Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talking.
Speaker 1: It's nel Zilla Saturday, and he has worked up a
Speaker 1: lather already. I was told by one of my vass
Speaker 1: A moles that when they pulled into the parking lot
Speaker 1: there was a guy in a hoodie, a Dodger hoodie, sweating,
Speaker 1: you know what, running the parking lot getting ready for
Speaker 1: the big comeback. And that's our guy, Blake Snow, can
Speaker 1: you confirm or deny that it was you and not
Speaker 1: my other favorite Blake, Blake tryning.
Speaker 2: I could have been you know, two people running. Who knows?
Speaker 1: Are you not going to let us know that if
Speaker 1: we pull into the Dodger Stadium parking lot and we
Speaker 1: see a tall, skinny guy from Seattle running in a hoodie,
Speaker 1: it's not you.
Speaker 2: Could be comfordo. You know, it could be anybody.
Speaker 1: Hey, it feels like we talked about this a couple
Speaker 1: of saturdays ago. You can feel things are starting to
Speaker 1: get closer for your return. Is everything that you're doing
Speaker 1: kind of telling us that story?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, I mean I'm starting to feel good. Bullpen
Speaker 2: was good yesterday, and it's all yeah, it's all getting better.
Speaker 2: I'm just excited to play and pitch and you know,
Speaker 2: do what I love. So oh, no, man fired up?
Speaker 1: How many laps around the stadium parking lot today?
Speaker 2: Just one and then a bunch of Yeah, not a
Speaker 2: bunch of stadium stairs.
Speaker 1: That's the snail zilla. I know that's getting ready to
Speaker 1: make a start.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean I really want to so, you know,
Speaker 2: hopefully get it going. And yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 1: All right, Tomorrow's Father's Day. Blake is a brand new daddy,
Speaker 1: got another one coming on the way. What's Father's Day
Speaker 1: like for you?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: I know you're close to your pops. He's a big
Speaker 1: influence on your life in the last few years. What's
Speaker 1: it like?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, for me to be a dad, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's the biggest blessing. I'm so lucky to be a dad.
Speaker 2: So seeing him every day, Yeah, this makes me happy.
Speaker 2: You know, you get I get nervous about everything with him.
Speaker 2: I saw share like everything is the best for him.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm beyond spoiled with him. I mean, he's happy.
Speaker 2: He's just the best. Like yeah, I mean I'm so
Speaker 2: pumped about it. So I don't know what it'll mean
Speaker 2: until I experience it. But No, it's yeah, the biggest
Speaker 2: blessing I have outside of my wife.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that's what you care about. Being a
Speaker 1: dad is so important to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the best, It's it's everything, it's you know.
Speaker 2: I get to see if I can be a good
Speaker 2: dad and make him a better man than me, and that's.
Speaker 1: The goal, no doubt. I think you're doing a pretty
Speaker 1: good job so far.
Speaker 2: Time will tell.
Speaker 1: I have a great trust in you because that's the
Speaker 1: person that you are now. Today is not only snow
Speaker 1: Zillas Saturday, it's Kershaw Day. Clayton Kershaw just seventeen strikeouts
Speaker 1: away from three thousand. Do you know that there's only
Speaker 1: three pitchers in baseball history that have three thousand strikeouts?
Speaker 2: And he's going for it. He's gonna get it.
Speaker 1: Hey, I know you were excited to be teammates with him.
Speaker 1: I know you're not pitching simultaneous simultaneously just yet. But
Speaker 1: what's it like to have lockers close to him? Does
Speaker 1: he push you to be better?
Speaker 2: I mean we talk a little bit. I think once
Speaker 2: we're like in the fight together, you know, once we're
Speaker 2: both pitching, I think that's when the conversations will will
Speaker 2: really start. To happen right now, we talk, we hang
Speaker 2: out like we're aware of each other, and that's you know,
Speaker 2: it's so cool. But I think, uh, once once we're
Speaker 2: competing together, I think that's when you know, we'll really
Speaker 2: start talking more. Hey, what do you feel? What you
Speaker 2: what are you experiencing and and wherever the conversations go.
Speaker 2: But I'm really looking forward to him.
