Dodgers Territory - The Dodgers Win the GREATEST GAME 7 EVER; Back to Back World Series CHAMPS!

Episode Date: November 2, 2025

The Dodgers successfully defend their World Series crown by outlasting the Blue Jays in an all-time classic Game 7. Clint Pasillas and guest analyst Ross Stripling react to the game and the series, giving some love to WS MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto for his heroic effort pitching in relief.Will Smith hit what turned out to be the game winning home run in the 11th inning. But the LA offense slowly chipped away after Shohei Ohtani put the team in an early 3-0 hole. Max Muncy and Miguel Rojas proved to be clutch and everyone played a role in securing the third championship for the Dodgers since 2020.Postgame recap and reactions to World Series Game 6 with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays on November 1, 2025.Dodgers Territory is presented by FOX One: Start your 7-day free trial today at FOXone.comDownload the DraftKings Pick6 app now and use code FOUL – play just $5, get $50 in Pick6 bonus picks.Check out DT merch at dodgersterritoryshop.comSupport Guidry's Guardian at guidrysguardian.orgFind Clint on YouTube at youtube.com/@alldodgersSubscribe to Dodgers Territory on YouTubeRate and review our podcast on Apple and SpotifySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My sweet Lord, too many heroes to name in this one. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Miguel Rojas, Will Smith. The Dodgers scratched and clawed their way back and they are going back to back two-time champions in a row. Joining me today, you don't see Alana on the screen today. My buddy, my pal. This guy played for both of these teams. That is

Chicken Strip himself, Ross Stripling, joining us here on Dodgers Territory. He does, he's a proud owner of a ring, you know, I don't know if a proud owner, but he has a ring at least as a Los Angeles Dodger and Strip staying up late for us to hang out and react to this game. Dodgers Territory, presented by Fox Juan, Ross. What a ball game. Clint, good to see you. Thanks for having me. Happy to talk about this. series at length. I mean, two of my, you know, probably the teams I think of myself in the most. And, you know, they lived up to the hype going seven games and then a couple extra innings to get a finale, man. Thank sweet Lord or whatever you said when you walked in.

That was amazing. Yeah, that was awesome. Yeah, I mean, to say this game had a bit of everything would, I think it's underselling the game. One thing it didn't have was a lot of the Dodger bullpen for a reason. have been respectfully speaking, asked for most of this series. And Dave was like, no, you are not touching a baseball. You are not touching a baseball. You ride and die with Yoshinobu Yamamoto strip. You've started at the big league level a whole bunch.

You've relieved at the big league level a whole bunch. Talk about what Yamamoto did coming back, 96 pitches yesterday and goes out there and gives this team, what, three shutout innings to literally puts a team on his back. to win this world series. I mean, that's your MVP, right? Could they give it to anyone? Okay, he's your MVP. I mean, right, for it. So, dude, the day after has turned into a total spa day for a big league starter

because of the grind to get through a start the day before, because of what your body feels like the next day. I used to do nothing. And that, trust me, I wanted to do something. Especially as I got into my, like, low to mid-30s, I wanted to move around the next day and do something, and I couldn't do it. So for him to go out there, and I know it's,

game seven he you know probably took a some kind of tort all type thing where he's not feeling much but your body knows deep in there man it is fatigued it is going on fumes and for him to throw those splitters and some of those heaters that it was like a two one heater end of laddie at like 96 black in and i was like this this dude's a robot that was i think one of the best pitches i saw all night so um he's your world series MVP as he should be that was i mean just an incredible performance uh throughout the whole series by him in this series. You have a complete game shutout. You follow it up with six innings, one-run baseball, and then a day later, you go out there, and you get the win. You don't get the save. I think

he prefers the win in this game. You saw 22 warming up out there in the bullpen. Guys also sound off in the chat. Let us know how you're feeling. Let us know where you're representing your Dodgers fandom, seeing the chat already going off. Appreciate people with the super chats. We're going to get to everybody or as many people as we can tonight. Obviously, it's late for strip, so we will try to let him get to bed at some point. You of the people on the screen right now, you have spent the most time with Clayton Edward Kershaw. He gets to go out with a third World Series ring.

