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Racist Tuesday, the time for quick hits. Everybody coming in
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The home of the Dodgers. With an inside look at
the Dodgers. This is the vass Report with David Vasse.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, here he is, David Vasse living his best life
in the nation's capital. The Oval Office, the old Emmitts
hanging out with a government. Luminaries in the clubhouse really
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Dodgers on deck tonight, Dodgers in a little bit of
trouble got you got a little crossfire? How you like that?
Why he joins us now? Dave, is it okay? Or
the Dodgers defense broken down your emotions?

Speaker 3 (05:01):
It was a little frustrating last night, especially the first
couple of innings, when you have a ground ball pitcher
in dustin May and your shortstop in second basement kind
of let them down. But it felt like it was
a tale of two games. After the third inning, it
seemed like the Dodgers woke up and got their feet
underneath them, and they had been on their feet since
nine am going to the White House. So I'm not

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saying that's a factor, or the cold weather, rainy, damp
weather was a factor, but I think they all contributed
to a slow start last night.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Dave, is there any you know, I don't want to
say overreaction or is there a solve here? Is it
Freddy Freeman at first and keyk back in the outfield?
Is it having a long conversation about putting Tommy Edmund
back at shortstop. I mean, it's all over the dime
and Dustin May got absolutely done dirty yesterday.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, I feel like getting Freddy Freeman back certainly would
make things a lot better on the right side of
the infield. But you know, last night, it was a
good outfield defense. Taylor made a nice play, it got
threw out somebody at third, Edmn threw another runner out
at home in the eighth, and ta Oscar was solid.
So the outfield defense was fine last night. It was

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more just those mistakes in the first couple of innings
by Rojas and Mookie Bets that kind of forced May
to throw more pitches and also lead to a couple
of runs that shouldn't have been scored. But I wouldn't overreact.
The Dodgers are going to figure this out and put
guys in the place they are best at by the

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time September rolls around. So look, they did this last year.
The Mookie Bets shortstop experience, and they won ninety nine games,
So I mean, I'm not overly concerned about it, but
it is sometimes not great to watch that type of defense.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
I hope this isn't like the same question, but I
got to follow up because I mean, you expect Roha
to make plays, and it's rare for him to make heirs.
But Mookie Betts is out there causing the Dodger pitchers
to make more pitches all the time playing shortstop. And
it's not just idiots like me that see it. I

(07:15):
mean fans see it. People say, Tommy Edmonds on this team,
Rojas is on this team, Chris Taylor can play shortstop,
probably better than Mookie Betts. What do we do? What
are we doing?

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Hey, that's fair, petros To say Mookie's the fifth the
best shortstop on this team. It truly is fair. And look,
if Mookie Betts is not the Dodgers shortstop at the
end of the year, I don't believe he's going to
be the Dodger right fielder by the end of the year.
It's going to be a situation where he probably goes
to second base and Tommy Edman either kicks out to

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center field, or play shortstop. I don't see him going
back to right field unless there's a catastrophic type of
in to Confordo or ta Oscar Hernandez, which is something
that Dodgers certainly don't want. So if he isn't the
Dodgers shortstop, he's going to be the Dodgers second baseman.
They feel, and Mookie fields that playing right field is

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just at this stage of his career, too much on
his legs.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Now.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
I don't buy into that completely, So I can only
tell you what guy sliding?

Speaker 1 (08:25):
What about a guy? What about a guy sliding into
your legs on catchers throws from trying to steal all
the time. I mean, isn't that hard on your legs?

Speaker 3 (08:36):
I think so. And look, shortstop to me is the
most demanding position on the infield and on the field
outside of catcher. Most guys at thirty one years old
that have played that position their entire lives move to
a different position. Cal Ripken Jr. Alex Rodriguez, the list
goes on and on. Most guys don't move in from

(08:56):
right field to shortstop. It's not something that occurs that often. Well.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Petro's mentioned the steels, Dave I mean three more yesterday.
I don't think they've thrown anybody out yet this year.
Is that a Will Smith thing? Or these pitchers not
getting the ball home quickly enough? Like what's happening over there?
That's led to you know? Just is that right? I
think they? I don't think anyone's been thrown out yet,
have they?

