Dave Roberts' Stellar Management Silences Padres Fans

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00:00and we'll see you in a minute.

00:05Quite a performance last night, Gabe. They pulled a Tigers and

00:08had eight relievers, eight count them. Uh Brazier, Banda,

00:14Copic, Vessia, Phillips, Hudson, Trinan, and Knack all go

00:19at least an inning and shut out the Padres at Petco and shut

00:24down that 47 thousand fans. You would uh thought you were at a

00:28Dave Roberts gets heavily criticized, but I think that

00:32might have been his best managerial performance ever uh

00:35as the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. That's very

00:38difficult, Scott. When you pitch eight different pitchers,

00:41bullpen game. Now, listen, the offense helped out, right? So,

00:44they got the lead and they had to get the lead but you know,

00:47he pushed every right button. That's the one thing I don't

00:50like about bullpen games. Yeah, it's difficult for the other

00:53team because you've always got fresh pitchers throwing heat uh

00:56at them but at the same point in time, Scott, it's like

00:59sitting at a blackjack table and playing eight hands in a

01:02row and expecting to win every time, right? You're going to

01:05get a bad hand. Somebody's going to be off. One of the

01:07pitchers is going to get hit. Last night, it didn't happen.

01:10Gutsy performance and no, I'm not penciling anything in. We

01:14know how dangerous the San Diego team is. I am excited about the

01:18prospects of a Dodgers and Mets uh championship series. I'll

01:22tell you that uh but game fives man, anything can happen and

01:26I'll tell you what, home field doesn't mean anything in

01:28baseball and in fact, historically, in elimination

01:31games in major league baseball playoff history, the road teams

01:35are sixty-six and sixty-two. So, it's pretty much a toss up

01:39after all that. That's not a definitive trend uh right but

01:42it's a definitive trend and it you know, home field doesn't

01:45mean anything. It's a game whether it's played, you know,

01:48whatever stadium it's played in really won't have an effect. I

01:51don't think you're because it's in Dodger Stadium. They're

01:53going to win. They're going to win or lose because they pitch

01:55well and they hit but I think it's the best rivalry in

01:58baseball right now, Scott. Great, great stuff and I do find

02:01it a little bit comical of San Diego who talks so much smack

02:06who Manny Machado threw a freaking ball at Dave Roberts

02:09in the dugout and then, oh, San Diego are crying because Ken

02:14Rosenthal wrote uh there's something mean about them and

02:18you know, it's funny. San Diego said the Dodgers are too

02:20sensitive and now, there's the ones that ban Ken Rosenthal

02:25because Rosenthal, I don't know. He called a peacock or

02:28something like that in one of his columns but I tell you in

02:32the playoffs, Scott, you gotta dislike the other team, right?

02:36The players do, the cities do. It's a real rivalry but it's

02:41sort of like in hockey. You know what I mean? Like, you know,

02:42you're a penguin fan. You play a team. You don't really have

02:45any beef with in the playoffs like your good example is like

02:48the Canucks and Preds last year, Scott in the playoffs. I

02:51know beef with the National Predators. Why would I have a

02:53beef with the National Predators, right? So, they play

02:55the Canucks in the first round of the the playoffs last year.

02:58By game two, Scott, like I loathed them all. I was like, I

03:02hope this guy gets hit in the face with a puck. I hate this

03:05guy. I hate them all. I hate their fans. I hate the city. I

03:08hate country music and it took about two games to ramp up and

03:12I, you know, you know how I feel. I know you love San

03:14Diego. I love the city as well. I think they're awesome fans

03:17but right now, I hope the Dodgers just nail them once

03:20again and shut their **** up.

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