Speaker 1: Oh, man, I'm so nervous for this. I don't know
Speaker 1: why I'm so nervous for this. I brought my notes.
Speaker 1: My guy Freddie Freeman is here, Freddy, Freddy Man, Oh
Speaker 1: there he is number five.
Speaker 2: Have you been sitting in this corner all day?
Speaker 3: Yes, I wanted to. I should have brought a lava lamp.
Speaker 2: You know we have some of the kids now taking
Speaker 2: it back to when I was a kid.
Speaker 3: Right right? Everything retro is current again, Freddy.
Speaker 2: I like it. Yeah, yeah, I'm retro.
Speaker 3: You're retrore retro.
Speaker 2: Thank god, you look good.
Speaker 1: Yamamoto said I need to lose weight. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like I've gained a lot of weight this off season?
Speaker 2: Freddy? No, way, he said that he did. He did?
Speaker 3: He said, ah, you know, a little bit, a little
Speaker 3: bit too much.
Speaker 2: Then why would he say that.
Speaker 1: I feel like I have. I'm projecting and I know
Speaker 1: I have. But I'm not taking any medical or pharmaceutical shortcuts, Freddy.
Speaker 2: No, I am not going to answer those questions about weight.
Speaker 2: Just not going to do that. I think you look great.
Speaker 3: Did you know?
Speaker 1: Gavin Stone announced to us his birthdays on October fifteenth.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that likes to promote his birthday. Would
Speaker 1: you think Gavin Stone was that type of guy?
Speaker 2: No, I know, I didn't know. He talked very much.
Speaker 3: I know exactly.
Speaker 1: It was depressing when he said there were a lot
Speaker 1: of mosquitoes in Arkansas. I said, who would have guessed that?
Speaker 2: October fifteenth? Huh, Yeah, all right, it's good to know.
Speaker 3: Great segue.
Speaker 1: By the way, October fifteenth, nineteen eighty eight, was the
Speaker 1: day Kirk Gibson hit his walk off home run and
Speaker 1: Game one.
Speaker 2: Of the world. Now, I understand why you brought up
Speaker 2: Gavin Stone's birthday. Well, I mean, you're good at this.
Speaker 3: This was lined up perfectly.
Speaker 1: It was meant to be, like Freddie Freeman was meant
Speaker 1: to be at the plate that night, in that moment.
Speaker 2: That was a good one. Yeah, so let me to
Speaker 2: talk about it.
Speaker 1: I'm nervous, so that's why I brought I felt like
Speaker 1: Chris Farley here, just like you know, I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm more emotional about it.
Speaker 2: Was October, I didn't. Mine wasn't October.
Speaker 3: No, it wasn't. But that's when Gibson hit his Yours
Speaker 3: was a different date. You hit it in the same
Speaker 3: same area section.
Speaker 2: I heard it was like the same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they might put like a blue seat where you
Speaker 1: hit it, like where they did for Kirk Gibson.
Speaker 2: Oh, that'd be kind of cool.
Speaker 3: It would, yeah, in infamy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe me. I've thought about it every day
Speaker 2: pretty much.
Speaker 3: I mean, when you go to the grocery store, what's
Speaker 3: it like.
Speaker 2: I really can't go anywhere right now, which is which
Speaker 2: is fun because you know that sports in general can
Speaker 2: it just means so much to some two people. And
Speaker 2: obviously as I'm out in the community and I I
Speaker 2: don't think I've made it through one outing without someone
Speaker 2: coming up to me, which is really cool that people
Speaker 2: care so much and care about the Dodgers and and
Speaker 2: what that home run. I just did a luncheon and
Speaker 2: I there's a guy that had a tattoo of me
Speaker 2: on his leg.
Speaker 3: So geez, that's when you know it means something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then obviously a lot of other people are
Speaker 2: coming up at the luncheon saying how much that home
Speaker 2: run meant in the World Series and telling us where
Speaker 2: it was. One guy was there for Kirk Gibson's home run.
