guy.

Right? It's just the way the game is, right? I mean, you're going to win 60, you're going to lose 60.

And as Tommy Lasorda said, it's what you do with the rest of them that counts.

That's just the way the game is.

You know, before opening day, hey, we're going to lose 60 games minimum.

60.

And I'm going to be heartbroken and mad 60 nights of the year, at least.

So two questions, I guess, is one, how do you prepare for a game and are able to kind of plug in those little stories or storylines within your commentating? And selfishly, do you have any Vin Scully stories that you can tell us?

Like, if I told you five days ago, Skubal's a Dodger, where would you have been on that scale?

I didn't know, uh, this was being reported until after last night's game with the Red Sox.

I was driving home and listening to our post-game [laughs] show and heard our post-game, uh, uh, host, David Vasse, say that, uh, that it was being reported.

Um, but I, I wasn't surprised, and I, I, I'm not surprised because the current, um, group of people we have in baseball operations has pulled off some big things before.

And when you talk about, uh, you know, the big names available or the big targets available during the trade deadline season, the Dodgers are always in the conversation, and that's because of, you know, the aggressiveness and, and, uh, and the way that our front office has gone after players in the past.

I mean, you know, you think about the acquisition of Mookie Betts, right? I mean, since acquiring him, they've won three World Series.

And, and that was a huge deal.

How do you rank them one through five? How do you think Roberts, uh, or really one through four, organizes this pitching staff?

Speaking of, what is it like, given that the Dodgers are the super team, they're the 2010 Miami Heat of baseball, right? What is it like being a broadcaster for the LA Dodgers with Shohei Ohtani at his peak?

It's kind of like traveling with Led Zeppelin and the Beatles combined.

You know? That's good.

It's really wild.

It's the people that show up to catch a glimpse of him, a block from the hotel.

Maybe they'll see a flash of him coming from the hotel door, stepping on the team bus.

The vast number of media members from overseas that cover every move he makes.

So the Dodgers will be against this? No.

Close

... good enough for me.

Like, "Hey, Vin.

Hi, guy." But, um, I was on the air in San Francisco with Rick Monday the night that he passed, and we were told, uh, couple of months ahead of time to have something prepared because he went into hospice that day.

And he was in hospice for a while, and we were in San Francisco.

We were told in the top of the fifth inning, uh, but we were told not to say anything yet until the family cleared it.

So we knew.

Now, speaking about your career, how was it being able to be a part of a, a g- another World Series team? That's four, and I'm, I'm 1,000% biased as a Dodger fan, but we got the best s- broadcast crew in all of sports, play-by-play, analysis, pre- and post-game, and you're a big part of it.