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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball.The Los Angeles Dodgers are the 2024 World Series champions.Yeah, Yankee.What a season.
Walker Buehler, swing and miss.
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Go to like a museum.Yeah.
Maybe, maybe sports aren't for you anymore.Um, you know, LA, Kodak, the weather's great in LA.It seems like the weather and the baseball in LA are fantastic.They are.I'm Jake story.Ellie, that's Trevor ploof.No, it was,
I was just going to say it was a fun one last night.That would've been a weird way to say it, but it was.Trev, how are you?
That's the thing about being a baseball fan is you go to a game like that, you understand what you saw there.Whether it was good for you or bad for you, you understand you saw kind of an all-timer.I don't want to say all-timer.
I'm not going to give it that, but a very unique entertaining event happened before your eyes last night.
Oh, that was an all-timer. There was a half ending that was an all timer.No doubt about that.A team came back from down five runs to win a world series game.That's you don't see that every day.
Well, they didn't even score any.
What was that?Wait, what was that? No, no, no, no, no.I'm going to have to double check the box score.Garrett Cole's final line is an old timer was up five runs and then lost the world series game by giving up five unearned runs and a half inning.
Can't do that in the world series.
No, you can't.We've kind of been saying that all postseason long, but I'm curious to hear it.Bob, you got one.
I've got to burn and, you know, there's there's some tough Dodger fans out there and good.That means you're passionate and whatever.That's kind of the whole deal, man.The better team won.The better team won.Dodgers aren't going to like this part.
Maybe they'll like this part even more.The world's at the World Series happened.L.A.versus San Diego and L.A.won.Those were the two best teams. Congrats LA.Um, you know, me, Jack Flaherty and Walker Bueller, they're on my couch right now.
Just, you know, having a good time.I don't think they are.No, no.They're on somebody's couch.Um, let's uh, let's talk about it.Let's talk about this baseball game recording in progress. Final game of the year in the Boogie Down Bronx.
Yankees ace Garrett J. Cole would try to work out one more win for the Yankees as the Dodgers would hope to be setting off flares behind J. Flair and the Dodgers bullpen. Bottom one, Big Justice brings the boom.
Aaron Judge with the two-run homer and then I jazzed in my band.Back to back in the Bronx.The Bronx is burning.Verdugo RBI single.You met my cousin from Florence Giancarlo.His seventh postseason homer.
It's 5-0, Yankees, but in the fifth inning, the Yankees should have called the cops on themselves.Judge beefs a fly ball.Pulpy and Jazz combine to make some terrible music.And even the Old Dogs get involved.I got it.
You take it to the tune of five unearned runs. in one World Series inning.Freddie gets fingered, so Teoscar gets grouchy.It's five to five.Stanton and Lux both sacrifice themselves for the team.
The sack fly is underrated, and it's not underrated in L.A.anymore, as Mookie Betts puts the icing on the cake.The Dodgers win World Series Game 5.Flaherty to Bandit, to Brazier, to Koufek, to Vessia, to Graterol, to Trine, and to Buehler.
It's going, going, back, back to Cali, Cali.Dodgers, your 24 World Series champs.
Boy, oh boy, where do we begin?
Uh, well, you know, Trev, I feel like we haven't even said congrats to your Dodgers.Yeah.
Are your mentions not great right now?
Oh, how are they awful?Dodger fans are tough and they they're taking the Chris Rose fan in the stand strip sack. like a guy actually tried to kill someone.So yes, you can't do that.Yes, we laughed at it in lifetime.
And yes, you have a better baseball team.Take it like I don't I don't care.I've never been proud.And Yankee fans are worse because they just watch their team shit on themselves in the World Series.You got a little bit of both.Oh, yeah.
Well, since I'm an L.A.fan, everyone's complaining in the car.
Where do you want to start, Trevor Ploof?
Man, I don't.If you want to see someone kind of tear.Yankees, the Yankees up, Chris Rose kind of went off last night.Yeah, it was.I never seen him like that.And so I'm very curious to see how everyone reacts to that.Where do I want to start?
I think we have to start with the starters.And how about this?Since most of this is gonna be about Los Angeles being the better team, let's talk about Garrett Cole first.