Speaker 2: So it's to hear people like like when you you
Speaker 2: went and you're out there and then you go home
Speaker 2: and you got to get ready for the next game.
Speaker 2: But then, like I've told people, like about a month ago,
Speaker 2: Charlie and I went down a rabbit hole on YouTube
Speaker 2: because he wanted and.
Speaker 3: With YouTube, right yeah.
Speaker 2: And just to see all the reactions and how it
Speaker 2: affected people in such a positive way, it's it does
Speaker 2: bring chills to you. And to be able to be
Speaker 2: a part of that and to deliver because I mean
Speaker 2: just and how like I watched the video later on
Speaker 2: and how they panned out over the stadium Joe Davis
Speaker 2: is talking, and how the whole thing was set up.
Speaker 2: It it's like giving me kind of goosebumps right now
Speaker 2: when you when you look back at it and think
Speaker 2: about it, and to be able to come through in
Speaker 2: those kind of moments, I mean, that's what you dream about,
Speaker 2: you know, just like how Joe said, it is what
Speaker 2: you think about in backyards. I mean, it's the same
Speaker 2: thing that I was doing with my two brothers when
Speaker 2: we were playing with the balls in our front yard.
Speaker 2: Our backyard wasn't pick enough what we did in the
Speaker 2: front yard, and and and for to happen again, like
Speaker 2: but in a big League game thirty years later when
Speaker 2: I was playing football with my brothers. It's it's incredible
Speaker 2: and like Joe Davis and how he set that whole
Speaker 2: thing up was you know, obviously I didn't know anything
Speaker 2: about it until I watched it and I was like, wow,
Speaker 2: you know, Joe was incredible and to hit it on
Speaker 2: the head and then after he sets the whole thing
Speaker 2: up to do it on the first pitch, it was like,
Speaker 2: I think that made it that, you know, like how
Speaker 2: I mean, it would have been awesome if it was
Speaker 2: like the twelfth pick too, but after he set that
Speaker 2: up to happen immediately, that's but the Yeah, the grocery
Speaker 2: store things kind of out. Yeah, I don't really.
Speaker 1: Try and you're going to the grocery store.
Speaker 2: Kind have been out of a lot of things with
Speaker 2: the surgery. So but uh, yeah, I believe me. I
Speaker 2: think I have if I when I'm out, there's no
Speaker 2: lesson at least if it's just a like I'll go
Speaker 2: to Jan's Health Bar. It's in Orange County and I
Speaker 2: get a smoothie there, and I don't think I've made
Speaker 2: it out of Jans without taking pictures or anything like that.
Speaker 2: And that's hop years. Oh, Chris, I haven't been there.
Speaker 2: We did Mastros the other day and one of the
Speaker 2: chefs comes out and he's got a Dodger hat on.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't think. I don't. I can't go
Speaker 2: anywhere right now. But that's a good thing because that
Speaker 2: means really good things happened.
Speaker 1: Freddie, you and your wife also had a little vacation together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, deservedly so. And I'll just out myself right now.
Speaker 1: I zoomed in on your right foot, yeah, to see
Speaker 1: if you had a boot on or sandals I've had.
Speaker 2: I had some interesting sandals. I didn't pick any of
Speaker 2: those outfits. I think everyone knows that, man. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: just whatever is in the bag and what I'm told
Speaker 2: to wear, I wear. Yeah. So we did that a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago. It was it was planned because
Speaker 2: our ten year anniversary was in November. A little busy
Speaker 2: to have much time to plan. Uh, So we kind
Speaker 2: of waited through the holidays and we did Mexico for
Speaker 2: a ten year anniversary. So we had a good time. Obviously,
Speaker 2: our family's been through a lot. Max is doing better,
Speaker 2: So we just needed a we just needed a week,
Speaker 2: you know, just to relax because you I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: you're married, and so when when you have kids, you're
Speaker 2: just trying to get You're doing everything with your kids
Speaker 2: every single day, and it's nice to be able to
Speaker 2: reconnect and you know, just sit there and hang out
Speaker 2: with your wife, and you know, we had a great time.