Tell me, just talk about Kersh here and what this means to, you know, so many people that played with him and, you know, the fact that he's hanging up his cleats, doing it on his own accord, and to go out this way, how special is that? So I was getting asked all the time who I was rooting for in this series, and I was basically depending on who I was talking to, kind of changing my answer. But the one thing I was adamantly saying was I want Kershaw to get the last out. I'm rooting for a great series

and for Clayton Kershaw to get the last out. And it seemed like it was baby trying to happen there. I don't know if he was going to come in in a phase of our show. I was going to be stressed as absolute hell if they were going to do that to my man, Clayton. But I think the baseball gods and God in general would have been on his side. I think he

would have pulled it off. Like the base is loaded one back then. Game, you know, three or whatever, in the 14th inning, every pitch. I will be as quick as I can on Kirsch. I have adamantly said that I would have never made it as long in my career without him. By no means did he take me under his wing, but he did it by osmosis. I just learned so much about the game, just watching him work. And I just am so thankful that I was drafted and developed by the Dodgers. They untapped things in me that I know other orgs wouldn't have. And just to have been around Clayton. And now, let's just say a father of

kids and a husband, what I learned from him even off the field as far as just how good of a person he is, genuine his heart is. I got to ask the other day in the stands at Dodger Stadium, who's the kindest Dodger, which I thought was an odd word, the kindest, you know, I've never gotten out before. And it just was a no-brain. It's Clayton. It's Clayton. Even though he's as intense as he is, he has a genuine heart and he wants everyone around

him to do great. He wasn't a huge part of this postseason. Every time they had panned him, he's going ham because he wants to support his teammates and he wants to win that ring, like you said. I mean, you can't find a better man, a better baseball player, Hall of Famer for a reason. Yeah. So happy for that dude.

Just generally happy. This game, you know, I get paid not extremely well, but I get paid to talk about the Dodgers, and I've been doing it, as you know, Ross, for a number of years now. And there are some of these games, particularly in this postseason, where I just like, I don't know what the F to say here.

What are you supposed to say after a game like that? You had a bit of everything. thing. So many points. And I have the, you know, chats to prove it with people. So many points. You're like, there's no way they can find a way to just keep, just keep the luck going. Keep the season alive. You know, you're down to, I don't know if it was your final out. It was not your final out. No, it was two, I think it was a two out situation. Miguel Rojas coming up there. Bottom of the ninth, they're top of the ninth here. You're out. That's your season. And the Toronto Blue Jays are winners of the World Series in 2025.

First ever player in MLB history with the game tying Homer in the ninth inning or later of a World Series game seven. Migi Roe gave his everything for this win for this team over these last two games. Thank God for Doc for putting that man in there and him just kind of putting the team on his back in his own way with, as you know, we talked before going on. Obviously, you played a couple years with him or at least you have some time with him behind you. at the minor league level, because I think he was traded before you made your big league debut. But he is somebody at this point in his career. He is a captain. He is a leader.

He is somebody, this team, Mookie Betts, a future Hall of Famer, looks up to Miguel Rojas and what he brings to this roster. And, you know, to make that play, I think he actually hurt himself making that. He gets the homer, but then he makes the play at home to keep the game alive, keep the season alive for the Dodgers. Just one of the heroes, you know, Willie Dills. also being a hero for this team. Thoughts about Miguel Rojas and what he means to a clubhouse, obviously very different situation from, what are we at, 11, 12 seasons ago when you guys might have crossed some paths

to now knowing the type of presence he has in that Dodger clubhouse. Just speak a little bit about Miggy Roe. Yeah, AA shortstop, 2013 Chattanooga. And we couldn't hit a lick, but he saved me a whole bunch of earned runs back in 2013. I promise you that. I think if you're not a Dodger fan, you're at home, and you're just like,

they're superstar after superstar, and then they bring that dude out here, and he's essentially a platinum glove-winning infielder, and he hits a home run when he hits, like, four or five of them a year. And it just, you know, it's like, man, we've got to worry about, like, 12 other dudes, and Miguel Rojas is the one that gets us. And then it's because he was ready for that situation.