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Hey, that's good base stealing knowledge by you, Matt Munny Smith. Yeah,
opponents are twelve for twelve this season off of Dodgers catchers,
and they were running all over the place like rabbit
since spring training. Now it's not just Will Smith has
one of the best throwing arms as a catcher in baseball,
So a lot of it's on the pitchers, and they've

(09:41):
got to do a better job of being quicker to
the plate. It was the point of emphasis coming into
last year, but obviously it hasn't been one so far
this year.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Dave, You've been traveling around with the Dodgers for a
decade and it's always been a big deal to be
with the Dodgers, but being with the Dodgers with Otani
is a different level. And being with the Dodgers coming
off a World Series victory and Otawi is a different level.
It seemed like there was a lot of buzz on
a cold night in DC.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, he was a double shy of the cycle. He's
only hit for the cycle once in his career. That
was with the Angels when they were in Tampa Bay
a few years ago. You know, Mackenzie Gore has the
Dodgers number, but he couldn't get Otani out last night.
In his six innings of work, he gave up five runs,
five hits and two runs. Three of those five hits

(10:29):
were to Otani, who reached every single time and was
a double shy of the cycle against Gore. So yeah,
he was Otani, Teoscar, Taylor, and Edmund all came to
play when the bell rang last night. It was just
the rest of the guys that were a little late
to the party.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Last one from me, Dave. You know, just to look
at the positive. I mean, how big of a positive
are these first two starts of dustin May Again, hard
luck loser last night, but going six innings and only
I don't even think you hit what ninety pitches? That's
That's gotta be quite encouraging for a guy that you know,
was kind of just sort of shoved into that fifth
starter role because of some injuries.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh, without a doubt, and also the fact that Tyler
Glassnow and Rokie Suzaki gave the Dodgers a total of
four or six innings the previous two games, including glass
Now letting the rain affect him and coming out in
the third inning. So just may to be able to
go as many innings in one start as those two

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guys went combined in the previous two starts. Was huge
and Petros even recognize that when he texted me during
the game. So that was huge. And tonight they need
Robleski to go at least five as well.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Real dumbass like me can see. I mean, geez, pretty honest.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Oh things are bad, Dave.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Before we let you go, did you jog around the
DC Mall today like Clint Eastwood and in the light
of fire? What are you doing out there?

Speaker 3 (11:59):
No? No, I didn't jog. I lost my really heavy
jacket in Philadelphia, so I was trying to find a
jacket because I left it at a restaurant. I just
completely forgot about it. I put it on somebody else's
chair and I lost it. So I was able to

(12:19):
get through Philly, but temperatures midday today in Washington, d C.
Were forty degrees and it's only going to get colder.
So I had to find a jacket. But before I did,
I went to the Jefferson Memorial and I went to
one of my favorite places, if anybody ever comes here,
The Smithsonian Portrait Gallery is one of my favorite museums.

(12:42):
So I checked that out. Saw a photo, an actual
photo of Walt Whitman. So that was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Beautiful beard, Oh yeah, west way, is your beard pointing tonight? Walt?
Beautiful you Randy Man. Whitman would have really taken them
shot at you physically.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Days you would have liked to cut your dave ben you.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Over damn like a very sympathetic man.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
He was sympathetic to your physical needs.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
He was a nurse, you know, during the Civil War
and he couldn't take it. He couldn't take the singing
of the bone sauce right.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
And do you know that the portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian
where it is, is where that hospital was where he
was taking care of those people.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
I did not know that.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Look at that. We got a we got a Walt
Whitman off here. This is fantastic. It's good work man.
That's good Walt Whitman knowledge, Dave, beautiful advice. Go see
the Jefferson memorial, the different types of rock on the
Washington Monument, and the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery. Folks, thanks you,

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dature jacket.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
You could see all the photos at officially on Instagram.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
If you look close up to the face of the
Native American guy on top of the Capitol looks just
like Dave. Have a good one, Dave and Matt. We
got a d pick story here.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Oh it's our favorite, right way to go. Folks. You
think you got it all figured out with the snapchat
because the pictures disappear. Nope, not how it works. Detroit
Tiger's assistant GM again, Assistant general manager Sam Menzen managed
to climb the corporate ladder in baseball operations and has
quit his job with the team knowing what was coming

(14:23):
down the pike, just as the Tiger's about to fire
him amid an investigation and the claims he sent lute
spelled LWD photos to female staffers. According to The Athletic,
they spoke with three women who claimed received unsolicited photos
of the now thirty four year olds d going back

