Dude, they're gonnay, Hello and good morning from Dodgers Stadium. The four of us together again. It used to be an annual tradition. Then it was not a tradition when the Dodgers open on the road. But we are back on the field, Rodney, Matt Petros, gentleman. It is good to see it. But I have to start with this before because I know you've got something to say. I got nothing to say. Happy to be here with everybody. It's a wonderful day here at Dodger Stadium. It's overcast.
Yeah, Matt's in a bad mood. Not a bad mood, terrible. Don't do that. There's not a terrible way. I'm gonna fine. I'm fine. I'm not fine. What happened to this? Are you pulling the curtain back exactly? Because he came down? You know what he's gotta face. And it's the security is crazy, all right, it's the Otani. There's a ton of media, there's different checkpoints you've got to get through. I thought I finally made it to the field. Tim Kates is maybe
fifty yards in front of me. He gets through. Clayton Kershaw's here for God's sakes, My god, what a day. There's no my god, No, I'm great. You never mind the adult that treated me like an eight year old child and told me I had to have a lanyard in order
to access the field. There's Clayton Kershaw going to get us warm up in Yeah, just when you think everything's down and the chips are really really against you, you see Clayton Kershaw smiling at you, and you realize that God in Heaven, we're blue Heaven again, my blue heuse right, you're looking at our set though, I mean I remember in years past. Yeah, it was a little bit more elaborate. Really. Yeah, Well we used to have a ted on the big stage, the riga, the rig the
whole thing. And I think I guess they spent some money in the off season over here, a little bit that they lost our tet in our rigs. Well that happens, Yeah, that happened this place. But we're fine. But I think since you started out this way, Fred, and it is wonderful to be here. We're live from the field at Dodger Stadium. It is the home opener. Glass now michaelas Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck with Tim Kates from Vin Scully Sweet, which has been secreted by Dave Weeks.
Hey, sorry, I'm sorry. Starts at a one ten, so we're looking forward. One first pitch is at one ten noon is when Tim Kate starts, so we're looking forward to that. But let's start Fred with did you have a hard time getting in here? Okay? I kind of walked arm in arm with you like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. We were greeting people. Yes, that's for getting our past issues. Yeah, you
got in. We had we had an easy time. Well, no, I didn't have that easy a one time because what happened with me was, you know, everything has changed this year, don't they know? You're Fred Rogan of the Rogan Report out there in the desert. Tell you what that I got a parking place at act Rashure Arena right now and you're on the field Friday. That's what I'm talking about. Where's NBC LA not there?
All right? So anyway, I went to Lot B where the media usually parks take it to the media overflow area of Garvey and they said, no, you're You've got to go to Lot fourteen and getting a bus. I went, well, that's not gonna happen. So then I I really told you to get in the bus. That's it's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. That's not gonna happen. No, I'm not going to Lot
fourteen and shut shuttle. Right. So fortunately Kevin actually sent me a parking pass yesterday and Lot K, so that I went to a lot K and then I schlept on in and then I ran into Petros parked K. That's what I said, Is that that you fool? I said, you idiot. I thought you had the like the the golden ticket where to park to everybody the other day, I got the spot. I got the spot. If you ever want to get in and out of Dodger Stadium, you'll follow
me, fin and out. I didn't end up to hell like a goat. Listen. He was going to visit Heidi, that's seriously. And I was like, what are you doing? Everybody knows there's not an attendant and lot P. I didn't know, stupid idiot, right, and then Kevin walked in through Gate G and I didn't know that. What happened to you? Okay, here's your perfect spot. I'm gonna tell you the perfect spot for Fred. You know he didn't swing the same puzza that he That was
fine, it's fine. I'm going to tell you the perfect spot. If you're coming out here right now and you have to this lot. Yeah, the guy in lock K is gonna tell you where to park. No, this is the perfect spot. There's one spot at Dodger Stadium. If you park here, it is the best spot you can have. Trust me, I know. You park in the exact spot and you're out immediately, you'll never deal with traffic. I don't care how long you stay. This is
a hell of a setup. Do you know what lot it is? Well, I would assume it's Lot B. It's where you try to pay. There's not Lot B. It is Lot F. That is correct. Where's that? Okay? Well it's on the field. It's that way. Okay, Well, listeners, center field. It's over there, all right. So anyway, when you pull into Lot F, you will see a light pole. Next to the light pole, there is one spot and then you can't park next to it because it's blocked off. Come into Lot F.
Look for the light pole. I'm telling you, look for the light pole. There's a rock that looks out of place, pull into that Spaffiti on that light pole, and then and then make sure you you pull in so that you immediately can just drive straight out and go. That is the best spot at Dodger Stadium. What if by that light pole when you first pull in? Done, Rodney, did you find any getting in here? Well? No, I couldn't care about my lot. Now it's a terrible interest.
