Dodgers Territory - Orel Hershiser Joins! Buehl-Dog Bond, Doc's Managerial Masterclass

Episode Date: October 31, 2024

1988 World Series Champion and MVP Orel Hershiser joins to discuss what it means to win it all.(3:24) DT hosts Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas chat with Orel about his relationship with the “Buehl-Dog”, including an awesome jersey swap.(14:25) Dave Roberts elevated his game to a new level this postseason, facing what was arguably his toughest challenge yet.(21:48) The championship parade is set to take place on what would have been Fernando Valenzuela’s 64th birthday, with Orel sharing  memories of the Dodger legend.Subscribe to DT on YouTube! DT is LIVE on Mondays & Thursdays at 12p PT/3p ET all year long!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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bringing home the championship trophy where it needs to be. I'm Alana Rizzo. That is Clint Paseas. Thanks so much for being here. Please rate us five stars. Like and subscribe, not only on the YouTube channel, but of course, wherever you get your podcast. And before we go any further, let us welcome in our very special guests, the 1988 World Series MVP, of course, a Sion Award winner as well. Oral Hersheiser joining the program today. Oral, it is always good to see you.

I appreciate you doing this because I know you've been pulled in so many different directions. Let's talk first about what that was like for you to be a World Series MVP and what Freddie Freeman must be going through right now, the 2024 MVP. Yeah. Wow, there's some connections there between me now and Freddie, and I think back to Corey Seeger from last year, even though he did it for Texas. I feel like he had Dodger Roots, of course. And it is, it's pretty special. But the more special thing is doing something as a team because, you know, they're partying now.

They had the plane flight back from New York. They're going to have the parade tomorrow. They're going to be all together. And when you accomplish something together, it is much more special than doing something individually. Of course, there's Cy Youngs, there's MVP, there's, you know, home run champs, there's Otani about to get an MVP, I would think, even Aaron Judge. But Aaron Judge would tell you that if he gets the American League MVP, which he probably will, he would have rather had the World Series crown as a team.

So it's fun to do the individual stuff. It's great to contribute. But, you know, it took a team for me to win the World Series MVP. It took Mickey Hatcher hitting some home runs. It took John Shelby catching some pop. pop-ups in center field. It took guys getting some runs for you and then calling the right signs behind the plate, Mike Sosha and Rick Dempsey. So Freddie had to have guys on base. That's what he talked about when he talked about his RBI record. I think it's 12. He had to have teammates on

base for them to drive him in. Well, the base is loaded Grand Slam pretty much put him as a front runner right from that at bat. But from then on, with all the other home runs, pretty special. Yeah, a lot of connective tissue to that 88 team, including a young guy by I called the Bule Dog, the original Buell Dog there, Walker Bueller going out there, much like a young Oral Hersheiser went out in, it was game five of the NLCS against those Mets. We saw the image, you wearing the 21, Walker wearing the 55 in game one. How special is a moment like you, let's make it about you. How special of a moment is it for you to see that? and the connection you and Walker have created since he was drafted, since he came up and now up through him getting that lasting image of getting the final three outs against the New York Yankees for the Los Angeles Dodgers. How special is that all around?

Yeah, it's a, it's pretty deep relationship. And it's amazing in my generation to be able to have a deep relationship that's mostly by text now. You know, you go to the ballpark as an announcer, you hang out by the cage, but Walker is playing catch, or he's rehabbing, or he's in Arizona, or he's on a rehab start, or he's, or he's pitching in a game tomorrow and you don't want to bother him, but then he has a tough outing, and then you text and you encourage and you talk on the phone. And then, you know, it came, it really started all the way back in his first spring training when Rick Honeycutt was the pitching coach. And he said, hey, I kind of want you to get close to Walker. And so that first day in spring training, I took him for a golf cart ride around the complex with Tommy Lasorte's golf cart cart. And we stopped at the mound and talked about how to stand on the rubber and what was in front of them. And there was a lot in Walker that was ego, hard head, special, special person as far as the talent and the person and the intelligence.