I think Garrett Cole was an absolute animal last night, and he did everything in his power.I know the line looks crazy, but he pitched his ass off.No hits through four.
just looking absolutely electric and then we get to the fifth and i don't know if we're ready to get into that just yet uh the fifth kind of blows up right in front of his face one of the things yes he was a part of it no doubt about it we could talk about anthony rizzo in that situation um we can talk about freddie and teo you know sniping him he had a chance to get out of that after
you know, three blunders with just one run and then he got hit, so you have to mention that.
But coming back out, I believe for two more innings, for the start of the second one, and looking great afterwards and still maintaining his stuff, I thought was,
was pretty impressive dude and John Smoltz was talking about it a ton on the broadcast and just saying there's just not many guys that in the big leagues that could weather that fifth inning and then come back out kind of looking unfazed and man like world series elimination game emotions running that high even the miscues like he didn't skip a beat dude like
I don't, I know it's hard for pitchers when things behind them go awry and a lot of times you'll see pitchers like even if it's quickly like grimacing or like just kind of like giving some like can't believe that just happened to me type thing and Garrett Cole was
He just, it was about business, man, and he went back.So I wanna give him credit because, you know, Yankee fans, I think, were calling for him to have this, you know, a start for the ages, if you will.And I don't think it was that.
I mean, how can it be that when he lost the game?But I also think that you can really, analyze it and say it was almost that like besides giving up those runs and I think like I mentioned the Freddy and the tail hit afterwards like I
That was a hell of a start by him, man.Trevor, his defense, it is, his defense gave up two innings.
He had a chance to go nine.He definitely had a lane to go eight.And Aaron Judge doesn't squeeze a fly ball. Uh, Anthony Volpe of five, nothing you need to get an out.Um, that's what that comes down to.
Um, so whether that's, whether that's second base, first base or third base, I, you know, some, that, that was the one that was hurting the people I was with the most was the Volpe ball.And for me, there's a play to be had there, but
You have a new third baseman in jazz Chisholm that the Yankees ignore the fact that he's a new third baseman.Um, and for Volpe, you have to know you have to get one out there that the risk of that play isn't worth it.
And Trev, it's where I feel bad for Gary Cole. Well, all of it, I feel bad for Gary Cole.He gave what should be remembered as a heroic effort that you're right, kind of won't be.Yankees fans will be like, he looked good that night, huh?
He got Mookie Betts.Heard of him?You know, just a reminder, Mookie Betts was gonna win the league MVP this year.
Just a reminder, he was playing shortstop, he was racking up war, he was the best player in the National League, he got hurt, he didn't win it.So after striking out Shohei, he's got mooky bets.His team is letting him down.
He gets a squibber to first base that Trev, there's some people that won't be able to ever talk about it properly because any ball hit to a pitcher's Left side, you have to go towards first.Them's the rules.That's PFP.He did.He did.Look at him.
Trev, when that was hit in live time, the whole stadium and everyone in the stadium assumed Anthony Rizzo would attack that ball.
Scoop it like he has for 13 big league years or whatever it is and step on first base and that Garrett Cole had escaped a Jam and a team that had let themselves down To see that You're right.
Like that's why you're giving credit to Cole for stabilizing and not losing focus and There's people that'll be like, well, that's on Garrett Cole.That's on Riz, man.Sure.
I understand the thought process and I understand people use different parts of their brain.Garrett Cole has to go to first base until it's not.Sure.He should have not been there.
Anthony Rizzo should have been happy to attack and scoop that ball and step on first base and give his own fist pump.And dude, he's been bad defensively this year.I know he's Anthony Rizzo. I know that man.
They subbed him out in playoff games for his Waldo Cabrera at first base.That's his Waldo six best position.They put themselves, they put themselves in this position to do this.Yankee fans weren't surprised by a five unearned run inning.
I want to talk about all the plays.The judge one, I don't think there's much to talk about.He literally took his eyes off the ball.He was trying to throw Kiki out at first, I believe.It was that.They showed the slow-mo replay and it was...
catch the ball low, which I don't like, you know, he kind of coasted to it.You got to get it above your eyes.That's kind of like rule number one, whatever.It's a sinking line drive.I get it.
He was right there, but his eyes didn't stay on the ball, man.And sometimes when you're running in like that, your head starts bobbing a little bit.