He's obviously been in the big leagues a long time. He's probably got a really slow heartbeat. you kind of have to play elite defense like he does. And he works a great at bat, gets to a three-two pitch. He's in front of Otani. Smoltsy talked about it. He's got to get a strike right there. It gets a strike.

And he damages it. That's a big leager, man. And then you talk about how the other guys in the locker room talk about him. I've heard Kike rave about him as well. You know, I think it's rare for a Latin guy to be the leader of Latins and the Americans, to be honest. And I think he is that. So I think that's just a true.

testament to what he's done at the big leagues and how guys respect him and then to, you know, come out in a situation like that and do what he did is just special. He's earned that opportunity and then he took advantage of it. There's nothing better. Yeah, that's a phenomenal point because usually it is. I wouldn't say it's a divided clubhouse, but it's hard to find that one guy that could bring everybody together and everything we've heard over the last couple of seasons since he's been back.

He has been that guy. Everything we've heard tonight, ladies and gentlemen, with us in the show, we got William Dill-Smith Dodgers legend. You got a little bit of time in the show with Willie Dills made his debut. Is that Will's real middle name? That is his real middle name. Yeah. That's amazing.

But yeah, you got a little bit of time about what, a season and a half, maybe total with him being around as your catcher. And to see the growth and maturity of this guy, franchise catcher now for this organization, of course, inks that ginormous deal, 10-year deal at the start of last season. and has just been worth every penny. Grindr. Caught so many, every single inning in this postseason, including an 18- inning game, something you, too, are familiar with an 18- inning game. Of course, you mostly had to sit on your ass for that one,

but mostly, mostly. I don't remember if you got in that game. It was a long time ago. But still, talk about Will Smith here with the winning homer. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he'd probably be your other option for MVP, right? the one against Gosman in game two, and then that one right there, two outs. You know, it felt like we were going into a bottom half of the inning there,

and all of a sudden Will hits a towering home run to take the lead. And it just, you know, I saw him from the start. I think, you know, those teams that I was a part of were really fun. If I think of the 2020 World Series roster, which I was not on, I have the ring for it like you alluded to at the beginning. I think there's like 19 homegrown guys on that team. You know, you're talking jock and Belly and Kirsch and Bueller and Urius and me and Will Smith,

et cetera, et cetera. And so I got to see him come up and see him kind of join our crew. You know, we were kind of a crew back in the day. And he just fit right in, man. I talked about a slow heartbeat for Rojas. He's got a slow heartbeat. We called him a politician. He was never rattled. Like he was always just very matter of fact, very to the point and just knew what he needed to do. And, you know, you think about a catcher for the L.A. Dodgers coming in, catching at the time. Hunjin Rue and Clayton Kirshan, Rich Hill, and Kinta Maeda, and some of us that have been around for a long time, and here's the reins to this pitching staff.

That's a massive undertaking. You've probably seen a lot of catchers really struggle with that, and he just took it and ran with it, man. And the thing is the bat. I think we knew the catching was there, and the arm is obviously there as an 80-grade arm out of the draft, but for the bat to come out and now hit four-hole pretty consistently in this L.A. Dodgers lineup as a catch. That's, I think that's the thing that maybe we didn't necessarily see happening for him.

And it's, you know, it's real, man. Yeah, they always talk about the MV3 being Shoah and Mookie and Freddie. But, you know, Will Smith, he's got, he drives a nice car too, as Mookie might say. Hey, a lot more Dodger talk coming up. We've got a lot of super chats, a lot of people hanging out with us in the chat. I also want to get that guy's opinion about Dave Roberts, pretty good manager as well. But first, we'll tell you a little bit about Draft Kings and then we'll be. We'll be back.

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to go back to back since the 99, 2,000 New York Yankees. I think I like this one a little bit more. Joining us today is Chicken Strip himself, Ross Stripling, pinch hitting for Alonarizzo, who is on her way to Africa because the timing. Her husband couldn't get the timing right. Didn't look at a calendar and see, oh, there might be. be a game seven of the World Series on November 1st, but we're here, we're happy. Some of the super chats stay deep in the moment, giving some love.

