Speaker 1: And an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: We're here with Andy pot has his big brother, biggest fan,
Speaker 1: ta Oscar Hernandez Tayo. You saw the results first voting
Speaker 1: and your guy, Andy Poe has leads all nationally go
Speaker 1: outfielders and votes. How proud are you that fans are
Speaker 1: recognizing his season?
Speaker 2: I mean, first, I'm not surprised because of the work
Speaker 2: that he's been doing, especially that we have a lot
Speaker 2: of players now performing the work the way that we
Speaker 2: wanted to be performed. Some of them, including myself, are
Speaker 2: in the IL. But he's been doing great so far.
Speaker 2: He's been leading the offense for us to be where
Speaker 2: we are right now, and so he deserves to be there.
Speaker 2: He deserves to be uh the number one center field
Speaker 2: for the all start and hopefully we can see him
Speaker 2: starting in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: He doesn't do a lot of talking. That's why I'm
Speaker 1: coming to you. You're his campaign manager, right, you got
Speaker 1: to get the votes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm gonna go into my social media and
Speaker 2: then trying to put some special for him so the
Speaker 2: people can see him and everything that he's been doing.
Speaker 2: Fun for the team.
Speaker 1: You both have put in so much work. But the
Speaker 1: difference between you guys and others is this has lasted
Speaker 1: not just weeks, but months. How has he been able
Speaker 1: to keep it going for as long as he has?
Speaker 2: You know, he's more mature. He understands everything that has
Speaker 2: to do with a season better. His handle the struggles
Speaker 2: way better than last year or the year before that.
Speaker 2: And he just realizing the slums are gonna come back,
Speaker 2: games are gonna come so he just needs to stay
Speaker 2: focused and the things that he needs to do, the
Speaker 2: things that he knows how to do, and just believing
Speaker 2: himself and go from.
Speaker 1: The taoscar Hernandez is one of the greatest people you'll
Speaker 1: ever meet. We know the story of pot has his family,
Speaker 1: how they don't get to watch him play. You've been
Speaker 1: such a great support system for him. Is how has
Speaker 1: he handled all that to be able to just focus
Speaker 1: on baseball.
Speaker 2: I mean, when you have a person, when you have
Speaker 2: good people around you, I think it makes everything easier.
Speaker 2: He has a wonderful wife. I think that's one of
Speaker 2: the reasons he's been good dealing with those stuff, family stuff.
Speaker 2: I know it's hard to be away from from family,
Speaker 2: but at the same time, he's looking for for for
Speaker 2: one of the biggest rings in his life, that he's
Speaker 2: become a superstar player. Uh, and he knows that. He
Speaker 2: knows that if he keeps going the way he's going
Speaker 2: right now, his family someday are gonna be good and
Speaker 2: they're gonna be together.
Speaker 1: So he plays it off that the All Star Game
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to him, But do you think it means
Speaker 1: a lot to him to make the team? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean every player is, you know, one of the
Speaker 2: dreams for for all the rookie guys is one day
Speaker 2: to be in the All Star He wants to be there.
Speaker 2: He just not really he don't likes to talk about it,
Speaker 2: but yeah, he he well, one of the things that
Speaker 2: he wants to to achieve is to be an All
Speaker 2: Star and be his stars in the field. But he's
Speaker 2: he's just more focused in the season than anything else.
Speaker 1: One last question about Tao. So you're out with a
Speaker 1: left hamstring, but you're moving around pretty good. Tayo, you
Speaker 1: got a pretty good sweat going on. I saw you
Speaker 1: moving pretty well out there. How you feeling feel really
Speaker 1: good right now?
Speaker 2: I've been running a lot lately, but thank god it
Speaker 2: The hamstring is is good, nothing to worry about it.
Speaker 2: Hopefully I can be back in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: You think I could beat you in a race right now, I.
Speaker 2: Don't think so. I feel really good right now. So
Speaker 2: but yeah, if you feel the hamstring and everything that
Speaker 2: is going on is responding really good. So hopefully for
Speaker 2: this week. This week is a big one for me
Speaker 2: to start all like the baseball tivty, the way you
Speaker 2: should do it in the game. So this is the
Speaker 2: week that we pushed to the max and see how
Speaker 2: it goes. If you need me, I'm available, Okay, I will.
Speaker 2: I will let you know. Thanks Tale, thank you, thank
Speaker 2: you all, sir,