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The Dodgers are WORLD SERIES champions! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not put it in one of the top three offensive players in the
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league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see LeBron doing that a game.
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Where you got to go? Before I told you giant feet
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worldwidesportsradio.com. I'm trying to keep my voice wet.
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I've been working all weekend and I know everybody's probably
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saying what the hell does that mean?
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How do you keep your voice wet? Well, you got to keep it wet.
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You, you got to drink water. And that's what I've been doing
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over the last 24 hours. I did 3 weddings this weekend.
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I went from Friday to Saturday to Sunday.
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It was a long process. It was probably 24 hours worth
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of DJing in three days. It's a lot of work.
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I don't know if anybody's prepared.
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The preparation behind it is significant.
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And you know, I'm a little tired.
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I, I, I actually went to work today.
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I work at a hospital and then I'm here, you know, doing a four
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hour show. It's not easy, ladies and
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gentlemen, but happy to entertain you guys and we are
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going to entertain you guys throughout the show.
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I will say this also this weather, I love the, the cold.
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I love the fall feeling here in Long Island.
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It was about, I would say, 5554 today.
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And then it started to get a little bit more chilly, looked
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like it was going to rain. It didn't rain.
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It's cloudy. And if anybody or everybody who
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doesn't know, daylight savings time was on Saturday, late
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Saturday night. So now it's getting dark at like
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5:30 in the afternoon. So it's completely dark here in
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Long Island. Seasonal depression is real
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seasonal depression. Like we were talking about a
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bunch of buddies in the neighborhood and it's like once
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it gets to this point, you're like, and it doesn't really hit
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you. One of one of our neighbors,
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he's he's a younger dad and he's like, man, it really, I didn't
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really think it was that big of a deal until I kid.
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Now he's like, I feel like a terrible dad because it's like,
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what can we do? We can only go to the Y so much
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or the the bounce house, which gives me anxiety even saying it.
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But it's like you're right because there's only so much you
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can do. And it's like your body tells
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you like, oh, it's dark. Like, oh, I should be getting
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dinner ready and you're like, it's 530.
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Like what is going on right now? I don't like it.
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I, I really don't like it, but you get used to it because as it
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gets colder in the winter time and you could see your, your,
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you could see the, the flame or whatever you call it, like the
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smoke coming out of your mouth because it's too.
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Cold your breath. Yeah, your breath.
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I don't know what you call it, just your breath and all the,
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the, the fizz coming out of your mouth.
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It's, it's a little bit different than in the summertime
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when you're sweating your butt off and you're trying to figure
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out, well, when am I going to get into the pool or if I'm
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going to the ocean, when am I going to the beach?
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I got to go to work. The beach is closed at six, 7:00
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and you can't go to the beach anyway.
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So unless you're a surfer and you, you have to find your way.
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But what is this? What, what is it?
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There? It is daylight savings time.
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There it is right there. Ladies and gentlemen, it was
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2:00 in the morning when daylight savings time, daylight
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savings time was here in New York.
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I don't know where it is anywhere else, but it's.
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I think that's universal is about two.
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Yeah, so it was 2:00 AM. Would you rather?
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Would you rather be hot or would you rather be cold?
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Cold. Absolutely cold.
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The heat. See, the problem here is if
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you're too hot, you can take your shirt off all the way to
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your bare ass. You're still hot.
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You're still hot. You.
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Can't take your skin? Off No, you can't take your skin
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off. So you could jump in.
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You know, you could jump in a pool or do with something of
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that magnitude. But if what happens if you don't
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have a pool next to you, what are you going to jump in a cold
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shower? I mean, honestly, with the
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winter, you can put on a coach, you can put on a beanie, you can
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put on gloves, you can put on boots.
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It'll keep you warm. You can put on sweats.
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You can never be too cold when it comes to the winter time, but
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in the summertime you can be too hot and you could be burning,
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you could be sweating, you could be leaking.
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I call it leaking because once it gets to my my ass, as we call
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it swamp ass, it's no fun. No fun Poops is laughing, but
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it's true. You get the sweat that rolls
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down your back. Dude, when I go to the gym and
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even now with the, you know, the winter time coming around the
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corner and I'm running on the treadmill, I'm walking on the
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treadmill, I'm sweating and where does it hit me?
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First it it it heads to my ass. That's where it heads.
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And then it starts to leak down my back.
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But it's usually on any guy. I don't know women because they
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wear thongs. You know, they do all they wear
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these like they wear nothing under their shorts or whatever
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the hell they're wearing their body suits.
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So they don't sweat as much as we do.
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We sweat like crazy and I, I, that's one of the reasons why I
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don't like cardio and I don't know like going on a treadmill.
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Now I've been doing it every single day and I'm so used to
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it. So it, it's not one of the fun
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things to do when you go to the gym is go on, hey, I'm going to
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go run on the cardio cardio machines.
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I'm going to go on the treadmill.
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I'm going to go on the elliptical.
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I'm going to go on the, the stairs.
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I, I, I, I, I don't like it, but you have to especially if you
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want to keep your A1C down, which I've been doing very, very
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good. And by the way, Coach Fish, you
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know all about that. And I've, I've taken some advice
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from people that have been through diabetes and I don't
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have diabetes, but I don't want diabetes because our executive
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producer has, he is diabetic and he goes through a lot of
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different things and trials and tribulations in his life.
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And I, I, I sincerely, you know, wish nothing but the best for
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him. It's, it's not easy.
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My father was diabetic. So I don't want to go through
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that. It's the worst of the worst
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diseases you can go through because there's no control of
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it. And even when you try to control
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it, you can't control it. And I'm sure Fish could tell you
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a bunch of stories. And I don't really want to get
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into it. It's his business.
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But yeah, so I, I, I don't want to be diabetic.
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So that's all I'm going to say about that.
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And that's what I'm. I'm doing treadmill work and
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I've lost 30 lbs. I've been drinking lots and lots
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of water, ladies and gentlemen. That's what I've been doing,
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drinking a lot of it. But it's not fun when you're so
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used to eating and and drinking all the different things you've
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been doing since you were a kid and now you can't even do it.
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So because you got to be careful.
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So it's time consuming, speedy, you know, all about time
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consuming or consumptions, as we all know.
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Anyways. In Saturday night's Game 7, the
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Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5 to 4 in 11
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innings to become back-to-back World Series champions.
