Dodgers Territory - State of the Dodgers Following Trade Szn, How Does Postseason Roster Shake Out?

Episode Date: August 2, 2024

There's a small sense of panic surrounding the Dodgers, who were swept by the Padres in San Diego. What's wrong with the Dodgers right now and what's the level of concern? Alanna and Clint sound off! (9:10)(14:35) How did the Dodgers do at the deadline and how will this roster shake out for the postseason as players eventually return from injury?(18:47) How does this year's trade deadline haul compare to those of years past?(23:35) The additions of Tommy Edman, Amed Rosario, and Kevin Kiermaier raise questions about positioning once everyone is healthy. Where will Mookie Betts play when he returns from a broken hand and should he be open to playing all around the field? What does a playoff rotation look like with the addition of Jack Flaherty at the deadline?(29:53) Tomorrow marks two years since Vin Scully's passing. Alanna and Clint share their favorite memories of the LA legend.DT runs LIVE on Mondays & Thursdays at 3p ET/12p PT all season long on the DT YouTube channel! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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including the Dodgers, based on the moves that they made. Welcome everybody to the live edition on this Thursday afternoon of Dodgers Territory. We are your host, Clint Paseous and Alana Rizzo. Don't forget to like us, subscribe us, rate us five stars on YouTube as well as wherever you get your podcast. We're happy that you're with us. Get those comments and questions loaded up in the chat. We want you to be a part of a conversation here. All right.

So San Diego series, not really great. Yeah, Dodgers get swept two-game mini-series there in San Diego. Things feeling bleak even after the busy trade deadline. So I think we need to get into where things are at right now with the big ticket. All right. You know what? Go ahead. I was going to say, it's really hard to find the positives from that two-game set in San Diego a lot.

I like glass now I think there's two things glass now you know shoving ish for seven innings that was very nice to see because he's been kind of struggling a little bit a little bit Gavin luck's kind of continuing to keep things going a couple of knocks couple RBIs in that series but other than that like there's not a whole lot to like from that series in san diego so I'll ask you what is going wrong with this very beat up dodger squad I feel that's part of it obviously I feel like this club is still trying to kind of limp their way into this month of August coming off of a rough July, obviously, with injuries and stuff. I also think, you know, they beat themselves.

They had no business losing that game with Manny that had to walk off there. And, you know, this is a long season. I will say this, though. I am a bit concerned that perhaps our club that we love wholeheartedly is not as good as we think they are or not as good as we want them to be. I mean, we talked about last month or two months ago, we said, Clint, that the NL. a lock. The Dodgers are running away with the NL West right now. And Juan Torrebeo had this to say, catcher Will Smith on the team's recent struggles. We'll come out of it. No doubt about it,

where the Dodgers were the best team in baseball. Well, they need to start proving that. They're the best team in baseball. And I do know that, obviously, it's a long season. I recognize that fact. But it does bother me that we just don't seem to be able to get a lot of traction going right now and pull further away from where we need to be. And I tell you what, give the Padres and AJ Preller some credit. They're four and a half games back right now. That is the closest the division has been all season long. They went forward at the deadline.

Yeah, that's what that's, I welcome the competition in the NOS. I appreciate competition. I've been hoping for competition in this division for sometimes, you know, let's be real like the Dodgers have not played a whole bunch of meaningful games in September in what feels like years, what feels like decades at times when you're in this kind of hot streak. But, you know, usually they don't play these meaningful games in September, and we see what happens in October. So I like the Padres getting better. I understand where the Dodgers are at. And I think a lot of us do. Even you, Alani, like, you know, obviously right now,

the situation is they're not playing very good. This isn't the club that we were expecting to see in April. This is not the club that we're going to see. on September 25th or what have you. It's just right now things are really bad. Things are broken. Up to it including Mr. Every Day isn't even in there. Every day, Freddie, gone having to deal with a horrible family situation. You have that.

