Extra four years. The Dodgers celebration continues, presented by Yamavah Live at Dodger Stadium. Tim Kates with you, David Vasse getting off the team buses that have made their way back from the parade. Till million expected at the parade, and it lived up to the hype. Dodger fans everywhere in downtown LA and now a packed house here at Dodger Stadium. Let's head down to the field. A circular Bluestaine set up behind second base Shoe Davis and Steven Nelson. Guys here, but.
Joe, we just celebrating the World Series championship.
That's yeah.
Let's remember we're celebrating a birthday today too.
Right here.
Number thirty four is up here celebrating this with us. So let's celebrate a world champion. Let's celebrate a cultural and baseball icon.
What do you think?
I think?
Uh, I think we got a guy.
And I can tell that you guys are listening to me the other night when I said start the party, Los Angeles. Your Dodgers have won the World Series.
Damn he's good. Damn he's good. And there ain't no party like a West Coast party. Listen, let me hear it for the West Coast, don ice Cube, ice Cube now getting ready to perform here as he makes his way up to this day.
You're ready to do this again.
Let's do this for the death the poll this mine, Homie, get back, don't mess with my stack.
The gates is sacked. A bucker, chuck the bottom.
I'm in the West Coast time big fish in a small time, not a fast trying to go date book at the crook, but I shook.
They wear them in.
They hooked, gumpies, hold they prepped.
They wanted to miss me win them gypsy running everything west. So the Mississippi, it's the unseen, bluing streets, putting a doctor ring. Got your woman pucker up before we buck her up down there, before I make a phone call at twenty.
Mile Homy running up on y'all.
But the jeesus buck them keys every Brenday, freeze on your knees. West Coast leaves before any of you Yankees get hard. Tommy Brew wind.
Up heart, sing bout that when you come to.
Our town down that when you west with paths that we ain't no hated, Thank you bowdabs Wood shot them that a way, then you about that when you come to our town, homie, when you west with down, homie about we.
Ain't no hat?
You found it out to a team that's water than you, fool?
Are you a good day?
Celebrate the world champion lost.
Angeles Dad cho.
You know about it? I need know like singing this song right here, baby here, help me out. Just waking up being the one and gotta thank God. I don't know what that day seems kind of odd. No walking from the dogs, no small, ain't mama cook the breakfast with no off.
I got my cub bone, but didn't did that's.
Finding out a car from a girl that want to hang out, post it up for later. Up as I hit the dope, thinking will I'm live another twenty?
Fuck?
I gotta go because I got snear to tucks.
If I hit the sweepers, I can make the ass trucks had to suck at a mad night looking mom dear not at jacking sight and everything is all right.
I got a feet from day and he.
Can do it all night.
Cold up the homies and I'm back, say y'all wait on your fan baseball getting me on the field, and I'm troubled last week, nothing around. Then I hit a double freaking niggas every way like today. I can't believe today? What the good day.
Today?
But the good day? Yeah, I told you that Panda hit the guy. He need to get no standing from the cows. Just that today Jim Bude shine the last week short of bolief Today, Brokay ask me no flections.
He even look in the.
Homies deuction as a winer in this section went to day Rocks. He was like the your teeth being up, what's the hat on the They would shake him up, take him up, take him up and take him pull a minutes the love Momies then wants to me break them with the seven seven e lefs seventy eleven seventy. Then back old little Joe man, I've checked up the cash float. Then we played mos and I was shutting down the note plus don't team my Notes company south Central Today, but a good day.
Light Welcome the twenty twenty four WHOW Series Champion Los Angeles.
DoD Joe, don't ye, people don't mean damn hockey last.
Don't run him to the people want a performance from ice Cube as if confetti get shot off. Dave Roberts joined Ice Cube on stage, danced around, sang with them. Dave Roberts is pumped. Dave Roberts is fired up. As the Dodger players have all gathered behind the center field fence ready to make their grand entrance. Ice Cubes still
on stage with Dave Roberts. It's a circular blue stage here at Dodger Stadium that has been set up with a podium seats around it to its left, center or right now Dave Roberts hugging Joe Davis, Stephen Nelson, and here come the players. Here they make their march onto the field with their families. The twenty twenty four World Series champion Dodgers are home. They're back at the ravine with all of the Dodger fans, one by one with
their families making their way from center field. A stream of Dodger players and their families making their way in the World Series trophy is here. Keith k Hernand has just made his way through the gates. You can hear the loud applause for him as the Dodgers players families make their way, still making their way in from center field. It is a large group. Most of the Dodger players
wearing black World Series Championship t shirts, white hats. They're still streaming in from center field down a blue carpet. They are Dodger Royalty and they are back at the ravine making their way from center field to the stage just beyond second base. The family's making their way to their seats. Rookie Betts is on stage. Do you hear the Mookie chance? Freddie Freeman has just made his way through the center field wall with his family, his wife Chelsea,
their kids. The celebration coverage here in AMPI seventy LA Sports brought to you by and presented by Yamava. And what a day it's been. Ice Q said it said, it's a Today's a great day. No, today's a great day here in Los Angeles. Feddie Freeman waving to the crowd.
You hear the chance of mook? Yeah, they're not booing, they're mooking right now as Mookie Betts makes his way onto the field, the Dodger players gathering on the center stage, families taking their seats, can fetti being streamed all over the field, the kids having themselves a great times running around through the streams and right center field, Joe Davis, Steven Nelson will MC and take things over in just
a couple of minutes. Is again the Dodger players still making their way onto the field here at Dodger Stadium, A slow walk in. Freddie Freeman saying goodbye to his family. He's now making his way up to the steps to the stage. Celebration coverag cheer brought to you by Budweiser. This buds for you, Bank of America, the official bank of the Dodgers, and by your cult, the probiotic drink of the Dodgers. David Vatsay making his way back in from bus number three, Kirsten Watson making her way back
in from the bus caravan. All the Dodger players hugging, kissing their wives, girlfriends, family, thanking them for their support as they take their seats. The Dodger players now all gathering one in a time, embracing each other on stage here at Dodger Stadium. Black Dodger World Series Championship t shirts, White Dodger World Series Championship hats. Will Smith's got his hands full. Young ones sleeping lash are the young one's
sleeping through all this noise. Taskar Hernandez is mainway on stage. Alex Vesia carrying around a championship belt, Andy Pajez wearing a crown that represents the World Series Championship trophy. It's a celebration like we have never seen here in Los Angeles, the twenty twenty four World Series, Los Angeles Dodgers and Dodger Nation together fifty two thousand on their feet. They don't need to be prodded, they don't need to be told to cheer. They see what's happening in shallow center field,
and they understand what happened this year. They understand the magical run the Dodgers went on in October, coming back from two games to one down to the San Diego Padres and winning in five games on that Friday night, beating the the Mets in six games in the NLCS, and then defeating the Yankees at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx Wednesday night in Game five of the World Series. Confetti's starting now to blow into the booth here at
Dodger Stadium. As the players gather on the stage in center field, Walker Buehler has finally made his way on stage. I think one of the last Dodger players to trickle in again wearing Oral Hersheiser's number fifty five Great Dodger Road Jersey from the nineteen eighty eight World Series. The players standing around on stage honestly looking around with mouths open,
wide eyed. I don't think they even believe the love and the support they have gotten today along the parade route and even again here at Dodger State with fifty two thousand plus on hand standing and welcoming back to World champions to their home Dodger Stadium. Tim Kate's David Vasse Dodgers World Series Championship celebration right here on your Home of the Dodgers, A five to seventy LA Sports
Live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. It took a group, didn't take twenty six guys to win a championship, and took a group and started a camelback ranch in February, started in Soul, South Korea in March, continued through one hundred and sixty two games, a postseason run that lasted the month of October. And here they are celebrating with you Dodger fans on the field. A lot of hugging,
a lot of celebration, continues. A Dodger flag has made its way onto Dodger Stadium and the circular stage that has been set up in shallow centerfield rightfie Hyde second base. They have closed the gates to center field. The party is about to really get going with the players all on the stage looking around again. I don't even think
they understood the love and celebration. We got Dodger kids running around down the first base line, high fiving fans sitting in the front row down the first base line, Dodger players kids enjoying the stream of confetti. In right center field, Walker Bueller one of the only Dodger players not wearing the celebratory black jersey or black T shirt for the World Series Championships. He is wearing the road
jersey from Oral Hersheizer in nineteen eighty eighty. M Let's Go Dodgers has started here inside Dodger Stadium, fifty two thousand plus chanting Let's Go Dodgers. As the Dodger players are on stage, their families are all seated in front of them, Dignitary seated to the left and right, and now Clayton Kershaw with the World Series trophy in hand, double fisted, pumping it up and down to the crowd's approval.
