Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: We are in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: It is steamy, it is going to rain, but we're
Speaker 1: with Freddie Freeman in a nice, air conditioned Dodger clubhouse
Speaker 1: on a beautiful leather couch that was here when I
Speaker 1: first started with the team at twenty twelve.
Speaker 2: Freddie, thanks a lot for the hospitality.
Speaker 3: Though. It's good to be here. I like that. I
Speaker 3: think it's been here since I've been here too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've been here a little bit longer than I have, Freddie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been in this clubouse a lot and it
Speaker 3: hasn't changed.
Speaker 2: What's your record for cheese steaks? I got to ask
Speaker 2: you that right away.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I didn't actually start eating the cheese steaks
Speaker 4: until about three years in. Yeah, I had a different
Speaker 4: little diet I did, and I finally got on it.
Speaker 4: John a chicken and cheese and I put a one
Speaker 4: sauce on it. It's a little different than most guys,
Speaker 4: but I no, I'd probably like a one and a
Speaker 4: half because I don't like to play games full. I
Speaker 4: don't like the full feeling, blood feelings, so I don't
Speaker 4: really eat that much.
Speaker 2: Only closers usually rush.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I see that.
Speaker 4: I like to look at the stats every single time
Speaker 4: we come in town and see who's doing it. Someone
Speaker 4: has like ten and a half or something one day,
Speaker 4: which is nuts. So I don't think it can be
Speaker 4: a player playing doing that, but it's fun to see
Speaker 4: who can do the most.
Speaker 2: You faced a lot of pitchers in your career.
Speaker 1: You remember the Big Show Aaron Harang for a long time,
Speaker 1: he had the record.
Speaker 4: Here's a teammate of mine. Not surprising, Yeah, yeah, Aaron, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that is not surprising that you could eat a lot.
Speaker 4: I just actually just saw him in spring training here,
Speaker 4: so that's kind of funny. He's a great guy, a
Speaker 4: great teammate, So I'm not surprising that can eat a
Speaker 4: lot of stakes either.
Speaker 1: Freddie I saw during the All Star break you have
Speaker 1: a very regimented routine, your own you know, tailored routine.
Speaker 1: Twelve minutes before first pitch you swing for the last time.
Speaker 1: Where did that routine come from?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: You know, it just kind of evolved over time. As
Speaker 4: you get older, you get to hit a little later
Speaker 4: before the game, and just kind of how it all
Speaker 4: kind of planned out. I hit three times a day
Speaker 4: the last time is usually about twelve minutes for the game.
Speaker 4: I liked it. That's just kind of how it is.
Speaker 4: I'm very My whole day is usually planned out by
Speaker 4: the time I wake up, so things go hey wire.
Speaker 4: You can even ask my wife. I don't like things
Speaker 4: going haywire. So I try and stick to e routine
Speaker 4: every single day. Every day be the same, and it
Speaker 4: just kind of helps you stay in line.
Speaker 1: This is a very Kurshaw like start day routine, but
Speaker 1: it's every day for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, every day is the same. I try and treat
Speaker 4: every day the same, nothing different. It's worked for a
Speaker 4: long time, so I don't want to change it.
Speaker 1: So when you say twelve minutes, twelve minutes right on
Speaker 1: the dot, not twelve minutes and one second.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I.
Speaker 4: Leave my if we're at home per seven and ten game,
Speaker 4: I usually leave my locker at six fifty three to
Speaker 4: walk to the cage. Andy's usually hitting during that time,
Speaker 4: so we have a perfect kind of He finishes and
Speaker 4: I'll start hitting, usually about six fifty eight, so kind
Speaker 4: of how it goes. Obviously a different time different you know,
Speaker 4: different cities like tonight six forty, so things are a
Speaker 4: little different.
Speaker 3: When you hit first.
Speaker 4: There's always little things where you can you kind of
Speaker 4: have variables, but usually at home it's six fifty eight
Speaker 4: walking at my locker in six fifty three.
Speaker 1: You've been through your share of rain to lays too,
Speaker 1: So how does that affect the whole thing?
Speaker 4: More of like like, right after I get done talking
Speaker 4: to you, I'll go hit, we'll do a hitters meeting.
Speaker 4: I'll probably hit again, and then I'll kind of just
Speaker 4: wait out and see if there's any delays or anything
Speaker 4: like that, and I'll wait for the third time to
Speaker 4: be before the game. It's nothing really changes. I just
Speaker 4: kind of try and not let things get out of line.
Speaker 4: But I want to get my two times in before
Speaker 4: that third time before the game.
