October 31, 2024 • 8 mins
Los Angeles has erupted in celebration after the Dodgers were victorious in the World Series.
The Dodgers were able to win the series 4-1 after their win in New York today.
Fox Sports USA's Ben Maller took a break from partying in the street to chat to D'Arcy Waldegrave on Sportstalk.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildegrave
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It'd be and it's a huge day in California. I
A and to talk about it is Big Bean Mela
out of Fox Sport Radio. Bean, Welcome to the show.
Happy much. How's the state coping right now? Almost the
point the city of.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
La Well, hey, Darcy Scritch to be over. It is
a celebration, Darcy. The Dodgers win the championship. Now, they
won a couple years ago, but they couldn't celebrate because
of the pandemic that was going on. So it's a
whole different vibe tonight. In fact, I was driving into
the radio station here getting ready to do my show,
and I was serenaded as far as you could see
(00:49):
magical fireworks at Disney like fireworks. People were out celebrating,
having a great time as the Dodgers won, and what
a way to win two They were down five nothing.
They were getting smoked by the mighty New York Yankees,
and then they came back, and a lot of that
was because of the mistakes by the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
But the everyone's going nuts here.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
There's gonna be a massive parade in a couple of
days on Friday for US, Saturday for you guys. And
it's the first time the Dodgers will have one of
those celebratory parades, just all the way back in nineteen
eighty eight, because they couldn't have one the last time
they won. As I said, so everyone's happy, smiling and
good times and they're partying all night long.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
So what's bigger a win here or a win for
the basketballs or a win for the footballers. What sits
above in specifically in Los Angeles? Wait, does it sit
in the consciousness of the sports fan? Out of there?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So in the in the zeitgeist of the LA sports fan.
I would say, and I hate saying this because I'm
not a fan, the Lakers are at at the very top,
but the Dodgers. It's it's neck and neck with the Dodgers.
The Dodgers are right there with the Lakers, and the
Dodgers have been around longer than the Lakers, and there's
there's there's.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
A bit of a split on that. But the Lakers
at the top.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
But the Dodgers haven't won as often, and they've spent
so much money over the over the years, they spent
a billion dollars on adding players Darcy in the offseason
to try to win another championship led by Shoho Tani.
So I would say that the Lakers at the top
of the Dodgers are number two and they crossed over.
We also had the death a couple of days ago
(02:28):
Fernando Velenzuela, who helped build the Dodger fan base with
Latin fans and it was a hero back in the
nineteen eighties and he just passed away. I mean, just
it's the Dodgers winning is a big old deal because
it doesn't happen all that often. This is their eighth championship.
That includes when they were playing in Brooklyn. They won
a few in Los Angeles, but it hasn't been that many,
(02:51):
and it's far and few between.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
No hold on, say you're sign it piles and significance
to the National Football League.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, well, LA didn't have an NFL team for LA
is one of the few cities now they love the
NFL in LA, but people are fans of all kinds
of teams because the whole generation went without the NFL.
The NFL left in the mid to early nineteen nineties
and they just came back about ten years ago to
Los Angeles. So there's a whole generation that grew up
without a hometown team. So there's a lot of NFL
(03:18):
fans in southern California where I'm broadcasting from, but they're
fans are the forty nine Ers or the Cowboys or
the Steelers, even though there's two teams in LA. The
Rams do okay, but it's not like the Dodgers or
the Lakers. It's a whole different animal. So it's a
weird thing. It's unlike that anywhere else in America that
has an NFL team.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Almost everywhere else the NFL is the king, but in.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
LA it's basketball and baseball and then football is number.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Three, the Hope Stites and Outlaw or isn't it being really?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Is it really America?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
No, I know in northern California, you know, the northern
part of the state, they have the forty nine Ers.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
So it's a different animal. But yeah, this is a
total This is a total bubble.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Compared to everywhere else where. The NFL is way ahead
of everything. And I know on my radio show which
I talk about sports on my show, and it's it's
almost all the NFL pro football in America is massive,
but in La It's it's just a different animal. And
the Dodgers, for so many years Darcy had big payrolls,
(04:20):
star players, and they would be choke artists in the playoffs.
