It didn't feel right to go into season two and start talking baseball without addressing the horrific wildfires in Los Angeles at the beginning of the year. Our hearts go out to everyone who was affected, everyone who lost their homes, loved ones, businesses and is now in the process of rebuilding. 

We are honored to have our friend, Jose Martinez back on the podcast to share his story. Jose has amazed us with his high spirits and positivity after losing his home and everything he owned in the Altadena fires where his family lived for 25 years. 

Jose shared his experience from the moment he first saw the fires spreading to where he's at now as he rebuilds. It has been amazing to hear such amazing stories from his community rallying around him and the generosity he has been receiving.

Later in the episode, we have my sister, Samantha Myer, on the podcast who shares about turning her warehouse into a donation base in Venice. 

We love you LA! Dodgers, let’s bring another World Series back to our city this year!

If you want to help rebuilding efforts in our city, here are some organizations we love and have donated to:

Los Angeles Fire Department

supportlafd.org/donate

LA Food Bank

www.lafoodbank.org

Eaton Fire Animal Rescue

https://pasadenahumane.org/

San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity

sgvhabitat.charityproud.org/Donate

We are ending our first season of the podcast, fittingly, on episode 42. And what a season it was! Melissa and Aly toast to the year of the Dodgers, as Adam drinks the whole bottle behind the camera. The girls go over their favorite moments from the postseason, regular season and non-baseball moments, too. From getting to know Shohei to Mookie at shortstop, to "Gibby meet Freddie", to signing Teo back, they get into it all. And with a lot of champagne toasts, too.

The girls also go back and forth with what stood out from their first year having a podcast, what they are looking forward to, and their mantras and goals for 2025. It's a longer episode today so hope you enjoy reflecting on this amazing season with your favorite baseball loving ladies, oh and Adam.

We will be taking a break from recording in the month of January but will still be gracing your feed with content. The podcast will be back with new episodes before you know it!

Until then, Melissa, Aly and Adam want to hear from you! What were your favorite parts of the podcast? Favorite episode? What would you like more of? Leave a comment so we can make season 2 even better!Listeners, we truly cannot thank you enough for your support of our podcast this year and we can't wait to include you in more episodes next season! Go Dodgers!

Melissa and Aly are zoom-ing for today's episode as Melissa is in NJ recording from her mom's office. Melissa shares with everyone about the loss of her grandmother and plays a touching voicemail so everyone can get a glimpse of how sweet and special her Nana was.

The girls get into all the trade talk with the Dodgers and around the league. They give their thoughts on the Juan Soto contract, and Melissa fills us in on what her Mets loving family members think about it. Adam breaks the news to the girls about Cody Bellinger signing with the Yankees mid recording, getting their real time reactions. They express their frustration over Teo not signing with the Dodgers yet, their thoughts on Blake Snell, Michael Conforto, and discuss where players like Buehler, Kike and Joe Kelly might go.

Aly gives Melissa her Christmas gift which couldn't BE any more perfect. There's a surprise guest who pops in giving you all a face to match the "Happy Freddie Freeman Friday" texts Melissa often posts to our Instagram stories. They give ideas for holiday gifts, fight with Adam per usual, and give their thoughts and hopes for the 2025 season.

Melissa, Aly and Adam wish you and your families a very happy holiday!! We want Teo for Christmas!! Let us know what or who you're asking the Dodgers for!

We’re so excited to present this weeks episode from La Sorted’s in Chinatown featuring Tommy Brockert, the founder and owner. Tommy started his pizza business during COVID and opened his first sit down restaurant this past October, only a baseball throw away from Dodger Stadium! Even though it’s new, it feels like this place has been here for 100 years, with its walls covered in LA sports memories and a local hometown feel. Not to mention amazing pizza!

Melissa talked to Tommy all about his LA fandom, dodger love and his passion for creating a true community around the things that matter most to us. Melissa loved talking to Tommy about all his entrepreneurial spirit and creating a business around the dodgers, as she did.

We hope you enjoy this episode and please go support Tommy and the La Sorteds team! The up side down mamba slice is our favorite! 

We are thrilled to have David Vassegh on the podcast today! David is a reporter for the Dodgers, host of Dodger Talk, and "the voice of the fans". Melissa was especially excited to talk to David as she has been listening to Dodger Talk for years, as I'm sure you have to!

Melissa learns where David's love for the Dodgers came from and how his fandom has changed since working for the team. Melissa even teases David about bribing players with Travis Mathew swag. They talk about Corey Seager, Justin Turner, Cody Bellinger and other players David grew close to.

David tells Melissa when he knew the team was different this year, the moment on the celebration stage with Clayton Kershaw, seeing the parade through Teoscar Hernandez' eyes and why the world series hangover is real.

David shares how excited he is about the Blake Snell signing and why the Dodgers already have a new motivation going into the 2025 season.

