Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - LA Dodgers Win the 2024 World Series! | 920

Episode Date: October 31, 2024

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. The Los Angeles Dodgers are the 2024 World Series champions. Yeah, Yankees. What a, what a season. Walker Bueller, swing and miss. Hello and welcome to talking baseball presented to you by C-Geek. Hey, they still have the co-jamboy playoffs 10 going on. I don't know when it ends.

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maybe go get some culture. Yeah, go like a museum. Yeah. Maybe sports aren't for you anymore. No. Come to L.A. The weather is great in L.A. It seems like the weather and the baseball in L.A. are fantastic.

They are. I'm Jake Storelli. That's Trevor Plouffe. No, it was, I was just going to say it was a fun one last night. That would have been a weird way to say it. But it was. Trev, how are you? That's the thing about, like, being a baseball fan is you go.

to a game like that. You understand what you saw there. Like, whether it was good for you or bad for you, like, you understand you saw like kind of an all-timer. I don't want to say all-timer. I'm not going to give it that, but a very unique, entertaining event happened before your eyes last night. Oh, that was an all-timer. That was an all-time. There was a half-ending that was an all-timer, no doubt about that. A team came back from down five runs to win a World Series game. That's, you know, You don't see that every day. Well, they didn't even score any.

What was that? Wait, what was that? No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to have to double check the box score. Garrett Cole's final line is an all-timer. One of the teams was up five runs and then lost the World Series game by giving up five unearned runs and a half inning. We'll get there.

Can't do that in the World Series. No, you can't. We've kind of been saying that all. postseason long. But I'm curious to hear it, Bob. You got one? Trevor, I've got to burn. And, you know, there's some tough Dodger fans out there and good.

That means you're passionate and whatever. That's kind of the whole deal, man. The better team won. The better team won. Dodgers aren't going to like this part. Maybe they'll like this part even more. The World Series happened, L.A. versus San Diego in L.A.1. those were the two best teams.

Congrats, L.A. You know, me, Jack Flaherty and Walker Bueller, they're on my couch right now, just, you know, having a good time. I don't think they are. No, no, they're on somebody's couch. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about this baseball game.

Recording in progress. Final game of the year in the Boogie Down Bronx, Yankees, Gareth, J. Jay Cole would try to work out one more win for the Yankees, as the Dodgers would hope to be setting off Flares behind. Jay Flair and the Dodgers bullpen. Bottom one, big justice brings the boom. Aaron Judge with the two-run homer, and then I jazzed in my band.

Back to back in the Bronx. The Bronx is burning. Verdugo RBI single. You men my cousin from Florence Giancarlo, his seventh post. Postseason Homer. It's 5-0 Yankees, but in the fifth inning, the Yankees should have called the cops on themselves. Judge beefs the fly ball.

Pulpian jazz combined to make some terrible music. And even the old dogs get involved. I got a you take it to the tune of five unearned runs in one World Series inning. Freddie gets fingered, so Teosker gets grouchy. It's five to five. Stanton in Lux both sacrifice themselves for the team. The Sack Fly is underrated, and it's not underrated in L.A. anymore. As Mookie Betz puts the icing on the cake, the Dodgers.

Win World Series Game 5, Flaherty, to Band, to Brazier, to Kopeck, to Vessia, to Graterall, to Trine, and to Bueller. It's going, going back, back to Cali, Cali, Allie. Dodger, your 24 World Series champs. Boy, oh, boy. Where do we begin? Well, you know, Trevor, I feel like we haven't even said congrats to your Dodgers. Are your mentions not great right now? Oh, how are they? Awful. Dodger fans are tough, and they're taking the Chris Rose fan in the stand, strip sack.

Like a guy actually tried to kill someone. So yes, you can't do that. Yes, we laughed at it in lifetime. And yes, you have a better baseball team. Take it. Like, I don't, I don't care. I've never been proud. And Yankee fans are worst because they just watch their team shit on themselves in the world series.

You got a little bit of both right now. Oh, yeah. All right. All right. Well, just I'm an L.A. I'm like just normal gangs complaining in the comments. Yeah. Where do you want to start Trevor Ploof?

