Dave Roberts is not to blame for Dodgers sweep, Bryce Harper brings fun to playoffs | MLB | THE HERD
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- The MLB championship series is almost set! The Houston Astros and Texas Rangers will battle for the lone star state in the American League, while the Arizona Diamondbacks await the winner of the Philadelphia Phillies-Atlanta Braves series. The Los Angeles Dodgers postseason struggles continue after a clean sweep by their NL West rival. Many fans are blaming manager Dave Roberts for it but Colin Cowherd is not. He breaks down why Roberts is not to blame for the Dodgers struggles. He also talks Bryce Harper's fun attitude and persona, including why his presence is essential in the MLB postseason.
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Colin doesn't know baseball and admits to it. Whatever his writers are telling him to say, goes in one ear out the other. LA needs a new voice...whether its his fault or not. Can't have these results keep happening when you win 100 games a year
Its insane no one talks about the MLB playoffs except The Odd Couple and Colin. There is so much this postseason to talk about!! Good for you Colin!!
I hate it! Like why are we talking about NBA preseason over MLB postseason 😐
Baseball has really fallen off in terms of mainstream appeal in the last many years, the MLB playoffs used to be a huge deal. Shame.
It's all about catering to the blacks nowadays.
He aint talking about about postseason baseball lmao
Cowshit only talks about the dodgers
Baseball is popular when Yankees are good. It’s easy to draw up a Hero vs Villain narrative whenever Yankees are good. Unfortunately, they’ve been terrible over the last decade (except 2017)
I don't get why this sort of postseason coverage doesn't happen more often in the media. Postseason baseball, REGARDLESS of who you root for, is SO. MUCH. FUN. The players, the storylines. I'm a Phillies fan, but watching the DBacks make a run like they have has been immaculate to watch! How can you not be romantic about OCTOBER BASEBALL???
This is the best time of year for baseball. It's even better and more exciting when your team that you're rooting for is in it!!! Small-market baseball teams are getting recognition. ⚾ I'm a Rangers fan my whole life. I grew up on the Braves Dodgers and D-backs because of the coverage. I wish more people will follow baseball again
The ratings is why they stay away from baseball. They study this stuff and most of their viewers watch NFL and NBA topics
@@tomstorm7926it’s like 85% Football, 15% Others.
@@scruffd0g193 it’s football season right now. Nba didn’t start yet. And nfl is also king
@@scruffd0g19314% LeBron, too.
Football is king because not only is it rough and brutal, people have always loved that, but it feeds into our second passion - gambling. Football is absolutely perfect for tossing money around or even just making fantasy teams. Doesn’t even matter if they’re freebie teams. They do a phenomenal job of getting the fans into it.
Still, I’m loving this MLB postseason. It’s been great.
Phillies were under 500 with giraridi then got rid of him and same team made World Series
I heard Philly fans blaming Rob Thompson last year though when Alvarez hit that HR 😂
@JBullock54 that's the beauty of being a fan, you can be irrational
Correlation does not equal causation
@@ryanolson2308 facts equal causation phillies were under 500 with giraridi they changed managers are are 50 over 500 with new manager
@@ryanolson2308 correlation doesn’t equal causation except when it does
You were on fire today, Colin. This is great stuff. Awesome. Cannot say enough about this set.
As an SF Giants fan, I loved seeing the Dodgers go out to Arizona! It makes our bad second half feel even more palatable! 😂 😂
I agree! I'm a HUGE Giants fan & I can't stand the Dodgers. Glad they're out!
I’m a Dodger fan and I’ll be the first to admit this team deserves to be clowned. Bunch of chokers. Betts and Freeman’s performances were disgraceful.
As a Dbacks fan, I’m on cloud 9. It’s been too long. Im glad baseball back.
