Speaker 1: Two time, two time World Series champion, just a monster year.
Speaker 1: Last year led the Dodger bullpen in more ways than one.
Speaker 1: And this interview is three months in the making. I
Speaker 1: remember exactly where I was when I set up this
Speaker 1: interview in Dallas, Texas had Nick and Sam's Dodgers player
Speaker 1: relations Wanderrado was sitting across from me as I text
Speaker 1: Blake Trin about coming on the show as he signed
Speaker 1: his extension with the Dodgers. Blake, it's great to see.
Speaker 2: You Know.
Speaker 3: What most people don't understand here is that when you're
Speaker 3: a free agent, you like to be the one to
Speaker 3: tell your family first about you signing a deal. And
Speaker 3: Dave's the rat that told this slapstick in Houston.
Speaker 2: Oh you were in Dallas. How close is up to Houston?
Speaker 4: The guy was from Washington State.
Speaker 2: It wasn't. The guy was from Houston.
Speaker 3: Some dude from a sports reporter in Houston, which people
Speaker 3: in the sports world in Houston are slightly disrespected right
Speaker 3: now for good reason.
Speaker 1: Anyways, Well, can you you actually explain this to me again?
Speaker 4: Right o?
Speaker 2: Let go to mic Dave. So here's what's gonna you know.
Speaker 2: Here's not Dave.
Speaker 3: It's my show right now. So here's what's happening. Well,
Speaker 3: you gave it up. So Dave texts me and says, hey,
Speaker 3: word on the street is you're a Dodger again, and
Speaker 3: here's the specifics.
Speaker 2: I'm like, how that crap? Do you know that Dave?
Speaker 3: Well, apparently Dave in this I don't even know this
Speaker 3: dude's name in Houston were sitting also with one discussing specifics.
Speaker 2: Dave, it's my time to talk. I've got the microphone,
Speaker 2: I can talk, and so he's like, when can I
Speaker 2: get you on? And the rumor's true? And I was like, I.
Speaker 3: Don't want to find about Dave because I started to
Speaker 3: pass physical. Apparently the whole world knew before I knew,
Speaker 3: and so I told Dave that when it was official,
Speaker 3: I would get on the show with him. And then
Speaker 3: there was some random miscommunications that led us to spring.
Speaker 3: You can tell by his cynical la if that he
Speaker 3: knows I'm right he was the mole. So Dave, continue
Speaker 3: with your show.
Speaker 1: Number One, it's not my fault. People like to confide
Speaker 1: in me. Number two, Blake Trinon did not confide in
Speaker 1: me to give me that news. Number Three, I never
Speaker 1: tweeted any information out.
Speaker 3: That's just interesting that you knew Houston guy, Dave Guy.
Speaker 3: Now I find out three months later or however long
Speaker 3: it was that you were in the same state as
Speaker 3: this guy.
Speaker 1: I thought this guy was the kid that you were
Speaker 1: playing catch with during twenty twenty on your street from.
Speaker 2: Wahwa Tosa, Wawa, Tosa.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for not actually saying where I live, Dave.
Speaker 3: I was that close to never doing your show again. Hey, yeah,
Speaker 3: I try.
Speaker 1: I love I love how you explained this to me,
Speaker 1: because I don't think we as media and also fans
Speaker 1: don't realize in the eagerness to break news, you want
Speaker 1: to break it to your teammates as well as your family.
Speaker 3: So the problem is, I've got, you know, blessed a
Speaker 3: lot of good people in my life. So I've got
Speaker 3: like hundreds of peop texting me like, hey, congrats, is
Speaker 3: it true?
Speaker 2: Is it true?
Speaker 3: And I'm like, well, if I feel my physical this
Speaker 3: is gonna be a weird conversation. And so everybody's asking
Speaker 3: these questions and I gotta tell everybody know it's not true,
Speaker 3: and then wait and then text everybody all over again
Speaker 3: and say, hey, it was true.
Speaker 2: So It's kind of like, you know, everybody wants to
Speaker 2: be the first look at me.
Speaker 3: Look what I did, I, you know, slap my fingers
Speaker 3: on a couple of digital icons on a phone, and
Speaker 3: I should get a pat on the back for being
Speaker 3: a great reporter. No, it's like, why don't you let
Speaker 3: the player have a chance to reveal it and to
Speaker 3: you know, their family and friends, And then I find
Speaker 3: someone like Dave because he's taking time to get to
Speaker 3: know me and be a friend, or so I thought,
Speaker 3: and then he could release it.
Speaker 4: I never released anything.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what's so weird. Some dude in Houston.
Speaker 3: So somebody in the office knows this guy, and we
Speaker 3: need to get to the bottom of the day.
Speaker 4: I feel like he was from Pullman, Washington.
Speaker 3: Thirty two ounce tomahawk steak for you. If you figure
Speaker 3: out who the mole is?
Speaker 2: Are you? Are you willing to fess up right now?
Speaker 4: I am not the mole? How dare you?
Speaker 1: I'm insulted you would even say that, because I have
Speaker 1: another question. During your long winded answer right there, was
Speaker 1: that a humble brag when you said I have hundreds
Speaker 1: of friends? Are you saying that you're that beloved and
Speaker 1: we as mere mortals only have maybe a twenty person
Speaker 1: inner circle, but Blake Tryning has hundreds of friends.
Speaker 2: Are you ready to eat crop? Are you ready for this?
Speaker 3: I come from a big family, so first knock me
Speaker 3: on that. Secondly, I come from a small town and
Speaker 3: they are all big followers. As anybody does anything from
Speaker 3: a small town, you support them. So yes, hundreds, I
Speaker 3: would say, like probably close to two hundred people on
Speaker 3: any given day of something big happening, whether it's the
Speaker 3: World Series or the big signing.
Speaker 2: I do get text Dave hundreds.
Speaker 3: And it's funny that Dave tries to pull this out
Speaker 3: because his fifty followers. He's really jealous that I've got
Speaker 3: two hundred followers and he's got a sports show.
Speaker 2: How does La put you?
Speaker 3: How do you get to hold a Dodgers icon on
Speaker 3: this thing when you got fifty people listening right now,
Speaker 3: I'll have you my two hundred and fifty, two hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty people listening.
Speaker 1: Number One, you made me break the cardinal rule of
Speaker 1: giving up the mic. That's number one rule in broadcasting.
Speaker 1: Never give up the mic when you're doing Boise state
Speaker 1: play by play. Just remember that.
Speaker 3: I'm a jack Rabbit. So thank you. My wife was
Speaker 3: a voice to say Bronco. But I'm a South Dakota
Speaker 3: state jack rabbit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go back to the text hundreds of
Speaker 1: close personal friends of Blake Tryning when you won the
Speaker 1: World Series. When you won the World Series, how much
Speaker 1: did your phone light up when you got back to
Speaker 1: it after the celebration, Just the whole experience for you.
Speaker 3: I had over five hundred text messages and it took
Speaker 3: me three days to respond, and I was fried.
Speaker 2: But I did my best to respond to everybody.
Speaker 3: And the hard part is is, because you know, God
Speaker 3: puts a lot of good people in your life, you
Speaker 3: want to respond to everybody, and then they want to
Speaker 3: start asking questions about what it was like. And so
Speaker 3: then it's like, guys, just give me a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks and I'll talk as much as you want. I
Speaker 3: just I need to I need to kind of like
Speaker 3: calm down a little bit.
Speaker 2: So but it was great.
Speaker 3: It's really it's really kind of a cool thing to
Speaker 3: see that many people who are enjoying following your career,
Speaker 3: and uh, but it is.
Speaker 2: It was quite a bit afterwards to to.
Speaker 3: Get your mind reset and have some like, you know,
Speaker 3: mental clarity because it's it's winning World Series.
Speaker 2: Amazing. It's crazy you don't.
Speaker 3: Think about how much it zaps your energy after it's done,
Speaker 3: Like you don't really think about how much you're getting
Speaker 3: tired through it when as soon as that final pitch
Speaker 3: is done.
Speaker 2: I remember getting on the plane.
Speaker 3: I can barely walk and I was like mentally tired
Speaker 3: and felt like I had a hip replacement. It was
Speaker 3: just so weird, but uh, it was just it's just
Speaker 3: from like the extensive workload, you know, in that Game five,
Speaker 3: probably which I still felt good when I was pitching,
Speaker 3: but afterwards, I remember doing the parade and I was
Speaker 3: like getting my hip worked on.
Speaker 2: I'm like, were are the off season? I'm getting my
Speaker 2: hip worked on.
Speaker 4: So I I think back to that World Series.
Speaker 1: Obviously, Freddy's Grand Slam is a moment in time that
Speaker 1: will be forever remembered, but and I know there were
Speaker 1: a lot of great moments, but for me personally, the
Speaker 1: second moment that flashes into my mind is when Dave
Speaker 1: Roberts came to the mound in Game five and Freddie
Speaker 1: Freeman believed in you. Dave Roberts believed in you, and
Speaker 1: you believed in yourself. Do you remember that moment or
Speaker 1: is that one of those blackout type of things where
Speaker 1: you're in the miro.
Speaker 3: And I, you know, I've not really had a lot
Speaker 3: of the time to talk to Dave about it, you know,
Speaker 3: like he's he's right and coming out right there. But
Speaker 3: I remember seeing him in a moment like, frick, Dave, like,
Speaker 3: what are you doing out here?
