October 22, 2024 • 45 mins
Steve Sax and Tim Cates are LIVE and LOCAL on your home of the Dodgers as the lead up has begun to the Dodgers-Yankees World Series matchup. A 1981 Game 1 World Series Flashback.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The right quist.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual
postseason tradition.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Scam is back. Baby.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is sax and Cakes in the a app BA
Go with Proway. Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by
your favorite Dodger pregame host, Tim Kates. If you want
to talk Dodgers, get in on the show on eighty
six six nine eighty seven two five seven now. While
the Dan Patrick Show streams on the Ihearts radio app.
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We've been banished to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff
run concludes. Here they are broadcasting live on AM five
to seven e LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
No lead up to the World Series begins.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Scam is on the air on this Tuesday morning, October
twenty second. Sacks Kates in the am here on AMPI
seventy LA Sports. Thanks for being with us on this
Tuesday morning, Tim Kates joined by a two time World
Series champion, Rookie of the Year and arguably the best
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number three oh ever for your Los Angeles Dodgers, Steve Sacks.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Saxey. Good morning morning, Tim. What's up buddy?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
The in between the NLCS and the World Series is
officially begun as both teams enjoyed a day off yesterday.
We'll hear from Aaron Boone Dodgers or Yankees manager excuse me,
in just a couple of minutes. He did address the
media yesterday his initial thoughts on this World Series matchup.
He announced his Game one starter, no surprise, Garrett Cole.
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So we'll hear from Aaron Boone in just a couple
of minutes. Later on today, the Dodgers will get some
workouts in, some treatment, some lifts, and then they'll have
some media availability for Max Monthsey, Freddie Freeman, and Dave Roberts.
That is later on this afternoon. So hear from those
guys tomorrow as we lead you up to Game one
of the twenty twenty four World Series, which is Friday
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night out of Dodgers Stadium five eight, first pitch right
here on AMPI seventy LA Sports. As the Dodgers and Yankees,
we'll have a workout tomorrow and then Media Day, I
believe is on Thursday. And if I say ask you yesterday,
do you remember Media Day? So I went and looked
it up. You guys clenched the NLCS on a Wednesday,
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the twelfth of October, and then you guys played Game
one against the Oakland A's in nineteen eighty eight on Saturday,
October fifteenth, So you only had two days in between
the NLCS and the World Series. Do you remember those
couple of days off in between the CS and the
World Series?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Not really, It's it was all kind of a blur,
But I know it was quick because we never thought
about going into November. You know, this was something that
was you know, you just went from one to the other,
and here we have, you know, the five days off.
So it's quite different, and it's it's more media based.
I think now you can say there's so much more
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of an emphasis on that. I think back when when
we were playing then it was more of a you know,
you get the media in when you can, but everything
else takes precedence. But now it's not that way. They
really serve it up for the media, and you know,
the fans get the maximum amount of coverage. For sure.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I think they've kind of borrowed a page out of
the NFL and good for baseball, trying to mimic what
the NFL has done. Right, the NFL has a lead
up to its Super Bowl and albeit it's a week
and they do all the fans stuff on site in
the host city, and they do all the media availabilities
leading it up after practices, but they also do that
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big media day that Monday night of Super Bowl week,
where it's now turned into a whole event where media
across the globe asked ridiculous questions and you know, if
you were to pick in and Out versus five guys,
which one would you pick? And they ask all the
players stuff like that. That's a lot of fun for
the fans to hear, you know, who, what's your favorite tailor,
swift song? All that kind of stuff. But I don't
know that it's not hasn't gotten to that point yet.
(04:05):
But Media Day for the World Series it's gonna be
like All Star Media Day, I believe, where all the
players will have stations and the media is gonna be there.
And I think this year more than any and we
know this, this is gonna be the most media we've
ever seen cover a World Series just because of the
Otani effect.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Sure, I mean, he's a rock star, you know, he's
a he's a pop culture figure. Now not just a
sports star and so every I'm sure everywhere he goes.
I mean, I wonder what it's like for him in
La now and he tries to go somewhere, I mean, hey,
how about going down to get a five guys or
in and out? I mean, can he do that? You know?
Does he put the glasses on and you know it,
puts his hat on and tries to hide. Nope, six
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foot five year you're gonna be seeing whe everywhere you go.
So he probably can't do any of that. But I
do remember those stations, going station to station and you
know asking question. Everybody's got cameras too, so it's, uh,
it's quite a time. But you know, good for these guys,
and they're gonna be you know, spending the maximum amount
of time. When you think about all the travel that
they're going to be doing too, It's not like going
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you know, La to Texas. I mean that's an easy one.
You're gonna go all the way across the country. But
you know what, that's what's gonna build up the uh,
you know, all the the intensity and all the excitement's
gonna be just it's gonna be amazing in these days
in between.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's interesting you bring that up, because right away I
thought advantage Dodgers in this world series for the travel
and that factors in saxy, as you know, going back
and forth from the East coast to the West coast.
The Dodgers in this previous series against the Mets have
already had to do that, and I've already had to
come back for one game after blowing the chance to
win Game five of the NLCS and close out the
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Mets last Friday. They know what it's like to get
on a plane set for five hours in your misery
of we didn't get it done, and now forty eight
hours later we got to get ready for a game.
So I guess my initial dots aren't Initially this is
gonna help the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, I think so. Any any little slight advantage you
can muster up, you know you got you gotta take that,
even if it's a even if you just have to
talk your way into one and say, yeah, it's a
big advantage for us, and really maybe not so much,
but if you can talk your way into it mentally, yeah,
it's good for you.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I look at both of these franchises, it's the Dodgers
and Yankees, and so this moment, this stage, I don't
think it rattles them. I mean, individually, players on the
Dodgers have been through this, They've been to World Series,
They've been on the biggest stage trying to get to
the World Series. For the most part, guys have done
it for the last three years, five years, ten years
for Clayton Kershaw, who's been around the longest. The Yankee players,
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this is the first time a lot of them are
ever going to be on this stage in the World Series.
And I wonder what it's like for them under the
bright lights in New York. Certainly the media there is
one thing, but now you get to this big stage.
How it affects this New York Yankees team having all
eyes around the globe on them, watching every pitch, every bad,
every inning.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Now, Yeah, and you know what the press is like
back there in New York. I mean they just really
dig in there.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You know, they come up with anyth How did you
deal with them when you played for the Yankees?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You know what, I didn't have a problem at all.
You know when I signed them. They always have the
press conference and then you know, to kind of introduce
you to the city, whatnot. And I remember I just
answered every question and at the end of my uh,
at the end of my conference, I said, look, you know,
coming over here from LA I had no problem with
the press over there, and I just wanted you all
to know as well that I'll always be at my locker.
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I'll always answer your questions. I know you have a
job to do and I do too. So if if
that can be you know, put right there like that,
we can leave it at that, that's great. But if
I know any of you guys are going to come
out and try to really rip me or put on
a story that's not true or something like that, and
I get the game winning hit in the seventh game
of the World Series, I'm not talking to you. Wow.
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So yeah, that's what I set that bar right away,
right away and the first time. And I never had
a problem with anybody, not one time.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Did anybody try to dig where there times were oh
sure when you were not playing well that they just
write were they want to pile on you?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, of course. I mean, you know there's maybe there's
a say, there's a pop fly down the line and
you're going for it, and you know nobody catches it.
It's just a hard one to get, you know. After
the game, they'd say, hey, you know, I talked to
Jesse Barfield, the right fielder, and maddeningly they've all said
that you should have had that. Really, I'm like, okay, yeah,
you're right, I should have had it. And that's how
I diffuse that. Yeah, I kind of blew that one.
See the players know, and most of the time you
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rarely see a player not own it. I mean they
always own it because they know that's a smart thing
to do. This game is so hard to play. You're
not going to go throughout your career and not screw
it up because you're going to everybody is this game
will humble you. I guarantee it. I ask Tanner, is
that aning Biby the pitcher for the for the Guardians? Yeah? Yeah,
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who was smirking and then and then John Carlo took
him deep? Yeah? Or yeah it was John carl You're
not supposed to smirk at a guy because you think
you got everything figured out because he's about the thump
you and that's what and he did it twice, you know,
so you know that's what happens in the game. So
if you just own it and say yeah, you know
that was me, and it just kind of silences everything.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I cannot wait for this matchup Yankees Dodgers. The star
power alone is something we've never seen before.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
The hook, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Then you throw in the Otawni factor and it takes
it to the even biggest level. And then you take
it as Dodgers versus Yankees, and the history of this
rivalry going back to the forties, the fifties, the inability
of the Dodgers to finally win, and then the seventies
battles winning an eighty one. I mean, there are so
many storylines for this World Series. It is unbelievable. You
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don't even have to manufacture any of these storylines, which
is great for baseball. You just got to roll out
these two teams and say here, public America world enjoy.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, I mean, and this is gonna be some of
our own storylines are going to be defined in this
twenty twenty four World Series. You can bet you know
as it goes on, there'll be you know, injuries that happened.
I mean, they're gonna be keeping a close watch, certain
on Anthony Rizzo and what's going on with two broken
fingers that he's playing with in his right hand. They're
gonna be talking about the depth of the Dodgers' pitching staff.
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Can they Can they get it together and have those
guys be great and have the bullpen do the other one?
I don't know, you know. So there's gonna be lots
of different things that happen that we don't even know
about yet. That's gonna come about and that's what makes
it great.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Well, we got a big show today coming up. Next hour,
Alana Rizzo from MLB Network High Heat will join us.
She joined us in a DS she'll talk about this series,
also get her perspective nationally since she's based now in
New York. She works with the Mad Dog on High Heat.