As a Dodger fan, if the shoe were on the other foot and the giants got eliminated from the playoffs, I sure wouldn't be wasting my time listening to anyone talk about it much less comment on it. What do I care what the giants do, win or lose. They're the sf giants, that alone is reason to cry. Glad the giants don't rent space in my head like we do in theirs. Heck, LA owns their headspace no matter what. You'd think that makes me happy but then again what do I care about the giants or their fans. They're annoying, like gum stuck on the bottom of your shoe.
@@wflyer7985you are 💯 correct. Giants fans are a bunch’s of hotos
Dave Roberts should have had flashbacks to the Nationals back to back HRs on Kershaw when he saw that Lance Lynn was costing us that game. He’s 100% at fault for keeping in an ace that could have been minimized. It looked like he gave up and just let Lance put us more in a hole. He should be let go and should have never gotten a contract extension to begin with. 1 chip in a shorten season with 8 years of chance after chance to get into the WS. He’s a huge reason why the Dodgers have underperformed for years
New bus driver!!! Dusty Baker would have at least five titles in the 11 straight playoff seasons if they had signed him instead of Torre!
Bryce is the only reason I can tolerate baseball at times 😂
The series doesn’t fall on Roberts but the Dodgers fan base has seen enough. Dodgers need a different voice in the club house that has a different approach to the postseason. Thank you for your service, Dave.
lol we've had enough for years. And that covid ring doesn't make up for all the underachieving years. The front office will not do anything different. Why should they? The seats keep getting filled, the beers keep selling, the parking is always full. And funny thing is, most of these "die hard" fans that show up don't really know jack about baseball, the team or it's history. From my experience talking to other Dodger fans, they're the pretty ignorant. And that's the way the front office likes it. The fans keep giving them $$$. Friedman runs that show and Roberts is his puppet. The day they bring in a hard core manager like La Russa or Billy Martin (RIP,) then you'll know they're serious.
Roberts is the problem and has been for years. Time for a new era in LA.
It was not his fault this year I would argue that this was his best year, BUT his demeanor is not vigorous enough. That trickles down to the players. Phil Jackson was tough and had everyone bought in to the mission and he was also a balance of zen/meditation/sage burning/visualization. Dave Roberts has a good personality, no drive. Built for regular season.
@@mikevickilovedogsAbsolutely, Roberts doesn't set the right tone
Trevor Bauer was proven innocent. Dodgers could het him back if they wanted.
Nah, he can still go F himself. Dodgers have moved on, so should everyone else.
Doubt he wants to go back there.
These are the truest words from Colin
Players got hot at the right time for Arizona and players got cold at the wrong time for LA. Same in the Orioles series, same in the Tampa series…same in the Blue Jays series. You can only game plan so much in baseball. It’s not football.
Dodgers under Roberts underachieve every single year
Robert’s should be fired. Clown analytics loving manager that should of had at least 4 championships with that roster. Don’t kid yourself there Colin
Important to note that the team that the dodgers lost to was a team that was leading the national League West through all the way up to the All-Star break. Who then found their footing again in late August September so it's not like it was a team that was wretched all season and somehow made it into the playoffs.
That’s true, without that 7-25 stretch they had, the Diamondbacks could’ve been a 90 win team easily. Without that terrible stretch and the Dodgers getting hot, the D-Backs could’ve won the division
@@lakerskid2013 Dodgers would win regular season every year, just due to their depth.
@@jamesjz918 Maybe so, but when the rest of their division catches up on their depth, they won’t be a shoe-in to win the NL West every year.
Mookie Betts had 0 hits in the 3 games
Freddie Freeman had 1
Kershaw gave up 6 runs in the 1st
Pretty sure Dave Roberts is the reason why
I heard Betts forgot to charge his Apple Watch.
Just like when the Phillies sucked with giraridi and were under 500 and it wasn’t his fault then they changed managers and sane exact rister made it all the way to the wired series it’s all Roberts fault
If you look at one year sure you can make that argument. But we’re at what 7? With the only success coming in a season unlike any other in history? The manager has to face some questions.