It's a terrible super Bowl. It's got what I said was true, it's not interest. Okay, fine. I got here right as they were setting up for security. I left early because I felt there might be some traffic here. But uh, I got as they were setting up for security, and I walked walked in and and then I was greeted by like seven people asking for the credentials and what do you need? And you got to show him every every five steps got to be in a lanyard. Gotta be
yeah, yes, you gotta. I did. I put it on my iHeart lanyard. So I was able to get in. But but they were also setting up breakfast, so I stole a breakfast burrito. Yeah yeah, no one of those. And then they said I can't go down the regular way to get to the field. I had to go a roundabout way. Uh, but not so much trouble like you guys had. It was because I think I was here early as they were set. All I know is, if I'm gonna pull the card up, don't you know who I am?
It's not going to be the parking lot K right. I mean, if you're going to be the jerk that pulls that, don't you know who I am? Card? It better be somewhere better than lot hold that studio fifty four Frand I didn't even suggest that. I just went where I was attendance. Why didn't you let it like Lot D or something like that? Right, Look, I ain't follow rules. Sure you know you don't. You just talked about Lot F. Well, no, I'm telling how is
that breaking a rule? You're telling someone to park somewhere they shouldn't. Why don't you tell us what happened to you? Matt? Why don't you tell us your harrowing tale? I don't know how I serve. I don't really because you did come in here, you were hot, everything was gray. You are kind of dressed like a surf hobo today. You know the rest of us. I thought, I you're a little surfo bo oh. I
thought. I was like, I put the song because it was kind of Dodger blue Color, wanted the long Sleep, but you had the big wool. And what that's because it gets told, Well, I've done enough of these where it gets cold, so I had to bring the extra blue bands. You're saying, it's my look that got me accosted. If you lined up the four of us and said, which one of these guys is a surf hobo? Yeah, maybe that's why I was accosted. The gentleman told me I had to put my my pass on a lanyard. I held it
up right down here. Yeah, the entrance that you come in over here through the clubhouse. Actually no, right over here. I would have come in from underneath. And he's like, you can't come in this way. I said, well why not? They said, because your pass is not on a lanyard. I said, I don't have a lanyard, and Dino Evil, good morning. Way to go, Fred, good reaction, Way to go, Fred. I'm here now, but I'm here now and I'm happy now. Well, that just doesn't seem right. I didn't have a
lanyard. And they let Fred. What I said when I came out here, Rodney no pass on a lanyard. Fred had no pass on a lanyard. You still don't have a pass on a lanyard yet, I was prevented from coming on the field because my pass wasn't on a lanyard. I plan on getting one. My pass was on a lanyard. When Fred and I were at the gate, the guy tried to stop us and he's like, we're gonna bring the dog through. And I was like, well, what is he gonna sniff me or whatever? And now they are bringing the dogs.
We've got the swat team coming in there making sure that the dog house is clean. And they they took about ten I mean if they if we were gonna wait for them to bring the dog through, we weren't gonna get on the air front. We would have started the show from those blue seats right now. I want to check this guy right here. Well, wait a minute. I hear when he said, oh, look at the dog's coming. Oh god, okay, he said he was bringing something through.
I couldn't hear it was dog. I thought he said he's bringing the Dodgers through. And that's why we had to stop the Dodgers. Yeah, college football team, they don't just all show up at the same time and suits Fred. It's not like they roll into the stadium and say a prayer on the pitcher's bound three hours before the game. I mean, they're here every single day. Maybe for Opening Day they do. They said they're bringing the
Dog through. But the reason we're talking about all of these new accoutrement and the different ways to get into Dodger Stadium and with the big press conference a couples word, now, friend, was that a big word that Matt and I had a hard time, not a hard time, sourse. We didn't have a hard time getting in on a Monday, We just we couldn't get our credential. The line was so long for the media because of that press
conference that we just had to walk in raw dog. We snuck in and just just depend on our facial recognition Fred Rogan style to get into the suite to do the show. So it is a and we've been out here for a decade, right, So it's been a very different vibe this year because of the attention on the Dodgers this year, and I think it's something we all expected absolutely global attention this year. You know, before the eyes of
the nation were upon you, now the eyes of the world. Yeah, I'm making note of that also given you know, recent events that everybody I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, we'll leave it at that. That's the only mention we'll have for that. I would say that Kevin stuffed in right away. Don't do it. Would you say that? Would you say that we woke up to find out that we are the eyes
of the world. Damn right? Because there is a lot of attention on the Dodgers, and it starts in Earnest today with the season, the whole Korea thing and getting the the games out of the way that were exhibition games when they came back. Well, I mean it was stupid series. Yeah, well we played before Korea. We would say that though about the about
the spring training when they would come here and play exhibition games. But apparently the players like to get the dimension of their home stadium before they actually have games in Earnest, so it would make sense to do that right before they have games in Earnest. I guess it's something about the players, because I've acted like that, like an a hole about it in the past spread and
I've been rebuffed by baseball times. Yeah, I don't know. I just think that the Korea trip should have happened after after the Freeway series, yea, and then you come right back and start to start the season like today. So for instance career, it should have happened this past weekend and then they get out here one. Yeah, it is weird to say the one and one Dodgers versus the zero one zero card, right, It's a bit
odd. Absolutely, so you know the focus is here. And the starting pitcher for Saint Louis had this to say, We're not his name, Miles Micholas michaelas michaelas Michael. I mean we corrected you three times, befeven times, petrol seven times. You're like my dad. I was at my dad was you know what, he looks like a cop. It doesn't matter. My dad was sitting with out of the eighties. My dad wasn't a lady at the Little League, and he was like, what is your son's name?