She covered the Dodgers for so many years for sports
and at LA. What this series looks like in a
broader perspective. Dodgers and Yankees. At seven o'clock, Brendan Cuddy,
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he covers the Yankees for the Athletics, gonna join us.
He's actually gonna be on his way to Yankee Stadium.
Is they've got a workout and media availability for the Yankees.
At about eleven o'clock, eastern eight o'clock Pacific before they
head out to Los Angeles in the final hour of
the show, looking forward to having Jerry Royce on the show.
Longtime Big leaguer Dodger was the game one starter in
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the night nineteen eighty one World Series matchup between the
Dodgers and Yankees out of Yankee Stadium. In fact, coming
up at the bottom of the hour, it's gonna be
a lot of fun. YouTube's a great place and an
awful place, Saxey. It's awful because the kids that spend
all their time on YouTube today. But it is good
for some things. And in this instance, it is great
because we can go back into the archives of the
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nineteen eighty one World Series and watch every single game.
So we'll go back to Game one of the nineteen
eighty one World Series, gets you some of the highlights
from that game that's coming up at the bottom of
the hour, and your phone calls at eight sixty six,
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Here Insude of California. We are live at Local until
nine o'clock this morning. We appreciate you being with us.
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the chef in you. Before we hear from Aaron Boone,
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we get to your phone calls to the bottom of
the hour. We got a big announcement to make here, Saxy,
and it's a station wide announcement. Tickets to the World
Series are a hard thing to get right now. Sure,
face value priced out a lot of people. The average
fan can't afford a World Series ticket just on face
value alone. Then you throw in the Yankees coming to
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town for Games one and two, and the secondary market
for these tickets is now off the charts. I mean
we're talking record levels right now. For a single ticket
to get into Game one Friday night at Dodger Stadium
is the highest views ever seen. It's like thirteen hundred
dollars right now just for one ticket in the upper
deck at Dodger Stadium. That's the get in price right
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now on the secondary market. It is unbelievable. The buzz
right now, yeh, the for the and the demand for tickets.
I'm guessing Saxy, you've gotten somebody or buddies or a
lot of people have said, hey, tax can you give
me some tickets?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Hang on a second, Hang on, I'm going through my
my text messages right now. There's like I can flip,
you can just go right right down the line. I
can only imagine, Hey, and I know what's coming. I
just I know it's coming. And it's like, you know, uh,
this is a really I know, this is a really
special time. And you probably hear this a lot. You
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know what I could I could braille read it with
my fingers and I can tell you what's coming up next.
But I know this maybe a little bit, you know,
kind of far fetched. But uh, is there any chance
you can like, you know, get my get my family
in for my family?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
You know it's a crazy thing too. Here's a crazy
thing is people think that like I have this connection
lifel like lifelong connection with all the teams because I
was a major League baseball player, that I could just
you know, snap my fingers and yeah, you know, can
you can you get me? How about four? You know
for you know, is there anything behind like maybe the
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loads section? Oh my gosh, are you kidding? I mean
I can't even go. You know what are you talking about? Yeah?
They this one guy when I had when I saw
the family wanted to go, I was like, are you kidding?
I didn't even answer it. It's just absurd. I mean,
the text that starts, Hey, how's it going? No, hope
you're talking in a while? Yeah, hope, you're well, haven't spoken? Well? Hey?
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Game one? Any chances you got an extra ticket? Hey?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Can you get him at a discount? That's the old
that's the nice one, right, the can you get him
at a discount?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Hope? But you're gonna say no, no, no, don't pay for it.
I'll buy it for you. Yeah, exactly. And so listen
here here's the thing that fans have to know. When
when I was playing, I would get twenty thirty, thirty five,
forty tickets what sometimes because you could just write them down.
There was no there was no law on this, and
I would have people, can you give me? Can you
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give me five? Can you give me eight. Sure, yeah,
And I was sitting there writing, writing them down. Finally,
after I don't know what is year, my third or
fourth year in the big leagues, they said, no, you
can't do that no more. And everybody was doing it,
you know this, and I can't do that no more.
So you get six tickets. Now, you get two here,
and you get four there. And you know what it
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is like now, the the the players do get I
think two tickets for the family and a couple other
ones for you know, for the rest of the family,
if you will. But you get two really good ones
and you have to buy the rest of them. So
all the fans that think that, hey, you know, you
played baseball, so can you get me a ticket even
during the season, even if you're a player, Even if
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you're a player, you still have to pay those tickets.
So nothing is free anymore. You don't get anything for free.
And and I know, and you know, here's another thing,
here's another one I got. No I don't have and
I can't get a show. Hey, o Tawani Warren World
Series jersey for you. No, no, no, I got that one.
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I got down when a couple of days ago. No,
I can't get it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Can you get an autographed baseball for me? Then, Timmy,
come on, you know, I think I didn't realize that
what you're talking about until watching the Super Bowl documentary
last week. It was like a behind the scenes on
HBO or something about the Super Bowl, and they talked
about how the players get like two tickets to the
Super Bowl, but they need more than that, and so
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they're able to get them from the NFL or their
respective teams, but they have to buy them, and they
have to buy them at the same price. Everybody else
has got to buy them. They're not free, No, they're
not free. And so anyway, I think maybe everybody knows now.
When I saw the jersey one for I was like,
you gotta be there. I cannot believe somebody asked you
for family tickets.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, I mean you have four or five? I mean,
come on, seriously, I mean, and that that's just not
gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It's not a Sunday in June against the Cincinnati Reds, folks.
It's Game one of the World Series, right, I mean,
with that being said, the tickets are hard to get.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
We get it.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
They're pricey for everybody out there. So here at seventy
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Speaker 1 (17:22):
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Speaker 1 (17:52):
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Speaker 3 (17:54):
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Speaker 1 (18:24):
Now, how did AM five to seventy get these? Because look,
you know what, people are asked all the time, but
there aren't any available. When you get to a certain point,
there aren't any. You can't even go if you have
the money right because they're not available.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
There there's fifty six thousand tickets available. They've all been sold,
and now we've got a pair for game one. We
got a pair for Game two. Thank goodness for that
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so they're able to get some tickets somehow, some way,
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Speaker 1 (19:06):
It's easy.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
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Speaker 1 (19:09):
You don't sign up online. Don't sign up online, you
have to sign up in person. Can you give me
a show? Hey, tany jersey?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I'll get you a jersey and it may be my
autograph on there, but it ain't gonna be Joys.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
No. He is Steve Sax, I'm Tim Kates. Thanks for
being with us.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Got a couple of phone lines open if you want
to jump on board. A busy seven o'clock hour. Jerry
Royce joins us in the eight o'clock hour. When we
come back, your phone calls and we go to a
nineteen eighty one Game one flashback. You are not gonna
want to miss this. It is gonna be fantastic and
it's all coming up right here on Sax and Kate
Today am on your home with the Dodgers an FI
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Thanks for being with us on this Tuesday morning, Game
one of the World Series coming up on Friday. Made
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World Series. Of course, we are your home of the Dodgers.
AM five seventy LA Sports. Your phone calls coming up, Saxy.
We'll get to Brendan Cuddy in a lot of rizzo
next hour talking about this series. Jerry Royce will join
us in the eight o'clock hour and speaking to Jerry Royce.
He was the Game one starter of the nineteen eighty
one World Series. Dodgers and Yankees and Sexy. Let's get
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a little flashback. You were part of that team in
nineteen eighty one. We go back to nineteen eighty one
Yankee Stadium. It was October twentieth, nineteen eighty one Dodgers
taking on the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
ABC Sports resents the nineteen eighty one World Series from
the Yankee Stadium in New York. The Dodgers and the Yankees.
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Last Thursday, the Yankees claimed their thirty third American League
Championship with a three game suite over the Western Division
champion Oakland Days. The Los Angeles Dodgers had to go
five games with Montreal before they could claim their seventeenth
National League Championship. It came with a ninth inning home run,
the Dodgers winning two to one, and tonight the Yankees
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and Dodgers meeting in Game one the nineteen eighty one
World Series.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
It was fifty five degrees a Yankee Stadium in the
Bronx at night, October twenty, had, nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
What was going through your mind? Hotly, it's about Burner.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
It's right, Keith Jackson on the call along with the great,
the Great Howard Cosell also on the call for ABC,
as well as Jim Palmer, who you'll heard coming up
in just a little bit. But Game one of the
nineteen eighty one World Series. What's going through your mind,
your your stomach there in the the few minutes before
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first pitch.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Well, I'm thinking, well, if I get into this game today,
which I probably won't because I had that conversation with
Tommy before we started the playoffs and world the World
series anyway, but you know, got to be ready. And
you know what I did get in the game. I
got to pinch hit that's coming up. Okay, oh, that's
coming up with that's coming up. But I think the
best thing about it was I didn't know this, but
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I found out afterwards. But I had just gotten an agent.
Jerry Capsen was my agent, and I didn't know that
Jerry Capsen also represented Keith Jackson. So I got to
meet Keith Jackson because the Larry connection. It was awesome
to me because you know, I grew up listening to,
you know, watching football and yeah, he jacked McCall the games.
And it was so funny because I met him, you know,
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before the game in there and Jerry introduced me to
him and said, hey, hello, Kitty, how about you. You know,
I was like, my god, he's like that off the
air too. That's awesome. Anyway, Yeah, but that was a
fun thing and just being around that whole thing and
being in Yankee Stadium, and god, I mean it was incredible.
It was I was like I was like a fan too,
about three years out of high school, you know, so
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I was just taking it all in.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Do you remember who throughout the ceremonial first pitch for
Game one of the nineteen eighty one World Series?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Was it Grover Cleveland? Oh?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Here it was one of the gross colors in the
player of baseball, I mean.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Son of Froda Aniverse room, Oh of.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
His five Ulus fifty six game heading the school.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Loons are juggingham Ulcan.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
The great Yankee.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
Joe Joe Demaggio throws out the first pitch of Game one.
What a great It's a great voice, Bob Shepherd head.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
But you become a living legend.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Amazing.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
That's your preamble, Ladies and gentlemen, wherever I did to
play baseball the Yavies and Dodgers Game one.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah we are. That's the preamble, Ki Jackson, That is amazing.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Joe Demagio, little gray hair but still looks young, looks
why got his autograph in the Yankee locker room one
time on a baseball.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Did you really rarely did that. But there's a couple
of guys. I got Joe DiMaggio and it was amazing.
I was like, do I go up to him? Do
I bend a knee and JENU flector? I mean, what
do I do?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You know?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So did you?
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
No, I almost did. I was going to, but you know,
what's you know, it's like that when you meet Sandy Kofax.
It's the same thing. They're like in the same kind
of zone there. You I want to you know, you
want to say, you want to kind of like bend
your knee or you know, do the sign of the
cross whatever. When you meet these guys, it's incredible. But
he did sign a ball for me, and I was
told he doesn't really do that, but he signed it
for It was a couple of guys he did for
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and I was like, man, this is just amazing. I
think I still have the ball too. Joe Demish and
then I got two other guys. I remember, I was
so fascinated to meet them. Another one was Willie Mays
when I was in Candlestick Park one time in the
locker room. And actually Willie McCovey, my two you know,
childhood heroes. Yeah, got their autographs. Just incredible to get
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that to be in their presence. Oh my gosh. Some
of the buddiest names ever. I mean Joe Demagio, Yeah,
fifty six. You know another stat about Joe Demagio, three
hundred and sixty one home runs, you know, three hundred
and sixty nine career strikeouts. Wow, it that's it in
his whole career. And plus plus he was married to
Marilyn Monroe. That's right. So that's pretty cool to that
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is very cool.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
It was Jerry who will talk to you in the
eight o'clock hour getting the start for the Dodgers. Ron
Gidrey was on the mound for the New York Yankees,
and it didn't go well for Jerry Royce, who in
the first inning got into some trouble. A couple of
runters on facing Bob Watson.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Two out, I'm free at third and Finella at second.
One two pitch, high five ball, hit well to watch
out of fear one day, going back to the fench
leap sen it's gone. So Jerry Royce just shot. He
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had the Bob Watson at one two He hit a
five five ball at about three hundred and eighty eight.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
It was hit, Bob Knewitt was gone, and the pressure immediately.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
On the dunch. So there it goes. This is how
would Cole sound give me his two cents? I was
surprised if he was going to say, you seem a
bit truculent. He said that to Muhammad Ali. That's right.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I know.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
He came back with what the hell is truck ylin Howards.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
So Royce gives up the three run home run to
Bob Watson, just goes over the wall and wrights center field.
Yankees lead three nothing in the first inning, and in
the third inning, Loop Panella up facing Jerry Royce when
a Yankees tacked.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
On one more.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Surmising and watching what Royce has been doing though the
first three innings. He's thrown a hanging curve ball for
a single to center.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
A basketball for a long It's Jim Palmer. If you
said be out of any football park, thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
I can't believe he'd have too much companies and his
stuff right at those moments.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
The picture comings from the Goodyear blamp America out of Houston,
Texas with Captain Dongoli Dallas the pilot. My cameraman is Billiso.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Pretty picture.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Sharon Knight, Cow's won two banilla sharply to the left field,
BA said, returns third. He's coming home and the Proco's
into second years.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
We get thought over. You see them saying Lou Loo Loo,
and here.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
You'll see a high ranking wall. It's I can hurt
ball that if you're gonna throw it. You don't want
to throw a belt high. He doesn't have a r
hit the ball that hard, but it's a ball. I'm
going to strikes on a good pitch for a hit
or to hit.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
But as you noted earlier, such a professional hitter. He
went to right when the pitch there, he went to left.
He can go anywhere in the ballpark. Use the whole place.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Use the whole place, the whole place. Loop Pvanella, Your
cameraman is a bill of something. He puts the uh
in there. Dude, Holy the cameraman's a bill of sutton.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Lou Vanilla gets Jerry Royce there with an RBI sigal
and the third at any and the Yankees were on
top of the Dodgers Saxy four nothing through three innings. Finally,
in the fourth, Bobby Castillo watched four batters in the inning,
leading into a run Dave Winfield forced in the run
gave him the Yankees a five to nothing lead. But
Ron Gidrey was tough that night, so tough he only
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gave up one run. And that Dodger run that he
gave up, Saxy came in the fifth inning from Steve Yeager.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
With the balls have been hit harder been caught tonight.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Jeger hits it high in the air to the right
side Vanella going back to the wall. That's gown home
run the Jeger.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
So very quietly, Jega gets the Dodgers a run, and
he continues with his exceptional postseason hitting.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
He's here at the Yankees before.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Boy, you don't think that that guy isn't happy about that?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Oh, Steve Yeager with the home runoff Ron Gidrey and
hit up all the right field. He did right well,
not down the line, but not straight away right field,
sort of in between and it just got over the wall.
And I think even surprised there Keith Jackson how much
elevation it got because it was that cold night there
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at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Boomer didn't hit the ball the right field. He hit,
He pulled everything even in batting practice. He had nothing
to do with hitting the ball to the right at
second base.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
He went oppo boppo there before the crowd can even
settle in. After that Steve Jaeger home run that made
it a five to one Yankees lead, Tomulu sorta goes
to the bench.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Who would come up?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Here's Steve Sacks coming to the plate now, a young
man who played second base for Los Angeles, threw much
of the second half of the season, and he steps
in as the hitter of the Hedgers. Wife that means
Neaton Feuer is still in demand. Woman up and he'll
be the next one poll gool of the Dodgers, number
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fifty two. This is a youngster. I guess that everybody
around the Dodger organization figures is going to six see
Davy Lopes in the second base. He's a dandy.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
I think that was the most silent home run I've
I've heard in the world.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Senteries nothing.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Sax hits it high in the air to centerfield. Winn
seems to grab it and hang it up if he
makes the catch and the enning is over. Fuck to
not just get on the board with Jagger's home run
five one back with more after this worked from our
local station.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
First pitch swinging Steve Sacks pitchitting there in the fifth.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Inning, Sacks strike out. I just said, he just get
in here and do what I get. Did you hear
what he said? Though the wind held it up, that
ball was gone. Come on, he's going out.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
It sounded good on contact. If you closed your eyes,
you're like, wow, that ball's got distance.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Man.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
If I was smart, I would have grabbed a little
TV time and you know, took a couple of pitches right.
But no, I didn't want to strike out. That would
have been humiliating. So I just saw I actually, I
remember the pitch is a high fastball. I thought, I love,
it's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
But you know, to Novail, Ron Guidry was really good
that night. He would just give up that one run
through seven innings before turning it over to the bullpen.
You guys were able to get to the bullpen with
a couple of runs in the eighth inning, but the
Yankees would win Game one of the nineteen eighty one
World Series five to three. Ron Gidrey gets the win.
Jerry Royce, who will talk to in the eight o'clock hour,
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got the loss, Goose Gossage came in and pitched an
inning plus to get the save as the Yankees took
a one to zero series lead. What was the feeling
in that clubhouse after dropping game one? Coming off the
high of winning the Montreal and the NLCS, so then
coming back and losing game one and really Ron Guidry
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pitched well against you guys, he were seven innings. What
was the mood in the clubhouse after that game?
Speaker 7 (32:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
You know what we knew how explosive the Yankees were,
and when you go down one, I mean, you know,
I think the I don't know if they had splits
back then when they really put it out there, and
you know, the team that wins first and this is
the percentages whatever, But we knew that getting of these
guys wasn't good. But the fact that the team was
able to come back and win four in a row
to win the thing was it was amazing to me
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and just to watch those guys because I wasn't playing,
but just to watch all these guys and how they
went about it. What I think was great example that
they set for guys like myself and needing fewer, and
it was that they never changed demeanor, their expressions never changed.
There was no panic in the dugout, even when they
were down two to ozher and even when they tied
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it up it was two to two, and then we
went on to win the next it was still the same.
It was everything the same and no really big outbursts
of expression until we won it, and then of course
it was a different story. But you know, it was
pretty much businesslike attitude the whole way.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Now, I asked this in the nicest way because I'm
watching the YouTube and I'm a young kid at the time,
so I don't remember per se the game.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
So how you in eighty one tim two?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Oh okay, Yeah, I was a young kid, but I
was a Steve Sacks fan back at then, at the
age of two, I probably had my jersey on.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I'm watching this last night, and I watched the entire
game and it's entire on YouTube, and I'm thinking to myself,
like Loopanella comes up. I'm like, okay, all right, about
the greatest of shape, uh loop Andell? All right, Bob
Watson comes up, you know, towards the end of his career.
I think at that point, well, chy, yeah, like what
like this guy's a power hitter for the Yankees. Like, yeah,
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I mean, Saxy, you walk up there like an Adonis
at the plate, this young, spry guy. And Rick Monday's
up there all slender and tall, and I look at
some of these older players that are playing this nineteen
eighty one World Series and my first thought was, well,
these guys are out of shape. What in the world, Saxy, Yeah, listen,
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they had an excuse to be out of shape.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It was nineteen eighty one. I mean, we didn't have
the sports medicine today. Now you tell me, okay, look
at the look at the alcs. Okay, what is what
is going on with fat nailor? Okay, yeah, dude is
too sick at least, Well, he'd be perfect in nineteen
all he's five to eleven. What's that he'd be perfect
in nineteen eighty one. Yeah, I mean, his brother's in
good shape. His brother's a catcher. He looked good. But
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Naylor looked like you just ate the double A team.
