Speaker 1: It's been a great first two hours at Dodger Fest.
Speaker 1: David Vaz say live on your home for the World
Speaker 1: Series Champion Dodgers. Thank you to Andrew Freeman for answering
Speaker 1: very uncomfortably and candidly to some of those questions about
Speaker 1: Keik Hernandez and showho Tani's timeline. But he's awesome. He
Speaker 1: was balancing taking care of his daughters. So he is
Speaker 1: a hero to the people for resigning Taoscar Hernandez and
Speaker 1: a hero to me personally for bringing in the two
Speaker 1: times two time Cy Young Award winner Snell Zilla, Blake Snell,
Speaker 1: Blake Snell. And I'm joined right now by a man
Speaker 1: that I need in my life every day, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to FaceTime while he's rehabbing from that shoulder surgery.
Speaker 1: A man that made more starts than any other Dodger
Speaker 1: last year, a man that pitched more innings than any
Speaker 1: other Dodger last year. A man that was the only
Speaker 1: Dodger to pitch a complete game shutout last year in
Speaker 1: Chicago against the White Sox. That is the one and
Speaker 1: only Gavin Stone from Arkansas.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dave.
Speaker 3: What an introduction that was.
Speaker 1: Thank you man, I'm happy to see you. I'm happy
Speaker 1: you were just hanging out in that green room doing
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing to.
Speaker 2: Cut on the show.
Speaker 3: That was my downtown. I didn't have anything to do
Speaker 3: with that time.
Speaker 1: It was so weird and creepy how you and Kyle
Speaker 1: Hurt put your heads through the door like kids at
Speaker 1: summer camp. I mean, like it was so creepy the
Speaker 1: way you guys were creeping up on me.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen Yoshi yet. That was the first time
Speaker 3: I saw Yoshi. Yeah, he looks good, and yeah, I
Speaker 3: thought I was. I know he's Yamamoto said I had
Speaker 3: to lose weight, did Yeah, Youiro lost some weight.
Speaker 1: Yeah he did. Maybe that's why he's on me.
Speaker 2: To you on that train.
Speaker 4: Dang it.
Speaker 1: I know my doctor said I have to lose ten pounds.
Speaker 1: That's the shortcut, waist stone. I think I'm going to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe the people that walk by here, if you feel
Speaker 1: like they've lost abnormally a lot of weight, we could
Speaker 1: just pick and say Ozimpik yes.
Speaker 3: Or no, Okay, there's probably I mean, are you.
Speaker 1: A Kardashian fan? How about this guy from my heart
Speaker 1: right here, Skinny Rob Kardashing Ozempig Rob Kardashian right.
Speaker 3: Here, I know zero about the Kardashians. Yeah, help with
Speaker 3: them at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're not keeping up with the Kardashians. Hey, hey, hello, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not at all. I try not to anyways. Gavin Stone,
Speaker 1: how's life.
Speaker 2: It's good. It's good.
Speaker 3: Just been back home from Arkansas and Phoenix back and
Speaker 3: forth all off season. But I'm in Phoenix now for good.
Speaker 3: So be there for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you will.
Speaker 1: I heard. It's a real examination. It's like being in
Speaker 1: the desert for forty days and forty nights grinding through rehab.
Speaker 1: Walker Buehlers told me about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I love Phoenix is a beautiful area
Speaker 3: of beautiful town. I mean, so that part will be nice,
Speaker 3: but you know, I'll definitely miss being on the mound pitching,
Speaker 3: being a competitor in that aspect of it. But just
Speaker 3: found new hob for this.
Speaker 1: This year, I guess, I mean being such a competitor, right,
Speaker 1: you have to find a way to turn rehab into
Speaker 1: a competition, I would imagine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's probably the hardest part, is is there
Speaker 3: not being any like sort of competition in that aspect
Speaker 3: of like pitching in a big league game, So that'll
Speaker 3: be tough, and you know, the adrenaline that that we
Speaker 3: all thrown for and just find the new ways to
Speaker 3: find that throughout this year and and you know, staying
Speaker 3: positive is a big thing and keep the momenttal good.
Speaker 3: So yeah, looking forward to just you know, getting through
Speaker 3: it and getting back on the mound.
Speaker 1: When you look back at your great rookie season, obviously
Speaker 1: disappointing that you couldn't be part of October, but you
Speaker 1: were such a big part to help the Dodgers get there.
Speaker 1: Was there one game? Was it Chicago? Was it the
Speaker 1: complete game? Is there moments in time that you think
Speaker 1: back and say, man, that's when I arrived?
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, maybe I think just you know, being in
Speaker 3: a clubhouse with a bunch of veterans like we had
Speaker 3: and and learning from them, learning and watching and and
Speaker 3: you know, just having them there and helped me along
Speaker 3: the way. But Chicago was a big one, really definitely
Speaker 3: a confidence boost there. And then had a little downstretch
Speaker 3: through or after the All Star break and curse was
Speaker 3: kind of the one to kind of put me back.
Speaker 3: Cursing Barnes kind of help helped me like get back
Speaker 3: on track after that, and so you know, credit to
Speaker 3: those guys in the clubhouse, they really they really help
Speaker 3: each other and help everybody around him.
Speaker 1: Gavin Stone is joining us here at Dodger Fast on
Speaker 1: m five seventy LA Sports and I'm glad you brought
Speaker 1: up Kershaw because he really took an interest in you.
Speaker 1: How much did he help you? And I guess that
Speaker 1: says a lot about you for him to even want
Speaker 1: to help you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean just figuring out what kind of competitor
Speaker 3: he was and then trying to be trying to replicate
Speaker 3: that on the mound.
Speaker 2: I think that was the.
Speaker 3: Biggest thing, you know, in all aspects of it, in
Speaker 3: the weight room, on the mound, you know, eating with
Speaker 3: his family, like he's he's a great dude overall and
Speaker 3: at all aspects, and he's a great competitor, and so
Speaker 3: just learning how how he goes out there and competes
Speaker 3: every day and and and trying to replicate that.
Speaker 1: When you saw Walker Buehler come out of the bullpen
Speaker 1: in Game five of the World Series, what was Gavin
Speaker 1: Stone thinking.
Speaker 3: I knew he was going to go in as soon
Speaker 3: as I saw him walk down there, I knew he
Speaker 3: was going to go in. We didn't have a lot
Speaker 3: of arms to begin with, and I mean he was
Speaker 3: he was pretty much he was good to go. That
Speaker 3: was the last game of the year, and so he
Speaker 3: was on a couple of days' rest, I think, more
Speaker 3: than what we had in the bullpen at the time.
Speaker 3: So I knew that if it was closed, then he
Speaker 3: was definitely gonna get his shot, and that's that's what
Speaker 3: he lives for, and I'm glad he got that shot.
