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Speaker 1: This is off season Dodger Talk. Get in on the

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Speaker 1: Dodger Talk and now your host, David.

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Speaker 2: Basse, Welcome the Dodger Talk.

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Speaker 3: David Vasse with you until eight o'clock tonight here on

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Speaker 3: AM five to seventy LA Sports. We have a great

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Speaker 3: conversations with World Series heroes Miguel Rojas and Max Mounsey tonight.

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Speaker 3: Had a chance to catch up with both of them

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Speaker 3: at Dodger Fest, did not have a chance to share

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Speaker 3: it this past Saturday, thought we hold it back for

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Speaker 3: tonight's show, so you will hear from Max Monsey and

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Speaker 3: Miguel Rojas with us for the first time tonight. Max

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Speaker 3: Mounsey will join us in fifteen minutes. We'll share our

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Speaker 3: conversation with Miguel Rojas at the bottom of the hour,

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Speaker 3: and also we'll reshare some of the highlights of our

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Speaker 3: conversation with Freddie Freeman as well from Saturday's Dodger Fest.

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Speaker 3: And look, we always talk about what's the biggest need

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Speaker 3: for the Dodgers during an off season or what's their

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Speaker 3: biggest task during the off season. Well, they signed Edwin

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Speaker 3: some heartache last year. Well, Freddie Freeman has two more

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Speaker 3: to see the Dodgers just put away that question this

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Speaker 3: But I can understand from Andrew friedman standpoint, why don't

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Speaker 3: we just see how this year plays out. The CBA

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Speaker 3: But once the dust is settled, after a new CBA

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Speaker 3: has agreed upon, whenever that's going to be about, lock

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Speaker 3: give him a shot to get three thousand hits in

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Speaker 3: But since I got to experience going to a Laker

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Speaker 3: to be. I will help you. Just relax, enjoy, give

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Speaker 3: you some baseball news, share Munsey, share Rojas with you

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Speaker 3: on this beautiful Thursday in Los Angeles. And there is

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Speaker 3: some baseball news that I'm sure some of your friends

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Speaker 3: Pump the brakes. And what I'm talking about is Trek

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Speaker 3: get this arbitration win for schoolbl It's record setting in

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Speaker 3: more ways than one. David Price was the pitcher that

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Speaker 3: the Tigers nineteen point seventy five million dollars school Ball

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Speaker 3: one thirty two million dollars. The Tigers were offering nineteen

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Speaker 3: Tigers mishandling Schooble. Since he became a prominent pitcher in

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Speaker 3: While Schooble and Scott Boris and his people are saying,

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Speaker 3: He's sitting right there as the team representatives are tearing

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Speaker 3: But what this tells me is two things. Number One,

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Speaker 3: Trek Scuble is not going to be a Tiger in

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Speaker 3: get Trek Skuble the largest contract in Major League based history,

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Speaker 3: at least for a pitcher. He has all the intentions

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Speaker 3: not trading Trek Scuoble before opening Day. What this tells

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Speaker 3: For those of you and your friends at work and

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Speaker 3: They are trading Schoolble before opening Day. No, they're not, No,

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Speaker 3: because that gives Scott Boris even more leverage over that team,

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Speaker 3: so they are not trading Schooble before opening day. You

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Speaker 3: And oh, by the way, it's not an exact situation,

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Speaker 3: And I'm not saying Schooble won't be traded before the

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Speaker 3: I guess not. I guess that report wasn't accurate. So

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Speaker 3: He hit a huge home run in Game seven to

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Speaker 3: We're going to catch up with a guy that certainly

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Speaker 2: Max Munsey, thank you for joining us. Great to see you.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate Save it, Save it. You've been out here

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Speaker 3: You want to be twenty minutes late so everybody knows

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Speaker 2: That's false, that's fake, fake news. Dave.

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Speaker 3: I told Will Smith I've been his spokesperson all off

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Speaker 2: That you're a home run.

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Speaker 3: Without it, there is no Miguel Rojas game tying home

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Speaker 2: You know, they understood what was at stake.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't about them, it was about the team, and

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Speaker 2: Made it's so special.

