Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Here's a guy that is very much having a lot
Speaker 2: of withdrawal issues of David Vassay this offseason, and that's
Speaker 2: my guy, number sixty six, Tanner Scott. Welcome live to
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. That's right live. Does that change things?
Speaker 1: Real quick? Real quick? Is that a two pay or no.
Speaker 2: Come on feeling? That was our thing? I feel it,
Speaker 2: you gotta New York.
Speaker 1: I will say it. I won't say it's fine. I
Speaker 1: won't say we did win that way, So I have
Speaker 1: to say I know exactly do it as much as
Speaker 1: you want perfect. But my good friends at Bosley would
Speaker 1: push back on that sponsorship. Hey, let's sponsor sponsor album?
Speaker 1: Still balld, I'll take it.
Speaker 2: Let me see your ball home.
Speaker 1: We're not doing that.
Speaker 2: Really, you didn't. You didn't big shave it.
Speaker 1: I did clean shave it for this to put a
Speaker 1: hat on. Okay, Hey, Willy Smith, Hey will.
Speaker 2: He's emerged from hibernation. Nobody has heard from this guy
Speaker 2: since he hit his go ahead home run in the
Speaker 2: eleventh inning.
Speaker 1: That was special.
Speaker 2: I know where were you when he hit that.
Speaker 1: I was sitting in the bullpen, watching waiting hopefully we
Speaker 1: got to hoist the trophy and then Migyro tied up
Speaker 1: the game and then Will took us to the Promised Land.
Speaker 1: So yeah he did. I was just sitting there watching
Speaker 1: Kershaw throw. I mean, yeah, that was his last technical
Speaker 1: bullpen in the playoffs, so that was cool.
Speaker 2: What was that like because after it was all said
Speaker 2: and done, he said he had no idea.
Speaker 1: Oh no he was. He was warming up, and uh
Speaker 1: I was. I mean, I was just watching. I was like,
Speaker 1: it's one of the greatest ever. Do it right there,
Speaker 1: Dodger legend.
Speaker 2: So did you see MOOKI turned the double player.
Speaker 1: It was like it was like a head turn. So
Speaker 1: I saw it.
Speaker 2: But uh, did you leave the bullpen or did you
Speaker 2: let him know? Hey we won?
Speaker 1: No, at that moment, we just want to know. I was,
Speaker 1: I was. I didn't know he was still throwing. I
Speaker 1: kind of just left.
Speaker 2: My body and just went, yeah, hey, I was telling people,
Speaker 2: everybody's talking about Tucker.
Speaker 1: It's great. Everybody's talking about your great offense. You're great
Speaker 1: starting pitching.
Speaker 2: But now with Edwin Diaz and Tanner Scott in.
Speaker 1: The same bullpen, the trumpets, I can't wait to hear them.
Speaker 1: Timmy Trumpet. Ready the name of it, Tommy Trumpett. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to hear it. Hopefully we get the like
Speaker 1: the actual live guy to do it like they did,
Speaker 1: and ye, that would be cool. I've been in contact
Speaker 1: with Timmy Trumpett to be into this show. Is he
Speaker 1: here today? Yeah?
Speaker 2: He has responded to my DM so I don't know
Speaker 2: if he did.
Speaker 1: I did. I can show it. You need proof, I
Speaker 1: will show it to you. I know I need proof
Speaker 1: right now. He's on tour right now? Sure? Sure, sure,
Speaker 1: I'm tour when Diaz is here. Yes, tour is here.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to lay down a track for
Speaker 1: you to come out to this year?
Speaker 2: I could. I could figure out something. I take it
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: Okay, new song right yeah, okay, fire away or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know, all right, love it. I'm a big
Speaker 2: Killers fan. Give it the Killers.
Speaker 1: Give me, give me something and I'm probably gonna shoot
Speaker 1: it down, but I'll think about it.
Speaker 2: Springsteen, can we get Springsteen?