We are so grateful to David for coming on the podcast and hope you enjoy this conversation as much as Melissa did!

What better way to share how grateful we are for all of you on Thanksgiving than to bring you into the podcast. We're releasing our second fan episode where Melissa sat down and chatted with three Dodger fans - Brian, Jose and Sonia.

Melissa asked all three what made them Dodger fans and what this World Series win meant to them. She learns from them, talks Dodgers with them, and again realizes our love for the Dodgers is so much bigger than baseball. Please enjoy Brian, Jose and Sonia!

If you want to be on our next fan episode, please email us at [email protected] and let us know how you became a Dodger fan and why you love baseball!

Happy Thanksgiving!

The girls haven't seen in each other in two weeks so they have a lot of catching up to do, so they decided to let you in on it all. Melissa fills Aly in on all the excitement going on with the podcast since Aly has been out of town. Melissa tells Aly all about the events at Legends' Attic meeting Miguel Rojas, co-hosting with Orel Hershiser, going back on ESPN radio and meeting more Dodger legends!

Aly tells Melissa about her work trip to NYC, where she stayed, what project her documentary team is working on next, and a contact she made that may just get the TDTM team to Japan!

There's a special guest in the house, Grant, a former intern at Kennedy/Marshall who has some hilarious commentary today.

The girls discuss Hot Stove chatter, what players they want back, who they think the Dodgers will sign, and even Adam says he wants Kike Hernandez back.

Melissa and Aly wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving and are so grateful to you all for supporting the podcast! Leave us a comment telling us what's been your favorite episode so far! Happy Thanksgiving!

Recording from Legends' Attic at the Miguel Rojas event last weekend, we got two World Series Champions on the podcast! With Orel Hershiser filling in as co-host, Miggy Ro came on to chat before he spent the next couple hours signing autographs and taking pictures with fans. Melissa couldn't be more thrilled to meet and chat with Miggy. (She even made him cookies.)

They talk about the World Series win, what the future holds for Miggy, and why it's one thing to play in the big leagues, and another to play for the Dodgers.

The rest of the episode is cut from segments of the night as Melissa plays co-host/assistant to Orel as they chat and he meets fans and signs autographs. An extended version of the meet and greet can be found on our Youtube channel.

This was such a fun event. Melissa could not have been more thrilled to meet fellow Dodger fans and listeners of the podcast. We thank the whole team at Legends' Attic for including us in this night and Orel Hershiser for coming on the podcast for the second time and being such a great friend and supporter of Talk Dodgers to Me.

Welcome to Legends' Attic! We recorded this episode over a month ago and are so happy to release our interview with part-owner, Eddie Allizadeh. Legends' Attic is a sports memorabilia store in Claremont, CA and Eddie is one of three owners, another being Orel Hershiser! We sat down with Eddie who told us all about how Legends' Attic came about and how he went from admiring Orel as a Dodger fan to becoming one of his best friends and business partners. (Spoiler alert - Orel actually calls Eddie mid conversation during this episode!)

We had such a blast talking with Eddie in the Dodger room at Legends' Attic. If you usually just listen to the podcast, this is one you should wait to watch because we are sitting in Dodger heaven! Eddie tells us all about his lifelong love of the Dodgers, the first piece he collected, favorite Dodger memories, favorite pieces at the store, Fernandomania, and getting married at Dodger Stadium!

From the moment we walked into Legends' Attic, we were greeted with such love and joy that we can't wait for you to experience it for yourselves. It truly is a special place. Not only is it Dodger memorabilia, but sports memorabilia and art across the board. 

This Friday, November 15, we are hosting an event with Orel Hershiser himself at Legends' Attic starting at 5pm. Miguel Rojas will be there signing autographs and taking photos! The event is open to anyone but if you want to have your picture taken and autograph signed by Miggy Ro, head to legendsattic.com to purchase a ticket. Melissa will be doing a live podcast with Orel and then will be hanging out with everyone. You get to meet Eddie, too! We can't wait to meet you!!

It's one week since we won the World Series, and Melissa and Aly are still on cloud nine. The girls are dedicating this episode to Fernando Valenzuela as it is episode 34. They talk and reflect on the postseason, stand out moments and how many times they have rewatched Freddie Freeman's grand slam.

They share what it was like attending the World Series Celebration at Dodger Stadium and how much they enjoyed speeches from players, the energy from Dodger fans, meeting TDTM listeners, and this overdue celebration.

We talk about what this win means to us as Dodger fans, what it means for the team now and what it means for them moving forward.

And the fights with Adam continue as he reminds the girls yet again, they are spoiled Dodger fans. Good luck to Adam and his Cubs on opening day against the World Series Champs.

Make sure to check out our website for our World Series merch and e-mail us if you want to be on one of our fan episodes - [email protected]. We are so grateful for all of you listeners!