WEBVTT - Crossroads for Rushing? 81 Game Review, Bold Deadline Predictions 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.200 And I think sometimes as we get so fixated on 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.600 the veterans, the core of the experience that makes up 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.840 this dynasty, that we sometimes forget that with young players 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:11.040 comes growing pains. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:25.680 What up, everybody, and welcome to a live edition of 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.000 Dodger's Territory on this Thursday, June twenty fifth. Alana Rizzo, 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.320 Katie Wu Climp Asius with you. Appreciate you guys being here. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.800 Subscribe to us on YouTube wherever you get your podcast. 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:37.920 That could be on Apple, that could be on Spotify. 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.919 You get the picture. We love you guys being a 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.600 part of this A lot to get to in the 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:44.120 big ticket. 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:49.000 So let's get right there, Clint, all right. 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.680 Before we move on to today's well today they're off, 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.600 but before we move on to the San Diego series, 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:56.440 let's go back to last night as far as the 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.560 dult and rushing conversation is concerned. We're going to get 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.560 to our mid season assessment for the Dodgers momentarily, but 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.080 we need to address what happened last night. But before 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.119 we get into our opinions on it, or more over, 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.360 my opinion on it, and I stand by it, let 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.200 us talk or let us hear from Dalton after the 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.920 game in regards to the situation between him and show. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.399 Hey, yeah, I thought he did a good job. I 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.480 didn't do a great job start to finish. It was 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:29.920 pretty embarrassing. Thankfully he's as good as he is and 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.320 he could take control of a game. Yeah, it's pretty embarrassing. 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.160 You have so much support, though. I mean, to have 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.319 the conversations, whether I saw Freddy come up to you, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.240 Dave Roberts, I mean, I know that, as you said today, 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.440 may have felt embarrassing. But to have their support in 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.039 that conversation, what does that just mean to you? 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:50.880 It's great. I mean, they always have my back. Once again, 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.480 it's embarrassing that I need support like that. I'm a 0:01:54.480 --> 0:02:00.000 grown man. And yeah, it's a pretty tough pill to swallow, 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.320 both sides of the ball. It was not a great 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:07.680 show and hasn't been great as of late. And I'm 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:08.239 gonna be better. 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.839 And I can appreciate the fact that Dalton Rushing did 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.200 stand up like a man does and took all of 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.000 the questions and answered every single question. And that's exactly 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.720 what you need to do as a big leader. Now, yesterday, 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:20.760 if you were watching the postgame show with Clinton, I 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.840 Katie was not here, so don't blame it on her. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.200 I said he needs to grow up, and I still 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.640 stand by that, and I think Dalton Rushing, by standing 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:32.280 there and taking these questions, has also illustrated that that 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.600 he knows that he needs to also and that to me, 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:39.440 taking the questions and answering them was an indication that 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.760 he is growing up. And I just think that when 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:43.760 you are a big leaguer, and right now, sir, you 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.600 are the starting catcher of the back to back reigning 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.639 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, you cannot be in 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:54.160 the dugout smacking your head around and you know, shaking 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.240 off show, hey Otani and those types of things. 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:57.000 And he knows that. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.440 So, Katie, I'm interested in your viewpoint on this. Met 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.799 Dalton Rushing in person. We've had him on our show 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.680 and we appreciate that. My guess is he's not coming 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.160 on again, and that's okay because I think we need 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.120 to be objective and critical about this team that I 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.359 love more than anybody in the world. But the actions 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.520 that happened yesterday cannot happen when you are the starting 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.160 catcher of the Los Angeles Dodgers. You know him better 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.520 than I, So take me through your opinion of what 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:22.000 went down. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.960 Sure well, full of transparency. I was not in Minnesota 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.880 for that series. I'm here in San Diego. I'm sorry 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.280 in advance for this beautiful background, the life of living 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:36.960 on the road, and from the external perspective. Looking from 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.480 the outside, it was clear to me that the game 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.720 just sped up on Dalton and you think about what 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:43.560 he's dealing with. This is his first time and we 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.720 talked about this a lot on the show. First time 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.240 with a full season, adjusting to a role that he's 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.480 never really had before. You have showay on the mound, 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.800 and sometimes the game just seeds up on you. That's 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.200 true for literally every single player in the big leagues. 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:56.680 No big leaguer is going to say, you know what, 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.760 I had a perfect one hundred and sixty two game season. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.680 And we know that Dalton is a passionate player. We 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.400 know that he likes tore his emotions on his sleep. 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.760 People in the organization think that's what you know. That 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.080 shows how he cares helps him play better. And I 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.280 think there's people in the organization that say he needs 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:11.680 to tone it down a little bit and find a 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.440 way to channel that into a better performance. Last night's 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.200 game clearly not good. I'll commend Dalton though, for doing 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.080 exactly what he should have done after the game. Like 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.080 you said, Alana, he goes up to the media and 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.640 he answers every single question and it's all accountability. There 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.000 is no oh, you know, this wasn't going my way 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:28.320 or I was dealing with this on the side. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.039 It was just I wasn't good enough. I need to 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:31.479 be better. 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.880 And you see the people in the dugout, whether it's 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.960 Freddie Freeman or Dave Roberts or Mark pryor coming to 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.800 Dalton in the middle of the game, they do that because. 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:40.479 They care about him. 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.679 And I think sometimes and this is a broader picture 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:46.040 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, we get so fixated on 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.360 the veterans, the core of the experience that makes up 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.640 this dynasty, that we sometimes forget that with young players 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.120 comes growing pains, and yesterday was a growing pain for Dalton. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.160 Rushing that he learned from it moves forward and we 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.760 see less of the kind of breakdowns in the dugout 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.400 or the mental lapses and frustration that's going to be 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.640 key for him going forward, and Dave Roberts even said 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.120 this last week, he thinks that maybe you know, Wednesday 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.719 was an outlier that he's Dalton Rushing is getting better 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:15.159 at controlling those emotions. But Shoeyo Tani is a grown 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.479 man too, and if you know, he's on him to 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.760 perform better too, I understand I'll never really be able 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.800 to dive into the dynamic between a pitcher and a 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.200 catchrom what goes on with every single pitch. But for 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.320 Dalton to go over and say I need to be better, 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.520 I think that's exactly the kind of response that he 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.640 needed to show in that moment. And we continue to 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:33.960 chalk it up to growing pains of someone who is 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:35.839 honestly still very young in his career. 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:38.960 Yeah, I'll piggyback off of that part there. I mean, 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.240 we saw Will Smith, who, by the way, shoe Hey 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.599 o Tani works phenomenally with Will Smith this year, and 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.120 we saw the Memes show Hey wishes Will was back. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.360 I'm sure we all wish Will was back for myriad reasons. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.480 But when we're talking about Will, when he first came up, 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.720 there was the narrative that he did not work well 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.640 with Clayton Kershaw. He kind of saw a little bit 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.360 of it, a little bit of it on the outside. 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.680 Looking in takes time. Dalton is still young. He's twenty 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.320 five years old. I said this earlier where Alan and 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.120 I were talking about some other things. He is a 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.120 very young he feels like a very young twenty five 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:16.480 years old. He's growing, We're learning some things. I will 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.080 add that I also appreciate the fact that he stood 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:21.680 there he said, Look, I got to be a man 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.400 about this. This is a huge learning moment, a huge 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.680 learning curve still for Dalton, but the fact that he's 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:33.640 acknowledging I have to do better, not just offensively, not 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:38.200 just defensively, but also in wearing and representing the Dodgers' uniform. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.680 There are people all note in the chat who have 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.960 strong opinions as well about what went on. We'll go 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:48.720 ahead and pop this up here in nine ninety nine 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.840 chat from the Enigma in the chat, so obviously there's 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.440 both sides of it. Tucker is too emotionless and he 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.240 gets crap about it, and then you have too much 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.400 emotion from Dalton. He gets crappy. He's disgusted with the 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.880 fans and the meat. How they've crucified this man. This 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.120 is the era we live in. Everything gets cranked it up, 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.920 you know, you crank it up to eleven because we can. Yeah, 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.120 we came down hard on Dalton last night. For sure, 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:13.280 he came down hard. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.000 And I'll and I'll loan that and that's fine. Like 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:20.000 Katie wasn't on the show, Clint was more Uh, we're 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.080 more protecting him. But I have no problem saying I 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:23.680 was the one that did it, and that's and to me, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.400 and I'll and I'll stand by it, and I'm okay 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.560 with that, you know what. And if the Dodgers have 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.280 a problem with it, then they can call me. They 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:29.880 have my number. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:30.640 But here's the deal. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.760 I want Dalton to succeed and I want the Dodgers 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.640 to succeed. And I'm not saying he can't show emotion. 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.520 What I'm saying is there's a time and place to 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.440 be able to have these conversations, maybe behind closed doors 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.360 or what have you. And again, we're nitpicking at this 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.240 because this is the only thing we have to nitpick 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.559 about because the Dodgers have a commanding lead. The Dodgers 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.160 are going to win the division. The Dodters are going 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.280 to go to the Postseeds and the Dodgers hopefully win 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.920 another World Series, and nobody wants that more than this, 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.080 this trio right here and the Dodgers organization. But that, 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:01.840 to me, the fact that we're talking about it is 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.480 a problem. And again I'm proud of Dalton for going 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.680 and answering the questions and he knows what he needs 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.720 to do. But it's not like we like for I 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:11.080 don't know, it's not like I'm not going. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:11.680 To talk about it. 