I mean, seriously, that dude. That dude was chubby, right, Yeah,
he's a big dude. I mean, come on, and you
know the thing about it, he can hit that He
was a pretty good hitter. I mean, I mean drop forty. Okay,
that's where you should start. Drop forty. That should be
his only thing in the offseason. Forget hitting, forget everything else.
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If you have to wire the jaw, whatever, you are
a professional athlete, and can imagine how much better he'd be.
I mean, try carrying around forty pounds of weights. I
mean just walk around with them, you know, for you know,
two hours. That's a lot. I mean, can imagine what
he goes through every day. Drop forty and then get
on the field. The guy's like chubb Arella. Come on, Really,
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he'd fit perfect in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I mean, I'm surprised I don't see him playing for
the Yankees, like playing first base or something. The other
thing that caught my eyes, I know they throw harder now,
or do they throw harder now? I think overall probably
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
But okay, this stuff where you know everybody throws one hundred,
and if everybody throws a hundred, throws a hundred now,
ninety nine percent of the guys to one hundred when
we played too, it is not that different. I've been
down there in the Pittson spring training I'm seeing I'm
seeing no difference, but I think overall they probably throw
a little harder.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Eight six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
our number. That was our nineteen eighty one Game one
flashback the last time the Dodgers and Yankees played in
the World Series, in the Fall Classic forty three years ago.
Yankees won Game one five to three. Tomorrow, we'll go
through Game two in Game three as we lead you
up to Game one of the twenty twenty four World
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Series Dodgers Yankees, right here on your own home of
the Dodgers, a FI seventy light Sports.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
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Bring out the chef in you. Eight sixty six nine
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the Yankees. He'll be joining us on his way to
Yankee Stadium for a team workout. Alta Rizzo from MLB
Network's High Heat we'll join us get a national perspective
on this World Series matchup coming up in the eight
o'clock hour. Jerry Royce, former Dodger left hander, we'll join
us here on the show. Uh Tomorrow, we'll look at
game two in Game three of the nineteen eighty one
World Series, the last time the Dodgers and the Yankees
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met in the fall class. It's go out to the phone,
sax Seed, John and Ontario's first up here on this
Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
John, Welcome to scam.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
Hey guys, how you doing today?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Go ahead to John.
Speaker 7 (38:00):
Real real quick, just two quick points. I think Bueller
needs to get two starts in the in the World Series.
He's I think he's our age. I think he's pitched
very well. I need him to be in a closeout game.
I need to him to be either the Game six
or Game seven starter. And what do you guys think
about as far as a Yama starting two and then
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flirty three. I just want to get your take on that.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
We'll find out here probably today from Dave Roberts who
the Game one starter will be. But based on the
way the schedule lays out with the off days only
one in between the travel days there as you go
back to New York for three, which are three games
in a row. Yeah, I would think Yamamoto would get
the Game one start because he needs that extra day's rest.
He needs the extra five plus days in between starts,
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because that's just the way he is, as opposed to
Walker Bueller, who doesn't need five days in between starts.
But with that being said, there is an argument to
be made that Game one set a tone big game
pitcher he's pitched in a World Series before. Walker Buehler
should go Game one.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yeah. I like the I like the Walker. Listen. I
know Yamamoto's got to have his rest, no question about that.
But I went Walker Bueler out there in the moment, Okay,
when it's on the line, this guy embraces it. I mean,
he looks forward to this. He's been big time in
postseason before. Liked what he did in his most recent outing.
(39:25):
I think you gotta have Walker out there as much
as you can. Now, I mean, this is a this
is a fluid situation, So we got to monitor the
aches and pains part of it. You know, we got
to monitor how they're you know, how they're pitching as well.
But for the most part, as it stands right now,
I love Walker Bieler in that moment.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
If you start Yamamoto in game one, he's got Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
it wouldn't have to pitch again until game six, so
he'd have a week off in between starts. And the
same case, if you start him in game two on
Saturday and we'll save him for game seven potential down
the line, he would have also a week off, so
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you could either start him in game one or game two.
You have that luxury there with the two built in
off days, the Sunday travel day to New York and
the potential travel back from New York on Thursday before
game six and seven. So with those off days built in,
you could go one or two with them and go
Walker the other one.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Yeah, yeah, you're gonna have They're both gonna be out
there if it goes that far. So it doesn't, It
would really really wouldn't matter to me. All I know
is Walker Beeler is going to be in there, and
I think that's what the Yankees are. The Dodgers are
really hanging their hat on right now because they want
to go with the trend. Okay, and you know Yamamota's
been good too, But how much more can we stretch
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him out? I mean, you got to get more stretch
and more stretch for him because you know, just taxing
the bullpen and counting on them, how many times can
you do it? This is arguably the most talented bullpen
in baseball. But let's not tax them out too much.
I gotta have those starters with some distance. Now, taxing
at a bullpen in the World Series? Is that possible?
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Or you're talking about maybe just seeing the players seeing
the hitters too many times in the course of a series,
or is their actual fatigue over the course of seven games,
because at this point you got to kind of health
the other the adrenaline's just flowing through these gasts.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah. I mean, you'd think that the fatigue wouldn't matter,
but you know what, it's gonna wear on them some.
There is no more after this. That's the one good
thing about it. It's gonna give you another another little
shot in the arm for that. But the fact, the
familiarity part of it is the thing that I think
that would would wear on them a bit. And it's
better for the hitter, of course, the more that these
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guys are out there. So yeah, would you want to
get into that bullpen and force them to get those
guys out there and show their hand and see them
as much as you possibly can. Yeah, no doubt about it.
In the long run, that's going to help the hitters.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Ricky and Torrens is next up here on Saxon Kate's
and The AM on this Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Good morning, Ricky, Hey, good mornings.
Speaker 9 (41:55):
You got your okay, you got you good?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Go ahead?
Speaker 9 (41:58):
Okay, great? Great, Yeah, guys, So ninety three, I was
born right, so growing up, I grew up here. I
played ball.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
You know.
Speaker 9 (42:06):
It's actually it's funny. So twenty years ago, Tyrone Taylor
and I played on the same team and we were
on the Dodgers and so and he almost made the
last out, you know, in Game six, and oh my god,
I was just like, you know, of course I wanted
the Dodgers, so I saw I'm a casual Dodger fan,
you know, like now as an adult, you know, right,
So like I was just holding there. Oh dude, I
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didn't want him to make the last out, you know,
just because he's the hometown he's a hometown kid, and
so that was the release. And then obviously I wanted
the third out to happen, and then he was able
to score. I'm like, oh gosh, it was kind of
it was scary, right, So we didn't really know Game
six how it was going to end. You know, this
is that I hadn't really watched base I didn't watched
the whole season in baseball since I was a child.
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So but the Dodgers being in the postseason, you know,
I t tuned in, and I growing up, I never
thought I would see the end. So you hear the
stories here where I was born, I never heard, you know,
I never was able to see the Dodgers and Yankees.
And here we are, you know, thirty years later, and
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here it's happening. It's happening in front of them. So Saxy,
were you on the eighty one squad? I was, you
were okay, so you were able to so you were there.
So there's a lot of guys like they've had their career,
never got to they never got to experience, you know that,
and like what's the similarities right now with that? Like
and now like how it feels you know, all right.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
I can appreciate it, man, thanks for checking in. Yeah. So, Ricky,
we're gonna call him mister casual, okay, because he's the
casual man. What does that mean? Like he never was
a fan before, he wasn't into it as much, but
mister casual okay. But what is he asking about? Like,
what was it like now? And then? I mean, yeah,
it's it's there's no more than this. Yeah, this is
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this is all you and this is all there is.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
I think in nineteen eighty one you had, fresh in
everybody's mind seventy seven seventy eight, the battles between the
Dodgers and Yankees, and the Yankee winning those matchups. You
had the the end of an era with the Dodger
first basement or the infield. That excuse me, that was
you know, soon be breaking up that we saw for
a decade, guys at the end of their careers like
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Rick Monday, Steve Jaeger's kind of being phased out in
this new crop of guys like you, Steve Sackson coming
up and Mike Marshall coming up and the new era
your er, this new group coming up. So it was
it was it was the end of this rivalry for
a long time, certainly, but also at the end of
this Dodger era with that group of players.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
It's crazy how the Dodgers through time have been able
to find all these crops of players. I mean, it's
it's something to say about their scouting and their development,
what they do in the organization, but always at the
top of the top of the heap, as far as
you know, getting all these crops of players, and it's
all around pitching. That's what the you know, the great
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organizations do that they start with pitching and then they
work it out from there. And that's what the Dodgers
were able to do. Remember that's when Oral first came in.
I remember when he first came to us. He was
in Clinton, Iowa. I was in my second my first
full season of minor league baseball, had just played in
Lethbridge in the in the Rookie League. And here comes
the Oral Hirscheiser on the on the squad right after
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school was out. And that's how we got started. I
remember him with Clinton, Iowa. So yeah, been a long time,
been a.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
Long time, but here we are, Dodgers Yankees back at
it in the World Series beginning on Friday.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Coming up.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
Next hour, we'll hear from Alana Rizzo. Jerry Royce will
join us in the eight o'clock hour. Your phone calls
as well at eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two
five seventy Up next Britdan Cuddy covers the Yankees with
The Athletic, will join us on his way to Yankee Stadium.
The Yankees will have a workout today. Dodgers will have
media availability today some light workouts as we're leading you
up to Friday in Game one of the World Series.
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Steve Sacks, Tim Kaits and you on this Tuesday morning.
