Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey or Dodger Talking.
Speaker 1: We're wrapping things up in San Francisco, but our guys,
Speaker 1: snell Zilla, the King of San Jose for the Ontario
Speaker 1: Tower Buzzers, is back with the Dodgers after his first
Speaker 1: rehab start. Thanks a lot for the time. We got
Speaker 1: a big audience here. They want to see the magic
Speaker 1: between us.
Speaker 2: What is wrong with you, Adam?
Speaker 1: They're all staring awkwardly in the clubhouse at us.
Speaker 2: Oh you're well man, No, but it was good.
Speaker 3: It was good to pitch again and be on the
Speaker 3: mound and just feel what pitching's like again. It's been
Speaker 3: a minute, so to you able to do that again,
Speaker 3: just felt really good and I just can't wait to
Speaker 3: get get this going and get back.
Speaker 1: How did you treat last night? Is that just like
Speaker 1: your first starting in spring training? What were you trying
Speaker 1: to do?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was all just feel.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to feel, you know, how my arm feels,
Speaker 3: body feels, what I need to work on. It was
Speaker 3: tough because I was at the bottom of the mind.
Speaker 3: My foot was slipping, but overall felt healthy. Ball was
Speaker 3: coming out good, good arm speed, but definitely a lot
Speaker 3: of work that I still have to do. You know,
Speaker 3: the location of the pitchers need to get better, the
Speaker 3: movement needs to get better on the off speed. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I saw have a lot of work to do,
Speaker 3: which I'm excited about. But just being able to you know,
Speaker 3: pitching a game and really have toels and and then
Speaker 3: the more that I pitch in games, the more my
Speaker 3: arm gets conditioned, which I love, and and then I
Speaker 3: can really, you know, continue to get better.
Speaker 1: I know you demand a lot out of yourself. How
Speaker 1: patient do you have to be with this process?
Speaker 3: The first couple you can be pretty patient, and then
Speaker 3: the next ones, you know, you're you're getting ready to
Speaker 3: go to the big leagues and and pitching the show
Speaker 3: and the pitch meaningful games, and you know, you have
Speaker 3: a lot of things that you know that you want
Speaker 3: to achieve. So the first couple, you know, could be
Speaker 3: a little patient with but after that it's yeah, there's
Speaker 3: no excuses. It's time to lock in and go. But yeah,
Speaker 3: just a lot a lot to work on still, which
Speaker 3: I'm excited about. And yeah, I'll continue to clean it
Speaker 3: up and yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, players have told me in the past whenever they're
Speaker 1: coming back from an injury. They know that they're healthy
Speaker 1: and the team is putting them out there, but mentally
Speaker 1: is the biggest hurdle to just let it rip. Did
Speaker 1: you have to go through that again to just trust
Speaker 1: that your shoulder is going to cooperate?
Speaker 2: No, no, I never I never had that.
Speaker 3: I believe in like all the work I've been doing
Speaker 3: to be healthy, to be able to throw, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't question that when I'm out there.
Speaker 3: That's like the last thing I'm gonna do is question
Speaker 3: if I'm on the mount pinchion. There's no quese Like.
Speaker 3: I'm ready to go. So I feel great, the ball's
Speaker 3: coming out really good, and I'm just gonna continue to
Speaker 3: get a lot better at each of these next couple starts.
Speaker 1: Blake Snell is our guest aka snell Zilla. Those number
Speaker 1: thirty seven jerseys are selling out online right now. Ontario
Speaker 1: is trying to capitalize off your one rehab start.
Speaker 3: That's wild, but happy for him, man, Yeah, no, it was.
Speaker 3: We've got some good prospects down there too, so that
Speaker 3: was fun to see.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what did you what did you buy the
Speaker 1: guys after after the game last night?
Speaker 2: Red Robin no, no, I didn't buy him.
Speaker 3: I didn't buy him anything. I'm waiting until I go
Speaker 3: back to Ontario. There's better food, better selections. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll uh when they get back to Ontario, I have
Speaker 3: something food ready for him.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about tonight's game. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: on the analyst hat on you. Okay, today's game Tyler
Speaker 1: Glass now against Logan Webb, your guy, Logan web everybody's
Speaker 1: saying that the ABS has kind of throwing him off
Speaker 1: his game.
Speaker 2: Do you believe that?
Speaker 3: I mean no, I think that's he's so dumb, so dumb. No,
Speaker 3: I think it's the you know, it's it's the beginning
Speaker 3: of the season. You know, he's he's figuring himself out
Speaker 3: and who he is this year. I mean, he's been
Speaker 3: one of the best pitchers in the league last four years.
