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When I got to the ballpark today, there were cars lined up outside of

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Dodgers Stadium because they're here to celebrate
Jason Hayward, who has only been here

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for a couple of years but certainly
has made his impact on the Dodgers and

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this community, and tonight is his
bibblehead night. He's making the city connect

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uniforms look as a classy as they
possibly can in this babblehead. Jason,

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thanks a lot for the time.
Oh, I appreciate it. I say,

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what a cool night to have a
bibblehead. You know, historic franchise

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in the Los Angeles Dodgers. You
know, honored to be a part of

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that collection, always collected them as
a kid. And I was just telling

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you, you know, before we
got on that this is probably the first

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time I take the one out of
the box in a long time, because

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such a special thing of the baseball
fan. So cool to be a part

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of it. And then, as
you said to where the city connects,

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I think it looks pretty good.
It felt like Christmas standing next to you

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when you were pulling it out of
the box. Are you happy with the

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way it turned out? No,
I think they did a really great job.

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I was just telling Lon Rosen that, uh, you know, thanking

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him for making this bobblehead look like
me. You know, it's a pants

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down version, which is you know, cool to see. I think it's

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cool like as a as a difference, because I sometimes I go pants up,

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pants down whatever. But they got
the armsleeve, they got the wristband,

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the white white cleats, white batting
glove, the you know, the

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the black finished maple bat and the
cool cool navy helmets with the with the

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new City to Connect logo. No, I think they did a great job.

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And nice smile right there about a
young guy. Hey, great smile

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in real life too. Man,
you and ta Oscar Hernandez got the two

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best smiles on this team. Oh, I appreciate it. I appreciate it.

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How many bibbleheads have you had in
your career? I want to say

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this is four or five? You
know, playing a long enough, you

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know, fortunately you get to get
to have a few. But again,

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like you know, I played first, you know historic franchises, been lucky

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enough to say I've done that.
And this is another cool and I added

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the collection. And this one's cool
because I get to do it as a

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dad, you know, And you
have Messi throwing out the first pitch.

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It must be cool that he may
kind of know what's going on. Yeah,

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I think he really has no idea
other than where at Tata's job.

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This is where Tata works. He
knows baseball, and so he'll say,

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all right, like you, maybe
I throw this to dad. Maybe maybe

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I don't right now exactly. So
that'll be interesting to see in itself.

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But it'll be really cool to show
him video and pictures of that day.

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But looking forward to having him and
him and V out there on the field

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with me to celebrate the day,
no doubt. Jason Hayward is our guest,

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and obviously you're on the injured list
right now with the left knee injury.

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We were talking about this as well. How big of a relief is

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it that it wasn't more damage than
you know what it could have been.

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Oh yeah, it's there's a there's
a quote unquote low point of the day.

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You know, for me, it's
not being able to go out there

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and play with the guys and and
grind with them. Of course, it's

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your baba head day. It's it's
really fun day to have. So that

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that's that's unfortunate, but you know, looking at the bright side of things,

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you know, there's no tear there, There was no miniscus or anything

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like that, structural damage. I
hadn't had anything like that before, so

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I just really wasn't sure that day, and in real time when it happened,

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I just knew I hit the wall
really hard, and then it kind

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of threw off my timing as far
as landing and getting my feet set,

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and I came down quick, and
I just knew something wasn't right, and

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I want wanted to keep going,
especially I know what we've been short guys,

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you know in that moment, but
had to get out of there and

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make sure that things were okay.
And now getting those results, yeah,

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like bomb brews, you know,
swelling and all the natural stuff that's gonna

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happen there. But with the All
Star break coming up, take the time

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to take care of that and and
get back to helping us out as soon

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as I can and just being a
part of this run we gotta make.

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I know, you're a big brother
one way or the other. I know,

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James Outman really leaned on you last
year and at the beginning of this

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year, have you had a chance
to talk to him because of your injury,

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he gets this opportunity. No,
we hadn't talked too much. Well,

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I mean we talked something yesterday,
but we hadn't talked too much,

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you know. I guess about like
the whole situation more than like happy to

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see you, great seeing you,
you know, glad to have him back.

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I know he was, you know, he said likewise on great seeing

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me and glad to be back.
You know this it's a silver lining thing,

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right because you hate to have anything
be an injury or someone coming up

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or down. For that reason.
The way I look at it is it's

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nice to have James out, mean, be the guy who's coming up,

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you know, to help us out
and feel that void because you know,

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someone who obviously big part of our
season last year still gonna be a big

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part of our season this year.
You never know what it's gonna look like.

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So I think it's it's kind of
nice, in my opinion, to

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how to be a situation where when
I was saying, hey, we really

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need you to come up right now
on a spot, you know, with

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with a whole lot of pressure like
you've been playing and now let's go do

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it. It's like, hey,
something naturally happened, like, let's go

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play baseball. Don't think, you
know, do your best to go out

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here and win baseball games, help
the team win, And that's every bit

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of who he is. And hopefully
he comes up and has fun with it.

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I think you will. And you
know, we never take things for

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granted, you know, intentionally,
I feel like when you go about things

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the right way, which out he
does. But I still think there's just

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that, you know, a little
bit of you know, naturally somehow we

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kind of take things for granted.
And I think he's gonna make the most

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of this new opportunity. You don't
know what you have until it's gone right.

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Every time, Yeah, every single
time. And you know, I

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think it's awesome to see him back. Jason. Something you said a couple

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of nights ago still sticks with me. A lot of these younger guys are

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getting opportunities because of the injuries,
and you said, maybe try not to

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do too much. Isn't that the
case in baseball when things aren't going your

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way. It's not that you're not
trying hard enough, you're trying too hard.

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Yeah, No, definitely, And
that's it's so hard not to be

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trying too much, to do too
much. It's very tough to mentally just

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say stay within myself and just go
through the process compete, But that's the

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name of it. And you know, you get better with repetition. You

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take the feedback, you use that
as going forward. And that's a beautiful

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thing about a season being this long
as a as a baseball player. So

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you know, our young guys,
I think have done an outstanding job taking

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their lumps, how they've handled those
even in their successes, they still want

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to get better, and you know
it's really fun to have them around.

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Think our vests really appreciate what they
bring to the table. All right,

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Jason, thanks a lot for the
time. Appreciate you celebrating your bobblehead with

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us. There's a photo between you
and Freddie Freeman's locker. I feel like

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next year we need a babble ahead
of that photo. Hey, I can't

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control. I can't control next year. I could do my best of control

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right now. We wait, You'll
see how that goes. But all in

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all, I have said this before
this year already, hope hopefully next year,

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you know, we're all here celebrating
something special like a parade that we

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uh, that we earned together as
a group here in November, you know,

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at the at the end of the
season, being the last last team

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standing. But you know, we'll
see what happens. We things got to

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play out, We got to take
care of business. But uh, that

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would be an amazing thing to see. It would be beautiful. I'd love

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to be there with you. Thanks
a lot for the time and enjoy your

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family on a special day. Thank
you, David, Appreciate you man.