Speaker 1: It's the Dodgers and Royals from Camelback Ranch. As the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are getting closer to leaving for Tokyo, Japan, joining
Speaker 1: us right now is a man that got to experience
Speaker 1: South Korea with the Dodgers last year. He'll be on
Speaker 1: the trip to Tokyo. That is the one and only
Speaker 1: land and Knack. Always great to see you, and I
Speaker 1: always appreciate you finding me in this madhouse of a clubhouse.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, man, anytime.
Speaker 3: I always enjoy hopping on with you, even in all
Speaker 3: this craziness.
Speaker 1: What was it like for you? I always hear about
Speaker 1: players talk about the journey is greater than the reward.
Speaker 1: What was the journey like for you last year and
Speaker 1: be part of a World championship team.
Speaker 2: It was very rewarding.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously it kind of been the up and
Speaker 3: down year. Got to debut or got to almost debut
Speaker 3: in Korea and experience that trip, and then to come
Speaker 3: back debut at home at Dodger Stadium early on in
Speaker 3: the year, and then kind of bounce up and down,
Speaker 3: back and forth between OKC and the big leagues, and
Speaker 3: then to get to kind of stick near the end
Speaker 3: after going through that and being able to make the
Speaker 3: post season roster, pitching the World Series, and then us
Speaker 3: be able to to win that thing and be able
Speaker 3: to hold the trophy.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was just an unbelievably rewarding year.
Speaker 1: Nobody was on the same victory tour as Jack Flaherty,
Speaker 1: but you had a few.
Speaker 2: Moments of your own.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers called you in for Hockey Night, I think
Speaker 1: and Rams game. I think that's where you were with
Speaker 1: the trophy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we went to a few places with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we Rams game with it, went of course to
Speaker 3: the of course of the hockey game, and I think
Speaker 3: we took it to a couple more places that I'm
Speaker 3: blanking on right now.
Speaker 2: I went to a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3: I stayed out in California for the offseason, and so
Speaker 3: one kept hitting me up and being like.
Speaker 2: Hey, you want to go to this when we go
Speaker 2: to this? So we got to.
Speaker 3: We got to do some fun stuff, got to yeah,
Speaker 3: meet some of the Rams players, meet Flavor Flav jingle Ball,
Speaker 3: and do a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2: So it was it was, we had a we had
Speaker 2: a good time with everything.
Speaker 1: Was it a little different of a reception that you
Speaker 1: would have gotten not being a World champion.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you could definitely feel the excitement and people
Speaker 3: bringing around the trophy. It's definitely a little different when
Speaker 3: people are seeing.
Speaker 2: That thing traveling around.
Speaker 3: So it was it was fun to have, like have
Speaker 3: that moment.
Speaker 2: With the fans.
Speaker 1: Landon neck is our guest in front of first pitch
Speaker 1: between the Dodgers and Cubs.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Part of the reason why there's so many people every
Speaker 1: day around Dodger Camp is not only being World champions,
Speaker 1: but now you've got three Japanese pitchers in your starting
Speaker 1: rotation and Roki Sazaki being the newest one Otani obviously
Speaker 1: gonna pitch this year. What's it like being around them
Speaker 1: and being around this every day?
Speaker 2: It's awesome.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, obviously not every team gets to experience
Speaker 3: this kind of thing, and here where you just have
Speaker 3: the media constantly coming through and just excitement all the time.
Speaker 3: So I mean, it's it's a lot of fun to
Speaker 3: be able to, for one, just see the reaction to
Speaker 3: everybody Whinever, Yamamoto, Shohy and Roki all come through and
Speaker 3: so it's a lot of fun to be around it
Speaker 3: and then kind of see how those guys work because
Speaker 3: obviously Japanese training is a little bit different, So it's
Speaker 3: kind of fun to be able to see the way
Speaker 3: they go about.
Speaker 2: Things and do things and what makes them elite.
Speaker 3: And so yeah, just being around this all the time,
Speaker 3: it's it's a great experience.
Speaker 1: Does Yamados still have the lawn darts the bow and arrows?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's never going anywhere.
Speaker 3: I know he that's what makes his arm feel good
Speaker 3: and that's what gets him ready to go. So I
Speaker 3: know he's he's always gonna have the lawn darts.