If you start to chop your steps down, which he was doing right there, and all of a sudden, you know, it just goes off.But if you look, I mean, they showed a really nice replay on the, on the broadcast.He just was looking towards first base.
So there's number one.That's just a, that's a straight up error.It's a straight up error.It's not like a mental error.It's just, he just, he zooed it.Nothing you can say about that.
The Volpe one, we'll go quickly through that if you want to get that, Biebs.Talked about this a little bit on baseball today.I think it was the right play because at that point, you know, that's kind of a slow ground ball to the backhand side.
Jazz was at the base.He had everything here.He just didn't get his hips turned enough. And if you'd stop it on the throw, Biebs, for me, you'll see what I mean.
He doesn't, right there, like, you gotta get that, you gotta get a little bit more, like, in line with the third baseman.Then he kinda, like, chokes this ball off right here instead of just throwing it.I mean, that's an awkward throw.
Like, how many times do you practice that ball?You just don't. So this is just a straight-up field play, almost like a second baseman feeding the shortstop on a double play, which, you know, Lope has zero experience doing that.
He just doesn't get turned enough.His footwork isn't good there, but kind of like, why would it be?It's, I guess you could say he's a big-league shortstop, but it's just kind of an awkward play.
All of these, the next two plays, this one and the Garrett Cole play, you just don't practice them. Okay, so that one was tough.Again, I think Jazz was there.It was just a bad throw by Volpe.I think it was the right play, the right decision.
It was right in front of him.It was just a bad throw.He choked it off, man.He got nervous.That ball felt like a golf ball in his hand right there.So, E, hit the Rizzo one now.
The only thing I'd say about the Volpe ball, Will Smith is running on that and you have to take in the other factors. Um, that's a really tough ball to go to first base on right there. the, it's a catcher running.I know what you're saying.
Cause second base is a really tough play.Third base, clearly not an easy play.You have to get an out.It's a work trip.Like for some of these plays, we start talking like they're baseball.This was the world series.
This was with your season on the line.
Yeah.But Jake, that's, that's the play.He made the right decision.He just didn't execute.Like that's the play.That's a problem too. Yeah, that's it.I mean, he just did not execute it.
If you had a third baseman over there and a shortstop.He was there.No, Jazz was in perfect position.
He's not a third baseman, Trev.
Like, you're missing the details.
But it doesn't, it doesn't, what does it matter?It matters about making the play. What is him not being a third baseman have to do with that?It's a horrible throw.The third, even a fucking no one Aronado in his heyday was over there.
What's he going to do, right?
He's going to, he might have a chance to scoop that because he's a third baseman.
I'm not, I'm not on jazz for that.You make that all because you played third base.No, it's just a horrible throw by Volpe, right?Read bad throw.
Judge, or excuse me, the next one was, I don't know this, you tell me this, because Dan Rourke, super producer Dan Rourke, he said that he's never, like he said, Rizzo never takes that ball himself.He never does.
So this is a thing where it's like, okay, we talk about base running.You don't practice during the year.You don't practice PFPs during the year.You practice them in spring training and that's it.
So like these two kind of have to, you have to know what it is.So, you know, Garrett Cole did start going and then he stopped. Anthony Rizzo could have definitely come in a bit more aggressive and stepped on the base 100%.
But he hasn't been doing that all year, so that's a thing that you just have to know. Like the baseball gods came down and I don't know man, like that was just a weird thing.
I think he was trying to hang back because there was a ton of spin on that ball, like you know, off the end of the bat.And there was one, if you can stop it, he was like, right now, stop.I mean. He has the ball in plenty of time.
Gary Cole is never going to beat Mookie right there.
Cause he stopped the exit VLO on that ball.Do we have a number 70?
I'll get it by 70 something.I would imagine.
And by the end Rizzo's going back on it.I don't know.I'll tell you, I'll tell you who would have fielded that ball and stepped on first Freddie Freeman.Like This is the World Series.We're talking about taking your eyes off a fly ball.
Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
Going back, Trev.He was trying, it was a spin ball.I don't mind him going back.I think he still had time to go.If he had made up his mind and said, I'm going to feel this and go touch the bag, he would have beat Mookie.
But in his mind, he was head down, making sure he caught the ball.And then he went to flip right away. And nobody was home, and then he was fucked.It was crazy, dude.I mean, you saw it, I saw it, everyone watching saw it.
