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Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 3: Mahler and Danny g Radio and a happy Saturday to
Speaker 3: you here. It is the eighteenth day of October. As
Speaker 3: we are slicing and dicing the audio Sweatshop does not stop.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: It's a blessing in a curse, Danny. The blessing is
Speaker 3: that when something happens on a Friday night into the
Speaker 3: weekend and we're not on the radio, the blessing is
Speaker 3: we can come in here and talk about it. It's
Speaker 3: also a curse because we.
Speaker 1: Can come in here and talk about it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we're I think we're gonna just talk about
Speaker 3: what happened last night at Dodgers Stadium as the Dodgers win,
Speaker 3: the Pennant Dodgers win the pennant, they win the National
Speaker 3: League pennant, and so this is the unofficial post post
Speaker 3: post post look back last night in the League Championship
Speaker 3: Series of the Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers and are
Speaker 3: going back to the World Series yet again, to take
Speaker 3: on either Toronto or Seattle. At this point, you'd say
Speaker 3: Seattle because they're one went away. But that'll be the matchup.
Speaker 3: And if it is Seattle, Danny, everyone will be complaining
Speaker 3: on the Eastern seaboard. Oh it's two West Coast teams.
Speaker 3: Who cares about that? But we'll worry about that when
Speaker 3: we get to the World Series.
Speaker 1: But man, what a night.
Speaker 3: Let's start with that the show. Hey Otani, game, plain
Speaker 3: and simple. It's a shame that happened on Friday night
Speaker 3: because it goes into a football weekend. But the Milwaukee Brewers,
Speaker 3: I mean, my god, I mean's they got knocked out
Speaker 3: in the first round. Otani hits the home run to
Speaker 3: begin the game, ends up with three home runs, two
Speaker 3: hit ball he pitched into the seventh inning, the first
Speaker 3: leadoff homer by a pitcher in postseason history. Of course,
Speaker 3: how many pitchers have batted leadoffs, So it's kind of
Speaker 3: one of those weird things. But he was at one
Speaker 3: man wrecking crew and it was it was an all
Speaker 3: time game. I think the jumping off point here was
Speaker 3: what Brian Anderson on Turner said. He said, it was
Speaker 3: the greatest performance in Major League Baseball history.
Speaker 1: Who's a Brewers broadcaster, Brian Anderson.
Speaker 3: He works for the Brewers during the season, but he
Speaker 3: does the Turner for the playoffs and all that.
Speaker 4: I didn't know he was a Brewers guy. I was
Speaker 4: going to say, I thought he did a good job
Speaker 4: during the series.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's he does Milwaukee Brewers TV during the
Speaker 3: during the season.
Speaker 1: But but that line, now, you know.
Speaker 3: Ron Darling also on the Turner broadcast last night, I
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen,
Speaker 3: and like the only nitpick thing I have on that
Speaker 3: and listen, it was an amazing performance by Altani. But
Speaker 3: it was the league championship series and it wasn't an
Speaker 3: elimination game. It wasn't Game seven of the World Series
Speaker 3: anything like that. So I do think context matters on that.
Speaker 3: You know, It's like if you drop a fifty burger
Speaker 3: in the Eastern Conference Finals, it's not the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, So that does mean something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, although the Brewers had the best record in all
Speaker 4: of baseball, nobody, including US Dodger Homer's expected a sweep.
Speaker 4: I think any Dodger your fan would be lying if
Speaker 4: they said today, oh I thought we were going to
Speaker 4: sweep them. No, none of us. I mean, I hear
Speaker 4: what you're saying. But the stage it was on. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's not Otani's fault that the Brewers were not hitting
Speaker 4: the baseball, Well, it kind of was his fault during
Speaker 4: its bitch performance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, it was amazing.
Speaker 3: I mean the way the Brewers played and really the
Speaker 3: the end of the Cup series. To remember those games
Speaker 3: in Chicago, they were not competitive in the games at
Speaker 3: Wrigley Field, they really got smashed, and then they came
Speaker 3: back and they won and then they go to the
Speaker 3: play the Dodgers. But it was like watching the way
Speaker 3: the Brewers were playing here at the end, it was like,
Speaker 3: if you're old on us, remember when Mike Tyson would
Speaker 3: fight some tomato can on a Tuesday in Atlantic City,
Speaker 3: you know, before he became you know, Mike, the big
Speaker 3: Mike Tyson. But the Brewers, Yeah, you're right, they had
Speaker 3: the best record in baseball. That's true, but the way
Speaker 3: they were playing recently, like traffic cones, and you know,
Speaker 3: it didn't even look fair. The Dodgers starting pitching versus
Speaker 3: the Brewer it was like the adults versus children, and
Speaker 3: I was very critical. I got a lot of crap.
