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Speaker 1: Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you until eight

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Speaker 1: o'clock tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports.

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Speaker 1: And we're coming to you from Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale, Arizona,

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Speaker 1: the home of the San Francisco Giants. And of course,

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers lose their first Spring training game too, the Giants,

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Speaker 1: twelve to four, the final score. The Dodgers have been

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Speaker 1: Before I let Dave Robert Scoe. He's doing a lot

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Speaker 1: And it starts with the skipper, Dave Roberts. Everybody in

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, Dave really appreciated.

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Speaker 1: There he goes Dodger manager Dave Roberts, ready for all

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Speaker 4: Hey, I miss you too.

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Speaker 1: You are on the Lisson. Life is good. I have

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Speaker 4: I don't think you're allowed to go to any slides anymore.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I have to have some redemption. Maybe

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Speaker 4: I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Hey. JD. Martinez is living his best life. He's fishing

434
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: nearly every day out there in Florida. He was just

435
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,160
Speaker 1: in Park City, Utah skiing and now.

436
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 4: He's in as ohr Right.

437
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, sorry, Aspen. Yes, that's uh.

438
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. I had a lot of homers.

439
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: I get to go to Asten a lot of Dingers

440
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 1: for JD. Martinez to I want to Aspen and now

441
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 1: he's in the Desert for the Desert Smashing Lakina starting

442
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: on Monday. He's a celebrity pickleball player, now, I mean,

443
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: is that the level of pickleball you're at right now

444
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: where you're a celebrity.

445
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,399
Speaker 4: I mean pretty much. I mean I don't know.

446
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 5: I mean it's if my back could hold up a

447
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,120
Speaker 5: little bit more. I think I can kind of get

448
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,199
Speaker 5: good at it, but I always run into my back issues,

449
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 5: you know, And for that, I think i'd be you know,

450
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 5: out there competing, trying to compete more.

451
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,639
Speaker 4: But I'm excited for it. I'm excited. I know a

452
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 4: lot of there's gonna be a lot of pros out there.

453
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 5: There's gonna be a lot of really good players, and

454
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,879
Speaker 5: I'm excited to go and you know, play alongside of that.

455
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 4: It'll be fun.

456
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: Yeah. Will Ferrell is supposed to be one of the

457
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: other celebrities with JD. Martinez. Maybe you could be doubles

458
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 1: like Krushaw's ping pong tournament.

459
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 5: I remember that, Yeah, Kershaw kind of Kershaw rigged that

460
00:25:59,000 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 5: ping pong tournament.

461
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 4: You would win, I know it.

462
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: So who's a better pickleball player, you or Mookie Bets.

463
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know. I think I'm gonna have to

464
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,679
Speaker 4: say me. I'm sorry, smoke. I love them, but I

465
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 4: think I got them. I did play more though, that's

466
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 4: the problem.

467
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,400
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. I mean, how do you have back problems

468
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: when you play pickleball? You barely move?

469
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,399
Speaker 4: I mean, what are you talking about? You got to

470
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 4: stop bend over. There's a lot of things you gotta do.

471
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 1: I don't see it, a lot of things. I don't

472
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,640
Speaker 1: see why this is such a phenomenon across the country.

473
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 4: Oh, it's addicted. It's so addicted.

474
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,439
Speaker 1: Why Why is it because a little ping pong and

475
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,360
Speaker 1: you move around a little bit. I know you're a competitor,

476
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 1: but what makes you so good to bring your game

477
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 1: to the Desert smash and really want to fly across

478
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Speaker 1: the country to be part of this.

479
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 5: I mean it's one of those things though, you know,

480
00:26:58,440 --> 00:26:59,160
Speaker 5: you get invited.

481
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 4: It's a cool expirceperience.

482
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 5: Uh you get to go alongside and test your test

483
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 5: your skills against some of the pros out there.

484
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 4: Uh So it's definitely. Ah, you know, nothing I like

485
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 4: more than a good challenge. So I'm excited to just

486
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 4: go out there and see what's I went.

