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Speaker 1: An exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talker.

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Speaker 2: We're getting set for Game two of the NLCS, and

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Speaker 2: we're joining right now by Max Monsey. Max, thanks a

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Speaker 2: lot for the time and congratulations on a.

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Speaker 1: Game one win.

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Speaker 2: Sure anytime, Dave, I thought you handled it really well

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Speaker 2: after the game last night. How you were a little

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Speaker 2: self deprecating on that fly ball in the fourth inning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, you have to get a job

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Speaker 3: done right there, and I didn't get it done. You know,

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Speaker 3: I gotta I gotta find a way to say a

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Speaker 3: double play and uh, you know, next time, I gotta

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Speaker 3: be a little better.

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Speaker 2: You know, this team seems to eat sleep, drink baseball.

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Speaker 2: Even on the bus right here with a group of

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Speaker 2: your teammates, they were still talking about last night, they're

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Speaker 2: talking about today. Has that carried over from last postseason

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Speaker 2: and the success you guys had.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think there's a little bit of

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Speaker 3: you know, we talked with this team about culture, about

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Speaker 3: you know, what the Dodger culture is that's been created

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Speaker 3: over many, many, many years, and you know, I think

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Speaker 3: last year was kind of start of a different playoff

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Speaker 3: culture and you know, just a different way of going

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Speaker 3: about business once you get talked Ober and you know, it's.

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Speaker 1: Definitely carrying over from last year, and you know, it's

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Speaker 1: really cool to see. It's really cool to see all

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Speaker 1: the guys bought in on it, and you.

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Speaker 3: Know, ultimately this time of year, nothing else that's going

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Speaker 3: on really matters. It's what are we going to do

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Speaker 3: to try to get a win tonight? And you know,

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Speaker 3: the guys who really bought into that.

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Speaker 2: Max Unfairly, everybody believes that you guys are just so talented.

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Speaker 2: You show up at seven o'clock and things happened. But

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Speaker 2: it feels like you guys don't take for granted the

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Speaker 2: talent that you have and the opportunity you have.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I've been a part of some extremely talented teams,

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Speaker 3: you know, in my career here with the Dodgers, and

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Speaker 3: you know, you've you've seen it. We've had teams that

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Speaker 3: have won one hundred and eleven games and we get

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Speaker 3: knocked out in the first round.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I've been this. Our team last year

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Speaker 1: didn't win one hundred games. We won the World Series

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Speaker 1: in eighteen we hardly won ninety games, and.

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Speaker 3: You know, we went to the World series, and you know,

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Speaker 3: it's kind of the same thing this year.

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Speaker 1: It's it's the talent can only take you so far.

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Speaker 3: It's really about how you're preparing and how you're going

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Speaker 3: out there and playing the game.

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Speaker 1: And October talent really means nothing, you know.

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Speaker 3: It's it's if you're going out there and you're expecting

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Speaker 3: the out talent the other team, you're not gonna do

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Speaker 3: very good.

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Speaker 1: So you have to you have to be prepared properly.

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Speaker 2: You guys have the experience as well. You've won two

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Speaker 2: World Series with the Dodgers. Your first year, like you said,

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Speaker 2: was winning Game seven here in the NLCS. Could you

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Speaker 2: feel the experience factor play out last night?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think that's just you get in

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Speaker 3: these types of environments. You're on the road for Game one,

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Speaker 3: it's it's loud. They you know, they're playing the music

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Speaker 3: extra loud. It's a you know, you start to feel

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Speaker 3: that a little bit, and you got to find a

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Speaker 3: way to just slow the heartbeat. And you know, you

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Speaker 3: look around the infield and you know, you just you

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Speaker 3: look at guys in the dugout and you just you

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Speaker 3: find a calming presence with everybody. No one's getting too

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Speaker 3: worked up about anything, and you know, it just that

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Speaker 3: that comes from having experience.

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Speaker 1: If you've never been in this situation, you don't really

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Speaker 1: know how to handle it.

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Speaker 3: And uh, you know, we we've talked many, many years

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Speaker 3: about how there's a lot of teams that play with

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Speaker 3: a ton of emotion in the playoffs and you know,

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Speaker 3: that can get you really far, but it can also

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Speaker 3: be a huge negative.

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Speaker 1: And you know, for us, we've always.

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Speaker 3: Tried to stay even keel on that, and I think

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Speaker 3: with the experience that we have, that's that's right where

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Speaker 3: we're at.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember the postseason game or the postseason series

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Speaker 2: where you became so comfortable and became this guy that

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Speaker 2: doesn't seem like anything faces him.

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Speaker 3: No, I just think that's something that happened over time,

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Speaker 3: because I do remember my first.

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Speaker 1: Postseason and you know, I was really amped up.

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Speaker 3: I was really gearing to get out there, and you know,

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Speaker 3: my I was definitely wearing my emotions on my sleeve,

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Speaker 3: and every good thing that happened, I was, you know,

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Speaker 3: top of my lungs, and every bad thing that happened,

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Speaker 3: I was top of my lungs in a negative way.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I just think that's something that you

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Speaker 3: get over time, and I don't know when that switched

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Speaker 3: for me. And you know, I think it's just having

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Speaker 3: the opportunity to play in so many postseason games.

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Speaker 1: Before I let you go.

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Speaker 2: I remember when you returned from the IL, you were

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Speaker 2: telling me that you change your pregame routine as far

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Speaker 2: as heating up cooling down with you taking betting practice

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Speaker 2: on the field with the team. Is that a sign

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Speaker 2: that things are more normal for you?

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping so. No, it's just really more on the road.

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Speaker 3: Your VP time is so close to game time that

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Speaker 3: there's not really a cool down period after VP, and

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Speaker 3: so for me, it's a chance to get some work

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Speaker 3: in and that's something that I haven't entirely been able

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Speaker 3: to do you know recently, is get a lot of

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Speaker 3: work in.

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Speaker 1: And you know.

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Speaker 3: We're definitely feeling better, filing closer to normal, but you

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Speaker 3: still got to be careful about some things, all right.

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Speaker 2: Max, thanks a lot for the time. I know you're

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Speaker 2: getting ready for the game. We'll see you after.

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Speaker 1: Sounds good.