Speaker 3: I'm still getting crap for my Kershaw monolog. By the way,
Speaker 3: Kershaw did not do anything in the league Championship series
Speaker 3: because he wasn't there as far as playing, so I
Speaker 3: was right.
Speaker 4: Viewed him after the game.
Speaker 1: I know, I know why they do.
Speaker 3: Remember also, by the way, Pedro Martinez was trying to
Speaker 3: poke the Dodger fan be very worried about the Brewers.
Speaker 1: Remember he sent that.
Speaker 4: Comment on us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I guess we were supposed to forget about
Speaker 3: that because the Brewers didn't show up. But uh, this
Speaker 3: was highlight reel versus practice state, right, like Otani was
Speaker 3: toying with him and the fact that he wins the MVP.
Speaker 3: Remember the story a couple of days ago, Danny was,
Speaker 3: you know, Oti's got to take extra batting practice. What's
Speaker 3: wrong with him? He's not a primetime playoff player. You
Speaker 3: looked at his numbers and he was he didn't play
Speaker 3: well in the World Series last year. You looked at
Speaker 3: his postseason numbers, You're like, well, this is not good
Speaker 3: at all, Like this is this is just gonna be
Speaker 3: another guy that doesn't perform well in the playoffs and
Speaker 3: then this happens, and no one's going to remember any
Speaker 3: of that. No one's going to remember Otani taking extra
Speaker 3: batting practice something he normally doesn't do, because that performance
Speaker 3: is a myth making performance.
Speaker 1: That was Babe ruth in HD is what that.
Speaker 4: Man'? You and I we've both seen. I don't know
Speaker 4: if you've seen it in person because it's only happened
Speaker 4: a handful of times, and there's plaques out there. In fact,
Speaker 4: it happened. Oh it was Schwarbs. He hit one where
Speaker 4: they put a plaque out there. I don't know about you,
Speaker 4: but I've never seen somebody hit the ball out of
Speaker 4: Dodger Stadium in that part of the park.
Speaker 1: Well, I've never seen it. Well, I'm trying to.
Speaker 3: I think I might have seen it in a game
Speaker 3: when the steroid days.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to.
Speaker 4: I was going to say, I've seen a player pull
Speaker 4: up baseball.
Speaker 1: You know what's amazing.
Speaker 3: When I was doing Dodger Talk in the nineties. They
Speaker 3: had two players that was during batting practice, Danny Mike
Speaker 3: Piazza and a guy named Billy Ashley, who both on
Speaker 3: at least once every home stand would hit at least
Speaker 3: one ball out of over the pavilion at Dodger Stam.
Speaker 3: So I did see it behind the bat again, but
Speaker 3: I never I almost say never in the game. I
Speaker 3: think I saw one time and I don't even remember
Speaker 3: who hit it. But the other thing is Babe Ruth,
Speaker 3: I said, you know, Babe Ruth in HD. Babe Ruth
Speaker 3: never played in the league championship series. You know that Danny,
Speaker 3: he never played in the because there was no league championships.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I saw a stat last night during the
Speaker 4: game that said he never hit a home run while
Speaker 4: he was also pitching a game. Oh okay in the postseason.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean it's like, what is the greatest people talk
Speaker 3: about the Reggie Jackson was at three home runs three
Speaker 3: pitches for the that was in the World Series against
Speaker 3: the Dodgers. The greatest pitching performance in my lighte Tom,
Speaker 3: I hate to say it, but Madison Bumgardner for the Giants,
Speaker 3: and uh, I think it was game seven. Remember that
Speaker 3: was that was insane white thing flying at my face. Well, oh, Toni,
Speaker 3: this is the League Championship Series and it's not nothing,
Speaker 3: but the Dodgers gonna be in the World Series. If
Speaker 3: he does that in the World Series, then oh my god.
Speaker 3: But it's you know, it's a.
Speaker 4: It was a nice wake up call I had to endure.
Speaker 4: First Steve Covino from Covino and Rich. He was piling
Speaker 4: on Otani this past week because he's an Aaron Judge fan.
Speaker 4: He's a big Yankees honk, and so is Rob Parker.
Speaker 4: So I was sandwiched in between Steve Covino talking mess
Speaker 4: about Otani's postseason into Rob Parker, who's been screaming anti
Speaker 4: Otanni stats for the past two weeks on the network,
Speaker 4: and it was it was great Ben. After Otani hit
Speaker 4: that four hundred and sixty nine foot moonshot, I texted
Speaker 4: Rob and I said thank you for waking Otani up,
Speaker 4: and he sent a laughing of moji back. Rob Parker.
Speaker 4: I know he's happy he's not on the air. This
Speaker 4: is what he tweeted. Don't be a prisoner of the moment.
Speaker 4: Amazing game by Otani, for sure, but he was hitting
Speaker 4: one fifty in postseason with a ton of strike before tonight.
