Speaker 1: And I think sometimes as we get so fixated on
Speaker 1: the veterans, the core of the experience that makes up
Speaker 1: this dynasty, that we sometimes forget that with young players
Speaker 1: comes growing pains.
Speaker 2: What up, everybody, and welcome to a live edition of
Speaker 2: Dodger's Territory on this Thursday, June twenty fifth. Alana Rizzo,
Speaker 2: Katie Wu Climp Asius with you. Appreciate you guys being here.
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Speaker 3: So let's get right there, Clint, all right.
Speaker 2: Before we move on to today's well today they're off,
Speaker 2: but before we move on to the San Diego series,
Speaker 2: let's go back to last night as far as the
Speaker 2: dult and rushing conversation is concerned. We're going to get
Speaker 2: to our mid season assessment for the Dodgers momentarily, but
Speaker 2: we need to address what happened last night. But before
Speaker 2: we get into our opinions on it, or more over,
Speaker 2: my opinion on it, and I stand by it, let
Speaker 2: us talk or let us hear from Dalton after the
Speaker 2: game in regards to the situation between him and show.
Speaker 4: Hey, yeah, I thought he did a good job. I
Speaker 4: didn't do a great job start to finish. It was
Speaker 4: pretty embarrassing. Thankfully he's as good as he is and
Speaker 4: he could take control of a game. Yeah, it's pretty embarrassing.
Speaker 5: You have so much support, though. I mean, to have
Speaker 5: the conversations, whether I saw Freddy come up to you,
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts, I mean, I know that, as you said today,
Speaker 5: may have felt embarrassing. But to have their support in
Speaker 5: that conversation, what does that just mean to you?
Speaker 4: It's great. I mean, they always have my back. Once again,
Speaker 4: it's embarrassing that I need support like that. I'm a
Speaker 4: grown man. And yeah, it's a pretty tough pill to swallow,
Speaker 4: both sides of the ball. It was not a great
Speaker 4: show and hasn't been great as of late. And I'm
Speaker 4: gonna be better.
Speaker 2: And I can appreciate the fact that Dalton Rushing did
Speaker 2: stand up like a man does and took all of
Speaker 2: the questions and answered every single question. And that's exactly
Speaker 2: what you need to do as a big leader. Now, yesterday,
Speaker 2: if you were watching the postgame show with Clinton, I
Speaker 2: Katie was not here, so don't blame it on her.
Speaker 2: I said he needs to grow up, and I still
Speaker 2: stand by that, and I think Dalton Rushing, by standing
Speaker 2: there and taking these questions, has also illustrated that that
Speaker 2: he knows that he needs to also and that to me,
Speaker 2: taking the questions and answering them was an indication that
Speaker 2: he is growing up. And I just think that when
Speaker 2: you are a big leaguer, and right now, sir, you
Speaker 2: are the starting catcher of the back to back reigning
Speaker 2: World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, you cannot be in
Speaker 2: the dugout smacking your head around and you know, shaking
Speaker 2: off show, hey Otani and those types of things.
Speaker 3: And he knows that.
Speaker 2: So, Katie, I'm interested in your viewpoint on this. Met
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing in person. We've had him on our show
Speaker 2: and we appreciate that. My guess is he's not coming
Speaker 2: on again, and that's okay because I think we need
Speaker 2: to be objective and critical about this team that I
Speaker 2: love more than anybody in the world. But the actions
Speaker 2: that happened yesterday cannot happen when you are the starting
Speaker 2: catcher of the Los Angeles Dodgers. You know him better
Speaker 2: than I, So take me through your opinion of what
Speaker 2: went down.
Speaker 1: Sure well, full of transparency. I was not in Minnesota
Speaker 1: for that series. I'm here in San Diego. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: in advance for this beautiful background, the life of living
Speaker 1: on the road, and from the external perspective. Looking from
Speaker 1: the outside, it was clear to me that the game
Speaker 1: just sped up on Dalton and you think about what
Speaker 1: he's dealing with. This is his first time and we
Speaker 1: talked about this a lot on the show. First time
Speaker 1: with a full season, adjusting to a role that he's
Speaker 1: never really had before. You have showay on the mound,
Speaker 1: and sometimes the game just seeds up on you. That's
Speaker 1: true for literally every single player in the big leagues.
Speaker 1: No big leaguer is going to say, you know what,
Speaker 1: I had a perfect one hundred and sixty two game season.
Speaker 1: And we know that Dalton is a passionate player. We
Speaker 1: know that he likes tore his emotions on his sleep.
Speaker 1: People in the organization think that's what you know. That
Speaker 1: shows how he cares helps him play better. And I
Speaker 1: think there's people in the organization that say he needs
Speaker 1: to tone it down a little bit and find a
Speaker 1: way to channel that into a better performance. Last night's
Speaker 1: game clearly not good. I'll commend Dalton though, for doing
Speaker 1: exactly what he should have done after the game. Like
Speaker 1: you said, Alana, he goes up to the media and
Speaker 1: he answers every single question and it's all accountability. There
Speaker 1: is no oh, you know, this wasn't going my way
Speaker 1: or I was dealing with this on the side.
