Speaker 1: But am I gonna stay here and say great, we
Speaker 1: get on your baseball.
Speaker 2: Also, no, I think the off day today you guys
Speaker 2: well needed for everybody, especially that team.
Speaker 3: Hello everybody, and welcome to this Thursday episode, a brand
Speaker 3: new live episode of Dodgers Territory. The Three Stooges are back.
Speaker 3: I am a Wana Rizzo. That is Katie Wu. That
Speaker 3: is Clint Psius. We are happy that you guys are here.
Speaker 3: Join us in the comments. We want to know how
Speaker 3: you feel. We got a lot to talk about. Let's
Speaker 3: get right, yes, everybody, let's get to the big ticket.
Speaker 3: Let's just talk about Katie Wu. Will the Los Angeles Dodgers,
Speaker 3: the back to back World Series champions, ever win another game?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: I mean, like, judging by the fact that we all,
Speaker 2: without even communicating, showed up wearing black two.
Speaker 1: I guess death of the Dodgers on the show. Maybe not.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is like an unspoken wardrobe choice.
Speaker 3: It's Navy. It's Navy. I'm not I'm not quitting. I'm
Speaker 3: not quitting. Its Navy. But you're right, what the hell
Speaker 3: the funeral is here?
Speaker 1: Ye dressed for it?
Speaker 2: It wasn't a great week of Dodger baseball, I think,
Speaker 2: especially when you're looking at how they stacked up against
Speaker 2: what looked like two for sure playoff teams, especially the
Speaker 2: Cubs after the deadline that they had. You want to
Speaker 2: see a little bit more against the Red Sox. I
Speaker 2: think they've won twenty five of their last twenty eight. Alana,
Speaker 2: you would know more. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: And then the Cubs, rejuvenated by Jed Hoyer's moves at
Speaker 2: the deadline, they get at their starting pitching, and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers with their big addition didn't really come out so
Speaker 2: hot at Wrigley Field. Am I concerned about this right now? No,
Speaker 2: we'll get into this later. We can all expand on it.
Speaker 2: But am I gonna say here and say great week
Speaker 2: a Dodger baseball? Also, No, I think there's some rifle
Speaker 2: concerns about the state of the offense overall. The bullpen,
Speaker 2: especially from the right side, not looking too hot.
Speaker 1: The off day today, you.
Speaker 2: Guys, well needed for everybody, especially that team. My main
Speaker 2: takeaway is that the last week, especially at rick leg Field,
Speaker 2: they look pretty fatigued.
Speaker 3: That's the thing, right I was just going to ask you, Clint,
Speaker 3: and we can talk to Katie about it too, She's
Speaker 3: the one that tweeted it on X Is this team tired?
Speaker 3: Is this team fatigued? What are you noticing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it seems to happen about this time every year,
Speaker 4: where you know, we've talked about it a different a
Speaker 4: few different times over the last month or two. It's
Speaker 4: a team that is tired. It's a team that plays
Speaker 4: a lot of baseball late into each year. They start
Speaker 4: baseball early because they're going to Japan, they're going to Korea,
Speaker 4: they're going to playing in the WBC. You know, I know, Katie,
Speaker 4: you had replied to someone on the Twitter machine about
Speaker 4: the fact that they are tired. I mean, if the
Speaker 4: broadcasters at the reporters are tired on these you know,
Speaker 4: on these trips, they're not the ones going out there
Speaker 4: and playing baseball. Was a pretty gnarly trip for them.
Speaker 4: Even coming out of the All Star brek. It's been
Speaker 4: a grind that said, we understand they get played, paid
Speaker 4: a lot of money to play baseball and do this game.
Speaker 4: They're still humans too, but yeah, this has to be
Speaker 4: an absolute battle. This is part of the grind of
Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty two games. Every once in a while,
Speaker 4: You're gonna see the best team in baseball, the team
Speaker 4: that pays all that money for all those stars, lose
Speaker 4: six in a row, lose eight of their last ten,
Speaker 4: be sixteen or thirteen and sixteen since July first. You
Speaker 4: saw some signs of life late last night, and I
Speaker 4: agree with Katie. This day off could not come at
Speaker 4: a better time going into Arizona. You have some luck there,
Speaker 4: you have some good history there. It's about time to
Speaker 4: put up a dub in Arizona with Rokie on the
Speaker 4: bump on Friday, and they will do that.
Speaker 3: And that team still has an eight game lead in
Speaker 3: the standings. It is okay, I understand we all want
Speaker 3: them to go one sixty two and oh, but the
Speaker 3: thing is what an issue is right now? If it
Speaker 3: is an issue, but something to talk about for certain
Speaker 3: is a first round by Katie Wu is suddenly in jeopardy.
Speaker 3: Ken Rosenthal talked about this today on Fair Territory with
Speaker 3: Ken Rosenthal. Their half game behind them, Braves now for
Speaker 3: that second seat. And remember a lot of folks don't
Speaker 3: remember that the Dodgers didn't have a first round by
Speaker 3: last year either, right, Remember they had to beat the
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Reds in that first wildcard round and they ended
Speaker 3: up winning the World Series. But do you think about that?
Speaker 3: Are they thinking about that? What's your take on it?
Speaker 1: One hundred percent they're thinking about it.
