Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talker.
Speaker 1: It is Mother's Day, and baseball and Mother's Day always
Speaker 1: seems to coincide with each other, and we're to join
Speaker 1: right now by a man that not only is a
Speaker 1: great son, but he's a great father and has a
Speaker 1: great wife that raises their little baby boy. And that's
Speaker 1: the one and only Tommy Edmund. Happy Mother's Day, Tommy.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate it. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: can say that to me, but Happy Mother's Day all
Speaker 2: all the mothers out there, yeah.
Speaker 1: No doubt, and especially your wife, because you guys are
Speaker 1: raising a little boy right now. Kristen Edmund is doing
Speaker 1: a great job at home while you do your thing
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Yep, she's doing an amazing job. You know, it's not
Speaker 2: easy for the wives of baseball players with how much
Speaker 2: we travel, but you know, she's a rock star. She's
Speaker 2: doing a great job and you know, just an amazing mom.
Speaker 1: Hey, you can appreciate this. Growing up a Dodger fan
Speaker 1: and growing up in SoCal, we always used to hear
Speaker 1: Vince Scully give his wife Sandy a lot of praise.
Speaker 1: But now that you're living it. How true is it
Speaker 1: to have the support system of a great wife and
Speaker 1: a great mom at home that's raising your son.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is so important, you know, just to
Speaker 2: be able to come home and have the peace of mind,
Speaker 2: you know, of having that that good support system. You know,
Speaker 2: two people that love you so much, you know, my
Speaker 2: I love I love spending time with my son Eli
Speaker 2: in the mornings when I get home from games. And
Speaker 2: then obviously having my wife there too, who's been busy
Speaker 2: all day, but you know, is still there and still
Speaker 2: there to greet me when I get home, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's just amazing to have both of them there waiting
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: So, ten game, ten day road trip that you're wrapping
Speaker 1: up today on Mother's Day day game coming up right now,
Speaker 1: do you believe that you'll have time to treat Kristen
Speaker 1: to a great Mother's Day.
Speaker 2: Yes, it'll be a little bit of a busy day,
Speaker 2: but got some Mother's Day shopping done in Atlanta on
Speaker 2: this road trip, so you know, hopefully, hopefully it turns
Speaker 2: out well. But yeah, I know we'll we'll get to
Speaker 2: spend the day together after the game, you know, flying
Speaker 2: back to la and then we got the off day
Speaker 2: on Monday.
Speaker 1: Look at you, Tommy had been planning ahead.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm terrible at planning usually, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. You know, it's Mother's Day, a special day.
Speaker 1: No doubt. Tommy Edman is our guest and your mom, Maureen.
Speaker 1: She's been a big part of your life, obviously a
Speaker 1: support system as you grew up wanting to play the
Speaker 1: game of baseball. How much has she meant to your life?
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's you know, she means a lot to me.
Speaker 2: She was, you know, one of my biggest supporters growing up,
Speaker 2: to go to every game and you know, constantly cheering
Speaker 2: me on. And she's a huge baseball fan and continues
Speaker 2: to watch every game that I play today.
Speaker 1: Did she get you into baseball? Who had a big
Speaker 1: influence on you?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, my dad's a baseball coach. He's coached
Speaker 2: baseball for you know, thirty what is it thirty years now?
Speaker 2: Thirty five years? But yeah, so actually the first baseball
Speaker 2: game I went to though I was I was about
Speaker 2: two or three days old, and my mom took me
Speaker 2: to one of my dad's I think it was a
Speaker 2: high school game that he was coaching. So yeah, she was,
Speaker 2: you know, always taking me to games, and yeah, the
Speaker 2: two of them together kind of got me into baseball.
Speaker 1: How are you handling this time away from the team
Speaker 1: being on the i L. I see you putting in
Speaker 1: work every day, So how are you keeping your mental
Speaker 1: health in a good spot?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm still able to do a lot
Speaker 2: of things, you know, baseball. Why so I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to do as much baseball activity as I can, just
Speaker 2: so that, you know, when my ankle's ready to come
Speaker 2: off the ie L. You know, there's not any kind
Speaker 2: of transition period where I got to build back up
Speaker 2: to baseball stuff. Just trying to stay fresh as best
Speaker 2: as I can. And you know, I think doing that
Speaker 2: helps me to kind of keep my mind in a
Speaker 2: good place.
Speaker 1: It's so wild that you're able to do everything except
Speaker 1: running a straight line. Mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just kind of the nature of the injury.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm able to take round balls, go side
Speaker 2: to side, and then getting up to full speed is
Speaker 2: the last step, all.
Speaker 1: Right, before I let you go. Tommy edmand two nights ago,
Speaker 1: show how Tani and your teammates came back with a
Speaker 1: six run ninth inning. Oh, Tani bat flipping and just
Speaker 1: what he did for you guys. What from where you
Speaker 1: were sitting here in the dugout, can you describe what
Speaker 1: was going on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, you know that that was one of
Speaker 2: the craziest games I think, you know, definitely the craziest
Speaker 2: regular season game I've I've seen and and uh, you
Speaker 2: know it just it seems like whenever we play at
Speaker 2: this stadium here in here in Arizona, there's some some
Speaker 2: wild games for whatever reason, and uh, you know that
Speaker 2: that game was certainly one of them. You know, I
Speaker 2: think when show hate came up in the ninth inning,
Speaker 2: definitely all the Diamondbacks, you know, players were pretty nervous,
Speaker 2: and I think we all just had confidence that he
Speaker 2: was gonna do something special like he always does, and
Speaker 2: and he certainly came.
Speaker 1: Through all right. Tommy Edmond, thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 1: Great to share you on Mother's Day with all the
Speaker 1: moms out there, and certainly I know you've got a
Speaker 1: special place for your mom, Maureen, and certainly your wife Kristen.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, happy Mother's Dad. Everybody out there, you know,
Speaker 2: we appreciate all of you and and all the all
Speaker 2: the work you do.