Speaker 6: It was just I wasn't good enough. I need to
Speaker 6: be better.
Speaker 1: And you see the people in the dugout, whether it's
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman or Dave Roberts or Mark pryor coming to
Speaker 1: Dalton in the middle of the game, they do that because.
Speaker 6: They care about him.
Speaker 1: And I think sometimes and this is a broader picture
Speaker 1: for the Los Angeles Dodgers, we get so fixated on
Speaker 1: the veterans, the core of the experience that makes up
Speaker 1: this dynasty, that we sometimes forget that with young players
Speaker 1: comes growing pains, and yesterday was a growing pain for Dalton.
Speaker 1: Rushing that he learned from it moves forward and we
Speaker 1: see less of the kind of breakdowns in the dugout
Speaker 1: or the mental lapses and frustration that's going to be
Speaker 1: key for him going forward, and Dave Roberts even said
Speaker 1: this last week, he thinks that maybe you know, Wednesday
Speaker 1: was an outlier that he's Dalton Rushing is getting better
Speaker 1: at controlling those emotions. But Shoeyo Tani is a grown
Speaker 1: man too, and if you know, he's on him to
Speaker 1: perform better too, I understand I'll never really be able
Speaker 1: to dive into the dynamic between a pitcher and a
Speaker 1: catchrom what goes on with every single pitch. But for
Speaker 1: Dalton to go over and say I need to be better,
Speaker 1: I think that's exactly the kind of response that he
Speaker 1: needed to show in that moment. And we continue to
Speaker 1: chalk it up to growing pains of someone who is
Speaker 1: honestly still very young in his career.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll piggyback off of that part there. I mean,
Speaker 7: we saw Will Smith, who, by the way, shoe Hey
Speaker 7: o Tani works phenomenally with Will Smith this year, and
Speaker 7: we saw the Memes show Hey wishes Will was back.
Speaker 7: I'm sure we all wish Will was back for myriad reasons.
Speaker 7: But when we're talking about Will, when he first came up,
Speaker 7: there was the narrative that he did not work well
Speaker 7: with Clayton Kershaw. He kind of saw a little bit
Speaker 7: of it, a little bit of it on the outside.
Speaker 7: Looking in takes time. Dalton is still young. He's twenty
Speaker 7: five years old. I said this earlier where Alan and
Speaker 7: I were talking about some other things. He is a
Speaker 7: very young he feels like a very young twenty five
Speaker 7: years old. He's growing, We're learning some things. I will
Speaker 7: add that I also appreciate the fact that he stood
Speaker 7: there he said, Look, I got to be a man
Speaker 7: about this. This is a huge learning moment, a huge
Speaker 7: learning curve still for Dalton, but the fact that he's
Speaker 7: acknowledging I have to do better, not just offensively, not
Speaker 7: just defensively, but also in wearing and representing the Dodgers' uniform.
Speaker 7: There are people all note in the chat who have
Speaker 7: strong opinions as well about what went on. We'll go
Speaker 7: ahead and pop this up here in nine ninety nine
Speaker 7: chat from the Enigma in the chat, so obviously there's
Speaker 7: both sides of it. Tucker is too emotionless and he
Speaker 7: gets crap about it, and then you have too much
Speaker 7: emotion from Dalton. He gets crappy. He's disgusted with the
Speaker 7: fans and the meat. How they've crucified this man. This
Speaker 7: is the era we live in. Everything gets cranked it up,
Speaker 7: you know, you crank it up to eleven because we can. Yeah,
Speaker 7: we came down hard on Dalton last night. For sure,
Speaker 7: he came down hard.
Speaker 2: And I'll and I'll loan that and that's fine. Like
Speaker 2: Katie wasn't on the show, Clint was more Uh, we're
Speaker 2: more protecting him. But I have no problem saying I
Speaker 2: was the one that did it, and that's and to me,
Speaker 2: and I'll and I'll stand by it, and I'm okay
Speaker 2: with that, you know what. And if the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: a problem with it, then they can call me. They
Speaker 2: have my number.
Speaker 3: But here's the deal.
Speaker 2: I want Dalton to succeed and I want the Dodgers
Speaker 2: to succeed. And I'm not saying he can't show emotion.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is there's a time and place to
Speaker 2: be able to have these conversations, maybe behind closed doors
Speaker 2: or what have you. And again, we're nitpicking at this
Speaker 2: because this is the only thing we have to nitpick
Speaker 2: about because the Dodgers have a commanding lead. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: are going to win the division. The Dodters are going
Speaker 2: to go to the Postseeds and the Dodgers hopefully win
Speaker 2: another World Series, and nobody wants that more than this,
Speaker 2: this trio right here and the Dodgers organization. But that,
Speaker 2: to me, the fact that we're talking about it is
Speaker 2: a problem. And again I'm proud of Dalton for going
Speaker 2: and answering the questions and he knows what he needs
Speaker 2: to do. But it's not like we like for I
Speaker 2: don't know, it's not like I'm not going.
Speaker 3: To talk about it.
Speaker 2: And again, when I was with Sports net LA, I
Speaker 2: couldn't talk about it, Okay, but I'm not with sports
Speaker 2: NETLA anymore and it was the best seven years of
Speaker 2: my career. But I can talk about it now. And
Speaker 2: you could see that show Hay was visibly upset. Show
Speaker 2: Hay all of a sudden started calling his own pitches.