Speaker 4: Real assessment. Otani is a unicorn, but not the goat.
Speaker 4: Totally premature. So you know, you know Ben Rob's famous
Speaker 4: for after a team loses a series or a big game,
Speaker 4: he'll tweet that it's so quiet in that city you
Speaker 4: can hear a mouse urinating on fill in the blank.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the first to comment, and I said,
Speaker 4: love your Rob, but it's so quiet right now in
Speaker 4: your mansion that you can hear a mouse urinating on
Speaker 4: your o Tani postseason notes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that's sick.
Speaker 3: That home run, the four hundred and sixty nine foot
Speaker 3: as you said, home run, that was like, did they
Speaker 3: check with did that go through TSA? Did that get cleared?
Speaker 3: I don't know if that was allowed in the airport.
Speaker 3: My god, but it's the Brewers. It was like they
Speaker 3: were made out of blue and yellow. Play though in
Speaker 3: this league championship and they DoD just starting pitching, and hey,
Speaker 3: if your bullpen blows, just have your starting pitching dominate
Speaker 3: the way the Dodgers did. And they molded, shape, squeezed,
Speaker 3: and just mutilated the line up there and you've got
Speaker 3: the pigeon. You've got the statue and the Dodgers my god.
Speaker 3: Uh and this is why everyone else hates the Dodgers
Speaker 3: and all that. But for now, yeah, this is the
Speaker 3: show hail tany game, and you know, the curtain is up.
Speaker 1: The curtains down, the Brewers are done.
Speaker 3: And I because it's the league championship series, I put
Speaker 3: a little bit of a caveat on that. It was ridiculous.
Speaker 3: It was awe inspire. It's one of those things ten
Speaker 3: years from now, do you remember when Otani hit three
Speaker 3: home runs and pitched into the seventh inning of the
Speaker 3: of the game and all that stuff. So the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: what is it twenty sixth pennet?
Speaker 1: Is that right? I think the twenty six penny.
Speaker 4: Check this out. You were talking about the starting pitching
Speaker 4: the Dodgers starters era for the series point six y three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 3: They allowed two earned runs in twenty eight and two
Speaker 3: thirds innings and had thirty five. And the thing that
Speaker 3: made the Brewers great was that they were pesky, they
Speaker 3: were opportunistic, they were disciplined, they played smart baseball. All
Speaker 3: of that went out the window in this series and
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, the thing is frustrating about the Dodgers is
Speaker 3: they were supposed to play like this during the regular season.
Speaker 1: They really didn't. They were underachieving during the regular season, and.
Speaker 4: Those of us who watched the entire season, it was stressful.
Speaker 4: It was a long, stressful season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, they were bad and I got crap for
Speaker 3: ripping them, but they deserve to be ripped. We do
Speaker 3: a daily talk show and we talk about it. That's
Speaker 3: the job description. We react in real time as like
Speaker 3: all these people send them hemil Well, I told you so.
Speaker 1: You should have just waited to the playoffs, Danny.
Speaker 3: Can you check with our bosses at Fox and can
Speaker 3: you see if they'll allow us to wait to do
Speaker 3: a talk show and give an opinion until after the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Can you check and see if that's okay, because I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure that's not the job description that we have here.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure it's a daily job where you go
Speaker 3: in there and it's like it's like in sports, you
Speaker 3: read and react. You read what the defense is doing,
Speaker 3: you react to it. Well, in our job, you read
Speaker 3: what's going on in sports that day and you react
Speaker 3: to it. And just because the Dodgers apparently decided a
Speaker 3: sandbag during the regular season. Congrat this is now two
Speaker 3: years in a row, Danny, two years in a row
Speaker 3: they did the same.
Speaker 1: Bull crap, No lie, no bs.
Speaker 3: Remember how torn up weather beating the Dodger pitching staff
Speaker 3: was last season. And then they got the out of
Speaker 3: body experienced by Walker Buller, who went back turned back
Speaker 3: into a pumpkin this year for the Red Sox and
Speaker 3: was with the Phillies. But my god, now on the
Speaker 3: other side for the Brewers. How depressing if you're in Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: An absolute no show in the NLCS. And this was
Speaker 3: not just a series. It wasn't It was a failure theater.
Speaker 3: It was like the Brewers with his traveling Broadway production
Speaker 3: how not to hit a baseball?
Speaker 4: I mean, my god, as you would say, this was
Speaker 4: a rat kill.
Speaker 3: Yes, they made history, and not the good kind of history.
Speaker 3: For Games four and the Brewers managed fourteen inch. The
Speaker 3: Dodgers scored more runs fifteen than the Brewers had hits
Speaker 3: in the Nationally Championship Series. The Brewers batted one oh
Speaker 3: eight in the NLCS. I am told that is a
Speaker 3: Major League record for offensive futility. This was not just cold.
