Dodgers Nation: Blue Heaven Podcast

Setting up World Series game 5 for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays. Series notes and narratives, starting pitchers, lineups, and predictions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Setting up World Series game 4 for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays. Series notes and narratives, starting pitchers, lineups, and predictions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Setting up World Series game 3 for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays. Series notes and narratives, starting pitchers, lineups, and predictions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Setting up World Series game 2 for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays. Series notes and narratives, starting pitchers, lineups, and predictions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The stage is set and the Dodgers make it back to the World Series for the third time in four years! Next up, the Tampa Bay Rays. We preview the series with a Rays expert and break down some of the potential weaknesses of a tired Tampa team. First things first, to get to the World Series, the Dodgers had to complete the improbable 3-1 series deficit comeback. Notably, the guys give huge props to Dave Roberts for going with more gut over analytics to get us there. For a bit of Rays 101 (and 102), we welcome Kevin Weiss from the Locked on Rays podcast to learn all about a team LA hasn't faced since 2018. https://twitter.com/LockedOnRays  Plus, we announce the winner of last week's Elite Sports Collectables giveaway and reveal this week's prize! Please go follow Elite Sports Collectables on Instagram so we can keep giving away cool stuff! Also, the guys have a little fun and get a peek inside the MLB bubble with friend of the show, Dodgers Sr. Manager of Production Erick Vazquez. Erick joins us to get praised for all the fantastic content the video team has been providing fans as they act as the eyes and ears of the fanbase amid the pandemic. And a final bit of motivation from Doc and the Blue Heaven boys before the start of a critical World Series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Setting up World Series game 1 for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays. Rosters, series notes and narratives, starting pitchers, lineups, and predictions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dodgers swept their way through the San Diego Padres and have a week-long date set with the Atlanta Braves. But first, we celebrate the 17th championship in Lakers history with the live audience. Before digging into the NLCS, we look at the things that went right, the things that wrong, and some of the oddities from the NLDS. Including Manny Machado's crybaby moment. All set for Atlanta, the guys welcome Braves beat writer Gabe Burns who lets us know what this club has looked like in 2020 and what to expect. Additionally, we have a giveaway! We teamed up with our friends at Elite Sports Collectables (please give them a follow on IG) to giveaway an awesome signed Clayton Kershaw photo! Details on Instagram. Before ending the show, we also answer the worst question in the world for Dodgers fans right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dodgers swept the lowly Brewers like they supposed to and are now set to face the Padres of San Diego in Arlington. With that, it's time to preview what should be a fun/frustrating series for everyone involved. Producer Gary is back for this one as we talk about what we've liked and disliked with the Dodgers so far in the postseason. Plus, while the Dodgers need to win this series, we honestly wonder who wants it more. And does the Dodgers cool, calm, and professional game plan work with the rowdy Friars? Next, we talk roster and position by position advantages between the two clubs and give fans some firepower against the inevitable trolls online before making our series predictions. Lastly, the NLDS got assigned a trash umpire crew that will undoubtedly lead to heartburn, and Clint shares his thoughts on the Astros being where they don't belong: in the playoffs AND at Dodger Stadium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Los Angeles Dodgers playoff baseball, let's go! Excited for the postseason, the guys go extra long as they look to cover all the bases in one 90 minute long super show. The stage is set, the Dodgers face off against the Milwaukee Brewers for the second time in three years and to break down a team we haven't seen, we welcome from "BJ and the Bear," AM1570-Wisconsin's own BJ Degroot. BJ paints the picture of a Brewers team that's ready to roll over in two game so the Milwaukee faithful can get back to their 3-0 Packers in a hurry. Next, Clint and Brook present their preferred lineups and defense for the first round, each with controversial picks to say the least.  