Speaker 2: Like I gotta know.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to like pitch around him a little bit
Speaker 3: because Stanton's a better matchup even though he's on fire.
Speaker 3: I just use my strength. It's a better matchup if
Speaker 3: I executed. And when he came out, he's like he
Speaker 3: gave me like the hands. I was like, hey, calm down,
Speaker 3: I just want to talk and I haven't made my
Speaker 3: mind up yet. So he comes out and talks to me,
Speaker 3: and then.
Speaker 2: We were good to go.
Speaker 3: And then Freddie Thing came into play after the first
Speaker 3: pitch to Stanton because I go to third base, so
Speaker 3: Stam pops up to right field Mookie MOOKI grabs a ball,
Speaker 3: throws it into third to the lead base. I'm looking
Speaker 3: at Max, like Max, give me the ball, and Max
Speaker 3: throws me at the ball. And I just walked to
Speaker 3: the mount and I'm like, if he was willing to
Speaker 3: put me in for more batter, then one pitch is
Speaker 3: in the issue, Like it's gotta be He's gotta be
Speaker 3: thinking that it could have been a five or six
Speaker 3: pitch at bat. So I got four or five pitches
Speaker 3: here to make this one happen. And I just got
Speaker 3: on the mount and I didn't see him coming out
Speaker 3: on my peripherals, and I was like, yes, because I
Speaker 3: wanted to make sure that I did my part to
Speaker 3: clean up the ending as best as I could and
Speaker 3: give the next guy whoever was coming in and know
Speaker 3: it's gonna be Walker, I thought was gonna be hohtti a
Speaker 3: clean inning to finish the game instead of a one
Speaker 3: plus and uh finding out afterwards that Dave was kind
Speaker 3: of on the top step trying to figure out if
Speaker 3: he wanted to and Freddy gave the hands down and.
Speaker 2: Like, hey, back off, like I think you know the
Speaker 2: best move here is. But that means that that means
Speaker 2: a lot to me.
Speaker 3: That my my my stat like my coaching staff and
Speaker 3: manager and my teammates, you know, still thought that I
Speaker 3: was the right guy because I believe I was for
Speaker 3: that moment, and but it means more when you know
Speaker 3: that they think the same thing of you.
Speaker 1: So how did this offseason feel compared to when you
Speaker 1: wanted in twenty Obviously the world is a lot different,
Speaker 1: but you finally got to experience a parade in LA
Speaker 1: You got to experience everything that comes with winning the
Speaker 1: World Series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great. It was really cool.
Speaker 3: You know, I think you get recognized more, which is
Speaker 3: you know, like a blessing an a curse, right, It's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: sometimes you just want to blend in and just be
Speaker 3: with the people without being.
Speaker 2: Recognized a little bit.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, it's like, it's
Speaker 3: pretty cool to see how many people cherish that World
Speaker 3: Series in the LA area, even I mean nationally globally.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter where I'm at right now. I walk
Speaker 2: around and people are like, oh, like, congrats on the
Speaker 2: World Series.
Speaker 3: Remember going to a Boise State football game to go
Speaker 3: watch Ashton genty because I had to go see him
Speaker 3: in person, And I walking up the steps and I
Speaker 3: had like five or six people just yo, congrats Champ,
Speaker 3: Congrats Worlds. I'm like, the hell I thought my buddies
Speaker 3: were playing a prank on me, Like, I'm not used
Speaker 3: to being recognized in public, but I mean I easily
Speaker 3: ten fifteen times at that game, and it's not even
Speaker 3: like a baseball town, so it's kind of nuts to me.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: It's been a little bit different.
Speaker 3: The worst part probably about it all was seeing my
Speaker 3: contract release before.
Speaker 2: Before I got to do anything about it.
Speaker 4: That guy in Houston, Yeah, some random blake trying in source.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on a zoom call with a guy in Dallas.
Speaker 2: It was weird.
Speaker 1: Weird, right, really weird. I was enjoying my steak dinner.
Speaker 1: I didn't want that to pop up. I started getting
Speaker 1: my phone buzzed. Then I sent you the screenshot of
Speaker 1: the tweet.
Speaker 3: Well, I've heard from a lot of people. Yeah, my
Speaker 3: last one was fine, Dave. Before we started talking, we
Speaker 3: start talking, all of a sudden, you start leaking. You
Speaker 3: know what, I know, Brandon Gums is around here somewhere,
Speaker 3: and I'll make a phone call to free Friedman.
Speaker 1: So I was gonna compliment you before we back out
Speaker 1: of here. The last time I saw you the you
Speaker 1: know obviously you know the world. Yes, I'm going to
Speaker 1: compliment you right now.
Speaker 2: This is good.
Speaker 3: You're trying to smooth things over. You see these people.
Speaker 3: This is how you get the foot out of the mouth.
