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.
Speaker 2: Basse, Welcome the Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: David Vasse with you until eight o'clock tonight here on
Speaker 3: AM five to seventy LA Sports. We have a great
Speaker 3: show for you tonight. We are going to share our
Speaker 3: conversations with World Series heroes Miguel Rojas and Max Mounsey tonight.
Speaker 3: Had a chance to catch up with both of them
Speaker 3: at Dodger Fest, did not have a chance to share
Speaker 3: it this past Saturday, thought we hold it back for
Speaker 3: tonight's show, so you will hear from Max Monsey and
Speaker 3: Miguel Rojas with us for the first time tonight. Max
Speaker 3: Mounsey will join us in fifteen minutes. We'll share our
Speaker 3: conversation with Miguel Rojas at the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 3: and also we'll reshare some of the highlights of our
Speaker 3: conversation with Freddie Freeman as well from Saturday's Dodger Fest.
Speaker 3: And look, we always talk about what's the biggest need
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers during an off season or what's their
Speaker 3: biggest task during the off season. Well, they signed Edwin
Speaker 3: Diaz and Kyle Tucker to shore up two of the
Speaker 3: spots that really were not as productive and gave them
Speaker 3: some heartache last year. Well, Freddie Freeman has two more
Speaker 3: years left on his contract. I would love to see
Speaker 3: him finish his career with the Dodgers. I would love
Speaker 3: to see the Dodgers just put away that question this
Speaker 3: off season and extend Freddy sometime between now and opening Day.
Speaker 3: But I can understand from Andrew friedman standpoint, why don't
Speaker 3: we just see how this year plays out. The CBA
Speaker 3: is expiring at the end of the year and circle back.
Speaker 3: But once the dust is settled, after a new CBA
Speaker 3: has agreed upon, whenever that's going to be about, lock
Speaker 3: up Freddie Freeman and make him that legacy player and
Speaker 3: give him a shot to get three thousand hits in
Speaker 3: a Dodger uniform. But I can understand the Dodgers' hesitation
Speaker 3: with so much uncertainty with the CBA coming up at
Speaker 3: the end of this upcoming season. So I would love
Speaker 3: to see it happen. But I can understand if they
Speaker 3: didn't do it this op season. It would be great
Speaker 3: if they were able to do it next op season
Speaker 3: and not just have him as a lame duck player
Speaker 3: going into his final year of his contract in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty seven. Eight six six nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 3: seventy is the phone number. Like I mentioned, I'm with
Speaker 3: you until eight o'clock. I'm hoping to make it to
Speaker 3: the Laker game by halftime. Wish me luck for that.
Speaker 3: But since I got to experience going to a Laker
Speaker 3: game from my home in the San Fernando Valley for
Speaker 3: the first time this year, I had no idea. It
Speaker 3: takes two hours to get to Crypto downtown from the
Speaker 3: San Fernando Valley, So this is the place you want
Speaker 3: to be. I will help you. Just relax, enjoy, give
Speaker 3: you some baseball news, share Munsey, share Rojas with you
Speaker 3: until you get there. So thank you for joining us
Speaker 3: on this beautiful Thursday in Los Angeles. And there is
Speaker 3: some baseball news that I'm sure some of your friends
Speaker 3: are saying. Well, that means he's coming to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Pump the brakes. And what I'm talking about is Trek
Speaker 3: Scooball winning his arbitration case earlier today. Scott boris the
Speaker 3: goat of goats as far as sports agents go to
Speaker 3: get this arbitration win for schoolbl It's record setting in
Speaker 3: more ways than one. David Price was the pitcher that
Speaker 3: won the largest arbitration case back in twenty fifteen against
Speaker 3: the Tigers nineteen point seventy five million dollars school Ball
Speaker 3: one thirty two million dollars. The Tigers were offering nineteen
Speaker 3: million dollars. And in case you don't know, how it
Speaker 3: goes in an arbitration hearing, and this is the reason
Speaker 3: why so many teams avoid going into an arbitration hearing
Speaker 3: with their player, a player, especially the caliber of Tarrek Scouble.
Speaker 3: The way it works is the team's job to win,
Speaker 3: and there's no middle ground. The middle ground is to
Speaker 3: be had before you walk into that arbitration hearing. So
Speaker 3: now the arbiter has to choose either the player's number,
Speaker 3: which was thirty two million dollars in this case for
Speaker 3: Trek's Scouoble, or the arbiter chooses the number that the
Speaker 3: team submitted and the team the Tigers submitted nineteen million
Speaker 3: dollars as the number. So it can't be the arbiter saying,
Speaker 3: oh well, okay, let's meet somewhere in the middle. No,
Speaker 3: they have to choose either the player's number or the
Speaker 3: team's number, and they chose to Eric Scouble and Scott
Speaker 3: Boris's number of thirty two million dollars instead of the
Speaker 3: Tigers lowball number of nineteen million dollars, which wouldn't have
Speaker 3: even set a new record because David Price, like I
Speaker 3: mentioned in twenty fifteen, was awarded nineteen point seventy five
Speaker 3: million dollars. And this is a long line of the
Speaker 3: Tigers mishandling Schooble. Since he became a prominent pitcher in
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball, they have low balled him extension offers.
Speaker 3: And then this is the most egregious. So, like I mentioned,
Speaker 3: I'll explain this really quickly how it happens in arbitration.
Speaker 3: The team's job is to say what Trek Schouble hasn't
Speaker 3: done well so that they can win the arbitration hearing.
Speaker 3: While Schooble and Scott Boris and his people are saying,
Speaker 3: I've done this, I've won two cy Youngs on this
Speaker 3: that this while the team is trying to tear him
Speaker 3: down and poke holes in his game. And the player
Speaker 3: is sitting right there. It's not like he's not there.
Speaker 3: He's sitting right there as the team representatives are tearing
Speaker 3: him down. So Trek scuball heard the Tigers basically poke
Speaker 3: holes in his game. How do you think that made
Speaker 3: Trek Scuble feel. I'm sure he's well aware of what
Speaker 3: it's going to be like. I am a one hundred
Speaker 3: percent confident Scott Boris prepared him for what was to come.
