Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey or Dodger talking.
Speaker 1: All right, I guess this is a thing last Saturday,
Speaker 1: rolling into this Saturday, Snell Zillis Saturday with our guy Blake.
Speaker 1: Snell Blake, how did Connor McGuinness guide you through your
Speaker 1: catch play today?
Speaker 2: You know he was such a help out there. No,
Speaker 2: it was good.
Speaker 3: He's just helping me with, uh, with like my timing
Speaker 3: and I'm trying to like keep it slow and go
Speaker 3: back so I don't have any hiccups, and you know,
Speaker 3: he's helping me with like, hey, just trust your body
Speaker 3: where you're at vlow wise, like don't try to do
Speaker 3: less than don't try to like manipulate your body, like
Speaker 3: let it be natural and just connected. So that's what
Speaker 3: we're working on talking about. Yeah, I felt good, feeling
Speaker 3: better and the pain's finally going away. I haven't played
Speaker 3: catch without pain and probably since we were in Japan.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm pretty pretty excited about that. And yeah,
Speaker 3: it just feels good to finally like play catch again
Speaker 3: and like be able to work on something.
Speaker 1: Instead of just being cautious about the pain coming back.
Speaker 1: I'm sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thrown with pain sucks. You don't notice it when
Speaker 2: you're in it.
Speaker 3: You know, you're just like it's gonna go away, because
Speaker 3: that's usually what we go through, and you're like, it's
Speaker 3: just early or go away. But it's pretty tough when
Speaker 3: it didn't. And you know, like I probably should have
Speaker 3: stoped throwing before opening day, but I wanted to pitch
Speaker 3: so bad that you know, made it worse than then
Speaker 3: you know it was probably gonna be. But you know,
Speaker 3: I learned from it, and it's tough.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: We want to compete, we want to play, and yeah,
Speaker 3: uh you know, new new, new to being a Dodger,
Speaker 3: and I want to just you know, show everyone how
Speaker 3: great I am and what I can be and got
Speaker 3: a little too far ahead of myself, and yeah, learn
Speaker 3: from it. So excited about that, Excited that you know
Speaker 3: I'm able to throw the ball paying free for the
Speaker 3: most part, and yeah, looking forward to getting back.
Speaker 1: Like it sounds like the coaches just want you to
Speaker 1: be honest with them and honest with yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They I mean they tell me like, you know, take
Speaker 3: your time, go slow, but that's like foreign language to me.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, you know, it's always been like we
Speaker 3: need you back. We need you back, and you know
Speaker 3: I was trying to go. You know, I just I
Speaker 3: want to pitch her. I love I love being a Dodger.
Speaker 1: Hey, there's your manager, Dave Roberts waiting for snail Zilla.
Speaker 2: Wait.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, here, take your time, and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: do that. But I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna. I
Speaker 3: want to be back. So it's I gotta find like
Speaker 3: a happy medium and be smart about it. So when
Speaker 3: I come back, I can, you know, do the best
Speaker 3: I can to stay on the roster and pitch.
Speaker 2: No doubt.
Speaker 1: You gotta be honest with yourself. And once snail Zilla's
Speaker 1: back on that mound, it's gonna be a big deal
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers when he's healthy. Now where does all
Speaker 1: this go? I mean, this is kind of tedious when
Speaker 1: we say you're playing catch. How big of a day
Speaker 1: was snail Zilla's Saturday today? And where does it go
Speaker 1: the rest of the week?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just a progression build up seventy five feet and
Speaker 3: then we'll go into like one fifty and get into
Speaker 3: bullpens after the road trip.
Speaker 1: And you need me to stand in for one of
Speaker 1: those bullpens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we're a diaper, but yeah, I'll be
Speaker 3: I'll be ready to go. Yeah, so you know, just
Speaker 3: we'll see how it all goes and the build up
Speaker 3: and then having Connor out there Mark, Mark's gonna start
Speaker 3: coming out there as well. It's gonna be exciting and
Speaker 3: just to you know, be able to throw and work
Speaker 3: on stuff and and get ready to go to go compete.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's tough watching all these games, you know,
Speaker 3: you just want to be a part of. It's so
Speaker 3: bad and it's really tough to watch him and know
Speaker 3: like your day's not coming yet. And it's taught me
Speaker 3: a lot about you know, being patient, being grateful, and uh,
Speaker 3: you know it's tough right now, but it's short term.
Speaker 3: It's how I'm looking at it, and for long term happiness,
Speaker 3: which I'm excited about.
Speaker 1: How different is it to be part of the Dodgers
Speaker 1: and understand they know the big picture is not about
Speaker 1: May or June, but it's about a greater goal of October.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's awesome.
Speaker 3: And I mean also, you know, with me being hurt,
Speaker 3: you know, you give rookies a lot opportunities to prove
Speaker 3: themselves and their careers and journeys and you know, you
Speaker 3: try to help them, but you try.
Speaker 2: To sty out of the way.