They would ride the vomit comet in big games, and
so it's it's refreshing to see them actually get it done.
Although this game tonight, the clinching game, was a gift
by the Yankees, and the Yankees they did everything they
could to help.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
The Dodgers win. But the Dodgers are not giving it back.
They're keeping it.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Ban Mellen joins a Fox Sport radio host, looking at
the Dodgers winning the World Series. It add a little
extra to the fact that the New York Yankees choked
in their own bank. Yoh man, it would be a
miserable place to be right now, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh yeah, Well, the Yankees, they were thinking they were
going to come back and win.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
They won the last game. They were down three games.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
No one's ever come back in the World Series from
down three games. In fact, in the history of baseball,
there's only been one team in any player. The Red
Sox famously came back twenty years ago against the Yankees
and the American League Playoffs.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
But the Yankees won the last game.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
They were up five to nothing and they were heading
back to Los Angeles. That would just assume when you're
up five to nothing, you're gonna win the game. This
is the biggest choke job in a game like this
in baseball history, in the World Series. And Aaron Judge
hit a home run early on Jazz Chisholm and the
Yankees hit home. They had back to back home runs.
They were five to nothing. They were strutting around like
(05:36):
peacocks out in the field, and then all of a sudden,
the Yankee defense imploded. They made a couple of errors
and the Dodgers took advantage of it, and they came
back and they end up going ahead. But yeah, I mean,
this is one of the epic choke jobs for the
New York Yankees. And you know, Darcy from your trips
to America, how the media and New York operate. They're
(05:57):
not gonna be very kind to the Yankees here. It's
gonna be ugly for a while for Aaron Judge and
the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
At least a nice distraction from your election. People can
just forget about that, and now they can just focus
on the ball, right or are they still came to
see something? Guy, I shouldn't have been talking about the leaks,
and no one wants to talk about they had been.
Forget I said that. Tell me about the heroes of
the side. Who's going to be faced the most in Dodgersville.
Who stood out there and said, we're the champions at
I lead this?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah, well, listen by by far, it's Freddie Freeman. Freddie
Freeman is the World Series MVP. Came over from Atlanta
a couple of years ago. He set the record. He
tied the record for most runs batted in in a
World Series, a record that goes back over sixty years.
Bobby Richardson had the record from nineteen sixty and so
(06:43):
he wins it hit the game ending Grand Slam, one
of the great moments in baseball playoffs in recent years,
very reminiscent of Kurt Gibson's home run way Back, one
of the great home runs in World Series history back
in eighty eight.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
So Freddy freees the breakout start.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It is weird, though, Darky, the guy that gave seven
hundred million dollars to Shoho Tani, the first fifty to
fifty player in baseball history, only had two hits.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
He had no runs, batted in, no home runs.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
In the World Series he only had a single and
then he separated his shoulder and he trying to steal
a base. But the Dodgers won and Otani really didn't
do anything, which is really weird considering they're paying him
seven hundred million dollars.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I'm sure he's comfortable though. I'm sure he'll sleep well.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
He's not gonna worry about where he's gonna get his
next meal, or if his car's paid for, or is
you know his rent is paid for.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I think he's good on that for sure.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
One of these days, being metalw I'm gonna cool you
and you're gonna be able to celebrate the Clippers. I'm
not gonna hold my breath, but I'd love to do
it in the great tradition of sports mad towns. Are
they going to raise the sea to the ground or will
be slightly more well behaved in la and celebration.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Well, it's it's too early to tell, Darcy, but it's
it's a weird time. We got the Halloween celebration, we're
heading into that here in a few hours for us
on the in the west coast of the US, so
it's gonna be a wild night.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
It's the police are well away here.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
They're out in force trying to prevent civil unrest. But
I'm sure there'll be some some things destroyed here overnight.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Hopefully not.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
But every time a team in La wins, there's normally
normally some kind of disobedience that takes place here. So
it's quite the quite the mess. But uh, you know, Friday,
the parade is also gonna be wild, so we'll see
how that goes. But it's just a good time. People
are happy, they're celebrating. Like I told you, driving in here,
I was treated to world class fireworks everywhere I looked.
(08:40):
I was driving on the highway, on the right, the left.
I mean, these things were like you go to an
amusement park and see at Disney.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
It was wild.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
For more from Sports Talk, listen live to News Talks.
It'd be from seven pm weekdays well follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildegrave
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It'd be and it's a huge day in California. I
A and to talk about it is Big Bean Mela
out of Fox Sport Radio. Bean, Welcome to the show.
Happy much. How's the state coping right now? Almost the
point the city of.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
La Well, hey, Darcy Scritch to be over. It is
a celebration, Darcy. The Dodgers win the championship. Now, they
won a couple years ago, but they couldn't celebrate because
of the pandemic that was going on. So it's a
whole different vibe tonight. In fact, I was driving into
the radio station here getting ready to do my show,
and I was serenaded as far as you could see
(00:49):
magical fireworks at Disney like fireworks. People were out celebrating,
having a great time as the Dodgers won, and what
a way to win two They were down five nothing.
They were getting smoked by the mighty New York Yankees,
and then they came back, and a lot of that
was because of the mistakes by the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
But the everyone's going nuts here.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
There's gonna be a massive parade in a couple of
days on Friday for US, Saturday for you guys. And
it's the first time the Dodgers will have one of
those celebratory parades, just all the way back in nineteen
eighty eight, because they couldn't have one the last time
they won. As I said, so everyone's happy, smiling and
good times and they're partying all night long.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
So what's bigger a win here or a win for
the basketballs or a win for the footballers. What sits
above in specifically in Los Angeles? Wait, does it sit
in the consciousness of the sports fan? Out of there?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So in the in the zeitgeist of the LA sports fan.
I would say, and I hate saying this because I'm
not a fan, the Lakers are at at the very top,
but the Dodgers. It's it's neck and neck with the Dodgers.
The Dodgers are right there with the Lakers, and the
Dodgers have been around longer than the Lakers, and there's
there's there's.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
A bit of a split on that. But the Lakers
at the top.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
But the Dodgers haven't won as often, and they've spent
so much money over the over the years, they spent
a billion dollars on adding players Darcy in the offseason
to try to win another championship led by Shoho Tani.
So I would say that the Lakers at the top
of the Dodgers are number two and they crossed over.
We also had the death a couple of days ago
(02:28):
Fernando Velenzuela, who helped build the Dodger fan base with
Latin fans and it was a hero back in the
nineteen eighties and he just passed away. I mean, just
it's the Dodgers winning is a big old deal because
it doesn't happen all that often. This is their eighth championship.
That includes when they were playing in Brooklyn. They won
a few in Los Angeles, but it hasn't been that many,
(02:51):
and it's far and few between.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
No hold on, say you're sign it piles and significance
to the National Football League.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, well, LA didn't have an NFL team for LA
is one of the few cities now they love the
NFL in LA, but people are fans of all kinds
of teams because the whole generation went without the NFL.
The NFL left in the mid to early nineteen nineties
and they just came back about ten years ago to
Los Angeles. So there's a whole generation that grew up
without a hometown team. So there's a lot of NFL
(03:18):
fans in southern California where I'm broadcasting from, but they're
fans are the forty nine Ers or the Cowboys or
the Steelers, even though there's two teams in LA. The
Rams do okay, but it's not like the Dodgers or
the Lakers. It's a whole different animal. So it's a
weird thing. It's unlike that anywhere else in America that
has an NFL team.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Almost everywhere else the NFL is the king, but in.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
LA it's basketball and baseball and then football is number.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Three, the Hope Stites and Outlaw or isn't it being really?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Is it really America?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
No, I know in northern California, you know, the northern
part of the state, they have the forty nine Ers.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
So it's a different animal. But yeah, this is a
total This is a total bubble.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Compared to everywhere else where. The NFL is way ahead
of everything. And I know on my radio show which
I talk about sports on my show, and it's it's
almost all the NFL pro football in America is massive,
but in La It's it's just a different animal. And
the Dodgers, for so many years Darcy had big payrolls,
(04:20):
star players, and they would be choke artists in the playoffs.
They would ride the vomit comet in big games, and
so it's it's refreshing to see them actually get it done.
Although this game tonight, the clinching game, was a gift
by the Yankees, and the Yankees they did everything they
could to help.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
The Dodgers win. But the Dodgers are not giving it back.
