Speaker 1: Try never to make him wait.
Speaker 2: Seems to be his job these days in the bullpen
Speaker 2: and in life. The one and only Dan Hudson, thanks
Speaker 2: a lot for the time, and thanks for being patient
Speaker 2: with me.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: And I promise from just sitting out here in the
Speaker 3: dugout some big deal.
Speaker 2: I know, and then straggler riders want to pick your brain.
Speaker 2: You're forced to talk to him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes you're just there. You know, they need somebody
Speaker 4: talk to.
Speaker 1: Dan.
Speaker 2: You look very top gun ish right now. You got
Speaker 2: the white towel around your neck, you got the top
Speaker 2: gun Navy fighter pilot haircut.
Speaker 1: You're ready to go. Lather it up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm ready to go. It's easy to get lathered
Speaker 3: up out here in this humidity. But luckily it's cloudy
Speaker 3: and overcast, so we don't have too much sun today.
Speaker 1: Dan.
Speaker 2: As you look at the Dodger bullpen, you guys have
Speaker 2: done such a tremendous job all season long, not just
Speaker 2: by the results, but the burden of innings that have
Speaker 2: been put on you guys. What is the state of
Speaker 2: the bullpen as far as freshness and fatigue, the balance
Speaker 2: of all that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, the off day helps Obviously, with the
Speaker 3: freshness I'm coming across the country.
Speaker 4: He doesn't help with the fatigue, But you know, it's
Speaker 4: all part of man.
Speaker 3: I think everybody down there is just ready to strap
Speaker 3: them up and ready to go whatever the phone rings, so,
Speaker 3: you know, the innings or whatever they are. You know,
Speaker 3: the guys down there are ready to to take take down.
Speaker 4: Whatever inning's gonna get taken down. And you know, I'm
Speaker 4: proud to be down there with those guys.
Speaker 1: You came back for a reason.
Speaker 2: Has this season been everything that you had hope trying
Speaker 2: to come back from two severe knee surgeries?
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: I think it's been even more when it comes to
Speaker 3: just a personal standpoint. You know, obviously I'm in a
Speaker 3: little bit of a funk here right now. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to work my way out of it. And but you know,
Speaker 3: the first couple of months we were really freaking good.
Speaker 3: So you know, I'm really kind of happy with where
Speaker 3: I'm at physically, and uh, you know, we're just trying
Speaker 3: to push through some stuff right now and get ready
Speaker 3: for the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I always hear you guys talk about the process. Some
Speaker 2: people call it the journey, but isn't what you're going
Speaker 2: through right now, just the whole thing and why you
Speaker 2: love the game of baseball so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's just it's just part of the
Speaker 3: roller coaster that is being in a major league bullpen.
Speaker 3: You know, it's not gonna go perfect every single night.
Speaker 3: You know, it's you know, I always say, I try
Speaker 3: not to ride that role or coaster emotionally. You know,
Speaker 3: I just kind of stay even keel, don't get too
Speaker 3: ups with the super highs and don't get.
Speaker 4: Too low with the lows.
Speaker 3: You know it's gonna even out in the end, and
Speaker 3: you know you'll be right where you need to be
Speaker 3: at the end of the season. So you know, I'm
Speaker 3: just trying to, like I said, I push through some
Speaker 3: stuff right now mechanically and mentally, and you know, get
Speaker 3: ready to go every single night whenever Dave needs me.
Speaker 2: People feel like you're invincible because you never really show
Speaker 2: all that stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I show up more than more than people think.
Speaker 3: But no, it's uh, like I said, you just try
Speaker 3: not to get too too low with these lows that
Speaker 3: I'm in right now and push through it and like
Speaker 3: I said, just be there whenever he needs me to
Speaker 3: take the ball. And get ready for the series and
Speaker 3: hopefully you know, obviously in the playoffs as well.
Speaker 2: You've been through a lot in your career, obviously, have
Speaker 2: you been able to maybe reach out or allow some
Speaker 2: of these younger pitchers that have had these elbow and
Speaker 2: shoulder injuries to lean on you just for some advice
Speaker 2: or really lean on you? I mean, how have you
Speaker 2: been able to help some of these younger guys.
Speaker 4: No, it's cool.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously it's not great that they're injured, but
Speaker 3: like it's great that they're around. You know, sometimes you
Speaker 3: can kind of feel eggs out a little bit when
Speaker 3: you have like a major injury like that, So for
Speaker 3: them to still be around, Like, you know, Stoney's on
Speaker 3: the trip with Usk helping helping him get through his
Speaker 3: stuff mentally, and obviously River was their last arm stand,
Speaker 3: so I got to talk to him a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're all just everybody's there for everybody in this organization,
Speaker 3: in this clubhouse, top to bottom. Whenever anybody needs anything
Speaker 3: in a year to talk, listen to got to talk
Speaker 3: to then, you know, I'm there for him and they
Speaker 3: all know that.
Speaker 2: I don't really like to ask you guys too much
Speaker 2: about Otani and being teammates with him, but he is
Speaker 2: getting closer to making history to be the first fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty player in Major league history. What's it been
Speaker 2: like from your standpoint to watch him this season?
Speaker 3: I just I just feel like I'm lucky to have
Speaker 3: a first first row seat to this season for him. Obviously,
Speaker 3: the spotlight's always on him, but I feel like it's
Speaker 3: gotten even brighter since it's gotten caught up the you know,
Speaker 3: the interstate a little bit to Dodger Stadium, and he's
Speaker 3: done nothing by answer the bell man, He's he's there
Speaker 3: every single night. He's posting, he's doing unblie things on
Speaker 3: a ball field, And like I said, I just feel
Speaker 3: lucky I get to watch it every single night.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had a chance to watch his bullpens?
Speaker 4: No, I haven't. I haven't heard yet. I haven't been
Speaker 4: able to see one of those yet.
Speaker 3: But I'm excited to kind of see where he's headed
Speaker 3: with that man. It'll be it'll be really great to
Speaker 3: see him back on the mount again.
Speaker 1: Where do you stand as far as the DH winning
Speaker 1: the m v p H.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's his, no doubt. I don't I
Speaker 3: don't really have a stance on that. If you're the
Speaker 3: best player in the league, most valuable player in the league,
Speaker 3: you get the m v P in my opinion.
Speaker 4: So h you know, he's been that and everything for us.
Speaker 3: The fact that he's a dah doesn't matter to me,
Speaker 3: so you know, hopefully it doesn't matter to the voters
Speaker 3: as well. Hopefully he gets that hardware at the end
Speaker 3: of the year and uh, you know, hopefully top it
Speaker 3: off of the World Series as well.
Speaker 2: All Right, Dan Hudson, you know I tap into you.
Speaker 2: What you say leads my compass in baseball and maybe life.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't go that far, dude.
Speaker 3: If that if that's your if that's your compass, that's
Speaker 3: a bad compass.
Speaker 4: It's spending all all over the place.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for the time, Daniel, really appreciate.
Speaker 4: No problem.