Speaker 3: You know, they got to fail to learn, and they're
Speaker 3: not gonna come up here and dominate. If they do,
Speaker 3: it's amazing, but majority won't. And you know, you got
Speaker 3: to fail to really learn and understand.
Speaker 2: And some of them, you know that.
Speaker 3: I see, they need to work on some stuff and
Speaker 3: adjust and they'll they'll be really good big leaguers, you know,
Speaker 3: down the road.
Speaker 1: Speaking of watching and just being in a great space.
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw back today for his eighteenth season. What did
Speaker 1: you just call them to go, Oh, yeah, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get to see Kershaw Dawn the same side. What's that
Speaker 1: like for you? And have you stayed out of his
Speaker 1: way so far today?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean he's pretty chill. You know, I thought it'd be,
Speaker 3: you know, a lot, a lot worse. But I think
Speaker 3: with age, you know, what was it eighteen years you said,
Speaker 3: like you've been around for a long time. I think
Speaker 3: you know, it changes you. And it's as you get
Speaker 3: older man again, is not as you know, life or death.
Speaker 3: It's you know, you get a family, it changes. I think,
Speaker 3: you know, he's just a lot more grateful for you.
Speaker 3: Know everything and he's focused for sure, which is excited.
Speaker 3: But I can't wait to see him, you know, once
Speaker 3: the game gets going. He's still a long ways away
Speaker 3: from the game, but he was here early, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm excited to watch him go.
Speaker 2: How many thirty two strikeouts?
Speaker 1: Thirty two away from three thousand?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm ready to watch every thirty two each
Speaker 3: each one I'll be watching and tally enough.
Speaker 1: I love it. Get those ks out right here right,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we might as well just get a section,
Speaker 1: call it thirty two zone.
Speaker 2: We're waiting for it.
Speaker 1: I love it, all right, Well, thank you for the time.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the way I'm looking today?
Speaker 1: You like to fit for Kershaw and snail Zilla day?
Speaker 3: I would tell you this is a yeah, this is
Speaker 3: a dad fit for sure. You're you're doing it man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a badhanded compliment.
Speaker 3: That's a well that's how you take it. I wasn't
Speaker 3: back in and I was for you know, straight up compliment. Okay,
Speaker 3: so I think no, it's it's a good dad fit.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: What are you going for a twenty four year old outfit? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're failing and that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: Keep it, keep it dad, you know, Dad swag.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm out of the doghouse in the back
Speaker 1: home right now, so I'll just keep it rolling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, you keep pulling up like this.
Speaker 3: Mama's gonna be happy.
Speaker 1: I got the snail Zilla Saturday Indoorsmith. We'll try to
Speaker 1: keep this going for a third street Saturday next week.
Speaker 3: Two two is almost a street. Three is a street,
Speaker 3: So we'll see what we can do.
Speaker 1: I could tell you're feeling better because your mood has
Speaker 1: gotten better, and that's a good thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just because I actually do something though, you know,
Speaker 3: and you can't. You just stay out of the way,
Speaker 3: stay quiet, think a lot. Yeah, but now you know, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm actually I'm doing something. There's there's progress. I'm moving
Speaker 3: in a direction which is very exciting for me.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: There there's a little bit I just didn't know, so
Speaker 3: I didn't I didn't really have much a sai. Idn't
Speaker 3: know it was going on. So I just stay out
Speaker 3: of the way. Support the teammates. I mean, I was
Speaker 3: happy for them, and there's their accomplishments and successes.
Speaker 2: So yeah, now you know something.
Speaker 3: That you know, I get excited to where I can
Speaker 3: you know, contribute to the team and get ready for that.
Speaker 1: Hey, like we told the media the other day, you'll
Speaker 1: know it when you see it.
Speaker 3: Oh man, Hey, hopefully that's a learning lesson. You know,
Speaker 3: you ask me every day. I got nothing for you,
Speaker 3: so yeah, and I told him ask you. You know,
Speaker 3: you know, you know a lot, so they just got
Speaker 3: to ask you.
Speaker 1: That's right, every Saturday. We know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't ask me. I don't know. I'm here.
Speaker 1: If you need any questions, direct them to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, come fine day, He'll let you know. He'll give
Speaker 3: you the answers the questions you need. And you know,
Speaker 3: once I get back to pitching and throwing the ball,
Speaker 3: throwing both ends, I'll have more answers.
Speaker 2: There we go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not that hard. No, you know, let the
Speaker 1: game come to you.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, man, this is just unreal advice.
Speaker 1: Thanks Nell, appreciate it. You're the man.
Speaker 3: No appreciate you. Well see, we can keep it rolling,
Speaker 3: but today's Kershaw's day.
Speaker 1: It is, no doubt. Can't wait for you to see it.
Speaker 1: You stay out of the way. Oooh there we go.
Speaker 1: Dropping the mic on us Blake Sneil on snail Villa Saturday.
Speaker 1: But more importantly Kershaw Day for the first time.
Speaker 2: That's the day it is. It's Kershaw Saturday. Baby,