Speaker 1: And an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're here with a man that is going
Speaker 2: to make his season debut tomorrow after a long roadback
Speaker 2: recovering from Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 3: That is the one and only Emit Shean Emmett. Thanks
Speaker 3: a lot for the time, appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: All Right, So here it is tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: You're making return to the mound after Tommy John rehab.
Speaker 3: How excited? Are you?
Speaker 4: Super excited?
Speaker 1: It was a long road and you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm ready to get back out there for sure.
Speaker 3: What was the toughest part of this process for you?
Speaker 1: I'd say probably the toughest part was like not being
Speaker 1: able to contribute last year and not being around the
Speaker 1: guys for a full years. That's takes a toll on you.
Speaker 1: But we had a good group in Arizona, so that
Speaker 1: helped a lot.
Speaker 2: How did you handle all that with the run the
Speaker 2: team made winning the World Series?
Speaker 1: I mean it it was kind of like a weird
Speaker 1: feeling because you're so fired up, but it's also like, wow,
Speaker 1: I wish I could have been a part of that,
Speaker 1: But yeah, hopefully I can do my part and maybe
Speaker 1: be a part of it this year.
Speaker 2: All right, since we're talking about that, I'm curious where
Speaker 2: certain people were when Freddie Freeman hit his walk off
Speaker 2: Grand Slam in Game one of the World Series. Where
Speaker 2: was Emit shean watching that game?
Speaker 1: I was in Kyle Hurt's house. I was living with
Speaker 1: Kyle Hurt and Nick Frosso at the time, so we
Speaker 1: were watching over there.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It was crazy.
Speaker 2: What was the feeling like amongst you three watching that
Speaker 2: game and watching that at bad and just watching Nestor
Speaker 2: Cortes come in after Mookie Betts was walked intentionally?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you can't describe it. It was just
Speaker 1: like an insane feeling. Everyone was jumping around and going crazy.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it was. It was really cool.
Speaker 2: Where were you when the Dodgers clinched in New York
Speaker 2: for Game five?
Speaker 1: I was back home in Arizona still too. Actually, yeah, and.
Speaker 2: Did you have a mini celebration amongst you guys?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, well we were all really fired up.
Speaker 2: Any popping up champagne to recreate the feeling?
Speaker 4: No, no, no popping to champagne, none of that.
Speaker 3: How are you going to control your emotions tomorrow night?
Speaker 4: I'm it.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you're an emotional guy? Will you
Speaker 2: even have to control the emotion?
Speaker 1: No, I don't feel like I'm too emotional out there ever.
Speaker 1: I feel like being here before and getting some good
Speaker 1: experience in twenty three helps a lot with going out there,
Speaker 1: kind of knowing what to expect, and just once I
Speaker 1: get out there and I see a hitter in the boxes,
Speaker 1: all just compete.
Speaker 2: So what have you learned about yourself during this process?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, it was a long time.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 1: A lot of hard work, and yeah, I'm just happy
Speaker 1: to be done with it at this point.
Speaker 2: You were being very coy with your answers the other day,
Speaker 2: But I'm just curious. When you're going through this process,
Speaker 2: it gives you a time to examine who you are
Speaker 2: as a picture. Did you do you feel when you
Speaker 2: show up tomorrow night you're a better picture, a smarter
Speaker 2: pitcher than you were the last time you took the mound?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I mean I feel like the health thing is,
Speaker 1: you know, the main thing there. I'm completely healthy now,
Speaker 1: which is great. I think I'm just a little smarter
Speaker 1: than I was. I got to watch a lot of
Speaker 1: baseball while I was sitting here Arizona, so as you
Speaker 1: pick up on different things, and yeah, physically I feel
Speaker 1: like everything's a little bit better.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, are you bigger and stronger than you were?
Speaker 4: Maybe a little bit? Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: Did you put your efforts into just trying to be
Speaker 2: a bigger, stronger, more physical pitcher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, especially with like the shoulder and the
Speaker 1: forearm rehab stuff, just trying to bulletproof everything around the
Speaker 1: elbow and trying to make sure you like, do everything
Speaker 1: I can to not have that happen again. That was
Speaker 1: the main focus for sure.
Speaker 2: Also, you know, you hear pictures talk about the lower half,
Speaker 2: how important that is to have your legs underneath you.
Speaker 3: Did you put an emphasis on that as well?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean I was doing you know, our programs
Speaker 1: that our strength coaches right up for us, and I
Speaker 1: love those programs and I think I was big on
Speaker 1: that before. But yeah, definitely still through that process, stayed
Speaker 1: with it all right.
Speaker 2: When Emitschan watches the Dodgers this year, one of the
Speaker 2: best records in baseball, despite being a little thin at
Speaker 2: times in the pitching department, when you watch this team.
Speaker 3: What makes it so special and difficult to beat.
Speaker 1: I think it's the group of guys we have and
Speaker 1: how close everybody is. Everyone's, you know, lifting each other
Speaker 1: up at all times. It doesn't matter if you're the
Speaker 1: biggest superstar out there, you know, the last guy on
Speaker 1: the team. It's everyone's together. So I think that's what
Speaker 1: makes it so special.
Speaker 2: When you watch games like last night Otani making his
Speaker 2: pitching debut with the Dodgers. Were you caught up in
Speaker 2: the fandom like everybody else here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. It was crazy to watch. I was, you know,
Speaker 1: to see him go out and do that was insane.
Speaker 1: I'm just happy I'm here to see it.
Speaker 2: And what was the vibe amongst the team on the bench.
Speaker 2: It felt like there was standing room only in the dugout.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty much how it was. Everyone was just
Speaker 1: up on the top rail. You saw everyone in the
Speaker 1: bowl was standing up to the whole time. Everyone's hanging
Speaker 1: on every pitch. So that's kind of how it was
Speaker 1: down here too.
Speaker 3: Well, be like that tomorrow night for you, m it shean.
Speaker 4: Maybe we'll see.
Speaker 2: I don't know, you're thinking about picking up a bat
Speaker 2: and telling Dave, you know, hey, we don't need the
Speaker 2: DH tonight.
Speaker 3: We don't need Otani tonight. I'm taking the lumber.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: too good of a hitter. I got five hundred on
Speaker 1: Basin pro Ball, though.
Speaker 3: So okay, yeah, who counting No.
Speaker 1: One?
Speaker 4: Probably?
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks a lot for the time, Congratulations on making
Speaker 2: it back, and certainly the future is bright for you.
Speaker 2: So you're a great guy and everybody's rooting for you.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Thanks David,