In live time, that was, we're like, whoa.But again, you can talk all you want about all those miscues.It was still two outs.One run was in right there, and then, yeah, then you gotta deal with Freddy and Tao.This is the length of a lineup.
This is guys getting it done. Freddie, two strike knock up the middle, Tao double over Judge's head.You still have to give credit to the Dodgers for taking advantage of it.You can say, oh, the Yankees fucked this up.But yeah, they did.
They gave him the opportunity.
That's where I wanted to go.I want to talk about the Dodgers.I want to talk about. Uh, you know, you gave the Dodgers and Freddie Freeman and to Oscar Hernandez, a six out inning.So I take Cole's name out your mouth.I don't care.
Jesus Christ himself could have been on the mound and the Dodgers were going to push a couple of cross that inning.So no, I, the, the Dodgers, one pitch away, dude, he got the pitch and let me see where the pitch was.I'm looking right now.
I mean, as a middle and fastball, the defense decided to not make the play three times. could add six outfielders and the Dodgers were gonna score runs at it.Like, they're the Dodgers.They are the Dodgers.
You can't give them six outs in an inning.You did.You did.
And that's why they're World Series champions and the Yankees are not.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, I think everyone now is on this train and it's hindsight for a lot of people. but the Dodgers were by far the better team.Like I don't even think it was, I honestly don't think it was close.
Really being honest, like there was a couple guys that could get the job done for the Yankees.They would have had to have absolutely monster series to beat this team.It's baseball, anything can happen, but the better team won this.
And I don't think there was any debating.I would go Chris Rose wordsmith on you.And I would say the talent on the field was similar. There was a clearly better team.There is a clearly better team, Trev, because this L.A.
team has been through the fires.They've had the losses, they've had the winning.They went out, they had a massive offseason, which I'm glad we covered them all the way through, because everyone should have.
That unique Shohei contract from your guy, Nez, the second that came out, to bring in Teoska, to bring in Yamamoto, and at the deadline, everything they did. Trev, the Dodgers keep each other accountable.That's what that franchise is built on.
The Yankees do not.Anthony Volpe probably should have been benched twice in his young Yankee tenure, because he's a kid and baseball is really hard.He's very talented and very good.They should have,
They treated Jazz Chisholm like he was a Hall of Fame third baseman.They called Klay Holmes the best closer in baseball for a month when he was blowing saves just to try to convince themselves.Know what the Dodgers would have said?
Oh, we gotta get Klay right right now.Like, we love Klay.We're gonna get him in some good spots. Like, that was the difference.
The organizational top-down to the team and how they manage each other and how they treat each other, that was the difference.Because the Yankees lost game one on a relay throw.
They lost game five of the World Series on one of the worst offensive innings I've ever seen.World Series games.Trev, this isn't a Monday recap with us and we're like, you know, the Yanks could have had a couple of these.World Series games.
Well, it's not just gonna magically change.That's what I'm saying.They were not a fundamentally sound team.Correct.You know, throughout the year, base running.I mean, I didn't... The base running was talked about much during the year.
And it was magnified in the playoffs.And like, it was.All facets of the game, they got outplayed.Like, they really did.Yes.
Luke Weaver has a three disengagement Bach like that just can't happen dude catcher interference catcher's interference Wells I need Can we talk about the fucking Dodgers dude Cuz hey I just want a better team and they deserve all the credit.
How come we're talking about all the Yankees blunders?Well, we'll get there
Because a lot of this had to do with the Yankees blunders.I think that Wells needs to like, I think he's going to go into this offseason and kind of like search for something there, man.
Is he, like, the heir apparent, like, gonna be the starting catcher next year?Like, 100%?Cuz, like, he's got some things he's gotta work on.Cuz there was... I mean, even in the last inning, there's a couple balls where he's just scooping them.
Like, oh my gosh, bro.You can't be doing that with a runner on third base.They need to... Fix that.And he got the job done, he scooped them, but I'm like, that is not how you do that.
You can't do that with like, in this game, one run game, runners on third base.It's crazy.So anyways. Yes, talk about the Dodgers.
Look, they got put in a crazy situation because they had the bullpen game, a bunch of guys, their length guys had thrown in game four.Jack comes out, just doesn't have it, man.
