Speaker 1: We are inside the Dodger Clubhouse with one of the
Speaker 1: Dodgers anchors of the bullpen and a man that obviously
Speaker 1: has had a remarkable season coming back from what I
Speaker 1: think we all take.
Speaker 2: For granted, some serious injuries.
Speaker 1: And Blake Trinan is our guest, a newly groomed Blake
Speaker 1: trining went from the hul Kogan stash to now just
Speaker 1: the I don't know, Cali kind of a goatee soul patch, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're being questioned about it.
Speaker 3: It's I don't know if you can limit it to
Speaker 3: just I don't know what you just called it, but
Speaker 3: it's definitely a Midwest kate.
Speaker 2: Is it a walla walla goatee?
Speaker 4: No? No.
Speaker 3: Start with Gilmesh back in the day, he had an
Speaker 3: awkward triangle goats, you know, so that was kind of cool.
Speaker 4: And then I used to not be able to grow
Speaker 4: anything but the goatee, so that's what I went with.
Speaker 1: I have to say, for a guy that is not
Speaker 1: from California and spends a lot of his time out
Speaker 1: there in Parts Unknown, you have some nice quaffed hair
Speaker 1: and you know how to groom yourself pretty well.
Speaker 3: This was a product of my wife wanting me to
Speaker 3: have been adult haircut. I I enjoy more of like
Speaker 3: a like I grew up with, like just like a
Speaker 3: military cut.
Speaker 4: My dad's in the Air Force, so we'd always just do
Speaker 4: tapers and a little bit up top.
Speaker 3: And for the longest time I just did like a
Speaker 3: fade with a kind of like a mess I just
Speaker 3: called what my barber.
Speaker 4: Called it a messy mop, just like spiking up top.
Speaker 3: But one day my barber and Washington cut my hair
Speaker 3: and had me hard party and push it over, and
Speaker 3: I said, this is not me and my wife loved it,
Speaker 3: So I, uh, that's what we have now, that's what
Speaker 3: we roll with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, happy wife, happy life, blake trying.
Speaker 3: No one ever says happy man, happy clan, but it's
Speaker 3: always happy wife, happy life, which is true.
Speaker 4: It should be that way.
Speaker 1: What do you have to keep happy in the Dodger bullpen?
Speaker 1: Who's like your bullpen wife or bullpen husband.
Speaker 3: There's no such thing as a bullpen wife, but there
Speaker 3: there are people you gotta keep happy. And I think
Speaker 3: Brazier is the guy you gotta keep happy.
Speaker 2: Really high meenance, Brazier.
Speaker 4: No, not high maenance. That's putting words in our mouth.
Speaker 4: You're about to get kicked out of the clubhouse.
Speaker 2: I know he looked over here, he snapped that neck
Speaker 2: this way.
Speaker 4: Hey, that's his words, not mine. Called you high maintenance.
Speaker 2: He said you have to keep you healthy. He keep
Speaker 2: you healthy and happy.
Speaker 4: Right, I didn't. That's not even part of the question. Okay,
Speaker 4: let's move on.
Speaker 1: Blake trying is our guest as far as the bullpen, though,
Speaker 1: you guys are like your own sub team of the
Speaker 1: bigger parts of a major league team. What's what's it
Speaker 1: been like down there for all of you guys to
Speaker 1: really come together? And I feel like you guys have
Speaker 1: been really the steadying force of the team from day one.
Speaker 3: Well, I think what our team has done a good
Speaker 3: job of is where when one we'll call them groups, right,
Speaker 3: like you have like the offense, you have the starting.
Speaker 4: Pitchers and the leaders.
Speaker 3: So when when the offense is clicking, it's usually at
Speaker 3: a good time when maybe the bullpen hasn't been sharp,
Speaker 3: or the starting pitching hasn't been what they wanted, or
Speaker 3: vice versus.
Speaker 4: So the nice thing is is different parts of our.
Speaker 3: Team have picked up the slack when other parts have
Speaker 3: gone through it, and it's one of those unique situations
Speaker 3: where it's lined up for the most part this year,
Speaker 3: and there's been a couple of stretches or maybe a
Speaker 3: stretch where kind of everything was struggling a little bit,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: But yeah, our offense is.
Speaker 3: Been swinging the bat extremely well, We've been playing good defense,
Speaker 3: and pitching overall has been in a really good spot.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if you can say one one
Speaker 3: section of the of the team has been, you know,
Speaker 3: more reliable than the other. I think we've all just
Speaker 3: tried to do our parts to play good team baseball
Speaker 3: and win. So like that means if you have to,
Speaker 3: you know, press a little bit more one day to
Speaker 3: help you pick up a load from a different aspect
Speaker 3: of the of the team, then that's what we do.
Speaker 1: It feels like you guys are getting healthy at the
Speaker 1: right time. Obviously you're missing Glass now in Yamamoto, but
Speaker 1: they're going to be back soon. The lineup is healthy,
Speaker 1: the bullpen is very healthy. Do you feel like it's
Speaker 1: starting to come together for you guys at the right time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean it's funny, you know people might ask these questions.
