Cody Decker Joins to Discuss MLB Postseason and Ohtani's Season

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00:00Hey, look who it is.

00:04We got him back again.

00:05Thank God, Cody Dagger from Mad Dog Radio on Sirius XM.

00:09He's a badass and his show kicks ass and takes names.

00:14I've always loved him and it's always a pleasure to have him on C2C to riff a little bit with

00:19us.

00:20So Cody, good to see you.

00:21I know you went to a wedding, your buddies, you got shafted on the food, you had to drink

00:26your way through it, St. Augustine, Florida, not ideal for you, but thank God you made

00:31it through it and I made it through Pittsburgh.

00:34I was sweating rum, hungover, two days hard, and here I am with you to talk baseball.

00:40It's the final week in a regular season.

00:42Who ends up with the best record in baseball?

00:45The Phillies, the Yankees, who's it going to be to get that bye?

00:50I've said from Jump Street, the Dodgers are the best team in baseball and I'm going to

00:54stand by it until the very last day.

00:56That doesn't mean they have the best pitching staff, doesn't even mean they have the best

00:59offense.

01:00There's something about this team collectively.

01:02You got Shohei, you got Mookie, you got Freddie, all three of those guys are healthy.

01:05You got Max Muncy back and you got a semblance of their pitching staff back, relatively healthy.

01:09I do think the Dodgers are going to end up being the best team in the game.

01:12I think they're gonna end up with that bye and I strongly think it's not a good thing.

01:16So far, we've seen the bye, what, for two, three seasons so far and it hasn't garnered

01:20the results that I think Major League Baseball truly wants.

01:22I think the idea of parody is great, but to this point, the bye has been a punishment

01:26for the best teams in Major League Baseball.

01:29What is your opinion of this guy, Otani, in terms of what you've played with and seen

01:38in your career?

01:39Like, there are guys, I won't deny that he's a badass and he's brilliant.

01:44I won't deny the guy can hit to the moon and can pitch and can do everything.

01:49He's a phenomena.

01:51I mean, the guy is literally a freak, but, you know, when I was covering the Pirates

01:58in the 80s, Barry Bonds was that player.

02:03He was a 20, 20, then a 30, 30, then a 40, 40.

02:06And then when he went to San Francisco, he started juicing and lied about it, obviously,

02:11like everyone else.

02:13But I have never, I don't care if he juiced or if he drank cow milk, that guy, he could

02:19hit a fastball better than anyone I've ever seen in my life, including Otani.

02:23And I'm going to say this, I've seen better base stealers in my life.

02:28I think Otani is incredible.

02:30He had 50-50.

02:31That's incredible.

02:32But, I mean, that guy, literally, like Lou Brock, Ricky Henderson, they were both better

02:37than him.

02:38Stealing bases.

02:39I don't care what anybody says.

02:40No question.

02:41Well, Ricky Henderson is in a class of his own.

02:43I mean, famously, Ricky Henderson called Harold Reynolds the one year that Ricky got hurt

02:47because Harold Reynolds ended up winning the stolen base record that year.

02:50And he called him and said, hey, how many did you get this year?

02:52And he said, I think I had like 63.

02:54Oh, Ricky would have had that at the break.

02:56Ricky was in his own category when it comes to stealing bases.

02:59But you're not wrong.

03:00I mean, listen, Barry Bonds, I've had the luxury of hitting with Barry Bonds and working

03:04out with Barry Bonds.

03:06And I love Barry Bonds as a kid that grew up a Dodger fan in Los Angeles who I hated

03:09him my entire lifetime.

03:11And then getting to know him off the field, dude, he's he's one of one.

03:14But, dude, I got to say, Otani is when I say one of one of one of one is just it's

03:20a different thing.

03:21This is a year where Otani supposed to be injured.

03:23And during his injured year, decided to go off and do something that's never happened

03:27in 150 years of Major League Baseball.

03:29I hear what you're saying about about the Barry Bonds of the world.

03:32But I'm telling you, of all the people I played against, and I have played against Otani,

03:36Mike Trout is one of those guys where I'm like, that's guys not playing the same sport

03:39as me.