Go Dodgers, Chicken Strip. We miss you. Yeah, man, you were always a dog, somebody that was ready and willing to do anything that this ball club did and for, sorry, needed of you, and for your manager, Dave Roberts, who now, Strip, you know, by the time you were traded, there was a lot of talk about Obviously, there's the Kirshan narrative or whatever, but there was a Dave, Dave Roberts' narrative. He was very much a learning, growing manager. He was learning the job on the job.

Right up to your first start of your career, you know, needing to kind of understand. Do I let this kid go for a no-no or do I respect the fact that he's coming back from Tommy John a season and a half ago? The growth and maturity, you've seen both playing for him and now watching him from afar and then, you know, obviously you still talk to a lot of these people in the team. I'm assuming you have some sort of, you know, contact and connection with Doc. Just talk about the growth and maturity as a manager of Dave Roberts. Yeah, it's just going to happen, right, when you're just put into these situations that he's, you know, going to be managing. For one, you alluded to me, I feel like all the time he's having to pull someone from, like, a no-hitter or a perfect game.

More so early in my career, like, Rich Hill and a perfect game and, like, stuff like that. You know, I mean, he's going to be a Hall of Fame manager, right? I mean, he's now got multiple rings. It's not going to slow down anytime soon, knock on wood for the LA Dodgers. He's going to win a lot more games and probably a lot more postseason games. He's going to be up there giving a Hall of Fame speech one day. I think we can all say that probably pretty confidently. So, you know, you're going, you said you're going to learn on the job.

Like right off the bat, we were playing in the NLCS that year, 2016, his first year. The next year, two years we're in the World Series. Like, you're just going to learn a lot by going through that. He was really high energy, which, um, coming into a veteran clubhouse that, that clubhouse had, you know, AJ Ellis, Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, Matt Kemp, Clayton Kershaw, Brandon McCarthy, like kind of some like saltier, older dudes. And all of a sudden you got Dave Roberts coming in. He's kind of like a nine month old golden retriever.

And, you know, there's going to be some learning curves there. And, uh, he figured it out, you know, and I think is, you know, really, really been a obviously a very good manager, good in these situations. He's going to learn through each one. And you're talking about the bullpen. How do you navigate essentially not having a bullpen in seven-game series? That's pretty tough to do. So now he's got that under his belt.

So there's really not much that you can say he hasn't been through, hasn't had to play chess against the other manager, you know, through some situation. So he's going to have the advantage moving forward. Like obviously the advantage for the Dodgers on the field because of the talent they have. but now you got a coaching staff led by Dave Roberts that's been through everything as well. Yeah, I mean, really has been through everything. And, you know, I think of some of the early criticisms warranted, very much well-earned criticisms, you know, looking back to that 18 World Series, pulling Richie Hill there, Dick Mountain.

While he's in the middle of an absolute gym, you boys go on to lose that one, kind of feeling like he was maybe trying to create a narrative for Kershaw in that 2019 postseason, absolute gut punch for all of us. I can only imagine how you fellas felt about it. I mean, we know we saw that clubhouse. We saw the post-mortem of that one. To be at this point now where he has learned enough to be like, oh, no, those guys aren't working right now.

Yamamoto, if you say you're ready, I don't care. It's like he did with Walker Bueller last year. Boutain had zero business pitching in that game. He says, I'm going to go down there because what would 22 do? Well, now it's what would 18 do. And by the way, Yoshinovo Yamamoto, unsurprisingly, is. your World Series MVP made official on the Fox post game. By the way, Dodgers Territory presented by Fox 1.

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and now we live to breathe and see a parade inside my city. We get to see these guys go ham there at Rogers Center. Deserved another road team wins the World Series here. You know, one of the things I did want to ask you about is, I mean, because there's a strong amount of time for this game, we didn't know how it was going to turn out. and I've been somebody who has very loudly been tipping my cap to the Toronto Blue Jays because entering the series I didn't know very much about them.

I ain't got that kind of time to pay attention to an American League East team. I learned a lot about this ball club, Scrappy, a bunch of dudes that I'm very happy that core was able to stay together and at least get to this point. They just seem like some good dudes led by a good dude in John Schneider. But what can you say about even maybe. making it to a game seven. What does that mean to the city of Toronto? And what does that mean to some of the dudes in the clubhouse that you played alongside?