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.480 And again, when I was with Sports net LA, I 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.880 couldn't talk about it, Okay, but I'm not with sports 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:17.800 NETLA anymore and it was the best seven years of 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.320 my career. But I can talk about it now. And 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.800 you could see that show Hay was visibly upset. Show 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.080 Hay all of a sudden started calling his own pitches. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.120 And again, it's not an enviable position for Dalton Rushing 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.160 to be in. Obviously, we would love for Will Smith 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:32.800 to be back. Will Smith. We don't, you know, there's 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.079 a thing about personal catchers and those types of things, 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.800 but say what you want to say. I would imagine 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.120 that show Hay would rather have Will Smith behind the dish, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:42.800 just because of the pedigree in the back of the 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:44.760 Baseball card and what he's doing. Not to say that 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.280 Dalton isn't a bona fide big league catcher, but right 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.360 now you're our starting catcher. If you go out, or 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:51.840 you act like a fool, or you do all these 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.439 different things than Chuckie Robinson is our starting catcher. There 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.000 comes responsibility with great expectations, you know, it comes a 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:03.600 lot of responsibility, and it is what it is. Sorry, sorry, 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.680 not sorry, and I'll stand by it. So if anybody 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.079 has a problem with it with the organization, please call me. 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.120 I think like another thing that we're gonna that's maybe 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.920 standing out about yesterday is we know that Dalton Rushing 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:18.720 has kind of been like a lightning rod for viral 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.000 sensations and shoeo Tani sneezes and it's. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:22.640 All over my Twitter. 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.200 So there were a lot of different kind of videos 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.640 eyes on this battery. So it doesn't help that Dalton 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:31.760 didn't have a good game yesterday. It doesn't help that 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.160 everything that these two players do is fixated, we're fixating 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.280 on and is blasted all over social media. 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:38.760 I work in the media. I know how this works. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:39.120 I get it. 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.440 But I think for Dalton to struggle on both sides 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:42.520 of the ball. You know, it didn't have a good 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.360 night at the plate, certainly did not have a good 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:45.120 night behind it. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.760 And to have all this different. 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.559 Attention on him probably fed into why with the game 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.520 is sped up on him. He's very aware of the 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.000 perception of him online. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:56.840 It's kind of hard not to be. I mean, tomboy 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:58.600 media is like obsessed with this guy. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.439 Not in a great way, and I like kinds of 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.280 John Boy, but I think when you're thinking about all 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.000 the different things that Dalton is dealing with in that moment, again, 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.520 Shohio Tani best player ever ever going to see he 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:11.959 obviously is going to have to take command in the 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:12.959 control in the situation. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.640 It's not that Dalton is immune of any blame or criticism. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:16.079 He's not. 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.360 But I can be empathetic to a young catcher, a 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.360 young twenty five point I think you're spot on there 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.080 trying to adjust and recover in real time and knowing 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.679 the game of spiraling. And then you you know, you 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.960 get into the clubhouse after the game and you see 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.199 all these viral clips and everyone's talking about it. I 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.920 can certainly understand why that was an unfavorable situation for 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:33.800 Dalton Rushing to be in. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.679 Yeah, it's a tough era to be coming up in 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.760 this game. For sure. Everything is just amplified with social media. 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.520 Everybody trying to be the first person to get a 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.600 clip of just a slight you know, eye movement or whatever, 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:51.120 or you have things as radical as Trek Scoogle screaming 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.480 at the White Sox dugout all that kind of stuff. 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.640 It is what it is, and you know, again, hopefully 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.880 this is a massive learning moment. Then it already appears 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.400 to be massive learning moment for Dalton Rushing. I have 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:07.080 a lot of high hopes for the kid and hopefully 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.600 we can bury this soon enough. Is any any final 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:10.079 thoughts there? 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.240 Nope, said my piece. 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.439 So there were piece. We have more super chats, more 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.960 people also just generally in the chat. Might as well 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.520 dive into these for a second before we tell folks 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.839 about our friends at seat Geek. But Latino slant two 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:28.559 dollars super chats is why is it an issue when 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.120 we want men to grow up as a man? I 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.800 will have no comment. If you guys talk about it, 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.760 I'm gonna be al. I don't know. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:38.520 I don't know that it's about a man growing up. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.520 I think it's more of no, the situation that you're in. 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.760 I mean, this is this is the big boy league now, 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:44.800 like this is not like this is not little league 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.640 where you can you know, toss your bat and you 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.520 know run the wrong direction like if you if you 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.400 hit a ball, you run into third like this is. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.480 You are the starting catcher for the Dodgers. 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.360 And I'm not saying just because it was show Hay 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:58.679 on the mound, I don't care if it was Mike 0:11:58.800 --> 0:11:59.800 Bolsinger on the mound. 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:01.360 You don't show up your pitcher like that. 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:01.800 You have. 