Speaker 1: Now? You?
Speaker 2: What do you want hip hop? You want to connect
Speaker 2: with the young kids? The Coconuts song? Yeah, there's a
Speaker 2: coconut song out there.
Speaker 1: It's it's bad. Actually, there's a. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: songs like we were listening to Hot Coco, some Kits song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and my son is in love with Hot Coco. Now
Speaker 1: it's yeah, he's two. That's bad. I know, I got
Speaker 1: I got a fourth grader. It only gets where's there? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they grow so fast it's scary. I know.
Speaker 2: So do you. I remember when you were just a
Speaker 2: Marlin and now you're a Dodger.
Speaker 1: Briol Marlin, the other team in California. Yeah, and then here.
Speaker 2: Yes, hey, I know last year did not go the
Speaker 2: way that you wanted to.
Speaker 1: Yees.
Speaker 2: So how how have you cleaned the slate? What's your
Speaker 2: off season been like?
Speaker 1: Off seasons was good, hanging out with my family, spending
Speaker 1: time with them. Looking back at twenty twenty five, realizing
Speaker 1: I threw too many strikes in the zone of two
Speaker 1: strikes and uh, I mean that's I'm I should put
Speaker 1: away that guy and I left I left too many
Speaker 1: the ball over the heart of plate, and that's never good.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I could take myself deep at
Speaker 1: that point. I don't know, that's a lot. I don't
Speaker 1: think wand could bump me though, so we'll go with that.
Speaker 1: But no, they just reflected on the year. It wasn't
Speaker 1: the greatest year for me, but I mean we walked
Speaker 1: away out of the ring and three peat two for me,
Speaker 1: I'll take that. And then you were trying to come back,
Speaker 1: and then you had that freak sickness, injury, infection, how
Speaker 1: do you want to describe it? Something? Yeah, something that
Speaker 1: put me put me in the hospital bed. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't great. I mean I was fighting my wife going
Speaker 1: to the hospital because I was like, I can get
Speaker 1: through it. I can get through it. And then it
Speaker 1: was to the point where it was just getting too bad.
Speaker 1: We don't want to go into like whatever sepsist right, yes,
Speaker 1: full that's dangerous. Yeah, so taking my wife for that.
Speaker 2: You have such great energy this year. Just walking in here,
Speaker 2: I could feel like the energy the vibe for ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty twenty five was over. Like I looked at
Speaker 1: my wife and I love it. On New Year's we
Speaker 1: don't make it to the ball drop. That's too late.
Speaker 1: We got a son, too way too late. So she
Speaker 1: looked at me, she goes New Year, Yeah, quite perfect,
Speaker 1: and it feels like you know what to expect a
Speaker 1: little bit more. Yeah, I mean we get to see
Speaker 1: Dean Kim Moore with Kim So that's cool. I don't
Speaker 1: like very much, but he's a good guy.
Speaker 2: Yes, who have you missed the most being away from
Speaker 2: your teammates?
Speaker 1: Who missed most? Me?
Speaker 2: I'm not your teammate, but probably Ves Bessie. Yeah. Have
Speaker 2: you talked to him?
Speaker 1: Oh? Face signs me all the time. Wow, face signs
Speaker 1: me all the time. You must be Uh, I'm in
Speaker 1: his I'm in his contact. So interesting. Oh yeah, you don't,
Speaker 1: do you? No, that's fine, No, that's fine. I'll let
Speaker 1: him know to call you.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'll see him in spring training.
Speaker 1: I'll tell him to stay away.
Speaker 2: But yes, so do I. You're end of the of
Speaker 2: the Dodger clubhouse in spring training. You have to make
Speaker 2: a very long walk. And when a reporter walks to
Speaker 2: your end of the clubhouse from our entrance.
Speaker 1: Point, it's a long walk. In ours in Arizona at
Speaker 1: camel Back Ran, Oh yeah, that one's a long walk.