But he had he had a lot to learn. And it wasn't just from me. It was from Rick. It was from manager Dave Roberts, from Andrew Friedman, from everybody. But those conversations really started to open up his eyes to the big leagues. And then he grew into a veteran, into a big game pitcher. and then to go through a second Tommy John, a hip injury, to not get the results, and then to finally start to get some results and pitch the four great innings that he pitched,

and all of a sudden in the sixth inning, after he pitches four great innings, I get a call during the game to the studio, and it's like Walker saying, do you still have your jersey from the 88, you know, the gray one with a nice white pinstripe? And I go, yeah, he go, I go, it's in Vegas, but I'm going to have to have it FedEx here for you. You want it? He goes, yeah, yeah, I love that jersey. I want to wear it at different times. I'm like, oh my gosh, okay. So I call my wife Dana and I'm like, you've got a FedEx to Jersey. Walker wants to wear it. So they clinch and he wears it to the celebration after the San Diego game. His wife gets mad at him and says, you're going to get something on that. I'm like, don't worry. Whatever you get on it, it's more and better story. This is the actual jersey that I was. wearing in in Oakland you know I had two sets and one set went to the to the Hall of Fame and this is the other set that I have and so he was wearing that jersey around so they win it and he just texted me this morning after I sent him a congratulation text he texted me this morning he says can I keep the jersey through the parade and I go you can do whatever you want with it

that's such a great story with champagne oh yeah that's going to need a several trips to the dry cleaner bulldog they know this i don't i think i'm leaving it on it's stinky stinky and stanky dirt on it's got dirt on it's got dirt on it from oakland so let it have some champagne it's got character that's character that's right you know the 88 team world you know better than anybody nobody i can hear tommy in my head nobody thought we would win you know all this stuff and the two thousand twenty four team obviously the talent was there the money was spent but with the adversity and the injuries you'd be hard pressed to think the dodgers were going to get this far. Any correlation from what you saw going through it as a player in 88 to what you've

seen as you've watched this team the entire way through in 04-24? Well, I don't know exact correlations, but weaknesses became strengths. You know, our weakness was Kirk Gibson got hurt and had won at bat in the World Series. Mickey Hatcher became a strength. He could have easily been a co-MvP of that 88 World Series. The weakness of this Dodger team was the starting rotation coming into the playoffs. Well, who did so well? Other than Flaherty's last outing that put him in a position where all of a sudden all the stunt men and the dogs had to come out of the bullpen, these guys did the job. Yamamoto did the job. Flaherty did the job. Bueller did the job. So the weakness became strength. And some of the injured players, the guts of the 88 team, you know, Rick Dempsey,

Mike Sosha, Kirk Gibson, Steve Sacks, all those guys. Well, the guts of, Otani, the guts of Freeman, the guts of everybody was hurt. Some were injured. It was a high character team in 88, and it's a high character team in 2024. It's the new me, and it's the old them. Everybody's on their journey, and your journey is different to this. This Woman's History Month, the podcast, if you knew better with Amber Grimes, spotlights women who turn missteps into momentum and lessens into power.

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with new episodes every Tuesday on the Exactly Right Network. Listen to this podcast will kill you as part of the Exactly Right Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Wilmer Valderrama, and this is Freddie Rodriguez. Welcome back to Dos Amigos. Dos Amigos Season 2, baby! This time, we're going even deeper into our careers, our lives, our art, and everything in between. Each episode emanates from our very own speakeasy

where we swap stories about the moments that really shaped us on and off camera. What do we invest in right now? What is the immediate advice you give people right now? It's to value time to be cognizant of time and how important time is because once the time is up, it's up, and then that's it. And the relationships, collaborations,

and even the failures that push us to grow. And the common denominator is that we have the same people with us since like 30, 40 years ago, right? Like, we have a lot of the same homies that stuck around. Plus, the door always stays open for a third Amigo to pull up a chair. Listen to Dos Amigos as part of the My Cultura Podcast Network, available on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. You have such a great relationship with your broadcast partner, Joe Davis.

You guys are very good friends. You're very close. His third son is named after you, Theodore Oral Davis. What was it like for you to watch Joe on Fox and say, you know, hey, Freddie, meet Gibby, that type of thing, or Gibby meet Freddie. And, you know, she is gone and the whole, I mean, you were a part of 88 and you're a big part of Joe's life. What was that like for you? You know, I texted him and called him and I said, it was perfect. And it was perfect because he had the right rhythm.

