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Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talker.

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Speaker 1: I am really excited to have our next guest join

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Speaker 1: us for the first time over the phone, for the

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Speaker 1: first time technically on Dodger Talk. He was a recurring

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Speaker 1: guest on the pregame show. He only spent one year

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Speaker 1: with the Dodgers, but it was a fantastic year. He

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Speaker 1: was part of the first quartet in Dodger history to

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Speaker 1: drive in one hundred runs in the same season. That

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Speaker 1: was back in twenty twenty three when he hit thirty

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Speaker 1: three home runs and drove in one hundred and three

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Speaker 1: runs for the Dodgers. And we had a special handshake.

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Speaker 1: We connected over me breaking my wrist on the Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: slide in spring training and from that point on, the

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Speaker 1: magic with the Deadfish handshake took off. And that is

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Speaker 1: America's dh JD Mark teen is JD. Great to have

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Speaker 1: you on the show. I miss you, Hey, I.

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Speaker 2: Miss you too. Man, It's great talking to you. You

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Speaker 2: are on Bess. How I'm late.

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Speaker 1: Life is good. I have not gone down any slides,

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Speaker 1: I haven't broken any ribs. I'm doing okay, thank god.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you're allowed to go to any

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Speaker 2: slides anymore.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I have to have some redemption. Maybe

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Speaker 1: go on a fishing boat with you, or maybe do

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Speaker 1: some some skiing with you. Maybe we can work that out.

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Speaker 2: Oh that would be great. I would love nothing more.

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Speaker 2: I would love to see than skiing down the slopes,

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Speaker 2: especially knowing how fragile you are.

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Speaker 1: JD didn't know who the hell I was until he

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Speaker 1: saw the slide highlight one spring training moment, and then

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Speaker 1: from that point on, Uh, it was. It was a

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Speaker 1: great year in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was a blooper that was being

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Speaker 2: run on TV. I remember seeing that. I'd be like,

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Speaker 2: oh my gosh, who is that guy? And everyone's like,

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Speaker 2: that's David, that's our media guy. I said, I got

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Speaker 2: to beat this guy. How do you break your hands

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Speaker 2: sliding down a slide? I've never heard of.

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Speaker 1: That, dude. It was a fast ride. It was a

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Speaker 1: fast slide. I don't know I slowed it down. I

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Speaker 1: feel like I did everybody of public service.

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Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Hey, JD. Martinez is living his best life. He's fishing

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Speaker 1: nearly every day out there in Florida. He was just

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Speaker 1: in Park City, Utah skiing and now he's in the ohright,

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Speaker 1: oh sorry, sorry, Aspen. Yes, that's uh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I had a lot of homers. I get

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Speaker 2: to go to Aspen, a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of dingers for JD Martinez to go to Aspen.

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Speaker 1: And now he's in the desert for the Desert Smash

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Speaker 1: in Lakina starting on Monday. He's a celebrity pickleball player. Now,

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Speaker 1: I mean, is that the level of pickleball you're at

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Speaker 1: right now where you're a celebrity?

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Speaker 2: I mean pretty much. I mean I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: mean it's if my back could hold up a little

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Speaker 2: bit more, I think I can kind of get good

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Speaker 2: at it, but I always run into my back issues,

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Speaker 2: you know, And was it for that, I think I'd be,

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Speaker 2: you know, out there competing, trying to compete more. But

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Speaker 2: I'm excited for it. I'm excited. I know a lot

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Speaker 2: of there's gonna be a lot of pros out there.

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Speaker 2: There's gonna be a lot of really good players, and

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to go and you know, play alongside of them.

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Speaker 2: It'll be fun. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Will Ferrell is supposed to be one of the other

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Speaker 1: celebrities with JD Martinez. Maybe you could be doubles like

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Speaker 1: Krushaw's ping pong tournament.

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Speaker 2: I remember that. Yeah, Kershaw kind of Kershaw rigged that

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Speaker 2: ping pong tournament so he would win. I know it.