Speaker 1: On a night like tonight Kershaw against the Giants at
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. How much are you really locking in on
Speaker 1: what he's doing and how he's doing it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I just want to see why he's
Speaker 2: so good. I mean, he's getting older, he's had so
Speaker 2: many just I mean two e r A one Era seasons.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. It's career era is crazy. I want to
Speaker 2: find a way to, you know, see see what the
Speaker 2: magic is, how he does it. And being able to
Speaker 2: watch him that Cardinal start was really good. I feel
Speaker 2: like he's just you know, getting better and better. And no,
Speaker 2: I mean I'm lucky I get to watch him, I
Speaker 2: get to watch Yama and the other guys are are
Speaker 2: are coming around as well, So I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: You say that you're trying to learn something from him.
Speaker 1: Kershaw has said this for the last five or six years.
Speaker 1: He has change up envy. You have one of the
Speaker 1: best change ups in baseball. Has he asked you or
Speaker 1: in a roundabout way about your change up? No?
Speaker 2: I mean he does a splitter. I throw like a
Speaker 2: UFO change up.
Speaker 1: So what's a UFO change up?
Speaker 2: That's a different grip. Yeah, but they're just uh yeah,
Speaker 2: they're just different. But his is his is pretty good,
Speaker 2: you know, watching it's getting better and hopefully that gives
Speaker 2: him you know that that pitch can I think add
Speaker 2: years to his career. I hope if he if that's
Speaker 2: something he wants to do. But yeah, I know that.
Speaker 2: I would love to be able to watch him pitch
Speaker 2: for another four years if he's up for it.
Speaker 1: I would love that too, So would La to have
Speaker 1: snail Zilla and Clayton Khrushaw in the same rotation for
Speaker 1: four more years before I let you go. You're kind
Speaker 1: of a fashionista and at Nordstrom now you could buy
Speaker 1: the snail Zilla hoodies and the snail Zilla Santo line.
Speaker 1: Did you have any input on the creation of that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, Me and Bear talked about it a ton.
Speaker 2: We've been it's been cool. Man. It's like me and BEARR,
Speaker 2: who was owner of Santa, We've been talking for a
Speaker 2: long time about this, so for him to actually get
Speaker 2: it going and for me to have like my own
Speaker 2: line is kind of crazy to me. But it's cool,
Speaker 2: how authentic and real and like I actually care about
Speaker 2: it and it's such a just such a fun and
Speaker 2: cool thing to be a part of.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'd love to see all those snail Zilla hoodies
Speaker 1: in the stadium when you make your return.
Speaker 2: Hey, the hoodies. Yeah, the fire La fire so yeah,
Speaker 2: people want to support. That would be amazing. I think
Speaker 2: I think the quality of it is is top level.
Speaker 2: I mean I wear it around the house and yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's definitely worth it.
Speaker 1: By the way, Monday, speaking of Blake Snell Apparel and Merchandise,
Speaker 1: Bobblehead Night for Blake Snell. You still I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if you text me and I missed it or it
Speaker 1: didn't come through. I still haven't got the text about
Speaker 1: me catching the first pitch or throwing out the first pitch.
Speaker 2: Hey, that's not Alex and Wanna been telling me that
Speaker 2: you need to throw it out. But we'll wait for
Speaker 2: another day, you know, right now. We got snalls Saturdays.
Speaker 2: I think that's a lot with you right now. So
Speaker 2: we're gonna work. You know, the friendship takes time.
Speaker 1: Wow, I really am in the friend zone with not
Speaker 1: only with so many others. Thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to see you back. And like I said,
Speaker 1: if you need me Monday, or if you need me
Speaker 1: to stand in for your live VP which should be
Speaker 1: coming up soon, I'm available.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, very love. VP gets you in the box.
Speaker 2: You don't want that.
Speaker 1: You don't want this smoke before I thought of all,
Speaker 1: I'll take that UFO change up to Mars.
Speaker 2: Probably not, it sounds good now gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I'm better at trash talking than I am doing things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I can tell that's why I got the
Speaker 2: best of you. Let me tell you. One person taking
Speaker 2: a change up to Mars is Ozuna. Okay, go look
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 1: Uh, I know, I know.
Speaker 2: Don't worry.
Speaker 1: You won't have to see the Braves again this year.
Speaker 2: I'm not against it, all right, Snell, you learn and
Speaker 2: get better?
Speaker 1: Oh, I love it. Can't wait to see snell Zilla
Speaker 1: back on the mound Monday, Bobblehead night, and don't forget
Speaker 1: about Santos Studio in Nordstrum. Thanks a lot for the time, Yeah,
Speaker 1: appreciate it.