487
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,199
Speaker 5: Uh. Earlier this year, I went to Dallas for a

488
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 5: for the same kind of thing, and I got to

489
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,239
Speaker 5: play against Dirk Novisky and Carroll Owens and Tifu and

490
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 5: it was just fun.

491
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 4: It's a fun, cool experience.

492
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,159
Speaker 5: And we got to go up against some of the

493
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,400
Speaker 5: pickleball pros like Ben Jons and of course they put

494
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 5: me on singles against Annaalie Waters, who's probably the best

495
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 5: pickball player ever, and I got absolutely demolished.

496
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 4: It was a very humbling experience for him, and I

497
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 4: truly enjoyed it. All right, Yeah, it's just good. It's

498
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 4: good fun.

499
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 1: How did you do against Dirk Nowitzki? I would say

500
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:47,880
Speaker 1: he has the length on you.

501
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dirk, I got I got him though. I beat him, though, Yeah,

502
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 4: he's got He definitely got the length on me. But he's, uh,

503
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 4: it's a little hard for him to, you know, bend over,

504
00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 4: he's so tall. So I was able to keep the

505
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:00,640
Speaker 4: ball low on them.

506
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 1: Okay, explain this to me. In pickleball, you always hear

507
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 1: everybody talk about the kitchen, the kitchen. Can you explain

508
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: to us what the kitchen is in pickleball.

509
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 4: All right.

510
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 5: The kitchen is that little it's like the boss that's

511
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 5: outlined right next to the net. And in the kitchen,

512
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 5: you can ever go into the kitchen unless the ball

513
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 5: goes in the kitchen.

514
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 4: Gotcha. You can.

515
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,199
Speaker 5: You can reach in there, but you can't touch the

516
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 5: ground in the kitchen unless the ball bounces in the kitchen.

517
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,360
Speaker 5: Once the ball bounces in the kitchen, then you can

518
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 5: go in there and hit the ball, then you're allowed

519
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 5: to You're allowed to go over the kitchen.

520
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 4: It just keeps people back so that not everybody would

521
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 4: just run to the net, you know.

522
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: Okay, So once the ball bounces in the kitchen, that's

523
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: when you can play it.

524
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, Okay.

525
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate you explaining that to me. I'm

526
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: going to try it one of these days. But I

527
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: feel like I need a bigger challenge than pickleball in

528
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: my life.

529
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 3: Yeah.

530
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 4: I don't know if pickleball is a sport for you, though, David.

531
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 4: This is issue you're you're a little because you're a

532
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 4: little fragile.

533
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 5: I don't see a lot of athleticism from you that

534
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 5: you're gonna need hand eye coordination, reaction.

535
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 4: I think there are a lot of skills that you

536
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 4: don't have.

537
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 5: So I don't know what kind of a you know,

538
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 5: advise you to stay away from it.

539
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 4: It's got a lot of injuries in the pickleball game.

540
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. I appreciate your concern. How about fishing

541
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: for swordfish? How about fishing for swordfish?

542
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 4: Hey, we could go, We could go. I got my

543
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 4: boat down here and you can come down whenever you want.

544
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: Oh, man, enjoyable.

545
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 4: You don't make me feel like I'm.

546
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: On vacation every time I watch you on Instagram on

547
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: the boat. I mean, you are living your best life

548
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: after just basically dedicating your your previous what thirty years

549
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: to baseball. I mean, I love that you're enjoying yourself.

550
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Man, It's been fun.

551
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 5: Honestly, I kind of pick ah and I one adventure

552
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 5: to do every month, and I try to go out

553
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 5: there and do it.

554
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 4: I'm a I'm a dad.

555
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 5: Now, so you know I have that currently pushing my

556
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 5: daughter around a little a little car thing. Oh, I'm

557
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 5: not on adventures, but I'm not on my one adventure

558
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 5: a month. I come back and I'm playing dad for

559
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 5: the next three weeks. You know, so I try to

560
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 5: just enjoy it and make the best out of it.