Thanks for being with us on an FI seventy l
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We've been banished to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff
run concludes. Here they are broadcasting live on AM five
to seven e LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
No lead up to the World Series begins.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Scam is on the air on this Tuesday morning, October
twenty second. Sacks Kates in the am here on AMPI
seventy LA Sports. Thanks for being with us on this
Tuesday morning, Tim Kates joined by a two time World
Series champion, Rookie of the Year and arguably the best
(01:14):
number three oh ever for your Los Angeles Dodgers, Steve Sacks.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Saxey. Good morning morning, Tim. What's up buddy?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
The in between the NLCS and the World Series is
officially begun as both teams enjoyed a day off yesterday.
We'll hear from Aaron Boone Dodgers or Yankees manager excuse me,
in just a couple of minutes. He did address the
media yesterday his initial thoughts on this World Series matchup.
He announced his Game one starter, no surprise, Garrett Cole.
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So we'll hear from Aaron Boone in just a couple
of minutes. Later on today, the Dodgers will get some
workouts in, some treatment, some lifts, and then they'll have
some media availability for Max Monthsey, Freddie Freeman, and Dave Roberts.
That is later on this afternoon. So hear from those
guys tomorrow as we lead you up to Game one
of the twenty twenty four World Series, which is Friday
(02:06):
night out of Dodgers Stadium five eight, first pitch right
here on AMPI seventy LA Sports. As the Dodgers and Yankees,
we'll have a workout tomorrow and then Media Day, I
believe is on Thursday. And if I say ask you yesterday,
do you remember Media Day? So I went and looked
it up. You guys clenched the NLCS on a Wednesday,
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the twelfth of October, and then you guys played Game
one against the Oakland A's in nineteen eighty eight on Saturday,
October fifteenth, So you only had two days in between
the NLCS and the World Series. Do you remember those
couple of days off in between the CS and the
World Series?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Not really, It's it was all kind of a blur,
But I know it was quick because we never thought
about going into November. You know, this was something that
was you know, you just went from one to the other,
and here we have, you know, the five days off.
So it's quite different, and it's it's more media based.
I think now you can say there's so much more
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of an emphasis on that. I think back when when
we were playing then it was more of a you know,
you get the media in when you can, but everything
else takes precedence. But now it's not that way. They
really serve it up for the media, and you know,
the fans get the maximum amount of coverage. For sure.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I think they've kind of borrowed a page out of
the NFL and good for baseball, trying to mimic what
the NFL has done. Right, the NFL has a lead
up to its Super Bowl and albeit it's a week
and they do all the fans stuff on site in
the host city, and they do all the media availabilities
leading it up after practices, but they also do that
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big media day that Monday night of Super Bowl week,
where it's now turned into a whole event where media
across the globe asked ridiculous questions and you know, if
you were to pick in and Out versus five guys,
which one would you pick? And they ask all the
players stuff like that. That's a lot of fun for
the fans to hear, you know, who, what's your favorite tailor,
swift song? All that kind of stuff. But I don't
know that it's not hasn't gotten to that point yet.
(04:05):
But Media Day for the World Series it's gonna be
like All Star Media Day, I believe, where all the
players will have stations and the media is gonna be there.
And I think this year more than any and we
know this, this is gonna be the most media we've
ever seen cover a World Series just because of the
Otani effect.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Sure, I mean, he's a rock star, you know, he's
a he's a pop culture figure. Now not just a
sports star and so every I'm sure everywhere he goes.
I mean, I wonder what it's like for him in
La now and he tries to go somewhere, I mean, hey,
how about going down to get a five guys or
in and out? I mean, can he do that? You know?
Does he put the glasses on and you know it,
puts his hat on and tries to hide. Nope, six
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foot five year you're gonna be seeing whe everywhere you go.
So he probably can't do any of that. But I
do remember those stations, going station to station and you
know asking question. Everybody's got cameras too, so it's, uh,
it's quite a time. But you know, good for these guys,
and they're gonna be you know, spending the maximum amount
of time. When you think about all the travel that
they're going to be doing too, It's not like going
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you know, La to Texas. I mean that's an easy one.
You're gonna go all the way across the country. But
you know what, that's what's gonna build up the uh,
you know, all the the intensity and all the excitement's
gonna be just it's gonna be amazing in these days
in between.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's interesting you bring that up, because right away I
thought advantage Dodgers in this world series for the travel
and that factors in saxy, as you know, going back
and forth from the East coast to the West coast.
The Dodgers in this previous series against the Mets have
already had to do that, and I've already had to
come back for one game after blowing the chance to
win Game five of the NLCS and close out the
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Mets last Friday. They know what it's like to get
on a plane set for five hours in your misery
of we didn't get it done, and now forty eight
hours later we got to get ready for a game.
So I guess my initial dots aren't Initially this is
gonna help the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, I think so. Any any little slight advantage you
can muster up, you know you got you gotta take that,
even if it's a even if you just have to
talk your way into one and say, yeah, it's a
big advantage for us, and really maybe not so much,
but if you can talk your way into it mentally, yeah,
it's good for you.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I look at both of these franchises, it's the Dodgers
and Yankees, and so this moment, this stage, I don't
think it rattles them. I mean, individually, players on the
Dodgers have been through this, They've been to World Series,
They've been on the biggest stage trying to get to
the World Series. For the most part, guys have done
it for the last three years, five years, ten years
for Clayton Kershaw, who's been around the longest. The Yankee players,
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this is the first time a lot of them are
ever going to be on this stage in the World Series.
And I wonder what it's like for them under the
bright lights in New York. Certainly the media there is
one thing, but now you get to this big stage.
How it affects this New York Yankees team having all
eyes around the globe on them, watching every pitch, every bad,
every inning.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Now, Yeah, and you know what the press is like
back there in New York. I mean they just really
dig in there.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You know, they come up with anyth How did you
deal with them when you played for the Yankees?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You know what, I didn't have a problem at all.
You know when I signed them. They always have the
press conference and then you know, to kind of introduce
you to the city, whatnot. And I remember I just
answered every question and at the end of my uh,
at the end of my conference, I said, look, you know,
coming over here from LA I had no problem with
the press over there, and I just wanted you all
to know as well that I'll always be at my locker.
(07:17):
I'll always answer your questions. I know you have a
job to do and I do too. So if if
that can be you know, put right there like that,
we can leave it at that, that's great. But if
I know any of you guys are going to come
out and try to really rip me or put on
a story that's not true or something like that, and
I get the game winning hit in the seventh game
of the World Series, I'm not talking to you. Wow.
(07:39):
So yeah, that's what I set that bar right away,
right away and the first time. And I never had
a problem with anybody, not one time.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Did anybody try to dig where there times were oh
sure when you were not playing well that they just
write were they want to pile on you?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, of course. I mean, you know there's maybe there's
a say, there's a pop fly down the line and
you're going for it, and you know nobody catches it.
It's just a hard one to get, you know. After
the game, they'd say, hey, you know, I talked to
Jesse Barfield, the right fielder, and maddeningly they've all said
that you should have had that. Really, I'm like, okay, yeah,
you're right, I should have had it. And that's how
I diffuse that. Yeah, I kind of blew that one.
See the players know, and most of the time you
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rarely see a player not own it. I mean they
always own it because they know that's a smart thing
to do. This game is so hard to play. You're
not going to go throughout your career and not screw
it up because you're going to everybody is this game
will humble you. I guarantee it. I ask Tanner, is
that aning Biby the pitcher for the for the Guardians? Yeah? Yeah,
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who was smirking and then and then John Carlo took
him deep? Yeah? Or yeah it was John carl You're
not supposed to smirk at a guy because you think
you got everything figured out because he's about the thump
you and that's what and he did it twice, you know,
so you know that's what happens in the game. So
if you just own it and say yeah, you know
that was me, and it just kind of silences everything.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I cannot wait for this matchup Yankees Dodgers. The star
power alone is something we've never seen before.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
The hook, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Then you throw in the Otawni factor and it takes
it to the even biggest level. And then you take
it as Dodgers versus Yankees, and the history of this
rivalry going back to the forties, the fifties, the inability
of the Dodgers to finally win, and then the seventies
battles winning an eighty one. I mean, there are so
many storylines for this World Series. It is unbelievable. You
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don't even have to manufacture any of these storylines, which
is great for baseball. You just got to roll out
these two teams and say here, public America world enjoy.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, I mean, and this is gonna be some of
our own storylines are going to be defined in this
twenty twenty four World Series. You can bet you know
as it goes on, there'll be you know, injuries that happened.
I mean, they're gonna be keeping a close watch, certain
on Anthony Rizzo and what's going on with two broken
fingers that he's playing with in his right hand. They're
gonna be talking about the depth of the Dodgers' pitching staff.
(10:03):
Can they Can they get it together and have those
guys be great and have the bullpen do the other one?
I don't know, you know. So there's gonna be lots
of different things that happen that we don't even know
about yet. That's gonna come about and that's what makes
it great.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Well, we got a big show today coming up. Next hour,
Alana Rizzo from MLB Network High Heat will join us.
She joined us in a DS she'll talk about this series,
also get her perspective nationally since she's based now in
New York. She works with the Mad Dog on High Heat.
She covered the Dodgers for so many years for sports
and at LA. What this series looks like in a
broader perspective. Dodgers and Yankees. At seven o'clock, Brendan Cuddy,
(10:39):
he covers the Yankees for the Athletics, gonna join us.
He's actually gonna be on his way to Yankee Stadium.
Is they've got a workout and media availability for the Yankees.
At about eleven o'clock, eastern eight o'clock Pacific before they
head out to Los Angeles in the final hour of
the show, looking forward to having Jerry Royce on the show.