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Speaker 2: You've been really in tune with this city.

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Speaker 3: The city loves you since you showed up and brist

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Speaker 3: Do you realize how much this one meant to the city.

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Speaker 4: You know, the thing you hear the most is not congratulations,

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Speaker 3: Is it surreal for Max Mounsey to look around the

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, the faces haven't changed that much. There's

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Speaker 3: Feels good at number thirteen and Max Monthsey are going

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Speaker 2: Should I ease.

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Speaker 4: You know how Dave might I might give you time

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Speaker 4: You know, when it comes to you, you just you

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Speaker 2: We'll see.

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Speaker 3: I do have a lot of feel. That's the one

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Speaker 2: All right, Monsey, thank you for stopping by. I love you.

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Speaker 2: There he goes Max Monsey.

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Speaker 3: I think people think he hates me, but it's a

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Speaker 3: Great to catch up with Max Mounsey. So many of

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Speaker 3: Great thing that we have going here. It's a sarcastic,

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Speaker 3: that's coming up next. Well, it's not there yet because

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Speaker 3: nobody has heard it. Miguel Rojas is going to join

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Speaker 3: us next right here on five to seventy LA Sports

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Speaker 3: the end of October with multiple champagne showers from Max Munsey,

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Speaker 3: who hit a huge solo home run in Game seven

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Speaker 3: of last year's World Series. And Monsey, like we mentioned,

437
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Speaker 3: is the all time home run leader in Dodger franchise

438
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Speaker 3: history in the postseason Monthsey has hit thirteen postseason home

439
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Speaker 3: runs going back to twenty eighteen. What's that a product of? Yes,

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Speaker 3: of course he's had a lot of opportunities being in

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Speaker 3: the World Series and being in the World Series and

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Speaker 3: riding through October four different times, and also an extra

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Speaker 3: round of playoffs. But nonetheless, he's still got to hit

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Speaker 3: those home runs. And he has thirteen postseason home runs

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Speaker 3: in his Dodger career major league career, and that is

446
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Speaker 3: the most in Dodger playoff history. Speaking of Dodger history,

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00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:11,360
Speaker 3: Miguel Rojas will forever live in Dodger and baseball history

448
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 3: for his improbable home run with the Dodgers down to

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Speaker 3: their final two outs in Game seven of last year's

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Speaker 3: World Series. Rojas hasn't been embracing the celebration ever, since

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers clinched the World Series in Toronto, the celebration

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Speaker 3: continued at Dodger Fest on Saturday. Here is the Great Miguel.

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Speaker 3: Here is World Series hero Miguel Rojas. It's hard for

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Speaker 3: me to get time with you, Miguel. Everybody wants a

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Speaker 3: piece of you.

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Speaker 5: It's being overwhelming, but in a good way.

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Speaker 6: You know, when you prepare for moments like that, and

458
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 6: you what your your entire career and your entire life

459
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Speaker 6: to get to get to the highest point that you're saying,

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Speaker 6: you never think about realizing that moment twenty years after

461
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,439
Speaker 6: you start your professional career. But that's what happened to

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Speaker 6: me in Game seven. But obviously there's no Game seven

463
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Speaker 6: without Game six. And that's why I'm so proud the

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Speaker 6: way that I play Game six, because I got in

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Speaker 6: there because of my defense. I got in there because

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Speaker 6: of my energy and the things that I can bring

467
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Speaker 6: to the thing other than the hitting a home run.

468
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Speaker 6: And it's crazy to believe that now everybody's going to

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Speaker 6: remember me for hitting a home run in the game.

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Speaker 5: Sevens all wards ears for me not being a home

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Speaker 5: run hitting my whole career.

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Speaker 6: But I mean things happen for a reason, and I'm

473
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Speaker 6: not gonna walk away from it happened to me because

474
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Speaker 6: I prepare and I got ready for the opportunity. And

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Speaker 6: I'm glad the Dodgers got the chance to win the

476
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Speaker 6: Wards Eries again.