Speaker 2: And again, it's not an enviable position for Dalton Rushing
Speaker 2: to be in. Obviously, we would love for Will Smith
Speaker 2: to be back. Will Smith. We don't, you know, there's
Speaker 2: a thing about personal catchers and those types of things,
Speaker 2: but say what you want to say. I would imagine
Speaker 2: that show Hay would rather have Will Smith behind the dish,
Speaker 2: just because of the pedigree in the back of the
Speaker 2: Baseball card and what he's doing. Not to say that
Speaker 2: Dalton isn't a bona fide big league catcher, but right
Speaker 2: now you're our starting catcher. If you go out, or
Speaker 2: you act like a fool, or you do all these
Speaker 2: different things than Chuckie Robinson is our starting catcher. There
Speaker 2: comes responsibility with great expectations, you know, it comes a
Speaker 2: lot of responsibility, and it is what it is. Sorry, sorry,
Speaker 2: not sorry, and I'll stand by it. So if anybody
Speaker 2: has a problem with it with the organization, please call me.
Speaker 1: I think like another thing that we're gonna that's maybe
Speaker 1: standing out about yesterday is we know that Dalton Rushing
Speaker 1: has kind of been like a lightning rod for viral
Speaker 1: sensations and shoeo Tani sneezes and it's.
Speaker 6: All over my Twitter.
Speaker 1: So there were a lot of different kind of videos
Speaker 1: eyes on this battery. So it doesn't help that Dalton
Speaker 1: didn't have a good game yesterday. It doesn't help that
Speaker 1: everything that these two players do is fixated, we're fixating
Speaker 1: on and is blasted all over social media.
Speaker 6: I work in the media. I know how this works.
Speaker 6: I get it.
Speaker 1: But I think for Dalton to struggle on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. You know, it didn't have a good
Speaker 1: night at the plate, certainly did not have a good
Speaker 1: night behind it.
Speaker 6: And to have all this different.
Speaker 1: Attention on him probably fed into why with the game
Speaker 1: is sped up on him. He's very aware of the
Speaker 1: perception of him online.
Speaker 6: It's kind of hard not to be. I mean, tomboy
Speaker 6: media is like obsessed with this guy.
Speaker 1: Not in a great way, and I like kinds of
Speaker 1: John Boy, but I think when you're thinking about all
Speaker 1: the different things that Dalton is dealing with in that moment, again,
Speaker 1: Shohio Tani best player ever ever going to see he
Speaker 1: obviously is going to have to take command in the
Speaker 1: control in the situation.
Speaker 6: It's not that Dalton is immune of any blame or criticism.
Speaker 6: He's not.
Speaker 1: But I can be empathetic to a young catcher, a
Speaker 1: young twenty five point I think you're spot on there
Speaker 1: trying to adjust and recover in real time and knowing
Speaker 1: the game of spiraling. And then you you know, you
Speaker 1: get into the clubhouse after the game and you see
Speaker 1: all these viral clips and everyone's talking about it. I
Speaker 1: can certainly understand why that was an unfavorable situation for
Speaker 1: Dalton Rushing to be in.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a tough era to be coming up in
Speaker 7: this game. For sure. Everything is just amplified with social media.
Speaker 7: Everybody trying to be the first person to get a
Speaker 7: clip of just a slight you know, eye movement or whatever,
Speaker 7: or you have things as radical as Trek Scoogle screaming
Speaker 7: at the White Sox dugout all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 7: It is what it is, and you know, again, hopefully
Speaker 7: this is a massive learning moment. Then it already appears
Speaker 7: to be massive learning moment for Dalton Rushing. I have
Speaker 7: a lot of high hopes for the kid and hopefully
Speaker 7: we can bury this soon enough. Is any any final
Speaker 7: thoughts there?
Speaker 3: Nope, said my piece.
Speaker 7: So there were piece. We have more super chats, more
Speaker 7: people also just generally in the chat. Might as well
Speaker 7: dive into these for a second before we tell folks
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Speaker 7: dollars super chats is why is it an issue when
Speaker 7: we want men to grow up as a man? I
Speaker 7: will have no comment. If you guys talk about it,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna be al. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know that it's about a man growing up.
Speaker 2: I think it's more of no, the situation that you're in.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is the big boy league now,
Speaker 2: like this is not like this is not little league
Speaker 2: where you can you know, toss your bat and you
Speaker 2: know run the wrong direction like if you if you
Speaker 2: hit a ball, you run into third like this is.
Speaker 3: You are the starting catcher for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying just because it was show Hay
Speaker 2: on the mound, I don't care if it was Mike
Speaker 2: Bolsinger on the mound.
Speaker 3: You don't show up your pitcher like that.
Speaker 1: You have.
Speaker 2: Conversations in private. This is not only is it a
Speaker 2: big league club, it's the Dodgers. Yeah, okay, this is
Speaker 2: the best team in all thirty.
Speaker 8: In the league.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, facts, facts, And it's again it's a different story.