Speaker 1: Were you in the dugout that night in Game five?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was, And I was in the dugout and
Speaker 3: watched him run down. I don't even think Mark knew
Speaker 3: he ran down at that time, but yeah.
Speaker 1: Did he tip any of you guys off that he
Speaker 1: was doing it.
Speaker 3: No, I just seen him walk behind me because I
Speaker 3: was on the rail and I just saw him walk
Speaker 3: behind me with the spikes on his glove, and you
Speaker 3: just took.
Speaker 1: Off when you see a guy like that do what
Speaker 1: he did and you saw the result winning the World Series.
Speaker 1: Did you visualize Gavin Stone one day being that guy?
Speaker 1: Would you love to be that guy in that situation?
Speaker 3: Oh? I think everybody, everybody that loves baseball and wants
Speaker 3: to be a competitor, would thrive in that situation and
Speaker 3: love to be put in that situation, but Walker's a
Speaker 3: different animal, and to succeed in that situation, and and
Speaker 3: just to know how much he has succeeded in the postseason,
Speaker 3: especially the World Series. He was the right man for
Speaker 3: that job. And that was really cool that he got
Speaker 3: that moment.
Speaker 1: Man so cool because he's meant so much to the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and if that's going to be the last image,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what a way to go out, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a post.
Speaker 3: He's a hero forever.
Speaker 1: Have you thought about your post? Would you do a
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller post? No, you don't seem to be that
Speaker 1: type of guy.
Speaker 3: No, Walk's got the poses down and he was actually
Speaker 3: he was trying to decide. I feel like he was
Speaker 3: trying to decide what he wanted to do, and that
Speaker 3: was that was what he came up with, which I
Speaker 3: mean credit to him, it was great, but uh, yeah,
Speaker 3: that was that was really cool.
Speaker 1: We were debating about holidays, me and Gavin Stone before
Speaker 1: we came on the air. You're a big Thanksgiving guy.
Speaker 1: I might skip the country next year for Thanksgiving. Why
Speaker 1: do you love? Why do you love Thanksgiving so much.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not a Turkey guy.
Speaker 3: I love the Fall. My birthday's in the fall, Halloween's
Speaker 3: in the fall. Christmas is not in the fall.
Speaker 1: You won the World Series in the Fall, the Fall
Speaker 1: classic exactly.
Speaker 3: The Fall is the best time of the year.
Speaker 1: When's your birthday?
Speaker 3: October fifteenth?
Speaker 1: Mine's October tenth. You were a Libra? Are you really? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Nice?
Speaker 1: There we go. And October fifteenth, I believe, is the
Speaker 1: date that Kirk Gibson hit his walk off home run.
Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety eight. Right, eighty eight eighty eight, okay, ten
Speaker 3: years before I was born.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: You didn't tell me happy birthday.
Speaker 1: You didn't tell me happy birthday.
Speaker 3: I didn't know your birthday was a tenth day.
Speaker 1: I never knew it was the fifteenth.
Speaker 3: By the way the Dodgers posted it, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, they give everybody a happy Birthday wish.
Speaker 3: I know you saw it.
Speaker 1: They even give Tim never to Happy Birthday wish on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I mean, you think you're special.
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right. You seem to be.
Speaker 1: A guy that really wants to promote his birthday two
Speaker 1: weeks before I'm learning a lot about you holidays and
Speaker 1: birthdays right now.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not at all.
Speaker 1: You just promoted your birthday.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying all the greatest events of the year
Speaker 3: are in You.
Speaker 1: Just promoted your October fifteenth birthday on February first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you want to give me a cake or something, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: birthday present. Six month mark is coming up. My half birthdays.
Speaker 1: Can you celebrate half birthdays too? You're like, my kids.
Speaker 3: Might as well if people are going to give you presents.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. By the way, Fourth of July barbecue
Speaker 1: way better than Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 3: That's debatable. I don't know about that. Where I'm from,
Speaker 3: there's mosquitos everywhere, and so you can't really like you
Speaker 3: can enjoy Fourth of July.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can enjoy a lot from where
Speaker 1: you're from. You just said Phoenix. Yeah, trust me, I
Speaker 1: will never be in Arkansas, I don't. You're the best thing.
Speaker 1: And Derek Fisher too, the greatest things to come out
Speaker 1: of Arkansas. And Bill Clinton Yeah yeah, Hey, I don't
Speaker 1: know where you stand politically, but Bill Clinton a famous
Speaker 1: guy either way. Those are the three famous guys.
Speaker 3: Derek Fisher, Joe Johnson. We got Joe Johnson.
Speaker 1: Please we sind it right here. Hey, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1: And like I said, while you're grinding in Arizona coming
Speaker 1: back to be better than ever, you better not ignore
Speaker 1: my face times.
Speaker 3: I won't. I won't if you bring a boom box
Speaker 3: with it. I want to unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Hey, man, I love you and I loved watching you
Speaker 1: do your thing last year. You're gonna come back. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be bigger, stronger, greater. It's all gonna come together.
Speaker 1: Everything happens for a reason, even your birthday.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate it too.
Speaker 1: I love you, Gavin Stone, You're the man. Seriously, Hey,
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman's coming on next? What should I ask him? Landon?
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting Landon. That doesn't look Hey, I have
Speaker 1: to hate to break this to you. That doesn't look
Speaker 1: like Freddy Freeman. I love Landon neck, but uh see
Speaker 1: that's what I'm telling you. This wall right here, you
Speaker 1: never know. It's like a socize it pops out.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: I people just surprise you all the.
Speaker 1: Hey Guanderado player relations. If I stand next to him,
Speaker 1: maybe Yamamoto will think I lost weight. Right Hey, Hey, hello,
Speaker 1: Dodger Fest Unplugged.
Speaker 2: Get out.
Speaker 1: You didn't get all Hey neck, do you know what
Speaker 1: Gavinstone's birthday is? He just promoted it October fifteenth. He
Speaker 1: just promoted on February first that his birthdays on October fifteenth.
Speaker 1: He wants to give me.
Speaker 3: A birthday present exactly.
Speaker 1: Thank you. We're gonna take a time out here on
Speaker 1: Dodger Tuck. I think three things you learned from this segment.
Speaker 1: Gavin Stone a great guy. We got a lot of
Speaker 1: love for each other. His birthday's October fifteenth. He celebrates
Speaker 1: his half birthday, and he's got a lot of mosquitos
Speaker 1: in his house in Arkansas. Dodger Tuck rolls on from
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium on a five seventy LA Sports David Vassey
Speaker 1: Live at Dodger Fest. Thanks to my guy, Gavin Stone
Speaker 1: for being a great spoil. Always loved talking to Gavin
Speaker 1: and what an ultimate competitor he was for the Dodgers
Speaker 1: with all their pitching injuries to their veterans last year,
Speaker 1: it was the rookie that made more starts and pitched
Speaker 1: more innings than any other Dodger last year, and that
Speaker 1: was Gavin Stone. And that will be. One of the
Speaker 1: highlights of twenty twenty four's regular season was Gavin Stone
Speaker 1: pitching that complete game shutout. And one thing I'll never
Speaker 1: forget is that Gavin Stone wants me to celebrate his
Speaker 1: half birthday, and that he's a guy that promotes his
Speaker 1: birthday on February first, which is going to be on
Speaker 1: October fifteenth. So a guy that I will never forget.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm so nervous for this. I don't know
Speaker 1: why I'm so nervous for this. I brought my notes.
Speaker 1: My guy, Freddie Freeman is here, Freddy, Freddy Man, Oh
Speaker 1: there he is number five.
Speaker 2: Have you been sitting in this corner all day?
Speaker 1: Yes? I wanted to. I should have brought a lava lamp.
Speaker 2: You know we have some for the kids now. Taking
Speaker 2: it back to when I was a.
Speaker 1: Kid, right right, Everything retro is current again, Freddy?
Speaker 2: I like it. Yeah, Yeah, I'm retro.
Speaker 1: You're retro. You're retro.
Speaker 2: Thank god, you look good.
Speaker 1: Yamamoto said, I need to lose weight. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like I've gained a lot of weight this off season?
Speaker 2: Freddy, No, way, he said that he did.
Speaker 1: He did? He said, ah, you know a little bit,
Speaker 1: a little bit too much?
Speaker 2: Then why would he say that.
Speaker 1: I feel like I have. I'm projecting and I know
Speaker 1: I have, But I'm not taking any medical or pharmaceutical shortcuts.
Speaker 2: Freddy, No, I am not going to answer those questions
Speaker 2: about weight. Just not going to do that. I think
Speaker 2: you look great.
Speaker 1: Did you know Gavin Stone announced to us his birthdays
Speaker 1: on October fifteenth? He's a guy that likes to promote
Speaker 1: his birthday. Would you think Gavin Stone was that type
Speaker 1: of guy?
Speaker 2: No, I know, I didn't know. He talked very much.
Speaker 2: I know exactly.
Speaker 1: It was depressing when he said there were a lot
Speaker 1: of mosquitoes in Arkansas. I said, who would have guessed
Speaker 1: that October fifteenth?
Speaker 2: Huh? Yeah, all right, it's good to know.
Speaker 1: Great segue. By the way, October fifteenth, nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 1: was the day Kirk Gibson hit his walk off home
Speaker 1: run the world.
Speaker 2: Now, I understand why you brought up Gavin Stone's birthday. Well,
Speaker 2: you're good at this.
Speaker 1: This was lined up perfectly. It was meant to be,
Speaker 1: like Freddie Freeman was meant to be at the plate
Speaker 1: that night, in that moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let me to talk about it.
Speaker 1: I'm nervous so that's why I brought I felt like
Speaker 1: Chris Farley here, just like you know, I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm more emotional about October.
Speaker 2: I didn't October, No, it wasn't.
Speaker 1: But that's when Gibson hit his. Yours was a different date.
Speaker 2: You hit it in the same same area. I heard
Speaker 2: it was like the same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they might put like a blue seat where you
Speaker 1: hit it, like where they did for Kirk Gibson. Cool
Speaker 1: it would, Yeah, it will live in infamy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've thought about it every day pretty much.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you go to the grocery store, what's
Speaker 1: it like.
Speaker 2: I really can't go anywhere right now, which is which
Speaker 2: is fun because you know that sports in general can
Speaker 2: it just means so much to some two people. And
Speaker 2: obviously as I'm out in the community and I don't
Speaker 2: think I've made it through one outing without someone coming
Speaker 2: up to me, which is really cool that people care
Speaker 2: so much and care about the Dodgers. And and with
Speaker 2: that home run, I just did a luncheon and there's
Speaker 2: a guy that had a tattoo of me on his leg.
Speaker 1: So geez, that's when you know it means something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then obviously a lot of other people were
Speaker 2: coming up at the luncheon saying how much that home
Speaker 2: run meant and the world series and telling us where
Speaker 2: it was. One guy was there for Kurt Gibson's home run.
Speaker 2: So it's to hear people like like when you do
Speaker 2: it and you're out there and then you go home
Speaker 2: and you got to get ready for the next game.
Speaker 2: But then I've told people like about a month ago,
Speaker 2: Charlie and I went down a rabbit hole on YouTube
Speaker 2: because he wanted and with YouTube, right, yeah, and just
Speaker 2: to see all the reactions and how it affected people
Speaker 2: in such a positive way. It's it does bring chills
Speaker 2: to you. And to be able to be a part
Speaker 2: to that and to deliver because I mean just and
Speaker 2: how like I watched the video later on and how
Speaker 2: they panned out over the stadium Joe Davis is talking,
Speaker 2: and how the whole thing was set up. It it's
Speaker 2: like giving me kind of goosebumps right now when you
Speaker 2: when you look back at it and think about it,
Speaker 2: and to be able to come through in those kind
Speaker 2: of moments, I mean, that's what you dream about, you know,
Speaker 2: just like how Joe said, it is what you think
Speaker 2: about in backyards. I mean it's the same thing that
Speaker 2: I was doing with my two brothers when we were
Speaker 2: playing woofot balls in our front yard. Our backyard wasn't
Speaker 2: pick enough what we did in the front yard, and
Speaker 2: and and for it to happen again, like but in
Speaker 2: a big League game thirty years later, when I was
Speaker 2: playing woofotball with my brothers, it's it's incredible. And like
Speaker 2: Joe Davis and how he set that whole thing up
Speaker 2: was you know, obviously I didn't know anything about it
Speaker 2: until I watched it and I was like, wow, you know,
Speaker 2: Joe was incredible and to hit it on the head
Speaker 2: and then after he sets the whole thing up to
Speaker 2: do it on the first pitch, it was like, I
Speaker 2: think that made it that, you know, Like, I mean,
Speaker 2: it would have been awesome if it was like the
Speaker 2: twelfth pick too, but after he set that up to
Speaker 2: happen immediately, that's But Yeah, the grocery store things kind
Speaker 2: of out. Yeah, I don't really try.
Speaker 1: Hey, you're out of going to the grocery store.
Speaker 2: I've been out of a lot of things with the surgery,
Speaker 2: so but yeah, I believe me, I think I have
Speaker 2: when I'm out. There's no lesson at least if it's
Speaker 2: just a like, I'll go to Jan's Health Bar. It's
Speaker 2: in Orange County and I get a smoothie there. And
Speaker 2: I don't think I've made it out of Jans without
Speaker 2: taking pictures or anything like that. And that's oh, Chris,
Speaker 2: I haven't been there. We did Mastros the other day
Speaker 2: and one of the chefs comes out and he's got
Speaker 2: a Dodger hat on. So yeah, I don't think. I don't.
Speaker 2: I can't go anywhere right now. But that's a good
Speaker 2: thing because that means really good things happened.
Speaker 1: Freddie, you and your wife also had a little vacation together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: deservedly so. And I'll just out myself right now. I
Speaker 1: zoomed in on your right foot, yeah, to see if
Speaker 1: you had a boot on or sandals I've had.
Speaker 2: I've had some interesting sandals. I didn't pick any of
Speaker 2: those outfits. I think everyone knows that. Yeah. I just
Speaker 2: whatever is in the bag and what I'm told to
Speaker 2: where I wear. Yeah. So we did that a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago. It was it was planned because our
Speaker 2: ten year anniversary was in November. A little busy, didn't
Speaker 2: have much time to plan. Uh, so we kind of
Speaker 2: waited through the holidays and we did Mexico for a
Speaker 2: ten year anniversary. So we had a good time. Obviously,
Speaker 2: our family's been through a lot. Max is doing better,
Speaker 2: so we just needed a we just needed a week,
Speaker 2: you know, just to relax because you I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: you're married and so when when you have kids, you're
Speaker 2: just trying to get You're doing everything with your kids
Speaker 2: every single day, and it's nice to be able to
Speaker 2: reconnect and you know, just sit there and hang out
Speaker 2: with your wife. And you know, we had a great time.
Speaker 2: It was a great week. We came home and it's
Speaker 2: right back into we We got home in the door
Speaker 2: and they just started crying. Someone was hit each other.
Speaker 2: I was just like, yeah, I'm sure we should have
Speaker 2: stayed longer, but it was a great time. Where but
Speaker 2: now it's back to you know, getting ready for the
Speaker 2: season again.
Speaker 1: How do you feel physically? I mean, obviously we knew
Speaker 1: about the ankle, but you know, the ribs and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Yeah, how does is Freddy Freeman like tape
Speaker 1: together right now?
Speaker 3: To be here?
Speaker 2: I'm two of the injuries or one hundred percent. My
Speaker 2: broken fingers all good, my broken ribs all good. I
Speaker 2: am two months eight weeks as of two days ago
Speaker 2: Thursday out of surgery, and that was the first day
Speaker 2: I hit. So I hit for the first time two
Speaker 2: days ago, I felt good. I hit again yesterday felt
Speaker 2: good again. Still not clear to run, but yeah, two
Speaker 2: days ago was a big day for me because if
Speaker 2: I wasn't able to respond like I did yesterday, I
Speaker 2: think we would have been in trouble. Being able to
Speaker 2: be ready by Tokyo. It was a good sign. I
Speaker 2: feel good today with back to back days of hitting,
Speaker 2: so I would have been able to hit today if
Speaker 2: but it was you know, scheduled days off and Monday
Speaker 2: I work. I did four sets of seven and tes
Speaker 2: the last two days, so twenty eight swings, and on Monday,
Speaker 2: I will it goes into flips too. So I think
Speaker 2: I will be full bore hitting by by the time
Speaker 2: probably spring training, when I get the spring training, because
Speaker 2: I'm gonna stay here this whole next week and be
Speaker 2: doing my PTE down in Orange County for a whole
Speaker 2: nother week and then I'll get the spring training. So
Speaker 2: I think hitting wise, I'll be ready to roll. I'll
Speaker 2: be able to hit, batting practice, do all that. But
Speaker 2: I start doing I think by the end of next
Speaker 2: week some side to side stuff, you know, like movement,
Speaker 2: and then being able to do uh, you know, then
Speaker 2: I'll be a running progression in spring training. So I
Speaker 2: will probably not be playing the first couple of games
Speaker 2: of spring training, as you guys probably know, I'll get
Speaker 2: antsy and try and force my way into somehow. You know,
Speaker 2: I'll just DH, you'll have one, so I'll just runner. No,
Speaker 2: I'll just dh we don't have a DH, so right,
Speaker 2: and then but the beauty of spring training is I'll
Speaker 2: be able to even a show he's playing. In the
Speaker 2: real games, I can go into the backfields and get
Speaker 2: a bat, so I will be able to I think,
Speaker 2: be able to hit and see some live abs and
Speaker 2: then hopefully the running progression. I feel good, you know,
Speaker 2: that's it's all about how I feel. So but I'm
Speaker 2: in a good spot going into I was, you know,
Speaker 2: it was a little up and down. I was a
Speaker 2: little nervous how I was going to feel a couple
Speaker 2: of days ago. But ultimately I am feeling pretty good right.
Speaker 1: Now, Freddie, I know you have to go, but I'm
Speaker 1: just curious. The day of Game one of the World Series, Yes,
Speaker 1: when you got out of bed that day and put
Speaker 1: your your right foot down and just start to get
Speaker 1: yourself going. Did you know, did you feel like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: I feel a lot better than I did even five
Speaker 1: days ago.
Speaker 2: I was feeling pretty good two days going into that.
Speaker 2: I had still not run since Game five of the NLCS,
Speaker 2: because then we had the day off and then I
Speaker 2: didn't play six. Hi Brandon, who are you Joe? So
Speaker 2: I hadn't run, but I was feeling good walking and
Speaker 2: and doing all that. But the first time I ran,
Speaker 2: like I told you guys, I ran when we did
Speaker 2: the introduction was the first time I took more than
Speaker 2: a walk and I was running out there. I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I actually feel pretty good. And as I was coming
Speaker 2: down the line, all the trainers like, Freddy, you look great,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I know, I feel pretty good.
Speaker 2: And but I was feeling good. My swing was like
Speaker 2: I said, I have I called my dad, like two
Speaker 2: days before game one, I said, Dad, I figured it out.
Speaker 2: And I mean as as my dadd said yeah, he
Speaker 2: was all and he was like, yeah, I didn't think
Speaker 2: you figured it out, and he goes. I watched you
Speaker 2: play in the Mets series and you were awful. So
Speaker 2: he was like, I was just hoping that you were
Speaker 2: being honest, and I did. I felt really good. I
Speaker 2: got my foot in a spot where I could actually
Speaker 2: have some some strength into that into the ground, and
Speaker 2: I felt like my swing was in a good spot.
Speaker 2: So I was feeling good swing wise. I just didn't
Speaker 2: know how my ankle was gonna hold up. And my
Speaker 2: ribs were feeling pretty good by then. My finger was
Speaker 2: feeling pretty good by then. But you just didn't know.
Speaker 2: And I'm you know, a lot of people go, I
Speaker 2: can't believe you had to run out a triple in
Speaker 2: the first in your first step bat and actually said, no,
Speaker 2: that was actually a good thing because I was able
Speaker 2: to do that and get up and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm okay. So it was almost like a weight was
Speaker 2: able to come off my shoulders when I knew I
Speaker 2: was able to run those bases and get up and
Speaker 2: not be like, oh man, my ankle's killing me. I
Speaker 2: got a limp now. I never limped once in the
Speaker 2: World Series. I felt good. We had a great treatment
Speaker 2: plan going, and that's why I thought after the World Series,
Speaker 2: it was like, oh, I'll just rest and you know,
Speaker 2: do some pt and I'll be good to go. But
Speaker 2: three weeks after the World Series end, I was I'm like,
Speaker 2: something's not right, you know, like my ankle still hurts.
Speaker 2: And so I was in Atlanta for Thanksgiving doing it
Speaker 2: with all our family there, and I texted Thomas, our
Speaker 2: head trainer. I was like, I think it's time to
Speaker 2: get this thing looked at. It's just not that I
Speaker 2: can't get the swelling out. And so when I came
Speaker 2: home from Atlanta, that's when we got the MRI. And
Speaker 2: I got the MRI, I go up and look in
Speaker 2: there like you need surgery? Wait a second, what? And
Speaker 2: so that's the how that hold because I was feeling
Speaker 2: great during the World Series. So that's why I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'll just heal bit some time. That's why I know.
Speaker 2: I've been asked the question of why did you wait
Speaker 2: so long after the World Series and I was like, whoa,
Speaker 2: I've just played the World Series and felt pretty good.
Speaker 2: So I thought, just some rest. And so that was
Speaker 2: the reason of why it was about four weeks after
Speaker 2: that I had the surgery, because I was like, I
Speaker 2: just wasn't getting better. So but luckily we got it
Speaker 2: done and it wasn't. I had tore some ligaments too
Speaker 2: and my ankle, but that had healed enough in those
Speaker 2: weeks after the World Series that I didn't have to
Speaker 2: thankfully get those fixed, because if I had to repair those,
Speaker 2: I probably wouldn't have been able to make it to Tokyo,
Speaker 2: which would have been a more extensive rehab. So a
Speaker 2: lot of being good actually happened. So we cleaned up
Speaker 2: the ankle and I'm feeling pretty good and hopefully the
Speaker 2: running progression like it's going to start next week and
Speaker 2: I have no setbacks. I think everyone that knows me,
Speaker 2: I'll probably just tell everyone that I don't have any
Speaker 2: setbacks and I feel great. Yeah, I feel great, but
Speaker 2: I'm in a good spot, way better. My ankle's feeling
Speaker 2: better each day, more work on it every day, and
Speaker 2: it's it's responding really well. So I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: in a good spot to be able to make it
Speaker 2: to Tokyo in six weeks. I can't believe it's already happening.
Speaker 1: I know, I can't believe it even.
Speaker 2: Such a short off season, but a good reason why.
Speaker 2: It's sweet, right, Definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1: It'll be great, Freddie, when you're on that third baseline
Speaker 1: and you get your ring and you'll get to feel
Speaker 1: everything that the fans deserve to give you that day.
Speaker 2: I know, getting here and you know, seeing all these
Speaker 2: fans and the excitement, I just can't wait to get
Speaker 2: the ring and just to experience spring training and the excitement.
Speaker 2: I mean, you saw our ownership group went out and
Speaker 2: did it again this offseason, and I think that's why
Speaker 2: fans are so excited, because you know, the hard working fans,
Speaker 2: they come and support us, spend the money here, and
Speaker 2: to see the organization that you're support supporting us, spending
Speaker 2: your money on is going right back into the to
Speaker 2: the product that is awesome to see. And I think
Speaker 2: that's why everyone. I mean, obviously we have great players,
Speaker 2: but to go out there and see the ownership you're
Speaker 2: into year out, go out and try and put the
Speaker 2: best team on the field. I think that's why everyone
Speaker 2: there's such a buzz around here, and I think we're
Speaker 2: all hungry to try and be the first team in
Speaker 2: twenty five years to do this back to back, you know,
Speaker 2: since the Yankees, and it's incredibly hard to do obviously,
Speaker 2: but I think we've put ourselves in a good spot
Speaker 2: to be able to go out there and do it,
Speaker 2: and we got to get us a little bit healthy,
Speaker 2: and yeah, some of us need this. We needed an
Speaker 2: extra month, but I think we're gonna be ready to
Speaker 2: go and try and start this journey again.
Speaker 1: Freddie. It was truly an honor and a privilege to
Speaker 1: watch your journey last year and the way it ended.
Speaker 1: Like I told you so many times, I think the
Speaker 1: game in bigger picture life rewarded you, Freddie, because you're
Speaker 1: a champion of a person, even before all of that,
Speaker 1: and I mean everything that you and Chelsea went through
Speaker 1: and how strong Maximus was and just who you are.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, what a great journey. And man, I
Speaker 1: feel like I need ankle certainty after everything you just said.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I appreciate those kind words. And my family's
Speaker 2: doing good. Maximus is doing well and we'll get the
Speaker 2: spring training and I'm sure Chelsea will share some pictures
Speaker 2: and he's he's still not walking completely normal, but he's
Speaker 2: so close. And if you would have told us five
Speaker 2: months ago that he would have been where he is now,
Speaker 2: we would have been ecstatic. And he's doing great. If
Speaker 2: you walk into the house and you saw him on
Speaker 2: the couch, you would know nothing is wrong. He's still
Speaker 2: a joy, he's still fun. He's starting to run more so.
Speaker 2: Once we get that strength back into his left it's
Speaker 2: his left leg. Once he gets that strengthened his left leg,
Speaker 2: he was going to be flying around the bases. You'll
Speaker 2: see him after on Sunday's basis. Yeah, and so we're
Speaker 2: looking forward to it. We're looking forward to getting back
Speaker 2: out in spring training, getting this thing going.
Speaker 5: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Ye, thank you, Freddie.
Speaker 1: Great to see you. Oh man, it's been awesome. Truly
Speaker 1: your privileged, really Freddy, to be around you and just
Speaker 1: to see the way you live your life and the
Speaker 1: way you go about things. It really is awesome.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: World Series MVP.
Speaker 2: I mean cool.
Speaker 1: I mean thirty years from now I'll be hosting. Let's
Speaker 1: look back at the twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Being a walker.
Speaker 1: I might be in the walk there.
Speaker 2: There, Freddy seventy.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I'll lose weight by that, right, Freddy.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not Freddy David.
Speaker 1: I love you to Freddy. Freddie Freeman the World Series MVP,
Speaker 1: A champion to the people. And when we continue, Mookie
Speaker 1: Betts eto one's favorite son from Japan. Well, join us
Speaker 1: next on a five seventy LA Sports. We are coming
Speaker 1: down the home stretch here of Dodger Fest. We are
Speaker 1: alive at Dodger Stadium. Thank you to Freddie Freeman. I
Speaker 1: kept it together, you know, I didn't freak out or
Speaker 1: fanboy out too much. Mookie bets with Freddy Freeman. When
Speaker 1: do you think the line is when I could stop
Speaker 1: asking him about that walk off grand slam.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna set it at four.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I told four what.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Hey, by the way, the way I knew that was
Speaker 1: a grand slam out of the ballpark was watching you
Speaker 1: from my vantage point. Oh yeah, I saw you jump off.
Speaker 5: I remember that.
Speaker 6: I remember that, and that I remember seeing that that
Speaker 6: moment of his bat hitting the ball and.
Speaker 5: The this what it looked like.
Speaker 6: I just instantly jumped and uh yeah that was that
Speaker 6: was amazing.
Speaker 1: That was That's what I saw. I saw you jump.
Speaker 1: I know, see you jump that high before it. And
Speaker 1: then Magic Johnson was right there and he like pointed
Speaker 1: at me after after they I'm all like.
Speaker 5: This is yeah.
Speaker 6: That was crazy man. That was for him to do that.
Speaker 6: I mean, the real the impressive thing was just he
Speaker 6: what what.
Speaker 5: He was going through together.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was what he's going through to get ready,
Speaker 6: and you could not tell. I mean, I guess you
Speaker 6: could tell, but you couldn't tell.
Speaker 1: At the same time, that seemed like, probably behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: kind of set the tone for everybody else, whatever nagging
Speaker 1: injury you had going on, this guy's going out there
Speaker 1: with a broken ankle and bad ribs and all that.
Speaker 6: And it was like, no matter what, you just got
Speaker 6: to get ready to play and get ready to play
Speaker 6: and give us what you got. And everybody did. I
Speaker 6: mean even show, you know, show played through hurting his
Speaker 6: shoulder right there, and that was huge. That was that
Speaker 6: was for him, just to show up and play every
Speaker 6: day and prepare like that.
Speaker 5: Like you said, it's just set the example.
Speaker 1: You know. What I also remember was the first conversation
Speaker 1: you and I I had in spring training last year.
Speaker 1: How you were on a mission. You had a chip
Speaker 1: on your shoulder from day one, and and you it
Speaker 1: came to fulfillment. You silenced all the critics.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was that was good man, That was really good.
Speaker 6: I was proud of myself, proud of myself for really
Speaker 6: kind of locking myself in in uh in the cage
Speaker 6: and and really getting to it and getting after it
Speaker 6: and then but you know, it was really my teammates. Man,
Speaker 6: that my teammates that that was the.
Speaker 5: They're they're the best. They're the best.
Speaker 6: I mean, those guys really rallied behind me. You know,
Speaker 6: they were in the cage support me. I mean it
Speaker 6: was it was really like unbelievable stuff that nobody would
Speaker 6: ever hear or see. You know, those are things that
Speaker 6: that helped us win. I mean, yeah, but my my
Speaker 6: teammates are really responsible for you know a.
Speaker 5: Lot of that.
Speaker 1: You got the same guys coming back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the beauty. That's the beauty about it. So
Speaker 6: I know, I'm good. I know I got my boys.
Speaker 6: We we're gonna ride it together. That's for damn sure.
Speaker 1: That's what's special. You get to try to run this
Speaker 1: back with the same group of guys.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean obviously you know doing it. There have
Speaker 6: been no back to back so well, I mean, there's
Speaker 6: been something, but it's been so long, and so for
Speaker 6: us to have an opportunity to do it, you know,
Speaker 6: that's something special. Shout out to our front office for
Speaker 6: giving us the opportunity. Yeah, so it'll be tough. You know,
Speaker 6: we still got to play good Dodger baseball.
Speaker 1: So you just came back from Japan. Has been on
Speaker 1: this radio station all last year, and I know you're
Speaker 1: now the face of a certain extent.
Speaker 5: No, I mean, I'm doing some work with him, but yeah,
Speaker 5: that's cool.
Speaker 1: Oh, Tani's the supporting cast, you're the main guy.
Speaker 5: No, that's that's a lot. That's a lot.
Speaker 6: Everywhere everywhere I walked, everywhere we drove. You know, his
Speaker 6: signature was there, he had been there, his picture was there.
Speaker 5: So it was really neat. It was really neat.
Speaker 6: It was really neat to see how how much a
Speaker 6: country supports a player.
Speaker 1: Did you realize how big he was there? I mean
Speaker 1: we hear about it, but you got to see it firsthand.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you don't really, You don't really. You can.
Speaker 6: You can picture it all you want, but do you
Speaker 6: really see it to really see how how much he, uh,
Speaker 6: he affects that country?
Speaker 5: It's wild.
Speaker 1: Hey, Mookie Betts. He dips his toe on Ventura Boulevard
Speaker 1: once in a while. I heard you were in the
Speaker 1: Grade one eight this offseason taking ground balls and shortstop,
Speaker 1: putting in a lot of work.
Speaker 6: I mean I've been. I've been working, man, I've been working,
Speaker 6: and so we'll see. You know, I'm a big I'm
Speaker 6: a big, big person that thinks about you got to
Speaker 6: do it in the game. You can do it in
Speaker 6: practice all day, but if you don't do it in
Speaker 6: the game, then none of it really matters.
Speaker 1: How does it feel? I mean, it's got to be
Speaker 1: somewhat of a relief to prepare instead of yeah, for
Speaker 1: a full off season, instead of five days.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was, man, I was. I never.
Speaker 6: I've never I've never started training this early in my life.
Speaker 1: And wow, so after a long season, after a.
Speaker 5: Long season, like.
Speaker 6: The work I put in this off season, nobody would
Speaker 6: even fathom it. And so I really feel like I'm
Speaker 6: a new person there. So, like I said, we'll see.
Speaker 1: All right, before I let you go in, you got
Speaker 1: your little boy with you on your lab. Mookie's doing
Speaker 1: double duty daddy daycare today.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's tough, but it is what it is.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: He comes here and I want him to see what
Speaker 6: daddy does and maybe he'll want to do it one day.
Speaker 1: He's so cute too, thank god, he looks like his mom.
Speaker 1: All right, Hey, mooki I've been driving around the Valley
Speaker 1: the last couple of days since I heard Adam Silver
Speaker 1: talk about floating out that, you know, people think you're
Speaker 1: coming to Dodger Fest and you want to talk to
Speaker 1: Mookie Bets about baseball, not me. I have been booming
Speaker 1: at the mouth waiting to talk to you about this,
Speaker 1: Adam Silver floating out that maybe the NBA is thinking
Speaker 1: about shortening quarters from twelve minutes to ten minutes like
Speaker 1: the euro and National because of low attention span and
Speaker 1: just trying. The ratings are down a little bit in
Speaker 1: the NBA. I don't. I'm just completely against doing that.
Speaker 1: I wanted to hear what Mookie Be's thought about.
Speaker 5: I feel like you would you would change change the game.
Speaker 6: Change that would change the integrity of the game, because
Speaker 6: I feel like there's like a pace and the timing
Speaker 6: that that you develop playing basketball, just like you developed
Speaker 6: playing anything else.
Speaker 1: But you know, even though there's a pitch clock in baseball,
Speaker 1: there's still twenty seven outs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's still twenty seven outs. I mean there's change.
Speaker 6: There's change that that people may not like that end
Speaker 6: up being a really good thing.
Speaker 5: So you know, you just got to be open minded
Speaker 5: to it. I'm not saying I.
Speaker 6: Agree or disagree, but you simmer on that, Yeah, I
Speaker 6: would have to think about that, because you know, there
Speaker 6: that's some changes has been.
Speaker 5: Really good, like the pitch clock. I know, I don't want.
Speaker 6: People to get hurt by any means, but you know,
Speaker 6: just for from a player position player perspective, it.
Speaker 5: Really does speed the game up. You know.
Speaker 1: So my tweaks for the NBA enlarge the court, which
Speaker 1: brings the three point line back, and maybe it's a
Speaker 1: little bit more challenging for bigger, more athletic players.
Speaker 6: So now you're just trying to Now we're just trying
Speaker 6: to create a game. That's how good is that? Like,
Speaker 6: that's how good Wemby is. We're trying to create a
Speaker 6: game to slow him down. I mean, come on now.
Speaker 5: I just like can't do that.
Speaker 1: The players in the seventies and eighties weren't as big
Speaker 1: and fast as what they.
Speaker 5: Are now, right right, I mean, simmer.
Speaker 1: On that one too. We'll we'll regroup. Maybe you have
Speaker 1: it on their next podcast. You have like an NBA
Speaker 1: guy you were on all the Smoke. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 5: That was that was that was super cool. That was
Speaker 5: super cool.
Speaker 6: Here and two real basketball minds, So I'll be curious
Speaker 6: to ask them.
Speaker 1: Two basketball minds bowing at the altar of a great
Speaker 1: baseball player.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess I wouldn't call it, but I did. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but it was fun. It was fun. Those guys are awesome.
Speaker 1: I love it all right. So when I see you
Speaker 1: in Arizona, when you're making that long dry through the desert,
Speaker 1: you'll be hearing my voice in your head saying, no way,
Speaker 1: no way to a forty minute game. Expand the court.
Speaker 5: I'll make it of a of a car and let
Speaker 5: you know what I come up with.
Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good, sir. We love you, Mooki. LA really
Speaker 1: putting their arms around you, Mooki, and I think it's
Speaker 1: always sweet when a great athlete people don't appreciate it.
Speaker 1: They always want more. They want more, and you delivered,
Speaker 1: and I know there's more.
Speaker 5: Thank you, sir, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: He's a great player and a great dad man, Mookie
Speaker 1: putting me the shame. I can't be this good at
Speaker 1: fatherhood either. When we continue from Dodger Stadium, the Great Show,
Speaker 1: Hey O Tani will join us as well, and we'll
Speaker 1: wrap things up from Dodger Stadium. It's been a great
Speaker 1: day out here, and it's gonna be a great season.
Speaker 1: On five seventy LA Sports, your home of Mookie and
Speaker 1: the world champion. Los Angeles Dodgers FanFest is official as
Speaker 1: we are live at Dodgers Stadium, and I'm joined right
Speaker 1: now by a man that just one is third MVP
Speaker 1: Award and his shoe right now is hotter than any
Speaker 1: Air Jordan or Kobe shoe out there already. I went
Speaker 1: to go look for the Otani trainer lab. The only
Speaker 1: size available left SiZ sixteen. I'm ten and a half
Speaker 1: and the great show Hey Otani joins us right now
Speaker 1: live on Dodgers Radio show. Hey, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for the time. Will Ireton, thank you for being here
Speaker 1: as well. So the shoe sold out already, show, Hey,
Speaker 1: you did a great job of marketing. Everybody bought it.
Speaker 1: How much did you influence the way the shoe looks
Speaker 1: on design?
Speaker 7: I'm on commit it, Hi on.
Speaker 4: My I did get involved in the deesig. I know
Speaker 4: the shoes and really happy that so many people are
Speaker 4: buying it.
Speaker 1: When you look at the way Los Angeles has embraced you. Show, Hey,
Speaker 1: do you feel like after the season you had last
Speaker 1: year and the parade. You know how much the fans
Speaker 1: truly appreciate the way you play.
Speaker 4: Fund me and also I started that.
Speaker 8: My Famda Madad.
Speaker 2: Come back.
Speaker 4: You know, I really had the chance to be able
Speaker 4: to play in front of the fans, so I really
Speaker 4: got to feel the passion. And today just at the
Speaker 4: stage too, So it's really nice to be able to
Speaker 4: interact with the fans and kind of feel their passion,
Speaker 4: and you know to for twenty twenty five season. You know,
Speaker 4: we're literally just about to start, so we have a
Speaker 4: lot of work to do, but again, really excited to
Speaker 4: be you know, part of the Dodgers and play in
Speaker 4: front of these fans.
Speaker 1: And the Dodgers are going to start the season at
Speaker 1: the Tokyo Dome, a place you're very familiar with. How
Speaker 1: excited are you about that opportunity to wear a Dodger
Speaker 1: uniform and play in Tokyo?
Speaker 9: Excited to shamasca A well cut it.
Speaker 8: You don't need.
Speaker 4: You know, you don't really get an opportunity like this
Speaker 4: to play in front of the fans. Uh with two
Speaker 4: teams of Dodgers in the cubs and obviously Imaga is
Speaker 4: there as well, and you know other Japanese play ayers too,
Speaker 4: So really excited to be able to you know, play
Speaker 4: and hopefully we win a couple of games and make
Speaker 4: sure that the fans come out of that thinking dodge
Speaker 4: of blue show.