561
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: But that George Clooney beard is still perfectly fine. It

562
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: has not even gotten too long. It is perfect for JD.

563
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: Martinez and you still have.

564
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 4: Your I keep it clean, Yeah, yeah, keep it clean.

565
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 4: I got, I got, I got a few more white

566
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 4: hair than it now. But I'm good.

567
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: How since you were known for being a cage rat,

568
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: how liberating is your life now that you don't have

569
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: the burden of having to be America's dh.

570
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it's amazing. I love it.

571
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 5: People are like, how are you enjoying it? I'm like,

572
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 5: they're like, do you miss it? I'm like, I miss

573
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 5: the boys. I miss everything's feeling good and my body's

574
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 5: feeling good, But I don't miss the preparation and all

575
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 5: that stuff that goes into it to get my body

576
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 5: ready just to go out there and have four back

577
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 5: in the game and everything I.

578
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 4: Have to do.

579
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 5: That's that's definitely a burden, you know, that's been taking

580
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 5: off my shoulders in.

581
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: Twenty three with the Dodgers. How long would it take

582
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: you to get ready for a game?

583
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, I mean I said ever since spot

584
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 5: like twenty twenty twenty twenty one, I think is when

585
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 5: it started, it would probably take me like an hour

586
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 5: on the training room table and then an hour in

587
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 5: the gym, and then from there I'm kind of ready

588
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 5: to start batting practice and get ready to go, you know,

589
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 5: like get my body moving around.

590
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: That's amazing. I mean people don't understand that you guys

591
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: show up well before first pitch, not an hour before,

592
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: especially guys like you. And I used to hear Chase

593
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 1: Suttley at the end of his career showing up at

594
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: noon for a seven to ten game just to get rid.

595
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean for me, I was a little

596
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 5: bit different, you know.

597
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 4: I mean, no one really understood this, but I was.

598
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 5: You know, I would wake up in the morning at

599
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 5: nine ten o'clock, eat breakfast, and go to the cage

600
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 5: and do my whole you know, what I was going

601
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 5: to work on the night before, what I was going

602
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 5: to work on that day that I saw the night before,

603
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 5: I was gonna go and I was gonna, you know,

604
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 5: go test it out and.

605
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 4: Go to the cage for like an hour, hour and

606
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 4: a half and.

607
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 5: Then go and start my like you know, go to

608
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 5: the field around twelve one o'clock and start my day there.

609
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 5: So my day really started around like nine ten o'clock.

610
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: And now, do you did you have any withdrawals last year,

611
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: your first year out of the game, and how did

612
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: you get over those withdrawals?

613
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 4: I definitely didn't have any withdrawals, for sure, zero withdrawals. Yeah,

614
00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 4: my withdrawals was like.

615
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 5: The guys hanging out with the guys in the clubhouse

616
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 5: talking crap, like the bus rides.

617
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 4: Like that kind of stuff. You know. That was that

618
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 4: was what I missed. But I'm still able to do

619
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 4: all that here.

620
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 2: You know.

621
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 5: I have my whole morning routine here that I do

622
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 5: and I started doing, you know, doing things I've never

623
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 5: been able to do. Last year was you know, taking

624
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,719
Speaker 5: these trips, learning how to free dive, learning like you know,

625
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 5: just different styles of fishing and trying to go and

626
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 5: go on like you know, crazy adventures where we take

627
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 5: the boat.

628
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 4: I mean we did a few trips this year.

629
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 5: We took the boat one hundred and fifty miles out

630
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 5: into the middle of nowhere, stuck on the boat for

631
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 5: three days and just fish for three days like some

632
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 5: like more hardcore stuff than ever been.

633
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 4: Able to do.

634
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: That's amazing.

635
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 4: It's been It's been great, dude, it's been fun.

636
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: The Dodger sucked you back in last year when we

637
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: were in Tampa. It was it was out there that

638
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: that you got sucked back in to be the Mookie

639
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: whisperer to help him try to get out of the

640
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: season long slump.

641
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean me and Muk go way back,

642
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 4: so you know, for him, I definitely.