And she's like Graham and he's like Edwin. I was like, where where did you get that? Like Edwin? You know what's wrong with Fred? We told you five times. It's michaelas well, you know what you call what you want to call. He said this, like what is was like, all right, listen, we're not exactly a low payroll team, but you've got the Dodgers playing check book baseball, and we are going to go out there and be the hardest working group of Midwestern farmers that we can
be out there. Yeah, if there's a series you want to win early anytime of the year, it's great to go out there and stick it to the Dodgers. If you can take a couple of those games, you're leaving on the high note. You're a Saint Louis starting pitcher today. Who what's his name? He gets just lit up, michaelas There you go, Fred Miles, Michael, and a nice tip of the cap to the beach boys
there, you know, with the Midwestern farmers. Yeah, they're real Midwestern farmers right at Saint Louis in their payroll pretty high as well, it is top five. Yeah, yeah, what is he talking about? You know? Bitter, bitter, thirty five year old. I'm sick of the bitterness. I'm sick of the jealousy. It just started to Fred. I know it's gonna be a long year for me. I guess it is one hundred and sixty more games of it. Fred. You know what they say,
Fred puff Daddy said it. Oh money, you know, more money, more problems. Fred. It's just how it is. There's going to be an unprecedent amount of attention on this team. Somebody say, rate, I didn't hear that. Regardless, regardless of the of whatever's happening now, controversially, there was always going to be a tremendous amount of tension on this team, and it's going to be interesting to see how they navigated, how Dave
Roberts navigates it. And I believe Dave Roberts is going to join us today. I believe Andrew Friedman is going to join us today. And our two media booked guests, and who knows who's going to walk up here and just want to play grab ass with the four cooler. He's just gonna grab Kevin figures is going to grab anybody he ses. But I believe David Vassey is booked. I let Dino Eble get away, Fred went good morning, Dino. Kevin didn't corral him bring him over here. That Dustin may out there
throwing it. It is the dirty hippie looking guy with that Yeah, yeah, yeah, looks like Randy from MTV. I don't know who else. It could be Randy and the Redwoods, old Danny Bonaducci. Yeah, a little bit of that. Yeah. And we're also supposed to have Day Day and John Paul Morosi. So the two media guys and the two baseball types with the Dodgers managerial and front office, if a player wants to come say
hello to us, we would gladly welcome that. However, Den know Ebel said he was gonna come by and say hello too, right, Dino Dino coming over? Yeah, I don't think he is. Hello there you go. That's a weird way to get a guest. No, that's very you know, third base coach of the Dodgers. You know you were micd up the other night. Yes, I was. How cool was that? Having also having Eric Carroll's son on the mound and doing his thing. You know, you get the runner on third base says this is a dream man.
How how good was that for you? Yeah? He gave me the chills. You know, I've been in the game a long time and everybody knows you come up here at Freeway Series, you get a chance to opportunity to play and then to say it out loud off guard, but I'm like, you know what, my friend, it is a dream. So I was happy for him and and Carols too, you know, nerve wracking, you know, that's why I asked them, Hell, how are you feeling now? E K? But what a great night, you know. It's it's
been a good spring training finally over. It's kind of weird for me going to Korea for two and then coming home finishing spring training, but it's over. Everybody's healthy and is ready to go. Whenever we're here, we always see you out here the earliest doing drills with guys. What are those drills you're doing with guys, because that's the first time we saw it was when you arrived here with the Dodger. Yeah, it's just a routine that we
put together guys. It's more hand eye coordination, get their hands going, and then we take it out onto the field getting all the footwork in. But uh, it's a routine that uh that I think it's good for the guys, you know, just to be up close, see see the ball, close work through the baseball and then you know, it doesn't work until you move your feet. So then we take it out on there and get some live fungos and the guys love it. We're just going to continue to
do it. You know, there's anticipation going in every season, but given the excitement around this team, how does it feel or does it feel different? You know what, it's always expectations here is always to win the World Series. I signed here in nineteen eighty eight as a minor league player they won the World Series. Sory used to preach to us, you know, every year we got to win. But yes, there is a little bit
more this year. I feel we all feel it. You know, all the big signings of Otani, I'm a Mota bring, you know Glass and all the guys that we acquired. But you know it's, uh, we prepared just like a normal year. It's a championship caliber baseball here. You're in, you're out, and that's how we're gonna go about it. And we're gonna just keep putting our foot on the pedal and keep pushing day in and day out. You know you spoke briefly about it. How just ready
are you guys just to get the season started. Man, Yeah, we're ready, you know, coming back from Korea. Uh you know, it's like, you know, okay, now we got to finish spring training. But the guys feel good, The routines are down, pitching is good, are bullpin solid. So once we get you know, going today and get this thing going, routines will start to happen. A daily routine, scheduling, all that stuff, no more to it. Bat's ria batch. You know, you get the rest of the night off. So now it starts