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Speaker 3: Everywhere you go around Los Angeles, kids of all ages

478
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Speaker 3: are wearing Dodger jerseys the championship hats. How does it

479
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 3: feel to be a role model for all these kids

480
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 3: by example to never give up on yourself and never

481
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Speaker 3: not be ready for the opportunity whenever it comes.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's really cool to uh, to be able

483
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 6: through the experience that you get in life and in

484
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 6: this sport, you can teach a lesson to a lot

485
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 6: of people, not just the kids, but the partners as well.

486
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 6: You know, not everybody is going to be shown and

487
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 6: not everybody's going to be a Hall of fame like

488
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Speaker 6: Freddie Freeman and Mookie Bets.

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Speaker 5: But teams are are our build.

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Speaker 6: To kind of have a lot of different characters.

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Speaker 5: On that team.

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Speaker 6: And I feel like if you're willing to work every

493
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Speaker 6: single day and sacrifice a lot of things, uh to

494
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Speaker 6: do what you want to do, UH, You're going to

495
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 6: have good results. So I feel like a lot of

496
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 6: people can actually look theirselves in the mirror and say,

497
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Speaker 6: I got an opportunity to be a Miguel ROAs in

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Speaker 6: whatever I do, come in uh when the people needs me,

499
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 6: and when the opportunity is given to me, and and

500
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 6: don't make sure you're ready, and make sure you are

501
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 6: you're taking everything into consideration to be ready for that chance.

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Speaker 3: All your teammates have always told me, nobody has hands

503
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 3: like Miguel Ohas. But in game six when you took

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00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 3: the short hot from Kiy k Hernandez, that looked more

505
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 3: difficult than it appeared, and you made it look And

506
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 3: then the play that you made with the infield in

507
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 3: to be able game of inches to throw a strike

508
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 3: to Will Smith, what was the more challenging play to

509
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 3: be able to pull off?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely Game seven play because it is a do

511
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 6: or that plays a backsack and said, well, you know

512
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 6: you're playing in field in right there wishing for something

513
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 6: that they hit right at you, and he wasn't definitely

514
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 6: was hitting a right at me.

515
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 5: Was a couple of steps to my right. You know

516
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 5: I have to go there.

517
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 6: I have to get on my knees, glove the ball,

518
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 6: get back on my feet and make a good throw

519
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 6: to home play.

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Speaker 5: I think if I don't make that play, it.

521
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 6: Doesn't matter what what else you know, like, what else

522
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 6: you can do to help the team until that point,

523
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 6: it's all. It's all kind of like battling through all

524
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 6: the indies that we have to play during that series.

525
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Speaker 6: There's no Joshi, no Yamamoto MVP. I mean a lot

526
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Speaker 6: of people will remember him and still for what he did.

527
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 6: But I mean, if I don't make the play, he's

528
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 6: getting over and and we're not celebrating, and we're not

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Speaker 6: back to.

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Speaker 3: Back champions If you don't make those plays, if you

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00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 3: don't hit that home run, the Dodgers would be going

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Speaker 3: home all right, back to back champions now, Miguel, how

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Speaker 3: do you guys stay hungry for that three.

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Speaker 6: P Yeah, for for this moments like this, seeing the fans,

535
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 6: the excitement around this building like always, you know, uh,

536
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 6: these people know how to pack this place every single

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00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 6: night for six three.

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Speaker 5: Months, you know.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 5: And then when you have.

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Speaker 6: The key of the chain on top, makeing move to

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00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 6: make your team better and compete again for for another

543
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 6: championship and not being okay.

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Speaker 5: Just because we won the last two Uh.

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Speaker 6: I think that's that give you the motivation to go

546
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 6: to the sprint training, to fight for the spot and

547
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 6: to fight for for something that is bigger than Jose yourself.

548
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 6: Is a is for the whole city, for the whole community,

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00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 6: and for the organization. We deserve the opportunity to go

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00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 6: back together to the sprint training, plus a couple of

551
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Speaker 6: guys that wants to be here and wants to.

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Speaker 5: Be part of this.

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Speaker 6: Uh, and I think we're gonna have a chance to

554
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 6: have a real chat to threepeat something that not everybody

555
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 6: can say that got the.

556
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Speaker 3: Opportunity to the run it back for that three peat.