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The Blue Jays took a three nothing lead after Bichette hit
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a three run shot off of Otani in the third inning.
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After the Dodgers fought back with a couple of sacrifice flies
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to make it 4 to two months, he hit a solo shot in the 8th
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inning to cut the deficit to four to three, setting the stage
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for the unlikeliest of heroes. Rojas, the Dodgers 9 hitter and
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ace fielding second baseman, hit a solo home run to tie the game
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with one out in the ninth inning.
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Rojas then made the game saving defensive play, throwing a base
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runner out at home in the bottom of the inning and extras the
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Dodgers brought. They brought in Yamamoto less
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than 24 hours after winning game number six.
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He pitched almost 3 innings to get the win after Smith hit hit
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the series winning home run in the top of the 11th.
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Yamamoto was named the World Series MVP with three wins, a
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one point O2 ERA and 15 strikeouts in the series.
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The Dodgers have won three out of the last 6 World Series.
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Well I wrote a story after the World Series.
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I actually stopped. I sat at 7-11 after the World
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Series and wrote a long story about this unbelievable win.
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And if you're a Dodger fan, there's really nothing to say
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congratulations to the Dodgers. They bought another
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championship. And I know everybody's going to
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say, well, you're you're a hated Yankee fan.
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You hate the Dodgers. You don't want to see the
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Dodgers win. No, that's not it.
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That's not it, guys. The fact is, and I'll go back
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and forth with this, the Dodgers have been an organization that
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has built their team around deferred money.
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Now, every team could use the deferred money.
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I know that's what Jabba is going to say.
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I know that's what everybody will say.
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Every baseball team could use the deferred aspect of the game.
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Well, why haven't other teams done it?
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And if there have been teams that have done it, they haven't
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done it as much as the LA Dodgers half.
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And why now? We've seen Mookie Betts.
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Mookie Betts took the deferred money.
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Freddie Friedman took the deferred money.
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Yamamoto decided to come and play with Otani.
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Sasaki did the same. We look at this team.
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You brought Hernandez in, yet you sprinkle a little this guy
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and Rojas and you sprinkle a little this guy, Will Smith.
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And this team is a championship contending team.
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They're stacked from top to bottom.
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Their relief is one of the best in baseball, even though they
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weren't very good in the World Series and throughout the
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playoffs. But this rotation, what's now
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deferred money glass. Now I I would say some of it
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deferred, but most of it is paid upfront.
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This is a team that built their dynasty and winning around money
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and paying players to come here and honestly make a deal, spin
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the wheel and make the deal and say, you know what, come here,
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we'll give you $10 million. And 20 years from now or 12
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years from now, we'll pay you the rest of the money.
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You're going to get endorsed, you're going to get rings, and
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we're going to become a dynasty of an organization, and you're
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going to have a chance to really be a part of something special.
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Now, everybody's going to look at this and they're going to
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say, didn't the Yankees do that in the 90s?
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And, and we've said this over and over and over again, the
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Yankees did not do this in the 90s.
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And if we want to go back and we look at the 90's, the Yankees
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didn't win their first title to until 96.
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They brought up Derek Jeter in 95.
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And Derek Jeter eventually became the captain of team later
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in his career. I I would probably 3-4 years
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after winning a couple of titles, but before that Derek
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Jeter was young and they had Bernie Williams on this roster.
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They made a trade. They brought in Paul O'Neill for
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Roberto Kelly and I remember Roberto Kelly, he was a top
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prospect for the New York Yankees.
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The Yankees then decided to bring up players like Mariano
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Rivera, which if anybody has not checked out the Expos
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documentary, the Yankees made a trade with the Expos to bring in
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Wickman. That was the trade that the
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Yankees made the big move to bring in a relief pitcher, John
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Wetland. He was traded to the Yankees
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from the Expos when the Expos were trying to tear apart that
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team before they decided to move them to.
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We all know where they went, Washington.
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But if you go back, John Wetland was the guy.
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He was the closer. Marion Rivera got called up.
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He was the 8th inning guy. Andy Pettit got called up in
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9596. Then we we saw Jorge Posada, we
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saw the team being built around a core of players.
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You brought in Wade Box, you brought in Paul O'Neill, Tino
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Martinez. The Yankees brought in, they
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brought in all these guys. Then eventually Scott Broaches
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and Charlie Hayes and we could go on and on and on with the
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roster. Most of those guys were not
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superstars. Paul O'Neill and Tino Martinez
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were great players. Paul O'Neill came from
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Cincinnati. He did win a title with
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Cincinnati, but Paul O'Neill was up and down before he was traded
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to the New York Yankees and became the Warrior.
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Tino Martinez was a good player. He was a great first baseman
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with a lot of pop. Did he have the power that he
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had when he went to Yankee Stadium?
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No, he did not. It took him a little while and
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then he hit those fifty home runs.
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He had a he had a fifty home run season, hit a couple of 40 home
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run season or close to 40 home run seasons.
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He became a power hitter with the New York Yankees.
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Maybe because of the short porch and maybe because of the depth
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of the lineup that the Yankees built.
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The Yankees did not buy their championships.
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They didn't. And anybody that is going to
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argue that with me go back in time and look at the roster.
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When you look at this Dodger team, I I just go up and down
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it. This is not the same thing.
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When you're trying to compare the Yankees and the Dodgers,
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You're you're you can't compare both dynasties.
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The Yankees went on to win 3 championships in the row, won
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four out of five championships, and everybody says, well, the
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Dodgers could do that. The Dodgers could win 3 next
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year, and they very much could. Blake Snell is still very young.
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Glass now is still young. Otani is still fairly young.
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He'll be 32 next year. Yamamoto is a young pitcher.
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Sasaki is what, 29 years old? This is a great rotation, the
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line up. Freddie Freeman's getting up in
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age. Mookie Betts is still young.
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Muncie is still middle age. You know, you look at this
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roster, this is still a capable roster.
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And who knows what they do in the offseason.
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Maybe they make a move for Bryce Harper.
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Maybe they make a move for one of these guys like Kyle Tucker
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and Kyle Tucker did say takes deferred money to go and play
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for the Dodgers. I don't know.
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But what I do know is baseball needs to figure this out.
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Now, I know everybody's going to say, oh, you're a sore loser.