Speaker 7: Everything gets blown up. The whole league changes. If you
Speaker 7: look at the new CBA stuff they're trying to pitch.
Speaker 7: But we're not going to dive into that today. Another
Speaker 7: one we got nine ninety nine from Richie Floores, our friend.
Speaker 7: He says, I think Dalton has great control over his emotions. Sincerely,
Speaker 7: Manny Machado, And there is your daily Manny Machado. Reference
Speaker 7: from Richie, but he also says it's real life lessons
Speaker 7: for Dalton. That's the important thing. Some people grow up
Speaker 7: at Triple A, some grow up at Triple A or
Speaker 7: Double A. Some are already grown up, all grown up.
Speaker 7: Right now, we're watching it in real time and it's
Speaker 7: going to keep getting better. That's it for now on
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Speaker 7: So segment, I've leaned on a lot so far this season.
Speaker 7: Every ten games, every twenty five games, every eighty one games.
Speaker 7: We got to assess where the Dodgers are at, and
Speaker 7: if you look at the standings, they're in a pretty
Speaker 7: good spot. Alana, why don't you set us up well?
Speaker 2: What really stuck out to me? Which I know, let
Speaker 2: me go back really quick to the mound visit. Could
Speaker 2: you imagine Tommy Lesorda in this day and age with
Speaker 2: what went down yesterday?
Speaker 3: Anyway, that's neither here nor there. But look at the
Speaker 3: Major League.
Speaker 2: Baseball standings in the NLS, ladies and gentlemen. Not only
Speaker 2: do our Los Angeles Dodgers have the lead by a
Speaker 2: commanding margin of nine games over the San Diego Padres,
Speaker 2: in which they started a great series with this weekend,
Speaker 2: the Padre is still very much in the thick of things.
Speaker 3: There are a half game back in the Wildcard.
Speaker 2: But what really stands out to me, guys, in our division,
Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Dodgers have a plus one forty four
Speaker 2: run differential, meaning they have scored one hundred and forty
Speaker 2: four more runs.
Speaker 3: Than they have given up.
Speaker 2: The rest of the division, Lady and gentlemen, is a
Speaker 2: negative run differential.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers are the only team in the division that
Speaker 3: have a positive run differential.
Speaker 2: And as I go through the standings, boys and girls,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have the best run differential not only in
Speaker 2: the NL West, not only the National League, but in
Speaker 2: all of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3: That is what sticks out to me.
Speaker 7: That's that's pretty good. It's pretty good. Dodgers are pretty
Speaker 7: damn good. By the way, the point of this segment,
Speaker 7: we are gonna sum up the season all you know.
Speaker 7: I did say during before the show that we were
Speaker 7: gonna throw Wu under the bus and make her go first,
Speaker 7: but Riz, you took it. Now I'm gonna take it
Speaker 7: from here. And then Katie's gonna learn a thing or two. No, no, no,
Speaker 7: just being weird. But anyways, getting to me what we've
Speaker 7: learned about this season so far, about this team so far,
Speaker 7: as yeah, they're they're a very good team. They they
Speaker 7: are who we thought they were, and we're still not
Speaker 7: seeing a fully healthy team. We have not seen the
Speaker 7: expected starting five, a six man rotation. We have not
Speaker 7: seen Mookie get hot really until now. We still haven't
Speaker 7: even seen fully consistent Freddy Freeman. Tay Oskar has been missing.
Speaker 7: How good this team is right now and how far
Speaker 7: ahead they are in the NL West, And I guess
Speaker 7: you could say it by best record, run differential, all
Speaker 7: that stuff in baseball. There's a reason other teams are mad,
Speaker 7: there's other fan bases are mad. It's a very good
Speaker 7: baseball team and they're gonna keep getting better. If I
Speaker 7: spin forward a little bit, you are gonna be adding
Speaker 7: an all star closer and Edwin Diaz. They're gonna be
Speaker 7: adding Evan Phillips, who has been a closer for this
Speaker 7: team in the past. Blakes now maybe maybe Tyler glasnow
Speaker 7: taa Oscar Hernandez is less than a week away. They
Speaker 7: are gonna get better. And obviously everybody wants to talk
Speaker 7: about the trade deadline. I don't know, and we are
Speaker 7: gonna talk trade deadline a little bit. I don't know
Speaker 7: that they need to make a lot of moves. They
Speaker 7: just need time. They need to get better. But it
Speaker 7: has been a fun season so far. A lot of headlines,
Speaker 7: some of them not so savory, but it's a good
Speaker 7: team to watch in Show Hey. Also gotta shout out
Speaker 7: Show Hey in that cy On conversation. An absolute animal
Speaker 7: that man is w What do you think about this team?
Speaker 1: I think coming in for my first year in Dodger Land,
Speaker 1: there were two things I was really excited to see,
Speaker 1: one being the show Hey two Wai version, first time
Speaker 1: that he's done this for the Dodgers, and this is
Speaker 1: pretty much lived up to the expectations in terms of
Speaker 1: performance and also usage and management and strategy. As a reporter,
Speaker 1: that's really what I care about, like how does this
Speaker 1: organization manage and use Otani to make sure that they
Speaker 1: happen for when it really matters aka October. So it's
Speaker 1: been fun to kind of walk that line with Andrew Freeman,
Speaker 1: with Dave Roberts, with Otani and see how this usage
Speaker 1: is playing out and the long term effects. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's led to a six man starting rotation for essentially
Speaker 1: the entire season.