Speaker 2: You guys see me coming a mile away.
Speaker 1: Everyone just dances in the same spot by my locker. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm out of there. Yeah, I'm out of their food room, wait,
Speaker 1: wait room somewheres. Yes, like they gotta you gotta go
Speaker 1: towards the not by my walker. Okay, you got nothing
Speaker 1: to talk to me about.
Speaker 2: Hey, I loved you got street cred with me when
Speaker 2: you introduced me to Derek Carr last season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're welcome.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you, great raider. Who are you picking in
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl this year?
Speaker 1: It's funny. I didn't know who was playing in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl until they asked me before I talked to Oral.
Speaker 2: And that just says everything, because nobody cares about this
Speaker 2: Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I grew up with Cleveland Browns fan. They don't ever
Speaker 1: say that again. I'm a Browns fan. You've been through
Speaker 1: a lot. I'm from Ohio.
Speaker 2: Who's your quarterback?
Speaker 1: Who's the Browns quarterback right now?
Speaker 2: Is it Shador Sanders?
Speaker 1: Is that this guy?
Speaker 2: It's Sad Sanders.
Speaker 1: I don't watch it.
Speaker 2: Watch I agree.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's Seattle Seahawks versus Patriots. I
Speaker 1: know Tom Brady doesn't play anymore. Okay, Russell Wilson is
Speaker 1: no longer in Seattle.
Speaker 2: I want this guy in my gambling pool, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe get him over with some squares.
Speaker 1: Dad, you're just stealing from me at that point, exactly.
Speaker 1: That's not cool.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but you can help those school fund. No, no, I.
Speaker 1: Got the yogurt pouch fund right now. Man sons eat
Speaker 1: those things more than chicken nuggets. Speaking of chicken nuggets, yep,
Speaker 1: here's something raisin canes or Chick fil A Okay, two
Speaker 1: different categories. Really, it's chicken tenders versus chicken sandwich chicken nuggets.
Speaker 2: I love the nuggets.
Speaker 1: No, no, if you're going to Chick fil a spicy
Speaker 1: chicken sandwich with the regular chicken sandwich with Polynesian sauce.
Speaker 2: Not Chick fil A sauce, No, it's like I go.
Speaker 1: To Polynesian and then the random mix up of Chick
Speaker 1: fil A sauce but raisin cane It's it's a caniac
Speaker 1: subs tout the coal sloth for an extra Texas toast sauce.
Speaker 2: I know my order there, geez, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's funny. It was only it was raising case was
Speaker 1: like a Southern thing, right, and now they're starting to
Speaker 1: pop up more. Are there's there one here? There's something
Speaker 1: that my old home though, my old church right there
Speaker 1: on to paying follow me home?
Speaker 2: All right? Okay, thank you Tanner, great to see you.
Speaker 1: Great to see you. Hey, the Harry.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sign a ball for you.
Speaker 1: Sign my bottle? Do you have Do you have a
Speaker 1: Do you have a sharpie? Ye? Do you have a sharpie.
Speaker 1: He's gonna sign my water bottle.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna want to picture him.
Speaker 1: The thing is, I'm gonna put it into my walker
Speaker 1: and see if the cleaner strowed away?
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly? How dare you Tanner? Scott loves to hate me?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I don't love to hate you. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're You're not bad to talk to him?
Speaker 2: Thank you. I'll take talk to but yeah, I'll take that.
Speaker 2: I'll take all that.
Speaker 1: Just choke. Hey, I'm the only guy that is letting
Speaker 1: the secret out that this Dodger bullpen is going to
Speaker 1: bring the hammer down this year. We're still live right now? Right?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Can I call over Will for a second?
Speaker 2: Will Smith? Hey, wake of hibernation? Will Will? Will come
Speaker 2: out of hibernation?
Speaker 1: Will? Can you come here for a second?
Speaker 2: Come over here?