They're keeping it.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Ban Mellen joins a Fox Sport radio host, looking at
the Dodgers winning the World Series. It add a little
extra to the fact that the New York Yankees choked
in their own bank. Yoh man, it would be a
miserable place to be right now, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh yeah, Well, the Yankees, they were thinking they were
going to come back and win.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
They won the last game. They were down three games.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
No one's ever come back in the World Series from
down three games. In fact, in the history of baseball,
there's only been one team in any player. The Red
Sox famously came back twenty years ago against the Yankees
and the American League Playoffs.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
But the Yankees won the last game.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
They were up five to nothing and they were heading
back to Los Angeles. That would just assume when you're
up five to nothing, you're gonna win the game. This
is the biggest choke job in a game like this
in baseball history, in the World Series. And Aaron Judge
hit a home run early on Jazz Chisholm and the
Yankees hit home. They had back to back home runs.
They were five to nothing. They were strutting around like
(05:36):
peacocks out in the field, and then all of a sudden,
the Yankee defense imploded. They made a couple of errors
and the Dodgers took advantage of it, and they came
back and they end up going ahead. But yeah, I mean,
this is one of the epic choke jobs for the
New York Yankees. And you know, Darcy from your trips
to America, how the media and New York operate. They're
(05:57):
not gonna be very kind to the Yankees here. It's
gonna be ugly for a while for Aaron Judge and
the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
At least a nice distraction from your election. People can
just forget about that, and now they can just focus
on the ball, right or are they still came to
see something? Guy, I shouldn't have been talking about the leaks,
and no one wants to talk about they had been.
Forget I said that. Tell me about the heroes of
the side. Who's going to be faced the most in Dodgersville.
Who stood out there and said, we're the champions at
I lead this?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah, well, listen by by far, it's Freddie Freeman. Freddie
Freeman is the World Series MVP. Came over from Atlanta
a couple of years ago. He set the record. He
tied the record for most runs batted in in a
World Series, a record that goes back over sixty years.
Bobby Richardson had the record from nineteen sixty and so
(06:43):
he wins it hit the game ending Grand Slam, one
of the great moments in baseball playoffs in recent years,
very reminiscent of Kurt Gibson's home run way Back, one
of the great home runs in World Series history back
in eighty eight.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
So Freddy freees the breakout start.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It is weird, though, Darky, the guy that gave seven
hundred million dollars to Shoho Tani, the first fifty to
fifty player in baseball history, only had two hits.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
He had no runs, batted in, no home runs.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
In the World Series he only had a single and
then he separated his shoulder and he trying to steal
a base. But the Dodgers won and Otani really didn't
do anything, which is really weird considering they're paying him
seven hundred million dollars.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I'm sure he's comfortable though. I'm sure he'll sleep well.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
He's not gonna worry about where he's gonna get his
next meal, or if his car's paid for, or is
you know his rent is paid for.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I think he's good on that for sure.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
One of these days, being metalw I'm gonna cool you
and you're gonna be able to celebrate the Clippers. I'm
not gonna hold my breath, but I'd love to do
it in the great tradition of sports mad towns. Are
they going to raise the sea to the ground or will
be slightly more well behaved in la and celebration.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Well, it's it's too early to tell, Darcy, but it's
it's a weird time. We got the Halloween celebration, we're
heading into that here in a few hours for us
on the in the west coast of the US, so
it's gonna be a wild night.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
It's the police are well away here.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
They're out in force trying to prevent civil unrest. But
I'm sure there'll be some some things destroyed here overnight.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Hopefully not.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
But every time a team in La wins, there's normally
normally some kind of disobedience that takes place here. So
it's quite the quite the mess. But uh, you know, Friday,
the parade is also gonna be wild, so we'll see
how that goes. But it's just a good time. People
are happy, they're celebrating. Like I told you, driving in here,
I was treated to world class fireworks everywhere I looked.
(08:40):
I was driving on the highway, on the right, the left.
I mean, these things were like you go to an
amusement park and see at Disney.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
It was wild.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
For more from Sports Talk, listen live to News Talks.
It'd be from seven pm weekdays well follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
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