You're missing Miguel Rojas. You're missing, you know, mooky bets. Our pets' heads are falling off. I got to get that in on every episode. But at some point in time, all of these guys, most of these guys are going to be coming back and you're going to feel a lot better. I will say. That's my question, though. That's my question. Did they do enough? And you're also banking on all of these massive pieces. We know that Freddie's healthy, but families first, right? But all of these other pieces that we're banking are all of a sudden going to be back to normal form when they are getting healthy. Miraculously, Max Muncie has turned a corner as far as the oblique is concerned. It looks like he may be coming back sooner than we thought. But you're assuming that the Miguel Rojas is of the world, the Max Muncie's of the world, the Chris Taylor's of the

world everybody that gets back from you know the health situation walker beuler uh all this stuff that they're going to be effective mookie my god how do i even forget about mooky you know so it's like did they do enough at the trade deadline to compliment what we hope to be healthy players coming back said this a little bit on our deadline special where we're of course uh our friend scott Bronpinch hit for you in that episode. But they did a lot to raise the floor. They gave themselves a lot of optionality moving forward. So if X doesn't happen, you have Y, you have Z.

They have guys that aren't going to be Kevin Bizio. I'm going to keep harping on Bizio because you know, you guys know me by now. I got to have a guy and Gavin Lux is doing well. So it's not Luxie anymore. But some of these guys that just don't make sense for the roster, they're here for, you know, right now a good time, not a long time. So if it's a Tommy Edmund who, mind you, has not played baseball all season. No, no big deal.

That's fine. No, yeah, no big deal there at all. But he can play some center field. They also got Kevin Kiermeyer, who plays a phenomenal defensive center field, but also, you know, the bats kind of MIA for him all season long. They give themselves some, again, some options. Ahmed Rosario coming back for the second year in a row. He was one of those guys, too.

is he going to be a platoon partner for Luxie at second base while he eventually become like the third baseman moving forward they just give themselves you know different ways to kind of fire off and i wonder if that's too much though is that too much um you know too much for dave to kind of handle their that's my point that's my point i think sometimes too you know that saying it's like if you have three quarterbacks you don't have a quarterback if you have three closers you don't have a closer, sometimes so much versatility and so many guys that have to bring six gloves to the field means that you don't have a lockdown shortstop. You don't have a lockdown third basement. You don't have, you know, a guy that you absolutely want in center field. That worries me a little bit.

It's like, you know, what's that saying that it's like master of many, you know, or it's like you do all that stuff and it's like master of none time. Yeah, you know, it's like, I mean, the phrase escapes me right now. but it's like you don't, I'd rather have like nine solid people out there that are used to that position that they play day in and day out. They know where they're going to be defensively. They know where they're going to be in the lineup. You know, I just feel like we've got too many moving parts right now, too many, too many question marks. There's too many things that I just don't feel really great about right now. What do you make of Kirshah's recent struggles?

I mean, he's had two outings. Two outings for Kirsch. Did not look good. Did not get a lot of help in San Diego. And we're going to see, you know, trade deadline passed, but none of these guys outside of Michael Copac. We haven't seen any of these guys yet. You know, Tommy Edmund still has some time, you know,

on his rehab assignment. Kevin Kiermeyer taking some time before exiting Toronto, kind of getting his life squared away. So we haven't seen any of these guys. So once again, one of the big problems, I think the team identified as well. And that's where you see the Kiermeyer edition. That's where you see Tommy Edmund, who is a hell of a ball player. They identified a very clear area of need with defense, particularly in center field and the outfield just all around.

Defense has been a bit of a struggle. And you saw that lead to some issues for Kershaw throwing more pitches than he needed to in that game, even though I think the first inning error was a Lux error. and Lux has been great, so we're not going to harp on that. But too many pieces there on Kershaw, getting back to Kershaw. This is supposed to be still like his rehab time. I don't know why they only gave him three rehab starts. I was never a fan of that.

I understand why he wants you. He doesn't like pitching in the minor leagues. But there's a reason spring training is a month long, dude. You need to bounce back, take some time to bounce back from a shoulder operation, the first surgery of your life. But, you know, I think that's where it's at. The command was trash because this was his third start, his really true third start bouncing back from throwing his last pitch in October. Let me tell you, though, that what bothers me so much,

and I'm not worried about Kershaw, I never have, even though his, you know, his strikeout streak was snapped. It just tells you how good Kershaw has been for over a decade, 17 seasons as a Dodger didn't have a strikeout in his last outing. I don't care. But when your bullpen has, as shit the bed, basically, for the last month of the season, that, like, that makes you as a unit look really, really bad. I mean, people notice when, like, when the bullpen does its job,

nobody says a ton, right? Like, it's like they're the goat or the, you know, or the hero. And I'm not talking about greatest of all time. I'm talking about the scapegoat. But when they don't do their job, that is a glaring issue that they've been pretty good for the majority of the season. But this last three to four weeks has not been good. I understand I added Kopec. You weren't a massive fan of that. I'm okay with it. I like the move.