Speaker 2: They're maybe not thinking about it on August sixth, but
Speaker 2: still seven ish weeks to play in the regular season.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers internally have said, you know, yeah, we
Speaker 2: don't really care that much about the regular season win
Speaker 2: record as long as we get the first round by,
Speaker 2: and we've talked about it on the show. They're not
Speaker 2: going out there for THEIRS to go out and win,
Speaker 2: you know, one hundred plus games. That's not a goal
Speaker 2: of theirs. They're a goal of THEIRS. The only goal
Speaker 2: in the next two months is to win enough games
Speaker 2: to lock down the first round by Because of what
Speaker 2: we just talked about. We'll go back to the travel thing.
Speaker 2: Coming out of the All Star Break, four cities in
Speaker 2: ten days. They forfeit that off day to go to
Speaker 2: the White House. They come back, they have six games
Speaker 2: against two good American League teams, red Eye to Chicago,
Speaker 2: and you saw how that went.
Speaker 1: Not great.
Speaker 2: This team also not the youngest roster we've ever seen.
Speaker 2: There are some older guys who have accomplished a lot
Speaker 2: in their career, but still, when you look at recovery
Speaker 2: in your thirties, trust me, it's a lot harder than
Speaker 2: in your time.
Speaker 3: Save it.
Speaker 2: So it's true, But from a baseball standpoint, the reason
Speaker 2: why the first round by is so imperative is because
Speaker 2: these guys need to rest. They're showing fatigue right now,
Speaker 2: which is understandable, and I'm not going to make excuses
Speaker 2: for this team, and neither will they. Every baseball team
Speaker 2: has a growing part of their schedule. The travel is
Speaker 2: part of it, but you can question if their recovery
Speaker 2: is where they need it to be, especially because when
Speaker 2: you look at how the roster is currently constructed, it's.
Speaker 1: Very bright headed heavy.
Speaker 2: There are not a lot of ways for Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: to work in rest for his regulars because he doesn't
Speaker 2: really have any platoon advantages. So we can't really get
Speaker 2: guys off or get guys days off throughout the course
Speaker 2: of the regular season. We're going past that because it
Speaker 2: really isn't a bench back right there. There's no platoon
Speaker 2: that they can use. Now, that's why they want the
Speaker 2: first round by so badly. These guys would do anything
Speaker 2: to just kind of skip the wild card round.
Speaker 1: You're able to set up. You're pitching much better going into.
Speaker 2: The DS, all the strategy of things, but from a
Speaker 2: rest and workload standpoint, you're seeing how this team looks
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Fatigue is a real thing to worry about going down
Speaker 1: the stretch.
Speaker 5: I thought you were gonna teae me. You said you
Speaker 5: were gonna teae.
Speaker 1: Me on that.
Speaker 3: I know that that is not true. Quinn. If you
Speaker 3: look at our slack channel.
Speaker 5: This, oh you know what.
Speaker 4: Hey enough, I'm putting my hand up. I'm putting my
Speaker 4: hand up. I'm putting my hand up. I'm taking accountability.
Speaker 5: I fucked up. I fucked up. I need a day
Speaker 5: off too.
Speaker 3: Don't don't throw the old lady under the bus. It's
Speaker 3: your I try it so.
Speaker 2: Hard to keep that on track. I'm not taking it,
Speaker 2: and I'm I'm innocent in this one that is on
Speaker 2: YouTube and it was a.
Speaker 1: Compelling to art.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was. It was great.
Speaker 4: Listen If anybody you can go check LinkedIn and see
Speaker 4: if there's any job openings with the Dodgers to get
Speaker 4: them off or whatever it is.
Speaker 5: But yeah, what are we talking about? Yeah? The first round?
Speaker 4: By listen right, there's so much baseball. We'll get back
Speaker 4: on track here. Hopefully you guys enjoy it. If you're
Speaker 4: enjoying any of this.
Speaker 5: Bas hit that like Buttoner, subscribe to the channel everybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an off day, and you know what, you
Speaker 4: need a little levity, we do.
Speaker 5: This team needs a little levity and they need a
Speaker 5: little bit of amen.
Speaker 4: Joy man, that was probably not a very happy flight
Speaker 4: back from Chicago there.
Speaker 5: But yeah, first round by.
Speaker 4: We've seen this team over the last handful of seasons
Speaker 4: go all which ways, whether you have a first round by,
Speaker 4: whether you're playing in the wildcard, You've seen the last
Speaker 4: two years going both ways with it. They know how
Speaker 4: to win, they know how to get through that. I'm
Speaker 4: not worried about any of these wildcard teams and the
Speaker 4: Dodgers getting through it.
Speaker 5: Been there, done that.
Speaker 4: Yes, would you like to have those five days off?
Speaker 4: Do they know now how to handle the five days
Speaker 4: off in between the regular season and the start of
Speaker 4: the division series.
Speaker 5: Yes, they've kind of figured that out.
Speaker 4: Still, there's so much time for them to get things
Speaker 4: sorted out right now they are on this skid. While
Speaker 4: the Braves, who didn't really do shit at the trade
Speaker 4: deadline are adding on like a heater. I think they've
Speaker 4: rattled off seven wins in a row themselves. So it's
Speaker 4: just that perfect storm of one hundred and sixty two
Speaker 4: game baseball season where you're gonna have this and we're
Speaker 4: gonna have.