Speaker 6: We've talked about the importance of Eric Blawer coming in to.
Speaker 1: Me, that was like a big light bulb that went
Speaker 1: off where this six man rotation is so imperative because
Speaker 1: it means that Shoheyotani can keep doing two way duties.
Speaker 1: So to be able to find kind of figure that
Speaker 1: out in real time with the organization, I've enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: Another thing that I wanted to figure out to see
Speaker 1: was just how do the Dodgers use their depth because
Speaker 1: we know throughout the course of a one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty two game season, no Twenty six man roster is
Speaker 1: going to go without a couple of ile stints. Now,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers have had quite a few, so it's been
Speaker 1: interesting for me to see because we're all familiar with
Speaker 1: Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman and Kyle Tecker go down
Speaker 1: the list of all of the superstars on this Dodgers roster.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to see how the Ryan Ward's play in,
Speaker 1: how Dalton Rushing played in Alex call the role players,
Speaker 1: and how the.
Speaker 6: Dodgers can use their depth.
Speaker 1: Then you go to the pitching side and you can
Speaker 1: say the same thing about EMMT she and Justin Rableski,
Speaker 1: and I think Robleski has really stood out to me
Speaker 1: in terms of someone that probably we should be talking
Speaker 1: a little bit more in the All Star consideration with,
Speaker 1: but to see him come in as a depth piece
Speaker 1: as someone that the organization was looking at like a
Speaker 1: potential spot star at six starter guy, and now to
Speaker 1: me has firmly placed himself in this rotation for the
Speaker 1: rest of the regular season.
Speaker 6: That's been really cool to see.
Speaker 1: Because every year you come in and someone that you're
Speaker 1: not truly thinking about establishes themselves as someone who is essential.
Speaker 1: So to be able to see Justin Rombluski do that
Speaker 1: so early in his career, that's I think the biggest
Speaker 1: takeaway for me in the first half.
Speaker 7: And we still haven't seen the best of the young
Speaker 7: dudes yet, or at least best out of these young
Speaker 7: dudes yet. I mean talked a lot about a Dalton Rushing,
Speaker 7: who is one of those kind of heralded prospects just
Speaker 7: a year ago, you know, mentioning our friend of the show,
Speaker 7: Ryan Ward being out there. You know, we know there's
Speaker 7: more slug in there. We know there's a little more
Speaker 7: contact getting him better. But the growth of Andy Poe has,
Speaker 7: you know, talking about how we spoke about him last
Speaker 7: year at the start of the season, a lot of
Speaker 7: a lot of people talking that way when it comes
Speaker 7: to Andy Poe has now he is a bona fide
Speaker 7: All Star candidate. Yeah, I don't know, baseball season is
Speaker 7: better than any other sport. I don't give a shit
Speaker 7: when anybody says watching these storylines, one hundred and sixty
Speaker 7: two games is too many. Yeah, probably, but damn is
Speaker 7: it a lot of fun. It's a blest.
Speaker 3: It's a blast.
Speaker 2: And again, this is the way that we have the
Speaker 2: opportunity to like nitpick at all the little things and
Speaker 2: talk about where we are, Like, what could we do better?
Speaker 3: I don't know, we have a nine and a half,
Speaker 3: gave leen the division? What can we do better?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's silly that we're talking about this stuff,
Speaker 2: but that is the situation we are in because the
Speaker 2: team that we cover happens to be this good. So
Speaker 2: I think, for you know, halfway point eighty one games down,
Speaker 2: eighty one to go, I think I give you an
Speaker 2: a Dodgers.
Speaker 3: We're proud of you.
Speaker 2: I know that sounds silly. I know that probably sounds patronizing,
Speaker 2: but it is what it is. You know, I love
Speaker 2: this team, Clint, I know you love this team.
Speaker 6: Katie.
Speaker 2: I know you have to be actually a journalist and
Speaker 2: be impartial, but I can be a homer and that's
Speaker 2: and it is what it is.
Speaker 3: But this is a team that is incredibly impressive.
Speaker 2: There's no reason, barring any sort of injury or health issues,
Speaker 2: that they can't repeat.
Speaker 3: So halfway through the season.
Speaker 2: Which by the way, is hard to believe, we've already
Speaker 2: played eighty one games. Hey, straight up a All right, guys,
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Speaker 7: You get a little bit of chills. It's almost rumor season. Yeah,
Speaker 7: this is early. This is definitely very early to be
Speaker 7: talking about rumors. Trade deadline is a little more than
Speaker 7: five weeks away, but it is the season where you
Speaker 7: start looking ahead. You start looking at what the Dodgers
Speaker 7: can do, what this front office can do to help
Speaker 7: improve this team at the deadline, And honestly, as we
Speaker 7: sit here talking about the first eighty one games, it's
Speaker 7: hard to find ways to improve this team. But I
Speaker 7: figured we can have a little bit of fun with
Speaker 7: a bold prediction that probably won't come true. What I'll say,
Speaker 7: I'll lead us off here my one bold prediction. I
Speaker 7: think the Dodgers are going to be in the market
Speaker 7: for an everyday second basement. No slight on Tommy Edmund
Speaker 7: No slight on Alex Freeland, who has been there for
Speaker 7: the majority of the games in recent I guess really
Speaker 7: over the last month, but I think they will look
Speaker 7: at just kicking the tires around and every day to
Speaker 7: be Labor Tours is a name that has been mentioned.