Man, I don't, if you want to see someone kind of tear Yankees, the Yankees up, Chris Rose kind of went off last night. Yeah. It was, I never seen him like that. And so I'm very curious to see how everyone reacts to that. Where do I want to start? I think we have to start with the starters. And how about this? since most of this is going to be about Los Angeles being the better team.

Let's talk about Garrett Cole first. I think Garrett Cole was an absolute animal last night, and he did everything in his power. I know the line looks crazy, but he pitched his ass off. No hits through four, just looking absolutely electric. And then we get to the fifth, and I don't know if we're ready to get into that just yet.

The fifth kind of blows up right in front of his face. One of the things, yes, he was a part of it. No doubt about it. We could talk about Anthony Rizzo in that situation. We can talk about Freddie and Teo, you know, sniping him. He had a chance to get out of that after, you know, three blunders with just one run. And then he got hit, so you have to mention that. But coming back out, I believe, for two more endings.

with the start of the second one. Two more. And looking great afterwards and still maintaining his stuff, I thought was pretty impressive, dude. And John Smolz was talking about a ton on the broadcast and just saying there's just not many guys

in the big leagues that could weather that fifth inning and then come back out kind of looking unfazed. And man, like, world series elimination game, emotions running that high. even the miscues. Like he didn't skip a beat, dude. Like, I don't, I know it's hard for pitchers when things behind them go awry.

And a lot of times you'll see pitchers like, even if it's quickly like grimacing or like just kind of like giving some like, can't believe that just happened to me type thing. And Garrett Cole was, he just, it was about business man. And he went back. So I want to give him credit because, you know, Yankee fans, I think were calling for. him to have this, this, you know, a start for the ages, if you will. And I don't think it was that. I mean, how can it be that when he lost the game? But I also think that you can really analyze it and say it was almost that. Like, besides giving up those runs, and I think, like I mentioned, the Freddie and the Teo hit afterwards. Like, that was a hell of a start by him, man.

Trevor, his defense, it is. He's part of it, though. So he gave up two innings. That he, he had a chance to go nine. He definitely had a lane to go eight. And Aaron Judge doesn't squeeze a fly ball. Anthony Volpey up five nothing. You need to get an out.

That's what that comes down to. So whether that's, whether that's second base, first base or third base. I, you know, some, that that was the one that was hurting the people I was with the most was was the Volpey ball. And for me, there's a play to be had there, but you have a new third baseman in Jazz Chisholm that the Yankees ignore the fact that he's a new third baseman. And for Volpe, you have to know you have to get one out there that the risk of that play

isn't worth it. And Trev, it's where I feel bad for Garrick Cole. Well, all of it, I feel bad for Garak Cole. He gave what should be remembered as a heroic effort that you're right, kind of won't be. Yenge's fans will be like, he looked good that night, huh? That ball to first base, he got Mookie Betts. Heard of them? You know, just a reminder, Mookie Betts was going to win the league MVP this year. Just a reminder, he was playing shortstop, he was racking up war, he was the best player in the National League,

he got hurt, he didn't win it. So after striking out Shohei, he's got mooky bets. His team is letting him down. He gets a squibber to first base. That Trev, there's some people that

won't be able to ever talk about it properly. Because any ball, hit to a pitcher's left side, you have to go towards first. Them's the rules. That's PFP. He did.

He did. Look him. Treb, when that was hit in live time, the whole stadium and everyone in the stadium assumed Anthony Rizzo would attack that ball, scoop it like he has for 13 big league years or whatever it is, and step on first base, and that Garrett Cole has. had escaped a jam and a team that had let themselves down. To see that, you're right.

Like, that's why you're giving credit to Cole for stabilizing and not losing focus. There's people that would be like, well, that's on Garrett Cole. That's on Riz, man. Sure. I understand the thought process. And I understand people use different parts of their brain. Garrett Cole has to go to first base until it's not. Sure.

He should have not been there. Anthony Rizzo should have been happy to attack and scoop that ball and step on first base and give his own fist pump. And dude, he's been bad defensively this year. I know he's Anthony Rizzo. I know that, man. They subbed him out in playoff games for Oswaldo Cabrera at first base. That's his Waldo's sixth best position. They put themselves in this position to do this.

Yankee fans weren't surprised by a five unearned run inning. I want to talk about all the plays. The judge won. I don't think there's much to talk about. He literally took his eyes off the ball. He was trying to throw Kiki out at first, I believe. It just, it was that. They showed the slow-mo replay, and it was...