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Speaker 1: So who's a better pickleball player? You or Mookie Betts?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I don't know. I think I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 2: say me. I'm sorry, Smoke. I love him, but I

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Speaker 2: think I got them. I'll just play more though. That's

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Speaker 2: the problem.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. I mean, how do you have back problems

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Speaker 1: when you play pickleball? You barely move?

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Speaker 2: I mean, what are you talking about? You got to

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Speaker 2: stop bend over. There's a lot of things you gotta do.

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Speaker 1: I don't see it.

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Speaker 2: A lot of things you do.

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Speaker 1: I don't see why this is such a phenomenon across

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's addicted. It's so addicted.

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Speaker 1: Why Why is it because you little ping pong and

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Speaker 1: you move around a little bit. I know you're a competitor,

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Speaker 1: but what makes you so good to bring your game

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Speaker 2: I mean it's one of those things you know, you

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Speaker 2: get invited. It's a cool experience. Uh, you get to

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Speaker 2: go alongside and test your test your skills against some

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Speaker 2: of the pros out there. So it's definitely a you know,

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Speaker 2: nothing I like more than a good challenge. So I'm

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Speaker 2: excited to just go out there and see what I went.

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Speaker 2: Earlier this year, I went to Dallas for a for

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Speaker 2: the same kind of thing, and I got to play

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Speaker 2: against Dirk Novisky and Carol Owens and Tifu and it

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Speaker 2: was just fun. It's a fun, cool experience. And we

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Speaker 2: like Ben Jons and of course they put me on

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Speaker 2: singles against Annaalie Waters, who's probably the best pickleball player ever,

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Speaker 2: and I got absolutely demolished. It was a very humbling

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Speaker 2: it's just good. It's good fun.

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Speaker 1: How did you do against Dirk Nowitzki? I would say

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Speaker 1: he has the length on you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Dirk, I got I got him though. I beat

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Speaker 2: him though, Yeah, he's got it. He definitely got the

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Speaker 2: length on me. But he's it's a little hard for

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Speaker 2: I was able to keep the ball low on him.

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Speaker 1: Okay, explain this to me. In pickleball, you always hear

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Speaker 1: everybody talk about the kitchen, the kitchen. Can you explain

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Speaker 1: to us what the kitchen is in pickleball?

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Speaker 2: All right? The kitchen is that little it's like the

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Speaker 2: boss that's outlined right next to the net, and in

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Speaker 2: the kitchen, you can ever go into the kitchen unless

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Speaker 2: the ball goes in the kitchen. Got right. You can.

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Speaker 2: You can reach in there, but you can't touch the

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Speaker 2: ground in the kitchen unless the ball bounces in the kitchen.

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Speaker 2: Once the ball bounces in the kitchen, then you can

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Speaker 2: go in there and hit the ball. Then you're allowed

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Speaker 2: to You're allowed to go over in the kitchen. It

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Speaker 2: just keeps people back so that not everybody would just

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Speaker 2: run to the net, you know.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so once the ball bounces in the kitchen, that's

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Speaker 1: when you can play it. Yeah, exactly, Okay, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you explaining that to me. I I'm going

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Speaker 1: like I need a bigger challenge than pickleball in my life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't know if pickleball is a

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Speaker 2: sport for you, though, David, this is the issue. You know,

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Speaker 2: you're you're a little because you're a little fragile. I

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Speaker 2: don't see a lot of athleticism from you. Uh, you're

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Speaker 2: gonna need hand eye coordination, reaction. I think there are

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Speaker 2: don't know what kind of a you know, advise you

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Speaker 2: to stay away from it. It's got a lot of

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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. I appreciate your concern. How about fishing

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Speaker 1: for swordfish? How about fishing for swordfish?

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Speaker 2: Hey, we could go. We could go. I got my

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Speaker 2: boat down here and you can come down whenever you want. Oh, man, enjoyable.

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Speaker 2: You don't make me feel like.

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Speaker 1: I'm on vacation every time I watch you on Instagram

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Speaker 1: on the boat. I mean, you are living your best

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Speaker 1: life after just basically dedicating your previous what thirty years

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Man, It's been fun. Honestly, I kind

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Speaker 2: of pick A and I one adventure to do every month,

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Speaker 2: and I try to go out there and do it.