Speaker 1: No, one second.
Speaker 2: Your teammate's calling you over here. You can't. If you're
Speaker 2: a real teammate, you would come over here. Will Smith.
Speaker 2: I just want to know, guy hits a game. Winning
Speaker 2: home run. It's too big for radio. Now guy hits
Speaker 2: a game winning home run? Too big for radio.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna sign this water bottle for Tanner Scott.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see if the cleaner throw it out. Do
Speaker 1: you think the cleaners throw it out? Yes? Yes, yes, Hey,
Speaker 1: the cleaners go. What are you writing to?
Speaker 2: Tanner?
Speaker 1: Good luck? I don't want your phone number, Dave? What number?
Speaker 1: What's your favorite number? You gotta put a number on there?
Speaker 1: You got your favorite number? Yeah, you got there's no
Speaker 1: you're just signing it. Are you just gonna put a microphone?
Speaker 1: That would be cool? Snail Zilla's that's taken. Snails, that's taken.
Speaker 1: You can't, it's taken. It's someone already wears that. You
Speaker 1: gotta pick a new one, new one. Just put a
Speaker 1: one in from Oh, that's that's show. Hey, No, you
Speaker 1: can't do seventy one either. Who's seven one?
Speaker 2: How about River Ryan? That's my pick to click here?
Speaker 1: So you got to add another number? All right? That
Speaker 1: doesn't even exist, eight.
Speaker 2: Hundred and seventy seven. There we go, all right, Tanner Scott,
Speaker 2: it's always a thrill. You don't even have any pool
Speaker 2: to get Will Smith on the show. No, honestly, he
Speaker 2: was like, Dave, I know, Stiff, that's not that's not
Speaker 2: my fault. I'll go talk to him inside. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: see how his family's doing. Yeah, he doesn't want to
Speaker 2: talk to you. See how many how many works a sentence?
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, sorry, we don't have time. Nobody's coming back, Tanner, Tanner,
Speaker 2: you know what my mantra is in life, they always
Speaker 2: come crawling back.
Speaker 1: Hey, I who has come crawling back? I have one question?
Speaker 2: The world series? Here Will Smith fake?
Speaker 1: I'm out on this one. Thank you guys.
Speaker 2: You don't have any questions for him.
Speaker 1: How's how's the fam? How's perfect? Here you go? Will Smith?
Speaker 1: See Tanner, thank you, thank you for roping them in.
Speaker 1: I signed a water bottle for him for coming on.
Speaker 2: Wow, we're live?
Speaker 1: Oh sorry for live? Yeah yeah, usually you pre record these,
Speaker 1: I know, but this is live. It's Dodger Fest. I know.
Speaker 2: Great, all right to be able to trap you in.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm the one guy that has kept your
Speaker 2: name alive this offseason. Ross ROAs is on like a
Speaker 2: world tour. Good every radio station, every TV station you
Speaker 2: turn on Rojas. He deserves the shine.
Speaker 1: Absolutely do.
Speaker 2: But I have been. You're spokes a spokesperson all season long,
Speaker 2: Sports Net, LA, Dodger Talk, MLB Network. I'm speaking for you.
Speaker 2: I'm your Will Smith promoter. Perfect do you feel do
Speaker 2: you need me to do the rest of the interviews?
Speaker 1: Answer for me?
Speaker 2: You'd be right here and I'll answer for Will Smith.
Speaker 2: How did it feel well to hit that home run? Unbelievable?
Speaker 2: I was in the moment. I never let it get
Speaker 2: too out of hand, and I saw I saw the vision.
Speaker 2: I saw it on the other side of the wall.
Speaker 1: That's right, exactly.
Speaker 2: Do you like that? Bela love it?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: How many times have you watched the replay your home run?
Speaker 1: Probably a few? A few?