Longtime Big leaguer Dodger was the game one starter in
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the night nineteen eighty one World Series matchup between the
Dodgers and Yankees out of Yankee Stadium. In fact, coming
up at the bottom of the hour, it's gonna be
a lot of fun. YouTube's a great place and an
awful place, Saxey. It's awful because the kids that spend
all their time on YouTube today. But it is good
for some things. And in this instance, it is great
because we can go back into the archives of the
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nineteen eighty one World Series and watch every single game.
So we'll go back to Game one of the nineteen
eighty one World Series, gets you some of the highlights
from that game that's coming up at the bottom of
the hour, and your phone calls at eight sixty six,
nine eighty seven, two five seventy, I know a lot
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we get to your phone calls to the bottom of
the hour. We got a big announcement to make here, Saxy,
and it's a station wide announcement. Tickets to the World
Series are a hard thing to get right now. Sure,
face value priced out a lot of people. The average
fan can't afford a World Series ticket just on face
value alone. Then you throw in the Yankees coming to
(12:27):
town for Games one and two, and the secondary market
for these tickets is now off the charts. I mean
we're talking record levels right now. For a single ticket
to get into Game one Friday night at Dodger Stadium
is the highest views ever seen. It's like thirteen hundred
dollars right now just for one ticket in the upper
deck at Dodger Stadium. That's the get in price right
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now on the secondary market. It is unbelievable. The buzz
right now, yeh, the for the and the demand for tickets.
I'm guessing Saxy, you've gotten somebody or buddies or a
lot of people have said, hey, tax can you give
me some tickets?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Hang on a second, Hang on, I'm going through my
my text messages right now. There's like I can flip,
you can just go right right down the line. I
can only imagine, Hey, and I know what's coming. I
just I know it's coming. And it's like, you know, uh,
this is a really I know, this is a really
special time. And you probably hear this a lot. You
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know what I could I could braille read it with
my fingers and I can tell you what's coming up next.
But I know this maybe a little bit, you know,
kind of far fetched. But uh, is there any chance
you can like, you know, get my get my family
in for my family?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
You know it's a crazy thing too. Here's a crazy
thing is people think that like I have this connection
lifel like lifelong connection with all the teams because I
was a major League baseball player, that I could just
you know, snap my fingers and yeah, you know, can
you can you get me? How about four? You know
for you know, is there anything behind like maybe the
(14:05):
loads section? Oh my gosh, are you kidding? I mean
I can't even go. You know what are you talking about? Yeah?
They this one guy when I had when I saw
the family wanted to go, I was like, are you kidding?
I didn't even answer it. It's just absurd. I mean,
the text that starts, Hey, how's it going? No, hope
you're talking in a while? Yeah, hope, you're well, haven't spoken? Well? Hey?
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Game one? Any chances you got an extra ticket? Hey?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Can you get him at a discount? That's the old
that's the nice one, right, the can you get him
at a discount?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Hope? But you're gonna say no, no, no, don't pay for it.
I'll buy it for you. Yeah, exactly. And so listen
here here's the thing that fans have to know. When
when I was playing, I would get twenty thirty, thirty five,
forty tickets what sometimes because you could just write them down.
There was no there was no law on this, and
I would have people, can you give me? Can you
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give me five? Can you give me eight. Sure, yeah,
And I was sitting there writing, writing them down. Finally,
after I don't know what is year, my third or
fourth year in the big leagues, they said, no, you
can't do that no more. And everybody was doing it,
you know this, and I can't do that no more.
So you get six tickets. Now, you get two here,
and you get four there. And you know what it
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is like now, the the the players do get I
think two tickets for the family and a couple other
ones for you know, for the rest of the family,
if you will. But you get two really good ones
and you have to buy the rest of them. So
all the fans that think that, hey, you know, you
played baseball, so can you get me a ticket even
during the season, even if you're a player, Even if
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you're a player, you still have to pay those tickets.
So nothing is free anymore. You don't get anything for free.
And and I know, and you know, here's another thing,
here's another one I got. No I don't have and
I can't get a show. Hey, o Tawani Warren World
Series jersey for you. No, no, no, I got that one.
(15:58):
I got down when a couple of days ago. No,
I can't get it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Can you get an autographed baseball for me? Then, Timmy,
come on, you know, I think I didn't realize that
what you're talking about until watching the Super Bowl documentary
last week. It was like a behind the scenes on
HBO or something about the Super Bowl, and they talked
about how the players get like two tickets to the
Super Bowl, but they need more than that, and so
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they're able to get them from the NFL or their
respective teams, but they have to buy them, and they
have to buy them at the same price. Everybody else
has got to buy them. They're not free, No, they're
not free. And so anyway, I think maybe everybody knows now.
When I saw the jersey one for I was like,
you gotta be there. I cannot believe somebody asked you
for family tickets.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, I mean you have four or five? I mean,
come on, seriously, I mean, and that that's just not
gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It's not a Sunday in June against the Cincinnati Reds, folks.
It's Game one of the World Series, right, I mean,
with that being said, the tickets are hard to get.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
We get it.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
They're pricey for everybody out there. So here at seventy
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Here's how you win them. Tomorrow you got to join
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Speaker 1 (17:52):
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Speaker 3 (17:54):
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one winner tickets, and on Friday morning we will announce
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Speaker 1 (18:24):
Now, how did AM five to seventy get these? Because look,
you know what, people are asked all the time, but
there aren't any available. When you get to a certain point,
there aren't any. You can't even go if you have
the money right because they're not available.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
There there's fifty six thousand tickets available. They've all been sold,
and now we've got a pair for game one. We
got a pair for Game two. Thank goodness for that
high credit limit on that credit card here at the station. Apparently,
so they're able to get some tickets somehow, some way,
we got them for you. Again, Rogan and Rodney, you
got to sign up with them at Hollywood Park. Tomorrow
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Thenursday afternoon join him at BJ's Restaurant, a brew House
and Rancho Cucamonga and we will announce the winner for
Game two tickets on Friday.
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Speaker 3 (19:15):
I'll get you a jersey and it may be my
autograph on there, but it ain't gonna be Joys.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
No. He is Steve Sax, I'm Tim Kates. Thanks for
being with us.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Got a couple of phone lines open if you want
to jump on board. A busy seven o'clock hour. Jerry
Royce joins us in the eight o'clock hour. When we
come back, your phone calls and we go to a
nineteen eighty one Game one flashback. You are not gonna
want to miss this. It is gonna be fantastic and
it's all coming up right here on Sax and Kate
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World Series. Of course, we are your home of the Dodgers.
AM five seventy LA Sports. Your phone calls coming up, Saxy.
We'll get to Brendan Cuddy in a lot of rizzo
next hour talking about this series. Jerry Royce will join
us in the eight o'clock hour and speaking to Jerry Royce.
He was the Game one starter of the nineteen eighty
one World Series. Dodgers and Yankees and Sexy. Let's get
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a little flashback. You were part of that team in
nineteen eighty one. We go back to nineteen eighty one
Yankee Stadium. It was October twentieth, nineteen eighty one Dodgers
taking on the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
ABC Sports resents the nineteen eighty one World Series from
the Yankee Stadium in New York. The Dodgers and the Yankees.
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Last Thursday, the Yankees claimed their thirty third American League
Championship with a three game suite over the Western Division
champion Oakland Days. The Los Angeles Dodgers had to go
five games with Montreal before they could claim their seventeenth
National League Championship. It came with a ninth inning home run,
the Dodgers winning two to one, and tonight the Yankees
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and Dodgers meeting in Game one the nineteen eighty one
World Series.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
It was fifty five degrees a Yankee Stadium in the
Bronx at night, October twenty, had, nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
What was going through your mind? Hotly, it's about Burner.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
It's right, Keith Jackson on the call along with the great,
the Great Howard Cosell also on the call for ABC,
as well as Jim Palmer, who you'll heard coming up
in just a little bit. But Game one of the
nineteen eighty one World Series. What's going through your mind,
your your stomach there in the the few minutes before
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first pitch.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Well, I'm thinking, well, if I get into this game today,
which I probably won't because I had that conversation with
Tommy before we started the playoffs and world the World
series anyway, but you know, got to be ready. And
you know what I did get in the game. I
got to pinch hit that's coming up. Okay, oh, that's
coming up with that's coming up. But I think the
best thing about it was I didn't know this, but
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I found out afterwards. But I had just gotten an agent.
Jerry Capsen was my agent, and I didn't know that
Jerry Capsen also represented Keith Jackson. So I got to
meet Keith Jackson because the Larry connection. It was awesome
to me because you know, I grew up listening to,
you know, watching football and yeah, he jacked McCall the games.
And it was so funny because I met him, you know,
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before the game in there and Jerry introduced me to
him and said, hey, hello, Kitty, how about you. You know,
I was like, my god, he's like that off the
air too. That's awesome. Anyway, Yeah, but that was a
fun thing and just being around that whole thing and
being in Yankee Stadium, and god, I mean it was incredible.
It was I was like I was like a fan too,
about three years out of high school, you know, so
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I was just taking it all in.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Do you remember who throughout the ceremonial first pitch for
Game one of the nineteen eighty one World Series?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Was it Grover Cleveland? Oh?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Here it was one of the gross colors in the
player of baseball, I mean.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Son of Froda Aniverse room, Oh of.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
His five Ulus fifty six game heading the school.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Loons are juggingham Ulcan.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
The great Yankee.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
Joe Joe Demaggio throws out the first pitch of Game one.
What a great It's a great voice, Bob Shepherd head.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
But you become a living legend.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Amazing.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
That's your preamble, Ladies and gentlemen, wherever I did to
play baseball the Yavies and Dodgers Game one.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah we are. That's the preamble, Ki Jackson, That is amazing.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Joe Demagio, little gray hair but still looks young, looks
why got his autograph in the Yankee locker room one
time on a baseball.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Did you really rarely did that. But there's a couple
of guys. I got Joe DiMaggio and it was amazing.