Speaker 3: But what this tells me is two things. Number One,
Speaker 3: Trek Scuble is not going to be a Tiger in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty seven. He's a free agent at the end
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty six. What this also tells me, because
Speaker 3: Scott Boris wanted to set a precedent, he wanted to
Speaker 3: get the highest arbitration win in the history of baseball
Speaker 3: arbitration to set the tone that he is going to
Speaker 3: get Trek Skuble the largest contract in Major League based history,
Speaker 3: at least for a pitcher. He has all the intentions
Speaker 3: in the world to top Garritt Cole, to top Yamamotos
Speaker 3: contract with the Dodgers. Trust me, That's what these two
Speaker 3: things tell me about the outcome today. What it doesn't
Speaker 3: tell me is that the Tigers are going to trade
Speaker 3: Trek Scuble. Now, in case you missed it, they signed
Speaker 3: from Ber Valdez to a three year contract one hundred
Speaker 3: million dollars. So going into twenty six, the Tigers are
Speaker 3: in a very winnable division. They almost won it last
Speaker 3: year if not for their collapse, but they did make
Speaker 3: the postseason. What this tells me is the Tigers are
Speaker 3: not trading Trek Scuoble before opening Day. What this tells
Speaker 3: me is Trerek Scouble is not going to be a
Speaker 3: Tiger after this season. And what this tells me as
Speaker 3: well is that Scott Boris is going to set a
Speaker 3: new record setting contract with Trek Scouble this upcoming off season.
Speaker 3: For those of you and your friends at work and
Speaker 3: on your group text that are telling you all this
Speaker 3: means the Tigers are trading him. They signed Valdez, they
Speaker 3: lost the arbitration hearing, they poke holes, they tore him down.
Speaker 3: They are trading Schoolble before opening Day. No, they're not, No,
Speaker 3: they're not. They are not trading him. I spoke to
Speaker 3: somebody in Schooble's camp that laid out perfectly why the
Speaker 3: Tigers would be ridiculous to trade Schooble. They would be
Speaker 3: waving the white flag on their fan base, and b
Speaker 3: the team that trades for school ball, let's say, before
Speaker 3: opening day, has to unload the farm, and that puts
Speaker 3: them at a disadvantage when Schoobol goes to free agency,
Speaker 3: because that gives Scott Boris even more leverage over that team,
Speaker 3: so they are not trading Schooble before opening day. You
Speaker 3: can make I am very confident in saying that what
Speaker 3: it tells me is everything that I just laid out.
Speaker 3: And oh, by the way, it's not an exact situation,
Speaker 3: but a very similar situation. Corbyn Burns back in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three, going into the twenty three season, who oh,
Speaker 3: by the way, is also represented by Scott Borris, lost
Speaker 3: his arbitration case to the Brewers that year over just
Speaker 3: seven hundred and forty thousand dollars. That was the difference,
Speaker 3: and the Brewers did go through with the arbitration hearing,
Speaker 3: tore down Corbyn Burns in that arbitration hearing and eventually
Speaker 3: traded him. But Burns made two million dollars that year,
Speaker 3: was making ten point seven five million dollars right there.
Speaker 3: It's not parallel, but it's similar, right, It's close, and
Speaker 3: Corbyn burn it's got a big contract from the Diamondbacks
Speaker 3: last off season that nobody believed he would get. Now, now,
Speaker 3: the Brewers did trade Burns eventually, but not before opening Day.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying Schooble won't be traded before the
Speaker 3: trade deadline if the Tigers are out of it. I'm
Speaker 3: not saying that, but I'm saying he is not going
Speaker 3: to be traded before opening Day. And I know there
Speaker 3: was a lot of uh, you know, rumors on social
Speaker 3: media that it was so close. All that needs to
Speaker 3: be checked is with the Tigers owner. Let's check that box.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: I guess not. I guess that report wasn't accurate. So
Speaker 3: that's where it stands. With Trek's Schooble. I would love
Speaker 3: to see him in a Dodger uniform. Who wouldn't love
Speaker 3: to see Trek Scuoble in their home team's uniform and
Speaker 3: the medicine. Dodgers have the prospects and the wherewithal to
Speaker 3: pull off a trade for schoobl if the Tigers were
Speaker 3: to trade him. If Scooble were to be traded, it
Speaker 3: would be the Mets or Dodgers. They have the prospects
Speaker 3: to be able to give the Tigers major league ready
Speaker 3: talent and pitching, but I just don't see it happening
Speaker 3: before opening day. And if the Tigers are in it
Speaker 3: in a very weak al Central, that's why they're not
Speaker 3: going to trade them. And going into the season, They're
Speaker 3: going to try to win this with pitching because their
Speaker 3: offense is not that great. They got Scooball, they got
Speaker 3: from ber Valdez, who's one of the best big game pitchers.
Speaker 3: They got Jack Flaherty, and they got Kenley Jansen closing games.
Speaker 3: So that's their formula. And I don't see them trading Schooble.
Speaker 3: But obviously, if I was the Tigers front office, I
Speaker 3: just keep my distance in spring training. Let aj Hinch
Speaker 3: handle Schooble. If there's any message to be sent, let
Speaker 3: aj Hinch handle it. I think that would be wise
Speaker 3: after going through in our tration case with Trek Scooble.
Speaker 3: All right, that's the situation on schoolbl When we continue
Speaker 3: on Dodger Talk, we're going to catch up with Max Munsey.
Speaker 3: He hit a huge home run in Game seven to
Speaker 3: set up the heroics for Miguel Rojas and Will Smith.
Speaker 3: And speaking of Miguel Rojas, if he did not hear
Speaker 3: enough of Miguel Rojas. I remember Miguel Rojas when he
Speaker 3: first showed up in spring training back in twenty twelve.
Speaker 3: We're going to catch up with a guy that certainly
Speaker 3: is far removed from being an unknown. He is forever
Speaker 3: going to be remembered in Dodger history for his improbable
Speaker 3: Game seven, game tying home run in Toronto. More Dodger
Speaker 3: Talk until eight o'clock right here on a five to
Speaker 3: seventy LA Sports. We are getting super close to the
Speaker 3: beginning of spring training. Pitchers and Catchers report a week
Speaker 3: from tomorrow at Camelback Ranch. Already some of the guys
Speaker 3: have showed up the first one show. Hey Otani, who's
Speaker 3: out there at camel Back Ranch already working? And I
Speaker 3: was on speaking of Otani. I'll get to the other
Speaker 3: pertinent dates here. But Pitchers and Catchers report a week
Speaker 3: from tomorrow. I was on Access Sportsnet Dodgers last night
Speaker 3: with John hartung and Jerry Harriston Junior and Herttungue threw
Speaker 3: at us the odds of for the best Dodger pitchers
Speaker 3: to win the Cy Young and Otani is forty to
Speaker 3: one on some of these gambling sites to win the
Speaker 3: cy Young this year in the National League, you know
Speaker 3: there's a case to be made, and no doubt Yamamoto
Speaker 3: is the Dodgers ace. But the odds were not that good.
Speaker 3: If I've got one hundred dollars and Otani is forty
Speaker 3: to one to win the Cy Young, those are damn
Speaker 3: good odds for the darling of Major League Baseball. The
Speaker 3: voters seem to love to vote for this guy, four
Speaker 3: time MVP, and right fully so. But you're telling me
Speaker 3: if Otani makes twenty to twenty five starts this year
Speaker 3: and has an ERA of two and a half at
Speaker 3: the most, that some voters are not going to vote
Speaker 3: for Otani because of the two way factor in all this,
Speaker 3: that's damn good odds. I'm not saying he's going to
Speaker 3: win the cy Young. But if you're looking at a
Speaker 3: good odds pitcher to win the cy Young this year,
Speaker 3: forty to one on Otani is really damn good. So
Speaker 3: there you go. That's your gambling advice. I just had
Speaker 3: to bring that up because I was shocked when Hardtung
Speaker 3: presented that to us last night. And look, yes, Snell
Speaker 3: two times say Young Award winner Yamamoto World Series MVP
Speaker 3: is probably going to make the most starts of any
Speaker 3: Dodger starter this year, but forty to one odds on show,
Speaker 3: Hey Otani, come on, give me that all day to
Speaker 3: win the cy Young So there you go. Oh, by
Speaker 3: the way, here it is the dates for spring training.
Speaker 3: I'm going to be flying out there next Friday. The
Speaker 3: pitchers and catchers report. We will have Dodger Talk from
Speaker 3: Arizona while I'm out there. And the first spring training
Speaker 3: game is not even at Camelback Ranch this year. It's
Speaker 3: February twenty first. The Dodgers open up in Tempe, Arizona
Speaker 3: against the Angels, and you will hear it live right
Speaker 3: here on a five to seventy LA Sports. That's actually
Speaker 3: a Saturday. And I love the atmosphere at Tempe Diabolo
Speaker 3: Stadium when the Dodgers are there. It's a great setting.
Speaker 3: So hopefully you can get there and see the Dodgers
Speaker 3: start the Cactus League out there. And as far as
Speaker 3: opening Day goes quicker than you think, it's March twenty
Speaker 3: sixth at Dodgers Stadium, Dodgers versus Diamondbacks, and I feel
Speaker 3: like it's going to be similar to last year. Where
Speaker 3: the Dodgers celebrated Opening Day raise the Flag, and then
Speaker 3: game two of the home stand, they are going to
Speaker 3: give the rings to the players and Clayton Kershaw will
Speaker 3: be there for sure when that happens, so just keep
Speaker 3: that in mind as well. It's not just about Opening Day,
Speaker 3: it's about the opening home stand. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 3: the first Dodger road trip after they open up against
Speaker 3: the Diamondbacks and Guardians at Dodger Stadium. The first road
Speaker 3: trip includes a three game series back in Toronto against
Speaker 3: the American League champion Toronto Blue Jays, so that should
Speaker 3: be electric as well. Speaking of Game seven and the
Speaker 3: World Series and Toronto, I know Miguel Rojas and Will Smith,
Speaker 3: they were heroes offensively and defensively, but without Max Munsey's
Speaker 3: home run earlier in that game to make it a
Speaker 3: one run game, there are no heroes for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: So here is Max Munsey. We had a chance to
Speaker 3: catch up with him at Dotest. All right, we are
Speaker 3: drawing right now by a man that has been to
Speaker 3: the World Series four times with the Dodgers. Max Mounsey
Speaker 3: showed up in twenty eighteen, left his mark and now
Speaker 3: has become the all time home run King and Dodger
Speaker 3: postseason history, including one of the biggest home runs in
Speaker 3: Game seven of the World Series.
Speaker 2: Max Munsey, thank you for joining us. Great to see you.
Speaker 2: Always good to be here with you.
Speaker 3: Oh three time World Series champion has time for the
Speaker 3: little people.
Speaker 4: I appreciate Save it, Save it. You've been out here
Speaker 4: all day with everyone else, all right. I know, Well,
Speaker 4: you like to make the grand the grand entrance. You know,
Speaker 4: you're you're the guy at the party. You don't want
Speaker 4: to show up right on time.
Speaker 3: You want to be twenty minutes late so everybody knows
Speaker 3: Max Monsey's at the party.
Speaker 2: That's false, that's fake, fake news. Dave.
Speaker 3: I know you just welcomed in your third child to
Speaker 3: the world. What's the off season been like for the
Speaker 3: Monzie family coming off back to back World Series championships
Speaker 3: and having to deal with real life.
Speaker 4: It's been short, it's been hectic, it's been lovely, all
Speaker 4: the above. You know, a lot of emotions going through
Speaker 4: and it's just, uh, you know, it's it's been a
Speaker 4: little challenging trying to get ready for a season and
Speaker 4: then also you know, trying to be a dat at
Speaker 4: home newborn, and uh, you know, just trying to help
Speaker 4: out as much as I can and trying to make
Speaker 4: sure I'm getting healthy and you know, getting ready for
Speaker 4: the season, and it's just, uh yeah, it's been, like
Speaker 4: I said, short, hectic and crazy.
Speaker 3: I told Will Smith I've been his spokesperson all off
Speaker 3: season because he's been in hibernation, but I also have
Speaker 3: been a Max Munsey promoter.
Speaker 2: That you're a home run.
Speaker 3: Without it, there is no Miguel Rojas game tying home
Speaker 3: run and certainly no Will Smith heroics in the eleventh
Speaker 3: inning when you hit that home run and pulled the
Speaker 3: Dodgers within a run, did you feel that was as
Speaker 3: big as it turned out to be.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I've said multiple times like in the moment,
Speaker 4: for me, I just knew it guaranteed show hey, one
Speaker 4: more bat, and we were it was only a one
Speaker 4: run deficit at that point, so I was like, okay,
Speaker 4: we got it. Chants, But at the same time, it
Speaker 4: kind of just built a little bit more more more
Speaker 4: momentum for us, and you know, you started feeling that,
Speaker 4: and I think the whole team felt it, and you know,
Speaker 4: I know you keep saying my home run was big,
Speaker 4: but every single play in that Game seven was big,
Speaker 4: and you know, we we don't win that World Series
Speaker 4: without every single guy on the roster. And it's just
Speaker 4: it's really cool to look back at that and understand
Speaker 4: that every single person played an important role in winning
Speaker 4: that World Series. It was a true team effort.
Speaker 3: So many guys could have checked out mentally, like Miguel Rojas,
Speaker 3: Andy pa Has justin Dean. What does that say about
Speaker 3: who you guys are and the culture the players have
Speaker 3: created that they remained engaged.
Speaker 4: It just means a lot, you know, It's it's it's
Speaker 4: real easy for some of those guys to check out,
Speaker 4: and they didn't.
Speaker 2: You know, they understood what was at stake.
Speaker 4: It wasn't about them, it was about the team, and
Speaker 4: you know, and that's that's how we've always been. And
Speaker 4: it really showed right there, you know, it really showed
Speaker 4: in that World Series that the guys were all about
Speaker 4: each other. They were willing to do anything for each other,
Speaker 4: and it's just special.
Speaker 2: Made it's so special.
Speaker 4: Obviously winning the World Series special as it is, but
Speaker 4: you know, being able to do it the way we
Speaker 4: did it just felt it felt truly amazing.
Speaker 2: You've been really in tune with this city.
Speaker 3: The city loves you since you showed up and brist
Speaker 3: onto the scene in twenty eighteen. What's the reaction you've
Speaker 3: gotten from fans that you've come across or just.
Speaker 2: Through your wife.
Speaker 3: Do you realize how much this one meant to the city.
Speaker 4: You know, the thing you hear the most is not congratulations,
Speaker 4: it's thank you. You know you hear that from the
Speaker 4: fans all the time. It's thank you, thank you for
Speaker 4: bringing a championship back to the city, thank you for
Speaker 4: bringing the Dodgers back to us, and you know it.
Speaker 4: It just makes it so special. And I talked about
Speaker 4: this when we got that first parade in twenty four
Speaker 4: that you know, when you're driving through the streets and
Speaker 4: you see everyone holding up pictures of grandparents or parents
Speaker 4: that aren't there anymore, just like these are who made
Speaker 4: me Dodger people in that's when you start realizing that
Speaker 4: it's not just a team, it's a community, it's a family,
Speaker 4: it's an organization, you know, and the whole city is
Speaker 4: built in on it, and it just it's truly been
Speaker 4: a blessing to be all play for the Dog as
Speaker 4: long as I have, and it's definitely not something that
Speaker 4: I ever take for granted.
Speaker 3: Is it surreal for Max Mounsey to look around the
Speaker 3: clubhouse after winning back to back championships with these group
Speaker 3: of teammates and look back on the same group or
Speaker 3: the group of players that you played with in twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: and you know, leading up to that championship, how the
Speaker 3: faces have changed, but the feeling and the winning commitment
Speaker 3: to winning hasn't.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, the faces haven't changed that much. There's
Speaker 4: been a lot of us that have been been around
Speaker 4: for a long time, and you know, it's just that's
Speaker 4: what makes it great. We've just had so many players here,
Speaker 4: a core group of guys, and you know, unfortunately this
Speaker 4: year is gonna be without Kersh, but you know we're
Speaker 4: all Jim be happy for him. But you know, he's
Speaker 4: the guy that's kind of started this whole culture for us.
Speaker 4: And I know he says it started before him, but
Speaker 4: you know, for me, he was always the guy that
Speaker 4: led it. And you know, he never led it with
Speaker 4: his words. He led it with how he competed and
Speaker 4: how he prepared and how he acted. And you know
Speaker 4: that's he just set the example that all a lot
Speaker 4: of us have tried to follow and you know it's
Speaker 4: gonna be hard to do it without him, but you know,
Speaker 4: I think we're up for the challenge.
Speaker 3: Feels good at number thirteen and Max Monthsey are going
Speaker 3: to be back for the three p Thank you for
Speaker 3: stopping by, and maybe we could just set the ground
Speaker 3: rules right now spring training.
Speaker 2: Should I ease.
Speaker 3: Into approaching you or do you feel like I should
Speaker 3: just dive in and hover around your locker day one?
Speaker 4: You know how Dave might I might give you time
Speaker 4: and day I might not give you time and day.
Speaker 4: You know, when it comes to you, you just you
Speaker 4: just kind of float, you know, Okay, you just kind
Speaker 4: of float around. And so maybe maybe I'll talk to you,
Speaker 4: maybe I won't, might throw a comment your way.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 3: I do have a lot of feel. That's the one
Speaker 3: thing people say about me. I have great feel. No
Speaker 3: one's ever said that about you.
Speaker 2: All right, Monsey, thank you for stopping by. I love you.
Speaker 2: There he goes Max Monsey.
Speaker 3: I think people think he hates me, but it's a
Speaker 3: love hate relationship. Now it's all love, Dave, It's all love.
Speaker 3: Great to catch up with Max Mounsey. So many of
Speaker 3: you have come up to me during the off season
Speaker 3: and ask me, what's the deal with you? And Muncie, Does.
Speaker 2: He really not like you? No, it's a.
Speaker 3: Great thing that we have going here. It's a sarcastic,
Speaker 3: kind of dry sense of monthsy humor that he throws
Speaker 3: at me. And I'm so grateful because Munsey has been
Speaker 3: very inclusive and always gives insightful, thoughtful answers and is
Speaker 3: a lot more honest with his answers than most players.
Speaker 3: And I love that about him, and I think that's
Speaker 3: why those of us that cover the Dodgers go to
Speaker 3: Max Mounsey when we have questions, because he is going
Speaker 3: to give you an honest answer, and if he doesn't
Speaker 3: feel like he should answer that certain question, he's not
Speaker 3: going to give you some generic answer. He's just going
Speaker 3: to pass on answering that question. So love having Max
Speaker 3: Munsey on the show. Can't wait to see him out
Speaker 3: there in spring training. And in case you missed any
Speaker 3: of our interviews from FanFest, you can find it on
Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app Dodger Talk. Pre set it number one
Speaker 3: and you can find all those interviews, including the one
Speaker 3: that's coming up next. Well, it's not there yet because
Speaker 3: nobody has heard it. Miguel Rojas is going to join
Speaker 3: us next right here on five to seventy LA Sports
Speaker 3: the end of October with multiple champagne showers from Max Munsey,
Speaker 3: who hit a huge solo home run in Game seven
Speaker 3: of last year's World Series. And Monsey, like we mentioned,
Speaker 3: is the all time home run leader in Dodger franchise
Speaker 3: history in the postseason Monthsey has hit thirteen postseason home
Speaker 3: runs going back to twenty eighteen. What's that a product of? Yes,
Speaker 3: of course he's had a lot of opportunities being in
Speaker 3: the World Series and being in the World Series and
Speaker 3: riding through October four different times, and also an extra
Speaker 3: round of playoffs. But nonetheless, he's still got to hit
Speaker 3: those home runs. And he has thirteen postseason home runs
Speaker 3: in his Dodger career major league career, and that is
Speaker 3: the most in Dodger playoff history. Speaking of Dodger history,
Speaker 3: Miguel Rojas will forever live in Dodger and baseball history
Speaker 3: for his improbable home run with the Dodgers down to
Speaker 3: their final two outs in Game seven of last year's
Speaker 3: World Series. Rojas hasn't been embracing the celebration ever, since
Speaker 3: the Dodgers clinched the World Series in Toronto, the celebration
Speaker 3: continued at Dodger Fest on Saturday. Here is the Great Miguel.
