Speaker 1: The season of Mookie Bets continues tonight here in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Mookie number one, welcome back, And I'm sure it's exciting
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 2: Yes it is. I'm happy to be out of the house.
Speaker 3: I bet you are.
Speaker 1: What's been the last six weeks like for you to
Speaker 1: get ready, to be prepared as much as possible.
Speaker 2: Just a lot of a lot of.
Speaker 4: Baseball just I mean working out, you know, normal stuff.
Speaker 4: But I got to spend some some good quality of
Speaker 4: time with my family, something that I've never never got
Speaker 4: to do with whether since i was eighteen years old,
Speaker 4: so you know, he's good to It was good to
Speaker 4: get to see my kids for two much straight.
Speaker 3: And you also got some reps in the broadcast booth.
Speaker 4: Yeah I did, I did. I got some reps. So
Speaker 4: here in what eight nine years, i'll I maybe may
Speaker 4: have another option.
Speaker 1: MOOKI when you go from shortstop to right field, how
Speaker 1: big of a difference are the throws? Do you feel
Speaker 1: like that's going to be an adjustment for you?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: I think, uh, you know, I did played right for
Speaker 4: what nine years? Ten years straight, so that's a little
Speaker 4: more ingrained in me. But you know, I definitely appreciate
Speaker 4: appreciated the challenge that Shortstoff brought. You know, I haven't
Speaker 4: been challenged like that, and you know since I was
Speaker 4: really like eighteen nineteen years old, and so I'm I'm
Speaker 4: glad I got to fall in love with something like
Speaker 4: that and really kind of experience a dream, which is
Speaker 4: playing shortstop in the big leagues.
Speaker 1: Superstars aren't usually asked to move positions as much as
Speaker 1: you've been asked to do.
Speaker 3: Why have you been so open to.
Speaker 1: Be able to be as flexible as you have been
Speaker 1: for the team.
Speaker 4: I just want to win, the will to win, and
Speaker 4: you know, I'll do whatever it takes, and I'm confident
Speaker 4: in my abilities to play pretty much everywhere on the diamond.
Speaker 4: And so that's just kind of where it comes from,
Speaker 4: just some confidence from within.
Speaker 1: It feels like a right field and mookie bets go
Speaker 1: together like a peanut, butter and jelly. It's like one
Speaker 1: of the great baseball reunions in a long time. How
Speaker 1: much has the last few days helped you get reacquainted
Speaker 1: to your old friend out there.
Speaker 4: It's been good. It's been it's been fun. You know,
Speaker 4: it wasn't It wasn't like it has not like I
Speaker 4: hadn't been out there in forever, you know, it's been
Speaker 4: a couple of months, but uh, you know, going back
Speaker 4: out there is uh kind of like home, you know,
Speaker 4: and so I'm happy to be back.
Speaker 1: What was the conversation like between you and Dave Roberts.
Speaker 1: Dave said, you initiated this conversation about just recognizing where
Speaker 1: you're at, where the team's at. What made you pick
Speaker 1: up the phone and start that conversation.
Speaker 4: You know, I obviously want to win, right and like
Speaker 4: you said, looking at the roster, but you know, it's
Speaker 4: also those things where if you want to win, you
Speaker 4: can't really be thinking the night before about this groundball.
Speaker 4: You may get into seventh in ach, you know, and
Speaker 4: it could be bases load or whatever, and I don't.
Speaker 2: I just didn't want that anxiety on me.
Speaker 4: I'm fully confident and I believe.
Speaker 2: In myself that I can do it.
Speaker 4: But there's two guys that I know will do it,
Speaker 4: and uh so that's just really what it is. Like
Speaker 4: I'm I understand and I get it. You know, this
Speaker 4: is all new and it's a challenge, right, and you know,
Speaker 4: just trying to help the team, man, that's really all
Speaker 4: it is. And right, now, I think helping the team
Speaker 4: is going back out.
Speaker 2: The right Muki.
Speaker 1: You proved that you can do it, and you've proven
Speaker 1: to yourself that you could do a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Did you learn anything more about yourself going through that
Speaker 1: challenge and being as vulnerable as you were to everything
Speaker 1: that came with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I learned a lot about myself.
Speaker 4: I've learned, you know, being challenged with a tall task
Speaker 4: like that the person I turned into, I didn't know
Speaker 4: who I would become, and how much it has helped
Speaker 4: me in other facets of the game, in life and whatnot.
Speaker 4: You know, being challenged there and being vulnerable there and
Speaker 4: really kind of failing a lot. I appreciate it. I
Speaker 4: appreciate it because now I know, whatever life throws at me,
Speaker 4: whatever baseball throws at me, it can't be worse than
Speaker 4: what I.
Speaker 1: Did before you got hurt. You were on your way
Speaker 1: to another MVP leading off. Is that a bigger sacrifice
Speaker 1: for us to recognize more than just going back to
Speaker 1: your old position?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, we got like that's we.
Speaker 3: Got Mookie bets here too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's different with show.
Speaker 4: Show was a generational well more than generational talent, and
Speaker 4: maybe the best player that's ever played the game, and
Speaker 4: so there's no argument for me there.
Speaker 1: All right, Mookie, Before I let you go, I wanted
Speaker 1: to let you have your shine. That's why I stayed
Speaker 1: away from the slide today.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for today.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for the time, sir.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Mookie, Bets and right field reunited and it
Speaker 1: feels so good.