Speaker 5: The the.
Speaker 4: Just you know, one one ship lowers in the wave
Speaker 4: and the other one raises and all that and things
Speaker 4: are gonna balance out with the Dodgers end up on top.
Speaker 4: That said, people are still panicking, Alana, is it time
Speaker 4: to throw up any sort of panic? And I think
Speaker 4: you are the right person to throw this too, because
Speaker 4: I know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 5: It's going to be great.
Speaker 1: It's going to be great. You guys.
Speaker 3: They had a stretch last year where they went ten
Speaker 3: and fourteen in July, including a seven game losing streak,
Speaker 3: and everyone expects the Dodgers to never lose a game, correct,
Speaker 3: And that's okay. I'd rather they have the little bit
Speaker 3: of a slump here in the early part of August,
Speaker 3: last part of July, early part of August. They opened
Speaker 3: September with this, with a five game skid. This game.
Speaker 3: This happens over one hundred and sixty two games and Katie,
Speaker 3: of course, is doing all of the diligent work being
Speaker 3: in the clubhouse, being at all of the games, and
Speaker 3: she talked to Freddy Freeman about this. So, Katie, what
Speaker 3: did Freddy say to you when you talk to him
Speaker 3: about this six game losing street Because fans obviously think
Speaker 3: the sky is falling, it's just a little bit of
Speaker 3: a blip.
Speaker 2: I mean, can you can you blame the fans for
Speaker 2: thinking this because they have They're just not accustomed to losing.
Speaker 2: So every team goes through losing skids. The Los Angeles
Speaker 2: Dodgers are not immune to this. We've talked about how
Speaker 2: the travel might be playing a little bit of part
Speaker 2: into it, and just the overall but but Freddy said
Speaker 2: all the right things, you know, he said, I'll expand
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get an excuse from any of us.
Speaker 2: We expect to win every time we come to the
Speaker 2: yard where a great baseball team.
Speaker 1: We just haven't played well the last week. And that's it.
Speaker 1: They haven't played well the last week.
Speaker 2: They're going to be fine, assuming that everyone says healthy,
Speaker 2: you have place now coming back next week.
Speaker 1: Tyler Glass now.
Speaker 2: Looked really good in a short reabsent Edwin Diaz a
Speaker 2: little rusty. But for me, it's all about just making
Speaker 2: sure they're rested and the workload is consistent leading into October.
Speaker 2: I'm not sitting here thinking, oh my goodness, the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Dodgers are going to miss the playoffs. I'm looking
Speaker 2: and saying, oh my goodness, the Los Angeles Dodges a
Speaker 2: our baseball team.
Speaker 1: They're going to go through skids right now. And he
Speaker 1: went on.
Speaker 2: Freddy said this, and I thought this was a good point.
Speaker 2: I'll find the direct quote. We've lost what three or
Speaker 2: four in a row a couple times already this year,
Speaker 2: we win four in a row. No one else is
Speaker 2: talking about the six in a row we just lost,
Speaker 2: So it's on us. We've just got to play better
Speaker 2: on Friday.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: They just have to play better baseball. They certainly have
Speaker 2: the roster capability to do so.
Speaker 1: Rest up.
Speaker 2: It's like four hundred degrees in Arizona anyway, so don't
Speaker 2: go outside.
Speaker 1: Stay in. They're staying at a nice little hotel.
Speaker 2: Get your rest room service, get back to the yar
Speaker 2: at Arizona playing some really good ball as well. And
Speaker 2: let's not forget they did sweep them right before the
Speaker 2: All Star break at Dodger Stadium, looking for some revenge there.
Speaker 2: Probably Again, I'm not worried. It has not been good baseball.
Speaker 2: We've seen a little bit of exposure with the lack
Speaker 2: of offensive production. These are all things to monitor going
Speaker 2: down the stretch. You need I know, he had a
Speaker 2: four hit game yesterday. You need better offense from Mookie Betts.
Speaker 2: You need better production from Tiascar Hernandez, you need better
Speaker 2: production from Kyle Tucker. Just the same things you've been
Speaker 2: saying all season long. Showing how tany at least started
Speaker 2: to look good Max Muncy, Clutch Homer.
Speaker 1: I know they weren't able.
Speaker 2: To complete the comeback, but I liked the five run
Speaker 2: eighth inning yesterday at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 1: That showed a little fight.
Speaker 2: I expect the Dodgers to look like a much different
Speaker 2: baseball team over the than they have the last week
Speaker 2: starting Friday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, offense leaving something to be desired. Maddie Man in
Speaker 4: the chat to say, and it's not the pitching. It's
Speaker 4: the offense. And I would argue a little bit with
Speaker 4: the pitching. The bullpen has been really bad. They had
Speaker 4: I think leads in five of the last like seven games,
Speaker 4: or however it goes, they've had leads in a lot
Speaker 4: of these games that uncharacteristically they have lost.
Speaker 3: That is just not what we actually in all six games.