Speaker 7: I'm not one hundred percent certain if he's on the
Speaker 7: IL right now, but could be a change of scenery guy.
Speaker 7: We assume Detroit is going to be selling Hey, maybe
Speaker 7: they throw in Trek Skouble in that deals. Well. Another
Speaker 7: name I'll mention Luisa Rise, somebody we've talked about on
Speaker 7: my other my old Dodgers channel as well. The Giants
Speaker 7: are just miserably bad. Arise is a pretty good baseball player,
Speaker 7: somebody you could slot in, you know, it's seven lineup,
Speaker 7: eight in the lineup, maybe even bottom of the lineup here.
Speaker 7: As much as he might not like it, but the
Speaker 7: fact that he can move a baseball forward, he could
Speaker 7: find some grass. He's actually playing a pretty decent defensive
Speaker 7: second basement second base at the moment as well. I
Speaker 7: don't know how much of that is on Ron Washington,
Speaker 7: but I'm pretty sure Dino and Chris Woodward would help him.
Speaker 7: Out as well. But that's what I think. That's my
Speaker 7: bold prediction. I don't even know if it's bold. If
Speaker 7: they're going to be active and it's not Derek Scoogle,
Speaker 7: it's going to be in the second base market.
Speaker 6: So I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't hate the Louisa Rise comp but she finds
Speaker 1: for the Giants, and I just cannot fathom a Dodgers
Speaker 1: Giants trade. Maybe this is very like old man yells
Speaker 1: at cloud Take. You guys know, I have like a
Speaker 1: very traditional mindset about this, But I don't think division
Speaker 1: rival should be allowed to trade with each other, don't.
Speaker 6: I don't like it.
Speaker 1: It's not allowed, So I can't remember the last time
Speaker 1: the Dodgers and Giants even pulled off a trade. But
Speaker 1: for that alone, I'm going to say no arise, but
Speaker 1: I think Dodgers fans are probably elated at the state
Speaker 1: of the San Francisco Giants. But we could send a
Speaker 1: whole episode talking about that. So I think to go
Speaker 1: back to your bold predictions, I'm going to be like
Speaker 1: loser Killjoy, boring reporter for usual, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: go but history tells us, and it's that the Dodgers
Speaker 1: aren't going to make any like huge splashes this trade deadline.
Speaker 6: This is not something that Andrew Friedman does.
Speaker 1: He prefers for the big blockbusters to come via the
Speaker 1: wallet over the off season. But usually the Dodgers treat
Speaker 1: the trade deadline as a chance to you know, win
Speaker 1: on the margins or get a little bit better for depths.
Speaker 1: So I do wonder what they're super deep talented outfield
Speaker 1: prospect pool. Can they trade one of those to land
Speaker 1: another you know, not someone that's going to come and
Speaker 1: benefit like a rental right now, but someone that can
Speaker 1: bring multiple years of control back to the organization. That's
Speaker 1: where I think Andrew Freeman does a really nice job
Speaker 1: at the trade deadline is finding, you know, the small
Speaker 1: incremental ways to improve the roster. So it's not bold,
Speaker 1: it's pretty boring. But but that's where I'm standing, Clint.
Speaker 2: To answer your question, Labor Torres is on the I
Speaker 2: l I'm not certain when he is supposed to come
Speaker 2: off of the ile. My bold prediction is right now
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have fifty two wins. They're going to get
Speaker 2: fifty two more. The Dodgers will end the season at
Speaker 2: one hundred and four wins.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 3: That's nothing else I got to say about it.
Speaker 7: They'll trade for anybody to help, they'll maybe you know
Speaker 7: what I mean, they don't.
Speaker 3: They don't. They don't need to.
Speaker 2: They don't need to trade for anybody else to help.
Speaker 2: They're getting Blake Smell back, so they don't. I don't
Speaker 2: think they need to get anybody. In terms of pitching,
Speaker 2: They're going to get Evan Phillips back.
Speaker 1: I like.
Speaker 3: I like the addition to the bullpen.
Speaker 2: I think those that have been underperforming will start performing.
Speaker 2: This is a Dodgers team that is built for October,
Speaker 2: and they are the taking the NBA term of workload management.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what they're doing. Uh, they'll do it throughout
Speaker 2: the course of the regular season and they will be
Speaker 2: ready to go for the postseason. But regular season, they
Speaker 2: won fifty two more wins.
Speaker 7: Hey, how about this? This will be for the aggregators.
