Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: We're joined right now by the nineteen ninety two National
Speaker 1: League Rookie of the Year, the man that currently holds
Speaker 1: the most home run sit in Los Angeles Dodgers' history,
Speaker 1: and obviously a very popular man with the new generation
Speaker 1: as a broadcaster on sports and at LA. That's the
Speaker 1: one and only Eric Harross. Thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 1: I always love catching up with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Great to be with you, David.
Speaker 1: All right, So before we talk about what's happening with
Speaker 1: the team, there's a couple of things I want to
Speaker 1: bring up with you.
Speaker 2: If that's okay, I'm all yours.
Speaker 1: So, when the team was in San Diego, you had
Speaker 1: a very eventful couple of days, from what I understand,
Speaker 1: a great golf day with Dave Roberts. But then my
Speaker 1: understanding is you were spotted in the swimming pool of
Speaker 1: the team hotel. Do you like to take laps in
Speaker 1: the pool?
Speaker 2: No, I gotta get out and move around. You know,
Speaker 2: when you get to my age, it's called water therapy.
Speaker 3: You're probably a ten years away from beginning that I
Speaker 3: had to recover from the golf round on Thursday. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was out in the pool surveying the sites and
Speaker 3: getting in the water.
Speaker 1: Was it like a scheduled class of water aerobics, No, it.
Speaker 3: Was, and it was just an opportunity to go down
Speaker 3: there and interact with some of the fellow occupants of
Speaker 3: the hotel.
Speaker 1: All Right, And a little known fact about Eric Carross,
Speaker 1: the final team that he played for in his illustrious
Speaker 1: baseball career was the Athletics when they were in Oakland.
Speaker 1: You have something in common with guys like Dusty Baker,
Speaker 1: Ron Say, Davey Lopes, Mike Piazza, among others, where former
Speaker 1: Dodger greats have played their last games with the A's.
Speaker 3: I believe Nomar may have been there as well. And
Speaker 3: so it was ironic you bring that up. One of
Speaker 3: the first days I had gone over that spring training,
Speaker 3: Steve Vusinich, the long time clubby there. He was back there,
Speaker 3: you know, with the swinging A's in the early seventies,
Speaker 3: and his first introduction to me. He comes up and
Speaker 3: he goes, hey, Kay, pleasure to meet you. Just want
Speaker 3: to let you know this is where.
Speaker 2: Longtime Dodgers go to die.
Speaker 3: And I was like, what, Like, I wasn't familiar with
Speaker 3: any of it, you know, and then you know, I
Speaker 3: started looking at the history and then the irony of
Speaker 3: it is even after myself, you know, Mike Piazzago, you know,
Speaker 3: no mar and everything.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure if Manny was ever there too,
Speaker 2: but it but it did. It was real.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Manny Ramirez did go there. And that's that's where
Speaker 1: telling you, Hey, when you think about the A's obviously Moneyball,
Speaker 1: the movie made Billy Bean, you know, transcendent. What was
Speaker 1: your interaction with Billy Bean?
Speaker 2: So I was relatively close with Billy.
Speaker 3: Billy was about four years ahead of me, San Diego kid.
Speaker 2: He was the Bob Garren.
Speaker 3: So everybody knew who Billy Bean was because he Mount
Speaker 3: Carmel High School the next coming and all that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. So I was very familiar with him. And
Speaker 3: then you know, along the years we had mutual friends.
Speaker 3: And so when I was in Oakland, you know, I actually,
Speaker 3: you know, because I didn't play a lot. I was
Speaker 3: I was tuning and Billy would be down in the
Speaker 3: exercise room and he'd be doing his cardio watching the game,
Speaker 3: and I'd be in there.
Speaker 2: And so there was a lot of interaction, a lot
Speaker 2: of respect for Billy.
Speaker 1: So that's an actual thing. We didn't just see it
Speaker 1: in the movie. Billy Bean would watch the games on
Speaker 1: a treadmill.
Speaker 3: No, dude, there was there there that was pretty factual
Speaker 3: that movie. You know, outside of the fact that we
Speaker 3: did have Moulder, Hudgson, you know, Zito, we had some
Speaker 3: elite pitching, you know when I was there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean that that was it was very
Speaker 2: very realistic.