Keeps falling behind everybody, serves up a couple balls, tries to sneak one past Judge, first pitch, doesn't happen.I mean, just not the right location, not the right pitch.He gets tagged for a few, so he doesn't even make it out of the second.
Now all of a sudden, that rested bullpen you have, those guys aren't length guys.Those are your one-inning guys, and you have to cover seven and two-thirds innings now with those guys.
This was, I think, very difficult for the coaching staff to be able to piece this together.I mean, Tryon was in there, and when did he come in?He came in in the bottom of the sixth. And there was no other reliever that was like really should be up.
Like all the other guys that don't like 40 pitches the night before Hudson had thrown in a couple games back to back.So I was wondering where the hell are they going to go?Obviously we know they got to Walker.
That's a whole different, that's at the end of the show.I want to talk about him, but I think We've been kind of saying it, man.And it's, it's bucked traditional LA Dodger talk.Dave Roberts did a really good job with the bullpen.
Oh, I mean, amazing.We were, we were crunching the numbers and it's like, who's going to come, come out for the ninth.And then you hear Walker Bueller's getting loose and you go, ah, that's right.They're the Dodgers.Um,
They're, they are willing to do that.They're going to press those buttons.They had, Hey, something that'll go overlooked.Michael Kopech pitched the fourth top of the lineup.Two runners got on, it was five, nothing.
Uh, people in the sands are looking at judge at the plate saying like, Hey, if this is seven, nothing, you know, you could start booking flights.Um,
That leads to the fifth inning of depth, which on the other side, the Yankees brought in Tommy Canely for the eighth inning, tried to get some outs with him.And he doesn't get one.
He lets three runners on that Luke Weaver, who had been the Yankees ace in the hole.
He gives up, you know, to a sack fly, a sack fly, a catcher's interference and strikes out Freddie that, Hey, if the Yankees had been more aggressive with their eighth inning, would they have pushed a run across and then change their ninth inning?
I I'll be honest.I was in the stands and I was 50, 50 on it because Canely had been good for the Yankees.And he is the only pitcher that didn't pitch the day before. a little bit, but I think the bottom of the order, right?
I think the whole point is you should not have recipes.Um, like the Dodgers made their own recipe.Um, like, you know, In hindsight, you can critique that one in lifetime.
I was whatever, uh, after seeing how the Dodgers got things done with figuring it out, like, Hey, Walker Buehler, we might need an ending from you today, dog.
Um, you know, in hindsight, seeing that, yeah, I would have rather gone down with Luke Weaver than Tommy Canely.
Um, was Walker Buehler and were we DMing earlier in the day?I don't know.I didn't, I guess we can go there, we can go there now.
We were on my couch talking about it.
Kaynlee, yeah that's weird.Kaynlee gives up, base is loaded, Weaver gives up the sag flies.So now all of a sudden the dodge is up seven to six.And that was in the top of the eighth.
So, Trinon, freaking absolute stud, goes back out there, has to face Soto, Judge, Jazz, Stanton. and gets through it, man.Soto with the 3-1.Judge hits the double down the line.Okay, a little scary.He walks jazz.So you have first and second.
Giancarlo takes kind of like a weird cut, although most of his swings kind of look weird, unless he connects, then it's beautiful.It's like one of the, it's a strange swing there.Just misses one.Like, you know, it's kind of a nasty fastball.
Just misses it, flies it out to the right field, and then he gets to Rizzo.Okay, he's going nuts.
Now you know he can't go back out, but that's when they started the show, Walker Bueller in the bullpen, and he's warming up, and it's his bullpen day in between starts.He had just pitched two days ago.
And I'm like, they have him and Hudson warming up.And I was like, please bring in Walker Buehler.And I said this on baseball today, like fan fiction for Dodger fans, Shohei Otani comes in and closes the night down.Right.
That's like Boner Jams 2024 right there.Everyone wanted that.Wasn't going to happen.Next up, In the fluffer line would be Walker Buehler coming in to close it out.He's a free agent.This guy's two Tommy Johns, like working his way back for two years.
Gives you that beautiful start in game three.He's been, like people love him, man.He's pitched in some big games for the Dodgers.He's got like that attitude that everyone loves.He comes in, man.And I thought it was beautiful.I really, really did.