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You're a poor man's Dodger fan. And I'm, I'm not, I'm not a poor
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man's Dodger fan. That's what somebody told me on
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social media says you're a Yankee fan, you're a poor man's
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Dodger fan. I said poor man, the Yankee won,
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the Yankees won 27 World Series and I've seen about 5 or 6 of
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them. OK, How am IA poor man's Yankee
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fan or Dodger fan? I'm not.
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I just know what I see and what I've seen with the Dodgers and
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what the Dodgers have done. Is it bettering baseball?
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Is it making baseball better? Is it challenging other teams to
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do the same thing that they have done over the last past three or
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four or five years? The answer would be no, because
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no team in baseball can do that or will do that.
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The Red Sox will never do that. The Red Sox are not it.
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Henry will never do that and the Yankees have already come out
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and said they're not going to do that.
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They don't do that. That's not what the organization
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does. And and again, it doesn't work.
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Baseball over the years, it's been around, deferred, money's
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been around forever and nobody's done it or they've done it in
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increments. But the Dodgers have taken it to
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a whole nother level. And now baseball after next year
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is going to go on strike. They're going to go on strike.
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They're going to have to figure things out.
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Are these owners going to sit there and allow this to continue
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happening as the Dodgers continue to smile and win rings,
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Especially if the Dodgers pull off another championship next
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year to make it three in a row? The answer would be no.
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And if you're a baseball fan and you're going to next season
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wondering, well, I'm a Met fan. I'm, I'm not a Met fan, but I
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have met fan friends that say, oh, I'm a Met fan, I'm a lousy
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Met fan, or I'm, I'm a hated Met fan, or I'm I hate being a Met
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fan. The Mets built this team,
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bringing in Soto and Lindor, and they thought they were going to
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bring in Vladimir Guerrero in the offseason.
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Well, they missed out on that. But they're building by spending
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money and they're never going to get over the hump because
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there's no way in hell the Mets are going to beat the Dodgers.
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And, and what the Dodgers have put together over the last three
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seasons, there's no way in hell, Mets fans, not a chance.
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They keep bringing in Pete Alonso, Kyle Tucker and Bryce
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Harper. They're not beating the Dodgers.
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If the Dodgers are even half healthy, as we've seen, they've
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got healthy at the end of the season.
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That to me is bothersome. And everybody's going to say,
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well, wait a second, the Blue Jays gave them a challenge, OK.
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The Blue Jays gave them a challenge.
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Do you think this Blue Jays team is going to be in the World
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Series next year? The answer would be no.
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This is going to be a completely different team.
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They're not bringing Bichette back.
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They're not paying him. They just paid Vladimir Guerrero
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a lot of money. So.
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And now they have other pictures that they might not be able to
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bring back. Shane Bieber might be a free
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agent. He might go elsewhere.
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There are other guys that are free agents at the end of the
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season and after what they did in the World Series and
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throughout the playoffs, they're going to make themselves a lot
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of money. The Dodgers, this is practically
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the same team. They're all under contract.
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Every single one of these guys are under contract next year,
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and who's to say they're not going to add another one or two
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players or another relief pitcher and give them deferred
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money? That's what bothers me about
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this. And as a Yankee fan, I don't
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think the Yankees are going to win because no matter what the
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Yankees are going to do, the Yankees already said they're not
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doing this deferred money thing. And a lot of the players that
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the Yankees are even thought to pay deferred money to, they've
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already said no to it. So Kyle Tucker might go to the
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Dodgers if it helps him win a championship or two or three
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championships and take deferred money because he's going to get
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endorsement sponsorships. Who knows what the Dodgers are
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going to offer to Kyle Tucker if they think that Kyle Tucker
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would be a good fit with them. That's what bothers me about
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this. Because now that 1234 players,
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big superstars have done it, now everybody's looking at it saying
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I could go play for the Dodgers right now.
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I can win multiple championships.
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The Dodgers could win 5 championships in a row if I go
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to that team. And that's what bothers me about
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this. Not the fact that the Dodgers
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have figured out a way like Bill Belichick.
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He found ways to win. He found ways to trick the
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rulebook, to work in his favor, even though it was legal.
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A lot of coaches didn't think it was legal, but he found a way to
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make it work for the Patriots, make it work for him.
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And this is the same thing the Dodgers have figured out.
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Hey, this has been around for a long time.
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The Tampa Bay Rays did it for years with the shifting.
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Madden was the king of it. It was been shifting's been
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around forever since the 50s and the 60s.
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Joe Madden decided, hey, you know what, I'm going to do it in
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a I'm going to completely build my defense and my team around
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shifting around the ballpark. I'm going to look at analytics
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and I'm going to use the analytics to make sure that I
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could defend against every, every single player that comes
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to my ballpark or any other team's ballpark.
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And that's why the Rays were so successful over the years when
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Joe was there and they still using it now.
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Baseball has changed it. They've taken away shifting and
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in some kind of way, I mean, you can use it in different ways,
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but you really can't use it the way you used it.
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They used it and other teams have used it over the years
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through analytics. Baseball needs to figure out how
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to controlled control this deferred money situation.
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Because if they don't, the Dodgers are going to continue
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winning because players are going to want to go there.
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Players know they're going to make their money back and
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they're going to get paid and they can win titles and with
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titles brings superstardom and, and, and, and being compared to
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some of the greatest franchise of all time.
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Could you imagine the Dodgers win 5 championships in a row and
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be considered the New York Yankees Of what?
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What was that the 50s when they what, they won five in a row?
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I mean come on, just think about it.
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Because of the difference in and thought of different decades and
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the way the decades were played because there was no trades and
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there was no free agency at the time.
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It's a different sport now, and now the Dodgers can spin the
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wheel and make the deal. Yeah, We've always looked talked
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about like loopholes with these salary cap situations.
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Obviously we've seen we got mad at the NHL for with the Tampa
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Bay Lightning for doing that, for keeping their players on
23:51
long term IR just for them to come back to the playoffs and
23:54
then get them, get them healthy. In football.
23:56
We've seen that kind of thing with converting signing bonuses
23:59
into or converting base salary and a signing bonuses to get out
24:02
of bad cap situations. But the difference with those
24:04
two in this is the contracts are a lot bigger and they go for a
24:07
longer period of time. In football, you can't sign sign
24:09
a contract more than I believe 10 years.