I was like, do I go up to him? Do
I bend a knee and JENU flector? I mean, what
do I do?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You know?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So did you?
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
No, I almost did. I was going to, but you know,
what's you know, it's like that when you meet Sandy Kofax.
It's the same thing. They're like in the same kind
of zone there. You I want to you know, you
want to say, you want to kind of like bend
your knee or you know, do the sign of the
cross whatever. When you meet these guys, it's incredible. But
he did sign a ball for me, and I was
told he doesn't really do that, but he signed it
for It was a couple of guys he did for
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and I was like, man, this is just amazing. I
think I still have the ball too. Joe Demish and
then I got two other guys. I remember, I was
so fascinated to meet them. Another one was Willie Mays
when I was in Candlestick Park one time in the
locker room. And actually Willie McCovey, my two you know,
childhood heroes. Yeah, got their autographs. Just incredible to get
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that to be in their presence. Oh my gosh. Some
of the buddiest names ever. I mean Joe Demagio, Yeah,
fifty six. You know another stat about Joe Demagio, three
hundred and sixty one home runs, you know, three hundred
and sixty nine career strikeouts. Wow, it that's it in
his whole career. And plus plus he was married to
Marilyn Monroe. That's right. So that's pretty cool to that
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is very cool.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
It was Jerry who will talk to you in the
eight o'clock hour getting the start for the Dodgers. Ron
Gidrey was on the mound for the New York Yankees,
and it didn't go well for Jerry Royce, who in
the first inning got into some trouble. A couple of
runters on facing Bob Watson.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Two out, I'm free at third and Finella at second.
One two pitch, high five ball, hit well to watch
out of fear one day, going back to the fench
leap sen it's gone. So Jerry Royce just shot. He
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had the Bob Watson at one two He hit a
five five ball at about three hundred and eighty eight.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
It was hit, Bob Knewitt was gone, and the pressure immediately.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
On the dunch. So there it goes. This is how
would Cole sound give me his two cents? I was
surprised if he was going to say, you seem a
bit truculent. He said that to Muhammad Ali. That's right.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I know.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
He came back with what the hell is truck ylin Howards.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
So Royce gives up the three run home run to
Bob Watson, just goes over the wall and wrights center field.
Yankees lead three nothing in the first inning, and in
the third inning, Loop Panella up facing Jerry Royce when
a Yankees tacked.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
On one more.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Surmising and watching what Royce has been doing though the
first three innings. He's thrown a hanging curve ball for
a single to center.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
A basketball for a long It's Jim Palmer. If you
said be out of any football park, thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
I can't believe he'd have too much companies and his
stuff right at those moments.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
The picture comings from the Goodyear blamp America out of Houston,
Texas with Captain Dongoli Dallas the pilot. My cameraman is Billiso.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Pretty picture.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Sharon Knight, Cow's won two banilla sharply to the left field,
BA said, returns third. He's coming home and the Proco's
into second years.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
We get thought over. You see them saying Lou Loo Loo,
and here.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
You'll see a high ranking wall. It's I can hurt
ball that if you're gonna throw it. You don't want
to throw a belt high. He doesn't have a r
hit the ball that hard, but it's a ball. I'm
going to strikes on a good pitch for a hit
or to hit.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
But as you noted earlier, such a professional hitter. He
went to right when the pitch there, he went to left.
He can go anywhere in the ballpark. Use the whole place.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Use the whole place, the whole place. Loop Pvanella, Your
cameraman is a bill of something. He puts the uh
in there. Dude, Holy the cameraman's a bill of sutton.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Lou Vanilla gets Jerry Royce there with an RBI sigal
and the third at any and the Yankees were on
top of the Dodgers Saxy four nothing through three innings. Finally,
in the fourth, Bobby Castillo watched four batters in the inning,
leading into a run Dave Winfield forced in the run
gave him the Yankees a five to nothing lead. But
Ron Gidrey was tough that night, so tough he only
(29:17):
gave up one run. And that Dodger run that he
gave up, Saxy came in the fifth inning from Steve Yeager.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
With the balls have been hit harder been caught tonight.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Jeger hits it high in the air to the right
side Vanella going back to the wall. That's gown home
run the Jeger.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
So very quietly, Jega gets the Dodgers a run, and
he continues with his exceptional postseason hitting.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
He's here at the Yankees before.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Boy, you don't think that that guy isn't happy about that?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Oh, Steve Yeager with the home runoff Ron Gidrey and
hit up all the right field. He did right well,
not down the line, but not straight away right field,
sort of in between and it just got over the wall.
And I think even surprised there Keith Jackson how much
elevation it got because it was that cold night there
(30:12):
at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Boomer didn't hit the ball the right field. He hit,
He pulled everything even in batting practice. He had nothing
to do with hitting the ball to the right at
second base.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
He went oppo boppo there before the crowd can even
settle in. After that Steve Jaeger home run that made
it a five to one Yankees lead, Tomulu sorta goes
to the bench.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Who would come up?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Here's Steve Sacks coming to the plate now, a young
man who played second base for Los Angeles, threw much
of the second half of the season, and he steps
in as the hitter of the Hedgers. Wife that means
Neaton Feuer is still in demand. Woman up and he'll
be the next one poll gool of the Dodgers, number
(30:53):
fifty two. This is a youngster. I guess that everybody
around the Dodger organization figures is going to six see
Davy Lopes in the second base. He's a dandy.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
I think that was the most silent home run I've
I've heard in the world.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Senteries nothing.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Sax hits it high in the air to centerfield. Winn
seems to grab it and hang it up if he
makes the catch and the enning is over. Fuck to
not just get on the board with Jagger's home run
five one back with more after this worked from our
local station.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
First pitch swinging Steve Sacks pitchitting there in the fifth.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Inning, Sacks strike out. I just said, he just get
in here and do what I get. Did you hear
what he said? Though the wind held it up, that
ball was gone. Come on, he's going out.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
It sounded good on contact. If you closed your eyes,
you're like, wow, that ball's got distance.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Man.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
If I was smart, I would have grabbed a little
TV time and you know, took a couple of pitches right.
But no, I didn't want to strike out. That would
have been humiliating. So I just saw I actually, I
remember the pitch is a high fastball. I thought, I love,
it's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
But you know, to Novail, Ron Guidry was really good
that night. He would just give up that one run
through seven innings before turning it over to the bullpen.
You guys were able to get to the bullpen with
a couple of runs in the eighth inning, but the
Yankees would win Game one of the nineteen eighty one
World Series five to three. Ron Gidrey gets the win.
Jerry Royce, who will talk to in the eight o'clock hour,
(32:20):
got the loss, Goose Gossage came in and pitched an
inning plus to get the save as the Yankees took
a one to zero series lead. What was the feeling
in that clubhouse after dropping game one? Coming off the
high of winning the Montreal and the NLCS, so then
coming back and losing game one and really Ron Guidry
(32:41):
pitched well against you guys, he were seven innings. What
was the mood in the clubhouse after that game?
Speaker 7 (32:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
You know what we knew how explosive the Yankees were,
and when you go down one, I mean, you know,
I think the I don't know if they had splits
back then when they really put it out there, and
you know, the team that wins first and this is
the percentages whatever, But we knew that getting of these
guys wasn't good. But the fact that the team was
able to come back and win four in a row
to win the thing was it was amazing to me
(33:07):
and just to watch those guys because I wasn't playing,
but just to watch all these guys and how they
went about it. What I think was great example that
they set for guys like myself and needing fewer, and
it was that they never changed demeanor, their expressions never changed.
There was no panic in the dugout, even when they
were down two to ozher and even when they tied
(33:28):
it up it was two to two, and then we
went on to win the next it was still the same.
It was everything the same and no really big outbursts
of expression until we won it, and then of course
it was a different story. But you know, it was
pretty much businesslike attitude the whole way.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Now, I asked this in the nicest way because I'm
watching the YouTube and I'm a young kid at the time,
so I don't remember per se the game.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
So how you in eighty one tim two?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Oh okay, Yeah, I was a young kid, but I
was a Steve Sacks fan back at then, at the
age of two, I probably had my jersey on.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I'm watching this last night, and I watched the entire
game and it's entire on YouTube, and I'm thinking to myself,
like Loopanella comes up. I'm like, okay, all right, about
the greatest of shape, uh loop Andell? All right, Bob
Watson comes up, you know, towards the end of his career.
I think at that point, well, chy, yeah, like what
like this guy's a power hitter for the Yankees. Like, yeah,
(34:24):
I mean, Saxy, you walk up there like an Adonis
at the plate, this young, spry guy. And Rick Monday's
up there all slender and tall, and I look at
some of these older players that are playing this nineteen
eighty one World Series and my first thought was, well,
these guys are out of shape. What in the world, Saxy, Yeah, listen,
(34:45):
they had an excuse to be out of shape.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It was nineteen eighty one. I mean, we didn't have
the sports medicine today. Now you tell me, okay, look
at the look at the alcs. Okay, what is what
is going on with fat nailor? Okay, yeah, dude is
too sick at least, Well, he'd be perfect in nineteen
all he's five to eleven. What's that he'd be perfect
in nineteen eighty one. Yeah, I mean, his brother's in
good shape. His brother's a catcher. He looked good. But
(35:09):
Naylor looked like you just ate the double A team.
I mean, seriously, that dude. That dude was chubby, right, Yeah,
he's a big dude. I mean, come on, and you
know the thing about it, he can hit that He
was a pretty good hitter. I mean, I mean drop forty. Okay,
that's where you should start. Drop forty. That should be
his only thing in the offseason. Forget hitting, forget everything else.