I'm open to hopefully being something. Is it enough? I mean, you know, we hope to see Bruzdar at some point, you know, but Evan Phillips has kind of lost a hold a little bit on that closer roll. Yeah. You've got to get it together. Yeah, I mean, there's some pieces coming back. Michael Grove is on the mend, bruisedar, Gratterol, on the men, another guy we have not seen at all all season. Grove has had some stretches where he's been really, really nice. Ryan Brazier, another option in the bullpen. But then you look at again, now you're talking about bullpen, all of these pieces, who moves, who goes, who stays. What is the best version of this bullpen? And the best version of this bullpen is the one that has starters, you know, opening games and staying in there for five or six. maybe even seven innings.

That's been a massive problem. And it's still the fallout of losing Yoshino, Yobu Yamamoto, words are hard sometimes, you know, not getting anything out of Paxton ultimately to the point where you DFA him. Stone struggling for the month of July, Glasnow being injured for part of the month of July. All of that just leads to this bullpen being overworked. And that's something Dave Roberts talked about as well. The bullpen needs to get better, but the starters need to get better because they have beat up this bullpen.

pin. We're seeing Alex Vescia. He's his velocities down on the fastball. He's somebody that's overworked, trying and losing his command on all of his pitches at the moment right now, struggling a good bit over the last month. And it comes down to the starters. It comes down to the injuries. And luckily, the Dodgers do add one guy with Jack Flaherty. But even Jack Flaherty, a perfect Dodger comes here with some back issues. So, yeah, our Ken Rosenthal, of course, talking about why New York Yankees decided to pass on Jack Flaherty because of the back issue, but I do, I do like the move. You know, I think that he is a guy that will fit in nicely to the rotation. It's kind of funny, though. We joked on fair territory earlier today. It's like he fits

them perfectly, you know, because he's hurt just like everybody else. Everybody. I got one here for you, Alana, mad lad in the comments here on the show saying, crazy how Phillips trying to invest you all decided to struggle at the same time. Alana, you've been around these teams a long time. You've, you've seen the inner workings of a dugout, of a clubhouse, of a bullpen. There is something to momentum, whether it's good momentum or no momentum where everybody's struggling at the same time. And I think that's kind of the situation they're in. Do you agree? Do you disagree? I do. I do. You know, there's that saying, of course, that hitting is contagious. And I feel it's the same way, the opposite way. When guys are struggling, it kind of seems to trickle down into it.

So you need that, you need that key stopper. And again, that goes back to the bullfew. pen struggles, it goes back to the next, the next day's starting pitcher. That is where your momentum comes from. I mean, if the guy that goes out, not today, because they're off, but if the guy that comes out against the Oakland athletics tomorrow, which by the way, the Oakland athletics have the best record in all of baseball in the month of July. So it's not as if they're just going to like lay down when the Dodgers get there. I mean, I give Mark Kotzee a lot of credit. This club has not given up despite not having a home to play in and, you know, and missteps all the way from their organization. but the momentum starts with that day's starting pitcher.

So if they can go out there and, you know, pitch really well for five, six, seven innings, that would be tremendous. Let the bullpen, the day off helps, but let the bullpen reset. And I just, this has been a really strange stretch. July was a really strange stretch for this club. And I don't know if it's because it's those dog days of summer. I don't know if it was because of the All-Star break and the layoff. I don't know if it's because, you know,

We have obviously a lot of injuries. And I guess better now than in September. But four and a half games with the Padres team does not make me feel great. No. I mean, what, yeah, what is your concern level here? I know our producer Mark put it in the background. Is it a four alarm fire? Is it spicy food?

Are you just chilling? Where's your concern level at with things right now? And knowing a month from now, most of these pieces could or should be back. What's a concern level? I mean, is it like a one to 10? scale is that where we're talking about i'm like i'm in a i'm at a six i'm in a seven a little bit i'm a little bit i'm a little bit concerned because you don't know what you're going to get from munsy and mookie and mcgge and the munsy ones a worry muki i feel good about what it's about

it's about where he's going to play and that kind of you know you know how do you work in all these guys which we're already talking about so i'd say let let's let's kind of shift into because we haven't gotten much on your reactions, at least here on this show on Dodgers territory about this trade deadline. Let's get into what is actually the big ticket. Let's get your reaction and thoughts on the trade deadline. I like the I like the Copec move. I like the Flaherty move. I really would have loved Tanner Scott in our bullpen. I thought that would have been great. I know you really wanted ESOC Parades at third base, although that move happened before apparently Muncie turned a corner. So we'll see.