24:11
That was what Holmes his contract he signed in 2020.
24:14
In baseball, you could sign an even longer than that as we've
24:16
seen with certain coaches or certain players that have gotten
24:20
1516 year deals. And the the counter's going to
24:23
be for the big market teams like the Yankees and the Mets to try
24:26
to counter that, to do exactly what the Dodgers are doing and
24:28
try to make it work for a middle market team.
24:30
It's going to be what Java you have brought up many times and I
24:33
have brought up years ago with the Braves, like them paying
24:35
their players early but finding a balance to make it work
24:39
because we've deferred. Money's been around for a while,
24:41
but it was only used as an escape.
24:43
It wasn't used as a pre contract strategy.
24:47
The Orioles used it with Chris Davis's contract.
24:49
The Mets used with Bobby Benia's contract and not have to pay
24:51
them then. And now you're seeing him do it
24:53
as a strategy to try to balance it out.
24:55
If you're a middle market team, I think the philosophy probably
24:58
has to shift it. All right, let's pay one guy a
25:00
lot of money upfront like Toronto did with Vlad Junior,
25:03
and then try to make it work with what you have on the roster
25:05
after that. And maybe that's the counter to
25:07
make it work. And for the low market teams,
25:09
it's probably just get your owners to freaking spend.
25:12
Otherwise you're not going to go anywhere at this point.
25:13
Because in general, even before this Dodgers run, you generally
25:16
had to have a top 12 payroll to win win a World Series title.
25:20
The Rays have done very well the other teams.
25:22
Kansas City didn't. OK.
25:24
I'm just saying in general. Like I'm just saying Kansas City
25:27
didn't and there are teams that have won without being a top 12
25:31
spending team. So there there is a possibility.
25:34
And but my problem here is, is that you're looking at this
25:39
team, this Dodger team and nobody's taking shots at what
25:43
the Dodgers have done, the success of the new, the, the LA
25:46
Dodgers. I'm just saying that is this
25:49
good for baseball? If you're a baseball fan, I know
25:52
Jabba is an ex baseball player. He's a baseball enthusiast.
25:56
I love baseball. I'm a Yankee fan.
25:58
I follow baseball strategically every single year.
26:01
There's a ton of baseball fans here in New York.
26:04
Baseball has been America's pastime.
26:06
So I, I'm bothered by it when I see the Dodgers pull off 2
26:11
championships, 3 championships in six years.
26:14
And there's nothing that tells me that this is not going to
26:17
happen again next year. I expect the Dodgers to bring in
26:21
another player, another superstar in the offseason and
26:24
tell him, listen, you come here, you're going to win titles.
26:27
All you got to do is take less money right now and we'll pay
26:30
you later. 10 years from now, you'll be making all that money
26:34
back. It might not be from me as the
26:36
owner of the team. It might be from two other
26:38
owners or another owner after I sell the team for $15 billion
26:43
because the team's worth more because of all these
26:46
championships. Josh in the comments section,
26:48
anyone could do what Dodgers did it successfully, yes, and that's
26:50
why I'm saying I. Think they're I'm not saying
26:52
that. That's not the argument here.
26:54
We all know everybody can do it, but nobody's going to do it as
26:58
much and as good as the Dodgers have, because the Dodgers have
27:02
set the what? What would you say?
27:04
You set the field? They set the field now.
27:07
And now with Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts, all MVPS at the
27:11
time, at the prime of their careers, and now Otani doing it,
27:15
everybody sees it. Wow.
27:17
I get to go and play with Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Shay
27:20
Otani. Oh, by the way, a cornerstone
27:23
pitcher now in Yamamamoto. I mean, come on, who would I
27:27
want to play over there? Baseball needs to step in and do
27:29
something about it. That's all I'm saying.
27:32
And the players I think have to do those, that kind of thing
27:34
too. The influence that Otani has
27:36
from AI guess from a recruiting standpoint, we talk about it in
27:39
the NBA more because of the players run league.
27:41
But Otani had the influence with the Japanese players to bring
27:44
Yamamoto and Sasaki there. Is that kind of thing going to
27:47
happen with somebody else? Is Juan Soto going to say, it's
27:49
not going to be Vlad now, but is Juan Soto going to say, all
27:51
right, will you take deferred money?
27:52
I'll pay you a little bit more in my 765 million to get
27:55
somebody, the Mets or somebody with the Yankees, ETC.
27:57
Maybe there's a player angle of that too, because we've decided
28:00
many times there probably will be a lockout, but the players
28:02
union in baseball is so strong they're not going to give in to
28:04
a salary cap. No, I mean, you present really,
28:09
really good questions, but it's just when you, when you say
28:12
what, like what do the players do?
28:14
The players want to win. So there's nothing that they're
28:17
going to do to stop this in any way, shape or form.
28:21
And there's nothing there that they would do, honestly, from
28:24
the guys that I've talked to, current and former.
28:29
And so I just think it's, there are obviously things you could,
28:33
you could talk about on the table, you know, as far as like
28:36
the open forums that we have every time that we have, you
28:39
know, meetings and, and whatever.
28:41
But I just I don't think that there's anything realistically
28:46
that are there ideas 100% of what you could do?
28:49
Yeah, but I don't think that it would ever come to fruition of
28:53
anything being able to put into motion that would change it from
28:57
from doing it. And and Speedy bring up a great
28:59
point because it now it's kind of leverage.
29:02
Now it's kind of like, hey, do this, we'll win.
29:04
But you're still going to get paid.
29:06
Just maybe not now where as back in the day it was kind of to to
29:10
CYA, you know, to to cover your butt because it's like, hey, if
29:14
it doesn't work and we can still get some guys and not, you know,
29:17
still be able to compete and win.
29:19
So it's kind of switched roles. If you really look at it as kind
29:23
of what it was and and how it's been in the game a lot of years,
29:27
just not at the forefront of what it is now.
29:31
I think it's it's obvious. You bring up like the 90s, you
29:36
know, Yankees teams, whatever. This this is exactly what we
29:39
heard when we won an O 9 because the money we spent and now you
29:43
look at the Yankees, their payroll is is middle there.
29:46
I mean, it's higher, higher echelon, but not I mean, it's
29:49
not like one or two as it was back then when we spent all the
29:53
money on the guys and then we we ended up winning.
