Speaker 1: They already.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, jealousy. You know that voice. He's gonna
Speaker 2: stay the rest of the show. Everybody else go home.
Speaker 2: David Bath say live at Dodger Fest, at Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: And here he is the.
Speaker 2: Two time, two time Cy Young Award winner no hitter
Speaker 2: last year, the biggest sign for the Dodgers this offseason,
Speaker 2: wearing that number seven.
Speaker 3: He's got a tight haircut. And here he.
Speaker 2: Is the one and only Blake Snell aka Snell Zilla,
Speaker 2: a k A my number one guy on this team.
Speaker 1: A no, no, okay.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, aka daddy whoa on the time road. Hey,
Speaker 2: here comes your brother from another mother. Hey Song, Kim
Speaker 2: right there, No, Zilla's number one. Oh secret handshake already,
Speaker 2: even with the interpreter.
Speaker 1: You got one, my boys, Where are you.
Speaker 2: Taking him Korea town tonight? Where are you taking him
Speaker 2: for dinner? Korean barbecue tonight?
Speaker 3: He loves it. Yeah yeah, he says, yes, song too.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, I sung to guys.
Speaker 1: He gonna be there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I love it. That's your guy.
Speaker 2: Are they done? Oh here come here? Hey song put
Speaker 2: this on. Talk to Blake Snell. Yes, calm come, we're
Speaker 2: live all radio.
Speaker 1: What that means that's crazy and.
Speaker 3: VI and Vivo Radio with Blake Snell. Oh he's nervous.
Speaker 1: He doesn't.
Speaker 3: He doesn't like you already. See I gotta heat. Why
Speaker 3: does he like you?
Speaker 1: Stuff for me when I'm done with this, and then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna meet you in the room.
Speaker 3: Yeah you're gonna game plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we got a plan.
Speaker 3: I had the Skittles. Snail Zilla's coming in there after this.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't like Skittles. I like Eminem's with peanuts.
Speaker 2: I love M and M's with peanuts too. You know
Speaker 2: what I had yesterday? You would love Life Saver gummies?
Speaker 1: WHOA.
Speaker 3: I want to save them for my kids, but I
Speaker 3: ate them in the car. Come on, man, that's what
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: How does it feel you're wearing this jersey?
Speaker 1: People?
Speaker 3: Your teammates?
Speaker 1: Now you've got Kobe's on? Man?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Like these they were available? Hard to get them? What
Speaker 2: it's available? I asked o Tany for a promo code
Speaker 2: for New Balance. He said, no, No, you gotta work harder.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: What are you?
Speaker 2: You're a Nike guy? Right, yeah, you're sponsored by Nike.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have like Air Jordan cleats? Is that what
Speaker 2: you wear.
Speaker 1: They don't want me to wear Jordan's Nike.
Speaker 3: Nike only.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a two time Young Winner. Can't get
Speaker 2: on team Jordan?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm gonna work on that, work on it.
Speaker 2: Hey, Kelly Jansen's a jump man, Mookie's a jump man.
Speaker 2: They don't have two cy Young's Pokey's.
Speaker 1: Gotta yeah, bok got a couple of words, but two times,
Speaker 1: come on? Yeah they don't.
Speaker 3: That meant a lot to Kenley when he became a
Speaker 3: jump man? Would that mean a lot to you?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like Nike. Okay, I'm good, But all right,
Speaker 1: they're in the same fan.
Speaker 3: We don't want to burn the family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the bridge, right?
Speaker 4: I like?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: I like both.
Speaker 2: Hey, I heard you are at work in Arizona. You've
Speaker 2: been working with the Dodgers. I mean, it's not funny
Speaker 2: games for snail Zilla around this time.
Speaker 4: No, I got a lot, you know, a lot to prove,
Speaker 4: and I gotta I gotta get ready. I gotta learn
Speaker 4: the spring what spring train is going to be like
Speaker 4: with a new team, learn the coaches, players, kind of
Speaker 4: figure out where I'm gonna fit in, where I want
Speaker 4: what I want to do every morning to get ready
Speaker 4: to play. So yeah, I mean getting down there early
Speaker 4: is probably what's best for me to to to be
Speaker 4: ready to be the best me once once the season starts.
Speaker 2: You've been on now four teams in your career. Yeah,
Speaker 2: You've always wanted a home, always just wanted a home.
Speaker 2: It feels like you found a home. How much does
Speaker 2: that make it more comfortable to know this isn't just
Speaker 2: a one year thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's big. I finally get to like buy homes. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I get to really invest into not only myself, but
Speaker 4: the players that are coming up with the Rays. The
Speaker 4: thing that they did best is the older players really
Speaker 4: did help the younger players a lot, and I was spoiled.
Speaker 4: I had so many veterans around me to really help
Speaker 4: grow me as a man a player, and that that's
Speaker 4: kind of what I'm looking forward to do as well,
Speaker 4: the best that I can. But I've already been meeting
Speaker 4: with a couple of guys. Bobby's kind of been Bobby Ice,
Speaker 4: that's what you call him. Yeah, Yeah, that's Bobby Miller.
