Speaker 1: We are in Florida, and that means a former Dodger
Speaker 1: always comes to see some of the guys that he
Speaker 1: still connects with on a daily basis as much as
Speaker 1: he can. And that's the one and only. Jan Pierre One.
Speaker 1: Great to see you, and beast mood still lives on. Ah.
Speaker 2: Thanks man.
Speaker 3: Always good to be here and connect. Really loved my
Speaker 3: time in LA with the Dodgers. Man, so I bled
Speaker 3: that Dodger blue. So it's always good to come back
Speaker 3: and see old faces.
Speaker 1: We were reminiscing about two thousand and nine about the
Speaker 1: good days with Matt Camp and Andre Ethier. What do
Speaker 1: you remember about those guys as they were coming up
Speaker 1: and just trying to make a name for themselves.
Speaker 2: You just knew they were special from the on set.
Speaker 3: I got a free agent deal, so I didn't know
Speaker 3: much about him and I got it, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 3: these guys are really good and just trying to help
Speaker 3: them throughout their early in their career, because that's what
Speaker 3: guys did for me when I was a young guy.
Speaker 3: But you knew they were going to be special. Alone
Speaker 3: with Russell Martin, James Loney, they had billis Lee Robson,
Speaker 3: They had a lot of young guys there, and it
Speaker 3: was kind of turning the tame from from the older
Speaker 3: guys to the for them taking over. And those guys
Speaker 3: proved to be pretty good. They they went on a
Speaker 3: run too here and helped the Dodgers to what they
Speaker 3: are right now.
Speaker 1: What did it mean to you in your career to
Speaker 1: be able to play such a big part in those
Speaker 1: guys's career, especially Matt Kemp.
Speaker 2: That's what it's all about.
Speaker 3: I think that's the essence of the sports, sports in general,
Speaker 3: definitely baseball. You pass on your knowledge to the younger crew,
Speaker 3: and then they pass it on and they pass it on,
Speaker 3: and that's what it is. And I don't know how
Speaker 3: much of a part I played in it, but it
Speaker 3: definitely was really nice to see them as become All Stars,
Speaker 3: you know, MVP votes and all that stuff, which you
Speaker 3: kind of known.
Speaker 2: In their career early that they had that the.
Speaker 3: Opportunity to get to those levels and just to see
Speaker 3: it come to fuition was really.
Speaker 1: Cooljan Pierre started the mentality of beast mode, Matt Kemp
Speaker 1: carried it forward. Can you remind us what the mentality
Speaker 1: and what beast smode represented to you?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Bespo was just every single day, every single day, you
Speaker 3: bringing it, you get, leaving it all out on the field,
Speaker 3: whether you're good or bad, whether it's a left or
Speaker 3: right he throwing, whether you're starting or not starting. It
Speaker 3: was just that mentality that it had on the back
Speaker 3: was twenty four seven three sixty five, So that meant
Speaker 3: every day and as you know, baseball can be every
Speaker 3: day most of the year, and just having that mentality
Speaker 3: that if you don't even feel good, you don't feel right,
Speaker 3: you could still bring some and help the team win
Speaker 3: that day.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you were a guy that led
Speaker 1: by example or did you have to vocalize all of that?
Speaker 2: Beast Smode led by example a lot.
Speaker 3: Guys will always see me at the field early, always
Speaker 3: in the cage, always doing something, and I know they
Speaker 3: used to.
Speaker 2: Say, man, do you ever sit down in your locker?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: So, and I would talk, you know some to them,
Speaker 3: but mostly I like to lead by example and just
Speaker 3: being out there every day because I believe that old
Speaker 3: seven year I played on one sixty two that year
Speaker 3: and I think Kemp got to see it andret this
Speaker 3: guy's out there every single day, So I think that
Speaker 3: carried on, and I know Kemp really wanted.
Speaker 2: To play every game, you know, he didn't like sitting out.
Speaker 2: So that was that was cool to see.
Speaker 1: To see the career that Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier had.
Speaker 1: Did you see that when you got to the Dodgers?
Speaker 1: Did you envision they had a chance to have that
Speaker 1: lasting impact?
Speaker 2: Oh, without a doubt.
Speaker 3: I mean Kemp was a god, could hit the ball
Speaker 3: eight hundred feet and run still fifty bases and and
Speaker 3: and do that type stuff.
Speaker 2: And Ethier just had such a.
Speaker 3: Sweet swing, great defender, smart base runner. It's just a
Speaker 3: matter of them getting games under their belt. You know,
Speaker 3: they were young, and even when they're young, we're there.
Speaker 3: I think we made the playoffs two of the three
Speaker 3: years that I was there, so they were getting the
Speaker 3: playoff experience early in their careers.
Speaker 2: And to see them blossom. And now they're family.
Speaker 3: Man, they have families, kids and and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: So that's that's that's.
Speaker 3: Really even more important to see than even the baseball side.
Speaker 1: Wan Pierre is our guest, and we were talking right
Speaker 1: now with Scott Akasaki. You coach kids out here in Florida.
Speaker 1: If you had to give over zealous parents an advice
Speaker 1: on how to handle their Little leaguers. What would be
Speaker 1: the biggest piece of advice.
Speaker 3: Let them have fun the kids. We know the business
Speaker 3: side of it. It gets serious enough when you get
Speaker 3: paid to play. These kids are young, They're gonna make mistakes,
Speaker 3: they're gonna do stuff.
Speaker 2: That frustrate you.
Speaker 3: But as a parent, you just try to encourage them
Speaker 3: as much as possible and just let them be kids.
Speaker 3: Let them have fun. I remember my Little League day.
Speaker 3: That was the best time of life. You get to
Speaker 3: play with your boys, have fun, You go to school
Speaker 3: with the kids, you play on the weekend, and basically
Speaker 3: it was fun.
Speaker 2: It wasn't drills every day.
Speaker 3: It wasn't Now you get your work in, but you
Speaker 3: don't need to be over zealous about anything. But most
Speaker 3: important for the parent is just encourage the kid and
Speaker 3: always be there for them. And they don't need you
Speaker 3: to coach and yell from the stands every time.
Speaker 2: And as a coach, let us coach them for two hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Wan Pier doesn't need any coaching from the stands.
Speaker 2: Well, I probably can't.
Speaker 3: I'm not the best, I'm not the gourgu but I
Speaker 3: know the.
Speaker 2: Kids don't get nothing out of it. Just confuse them.
Speaker 2: I'm telling them one thing, and the parents and another thing,
Speaker 2: and the kids get all confused.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day's for the kids,
Speaker 3: and hopefully they have fun and they have smiles on
Speaker 3: their face. Even if they cry out you lose, it's
Speaker 3: all gonna make them better at the end.
Speaker 1: Juan Pierre, awesome to see you. You've left a big
Speaker 1: impact on so many guys. I've seen it here in
Speaker 1: a short time in the Dodger Clubhouse, so your legacy
Speaker 1: lives on through a lot of other people. Thanks a
Speaker 1: lot for the time.
Speaker 2: Thank you anytime.