29:55
But baseball also too. The best team doesn't
29:58
necessarily win all the time. Do I think the Dodgers were the
30:00
best team in, you know, in that series?
30:05
No, but the ball just fell their way every time that you could
30:08
think about it. And it that's just the way
30:11
baseball works. Sometimes I I just don't I don't
30:13
think. Will they have a chance with
30:17
what they've constructed? Yes.
30:19
I mean, on paper, yeah, they should be there again.
30:22
You know, it's always funny when when the season's over, how fast
30:25
these power rankings come out and you're just like, what?
30:28
Like how? But and you also said, will the
30:30
Blue Jays, you know, be back next year?
30:32
Probably not. But were the Blue Jays expected
30:34
to be there this year? No, they weren't.
30:38
So you just it it's it's kind of tough as a player and that
30:45
played for a little bit, but as a fan of baseball for longer
30:48
than I would ever play the game no matter what, I don't hate it
30:53
and I know some people will. And I think what also now like
30:59
the more I take a step back and take like the baseball part of
31:04
it away, other than the championships, whatever, the
31:08
guys that are doing it are really, really likable guys.
31:11
You know, Freddie Freeman's great.
31:13
You know, you look at Kershaw, you look at me and obviously
31:15
Kersh didn't didn't take whatever, but you know, he stood
31:18
by these guys and like you root like these aren't the AJ
31:21
Pierzynski's and and I don't know AJ personally, but he's one
31:25
of those dudes you hated on your that when you played against
31:28
him, but you loved him on your team.
31:30
And but all these guys you root for and and you see, you know,
31:33
all the things that they've done and and how you know they've
31:37
came together and and you look at a guy that hadn't hit a
31:39
Homer. You know, September was the last
31:42
time Rojas hit a Homer and you don't expect him to hit Will
31:45
Smith. It was Will Smith and you know
31:48
he is that. So do I think it's good for
31:51
baseball? Yes, I do.
31:55
I really do. Because as you guys are both
31:58
brought up in in in different ways now as AI guess, non big
32:05
market, medium, whatever you want to call it.
32:08
But now if you you have a guy and I'll use schemes as an
32:12
example where they don't want to spend money.
32:15
Now you have a guy stepping up and maybe he's like, hey, we've
32:18
got to do so if we want to win and I want to stay here, then
32:21
you got to spend money somehow, someway, because that's exactly
32:24
what's happening. And we're not in.
32:26
I, I would hate to be able to, to be on a team and collect a
32:29
paycheck and know I can start my vacation, you know, October 1st.
32:33
You know, that would suck. I don't, I don't play the game
32:36
and I hope a lot of guys don't play the game for that reason
32:39
other than just collect a paycheck.
32:40
I don't think they do. There are some that do I, I know
32:43
a few personally, but, and that stinks because they're just
32:46
really good at baseball but don't care about the game.
32:48
There's, there's plenty of, there's one collecting a
32:51
paycheck right now that could care 2 craps about baseball.
32:54
And I won't mention him, but his initials are AR and he plays
32:57
infield third base. But you guys can get the point.
33:01
So I, I think it is because it forces the hand of the owners
33:05
because really at the end of the day, every owner can do it.
33:07
They're all do it and they're making a million no matter what.
33:11
Will they do it? Do people view it as it's bad
33:16
for the game? And and I can see why I'm not
33:19
disagreeing that that there aren't parts of it where it it
33:23
does, because now it's like it just sucks as parody in the
33:27
game. And we've seen it where it's
33:30
like, OK, you expect these things of like the teams that
33:38
are supposed to be in it all the time.
33:40
And so it's really one of those good in certain context and and
33:47
bad in other contexts. I just, I don't know if there's
33:50
a way to regulate it. I really wish there was kind of
33:53
more like I guess. You got to limit how much you
33:57
could spend a year for like a deferred money.
34:00
If there was, and I guess the only, what is the way to say it
34:03
Like not a cap, but like, hey, every team has this.
34:07
It's kind of like the way you go above the luxury tax, right?
34:11
This team, every team gets a certain percent of it did now
34:15
just because they they spend so much, do they get, you know, do
34:20
they get to spend more or does this team that didn't spend or I
34:23
don't know the the right way or do you brainstorm and just a
34:27
round table it up and and throw ideas and see what happens?
34:30
Are you thinking like a budget of like 5 years of deferred
34:33
money and you get to use it in increments type thing?
34:36
Like like any structure as far as where you do it over time or
34:40
you do it over like year to year.
34:42
And if you don't use it, like is it like remember roll over
34:45
minutes? Do you get to roll that over in
34:46
the next year because you didn't use it?
34:48
Or hey, if you don't use it, you lose it?
34:50
So I, I, honestly, I, I don't know what would be better for
34:54
the game. I like it because it forces the
34:56
hand sometimes of the owners to try and do certain things.
35:00
But I also like if you're a player and wants to win and you
35:02
get a play with the Mookie bets and the Freddy's and the
35:05
Yamamotos and the and Otanis, sign me up.
35:08
If I'm if I'm making $4 million less, but I'm still going to
35:10
make it on the back end and I want to win and and have a
35:13
really good clubhouse, then heck yeah, why would I not?
35:16
Well, that's not that's not the argument here.
35:18
The argument here is that I believe that this is not
35:21
beneficial for baseball. If, if baseball and some of
35:24
these teams want to compete with the Dodgers for the future,
35:27
baseball needs to figure out how to control it.
35:30
If they don't figure out how to control it, you're going to have
35:33
the next Japanese player wanting to go and play with Otani and
35:37
Yamamoto and Sasaki. How is that beneficial for other
35:41
teams to compete with the Dodgers?
35:44
How about the National League when you're going into a season
35:46
knowing that you don't have a chance against the Dodgers?
35:50
And by the way, for all you Ohtani fans that thought Ohtani
35:55
was the greatest baseball player of all time, well, let's look at
35:59
the two pitching opportunities he had in this series.
36:02
They weren't good. He pitched in game #7 in the
36:06
first 3 innings. Do you want to look at his
36:09
numbers, guys? I, I, I.
36:11
The fact here is I'm not saying Otani isn't special.