Speaker 3: This was rob Parker visiting Antarctica cold.
Speaker 1: This is what this was. This this is not a slump.
Speaker 3: This is like Ted Williams head in a cryogenics chamber somewhere.
Speaker 3: And the kicker, you know, the Dodgers treating Milwaukee like
Speaker 3: a chew toy, like a dog, my dog, Moxie.
Speaker 1: Would treat a chew toy.
Speaker 3: And you mentioned the starting pitching and all that, how
Speaker 3: dominant they were was at zero point sixty three as
Speaker 3: though you said, Danny.
Speaker 4: Do Yeah, yep, there's more to that stat really quick
Speaker 4: here right. It says Dodger starters twenty eight and two
Speaker 4: third innings, two runs allowed, nine hits thirty five case.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's insane.
Speaker 4: These are like, yeah, those are like video game stats.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's like a major league baseball team playing
Speaker 3: freshman high school baseball team, is what that is. That's
Speaker 3: it's insane. I go back to what I said about
Speaker 3: the Brewers just to finish up that point. Watching the
Speaker 3: Brewers play and I got the you know, I got
Speaker 3: the games, all the games during the season. I'm some
Speaker 3: of the bets on some games from now and then
Speaker 3: now and again, and I'll flip around and I'll watch
Speaker 3: certain teams, and I'll watched the Brewers a lot because
Speaker 3: they were on normally when I was settling in to
Speaker 3: start preparing for the overnight show. The games would start
Speaker 3: about five o'clock, and you know, it's around prep time
Speaker 3: for me to start getting ready for the show. And
Speaker 3: so the Brewers, I do believe, you know, Danny, I'm
Speaker 3: a multiverse guy. Believe there's multiple dimensions in the multiverse.
Speaker 3: So there is a dimension where in Game one, the
Speaker 3: turning point was that Bryce Terrain at bat in the
Speaker 3: ninth inning, tying run at third, bases loaded, and he
Speaker 3: decides to pogo stick out of the ray rather than
Speaker 3: get hit by a pitch. Would have tied the game
Speaker 3: and the crowds going wild. The Brewers would have been tied.
Speaker 3: They would have had the Dodger bullpen, the much ballyhooed
Speaker 3: in a bad way Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 1: But he jumped out of the way. He then swung
Speaker 1: in a pitch.
Speaker 4: A couple of weekends ago, you and I were on
Speaker 4: this very podcast with our worries about the bullpen. But
Speaker 4: how do you avoid that problem?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, they use it, but if you have six
Speaker 3: plus innings of good starting pitching, chances are you going
Speaker 3: to have the lead in every game, and when you
Speaker 3: have the lead, that puts the pressure on the other team.
Speaker 3: But the Brewers just awkward check swings, just just a mess,
Speaker 3: and the thing is crazy. Here's another fun fact. You
Speaker 3: want a fun fact here, The Brewers have never never
Speaker 3: had a four game stretch in the entire franchise history
Speaker 3: with fewer hits, Not in the regular season, not in
Speaker 3: the playoffs, not when they were an expansion team, not ever,
Speaker 3: not when we were Seattle pilots. And you know, you
Speaker 3: can dress this up and people are gonna say, well,
Speaker 3: it's the Dodgers, they are a juggernaut, but we talked
Speaker 3: about Danny.
Speaker 1: They hadn't been a juggernaut this year.
Speaker 3: But the Brewers hit one O eight if my math
Speaker 3: is right here, my malor math one eight in the
Speaker 3: National League Championship Series.
Speaker 4: Wow, that doesn't even sound real.
Speaker 3: And that the one highlight was Game one where they
Speaker 3: had a chance and Bryce terrang, as we said, not
Speaker 3: getting hit by the pitching Game one.
Speaker 1: That was the big moment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dave Parker is rolling in his grave over that play.
Speaker 3: Former guests, by the way, on this podcast, the Great
Speaker 3: Dave Parker. Yeah, and again I understand the narrative people have,
Speaker 3: the small market team, you Cinderella run. It was a
Speaker 3: good season for the Brewers and all that, but the
Speaker 3: way they had played and they dominated the Dodgers during
Speaker 3: the regular season, all that, and the Dodgers just twisted
Speaker 3: them into a soft pretzel and made them into a
Speaker 3: paper airplane, whatever analogy you want to use on that.
Speaker 3: And it's wild that a Brewers team that had been
Speaker 3: that good. And I like Pat Murphy. I think he's
Speaker 3: a good dude.
Speaker 1: It seems like the kind of guy want of a
Speaker 1: beer with the Brewers.