The fact, like you mentioned, like the Dodgers kind of weaving and having to kind of go with the flow and Walker being like, hell yeah, get me out there, give me my spikes.
He said he hadn't thrown a ball all day long until he got into the, to warm up to come into the game, dude.He's out there and gets Volpe to ground out, Kays, Wells, and then a beautiful, beautiful K to Verdugo.He was just spinning that thing.
After the Wells K, he had thrown 7 out of 12 pitches for curveballs.And then he went after Verdugo with the same thing.And it was nasty.And he gave this.I'm always curious how you're gonna react.And he was kind of like stoic about it.Like, I'm here.
You guys know what's up.He's gonna get paid.And then the celebration was on, man.I thought it was, um, very like cinematic watching Walker Buehler close it out.I can't wait to see what happens with him.
But again, like I just thought there was just the Dodgers outplayed the Yankees.Like they just out freaking played the Yankees.
And the only game they lost was a bullpen game that they kind of, they were in it until they weren't until, you know, Brent Honeywell kind of beginning.
It's the most gentlemen sweep ever.I mean, the one game the Yankees won was against their minor league pitching.So Dodgers, They feel like they're on top of a mountain right now, Trev.A mountain.God, I want to be on that mountain.
It's for the Dodgers in LA today.But I'm talking about Mountain Dew, people.That's a mountain we can all get on.Get off your ass.Grab some Mountain Dew.You can't watch any more baseball.Maybe you're playing your own baseball.Maybe you're sad.
Maybe you take your ball to the park.Bring some Mountain Dew.Bring a glove and a ball.You're going to have a nice day. You're not gonna walk away from that day saying, I had a bad time.Go, the mountain is calling, you should answer.
Grab your friends, grab some ice cold Mountain Dews, wherever refreshing beverages are sold.There's a link in the description.Let's do more Dodger love, because I don't think we have.Frederick, Freddie Freeman. Um, your series MVP.
He's, I mean, he talked about a little bit after the game with, um, I don't know if this was last night or the night before.
but he's with our guys, A-Rod and Poppy and Jeets, and he was just talking about the ability to get healthy in the days leading up to the World Series.And if you go back and remember the first couple series, I mean, the guy could barely run.
It was bad, and it didn't look good, but he was gutting it out because that's what you do during the playoffs, and that's what Freddie Freeman does, he posts.
He said that he got better, he was able to kind of get back to his routine, and he mentioned this, which I think is so cool.I talked about this a little bit on Baseball Today because I found a cue.And he was in the cage and then something clicked.
You go through spurts like that as a hitter where You can see every pitch and you're just getting a rhythm and everything's working perfectly.
Sometimes you're in the cage and it's just one swing or one thought process or a word that the hitting coach says.It just registers in your brain.It's like turning the lights on, dude.It's like, oh shit, you're right.
He said he had one of those before the World Series.Kind of a good time to get one, if we're being honest, man.He was incredible, dude. He's so good for that organization.
I think the guys that they have there, that they signed, like are kind of, they're superstars, but still grindy.Like Freddie Freeman is not like out trying to freaking be the man. He's just like a dad who loves baseball and like is really good at it.
He's like a baseball player.Mookie is just a sports freak.
And he's also not trying to be like the man.He's just like, I'm just, I'm Mookie, I'm the best.
Excited to see how you label Shohei after calling Mookie the sports freak.
Well, I don't know, does Shohei freaking do all the other sports like Muki does?Yes, and he fucks better.Yes.Possibly.You never know.Shohei is just the freak.You think Shohei gives a shit about anything but baseball and his dog?That's it.That's it.
Those three at the top of what you got going on there for many years to come.I think Freddie still has three years.Fact check me there, Beavers.
But having those guys at the helm who have the accolades, the performance, and the mental bandwidth to just be leaders, they're in such a good spot.And you talk about the organization with the Dodgers. Three years left, thank you, Beavers.
Talk about the organization.Talk to anybody that's played for them, and has played for other organizations as well.I always bring up Brian Dozier, because that's my closest guy.And he'll just say, that's by far. the best run organization.
And he's talking about everything.It's down the line from how they treat families, how the travel is, how the meals are, how the coaching is, drafting, talent evaluation.