You know, like, obviously right now, that's a gut punch. But there's a lot of things that those dudes can be proud of. Yeah, I got traded over there in 2020, midway through the COVID year. And right when I got there, we were in Miami. And we flew back up to Buffalo at the time because we couldn't get in Toronto. And when I was sitting in my seat on that plane ride, I had. 20 people between staff and players come up to me and just be like, what do the Dodgers do? Like, what do they do that we don't do? What can we do? How can we get better? It was amazing.

And that ended up being the rest of my career. That is everywhere. What do the Dodgers do? I promise. People are trying to figure it out and follow suit. But what I was saying was, man, it's here. At the time, I was looking at young Vladdy, young Bo, young Cabin Bigeo, a young pitching staff, Kirk, you know, coming up. Didn't even know he was a play. I thought he was a bullpen catcher. and all of a sudden he's catching my debut five days later, or his debut five days later. You know, and I just now, gosh, five years later, they haven't gotten over the hump.

They haven't won a ring, but that core has done some cool stuff, man. They've made the playoffs, I think, four out of five years. They went from last to first this year, almost won a World Series. And, you know, Vladdy's there long term. Bo's a free agent. I hope Bo goes back. Bo's awesome for that city. Bo's a great shortstop when he's healthy.

and can really hit, you know, and I did a similar show like this. I did it on the Blue Jays side, and they were like, you know, if they don't win, was that core a failure? And I was like, no, man, you're in the AL East, and you guys are competing against the Yankees and the Red Sox and the weird ass raise every year. And, like, you know, like, no, that is not a failure. It is so hard to win a ring in this league. And I hope they're holding their head high.

And as far as the fans, man, when the Leafs lose, the Js take over that entire country. And it's really cool. And I think that got put on display during this series as far as they would pan to the crowd and they'd be going nuts. And the stadiums got redone in the last couple years.

It's beautiful. They did an awesome job on it. It's just they do baseball right up there. So I'm glad they kind of got their stage for a moment. Yeah, really cool. Like I said, they were in this series, in my opinion, still the better team. They played a cleaner brand of baseball,

maybe in the final couple of games here. some questionable base running blunders in there. You got George Springer coming off the bag thinking that Vlai walks in the first inning or whatever. They had another one of those yesterday as well. Maybe wait for the call before you guys decide that somebody was walked, but that's another bit of learning experience. And that's something Alana and I talked about entering this series is if there is something that's going to help the Los Angeles Dodgers win,

even when they are far from being their best, they had no bullpen. The offense was non-existent. I think they hit under 200 in the series to actually win this World Series. But if there's something that's going to help, the Dodgers beat a team that's just playing better, cleaner, you know, glue baseball as they're calling it up there in Toronto. It's going to be the experience. It's going to be the experience of all those guys on the field who just, most of them won a World Series last year, but it's also going to be, you know, Doc going in there. No one when to hold them. No one when to fold them.

No one when to walk away. And you saw it late in the game smartly, of course, John Schneider. are trying to play for the win, the walkoff there, the World Series, you know, your home team, you can do that. But then another inning or two later, all of a sudden, Bobachet is out of the game. It's a smart play with the way he was moving to pinch run for him. But that's where Dave, you know, stayed his hand, didn't make some of these moves that maybe you might have seen him make, you know, 16, 17, 18, 19, all of that.

And that's how you find a way. Dave, going to Andy Pahez and center, and then him immediately just steamrolling Kiki. This is my ball, bro. That's a tough stretch for Kiki getting just barrel rolled by Pahas and the next inning tripping over first base. I was like, Kike, get off the ground, man. Yeah. Yeah, just to tag on with that, experience is always going to show its head in these scenarios. What I want to say is L.A., the Dodgers, are specifically so good at capitalizing

on mistakes. And let's pan back one year. Aaron Judge drops a ball. Garrett Cole doesn't cover first base. They're down five, six runs in a World Series game and they come back win the game and win the World Series. The Blue Jays kind of teetered a few times, but they didn't cave. They didn't let the Dodgers take advantage of those situations. That's what kept them in these games. Let's just talk about tonight specifically. In like, what was it, the third or fourth inning, Scherzerzer's, you know, they got him down and he's able to get out of it. You Savage comes in. They're like, man, I don't know if we should really be bringing him in the situation. He walks the first guy, gets a big double play on an awesome play by Vladdy.