Speaker 3: Listening it was, I was listening to the game on
Speaker 3: the radio on AM five to seventy. Shout out Tim Neverett,
Speaker 3: Rick Monday, Dave Vesse, Dwayne McDonald. I was listening to
Speaker 3: the game and had mentioned that in the first five
Speaker 3: games of the six game losing straight, the Dodgers had
Speaker 3: the lead in every single game and ended up losing
Speaker 3: that game. And then show, hey, o'tana gets a lead
Speaker 3: up or it gets a home run in the yeah,
Speaker 3: lead up home run in the final game of the
Speaker 3: series with the Cubs, and then PCA does the same
Speaker 3: thing to tie it and the Dodgers end up losing.
Speaker 3: So technically you could say all six games, all six games,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers had the lead and ended up going oh
Speaker 3: for six, which is not not that's not that's not
Speaker 3: it's not going to be great.
Speaker 5: That's not gonna be you know.
Speaker 4: The thing I'm saddest about, most embarrassed about, is we're
Speaker 4: looking bad in front of Tarret guys like school, going
Speaker 4: to think this is a bad team.
Speaker 3: Stop so happy to be here right now, Give me
Speaker 3: a break. He's so happy he pitched well enough to win.
Speaker 3: It's not on him.
Speaker 5: He's had absolutely not.
Speaker 2: They were crazy play that little ball going five hundred
Speaker 2: feet off home plate like that was.
Speaker 4: It was not a Baltimore chop. That was a main shot.
Speaker 4: That thing just kept on on flying. I'm looking at
Speaker 4: the map from from like you know. Anyways, The point is,
Speaker 4: Dodger are gonna better. We are going to talk about
Speaker 4: the Dodgers competition in all of baseball, not just the National.
Speaker 5: League coming up in just a second. But first we
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Speaker 5: They'll be in their own beds. They'll be able to
Speaker 5: go out and party all night long.
Speaker 1: That's what I said.
Speaker 5: I isn't much like you.
Speaker 4: You are right now, You are home, right now. I
Speaker 4: know what I'm setting up here. It's big brain stuff.
Speaker 4: All right, let's let me get off on this. Oh sorry,
Speaker 4: seat Keek. Sorry, listen, Dodgers are returning home next week.
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Speaker 5: That's for no shows. That's it. That's the one time
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Speaker 4: I don't give it.
Speaker 5: Pips up there, you know it feels nice.
Speaker 4: Haven't done a mountin visit for like three or four
Speaker 4: shows something like that. We understand the Dodgers are in
Speaker 4: an interesting position right now. Fans aren't used to this,
Speaker 4: and we're looking up at other teams.
Speaker 5: We have been beat pretty bad, swept back to back series.
Speaker 4: Now the Cub's looking good, the Red Sox, Red Sox
Speaker 4: looking really good. We know the Brewers are good, the
Speaker 4: Braves suddenly good. Who are the teams which of all
Speaker 4: of baseball, all twenty nine other clubs, Who are the
Speaker 4: current biggest threats to the Dodgers in our opinions, Katie,
Speaker 4: why don't you te us up here or lead us
Speaker 4: off on who do you think the biggest threats are
Speaker 4: for the Dodgers in their pursuit of a three peat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll do a brief synops on Milwaukee. Fantastic get
Speaker 2: winning in the regular season. Could just very very good
Speaker 2: at excelling putting together winning roster given their small market payroll.
Speaker 2: I have yet to see them win significantly in the postseason.
Speaker 1: So, with all due respect.
Speaker 2: To what Milwaukee is doing, my biggest threats that I'm
Speaker 2: looking at in the National.
Speaker 1: League, it's actually just one. It's the Chicago Cubs.
Speaker 2: And maybe that's a little bit of a recency bias
Speaker 2: because I just saw them play the last three games,
Speaker 2: But I just love what they did at the trade deadline.
Speaker 1: They needed pitching help.
Speaker 2: And so they went out there and they got Clay Holmes,
Speaker 2: which I thought was a great pickup. Kevin Gosman's probably
Speaker 2: my favorite of that, you know, Braxton Garrett, And then
Speaker 2: every trade deadline from like each league, there's a reliever
Speaker 2: that we've never heard of that's all of a sudden
Speaker 2: nasty and becomes a huge target. That's Ryan Zephyrjon from
Speaker 2: the previously the Angels. So getting those four guys has
Speaker 2: completely fortified what was their most.
Speaker 1: Inconsistent part of their game.
Speaker 2: When you look at who they were missing, you know,
Speaker 2: justin Steel, Edward Cabrera's on the il might be coming back.
Speaker 1: Though then you have.
Speaker 2: Like you still look at who's left in that rotation.
Speaker 2: I'm a big show to girl. We know this, especially
Speaker 2: when he looks like how we did yesterday. This Cub's
Speaker 2: rotation can pitch and they have the star power. Dodgers
Speaker 2: fan favorite Pete crow Armstrong making MVP.
Speaker 1: In the National League.
Speaker 2: Say a Suzuki can slug, you just go kind of
Speaker 2: a round. Michael Bush, Dodger fans quite familiar with him.
Speaker 2: This is a lineup and a roster and a pitching
Speaker 2: staff that is built for October, and Wrigley Field is
Speaker 2: a great place to play if you're the home team
Speaker 2: in the postseason. It can be a very intimidating environment
Speaker 2: if you're a visiting team. So that's other than the
Speaker 2: Red Sox, who we don't have to worry about that
Speaker 2: for one series.
