Sure sounds like Walker Buehler threw shade at Max Scherzer on Mookie Betts' podcast

Mookie Betts is a jack-of-all-trades. He's an eight-time All-Star, three-time World Series Champion, 2018 AL MVP, a professional bowler, and he's got a podcast. On Base with Mookie Betts has been running since December 2022, with each episode featuring a new player (or manager, in the case of the one episode with Dave Roberts). He's interviewed some of baseball's biggest stars — the first episode featured Aaron Judge — and he even got some flack for sitting down with Fernando Tatis Jr. ahead of the Dodgers' and Padres' NLDS matchup this year.

In his latest episode, filmed on the day of the Dodgers' parade, Betts had a rotating cast of teammates on to share stories about the 2024 season and postseason. It seemed like at least half of LA's roster made appearances at some point — Clayton Kershaw, Freddie Freeman, Kiké Hernández, Tommy Edman, Chris Taylor, Brent Honeywell Jr., Walker Buehler, and so on all stopped by.

Buehler, whose voice was shot from the day's celebrations and who looked more than a little inebriated, caught fans' attention with a passing comment that the mics barely picked up. Betts was in the middle of praising Dylan Cease, who pitched against the Dodgers twice in the LDS and made his second start on short rest, when Buehler said, with no small amount of disdain, "Some people aren't built for that."

Betts quickly rerouted the conversation, but Dodgers fans didn't really need clarification on who Buehler was taking a shot at. It's all speculation, but it's seems pretty obvious that he was talking about Max Scherzer, who Buehler has good reason to still be sore with.

Walker Buehler shades former teammate Max Scherzer after drama with Dodgers in 2021 NLCS

After being traded to the Dodgers with Trea Turner at the 2021 deadline, Scherzer made 11 fantastic starts for LA in the back half of the year and helped the Dodgers to a 106-win season. He pitched similarly well in the postseason with starts in the Wild Card and LDS, but he shook a little in the LCS against the Braves, only going 4 1/3 innings before he was pulled after giving up a two-run homer to Joc Pederson in Game 2.

When it came time for a decisive Game 6, Scherzer refused to pitch, saying that he was "fried" after coming in from the bullpen in Game 5 of the LDS against the Giants and his LCS start. The Dodgers were forced to give the ball to Buehler, who'd pitched in LCS Game 3 just four days before. Buehler put up a good fight in early innings, but he gave up a three-run homer to Eddie Rosario in the bottom of the fourth that eventually won the game for Atlanta and eliminated the Dodgers from the postseason. Buehler later underwent his second Tommy John surgery in August of 2022.

There's no love lost between Scherzer and Dodgers fans because of this incident, so it tracks that Buehler still feels the same way. But his role as closer in Game 5 of this year's World Series on just one day of rest was the perfect, indirect rebuke to Scherzer's unwillingness to step up in 2021, and the Dodgers won the whole thing this time around.