Speaker 4: He reminds me a lot of just me when I
Speaker 4: was younger, and I feel there's a lot I can
Speaker 4: do to help him kind of mature into his career
Speaker 4: and just start believing in his ability more so. That's
Speaker 4: a guy I'll be around a lot. He might know
Speaker 4: that he might not, but that's awesome. I see a
Speaker 4: lot of similarities there, so definitely looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: But for my playing career, Kershaw is kind of the
Speaker 4: guy I can't wait to meet him be around him.
Speaker 4: The thing going out on Instagram my search feed everywhere
Speaker 4: as one hundred and ninety nine starts of or one
Speaker 4: hundred and ninety three starts of an era under a
Speaker 4: two and seven innings average, Like that's insane. I want
Speaker 4: to find a way to do that, to be as
Speaker 4: good as he was. I think I'm just getting into
Speaker 4: my prime. I think I got a lot left, so
Speaker 4: I really want to see how good I can really
Speaker 4: be and invest everything I can into these next five years.
Speaker 4: But I think I really have like eight years left. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you do until I think I might not be the
Speaker 4: same guy, and then when that's over with, I'll go
Speaker 4: be a dad and I'll be happy with that. But
Speaker 4: once I'm not as good as I believe I should
Speaker 4: be and making a career out that I want, I'll
Speaker 4: be good to walk away.
Speaker 3: We always reinvent ourselves. We always have to evolve.
Speaker 2: I've heard athletes talk about training differently once they hit
Speaker 2: their thirties, but it feels like even last year, you
Speaker 2: started to evolve as a pitcher to stay in games
Speaker 2: deeper and being allowed number one, be allowed to stay
Speaker 2: in games later.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a comfort I have with Bob Melvin and
Speaker 4: I text to him a bunch, especially before the trade
Speaker 4: or before I signed, and then after I signed. But
Speaker 4: he I really love Bob Melvin. He he really would
Speaker 4: would talk to me all the time about what he expects,
Speaker 4: what I expect, how to get there. Uh, he would
Speaker 4: leave me out in the game. He always trusted me,
Speaker 4: and it made it so much fun to pitch, you know,
Speaker 4: for him and that team. Uh feel san Diego, san
Speaker 4: fran But he's really an amazing manager. So that was
Speaker 4: something that that I really loved. Was just a comfort
Speaker 4: he would bring me pitching, knowing that, you know, this
Speaker 4: is my game as long as as I want to
Speaker 4: be out there and can help the team, and he
Speaker 4: has my back the whole way through.
Speaker 2: I love what you said at your press conference when
Speaker 2: you said I'm going to invest in people on this team.
Speaker 2: I just need them to invest in me as well.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's what every player strives forwards. If
Speaker 2: you want to be part of it, I'll invest everything
Speaker 2: in you, but you've got to invest in me as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and for me, for me, that's everything. It's tough
Speaker 4: to be on a team and then say like, hey,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make all these players better, but I'm only
Speaker 4: here for one year. Yeah, it's like, so gonna make
Speaker 4: them all better? To then you're not gonna want to
Speaker 4: sign me? Like that's where the business part comes in.
Speaker 4: You don't like it, but it's it's the reality. And
Speaker 4: you know, you got to look at it that way too,
Speaker 4: to where now you know this team invested in me,
Speaker 4: I can invest in there, in them, their players, and
Speaker 4: it's gonna mean that much more. You know, every game
Speaker 4: you win is gonna matter, every everything you do matters.
Speaker 4: And I love that feeling so much more. Having my
Speaker 4: own home, being able to say, you know what, like
Speaker 4: I can spend the whole off season in LA that's
Speaker 4: important to me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to tell the stories that people don't know.
Speaker 2: I think they're starting to see this side of Blake
Speaker 2: Snell But another side of Blake Snell is the fact
Speaker 2: that you've pitched the majority of your career without a
Speaker 2: lot of run support. You got the offense, including that guy,
Speaker 2: a great Italian American Michael Confordo behind you, that is
Speaker 2: gonna put up some runs. He's gonna feel nice where
Speaker 2: he's from Jersey. No, no, come on, don't tell me
Speaker 2: he's from Seattle too. No, he's so well adjusted. How
Speaker 2: is he from Seattle? And he's got a tan? He's
Speaker 2: got a tan Arizona. By the way, you got to get.
Speaker 3: In the sun a little bit more.
Speaker 2: You're looking Seattle pale by Hide the Ball, two of
Speaker 2: America's most wanted Me and Snell about to clown twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five.
Speaker 3: Thank you for staying.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Hey, this show is gonna go on. You want to
Speaker 2: stay the rest of the show, all right? Snll zella.
Speaker 3: Maybe get down on the sun. You know, before we
Speaker 3: see in spring Train you've been in Arizona for two weeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I was outside.
Speaker 2: Dad, dial down to fifty, maybe put on only twenty sunscreen.
Speaker 2: Oh man, my guy, Blake, Snail snail Zilla. We're gonna
Speaker 2: have fun all year long. But he means business, and
Speaker 2: you are going to fall in love with him when
Speaker 2: he's throwing shut He's out every other fifth or sixth
Speaker 2: day for the Dodgers.