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Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk.

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Speaker 2: I know Miguel Rojas and Will Smith, they were heroes

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Speaker 2: offensively and defensively, but without Max Munsey's home run earlier

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Speaker 2: in that game to make it a one run game,

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Speaker 2: there are no heroes for the Dodgers. So here is

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Speaker 2: Max Munsey. We had a chance to catch up with

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Speaker 2: him at Dodger Fest.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: We are drawing right now by a man that has

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Speaker 2: been to the World Series four times with the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: Max Munsey showed up in twenty eighteen, left his mark

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Speaker 2: and now has become the all time home run king

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Speaker 2: and Dodger postseason history, including one of the biggest home

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Speaker 2: runs in Game seven of the World Series. Max Munsey,

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Speaker 2: thank you for joining us. Great to see you, always

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Speaker 2: good to be here with you. Oh three time World

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Speaker 2: Series champion. Has time for the little people. I appreciate

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Speaker 2: Save it.

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Speaker 1: Save it. You've been out here all day with everyone else.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: I know, Well, you like to make the grand the

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Speaker 2: grand entrance. You know you're you're the guy at the party.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to show up right on time. You

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Speaker 2: want to be twenty minutes late. So everybody knows Max

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Speaker 2: months he's at the party.

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Speaker 1: That's false, that's fake, fake news. Dave.

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Speaker 2: I know you just welcomed in your third child to

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Speaker 2: the world. What's the off season been like for the

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Speaker 2: Mounsie family coming off back to back World Series championships

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Speaker 2: and having to deal with real life.

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Speaker 3: It's been short, It's been hectic, It's been lovely, all

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Speaker 3: the above. You know, a lot of emotions going through,

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Speaker 3: and it's just, you know, it's it's it's been a

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Speaker 3: little challenging trying to get ready for a season and

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Speaker 3: then also you know, trying to be a dad at

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Speaker 3: as much as I can and trying to make sure

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Speaker 3: I'm getting healthy and you know, getting ready for the season,

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Speaker 3: and it's just, uh, yeah, it's been like I said, short,

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Speaker 2: I told Will Smith, I've been his spokesperson all off

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Speaker 2: season because he's been in hibernation, but I also have

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Speaker 2: been a Max Mounsey promoter that you're a home run.

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Speaker 1: Without it, there is no Miguel.

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Speaker 2: Rojas game tying home run, and certainly no Will Smith

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Speaker 2: heroics in the eleventh inning. When you hit that home

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Speaker 2: run and pulled the Dodgers within a run. Did you

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Speaker 2: feel that was as big as it turned out to be?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean I've said multiple times like in the moment,

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Speaker 3: for me, I just knew it guaranteed show hey, one

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Speaker 3: more bat and we were it was only a one

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Speaker 3: run def sit at that point, so I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: we got a chance. But at the same time, it

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Speaker 3: kind of just built a little bit more more more

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Speaker 3: momentum for us, and you know, you started feeling that,

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Speaker 3: and I think the whole team felt it, and you know,

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Speaker 3: I know you keep saying my home run was big,

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Speaker 3: but every single play in that Game seven was big,

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Speaker 3: and you know, we don't win that World Series without

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Speaker 3: every single guy on the roster.

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Speaker 1: And it's just it's really cool to look.

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Speaker 3: Back at that and understand that every single person played

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Speaker 3: an important role in winning that World Series.

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Speaker 1: It was a true team effort.

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Speaker 2: So many guys could have checked out mentally, like Miguel Rojas,

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Speaker 2: Andy Paters, justin Dean. What does that say about who

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Speaker 2: you guys are in the culture the players have created

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Speaker 2: that they remained engaged.

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Speaker 1: It just means a lot.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's real easy for some of those guys

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Speaker 3: to check out, and they didn't.

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Speaker 1: You know, they understood what was at stake.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't about them, it was about the team, and

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Speaker 3: you know, and that's how we've always been. And it

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Speaker 3: really showed right there. You know, it really showed in

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Speaker 3: that World Series that the guys were all about each other.

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Speaker 3: They were willing to do anything for each other. And

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Speaker 3: it's just special made it's so special. Obviously winning the

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Speaker 3: being able to do it the way we did it

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Speaker 3: just felt it felt truly amazing.

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Speaker 1: You've been really in tune with this city.

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Speaker 2: The city loves you since you showed up and brist

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Speaker 2: onto the scene in twenty eighteen. What's the reaction you've

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Speaker 2: gotten from fans that you've come across or just.