Speaker 1: If they make it that far.
Speaker 2: I think in the National League, I'm watching the Cubs.
Speaker 2: They're not going to go and I don't think they're
Speaker 2: going to unseat the Brewers atop the NL Central.
Speaker 1: That'd be pretty hard to do.
Speaker 2: But they are a very good team that I think,
Speaker 2: other than the Dodgers, had the best deadline, whatever day
Speaker 2: was August third.
Speaker 3: Okay, so Katy just mentioned the Red Sox, and I
Speaker 3: know we don't have to worry about them until we
Speaker 3: face them, if we face them in the World Series again.
Speaker 3: I live in Massachusetts and I cover them from time
Speaker 3: to time as a freelancer. I tell you what, they
Speaker 3: are on some kind of heater. But this is the
Speaker 3: thing that is so difficult with the Red Sox is
Speaker 3: how do you make this sustainable?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: I mean, they are what twenty eight and three in
Speaker 3: the last you know whatever thirty one games or whatever
Speaker 3: it is. They are on some kind of tear. They
Speaker 3: had an unbelievable momentum shift of positivity going into the
Speaker 3: All Star Break and then you're like, Okay, what are
Speaker 3: they going to do coming out of the All Star Break? Well,
Speaker 3: they continue to win. I mean, and not only are
Speaker 3: they winning, but they're beating teams that are well above
Speaker 3: five hundred or division leaders.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: Obviously, they swept the Los Angeles Dodgers, they are about
Speaker 3: to sweep they could do it today. They're going to
Speaker 3: sweep the White Sox. They swept the Rays. They you know,
Speaker 3: they're they're winning against teams that have a winning record
Speaker 3: and are at the top of their own respective division.
Speaker 3: So everything is clicking right now for the Red Sox.
Speaker 3: This was a team that was for the majority of
Speaker 3: the season before the All Star Break, had a below
Speaker 3: five hundred record. We thought that they were going to
Speaker 3: be sellers. All of a sudden, they go on a tear.
Speaker 3: They sweep the Yankees, they take two three from the
Speaker 3: Washington Nationals. Then they become buyers. They get Eric Miller,
Speaker 3: who's a huge lefty coming out of the bullpen that
Speaker 3: they needed to compliment a role as Chapman, who's obviously
Speaker 3: also a lefty, but he's their closer. Marcelo Meyer goes
Speaker 3: to San Francisco. Good riddance. That was never going to
Speaker 3: work in Boston. Obviously. They get Adleie Rutchman, who is
Speaker 3: on the IL, but they think he can certainly pay dividends.
Speaker 3: And you know, towards the end of the regular season
Speaker 3: into the postseason, they are a very scary team right
Speaker 3: now because they don't know what they don't know, and
Speaker 3: this is a young team. They don't have a ton
Speaker 3: of postseason experience. It's an interim manager in Chad Tracy,
Speaker 3: but he has managed most of these guys in Triple
Speaker 3: A and they are scary. Season ends today, you don't
Speaker 3: want to play the Red Sox. But what is it
Speaker 3: going to look like in October? Because I don't think
Speaker 3: this is sustainable. This is the year for anybody in
Speaker 3: the American League guys, because the American League is so weak.
Speaker 3: If there is a team right now in the AL,
Speaker 3: I don't want to play, it's Boston. But what is
Speaker 3: it going to be like in two months. I'm not certain.
Speaker 3: I'm not certain.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they might have just gotten hot at the right
Speaker 4: time or at the wrong time. Really turns out though,
Speaker 4: maybe Craig Breslo is right. Maybe Alex Korra and that
Speaker 4: coaching staff was the problem.
Speaker 5: It's not that I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know if that I don't
Speaker 3: know if that was the deal. But like, whatever they're
Speaker 3: on right now, bottle it up because it's been insane.
Speaker 4: My thoughts on you know the biggest threats right now,
Speaker 4: at least right now, every team.
Speaker 5: Feels like the biggest threat to the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: You know, your uncle's softball team, the Beer League Softball
Speaker 4: team that has you know, two championships in the last
Speaker 4: five seasons, which five seasons happened in one year. They
Speaker 4: are a threat to the Dodgers. But I'm gonna shout
Speaker 4: out the Braves because that is a team I shot
Speaker 4: on in the off season when all the prognosticators were
Speaker 4: saying the Atlanta Braves, they're gonna be a good team,
Speaker 4: just just give them time. And then they open the
Speaker 4: season middling as we pop up their stats and their
Speaker 4: offense offense here and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: Not I mean, probably better than middling. They were a
Speaker 5: solid team.
Speaker 4: They had a bit of the middle part of the
Speaker 4: spring where spring into summer where they were playing down,
Speaker 4: not playing all that great. But you know, once again,
Speaker 4: they find a way to be at the top of
Speaker 4: the the NL East. They're ahead of the Phillies, who
Speaker 4: Philly is always a team that brings some fear, strikes
Speaker 4: some fear into Dodgers fans, even though we know they're
Speaker 4: going to find a way to beat themselves, so they're
Speaker 4: not as much of a worry, but we it feels like,
Speaker 4: you know, baseball has been sort of longing for this,
Speaker 4: this final. You know, repeat matchup between the Dodgers and
Speaker 4: the Braves if that ends up happening in the NLCS. Finally,
Speaker 4: you know, the figure out tipping the scales in the
Speaker 4: Dodgers favor because Dodgers beat them, and to twenty twenty,
Speaker 4: you know, coming back down three to one, and then
Speaker 4: of course Dodgers fall apart up to including Justin Turner's
Speaker 4: hamstring just falling off in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 5: Max Shears are being like, I don't want to pitch
Speaker 5: all of that kind of crap.