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Speaker 3: Miguel Rojas is such a big part of this Dodger team,

558
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Speaker 3: not only last year, but the last three years. All Right, Miguel,

559
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 3: I had to explain some backstory. Miguel Rojas is our guest.

560
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 3: Because I was asked about Team Venezuela and you not

561
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 3: being able to get the insurance to play in this

562
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 3: year's World Baseball Classic. I was asked this past week

563
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 3: and I had to give some context. I'm not sure

564
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 3: all these reporters that were asking you about that remember

565
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 3: the fact that you sacrificed not playing for Team Venezuela

566
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Speaker 3: and the World Baseball Classic because of your responsibility to

567
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Speaker 3: be able to stay with the Dodgers, because of just

568
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 3: how your body was feeling and the opportunity. Does that

569
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 3: make it even more frustrating that you have this opportunity

570
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 3: and for some reason they won't allow you to play.

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00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, the hole situation is frustrating to me.

572
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 6: And going back to twenty twenty three, I was in

573
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Speaker 6: a totally different position.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 6: I was kind of on the prime of my career,

576
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Speaker 6: and even though I got to the Dodgers, I wasn't

577
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 6: supposed to be the every day short stub until something

578
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 6: happened to Gavin Locks and they decided to kind of

579
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 6: like gave me the opportunity to play every day. And

580
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 6: I feel like playing every day in the big leagues

581
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 6: requires a really little a little stream preparation when it

582
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 6: comes to at bats in spring training and getting ready

583
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Speaker 6: for that. At that moment, my opportunity to represent Venezuela

584
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 6: wasn't gonna be to play every day as sure.

585
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 5: My at bats and my.

586
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 6: Opportunity were going to be limited if I go to

587
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 6: the WBC. And that's why I make the decision that

588
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 6: I needed to get at bats because I was coming

589
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 6: out of the surgery from my wrist and I needed

590
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 6: to get the bats. I needed to get my timing

591
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 6: down for a full season, and I ended up playing

592
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 6: one hundred and fifty close games for the.

593
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Speaker 5: Dollars that year and we went to a playoff.

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Speaker 6: We won one hundred games, and I think I made

595
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 6: the right decision at the moment.

596
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 5: Definitely was a really tough one because you always.

597
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 6: Want to represent your country and that's gonna be kind

598
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 6: of like in the top of the priorities for the player.

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Speaker 5: But at the end of the.

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Speaker 6: Day, I thought I got another opportunity in twenty twenty

601
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Speaker 6: six to represent my country, and it's a it's such

602
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 6: a bomber that I'm not gonna be able to do

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Speaker 6: it just because I'm I'm thirty seven years old and

604
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 6: you're thirty seven. I guess, I guess thirty seven years

605
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 6: old and I'm still playing for the best team.

606
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 2: And you never went to AL you never went.

607
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 6: On the IL, and that's we need a little bit

608
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 6: more of clarification on the on the teams that are

609
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 6: going on, you know. But I'm really sad, not just

610
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,959
Speaker 6: because of me, but I'm saying the news.

611
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 5: Of other players like the hotel too.

612
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 6: For our country, a guy that has always been there,

613
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 6: always being representing our country is being one of our

614
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 6: best representative no matter what, if it's a WBC, the

615
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 6: Big Leagues and the World Series and MBPS and all that.

616
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 6: I think everybody who wants to represent the country should

617
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 6: have the opportunity to do it, especially if you know

618
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 6: you're healthy and you can contribute to w the whole

619
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Speaker 6: thing without a doubt, without a doubt, the World Baseball

620
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 6: Classic has a lot of holes to.

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Speaker 3: Be able to be taken as seriously as they want

622
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Speaker 3: to be taken. So I'm gonna be happy to see

623
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Speaker 3: you in spring training because your energy, your leadership, you

624
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 3: need that and there's not gonna be Key k Hernandez

625
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 3: at the beginning. So you know, you guys, You guys

626
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 3: made things go for a lot of guys last year.

627
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 3: So the Dodgers need you. This is not just a

628
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 3: victory lap, right, Miguel Rojas means business.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, We're gonna show up to the sprint training

630
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 6: this year with the same attitude, in the same hunger.