Mookie might need that Apple Watch again
All choke freeman, acuna, Betts, Riley, Olson all choke they do nothing in playoffs
Dusitin mays, Trevor Bauer, walker Buehler and Julio Urias would have had a different result. Plus missing Justin Turner who was a motivator and clutch hitter.
Thank you! Yes, totally agree. This wasn't the team that won 100 plus wins in the regular season. It was a different group, even including the fact that Mookie and Freddie simultaneously went AWOL, even they weren't the same as they were during the regular season. I appreciate Colin's take on this matter. It makes the most sense.
You’re just wrong Colin. Dave Roberts just doesn’t manage the team in the playoffs. He’s had plenty of opportunities, he knows he doesn’t have aces. He’s had multiple playoff appearances to prove he can manage the team to WS titles and he can’t do it. Dodger fans are tired time to move on from him.
Nah he’s 100 % right. LA fans always looking for a scapegoat.
Except for that WS title that he did manage them to, right? Roberts was masterful in his bullpen use in this series. It's not his fault the starters had the worst 3 starts in post-season history, combined. It's not his fault Betts and freeman had ONE hit in the series. Roberts has the highest winning percentage in modern history, you Dodger fans are delusional in thinking he's the problem.
@@hunterfitch5951 Yeah they didn’t wanna give him credit then 😂. LA fans always looking for a scapegoat. Maybe they should blame themselves for continuing to think they are going to win the WS every year
@@hunterfitch5951we won the World Series despite Roberts every damn time he brought it baez or Jansen was why we hated Dave
@@JBullock54dude you are delusional
Every year the dodgers bats go cold in October. That’s definitely a coaching and culture issue. Period.
Love the baseball talk
Nice verlander quote, 100% true, it IS impossible to measure trash cans banged on, it isn’t a stat yet. Good culture!
yeah Bryce is that equivalent to "get me a bucket" that Colin was talking about. KD, Tatum, Luka, LeBron. Bryce is that equivalent in baseball. which is why as a manager, you can live with what happened in game 2 in terms of how the game ended, because the very next game he'll go deep twice. he has that DAWG in him as Coach Prime would say lol. And as a Nationals fan, damn it I miss it so much lol
Love this from Colin, and love how he adapts. Usually big on analytics but realizes they don’t do much in October.
Dave Roberts is the one constant
He's got the highest winning percentage in modern baseball history. Roberts is not the problem.
@@hunterfitch5951Ans outside of the covid year the Dodgers are playoff chokers despite having the most or one of the most stacked rosters.
Kershaw is the cancer
If you see him in the streets, BOO HIM!
Starting Kershaw game 1 is a mistake
Ridiculous!
Why can't we blame Roberts??
Roberts messed up the postseason by his terrible game managing AGAIN!!!
He left Kersh and lynn in the game while they were broken down
He kept playing heyward and let barnes pinch hit at the crucial time
His game managing has been awful !!!
If the Dodgers would have made it to the World Series they would not pursue Ohtani. Now being swept, Ohtani would make the Dodgers the hottest ticket in LA in 2024
It doesn't matter what the pitching does. It doesn't matter what calls Dave Roberts makes. The bats have done absolutely nothing.The Dodgers' offense over their last five postseason games (all losses).207 AVG
4-for-38 (.105 AVG) w/ RISP
39 left on base
11 runs
Let's be real about Roberts. in the last 5 years they've had four 100+ win seasons (the only exception being covid shortened season). In those 5 years, they've had 1 WS (again, covid shortened season), and been eliminated 3 times in their first round.
Players have changed. Perhaps it is time to have a real, serious look at the manager and management.
U thump analytics u go home 😂 lol
Go Dbacks!
When exactly is it going to be Dave Roberts fault? Since making the World Series in 2017, if we remove 2020 as it was the biggest outlier season in baseball history, then the dodgers have consistently been one of the 2/3 best teams in the regular season and just as consistently have choked completely in the playoffs. You’d be hard pressed to find a manager who has done less with more in baseball history. Like yeah maybe has an argument for this year not being his fault? But last year (111 wins in the regular season, 1 in the post). No such injury or pitching crisis. The year before? 2019 against the Nats? Like when is enough enough?