03:40Otani might be playing a different sport than everyone put together.

03:43This was supposed to be a down year for Shohei Otani.

03:46And I was telling everybody to fade him when it came to the MVP at the beginning of the

03:49season, because at no point are they ever going to give an MVP to a National League

03:52D.H. He's going to have to do something that's never happened.

03:55Did it?

03:56Well, he did it.

03:57Yeah, he did it.

03:59So is it the Yankees or the field, which contains the Astros seven straight pennant series?

04:08They're like the Chiefs in football.

04:11They go every year to the ALCS come hell or high water.

04:15But everyone and their brother in sports books and on media, and certainly everyone here

04:19in New York City is stupid enough to fall for the Yankees every single year since before

04:26Christ.

04:27I mean, in New York, every single year, the Yankees either win the World Series or it's

04:32a lousy year.

04:34Yes, it's exactly that.

04:36And being in New York right now, I'm having to deal and mitigate all of these really sad

04:41Yankee fans.

04:42And if they lose one game, oh, we're awful.

04:44Brian Cashman should be fired.

04:46These people are insane.

04:47I can't stress this enough.

04:48They're the best record in the American League.

04:51Do I think they're going to the World Series?

04:52I did have them as a pick.

04:53Remember what I mentioned about that by of all the American League teams getting that

04:57by the team, I think would be the worst with that by is the Yankees.

05:00They're a team that is very predicated on the long ball.

05:02You got the judges, you got to John Carlos Stanton's and the Juan Soto's of the world.

05:05That doesn't mean one doesn't get on base.

05:07He does.

05:08But if you're a team that's predicated on offense, specifically taking your offense

05:11and putting them down for five days and putting them on ice.

05:14I don't like that.

05:15And I really don't like it for the Yankees.

05:17Now, I'm going to look at the field.

05:19I did take a flyer begin at the beginning of the season of a 1981 Dodger Yankee World

05:23Series.

05:24And a part of that is my heart.

05:25I want to see it.

05:26That's what I really want to see so badly.

05:28But dude, if you're giving me the field, I'm going to take the field because there are

05:31some teams in here that are very interesting.

05:33The Cleveland Guardians are criminally under discussed.

05:35They just are.

05:36And they're without Shane Bieber.

05:37And they're doing this.

05:38The Houston Astros.

05:39Like you said, they've been an albatross and just the devil to the Yankees for years and

05:43years and years.

05:44Not to mention everybody in the AL West.

05:46The teams I think we should look out for, believe it or not, the Detroit Tigers.

05:50And here's why.

05:51The Detroit Tigers are hot.

05:52And when it comes to October, it's not the best teams that win the World Series.

05:55It's the hottest teams.

05:56That's how we got the Texas Rangers.

05:57That's how we got the Arizona Dimebacks last year.

05:59And right now, no one's hotter than the Detroit Tigers.

06:01They are now holding on to that second wildcard spot.

06:04They can hold on for dear life for these next six days.

06:06Who knows what this team does in October.

06:08But another team that does worry me, if they sneak in, and there's only one reason.

06:13Because this team is allergic to offense.

06:14I can't stress this enough.

06:15The Seattle Mariners are terrible at hitting baseballs.

06:18But this team can pitch baseballs better than everybody in the American League.

06:21If they get into October with those young arms, I'm really scared for everyone that

06:25faces them.

06:26They got a week to catch up two games.

06:30And I'm sorry.

06:31You know, I guess the Royals could blow it because they haven't been playing well.

06:35Tigers have been playing great.

06:36Twins got swept by the Red Sox.

06:38I want to ask you about the Mets because I wouldn't want to play them either.

06:41Now I know that the Padres and Dimebacks have been great, but the Mets win a lot.

06:49They do.

06:50And if they get Kodai Senga back and they keep this kind of good feeling going.

06:53We saw it last year, dude.

06:54The Mets, it's not out of the realm of possibility.

06:57They weren't even supposed to be here.

06:58This is already a victory of a season.

07:00They're planning for next year.

07:01This team is not going to be going anywhere for years and years and years to come.

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