Speaker 3: Here is World Series hero Miguel Rojas. It's hard for
Speaker 3: me to get time with you, Miguel. Everybody wants a
Speaker 3: piece of you.
Speaker 5: It's being overwhelming, but in a good way.
Speaker 6: You know, when you prepare for moments like that, and
Speaker 6: you what your your entire career and your entire life
Speaker 6: to get to get to the highest point that you're saying,
Speaker 6: you never think about realizing that moment twenty years after
Speaker 6: you start your professional career. But that's what happened to
Speaker 6: me in Game seven. But obviously there's no Game seven
Speaker 6: without Game six. And that's why I'm so proud the
Speaker 6: way that I play Game six, because I got in
Speaker 6: there because of my defense. I got in there because
Speaker 6: of my energy and the things that I can bring
Speaker 6: to the thing other than the hitting a home run.
Speaker 6: And it's crazy to believe that now everybody's going to
Speaker 6: remember me for hitting a home run in the game.
Speaker 5: Sevens all wards ears for me not being a home
Speaker 5: run hitting my whole career.
Speaker 6: But I mean things happen for a reason, and I'm
Speaker 6: not gonna walk away from it happened to me because
Speaker 6: I prepare and I got ready for the opportunity. And
Speaker 6: I'm glad the Dodgers got the chance to win the
Speaker 6: Wards Eries again.
Speaker 3: Everywhere you go around Los Angeles, kids of all ages
Speaker 3: are wearing Dodger jerseys the championship hats. How does it
Speaker 3: feel to be a role model for all these kids
Speaker 3: by example to never give up on yourself and never
Speaker 3: not be ready for the opportunity whenever it comes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's really cool to uh, to be able
Speaker 6: through the experience that you get in life and in
Speaker 6: this sport, you can teach a lesson to a lot
Speaker 6: of people, not just the kids, but the partners as well.
Speaker 6: You know, not everybody is going to be shown and
Speaker 6: not everybody's going to be a Hall of fame like
Speaker 6: Freddie Freeman and Mookie Bets.
Speaker 5: But teams are are our build.
Speaker 6: To kind of have a lot of different characters.
Speaker 5: On that team.
Speaker 6: And I feel like if you're willing to work every
Speaker 6: single day and sacrifice a lot of things, uh to
Speaker 6: do what you want to do, UH, You're going to
Speaker 6: have good results. So I feel like a lot of
Speaker 6: people can actually look theirselves in the mirror and say,
Speaker 6: I got an opportunity to be a Miguel ROAs in
Speaker 6: whatever I do, come in uh when the people needs me,
Speaker 6: and when the opportunity is given to me, and and
Speaker 6: don't make sure you're ready, and make sure you are
Speaker 6: you're taking everything into consideration to be ready for that chance.
Speaker 3: All your teammates have always told me, nobody has hands
Speaker 3: like Miguel Ohas. But in game six when you took
Speaker 3: the short hot from Kiy k Hernandez, that looked more
Speaker 3: difficult than it appeared, and you made it look And
Speaker 3: then the play that you made with the infield in
Speaker 3: to be able game of inches to throw a strike
Speaker 3: to Will Smith, what was the more challenging play to
Speaker 3: be able to pull off?
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely Game seven play because it is a do
Speaker 6: or that plays a backsack and said, well, you know
Speaker 6: you're playing in field in right there wishing for something
Speaker 6: that they hit right at you, and he wasn't definitely
Speaker 6: was hitting a right at me.
Speaker 5: Was a couple of steps to my right. You know
Speaker 5: I have to go there.
Speaker 6: I have to get on my knees, glove the ball,
Speaker 6: get back on my feet and make a good throw
Speaker 6: to home play.
Speaker 5: I think if I don't make that play, it.
Speaker 6: Doesn't matter what what else you know, like, what else
Speaker 6: you can do to help the team until that point,
Speaker 6: it's all. It's all kind of like battling through all
Speaker 6: the indies that we have to play during that series.
Speaker 6: There's no Joshi, no Yamamoto MVP. I mean a lot
Speaker 6: of people will remember him and still for what he did.
Speaker 6: But I mean, if I don't make the play, he's
Speaker 6: getting over and and we're not celebrating, and we're not
Speaker 6: back to.
Speaker 3: Back champions If you don't make those plays, if you
Speaker 3: don't hit that home run, the Dodgers would be going
Speaker 3: home all right, back to back champions now, Miguel, how
Speaker 3: do you guys stay hungry for that three.
Speaker 6: P Yeah, for for this moments like this, seeing the fans,
Speaker 6: the excitement around this building like always, you know, uh,
Speaker 6: these people know how to pack this place every single
Speaker 6: night for six three.
Speaker 5: Months, you know.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: And then when you have.
Speaker 6: The key of the chain on top, makeing move to
Speaker 6: make your team better and compete again for for another
Speaker 6: championship and not being okay.
Speaker 5: Just because we won the last two Uh.
Speaker 6: I think that's that give you the motivation to go
Speaker 6: to the sprint training, to fight for the spot and
Speaker 6: to fight for for something that is bigger than Jose yourself.
Speaker 6: Is a is for the whole city, for the whole community,
Speaker 6: and for the organization. We deserve the opportunity to go
Speaker 6: back together to the sprint training, plus a couple of
Speaker 6: guys that wants to be here and wants to.
Speaker 5: Be part of this.
Speaker 6: Uh, and I think we're gonna have a chance to
Speaker 6: have a real chat to threepeat something that not everybody
Speaker 6: can say that got the.
Speaker 3: Opportunity to the run it back for that three peat.
Speaker 3: Miguel Rojas is such a big part of this Dodger team,
Speaker 3: not only last year, but the last three years. All Right, Miguel,
Speaker 3: I had to explain some backstory. Miguel Rojas is our guest.