LA was ebbing and Dbacks were flowing in this series. Small sample size. The postseason favors the hottest team not necessarily the best.
Exactly. Well said.
Dodgers always have a great regular season record, but they’re also always one of the highest paid/stacked rosters in MLB. And they choke in the playoffs every year outside of 2020, which I think we can look back at now and realize that a 60 game baseball season is not a true baseball season at all. If you can’t blame Roberts for his team always coming out flat in postseason, when would you blame the manager?
I’m not exactly a Roberts fan but I believe the bigger issue here is on the ownership. You can’t just keep buying guys for a year, get rid of them when you lose and buy some more guys next year and hope it will work. You need to establish a core, a foundation to build upon.
Aside from that, the reality is this Dodgers team was never going to come close to winning the WS this season. Many “experts” predicted them to sneak into the wildcard. On top of that, the loss of 4 starting pitchers completely ruined any chances they might’ve had at making a deep postseason run.
I am in no way making excuses for this team because 1. Getting swept the way they did against Arizona is truly embarrassing and 2. there are glaring issues with this lineup as well. Mookie Betts is a regular season superstar and a postseason choker. Look up his numbers in the playoffs for proof. Betts and Freeman were both awful. They got shut down by Brandon Pfaadt for christ’s sake.
It is my belief that this lineup overachieved greatly during the regular season, behind an amazing year from Betts and Freeman. The problem is- when those guys are not amazing this team just can’t score. They have 2 regular season superstars but the rest of the lineup (outside of Martinez maybe) is nothing to write home about. I am honestly not shocked they got swept by Arizona.
@@lakerfan1855 wrong ownership puts together a stacked rusher every year and rivers loses to the inferior team
How was 2020 not a real season to you wtf is your problem we won that ring fair and square quit undermining that championship
@@Zbgaming23 Cause they played 1/3 of the amount of games of a regular season, and no fans in the stadium. Haven’t won a full season of baseball since 88.
Dave Roberts is the most analytics driven coach in the sport. No feel for the game at all. Whoever prepared this rant for Colin did him no service
He's the mouthpiece for Ownership & Executives...He is also the voice in the dugout and locker room. So it's his fault. 🤷🏾♂️
You need great pitching in the playoffs
Maybe not this year, but Dave Roberts has misused his pitching staff in previous regular- and postseasons, and I think that's what a lot of Roberts-haters are thinking. What the Dodgers need is somebody like Bruce Bochy. That guy has gravitas. And remember what Curt Schilling said about him after the 2014 World Series: "Only Bruce Bochy could win a World Series with one starting pitcher."
Dave Roberts is two steps behind luvollo
Player-Coach and Player-Player relationships are strong in AZ too. That's not going to happen with star-based teams expensive teams.
Player-Coach and Player-Player relationships are strong in AZ too. That's not going to happen with star-based teams expensive teams.
Dave Roberts absolutely shares blame here. He had the hottest pitcher in September wallowing in the bullpen. He pitched a whopping 0 innings. No appearance. That is 100% in Dave Roberts control. Not using Ryan Pepiot is asinine.
I was there it was crazyyyy!!! Go Dbacks!
thank you arizona
- rays fan
Thank you Rangers. - Dodgers fan.
@@haroldsmith3035 fair point
Roberts is a bum he should definitely b fired. it’s embarrassing hearing colin stick up for him 😂
Nothing better than playoff baseball
This from the guy that thought you could trade draft picks in baseball. Dave Roberts is the one responsible for pinch hitting Barnes who bats 100 and for starting lynn over pepiot. He might not be the reason the dodgers lose but he sure isn't doing anything to help them win.
If Kershaw isn't an ace, who is?
He's the best pitcher of the last generation, at least in the regular season.
He's Peyton manning in the postseason
He just doesn't have a pair in October
he’s old and washed bud, we don’t live in the past
@@baits8420 So he's getting $30M a year to not be an ace? Was an All-Star, the last 2 seasons, and went 13-5 with a 2.4 ERA, but he's still not an ace?
Your ignorance is duly noted. Carry on....
@@TorBrowserLink Then don't pay him $30M a year, if you nothing is expected of him. Even bad teams don't do that.
Why is everybody making excuses for Dave Roberts? This guy has repeatedly proven that he cannot motivate anybody
A little clueless to say that Roberts should not be blamed for the Dodgers lack of playoff success. 5 of the last 6 full seasons the Dodgers have been a 100 win + team. And only 2 of them did the Dodgers move to the WS, losing both times. Something is not right.
Mookie deserves this for dissing Boston. Take your 1 ring in LA and ponder the 3-5 you coulda had in Beantown.
Plus teams during season hits peaks and valleys, unfortunately Dodgers peak whole season and hit tbe valley during playoffs .
No, it's Friedmans fault. His philosophy to move from the starting rotation to the bullpen.
Brave & dodger lack effort was disgusting post season
How does the marathon vs. sprint argument make any sense? This is the postseason, which is more like the end of the marathon, not the start of a new sprint. Arizona swept the Dodgers, even without the week long break. Maybe if L.A. won Game 3 this argument would apply, but they got clapped that game too. I doubt they would have won a best of 7 either.
Dodgers should be an exhibition team w Roberts at the helm!
Blame or no blame - time for a change in the dugout!
Same bus driver (Dave Roberts). same destination (choke city)!!!
If this was the first time they’d imploded I’d understand, but how many 100 win seasons have to end in the DS before we are allowed to question the manager?
Uncle Colin came out firing here.
If Mookie Betts have 0 hits in 3 games and and Freeman had 1? That's because the skipper didn't prepare them well! It is Robert's fault. The Diamondbacks were all business and came in to win. While the Dodgers were sluggish thinking that because they won 100 games that they"d be fine. It's the skipper to blame for not being hungry or prepared to go to war and win! Fire Dave Robert's
it eats me up inside thinking about how the Yankees turned down signing Harper. he wanted to be a Yankee and even offered to play a different position to be a Yankee and they decided not to sign him =(
That’s been same thing year after year …during the regular season they are the best team…. but once they get to the playoffs it’s over
There was no domestic assault. Judge threw out the case
I’m sorry but I think the players don’t want to play for Dave Roberts anymore.
They say roberts is the best manager the Dodgers ever had BC ! He the appendix on the Dodger body
Dodgers had no shot. Their top four starters were out and their two mvps didn’t hit
Love baseball Colin!
Dave Roberts is refponsability of elimination of dodgers team. Out Dave Roberts.🇲🇽
Statistics work over a long sample size… not 5 games. Law of large numbers.
Let me see if I have the timeline straight. 1 - Invited Christianity haters into stadium. 2 - Stadium floods. 3 - Team Swept in 1st Round. Yep, that looks right.
Robert's is still blame because he still has Kershaw and past few years has blown every play off games help Tommy or Walter.
I still don’t understand why so much success on regular season? I don’t follow them at all all regular season so did they have some sort of cake schedule(if it’s even possible in 160 games)
Roberts isn't the only one to blame, but he's not blameless either. Although the team has no 'Ace', Kershaw starting Game 1 was clearly a sentimental pick. Miller and Pepiot were pitching better than Kershaw or Lynn. Roberts said he didn't want to go with Pepiot over Lynn because he had to think about Games 4 and 5. Well you can't get to Games 4 and 5 if you don't win 1 of the first 3. So Lynn was a poor choice for Game 3 start. Especially after being down 0-2. You can say that Miller and Pepiot are too young, however Pfaadt is also a rookie and had a 3-9 record with a 5.72 ERA. So Diamondback are genius for letting a rookie start post-season games, but Dodgers would be dumb to think their rookies could succeed?