Speaker 4: If things are lining up that way, Brewers are going
Speaker 4: to Brewer. But watch out apparently for them Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'd never count out Alexanthopolis. I don't
Speaker 3: count out Walt Weiss. I didn't count out Brian Snicker
Speaker 3: when he was there.
Speaker 1: I should.
Speaker 3: I didn't even count out you know, anybody, anyone that's
Speaker 3: been a manager of all the way back to Bobby Cok's.
Speaker 3: I've never counted anybody out there. So the Braves are dangerous.
Speaker 3: They always have been, and Alexanthopolis tends to perennially figure
Speaker 3: things out at the trade deadline, We'll see where they go.
Speaker 3: The Phillies Kittie I would like to know your opinion
Speaker 3: on that. This is a team I've always been a
Speaker 3: little bit weary of because they just seem to have
Speaker 3: it on all sides. I mean, obviously, Christopher Sanchez is
Speaker 3: the headliner of their starting rotation fourteen wins already, he
Speaker 3: went on unbelievable scoreless streak. Did not get to the
Speaker 3: Bulldog streak, but an unbelievable scoreless streak. And this is
Speaker 3: this is a very solid team. They obviously added Luisa Rise,
Speaker 3: they added some other peace. Bryce Harper is now back
Speaker 3: in the outfield, and so they had to completely shift
Speaker 3: their infield dynamic. How much do they concern you if
Speaker 3: at all?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was weird to me.
Speaker 2: I love the pickup of a Rise, So he was
Speaker 2: having a heck of a season in San Francisco and
Speaker 2: he's going to go out and provide a jolt to
Speaker 2: that lineup. But it was a little jarring to see
Speaker 2: Bryce Harper back in right fields as like.
Speaker 1: I was like, what year are we in? But if
Speaker 1: it works for them, sure, why not the Phillies.
Speaker 2: As we know, when you get to the postseason, especially
Speaker 2: those shorter series in the beginning, it's just all about
Speaker 2: what your rotation looks like and they got a pretty
Speaker 2: crazy combo right now, Wheeler, Sanchez and Lozardo, and that's
Speaker 2: a threesome.
Speaker 1: That you don't really want to see.
Speaker 2: Even for as good as the Dodger rotation is, any lineup,
Speaker 2: they don't want to see that. So the Phillies are
Speaker 2: dangerous simply because they can pitch. They also have the slug,
Speaker 2: they have Schwarber, they have Harper. Obviously they play some
Speaker 2: competitive ball. But I can't help but feeling less than
Speaker 2: very underwhelmed watching the fundamentals of their play. And that
Speaker 2: series is a big part of the All Star Break
Speaker 2: because and we saw it. The Dodgers are such a
Speaker 2: good team I know, we're a little upset with them
Speaker 2: right now. They are capitalizing on mistakes that teams make.
Speaker 2: Because physical mistakes happened in the game. That's just baseball,
Speaker 2: even the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: This happens.
Speaker 2: But they rarely, rarely make mental mistakes like on the
Speaker 2: base pass, going to the wrong base, missing your cut,
Speaker 2: all of those things that we've seen teams like the
Speaker 2: Phillies do. The Yankees do that just not very fundamentally sound.
Speaker 2: So you can go out and have really great pitching
Speaker 2: but the second that you make a single mistake, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are going to capitalize on it, and they know that.
Speaker 1: They are so dangerous.
Speaker 2: The way I know it was a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: but the way that Max Munsey and Tommy Edmund Nukie
Speaker 2: Betts responded to that base running blunder that ended the
Speaker 2: game in Philadelphia was a like, yeah, we're gonna do that.
Speaker 2: We're good at this, and it was just kind of
Speaker 2: knowing it. And then I say, in a cocky way
Speaker 2: out of respect, they just are so good at finding
Speaker 2: those mistakes.
Speaker 1: And capitalizing on them and making sure the other team suffers.
Speaker 2: You see, whether it was the Yankees in the World
Speaker 2: Series of twenty four, or the Blue Jays last year,
Speaker 2: or the Phillies in last year's DS pitch gives them
Speaker 2: a notch in the positives calum for me. But I
Speaker 2: think the fundamentals no matter who you especially with guys
Speaker 2: kind of all over the outbuild and build defensively. Now
Speaker 2: that brings some questions into me. I still think it's
Speaker 2: the Cubs, But at the end of the day, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are still the front runners. I'm not worried about
Speaker 2: the six game skid. They're going to be just fine
Speaker 2: comes September. But it is fun to kind of play
Speaker 2: around and see what teams look better after the deadline.
Speaker 1: For me, it's still the Cubs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dodgers always find a way to take advantage or
Speaker 4: capitalize when the other team makes like their own offensive mistakes.