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty good. It just showed up on your shows
Speaker 3: up or something. But uh, yeah, I need to watch
Speaker 3: the whole game. I want to do that. I want
Speaker 3: to watch the whole game, go back and just enjoy it,
Speaker 3: see every little moment.
Speaker 2: Obviously the homer, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Will Smith World series hero is our guest. It's
Speaker 1: weird how you and Miguel Rojas will forever be linked
Speaker 1: in baseball history because you both hit huge home runs,
Speaker 1: but you both were on both ends.
Speaker 2: Of a huge play at the plate.
Speaker 1: YEP him in field in throwing out Isaiah kind of
Speaker 1: filefa your foot almost coming off the play. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was scared me.
Speaker 2: Have you watched that play?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah?
Speaker 2: Does it give you anxiety every time?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm still like waiting for the call to say, no,
Speaker 3: we got that wrong, go back. But yeah, I mean, honestly,
Speaker 3: in the moment, I didn't realize it came off the
Speaker 3: ground at all, like just did.
Speaker 1: But obviously got it back.
Speaker 3: Down and uh yeah the play Mickey may that was
Speaker 3: incredible and you know and build in kind of a
Speaker 3: tweeen or hop falling backwards making a good throw. It
Speaker 3: was was just an incredible play and obviously we needed it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, when you guys look back at the World Series,
Speaker 1: especially Game six, in Game seven, there were so many
Speaker 1: moments where you could not have been.
Speaker 2: The winners of that World Series. Yeah, the PA has
Speaker 2: a key K.
Speaker 1: Collision, yep, justin Dean, the ball getting stuck in the wall.
Speaker 1: Has that sunk in that they were when they talk
Speaker 1: about baseball being a game of inches, it was a
Speaker 1: game of inches for you to win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it absolutely was. I mean that's how you know
Speaker 3: good the Blue Jays were, how good we were? It
Speaker 3: was two really good teams going at it, and it
Speaker 3: was you who was going to catch that little edge
Speaker 3: and prevail.
Speaker 1: Before I let you go. I had Mike Soshan the
Speaker 1: show a couple of weeks ago. He's caught more games
Speaker 1: than any other Dodger in franchise history. He said, as
Speaker 1: a catcher on that plate, at the plate, you're taught
Speaker 1: to keep your foot in the middle of home plate?
Speaker 1: Is that what you were thinking as well? Yeah, what's
Speaker 1: the routine there? Yeah, I mean it's hard. It's hard
Speaker 1: because it's you know, flat on the ground. It's not
Speaker 1: like first base where you're standing on top of it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean you're taught to be in the middle.
Speaker 1: You know, you're taught really to find the base first, right,
Speaker 1: Like find the base. I'm not you're watching Migge make
Speaker 1: the play, but you're finding home plate, you're not searching
Speaker 1: for it. And then you're trying to keep your foot down.
Speaker 1: You're expecting a bad throw. It was a good throw,
Speaker 1: but you don't know if it's either.
Speaker 3: Your left you're right high a short hop, so you're
Speaker 3: expecting a bad throw.
Speaker 2: And that's what I did.
Speaker 1: Hey Will Smith out of hibernation after his eleventh inning,
Speaker 1: game winning home run for the Dodgers, back to back
Speaker 1: World Series champion, three times World Series Champion.
Speaker 2: Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate it. I'm happy
Speaker 2: you haven't forgotten the little people. And they want to
Speaker 2: take a photo live on the radio. Can we do that?
Speaker 2: Here we go, Will Smith smiling, smiling with me that
Speaker 2: never smile.
Speaker 1: Not a mile with you.
Speaker 2: No, that's right. Yeah, they want you to go somewhere else. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're a big deal. Now hold him after about three minutes,
Speaker 2: come cool minut. All right, sounds good. Thank you, and
Speaker 2: I'll still be there for you whenever you need me
Speaker 2: to talk. I'll be there, all right, There he goes,
Speaker 2: Will Smith, my guy,