Speaker 1: I wasn't showing up to spring training if this guy
Speaker 1: wasn't here. And here he is, and the same locker
Speaker 1: as last year, with the same smile, the same great beard,
Speaker 1: and the same great spirit. The one and only tai
Speaker 1: Oscar Hernandez. Thanks a lot for the.
Speaker 2: Time, Thank you, thank you for having me, I mean,
Speaker 2: happy to be here, be able to sign back, and
Speaker 2: you know, enjoy everything that they seem.
Speaker 1: Us even with soggy grapes. Tail has a great smile
Speaker 1: on his face.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you have to enjoy anything anything, I
Speaker 2: mean not everything's gonna be the way you want it
Speaker 2: to be, but you have to enjoy it while you can.
Speaker 1: Hey, I love talking baseball with you, and you're kind
Speaker 1: enough to share what's in your locker. You have two
Speaker 1: brand new gloves with two different shades of color. So
Speaker 1: how do you make a decision that you're going to
Speaker 1: give up the glove that you've been wearing for four years?
Speaker 2: Not giving up yet, not yet. I still have to
Speaker 2: break this too down, obviously getting to be ready for
Speaker 2: the games. Yeah, I still hot. Mine, mine is in here,
Speaker 2: is not gonna go away. It's not gonna go away.
Speaker 1: Now, you said you've had that for four years and
Speaker 1: you never had to relace.
Speaker 2: More than four years. I think it is. But yes,
Speaker 2: still good to go. Never change the lasers or anything.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be rocking this year too.
Speaker 1: Hey. I love how you remembered when you had that
Speaker 1: glove when your son was born, and I think you
Speaker 1: have his name on that.
Speaker 2: Glove still the first two there and here at the
Speaker 2: Oscar Junior and Mattheo. Nice Julian wasn't born when when
Speaker 2: I get the gloves, only Mattheo was born in theale,
Speaker 2: and that's why I know the glove is four years old.
Speaker 1: Taoscar, you have such a great perspective and spirit about
Speaker 1: Life's being a father a big reason why you know
Speaker 1: how to keep baseball in the right perspective.
Speaker 2: You know, I was like that even before I had
Speaker 2: my kids. Uh, when I gott of the field, out
Speaker 2: of the field, it's more like now I'm the husband,
Speaker 2: it's not about the baseball player. So anything that have
Speaker 2: to do with baseball to stay at the stadium or
Speaker 2: at the facility. So now it's time to be a
Speaker 2: regular person, husband, a son, his family time, not baseball time.
Speaker 1: And if you follow ta Oscar Hernandez on his Instagram.
Speaker 1: You see that he's a very spiritual person. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that's a big reason why too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm a big believer, always trying to
Speaker 2: share something from the Bible to those persons that maybe
Speaker 2: don also have the sign wh doesn't know anything about
Speaker 2: God or the Bible. So I feel like it's been
Speaker 2: a heart on my life right now and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: keep doing it.
Speaker 1: Hey, I try to read the scriptures in Spanish. That's
Speaker 1: how you post it. I'm trying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know, I have to figure it out,
Speaker 2: trying to find a way to put it an English.
Speaker 1: To keep it as Spanish. You could teach us a
Speaker 1: lot of different things just by following Taoscar Hernandez a
Speaker 1: great man, a great teammate. And you're back and a
Speaker 1: lot of guys are back this year to try to
Speaker 1: defend this championship. What's the vibe in the clubhouse this year?
Speaker 2: It was amazing. You know, the new guys, they're hungry,
Speaker 2: they want to win. They have the spirit to come
Speaker 2: here and be able to work every day every day
Speaker 2: and get better every day and do the things that
Speaker 2: they need to do to be ready. And it feels
Speaker 2: like they've been a part of this team for a
Speaker 2: long time now, and you know, in this together and
Speaker 2: we're going for that trophy again.
Speaker 1: Last year at this time, you and Otani went viral
Speaker 1: on media Day. Have you had a lot of time
Speaker 1: to spend with him this spring or is he too
Speaker 1: busy trying to pitch again?
Speaker 2: You know, I'm trying to let him be to get
Speaker 2: ready to do his rehab from his shoulder and finishing
Speaker 2: the one from the elbow. You know, I know he
Speaker 2: has a lot of things to do this year, a
Speaker 2: lot of things to think about, So I'm not pushing
Speaker 2: too much trying to talk to him or you know,
Speaker 2: have some good time in the clause or but definitely
Speaker 2: we will and during the season.
Speaker 1: All right, before I let you go, are we bringing
Speaker 1: back the Seeds this year? You got to keep it going, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one hundred percent that I'm gonna bring back
Speaker 2: the Seeds. Maybe we add something to it, I don't know,
Speaker 2: something better, something to have more fun and you know,
Speaker 2: to enjoy the game.
Speaker 1: All right, taoscar thank you for the time. Great to
Speaker 1: see you. You know, Los Angeles loves you. You saw
Speaker 1: that at the parade. You saw that at dodger Fest
Speaker 1: and too takes a lotosking you