Speaker 1: Have you ever tried that?
Speaker 3: I have tried maybe once. I can't get the feel
Speaker 3: for it. So I know We've had some other guys
Speaker 3: messing with it. I saw Bobby Bobby messing with a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 2: He's actually was pretty good. But uh, but yeah, I
Speaker 2: not so much. It's not kind of my thing.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Bobby Miller, you guys have come up through
Speaker 1: the minor league organization together to be here now, to
Speaker 1: be together in the big league clubhouse. What's it like
Speaker 1: to just have that journey with somebody else, with a
Speaker 1: couple of other guys.
Speaker 2: It's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to be able to to kind of come up
Speaker 3: here with the guys that you came through the system with.
Speaker 2: To be able to be in the clubhouse, to.
Speaker 3: Have Bobby, Gavin, Kyle, Emmett's River or like all these guys,
Speaker 3: to have them all in Ben, To have all these guys.
Speaker 2: In the locker room with us, I mean, it's awesome.
Speaker 3: Maybe have to have your guys here to share this
Speaker 3: experience with and.
Speaker 2: It's I mean, it's it's been great.
Speaker 1: The obvious question is what's Gavin Stone like as a
Speaker 1: locker mate.
Speaker 3: He's kind of a pain in the butt, but you know,
Speaker 3: he's not too bad.
Speaker 2: His hair.
Speaker 1: His hair looks a lot better than it did at FanFest.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's looking nice and clean cut right now.
Speaker 2: I gotta give it to him.
Speaker 1: I'll ask you this in front of him, because even
Speaker 1: though he's not pitching this year, it's part of the equation.
Speaker 1: What is it like having such a talented roster, such
Speaker 1: a talented pitching staff. How do you go about your
Speaker 1: business and not allow all that other stuff to interfere
Speaker 1: with preparation.
Speaker 3: I think part of it is just kind of embracing
Speaker 3: how much time you have around here, being able to
Speaker 3: kind of see how guys go about their business, pick
Speaker 3: their brains and just be able to appreciate the kind
Speaker 3: of talent you have in here that creates a winning culture.
Speaker 3: And so you kind of just kind of look around,
Speaker 3: pick your brains, learn what you can, and just take
Speaker 3: care of your own business, take whatever you can from it,
Speaker 3: and just learn and get better every day.
Speaker 1: So you block out, you know, just the numbers game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if you focus too much on the
Speaker 3: numbers game, you're gonna drive yourself crazy on that part.
Speaker 3: You can only can what you can, and so you
Speaker 3: really just kind of put your head down and know
Speaker 3: when the opportunity is there.
Speaker 2: You know you're ready for it. However, the roster shakes out.
Speaker 1: What's landed NAC trying to control as far as getting
Speaker 1: better this season this spring, we're just trying to.
Speaker 2: Get things as locked in as possible.
Speaker 3: We uh, we started to lock in a little bit
Speaker 3: of the slider and a new change up at the
Speaker 3: end of the year last year.
Speaker 1: So do you want to give away all these secrets
Speaker 1: in front of Gavin Stone?
Speaker 3: I trust him a little bit. I think I think
Speaker 3: he's good over there. So but yeah, I was just
Speaker 3: kind of getting.
Speaker 2: Things ready to go.
Speaker 3: And so we're feeling good about where we are right
Speaker 3: now and just want to keep building.
Speaker 1: Gavin Stone, do you want to rebut on what type
Speaker 1: of locker mate Landing Nack is.
Speaker 2: He's a good locker mate. Credit to Landon, he lost
Speaker 2: a lot of weight this ye this offseason.
Speaker 1: Well you can say that I'm a skinny, fat guy.
Speaker 1: I can't go after anybody's weight.
Speaker 3: I mean, hey, you know, I mean we've tried to
Speaker 3: do a little bit, you know, we uh we tracked
Speaker 3: kind of the calories of offseason and try to work
Speaker 3: to drop a little bit, feel a little better coming
Speaker 3: a little uh little slimmer this spring, and so body's
Speaker 3: feeling good right now.
Speaker 1: That was a great ice breaker. Thank you, Landon, of
Speaker 1: course gotcha. Thank you Gavin Stone. That was a great icebreaker.