Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Globe Life Field is where the Rangers played, but the
Speaker 2: Dodgers made it their house in twenty twenty and Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts won the World Series championship and owned Globe Life
Speaker 2: Field to help the Dodgers back then, and Mookie joins
Speaker 2: us on the opposite side of the dugout. I know
Speaker 2: you were here a couple of years ago, but what's
Speaker 2: the feelings coming back here again? You know?
Speaker 3: I think every time I come into this park that
Speaker 3: situation in life, COVID and that month that we spent here.
Speaker 3: I mean we were here for literally a month straight.
Speaker 3: You know, it just reminds you of obviously what we accomplished,
Speaker 3: the one in the World Series, but you know, it's
Speaker 3: just something that in life, you know, go and stay
Speaker 3: in a hotel for a month and just life experiences
Speaker 3: that you know, you never you'll never forget.
Speaker 2: For sure, you didn't know me that well back then,
Speaker 2: But did you realize I was staying at this Lowe's
Speaker 2: hotel for a month and I was in the radio
Speaker 2: booth the whole time.
Speaker 1: I did not know that.
Speaker 3: I didn't think I was oblivious everything. I mean, they
Speaker 3: kept us from every every day. I don't even did
Speaker 3: we even see you?
Speaker 2: Never saw me.
Speaker 1: I don't even think we even saw you.
Speaker 3: So you know, it was it was fun, but it
Speaker 3: wasn't fun. But you know the most important thing is we.
Speaker 2: Wont One thing that I always remember about that postseason run.
Speaker 2: Obviously you had a big hit in Game six of
Speaker 2: the World Series, but those amazing catches and the emotion
Speaker 2: you showed in right field, just the defensive highlights to
Speaker 2: me stand out more than anything offensively you guys did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I always, as they always say it
Speaker 3: every sport defense wins championships. But yeah, that's that's one
Speaker 3: thing I definitely remember. I remember, you know, down the
Speaker 3: right for a lot. I know people can't see, but
Speaker 3: my wife was always down there every game with the kid,
Speaker 3: with my daughter at the time, and I remember just
Speaker 3: looking in between pitches looking at her and we were
Speaker 3: just kind of doing our little sign language through pretty
Speaker 3: much every game, and that was she kind of kept
Speaker 3: me calm, and you know, especially during those war serious
Speaker 3: games because they were you know, we were going back
Speaker 3: and forth, and I mean it was just a lot,
Speaker 3: you know, in winning the World Series, it's hard to do.
Speaker 3: And I'll never forget her just standing and saying right
Speaker 3: there and me just looking at her between every pitch.
Speaker 2: Now, you're a proud papa of too. How are the
Speaker 2: kids and how do they make your life that much better?
Speaker 3: They My son's birthday is today, so we got this
Speaker 3: you little brext with him and now I'm at work,
Speaker 3: but he's with his fans, with his grandparents and whatnot,
Speaker 3: hanging out.
Speaker 1: You know. They they make it.
Speaker 3: They make it to where you have something to look
Speaker 3: forward to, you know, especially when I'm done playing. You know,
Speaker 3: each and every day you wake up, there's something.
Speaker 1: To do with them, something new that they can learn
Speaker 1: and whatnot.
Speaker 3: And obviously I'm in the middle of my grind right now,
Speaker 3: so it's kind of hard.
Speaker 1: To do both. But the time that I don't get
Speaker 1: to spend right here, right here, right now would them.
Speaker 3: I'm definitely looking forward to it, because I mean, we
Speaker 3: don't play this game for so so for that long,
Speaker 3: but they grow up for a long time. So that's
Speaker 3: that's kind of what I'm looking forward to right now.
Speaker 2: Your daughter has your smile, Yeah, thank you out there.
Speaker 3: She's a she's a work of art man.
Speaker 1: She she loves dancing and all the other things.
Speaker 3: Actually it's really neat having a daughter, just because I'm
Speaker 3: only child. Obviously being a boy and coming from a
Speaker 3: sports family. My daughter is like anti sports, So, you know,
Speaker 3: me learning.
Speaker 1: About how to play, how to play.
Speaker 3: Dolls and dance class and all those other things actually
Speaker 3: is really neat and fascinating. It's a new world that
Speaker 3: I've never experienced, and now that I'm kind of going
Speaker 3: through it, I have a new appreciation when I see
Speaker 3: dancers or cheerleaders and all those supper things because my
Speaker 3: daughter wants to do that.
Speaker 1: Girl.