36:14
He's special. He's unique as they call him the
36:17
Unicorn, as we've heard a rod say it, Derek Jeter say it, and
36:23
everybody else say it. That's great.
36:25
He pitched 2.1 innings, five hits, three runs and three
36:30
innings. His and his ERA was a 7.56 in
36:35
those in in that game and even in in the game before that he
36:40
didn't pitch very well. Now he hits and he's hit well in
36:44
this series and he's hit well pretty much throughout the
36:48
playoffs. Even though he was I think
36:50
throughout the playoffs he was 245 hitter or something of that
36:52
magnitude. I don't have the numbers in
36:54
front of me, but if they weren't he wasn't hitting 300 throughout
36:57
the playoffs. The fact here is you have to
37:01
understand something when you're comparing the greatest baseball
37:04
players of all time. You got to show up in the big
37:07
games and you got to do it in every kind of way.
37:10
That's why. That's why guys like Alex
37:12
Rodriguez was attacked all those years until he showed up in 2009
37:17
and put the Yankees on his shoulders.
37:20
It doesn't work if you don't do it in the big games.
37:22
Nobody cares what you do in the regular season.
37:25
No, but. You can't say.
37:26
You can't say Judge is one of the best in because he's no he's
37:28
not. No, I didn't say his.
37:30
One, I'm just I'm agreeing with him.
37:33
I'm I'm not saying Aaron Judge and Otani have not proven
37:36
themselves to be great in the playoffs.
37:38
Aaron Judge finally in this playoff run he had, he was
37:41
batting 500. But we don't know what we don't
37:44
know. But how does that not go in?
37:46
You look at a dude like an help with the Giants when he went
37:49
off. And if you look at his career
37:50
playoff numbers, they're pretty stupid, but you're going to
37:53
consider him in the biggest stages to be one of the best.
37:55
Carlos Beltran, Albert Pools was a great player.
37:58
Albert Pools, I mean, but they showed up great, yeah, but they
38:01
showed up in the playoffs. And if you had you.
38:04
Just said in the biggest games they're the.
38:06
Biggest games, yeah, I'm giving you great.
38:09
I'm giving you great players that were great in the regular
38:11
season and showed up in the playoffs.
38:15
Miguel Cabrera was also great player.
38:17
You play with Miguel Mickey, you, you know how great he was
38:21
great. One of the greatest hitters, one
38:22
of the greatest right handeders of all time.
38:25
When it came down to when it came down to the playoffs, was
38:29
he not showing up in the playoffs?
38:30
He was one of the best hitters in the playoffs.
38:32
You couldn't pitch around the guy.
38:34
He hit everything. You have to show up in the big
38:38
stages and I don't care what Ohtani has done in his career in
38:42
the regular season. Until he does that and until
38:45
he's unstoppable in the playoffs, I'm not putting him
38:49
with Babe Ruth. I'm not putting them with the
38:51
greatest. Everybody stoppable in the
38:52
playoffs, dudes. I mean the greatest.
38:55
They still fail 70% of the time. I'm just saying, I'm telling you
38:59
right now to me, I look at Otani.
39:01
He's not an everyday player. He's a pitcher every fifth day
39:05
and he's a DH. OK, so David Ortiz isn't isn't a
39:09
great player since he's no not an everyday player because.
39:11
First, first of all, first of all.
39:13
But you just said he just DH. I didn't say Otani wasn't a
39:16
great player. I'm not saying Otani is not a
39:19
great player. I'm not putting.
39:21
I'm not. I'm not putting Otani as A to me
39:25
when I look at a player you and I'm looking at comparison to the
39:28
great players in the league, Aaron Judge being one of them or
39:32
even Cal rally. If you're going to ask me right
39:34
now, who am I building my team around?
39:36
I'm building around one of those guys.
39:38
I'm not building around Shayo Otani because he only pitches
39:41
every fifth day. I don't care what he does.
39:44
I don't care what he does when he's ADH hitter and how many
39:46
bases he steals. To me, if if we see Otani play
39:50
on a bad team with the Angels, we've also seen Mike Trout play
39:53
on a bad team. This guy was the best player in
39:55
baseball For how many years did they win?
39:58
Did they win? No, they didn't win.
39:59
Oh, Tony had to go to the Dodgers with the deferred money,
40:02
with Friedman and Mookie Betts and all those superstars to win.
40:06
OK. And that's all I'm saying He had
40:09
to buy. What's wrong with that?
40:10
But my child hasn't won diddly score.
40:12
That's funny you. Want him to stay with the
40:14
angels? I'm telling you, he bought his
40:15
championships. That's what I'm saying.
40:17
And I don't care what you say, fish.
40:18
That's what I look at. You bought your championship.
40:21
And so he was comparison comparatus to Ted Williams and
40:25
Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle, guys that were pretty much on those
40:29
teams besides Babe Ruth being sold to the Yankees, Mickey
40:33
Mantle, Yogi Barrel, all those guys, they were.
40:36
I don't really think that's fair.
40:38
Well, OK, I don't want to hear your take to it.
40:41
Just give me your take and get off.
40:42
I don't want to hear. Just said you don't want to.
40:44
Hear my I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear what you're
40:46
going. To say about Otani, I won't.
40:47
Say, I don't want to hear what you have to say about Otani.
40:49
I really don't. I've heard enough about it.
40:51
I've heard enough with you, with the oh Donny thing.
40:54
That's it. Let's hear what you got to say
40:56
about the World Series. That's it.
40:59
The whole point is they don't need Otani to be Babe Ruth.
41:01
He's one of five guys they could throw at you in the World
41:05
Series. You realize that he's their 4th
41:07
best pitcher then in the World Series for them?
41:10
That's pretty ridiculous considering Yamamoto played like
41:14
no one's really ever played in the World Series with three
41:17
wins, 1 ERA. It's like Randy Johnson type
41:20
stuff that we're sick we saw out of him.
41:23
And then you have Snell, who was great, Glasno who was great.
41:28
I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody.
41:29
I know I'm forgetting one of them, but they just kept
41:31
throwing guys at you and Otani's just one of those guys as a
41:35
pitcher. And he wasn't bad necessarily,
41:37
he just wasn't great. Gave up that three run home run
41:40
to Bichette and he got the two inherited runs after the two
41:43
runs. His era in the World Series was
41:45
6. It's not good, but I'm.
41:46
Telling you how he got all the runs.