Speaker 7: Katie wou weighs in on Tarrek'schooble trade deadline destinations. So
Speaker 7: I'm sorry already in advance. How active? I mean? We
Speaker 7: know the Dodgers are never going to be active in
Speaker 7: the headlines when it comes to any sort of move,
Speaker 7: but how active do you think you people are going
Speaker 7: to be about linking the Dodgers to Trekschooble because, as
Speaker 7: you mentioned, Katie, the Dodgers they have the talent to
Speaker 7: make literally anything happen. Terrek Scooble is a rental and
Speaker 7: if it costs you two prospects and maybe another guy
Speaker 7: who's currently with the big league team, we don't know
Speaker 7: the status of Tyler Glass now. And if you could
Speaker 7: plug in Trek Scougble to be your game one, game two,
Speaker 7: game three, any game starter makes a lot of sense
Speaker 7: for the Dodgers to want to go out and get
Speaker 7: them biting was how active? How loud do you think
Speaker 7: the rumors are going to be with Schoogle and the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: They're going to be loud, But just because they're loud
Speaker 1: doesn't mean they're always right now, I'm not here to
Speaker 1: downplay any chance of the Dodgers doing anything with school
Speaker 1: because it's Los Angeles.
Speaker 6: They're going to be involved no matter what. It's just
Speaker 6: kind of what they do.
Speaker 1: But to your point, Quinn, because they are one of
Speaker 1: the few organizations that even have the ability to pull
Speaker 1: up a trade. You're thinking of teams like the Brewers
Speaker 1: and the Braves, and of course the Dodgers right next
Speaker 1: next to him.
Speaker 6: That's why it's not going to go away.
Speaker 1: Anytime there's a chance to break baseball, you're going to
Speaker 1: see the Dodgers correlated with said situation.
Speaker 6: So I expect the next.
Speaker 1: Five weeks to be very painful for me personally, and
Speaker 1: for there to be a lot of you know, schoobl
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers because like theoretically they could do it.
Speaker 6: They can do pretty much anything they want, which is
Speaker 6: why they are so scary, you know.
Speaker 1: And again it goes back to Andrew Freeman not wanting
Speaker 1: to make huge splashes at the deadline.
Speaker 6: Historically that's not how he's operated.
Speaker 1: But though my personal feeling is that this is a
Speaker 1: low likelihood of happening, I also said that.
Speaker 6: About Kyle Tucker, So what do I know.
Speaker 1: Basically, the reason why media reporters keep linking the Dodgers
Speaker 1: and Schooble together, even if it's so early on, is
Speaker 1: because they are again one of the very few teams
Speaker 1: that can even entertain this notion, and because, as we've
Speaker 1: seen before, nothing is out of the realm of their possibility,
Speaker 1: and with.
Speaker 7: The state of the CBA, you know, pushing all your
Speaker 7: chips in one more time before things potentially get broken
Speaker 7: or we don't have baseball for a while in twenty
Speaker 7: twenty seven. That's a different conversation for a different show.
Speaker 7: It feels like the right time to use your assets
Speaker 7: and go for that three peat and then you know,
Speaker 7: send everybody. I'm not even flipping the birds. This is
Speaker 7: the old Sufi here. What's that guy's name, Dane Cook?
Speaker 7: You guys remember him? No exactly, His career went to crap. Anyways,
Speaker 7: there is a little bit more DT coming up for you, Katie.
Speaker 7: We won't have her room ready in time for that,
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's right before the trade deadline. And
Speaker 1: while the Red Sox have made like no definitive announcements,
Speaker 1: they by all means should be selling and I always
Speaker 1: just think.
Speaker 6: I think it's so interesting to watch these teams.
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Speaker 7: Longtime future Dodger Jared Duran will be there. He's also
Speaker 7: having a pretty bad year in his own right. But
Speaker 7: another team that's having a mid year at best, Padres.
Speaker 7: Dodgers face the Padres coming up. Taking a look ahead.
Speaker 7: A lot of good storylines in this series, and Katie,
Speaker 7: I'm sure your editor is already looking ahead at those.
Speaker 7: You have Roki Sasaki facing the Padres at what I
Speaker 7: call Dodger Stadium south there Petco Park, And I thought
Speaker 7: Buehler was going to be the later game. I thought
Speaker 7: he was gonna be Saturday. I guess they moved Bueler
Speaker 7: up to Sunday or sorry, Friday, just like MOOKI is
Speaker 7: almost fifty thirty four. Yeah, Sasaki bull her Yamamoto versus Vasquez.
Speaker 7: Uh for those first two games, I don't know because
Speaker 7: it's not on here. I don't have the the probables
Speaker 7: for Sunday. But this is gonna be a pretty fun
Speaker 7: little series.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: Padre's starting to heat up a little bit. Fernando Tatista
Speaker 7: has actually hit a homer now this season, Manny's heating
Speaker 7: up a little bit as well.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: And they always want to like annihilate the Dodgers best
Speaker 7: they can, and this would be one of those series. Hopefully,
Speaker 7: you know, they hopefully the Dodgers don't lose Game one
Speaker 7: because it seems to have worked out that way and
Speaker 7: then something dumb happens and then the Dodgers just go
Speaker 7: out there and Dodger. But uh, Alana, what are you
Speaker 7: looking forward to in the series? Before we get the
Speaker 7: professional take from Katie of what she has to look at, I.