Speaker 4: Now when they're walking a bunch of dudes, they don't
Speaker 4: necessarily know how to always capitalize on that kind of stuff,
Speaker 4: hence the lack of scoring of late. But yeah, things
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Speaker 3: me talk about that baseball thoughts for the road National
Speaker 3: League MVP. We always assume Katie Wu that's going to
Speaker 3: be show Heyo tany just because he is the best
Speaker 3: in the game. But Pete Crow Armstrong PCA of the
Speaker 3: Chicago Cubs making a statement for that award, what say you?
Speaker 2: That was fun yesterday kind of watching them go toe
Speaker 2: to toe with both with two homer games, even the
Speaker 2: first inning show he is like, I'll have a lead
Speaker 2: off homer, and PCAs like, I'll do that too, And
Speaker 2: he was talking to Dino was talking to some Cubs
Speaker 2: media who would relaying me the story was like, you know,
Speaker 2: Dino was giving him a playfully hard time about taking
Speaker 2: a day off from center field and DHG and even
Speaker 2: though PCA is.
Speaker 1: Out there in center field almost every day.
Speaker 2: And PCA, with the same wit, came back and said, okay, yeo,
Speaker 2: Tawny took seven pitches to homer, but I took one
Speaker 2: and that and I know it's probably a less fun
Speaker 2: because of how the Dodgers been playing this last week
Speaker 2: if you're a Dodgers fan, But this is a race.
Speaker 1: It's going to be really.
Speaker 2: Exciting to watch over the final two months of the
Speaker 2: season because it's Otwnie's award to lose every year. And
Speaker 2: I will say, if he was pitching again, this is
Speaker 2: much less of a race to me. And there are
Speaker 2: some questions as if he'll come and go back, if
Speaker 2: I'll return of the mound. I know the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: said that they believe he will. O'tani said that he
Speaker 2: believes he will. Can we believe the Dodgers when it
Speaker 2: comes with injuries.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But if Otani cannot pitch again in the regular season,
Speaker 2: his value becomes so so focused obviously on what he
Speaker 2: can do at the plate. Whereas PCA is playing an
Speaker 2: elite defensive position in center field and putting up crazy
Speaker 2: offensive numbers, he's swiping a lot of basses. Otani, of course,
Speaker 2: has pretty much been and neutralized as as a base
Speaker 2: dealer of both to keep him healthy when he was
Speaker 2: doing two way duties and now with that leftni soreness,
Speaker 2: there's no way he should be stealing bases. So for me,
Speaker 2: this is a question of if Otani can work his
Speaker 2: way back up to returning in September it's still not
Speaker 2: a set date from when he's going to start playing
Speaker 2: catch again. We just talked to him yesterday, said he's
Speaker 2: still working on it, doesn't want to rush it.
Speaker 1: I'd get it. I completely understand.
Speaker 2: But come September, if if this is a race where
Speaker 2: it's PCA versus Hit or only show, hey Otani, it's
Speaker 2: going to be really tight. It already is, and I
Speaker 2: think this is something that both managers have talked to.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts has said, I haven't really been paying attention
Speaker 2: to the race, but I haven't paid attention to PCA
Speaker 2: having a tremendous season.
Speaker 1: And for me, I voted for the MVP once.
Speaker 3: Now in my.
Speaker 2: Career, I'm paying attention to what players do on postseason
Speaker 2: teams because it's the most valuable player in my opinion,
Speaker 2: and the most valuable players played for teams that are
Speaker 2: going to go out and compete for the World Series.
Speaker 1: That also applies to the Cups. Obviously applies to the
Speaker 1: Dodgers every year.
Speaker 2: But for PCA and Otanni this is just fun to
Speaker 2: work because he's been the unanimously GUNVP the last four years,
Speaker 2: So why not spice it up a little bit?
Speaker 1: Unless you see where it goes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's good for baseball, definitely, show Hey, fatigue is
Speaker 4: going to play a big factor in it. On top
Speaker 4: of the numbers not being just insane, they're really really,
Speaker 4: really good.
Speaker 5: They are MVP numbers.
Speaker 4: Uh when you add in the fact that he is
Speaker 4: what is it eight and two on the mountain and
Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff, e ra under two. But
Speaker 4: PCA is having a good year. He has a lot
Speaker 4: of uh I guess headlines, some good, some bad on
Speaker 4: his side. And again it's gonna come down to media
Speaker 4: just being tired of show Heo Tani or more so
Speaker 4: wanting something different.
Speaker 5: Grass is green.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, if if there's a year that
Speaker 3: PCA could do it, it's now because shoes not fitting out.
Speaker 3: So if if there's if there's a chance to knock
Speaker 3: off the King, this probably is the year, unless, to
Speaker 3: Katie's point, he starts pitching soon and does it for
Speaker 3: the remainder of the regular season. And I mean, as
Speaker 3: it stands, both teams are in the postseas and so
Speaker 3: we'll see how goes all.
Speaker 5: Right, A couple of quick things sorry.
Speaker 2: With the offense when show A one and twenty four
Speaker 2: without pitching he had ungodly offensive numbers. Those have taken
Speaker 2: an expected dip given his two way duties in the
Speaker 2: first half. That's crazy. He has like a nine to
Speaker 2: thirty plus ops and he has twenty six homers, and
Speaker 2: these are all numbers that we should be excited about.