He had the right tone. He had the right volume. He had the right connection to the past, but he was still in the present. And the biggest thing for me with announcers is it wasn't about him. It was about the game. It was about the fan's reaction to what just happened. It was about the player's reaction to what just happened. It gave you time to, he gave you a subject, he gave you excitement, and he gave you time to process it.

And I thought he did that throughout the whole world series. I thought it was a very tough assignment for a, Dodger announcer to do a Met Dodger series and then do a Yankee Dodger series when the Dodgers were born out of New York, whereas it's already this angst and this anxiety within families that root for both halves, and then to be neutral and just as excited for a Met outcome and just as excited for a Yankee outcome as you are a Dodger outcome, I think he's going to get rave reviews from people that have honest, neutral eyes and ears. You might, of course, hear negatives.

We were prepared for negatives when we all of a sudden walked into the Vin-Skully booth. Alana, you know as a team as we moved into that place, we're like we're going to get 30 to 40 percent negative reaction on Twitter, on Facebook, on all the different social media is from, even from the media, from our peers now. But you know what? We figured out a way to have pretty much everybody accept us. And I think that's the kind of job he did in these last few World Series. You know, talking about Joe, your broadcast partner, I go back to an early episode of the revered and missed off air with Joe and oral podcast. You guys talking about, mainly you talking about the 88 team and what it meant to so many people from that team. And, you know, still the frustrations coming off of learning about what happened in 2017 with the Astros.

but something still resonates to me from what you talked about there that in so many words and paraphrasing, I'll let you do it yourself here, but it created the lives that you, a lot of you guys have. And I think this Dodgers team is really indicative of that. Yeah, there's a lot of money. There's a lot of superstars. There was also a lot of missing pieces and guys that had to come up out of nowhere and play an important role.

I think of a Brent Honeywell being, you know, just somebody like that can be the next, you know, Mickey Hatcher or something, just one of these guys that not so much you're living off of that 88 or 24 championship, but the importance that it means to your life now and to these guys' lives for the rest of their lives. Speak to that for people that maybe happen to miss that great episode of Off Air and, you know, just what it means for a ballplayer to win the World Series. Yeah, it changes your life. It's definitely going to change Freddie Freeman. life not in a way that would change anything that happened in Atlanta or anything he did prior to this, but it changed his life with the Los Angeles fans and with the national fans, what he did.

That's going to be an iconic home run like Kirk Gibson's. I think it's going to change Walker Bueller's life. He's going into free agencies, come back from two Tommy Johns. He's still known as a big game pitcher. There's going to be a lot of people that want that talent, but a lot of people that are going to have the memory of him getting the last out, just like they do with Julio or Reyes. I think that it does change your life. I think on that podcast, we also covered the fact of how it changed the lives of the guys on the team in 2017, how they were asked at the grocery store or the dry cleaner or outrunning errands with their family or any time at the ballpark when they're signing autographs about, you know, you guys haven't done it yet.

And it's like, and have to give an excuse and think about that Houston cheated them out of that, whatever they didn't get. I really thought about Justin Turner back then and a lot of those different guys that were the leaders and the spokespeople for the Dodgers. But your question about how it changes your life. I mean, to this day, I'm on your show right now with Alana. Alana and I are friends. I'm getting to know you, Clint. I mean, it changes your life with relationships. It changes your life and your brand.

It changes how people greet you. It changes their lives of they know moments of what you did. where they were and how they felt and how it changed their lives. So it's very, very special. I did not realize the complete impact of what happens when you win a world championship and you're a significant portion of that reason that you won it until the clinching game against San Diego, John Hartung and I left our centerfield stage where we're going to do the postgame show.