Dave Roberts needs to go
Everyone needs to stop making excuses for the Dodgers, its not going to help them get better.
Great call love this wish more people would buy into the hype of the mlb playoffs
That's what you get when you invite Satan into your house.
You can't let analytics rule. They can be supplementary, but not the everything. If you want proof, just look at the Giants and the Zaidi/Kapler combo. Everything was about analytics and they were the most boring and offensively unproductive team in the majors.
I gotta support Colin for talking about baseball.
Despite all his flaws Colin can have interesting takes , as we all know wrong lots of the time , but when he gets it right they just hit…
Nevermind that Trevor Bauer was completely exonerated.....
I been telling anyone with EARS DA BANK is the best stadium in baseball!!!! Our crowd never sits or shut up!!! It’s like your playing in a fishbowl
Dave Robert’s has been letting down the Dodgers for 8 years already, how can you defend him while he’s been shitting Jordan Love every week
Dusty Baker doesn't take orders from headquarters. That is why he stays on top of the game.
We can say that who fault was it last year when we lost against the padres?
Great take. Talk more baseball throughout the season please
Does anyone else think the 1st round-bye may actually be a disadvantage? Yes, your pitchers can get rest, but your hitters who are used to playing 6 games a week go without seeing a meaningful pitch for a week. 1st round-bye teams are the 4 best teams in baseball but they went 2-2 last year in the divisional round and are currently 1-2 this year. 1-3 if Atlanta loses one more.
It is just a matter once the players have a taste of the offseason, they lost the intensity in their eyes.
Who has the hook in an elimination game when a pitcher is giving up 5 long balls in one inning??
Oh, one was a foul ball?? And the 4th HR was right before he wiggled out of a jam....my bad, carry on.
Absolutely ownership that can print money is to blame that absolutely did not get them the pitching they absolutely had to have. Remembers me of my favorite team the Cubs, all we needed [ my option ] is 1 pitcher and we would have tasted Oct
Did you not see Lance give up four home runs and Roberts still left him in. C"mon Colin!
Yes Colin it is his fault. Lynn should have been pulled after homerun number 2. And he can't motivate a fly. I don't know how great a manager Torey Lovullo is really, but i do know every player on the Dbacks will run through a wall for him.
Three years ago you said how boring Brooks was.
$2m a year is nothing? 😂 must be nice!
Why pinch hit Barnes in thay crucial 7th inning. Barnes is literally negative WAR
Week long layoff from the end of the season until the first playoff game and they really should be reseeded. The wild card round is screwing things up.
dave roberts always leaves the pitcher in when the pitchers should be taken out, he also takes a pitcher out when he should be left in. kershaw came out of the bullpen in 2019 to help the nationals win the world series. He is too buddy buddy with clayton kershaw. lance lynn should have got taken out after 2 homers. kershaw should have been taken out in game 1 way before the 4th or 5th runner was on base. Dave Roberts always interferes and he should have not gotten an extension last year.
Definitely not on Roberts this year. Dodger pitching was depleted. None of the legit starters were available; Buehler, May, Gonsolin, Bauer, Urias all gone. And not one true closer in the bullpen. It's amazing they won 100 games.
Offense had to score 5-6 runs a game to win. They were completely MIA. Mookie Betts didn't have a hit all series. Freeman had one.
Maybe next year.
Story of the dodgers life! Story continues
Dave Roberts cannot make decisions in crunch time, it’s been a decade of falling short and the one time we won it was because of the Rays mistake !! Why is Lance Lynn starting he gave up the most hr’s in the year, why is the back half of our lineup 34+ vets and why on gods earth is miggy Rojas still on the team
Dude didnt say one word about Arizona. Corbin Carrol a future superstar, Gallen and Kelly dominate and not a word. Its all the Dodgers lost the series. God I hate this guy
Colin Sialorrhea Cowherd. Active sebaceous glands. How has Family Guy not referenced him yet?
Well if he ain't the blame who is??? I'm still trying to figure that 1 out