Catch the ball low, which I don't like. He kind of coasted to it. You got to get it above your eyes. That's kind of like rule number one, whatever. It's a sinking line drive. I get it. He was right there. But his eyes didn't stay on the ball, man.

And sometimes when you're running in like that, your head starts bobbing a little bit. If you start to chop your steps down, what he was doing right there, and all of a sudden, you know, it just goes off. But if you look, I mean, they showed a really nice replay on the, on the broadcast. He just was looking towards first base.

So there's number one. one, that's just a, that's a straight up air. It's a straight up air. It's not like a mental air. It's just, he just, he zued it. Nothing you can say about that. The Volpe one, we'll go quickly through that. If you want to get that, Bebbs,

talked about this a little bit on baseball today. I think it was the right play. Because at that point, you know, that's like a kind of a slow ground ball to the backhand side, Jazz was at the base. He had everything here. He just didn't get his hips turned enough. If you'd stop it on the throw,

for me. You'll see what I mean. He doesn't right there. You've got to get a little bit more like in line with the third basement. He kind of like chokes this ball off right here instead of just throwing it. I mean, that's an awkward throw like how many times do you practice

that ball? You just don't. So this is just a straight up field play, almost like a second baseman feeding the shortstop on a double play, which you know, Lopi has zero experience doing that. He just doesn't get turned enough. His footwork isn't good there, but kind of like why would it be?

It's, I guess you could say he's a big league shortstop, but it's just kind of an awkward play. All of these, the next two plays, this one and the Garrett Cole play, you just don't practice those. Okay, so that one was tough. Again, I think Jazz was there. It was just a bad throw by Volpe. I think it was the right play, the right decision. It was right in front of them. It's just a bad throw. He choked it off, man. He got nervous. That ball felt like a golf. ball in his hand right there. So he hit the Rizzo one now. The only thing I'd say about the Volpe ball, Will Smith is running on that and you have to take in the other factors. That's a really tough ball to go to first base on right there.

It's a catcher running. I know what you're saying because second base is a really tough play. Third base, clearly not an easy play. You have to get an out. It's a work. Trev, like, for some of these, for some of these plays, we start talking like their baseball. This was the World Series. This was with your season on the line. Yeah, but Jake, that's the play. He made the right decision. He just didn't execute.

Like, that's the play. That's a problem, too. Yeah, that's it. I mean, he just did not execute it. If you had a third basement over there and a short stop. He was there. No, jazz was in perfect position. He's not a third basement, Treff.

Like, you're missing the details. But it doesn't, it doesn't, what does it matter? It matters about making the play. What is him not being a third base? We have to do with that. It's a horrible throw. Even if fucking Nolan Aeronado and his heyday was over there, what's he going to do right there? He might have a chance to scoop that because he's a third baseman that's seen that play.

I'm not on jazz for that. You make that play. Because you played third base. No, it's just a horrible throw by Volpe. Right read, bad throw. judge or excuse me the next one was I don't know this you tell me this because

Dan Rourke super producer Dan Rourke he said that he's never like he said Rizzo never takes that ball himself he never does so this is a thing where it's like okay

we talk about base running you don't practice during the year you don't practice PFP's during the year you don't practice PFPs during the you practice them in spring training and that's it so like these two kind of have to but you have to know what it is. So, you know, Garrett Cole did start going and then he stopped. Anthony Rizzo could have definitely come and a bit more aggressive and stepped on the base. 100%.

But he hasn't been doing that all year. So that's like a thing that you just have to know. It was like the baseball gods came down. And I don't know, man. Like that was just a weird thing. I think he was trying to hang back because it was a ton of. a spin on that ball, like, you know, off the end of the bat. And there's one, if you can stop it.

Beavis, like, right now, stop. I mean, like, what the fuck, dude? He has the ball in plenty of time. And Gerard Cole, Jericho's never going to beat Moogie right there because he stopped. What's the exit Velo on that ball? Do we have a number? 70s. I'll get it.

Probably 70 something, I would imagine. And by the end, Rizzo's going back on it. Um, I don't know. I'll tell you who would have fielded that ball and stepped on first. Freddie Freeman. Like, this is the World Series. We're talking about taking your eyes off a fly ball. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. 49.8. Going back, Trev. He was, he was trying, it was a spin ball. I don't mind him going back. I think he still had time to go.