Speaker 4: It's funny too in his press conferences.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the Brewers just didn't belong on the
Speaker 3: same field with the Dodgers. And it was it was
Speaker 3: a sweet but it was like it didn't seem other
Speaker 3: than Game one. It didn't really get that dramatic. It
Speaker 3: was really clinical. I felt like, I mean, it's like
Speaker 3: the Brewers. Now all my friends from Chicago Danny are saying, hey,
Speaker 3: you jinxed yourself because when the Brewers beat the Cubs,
Speaker 3: they held up an L flag just mock the Cubs,
Speaker 3: and it's like, now, you Brewer guys are going to
Speaker 3: need an exorcism because you couldn't hit because you've you've
Speaker 3: messed with the cub and so there you got your
Speaker 3: own curse. Congratulations there and that's it. Now turn the
Speaker 3: page on it. I didn't want to mention this. The
Speaker 3: Dodgers won a lot the last couple of years, actually
Speaker 3: the last ten years, they won a lot, and so
Speaker 3: they punched their ticket to the Fall Classic.
Speaker 1: And then we get the postgame celebration.
Speaker 3: And I use that term loosely, Danny, because it's basically
Speaker 3: a corporate commercial, now.
Speaker 4: Is it not? Kind of yeah, it's the sing did
Speaker 4: like seeing Key k Hernandi is singing though, but it's
Speaker 4: like the.
Speaker 3: Same damn thing every time. It's cookie cutter. It's on field.
Speaker 3: You got a hug fest, right, a little bit of
Speaker 3: a dog pile, maybe a little champagne at some point
Speaker 3: here cameras. You get the pre printed MLB caps and
Speaker 3: shirts right with the logo.
Speaker 4: You got that. The coach and the front office talking
Speaker 4: head they all keep saying how we have the best
Speaker 4: fans in all of basebook because they want to get
Speaker 4: more cheers out of the crowd.
Speaker 1: That's a little sort of thing. The sorta was famous
Speaker 1: back in the day for that.
Speaker 3: But they have a it's like they're staging a catalog
Speaker 3: shoot for postgame merch though after the game, and you're right,
Speaker 3: and then they've got the thing that's really been popular
Speaker 3: the last few years has been right in front of
Speaker 3: the mound, the team does the posed class photo with
Speaker 3: the sport in the background. It's like senior photo shoot,
Speaker 3: except there's more bubbly guys with their shirts off. Although
Speaker 3: I look at the Dodger looked like they all had
Speaker 3: their merch their playoff merch on looked like they had
Speaker 3: all that. So then you watch this, then they do
Speaker 3: the trophy. After they do the photo on the field,
Speaker 3: they then do, as you said, the trophy presentation. They've
Speaker 3: got the portable stage. Somebody from the league there speaks, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, it's like high school graduation. At this point
Speaker 3: you mentioned, the manager comes up there kind of fake humble. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, we love the fans. We couldn't do this
Speaker 1: without you. This is a special group.
Speaker 3: You know. The players yell in the background, you know,
Speaker 3: and you can practically hear the producer of the TV
Speaker 3: broadcast saying, okay, Q, the Gatorage shower boys. You know,
Speaker 3: let's get the or the champagne shower, and uh, they
Speaker 3: nobody believed in us, which is always fun, but it's
Speaker 3: just not organic. It's not It's like HG TV when
Speaker 3: I when I watched Love It or list It. There's
Speaker 3: a format to it, you know, it's like celebrate.
Speaker 4: But the Dodgers version of nobody believed in usay is, yeah,
Speaker 4: we have a lot of stars on the team, but
Speaker 4: these stars come out and are on their knees taking
Speaker 4: ground balls and practicing when the other team stars aren't
Speaker 4: out here. So even though we have stars, they're working
Speaker 4: hard for you fans.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, very hard, so we can gouge you when
Speaker 3: you come to our ballpark.
Speaker 1: But that was it. It's formatted as.
Speaker 4: That makes sense. So now I know why they charged
Speaker 4: me one thousand dollars the last time I went to
Speaker 4: a game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: So it's again the steps are if I have this right,
Speaker 3: I jotted this down on my little note thing on
Speaker 3: my phone. Here, celebrate is step one, put your hat
Speaker 3: and shirt on. Step three would be like hold the
Speaker 3: trophy and then the bubbly celebration.
Speaker 1: Then is it after that you say nobody believe in us?
Speaker 3: I think even though you're the freaking Dodgers and you're
Speaker 3: like the biggest payroll in the old the whole thing,
Speaker 3: And meanwhile the Brewers and the other side where they're
Speaker 3: packing their bags, eating like cold postgame chicken chicken fetichini
Speaker 3: or something like that, and then making their way back
Speaker 3: to Milwaukee, and the dies of Dodgers get ready to
Speaker 3: move on, and I am waiting for them to put
Speaker 3: at some point, Danny, it happened sooner than later. They're
Speaker 3: actually gonna put a QR code on the stage there
Speaker 3: scan here to buy your MLB merchandise, your MLB playoff
Speaker 3: in that right now, come right over here now on
Speaker 3: that note.
