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It's a beautiful Father's Day at Dodgers
Stadium, and we're with a champion of

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a father and the best third base
coach in all of Major League Baseball,

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the one and only Dino Ebel.
Happy Father's Day, Dino. Oh,

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thank you, Dave, and Happy
father Days to you and all our great

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fans out there today. That's gonna
watch or listen to Dodger Baseball. I

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always say that you used to be
Deno Ebel, one of the best third

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base coaches in the big leagues,
but now you're known as Brady and Trey's

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father. How does that feel.
It's actually pretty good. The pressure is

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off of me, so it's good. I mean, boys are you know,

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they're good and they're starting their summer
baseball. But yeah, thank you

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for that, and I will just
continue to move forward. And this is

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not a father pressuring his kids to
follow in his footsteps. This is them

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wanting to pursue this dream. Absolutely
from day one. I just brought him

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to the park and never pushed baseball
on him. And you know, we've

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talked about in the past about all
the travel ball and the Little League and

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all that stuff that the kids go
through. But I was a dad that

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just sat back, and they truly
love the game. They want to be

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here with me now that you know
they're going into their senior and junior year

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seats, you know, junior seasons. But yeah, they they they love

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the game and their dream is to
be here one day and then they're they're

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watching our guys perform every day.
So it's good for me to bring him

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to the park. I know Brady's
older than Trey, and obviously he's getting

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a lot of attention. Is it
awkward at times when you know there's a

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lot of people around here that have
their eyes on your oldest son. Not

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really. I think Trey's handled it
well. I think his his time is

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coming now that he's going to his
junior season. And you know, he

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was out here the other day taking
ground balls, and a few few of

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the scouts that were here, so
they couldn't believe his arm strength and the

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way you know, he fills the
ball. So it's just it's just a

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process. He sees his brother in
front of him, and what I like

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about it is they compete, so
Trey watches him. He wants to be

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better and his bigger brother, and
then they come out here and you know

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you have to perform in front of
Mookie and Rojas and Kike and Big O

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and you know Lux and Freddie Freeman. So it's constantly a competition for both

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the Evil Brothers and I enjoy watching
it. Dodger's third base coach. Do

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you know Ebel is our guest?
Do you know when you look at the

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team basically the last twenty games you've
been treading water but still have a big

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lead in the division. How much
more is there in this team? Oh?

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There's a lot, David. You
know teams, you know, we've

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done this before, up and ups
and downs throughout the game, but throughout

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a long season. But you know, we always come out here. The

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process is really good. The clubhouse
is great. Dave does a great job

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of keeping everybody in form, communicating, which he's he's outstanding in that.

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And the guys come out and they
do their work. Now, if there

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was a left or right where now
they're not coming out and they're in a

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fielm sorry for themselves, I'll use
that word, but you know they're not

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coming out working. And you know
what, now, as coaches, we

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got to, you know, go
to them and say, listen, let's

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keep the process going, which has
been great since spring training. You know,

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you're not gonna get four hits a
game. You're not. You might

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make an error, you might throw
a ball over the plate and the guy

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here to home run. So it's
part of it. You learn from it,

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you turn the page, you come
back out today and you win today's

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ball game. Do you know you're
right in the trenches with Mookie Betts on

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a daily basis, three four hours
before every game. Where is he as

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far as the improvement? You know, he's getting better. I know he's

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so, you know, like thinks
he can be better than what he is.

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But you know I'm speaking from me. You know I tell this to

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Mookie all the time. Is you
know, nobody is doing what you're doing.

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Nobody has ever gone from a go
glove right fielder to second base,

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to right field, to shortstop to
second to right and now you're an everyday

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shortstop. So it's a process.
And I saw the other day when he

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said this is hard. It's hard, and we've told him that. But

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he's such a good competitor athlete.
He wants to be elite. He wants

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to help his team win a championship. But again, you see it every

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day, day in and day out. This guy doesn't miss a beat.

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He wants to learn and he's pushing
forward. So we just got to play

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day by day, keep him healthy, which he is. His arm strength

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is great, and get him going
in the batter's box and he'll be the

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mookie that everybody knows. And your
positioning seems to help him out a lot.

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The Dodgers are at the top of
baseball with where you position guys for

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certain hitters. Absolutely, our front
office and our guys upstairs, you know,

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they send down great information. We
cross check it, you know,

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I go over videos with certain pitchers, righty, lefties, and then how

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many at bats they got off of
our own pitchers. But yeah, we

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try to put him in the best
spot, which we do a good job

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doing that, and then let the
athleticism take over of our infielders and then

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if they make a diving play,
that's on them and that's why they're in

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the big leagues. Deno Ebols known
as obviously the best third base coach in

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baseball, but also when people describe
you, they describe you as an aggressive

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third base coach. Do you feel
like this Dodger team has matched your identity.

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Well, yeah, yeah, you
know, there's times where you have

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to play the scoreboard. We got
such a good offense, and you know,

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as a third base coach, you
know I'm never gonna be perfect.

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I understand that. But sometimes with
one out and two outs and you look

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on deck or who's in the hole, which I do all the time,

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you want some of your big hitters
to get that at bat and trying to

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you know, force the issue,
and maybe he gets thrown out at the

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plate. So there's gonna be times
when I read the scoreboard, especially with

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no outs. I just you know, I want to people to understand.

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With no outs, if I can't
get the guy home by standing, then

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it's not a real good play on
my part. I can't make it a

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close play and he's saved when you
got you know, no outs and you

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got three guys coming up to drive
a run in. So one out I

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can be a little bit more aggressive. Two outs, I'm more aggressive,

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But depending on who's on deck in
situation in the game, I'll let the

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big boys swing the bat behind him. Hey, that's why he's the best

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hijack Dino's cell phone to do this
interview on Father's Day. So here's your

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cell phone and thanks a lot,
Thanks David. I almost gave it to

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you, but I need that phone. It's important. Do you know ebol

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on Father's Day?