Speaker 2: It was a great week. We came home and it's
Speaker 2: right back into the week. We got home in the
Speaker 2: door and they just started crying. Someone was hitting each other,
Speaker 2: and I was just like, yeah, I'm sure we should
Speaker 2: have stayed longer, but it was a great time. Where
Speaker 2: But now it's back to you know, getting ready for
Speaker 2: the season again.
Speaker 3: How do you feel physically?
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we knew about the ankle, but you know,
Speaker 1: the ribs and all that stuff. Yeah, how does is
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman like tape together right now?
Speaker 2: To be here? I'm two of the injuries or one
Speaker 2: hundred percent. My broken fingers all good, my broken ribs
Speaker 2: all good. I am two months, eight weeks as of
Speaker 2: two days ago Thursday, out of surgery. And that was
Speaker 2: the first day I hit. So I hit for the
Speaker 2: first time. Two days ago, I felt good. I hit
Speaker 2: again yesterday, felt good again. Still not clear to run,
Speaker 2: but two days ago was a big day for me
Speaker 2: because if I wasn't able to respawn like I did yesterday,
Speaker 2: I think we would have been in trouble. Being able
Speaker 2: to be ready by Tokyo it was a good sign.
Speaker 2: I feel good today with back to back days of hitting,
Speaker 2: so I would have been able to hit today if
Speaker 2: but it was you know, scheduled days off and Monday
Speaker 2: I worked. I did four sets of seven and tes
Speaker 2: the last two days, so twenty eight swings and on Monday,
Speaker 2: I will it goes into flips too. So I think
Speaker 2: I will be full bore hitting by by the time
Speaker 2: probably spring training, when I get the spring training, because
Speaker 2: I'm going to stay here this whole next week and
Speaker 2: be doing my PTE down in Orange County for a
Speaker 2: whole nother week and then I'll get the spring training.
Speaker 2: So I think hitting wise, I'll be ready to roll.
Speaker 2: I'll be able to hit, batting practice, do all that.
Speaker 2: But I start doing I think by the end of
Speaker 2: next week some side to side stuff, you know, like movement,
Speaker 2: and then being able to do uh you know, then
Speaker 2: I'll be a running progression in spring training. So I
Speaker 2: will probably not be playing the first couple of games
Speaker 2: of spring training. As you guys probably know I'll get
Speaker 2: antsy and try and force my way into somehow. You know,
Speaker 2: I'll just DH, yeah, have one, so I'll just no,
Speaker 2: I'll just dh. We don't have a DH, so right
Speaker 2: and then, but the beauty of spring training is I'll
Speaker 2: be able to even a show he's playing in the
Speaker 2: real games, I can go into the backfield and get
Speaker 2: at bat, so I will be able to I think,
Speaker 2: be able to hit and see some live abs and
Speaker 2: then hopefully the running progression. I feel good, you know,
Speaker 2: that's it's all about how I feel. So but I'm
Speaker 2: in a good spot going into I was, you know,
Speaker 2: it was a little up and down. I was a
Speaker 2: little nervous how I was going to feel a couple
Speaker 2: of days ago. But ultimately I am feeling pretty good
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: Freddie, I know you have to go, but I'm just curious.
Speaker 1: The day of Game one of the World Series, Yes,
Speaker 1: when you got out of that day and put your
Speaker 1: your right foot down and just started to get yourself going,
Speaker 1: did you know, did you feel like, oh, wow, I
Speaker 1: feel a lot better than I did even five days ago.
Speaker 2: I was feeling pretty good two days going into that.