today. We're ready to go. And and I'm excited, you know always opening day, it's a great day in baseball, and it's that clubhouse right now. It's it's it's live. So it's I felt it when I came in. It's good. So we'll continue to do it Selfish of all these people, you know, to ask you to talk about other folks instead of yourself, so let me be the one to ask you, how is your
broken finger? There's gonna be a lot of dongers hit at this field, and there's gonna be a lot of high five and so how what is the status of your broken right ring finger? And are you ready for a lot of high fives? Yes? I am. You know, like I said the other night, when Will came around, he tried to take it off. But I hope they can. The more homers and coming around that than the bases, I'll take the heat going on. In about three weeks now,
I'm about ready to start throwing. But yeah, the guys are having fun with it, but I'm ready for them. I hope today there's seven or eight of them that could come around and try to break the finger. Again. We mentioned the Carrols boys, but what about your boys at Corona High They're going wild out there. You want to do you want to tell us a little bit about what they're accomplishing. That's got to be wonderful for you. Yeah, it was. I got a chance to see the team
play yesterday. They won again, like whatever, thirteen to two. They got dynamic pitching. They got four or five guys that are throwing in mid nineties. They're gonna be a couple first rounders out of there. And my two boys, you know, Brady's a junior, Trace sophomore. You know, I just stay on them, get after it every day, get better.
You know, Corona High School any wise is a great developer, and you know Joe Kelly's the one that was all over me in the beginning that I made the right choice, and I know I did, so, Yeah, it's a it's a good program. I think their rank number one or I know they're one in California, and I think they're one or two in the country, So gratulations. Yeah, it's fun. It's a target on your back, but it's a good team that they compete, no different than
what Dad deals with up here. That's exactly right. So I'm happy for that organization there in Corona. All right, Dodger third base coach, doo Evil, you're the best. Thanks for having me, all right, coming over, hanging out. Rodney just slapped the hand that right hand. I'm getting ready, getting ready the great ladies and gentlemen. Why you know what that worked out? Fred I was very skeptical about your your style of getting
him to come over. You know, you know that was a little but yeah, Rodney, there's as Rodney's over there, and there's a reason Rodney's over there at first base, you know, like he's gonna he's gonna receive the ease them all in. They know Rodney better than this clubhouse that they do us, even you, Fred. No local media down here today, just us h that's right, No Crasca. Well, I'm not gonna keep Jim Hill out of here? Are they going to do that? Kind to
tell brother Jimmy, we're going to offer a haircut first. Jesus. That was a quote from Rodney Pete. That was not me. That was a quote from Rot not me. Damn right. I think you know what the hair The haircut sounds like with those old Velt pro shoes for back of the day. Awful. We love you, Jim. All right. We're lying on the field at Dodger State. No, what's coming down here? Whatever we want. I'm just excited for a double breasted suit. We're long enough
and always what's going to do it? Friend always mentions Jim's beautiful suit in Frances He got that in nineteen eighty two at the Malibu Clothe years on Beverly. All right, we're alive with George Raveling opening day Dodgers Stadium. We'll be back on seventy l I sport. Shut up, big, thank you to Dino Ebles. We are down on the field and we'll be here until
noon. You'r home of the Dodgers and The twenty twenty four home opener is upon us just hours away a one ten pm first pitch from the Galpin Motors broadcast booths. Steven Nelson, Rick Monday will be on the call. No, Charlie said he's got a bit of a back injury that he's working through to start the season here out for the foreseeable future. Yeah, sad, that's what it said on the Yeah, Segal did the old screw face to him, just like hard to kill? Do you know what to me?
You want to see? I'm on FISS group. God bless Charlie. We're thinking of you. Charlie hurried back, but yes, Steven Nelson tonight and Rick Monday on the call. We will get there starting at noon with ten Kakes and Marongo Casino Dodgers on deck. Between then and now, a raucous four man extravaganza Rogan and Rodney, Petros and money and we're taking in the sights. I've never seen a gigantic Japanese tour group all well, so just
walk right through. The Look at all these people up in the center field and dressed to the nines, I mean dressed like they're going to Katillion. It looks like church. I mean, I've never seen anything Japanese group. I can't tell that from here because you're old, Fred, and you have to. You have eyes that are blurry and milky. Robbie, can you tell looks like money up there? Fred, not me, but a lot of money. I know what you're saying. It's walking cat. Yeah,
walking cat. Well, you guys, I saw them walking through the concourse, Fred. That's how I know his his suggestion that it's a Japanese tour group is in fact correct. I watched them walk for the Dodger Stadium when you if you had to make an assumption, Gel, not like we like to do that often. But yes, did you guys see the Japanese stone lantern that is uh that is displayed up by the Jackie Robinson statue out there.