41:47
He gave up five runs and two inherited runs. 6 That's what
41:51
I'm going to say 6. All right, well.
41:53
Greatest player of all time would not be pitching a. 6th of
41:56
the. Game in a World Series.
41:57
No one's saying that. No one cares.
41:58
You kept. You kept saying you don't want
42:00
to hear me talk about. You keep making it about Otani.
42:02
You brought up Otani. You just brought up Otani again.
42:05
Well, he's on the team that we're talking about, dummy.
42:08
Spit it out. Don't call me a dummy, man.
42:10
Don't call me. Well then stop telling me call
42:11
me a dummy. Dude, don't call me a dummy.
42:13
Don't call me a dummy. Sorry.
42:15
Don't call me a dummy, buddy. Don't call me a dummy.
42:19
I could. I could attack what you're
42:20
doing. I can keep you up alive right
42:22
now and just attack. Everything that you're saying,
42:24
stop nobody. Cares about that arrow.
42:26
I'm trying to talk about this thing and you just don't want to
42:30
let me. You want to talk about Otani and
42:32
how you have to be right about Otani and nobody cares about
42:34
Otani like that. I'm just telling you that he's
42:37
makes that team better. Like I tried to tell you last
42:39
time and that's all. That's all it is and it's really
42:43
important to understand that why they lost had nothing to do with
42:46
that. I don't.
42:46
I think it's the clutchness of this team with the manager.
42:50
I mean, they brought in Andy Pajez to get that.
42:52
It makes that crazy catch immediately after they bring him
42:54
in for Edmond, that helped save the day.
42:57
That's a great managerial move. They won the game in 18 innings.
43:01
That's a devastating loss. Then the game, I mean, game six,
43:04
we haven't even talked about game six.
43:06
Man, Game 6 was crazy. That ball gets sort of stuck
43:10
under the wall in in left center that that's not really stuck.
43:15
Like if he went there he could have grabbed it very easily.
43:17
It wasn't like. That did you see fish to Kiki,
43:20
being the salty veteran that he is, he wasn't going to throw his
43:25
hands up. He looked at Kiki when he was
43:27
running over and Kiki was looking in the infield throwing
43:30
his hands up. Before he got to what because he
43:32
knew that was probably their only chance to limit what was
43:35
going on right there. A younger guy doesn't do that.
43:38
You know, it's such an important thing to mention about that.
43:42
And then the doubling off of Barger on like the very next
43:45
play, which is unbelievable where the.
43:48
Hell, was he going? I see now that's the one I
43:52
wanted to ask you, Jabba, in that situation, you would think
43:56
that he's got to stay close to the bag at at all costs on
43:59
anything in the air, I would have thought.
44:01
Well, he's not first of all, he's not going anywhere because
44:05
he has a runner in front of him, right?
44:07
And you take his credit to, I mean, he owned it.
44:10
He was like, yeah, that was on me.
44:11
I got off too far. Like, but realistically, if the
44:14
ball gets past him, he's fast, he's going to score anyways.
44:19
But then he's in. You see, you check the outfield
44:23
on second base, you turn around and check them, right?
44:26
So you see that he's he's edging in and he has an OK arm.
44:30
Not great, but what where was he?
44:34
I that one that ending like that, that's the craziest and
44:37
it's first of all, it's the craziest ending ever in the
44:40
World Series history. 3 pitches first ever save at any level
44:47
only person. The four pitches was the save in
44:50
the World Series. But to come in and do that,
44:52
you're like this game is about to be.
44:54
It should should it have been tied?
44:55
I don't know the rule. They everybody kind of, I guess,
44:59
interpreted the rule kind of their own way, but the way it
45:02
says, it's basically a judgement called by the umpire.
45:07
And it might be different on the parks too.
45:08
It's probably. Yeah, well, you go over ground
45:11
rules before every, so you like the umpires and whatever.
45:15
Like you go over rules like hey, this part here, you know, raise
45:18
your hands, this that another thing.
45:19
So you kind of have an idea, but it like it's just amazing, like
45:25
how all these little things happened all in the Dodgers
45:28
favorite and you really honestly need that sometimes.
45:31
Do I think to? Be like something with like the
45:34
juju of the team, the coaching, the direction, you know of the
45:38
franchise. It just it's too much.
45:41
Ronald over my guess the numbers too said the same thing.
45:45
If they went into a Game 7, the road teams won the last six of
45:47
seven, so now seven of eight. That's the case in a lot of
45:49
sports too. I don't think it's the NBA, but
45:51
the NHL and MLB are both Rd. Favors.
45:54
Yeah, on the end of Game 7, which is, which is nuts.
45:56
You wouldn't think it would be right.
45:58
Especially, you would think, bigger cities.
46:00
Yeah, especially bigger. Cities do you?
46:03
Think so too. Go ahead, Java.
46:06
No, I, I looked at it too like everybody's like, oh, they
46:09
wanted the Dodgers to win, blah, blah, blah.
46:11
And if if you're looking at from the business side, it was the
46:13
most watched games in the World Series since 2017 with over
46:17
25,000,000, right. Yeah.
46:18
So do you think too there was in aspect of Major League Baseball
46:25
is like, yeah, maybe it's not as big, but now we have two
46:28
different countries. Like you may not like either
46:31
team, right? But it's literally like, hey,
46:35
but we have two countries going against each other and it showed
46:39
in viewership, right, Because now you have all the Canadians
46:42
who you know what, and Rodgers center is awesome to play in
46:45
whether they know anything about baseball or not.
46:48
I mean, since they've been good and have guys that they can root
46:50
for, they've obviously showed out a little bit better.
46:53
But baseball got what they wanted, even if it wasn't the
46:56
teams that they wanted because they got the global part in, not
46:59
only in the Japanese, but you got a whole other country in
47:02
Canada and obviously a major market in LA.
47:06
So if you're looking at it from a business sense, and it was a
47:10
great world, you got everything that you could ever imagined in
47:12
a World Series. You know, it actually that that
47:15
brings up something I've been meaning to ask Errol and I
47:17
haven't got a chance to talk to him today, but I was.
47:19
So we're going to do it on the air.