And we went into the right field pavilion and stood with a couple of police officers. with all the fans and just watch them and it's autographs and its photos and it's, hey, guys, I'm here to watch the game. Enjoy the game right now. Don't worry that I'm here and get them all to not turn back towards me standing in the stands, but turns towards the field and watch the last out because this is what I want to see. And when they went all nuts and then I stayed there for about five, ten seconds watching that, watching Chris Taylor pick up the ball, throw to first, watch the elation, watch everything

that went on and then turn and ran to the stage to get ready for the show, I finally were starting to realize like how many people we impacted and how many smiles we brought to so many faces. I'm so incredibly grateful for the friendship that we've created. I want to ask you about the job that Dave Roberts did. Did he take his managerial skills to a different level this year? I mean, he was, he pushed every right button. Yeah, I mean, they pushed the right buttons and then the players decide if they're, right or wrong. Baseball is a game. Baseball is a game of probabilities, Alana, as you know, and Clint, you make a good pitch and they bloop it in. So you really, you know, and then we throw

up these percentages. Well, that ball had a 92% chance of being an out, but it fell in, the 8%. It fell in for a hit. You throw a ball down the middle and the guy swings and misses. And you go, that was a mistake. I can't live there. I got to make an adjustment. You're beating yourself up on the mound. And the fans are going nuts because you struck the guy out. It's like it's a game of probabilities. And the probabilities, if they're on the field for the players, the probabilities are in the manager's mind and decisions. And so they are trying to put the best possible scenario together for their players, for

their health, for their future, for everything that's going on. I thought he did an amazing job. I thought in the past he's done an amazing job. But I think there are some edges like you said, Alana, that he's gone to another level. And I think just like a player that's been through the World Series or the playoffs or All-Star games or big moments, I think managers need to go through those big moments too sometimes. And you learn. And I think trusting Blake Trinen, I think understanding that Walker Bueller said in the sixth inning, I'll be ready for you. And he says, okay, I think bringing him in instead of Hudson or one of the other guys that were left down there, an amazing move. And I can relate to that because you got to go for it. I've always said the Dave in the past. I've said there's only one thing I can tell you about the playoffs. Once you see somebody comfortable in the situation, but you think the numbers say that there needs to be a change, don't trust the numbers. Trust what

you see, trust what you feel. Because you don't know what's coming through that bullpen gate and you don't know who's coming off your bench and how they are going to respond to it. But you do see the guy that's already in there, that he's comfortable. And if he's executing to a certain level, forget the numbers. You've got somebody out there that's in the right place at the right time. And I think that's what he did with Blake. I think that's what he did with Walker. He has seen Walker be comfortable in that situation. He knows he's only on one day rest. He's seen Blake comfortable in that situation out there. But he knows he's reached a pitch count where he should be tired. And the pitch count calculations probably say he's supposed to give up runs after

pitch 35. Well, he threw more pitches than Jack Flaherty. And he did just fine. Yeah, we talked a lot this postseason. Alana and I, I mean, I've been a long-time doc defender. I think there's nobody better to pilot this team and this group of superstars and all that kind of stuff. However, I don't want to say it was easy to look at jumping ship or finally, you know, changing the narrative a little bit after, you know, games was a two and three against the Padres there. Things got tough. Things got bleak. But, you know, where let's say maybe 2019 Dave, 2018 Dave, both very good versions of Dave Roberts, maybe that guy might not have won last night's game. all of the years, nine seasons as Dodgers manager and hopefully many, many, many more built him up into this super manager that we saw. Every move, and I love what he said to.

It's about the players, the players going out there and executing and doing their job. On the flip side, it felt like almost like a 2016 Dodgers, maybe a 19 Dodgers, what we saw with the Yankees and Aaron Boone. How tough is something like that? because you've been in that spot. I think the Cleveland team, 97, I mean, you guys were so very, very close. Or wait, is that the one of my way off? You won that one.

Even so. 95. No, 95 and 97, we lost both. Yeah, okay. And it was on the right track, but still. Right. Still, to know, like, there's one or two moves, a play. Garrett Cole, not covering first.

Aaron Judge, look into the play before catching the ball. Yeah. Not all of that is on a manager, but. Nope. Dave, to get to this point, I don't even know where I'm going with this. I guess I just really want Dave to know that I'm sorry for the bad things I said. But, you know, it's part of the job. Yeah.

