Speaker 1: Well, if there's one man that knows the charm of
Speaker 1: the Oakland Coliseum, it's current Dodger super reliever and former
Speaker 1: Oakland a super reliever now with a great blonde mustache,
Speaker 1: the one and only Blake Tryning. Great to be back
Speaker 1: out here at the Oakland Coliseum with you.
Speaker 2: Thanks man. Yeah, it's good to be back. A lot
Speaker 2: of memories here.
Speaker 1: You're one of the few people that I would expect
Speaker 1: to say it's good to be back here.
Speaker 3: What's the charm of the stadium.
Speaker 2: Well, the charm of the stadium is the people think
Speaker 2: anywhere you go in life, you can have all the
Speaker 2: greatest things, the finest things in life. And as long
Speaker 2: as I mean, if you don't have good people involved,
Speaker 2: then it's it's all fleeting and it's and it sucks.
Speaker 2: So like, I mean, this is an old stadium. It
Speaker 2: has history to it. Yeah you can talk about how
Speaker 2: old it is and yeah it's old, but you know,
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of things people were talking
Speaker 2: about when we got here is like how how great
Speaker 2: the playing surface looks. I mean, look at it. It's
Speaker 2: like it's like a it's honestly like a painting in
Speaker 2: the outfield. It looks so green and it's thick, and
Speaker 2: there's really I mean, they have nothing else here to
Speaker 2: worry about it anymore of a baseball and I mean,
Speaker 2: I'll take it to the grave. I think it's the thickest,
Speaker 2: best looking playing surface. But the you know, the stadium
Speaker 2: itself is old. A lot of great people, you know,
Speaker 2: within the halls of this building that I got to
Speaker 2: know over the years, and some of the coaching staff
Speaker 2: is still here. So a lot of a lot of
Speaker 2: good people, a lot of good memories.
Speaker 1: Sounds like it builds character when you have this stadium,
Speaker 1: these amenities, but you have the people that care.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I mean I think
Speaker 2: character is more of an internal process, you know. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean there's some there's some good teams. Here's you know,
Speaker 2: winning obviously makes things fun and some of the pretty
Speaker 2: much all the talent that was here in the years
Speaker 2: that I was here about six years ago has gone
Speaker 2: on other teams now.
Speaker 1: Know.
Speaker 2: When we were all together, we were having a blast,
Speaker 2: and it was as a type of baseball that I've
Speaker 2: never experienced before and haven't experienced since, just like the
Speaker 2: Dodgers or something I've experienced that's like nothing I've ever
Speaker 2: experienced because we in a world series together. So but
Speaker 2: I mean we were. When I was here, it was
Speaker 2: you know, a group of guys who were young and
Speaker 2: impressionable and had phenomenal skill sets. But you know they
Speaker 2: weren't expected to win. But they've won all the way
Speaker 2: through the minors together, and you know, I got to
Speaker 2: reap the benefits of the talent on the field. I mean,
Speaker 2: the defensive play and the offensive output was pretty incredible.
Speaker 1: There's a certain level of mystique around here because obviously
Speaker 1: they made the movie Moneyball, Billy Bean all that. What
Speaker 1: is it about playing for them that seems to uncover
Speaker 1: talent like yourself and others?
Speaker 2: Oh, I think there's a belief system behind their players.
Speaker 2: You know, every organization will say they believe I've been
Speaker 2: fortunate to play in a couple now. And you know
Speaker 2: when I came here, the the mo on me was
Speaker 2: I couldn't get left these out, and they said, we
Speaker 2: think you can sol go do it and it worked out.
Speaker 2: So everybody that I think, when you have a team
Speaker 2: in an organization that pulls for you and you have a
Speaker 2: very selfless mind, said to just do what's best for
Speaker 2: the team. At the end of the year, things work
Speaker 2: out best for you and your organization. So we had
Speaker 2: a lot of selfless guys on that team, and that's
Speaker 2: probably why they outperformed what baseball minds would say their
Speaker 2: capabilities a year or two before him.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Blake trying in on the field at
Speaker 1: the Oakland Coliseum. He's got a cup of coffee in
Speaker 1: his left hand and he's got his glove in his
Speaker 1: right hand.
Speaker 2: Picture, come on, Bob Ross.
Speaker 1: And also you have this brand new anchor man Will
Speaker 1: Ferrell type of mustache going right now.
Speaker 2: To Blake trying to mustache.
Speaker 3: What is going on with the mustache?
Speaker 1: It actually has it looks good on your face.
Speaker 2: Actually, thank you for the beautiful poetry of words you
Speaker 2: put together. The Yeah, it's it's I know it's not
Speaker 2: an ideal statement for a lot of people. I've handled
Speaker 2: it a couple of times in my life. And you know,
Speaker 2: my my family will be away from you for a while,
Speaker 2: so I have I have the the okaytcha by by
Speaker 2: default because my wife's not here to actually grow mustache.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna growing up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So when you kiss the kids, they don't feel the
Speaker 1: rough and gruff of that facial hair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they think it's funny. My kids think
Speaker 2: it's funny. My wife hates it so but you know
Speaker 2: it's it's just inside jokes. She doesn't really care for
Speaker 2: the beard or the mustache. So when she's not around,
Speaker 2: I've I've got like full rain to let it. Let
Speaker 2: it do what I want.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll leave good feelings right there. Great to
Speaker 1: catch up with you and.
Speaker 2: Uh, your favorite part of the stadium.
Speaker 1: Well, I am a Raider fan, so I have a
Speaker 1: lot of great memories of rich Gannon here.
Speaker 2: Everybody has their flauls. I'm a rich Gannon fan. I
Speaker 2: was a heartbreak to see him leave the Chiefs and
Speaker 2: then go in a Super Bowl the following year, So
Speaker 2: that was tough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, rich Gannon looked a lot better in silver and black.
Speaker 1: All let's agree to disagree on that.
Speaker 2: Sure, Sure, we won too straight, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 3: Goka City, Oh boy, there he goes my guy Blake.
Speaker 1: And when you see him wearing number forty nine and
Speaker 1: you see a guy with a blonde mustache coming out
Speaker 1: of the Dodger bullpen, don't think twice.
Speaker 3: It is Blake.
Speaker 2: Trenning not to be confused with Evan Phillips. I got
Speaker 2: confused with Evan Phillips yesterday with a mustache while he
Speaker 2: was warming up on the mountain.
Speaker 3: I was great to catch up with you and great
Speaker 3: to be with a former A Hey.
Speaker 2: Thanks Dave.