I just feel like the Blue Jays didn't hand over situations like maybe the Yankees or some other teams have to L.A., where that's where L.A. just steps on your throat and puts you away. I think that's how Toronto was able to stick around how you're saying. They play a good brand of baseball. Ernie Clement, of all people, beat a Rose Arena's record for most hits in a postseason. And, you know, it's just they have some guys that probably the average fan has never heard of. They're just grinder, good baseball players. And then all the while, yeah, you got, you know, George on a resurgent year and Vladdy being Vladdy.

So they're just, they're, they're a solid squad, man. And I think they're going to be good for a couple years here. And funny enough, you know, you bring that up, the fact that Dodgers, you know, capitalized on Aaron Judge last year. This year, Dodgers, when they were given those opportunities, few and far between. But when they were given them, they capitalized. Look at yesterday, Kiki ended it with that double play because I think, it was Clement got a little too, no, Barger, got a little too far back. You know, he was not going to score either way on that play if the ball gets down. What are you doing, bro? And that

sent it to a game seven where it's a toss-up. Anybody's going to win, and I always said, give me the Dodgers pitching staff because we know everybody was going to be available, but more importantly, the good pitchers were going to be available with Blake's now. With all due respect. I love those dudes in there. With Anthony Bondo in particular, Blake Trinan in particular, did not have themselves a good posting. and did not have themselves a good world series. But Dodgers don't win it in 24 without those dudes. But, yeah, to the Dodgers credit, you know, a lot of bit of luck it felt like in the series

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Welcome to boys and girls, the podcast where dating isn't dating. Arranged Marriage is basically a reality show. Except the contestants are strangers and your entire. family is judging. You're sipping coffee with one maybe, grabbing dinner with another, and praying your karmic ken or Barbie appears before your shelf life runs out.

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the heartbreak, and let's not forget all the jokes. Listen to boys and girls on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, let's put on your GM cap here, because I don't know what else you're doing these days. I know you're doing finance type things because that's always been your calling, but hey, one of these days you find yourself, you know, you give front office. You've always given front office. How do you go and run it back for the three Pete? What do the Dodgers need to do in the offseason to get even better?

Well, who would we losing? I'm guessing Micky Roe and Kike are back. Like, at this point, I feel like they've kind of proven that they're going to fill their cracks with guys they like and know. You know, but who we losing? Right. Let's continue. Let's say on the bigger scale, who's out the door free agent-wise? I mean, a majority of them are,

are pretty much back. Months has a player option or a team option ridiculously team friendly, 10 mil. So he's going to be back. The left fielder who did not even touch a baseball in the postseason, Michael Conforto, he will be gone,

but you still have Pahas, homegrown, you still have Tayasca for another couple of seasons there. Outfield is probably an area where you want to try to make some moves. But really, it's bullpen, right? So it's going to be bullpened. So, you know, The bullpen can get healthy.

That's a thing there that helps them out. I remember going into this season, there was, you know, in the baseball world, there's some people being upset about the Kirby Yates signing, the Tanner Scott signing. They're just like, man, the Dodgers get everyone. And then those dudes didn't throw a pitch in the postseason, right? I know Kirby didn't.

You know, Kopeck sitting there looking like fours, with Tom Hanks coming off the Castaway Island, you know, for four rounds. It just, baseball never going to work the way that you think it's going to work. And I feel like it's actually kind of, I don't want to say odd. It's not the right word, but like Friedman went out and spent money in the bullpen. He got some big names and some splashy signings. And those guys weren't guys that really helped get the ring here down the stretch. So my guess is maybe they get away from that.

I'm sure maybe one or two of those guys are back based on contracts. But my guess is you kind of see Friedman kind of between. the cracks signing more like Banda type guys that maybe we don't know very much about, but they're Friedman specials where they're going to come in and throw it from weird angles and get outs and can get righties and lefties out like this warblosky guy or Sheehan, you know, like it just not only are they going to sign the Otani Freddie Mukis of the world, but they're still, you know, Farhan left the Giants and is now just hovering somewhere in the Dodgers, you know, dungeons making moves with Friedman.