631
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 6: You know, definitely we're gonna enjoy that. Sprint training is

632
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 6: gonna be a regular one this year. We're gonna We're

633
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 6: gonna be there for six weeks and we wanna work

634
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 6: on everything that we need to work on to be

635
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 6: ready for sprint for opening Day. Definitely, you mentioned a

636
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 6: name that is really really valuable for us. Kick Ernandez

637
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 6: is part of this and hopefully he can be part

638
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 6: of a group that wants to compete for three times

639
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 6: in a row World City Champions and I know he

640
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 6: will be a great addition to this team and everybody

641
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 6: in this club out one Kick to be back. So

642
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 6: first he needs to take it of business and and

643
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 6: get back to one hundred percent healthy. I know his

644
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,280
Speaker 6: arm and his work kid is going to take him there.

645
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 5: But I'm really I'm really hopeful.

646
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 3: That Kick is going to be back with us, no doubt.

647
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 3: Miguel Rojas world serious hero. Thank you brother, a champion

648
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 3: to the people Los Angeles loved him but now forever

649
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 3: his new home will always be Los Angeles.

650
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 2: Thank you for the time, and of course you know

651
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 2: you always have a place in our hearts. Even before

652
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 2: that home run.

653
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 5: Of course, come on, it's been a twelve year relationship,

654
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 5: yes right.

655
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 6: Here, ever since twenty fourteen, Oh yeah, I know him.

656
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 3: When I did give Rojas a hug, not as awkward

657
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 3: as Tim Conway Junior. And it was a little bit

658
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 3: more organic. It wasn't as scripted as it was here

659
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 3: at the iHeart Studios with Petros and Money and Conway.

660
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,439
Speaker 3: This was an organic setting. Roejaus came over on his own.

661
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 3: And if you hear my interview with Freddie Freeman, which

662
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 3: is coming up in just a moment, you'll hear Rojas

663
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 3: chime in that I took the day off when he

664
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 3: was in studio here at the iHeart headquarters. I just

665
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,720
Speaker 3: I wanted to give him his space. That's all. Speaking

666
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 3: of Freddie Freeman. Love Freddie Freeman. He is a future

667
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer, and he is one of the smartest

668
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 3: baseball players out there, one of the best hitters in

669
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 3: baseball history, certainly of his generation. And here was Freddie

670
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 3: Freeman at Dodger Fest.

671
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 7: I'm not going to comment on you.

672
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 2: That's good to be back.

673
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 3: Yes, Does this feel for you like the real kickoff

674
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 3: that spring training is around the corner?

675
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,399
Speaker 7: Yeah, this definitely is when. I don't think I've been

676
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 7: back since the parade, so yeah, so it's nice to

677
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 7: come back. See the fans again. I mean we see

678
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 7: them every day. Believe me, they come up and to

679
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 7: say how appreciative they are of the last couple of years.

680
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 7: So yeah, I would say FanFest is the official kickoff

681
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 7: and then what we got one more week until all

682
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 7: the baseball team says now it's our turn or whatever.

683
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 7: The super Bowl they always give that same little quote out.

684
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 7: But I would say fan Fest for all the teams,

685
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 7: it's the real kickoff.

686
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 2: To get ready.

687
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 3: When you're around the streets of La Yeah, and people

688
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 3: come up to you, can you feel the effect that

689
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 3: you've had on their lives, their families?

690
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:41,240
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, definitely. I mean especially here like Miguel

691
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 7: and I did the luncheon about about forty five minutes ago,

692
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 7: and so many people have you know, they had someone

693
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 7: had a widow maker and that was made it through

694
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 7: the widow maker the heart attack and was able to

695
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 7: come through and then we brought and brought her joy

696
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 7: watching us play on the TV. Like, there's so many

697
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 7: stories that we get told here at FanFest that really

698
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 7: makes you feel what these fans and what we mean

699
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 7: to them and what they mean to us. I mean,

700
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 7: we were trying to tell them it's not lost on

701
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 7: us when we come in July eighteenth and on Tuesday

702
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 7: and there's fifty four thousand people here, and we understand

703
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 7: how awesome the fans are. And so when you get

704
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,720
Speaker 7: to hear the little stories of what Dodger Baseball means

705
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 7: to them, it's not just we're just not a team

706
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 7: to them. This is their livelihood. It's we're family to them.