Speaker 3: Because I was asked about Team Venezuela and you not
Speaker 3: being able to get the insurance to play in this
Speaker 3: year's World Baseball Classic. I was asked this past week
Speaker 3: and I had to give some context. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: all these reporters that were asking you about that remember
Speaker 3: the fact that you sacrificed not playing for Team Venezuela
Speaker 3: and the World Baseball Classic because of your responsibility to
Speaker 3: be able to stay with the Dodgers, because of just
Speaker 3: how your body was feeling and the opportunity. Does that
Speaker 3: make it even more frustrating that you have this opportunity
Speaker 3: and for some reason they won't allow you to play.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the hole situation is frustrating to me.
Speaker 6: And going back to twenty twenty three, I was in
Speaker 6: a totally different position.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: I was kind of on the prime of my career,
Speaker 6: and even though I got to the Dodgers, I wasn't
Speaker 6: supposed to be the every day short stub until something
Speaker 6: happened to Gavin Locks and they decided to kind of
Speaker 6: like gave me the opportunity to play every day. And
Speaker 6: I feel like playing every day in the big leagues
Speaker 6: requires a really little a little stream preparation when it
Speaker 6: comes to at bats in spring training and getting ready
Speaker 6: for that. At that moment, my opportunity to represent Venezuela
Speaker 6: wasn't gonna be to play every day as sure.
Speaker 5: My at bats and my.
Speaker 6: Opportunity were going to be limited if I go to
Speaker 6: the WBC. And that's why I make the decision that
Speaker 6: I needed to get at bats because I was coming
Speaker 6: out of the surgery from my wrist and I needed
Speaker 6: to get the bats. I needed to get my timing
Speaker 6: down for a full season, and I ended up playing
Speaker 6: one hundred and fifty close games for the.
Speaker 5: Dollars that year and we went to a playoff.
Speaker 6: We won one hundred games, and I think I made
Speaker 6: the right decision at the moment.
Speaker 5: Definitely was a really tough one because you always.
Speaker 6: Want to represent your country and that's gonna be kind
Speaker 6: of like in the top of the priorities for the player.
Speaker 5: But at the end of the.
Speaker 6: Day, I thought I got another opportunity in twenty twenty
Speaker 6: six to represent my country, and it's a it's such
Speaker 6: a bomber that I'm not gonna be able to do
Speaker 6: it just because I'm I'm thirty seven years old and
Speaker 6: you're thirty seven. I guess, I guess thirty seven years
Speaker 6: old and I'm still playing for the best team.
Speaker 2: And you never went to AL you never went.
Speaker 6: On the IL, and that's we need a little bit
Speaker 6: more of clarification on the on the teams that are
Speaker 6: going on, you know. But I'm really sad, not just
Speaker 6: because of me, but I'm saying the news.
Speaker 5: Of other players like the hotel too.
Speaker 6: For our country, a guy that has always been there,
Speaker 6: always being representing our country is being one of our
Speaker 6: best representative no matter what, if it's a WBC, the
Speaker 6: Big Leagues and the World Series and MBPS and all that.
Speaker 6: I think everybody who wants to represent the country should
Speaker 6: have the opportunity to do it, especially if you know
Speaker 6: you're healthy and you can contribute to w the whole
Speaker 6: thing without a doubt, without a doubt, the World Baseball
Speaker 6: Classic has a lot of holes to.
Speaker 3: Be able to be taken as seriously as they want
Speaker 3: to be taken. So I'm gonna be happy to see
Speaker 3: you in spring training because your energy, your leadership, you
Speaker 3: need that and there's not gonna be Key k Hernandez
Speaker 3: at the beginning. So you know, you guys, You guys
Speaker 3: made things go for a lot of guys last year.
Speaker 3: So the Dodgers need you. This is not just a
Speaker 3: victory lap, right, Miguel Rojas means business.
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, We're gonna show up to the sprint training
Speaker 6: this year with the same attitude, in the same hunger.
Speaker 6: You know, definitely we're gonna enjoy that. Sprint training is
Speaker 6: gonna be a regular one this year. We're gonna We're
Speaker 6: gonna be there for six weeks and we wanna work
Speaker 6: on everything that we need to work on to be
Speaker 6: ready for sprint for opening Day. Definitely, you mentioned a
Speaker 6: name that is really really valuable for us. Kick Ernandez
Speaker 6: is part of this and hopefully he can be part
Speaker 6: of a group that wants to compete for three times
Speaker 6: in a row World City Champions and I know he
Speaker 6: will be a great addition to this team and everybody
Speaker 6: in this club out one Kick to be back. So
Speaker 6: first he needs to take it of business and and
Speaker 6: get back to one hundred percent healthy. I know his
Speaker 6: arm and his work kid is going to take him there.
Speaker 5: But I'm really I'm really hopeful.
Speaker 3: That Kick is going to be back with us, no doubt.
Speaker 3: Miguel Rojas world serious hero. Thank you brother, a champion
Speaker 3: to the people Los Angeles loved him but now forever
Speaker 3: his new home will always be Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the time, and of course you know
Speaker 2: you always have a place in our hearts. Even before
Speaker 2: that home run.
Speaker 5: Of course, come on, it's been a twelve year relationship,
Speaker 5: yes right.
Speaker 6: Here, ever since twenty fourteen, Oh yeah, I know him.
Speaker 3: When I did give Rojas a hug, not as awkward
Speaker 3: as Tim Conway Junior. And it was a little bit
Speaker 3: more organic. It wasn't as scripted as it was here
Speaker 3: at the iHeart Studios with Petros and Money and Conway.
Speaker 3: This was an organic setting. Roejaus came over on his own.
Speaker 3: And if you hear my interview with Freddie Freeman, which
Speaker 3: is coming up in just a moment, you'll hear Rojas
Speaker 3: chime in that I took the day off when he
Speaker 3: was in studio here at the iHeart headquarters. I just
Speaker 3: I wanted to give him his space. That's all. Speaking
Speaker 3: of Freddie Freeman. Love Freddie Freeman. He is a future
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer, and he is one of the smartest
Speaker 3: baseball players out there, one of the best hitters in
Speaker 3: baseball history, certainly of his generation. And here was Freddie
Speaker 3: Freeman at Dodger Fest.
Speaker 7: I'm not going to comment on you.
Speaker 2: That's good to be back.
Speaker 3: Yes, Does this feel for you like the real kickoff
Speaker 3: that spring training is around the corner?