Speaker 3: He's the innings leader every year, which means your stuff's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't really matter about ABS.
Speaker 3: And East to West is the same it was, you know,
Speaker 3: I feel like it's just the top of the zones
Speaker 3: come down. I don't think East to West has changed much.
Speaker 3: And then you know, people can challenge and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: but people aren't gonna challenge that much because they're always intimidated.
Speaker 2: You only got two, so yeah, it's just different.
Speaker 3: But no, I think I think Logan is one of
Speaker 3: the best pitchers in the league. I just think it's
Speaker 3: you know, he's figuring himself out and he's when I
Speaker 3: was here in twenty four That's what I noticed with him.
Speaker 3: And then he takes off and he becomes, you know,
Speaker 3: the guy that everyone knows.
Speaker 2: Him as and that's who he is. So it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a tough one.
Speaker 3: I mean I've seen him pitch all up a full
Speaker 3: year and I was very impressed and the mindset and
Speaker 3: the way he handles his business and he's really good.
Speaker 3: But for us having glasses, I like our chances too.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's really coming into his own last couple
Speaker 3: of years, and it's been really fun to watch him,
Speaker 3: just the confidence and the stuff and the pitch sequencing
Speaker 3: that he's doing and how just invested he is into
Speaker 3: just being great and to be able to watch him,
Speaker 3: you know, pitch the last couple of years has been
Speaker 3: awesome just from you know, seeing him in my Tampa
Speaker 3: days till now.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's really evolved a lot.
Speaker 1: He's really using his curveball this year. Do you notice
Speaker 1: that he's using the curveball to play off the fastball more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then he has that sinker and the slider.
Speaker 3: I think has really helped him because now they're not
Speaker 3: fifty to fifty, they gotta you know, do more.
Speaker 1: What a player there, he goes Thomas Albert. Not as
Speaker 1: good as hair as snail Zilla, but he's in the house.
Speaker 2: But he is the best trainer. Hello.
Speaker 1: Hey, so so back to glass now. In spring training,
Speaker 1: he seemed to be a different guy. Have you noticed that,
Speaker 1: I mean, just seems to be a lot more comfortable
Speaker 1: on the mound.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean I think the postseason really helped him. You know,
Speaker 3: realize you know how good he is. So I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think he's only going to continue to get better
Speaker 3: and better. I think the prime of his career is
Speaker 3: starting right now. And I'm very excited to be honest,
Speaker 3: team and to continue to watch him just get better
Speaker 3: and better.
Speaker 1: All right, before I let you go, the world saw
Speaker 1: you at Coachella. Who did you go to see at Coachella?
Speaker 1: Why were you there? So Thomas, you want to hear
Speaker 1: this justin Bieber, I mean, who are you there?
Speaker 2: To see for sure Justin Bieber.
Speaker 3: So I left, I left, me and my wife want
Speaker 3: to go see Justin Bieber. So I went rehabs. Then
Speaker 3: we had a sprinter take us to Coachella. I have
Speaker 3: no idea where that's at. We went there, we were
Speaker 3: there for six hours, We saw a give you on
Speaker 3: Justin Bieber, and then we had that spinner van take
Speaker 3: us back.
Speaker 2: I was there for six hours.
Speaker 3: And then while I was in Denver with the team,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, oh yeah, because I would have been with
Speaker 3: the te Oh wait, I can't travel with the tea.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then and then from there, I then went
Speaker 2: to the field the next morning at nine am and
Speaker 2: I threw a bullpenny. So my work life balance is
Speaker 2: really good.
Speaker 1: Look, I'm not trying to question your life decisions here.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to hall monitor you here. I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to figure out why you would be at Coachella.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a believer for sure. Oh my god. Yeah,
Speaker 2: who doesn't like Justin Bieber? You don't like Justin Bieber.
Speaker 2: That's the problem. See, that's the problem here. You don't
Speaker 2: have good music taste.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll own that one, thanks a lot. I love
Speaker 1: your music taste. But the Justin Bieber stuff a little questionable.
Speaker 3: No, it's questionable because you haven't listened to it yet.
Speaker 3: We'll get you listening to it.
Speaker 2: We'll get some songs you like. He has five hundred songs.
Speaker 2: You're gonna like a couple. It will be good. Thanks, Daisies. Hey,
Speaker 2: you like that song. You like that song. That's why
Speaker 2: you said that.
Speaker 1: You like guilty pleasure, just like you. You're my guilty
Speaker 1: pleasure too.
Speaker 2: Don't do that.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for the time. Great to see you smiling.
Speaker 1: You're in such a great mood today. I knew I
Speaker 1: could approach you.
Speaker 2: What does that mean? You approach every day