643
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 5: Made the exception of coming out and going out there

644
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 5: and spending a weekend with him and you know.

645
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 4: Trying to get him back on track. It was like, God,

646
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,879
Speaker 4: a few times we did it? Did it? I did

647
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 4: it there? And then I did in l A too?

648
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: Did you really?

649
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 4: So? Yeah?

650
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: Help him with? What do you help him with?

651
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 4: How?

652
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: Why does J. D. Martinez connect with him so much?

653
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean I think we both a

654
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:40,760
Speaker 4: want of trust.

655
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 5: He trusts me, uh he you know, he values my

656
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 5: opinion on everything, and from there it was kind of

657
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 5: one of those things where we just we work well together.

658
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 4: And I don't know, I feel like I just have

659
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 4: a really good understanding of his swing in his mind.

660
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 5: You know, Mooki's on Mooke's you know, on nbelievable unbelievable talent,

661
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 5: as everybody knows. It's just sometimes this game it just

662
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 5: derails you sometimes and you need.

663
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 4: Someone to you know, lock it back in. You know.

664
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 4: Robert Robert was that guy. Robert was that guy for me.

665
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 5: You know, every time I would get derailed, Robert would

666
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 5: kind of guide me back in and it was a

667
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 5: lot of trust that I put into him, and it

668
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,919
Speaker 5: always kind of works. Sometimes you just got to turn

669
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 5: your brain off and.

670
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 4: Let someone else think for you, cause you just get

671
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 4: in your own way.

672
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 1: Mooky's coming to camp earlier than I've ever seen him

673
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: come to camp to work since twenty twenty. Do you

674
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: expect him you know, there's a lot of people that

675
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: expect the beginning of the end last year for Mookie.

676
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: Do you expect him to have, you know, more of

677
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 1: a Mookie type year?

678
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you just the thing with Muk is

679
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 5: you just you know, you never know, he just turns

680
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 5: on a switch and all of a sudden, he doesn't

681
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 5: get out.

682
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 4: For freaking three months, and you're like, what the heck

683
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 4: just happened. It's like Freddie, you know, they're able to

684
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 4: just go on these runs where you're like, good luck,

685
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 4: you know, so for me to say that, I always

686
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 4: for me.

687
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 5: I always expect Muki to have a great year. You know,

688
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:10,919
Speaker 5: I tell him every I tell him all the time.

689
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 5: I said, Muke, I said, there's no reason that you

690
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 5: can't win MVP every single year because you have that

691
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 5: kind of ability.

692
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: And if I mean to you again this year, would

693
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,479
Speaker 1: you answer the phone? Would they be able to suck

694
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: you back into the cage?

695
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 4: I mean, if Mookie called me, yeah, I definitely would,

696
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 4: you know, I mean Muchie's my guy.

697
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: So what what.

698
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 4: It always did? We've always had a big relationship.

699
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: I wanted I wanted you to be part of what

700
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: they got now. But watching it the last two years,

701
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,760
Speaker 1: do you even watch their games? Did you even watch

702
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 1: the World Series?

703
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 5: Yeah? No, the World Series is unbelievable. I mean it's

704
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 5: kind of it was. It was unreal games with you know, Toronto, and.

705
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 4: It was it was crazy. It was crazy. It was

706
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 4: just crazy.

707
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 5: You know, there were so many times you thought Toronto

708
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 5: was going to win the game. They were just right

709
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 5: there and I was like, oh, if they don't score here,

710
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 5: they're not going to win this type thing. And you know,

711
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,879
Speaker 5: the Dodgers just you guys just had that veteran, you know,

712
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 5: leadership and presence, and it's just a veteran club.

713
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 4: And you give you give those guys with.

714
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 5: That much talent enough opportunities, they're gonna you guys are

715
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 5: going to find a way for sure.

716
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 4: And I think that's what happened.

717
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: Hey, JD. Martinez is going to be at the UH

718
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: the Big Smash in Lakina beginning on Monday, the Desert Smash.

