Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk. Well,
Speaker 1: I had to catch up with my TV partner.
Speaker 2: It's always great to be on sports and at LA
Speaker 2: with the great Eric Carrows, who has hit more home
Speaker 2: runs than any other LA Dodger in history, the nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety two National League Rookie of the Year, the first
Speaker 2: of five in a row for the Dodgers, and he
Speaker 2: wears a nice Dodger polo on TV each and every day.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 3: Absolutely love to help you out DV, especially after working
Speaker 3: together in Atlanta and looking forward to the next time.
Speaker 1: Colorado and KC. We always get the A road trips.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's what I'm talking.
Speaker 3: This is the A road trip Atlanta, Arizona.
Speaker 1: We got some big teams. Yeah, the rooftops in Miami
Speaker 1: are beautiful.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: I don't go out.
Speaker 2: When you look at this team and where the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are baseball's best record, it feels like there is still
Speaker 2: more and that's a little scary for the rest of
Speaker 2: the league.
Speaker 3: I think just because of the expectations we've had that
Speaker 3: were placed on the Dodgers. Well, we're going to win
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty games, one hundred and thirty games.
Speaker 3: You know, the reality is that you know it's a
Speaker 3: long season. The season does not discriminate. You're going to
Speaker 3: have your ups and downs. Every organization is but every
Speaker 3: single day this year, if you ask me what team
Speaker 3: I would want to be, I would say I want
Speaker 3: to be the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 1: No doubt.
Speaker 2: It feels like a lot of players want to play
Speaker 2: on this team. You obviously were a really good first baseman.
Speaker 2: We get to see one of the best in Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like he's starting to look like the
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman?
Speaker 3: So it's interesting, you say, we were talking about it
Speaker 3: on the broadcast last night, where one of the most
Speaker 3: underrated great starts in all of the league. I mean,
Speaker 3: if you look at what he's done so far, you know,
Speaker 3: the ops is over a thousand, it's hitting home runs,
Speaker 3: the RBI's driving and runs. And this is a guy
Speaker 3: that again is coming off major injuries last year, had
Speaker 3: the bathtub accident, and is just still quietly I said,
Speaker 3: like you look at the numbers, they're unreal.
Speaker 2: I've said before Eric that if my life was on
Speaker 2: the line, and I needed and at bat from a
Speaker 2: current player.
Speaker 1: I think Freddy would be that guy.
Speaker 3: I think somebody copied what I say every guy on
Speaker 3: a broadcast because I've said Live or Die. I said this,
Speaker 3: you know last year Live or Die. A guy on
Speaker 3: second base and I need to get him in. Doesn't
Speaker 3: matter who's out there pitching. Freddie Freeman is up at
Speaker 3: the plate and he continues to show that, you know,
Speaker 3: no matter what he has, he has an innate ability
Speaker 3: to drive in runs. And he's still he's old school
Speaker 3: where RBI's RBI's meant something. And if you look at
Speaker 3: there's two guys on this team currently for me, it's
Speaker 3: Tail and Freddy that at all costs, I'm driving in
Speaker 3: the run.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought up te Oscar Hernandez. He obviously
Speaker 2: got hurt. He's out for weeks. According to Dave Roberts,
Speaker 2: how big of a hole is that in the lineup?
Speaker 3: So again, it's going to I look at it as
Speaker 3: it's going to create opportunity. And so James Outman is
Speaker 3: going to get a run right now, he's gonna come.
Speaker 3: Are you going to replace him? No? It's just like,
Speaker 3: are you gonna replace Blake Snell. No, are you gonna
Speaker 3: replace Tyler glasnow? No. But the organization has created depth,
Speaker 3: depth that is second to none. So when guys get
Speaker 3: hurt here in this org it's okay, Yes, that's not great.
Speaker 3: It happens in every organization. Corbyn burns down, sang it down,
Speaker 3: steal like everybody. But the difference is here we can
Speaker 3: put in guys that are everyday players and they're gonna produce.
Speaker 2: Eric Harrols and Steven Nelson will be on the call
Speaker 2: tonight for Sports net LA. Obviously, Eric has a big
Speaker 2: place in Dodger history. When you look at hay Soong
Speaker 2: Kim Eric, there's a lot of buzz about what he
Speaker 2: did last night and what he did in the ninth
Speaker 2: inning in Atlanta is the biggest thing now is to
Speaker 2: be consistent after this splash.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, it's just getting an opportunity and going
Speaker 3: out there and playing. And I think what he did
Speaker 3: in Atlanta from me, forget the stealing the base, forget
Speaker 3: moving second to third, it was having the confidence to
Speaker 3: go out and do that because this is his first
Speaker 3: experience in the big leagues and he's in a crucial
Speaker 3: situation and he acted like he had been there a
Speaker 3: thousand times over then obviously last night, getting an opportunity
Speaker 3: to start and coming up with an RBI, a few
Speaker 3: base hits so far, and again it's two games. The
Speaker 3: one thing I can confidently say is he does not
Speaker 3: seem to be overwhelmed in his first trip to.
Speaker 1: The big leagues.
Speaker 2: Before I let you go back in nineteen ninety three,
Speaker 2: the Marlins first came into Major League Baseball and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers were the first team to play the Marlins. It
Speaker 2: was Charlie Huff on the mound. What do you remember
Speaker 2: the most about that first ever Marlins game?
Speaker 3: Charlie Huff versus Oral Hersheizer and I couldn't believe we
Speaker 3: were facing Charlie Huff. I think also I was thanking
Speaker 3: goodness that I didn't get drafted in the expansion draft
Speaker 3: that was playing for the Marlins. But they went out
Speaker 3: and they beat us, Charlie through a great game, beat Oral,
Speaker 3: and you know it was It was interesting, but a
Speaker 3: long time ago, for sure.
Speaker 1: Did you like playing at the old Joe Robbie Stadium?
Speaker 3: No, I mean it was all right. It wasn't bad,
Speaker 3: I will say this, And you know it was after
Speaker 3: my Dodger tenure though, But when we played there in
Speaker 3: the playoffs with the Cubs, that place you could not
Speaker 3: find an empty seat and you know that was like
Speaker 3: seventy thousand people and that was insane.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we won't remember how that ended. Thanks
Speaker 2: a lot for the time, Eric, and always love seeing
Speaker 2: you and certainly you mean a lot to a lot
Speaker 2: of Dodger fans because of what you did and what
Speaker 2: you teach us every night.
Speaker 1: So thank you.
Speaker 3: Look forward to working together again, Davy.
Speaker 2: All right, yeah, Eric carrols with the great fabio hair
Speaker 2: here on South Beach.