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Speaker 1: Through your wife.

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Speaker 2: Do you realize how much this one meant to the city.

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Speaker 3: You know, the thing you hear the most is not congratulations,

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Speaker 3: it's thank you. You know, you hear that from the

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Speaker 3: fans all the time. It's thank you, thank you for

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Speaker 3: bringing a championship back to the city, thank you for

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Speaker 3: bringing the Dodgers back to us, and you know, it

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Speaker 3: just it just makes it so special and I talked

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Speaker 3: about this when we got that first parade in twenty

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Speaker 3: four that you know, when you're driving through the streets

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Speaker 3: and you see everyone holding up pictures of grandparents or

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Speaker 3: parents that aren't there anymore, just like these are who

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Speaker 3: made me Dodger people, And that's when you start realizing

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Speaker 3: that it's not just a team, it's a community, it's

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Speaker 3: a family, it's an organization. You know, the whole city

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Speaker 3: is built in on it, and it just it's it's

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Speaker 3: truly been a blessing to be able to play for

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers as long as I have, and it's definitely

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Speaker 3: not something that I ever take for granted.

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Speaker 2: Is it surreal for Max Moncy to look around the

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Speaker 2: clubhouse after winning back to back championships with these group

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Speaker 2: of teammates and look back on the same group or

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Speaker 2: the group of players that you played with in twenty.

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Speaker 1: Twenty and you know, leading up to.

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Speaker 2: That championship, how the faces have changed, but the feeling

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, the faces haven't changed that much. There's

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Speaker 3: for a long time, and you know, it's just that's

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Speaker 3: what makes it great. We've just had so many players here,

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Speaker 3: a core group of guys, and uh, you know, unfortunately

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Speaker 3: this year is gonna be without Kersh. But you know

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Speaker 3: we're all chimly happy for him. But you know, he's

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Speaker 3: And I know he says it started before him, but

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Speaker 3: you know, for me, he was always the guy that

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Speaker 1: And you know he never let it with his words.

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Speaker 3: He led it with how he competed and how he

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Speaker 3: just set the example that all a lot of us

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Speaker 3: be hard to do it without him, but you know,

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Speaker 3: I think we're up for the challenge.

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Speaker 2: Feels good at number thirteen and Max months here are

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Speaker 2: going to be back for the three p Thank you

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Speaker 2: for stopping by, and uh, maybe we could just set

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Speaker 2: the ground rules right now spring training. Should I ease

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Speaker 2: into approaching you or do you feel like I should

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Speaker 2: just dive in and hover around your locker day one?

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Speaker 3: You know how Dave, I might I might give you

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Speaker 3: time and day I might not give you time and day.

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Speaker 3: You know when it comes to you. You just you

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Speaker 3: always you're you just kind of float you know, Okay,

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Speaker 3: you just kind of float around. And so maybe maybe

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Speaker 3: i'll maybe I won't, might throw a comment your way.

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Speaker 1: We'll see.

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Speaker 2: I do have a lot of feel. That's the one

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Speaker 2: thing people say about me. I have great feel.

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Speaker 1: No one's ever said that about you. All Right, Munsey,

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Speaker 1: thank you for stopping by. I love you. There he

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Speaker 1: goes Max Munsey.

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Speaker 2: I think people think he hates me, but it's a

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Speaker 2: love hate relationship.

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Speaker 1: Now it's all love, Dave, it's all love. Great to

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Speaker 1: catch up with Max Munsey.

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Speaker 2: So many of you have come up to me during

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Speaker 2: the offseason and asked me, what's the deal with you?

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Speaker 1: And Munsie?

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Speaker 2: Does he really not like you? No, it's a great

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Speaker 2: thing that we have going here. It's a sarcastic, kind

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Speaker 2: of dry sense of monthsy humor that he throws at me.

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Speaker 2: And I'm so grateful because Munsey has been very inclusive

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Speaker 2: and always gives insightful, thoughtful answers and is a lot

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Speaker 2: more honest with his answers than most players. And I

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Speaker 2: love that about him, and I think that's why those

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Speaker 2: of us that cover the Dodgers go to Max months

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Speaker 2: when we have questions, because he is going to give

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Speaker 2: you an honest answer, and if he doesn't feel like

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Speaker 2: he should answer that certain question, he's not going to

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Speaker 2: give you some generic answer. He's just going to pass

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Speaker 2: on answering that question. So love having Max Munsey on

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Speaker 2: the show. Can't wait to see him out there in

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Speaker 2: spring training. And in case you missed any of our

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