Speaker 2: Love I love that I went from somebody that was
Speaker 2: like self, like like esteemed and seven time Emmy Award
Speaker 2: winner too. Let's get to Katie, who's now the professional.
Speaker 6: Sweatsuit.
Speaker 2: What do I like about this series? I can't wait
Speaker 2: to see Bueller. I hope, I honestly like, I hope
Speaker 2: Bueller has a really good outing because I I hate
Speaker 2: that there was kind of a fall from grace with him.
Speaker 2: I really thought that he was going to have a
Speaker 2: much longer along gie. I thought he was going to
Speaker 2: be a Dodger for life. To be honest with you,
Speaker 2: I hope that he has success, but not to the
Speaker 2: point where the Dodgers lose, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 2: I love the fact, and somebody said this in our
Speaker 2: chat over a little bit ago, the fact that we're
Speaker 2: not talking about Roki Sasaki means that Roki Sasaki is.
Speaker 6: Doing his job.
Speaker 2: So we really haven't had that constant Roki Sasaki conversation,
Speaker 2: like we need to see this, we need to see that.
Speaker 2: I'm really looking forward. So a very long answer to
Speaker 2: your short question is I'm really looking forward to seeing
Speaker 2: this pitching matchup tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Kind of in verse.
Speaker 2: In terms of the numbers, Roki Sasaki is three and
Speaker 2: four in terms of win lost, Walker Buehler is four
Speaker 2: and three. Roki an Era. That's not sexy, but that's
Speaker 2: because of some struggles early on in the season. He's
Speaker 2: really gotten much better throughout the season as it's gone along.
Speaker 2: Seventy strikeouts, the whip of one two nine. He's given
Speaker 2: up twenty five walks. Bueller not so different, right, and
Speaker 2: Era just south of four at three point ninety six strikeouts,
Speaker 2: five fewer than Roki. The whip almost identical. He's at
Speaker 2: one two nine, Bueller's at one three to two. Roki
Speaker 2: has given up twenty five free passes. Bueller has given
Speaker 2: up twenty three, so.
Speaker 3: It's just it's a very.
Speaker 2: I think it's a very even type of pitching matchup.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to seeing.
Speaker 7: That both of them before we go to U, Katie.
Speaker 7: Both of them also having very you know better kind
Speaker 7: of stretches over the last month and change. Buehler has
Speaker 7: a two seven sixty ARRA over his last week. We
Speaker 7: had eight starts right now, so he's kind of locked in.
Speaker 7: Roki not as good because of a couple of little
Speaker 7: like blow ups in there, but still trending. And I
Speaker 7: love the fact we don't have to talk about Roki
Speaker 7: as much. Katie. What are you looking forward forward to in.
Speaker 1: The series as a certified Roki enthusiast, Tamila, you know,
Speaker 1: whereas I need him to do a little bit better
Speaker 1: so I can go back to bragging rights, But I'm
Speaker 1: also not prepared to sit here and eat it if
Speaker 1: he doesn't pitch well on Friday. So Rookie, my livelihood
Speaker 1: is relying on you here this weekend, but likely Ulana,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the pitching matchup, but I'm looking at
Speaker 1: Sundays because we know this is going to be a
Speaker 1: big one for emt she and Dave Roberts said as
Speaker 1: much after his last start Sunday against Baltimore. Where and
Speaker 1: it's going to take this next star and we'll see
Speaker 1: where it goes. And for all the hype over River Ryan,
Speaker 1: again we've discussed why it's important that the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: patient with his production down in Triple A and also
Speaker 1: the production from it. She just hasn't been where the
Speaker 1: team needs it to be. So I'm looking at on
Speaker 1: what Shean can do Sunday. It'll be a good test
Speaker 1: against the San Diego Padres to see if he can
Speaker 1: take some steps forward, because we.
Speaker 6: Saw flashes of this in May and then June. Like
Speaker 6: we've said, last episode took a couple of pegs back.
Speaker 1: But when you're looking at what Ebbitt Sheen can do
Speaker 1: in the six man rotation, there's got to be some
Speaker 1: sort of progress here, and I think this will be
Speaker 1: very important as the Dodgers kind of loom their first
Speaker 1: legitimate potential rotation change depending on how Shean performs.
Speaker 6: So that's what I'm looking at.
Speaker 1: It should be another just three guys that you're you're
Speaker 1: always excited to Seeyamamoto on there, and I haven't had
Speaker 1: a Yamamoto start in probably three weeks, so I'm ready.
Speaker 6: Should be good, my guys, It.
Speaker 3: Should be a good.
Speaker 2: Why I'm a little nervous about Sunday though, was she?
Speaker 2: And because he's going up against Michael King, so again
Speaker 2: he's had some he's had some hiccups. Not that Michael
Speaker 2: King is you know showway or Mason Miller coming out
Speaker 2: of the bullpen. But still, anyway, guys, thanks for letting
Speaker 2: us be with you guys today, Thank you for your
Speaker 2: comments and concerns and all of the things. This might
Speaker 2: be my last show ever, but just you know, I
Speaker 2: love the Dodgers. We will be back on Monday. Me,
Speaker 2: Katie and Clint will be back on Monday for our
Speaker 2: regularly scheduled programming.
Speaker 3: Have a great weekend.
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