oh, they're small market teams. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers didn't give up that much buff Kiss. The Dodgers
Speaker 1: gave up buff Kiss to get Trek Scoogle as a
Speaker 1: rental to try to win their third World Series in
Speaker 1: a row. Be mad at the other twenty nine teams.
Speaker 1: Don't be mad at the Daughters.
Speaker 3: They gave up buck Kiss.
Speaker 4: In terms of the Dodgers bubble, these two players, you
Speaker 4: know we talked about Hope.
Speaker 3: He is somebody who has has a ceiling as a
Speaker 3: multi time MLB All Star. That's just his ceiling.
Speaker 4: He is also somebody that can help if they wanted
Speaker 4: to call him up. He can help the Tigers. Right now,
Speaker 4: you get an outfield of of was it Max Clark,
Speaker 4: Riley Green and a Zaire Hope. That's going to be
Speaker 4: a really fun, dynamic outfield. He's still young, still has
Speaker 4: a little bit of seasoning. You probably move them up
Speaker 4: to Triple A. But yeah, the Dodgers are in a
Speaker 4: position not because they're spending money on the roster. It's
Speaker 4: because they invest. As we've said, and I will echo
Speaker 4: it again, spend in the organization. You know, the idea
Speaker 4: that it's not fair all of these billionaires can pay
Speaker 4: for more scouts to find your river Ryans.
Speaker 3: Who is, Katie pointed out, was.
Speaker 4: Like a two way guy. You know, great stuff you
Speaker 4: had you and Fabian had in your calling today.
Speaker 3: He was a two way guy with the Padres.
Speaker 4: Didn't really know whether or not he was going to
Speaker 4: be something of an infielder or something of a pitcher.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers found him like, hey, this guy's.
Speaker 3: Got an arm. Let's let's just go all in on this.
Speaker 4: Zaire Hope being somebody that they trade away a good
Speaker 4: piece in Michael Bush to be able to bring him back, perfect, beautiful, wonderful.
Speaker 4: You got a piece that helps now, and the Tigers
Speaker 4: got a couple of pieces that are gonna help them
Speaker 4: now and down the road. It's it's a fair trade
Speaker 4: for both sides. But when you're playing with Dodgers' money again,
Speaker 4: it's not in It's not in the roster.
Speaker 3: It's not the players you see on the field.
Speaker 4: It's the fact that they invest in scouting, they invest
Speaker 4: in player development. They they feed their players at the
Speaker 4: try level. They take care of their players it's funny.
Speaker 4: You want these guys to be good down at single
Speaker 4: A and double A or whatever. You hear of the
Speaker 4: nightmares rookie ball. You hear the nightmares of these guys,
Speaker 4: you know, stacking on top of each other and cardboard boxes,
Speaker 4: sleeping in some rented out room for somebody else, and
Speaker 4: you know, maybe scraping together enough money from the their
Speaker 4: their meager minor league salary to eat Chipotle, you know,
Speaker 4: a couple of times a week or something like that.
Speaker 3: Now the Dodgers have a spread. They take care of
Speaker 3: their players.
Speaker 4: And that's why they continue to, I guess, create prospects
Speaker 4: out of thin air in some degrees because they invest
Speaker 4: in the organization something all of these billionaires can't do.
Speaker 4: They choose not to do it, guys, They just they
Speaker 4: plainly do choose not to do it.
Speaker 3: Frustrating.
Speaker 2: Sorry, guys have walked in. Locked it on. Freddy Praulza
Speaker 2: heading to the Tampa Bay Rays that it is just
Speaker 2: what that looks like, and then we can compare notes.
Speaker 2: Can't wait.