And that's a scary situation for 29 other teams. So I just putting on my GM hat, I would guess they're going to get creative with some bullpen signings, and they're going to come out even stronger. You know, it's funny to Alana's credit, she always says that money doesn't buy you championships. It buys you good teams for the Los Angeles Dodgers. It buys you both because they are, as you mentioned, somehow able to win this title without Tanner Scott, who they backed up the brink. truck too something they they don't do with relievers unless that reliever is canley jansen um you know

same kirby yates this guy was fucking great last year let's try to see if he'll help us run it back um maybe they maybe they don't go as as as as flashy and splashy they got some really really good arms coming up because as you well know and as already you know mentioned alluded to uh the development um you know what the front office is able to do with somebody with just just a hair of talent, they can turn it into something useful for their own needs. And I love something Joe Kelly said a couple weeks ago on some

podcast where he's like, you don't need to be around for the entirety of the season. If you're good, you need to be ready for five weeks towards the end of the season. Anyways, they're in a good spot. We don't need to worry too much about that. We'll have plenty of off-season here on Dodger's territory to talk about it.

Cross that bridge when we get there. When we get there. A couple more super chats that I'll let you get out of here. I know it's late for you. man, but I appreciate you hanging out with me. Dodgers win a World Series back-to-back champions. Hammy, 0023 in the chat with $10 saying, kids about to have to explain why their name is Yoshinobu St. Absolutely.

That's an all-timer. That's great. Elijah is saying never doubt Alana again. People had some doubt. I think that's just how baseball works, you know. If you expect the worst, you'll never be hurt. I was living that particularly in this game. I didn't know.

I didn't know if they had enough magic karma left. Thank God they did. Yeah. For those listening, I came in to check my lighting and stuff. In the eighth inning, we were down by one, and Clint was barely hanging in there. So here we are 90 minutes later, and vibes are much higher. Lives are much, much higher.

Gabriel sent us $10 here, and that's all she wrote. Game over, ladies and gentlemen, you're a Los Angeles, Dodgers, back-to-back-back World Series champions. And yama, yama, yama, yama, what a signing. I know you, I don't think you're as extremely online, probably, or anywhere near as close to online as you might have been in the good old chicken strip days. But Josh Redick, your former teammate, he's got a lot of shit about a Yamamoto, a Yamamoto post where he's like, how do you pay a guy who's never pitched in the league? $325 million.

It's a reasonable take to have made at the point. I want to hear again from you about Yamamoto. I know we already talked about him, but just the insanity of how good this guy is. Just being an animal, being a rubber band, you see him doing these weird stretches that I would literally die if I tried.

That's why you pay somebody that kind of insane money because he's ready and willing to put a team on his back. Yeah. I mean, you know, history tells that those guys can throw and throw and throw, which he just proved, went 96 pitches and in three innings the next day. So they're typically pretty durable and their stuff holds up. And then in today's age where you can get track man type write-ups on a guy, and I'm sure, don't get me wrong, I'm sure Friedman and his cronies went to Japan and laid eyes on him many times.

But you can get his stuff put on a printout right in front of you, and you can compare it to everyone else around the league. and you're like, that's a 92-mile-hour splitter that moves like Kevin Gosmans, that's 83 miles an hour. Oh, he can run it up to 98. Oh, he has six pitches that he commands at will. Oh, he throws basically no heaters in fastball counts. That's essentially the key to success in today's game. Yeah, well, and he's 20-whatever years old.

We'll give that man some dough. And how we just kind of talked about this with Friedman, he's not going to do that on a whim. That was a very much a planned and executed contract with reason. And you're seeing that right in front of your face over the last 48 hours. So that's what that is. And to be honest, this was the postseason of the splitter. And that pitch has been coming back for years now.