The bad one's counter-corter, by the way. Yeah, we'll see in terms of that. I just, I don't, last year when Walker Bueller and Bobby Miller and Scott Barron just brought this up in the chat, last year when those two guys were on the hill, like there was just something special there, right? There was the fire, there was the conviction. not Bueller, but when Bobby Miller was on the Hill and when Bueller was on the Hill two years ago, there was just something special about that.

When Kershaw is on the Hill, you feel pretty great about your chances. This year, it's basically Glasnow. That's who you, that's- Gavin Stone. That's who you feel good about. That's who I feel good about. Yeah. I have a tremendous amount.

He doesn't have the experience. He doesn't have the back side of the baseball card yet. I'm not saying he's not good. But I like that move. He hasn't pitched for us yet, but I like that move. I do. I think it's good. But, you know, I would rather have Blake Snell.

I know that they're not going to trade him in the division. But, you know, I'm okay with it. I give the Dodgers a beat. I like, I love this squad. I still believe in the squad. I just need them to get out of this funk soon because it's making me in a funk and I don't like it. I'm not concerned over Jack Flaherty's medicals because I don't think Andrew Friedman and our medical team would have signed Jack Flaherty if it was so egregious and so

terrible that they didn't think that he was going to be able to perform for them. So I'm not concerned about that. Yeah, Flaherty, I love the idea. And I said this to Brani on Wednesday or on Tuesday. I love the idea of seeing this dude get even better, potentially even better working with Mark Pryor and company. We know what this organization can do with pitchers. He comes home. And he's already excited. So you have your guy with that front line potential, even though he doesn't have the Cy Young Awards. He doesn't have the All-Star births or whatever. He's still a guy that has some aura, that has some bravado, something like you were just saying, you were just mentioning, something that Bobby Miller had at points last year, did not have it in his loan postseason appearance,

something that Walker Bueller has had when he's right throughout his career as a Dodger. So if Bueller's not going to be that guy, Jack Flaherty can be that guy. And this team always, always performs better when they have that one guy who's like, yeah, no, I don't give a shit. I give me the ball. I'll stop this problem that we're at right now that we're having. You need to have stopper. You need to have as many stoppers as you can get. So if Yamamoto doesn't come back, you have, you know, give yourself one more guy that you can

throw in there in that one or two, you know, second start of the postseason, whatever it is. And you hope that he's going to give you something that was better than what we saw last year with. Here's the thing about this deadline, too. The amount of trades certainly overshadowed. It's like the quantity of moves way overshadow the quality of moves. And the reason being, I think Ken and I, Ken and I talked about this this morning on fair territory. I really truly believe there's only two players that could have been traded that would have changed the legitimate landscape of what the postseason picture look like. Those names are Terrick Scouble and Blake's now. And neither one of those guys were moved. I don't think that there's any

team that made a massive difference in their playoff chances, including the Dodgers, based on the moves that they made. Do I believe that this team will win the division? Yes. Do I believe that they will go deeper into the postseason that they have in the last two years? Yes. But there's not, I remember a few years back when we were flying on basically on the trade deadline. And I think, I think it was jock that was like walking back on the plane when we were flying and he's like, we just got Darvish. Like those were the types of moves. that you're like, okay, like here we go, you know. When we got Scher and Trey Turner and all of that stuff, you know,

I were like, all right, you know, this is what I'm talking about. Like there really weren't any moves this season that I was like, holy crap, like they got so much better. Like when Verlander got added to the Houston Astros roster the first time, not coming from the Mets, but the first time he became an Astro, I was like, okay, the Astros just got a lot better. You know, I didn't, I don't feel like that this season. I don't feel like there's been one team that really increased their, now that could be because 22 teams were buying and only eight were selling. You know, I just don't feel like there was a team that got dramatically better or worse,

except for the White Sox, but I don't know what the hell the White Sox are doing anyway. Hard to get worse than, you know, then, I mean, do you, I think if, if Tarek Scouble would have got dealt, I mean, granted, he's going to take a haul. Or if, you know, or if Blake Snell went anywhere. which I think the Giants would be stupid to let him go because, you know, it's he, you could, he's a great arm. But do you feel like anyone got, well, I mean, he does have two Saly Young Awards. But I understand in the years that he hasn't won't say young. The Giants really in it.