Speaker 1: Well, see that's the thing, right, I mean, Schoogle was
Speaker 1: the first domino to drop. And I know, Katie, you're
Speaker 1: like in the you're like literally in the trenches of
Speaker 1: all this stuff. So I appreciate if you need to
Speaker 1: jump off. Here's the thing too, about I know, Clint,
Speaker 1: you want to like wrap up the Fox one stuff
Speaker 1: and then I have something to say about this full
Speaker 1: impending walkout and salary cap and all that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we will say thank you to Fox one.
Speaker 3: Of course. One other thing to add to that.
Speaker 4: You know, with the Brewers factor, the Brewers were right
Speaker 4: there in the mix for this.
Speaker 3: They could have made this deal. They had a deal
Speaker 3: on the table. They chose not to do it. But
Speaker 3: the Dodgers and the Brewers will be.
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Speaker 1: All right, here's the deal. Here's what I ever. No
Speaker 1: one's saying that, oh my goodness, this was the straw
Speaker 1: that broke the Canbel's back Errek's scoubl to Los Angeles
Speaker 1: will force the team to have a lockout because of
Speaker 1: the CBA. The owners were going to lock out the players,
Speaker 1: regardless of Erk's Scoubel stayed in Detroit or went to
Speaker 1: any of the other twenty nine teams. I promise you
Speaker 1: the owners are locking out the players. Will there be
Speaker 1: baseball in twenty twenty seven? I believe that there will be.
Speaker 1: If these guys could fricking figure it out prior to that,
Speaker 1: that would be great. But it's billionaires, you know, fighting
Speaker 1: with millionaires, and they can't seem to want to figure
Speaker 1: it out. The point is they're going to be locked
Speaker 1: out anyway. And now they're saying, well, this is the
Speaker 1: whole reason that we need a salary cap. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: The NFL has a salary cap. The NBA has a
Speaker 1: salary cap. Okay, both of those major sports have a
Speaker 1: salary cap. How's that worked out for the Cleveland Browns,
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions, the Houston Texas, the Texans, the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 1: How's that worked out for the Clippers, the Hornet, the Grillies,
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies, the Timberwolves, the Pelicans. Just because you have
Speaker 1: a salary cap does not mean it's going to give
Speaker 1: you a better opportunity to win. Just because you have
Speaker 1: more money than Steve Cohen or our good Lord and
Speaker 1: Savior doesn't mean you're going to win a World Series championship.
Speaker 1: You all have an opportunity in this league, make no
Speaker 1: mistake about it, even the worst team in Major League Baseball,
Speaker 1: the Athletics. He's a billionaire, Okay, So you can want
Speaker 1: to compete or you cannot want to compete. Mark Walter
Speaker 1: and Googenheim want to compete. They're gonna lock us out anyway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, these other teams that they these these billionaires again,
Speaker 4: they want to try to blame the Dodgers for this.
Speaker 3: It's about them being cheap. It's really what it's about, Katie,
Speaker 3: any thoughts on this?
Speaker 2: Shortly we have Tek Scooble again, should be there right
Speaker 2: around first pitch, Blaze it first pitch today. I've never
Speaker 2: been more thankful for an afternoon game. Could you imagine
Speaker 2: if it was this is a day game, I'd be
Speaker 2: a mess. Andrew Freevan is supposed to talk to the
Speaker 2: media at some point this afternoon, so I'm gonna run
Speaker 2: so I could be there for it. But yeah, Dodgers fans,
Speaker 2: we can debate about whatever lockouts coming, pending, whatever. Probably
Speaker 2: just enjoy the next two months, roll into October, enjoy
Speaker 2: the ride because right now it looks pretty good, and
Speaker 2: then we'll have all of November and December to talk
Speaker 2: about what the state of baseball and how the Dodgers
Speaker 2: ruined it and whatever narrative people want to spend on
Speaker 2: social media. But I'm with you in the chat. I've
Speaker 2: been crying, laughing. This is my first Dodgers like true. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was kind of on the b when they signed
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker. This is my true like Dodgers caused the
Speaker 2: meltdown online that I've been able to witness personally, Just
Speaker 2: hilarious content through and through and some crazy dans. Relax people,
Speaker 2: but no, it's a great day in dodger Land. Every
Speaker 2: day is a great light, a great day in Dodger Land.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what Emmechi can do against the Red Sox.
