Speaker 1: We are coming down the home stretch here of Dodger Fest.
Speaker 1: We are alive at Dodger Stadium. Thank you to Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 1: I kept it together, you know, I didn't freak out
Speaker 1: or fanboy out too much. Mookie bets with Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 1: When do you think the line is when I could
Speaker 1: stop asking him about that walk off grand slam.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna set it at.
Speaker 1: For I don't know if I told for what.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Hey, by the way, the way I knew that was
Speaker 1: a grand slam out of the ballpark was watching you
Speaker 1: from my vantage point.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I saw.
Speaker 1: You jump off.
Speaker 2: Remember that.
Speaker 3: I remember that, and that I remember seeing that that
Speaker 3: moment of his bat hitting the ball and the this
Speaker 3: what it looked like. I just instantly jumped and uh
Speaker 3: yeah that was that was amazing.
Speaker 1: That was That's what I saw. I saw you jump.
Speaker 1: I've never seen you jump that high before. And then
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson was right there and he like pointed at
Speaker 1: me after after they I'm all.
Speaker 2: Like, this is yeah.
Speaker 3: That was crazy man. That was for him to do that.
Speaker 3: I mean really the impressive thing was just he what
Speaker 3: what he was going through together? Yeah, that was what
Speaker 3: he's going through to get ready and you could not tell.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess you could tell, but you couldn't tell.
Speaker 1: At the same time, that seemed like, probably behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: kind of set the tone for everybody else, whatever nagging
Speaker 1: injury you had going on, this guy's going out there
Speaker 1: with a broken ankle and bad ribs and all that.
Speaker 3: And it was like, no matter what, you just got
Speaker 3: to get ready to play and get ready to play
Speaker 3: and give us what you got. And everybody did. I
Speaker 3: mean even show, you know, show played through uh hurting
Speaker 3: his shoulder right there, and that was huge.
Speaker 2: That was that was for him, just.
Speaker 3: To show up and play every day and prepare like that.
Speaker 2: Like you said, it's just set the example.
Speaker 1: You know. What I also remember was the first conversation
Speaker 1: you and I had in spring training last year, how
Speaker 1: you were on a mission. You had a chip on
Speaker 1: your shoulder from day one, and and you it came
Speaker 1: to fulfillment. You silenced all the critics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was good man, That was really good.
Speaker 3: I was proud of myself, proud of myself for really
Speaker 3: kind of locking myself in in uh, in the cage
Speaker 3: and and really getting to it and getting after it
Speaker 3: and then but you know it was really my teammates. Man,
Speaker 3: that my teammates that that was the they're they're the best,
Speaker 3: They're the best. I mean, those guys really rallied behind me.
Speaker 3: You know, they were in the cage support me. I
Speaker 3: mean it was it was really like unbelievable stuff that
Speaker 3: nobody would ever hear or see. You know, those are
Speaker 3: things that that helped us win. I mean yeah, but
Speaker 3: my my teammates are really responsible for you know.
Speaker 2: A lot of that.
Speaker 1: You got the same guys coming back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the beauty. That's the beauty about it. So
Speaker 3: I know, I'm good. I know I got my boys.
Speaker 3: We we're gonna ride together. That's for damn sure.
Speaker 1: That's what's special. You get to try to run this
Speaker 1: back with the same group of guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean obviously, you know doing it. There have
Speaker 3: been no back to back so well, I mean there's
Speaker 3: been something. It's been so long and so for us
Speaker 3: to have an opportunity to do it, you know, that's
Speaker 3: something special. Shout out to our front office for giving
Speaker 3: us the opportunity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it'll be tough. You know, we still got
Speaker 2: to play good Dodger.
Speaker 1: Baseball so you just came back from Japan. Ye's been
Speaker 1: on this radio station all last year, and I know
Speaker 1: you're now the face of a certain extent.
Speaker 2: No, I mean I'm doing some work with him. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that's cool.
Speaker 1: Oh, Tany's the supporting cast, you're the main guy.
Speaker 3: No, that's that's a lot. That's a lot everywhere everywhere
Speaker 3: I walked, everywhere we drove. You know, his signature was there,
Speaker 3: he had been there, his picture was there.
Speaker 2: So it was really neat. It was really neat.
Speaker 3: It was really neat to see how how much a
Speaker 3: country supports a player.
Speaker 1: Did you realize how big he was there? I mean
Speaker 1: we hear about it, but you got to see it firsthand.
Speaker 2: Nah, Yeah, you don't really, you don't really. You can.
Speaker 3: You can picture it all you want, but do you
Speaker 3: really see it to really see how how much he, uh,
Speaker 3: he affects that country.
Speaker 2: It's wild.
Speaker 1: Hey, Mookie Bets he dips his toe on Ventura Boulevard
Speaker 1: once in a while. I heard you were in the
Speaker 1: Grete one eight this off season taking ground balls and
Speaker 1: shortstop putting in a lot of work.