Speaker 7: Yeah, this definitely is when. I don't think I've been
Speaker 7: back since the parade, so yeah, so it's nice to
Speaker 7: come back. See the fans again. I mean we see
Speaker 7: them every day. Believe me, they come up and to
Speaker 7: say how appreciative they are of the last couple of years.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I would say FanFest is the official kickoff
Speaker 7: and then what we got one more week until all
Speaker 7: the baseball team says now it's our turn or whatever.
Speaker 7: The super Bowl they always give that same little quote out.
Speaker 7: But I would say fan Fest for all the teams,
Speaker 7: it's the real kickoff.
Speaker 2: To get ready.
Speaker 3: When you're around the streets of La Yeah, and people
Speaker 3: come up to you, can you feel the effect that
Speaker 3: you've had on their lives, their families?
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, definitely. I mean especially here like Miguel
Speaker 7: and I did the luncheon about about forty five minutes ago,
Speaker 7: and so many people have you know, they had someone
Speaker 7: had a widow maker and that was made it through
Speaker 7: the widow maker the heart attack and was able to
Speaker 7: come through and then we brought and brought her joy
Speaker 7: watching us play on the TV. Like, there's so many
Speaker 7: stories that we get told here at FanFest that really
Speaker 7: makes you feel what these fans and what we mean
Speaker 7: to them and what they mean to us. I mean,
Speaker 7: we were trying to tell them it's not lost on
Speaker 7: us when we come in July eighteenth and on Tuesday
Speaker 7: and there's fifty four thousand people here, and we understand
Speaker 7: how awesome the fans are. And so when you get
Speaker 7: to hear the little stories of what Dodger Baseball means
Speaker 7: to them, it's not just we're just not a team
Speaker 7: to them. This is their livelihood. It's we're family to them.
Speaker 7: And it really is special to be able to hear
Speaker 7: all the stories from fans that we've been able to
Speaker 7: create memories for them in the last couple of years.
Speaker 3: I know you mean so much to the fan base
Speaker 3: in Atlanta and Brais fans, but what you've done with
Speaker 3: the Dodgers feels like you've cemented your legacy with this
Speaker 3: franchise as well. That doesn't happen to too many players
Speaker 3: where you can say you had an indelible mark on two.
Speaker 7: Franchises, and you know, obviously these last you know, year
Speaker 7: or two. If people are talking about most people won't
Speaker 7: even remember my first twelve I said, I always respond
Speaker 7: with I'm like that just means I'm doing my job
Speaker 7: really well. And I adored my twelve years with the Brads.
Speaker 7: We won a championship, there. But these last four years,
Speaker 7: being able to be playing in front of my family
Speaker 7: day in and day out, night after night, see my
Speaker 7: dad in front.
Speaker 2: Rows giving him a hug after your walk off, It's.
Speaker 7: Been special really. Yeah. But to be able to like,
Speaker 7: for you to even think that after four years, that
Speaker 7: just makes me. I was like, I've done my job
Speaker 7: the best of I possibly can, and we created some
Speaker 7: really cool things that are gonna last in people's minds forever.
Speaker 7: And for you to say that kind of stuff and
Speaker 7: people to think that kind of stuff, that just means
Speaker 7: I've done my job.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I would say, I would say so. And
Speaker 3: you've been out there every day. We all know how
Speaker 3: much you pride yourself, Yeah on starting as many of
Speaker 3: the one hundred and sixty two as possible.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Have they started to talk to you about what they've
Speaker 2: been saying.
Speaker 7: Are you already know what I'm gonna say? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 7: I'm going to be trying to play one hundred and
Speaker 7: sixty two games.
Speaker 3: So we should tell Dalton Rushing but that first space
Speaker 3: glove away.
Speaker 7: All I can say to that is I will be
Speaker 7: prepared to play one hundred and six or two games.
Speaker 7: I will I think, you know, I will be ready
Speaker 7: to go. And then if they come in and tell
Speaker 7: me that they want me to have a day off,
Speaker 7: then audible fight and in that moment. But my job,
Speaker 7: in my mindset, how I get ready to play every
Speaker 7: single game. And That's what I'm going to do. And
Speaker 7: so that just means I gotta get three hits every game.
Speaker 7: So that can't take me out a lot of talk
Speaker 7: and Andrew, I'm not coming out.
Speaker 2: That's right. I'm counting the doubles and they hit.
Speaker 7: Okay, I like that.
Speaker 2: I like that. Hey, last year, people have a quick memory.
Speaker 6: We forget you took the day off yesterday and I
Speaker 6: went through your I went through your place that you're
Speaker 6: taking a day off.
Speaker 2: I wanted I was gonna go there. I wanted to
Speaker 2: give you some space. Thank you. Hey, that guy right.
Speaker 7: There, we've been. We've done a lot of things together today. Yeah,
Speaker 7: he's special.
Speaker 2: But you talk about the game rewarding you, it.
Speaker 7: Really does honor you. That game has honored him. We
Speaker 7: just got what he means to us. There's so many
Speaker 7: traditions that he's arted. Winning series. We get together to
Speaker 7: caselfie as a group after those series wins, we toasted
Speaker 7: each other. We talk about how the player of the
Speaker 7: game in the series, he created that. I think there's
Speaker 7: no bigger honor for us inside that clubhouse and the
Speaker 7: roy Campanella War, and he's won it back to back
Speaker 7: of years. It's voted on by the people in that clubhouse.
Speaker 7: He comes in every day. The game honors you because
Speaker 7: he didn't play at all in the NLC. Yes, he
Speaker 7: didn't play the first few games of the World Series.
Speaker 7: And then he gets his opportunity. It becomes a Dodger hero.
Speaker 7: I meaneah, he really is a hero. And I think
Speaker 7: you guys heard it on backstage Dodgers when I said,
Speaker 7: oh my god, I still think about it all the time.
Speaker 2: It is the great Dodger time.
Speaker 7: This year is the greatest home run. It's so amazing.
Speaker 7: And yeah, and he gets to play one more, he
Speaker 7: gets to re sign, gets to end his career with
Speaker 7: the Dodgers, and then he's I know he's gonna wants
Speaker 7: to coach with us, so he'll be here forever, we hope.
Speaker 3: Freddy Freeman as well. You haven't don the worm anytime. Recently,
Speaker 3: Andrew Freeman said he wants to put a stop to that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I'm going to be done with that.
Speaker 2: I hadn't done it, and that was impressive, Freddy.
Speaker 7: I appreciate that I hadn't done the worm.
Speaker 2: Gosh, I didn't think you had it in you.
Speaker 7: It had been a long time, probably fourteen fifteen years,
Speaker 7: and that I used to be able to, like right
Speaker 7: now we're in the bullpen. I used to be able
Speaker 7: to do it the whole length of this bull whoa.