(14:44):
all the way to twenty seventeen, he would use Snapchat,
but they were like, yeah, it don't work that way.
You've got sent him through AOL and there's something special
in your mailbox, Matt.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
This is a huge story. The Lakers at forty eight
and thirty, they have the third spot in the Western Conference.
They play in Oklahoma City again this afternoon. The Lakers
beat the Thunder by twenty seven. On Sunday, Luka Doncicic
went for thirty in the wind. Here is JJ Reddick
on Luca being so good.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
He relishes the challenge. Let's see, you're gonna get the
best defender every night. You're gonna get all the different
coverages every night.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
When when you're.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
Him, and you know, similar to Lebron, similar to yokicch
like similar to shy Lebron. These guys have seen every
test and they've figured out the way to pass each test,
and a lot of times they they not only passed
the test, they hate the test. Sometimes great players can

(15:53):
get bored with that process. And so when you get
like the fully engaged star in a big time game,
some special things can happen. And Luca did some special things.
You know, we were running a smash and it was
not the first option, but just the way they covered
it very clear that Gabe was open and I was like,

(16:14):
hit the smash, Hit the smash, and he dribbled into
the paint and then threw it behind his head. And
Saint Chane was like, oh he sees it, Oh he
sees it. You don't need to tell him.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
A talk about taking some serious inhales.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
And b.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
You sensed the moment he recognized, don't know. Yeah, I'm
saying right now is anti Lebron. I've got to figure
out a way how to save this. What do I do?
What do I do? What do I do?

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Come on, Matt, you don't like a dramatic, heavy brath.
I mean, come on, I I mean, come on, man.
You know people are gonna know that you're about to talk.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
You know, Lucy gets the first defender every night. It's
the center of everyone's focused there. For Nick such a bron,
of course.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Then they're wrong with breathing, Matt. Come on, you love
to breathe. We all do. After tonight's game, the Lakers
will have the second night of a back to back
tomorrow in Dallas with Luca making his return, and then
the Lakers finish off the season at home on Friday
versus Houston and at Yeah, you better, you better get

(17:27):
your breath work in, coach, because then Portland on Sunday afternoon. Yeah,
the Clippers are pretty hot.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
I wish we could send a man. He'll tell you
all about it. They have one four in a row,
big one tonight, holding on to the five spot in
the West. This is their last contest against a team
with the losing record. San Antonio Spurs seven thirty tip
AM eleven fifty. We'll have that game because the Dodgers
will be right here on AM five seventy and the

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biggest story in the world of the NBAP one unworthy
of twenty to twenty five minutes of conversation on our leading.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Brogan and Rodney, Adam Oslin, twenty five minutes on Michael
Malone and GM Calvin Booth today that were fired. The
Nuggets are two years removed from winning a title, and
it was great celebration in the streets. They were on
a four game losing streak. Some say it's Russell Westbrook's fault.
They're forty seven thirty two. They're in fourth place in
the Western Conference standings. With three games to play. Malone

(18:30):
of a fiery personality.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Don't call me Mike. My mother named me Michael. She
gets upset when you call me Mike.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah. You know who runs coach? The guy that runs
the Denver Nuggets is Josh Cronke, son of Stan who
was a starter at Missoo. And you know who his
bff is, Matt of all time close Quinn Snyder. It
rhymes and Quinn Snyder of course got the Massoo job

(18:58):
for years because of his connection with the Cronkys. And
Quinn Snyder did a pretty good job with the Jazz
and now he's in Atlanta. Don't be surprised if he
saunters over to Denver to work for his bff.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Did you steal that from Adam Auslin? Is that the
kind of insight that he provided Rogan and Rodney in
his twenty minute conversations surrounding Malone earlier today?

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Bingo, did he really? Did he say that? I didn't
hear what he said, but I didn't take twenty five
minutes to say.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
It exactly right, man. I took one sentence.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Man.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
So if coped up Snyder ends up in Denver, you
heard it him post I don't breathe as hard as
JJ Reddick because my nose is filled with powder.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
That's just that's just the left, yes, wild.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
I mean, it's hard to imagine Djokic going into the
office and getting Mike Malone fired, right, and he's the
only guy with the juice to pull the trigger as
a player there.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Hey man, Russ, So Westbrook shows up at places and weird
ass just happens.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
You know, Well, man, we didn't take twenty five minutes,
But man, did we cover that Malone story? I mean
we were on it.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
I heard Yoki's brother helped him clean out his office.
I will carry stuff very strong. Which one you want
me to carry? Your desk? I put it on my back.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Stropa the one with the crazy freaking moan, Yeah, with
the mohogue, the one that makes the one that makes
jokers look little.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Where is safe? With all of gold, thea balloon and
guns in them? I will carry you that your problem.
Mike meet the.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Bloom enjoyed Dodgers in DC. See it didn't take twenty
five minutes. We didn't need to