Speaker 3: I mean I've been I've been working, man, I've been
Speaker 3: working and so we'll see. You know, I'm a big
Speaker 3: I'm a big, big person that thinks about you gotta
Speaker 3: do it in the game. You can do it in
Speaker 3: practice all day, but if you don't do it in
Speaker 3: the game, then none of it really matters.
Speaker 1: How does it feel? I mean, it's got to be
Speaker 1: somewhat of a relief to prepare instead of yeah, for
Speaker 1: a full off season, instead of five days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was, man, I was. I never.
Speaker 3: I've never I've never started training this early in my life.
Speaker 1: And so after a long season, after a long.
Speaker 2: Season, like.
Speaker 3: The work I put in this off season, nobody would
Speaker 3: even fathom it. And so I really feel like I'm
Speaker 3: a new person there. So, like I said, we'll see.
Speaker 1: All right, before I let you go in, you got
Speaker 1: your little boy with you on your lab. Mooki's doing
Speaker 1: double duty daddy daycare today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough, but it is what it is. You know.
Speaker 3: He comes here and I want him to see what
Speaker 3: daddy does and maybe he don't want to do it
Speaker 3: one day.
Speaker 1: He's so cute too, Thank god, he looks like his mom.
Speaker 1: All Right, Hey, MOOKI, I've been driving around the valley
Speaker 1: the last couple of days since I heard Adam Silver
Speaker 1: talk about floating out that you know, people think you're
Speaker 1: coming to Dodger Fest and you want to talk to
Speaker 1: Mookie Bets about baseball, not me. I had been bowming
Speaker 1: at the mouth waiting to talk to you about this.
Speaker 1: Adam Silver floating out that maybe the NBA is thinking
Speaker 1: about shortening quarters from twelve minutes to ten minutes like
Speaker 1: the euro and National because of low attention span and
Speaker 1: just trying. The ratings are down a little bit in
Speaker 1: the NBA. I don't. I'm just completely against doing that.
Speaker 1: I wanted to hear what Mookie Be's thought about.
Speaker 3: I feel like you would you would change change the game,
Speaker 3: that would change the integrity of the game, because I
Speaker 3: feel like there's like a pace and the timing that
Speaker 3: that you develop playing basketball, just like you developed playing
Speaker 3: anything else.
Speaker 1: But you know, even though there's a pitch clock in baseball,
Speaker 1: there's still twenty seven outs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's still twenty seven outs. I mean there's change.
Speaker 3: There's change that that people may not like that end
Speaker 3: up being a really good thing. So you know, you
Speaker 3: just got to be open minded to it. I'm not
Speaker 3: saying I agree or disagree, but you simmer on that yeah,
Speaker 3: I would have to think about that, because you know,
Speaker 3: there that's some changes has been.
Speaker 2: Really good, like the pitch clock. I know, I don't want.
Speaker 3: People to get hurt by any means, but you know,
Speaker 3: just from a player position player perspective, it really.
Speaker 2: Does speed the game up. You know. So my tweaks.
Speaker 1: For the NBA enlarge the court, which brings the three
Speaker 1: point line back, and maybe it's a little bit more
Speaker 1: challenging for bigger, more athletic players.
Speaker 3: So now you're just trying to Now we're just trying
Speaker 3: to create a game. That's how good is that? Like,
Speaker 3: that's how good Wemby is. We're trying to create a
Speaker 3: game to slow him down. I mean, come on now,
Speaker 3: I just like can't do that.
Speaker 1: The players in the seventies and eighties weren't as big
Speaker 1: and fast as what they.
Speaker 2: Are now, right right, I mean simmer.
Speaker 1: On that one too. We'll we'll regroup. Maybe you have
Speaker 1: it on their next podcast. You have like an NBA
Speaker 1: guy you were on all the Smoke. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 2: That was that was that was super cool. That was
Speaker 2: super cool.
Speaker 3: Here and two real basketball minds, So I'll be curious
Speaker 3: to ask them.
Speaker 1: Two basketball minds bowing at the altar of a great
Speaker 1: baseball player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I wouldn't call it that, but I did. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but it was fun. It was fun. Those guys are awesome.
Speaker 1: I love it all right. So when I see you
Speaker 1: in Arizona, when you're making that long dry through the desert,
Speaker 1: you'll be hearing my voice in your head saying, no way,
Speaker 1: no way to a forty minute game. Expand the court.
Speaker 2: Of a of a guy and let you know what
Speaker 2: I come up with.
Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good. We love you, mooky La really putting
Speaker 1: their arms around you, Mooki, and I think it's always
Speaker 1: sweet when a great athlete. People don't appreciate it. They
Speaker 1: always want more, They want more, and you delivered, and
Speaker 1: I know there's more.
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, Thank you, sir.