Speaker 7: As you saw on that video, I hit it like
Speaker 7: four times on the ground and then how to get
Speaker 7: back up. That was kind of hurt a.
Speaker 2: Little bit too much. Well, just the way you delivered it,
Speaker 2: thank you, the way it's not just the worm, it's
Speaker 2: the way you delivered the worst.
Speaker 7: Shape that And uh, I was just minding my business
Speaker 7: on the outside, watching everybody else have fun at Mookie's house,
Speaker 7: and I was just enjoying it. And then you know,
Speaker 7: when Keik starts hyping you up, it'd be the not
Speaker 7: fun guy and not do something. So I was like,
Speaker 7: you know what, I'll bring this out. Yeah, I'm glad
Speaker 7: I was able to nail it in a lot of
Speaker 7: people's eyes. You're like, you know, it's good. When my
Speaker 7: wife told me goes. A lot of people thought that
Speaker 7: was Ai.
Speaker 2: That's a comple that.
Speaker 7: I did that pretty well. I just not used to
Speaker 7: the big man getting down on the ground. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 7: twice even but Gavin forced me. You know you didn't
Speaker 7: feel it was his wedding. Yeah, you know, I felt
Speaker 7: like I was getting pushed to do something. I didn't
Speaker 7: like that.
Speaker 3: But like a circus class, amuse us at our wedding exactly.
Speaker 7: But like you just said, it was his wedding. Yeah, like,
Speaker 7: oh fine, I'll do it for you.
Speaker 3: And can you can you tell us what the key
Speaker 3: is to executing a good.
Speaker 7: I really don't know. Like everyone goes, how did you learn?
Speaker 7: I said, I don't. I've just been you were doing okay,
Speaker 7: I was just there yesterday. Most people will see me
Speaker 7: on the field, sitting in the same seat in the dugout. Serious,
Speaker 7: but I have fun when I play. Most people don't
Speaker 7: know I I can dance a little bit and move around.
Speaker 7: So you got a little glimpse of it on the work.
Speaker 2: All right, I love it.
Speaker 7: I'm done. I'll be done with it though unless we
Speaker 7: win again. I'll bring it three P, three P. I'll
Speaker 7: bring it series win.
Speaker 2: Amen, Amen, I'll try to nail it. I'll try to
Speaker 2: make it do with me. Yeah, I'm going to learn
Speaker 2: how to do the worm.
Speaker 7: Okay, but.
Speaker 2: I like that we got him six to seven out
Speaker 2: of rookie today.
Speaker 5: Oh jeez.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what you guys are doing here on fan
Speaker 7: Fast and I was I'm one of the few people
Speaker 7: that congratulate anybody that doesn't want to play in the.
Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic. Oh so congratulations.
Speaker 3: Oh by the way, before I let you go, Speaking
Speaker 3: of Canada, okay, talk about two viral things that blew
Speaker 3: up surrounding Freddie Freeman. Beside your walk off home run
Speaker 3: in Game three, the worm, of course, and then that
Speaker 3: commercial you did with the kids the children's hospital, Yeah, Ryan,
Speaker 3: Ryan Reynolds.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's first of kids in Toronto. And Ryan reached
Speaker 7: out and wanted to, you know, we we do something
Speaker 7: together to help raise funds. And when he reached out,
Speaker 7: I was like, Okay, that sounds pretty fun and obviously
Speaker 7: hospitals and kids it means a lot to me, obviously
Speaker 7: with what we've gone through as a family, So to
Speaker 7: help raise money for a hospital in Toronto, I jumped
Speaker 7: at it with him and it came out really good.
Speaker 7: I'm usually not wanting to act or do anything like that,
Speaker 7: but I had I had fun. Those kids were awesome.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 7: It turned out really really well, and I had fun
Speaker 7: doing it. Got to meet some really cool kids from
Speaker 7: the hospital that did it with me, and they got
Speaker 7: to hear their stories and what they went through. And uh,
Speaker 7: those kids are doing really well right now. So hopefully
Speaker 7: we raise a lot of money for that hospital and
Speaker 7: we can we can make sure some more kids can
Speaker 7: get out of the hospital.
Speaker 3: It resonated with everybody, the comedic timing and just what
Speaker 3: it means.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you did your job.
Speaker 7: Appreciate that. Thank you, and I hope the kids in
Speaker 7: Toronto the hospital got a lot of money out of it,
Speaker 7: and hopefully we can find some cures and get those
Speaker 7: kids home where they deserve to be.
Speaker 2: Freddie, I could talk to you the rest of the day,
Speaker 2: you know, I would.
Speaker 7: I know, we got to.
Speaker 2: I admire everything you stand.
Speaker 7: For two weeks from now, we'll see each other every day,
Speaker 7: every day.
Speaker 3: I won't bring any iPads. My guy, Freddie Freeman Glass
Speaker 3: now is yawning. I mean like he's writing a three
Speaker 3: point stance ready to tackle me.
Speaker 7: I'm at the TV when I was doing TV Wow,
Speaker 7: and I got sidetrack for how beautiful he was.
Speaker 2: I know, can we take a photo on live radio?
Speaker 2: And glassnow could come over. We could just pass the mic,
Speaker 2: the hot mic. All right here, my guy.
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman. Always a great time with Freddie Freeman. You
Speaker 3: never know when you might see me or Freddie Freeman
Speaker 3: at Javier's. You never know. It could be in Pasadena,
Speaker 3: it could be in Orange County. Javier's a staple for
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman and now David Vassa, so you never know,
Speaker 3: you never know when you may see me. That Javier's
Speaker 3: in Pasadena unbelievable. I would say that Hobbers in Pasadena
Speaker 3: is the leader for me as far as how many
Speaker 3: times I visited a particular restaurant, it was either Javier's
Speaker 3: in Pasadena, Boulevard in Sherman Oaks, or Monty's in Woodland Hills.
Speaker 3: I would say that was the three staples of David
Speaker 3: Vasse this off season. And I still have time to
Speaker 3: hit up shellbacks in Manhattan Beach one more time, one
Speaker 3: more time for spring training. That'll do it for us
Speaker 3: on Dodger Talk. I'm on my way to Crypto going
Speaker 3: to try to catch the Lakers and six Ers second half.
Speaker 3: Got free tickets, gotta go. My guy Hector hooked it up.
Speaker 3: Thank you for listening. In case you missed any of
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Speaker 3: Thanks to Ronnie Foscio, and thanks again for listening. We'll
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