Speaker 1: But because it's O.
Speaker 2: Tawni, we can point out that those are less than
Speaker 2: halfway to his league or hit to his season totals
Speaker 2: in twenty four and twenty five, So it's not like
Speaker 2: and again understandably so the offense is the superhuman numbers
Speaker 2: that we saw the last two seasons.
Speaker 3: I like this.
Speaker 2: I think it'll be a fun race and it'll ultimately
Speaker 2: come down to if Otani comes back and pitches this year.
Speaker 3: What have you done for us lately?
Speaker 5: Otani fingers crossed listen. Even if he doesn't win it,
Speaker 5: alls I care about is winning a World Series.
Speaker 4: Like I said, we've got a couple more things real
Speaker 4: quick to get out before we do get out of here.
Speaker 5: So we got some super chats.
Speaker 4: Nancy Brown our friend chiming in five bucks in the
Speaker 4: superchat saying this is the annual late summer losing streak
Speaker 4: that it is also two dollars from Nancy asked, is
Speaker 4: Hessong Kim in witness protection program? No, he's been bad.
Speaker 4: He's been really really bad at Triple A. He's hitting
Speaker 4: like under a buck eighty right now, Like he almost
Speaker 4: weighs more than his batting average of late.
Speaker 5: So it's it's tough.
Speaker 4: It's tough for all the people who thought Hessong Kim
Speaker 4: was gonna be like Hessong him.
Speaker 5: Might not be a thing. It just might not be
Speaker 5: a thing.
Speaker 4: And everybody's gonna be like, Oh, this guy's an asshole,
Speaker 4: this piece of shit, he's a racist.
Speaker 5: No, looking at the fucking.
Speaker 4: Numbers, he's not good, and he's doing this at Triple
Speaker 4: A notorious hitters league. I digress speaking of digressing Richie
Speaker 4: Flores speaking also of of of Katie's skin chie, Sorry,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: It's a little bit of how the DT has made.
Speaker 4: But fort nine nine from our friend Richie Flores, who's
Speaker 4: actually been very good, not being a creep. He says,
Speaker 4: we think Will Smith will be healthy and hitting over
Speaker 4: three hundred and September is a true reality, Sainscerely The
Speaker 4: Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. And then he's talking
Speaker 4: about my other show, our voicemails have been sent out
Speaker 4: to die. We might get them back at some point,
Speaker 4: maybe this Saturday. Ricci and finally Paulie in the chat
Speaker 4: Latino Slant five Bucks want to know our top Dodgers
Speaker 4: concern from each.
Speaker 5: Of you for the last two months.
Speaker 3: What do you got catching? Catching? Dalton rushing on the
Speaker 3: il for god knows how long will Smith? When are
Speaker 3: you coming back? No disrespect to Hunter Fiducia and Ben catching. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's my that's my biggest concern with this team right now.
Speaker 3: Catching in the postseason, not catching the rest of the way.
Speaker 3: But what is what is our catching tandem? Are we
Speaker 3: We're probably not catching, We're not probably holy moly, we're
Speaker 3: probably not carrying three catchers in the post season. So
Speaker 3: what does our catching tandem look like come October? That's
Speaker 3: my biggest concern. Katie, what is yours?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna write off that a lot of them. That's
Speaker 1: that's my same concern too.
Speaker 2: We talked to Dave Roberts about what to expect, and
Speaker 2: it's just from from Ben for Ben Wartvett and Hunter
Speaker 2: Producia to catch the ball, game plan and keep your
Speaker 2: pictures on track. They're going to hit ninth every day.
Speaker 2: Any offensive production, Dave Roberts said, is a bonus. That's
Speaker 2: not really what you want overall offensive production of the team,
Speaker 2: but it's a situation that they're in. This was kind of,
Speaker 2: for once for the Dodgers, a scramble mode to get
Speaker 2: two catchers back.
Speaker 1: We don't know what is going to look like.
Speaker 2: He has been on the field, taking participating in baseball activities.
Speaker 2: As fob and aar Dia noted, we have not been
Speaker 2: able to really interact with him, but he was able
Speaker 2: to turn his neck and decline a media request in
Speaker 2: our direction.
Speaker 1: So the next week.
Speaker 2: End of the show, Will Smith, And you know, I
Speaker 2: do think that this is going to be a big
Speaker 2: concern until we have clarity about Will Smith.
Speaker 1: But Dodger data back, Dodge DA back.
Speaker 2: Bron Turber, and they to Richie's point, to Richie's point,
Speaker 2: they need him back at least midway through September so
Speaker 2: we can get acclimated to playing MLB ball again.
Speaker 3: I adore you with the level that I can't even
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Speaker 2: I also wrote that you put that in pretty much
Speaker 2: I thought was hlarious.
Speaker 5: My thing, My thing is bullpen. I need to see it.
Speaker 5: Get back on track.
Speaker 4: They had an ERA or over five for like the
Speaker 4: last month they've been asked, it's been.
Speaker 3: Terrible, and they've been terrible in July, and Edwin hasn't
Speaker 3: been what we've needed yet. But again, you never know
Speaker 3: what the heck you're going to get when guys come
Speaker 3: off the AO.
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