Yeah, it is. You know, second guessing, armchair quarterbacking, going over all the different scenarios that could have been. Everything in our game and most of sports comes down to the angle you take is according to what the result was. And so we predict what will happen in the future. And then we analyze what's already happened. But we're never in the present tense as the media.

The manager, the players are in the present tense. And that tense is like hard to comprehend. It's easy to analyze after. It's easy to predict. And you're usually wrong before. But the present tense is like the only tense that we can live by when we're active athletes, when we're active managers, when we're the GM, when we're the president of baseball ops, you know, when we're Joe Davis announcing in the moment and getting it right,

that tense doesn't exist. It's really, really hard. I think of Bobby Cox, Joe Torrey, Whitey Herzog, Tommy Lasorda, Dusty Baker. I think of their veteran status as managers, their calm, their decision. making. I think Dave has now reached that level. I think he's going to be a Hall of Fame manager if he isn't as of this day. I think the way he goes about his business, there's a veteran presence about him now, that he has been through the numbers days. He's been through the change of culture days of we're going to play multiple positions and you're not necessarily going to always hit third

or sixth or seventh. I think he's been through the injury phase. He's been through a shortened championship season phase in COVID. He's been through now at 2024 and he's going to get a parade. You know what? He's arrived as far as the veteran manager, the leader, one of the guys you will look back and go, you know, that's like the Bill Belichick of football. That's like the, you know, he's one of the guys now. He's done it.

And he has the persona, the character, the integrity, the communication skills. The calmness to, he don't have to worry about what other people say anymore. It's the new me. And it's the old them. Everybody's on their journey. And your journey is different to this. This Woman's History Month, the podcast, if you knew better with Amber Grimes, spotlights women who turn missteps into momentum and lessons into power.

I think coming out of where I came from, I'm from the Bronx. I think I grew up really poor. I didn't know that then because I very much used my creativity to romanticize life. And I'm like, my mom did a really good job. of like you step back and you're like whoa we I don't know how we made it so a lot of my life was like built out of like survival to get to the next place like my drive my like tunnel vision of like I got to be better I got to achieve this was off the strengths of like I want to make a better life for us if you knew better brings real talk from women who've lived it unpacking career

pivots relationship lessons and the mindset shifts that changed everything listen to if you knew better with Amber Grimes on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Usually on this podcast will kill you, we talk about the diseases, infections, and biological threats that can make us really sick. But right now, we're doing something a little different. We're stepping back and looking at what the human body needs to keep going. When you consider what we know about sleep in humans, there's one rule that comes out. We are predictably unpredictable sleepers. We're talking about why sleep works the way it does, why our bodies don't follow neat rules and why modern life makes rest so hard to come by.

The second half of our series takes us to the digestive system with a multi-part series on what happens after we eat. Okay, I just have to say that all of my favorite words apparently are digestive words. Sphinctor, peristosis, duodenum. It's fascinating. It's funny and it matters so much more than you think. Episodes of our new series run from January 20th through February 17th, with new episodes every Tuesday on the Exactly Right Network. to this podcast will kill you as part of the Exactly Right Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, I'm Wilmer Valderrama. And this is Freddie Rodriguez. Welcome back to Dos Amigos. Dos Amigos season two, baby. This time, we're going even deeper into our careers, our lives, our art, and everything in between. Each episode emanates from our very own speakeasy, where we swap stories about the moments that really shaped us on and off camera. What do we invest in right now? What is the... immediate advice you give people right now. It's to value time to be cognizant of time and how important time is. Because once the time is up, it's up, and then that's it. And the relationships, collaborations, and even the failures that push us to grow.