Here at Dodger Stadium, ta Oscar Hernandez has grabbed another Dodger flag, has grabbed it back and brought it to the stadium platform and is waving it to the fans. As we said it back down to Joe Davis Steven Nelson to take over the rest of the way.
Guys, let's keep this party rolling. The President and CEO, they don't you walk away. We're bringing you up first, mister Stan Casten, Thank you, Thank you, Joe.
Thank you to everyone in this amazing crowd.
Wow.
First, I want to thank our mayor, our.
City council, all the elected officials who are here today for helping us put all of this together.
Thank you so much. I know we have all waited a long time for this day, and I have to tell you.
Everyone behind me, every player, manager, coach, front office person, everyone in the business side, ticket sellers, sponsorship sellers, everyone in this organization has spent.
Their lives waiting for this day. They and they are.
Appreciating a lifetime of anticipation today.
But I want to talk.
About something else that I've learned in my time in La.
As many of you know, I don't sit a lot during games. I'm not in owner suites or the suites. I'm all over the place.
Maybe it's nervous energy, maybe it's just decades of habit.
But I'm walking around everywhere.
As a lot of you know, because I run into a lot of you every night.
And it's important for me because it's how I get to talk to so many of you, but more important to listen to so many of you.
Not everything I hear is great, many things are, but I've learned one thing more important than anything else in my time.
Every one of you cares just as.
Much about being here today as everyone on this day.
Every one of you has waited for this day with as much anticipation as any of us involved with the organization, and all of us thank you for all of that.
And it's not just.
The four million people that show up here year in and year out for generations.
And it's not just the millions of more fans who watch us at home.
It's not even justice our fans across Los Angeles. It's all of our fans around the country. It's our fans in Mexico.
It's our fans in the Dominican Republic, our fans in Korea, our fans in Japan, and everywhere else around the world, because it's your support that makes all of this possible.
Without your support, we couldn't put the team on the field that we do. We couldn't keep eat the stadium as beautiful and as modern as we do. Without your support. We couldn't do the thousands of community events and appearances and speeches that we have done year in year out. It's all because of your support. We are here today to thank you for that. So from the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for your decades of support.
Thank you all. Go Dodgers.
All right, that's Dan Casting, president and CEO. You're listening to the Dodger celebration here on a five to seventy LA Sports presented by Yama Bah. There's Walker Bueller holding up the World Series trophy decked out on these oral Hersheizer in nineteen eighty eight road Dodger number fifty five Jersey Old fucking Chip. Oh all right, Walker Bueller. Walker Bueller's feeling it, folks. Walker Bueller having a good time out here at Dodger Stadium celebrating.
What about the Dodgers.
Dave Roberts, Dodger manager.
I know, guys, not my god.
You guys wanted to parade. We got a parade. Thank you guys. I want to thank you fans. I want to thank you players. I love every single one of you.
Guys. Hey, guys, let's get ready to revere. Jerk two Bobo kick.
K K her Nan is now taking the stage, taking the mic. Fast love them?
Got me?
Hey, Los Angeles?
Are we alive?
I got a question for you all?
What makes this team different from every other Doctor team?
Jeez?
They said, not me. Hey, guys, twenty twenty fan fast and fast. We gotta asked some really tough questions.
And guess what.
Guess what I said twenty twenty decade decade.
It's gonna be the La Doctor decade.
And guess why one who has.
More championships than us in the twenty twenties?
Twenty Absolutely nobody, absolutely nobody, nobody.
Where's ice Cube?
Where you are?
Hey? Q?
You give it up?
Riscue people, cute people. I scup came out and gave two and whether his performance. We didn't even need to play the game. We had already won it. Then we got to New York and this guy he used to be fat. He's not fat anymore.
His name is Joe.
He came out and said Sid and guess why why we didn't.
Even need to play it, because after that performance we.
Had already won it. We wanted to brade.
He looked at you, guys, we gotta brive. I love you, La, I love everybody.
Body and like dog sat, they're not like Keek Hernandez. You're listening to the Dodgers World Series Champion Championship Celebration presented by Budweiser. This buds for you, Bank of America, Official Bank of the LA Dodgers, your cult, the probiotic drink of the Dodgers. You hear the chance they want the MVP?
All right?
This next guy played on one leg.
He had no.
Ribs.
This guy played with one leg, one rib.
Because he loved you guys. He loves the Dodgers. Less us Friday Friday Friday Friday World Series sad?
What's about life?
I only have one leg, but I got a little group of guys that had my back all year. What a special group group. I don't have the same personality as Kik. He shut it down, but from the bottom of my heart. Uh three months ago, when you guys, when I came back after my son got sick, you guys showed out from my family and I that was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had on the field.
I was so touched. I did everything I could to get on this field for you guys, and.
I'm glad I did because we got a championship. Now, thank you from the bottom of my heart. I can't wait to run this back next year. Let's go, Dodds. There's Freddy Freeman addressing the crowd.
All right, Scott, before we get to a car, couple more players. Thank you to ownership, Mark Water, Magic, Judgic to go the bowlies, the pathans, all you guys falling this kis Billie g k.
Everybody, all your owners.
And the architect of this ball club, this organization, President Awd your Freedman.
Let's go after monkey.
Hold on, you're next.
He'd you come here? Come here?