If he had made up his mind and said, I'm going to field this and go touch the bag, he would have beat Moogie. But in his mind, he was head down making sure he caught the ball. And then he went to flip right away. And nobody was home. And then he was, then he was fucked. It was crazy, dude. I mean, you saw it. I saw it.

Everyone watching saw it in lifetime. That was, we're like, whoa. But again, you can talk all you want about all those miscues. It was still two outs. One run was in right there. And then you, yeah, then you got a deal with Freddie and Teo. This is the length of a lineup. This is guys getting it done.

Freddie, two strike knock up the middle. Teo double over Judge's head. You still have to give credits to the Dodgers for taking advantage of it. You can say, oh, the Yankees fucked this up. But yeah, they did. They gave him the opportunity. That's where I wanted to go. I want to talk about the Dodgers.

I want to talk about, you know, you gave the Dodgers and Freddie Freeman and Teasker Hernandez a six out inning. So I take Cole's name out your mouth. I don't care. Jesus Christ himself could have been on the mound and the Dodgers were going to push a couple across that inning. So no, I, the, the Dodgers. I don't know, one pitch away, dude. He got the pitch. Let me see where the pitch was. I'm looking right now. The defense decided to not make the play three times. Could add six outfielders and the Dodgers were going to score. runs at it. Like, they're the Dodgers. They're the Dodgers. You can't give them six outs in an inning. You did. You didn't. And that's why they're World Series champions and the Yankees are not.

Yeah, I mean, honestly, I think everyone now is on this train and it's hindsight for, hindsight for a lot of people. But the Dodgers were by far the better team. Like, I don't even think it was, I honestly, don't think it was close. Really being honest, like there's a couple guys that could get the job done for the Yankees. They would have had to have absolutely monster series to beat this team. It's baseball, anything can happen, but the better team won this. And I don't think there's any debating.

I would go Chris Rose wordsmith on you. And I would say the talent on the field was similar. There was a clearly better team. there is a clearly better team, Trev, because this LA team has been through the fires. They've had the losses, they've had the winning. They went out, they had a massive offseason, which I'm glad we covered them all the way through

because everyone should have. That unique Shohei contract from your guy, Nez, the second that came out to bring in Teoska, to bring in Yamamoto and at the deadline, everything they did. Trev, the Dodgers, keep each other accountable. That's what that franchise is built on. The Yankees do not.

Anthony Volpe probably should have been benched twice in his young Yankee tenure. Because he's a kid in baseball is really hard. He's very talented and very good. They should have, they treated Jazz Chisholm like he was a Hall of Fame third baseman. they called Clay Holmes the best closer in baseball for a month when he was blowing saves just to try to convince themselves. Note what the Dodgers would have said. Oh, we got to get Clay right right now. Like, we love Clay.

We're going to get them in some good spots. Like, that was the difference. The organizational top down to the team and how they manage each other and how they treat each other. That was the difference because the Yankees lost game one on a relay throw. They lost game five of the World Series on one of the worst defensive innings I've ever seen. World Series games, Trev, this isn't this isn't a Monday recap with us and we're like,

you know, the Yanks could have had a couple of these. World Series games. Well, it's not just going to magically change. It's what I'm saying. Like, they were not a fundamentally sound team. Correct. You know, throughout the year, base running. I mean, I didn't, the base running was talked about much during the year.

and it was magnified in the playoffs. And like it was, like in all facets of the game they got outplayed. Like, they really did. Luke Weaver has a three disengagement bach. Like, that just can't happen, dude. Catchers interference. Catchers interference. Wells, I need...

Can we talk about the fucking Dodgers, dude? Because, hey, if these Dodgers are a better team... I just want to say one. They are a better team and they deserve a... all the credit, how come we're talking about all the Yankees blunders? Well, we'll get there. Because a lot of this had to do with, a lot of this had to do with the Yankees blunders. I think that Wells needs to like, I think he's going to go into this offseason and

kind of like search for something there, man. Like, he, is he like the air apparent, like, going to be the starting catcher next year? Like, 100%. Because, like, he's got, he's got some. He's got some things he's got to work on because there was, I mean, even in the last inning, there's a couple of balls where he's just scooping. I'm like, oh my gosh, bro, you can't be doing that with the runner on third base. They need to fix that.