Speaker 3: I don't really think of it that way. Baseball over
Speaker 3: the last few years has literally been like, Okay, well,
Speaker 3: who's going to have to deal with it this year
Speaker 3: because for whatever reason, you know, the league is just
Speaker 3: whether it's rule changes or whatever. You know, we've been
Speaker 3: playing a game a certain way for so long, and
Speaker 3: you add about five things a year. You body has
Speaker 3: to adapt, the mind has to adapt. You never know,
Speaker 3: game changes so much, so you try to figure out
Speaker 3: a way to just to get through the season and
Speaker 3: be as healthy as you can for the playoffs.
Speaker 2: How do you feel at this point in time in
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, I feel like we take
Speaker 1: for granted what you've been through with Daniel Hudson has
Speaker 1: been through the last couple of years, and you guys
Speaker 1: are standing tall right now.
Speaker 4: I feel good.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's probably the least amount of workload I've
Speaker 3: ever had in my career when you look at amount
Speaker 3: of innings throughout the season. But you know, having broken
Speaker 3: ribs at the beginning of the year didn't help, and
Speaker 3: then missing the last couple of years. So they're doing
Speaker 3: a good job managing my workload making sure that I
Speaker 3: can be of use as the LEA as the season
Speaker 3: wears on when we get to the playoffs. So I'm
Speaker 3: grateful for their approach to that, but I love competing.
Speaker 3: So yeah, just whenever whenever we're called upon, we're trying
Speaker 3: to do our job, and I think we all feel
Speaker 3: pretty good right now.
Speaker 1: Blake Trenon is our guest before first pitch between the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and Orioles. You have a new bullpen mate in
Speaker 1: Michael Kopek. What's it been like to get to know
Speaker 1: him and be part of the same group.
Speaker 4: He's the worst against the other team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he met like that. He makes the other team.
Speaker 3: He makes the other team hate when he comes in.
Speaker 3: He's really impressive man and even better person.
Speaker 4: So good good ad by the Dodgers. He got a
Speaker 4: one of one fastball, and it'll be fun to watch
Speaker 4: when he you know.
Speaker 3: Is able to if I mean, he doesn't need to
Speaker 3: add anything else, but if he does, like it'll be
Speaker 3: good for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, do guys like yourself maybe talk grips with each
Speaker 1: other or talk grips with him.
Speaker 4: We're totally different pitchers. You know.
Speaker 3: He works on the the induced vertical movement and I'm
Speaker 3: more of a lateral than like subvertical.
Speaker 2: Guy, so makes sense.
Speaker 3: But he's you know, he's you know, approach to guys,
Speaker 3: competitive edges and stuff like watching high preps.
Speaker 4: He's a great ad to the Dodger clubhouse.
Speaker 1: All right, before I let you go, I've been meaning
Speaker 1: to ask you this because Joe Kelly was bragging that
Speaker 1: he's really good at this finger soccer thing that you
Speaker 1: guys play in the clubhouse. He says he's only been
Speaker 1: beaten but twice.
Speaker 4: You're talking to the one. You're talking to one of them?
Speaker 2: Really, how did that go over?
Speaker 3: There's always excuses. Joe, Joe is the best. There's there's
Speaker 3: no disputing that. I mean, the record shows, but you
Speaker 3: know he picks and chooses and plays the waiting game,
Speaker 3: holds out. He's all about psychological warfare thing before he
Speaker 3: gets in.
Speaker 2: There, would you say, would you describe it as finger foosball?
Speaker 4: It's called bino bino Yeah, bino bino yeah, b I
Speaker 4: n h O. Look it up.
Speaker 3: My name is Blake Trinon. I'm giving you guys free
Speaker 3: sales pitches. I will be having a you know, at
Speaker 3: my house with my kis. All right, that's a fun game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the guys like it here. We've ironically ran into it
Speaker 3: in Oakland, so the club.
Speaker 4: He's there. Chad had it out and it was it
Speaker 4: was awesome.
Speaker 2: That's where I first saw you playing with River Ryan.
Speaker 3: Yep, River Ryan's the other guy I've beaten Joe, so yeah,
Speaker 3: I gotta watch out.
Speaker 4: It's right, Joe's got a hit list. Okay, I'm just joking.
Speaker 4: I'm just joking.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for the time. I love sharing you
Speaker 2: with the fans.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, thanks Dave, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: What else about Joe? Go ahead?
Speaker 4: Nothing like Joe's the Bez. I've been here. I've been
Speaker 4: I feel like every year, exception of twenty two, I've
Speaker 4: had Joe here. So I've enjoyed. I've enjoyed every part
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 2: It wouldn't be the same without you guys here.
Speaker 4: He's one of my guys.
Speaker 3: Og guys gonna throw it, be fifty five, throw one hundred.
Speaker 3: So we'll be playing for the next twenty years of his.
Speaker 2: Life and you'll be throwing that nasty slider.
Speaker 4: I'll be enjoying my family.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for the time. Great to see that
Speaker 2: smile again.
Speaker 4: Thanks Dave.