Speaker 2: Maybe not get swept, that'd be nice and roll into Chicago.
Speaker 2: Still twenty eight hours to go before the deadline. I
Speaker 2: know the Dodgers have at least one more move they'd
Speaker 2: like to do, so we'll pay too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we appreciate you hanging out. We're gonna Alana
Speaker 4: and I are gonna stay here. We got people in
Speaker 4: the chat, we got super chats to get to. We
Speaker 4: have thoughts on what comes next with the Dodgers. We're
Speaker 4: gonna let Katie leave and then we'll be back after
Speaker 4: another quick word.
Speaker 3: Ala. The Dodgers are done. They are not done.
Speaker 4: Something else is cooking. Katie just mentioned that as well.
Speaker 4: Sounds like I'm teeing something up. There's no moves yet.
Speaker 4: I think they will respectfully wait until tomorrow. So there
Speaker 4: is a little bit of fun an excitement at the
Speaker 4: trade deadline. And by the way, we will be live
Speaker 4: in some way after the trade deadline tomorrow on Monday,
Speaker 4: So guys, make sure you're subscribe to the channel. Hit
Speaker 4: that notification bell. But there's a lot of bodies on
Speaker 4: the roster that makes sense to move. Alex call in
Speaker 4: that conversation. Eric lower one percent now tradeable? Yeah for sure, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you could say, Ryan Ward, you know, he needs a
Speaker 4: fresh start somewhere. Maybe Alex Freeland less so probably maybe
Speaker 4: potentially hess On Kim is somebody that could be moved
Speaker 4: in a deal just to give him an opportunity to
Speaker 4: play somewhere else.
Speaker 3: What do you think the next what is it? Thirty
Speaker 3: ish hours looks like?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, you know, this was this was
Speaker 1: I'm not I can't say anything surprises me anymore about
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, just because they just continue to land these massive,
Speaker 1: massive targets, whether they are via trade or via free agency.
Speaker 1: So I don't really know. I still think there is
Speaker 1: a need for catcher. We need a catcher. We need
Speaker 1: a catcher that can, you know, have some big league
Speaker 1: experience in postseason experience. Yeah, I wouldn't doubt if Lower
Speaker 1: gets moved next. I wouldn't doubt if Call got moved.
Speaker 1: You know. I just think that that's an opportunity for
Speaker 1: those guys to play other places and play more than
Speaker 1: they would have an opportunity to play with LA. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know they'd love to stay in LA. Who doesn't,
Speaker 1: But there's just so many, so many spots. I don't
Speaker 1: know if somebody in the chat say, you know, Dodgers
Speaker 1: everything forty thirteen, said zach Neto. We'll see. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I saw the zach Netto thing. That never made any
Speaker 3: sense to me.
Speaker 4: Like zach Netto's is a fine baseball player, you know,
Speaker 4: solid shortstop. He's one of those guys that, through defense
Speaker 4: and and you know, pretty good peripheral numbers, can can
Speaker 4: compile a solid, you know, war number at the.
Speaker 3: End of a year, but does not sound appealing to me.
Speaker 4: You know, like what sounds good to me is Mookie
Speaker 4: figuring it out at the plate consistently, Like imagine that,
Speaker 4: And and you know it's funny.
Speaker 3: Scooble just takes.
Speaker 4: Away the bad taste of the Dodgers losing these two
Speaker 4: games so far.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. It's so funny. It's like, well, they
Speaker 1: lost two to Boston. Time to get Schoble. They were
Speaker 1: so pissed off about dropping two straight to the Red Slux.
Speaker 3: Boston ruin baseball. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, the red Slux. They ruined baseball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, speaking of that, speaking of ruining baseball as a
Speaker 4: apparently forget to move one factor here one second.