You know, obviously they have the money to do it because it's a big marketplace and, you know, they spend it.They're not afraid to go out there and freaking put it out in the line.
I mean, look what they gave for Yamamoto, who gave a great start in the World Series.He was going to be there for 50 years.It's, um, It really feels like a top-down World Series trophy.
Yeah, they are the better team.They are the better org.They've shown that year-in-year-out for the past decade or so.Yeah, and that's where, again, not necessarily circling back on the Cole Rizzo ball, but, man,
It's what you're saying about those guys.Like, hey, Yankee fans were getting in their feelings.Like, wait, Freddie Freeman was just a free agent?Is that, that swing looked decent at the stadium.We, we went out and we got Rizzo.Okay.
Uh, do you know, I, you know, I don't, I know you don't like trivia, Trev, but, uh, do you know the last Yankee first baseman to hit a home run?Oh, John Birdie. DJ LeMayhew, July 31st.July 30th, it's Halloween.It is Halloween.
It's first base of power position.That when Cole got Mookie there and that's, it's why I'm still hurt by it.And again, there's a Cole side to it that can't be argued against, I get it.Mookie bets.
isn't is going to be remembered, remembered as a unique inner circle hall of famer.Like you said, he's this weird sporty boy.
Like there was a while when you turned on baseball internet and it's like Mookie bets, bold 300 Mookie bets wrestled this bowl.Mookie bets would be an NFL wide receiver.
Mookie bets was playing shortstop this year in his thirties for the first time about to win the NL MVP.He was going to break baseball. They got him to squib out to keep a World Series game 5-0.
Okay, again, Dodger credit here.Fucking ran.He fucking ran, dude.
Freddie Freeman beat up a double play ball.
Yes, that was his fastest sprint speed all year long.
Are we saying that about Stanton's trying to score? Like that, that's what I'm saying.
These guys are dog.I'm not saying that Aaron judge and John Carlos Stanton and Garrett Cole aren't dogs.Those guys are dogs.
I don't follow the team as closely as you do, but I think there is a different leadership style in New York where it's like, Hey man, I'm going to have your back no matter what.And I think the Dodgers are like,
And again, I'm kind of like, I'm just guessing.I'm not in the clubhouses.So, you know, don't take this.
You know 100% but it seems to me like the Dodgers philosophy talking to guys is Yeah, we have your back, but this is about more than you like this is about us winning Like so if there needs to be a change like we need to make the change And I think this year for the Yankees what we saw with clay Holmes And we saw with a lot of people and maybe it starts with Aaron Boone because I know he's a has the players backs And I like that I think it was maybe a little bit
a little bit too much of like the pat on the back thing.Sometimes you need to kick in the ass.
A thousand percent.A thousand percent.It's, it's the one thing that we would change about the Yankees organization.It would be just more like proper accountability.Like, it's not like you have to throw guys under the bus.
Like it's just, again, I, I, I don't want to take, well, people have taken their shots at clay homes and,
It's, it's because he had the most blown saves in baseball and it took the Yankees seeing it over and over where the Dodgers, the back end of their bullpen, there's days you didn't know who was coming in for the saves.
Um, you know, trying and took over this post season, but they had Copac out there like, you know, they, they, their goal is to win the game.And if you're pitching in the fourth inning, the eighth inning or whatever,
The Yankees wanna believe in stuff so much that they'll try to talk it into existence and then they wait till they get broken.They subbed out their starting shortstop in the playoffs in 2022 for the first time all year.
You know why Verdugo played every game?Because they've been really scared and worried about putting Judge Osoto in left field.
So Jason Dominguez, who's supposed to be one of their most talented prospects, who came up, knocked around Justin Verlander and showed, you know, he has skill.I don't know what the future has.
They couldn't even play him because they didn't call him up till late because we believe in Verdugo, who his numbers statistically grayed out worse than gallows on the Yankees.So.The.
where the Dodgers, if they needed a next playoff win and Chris Taylor was the guy or whoever, like they don't care.We need to win.It's the World Series.Yeah.This is the World Series. It was the World Series.It was the World Series.
And God, now we start the offseason pop.Now we just we're going to go.What's next for us?Because that's really what's important here, right?All JM team final month.That's got to be coming up soon.Offseason talk.Soto gotta do free agent.
Did he wear a Boris hat?Did he wear a Boris hat?