719
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 1: But I got to ask you when you were at

720
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: the Red Sox and you guys beat the Dodgers. Chris

721
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,360
Speaker 1: Sale did heroic things, including you know, coming out of

722
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: the bullpen in game five, where would you rank with

723
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,280
Speaker 1: where what Yamamoto did in game six and seven?

724
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 4: Especially unreal, unbelievable.

725
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 5: You know, Nadi Valdi was our guy, that he was

726
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 5: our Yama Moto in that twenty eighteen run. But what

727
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 5: I mean what Yamamoto did was I.

728
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 4: Mean, it was definitely the reason he won the MVP.

729
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 4: I mean that was ridiculous.

730
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:10,240
Speaker 5: I faced him one time in twenty twenty twenty twenty

731
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 5: four with the Mets at our place and it was freezing,

732
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 5: and I remember he was throwing.

733
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 4: Himself, Like Jesus, how does anybody hit this guy. This

734
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 4: guy's nasty. He didn't know what the hell the ball

735
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 4: was gonna do. It was like playing with the ball

736
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 4: at ninety seven miles an hour.

737
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he is, you know, he is small

738
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: in stature and his hands aren't as big as Pedro

739
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: Martinez JD. But I don't know he found something after

740
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: he came off the il in twenty four.

741
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was. I mean he was feeling it. He

742
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 4: felt great. You could see it that he felt great.

743
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 5: And he just rode that whole wave, you know, and

744
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 5: he was just he was lighted out.

745
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 1: Where were you watching Game seven of the World Series

746
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: on a boat somewhere? Where were you?

747
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 4: No, No, actually.

748
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 5: Watching game on the games earlier, like on a boat.

749
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 4: Me and Alex Avila were on his boat.

750
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 5: He's got a sixty eight foot Vikings, beautiful boat, and

751
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 5: we were on his boat watching it. But the game seven,

752
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 5: I was on my I was on my couch with

753
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 5: my friends and I was I.

754
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 4: Was standing up the whole game. I was like, oh

755
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 4: my god, this is crazy.

756
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 5: There was I mean, there were so many plays the

757
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 5: play at the plate that Blue Jays had bases loaded

758
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 5: like two three times. You guys had bases loaded, no

759
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 5: one to get it, no one, you know, drive it

760
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 5: in that last run.

761
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 4: And I was like, oh, this is not looking good

762
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 4: for Toronto. I already see it. You can't give these

763
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 4: guys this amount of.

764
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:47,760
Speaker 5: Opportunities, you know, And it was just I mean, kudos

765
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 5: to the Dodgers man, and you know what Andrew's been

766
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 5: able to do there, It's unbelievable the team he's been

767
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 5: able to put together.

768
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:55,399
Speaker 1: Do you think they repeat this year?

769
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 4: I mean, it's hard to see. It's it's hard to

770
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 4: stay up, you know. I mean it's hard to say. No.

771
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 5: It's just one of those things where I mean that

772
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 5: the lineup, the pitching, like, there's not many weaknesses the

773
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 5: Dodgers have.

774
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,479
Speaker 4: It's just the.

775
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 5: Only weakness that they have is that they've been to

776
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 5: the World.

777
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 4: Series, you know, the last two years and they've won.

778
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 4: So that's a lot of wear and tear on the bodies.

779
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 5: And that's the only downside you look at when you

780
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 5: see a team like that trying to.

781
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 4: Go back and three peat. I mean, it's not a

782
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 4: lot of teams have done it.

783
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 5: It's so tough with health, you know, you got to

784
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 5: keep everybody healthy, and those those leverage, intings, those things

785
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 5: that you know, like what Yamamoto was able to do.

786
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,959
Speaker 5: We saw it in twenty eighteen coming back in twenty

787
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,399
Speaker 5: nineteen with Rick Porcello and David Price, Like you could

788
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 5: see those guys had to really stretch it out in

789
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,760
Speaker 5: eighteen and they kind of caught up to them in nineteen.