707
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 7: And it really is special to be able to hear

708
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 7: all the stories from fans that we've been able to

709
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 7: create memories for them in the last couple of years.

710
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 3: I know you mean so much to the fan base

711
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 3: in Atlanta and Brais fans, but what you've done with

712
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 3: the Dodgers feels like you've cemented your legacy with this

713
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 3: franchise as well. That doesn't happen to too many players

714
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 3: where you can say you had an indelible mark on two.

715
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 7: Franchises, and you know, obviously these last you know, year

716
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 7: or two. If people are talking about most people won't

717
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 7: even remember my first twelve I said, I always respond

718
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 7: with I'm like that just means I'm doing my job

719
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,959
Speaker 7: really well. And I adored my twelve years with the Brads.

720
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 7: We won a championship, there. But these last four years,

721
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 7: being able to be playing in front of my family

722
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,840
Speaker 7: day in and day out, night after night, see my

723
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 7: dad in front.

724
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 2: Rows giving him a hug after your walk off, It's.

725
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 7: Been special really. Yeah. But to be able to like,

726
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 7: for you to even think that after four years, that

727
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 7: just makes me. I was like, I've done my job

728
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 7: the best of I possibly can, and we created some

729
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,720
Speaker 7: really cool things that are gonna last in people's minds forever.

730
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 7: And for you to say that kind of stuff and

731
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 7: people to think that kind of stuff, that just means

732
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:38,439
Speaker 7: I've done my job.

733
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I would say, I would say so. And

734
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,919
Speaker 3: you've been out there every day. We all know how

735
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 3: much you pride yourself, Yeah on starting as many of

736
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 3: the one hundred and sixty two as possible.

737
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 7: Yeah.

738
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 2: Have they started to talk to you about what they've

739
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 2: been saying.

740
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 7: Are you already know what I'm gonna say? Yeah, I'm

741
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 7: I'm going to be trying to play one hundred and

742
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 7: sixty two games.

743
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 3: So we should tell Dalton Rushing but that first space

744
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:01,280
Speaker 3: glove away.

745
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 7: All I can say to that is I will be

746
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,280
Speaker 7: prepared to play one hundred and six or two games.

747
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 7: I will I think, you know, I will be ready

748
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 7: to go. And then if they come in and tell

749
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 7: me that they want me to have a day off,

750
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:15,919
Speaker 7: then audible fight and in that moment. But my job,

751
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 7: in my mindset, how I get ready to play every

752
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 7: single game. And That's what I'm going to do. And

753
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 7: so that just means I gotta get three hits every game.

754
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 7: So that can't take me out a lot of talk

755
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 7: and Andrew, I'm not coming out.

756
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 2: That's right. I'm counting the doubles and they hit.

757
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 7: Okay, I like that.

758
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 2: I like that. Hey, last year, people have a quick memory.

759
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 6: We forget you took the day off yesterday and I

760
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 6: went through your I went through your place that you're

761
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 6: taking a day off.

762
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 2: I wanted I was gonna go there. I wanted to

763
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 2: give you some space. Thank you. Hey, that guy right.

764
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 7: There, we've been. We've done a lot of things together today. Yeah,

765
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 7: he's special.

766
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,879
Speaker 2: But you talk about the game rewarding you, it.

767
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 7: Really does honor you. That game has honored him. We

768
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 7: just got what he means to us. There's so many

769
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 7: traditions that he's arted. Winning series. We get together to

770
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 7: caselfie as a group after those series wins, we toasted

771
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 7: each other. We talk about how the player of the

772
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 7: game in the series, he created that. I think there's

773
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,800
Speaker 7: no bigger honor for us inside that clubhouse and the

774
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 7: roy Campanella War, and he's won it back to back

775
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 7: of years. It's voted on by the people in that clubhouse.