Speaker 2: I had still not run since game five of the
Speaker 2: NLCS because then we had the day off, and then
Speaker 2: I didn't play game six. Hi, Brandon, who are you
Speaker 2: Randon going? I go? So I hadn't run, but I
Speaker 2: was feeling good walking and and doing all that. But
Speaker 2: the first time I ran, like I told you guys,
Speaker 2: I ran when we did the introduction was the first
Speaker 2: time I took more than a walk and I was
Speaker 2: running out there. I was like, oh, I actually feel
Speaker 2: pretty good. And as I was coming down the line,
Speaker 2: all the trainers like, Freddie, you look great, and I
Speaker 2: was like, I know, I feel pretty good, and but
Speaker 2: I was feeling good. My swing was like I said,
Speaker 2: I have I called my dad like two days before
Speaker 2: game one. I said, Dad, I figured it out, and
Speaker 2: I mean as as my dad had said yeah. He
Speaker 2: was all and he was like, yeah, I didn't think
Speaker 2: you figured it out, and he goes, I watched you
Speaker 2: play in the Mets series and you were awful. So
Speaker 2: he was like, I was just hoping that you were
Speaker 2: being honest, and I did. I felt really good. I
Speaker 2: got my foot in a spot where I could actually
Speaker 2: have some strength into the ground, and I felt like
Speaker 2: my swing was in a good spot. So I was
Speaker 2: feeling good swing wise. I just didn't know how my
Speaker 2: ankle was gonna hold up. And my ribs were feeling
Speaker 2: pretty good by then. My finger was feeling pretty good
Speaker 2: by then. But you just didn't know. And I'm you know,
Speaker 2: a lot of people go, I can't believe you had
Speaker 2: to run out a triple in the first in your
Speaker 2: first step bat and actually said, no, that was actually
Speaker 2: a good thing because I was able to do that
Speaker 2: and get up and I was like, oh, I'm okay.
Speaker 2: So it was almost like a weight was able to
Speaker 2: come off my shoulders when I knew I was able
Speaker 2: to run those bases and get up and not be like,
Speaker 2: oh man, my ankle's killing me. I got a limp now.
Speaker 2: I never limped once in the World Series. I felt good.
Speaker 2: We had a great treatment plan going, and that's why
Speaker 2: I thought after the World Series it was like, oh,
Speaker 2: just rest and you know, do some PT and I'll
Speaker 2: be good to go. But three weeks after the World
Speaker 2: Series end, I was I'm like, something's not right, you know,
Speaker 2: like my ankle still hurts. And so I was in
Speaker 2: Atlanta for Thanksgiving doing it with all our family there,
Speaker 2: and I texted Thomas our head trainer. I was like,
Speaker 2: I think it's time to get this thing looked at.
Speaker 2: It's just not that I can't get the swelling out.
Speaker 2: And so when I came home from Atlanta, that's when
Speaker 2: we got the MRI. And I got the MRI, I
Speaker 2: go up and look in there, like you need surgery?
Speaker 2: Wait a second, what? And so that's the how that
Speaker 2: hold because I was feeling great during the World Series.
Speaker 2: So that's why I was like, oh, I'll just heal
Speaker 2: bit some time. That's why I know. I've been asked
Speaker 2: the question of why did you wait so long after
Speaker 2: the World Series and I was like, well, I've just
Speaker 2: played the World Series and felt pretty good, so I thought,
Speaker 2: just some rest. And so that was the reason of
Speaker 2: why it was about four weeks after that I had surgery,
Speaker 2: because I was like, I just wasn't getting better. So
Speaker 2: but luckily we got it done and it wasn't. I
Speaker 2: had tore some ligaments too in my ankle, but that
Speaker 2: had healed enough in those weeks after the World Series
Speaker 2: that I didn't have to thankfully get those fixed, because
Speaker 2: if I had to repair those, I probably wouldn't have
Speaker 2: been able to make it to Tokyo, which would have
Speaker 2: been a more extensive rehab, so a lot of being
Speaker 2: good actually happened. So we cleaned up the ankle and
Speaker 2: I'm feeling pretty good and hopefully the running progression like
Speaker 2: it's going to start next week and I have no setbacks.
Speaker 2: I think everyone that knows me, I'll probably just tell
Speaker 2: everyone that I don't have any setbacks and I feel great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I feel great, but I'm in a good spot, way better.
Speaker 2: My ankle's feeling better each day, more work on it
Speaker 2: every day, and it's and it's responding really well. So
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm in a good spot to be
Speaker 2: able to make it to Tokyo in six weeks. I
Speaker 2: can't believe it's already happening.