Speaker 4: Really quick to appease our Seattle listeners. Right now. How
Speaker 4: about that grand salami from Suarez?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Genio Suarez. I was beautiful.
Speaker 3: It was wonderful, and I was part of me was
Speaker 3: hoping Toronto was going to win, because if you saw
Speaker 3: the game, the great Fat Hope for the Toronto Blue
Speaker 3: Jays score what was for a while the go ahead
Speaker 3: run and one of my favorite players to watch, because
Speaker 3: you know, I've always supported the Great Fat Hope, Danny.
Speaker 1: I love the fat athlete.
Speaker 3: I support the fat athlete and the Toronto the Toronto
Speaker 3: Blue Jays have one of the great fat players in
Speaker 3: this generation of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: He's a we were younger, there was.
Speaker 3: Always like the there was always one or two fat
Speaker 3: catchers in baseball. But the Toronto Blue Jays have a
Speaker 3: guy by the name of Alejandro Kirk who is listed it.
Speaker 3: He's lily like five seven or something like that, two fifty.
Speaker 1: He's a big boy, dude, big boy.
Speaker 4: In that thirteen to four win, he had a big
Speaker 4: three run homeern.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's fun because he doesn't look like he should
Speaker 3: be any good at sports, but he's good. And he
Speaker 3: scored the go ahead run because who was it? Canzone
Speaker 3: should have been able to throw him out, and the outfield,
Speaker 3: the rightfuelder for the Mariners, with one of the worst
Speaker 3: throws ever, allowed the slowest guy you could possibly be,
Speaker 3: this guy Kirk to score. So that made it two
Speaker 3: to one, and then as you said, in the eighth inning,
Speaker 3: Seattle ends up scoring, they tie the game, and then
Speaker 3: they get the Grand Slam.
Speaker 1: To win it.
Speaker 3: So now they have to win one out of the
Speaker 3: next two and three Toronto and then we'll get an
Speaker 3: All West Coast All West Coast World Series between the
Speaker 3: Mariners and the Dodgers, And the Dodgers would have home
Speaker 3: field advantage, would they not?
Speaker 1: I believe they would.
Speaker 4: They would. Yeah, yeah, they'd.
Speaker 3: Have home field advantage in the World Series, which is
Speaker 3: crazy considering they were a wild card team and all that.
Speaker 3: And as John Sterling would say, that's baseball, Susan. Toronto
Speaker 3: had gas Man on the mound, gosmin right, their top pitcher,
Speaker 3: and he pitched.
Speaker 1: Well, and they lost.
Speaker 3: And the washed up, rotting carcass of Max Shirsley of
Speaker 3: the Night comes out there with his crazy eyes shureser
Speaker 3: and ends up.
Speaker 1: Knealing and Toronto won that game.
Speaker 4: And so that was old Guy's rule night, because across
Speaker 4: the dial was the Thursday night football game with Aaron
Speaker 4: Rodgers and Joe Flacco.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and my right hand was getting a workout, Danny,
Speaker 3: flipping back between those.
Speaker 1: My right hand was getting a workout, going back and forth.
Speaker 3: The most World Series appearances of all time, the Yankees
Speaker 3: have forty one. Dodgers though or second with twenty three.
Speaker 3: The Giants are third, the Cardinals are fourth. You know
Speaker 3: who has the fewest World Series appearances, Danny? You know
Speaker 3: who that would be? Who Seattle, Marrius. I've never made
Speaker 3: the World Series. This will be their first World Series
Speaker 3: if they are able to get there.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: I want to go back to the Dodger thing quickly
Speaker 3: here before I forget. So this is something I want
Speaker 3: you to know. This is something that's going to come
Speaker 3: up here because and I don't have a problem with this, Danny.
Speaker 3: I am fine with this approach by the Dodgers because
Speaker 3: I think it's okay, you know, you go and you
Speaker 3: do it and knock yourself out something Dave Roberts said
Speaker 3: that will be played for years to come here. Even
Speaker 3: though the Dodgers didn't win the World Series on Friday
Speaker 3: Night and all that stuff, but the team with the
Speaker 3: deepest pockets outside of the Yankees, the Dodgers just steamrolled
Speaker 3: these small market Milwaukee Brewers in the NLCS like it
Speaker 3: was I don't know se batting practice, but it was.
Speaker 3: It was because they didn't score as many runs, they
Speaker 3: could have scored more runs and all that. But the
Speaker 3: domination on the mount of Chevezervine and the person or
Speaker 3: the group of people I mean, clarify, the group of
Speaker 3: people that are gonna love this more than anything Danny,
Speaker 3: you know who it is. It's the other owners, because there,
Speaker 3: I promise you, they are already popping champagne in the
Speaker 3: aristocrats club of ownership. And here's why, because this is
Speaker 3: going to be exhibit A in next labor negotiation. It's
Speaker 3: a CBA knife fight. It's gonna be.