And he got the job done. He scooped them, but I'm like, that is not how you do that. You can't do that with like in this game, one run game runners on third base. It's crazy. So anyways, yes, talk about the Dodgers. Look, they got put in a crazy situation because, you know, they had the bullpen game, a bunch of guys, like their length guys

had thrown in game four. Jack comes out, just doesn't happen, man. He keeps falling behind everybody, serves up a couple balls, like tries to sneak one past judge, first pitch, doesn't happen. I mean, just not the right location, not the right pitch.

You know, he gets tagged for a few, so he doesn't even make it out of the second. Now all of a sudden, that rested bullpen, you have those guys aren't length guys those are your those are your one inning guys and you have to cover seven and two thirds innings now with those guys and you know this was I think you know very difficult for the coaching staff to be able to piece this together I mean trin was in there and what when did he come in he came in in the bottom of the sixth and there was no

other reliever that was like really should be up like all the other guys that don't like 40 pitches the night before Hudson had thrown in a couple games back to back so I was wondering where the hell are they going to go obviously we know they got to Walker

that's a whole different that's at the end of the show I want to talk about him but I think we've been kind of saying it man and it's it's bucked traditional LA Dodger talk Dave Roberts did a really good shot with the bullpen.

Oh, I mean, amazing. We were, we were crunching the numbers, and it's like, who's going to come, come out for the ninth? And then you hear Walker Bueller's getting loose and you go, ah, that's right. They're the Dodgers. They're, they are willing to do that. They're going to press those buttons. They had, hey, something that'll go overlooked.

Michael Kopec pitched the fourth. Top of the lineup, two runners got on. It was five nothing. People in the sands are looking at judge at the plate, saying like, hey, if this is 7-0, you know, you could start booking flights. That leads to the fifth inning of depth, which on the other side, the Yankees brought in Tommy Canley for the eighth inning, tried to get some outs with him. And he doesn't get one.

He lets three runners on that Luke Weaver, who had been the Yankees ace in the hole, he gives up, you know, to a sack fly, a sack fly. a catcher's interference and strikes out Freddie, that, hey, if the Yankees had been more aggressive with their eighth inning, would they have pushed a run across and then change their ninth inning? Who knows? You wanted Weaver in there to start? I'll be honest.

I was in the stands and I was 50-50 on it because Canley had been good for the Yankees. And he is the only pitcher that didn't pitch the day before. That's the recipe. Canely and the eighth, weaver and the ninth? A little bit, but I think the whole point. bottom of the order, right? I think the whole point is you should not have recipes. Like, the Dodgers made their own recipe. Like, you know, we, in hindsight, you can critique that one in live time. I was whatever.

After seeing how the Dodgers got things done with figuring it out, like, hey, Walker Bueller, we might need an inning from you today, dog. You know, in hindsight, seeing that, yeah, I would have rather gone down with Luke Weaver than Tommy Canley. was Walker Bueller Were we DMing earlier in the day? I don't know I didn't I guess we can go there

We can go there now Because we were on my couch talking about it Canley yeah that's weird Canley gives up Bases loaded Weaver gives up the sack flies So now all of a sudden the Dodger up 7 to 6 And that was in the

Top of the 8th So, Trinan, freaking absolute stud, goes back out there, has to face Soto, Judge, Jazz, Stanton, and gets through it, man. Soto with the 3-1, Judge hits the double down the line. Okay, a little scary. He walks jazz. So you have first and second. Giancarlo takes kind of like a weird cut, although most of his swings kind of look weird unless he connects, then it's beautiful. It's like one of the, it's a strange swing there.

Just misses one. Like, you know, it's kind of a nasty fastball. Just misses it flies it out to the right field. And then he gets the Riz. Okay, he's going nuts. Now you know he can't go back out, but that's when they started the show Walker Bueller in the bullpen. And he's warming up.

And it's his, it's his, you know, bullpen day in between starts. He had just pitched two days ago. And I'm like, they have him and Hudson warming up. And I was like, please bring in Walker Bueller. And I said this on baseball today. Like fan fiction for Dodger fans, Shohei Otani comes in and closes the night down, right? That's like Boner Jamms, 2004 right there.