To the question there, this was just a bad deadline. It did not have the marquee pieces, the marquee names. There were some guys that were dudes, some guys that are very good additions to a ball club. Scottie's talking about here. Scott Braun saying Flaherty making the Yankees look at. He will. I think he will in Dodger Blue. He was the best guy.

He was the clear, far and away front runner best arm that was available to actually be traded. Jack Flaherty and the Dodgers got him. Terrick Scouble, we said it before. The Tigers would have to be the stupidest ball club and all of the world to trade away their, their Cy Young Award front runner at the moment in the American League. crochet, all of the stuff surrounding that. He wasn't going to be moved. Blake Snell was never going to be traded.

I mean, I think there's a lot of worry with that contract as well and the option and all of that. So for me, the Dodgers did everything they could. This front office did everything they could to give themselves some options and raise the floor, like they already said, because we've seen so many of these pieces that on the roster that are on the roster now, that just they're not playoff caliber players for the Los Angeles Dodgers, for all the expectations that come with this team.

Jeremy just brought up a really good point. He said, you can spend all the money in the world. Jeremy, thanks for the conversation here on Dodgers territory. So you can spend all the money in the world, and it's not going to match that 2017 team. And I don't know if that's the best Dodgers team that I've covered. I mean, 2019 was pretty damn good, too. And so was 18.

So it's tough, yeah. I mean, yeah, the 2017, 18 daughters were built by Ned Coletti, not Andrew Friedman. That's the difference. That's not true to you. I mean, Andrew Friedman's done a lot of real. I mean, yes, Ned was the architect to begin with. But Andrew Friedman's done a lot of really good things for this club, too. So this team to me right now, this 20, 24 team feels closer to what we saw in 18 than any other

years because 18 had a bunch of platoons, guys that were kind of not willing. They didn't want to play in, you know, the positions they were put. in obviously matt camp didn't want to be playing in the positions he was in yassio puig and all that but there was guys that understood um you know roles and and needs for the organization and for the team that day and i think that's the mentality this team needs to to have moving forward because like like we already talked about talked around a lot there's there's so many pieces when and if everybody comes back and is healthy that i don't know how you shake it all out i don't know how you that's just the thing and all i don't i don't remember the

2018 team being hurt that badly. I mean, from wire to wire our team has been, our team has been hurt this year. Yeah, this year's been bad. It's been really bad. And again, no one's going to feel sorry for the Los Angeles daughters. I get it. I mean, look at the Houston Astros starting rotation. They've had some key guys. I mean, Tampa Bay raised, three fourths of three fifths of their rotation that's on the IL. I mean, the Baltimore Orioles lost, you know, means and, you know, they've lost three guys on in their starting rotation, too. So nobody feels badly for these teams. But I don't. remember a team in which there were so many question marks and so many holes and like just the what

ifs okay how are these guys going to be when they come back you know yes versatility is key but you get to the point we just talked about where it's maybe it's too much um changing of positions and moving around and you don't have that familiarity uh and just the constant knowing of where you're going to be on the field and in the lineup these guys are ball players figure it out like like my best version of mooky bets i don't he doesn't he should not be playing one position for this team Dave roberts even alluded to that when he spoke with media on on Tuesday. He was asked about where is mooky going to play. He's not committed to playing him at shortstop, even if mooky is working out at shortstop right now. I think Gavin Lux, playing well really throws a wrench through a wrench in their mooky bets planned

when he was coming off the IAL. But if it's shortstop that day, he needs to be willing to play there. If it's second base that day, he needs to be willing to play there. Right field, center field, hell, even left field, swallow your private. All right. What about what about this? What about this? Put mooky back in right. put Tay Oscar in center and put Kiermire in left. Well, Tayaska, Hernandez is not a center fielder.

