Speaker 1: It's Game five of the World Series, and we're joining
Speaker 1: right now by a man that is in his fourth
Speaker 1: World Series with the Dodgers. If you think back to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, Austin Barnes caught four of the Dodgers six
Speaker 1: games during that World Championship run, including the final strikeout
Speaker 1: to end it. Austin, great to be with you and
Speaker 1: great to have you back in a World Series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's awesome. You know, four as a fors a
Speaker 2: lot of World series, you know, and we we're one
Speaker 2: way from winning this thing, so we're excited to be here.
Speaker 1: What's it like for you this season?
Speaker 2: It's good, you know, you know, to be able to
Speaker 2: get to this point with this group. You know, it's
Speaker 2: been a long season. One game away from winning the
Speaker 2: World Series. There's you know, there's not that many days
Speaker 2: you can wake up and you know, have a chance
Speaker 2: to win a win a World Series. So we're excited.
Speaker 2: It's been awesome. I think we have a really close group,
Speaker 2: really excited for you know, the opportunity we have ahead
Speaker 2: of us.
Speaker 1: When you say Austin Barnes' name, you think about the
Speaker 1: core group of players that have been to four World
Speaker 1: Series together that have won a World Championship. What does
Speaker 1: it mean to you to be synonymous with this period
Speaker 1: of Dodger history.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's awesome. You know, a lot of great players,
Speaker 2: a lot of great teams. You know, I've seen a
Speaker 2: lot of players come and go. But you know what,
Speaker 2: we we just kept winning, you know, and that's kind
Speaker 2: of what we expect. Uh, you know, we expect to
Speaker 2: be World Series champions every year. You know, we won one,
Speaker 2: you know, I won't whatever one is seventeen and then, uh,
Speaker 2: you know we're here in twenty twenty four with a
Speaker 2: with a great opportunity ahead of us, and you know,
Speaker 2: just that's what it's what's what it's all about. It's coming.
Speaker 2: It's coming and winning and uh bringing a championship back
Speaker 2: to LA.
Speaker 1: What's going on with Freddie Freeman? How has he turned
Speaker 1: it on like this?
Speaker 2: I just think he's he's just he's just ready, you know,
Speaker 2: the moment the World Series. I think he just wants it.
Speaker 2: I think this whole group wants it. We're all kind
Speaker 2: of pulling in the same direction, all all together, fighting, uh,
Speaker 2: fighting with each other, leaning on each other, and uh,
Speaker 2: it's a special group. You know, it's ever since I've
Speaker 2: been here, there's been some special teams, and this is
Speaker 2: the focus and intensity, and you know, the way that
Speaker 2: everybody's playing together is second to none since I've been here.
Speaker 1: I know you guys talked about just committing yourselves for
Speaker 1: three and a half weeks. I know that's not the
Speaker 1: only reason why you're here, but how much of that
Speaker 1: did it play a part into you guys being able
Speaker 1: to be resilient against the padres and everything else that
Speaker 1: has come at you this October?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think everything plays apart. You know, the camaraderie,
Speaker 2: the you know, the dinners, the stuff the clubhouse, the
Speaker 2: play on the field, the intensity in the pitch to pitch,
Speaker 2: the focus, I think it all plays apart. You know,
Speaker 2: it's not easy to win playoff games. It's not easy
Speaker 2: to win a World Series. But you know, I think
Speaker 2: there's a focus and intensity that it takes, and I
Speaker 2: think that we're playing with it right now.
Speaker 1: Austin Barnes is our guest. You're wearing a snow cap.
Speaker 1: It's like seventy degrees in New York. Why are you
Speaker 1: wearing that snow cap?
Speaker 2: The first day we got here. If I say it
Speaker 2: wasn't that warm, and then so you don't come outside
Speaker 2: for a second, you never know, you can come prepared
Speaker 2: to aftert sleeves on too, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: So, hey, before I let you go, the way that
Speaker 1: Jack Flaerty has pitched, there shouldn't be any doubts about
Speaker 1: the way he's gonna come out tonight, right.
Speaker 2: No, you know, I think it's you know, he's just
Speaker 2: the guy who's gonna obviously keep us in the ball game.
Speaker 2: I think our offense is in a really good spot.
Speaker 2: I think he's in a good spot pitching wise, you know.
Speaker 2: And uh, I think Spiddy's got a good beat on
Speaker 2: these guys. You've seen him a lot obviously in seven
Speaker 2: game series. People make adjustments just with what they're seeing.
Speaker 2: And uh, I think we're in a good spot where
Speaker 2: we are, and on both sides of the field, So
Speaker 2: you know, we expect good things to happen every time
Speaker 2: somebody goes out there. You know, even even landing Ak
Speaker 2: and conspiras. They gave us six innings two runs last night,
Speaker 2: and you know, in a World Series game, for two
Speaker 2: rookies to do that, that's you know, it's pretty good.
Speaker 2: So you know, we were in the game last night, Uh,
Speaker 2: just don't get it done. But we're looking forward today.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll let you go. And aren't you proud
Speaker 1: of me? I didn't try to pry into private team
Speaker 1: group messages. That's for you guys. I'm not like these
Speaker 1: other guys trying to get the text messages. Copy and
Speaker 1: paste it to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to me, you're the journalists of the year. I
Speaker 2: think you're sixty minutes specialists. And Emmy is it? Emmy
Speaker 2: is it? Okay, Yeah, I'll give it to you. If
Speaker 2: radio wasn't dead, I'll get on skid out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, radio is alive right now.
Speaker 2: If radio is alive and well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people are listening right now in the I E.
Speaker 1: What's your main street out there? Is it paved? What's
Speaker 1: going on out there?
Speaker 2: There's a lot, you know, there's there's Alessandro. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: you know. Don't don't come to our city. Okay, we'll
Speaker 2: let you know. You tell us, you will let you know.
Speaker 1: I'll come out there for the Austin Barnes Appreciation Parade
Speaker 1: after this.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll get a parade.
Speaker 1: All right. There it goes my third favorite Barnes. Austin