And Drew and and Drew here, Drew and Drew Freedman.
How about these guys right here, unbelievable group of players.
I gotta tell you, we've been dreaming about this day for a long time and It exceeded every expectation we could have possibly had. It was incredible to Dodger Nation, the city of Champions.
This is for you, guys. Twenty twenty was incredibly special, but it wasn't anything like this.
To not be able to celebrate it with the greatest fans in the world left a little bit of an empty feeling. Immediately after winning, everyone was talking about this day to celebrate it with the greatest fans.
In the world.
This is for you, guys. We love you, We love LA.
Thank you.
And now.
The guy who's collected too, and he wants a lot.
More mookie beats.
You're listening to the Dodgers World Series celebration presented by Yamaba here on Anti seventy LA Sports.
When I.
Became a Dodger, it was for what twelve or thirteen years. There's a lot of years and we got two so far. We got like eight nine years left. I gotta get that at least five or six, right, we gotta do this five or six.
Times, right.
Hey, I just want to thank each and every one of y'all for coming out and supporting us, and from to my teammates, y'all don't know how much y'all mean to me. Man, I love you guys. Hey, I got three I'm trying to fill this hand up.
La Hey, now I'm about to pass it off.
So I think the most even human being I've ever been around in my life that carried us all the way to the World Series, Oscar her Nandez.
Baby, Oh.
Hey uh, I'm gonna go in Spanish. I just want to say thank you. An emotion will say Oscar her Nandez means so much. Signed a one year deal here he is. Hey, I play this game.
I play this game to win, and the Dodger just give me the opportunity to come here so I can help this organization, this city, this team, this fitball win a championship.
You guys make this dream come true.
Thank you for making me our world championship.
Thank you, Tay. Oscar her Nan is emotional taking the fans.
Hey, there's a guy.
That's been in a doctor uniform more than anyone. Certainly on this stage. We didn't get upright in twenty twenty. Let's give it up for the go. Clayton Kershaw.
Oh look, oh man, I've waited for this day for a long time. I'm waiting to celebrate for a long time. I can't imagine being anywhere else right now, and I can't imagine doing it for a better group of guys than this group right here.
I'm at a loss for words.
Guy, I didn't have anything to do with this Champion Chips, but it feels like I'm the best feeling in the world.
Don't get to celebrate.
Wait here, guys, to talk Champ had Altmark.
Oh, then let's go.
Claton Kershaw.
I love you, guys, Thank you, Dodger for life, Jem.
Clayton Kershaw now surrounded him, mobbed by all his Dodger teammates. They're bowing to him. Longest tenured Dodger right now, seventeen seasons. You know, Clayton, you were part of this championship run. You made him have been on the World Series roster.
Coshaw, Carshaw, Carshaw, Carshaw. Hey, guys, Hey, there's some uh, there's a group of dogs that don't.
Get any credit unless things go bad. They sit in let field. They sit in let field.
There's a special group of guys led by Josh bart and we wouldn't have this championship without him. A guy in Game five he gave us everything we had giving up for the leader of the bullpen, Blake Dryden.
I'll be honest, this is the best feeling I've had on a baseball field. Not a better group of guys. I ain't much of a talker. I like the lead by actions. Everything we have is man by all of our hard work. Everybody puts us in good physicians to have successes.
These guys earned every bit of it.
Our true leader in the bullpen is Daniel Hudson's so I kind of want him to come up here. He's got more a thing. Come on, goat, yeah, here's here's Daniel Hudson. Guys, We're not here without him.
What's up?
L A.
Hey, I just want to say I came back for this moment right here. Everybody on this stage is a world champion. Everybody in this stadium is a world champion. Everybody that bleeds Dodger blue is a world champion.
Congratulations l A, I love you, guys. Daniel Hudson, who announced his retirement.
I don't know what.
Will not be back in a great career in a Dodger uniform. Should I say it? Should I say it?
Boys?
You have to you have to should I say you.
Kick?
You?
Hearing that is, should I say.
You gotta?
You have to have to? Hey, guys, this team.
It has to do with a word that starts with the same ladder as my last name.
And we all stay this way, especially through the entire month of October.
Should I should I?
What a.
Kick? Arenandez one of a kind? As you're listening to the Dodgers World Series celebration presented by Yamava, all.
Right, First off, we had the greatest of all time, Vin Scully. We had another legend, Dodger Legend number thirty four, Fernando Vealezuela.
Happy birthday, Fernando. This is for you too. So this winner.
Ownership Andrew Front Offices. We had a big goal in mind. That's to get the biggest fish of them all. I almost screwed it up. I'll tell you right now. Who was the No, not Kiir myer, not here my sorry, okay, care, I love.
You, but no, now you.
Who was a year from show today?
Take you that, Yoshi?
This is so special woman movie.
And then.
I'm a so owner to be here and to be part of a steam.
Congratlations Los Angeles, Thank you.
First show how Toni speaks. You're listening a lot of the Doctor's World Series Championship celebration has Yoshio Yamamoto about to take about him. Thank you, Donza bars. Hey, we need to hear.
From Max Monson. How awesome is this.
Mooke?
Get up here?
What I tell you every time they walk show to get to you?
I got phone too, ut Dad, get up.
Here, Baby, get up here.
How about this guy right here, Bret Honeywow, we wouldn't be here without this guy.
Let's see it, Honey, what's you got?
What you got for?
Hey, I'll do anything to bring a fucking championship here into LNG Angels.
I can promise you that. Let's fucking gold.
Let's go.
Brett Honeywell, Junior, best fans in.
The world, best stadium in the world, best city in the world.
Unbelievable.
We should have had this in twenty twenty, but we're bringing it now.
Man, y'all set in the city on fire.
Right now here?
You going?
All right?
Guys? We got two more. First, we made a trade at the deadline. We got this guy.
Who played shortstop center field. He did everything we ask He would say, Oh now CS MVP, give it up.
Earth tell me i'd.
Thank you, guys, thank you, thank you. I appreciate it. Man, I've only been here for a couple of months.
Elis already trying to drop the mic, but I just want to say thank you to all the Dodgers.
Fans out there.
It's you guys are welcomed me like one of your own, and I'm just so grateful to be part of this organization. It's such a great group of guys. Love everybody here.
Now we're road serious champs.
Let's go, Mickey Rock all right, this guy right here is the glue to our ball club.
No one plays a better shortstop. He played hurt all year for us. I love this guy right here. Give it up, bar.
Mickey Rowe, Miguel Rojas.
A Los Angeles. Hey, I make my debut in two thousand fourteen here, and.
I got back to be a war Seaze champion.
Let's fucking go. Very Freddie, what you at?
It's Freddie here, Freddy, Freddie's hiding.
Come here, show everybody what they want to see. We want to see the Freddie Dance.
Let's go, everyone else.
We wore tens. Let's go.
Okay, we're getting near the end. Even though I'm afraid. I'm afraid what they might say that they still haven't said. So before I turn it over to show, I want all of you. I want all of you on the stage.
To hold on to this feeling, and I want all of you in the stands to always remember what it felt like to be part of.