His best position by far, like if they're looking for, then put Mookie in center. Where do you want to say? I want it. Thank you. But then you bring, bringing this Keirmeyer factor

and nobody's going to be a defense. Well, that's fair. Nobody's going to be the defender in center field that Kiermeyer is. So realistically, the best spot for Mookie could be in left field where there is no clear left fielder

on the, this team. Teoska Hernandez needs to be in right field. The numbers, everything about you, love the dude, needs to be extended now. We'll talk about him in a second, but he needs to be in right field if this team wants to go far in the postseason, mooky bets could be in left, and if Kiermaier can figure anything out. And obviously, you know, this is just saying shit on the internet here. I don't think the team would ever allow themselves to put mooky bets in left field, but again, that's where it's about. It's about the pride and what's best. for the organization that particular day.

Everybody needs to be. Our best defensive outfielder. Huh? Is Kevin Kiermeier, now the Dodgers' best defensive outfielder? I mean, you can argue he's the best defensive outfielder in baseball, like the things he does with the gloves. So that's a phenomenal, that's a phenomenal pickup. Great. So let's put, let's put Keirmeier in left.

I'm fine with Mookie and Center. And I'm fine with Tay Oscar and right. There's your outfield. That's a world series winning outfield. Next. I like it. I mean, but the thing is, will, will Dave have that conversation with Mookiei? Is that like a non-starter, the idea of moving back to the out?

Mookie will catch. Mookie burns to win. He doesn't care. Like, Mookie wants to win another ring. Like, he's not selfish. He can go back to. All right. I mean, I hope that, because that's where everything's shaping up,

especially if you want to have your best defense at shortstop as well. That's Miguel Rojas or even right now. Nick Ahmed, he is a multi-time goal or at least one gold glove award winner at shortstop. Nick Ahmed's not going to be on the roster when he's not making the postseason roster. So my point is you put you put Mookie and right. You put Kevin or you put, no, you put Teosker and right. You put Mookie and center. You put Kevin and left.

You put Miguel Rojas at short. You put Gavin at second. You hope to God that Max Muncie has turned the corner and he's fine. Freddie obviously is back at first. Max is at third. Obviously, Big Willie style behind the plate. Who's your start? Who's your number one starter in the postseason right now?

Is Yamamoto healthy? Everyone's healthy. Our entire, our entire 26-man roster is healthy. Over Tyler? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Do you see that last time from Yamamoto? The hostile environment in New York,

throwing a gem against them, powerhouse Yankees. Yamamoto is a, Tyler, the Glasnow has faced the Yankees a million times. I'm taking Tyler. Tyler's my number one starter. Hey, I love that there's not really a wrong answer for this. Because in the past, there have been wrong answers for the Dodgers.

All right. So five game series. And the DS, who are your free starters? If we're talking about right now and everybody's healthy, Yamamoto, Glasnow, Flaherty. And then you sweet. Flaherty. Okay.

I mean, you don't go out and get Jack Flaherty and not start them in that series. Over Bueller, over Kirsch, over. Well, yeah. I mean, Bueller at this point, I think the Jack Flaherty trade kind of spells, they don't feel very confident in Walker Buehler. And I've felt that way ever since they kind of nixed his late season comeback attempt last year. What we've heard Dave Roberts say about Walker Bueller and at different points in spring training,

mentioning, you know, the stuff just kind of not being there and them needing. to see some more things at a Bueller before he comes back. I worry about that kid. We may have seen the last of him in Dodger Blue, but that's just the reality. I feel like we've really solved a lot of problems here today. I feel like we have put together an unbelievable freaking starting lineup and postseason roster.

I love the outfield now. I mean, I'm a little concerned about Kevin Kiermeyer's bat, but that's right. That's okay. Like just defense, defense, defense. I think the top of the order is going to be just. just enough will be just fine i really feel i i love our team yay team it's it's a good looking ball club um it's it's not perfect i don't know there are many teams out there that are perfect but i like what they did with what was available and knowing what's coming back big x factor and all of this

we haven't mentioned really much of it's max muncie hopefully that magic chiropractor fixed everything months back you know raking by september um i i need to go to whatever chiropractor max muncie went to i think we all need to do it and i think mark weiner needs to pay for it you know what's funny too that you say that is i was like i was like really garrett cole you have total body fatigue so you get scre i'm like just wait i had total body fatigue every damn day and i post garret cold stop it yeah the magic chiropractor um alleviating all the pain and the Cage, so major hurdle has been overcome for Max Muncie. So good. Before we say goodbye, hard to believe, Clint, that I love your hat, by the way, hard to believe that tomorrow marks two