Everyone wanted that. Wasn't going to happen. Next up in the fluffer line would be Walker Bueller coming in to close it out. He's a free agent. This guy's two Tommy Johns, like working his way back for two years, gives you that beautiful start in game three. he's been like people love him man he's pitched in some big games for the dodgers he's got like that attitude that everyone loves uh he comes in man and i thought it was beautiful i really really did

like the fact like you mentioned like the dodgers kind of weaving and and having to kind of go with the flow and walker being like hell yeah get me out there give me my spikes um he said he hadn't thrown a ball all day long until he got into the to warm up to come into the game dude he's out there and gets volpy to ground out kay's wells and then a beautiful beautiful um kate of verdugo he was just spinning that thing after the wells kay had thrown seven out of 12 pitches were curveballs and then he went after verdugo with the same thing and it was nasty and you gave this I'm always curious how you're going to react and he was kind of like stoic about it

like I'm here you guys know what's up he's going to get paid and then the celebration was on man I thought it was very like cinematic watching Walker Bueller close it out I can't wait to see what happens with him

but again like I just thought there was just the Dodgers outplayed the Yankees like they just out freaking played the Yankees and the only game they lost was a bullpen game that they kind of they were in it until they weren't until you know Brent Honeywell kind of beginning it's the most gentleman sweep ever I mean that the one game the Yankees won was against their minor league pitching so uh Dodgers they feel like they're on top of a mountain right now trev a mountain god I want to be on that

mountain it's for the Dodgers in L.A. today but I'm talking about Mountain do people that's a mountain we can all get on, get off your ass, grab some Mountain Dew. You can't watch any more baseball. Maybe you're playing your own baseball. Maybe you're sad. Maybe you take your ball to the park. Bring some Mountain Dew. Bring a glove and a ball.

You're going to have a nice day. You're not going to walk away from that day saying I had a bad time. Go, the mountain is calling. You should answer. Grab your friends, grab some ice cold Mountain Dews, wherever refreshing beverages are sold. There's a link in the description. Let's do more Dodger, Love,

because I don't think we have. Frederick, Freddie Freeman, your series MVP? He's, I mean, he talked about it a little bit after the game with, I don't know if this was last night or the night before.

four. But he's with our guys, Arod and Poppy and Jets, and he was just talking about, you know, the ability to get healthy in the days leading up to the World Series. And if you're, and if you go back and remember the first couple series, I mean, the guy could barely run. You know, it was, it was bad. And it didn't, it didn't look good, but he was gutting it out because that's what you do during the playoffs. And that's what Freddie Freeman does. He posts. He said that he got better. He was able to. to kind of get back to his routine, and he mentioned this, which I think is so cool. I talked to this a little bit on baseball today because I found a cue.

And he was in the cage and then something clicked. You know, like you go through spurts like that as a hitter where you can see every pitch and you're just getting a rhythm and everything's working perfectly. You just sometimes you're in the cage and it's just one swing or one thought process or a word that the hitting coach says. It just registers in your brain. It's like turning the lights on, dude. It's like, oh, shit, you're right.

He said he had one of those before the World Series. And kind of a good time to get one for being honest, man. He was incredible, dude. He's so good for that organization. I think the guys that they have there that they signed, like are kind of, they're superstars, but still grindy. Yes. Like Freddie Freeman is not like

out trying to freaking be the man. He's just like a dad who loves baseball and like is really good at it. He's like a ball player. Mookie is just a sports freak. Yes. And he's also not trying to be like the man. He's just like I'm Mookie. I'm the best.

Excited to see. Just excited to see how you label Shohay after calling Mookie the sports freak. Well, I don't know. Does show hey freaking? do all the other sports like Mooki does? I think show hey, I think he fucks better. Yes.

Possibly. You never know. Shohay is just the freak. Like he's, you think Shohei gives a shit about anything but baseball and his dog? That's it.

That's it. Like those three at the top of what you got going on there for many years to come. I think Freddie still has three years. A fact check me there, Bebers. But like having those guys,

at the helm who have the accolades, the performance, and like the mental bandwidth to just be leaders, they're in such a good spot. And you talk about the organization with the Dodgers. Three years left, thank you, Beavers. Talk about the organization. Talk to anybody that's played for them and it's played for other organizations as well.