Speaker 1: Eric Carros is our guest. He's on the call this
Speaker 1: series for Sports and at LA. Let's talk about the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: They have the most wins in Major League Baseball. It
Speaker 1: feels like they're being overlooked. A couple of players are
Speaker 1: being overlooked, guys like tom Yedman. The Dodgers have gotten
Speaker 1: taoscar Hernandez Back. Do you feel like the rest of
Speaker 1: the league should be concerned considering where they're at and
Speaker 1: they haven't been holed yet.
Speaker 3: Well, I think the league is very cognizant of the Dodgers, right.
Speaker 3: I think sometimes we as fans, though, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of worry when it's like, what are we doing?
Speaker 2: You know, this is just an.
Speaker 3: Exercise of getting ready for the postseason. It's basically, you know,
Speaker 3: the season is to go out, get yourself ready, find
Speaker 3: out what guys are going to be most productive in
Speaker 3: what spots, get things right, make it through the season,
Speaker 3: and then get ready to.
Speaker 2: Roll in October.
Speaker 3: But I don't think you know, throughout the league, everybody
Speaker 3: is fully aware of how deep the Dodgers are and
Speaker 3: as you just mentioned, you know, the most wins in
Speaker 3: all of baseball and doing it with a roster that
Speaker 3: has been relatively hard hit for most of the season.
Speaker 1: How much does Tommy Edmund mean to this team?
Speaker 3: Well, I think what he does is he provides something
Speaker 3: that there isn't a lot of in this ball club.
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: You know, the versatility, the switch hitting, the speed, that
Speaker 3: can play a number of different positions infield, outfield, and
Speaker 3: so there aren't a lot lot of those tools or pieces,
Speaker 3: I should say, and so he is. He is one
Speaker 3: of those. And that's why you know the Dodgers went
Speaker 3: out and acquired him a few years ago, why they'd
Speaker 3: always had their eyes set on him, and why he
Speaker 3: signed to a multi year deal.
Speaker 1: Before I let you go, Eric Carros, You've been through
Speaker 1: a lot in your baseball life, and everybody from the
Speaker 1: outside wants to find cracks and good teams. Like this,
Speaker 1: When show Hail Tani takes the mound on Friday at
Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium, do you feel like everything that went on
Speaker 1: in Minnesota is behind him and rushing?
Speaker 3: Well, so remember that didn't just emanate in Minnesota there.
Speaker 3: You know, if you go back to the Pittsburgh game,
Speaker 3: all it is is really it's a miscommunication.
Speaker 2: And for me, at the end of the day, at
Speaker 2: the end of the day.
Speaker 3: If if show Hey wants to challenge a pitch, challenge
Speaker 3: a pitch, right like that, that solves everything. And I think,
Speaker 3: you know, if you look at the origination of all
Speaker 3: of it, it's, you know, again, some misunderstanding, some miscommunication.
Speaker 3: You know, Dalton being a young player, he's trying and
Speaker 3: you know, he tried to challenge one. He didn't get
Speaker 3: the pitch, so then he's tentative and he doesn't challenge
Speaker 3: future ones. It's not just about Hey, you know what
Speaker 3: we saw on the TV. I think the guys are fine. Look,
Speaker 3: Showy is the best that this game has ever seen.
Speaker 2: I think it's fine moving forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I talked to a few veterans and they said
Speaker 1: whatever miscommunication there was, it was squashed on the bus
Speaker 1: ride to the team plane. But also a learning moment
Speaker 1: where if you have those type of miscommunications with all
Speaker 1: the cameras, take it downstairs and in the tunnel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that goes without saying, right, especially nowadays, because
Speaker 3: there's nothing that if it's within camera view then there's
Speaker 3: a pretty good chance it's gonna get caught.
Speaker 1: That's like you and me. Whenever you have an issue
Speaker 1: and you want to blow up at me, we come
Speaker 1: into an office. We don't do it in the broadcast booth.
Speaker 2: We just do it on air.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for the time. Obviously you mean a
Speaker 1: lot to a lot of Dodger fans instill the organization.
Speaker 1: So thanks a lot for doing this.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thanks Davi.