Pretty cool. It was a gift from the country of Japan to the Dodgers in nineteen sixty two and it's been collecting dust and a storage bin somewhere in the basement here, and they took it out of the bowels when they signed Otani and Yamamoto, and now it's on display right there up top right in lot PET just like the suit you discussed, Fred, you have it long enough and it comes back in stuff. There you go, that's the stone Land, It's the chim hell of lanterns. Hey do you guys Rodney
and I kick this around. I'm just wondering because you know, we really don't listen to you guys. But do you think they have to win it all this year? Is that? Is that the deal? Huh? What's that? Fred? But I was just wondering. You know, when you look at the team, the stupid questions, I don't think I don't think it's stupid at all. Is it? Is it championship? What do you think I can get into the World Series of Five? Guys? Think you can handle this? I'm gonna ask her about the challenge? Yeah? Can
you? Can you please? Can you please? Anyway? Weis is on it is obviously Wee is always on it. Right. He did not let a minute go by. We said it's gonna take about two minutes for Weeks to be talking to her till he starts complaining about you know, his life, Don Martin David Howard discussing over I just want to about Fred. I was looking for an acknowledge. I'm just try a little recognition like, hey, this is kind of cool right in front of me. Look what's happening
anyway, keep it moving, ocean hands. My point is this, I think get unto the World Series is enough, but there are people that believe they gonna win the whole thing that whatever, Fred, what you think we care about that topic? My god, Fred, that's six months away. Of course, it's starts today, don't you think it's all? Last year was supposed to be a rebuilding year, and it was World Series of Bee hundred wins and we all cried bitter bitter lemony tears when the Dodgers saw light
style tears in the first round, bitter beer face. It was a terrible time. And that was supposed to be like a reset year. So this year, yeah, it's World Series or bust. Absolutely, they have to win it all or at least get there. It is World Series of busts for Dave Roberts, and Dave Roberts a lot of pressure on him. All of it is on him. You know, he wasn't mentioned in the contract as far as who has to be here in order for him to be happy.
Freedman and Walter were, but not Dave Roberts. I mean he's been performing year in and year out, and there's still a lot of pressure on Oh yeah, it's all on him because everyone else is still going to be here regardless. And it's all about Dave. Is Petrol's mentioned, He wasn't mentioned as a guy that you got to check with me before you let him go check with me. So it is it is and Dave, you know, he's taken it in stride. But I don't even know now, Fred,
I don't think it's get there. I think you got to win it, you know. And but but again, it is the third game of the season. That's true. But I mean, this is when and it feels like the first time. If I, if I may, Fred, you may, if I may please? What about not going to answer your World Series of Best question? First man, we're not gonna go round table world, so we're not going to acknowledge that question. See, that's how
they are here. Tried to jerk the wheel because the lady that replaced us at NBC walk by you tried to jerk the wheel and go to some weird topic. Is that what that was? That's what happened. I was gonna are we gonna she stole your jobs job. I wasn't. No, no, no, no, don't realized that story on that. I didn't. I have no idea. Who's all. Yeah, that's why we all just got silent. We wanted to hear from Fred. Didn't know this, Miss Garvey. I'd like to introduce you to the host of The Rogan Report.
You will not be doing a live shot, but he's doing. That's true. Well, I didn't even know that, like me. Now you're saved by the bellance right now? Are you too busy so you have a live shot or something? Morosi, our dear friend John Paul Morosi is here from the MLB network, Italian American Michigan Wolverine Harvard grad super pissed off that Yale made it into the tournament. Yale represented the IVY League with a lot of class and integrity, so congrats to the Bulldogs. Coach Jones. Well,
did you know about that Greek guy's last name man Pulaas? You know what that means in Greek? Man, I don't know Petros, but you feel free to educate. It's okay in the afternoon on our show, not okay, Dodgergate to discuss what the slang term is. What was his name? George? Yeah, George, George George. Anyway, good to see it, John Pollit's opening day to you. It was an Italian word. You're
excited to be here? Obviously, I love it. Is this the greatest opening day in the history of your baseball career, your long illustrious media career. I would say so, because listen, this, this ballpark is magic. I was saying this coming in with Dan Plea Sach Bob Costas is doing the play by play for US today, and I will be network. Are you the sideline guy? Yes, I'll be down. Okay, I'm excited.
