Speaker 1: Hey, I'm still a believer. Twenty twenty four is the
Speaker 1: season of Mookie bets. The most valuable Dodger is right here,
Speaker 1: smiling more than we've seen him smile a lot this season,
Speaker 1: especially while you're on the il.
Speaker 2: Are you having fun again? I am? I am. It's
Speaker 2: a lot of fun to be back.
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's fun being at home, but you know,
Speaker 3: it's always uh, it's always good to go.
Speaker 2: Do your purpose. I feel like this is my purpose
Speaker 2: and I'm just happy to be here.
Speaker 1: What's it like out there with the fans, the home
Speaker 1: run seats. Are they welcoming you back in a big way? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, absolutely, It's fun, man, had I forgot what it's
Speaker 3: like to be able to turn around and waiting people.
Speaker 2: In the outfield and whatnot.
Speaker 3: You know, being in an infield, you gotta be locked
Speaker 3: in and nobody really talks.
Speaker 2: To you there.
Speaker 3: But in the outfield I get to be myself, laugh,
Speaker 3: joke and have.
Speaker 1: Some good interactions to Mookie is a man of many talents.
Speaker 1: We all know about the bowling, but a little known
Speaker 1: secret is if you're on Ventura Boulevard and you see
Speaker 1: a parking wreck and you see a guy at a
Speaker 1: pickleball court that looks like Mookie Betts. It might really
Speaker 1: be him. So now you're into pickleball too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am. That's that's my jam. I play. I
Speaker 2: played pretty much every day with the wife or my
Speaker 2: friends at some point.
Speaker 3: But after games, well, she wants to hit balls back
Speaker 3: and forth, and so she's got the bug just as
Speaker 3: bad as I do.
Speaker 2: But yeah, pickleball, I love it.
Speaker 1: Can you explain to us what the biggest differences between
Speaker 1: pickleball and tennis? Why should I choose pickleball over tennis?
Speaker 3: Well, partly because you don't have to move as much,
Speaker 3: but other than that, I mean, you know, there's there's
Speaker 3: some people that are that really love tennis and hate pickleball,
Speaker 3: and some people that really love pickleball and hate tennis.
Speaker 2: It's really whatever you want to do.
Speaker 3: The only thing I would make sure is before you
Speaker 3: go play pickleball, move do something because a lot of
Speaker 3: injuries happen just because people get out there.
Speaker 2: And think you don't really move that.
Speaker 3: Much and then they tear achilleses and coughs and all
Speaker 3: that type of stuff. So I make sure, even with
Speaker 3: me doing stuff every day, I make sure I move
Speaker 3: around your car play.
Speaker 1: Mookie's a smart guy. He knows how to keep his happy,
Speaker 1: his home happy. So I've heard guys like you take
Speaker 1: up pickleball so you could spend quality time with wifey.
Speaker 1: It's a husband wife type of thing.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know, Uh, it was golf, and you know,
Speaker 3: golf is the probably the best thing when it comes
Speaker 3: to communicate her, you know, hanging out with the guys
Speaker 3: and all the type of things. But you know, you're
Speaker 3: you're having a five and six hour day in golf,
Speaker 3: and she's definitely calling asking.
Speaker 2: Where you're at.
Speaker 3: So if I can just go have a nice two
Speaker 3: hour day with her, oh man, I get to do
Speaker 3: whatever I want.
Speaker 1: So basically, Mookie's a nice guy. What he was telling
Speaker 1: us is skinny fat people like me can play pickleball.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: But make sure you move and do a little Southern
Speaker 3: before you go play, or you're gonna tear something up.
Speaker 1: All right, good good PSA from Mookie Betts. When it
Speaker 1: comes to pickleball, when you get off the baseball field,
Speaker 1: how much I'm sure are you thinking about pickleball? Is
Speaker 1: that your new obsession?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Pretty much.
Speaker 3: I mean, once I leave the baseball, but I still,
Speaker 3: you know, doing a lot of thinking about baseball and whatnot.
Speaker 2: So that never really goes away.
Speaker 3: But in between, like when I just have over obsessed already,
Speaker 3: I've watched my video, I've done everything I need to do.
Speaker 3: Then I'll go hit the ball to kind of kind
Speaker 3: of clear my mind a little bit and spend time
Speaker 3: with the wife. You know, even if it's twenty thirty
Speaker 3: minutes she wants to just ding back and forth or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's just something that's that's good.
Speaker 3: That's a good quality time and good good brain clearer
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 2: Smokie.
Speaker 1: You also have a great podcast that's going on right now.
Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about going into like Big Boys
Speaker 1: neighborhood and maybe taking down some some hip hop and
Speaker 1: maybe taking over the LA airwaves in that fashion?
Speaker 3: I haven't, but maybe maybe, you know, that's a lot,
Speaker 3: that's a lot, that's something different.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I may if I can get on.
Speaker 3: One of one of somebody show like that, I feel
Speaker 3: like I've accomplished accomplished.
Speaker 2: Something, So maybe one day we'll see.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm putting you on the spot. You've interviewed
Speaker 1: a lot of your peers on your podcast. Is there
Speaker 1: something or someone that you really enjoyed interviewing that you
Speaker 1: felt like you learned something more about them that you
Speaker 1: had no idea.
Speaker 2: Oh man, there was a.
Speaker 1: Lot of guys.
Speaker 3: I've had so many I've had I've had a lot
Speaker 3: of guys on there.
Speaker 1: Who Key's brought out a lot of boring white guys
Speaker 1: personality on the podcast.
Speaker 3: That's it's hard to really say. I would say Trout,
Speaker 3: Trout saying he loves chasing storms. That that that's that's
Speaker 3: the thing. And then Gunner today, I had a podcast
Speaker 3: with Gunner and he is a big Lego guy, Lego
Speaker 3: lego he he he. He likes to build Lego sets,
Speaker 3: and so you know how you hear about it, but
Speaker 3: you don't really know like we do it, you know, And.
Speaker 2: So it's cool. I mean we do. We're normal people,
Speaker 2: just like everyone else.
Speaker 3: And so Gunner is just someone that I would have
Speaker 3: never pegged like legos, and so now I do.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I know, people open up to Mookie Betts because he's
Speaker 1: a good person and very inclusive and welcoming. But if
Speaker 1: you see him on the pickleball court, watch.
Speaker 2: Out, watch out. I got some fire on the pickleball court.
Speaker 2: Is there some fire in there?
Speaker 3: I don't know why or where it comes from, but
Speaker 3: is it there? And I'm not saying sorry If I
Speaker 3: hit you guys, I'm not saying sorry.
Speaker 2: Fair warning. Thanks Mookie.
Speaker 1: I'll see on the pickleball court somewhere in La just sir,