The best damn baseball team in the world.
I got doing say my favor? Was it go ahead?
Jack?
Tom?
I jacked.
Randy?
Kick it Randy.
The Dodgers celebration here on the field at Dodger Stadium, wrapping up as Dodger players spoke, addressed the crowd, addressed you, Dodger fans listening, Confetti's streaming on to the field as a Dodgers collectively on the stage, the Oscar Hernandez holding up the championship trophy, Dodger players who have been here for years, Dodger players who joined them this year, Dodger players that contributed since coming over with the trade deadline,
everybody apart of this World Series championship here in twenty twenty four, Tim Kate's Live at Dodger Stadium, fifty two thousand here, millions on the streets earlier for the parade from City Hall to the LA Central Library, and now everybody's singing Randy Newman's I Love LA. Together. Dodger players who waving to the crowd, celebrate the hug each other. David Batsey joined you, Yeah, you got me, Tim k we got you. David's down there in the sea of Dodger players.
This is the greatest parade in Los Angeles sports history. Tim the undertaking from the team, the city, the lapd This is something nobody wants to end, and the Dodgers want to try to run.
It back again next year.
I love hearing the players that have been here, like Clayton Kershaw, Mookie Betts who have been here four years, to Tommy Edmond who came here at the trade deadline David and sees this sea of blue around him and understands what it means to be a Dodger. Unbelievable day.
And it's not just the players, it's the staff, the countless hours from the coaches, Pd Montero, Dino Ebol, Clayton McCullough, Connor McGinnis, Mark pryor all those guys deserve to celebrate this championship.
Guy man oh tanis speaking English.
Man, that was unbelievable.
Highlight of the parade right there.
Unbelievable to hear him speak English and address this Dodger Stadium fan base, and that everybody listening.
Gods, Hey, I'm with Andrew Freeman right now. He's up on the stage the one time he could say he can look down on me.
Man. That's a fair statement. Fair statement.
I gotta tell you, I had the highest expectations for today and it crushed it.
It was incredible. The turnout Dodger Nation.
I cannot say enough about what they mean to this team, how much they mean to all of us. For us to celebrate it with them today literally means everything.
Thank you, We love you. Andrew.
I asked the players this, Did you realize how much this team meant to the city before today?
You know, coming here in twenty fifteen, you get a sense of it.
You get a sense the passion, the turnout, the expectations, all of it. But to see it rewarded in this way today makes everything worth it.
And not only that, it provides even more fuel and energy for us to do this again.
Let's run it back.
That guy's a Hall of Famer. Everybody's talking about Hall of famers on this team. You're a Hall of Famer, Andrew. You've put this together, You've had sustained success.
Enjoy it with your families.
Thank you so much, Love you La. There he is, Tim, Don't mistaken it. This guy is as big of a part of that and what happened here than anybody.
Andrew Freeman.
And to maintain it every year, David, and to build on it every year. This is a Dodger front office led by Andrew Freeman that continues to add to what it has already been. A playoff roster, a World Series championship roster.
Oh I'm remember the one of the dogs right line? Oh Dad, put you on the mic? All right, how are we doing? Couldn't be better.
We've been waiting for this, this type of celebration since nineteen eighty eight.
Unbelievable, unbelievable.
This was by far the best experience I've ever had, you know, in the baseball world, there was nothing like sitting there driving by everybody cheering.
I mean, the support from that we get from Dodger Nation is Humblievle.
Alex Messi, you and the rest of the bullpen Dogs sacrificed your bodies, your souls to do whatever this team needed.
How does it feel to be a champion?
Now?
It's all worth it, all all worth it, pain, blood, sweat, tears, all the sacrifice, It's worth it for this moment right here.
How proud are you of the group of players to get it done through all the adversity.
We had a bunch.
Every team goes through it, but we stuck together. We're the biggest family and we root for one book, for one another.
And yeah, I couldn't be more proud.
I got a lot of respect for all the guys.
In the room.
Hold up that championship belt.
Alex Bessia and the Dodgers are World Series champions. Man, unbelievable. There's Chelsea Freeman, There's Freddie Freeman. My guy, my guy, Freddy Freeman, Dave, how are you?
Freddy?
Thank you?
Thank you for making all this happen.
This is special.
This is what you set out can do every spring training and to see everyone come out, I mean it's like a May twenty second on a Tuesday night, and they're fifty three thousand people in these stands every night. So I can't thank everyone enough. It's been a special year and I can't wait to get going again.
Already next year.
Freddy, I love and Freddy's You are one of the most humble superstars I have ever met.
You sacrificed a lot for your team, not only.
Your ankle, but we find out your intercostal strain as well.
Yeah.
I try to keep that one on the down low. I just didn't want anybody to really know that I had.
Quite a few injuries going on.
But yeah, I sacrificed a lot.
There's a lot of conversations with my family during during these playoffs if i's you play or not, but obviously said I said, I'm gonna do everything I can to be out there, and I'm so glad I did because this means everything.
Freddie.
If you turn around, that's where your walk off brand slam landed.
Can you take it in now?
Can you enjoy what you accomplished?
I think when I get home after.
This, I think I'll sit down and kind of think about.
What all that's transpired in the last.
Week and a half.
I just know that I'm glad it landed.
In those seats and what a great postseason I was able to accomplish in the World Series. I'm glad I got hot at the right time.
Huh oh.
Yeah.
You know, once this is over, you go back to Daddy Daker full time.
I know I was already doing it on the parade. I'm holding back the whole time, but I look.
Forward to that.
I think anybody that it owes me, I can't wait to do that.
So I'll take a.
Couple of days off and then I'll start working out here about three or four days and get ready to go.
I think you got fifty six million people in LA that would check for you wherever you need.
I appreciate that.
This was one of the greatest days in my life. So thank you Dollarger fans, thank you to the city of LA, and thank you Dodger fans all over the world.
I appreciate you guys very much.
Freddie Freeman the most inspirational player in the postseason bar none forever and Dodger history. They're one of the greatest people you ever finds.
All right are Dodgers World Series Championship celebration presented by Yamabah continues here on a FI seventy LA Sports Tim Kats in the booth, David Vasse on the stage in center field as the Dodgers, players, families, dignitaries continue to celebrate this Dodgers championship. A sellout crowd here Dodgers Stadium and join at the confetti all over the field. The parade itself, David unbelievable. Two million expected through downtown and it was a celebration like no other. And it continues.
Hey, key day, there's my guy, TK, the star of the parade.
I mean he felt like a WWE wrestler strutting on that stage.
You know how you inspire all of us. Thank you, Dave, thank you. You've got my approval, my validation. I guess it means a lot. I guess it means a lot.
Hey, you wanted a parade, KK, You've said it from day one. You got your parade. Wasn't everything and more that you thought it would be?
I mean, this means this means everything to me.
I had to win two World Series and weak four years to get.
A parade, man. And I woke up this morning feeling sick.
Like a dog.
And I was like, man, I've been waiting for this day for four years and here I am sick.