I always bring up Brian Dozier because, you know, that's my closest guy. And he'll just say that's by far. the best run organization. And he's talking about everything. It's down the line from how they treat families, how the travel is, how the meals are,

how the coaching is, drafting, talent and evaluation. You know, obviously they have the money to do it because it's a big marketplace. And, you know,

they spend it. They're not afraid to go out there and freaking put it out in the line. I mean, look what they gave for Yamamoto, who gave a great start in the World Series. He was going to be there for 50 years. It's, it really, it feels like a top down World Series trophy.

Yeah, they are the better team. They are the better org. They've shown that year and year out for the past decade or so. Yeah, and that's where, again, not necessarily circling back on the Cole Rizzo ball, but, man, it's what you're saying about those guys. Like, hey, Yankee fans were getting in their feelings. Like, wait, Freddie Freeman was just a free agent?

Is that, that swing looked decent at the stadium. We went out and we got Rizzo. Okay. Do you know, I don't, I know you don't like trivia, Treb, but do you know the last Yankee first baseman to hit a home run? Ew. John Birdie. DJ LaMayhew, July 5th.

31st. July 30th. It's Halloween. It is Halloween. It's first base of power position. That when Cole got Mookie there and that's it's why I'm still hurt by it. And again, there's a coal side to it that can't be argued against. I get it.

Mookie Betts is in is going to be remembered as a unique inner circle Hall of Famer. Like you said, he's this weird. sporty boy. Like there was a while when you turned on baseball internet and it's like Moogie Betts bowled 300. Moogie Betts wrestled this bull. Mookie Betts would be an NFL wide receiver. Mookie Betts was playing shortstop this year in his 30s for the first time about to win the NL MVP. He was going to break baseball. They got him to squib out to keep a World Series game 5-0. You got what you. You know what though? Okay. Again, Dodgers

credit here. Fucking ran. He fucking ran, dude. Freddie Freeman beat up a double play ball. Yes, it was his fastest sprint speed all year long. Are we saying that about Stanton's trying to score? Like, that's what I'm saying. These guys are

I'm not saying that Aaron Judge and John Carlos Stanton and Garrett Cole aren't dogs. Those guys are dogs. I don't follow the team as closely as you do. But I think there is a different leadership style in New York, where it's like, hey, man, I'm going to have your back no matter what.

And I think the Dodgers are like, and again, I'm kind of like, I'm just guessing. I'm not in the clubhouses. So, you know, don't take this 100%. But it seems to me that the Dodgers philosophy talking to guys is, yeah, we have your back, but this is about more than you. Like this is about us winning. Like so if there needs to be a change, like we need to make the change. And I think this year for the Yankees, what we saw with Clay Holmes and we saw with a lot of people.

And maybe it starts with Aaron Boone because I know he has the players' backs. And I like that. I think it was maybe a little bit, a little bit too much of like the pad on the back thing. And sometimes you'd have to kick in the ass. A thousand percent. A thousand percent. It's the one thing that we would change about the Yankees organization. It would be just more like proper accountability. Like it's not like you have to throw guys under the bus.

Like it's just, again, I don't want to take, well, people have taken their shots at Clay Holmes. And it's it's because he had the most blown saves in baseball. And it took the Yankees seeing it over and over. the Dodgers, the back end of their bullpen. There's days you didn't know who was coming in for the saves. You know, trying and took over this postseason, but they had Kopeck out there, like, you know, they, their goal is to win the game.

And if you're pitching in the fourth inning, the eighth inning or whatever, the Yankees want to believe in stuff so much that they'll try to talk it into existence, and then they wait till they get broken. They subbed out their starting short stuff. in the playoffs in 2022 for the first time all year. You know why Verdugo played every game? Because they've been really scared and worried about putting Judge Orsoto in left field.

So Jason Dominguez, who's supposed to be one of their most talented prospects who came up, knocked around Justin Verlander, and showed, you know, he has skill. I don't know what the future has. They couldn't even play him because they didn't call him up till late. Because we believe in Verdugo, who his number statistically grade out worse than gallows on the Yankees. So the, where the Dodgers, if they needed a next playoff win and Chris Taylor was the guy or whoever, like, they don't care. We need to win. It's the world series. Yeah.