776
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 7: He comes in every day. The game honors you because

777
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 7: he didn't play at all in the NLC. Yes, he

778
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 7: didn't play the first few games of the World Series.

779
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 7: And then he gets his opportunity. It becomes a Dodger hero.

780
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 7: I meaneah, he really is a hero. And I think

781
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,399
Speaker 7: you guys heard it on backstage Dodgers when I said,

782
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,959
Speaker 7: oh my god, I still think about it all the time.

783
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 2: It is the great Dodger time.

784
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 7: This year is the greatest home run. It's so amazing.

785
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 7: And yeah, and he gets to play one more, he

786
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 7: gets to re sign, gets to end his career with

787
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,879
Speaker 7: the Dodgers, and then he's I know he's gonna wants

788
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 7: to coach with us, so he'll be here forever, we hope.

789
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 3: Freddy Freeman as well. You haven't don the worm anytime. Recently,

790
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 3: Andrew Freeman said he wants to put a stop to that.

791
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I'm going to be done with that.

792
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 2: I hadn't done it, and that was impressive, Freddy.

793
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 7: I appreciate that I hadn't done the worm.

794
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 2: Gosh, I didn't think you had it in you.

795
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,439
Speaker 7: It had been a long time, probably fourteen fifteen years,

796
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 7: and that I used to be able to, like right

797
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 7: now we're in the bullpen. I used to be able

798
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 7: to do it the whole length of this bull whoa.

799
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 7: As you saw on that video, I hit it like

800
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,399
Speaker 7: four times on the ground and then how to get

801
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 7: back up. That was kind of hurt a.

802
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 2: Little bit too much. Well, just the way you delivered it,

803
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 2: thank you, the way it's not just the worm, it's

804
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 2: the way you delivered the worst.

805
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 7: Shape that And uh, I was just minding my business

806
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 7: on the outside, watching everybody else have fun at Mookie's house,

807
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 7: and I was just enjoying it. And then you know,

808
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 7: when Keik starts hyping you up, it'd be the not

809
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 7: fun guy and not do something. So I was like,

810
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 7: you know what, I'll bring this out. Yeah, I'm glad

811
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 7: I was able to nail it in a lot of

812
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 7: people's eyes. You're like, you know, it's good. When my

813
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 7: wife told me goes. A lot of people thought that

814
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 7: was Ai.

815
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 2: That's a comple that.

816
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 7: I did that pretty well. I just not used to

817
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 7: the big man getting down on the ground. Yeah yeah,

818
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 7: twice even but Gavin forced me. You know you didn't

819
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 7: feel it was his wedding. Yeah, you know, I felt

820
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 7: like I was getting pushed to do something. I didn't

821
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 7: like that.

822
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,720
Speaker 3: But like a circus class, amuse us at our wedding exactly.

823
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 7: But like you just said, it was his wedding. Yeah, like,

824
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 7: oh fine, I'll do it for you.

825
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,879
Speaker 3: And can you can you tell us what the key

826
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 3: is to executing a good.

827
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 7: I really don't know. Like everyone goes, how did you learn?

828
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 7: I said, I don't. I've just been you were doing okay,

829
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 7: I was just there yesterday. Most people will see me

830
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 7: on the field, sitting in the same seat in the dugout. Serious,

831
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 7: but I have fun when I play. Most people don't

832
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 7: know I I can dance a little bit and move around.

833
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 7: So you got a little glimpse of it on the work.

834
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 2: All right, I love it.

835
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 7: I'm done. I'll be done with it though unless we

836
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 7: win again. I'll bring it three P, three P. I'll

837
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 7: bring it series win.

838
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 2: Amen, Amen, I'll try to nail it. I'll try to

839
00:42:57,920 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 2: make it do with me. Yeah, I'm going to learn

840
00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 2: how to do the worm.

841
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 7: Okay, but.

842
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 2: I like that we got him six to seven out

843
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 2: of rookie today.

844
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 5: Oh jeez.

845
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what you guys are doing here on fan

846
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 7: Fast and I was I'm one of the few people

847
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 7: that congratulate anybody that doesn't want to play in the.

848
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic. Oh so congratulations.