Later in the show, we welcome our positive correspondent, Dodgers Nation's own Gail Johnson to help us help fans deal with the stress of another important postseason run for Los Angeles. Finally, deep into the show, we hand out our regular season awards for the 2020 Dodgers. To advertise on this show, please visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DodgersNationBlueHeaven or email Overtime@AdvertiseCast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coming at you live for the second time this week, the guys wonder if -- after the Dodgers played and won against a consensus "good team" in the A's -- people are happy now. Walker Buehler cruised while testing his blister in a final tuneup before the playoffs and Kenley Jansen is doing his part to instill confidence in fans. From good team to bad, the Dodgers welcomed the Anaheim Angels to Los Angeles for the final series of the regular season. With the Halos, Dave Roberts plans on continuing to play with house money and test different "optionality" for October. Mainly the opener and the bulk role. The question from Clint and Brook is whether that's the right call for the boys in blue. Plus the NL Wild Card remains very wild. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With one week left in the regular season, the Dodgers have the number 1 seed in all of baseball almost wrapped up. However, there a few important question marks that the team hopes to answer in these final six games. First, will Walker Buehler -- returning Thursday -- actually be postseason ready? Can Kenley Jansen prove enough to not give fans maximum anxiety in the final inning of ballgames? Thanks to the wild Wild Card, the Dodgers won't even know who they're playing in the first round of the playoffs for possibly the entire week. Clint and Brook reassess the potential matchups and once again look at them wile-e Redlegs with some concern. Finally, just for fun and to do something completely different for this show, the guys decide to do a compleeeetly original idea in talking about whatever Twitter and the live audience wants to talk about. ...and it gets a little intense. To advertise on this show, please visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DodgersNationBlueHeaven or email Overtime@AdvertiseCast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The guys have completed the holy trinity of Dodger Stadium! After having DJ Severe and Dieter Ruehle on in the past, we now welcome the vocals to the party that pops at Chavez Ravine every summer.  Dodgers PA announcer Todd Leitz joins the Blue Heaven boys to talk about working with the best team in professional sports entertainment. Plus, we get into where his love of baseball began, along with great memories at Dodger Stadium, and go-to karaoke songs. For even more fun, Clint steals pro vocal tips from the man with the golden pipes of the ballpark. Check out Todd on Twitter, Instagram, and even on Cameo where he will say just about whatever you want! Thanks again to Todd for joining us! To advertise on this show, please visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DodgersNationBlueHeaven or email Overtime@AdvertiseCast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dodgers dominated the Houston Astros for 17 of 18 innings over the weekend, but the bad taste of a Kenley Jansen blow up and an awful ESPN broadcast ruined it all. Looking forward, as the Padres welcome LA to San Diego, the Blue Heaven boys welcome professional Padres fan Ryan Hart to preview a big series at Dodger Stadium south. Since we got slammed the last time we talked Padres on our own, bringing in a person fully knowledgable in all things Padres just made sense. Hart, the host of the Bleav in Padres Prospects podcast, join us on some wide-ranging Friars topics ahead of the three game series. Additionally, Clint and Brook air their frustrations over MLB's plan to remove booze from postseason celebrations. And, of course, they come up with their own solutions. To advertise on this show, please visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DodgersNationBlueHeaven or email Overtime@AdvertiseCast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ok, we're owning up to it... we might have to accept the self-accusations of being guilty of a bit of hubris. Earlier in the week, we looked in the rearview mirror at the Padres while the Dodgers were simply charging up for the playoffs. Three days later, things aren't so peachy for Los Angeles. The rotation is down two arms after Dustin May took a liner off the foot and Walker Buehler hit the IL again with a nagging blister issue. Focusing on Buehler, we welcome first-timer friend of the show, ESPN's Buster Olney to assess where the Dodgers are, and where they might be with Walker come October. Additionally, we hear from MLB experts through Olney their thoughts on what is going on with slugger Cody Bellinger. Finally, we preview the weekend series against the Astros and look at how this is a very different club than LA faced at the end of July. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After an eventful week, the Blue Heaven boys return and enjoy the fruit of their trolling from the last episode. Padres twitter fans aside, there's also Dodgers notes to talk about. For one, the suddenly shaky bullpen. The question has to be asked, is Dave Roberts reverting back to his old ways with in-game management and overreliance on select relief arms? Next, the guys look at what will likely be the playoff rotation for the Dodgers and compare against what the club might actually do. Additionally, we look ahead to potential playoff matchups that LA could be looking at in the new 3-game first round in October. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices