Speaker 1: All right, it is snell Zilla Saturday. I am with
Speaker 1: my guy, Blake Snell. That's a new thing, Blake's Nell
Speaker 1: snell Zilla Saturday.
Speaker 2: There you go, man, just keep making stuff up.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna do this every Saturday?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: All right, sounds good.
Speaker 2: Back to you in the boot.
Speaker 1: Hey, it's great to see you, and I love having
Speaker 1: you on the road trip.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts also said this, You're a great teammate because
Speaker 1: even though you're not able to pitch, you're still engaged
Speaker 1: in that dugout.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I definitely love being here and and love supporting the guys.
Speaker 3: And it's good, you know, gonna watch the game, get
Speaker 3: to learn, get to see you know, successes, failures, and
Speaker 3: then talk to his team mates and trying to help
Speaker 3: them if I can, and if if that's some that
Speaker 3: you know they trust me with, but if not, just
Speaker 3: there for a voice or reason.
Speaker 1: It was so early, even at Dodger FanFest, when you
Speaker 1: were singing the praises of Hey song Kim. Now he's
Speaker 1: getting his chance. I don't think you ever doubted this
Speaker 1: guy could play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean he's faster than I thought. His
Speaker 3: defense got a lot better from spring till now, and
Speaker 3: his hitting is actually better from springtille now, so there's
Speaker 3: been a lot of improvement from him, which has been
Speaker 3: excited to see. I'm excited to see, you know, his
Speaker 3: journey through the next month and and seeing you know,
Speaker 3: how how that goes, how he handles it, if he succeeds,
Speaker 3: if he fails, the gams very difficult. So you don't
Speaker 3: really know what's going to happen, but you know right
Speaker 3: now watching him play, it's been a lot of fun
Speaker 3: and his energy is always happy. He's always excited about
Speaker 3: every day. So you know, that's really good to see.
Speaker 1: Isn't that the biggest thing in Major League Baseball? A
Speaker 1: lot of guys can do it for two or three games,
Speaker 1: maybe a week, but consistency, no matter what you're doing,
Speaker 1: seems to be the biggest thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how you handle failure because it's coming, and
Speaker 3: it's however you handle it is what's the most important.
Speaker 3: If I think failure is a good thing, and if
Speaker 3: you look at it that way, it's gonna it's it's
Speaker 3: preparing you to be a better version of you, and
Speaker 3: you got to go through it to to really see
Speaker 3: that other side of you. I think there's a lot
Speaker 3: of good from it. But if you just go through
Speaker 3: the failure and you live in that moment and you're
Speaker 3: upset and frustrated and oh, I say, and you start
Speaker 3: believing that, then you'll be out of league pretty quick.
Speaker 1: Blake Snell on snell Zilla's Saturday is our guest. Where
Speaker 1: are you at as far as your progress to getting back?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna be throwing here shortly, so we'll see.
Speaker 3: We're just taking the day, my day going slow, but
Speaker 3: we should know soon. So once once I feel one
Speaker 3: hundred healthy, ready to go, that's the plan and then
Speaker 3: we'll see from there.
Speaker 1: You feel like you're moving in the right direction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, every day, you know, some days I feel a
Speaker 3: little worse than the others. This is the longest I've
Speaker 3: been on the IL forever, so it's been frustrating and
Speaker 3: difficult to go through.
Speaker 2: But I like being on the road trip.
Speaker 3: I like being able to, you know, support the teammates
Speaker 3: and and more so just be selfless, stop worrying about
Speaker 3: myself and start wearing about the team. It's just really
Speaker 3: helped me mentally, just you know, focus on day by
Speaker 3: day and when it's my time, it will be my time,
Speaker 3: But right now it's not, and I got to accept
Speaker 3: that and focus on rehab, get as strong and healthy
Speaker 3: as I can get. Then when it's my time, I'll
Speaker 3: be ready to go.
Speaker 1: Hey Blake, I know you face Freddie Freeman a lot
Speaker 1: in your career, but now seeing him play every day,
Speaker 1: do you have a greater appreciation of who he is
Speaker 1: as a baseball player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I definitely do. He's he's better than I thought.
Speaker 3: How just like his consistency, his work. I think everything
Speaker 3: he does is just consistent. Same guy every day, doing
Speaker 3: the same thing, same approach, same intent. It makes sense, guys,
Speaker 3: you know, as good.
Speaker 2: As he is.
Speaker 1: What about seeing Otani only guy in baseball right now
Speaker 1: with ten home runs and ten stolen bases?
Speaker 2: I mean it's going up for sure.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, yeah, he's Good's all right? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: it's just like he was he was high cold. You know,
Speaker 3: it's I'm excited once we get, you know, halfway through
Speaker 3: the season, and you know you see the ups and
Speaker 3: the downs and how.
Speaker 2: They handle it.
Speaker 3: But you know, he's even when he's down, like you
Speaker 3: don't even know that. So that's what's pretty impressive, is
Speaker 3: you know his downs aren't even downs, so to watch him.
Speaker 3: He's getting hot, he's heating up, he's playing good ball.
Speaker 3: I know he likes Marlin's Ballpark as we saw, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see him continue to continue to grow
Speaker 3: and get better.
Speaker 1: Snell Zilla Blake Snell is our guest before I let
Speaker 1: you go. You have the most random connections with random people.
Speaker 1: Mark Ingram in Florida, first day at Marlin's Park. He's
Speaker 1: your guest on the field. How the heck do you
Speaker 1: know a running back as great as mark Ingram.
Speaker 3: I want to say random, I would say good people
Speaker 3: know good people. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's just so random to you, it's random to me.
Speaker 2: It's normal.
Speaker 1: Who else is gonna pop out Bradley Cooper one day.
Speaker 2: If you want?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean good people, you know. I'm just I
Speaker 3: like to be around good people that have, you know,
Speaker 3: done pretty amazing things, and I like to pick their
Speaker 3: brain on what they did to be you know, a
Speaker 3: Heisman winner, or have a successful career like he did,
Speaker 3: or you know, just anything. But I like being around
Speaker 3: people that have accomplished things and ask questions and I
Speaker 3: find ways to meet people and just you know, find
Speaker 3: ways to get better.
Speaker 1: I see that every day. You're smarter than people think
Speaker 1: they're gonna see it soon.
Speaker 3: I guess I appreciate that. But yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3: I'm quiet. You know, people don't know much.
Speaker 1: Well, we had a great Saturday. I'll see you next Saturday.
Speaker 2: All right, Snell Zilla Saturday.
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Speaker 2: They have a Mother's Day of my wife and to
Speaker 2: my mom.