Speaker 2: Dad. Mookie Betts is our guest here in the house
Speaker 2: that him Seeger and Jock made famous. Mookie, now you're
Speaker 2: playing shortstop. You put in so much work this off
Speaker 2: season and continue to do so. Where would you ass
Speaker 2: says where you're at right now?
Speaker 1: I think I'm doing okay. You know, I've had a
Speaker 1: couple of errors early.
Speaker 3: You know, it's hard to say, you know, that's part
Speaker 3: of the game when I work so hard and whatnot,
Speaker 3: because I'm not really accepting of you know, that's part
Speaker 3: of the game.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it is, and so I need to
Speaker 1: be accepting of failures that happened, but you know it's.
Speaker 3: I genuinely love coming to work like it's just coming
Speaker 3: to work and going to working short like it's just
Speaker 3: actual fun for me, Like I would just wake up
Speaker 3: out of bed just to like how people go play golf.
Speaker 3: That's how I feel about coming to to to practice
Speaker 3: at shortstop it. So it's definitely, uh, I'm not saying
Speaker 3: a new or a new light or whatnot, but different
Speaker 3: energy for me, and I truly loved it.
Speaker 1: It's been fun.
Speaker 3: It's hard, it's really hard, but it's I'm catching myself
Speaker 3: now during games asking Tommy in months, like what do
Speaker 3: I do here? Because some of these situations I've never
Speaker 3: been in, and so you know, just being in him,
Speaker 3: you know, have to kind of talk through it as
Speaker 3: you go because there's so many different things that kind
Speaker 3: of go on, and so, you know, it's been fun.
Speaker 3: I know I have a lot more experience to go,
Speaker 3: but it's been fun so far.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought up Tommy Edmund. How much does
Speaker 2: he help you because he seems to be one of
Speaker 2: the smartest, most underrated players on the field.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he is, I mean smartest, I mean one of
Speaker 3: the smartest obviously one of.
Speaker 1: The most talented.
Speaker 3: Whether you believe it or not, you know he is,
Speaker 3: and you know, he's really been someone I can talk to.
Speaker 1: Is really easy to talk to because I.
Speaker 3: Can go ask him a dumb question and he's not
Speaker 3: gonna look at me and like, why did you ask
Speaker 3: me that?
Speaker 1: Or you're supposed to know that?
Speaker 3: Like he literally will just tell me if it's a
Speaker 3: pretty simple answer. He just says it simply. He doesn't
Speaker 3: try and be a little me or or and nobody does.
Speaker 3: But definitely Tommy, you know, he just he's really easy
Speaker 3: for you to talk to and ask those those questions
Speaker 3: that I probably should know as a major league shortstop,
Speaker 3: but I don't because I haven't been. And so you know,
Speaker 3: he's he's definitely been there for me the whole time.
Speaker 3: I mean, hitting, fielding everything. You know, he's he's He's awesome.
Speaker 1: So is Mookie Bets.
Speaker 2: You're an easy gutta root for. La loves you, and man,
Speaker 2: you are doing something that no major league player has
Speaker 2: ever done, and it feels like you're doing it better
Speaker 2: than most could even come close to. So we're on
Speaker 2: the ride with you and just keep going every day.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, have you been You've been good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everything's good, you know, hitting the streets in Dallas.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to stay out of trouble.
Speaker 3: Mookie.
Speaker 1: What did you do yesterday?
Speaker 2: I went to a fancy dinner with your clubhouse staff.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, did you pay?
Speaker 2: Of course I did. There's some I'll let you in
Speaker 2: on a secret. Some of your staff when the check comes,
Speaker 2: they all of a sudden have to go to the
Speaker 2: bathroom or there. Their arms are really short.
Speaker 1: It's weird. But not you that. You're not that kind
Speaker 1: of guy, not that long arms.
Speaker 2: I got a long, long reach. I'm a guy that
Speaker 2: like you. I'm a pleaser, so I'm trying to please everybody.
Speaker 1: That's why I love you asked exactly all right?
Speaker 2: I need to buy one of these necklaces you're selling
Speaker 2: online to buy I got you.
Speaker 1: I make sure I bring one. You're you're a part
Speaker 1: of the La squad. Oh I love make sure I
Speaker 1: bring you one. We'll get back home.
Speaker 2: Love it, Mookie. Thanks a lot for the time. Great
Speaker 2: to share you with the people in La. And this
Speaker 2: is the house the Dodgers built, make no mistake about it.
Speaker 1: You better know it. You better know it.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Ass