So there is something magic about Dodger Stadium on opening day. And I've been here for a handful of opening days in the past, but this place, the setting, the lights, the weather, the matchup of course, this historic team. When you think about what what we'll see today, the first three batters for the home team will all be former MVPs. Of course
we know it's Joe A's Dodgers' home debut. And then Will Smith. Let's not lose sight of that extension and how important Will Smith is to this organization. So just for so many reasons, a very special day. And you've got someone who grew up as a Dodger fan on the mound for the Dodgers and Tyler Glastow from Hard High School. So there's just so many great storylines today. Wow. Rostyles Michaelis had a little quote about the Dodgers him starting
to date. He called himself, they're midwestern farmers. We're just regular guys coming out to play the big checkbook Dodgers. You think that's a sentiment around the league about the Dodgers when the other teams look at him and they're playing them like, Oh, they just spend money like crazy, and we're just this small town team and we're looking to knock them off. Is that kind
of the sentiment that you think of Rescue Ronnie. It's a great question because if you look at this team, we have not seen in baseball something that approximates a Miami Heat of the Lebron, Bosh and Wade era. In terms of the team that was supposed to win the Beatles right with a big payroll, tons of superstars. We know this, It's hard to win in this
sport. There's a reason why we have not seen a back to back champion in baseball since two thousand, since the Yankees, It's been a quarter century since we've seen a team win back to back, which I think just speaks to the journey and how difficult it is. Rodney and I also think that the Dodgers, and you think about show A joining this organization, and you
all know better than me. In terms of rivalries within the National League, the Angels don't really have any rivals that dislike them in the same way that the Padres and Giants dislike the Dodgers. Let's be real, thats just what it is. And so as show A goes on the road and plays in different ballparks, he's gonna hear negativity unlike any that he's ever really heard before.
You think last year for him, when he went around the road, he was getting cheered because different basis wanted him to come sign and play for them the next year. It's not gonna be that way this year. So I think it's you're right, there is going to be some negativity. Let's and let's also not forget the Cardinals. As much as they had a a bad season last year, the finished in last place, They're still a good ball club and the guy at third base who's from around here is going to
the Hall of Fame. The guy at first base is gonna go to the Hall of Fame too. So let's not lose sight and said this is this is not the Washington Generals and the lootronners here. This is a very solid major League team that I think has a little bit of a chip on their shoulder. To your point, a lot of other teams will the Michaels story or is cost Is gonna steal it? Your first years got to be the
michaelis so don't let cost to steal it. I would say that. So for for a story like that, Petros, you've done a lot of TV, typically the person who has the most Emmys gets to do the story. I'm sitting on a beautiful gooseg in that category. So I would say that that story, as all stories are, Bob's, as long as he wants it. Well, what kind of scraps are you gonna get? What are you gonna have to talk about? What? Do you have a couple things
on the Cardinals? First of all, how about the story our researcher from the network, Kevin Dillon, A great note here the Cardinals likely today will have four position players who are twenty three and the younger, including Victor Scott making his major league debut for West Virginia University in in center field. So his first ever major league appearance is on this day in this scene. So you've got four players him, him, Nolan Gorman, Jordan Walker, and
Mason Wynn playing shortstop. Four guys twenty three and younger. The last time the Cardinals in a season opening game had four position players twenty three and younger was one hundred years ago nineteen. Set it out loud. Costas is gonna take it to which I say, Bob, please do. He's he's by teammate, he's a Hall of Famer, he can take whatever notes he wants.
You mentioned the Will Smith contract, John Paul. Is there a sentiment around the league as we look around and now we're starting to see the Guggenheim logos, you know, on the step in repeats and throughout the stadium. Do they have the financial not just the money to spend, but are they figuring things out that other teams can't quite figure out about deferred money and pushing money here and doing contracts like this the way to avert a little bit of
the CBT. Are they ahead of the curve on that front, kind of like the Warriors were for a little bit there at Golden State. I think so, and I think Matt. For me, it only works if there's a tremendous willingness on the part of ownership to spend, which the Dodgers have.
Clearly, when you think about how much they've invested in this club, they sign Otani, which for any number of other teams would be their entire offseason for years to come, and then it was a couple of weeks later that they signed yamamotos So clearly this team is not gonna stop with each incremental investment. To your point, Matt, I do think there's an understanding by the way that the Gougenham the Guggenheim Group works, that you spend money to
make money. There is value in marketing, there's value in winning, there's value in bringing fans in the ballpark. At the end of the day, you'll look at this team's attendance this season, probably going to be the most in baseball, might well set a Dodgers record. That's how you especially now in this new streaming universe, this is a team that fans around the world, not just the country, around the world. I just I was on the trip and Soul we talked from there. It's amazing how many Dodger hats
I saw there. There's a value in that. And I think that the way the Dodgers look at their brands, it's building a brand. It's putting the logo out there in a way that Roddy looks pretty wearing that the hoodie as well, Like there's there's a reason why people love Dodger Blue. And I think that we're seeing that the investments that the teams are making right now,
and the Dodgers to me, stand alone uniquely among them. John Paul, you mentioned how young Cardinals were going into and that's a very good fact toy. You should keep that, not give it a cost. But given what you said, I sat here and was thinking, and do you agree with me or not? They're very young, a lot of guys making their major league debut. I think the Dodgers will kill them today. What do
you think I think Brett he's calling the game. First of all, First of all, I have no idea nobody I love not predicting him because my track record I'm predicting who's gonna win the World Series is not terribly good, so I almost refrained from doing that. Here's what I think though, in general, the Cardinals and all teams that played the Dodgers, and Rodney knows this from playing the game, is as he did you. Baseball is the
one sport that you cannot play better by trying harder. It's different. It's different than hockey, different than hoops, different football. You cannot play better by trying harder. You really can't. In some ways, it's counter productive. So every game the Dodgers play this season, with maybe very few exceptions, we will say they're supposed to win. And I think that the Cardinals will benefit this youthful energy with Scott and center field and win it short.