849
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 3: Oh by the way, before I let you go, Speaking

850
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:26,479
Speaker 3: of Canada, okay, talk about two viral things that blew

851
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,399
Speaker 3: up surrounding Freddie Freeman. Beside your walk off home run

852
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 3: in Game three, the worm, of course, and then that

853
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 3: commercial you did with the kids the children's hospital, Yeah, Ryan,

854
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 3: Ryan Reynolds.

855
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,320
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's first of kids in Toronto. And Ryan reached

856
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 7: out and wanted to, you know, we we do something

857
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 7: together to help raise funds. And when he reached out,

858
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 7: I was like, Okay, that sounds pretty fun and obviously

859
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,320
Speaker 7: hospitals and kids it means a lot to me, obviously

860
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 7: with what we've gone through as a family, So to

861
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 7: help raise money for a hospital in Toronto, I jumped

862
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 7: at it with him and it came out really good.

863
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 7: I'm usually not wanting to act or do anything like that,

864
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 7: but I had I had fun. Those kids were awesome.

865
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 2: It was great.

866
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 7: It turned out really really well, and I had fun

867
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 7: doing it. Got to meet some really cool kids from

868
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 7: the hospital that did it with me, and they got

869
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 7: to hear their stories and what they went through. And uh,

870
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Speaker 7: those kids are doing really well right now. So hopefully

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Speaker 7: we raise a lot of money for that hospital and

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Speaker 7: we can we can make sure some more kids can

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Speaker 7: get out of the hospital.

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Speaker 3: It resonated with everybody, the comedic timing and just what

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Speaker 3: it means.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you did your job.

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Speaker 7: Appreciate that. Thank you, and I hope the kids in

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Speaker 7: Toronto the hospital got a lot of money out of it,

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Speaker 7: and hopefully we can find some cures and get those

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Speaker 7: kids home where they deserve to be.

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Speaker 2: Freddie, I could talk to you the rest of the day,

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Speaker 2: you know, I would.

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Speaker 7: I know, we got to.

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Speaker 2: I admire everything you stand.

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Speaker 7: For two weeks from now, we'll see each other every day,

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Speaker 7: every day.

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Speaker 3: I won't bring any iPads. My guy, Freddie Freeman Glass

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Speaker 3: now is yawning. I mean like he's writing a three

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Speaker 3: point stance ready to tackle me.

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Speaker 7: I'm at the TV when I was doing TV Wow,

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Speaker 7: and I got sidetrack for how beautiful he was.

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Speaker 2: I know, can we take a photo on live radio?

893
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Speaker 2: And glassnow could come over. We could just pass the mic,

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Speaker 2: the hot mic. All right here, my guy.

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Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman. Always a great time with Freddie Freeman. You

896
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Speaker 3: never know when you might see me or Freddie Freeman

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Speaker 3: at Javier's. You never know. It could be in Pasadena,

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Speaker 3: it could be in Orange County. Javier's a staple for

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Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman and now David Vassa, so you never know,

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Speaker 3: you never know when you may see me. That Javier's

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Speaker 3: in Pasadena unbelievable. I would say that Hobbers in Pasadena

902
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Speaker 3: is the leader for me as far as how many

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Speaker 3: times I visited a particular restaurant, it was either Javier's

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Speaker 3: in Pasadena, Boulevard in Sherman Oaks, or Monty's in Woodland Hills.

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Speaker 3: I would say that was the three staples of David

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Speaker 3: Vasse this off season. And I still have time to

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Speaker 3: hit up shellbacks in Manhattan Beach one more time, one

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Speaker 3: more time for spring training. That'll do it for us

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Speaker 3: on Dodger Talk. I'm on my way to Crypto going

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Speaker 3: to try to catch the Lakers and six Ers second half.

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Speaker 3: Got free tickets, gotta go. My guy Hector hooked it up.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for listening. In case you missed any of

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Speaker 3: the show, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 3: Thanks to Ronnie Foscio, and thanks again for listening. We'll

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Speaker 3: be back with you next week for another off season

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Speaker 3: Dodger Talk week as we head to Arizona. Thanks again.

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio is next. See you