Speaker 1: Look at the Dodgers. Look at what they're gonna say.
Speaker 3: This is why we need a heart This is why
Speaker 3: we need restrictor plate racing. This is why we got
Speaker 3: to protect our little Milwaukee Brewers, who you know, they
Speaker 3: had a great record and in the playoffs all these
Speaker 3: you know they can't breathe. They needed no respirator and
Speaker 3: who's not.
Speaker 4: Fair a sports cry babies.
Speaker 3: Well, the thing is, though, Dave Roberts and I love
Speaker 3: this because it's like professional arresting. I've ripped Roberts, I've
Speaker 3: given me heartburn over the years, but I'll give him
Speaker 3: credit on this one where credit is due.
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3: Right after they win the NLCS, he smirked and says,
Speaker 3: remember what he said. He said, let's get four more
Speaker 3: wins and really ruined baseball. Is what I loved that
Speaker 3: he's a villain in a bond movie petting a cat gloating.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, I heard who? Did I hear? I
Speaker 4: heard somebody call him the death star Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 4: Look at they're smart with how they set up their contracts,
Speaker 4: because in front of me, I have the highest paid
Speaker 4: players in MLB next season, Juan Soto, Zach Wheeler, Vladimir
Speaker 4: Guerrero Junior, Aaron Judge, Alex Bragman, Anthony Rendon, Jacob deGrom,
Speaker 4: Mike Trout, Garrett Cole, and Sonny Gray. Did you hear
Speaker 4: any Dodgers in there? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, the problem Danny not to be be the guy
Speaker 3: that reigns on the parade and then be the guy
Speaker 3: that reigns on the parade, is that they're gonna be
Speaker 3: paying We'll be like eighty years old, if we're if
Speaker 3: we're still alive, they'll be paying Otani, Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: seventy million dollars.
Speaker 4: Sure, it's gonna be a bonea situation.
Speaker 3: But the thing, like my theory is that these guys
Speaker 3: are just gonna sell the team once those they have
Speaker 3: to once they have to start paying those contracts out
Speaker 3: because they're gonna be paying Mookie Betts and Otani like
Speaker 3: all these guy Yamamoto.
Speaker 1: They're all getting deferred money.
Speaker 3: Uh, and I just think they're the ownership group's gonna
Speaker 3: sell by then, and then it's gonna become ugly. But hey,
Speaker 3: we'll be old to who cares. Just enjoy it right now? Right, well,
Speaker 3: don't worry about that, ain't that ain't our problem. Now
Speaker 3: that's somebody else's problem. But but this is a team
Speaker 3: that's gonna be the argument. The argument is gonna be, well,
Speaker 3: they Dodgers defer all this money. We got to stop
Speaker 3: deferred payments, you know, we got to put a cap
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 1: And and so.
Speaker 3: I like the fact that Dodgers are leaning into it.
Speaker 3: And then Roberts also quoted Kobe, right, he said the
Speaker 3: job's not done yet. That was a Kobe quote that
Speaker 3: he used. But I'm telling you, the other owners are
Speaker 3: gonna weaponize this thing. And the owners are gonna use
Speaker 3: this and they're gonna gonna they're gonna cry for fan support,
Speaker 3: and they're gonna get fans support because fans will be like,
Speaker 3: that's not fair, it's not running, you know, the whole thing.
Speaker 3: They're gonna they're gonna march in what is it, twenty
Speaker 3: end of twenty twenty six season. I think it is.
Speaker 4: They're gonna have that, and it's already started on social media.
Speaker 4: With every Dodger w that noise just gets louder.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll have power points showing the Dodger payroll and
Speaker 3: the Brewers payroll and how they're able to manipulate it,
Speaker 3: and they it's a cheat code and they've got to
Speaker 3: stop it.
Speaker 1: And they'll they'll say.
Speaker 4: Super Momoto makes more than the entire bros pitching stuff.
Speaker 4: This is what.
Speaker 3: Happens when you be allowed a team to to you know,
Speaker 3: you've got we've got a problem. We've got to fix
Speaker 3: the rule, you know, and you got a team that
Speaker 3: prints money, and then you got a team that has
Speaker 3: to sell brought worse just to keep the lights on.
Speaker 3: You know, Milwaukee and UH and not are obviously fine
Speaker 3: with it. What they're doing is working. They'll take the
Speaker 3: villain role. I'm fine with that. I have said many
Speaker 3: times when I did Dodger Talk, they never wore any
Speaker 3: good like this.
Speaker 1: I mean, they made the.
