Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talker.
Speaker 1: We are joined right now by the best third base
Speaker 1: coach in all of Major League Baseball, and the Dodgers
Speaker 1: are very fortunate to have him return for another year.
Speaker 2: That is the great Dino Ebol. Dino, thanks a lot
Speaker 2: for the time.
Speaker 3: Thanks David for having me on. Love always talking baseball
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 1: Do you know it seems like whenever there's introductions at
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium, you get loud ovations. Coaches usually don't get
Speaker 1: those type of ovations from the home team. How much
Speaker 1: does that make you feel that the fans appreciate what
Speaker 1: you're able to do?
Speaker 4: Well, you just said it.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the fans you know that are on my side.
Speaker 3: I think just sharing my knowledge and you know, it
Speaker 3: helps when you're you're live on you know, the spectrum
Speaker 3: channel with playing the Angels and just giving them, you know,
Speaker 3: your thoughts and views of the game while the while
Speaker 3: the game is going on. But yeah, I've always felt,
Speaker 3: you know, the fans, you know, you always treat the
Speaker 3: fans with because they come to the games, they cheer
Speaker 3: us on, and there's gonna be days where they boom me.
Speaker 3: Which is part of my job is a guy gets
Speaker 3: thrown out, it's.
Speaker 4: The process is there. But yeah, I respect our.
Speaker 3: Fans are loyal baseball fans. And uh, it means a lot.
Speaker 3: When you know the name is called and I hear
Speaker 3: the applause.
Speaker 2: You sound a lot like Tommy Lasorda.
Speaker 4: Tommy, Yeah, that's back in the old day, Tommy.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was always uh, you know, as a minor
Speaker 3: league player, minor league coach manager.
Speaker 4: He would come in and you know, he always always
Speaker 4: told us respect.
Speaker 3: The fans, and the fans will be there for you,
Speaker 3: thick and thin and uh. And I've always remembered that,
Speaker 3: and Tommy's the best at it. So, yes, Tommy Lasorda.
Speaker 1: Were you ever in Chicago with Tommy Lasorta. He is
Speaker 1: famous for the Italian restaurants and meals he would have here.
Speaker 3: No, I was in the minor leagues, but I heard
Speaker 3: all the stories when he came to the minor leagues,
Speaker 3: and uh, he is a true legend here. The fans
Speaker 3: here in Chicago love him. I think the fans love
Speaker 3: him in every city he goes to, except for San Francisco.
Speaker 4: Deep down, they love him because he's a Dodger blue.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Tommy is the best at it, and what
Speaker 3: a man I respect and truly miss.
Speaker 1: Denuebol Dodgers third base coach is our guest. All right,
Speaker 1: do you know after last night's game, there was a
Speaker 1: lot of chatter about the baskets that line the outfield
Speaker 1: walls here at Wrigley Field. Tommy Edmund not a fan
Speaker 1: of it. Tanner Scott obviously not a fan of it
Speaker 1: because that's.
Speaker 2: Where the game tying home run landed.
Speaker 1: What's your thoughts coming here so many years about those baskets?
Speaker 3: Well, from day one, you know, back to my angel
Speaker 3: days coming here to Wrigley I always enjoy coming here.
Speaker 3: But that was one of the first things I noticed
Speaker 3: being a third base coach. I got to go out
Speaker 3: there and walk the field and see all the different,
Speaker 3: you know, stuff that can happen if the ball hits
Speaker 3: the wall.
Speaker 4: And that's the first thing I noticed. And I don't
Speaker 4: know why. I guess it's tradition that they keep it there,
Speaker 4: But they.
Speaker 3: Can easily fix that, take that gate down and put
Speaker 3: a yellow line up there, and anything over the yellow
Speaker 3: line would be a homer. But yeah, definitely it's a
Speaker 3: hitter's advance, And like you said with Tommy last night,
Speaker 3: you know, the ball looks like it's going to hit
Speaker 3: that gate and it.
Speaker 4: Doesn't and comes off the wall.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure it's happened to the Cubs, but it's
Speaker 3: fair game for both sides.
Speaker 4: But yeah, if I.
Speaker 3: Had it my way, I would absolutely get that thing
Speaker 3: off the wall.
Speaker 1: When you look at that basket, if you are tom
Speaker 1: Y Edmund or any other outfielder, how do you play
Speaker 1: a ball like last night?
Speaker 4: That's a tough one because he went back.
Speaker 3: He thinks he's going to catch this ball, and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden it looks like it's going to hit
Speaker 3: the basket, as you said, and then you missed the ball.
Speaker 3: So and then if you don't play the basket and
Speaker 3: you turn around and the ball hits halfway up the wall,
Speaker 3: everybody's going to say you should have caught the ball.
Speaker 4: So you know he did the right thing. He got
Speaker 4: to the wall.
Speaker 3: Now he puts his glove up, and you think, if
Speaker 3: the ball is going to hit that basket, you know
Speaker 3: it hits it, and if it doesn't, you try to
Speaker 3: catch it.
Speaker 4: But if unfortunately it didn't work on our favor.
Speaker 1: I love whenever Tomy Edmond's brought up, good or bad,
Speaker 1: but a lot of good is always connected to him.
Speaker 1: Is he a better player coaching him now seeing him
Speaker 1: every day than you even thought?
Speaker 4: Absolutely? This guy.
Speaker 3: And I'm not afraid to tell everybody on the other
Speaker 3: side too. Last night I mentioned to some of those
Speaker 3: players on the Cub side that this is probably one
Speaker 3: of the purest baseball players that I've been around. He
Speaker 3: does everything well to plus average. If you ask him
Speaker 3: to bunce, if you ask him to put the ball
Speaker 3: in play, he puts it in play.
Speaker 4: You ask him to play short, he does it.
Speaker 3: Just everything that you try to fundamentally teach a baseball
Speaker 3: player growing up from little league to high school, to
Speaker 3: the minor leagues, college into.
Speaker 4: The big leagues.
Speaker 3: This guy knows how to play the game, and he
Speaker 3: studies a game.
Speaker 4: His process is really above average.
Speaker 3: And I'm glad he's on our side because he is
Speaker 3: truly a baseball player.
Speaker 1: I'm glad Dino Ebel is on the Dodgers side. Don't
Speaker 1: ever retire, do you know we need you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm getting there, fifty nine years old into sixty.
Speaker 4: But I love what I do.
Speaker 3: I still have the passion, the energy and get in that.
Speaker 4: Third base box. The heartbeat is.
Speaker 3: Beaten and so I don't know how much longer I have,
Speaker 3: but being a Dodger, it's going to be hard to
Speaker 3: me off this uniform.
Speaker 2: Love it, Dino, thanks a lot for the time. Great
Speaker 2: catching up with you and say hi to the boys.
Speaker 4: I sure will. David, thanks for having me on