years since the passing of the incomparable, wonderful Vin Scully. What is your favorite Vin Scully moment? Yeah, I mean, I would say just, it's not a moment. It's growing up listening to Vin. And one thing I will always kind of say is we appreciate, you know, baseballism, obviously for sending us some things. You're wearing baseballism. I'm wearing baseballism, but we love the brand. And I love that they made this Vin-Skully hat because I do get to proudly display it in my, in my shop here and wear it. But the one thing I'll say, and, you know, I'm setting myself up for failure because I have one of the OGs from SNLA. But the one thing I hate is that people were robbed of the last few years of his career because of the blackout that

happened. It was horrible. It's awful that so many fans, the next generation of fans didn't get to grow up with Vin like so many of us did. Vin was not a broadcaster. He was your friend. You were hanging out with Vin Scully listening to and watching a ball game. And that was just like a beautiful thing. I think for many of us growing up watching Dodger baseball here in Los Angeles and people all over the world watching Dodger baseball. But that that's my thing. That's my Vin Scully moment. I'm sure you have real honest Vin Scully moments because you got to be around him. No, I mean, yours is honest. Yours is fair. I mean, he's spanned generations. I mean, he's everything to our grandfathers and to our grandkids. I mean, he is a fixture in Dodger baseball for decades and decades and just a wonderful

human being. I remember when I was covering the Colorado Rockies and the Rockies were at home in horse field and the Dodgers came into town. And Ben, this is when Ben was still traveling and he'd go all over the place. And he comes into the to the media dining area. And I come in. And this was pretty young in my broadcasting career. But of course, everybody knows who Ben Sculli is. Right. So I walk into the media dining room and he's like, you must be honey. Because look at all the bees around you. And you know what it's like when it's Vin Scully that says that to you? Like he's just the sweetest man in the world. And what you think he is by watching him and listening to him, that's who he was. And he's just such an amazing, amazing human being.

And I'll always treasure the years that I got to work with him and be in the same vicinity as Vin. So we miss you and we love you very much. And obviously thinking about Vin's friends and family and all of that. And thank you, of course, to baseballism for being a part of Dodgers territory here, the official lifestyle brand of baseball. All right, before we say goodbye, let's check out last licks real quick. All right, allow me to introduce you.

to the sweet magnolia. She's currently at the San Bernardino shelter in San Bernardino, California. She's only 10 months old. She is a puppy and her time is running out. She's a lab mix. And do not mistake the fact that because she's a puppy that they won't euthanizer. Unfortunately, that's happening across our nation. If you're interested in Magnolia, she's a sweetheart. Please contact the San Bernardino shelter ASAP. She'll be a wonderful addition to your family. All right, you had mentioned it earlier, Clint, but you think the time is now to extend Tay Oscar. Final thoughts?

Well, I think we've been thinking that for a while, but he brings home the heart and hustle. He's the Heart and Hustle Award winner for the Dodgers here in 2024. Just a great dude, a great human being from everything we've seen. And with all the problems the Dodgers have had, clearly they need to keep somebody the talent level, the dude level of Teasca Hernandez. So listen, the trade deadline is over.

It's done, Andrew, get that contract going. We need an extension. To Oscar Hernandez needs to be in Dodger Blue for years to come. I love it. I want to see that smile. Yeah, what a gamble. One year that he took on himself, I love it. I'm glad that he's in L.A.

I hope he's in L.A. for many years to come. What do you have coming up on All Dodgers today? All Dodgers tonight, 6 p.m. Pacific time. Our friend, Scott German, will be joining the channel. We're doing our monthly grades and reviews and cry session about the team coming out of July so tube end to my channel all dodgers with clint passeus that's me also got to tell people if you want to get this swanky hat you can check out the vinscully collection of items at baseballism dot com because i did not want to to miss that out i know some people really like um the viny hat and

we got a message by the way jr in the chat appreciating alonna rizzo back covering the dodgers in the way you are now uh says you are the fire the dodgers are missing 2017 dodgers had you and that's the difference so if you were there they would be killing it right now. Thank you. That makes me very happy. I appreciate it. Love you guys. I miss you guys. LA is always in my heart. Thanks for watching. Clint and I will be back on Monday another live edition of Dodgers territory. Like and subscribe. Check Clint out tonight on all Dodgers with Clint Paseas. Don't forget to a rate us five stars wherever you get your podcast. Appreciate you. See later.

Okay, bye, AJ.