Speaker 1: Hey was around me for a year, so he knows
Speaker 1: I'm very awkward and really uh socially, uh sometimes clumsy.
Speaker 1: Do you have any tips for me to handle myself
Speaker 1: in Tokyo, Japan? So I don't embarrass your name, my
Speaker 1: name or the Dodger's.
Speaker 7: Name says to you nothing in particular, but I think
Speaker 7: one good thing to do is to just remember a
Speaker 7: few Japanese phrases and they would very much love that.
Speaker 1: Can you give me one?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Right now? How about right now? How about let's start
Speaker 1: with this show? Hey, bathroom bathroom? Yeah, where's the bathroom?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 1: All right, I could do that, like like, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: good to know if I wear a show hey jersey
Speaker 1: and new balanced shoes, do you think they might confuse
Speaker 1: us uniform?
Speaker 4: I'm sure they'll be excited to see you.
Speaker 1: So, Hey, before I let you go, one more baseball question.
Speaker 1: I've told people I am anticipating the night that you
Speaker 1: pitch for the first time at Dodgers Stadium. I don't
Speaker 1: believe it's going to be just another baseball game. It
Speaker 1: will be a bigger event than what we've seen. Have
Speaker 1: you visualized that moment being on the mound at Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 1: as wearing this uniform.
Speaker 4: Mounting to I'm not getting so you made it, you know,
Speaker 4: White Musca definitely imagine myself pitching on the mound. Now.
Speaker 4: I'm not exactly sure what when that's gonna happen, but
Speaker 4: I'm going to do the best I can to make
Speaker 4: it as early as possible.
Speaker 1: Since we know each other a little bit better now,
Speaker 1: if you need me, I'm almost the same height as
Speaker 1: Manny Machado. If you need me to stand in for
Speaker 1: a bullpen just to help you get ready, let me know.
Speaker 2: Okay, right there for you.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you man.
Speaker 1: So great to see, love seeing the smile. The m
Speaker 1: vps are great. But now we can say World Champion show.
Speaker 1: Hey O Tani and Roki Sazaki, you helped bring him here.
Speaker 1: I heard you text Andrew Friedman we got him, So
Speaker 1: maybe you Yamamoto Nobu made the deal happen with it?
Speaker 7: Hi, mam Mont call you.
Speaker 4: Know I played with him as a player for the
Speaker 4: WBC team Japan. So I got to really know him
Speaker 4: as a as a player and as a friend and
Speaker 4: just first and foremost, I'm really you know, what I
Speaker 4: wanted to really tell him was that, you know, regardless
Speaker 4: of the teams that he that he ends up choosing,
Speaker 4: I wanted him to be successful. And of course I
Speaker 4: wanted him to be a Dodger, but first and foremost
Speaker 4: as a person as a player, just really rooting for
Speaker 4: him to be successful.
Speaker 1: Man, that was the right pitch. You didn't seem too needy,
Speaker 1: you know, you just like, yeah, do what you want. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's okay. You play a suave like Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 2: Right there.
Speaker 4: It's about us, you, messa.
Speaker 8: He went to student.
Speaker 9: We do all day, he suppled.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yo, Shinoba and I are here. So I'm really,
Speaker 4: you know, excited that I'll be able to support him
Speaker 4: in this transition.
Speaker 1: Can't wait for the season to start. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to be in Tokyo with you. You're an expecting proud father.
Speaker 1: If you need any fatherhood tips, I can help. I
Speaker 1: have two young children. My wife does all the work,
Speaker 1: but I could, uh, you know, help you out if
Speaker 1: you need stand in for bullpen session and father advice,
Speaker 1: I could be a mentor.
Speaker 8: My company.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe maybe spring training.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you send in and I'm gonna hit you,
Speaker 1: thanks so awesome to be with you, and I'll have
Speaker 1: these by spring training. All right, Great, I'll be wearing
Speaker 1: turf shoes.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: There, he is the great show Heyo Tani, world champion
Speaker 1: and a champion of the people. Thank you show Hey,
Speaker 1: show Heyo Tani. That's a great way to end Dodger Fest.
Speaker 1: Right there. He said he would nail me. I mean
Speaker 1: he was gonna hit me if I stood in and
Speaker 1: helped him recover from his shoulder and Tommy John, I mean, man,
Speaker 1: how about that? That would just melt down social media.
Speaker 1: If I stood in for show Heo Tani bullpen session,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the whole camp would circle around
Speaker 1: behind home plate and cheer if he did hit me
Speaker 1: in the ribs. I mean I think he would anyway.
Speaker 1: That was amazing and honestly, that's the most open show
Speaker 1: Hey has ever been in interviews with me. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the vibe out here at Dodger Fest. Everybody's happy, relaxed.
Speaker 1: How could you not be your World Champions and ring
Speaker 1: day here. I'm the home opener. Once the Dodgers returned
Speaker 1: from Tokyo, Japan is going to be spectacular. I want
Speaker 1: to say thank you to the Dodgers, Lon Rosen, Juan Dorado,
Speaker 1: player relations, Joe Jerk, Ali Salvach, who was very nervous
Speaker 1: during that entire Otani interview. Everybody thought I was offending
Speaker 1: the guy by talking to him like a human being. Hey,
Speaker 1: but Gavin Stone appreciate it. Thank you for announcing and
Speaker 1: promoting your birthday on October fifteenth. We will all send
Speaker 1: you a tweet or maybe some donuts on your birthday.
Speaker 1: You know that's high class living right there for Gavin Stone.
Speaker 1: Thank you to Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts. Thank you
Speaker 1: to Michael Confordo. Thank you to Dave Roberts. I'm missing
Speaker 1: some guys, but in case you missed any of the
Speaker 1: show or any of the interviews, you can find it
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. And our next Dodger talk show
Speaker 1: is going to be on Monday night at seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: You will hear from Tommy Edman, Alex Vesia, and Austin
Speaker 1: Barnes on Monday Night for our Dodger talk. Want to
Speaker 1: say thank you to the crew out here from iHeart
Speaker 1: Bert Weiner who went all three hours of the show
Speaker 1: not asking for a Dodger dog. So that's a big victory. Bert.
Speaker 1: I will let Petros and Money know about this. Thank
Speaker 1: you to Doug Hall aka Skinny Rob Kardashian for being
Speaker 1: out here as well. Thank you to Johnny FACTORO as
Speaker 1: well for all his help. Solid Warris World series hat
Speaker 1: Joe Jeric wearing his Nike Windbreaker. Thank you to everybody
Speaker 1: for listening. It's been a fabulous Saturday. Can't wait to
Speaker 1: recap on Monday night. We will talk to you next week.
Speaker 1: Until then, have a great weekend. Be safe see