Speaker 3: Uh, how do I do buttons how do I do
Speaker 3: all this? How do I do my job?
Speaker 4: Here we go Nico Suave with the nine nine nine
Speaker 4: super chat very early in the show.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you saying, let's ruin baseball, baby, baby, let's wait.
Speaker 3: I was waiting for the spot.
Speaker 4: We appreciate the love from Nico Suave. But how about
Speaker 4: Paul Vaughn with the two dollars super chat asking what
Speaker 4: will Friedman's next move be, you know, putting on our
Speaker 4: crystal balld mine.
Speaker 1: I really don't know. I mean, what do you What
Speaker 1: do you think is the biggest need that they have left?
Speaker 4: I agree with the catcher. I think just having a
Speaker 4: even if it's a third string catcher, you know the
Speaker 4: there there's there's positive news. They keep talking about Will
Speaker 4: Smith stacking good days and if Will is somehow not
Speaker 4: available for the postseason, which he will be, Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 3: Is the number one catcher. So it's just about.
Speaker 4: Getting somebody better than eliezer Alfonso, or at least somebody
Speaker 4: with slightly more seasoning than eliezer Alfonso. And as we
Speaker 4: you know, Katie broke here during the sh show, the
Speaker 4: Mets started their fire sale with moving Freddy Peralta, which
Speaker 4: was always gonna happen, so maybe we get funny.
Speaker 1: If it wouldn't have been funny, if Freddy Peralta went
Speaker 1: back to the Brewers.
Speaker 4: That would have been an all time what's the word
Speaker 4: I'm looking for there?
Speaker 3: Like sorry? Fall back?
Speaker 4: That's a fallback plan, like you don't get scooble to
Speaker 4: go back to your ex afterwards. Let's see Skier loves
Speaker 4: baseball with four ninety nine in the chat, says d DS,
Speaker 4: which is Dodger derangement syndrome. We'll play on some politics there,
Speaker 4: that's fix the linement out of control this morning, Rais
Speaker 4: and Brewers owners prefer to win the salary cap argument,
Speaker 4: then a championship.
Speaker 1: Preach, preach, preach, preach.
Speaker 3: That's true, Yeah, alreaty is going to be real loud
Speaker 3: about a salary cap. H Dick monfor can't be.
Speaker 1: Loud about a sorry about a salary cap because Arty's
Speaker 1: in a big market, so I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1: You spend and the gazillion dollars on position players. You
Speaker 1: don't spend shit on pictures. Your team is terrible, sell
Speaker 1: the team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, already already doesn't give a fuck about winning
Speaker 4: baseball you know clearly four nine nine from our friend
Speaker 4: Richie Flores and you'll be surprised. And it comes with
Speaker 4: an invite to his house. Now that we have Schooble,
Speaker 4: my life is now complete. No need, oh, no need
Speaker 4: to fulfill the quest for Alana's DeVore man cave tote.
Speaker 1: Of Benny Hannas. Wow, all right, perfect love the Benny
Speaker 1: Hottas part of it, Nancy Brown, our girl, has been
Speaker 1: in the chat all over the place. There is a
Speaker 1: appreciation post for Katie Wu. Five dollars for Nancy Brown
Speaker 1: down payment, oh ten dollars also for the down payment
Speaker 1: donation for Schoobl's extension. Let's go our girl, Nancy Brown,
Speaker 1: who also gave us five bucks as a Katie Wu
Speaker 1: appreciation post. We appreciate you, Nancy Brown. Sixty three seventy five,
Speaker 1: My girl, My girl, My girl.
Speaker 4: Sal in the chat saying thank you, you know, salary
Speaker 4: cap or thank you for what you guys have been saying,
Speaker 4: what we've been saying.
Speaker 3: Maybe you you've been championing this.