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:07.439 Conversations in private. This is not only is it a 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.640 big league club, it's the Dodgers. Yeah, okay, this is 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:12.679 the best team in all thirty. 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:14.520 In the league. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:18.679 Yeah yeah, facts, facts, And it's again it's a different story. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.559 Everything gets blown up. The whole league changes. If you 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.600 look at the new CBA stuff they're trying to pitch. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:26.439 But we're not going to dive into that today. Another 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.280 one we got nine ninety nine from Richie Floores, our friend. 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:33.240 He says, I think Dalton has great control over his emotions. Sincerely, 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.520 Manny Machado, And there is your daily Manny Machado. Reference 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.760 from Richie, but he also says it's real life lessons 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.720 for Dalton. That's the important thing. Some people grow up 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.679 at Triple A, some grow up at Triple A or 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.120 Double A. Some are already grown up, all grown up. 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.720 Right now, we're watching it in real time and it's 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:54.280 going to keep getting better. That's it for now on 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:56.880 the rushing conversation. We have a lot more to get into, 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.440 but first we want to tell you but our friends 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.160 over at the seat Geek, they are today's sponsor of 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:04.920 the show, and of course the Dodgers are off today. 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.560 They do head to San Diego where Katie Woo currently. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.480 Is what I'm looking forward to in that series, I 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:17.199 guess in particular Alana here is Walker Bueller faces the 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.760 Dodgers old Pal World Series champion twice over. 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Could 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.680 you imagine Tommy Lesorda in this day and age with 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:07.880 what went down yesterday? 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.240 Anyway, that's neither here nor there. But look at the 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:11.200 Major League. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.360 Baseball standings in the NLS, ladies and gentlemen. Not only 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:18.480 do our Los Angeles Dodgers have the lead by a 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:22.080 commanding margin of nine games over the San Diego Padres, 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.360 in which they started a great series with this weekend, 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:26.960 the Padre is still very much in the thick of things. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.880 There are a half game back in the Wildcard. 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.280 But what really stands out to me, guys, in our division, 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.280 the Los Angeles Dodgers have a plus one forty four 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.440 run differential, meaning they have scored one hundred and forty 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:40.360 four more runs. 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:41.040 Than they have given up. 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:45.000 The rest of the division, Lady and gentlemen, is a 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:46.680 negative run differential. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.720 The Dodgers are the only team in the division that 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:51.600 have a positive run differential. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.280 And as I go through the standings, boys and girls, 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:58.120 the Dodgers have the best run differential not only in 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.400 the NL West, not only the National League, but in 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.880 all of Major League Baseball. 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:05.200 That is what sticks out to me. 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.680 That's that's pretty good. It's pretty good. Dodgers are pretty 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.600 damn good. By the way, the point of this segment, 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.520 we are gonna sum up the season all you know. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.640 I did say during before the show that we were 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.000 gonna throw Wu under the bus and make her go first, 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.280 but Riz, you took it. Now I'm gonna take it 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.320 from here. And then Katie's gonna learn a thing or two. No, no, no, 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.360 just being weird. But anyways, getting to me what we've 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.040 learned about this season so far, about this team so far, 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.440 as yeah, they're they're a very good team. They they 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.200 are who we thought they were, and we're still not 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:42.200 seeing a fully healthy team. We have not seen the 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.600 expected starting five, a six man rotation. We have not 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.800 seen Mookie get hot really until now. We still haven't 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.680 even seen fully consistent Freddy Freeman. Tay Oskar has been missing. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.160 How good this team is right now and how far 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.760 ahead they are in the NL West, And I guess 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.960 you could say it by best record, run differential, all 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.600 that stuff in baseball. There's a reason other teams are mad, 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.240 there's other fan bases are mad. It's a very good 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.320 baseball team and they're gonna keep getting better. If I 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.080 spin forward a little bit, you are gonna be adding 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.560 an all star closer and Edwin Diaz. They're gonna be 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.960 adding Evan Phillips, who has been a closer for this 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:23.400 team in the past. Blakes now maybe maybe Tyler glasnow 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.080 taa Oscar Hernandez is less than a week away. They 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.760 are gonna get better. And obviously everybody wants to talk 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.879 about the trade deadline. I don't know, and we are 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.080 gonna talk trade deadline a little bit. I don't know 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:35.840 that they need to make a lot of moves. They 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.000 just need time. They need to get better. But it 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.080 has been a fun season so far. A lot of headlines, 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.159 some of them not so savory, but it's a good 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.199 team to watch in Show Hey. Also gotta shout out 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:50.440 Show Hey in that cy On conversation. An absolute animal 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.640 that man is w What do you think about this team? 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.720 I think coming in for my first year in Dodger Land, 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.640 there were two things I was really excited to see, 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.520 one being the show Hey two Wai version, first time 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.600 that he's done this for the Dodgers, and this is 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.280