But this postseason put it on a pedestal when you're talking Gosman and Hoffman and you savage and obviously Yamamoto. And it's all the way back, the splitter. and how hard that they can throw that pitch. And now we know exactly, based on my arm angle, what seemed to get it on to get it to have that insane action. I want to say he got someone to swing and miss at one, and they showed it in slow motion. And I was like, I couldn't get my 12-6 curveball to move

with that much downward action. And that thing was at 73, much less 92. So it just, you know, he has a unicorn pitch that is now on the rage in our game that is so north-south. It's so hard to beat big league hitters east-west, but you can beat them north-south, especially with a pitch that moves like that. So that's why you go sign Yamamoto right there.

Yeah, it's insane. I remember you jumped on foul territory a couple weeks, a couple months back, and you talked about shortly after announcing your retirement, it's like, you know, it turns out something Clayton said to the dudes on MLB Network today, it turns out you can't really get dudes out with 88-90 anymore. Well, it's really hard.

when you have somebody else that's able to do that with a baseball, just manipulate it any way he wants. And for somebody that really, really loves pitching the way I am, that is sexy to watch. But that's a different kind of show. That's Dodgers territory after dark, I think so. Or all Dodgers, which is coming up after I let Stripling go. Give me two more minutes with you, buddy,

and then I'll let you go. Kenyatta, $50 is Clint. I've been following you covering the Dodgers for years. You're great. So are the Dodgers back to back, baby. Thank you very much. I paid her to say that or paid them to say that. I said her.

Marcus was some love to Alana, and Alana called it while the rest of us were crying in our commemorative refillable Dodgers Cup. She never doubted them for a second. No doubt, no doubt. I had some doubt. I definitely had some doubt. And as Strip said earlier, when he popped in to do some lighting and all that kind

of check, I had some doubt in this one. If you looked at my rundown, there's a lot of doubt in that rundown, talking about things that the Dodgers need to do to get better. Mr. Moreno sends a lot. 99. My way, Rway, saying go get yourself some Boko del Rio tacos. And if you know, you know in the beautiful La Puente area. And I'm going to end with this from,

Hey, yo, Anthony. Job finished. The job is finished. Any final thoughts before we sign off here, Strip? Yeah, I gave my due to the Blue Jays. I want to give my due to the Dodgers, man. I think that 18-inning game killed them. I think we showed where the age gap,

average age gap of the team really came out, where, you know, the average age of the Dodgers is 33, something, Blue Jay is 27, 28. That's a big difference. And I think games four and game five showed that. And I think it's actually a huge, huge tip of the cap to the Dodgers to come back and win this series in Toronto. Obviously, A-listers up and down the lineup and guys that have been there from the coaching staff down, but to still go out and do it after an 18- inning game, 190 games into a season, I want to say, kudos. to the LA Dodgers for overcoming that.

And I just, it's impressive, man. Even when you're probably the team that's supposed to win, to go out there and do it is something else and to do it the year after you already did it. That's a huge accomplishment. People are going to say it's bad for baseball. You know what? If you want to go do what the Dodgers, do the blueprints there.

Go sign good people in the front office. Go sign good coaches. Go sign good players. And you're going to have a good team. Alana said it, right? So it's right there, guys. Let's be a bunch of Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, put the best product out on the field and let's, man, like that, that was awesome baseball for

seven games, really for the whole postseason, but for seven games, that was really, really awesome baseball. And long-winded final minute there, but I just, I think that was, that was great. I'm really happy for our sport. We're in a great place. Yeah, that's where I'll finish. Yeah, a series like that, fantastic for the game of baseball. Let's not worry about, or even think about that potential lockout coming out down the road. The Dodgers, Again, back-to-back title winners, back-to-back World Series champion. Michael Boyer, the three-peat begins in March.

No, the three-peat begins. On Monday, when I start talking about the off-season here on Dodgers territory, Ross, I appreciate you coming on, joining me, pinch hitting for Alana. Man, always fun talking baseball with you. It's been too long since we've done it, so let's maybe connect in the off-season, do it again. But, yeah, guys, that's about it. We appreciate you hanging out with us.

like, share, subscribe the show, all that kind of stuff. If you're looking for investment advice, don't hit up Ross. He's probably got enough going on there. All Dodgers post-game is coming up on my other YouTube channel. Go check that one out. I'll be back Monday, 12 o'clock Pacific time. Trying to get the 15,000 subscribers. Do it.

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