They're gonna run the bases, they're gonna take some chances, and I think a lot of teams this year will benefit from being able to play a little bit of an aggressive style of baseball. The Diamondbacks haven't forgotten that from last year when they swept the Dodger from the playoffs and they made it to the World Series. The Padres, I believe are a better team than they were a year ago. So I think these lofty projections of one hundred and ten
wins, I don't know. I can't quite get there for the Dodger, I really can't. I think it's there. They're gonna be in the playoffs, clearly, but they've got a much tougher road than a lot of people think. We saw them split in Seoul. The second game kind of got on a hand a little bit. I think the Cardinals have a very good chance to win this ball game today. You worried about Yamamoto. You were out there, you show a little bit. I believe in his ability,
though, I mean he's to me, we've seen him succeed international. That's where I always kind of chuckle when players come over, and sometimes the old media ligne was all, do they know how to handle MLB pressure? Well, they know how to handle the pressure their entire country watching them play for the national team and in in NPB, which in some ways is for them and their hometown in their home country is even greater than what they experienced here.
Yes, the money is higher here and the stakes at the competitive level. I get it, but they felt pressure before, and so I don't worry about the pressure being too big for him. I think he's got to learn a little bit about sequencing in in Major League baseball, how it's different, how the Major League hitters look at things differently. Once he gets that, I think he'll be just fine. But don't I would say, don't make a judgment based on his first started Dodger Stadium or even the first month.
This is a long term relationship for him, and I think he'll get better as the year goes along. Do you have a series of lanyards that you strategically Samurai Samurai for the opener of today? Why? Why this lanyard today? JP? So this actually is my lanyards for the season. I got this. I was thinking about this five years ago. I covered the premiere twelve in Japan. I was at the Tokyo Dome. You want to talk about atmosphere and rivalry. A Japan versus Korea gold medal game with fifty
five thousand people in the stadium at Tokyo Dome as special. So this is just a nod to what Japanese baseball has presented to me in terms of what I've learned by covering Japanese players and being around the game a lot and so this is a little bit of an homage. It's a special day, special day for show A Yamamoto here as well, of course, and let's remember this too, Miles. Michaelis on the mound. He restarted his career by
going to pitch in Asia and then come back. So the international nature of the game is I think on vivid display here today at Dodger Stadium as it always is. Take ownership of that, michaelas story. John PALMERROSI the best. We don't deserve all that time you're on TV today. Thank you so much, MLB Network, John palm Morosi a wonderful writer and person, and we really thank you JP. Thank you, Piachettimo. I'll put them at Petro so we'll do it next time. You love it. Thanks guys,
pleasure and you know, hey, Ferrari won the F one race. JP. That's gonna be pretty good for you. Yeah, that Tofosi. Very happy that man some sunscreen sun was cooking the back of our necks. And Don Martin has arrived our boss. Thanks Chris matching, sir, look at him, matching belt and shoes clean, gorgeous. Jess. I just came from the cobbler, Okay, you look, you're shining like a new pin. Just beautiful. Look at the stitching on those jeans shoes as a bar
the shoe game is working. Beautiful. That's what Kevin Costner wears when he's like, you know, I think I'll have some wine and a nice you know, a nice dinner, a nice yeah, you know. That's what Costner wears, yeah, wearing. We'll be right back with mar We are live from Dodger Stadium. It's Fred Rotney, Matt money Smith and me and we are at opening day. Tim Kats takes over at noon. We don't have to go home, but we can't stay here when the game starts.