(35:32):
If you have to wire the jaw, whatever, you are
a professional athlete, and can imagine how much better he'd be.
I mean, try carrying around forty pounds of weights. I
mean just walk around with them, you know, for you know,
two hours. That's a lot. I mean, can imagine what
he goes through every day. Drop forty and then get
on the field. The guy's like chubb Arella. Come on, Really,
(35:55):
he'd fit perfect in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I mean, I'm surprised I don't see him playing for
the Yankees, like playing first base or something. The other
thing that caught my eyes, I know they throw harder now,
or do they throw harder now? I think overall probably
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
But okay, this stuff where you know everybody throws one hundred,
and if everybody throws a hundred, throws a hundred now,
ninety nine percent of the guys to one hundred when
we played too, it is not that different. I've been
down there in the Pittson spring training I'm seeing I'm
seeing no difference, but I think overall they probably throw
a little harder.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Eight six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
our number. That was our nineteen eighty one Game one
flashback the last time the Dodgers and Yankees played in
the World Series, in the Fall Classic forty three years ago.
Yankees won Game one five to three. Tomorrow, we'll go
through Game two in Game three as we lead you
up to Game one of the twenty twenty four World
(36:50):
Series Dodgers Yankees, right here on your own home of
the Dodgers, a FI seventy light Sports.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
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Speaker 3 (37:05):
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Bring out the chef in you. Eight sixty six nine
eighty seven to two five seventy is our number. Coming
up next hour, Brandon Cuddy from The Athletic he covers
(37:26):
the Yankees. He'll be joining us on his way to
Yankee Stadium for a team workout. Alta Rizzo from MLB
Network's High Heat we'll join us get a national perspective
on this World Series matchup coming up in the eight
o'clock hour. Jerry Royce, former Dodger left hander, we'll join
us here on the show. Uh Tomorrow, we'll look at
game two in Game three of the nineteen eighty one
World Series, the last time the Dodgers and the Yankees
(37:48):
met in the fall class. It's go out to the phone,
sax Seed, John and Ontario's first up here on this
Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
John, Welcome to scam.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
Hey guys, how you doing today?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Go ahead to John.
Speaker 7 (38:00):
Real real quick, just two quick points. I think Bueller
needs to get two starts in the in the World Series.
He's I think he's our age. I think he's pitched
very well. I need him to be in a closeout game.
I need to him to be either the Game six
or Game seven starter. And what do you guys think
about as far as a Yama starting two and then
(38:22):
flirty three. I just want to get your take on that.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
We'll find out here probably today from Dave Roberts who
the Game one starter will be. But based on the
way the schedule lays out with the off days only
one in between the travel days there as you go
back to New York for three, which are three games
in a row. Yeah, I would think Yamamoto would get
the Game one start because he needs that extra day's rest.
He needs the extra five plus days in between starts,
(38:48):
because that's just the way he is, as opposed to
Walker Bueller, who doesn't need five days in between starts.
But with that being said, there is an argument to
be made that Game one set a tone big game
pitcher he's pitched in a World Series before. Walker Buehler
should go Game one.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yeah. I like the I like the Walker. Listen. I
know Yamamoto's got to have his rest, no question about that.
But I went Walker Bueler out there in the moment, Okay,
when it's on the line, this guy embraces it. I mean,
he looks forward to this. He's been big time in
postseason before. Liked what he did in his most recent outing.
(39:25):
I think you gotta have Walker out there as much
as you can. Now, I mean, this is a this
is a fluid situation, So we got to monitor the
aches and pains part of it. You know, we got
to monitor how they're you know, how they're pitching as well.
But for the most part, as it stands right now,
I love Walker Bieler in that moment.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
If you start Yamamoto in game one, he's got Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
it wouldn't have to pitch again until game six, so
he'd have a week off in between starts. And the
same case, if you start him in game two on
Saturday and we'll save him for game seven potential down
the line, he would have also a week off, so
(40:03):
you could either start him in game one or game two.
You have that luxury there with the two built in
off days, the Sunday travel day to New York and
the potential travel back from New York on Thursday before
game six and seven. So with those off days built in,
you could go one or two with them and go
Walker the other one.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Yeah, yeah, you're gonna have They're both gonna be out
there if it goes that far. So it doesn't, It
would really really wouldn't matter to me. All I know
is Walker Beeler is going to be in there, and
I think that's what the Yankees are. The Dodgers are
really hanging their hat on right now because they want
to go with the trend. Okay, and you know Yamamota's
been good too, But how much more can we stretch
(40:42):
him out? I mean, you got to get more stretch
and more stretch for him because you know, just taxing
the bullpen and counting on them, how many times can
you do it? This is arguably the most talented bullpen
in baseball. But let's not tax them out too much.
I gotta have those starters with some distance. Now, taxing
at a bullpen in the World Series? Is that possible?
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Or you're talking about maybe just seeing the players seeing
the hitters too many times in the course of a series,
or is their actual fatigue over the course of seven games,
because at this point you got to kind of health
the other the adrenaline's just flowing through these gasts.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah. I mean, you'd think that the fatigue wouldn't matter,
but you know what, it's gonna wear on them some.
There is no more after this. That's the one good
thing about it. It's gonna give you another another little
shot in the arm for that. But the fact, the
familiarity part of it is the thing that I think
that would would wear on them a bit. And it's
better for the hitter, of course, the more that these
(41:37):
guys are out there. So yeah, would you want to
get into that bullpen and force them to get those
guys out there and show their hand and see them
as much as you possibly can. Yeah, no doubt about it.
In the long run, that's going to help the hitters.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Ricky and Torrens is next up here on Saxon Kate's
and The AM on this Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Good morning, Ricky, Hey, good mornings.
Speaker 9 (41:55):
You got your okay, you got you good?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Go ahead?
Speaker 9 (41:58):
Okay, great? Great, Yeah, guys, So ninety three, I was
born right, so growing up, I grew up here. I
played ball.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
You know.
Speaker 9 (42:06):
It's actually it's funny. So twenty years ago, Tyrone Taylor
and I played on the same team and we were
on the Dodgers and so and he almost made the
last out, you know, in Game six, and oh my god,
I was just like, you know, of course I wanted
the Dodgers, so I saw I'm a casual Dodger fan,
you know, like now as an adult, you know, right,
So like I was just holding there. Oh dude, I
(42:27):
didn't want him to make the last out, you know,
just because he's the hometown he's a hometown kid, and
so that was the release. And then obviously I wanted
the third out to happen, and then he was able
to score. I'm like, oh gosh, it was kind of
it was scary, right, So we didn't really know Game
six how it was going to end. You know, this
is that I hadn't really watched base I didn't watched
the whole season in baseball since I was a child.
(42:47):
So but the Dodgers being in the postseason, you know,
I t tuned in, and I growing up, I never
thought I would see the end. So you hear the
stories here where I was born, I never heard, you know,
I never was able to see the Dodgers and Yankees.
And here we are, you know, thirty years later, and
(43:07):
here it's happening. It's happening in front of them. So Saxy,
were you on the eighty one squad? I was, you
were okay, so you were able to so you were there.
So there's a lot of guys like they've had their career,
never got to they never got to experience, you know that,
and like what's the similarities right now with that? Like
and now like how it feels you know, all right.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
I can appreciate it, man, thanks for checking in. Yeah. So, Ricky,
we're gonna call him mister casual, okay, because he's the
casual man. What does that mean? Like he never was
a fan before, he wasn't into it as much, but
mister casual okay. But what is he asking about? Like,
what was it like now? And then? I mean, yeah,
it's it's there's no more than this. Yeah, this is
(43:50):
this is all you and this is all there is.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
I think in nineteen eighty one you had, fresh in
everybody's mind seventy seven seventy eight, the battles between the
Dodgers and Yankees, and the Yankee winning those matchups. You
had the the end of an era with the Dodger
first basement or the infield. That excuse me, that was
you know, soon be breaking up that we saw for
a decade, guys at the end of their careers like
(44:13):
Rick Monday, Steve Jaeger's kind of being phased out in
this new crop of guys like you, Steve Sackson coming
up and Mike Marshall coming up and the new era
your er, this new group coming up. So it was
it was it was the end of this rivalry for
a long time, certainly, but also at the end of
this Dodger era with that group of players.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
It's crazy how the Dodgers through time have been able
to find all these crops of players. I mean, it's
it's something to say about their scouting and their development,
what they do in the organization, but always at the
top of the top of the heap, as far as
you know, getting all these crops of players, and it's
all around pitching. That's what the you know, the great
(44:52):
organizations do that they start with pitching and then they
work it out from there. And that's what the Dodgers
were able to do. Remember that's when Oral first came in.
I remember when he first came to us. He was
in Clinton, Iowa. I was in my second my first
full season of minor league baseball, had just played in
Lethbridge in the in the Rookie League. And here comes
the Oral Hirscheiser on the on the squad right after
(45:14):
school was out. And that's how we got started. I
remember him with Clinton, Iowa. So yeah, been a long time,
been a.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
Long time, but here we are, Dodgers Yankees back at
it in the World Series beginning on Friday.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Coming up.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
Next hour, we'll hear from Alana Rizzo. Jerry Royce will
join us in the eight o'clock hour. Your phone calls
as well at eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two
five seventy Up next Britdan Cuddy covers the Yankees with
The Athletic, will join us on his way to Yankee Stadium.
The Yankees will have a workout today. Dodgers will have
media availability today some light workouts as we're leading you
up to Friday in Game one of the World Series.
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Steve Sacks, Tim Kaits and you on this Tuesday morning.
Thanks for being with us on an FI seventy l
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