47:20
Errol, do you think the ratings can be given some credit to Rob
47:25
Manfred and Theo Epstein for their changes to the game and
47:30
getting more people involved in like in the game, despite the
47:34
fact we don't like all of them? First of all, you can ask me
47:38
anything you want about Theo Epstein and Rob Manfred.
47:41
I think Theo Epstein is a genius.
47:43
Rob Manford is to me a complete moron.
47:46
I, I've never liked Rob Manford. I, I'm not a a fan of his as, as
47:52
far as what I've seen him do over the last couple of years,
47:55
changing the game and, and as Alex Rodriguez says, making the
47:58
game better. Alex does a lot of kissing And,
48:01
and I'm, I'm that's fine. He works for the, the MLB, he
48:04
works for Fox and he's around these guys.
48:07
So you want to kiss somebody's ass, you kiss it.
48:09
I'm not going to kiss the brass ring.
48:11
I'm going to say that Rob Manford, he, he has the position
48:15
right now as the Commission. We'll see what happens when it
48:18
comes to the future and where he is going to be in the in the
48:21
very near future. He says he's going to retire in
48:24
2026 or 28, whatever he said, hopefully soon.
48:30
Is it beneficial for baseball to keep him in, in that position?
48:33
I don't know. I, I, I don't know what Rob
48:35
Manford should why anybody would give Rob Manford credit?
48:39
How about just giving the superstars credit?
48:42
How about Vladimir Guerrero? He's a superstar.
48:44
How about Ohtani, as you say, as you guys say, the greatest
48:48
player of all time And and, and again everybody keeps talking
48:51
about well. Yes, I've never said he's the
48:53
greatest player of all time. I don't put words in I I didn't
48:56
put words in your mouth. I'm.
48:57
Saying, yeah, you did. You just said.
48:58
Everybody. No, I said what?
49:00
You guys, everybody buddy you. No, you're not.
49:04
You're yourself. I say.
49:05
You guys, everybody. Everybody.
49:07
No, that's not what I said. And that everybody, buddy.
49:09
I said no, I, I first of all, like a general public.
49:13
I'm talking about the general. Public, I know, Speedy.
49:16
I what I'm trying to say here is, is that I I'm not saying
49:20
Shay Otani isn't special. I'm not saying Shay Otani
49:22
doesn't deserve credit. I'm not saying that Rob Manford
49:27
isn't the person that could take this league to the next level.
49:32
I just see what I see and I think that he's ruined the game
49:35
in my eyes. I don't think he's benefit.
49:37
He the league hasn't benefited off of anything but the fact
49:41
that you have an international player as big as Shay Otani and
49:44
no matter what he does, good or bad, he's he's looked at as the
49:49
the the face of the league no matter what he does.
49:52
And here's another thing everybody keeps talking about
49:55
how much baseball loved the World Series, how it drew
49:59
Japanese players and Canadian players and American fans all
50:04
around the world to watch it. Here's something that you guys
50:07
don't understand. Has anybody go?
50:08
I know Jabba, you've been has anybody gone to Canada?
50:12
I have. I go every single year.
50:15
And if you go around Canada and you go check out the malls and
50:20
around the streets and you go to the baseball, I mean the Hockey
50:23
Hall of Fame and you go out to the bars, what do you see out
50:26
there? You see a lot of Asian, Asian
50:31
population. It's an Asian populated place
50:34
and Indian and they love their baseball over there.
50:38
Believe it or not. Baseball is right there with not
50:43
as big as hockey but it's right under.
50:45
Everybody thinks basketball after the Raptors won a
50:47
championship. No, the Blue Jays are the second
50:51
biggest team in Toronto. They are.
50:55
It's not the Raptors, it's the Blue Jays.
50:59
It's also where you go in Canada though.
51:01
Yes, and, and, and that's why I think the Expo what?
51:03
Province. What province you go to?
51:05
Yeah, but I I've always said this and you say it too.
51:08
The Expo should be brought back to. 100% I want them brought
51:12
back just because uniforms are dope.
51:15
I don't know about that. I, I mean, I, I guess that's
51:17
what you would like. I mean, I, I mean, I want to see
51:21
Pedro Martinez, you know, go back to go back to Montreal and,
51:26
and be, you know, the face of the organization of Vladimir,
51:29
Vladimir Guerrero senior or one of those guys to go back there
51:33
and be a part of that organization and be a voice for
51:36
that organization. So that's what I want to say.
51:38
I think I think it, it, it has legs from what I've heard to, to
51:42
sneak in to be one of those three that because we've we've
51:45
talked about it before, but they've got the infrastructure.
51:47
They've they've had it before and you have legacy names that
51:52
were exposed that are still involved in the game in some
51:55
way, shape or form. So it's not like it would be
51:58
hard to do. I would, I would love for them
52:01
to go back for sure. I think and I think it would be
52:04
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53:00
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53:05
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53:07
us will be Tim Donaghy. Check out his book Personal
53:10
Foul, his autobiography. It gets in very in depth with
53:14
the NBA betting scandal, what he was arrested for, and now we're
53:17
seeing what many others are being investigated and arrested.
53:20
For isn't it fitting that all this is happening and now
53:24
Donaghy is coming out with a book and and now it's starting.
53:28
Everything's starting to hit the fan about the NBA and Donaghy's
53:31
been talking about it for a long, long time.
53:34
I think this is very, very fitting.
53:37
And I'm I'm going to have a lot of fun with this interview.
53:40
I'm going to tell you this right now.
53:42
It's a must listen to. If you don't know who Tim
53:45
Donaghy is, look it up and look him up.
53:49
He was a part, I remember, of the Sacramento Lakers series,
53:55
Sacramento Spurs Series A. He has been a big part of the
54:00
back end of the NBA and why the NBA is really trying to protect
54:04
themselves with these betting scandals and I think he is.
54:08
I'm going to get out some interesting information for all
54:12
the fans that are into the NBA and sports betting.
54:15
Why Tim Donaghy shouldn't be I wouldn't say he's not.
54:20
He wasn't a problem, but he shouldn't be all to blame what
54:24
the NBA is transitioned into. That's that's my opinion and I
54:27
think Tim Donaghy is going to express his feelings towards
54:31
towards the NBA when he comes on this show on Wednesday.
54:34
So stay tuned and get ready for a great interview.
54:37
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54:41
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54:45
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54:49
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54:51
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54:55
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