I can't even get up over bed.
And as soon as I got here. As soon as the parade got going, I forgot about it all and I still have chills all over my body.
Man, this is everything the city.
Deserves us, the fans deserve this, and I am so glad I got to be a part of that.
Key k I know you know fans love you, But did you ever realize how much you and this team meant to the city.
I know how much a team as the city. I didn't know how much I meant to the city. I know how much they loved me, and I've always said, man like, I.
Don't know how I'm ever going to repay.
Dodger fans for all the love and for welcome me with open honest But guess what. As I was sitting at home while spring training was going and not knowing where I was gonna end up, every conversation with Andrew and and Gomer where you know we need you, We need you on this team, we need you in October. And you know what, I realized there's no better way to repay these Dodger fans than helping this team win a World Series.
And we did just that.
One thing.
I know you can't win a championship without Key k Hernandez and Walker Buehler.
You said it, but you ain't wrong.
Yeah, baby, key k. The city is putting their arms around you. Let's run it back next year. I'll make that happen.
Go for it.
Thank you. I love you because I love La and I would love to be back.
So I love you for that.
There's my guy, Keith k Hernandez.
Things changed him when ke k Hernandez started games in the playoffs.
Yeah, without a doubt, things shipped for the Dodgers for the good. And the run continued into the World Series and a championship. And this is the Dodgers World Series Championship celebration got presented by Budweiser. There's buds for you.
David. What what? Somebody? What did you just say?
I called Matt Vass ugly? Matt, David, David, you just damn it? Honeywell come on, Honeywell damn it, Honeywell we're lying.
I apologize.
Get in here.
Oh, Chris, no, I called him. He called me Matt Veasse close enough. Hey, Hey, that's it.
I can't do it without twenty two. Who can?
Nobody can?
Obviously, no, because there's one team left and you know, who's the one team left, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and they just brought home the world title.
You can't do it without twenty two, no doubt.
Hey, honeywell, did you realize how popular Kershaw was before today?
I'm gonna be honest, I don't. I don't really think I did, but I think I know now. I'll tell you when I when I first knew that this guy was the guy.
When I know what you do?
You do?
You do?
You have to.
I stood on the line for my first time in.
The playoffs for the NLCS and they gave it up for number twenty two, Clayton Kershaw, and I looked down the line and I watched him Patty's chest. This guy is for the people and he's for us, and we can't do it without him.
The guy taught me so much since I've.
Been here, and he taught me.
He taught me.
Hey, I know my way around to baseball, but this guy really knows his way around to baseball. And I took everything in I possibly could, and I think I'm gonna moved.
Close to him for the office.
WHOA, whoa, that's that's very kind, honey, h Dave. I just I do them out of lost for words this whole thing. Man, it's been uh for the boys.
For the people.
It's been a long time.
I didn't so long curs and uh, I mean, I've been with you guys in twenty twelve.
We've been through some we've been through it all. We've been through it. We put the we put all these fans through it.
I get it.
But man, for them to.
Show out the way they did today, Uh, I'll remember that for the rest of my life. And I couldn't be more proud to be a Dodger today. And I'm so thankful that I'm gonna get to retire with the Dodger jersey on my back. Whenever that day comes, not soon, but whenever that day comes, when you do, I do.
All right, yep, you.
Already here first guys. When pass a goes, I go, hey, vice versa. So but honestly, thank you, Thank you to every fan out there. Thank you to everybody that showed out today, all two million plus of everybody.
And the parade was something that I remember for the rest of my life.
Being able to.
Talk in front of all you fans today was.
Amazing.
This group of guys, it's just Uh, it makes baseball worth it, you know, makes it worth it.
Did you know how much you mentioned this city before today?
It had been a lot to me.
So I'm thankful for that.
I don't know about all that stuff, but I'm very thankful for today.
Thank you guys. Well, I'm gonna do what the city is doing for Kershaw. I'm gonna wrap my arms around Kershaw. I love you, Kershaw. I love you.
Hey, what a day? Two time, Tims, What a day?
Two time, two time World Series champs Clayton Kershaw. Oh Man, Tim can't say enough. I can't say enough about that guy. We've been on so many plane rides. Hey, Honeywell, I know you love me. It's all good.
I do love you.
I do love you.
Everybody loves Kershaw. And I don't think I would rather shower with my dad than hang out with you. We're gonna take a shower after.
This, Honeywell, the truth comes out finally.
Yeah, Tim, never forget this day.
It is unbelievable. Our Dodgers World Series Championship celebration live at Dodger Stadium here on a five to seventy LA Sports Tim Kates, David Vassa, who is in the grouping of Dodger players and their families who are still on the stage in center field here at Dodgers Stadium, not
wanting to leave, soaking it all up. David Vass in the middle of it in our coverage brought to you by Yamava as the celebration continues from the celebratory parade, Dave that had two million people just streamed along the streets of downtown Los Angeles to this celebration in front of fifty two thousand here at Dodger Stadium.
Hey, this is amazing. Steven Nelson, Do you believe in miracles?
This one know miracle? This is the Dodgers DV What you.
Talking about miracles? I'm on stage with you. Hey, what a day.
Look man, I don't know what you were expecting because you've seen some championship barades in this city before. But this, I mean, it was beyond my wildest dreams for what this would be like. But this team deserved what the city game today.
It really did.
I thought the two thousand Lakers parade was unbelievable. Hey, we got decoy right behind you, Stephen Nelson.
That's up, Yeah, I mean, and the decoy's Dad, I've never been this close to Decoy before in my life.
He's I mean, he's uh the new team mascot, new team mascot.
Yeah yeah, Hey, great call, great final call, great call on Freddy's Grand Slam.
You really wear a Champions throw October.
I was just just a privilege to be with you and Mo and Dwayne and and Colin and and Tim and really the entire you know, Dodgers Audio Network family. Man, you guys welcome this TV clown in with open arms, and uh, I love you foreverfore man, seriously.
Thank you. Hey, we love you.
Stephen Nelson. Great job, great job. All right, we hugged, We hugged.
Now I can move on. That was the hug that puts it all.
On David Show. Hey still flow to run on stage?
No show?
Hey took decoy off the stage. Took him off the stage. I gotta find somebody else here. Maybe Yamamoto will speaking glass to me? Yama model didn't glass port for board. Can you think he could speak like? Ohtani Ken? Does he want to say something in English?
Say I love you?
La?
Simmy tags stuffy?
Yeah, that guy took him to.
Stuff, Mamma.
How he act me when I become my English rout became better than announced.
Yoshi repeat after me, I love la, I love la.
Oh yeah, Yama model Ted Guynold's off Hero. Can you ask a Yamamoto really quickly what did he think when he was driving down the parade route on the bus.
The number of people, the drivers they here looking.
You know which.
You fans.
The crowds here exceeded my imat how much people can gather.
And then that was really thankful.
Yoshi, congratulations, you have done something that no other player has done what you did in Japan Championships, World Baseball Classic. Now a World Series champion. You are a champion top to bottom and.