Speaker 4: Uh you had some shit to say from the very
Speaker 4: early parts of the morning.
Speaker 1: I was, I was so fired up to do this show.
Speaker 4: Salary Cat doesn't fix doesn't anything, and the salary floor.
Speaker 3: Salary floor fixes a lot of what's wrong with baseball.
Speaker 4: And we talked about it at different points on all
Speaker 4: Dodgers over the last couple of days.
Speaker 3: It's like, if the.
Speaker 4: Teams spent just the money that they're getting from the
Speaker 4: Dodgers and revenue sharing alone, if they actually allocated that
Speaker 4: into player signings, maybe the Tigers could have extended Trekschoogle.
Speaker 3: Even though that's that was never going to happen.
Speaker 1: That's a whole other thing too, Like be mad at
Speaker 1: the Tigers for not extending him, like that's insanity.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's yeah, what, that's a whole thing. That is
Speaker 4: a whole thing. And again that's as we already said earlier,
Speaker 4: that's in the same breath as the Mookie situation, as
Speaker 4: the Freddie situation, Edwin Diaz, you know, the the Mets
Speaker 4: could have given him two more years that somebody else
Speaker 4: could ponied up the dough for Kyle Tucker, whose market
Speaker 4: like they felt he Kyle Tucker fell to the Dodgers
Speaker 4: on that four year lot of money deal that most
Speaker 4: people don't like because yeah, he's.
Speaker 3: Not hitting well.
Speaker 1: Right, noll I was about to say, I think most
Speaker 1: people would be like, thank.
Speaker 3: God, Yeah, But the thing is, yeah, dogs.
Speaker 4: Gabriel here in the chat with ten Bucks saying, appreciate
Speaker 4: the super chat. By the way, as much as I
Speaker 4: didn't want it to lose River Ryan, it became more
Speaker 4: clear that he wasn't brought he's going to be brought
Speaker 4: up anytime soon, and he's also injured, and that was
Speaker 4: the biggest factor for him, and he would end up
Speaker 4: becoming trade bait something more important. Yeah, I really thought
Speaker 4: it was going to be Shean over River Ryan, just
Speaker 4: because he is he has proven himself at the big
Speaker 4: league level, he has been around, and he's also at
Speaker 4: least had one of the better abilities, which is availability,
Speaker 4: something River Ryan hasn't had since was twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: For all of the glade I have given River Ryan
Speaker 4: over the last three years, fucking twenty innings.
Speaker 1: And you know what, hopefully he gets healthy and hopefully
Speaker 1: he can have an impact on another team. I want
Speaker 1: that for him. I want it for Zayer Hope. I
Speaker 1: think Zayer Hope's going to have a strong career, and
Speaker 1: I hope that he does. You know, I hope that
Speaker 1: all of these guys that got traded have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to excel in other places. It's just not going to
Speaker 1: be with La to get them where they need to
Speaker 1: get to this season. Terrek school will gives you a
Speaker 1: much better chance of getting to a World Series championship
Speaker 1: again than those three young men do again. Hope they
Speaker 1: have success, love them, nothing against them, but I'll take
Speaker 1: Tarrek Schooble all day long over those three. You didn't
Speaker 1: have to give up a single person on the forty
Speaker 1: man active roster, not a single person on the twenty
Speaker 1: six man, not one, not a top five prospect.
Speaker 3: They will at some point to make other moves.
Speaker 4: And that gets back to I think I set it
Speaker 4: up and then didn't necessarily answer Paul Vaughan's question about
Speaker 4: like what the next move?
Speaker 3: What is the crystal ball? Yeah, it's going to be
Speaker 3: let me fix that alignment.
Speaker 4: There, Alice call I would be shocked as if he
Speaker 4: is lower in the digart lower, I.
Speaker 3: Would be shocked. If he's in the dugout. What the
Speaker 3: pieces are coming back? I don't know.