790
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,879
Speaker 5: So that's just that's the hardest part about you know,

791
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 5: about the playoffs and pushing it that long because you

792
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 5: don't know, you know, the wear and tear you create

793
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 5: because you're just so much adrenaline going through you in

794
00:40:58,960 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 5: those games.

795
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 1: Well, he would know. He beat the Dodgers with the

796
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: Red Sox in twenty eighteen. He finished his career with

797
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty one home runs. And his most

798
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: magical season was not in Boston. It was right here

799
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 1: in La In my opinion, just kidding JD. That was

800
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: my favorite year were it was. We had so much fun. Yeah, man,

801
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: we had so much fun. And I hope you come

802
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: back to LA. I hope the Dodgers can find a

803
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: place for you, because you do have a lot to offer.

804
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 1: But at the very least, the Mookie Whisperer always has

805
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: a bat phone for Mookie to call to get him

806
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: back on track. I feel like you. Yeah, you're more

807
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 1: than Mookie's whisper. You have a lot to offer to

808
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, JD. So maybe when you dock

809
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: the boat you could go to the cache and help guys.

810
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,280
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. We'll see, we'll see.

811
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: I missed you, JD.

812
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 4: I miss you too, buddy. I've always been watching. I'm

813
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 4: watching you.

814
00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 5: I watch all your interviews every now and then to

815
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 5: see who uh you're giving that dead fish handshake too.

816
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: I tried with CONFORDO. It got him going for a week,

817
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: but you know, it can only do so much.

818
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:11,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel that.

819
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 1: Now people are talking about my nipples instead of my

820
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: wrist and my dead fish handshake now, oh no, for real?

821
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,760
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. During the celebration, it went, uh.

822
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:29,280
Speaker 4: You know, got to be something did oh yeah, yeah.

823
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. It was that and they showed it

824
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 1: on Jimmy Kimmel and it became.

825
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 4: A fan that's right, up's alley.

826
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: All right, j D. I can talk to you forever, man.

827
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: I know. It's great to share you again with Dodger fans.

828
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,879
Speaker 1: It was a great excuse to have you on since

829
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna be on the West coast Lakinta the pick

830
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: a Ball Smash coming up on Monday, and uh, I

831
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,399
Speaker 1: can't wait to see some photos on on your ig

832
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 1: and uh man, you were You're a special guy. And

833
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: that's to this day, so many guys still still miss

834
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 1: America's DH.

835
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 4: I appreciate it, David, thank you, thanks so much for

836
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 4: having me, buddy.

837
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: We'll do it again soon. JD thanks a.

838
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 4: Lot, definitely. I man, I'll talk to you later.

839
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: There he goes America's DH. JD. Martinez. Great to have

840
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: him on the show. And man, he certainly is the

841
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,839
Speaker 1: Mooki whisperer. He can connect with Mooki more than any

842
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: other teammate, and that's evident by Mooki tapping into JD.

843
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: Martinez not once but twice last year, once when the

844
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: team was in Tampa, Florida, and JD just told us

845
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: again in Los Angeles. So great to have JD on

846
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:44,959
Speaker 1: the show. He's going to be at the Desert Smash

847
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: Pickleball Celebrity tournament going on beginning Monday at the Lakita Resort.

848
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 1: So thank you to JD. Martinez for calling in the

849
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: dead Fish Handshake Alive via the phone and Dave Roberts

850
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 1: who took some time out for us earlier today as well.

851
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: Thanks to you for listening. It's been an action pack

852
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: Dodger Talk week. Four out of the five days we

853
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 1: have had a Dodger Talk. In case you missed any

854
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: of the shows, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.

855
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: And thank you to Ronnie Fossio for all his help

856
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: all week long. We do have Dodger Baseball for you

857
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: tomorrow Dodgers and Cubs split squad. We'll have the A

858
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: team at Camelback Ranch tomorrow. Our coverage begins at eleven

859
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: thirty with first pitch between the Dodgers and Cubs at

860
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: twelve oh five. That'll do it for us until then,

861
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,959
Speaker 1: have a great rest of your Friday. Be safe, see

862
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: you