A lot of the cities. I know a lot of the cities and so almost champion. All I have to is, I really I'm very thankful that all my teammates a great teammates. You're a great teammate to Yoshi. Back to back next year.
N.
Right, hi hi hi, hey, Yamamoto one of the great teammates on the team.
Thank you, Yoshi, Thank you hero. How do you got though?
We'll be a party in Tokyo soon. Yeah, there he goes Yamamoto. What a great guy. Great teammate. Oh, here we go, Here we go.
Oh Max? Oh Max? What do you want, David? Oh I'm having fun. You can't ruin my spirit right now. Oh, Monsey, we talked about this in New York.
You finally got the parade you wanted. Was it more than you expected?
Yeah, it was unbelievable.
This city never disappoints. These fans never disappointed. I mean when we pulled down into downtown, just the amount of the amount of people as far as you could possibly see, Oh my god, it was incredible.
It was unbelievable.
Is this not only for the twenty twenty fourteen but it was this championship also for the guys that were on the twenty team for.
Everybody, if you this is for everybody, all.
The Dodgers, you know, it's these organizations and families for everybody, the fans, the city, the players, the front office, the scouts, for everybody.
Thank you for stopping Munsie. Thank you for a great year. You've always been so inclusive with all of us. So congratulations on being a two time champion.
As I said, this is a family, David. You know everyone that everyone that helps make this happened. You know this is this for everybody that includes you? Unfortunately, but that does include you. Damn it. I want a hug.
We'll save that one for later. All right, it sounds good. We'll leave you with the handshake, Monsie. I don't want to break your wrists though, you know you got them. You got them weak risknesses.
Oh, we got some custom egos right here.
Yeah, you had to drink this.
Oh yeah, let's take it. Let's take a little taste, of course. Hey, this is the.
Championship, Tequila Championship to keep oh from the bottle, Munsey.
As David joins that you're listening to exclusive coverage here, you could have took that a little bit better.
Wants to hit your lips, Munzi.
Oh yeah, Munzi's stricken from the same bottle.
I take like a man, David, damn it.
One day, Munsi, one day. Max Munsey a champion, a two time champion. And here's my favorite lucks No, not Gavin, soon to be missus, Gavin Lux.
Molly offered the bottle to me. Gavin Lux. Take a picture with some the Looney Boys, the real Gosh Loney's like a.
Fan, Dave Kay's, Loney's like Jays.
Holly what do you got on Gavin Lucks? You're he's here for a good time, not a long time. Great. I like that here for a good time, not here for a long time. That is correct, David.
Even though you're a young buck Lucks, you've been with this team since twenty nineteen.
You've been through the highs the lows. What did today mean to you?
Oh?
Man?
It's huge, especially doing it with a group that was this close and you know, a bunch of guys that both for each other all year, ups and downs together and uh yeah, I think you know everything I've been through personally last you know, four or five years. This means everything to me, and doing it with such a special group means even more.
People forget Gavin Lips missed all of last year. You were a spectator to Pursevere to find your way back and to be such a big part of this team. Do you feel rewarded?
Totally?
I think you know you get it taken away, you appreciate.
It more and you know you just miss it. You want to be out there with your guys, and like I said, I do it this year with this group of.
Guys, and you know, even twenty twenty film like I missed out and it didn't really contribute to be able to do it this year.
And oh you know, I didn't want to miss it. I wanted to be out there with these guys, just like Freddie.
So this is a great group, unbelievable run and you know, hopefully these fans enjoyed it.
You mean a lot.
I feel like you're the little brother of the group, even at this stage of your life.
One hundred percent.
We got a lot of old guys on this team right here, a lot of a lot old bucks. So uh yeah, I think Pies might be the only other guy that's younger.
So I'll take it. I'll take it.
I'm still waiting for the invite to the wedding. When should I expect that we'll see David? Okay, sounds good. I'll take that.
Yeah, I'll let you know later and then the offseason here, all right, sounds good.
Lucks, Hey, thank you for everything this year. You've meant a lot to me. You still do win or lose.
So thank you.
You're the man.
Love you, David, You're the man. Love you, Gavin Luck.
That's not a no, David, That's not a no from Gavin Lux you're the fucking man.
WHOA yeah, babe?
Oh thank you Gavin Lucks. Our celebration coverage here on ANI seventy LA Sports presented by Yamah bah As. The celebration continues in center field. Dodger players, their families, the fans still here Dodger Stadium.
Hey, Tim, I'm right here next to Anthony Anderson. Remember his mantra throughout all of them over they not like us. He did such a great job of firing up the crowd every single night. Let me get them over here, Anthony Anderson, Anthony Anderson, David Batsay host a Dodger Talk. I'm sure you're a closet listener, Yes, I am.
What's going on?
Bevan?
Hey, you are as big a part of this as anybody out there the video board.
You getting people fired up. They not like us. You really set the tone.
Yeah.
Well you know what, man, My dad took me to my first Doctor game as a kid growing up in Compton, Man, so this was this was home for me and this has always been my team.
So to be at park, I like.
To think I had something to do with this championship, man, but I.
Just had a great time doing it and just to be a part.
Of the Dodger family is beautiful. Hey, I was in New York with the team. You and ice Cube crushed it.
I'm not gonna disparage anybody else, but the guys on the field and ice Cube and Anthony Anderson crushed whatever New York had to offer.
You know what they not like Sure words have never been spoken.
You know.
I tipped my hat to the Yankees. I tipped my hat sip to.
Fat Joe and everybody in that organization over there. But you know what, this was the better team of the year. This was the better team in the world series. And I'm happy to be a part of it. Hey, thank you for the time. Anthony, the probably big fan. You gotta thank you, brother, my pledger, Heavey Anderson. Have me on the show more often?
Oh?
Is that?
Is that?
Any time?
I'm that for you? Anytime you need.
I'm tired of Brad Paisley.
I saw am I happany Anderson is our guy. Oh man, he's gonna be on Dodger Talk now. Oh look who's here? Look who's here?
Tim?
He came for the parade too. He is here in eighty one with Fernando he's a Hall of Famer. He was here in eighty eight and now here he is for twenty twenty four. The great him.
Harieen Baby, thank you, thank you, Tody, my shoot, I mean Luin Hey, great great Chop kungat the relations. I know how tough it is to approach everybody, but this is unbelievable. I have been through so many more serious fifty nine, sixty three, sixty five, eighty one, eighty eight, the twentieth and now, but nothing like this one. Really, to be honest with you, nothing that I have never seen anything like this.
How special is it for you to have this parade on Fernando's birthday?
It is fantastic. Really, I know Fernandez with us. I know he was with the team in New York and here and it's it's beautiful. I had great memories of Fernando things that ay that I met him in September nineteen eighty. I saw a kid of nineteen years old, clearly bit, chubby, bloke hair, no English adul but really.
Very special, very special.
himI, you mean so much to the city. To have you here today is so special. Thank you so much.
And Felici daughters, Glass, Yes that is Glass. Yes, thank you very much.