Speaker 3: I know, I can't believe it even such a short office.
Speaker 2: But a good reason why. Sure, it's sweet, right, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1: It'll be great, Freddie, when you're on that third baseline
Speaker 1: and you get your ring and you'll get to feel
Speaker 1: everything that the fans deserve to give you that day, I.
Speaker 2: Know, getting here and you know, seeing all these fans
Speaker 2: and the excitement. I just can't wait to get the
Speaker 2: ring and just to experience spring training and the excitement
Speaker 2: I mean, you saw our ownership group went out and
Speaker 2: did it again this offseason, and I think that's why
Speaker 2: fans are so excited, because you know, the hard working fans,
Speaker 2: they come and support us, spend the money here, and
Speaker 2: to see the organization that you're support supporting us, spending
Speaker 2: your money on is going right back into the the
Speaker 2: product that is awesome to see. And I think that's
Speaker 2: why everyone. I mean, obviously we have great players, but
Speaker 2: to go out there and see the ownership you're into,
Speaker 2: you're out go out and try and put the best
Speaker 2: team on the field. I think that's why everyone there's
Speaker 2: such a buzz around here, and I think we're all
Speaker 2: hungry to try and be the first team in twenty
Speaker 2: five years to do this back to back, you know,
Speaker 2: since the Yankees, and it's incredibly hard to do obviously,
Speaker 2: but I think we've put ourselves in a good spot
Speaker 2: to be able to go out there and do it.
Speaker 2: And we got to get us a little bit healthy,
Speaker 2: and yeah, some of us didn't need this, We needed
Speaker 2: an extra month, but I think we're gonna be ready
Speaker 2: to go and try and start this journey again.
Speaker 1: Freddie, it was truly an honor and a privilege to
Speaker 1: watch your journey last year and the way it ended.
Speaker 1: Like I told you so many times, I think the
Speaker 1: game in bigger picture life rewarded you, Freddie, because you're
Speaker 1: a champion of a person, even before all of that,
Speaker 1: and I mean everything that you and Chelsea went through
Speaker 1: and how strong Maximus was and just who you are.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, what a great journey. And man, I
Speaker 1: feel like I need ankle certainty after everything you just said.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I appreciate those kind where it's and my
Speaker 2: family's doing good. Maximus is doing well, and we'll get
Speaker 2: the spring training and I'm sure Chelsea will share some
Speaker 2: pictures and he's he's still not walking completely normal, but
Speaker 2: he's so close. And if you would have told us
Speaker 2: five months ago that he would have been where he
Speaker 2: is now, we would have been ecstatic. And he's doing great.
Speaker 2: If you walk into the house and you saw him
Speaker 2: on the couch, you would know nothing is wrong. He's
Speaker 2: still a joy, he's still fun. He's starting to run more.
Speaker 2: So once we get that strength back into his left
Speaker 2: it's his left leg. Once he gets that strengthen his
Speaker 2: left leg, he was gonna be flying around the bases
Speaker 2: you'll see him after on Sunday's basis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so.
Speaker 2: We're looking forward to it. We're looking forward to getting
Speaker 2: back out in spring training, getting this thing going.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, David.
Speaker 3: Freddie great to see you.
Speaker 1: Oh man, it's been awesome, truly your privileged, really Freddy,
Speaker 1: to be around you and just to see the way
Speaker 1: you live your life and the way you go about things.
Speaker 3: It really is awesome. Man, World Series MVP.
Speaker 2: I mean cool.
Speaker 1: I mean thirty years from now, I'll be hosting. Let's
Speaker 1: look back at the twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Being a walker. I might be in the walk there.
Speaker 2: There, Freddy seventeen surgery.
Speaker 3: Hopefully I'll lose weight by that, right, Freddy.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not infering that, Freddy. David.
Speaker 3: I love you to Freddy. Freddie Freeman the World Series MVP,
Speaker 3: A champion to the people.