Speaker 3: Playoffs a couple of times, but they when I was
Speaker 3: doing the postgame show for the Dodgers, they were pretty mediocre,
Speaker 3: and I rant I used to complain and I would say,
Speaker 3: why can't the Dodgers be like the Steinbrenner Yankees. Why
Speaker 3: can't they be like the Yeah, Yankees get every good
Speaker 3: player and here we are, and you know, took thirty years,
Speaker 3: but the Dodgers have become like the Yankees.
Speaker 1: You know, they got more money than Fort Knox.
Speaker 3: Of course, the difference is the Dodgers they're getting their
Speaker 3: money from Japan, right, this is a Japanese money that
Speaker 3: they're getting to go Tani and Yamamoto, and they're the
Speaker 3: most popular team in Japan.
Speaker 1: They're really.
Speaker 4: All you have to do is look no further than
Speaker 4: the New York Mets. Look at that payroll, Look at
Speaker 4: the players they got, and they didn't even make the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Oh no, there's no direct correlation. Yeah, the money doesn't
Speaker 4: guarantee squat, but if you do have a high payroll,
Speaker 4: it doesn't guarantee anything.
Speaker 3: No. When I again, I go back to when I
Speaker 3: was around the Dodgers and they had Kevin Brown was
Speaker 3: the highest one of the highest paid pitchers. They had
Speaker 3: Gary Sheffield was a big star in that time, and
Speaker 3: those guys did not perform. It. It's like all that
Speaker 3: matters is how you perform.
Speaker 1: In the moment.
Speaker 3: So one of my my sticking points I bring up
Speaker 3: a lot there and so again it's like, this is great,
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers are off to the World Series. And
Speaker 3: now now what we're gonna get Danny is because there's
Speaker 3: at least going to be one more game, maybe two
Speaker 3: more games in the ALCS. Well, the Dodgers are going
Speaker 3: to be rusty for Game one because Game one of
Speaker 3: the World Series is what this coming Friday?
Speaker 1: I think it's Game one of the World Series, I believe.
Speaker 3: Is there gonna be a week right, Yeah, so there's
Speaker 3: gonna be a week off, So it's gonna be like,
Speaker 3: oh man, the Dodgers all the moment because there's no.
Speaker 4: Signs whoever they play, the Mariners or the Blue Jays
Speaker 4: could steal game one because the Dodgers will be cold.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Anyway, I can go on and on here, but
Speaker 3: there you go. That was a very sporty fifth hour podcast. Yeah, dude,
Speaker 3: it's it's weird. It's almost like we were on the
Speaker 3: actual network.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, it's good because by the time we get back
Speaker 3: on the radio microphones, I'm we're in the podcast remote
Speaker 3: podcast studio. But we get back into the the iconic hallways,
Speaker 3: the world famous microphones of Fox Sports Radio, and we
Speaker 3: get back in there, it's this gonna be old news, right, this.
Speaker 1: Just happened last night.
Speaker 3: By the time we get back in, we got college
Speaker 3: football today and then tomorrow NFL all day from that run.
Speaker 4: But I'll say this, the Otani thing is such a
Speaker 4: big performance that all the full time slots on our
Speaker 4: network are going to say. I know it had happened
Speaker 4: on Friday, but I got to have my two cents
Speaker 4: on the Otani performance. So I think we're still going
Speaker 4: to hear about it from all the shows on Monday.
Speaker 3: We got ours in before they got theirs in, so
Speaker 3: put that.
Speaker 1: You scooped them. You scooped them, and we scooped them.
Speaker 3: There, I'm looking at the by the way, the Daily
Speaker 3: Mail Danny headline. On the Daily Mail, they actually have
Speaker 3: a sports section. It's Tokyo bay you racist the headline show,
Speaker 3: Hey o, Tani pulls off once in a century feet
Speaker 3: as Dodgers charged into the World Series.
Speaker 1: So Tokyo Boo, I don't that works.
Speaker 3: Hey, have a great Saturday. Join the college football today.
Speaker 3: No baseball, they'll resume tomorrow, of course. Great scheduling.
Speaker 4: But if I was, I would just go get drunk
Speaker 4: all over the town in LA like fifteen hot dogs
Speaker 4: and woman eyes all weekend. Well, I don't know what
Speaker 4: do you want from me. I'm the new babe Ruth.
Speaker 3: I don't know how his wife would feel about that.
Speaker 3: But you can enjoy it and have a have a
Speaker 3: fine time. And as he said postgame, ber there his interpreter. Hey,
Speaker 3: by the way, how do you think of Tony's old
Speaker 3: interpreter's feeling right now in jail watching all this holy crap?
Speaker 3: I wonder if you bet on it anyway. All right,
Speaker 3: have a have a great rest of your Saturday.
Speaker 4: We'll be back tomorrow. We'll come back see for the
Speaker 4: mail bag. Manyana later, Skater my folation