Oh there he is the man, the Hall of Famer, himI honreing Tim. Hey, I just got to put on my guy from the Great One eight really quick. Yeah, Pd Montero. He's one of the unsung heroes of Dave Roberts' coaching staff. He's out here early with Dino Ebol, with Clayton McCullough. While all the other teams are stuffing their faces with hamburgers chicken fingers, the Dodgers are out here working. He's from our areas and he's from the Great One eight. He's a disciple of Reggie Smith, and
he's a world champion. Pete, what do you want to say to the people? I'm Vitura Boulevard.
Hey, all I know is were world champs and it's unbelievable to be a part of this, and I'm thankful growing up as a Dodger fan my entire life and now being here on this stage.
I'm lost for words.
And you know, coming to Dodger Stadium as a kid sixteen straight opening days and it's unbelievable.
I'm lost for words.
And you know, this is not only for me, but this is for everybody. From NY one eight that I know and my family and everyone.
From Sam Fernan High School. I love you guys, and uh, this is for you. You want to give a shout out to Notre Dame High School.
Too, of course, Notre Dame High School where my wife Christina, where my wife Chrisina went to Notre Dame High School. Give some love to my one of my favorite baseball coaches of all the time, Cindy Kramer. Coach Kramer, mad love. And I just want to say thank you and I appreciate all of you.
Congratulations PD to you and the entire coaching staff. You put in countless hours to help the superstars. Be ready, celebrate and we'll see you at We'll see you at Casa Vega maybe later. Hey, you never know, you never know, see of Say thanks, hey, Tim, unsung hero right there.
That is awesome, Thank you very much. David, what a cors hold on.
Hold on, we gotta get over here. Hey the manager has been ignoring me. He's too big time.
Now all these writers are saying he's a Hall of Famer.
He doesn't have time for the little people like David Bassey anymore.
Hi, David Man, what a d you know, like Ice youeb said, today was a good day and it's been a long time since this city's had a parade. And to see millions of people in Los Angeles a coming into Dodger Stadium, forty five thousand people, players showing their real personalities, their joy, fans showing their appreciation.
I just couldn't be more excited.
Did you know you've played here, you've managed here for a long time. Did you know how much this team meant to this city before today?
You know what, I don't think I did.
I'd like to say I did, but you know, when we do our jobs, we're on the field every day. You know, you're in people's homes and people bleed Dodger blue. But to see the joy and the tears, the elation from our fans, you just really realize the impact that you have.
How tough was it for Freddie Freeman to play through the World Series, not only the ankle but the intercostal strength.
It was tough, you know, it was just sure guy o guts, grit and just your desire and certainly we couldn't have done without Freddie.
How rewarding is this for you?
Dave Roberts, It's it's it's the most proud I've been of something I've done. I've been a part of, and I've had some great moments. But to see this parade, these fans, what we endured this year, I'm.
Just over joyed.
Dave.
I'm really happy for you, Dave. Congratulations on everything. Look at these writers, they're so disgusted.
I broke this up. W Okay, I love you, Dave. There he goes Dave Roberts, World Champion manager.
Now unbelievable, As the players made their way off the stage, I'm still on it. You are still on it, Dave. We see you of there, buddy, having a great time.
Oh yeah, Hey there's my guy, Daniel Hudson. Are you upset about me continuing to talk?
Absolutely not. Our coverage brought to you by Yamava as it continues from center field.
Hey there's my guy, Daniel Hudson. We're live on the radio. Hoodie.
Oh great, I know you've missed me already. Oh yeah, totally all right, Daniel Hudson, you are retiring.
This is it.
Dad's going home after this. Kids, What does this mean to you? Not only the championship, but to experience this parade? I know you've done it in DC, but this is a little different.
No, this is this is great, man, obviously, this the city.
I mean, it's been yearning for this for a long time and for them to finally be able to let this out and and just go out like this.
Man, it's been a lot of fun.
You know.
I'm privileged to be a part of it.
Yeah.
They always say guys that win championships together are brothers forever.
No, no, no, man, yeah, one percent.
The team will always be special to one another.
I know everybody will always keep in touch, and I can't wait to see these guys soon.
Will there be bullpen parties only reliever parties only twenty years from now?
Twenty years from now, I don't know, we'll see, but uh yeah, I mean we're gonna we'll get the boys together, We'll get the dogs together again, and we'll go from there.
Hey, before I let you go, can you share with us what you thought when Walker Bueler showed up in the bullpen.
In Game five.
I mean, as soon as he came out there, I literally just told I said to myself, if we get a lead, I'm not pitching a night. Walker's gonna finish this thing out, So it was a great feeling.
Man.
I know he came down there with a purpose, he came down there with an edge, and watching him warm up next to him, and then for him to go out there and get those three houts. Man, I'm just so proud of him. Everything he's been through the last few years. I couldn't be more happy for that guy. And you know, everything's everything's in front of him.
Man, what'd you think about Kershaw and how emotional he got on the stage.
Curse is the best man. Honestly, I don't know how he got through that, to be honest with you, he deserves us more than anybody out there. He just he is the Dodgers personified man. And to have him up there on the stage with us and to be able to celebrate like that, man, and I meant the world to us and to him.
I know that.
Thanks for stopping Houdey and I'll always remember you.
I appreciate it.
Dave Daniel Hudson World Series Champion. I have his numbers so he can't get too far away from me. Tim.
It's a good thing and a bad thing, David. Great stuff out there from the center field stage as our Dodgers World Series Championship Celebration continues, presenting part by Budweiser. This Bud's for you, Bank of America, the official bank of the La Dodgers. What's to look like out there at DV Things wrapping up in center field?
Yeah, things are starting to wrap up. They're going back to their families. Who knows what else they're gonna do today. I haven't been invited to any after parties, Tim, but maybe I could crash a couple.
Yeah, if you keep walking around, maybe somebody will grab you and invite you.
I'm gonna be at One Way in Montabello with the Bullpen Dogs tomorrow, So there's that tomorrow.
I think I'm about to come upstairs and we can chop it up.
Yeah, come on back to the booth.
Day.
We'll take a break, We'll come back. Our coverage continues, presented by Yamava. It's the Dodgers twenty twenty four World Series Championship Celebration.
What a day.
From the parade two million on the streets in downtown LA to the caravan of buses bringing the Dodger players back home to Dodger Stadium to celebrate with fifty two thousand screaming Dodger fans here at the Ravine. More coverage continues. Tim Kates David Vass on You're a Home of the Dodgers. AM five seventy LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Dodgers World Series Championship celebration continues here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. Tim Kates David Vass Live from
Dodgers Stadium, presented by Yamavah. What a day it's been to have this championship parade finally here in the city of Los Angeles, to have a ceremony in center field like we just experienced, Dave Roberts doing a great job really serving as the MC of this celebration. Joe Davis, Stephen Nelson introduced. It kicked off with ice Cube. What a performance from ice Cube in center field here at
Dodger Stadium. And then Dave Roberts, the manager of this team, of this roster, gathering everybody on stage and then really going around to the different position groups, the veterans on this team, the young guys on this team, and having them speak to everybody here at Dodger Stadium. Everybody listening right here on five to seventy LA Sports. Our celebration is presented a part by bud Weiser. This bunch for you, y'all call it the probiotic drink of the Dodgers Bank
of America, the official bank of the LA Dodgers. What a celebration. A lot of Dodger family still on the field here at Dodger Stadium, with the Dodger players who are starting to trickle into the Dodgers' clubhouse, Fans not wanting to leave, just sitting in their seats, soaking it all in. Confetti still all around the stadium, blowing into the stands. Quite a day of celebration here for the Dodgers.