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman is our guest. I had a first pitch
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. We haven't talked since you played those three
Speaker 1: games at Yankee Stadium, first time going back there since
Speaker 1: winning the World Series in Game five? What was it
Speaker 1: like for you the first time you stepped out on
Speaker 1: the field.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, nothing nothing different. You were going to say that, Yeah,
Speaker 4: nothing really changed. Every game, every city trying and treat
Speaker 4: the same. It's no different. That was two years ago.
Speaker 4: If people were different teams, different people on the teams.
Speaker 3: Different environments.
Speaker 4: So if you're thinking about something that happened two years ago,
Speaker 4: it's probably not going to be the best bet. But
Speaker 4: everything was the same for me.
Speaker 1: Well, the fans there didn't forget there were a lot
Speaker 1: of booze for Freddy.
Speaker 4: That's okay. That means something could happened a couple of
Speaker 4: years ago for us.
Speaker 1: This year, as you guys get closer to the finish line,
Speaker 1: what do you believe is the biggest key to your
Speaker 1: success to not let down?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, obviously we've been playing really good baseball.
Speaker 4: We've had a lot of guys hurt throughout the course
Speaker 4: of the year. A lot of young guys have stepped
Speaker 4: up massive massive beings about Robuski, will Client stepped up
Speaker 4: to a huge thing. You have all these young position
Speaker 4: players getting chances, but you have a few guys starting
Speaker 4: to come back and they're itching to come back. That
Speaker 4: can give a real boost to the team to the
Speaker 4: last couple of months. You want to play good going
Speaker 4: into the playoffs. We all know how it works in
Speaker 4: the playoffs. You just got to be hot at the
Speaker 4: right time. So there's no let up.
Speaker 3: We know what we have.
Speaker 4: What the task at hand is, you got to play
Speaker 4: good going into October, and that's what we're focused on.
Speaker 1: You know about the difference between being experienced and knowing
Speaker 1: how to win. How much of this group knowing how
Speaker 1: to win will lend itself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it's big.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's so many different scenario situations that've come up.
Speaker 3: Throughout the course of the year.
Speaker 4: It's I think this whole clubhouse has seen every single situation,
Speaker 4: been through, every single situation, have failed at the times
Speaker 4: that succeeded, So you know how to handle all those
Speaker 4: variables that come so you know, nothing gets too big.
Speaker 4: And we're two and five of our last game in
Speaker 4: last seven games and you walk in here and you
Speaker 4: won't even know it. So we got a lot of
Speaker 4: guys that have been through it know how to do it.
Speaker 4: Don't let things get out of control. We just stay
Speaker 4: on the right path through our same things and we
Speaker 4: know we're good. So things are gonna to me turn
Speaker 4: our way.
Speaker 2: All right, Freddie? Before I back out of here.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, another one of those great Freddie viral moments, you
Speaker 1: and JT. Realmodle awkwardly looking down at the baseball and
Speaker 1: awkwardly almost knocking heads to grab it.
Speaker 2: What how did that all transpire? What was said between
Speaker 2: each other?
Speaker 4: Now than JT and I have a really good relationship.
Speaker 4: We've been been friends for a long time, obviously, played
Speaker 4: against each other for a long time and being in
Speaker 4: the NLS for a long time. So that one went
Speaker 4: to the ball just went straight down, and it was
Speaker 4: more of the It was more of just looking at
Speaker 4: each other and just kind of laughing that I was
Speaker 4: hit a ball straight down and didn't go anywhere, and
Speaker 4: then we just kind of looked at each other.
Speaker 3: I was gonna pick it up.
Speaker 4: Then he picked it up, and just you know, a
Speaker 4: fun moment throughout the course of the seasons. That always
Speaker 4: seems to happen for me for some reason. That's happens
Speaker 4: when you singing to change up that almost hits you.
Speaker 4: But I know it was fun, and baseball must be fun,
Speaker 4: trying to have fun during the moment, and some things
Speaker 4: like that happen sometimes.
Speaker 1: Well, thanks again for the time, really appreciate it. You
Speaker 1: know how much we left talking to you. But I
Speaker 1: guarantee you this. We will not speak before a game
Speaker 1: until the end of the regular season.
Speaker 2: How about that deal?
Speaker 3: You we're not going to talk again.
Speaker 1: I don't feel I feel like, you know, I feel
Speaker 1: like we've had our are run during the regular season.
Speaker 2: I need to let you breathe.
Speaker 4: Freddy, Okay, that sounds good. Well, if you need anybody,
Speaker 4: I'll be here if you need help.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, I'll take one mulligan.
Speaker 3: How about that one mulligan. I'll give it to you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, appreciate it.