Dodgers' Golden Era: Dave Roberts and Global Fandom

This has got to be the greatest era of Dodger baseball, going all the way back to Brooklyn as well. I mean, I can't think even under the Lasorda time and even under the Austin time where you had a better era of baseball. Is that fair to say, Tim? I don't think it's just fair to say. I think it's accurate to say. When you look at the history of this franchise, it's a storied history. Have they won all the championships the Yankees have won? No. But they've been there. They've been around. And they play exceptional baseball. you're drawing 40, 50,000 a night which most teams just can't do obviously Dodger Stadium is the biggest venue in baseball but you know the way the fans turn out the way that they uh you know you can't go anywhere in the city um without seeing something Dodgers in fact uh i was briefly in Japan in July and you can't go around Tokyo without or the entire country without seeing something Dodgers especially the Ohtani and Yamamoto and Sasaki jerseys uh you would think you're in Los Angeles sometimes when you're walking in in areas of Tokyo with the number of people wearing Dodger stuff more so than Tokyo Giants stuff it was incredible to witness i knew it was going to be big i didn't think it was going to be that big but it is huge uh the Dodger stores there i mean obviously here they do too but um i just do i do agree i think that all in all when you put the pieces together and you you put it into this one pack last 10 years or so this is golden era of Dodger baseball and the guy who's been guiding the ship Dave Roberts i think has secured a spot in the Hall of Fame for what he has done uh as a manager not as a player he was a pretty decent player good player role player uh but as a manager when you look at the managers who've been placed in the Hall of Fame he's equaled or bettered a lot of them in terms of what he's done in terms of wins and losses so i think that that's not hyperbole and that's not just because i work around the guy and i know him it's because of what his body of work matches or or supersedes many other Hall of Fame managers bodies of work you know you win three World Series you're pretty much in but he's been there he's been to that dance a lot of times uh and three times he's come away with the with the one that brought him and other times he's gone away short-handed but again just to get there is quite a chore Thank you.