We waited for it in twenty twenty, couldn't have it, and the weight was so sweet here thirty thirty six years later, after the nineteen eighty eight World Series championship, and now here in twenty twenty four, a yet another Dodger championship to celebrate the eighth in franchise history. We'll take another break, We'll come back. David Vass will join us.
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the Dodgers. You're a home of the celebratory championship parade and gathering here at Dodger Stadium an FI seventy LA Sports live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Dodgers World Series Championship celebration rolls on here at Dodgers Stadium. Tim Kats David Vasse celebration coverage here on an five seventy percented by Yamava David. We're both born and raised here in
Los Angeles. We talked about it before the parade started, about the eighties Lakers championship parades, the Dodgers eighty eight parade, the two thousands Lakers championship parades, and what was going to be in front of this Dodgers team through downtown LA. What was the stadium gonna look like here for this on field celebration. It surpassed all expectations.
I mean, tim when you look at what today was, it was bigger than a parade. Yeah, to put it into context, what this was, it was more than just a rally. It was more than just a parade from the streets to the stadium. It's the greatest event of its kind in LA history. It's not a parade. It's an event from the fans to the buses. It's a logistical nightmare to get this done, from the city to
the LAPD to the CHP to Dodgers Stadium. It's the biggest day in the history of Dodgers Radio, Dodgers television, the biggest day in the history of the franchise. Because in eighty eight, you just I had John Beard and Colleen Williams, who is here by the way on a local fort Well, good for her, My apologies to her, but that's all you had.
Now, this is the popularity of this team has exploded.
Since eighty eight.
And you know, twenty twenty was, let's be honest, a year nobody wants to go back and relive exactly and this is everything we thought it should be.
Ten more to hear Max Munsey to hear Clayton Kershaw get emotional to hear Key k a Hernandez really sum up what everybody's been thinking about having the championship parade in celebration for the last four years again. It meant so much to these guys, David to win again and to as you talked about, guys like Justin Turner and the guys who couldn't celebrate with them in twenty twenty a little bit, this is for them as well, because they couldn't do that four years ago.
Look the way Kershaw was talking to me. He was talking to me like I played. I did not play.
I was just there And I never want to cross that line, Tim, but I gotta be honest with you. I've been on flight spat with Kershaw after twenty thirteen. I've been on a flight with Kershaw, Andre Ethier, Matt Kemp after twenty fourteen.
I've been on flights back from New York.
I've been on flights back from Chicago after losing in twenty sixteen. To be on that flight with those guys, with that guy, it means more because I saw how upset and how hard he took it. All these things, I mean months he's been around. Key K's been around, but he's been around since day one, and he's taken the weight of those losses and put it on his shoulder.
Yeah.
And that's the reason why he got so emotional.
Yeah, because he felt like he failed everybody here, everybody on the parade route.
It felt like even he was caught up in the love that he has gotten here at the stadium and certainly on the parade route. I mean he can think, you know, I'm Clayton Kershaw, you know, and the fans love him. I think it hit him today, Dave now, the emotion of the ceremony and winning again, but to see the alpoor love from the Dodger fans.
To me, that was one moment I'll always remember from this.
The other moment was Walker Bueller doing what we've seen in other parades, just dropping the mic. I thought, I'm telling you, KEYK was the star of the show. He was like a ww wrestler. If you watch that doc on Vince McMahon, have you seen it, Yeah, I mean he's exactly doing what a WWE wrestler would do. He was taking on that persona and that's why he understands it's sports entertainment.
And he played to the crowd.
He's perfect for it.
I don't know what wrestler name he would have, but Keyk's a pretty good one. I mean, he could be in one of those shows. But that was another part of it. On the parade route, Like you just told me, when I'm talking to Taoscar Hernandez and we're just sitting in the parking lot here at Dodgers Stadium, he's just like barely awake. He's like, yeah, yeah, you know, I'm
I'm exhausted. He was drained, Yeah, he was drained. And then once we turned the corner, once we got off the one ten freeway, and even when we started to see the traffic on the other side going north stopping, he started to understand the magnitude of this and everybody just it turned into you know what it was. It was a big fat Italian wedding on wad seven parade buses.
That's the feeling I had today.
It was a big wedding that was moving through the streets of La that type of celebration and just look this, fans still here.
They don't want to leave.
Yeah, there's players that are still down there with their families, guys soaking in this moment. It was cool to see the confetti everywhere. The entrance from center field, the Dodgers' buses all were in center field behind the gates, and when the players and families got off the buses, they all kind of herded together like cattle in center field by the center field black wall there and behind the gate.
And the gate opened and ice Cube started performing, and then Dave Roberts, like a WWE wrestler, comes walking and then jogging down the blue carpet out to get on stage with ice Wow, like he's coming from the back room in a WWE match, and was on stage with ice Cube, just the two of them will ice Cube performed.
I missed that because I was still on the bus. I heard ice Cube, but I didn't see the performance.
It was a great performance. Everybody loved it. Dave Roberts was on stage with him. And then as soon as he got done, then the herd like Dave Roberts calling them out, Let's go, guys, let's go, and they all just came out with their families in mass was when Dodgers Stadium just erupted.
I've seen Dave Roberts when they have a performance like that, He's rocking out in the dugout. When ice Cube was performing before what Game two of the World Series, yea, he was leaning back, he was having a great vibe. I've seen that with a couple of other performers. I can't think of no matter it's been in La or
somewhere else, but yeah, this is this is awesome. And Tim watching the whole season unfold, I don't think many of you thought the Dodgers were going to win the World Series when the postseason started.
I mean we've taking the phone calls.
There were a lot of doubts that they didn't have enough starting pitching, that Mookie and Freddy weren't going to rise to the occasion. Well, if you think back to this October run, it's been the offense that carried the pitching staff. Yeah, the bullpen did a great job. Yeah, the starters did a great job, But it was the offense. When you thought they were down and out, they always found a way to come back. Even in a loss
in Game three in the NLDS. You know, all we needed here was a shock type of moment saying you guys thought we were going to lose to the San Diego Madres.
They could have very easily turned it back on the media too. All the people that predicted, yeah, they weren't gonna beat the Padres and get out of the first round of the playoffs.
There's some people that even broadcast Dodger Games, SAT picked the Padres. Max Munsey and all those guys have kept all the receipts on all those people, and I think eventually it'll come out. I meant to ask the guys about whether or not they've kept the receipt He.
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