And the common denominator is that we have the same people with us since like 30, 40 years ago, right? Like, we have a lot of the same homies that stuck around. Plus, the door always stays open for a third amigo to pull up a chair. Listen to Dos Amigos is part of the My Cultura. podcast network available on the iHeart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast yeah he's the full package certainly uh likely hit the hall of fame uh three time world series champion once as a player of course twice as a manager bulldog before we let you go i'd be remiss if i didn't ask you about your relationship of with fernando valenzuela fitting the parade

of course is on what would have been fernando's 64th birthday um just kind of something very symbolic about that. I know he meant a lot to you. I know you took him under your wing as well. What was that like for you? Well, it's a huge loss. And it's a personal loss, but it's a huge loss to the Dodge Organization and all the Latino baseball fans and everybody that he drew to the game. You know, there was conflict. There was a relationship between the city of Los Angeles and the Latino community with the building of Dodger Stadium in that neighborhood. And he patched up everything. And he not only patched it up, I think the night when he passed away and then we went on

the air, I talked about how much love he brought. And it talked about, you know, it wasn't Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. It wasn't Roberto Clemente changing the way Puerto Rican and Latino players are treated at the big league level. But it was Fernando Valenzuela, Fernando Mania, Fernando's personality, Fernando's place where came from that he brought so much love and so many people to baseball. And he continued to do that throughout his whole life. You know, he had a wicked sense of humor, very dry, but also very slapstick like a child at times. He was quiet and shy, and then he was brash and fun, and he would poke you

on the golf course. You would give him a three-foot putt, and then you'd have a one-footer, and he'd go, Mark it. And you're like, I gave you a three-footer on the last hole. And he'd go, no, no, no, you need to make that. And I'm like, what are you doing? And he would then just smile at you, like, I got you. And I would just pick up my ball and go to the next tee. But I mean, we did all kinds of stuff. I have an iconic photo of me, Sandy Kofax and Fernando walking off the green. I think John Suu or somebody was following us around as we were playing golf in Viro Beach. And it just so many memories. I mean, we played hacky sack in the back clubhouse. He'd lassoot your foot and trip you with his cow mucacho rope. And he'd tap you on the wrong shoulder. He'd do all kinds of stuff. He'd tell you he didn't want to go to dinner.

And then he would show up at the same restaurant at the exact reservation time and go, where's my chair? All kinds of stuff. I mean, he was just, he was very, very special. Yeah, certainly. the Mount Rushmore of Dodgers baseball. You're on there as well. Oral Hershey's, always a pleasure. Can't tell you how much we appreciate you taking the time to be with us on Dodgers territory. Love you. Enjoy the parade tomorrow. Congratulations. And please give everybody

there our best. We appreciate you very much, Bulldog. All right. You guys have a great day. Great rest of your day. Clint, do not rip on Dave Roberts ever again. Thank you. I'm good. Alana, I know you will support us in every place you are. That's right. All right. I appreciate you. soon. All right. All right. Oral her size are always the best. Time now for last looks. Let's do it. All right, guys, let's introduce you to not a bulldog, but Chloe. This is a golden retriever lab mix. Chloe is a good girl looking for her forever home. She'd probably be best with a little bit older kids, not like little young kids that are crawling all over the place. But,

you know, she likes to stay to herself kind of do her own thing. She's very sweet, very calm. just needs a forever home and a place to lay her head. If she interests you at all, please reach out to giddreysgarden.org and find out more about her. So you can go ahead and adopt this baby girl. We also want to say thank you so much to baseballism for being a part of our show throughout this season, of course, Dodgers Territory.

We appreciate you being here. Baseball, the lifestyle, the baseball lifestyle brand of America. We appreciate you guys very much. All right, Clint, what is your thought for the road as we, you know, kind of wrap up the show here. Well, one, thank you to the Bulldog for joining us. Always love talking to Oral Hersheyzer. You know, I've talked before about and now with the loss of Fernando,

losing that connection to the past with this organization and how important for decades it was in Dodger baseball. You knew the last guy. You knew the last generation, whether it's Sandy Kofax. you know, Duke, Duke Snyder hanging around for so long. Don Newcomb, you know, up now through Bulldog, Nomar Garcia, Parra, you know, James Loney, all these people. You've got to have that connective tissue to the past.

And there are a few better, there are no better, than Oral Herschizer when it comes to that. But flipping it forward now, talking about what we witnessed last night, World Series Championship, your Dodgers getting that parade. my God, that's a fun time. It's a fun time to be a Dodger fan. And there's so many things you want to look forward to.