Uh, he, I don't know.He was the, you know, one of the last Yankees watching the celebration was the tweet I saw about.So I saw that too.
And the Yankees didn't open their clubhouse for 40 minutes after the game.We had to wait for them to get sound for baseball today, last night.So that wasn't nice to you guys.What were you guys talking about anyways?
Nothing.You're talking about nothing and thinking it was something. Like we, we heard after, after the game, they won that they were in the dugout screaming about, we're going to actually do this thing and we're going to win it all.
And no, you're not going to be remembered forever.You're going to be forgotten because you blew playoff.You might be remembered forever for that fifth inning for you lost two playoff games on defensive lapses in the world series. It's awful Trump.
It's an all time embarrassment.
Uh, and meanwhile, the Dodgers are set up to continue to go and make large runs in the postseason.
No, what I loved as a signing for them show.Hey, for 2 million a year, I love that.
Not 2 million a year.That's that stop.But technically also it is one of those things.If you want to say that you're not wrong. Cash out of pocket $2 million.Cash against the books, 44 and a half, I think it is.They're rumored to be on Soto.
I don't know what that means.
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Can I go.Please.I love our fans.I love our community we built.I think that is what separates us in this baseball media world is we have a legit community of fans that we really care about.And I think our fans care about us.
And I love that relationship.You know every time I go to any baseball field whether it's big leagues or youth or whatever like got a lot of people coming up and saying they like what we do and they You know, we we do we put in a lot of work.
There's no doubt about it, man we do we are grinding and I think people notice that but I Love doing this and it's because the fans tune in that we're able to do this So thank you to LA fans New York fans everyone in between if your team stinks, we're sorry But we love you
And that's it, man.We're gonna be here in the off-season, but I can't... I need a few days off, Pop.I'm sick of hearing my own voice.I hope everyone else isn't sick of it, but I'm sick of it.
I could listen to that thing all day, White Chocolate.Oh, yeah, I can, yeah, yeah.
I can't wait to see you, Walker Buehler, Jack Flaherty on your couch.
Trev, it's nuts.I, you know, I hope this doesn't come off as a douchey anecdote, but everything I do kind of comes off a little bit.So whatever, like, I get it.I'm wearing a Jake Sucks sleeveless t-shirt.
And I guess there's the people that appreciate that, and I thank you guys enough.And even the people that don't, like, I kind of get it.It's kind of fucking weird, and it's like, why?That we were
We were at Fanatics Fest this year, which was like a big, you know, first of its kind sports thing.Right.Like all the sports stars were in town.It was crazy.The list they rolled out.It was like that Fourth of July white party.
And me and Trev, me and Trev were walking out. you know, probably to make a night out of it.And there was all these, there was like a collection of people with their phones out, like blogging, like with the little mics and the cameras and stuff.
And you were being, you're joking, but you're like, what's going on here?Like, what is this?And I was like, dude, I'm the problem.I worked in electrical supply distribution.I was chilling.My body, my buddy said, hey, let's start a Yankees podcast.
And now we've turned into whatever we've turned into.We've got like 60 employees, like there's a big office in Manhattan.And it's all because there's a lot of people that like baseball.That's what like built all of this.
So the fact that I get to be a part of that is nuts.It's it's nuts.And God, it's a lot of fun, although there was some sadness.And I did I did sleep in my clothes on the couch last night.
I think that's, I mean, yeah, the story goes, Jake's story, Ali slept in his clothes that night.
Yeah.So thank you guys so much.If you're subscribed and all the little stuff that helps.And as you well know. The content don't stop the off seasons here.I'm looking at that Yankees.How can we get better?Where is Walker signing?
I said Walker Beeler to the Padres on baseball today.People are like, they want to kill me.Sacrilege.
But doesn't he fit perfectly with the Padres?
Congrats to the Los Angeles Dodgers.Um, An elite franchise makes 2020 feel better, and how about the start of the Shohei regime?Not one, not two, not three.Didn't even pitch this year.
Love you guys.Love.Back to two episodes a week next week.Where's my big old Jeff Nameless blunt? What was that, 50 euros or those liras?What do you got?
50 pesos.I think this is almost not money.
You could get something for that.Something.Love everybody.LA for life.A1A baby.
Gary Francona to the Reds.