Earth Siri ad your jacket and we are back live on the field of Dodgers Didium opening Day. All four of us are here. We don't do it very often, but it's always fun when we doime. We appreciate John Paul Morosi stopping by Great Insight. He'll be doing the reporting from the field today for MLB's coverage of the game. Bob Constas will have the play by play
there. We thank Dino Eble's already stopped by the program. We've had Dino Ebel, We've had John, Paul Morosi, David Vasse, who's going to be on and be part of Marongo Casino, Dodgers on Deck and do an extended Dodger talk tonight all the way till seven o'clock. Is uh. They have roped us in already too. They have roped us in. Now. This is a much more media controlled environment than any many of us have ever
experienced. And we've been down here pretty much every opening day for the last ten, eleven, twelve years, and I would say this is pretty different. Yeah, it is. No at least we were told nobody can go live in the field. So they're all set up kind of down near the third base area and they're groped in. They can't get near the dugout this year. That's unusual. Why, I don't know. Maybe you're all looking at it. U's like, how you guys get down there because we're goin
the world, because we're cool. We just Tim Kates went by work this morning, paid attention to detail and got us Mike flags and that makes us legit. Look at these Mike flags. Oh, they're very cool. Wait to go, Katzie. Yeah, you know what I think. I think out of a spot look at that. The crush of media is going to be so great this year, the media crush of the crush of media,
it's going to be so great they need to try to control it. And I think the Dodgers might have even been a little surprised on how big the media response has been since they signed O Toddy, they knew it'd be big. I don't know if they thought it'd be this big. Multiple ghetto birds and blim flying over Dodger Stadium next Fox. We're three hours out. Cresco is up there, feel like Helendale Petrols, just like he was, like ellen Dale or Orchard. There, it is there, it is every night.
It is pretty cool to be down here. And it's always something that I guess we take for granted. But this year we're taking it less for granted because we are the chosen media right in front of the dugout and everybody else has roped away from us. We are like the big, fat, rich guy in veils that's in the jacuzzi with the dolphins and stuff, when nobody has a wristband like we got a ritz band. This is our moment. They are staring at us like how the hell them guys get down.
I know they are in the world. And look at Don Mar cut them below the knees. Don's on a cell phone like Scott Boris and his outfits showing out. You see that he just shined his shoes on his jeans. He was like, I've got a little bit of dust on him. Let me just kind of spit shot him here, gonna get it going. I mean those things they're they are single buckle. That is like, you want to talk about going to a leather Tanner. Yeah, he went to with
those things, right weather Tanner? No, Doug, can I get a belt to match? I want to tie the whole outfit together, Dives, I have these leathers made for me and knots very farm. Have you been to the Boys and Berry Festival? It's beautiful? Yah, look at that.
There you go Rodney exactly, And we still are looking forward to talking to Dave Roberts Andrew Friedman as as Freddie Freeman just emerges from the dugout talk to We talked to Tino Evil. Rodney's pretty great an he's player or a coach the name he's about to Freddy's here to do his drills with Dino Eban. He talked to Dino in the first segment of the show, as Rodney got him over in much the same fashion by just screaming his name very loudly.
I don't want to have to deal with this guy. In the next talk, you see see how that particular group of media approach the Freddie Freeman emergants from the dugout. They just went right into his face and stuck their thumb in. It something to you, Freddy. I'm in the international media, but I want to give you a thumbs up right in your making Freddy laugh pretty hard. But what Dino did say was that that clubhouse right now
is pretty live. A lot of electricity and anticipation in that Dodger clubhouse. Not a lot of young players or rookies, but certainly a lot of anticipation and excitement. And fred has made a bold prediction that the Dodgers are going to win this game. Kill him like you didn't. You're not going so far to go to no hope like you did the padres No. But they're
gonna punish him today. They're gonna message freak him out. Oh he's got his javelins that the three Javelins said hello, Yeah, just doubt at it. He did. Yeah, Fast looking has like a friend in the media. That was the guy to put his thumb in Freddie's face, and Dave immediately went over and started talking to him. And now looking fast that with Carvey? Who is that say talking to Now Fred's replaced? No sleeping with the enemy, Robert, what's going on? I've just shot an intruder.
Why are you looking away? I'm so confused. I'm not familiar with what you're talking. You know what's said? Honestly? What's that song by Chicago? Look Away Baby, look away? What's said is if I'm really Starvey walking back? I don't watch Channel four. I just don't. It's a lie. No, it's not a lie. And I had no idea who that was. And that's awful, and I apologize. I should have known. You think she wants me for the challenge or do you think my time
is passed? I think if you're a guy that plays golf Latino and on YouTube, he's not a challenge because that's a star Manolo. I think that guy's are meeting Yeah, I think he is. Yeah, Yeah, that's not how he portrays golf instructor to pro I portrayed myself as a football expert, and we all know that's a lie. I've been lying for years.
Yeah, I'm not I'm not sure that will happen. All right, Well, all right, I got so I shot pitch myself to her, like, hey, you know there's sick teen years of tape of me doing that show that there. I think Mario is still doing it. Oh okay, well maybe he's gonna sit there with her. Maybe and they're gonna chop it up. I hope. So you know what, that would make it a free show. A free show, well already on the books. Oh okay, yes, I understand what you're saying. All right, we're live at
Dodger Stadium, all four of US opening day, bred Rogan Rodney. I'm not gonna go internew money yourself. No, I don't. I think it'll make you jealous. No, I think you should. Petros Yeah, God, were you talking to her? What was said? The problem was I didn't even know who she was, So go introduce yourself, Freddy. You know, come on, I really didn't know. I haven't talk today that farst you played with the sister. Come on, all right, let me
don't it sold my intelligence. Carlo. At first you played with my sister. Come on, good one. You don't know all right,