Do you want to talk about, you know, re-signed Teasker Hernandez as soon as possible? Yep, right away. Give Tommy Edmund an extension. Walker Bueller, please stay home, come home. We got money for you, bud, somewhere. Listen, we got plenty of off-season to talk about that. We need to talk about for a second, more so.

Freddie Freeman, how this dude, the injury, putting this team on his back, so many guys, I think that's a big thread for this World Series. So many guys stepping up in the moment putting their teammates on their back. And there wasn't one guy. It wasn't like 20 with Corey Seeger going off. And chances are if Corey doesn't do that, the Dodgers don't get that far in the World Series. It was everybody. It was everybody.

And it's like I've said a few times, it's going to be sad to not see this team. playing baseball, but we know they're going to be around for the rest of our lives. Like in some ways, the core is there, right? The core group is there. They're coming back, which is great. And just think about the fact that this team is going to get a lot healthier. You know what I mean? Clayton Kirshar already said he's coming back.

We don't know if it's going to be with the Dodgers. I would imagine it would be. I can't imagine Clayton going anywhere else other than L.A. But you would figure that Glasnow is going to be healthy for the most part. You figure you're going to get Dustin May back. You're going to get Tony Gonsland back. You're going to get some key pieces back to the Dodgers bullpen. And for the most part, the core is there.

We got Shohei, who, by the way, told Andrew Friedman nine more to go because he's a 10-year contract, nine more. So he thinks it's that easy, right? So you just get to be a Dodger for the first time and you're already winning a World Series championship. Obviously, we got mokey bets for the long term. We have Freddie Freeman for the long term. I have said that the first order of business after they do the parade is to extend

Teo. Like, that's number one priority. Walker, again, big game player. That's who you want, obviously, in your rotation. So this team has the capabilities and the possibility of just being even better than they were this year, if that's even possible. So that's exciting to think. Yeah, Freddie Freeman is the easiest person on the planet to cheer for. He's the easiest person on the planet to root for.

I'm incredibly grateful that he decided to come to L.A. I'm glad that the Atlanta Braves decided that, you know, they wanted to go a different direction. Thank you so much for that super chat. We appreciate that. Number 55 and 23 need to be the next. next numbers retired. So yeah, I'm very excited. But before we look on to next season, let's just enjoy the fact that we are World Series champions. Yes, we will be doing offseason shows. We appreciate that. Stay with us on Dodgers territory all throughout the

off season. We're not going anywhere. Clint, what is coming up? Ooh, Anthony, what's up? I alternated between a mukie and Hershey's jersey all throughout the playoffs. Every strong pitching outing. I was rocking the bulldog. Good job, Anthony. Good job. What's coming up on all daughters? I think we're going live tonight. I'm not 100% certain if I've decided that or not, but I think there's a reason to celebrate. I know people really want to start spinning forward already

and looking at next season or looking at this offseason. Yeah, I'm not there yet. I'm not there yet, guys. I really want to soak this one in. You know, I joked last night. Like, we did it. You know, they won this World Series because of us. But, you know, that's the life of being a baseball.

football fan, a sports fan, you feel like you're part of the team. And I want to enjoy this as much as the players deserve. I think we all as fans deserve to enjoy this the way these players get to. Yeah, they get to enjoy it a whole hell of a lot more. So if I am live tonight, it will be at 6 p.m. Pacific time and we'll be talking more about your Dodgers. I do want to throw on one more super chat from my friend Katie, who pops in, always send in love. Happy World Series win, buddy. Happy World Series win to all of us. Great, great Dodgers fans. This is fun.

Soak it up, gang. It was a tough one. It was a tough one. Yeah. Before we say goodbye, though, I want to say happy birthday to our producer, Sarah. Happy, happy, happy, happy 23rd birthday to Sarah. We're happy that she's with us along this crazy ride. We appreciate all that you do.

And to you guys out there that have listened to us and watched us all season long, we appreciate you very much. Like we said, we will have off-season shows. But if you can and you like what we do, please subscribe, like, greatest five stars, tell all your friends about it, and just remember that you are a fan

of the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. Clint and I will be back with you on Monday. Go Dodgers. Hey, Dodgers, okay, bye. Peace to the planet, Shalameen to God here, and listen, We are back.

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