Speaker 1: This is the great Blake trying and spin. He couldn't
Speaker 1: confide in his favorite media member.
Speaker 2: Didn't have to You already had it. How can I
Speaker 2: confide if you already have the information I was.
Speaker 4: I was relaying to you what was out there publicly.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do a do you have a Twitter? Yeah?
Speaker 2: All right, do a Twitter? Fan pool was Dave the Mole.
Speaker 1: I have a radio show and people are going to
Speaker 1: listen to this and they won't respond.
Speaker 2: I need I need a poll. Somebody put a pole
Speaker 2: up is Dave the Mole? Yes or no? And we'll
Speaker 2: let the people decide.
Speaker 1: I want you to come in studio and take a
Speaker 1: phone calls, or I could come to your bungalow here
Speaker 1: in Arizona.
Speaker 2: Yeah I don't have a bungalow.
Speaker 3: Yeah sure, If we can work out a day for
Speaker 3: the studio and take phone calls, well we'll just we'll
Speaker 3: do a roast Dave on on on air, Like anytime
Speaker 3: that you guys all these years, you guys have listened
Speaker 3: to Dave. If you've been you know, kept your sanity
Speaker 3: enough over the last like, however many years have been
Speaker 3: able to follow him? For?
Speaker 2: How long you've been doing this?
Speaker 4: This is my fourteenth season.
Speaker 2: I wonder know.
Speaker 3: How many people have followed for more than three straight?
Speaker 3: That's what I want to know.
Speaker 2: Who's the diehards?
Speaker 4: So many? So many?
Speaker 2: You look, this will be good, this will be good.
Speaker 2: We get on the phone. I want to hear the
Speaker 2: best and the worst of Dave.
Speaker 4: What you'll be on a headset.
Speaker 2: I don't I've ever been in a studio. It's like
Speaker 2: it's like you're saying, Oh, you threw a good pitch. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's called a fastball.
Speaker 4: Damn, Keyk's back.
Speaker 2: To knows Hey, key K, you think he's a mole?
Speaker 2: Do you think he's a mole?
Speaker 3: Somebody liked to my contract before before I got to
Speaker 3: tell my family.
Speaker 2: Guess who was in Dallas.
Speaker 1: It's some guy in uh while with Tosa, like three
Speaker 1: months before.
Speaker 3: Damn, dang, dude, dang.
Speaker 2: He's got them people. He's just laughing through the pain.
Speaker 4: Who brought who decided to bring back key I.
Speaker 3: Mean together he and I have won two World Series.
Speaker 1: With the Dodgers's right, the trifecta. How many of you
Speaker 1: month see Blake Tryning, kek Hernandez World.
Speaker 3: The only world series that the daughters have been to
Speaker 3: since I've been here, have been with me and Keyky,
Speaker 3: and we've won.
Speaker 2: Of just saying MOOKI as well, MOOKI. Also, I can't
Speaker 2: I can't leave muk out. That's fair.
Speaker 4: You look refreshed.
Speaker 2: I think it just burnt all my energy out right now.
Speaker 1: Gosh, I just boosted the morale of the Dodgers anchor
Speaker 1: of the bullpen. This will get you through at least
Speaker 1: the next three days.
Speaker 2: We paid seventy two for an anchor.
Speaker 1: He loves David Vasse already. By the way, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: should be nervous.
Speaker 2: You guys are two peas in a pod. Two peas
Speaker 2: in a pod deflectors.
Speaker 4: That's not true at all. I feel like I'm being
Speaker 4: a cuth.
Speaker 2: You ain't cal him down, David.
Speaker 3: Hey, I think the people are ready for this show
Speaker 3: to end. Okay, and we'll pick up for the next one.
Speaker 4: Okay, this is just one segment. I still have a
Speaker 4: lot of show left.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, who's the next guy?
Speaker 1: Well, we'll recap the Buffalo. No, I'm gonna talk to
Speaker 1: the fans now. This is you're the centerpiece of the show.
Speaker 3: All right, well, just so you know, you'll never wear
Speaker 3: my glove, but I got to hold your microphone.
Speaker 1: Damn, I can't wait to get a nice pearl baseball.
Speaker 1: It says two time World Series champion Blake trying it.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna sign up till I retire, so hopefully.
Speaker 2: It says four times, Oh, I love it, that'd be cool.
Speaker 2: Why why what?
Speaker 3: You don't try to make it sound like it's a
Speaker 3: bar to anybody else.
Speaker 4: Like you said, that's special to me.
Speaker 2: Thank you? All right, have a good one day.
Speaker 3: I feel like, man, this is like this is like
Speaker 3: people who don't know how to say goodbye, sorry Pa,
Speaker 3: over and.
Speaker 4: Out, over and out. Thank you, Blake.
Speaker 2: I'll be that