Speaker 4: Like Katie said earlier, it's like these these people, some
Speaker 4: of these players, nobody knew who Zayre Hope was when
Speaker 4: they acquired him.
Speaker 3: A couple of years ago. Nobody knew who James Tibbs
Speaker 3: was really a year ago when the Dodgers acquired him
Speaker 3: for dust In May. But it's gonna be something like that.
Speaker 3: That's what you're gonna see.
Speaker 4: You're gonna see probably they will try to for lower
Speaker 4: get some sort of pitching prospect that can help fill
Speaker 4: out the minor league level, because for the first time
Speaker 4: in a while, they're actually somewhat thin on the minor
Speaker 4: league prospect side, minor league pitching prospects side. So you're
Speaker 4: trying to get that. You're trying to get more catching
Speaker 4: depth if you can. You're trying to get some infield
Speaker 4: depth if you can. That's what I think we see
Speaker 4: over the next you know, twenty eight thirty hours or so.
Speaker 4: Another super chat by the way from Nico Suave fortnight nine.
Speaker 4: I'm okay losing River Ryan, who was literally about to
Speaker 4: be twenty eight. I honestly think I Hope. Oh, I
Speaker 4: think that Hope is an absolute dog. Yeah, I think
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure. I would love to have seen what
Speaker 4: Zaire Hope would look like on a Dodgy inform and
Speaker 4: all that.
Speaker 1: But again, again, I would love him to have a
Speaker 1: great deal of success and this just reminds me of
Speaker 1: Rico Swave. But that just shows you how old I am.
Speaker 3: Cool you guys.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys being here. I have a one
Speaker 1: really quick update for you guys. It has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with the Dodgers, but because you guys are so
Speaker 1: gracious lol, they love crying about our TV deal FM
Speaker 1: preach because if you follow Dodger's territory, you guys know
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Speaker 1: for his forever home. Massive Dodger family. The Torres family
Speaker 1: is a huge Dodger family. They live in Montana. Core
Speaker 1: has officially been adopted. Then Caroline will be making her
Speaker 1: way to southern California for more exposure and networking. So Scottie,
Speaker 1: Core and Willie all got adopted this week. So thank
Speaker 1: you guys. Thank you so much for spreading the word,
Speaker 1: or for donating or for whatever you can do to
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Speaker 1: do three puppers.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, try to get somebody else to adopt one
Speaker 4: of the dogs left over there.
Speaker 3: With Gidre's guardians as well.
Speaker 4: So if you guys have somebody you know, like, get
Speaker 4: a dog, Terry Scooble.
Speaker 1: Would love for you to have a dog, name him Trek.
Speaker 3: Any other thoughts before we get out of here.
Speaker 1: No, I'm just grateful that I cover this team. I'm
Speaker 1: grateful I cover a team that I adore and I
Speaker 1: love that wants to win. That's all. And you and
Speaker 1: I and Katie will be back tomorrow at some point
Speaker 1: after the trade deadline. We'll see what other moves the
Speaker 1: Dodgers make. We'll see what other moves on teams that
Speaker 1: are that are chasing the Dodgers make, because the playoff
Speaker 1: picture is starting to round into shape a little bit
Speaker 1: more so for everybody here on Dodgers' territory. Thank you
Speaker 1: guys so much. Big crowds, Day eleven and thirty four.
Speaker 1: People watching this live right now, go ahead and like
Speaker 1: and subscribe. Oh, Nancy, I love you so much, Poor
Speaker 1: and Carrol. Nancy, find a way to send me your
Speaker 1: home address. I don't know if you've got a dm
Speaker 1: ME or figured it out. I want to send you
Speaker 1: something from Gidrey's. Yeah, I'm psyched. I'm psyched. For this
Speaker 1: team and or Freeman. No, no disrespect to Chase that Lee.
Speaker 1: He is the man. Let's go get another championship. We'll
Speaker 1: see you guys tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Bye bye,