This is the world series. It was the world series. It was the world series. and God. Now we start the offseason, Pop. Now we're going to go. What's next for us? Because that's really what's important here.

Right. All J.M. team, final month. That's got to be coming up soon. Offseason talk. Soto. Got to do free agent preview. Did he wear a Boris hat? I don't know.

He was the, you know, one of the last Yankees watching the celebration was the tweet I saw about Soho. I saw that too. And the Yankees didn't open their clubhouse for 40 minutes after the game. We had to wait for them to get sound for baseball today last night. So that wasn't nice of you guys. What were you guys talking about anyways? Nothing.

You're talking about nothing and thinking it was something. Like, we heard after the game they won that they were in the dugout screaming about we're going to actually do this thing and we're going to win it all. and no you're not going to be remembered forever you're going to be forgotten because you blew playoff games you might be remember forever for that fifth inning for you lost two playoff games on defensive lapses in the world series it's awful trip it's an all-time embarrassment uh and meanwhile the dodgers are set up to continue to go and make large runs in the postseason know what i loved is a signing for them show hay for two million a year

I love that. Technically not two million a year. Let's stop. But technically also it is one of those things. If you want to say that, you're not wrong. Cash out of pocket, $2 million. Cash against the books, $44.5. I think it is.

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that we really care about. And I think our fans care about us and I love that relationship. You know, every time I go to, any baseball field, whether it's big leagues or youth or whatever. Like got a lot of people coming up and saying they like what we do. And they, you know, we do. We put in a lot of work.

There's no doubt about it, man. We do. We are grinding and I think people notice that. But I love doing this. And it's because the fans tune in that we're able to do this. So thank you to LA fans, New York fans, everyone in between. If your team stinks, we're sorry. but we love you

and that's it man we're gonna be here in the off season but I can't I need a few days off Pop I'm sick of hearing my own voice I hope everyone else isn't sick of it but I'm sick of it I can't listen to that thing

all day white chocolate I can you yeah no it's uh Walker Buehler Jack Flaherty on your couch Trev it's nuts I you know I hope this doesn't come off

as a douchey anecdote but everything I do kind of comes off a little bit so whatever like I get it. I'm wearing a Jake sucks sleeveless t-shirt. And I guess there's the people that appreciate that. And I thank you guys enough.

And even the people that don't, like I kind of get it. It's kind of fucking weird. And it's like, why that we were at Fanatics Fest this year, which was like a big, you know, first of its kind sports thing, right? Like all the sports stars were in town. It was crazy. The list they rolled out. It was like that Fourth of July white party.

And, me and Trev me and Trev were walking out you know probably to make a night out of it and there was all the there was like a collection of people with their phones out like blogging like with the little mics

and the cameras and stuff and you were being you're joking but you're like what's going on here like what is this and I was like dude I'm the problem I worked in electrical supply distribution I was chilling my body my buddy said

hey, let's start a Yankees podcast. And now we've turned into whatever we've turned into. We've got like 60 employees. Like there's a big office in Manhattan. And it's all because there's a lot of people that like baseball. That's what like built all of this. So the fact that I get to be a part of that is nuts. It's nuts.

And God, it's a lot of fun. Although there was some sadness. And I did sleep in my clothes on the couch last. night. I think that's, I mean, yeah. The story goes. Jake's story alley slept in his clothes that night. Yeah. So thank you guys so much. If you're subscribed and all the little stuff that helps. And as you well know, the content don't stop. The offseason's here. I'm looking at that Yankees. How can we get better? Where is Walker Beeler signing? You need a lot. I said Walker Buehler to the Padres on baseball today, and people are like, they want to kill me. Sacrilege.

Yes. But doesn't he fit perfectly with the Padres? Congrats to the Los Angeles Dodgers. An elite franchise makes 2020 feel better. And how about the start of the Shohei regime? Not one. Not two. Not three.

Didn't even pitch this year. Love you guys. Love. Back to two episodes of week next week. Where's my big old Jeff name was blunt? What was that? 50 euros? Those Liras? What do you got?

50 pesos. I think this is almost not money. You could get something for that. Something. Love everybody. L.A. for life. A.1-8, baby. Harry Francona to the Reds. That's worth 250.