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Speaker 2: I'm a dad now, so you know I have that

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Speaker 2: currently pushing my daughter around a little a little car thing.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm not on adventures, but I'm not on

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Speaker 2: my one adventure a month. I come back and I'm

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Speaker 2: playing dad for the next three weeks, you know. So

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Speaker 2: I try to just enjoy it and make the best

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Speaker 1: But that George Clooney beard is still perfectly fine. It

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Speaker 1: has not even gotten too long. It is perfect for JD.

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Speaker 1: Martinez and you still have your I.

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Speaker 2: Keep it clean, yeah, yeah, keep it clean. I got,

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Speaker 2: I got, I got a few more white hair than

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Speaker 2: it now. But I'm good.

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Speaker 1: How since you were known for being a cage rat,

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Speaker 1: how liberating is your life now that you don't have

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's amazing. I love it. People are like,

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Speaker 2: how are you enjoying it? I'm like, they're like, do

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Speaker 2: you miss it? I'm like, I miss the boys. I

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Speaker 2: miss everything's feeling good and my body's feeling good, But

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Speaker 2: I don't miss the preparation and all that stuff that

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Speaker 2: goes into it to get my body ready just to

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Speaker 2: and everything I have to do. That's that's definitely a burden.

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Speaker 2: You know that's been taking off my shoulders in.

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Speaker 1: Twenty three with the dodge. How long would it take

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. I mean I said ever since spot

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. I mean, people don't understand that you guys

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Speaker 1: show up well before first pitch, not an hour before,

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Speaker 1: especially guys like you. And I used to hear Chase

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean for me, I was a little

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Speaker 2: bit different, you know. I mean, no one really understood this,

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Speaker 2: but I was. You know, I would wake up in

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Speaker 2: to the cage and do my whole you know, what

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Speaker 2: I would work on the night before, what I was

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Speaker 2: cage for like an hour, hour and a half and

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Speaker 2: then go and start my like, you know, go to

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Speaker 2: So my day really started around like nine ten o'clock.

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Speaker 1: And and now, do you did you have any withdrawals

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Speaker 1: last year your first year out of the game, and

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Speaker 1: how did you get over those withdrawals?

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Speaker 2: I definitely didn't have any withdrawals, for sure. Zero withdrawals. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: my withdrawals was like the guys hanging out with the

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Speaker 2: guys in the clubhouse talking crap, like the bus rides

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Speaker 2: like that kind of stuff. You know. That was that

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Speaker 2: was what I missed. But I'm still able to do

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Speaker 2: doing things I've never been able to do. Last year

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Speaker 2: was you know, taking these trips, learning how to free dive,

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Speaker 1: And if I mean to you again this year, would

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Speaker 1: Hey, JD. Martinez is going to be at the big

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he is, you know, he is small

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Speaker 2: this is crazy. There was I mean, there were so

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Speaker 2: You can't give these guys this amount of opportunities, you know.

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Speaker 2: And it was just I mean, kudos to the Dodgers man,

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's hard to see it. It's hard to

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Speaker 1: Well, he would know. He beat the Dodgers with the

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Speaker 1: magical season was not in Boston. It was right here

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Speaker 1: in La in my opinion, just kidding JD. That was

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Speaker 1: you're more than Mookie's whisper. You have a lot to

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it. We'll see, we'll see. I miss I

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Speaker 2: miss you too, buddy. I've always been watching I'm watching you.

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Speaker 2: I watch all your interviews every now and then to

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Speaker 2: I tried with Conforno.

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Speaker 1: It got him going for a week, but you know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel that.

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Speaker 1: Now people are talking about my nipples instead of my

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. During the celebration, it went, uh, you.

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Speaker 1: It was that and they showed it on Jimmy Kimmel

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Speaker 2: A fan's that's right up K's Alley.

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Speaker 1: All right, j D, I can talk to you forever.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: I know it's great to share you again with Dodger fans.

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Speaker 1: It was a great excuse to have you on since

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Speaker 1: A Ball Smash coming up on Monday, and uh, I

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Speaker 1: and uh, man you were. You're a special guy and

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it, David, thank you, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: We'll do it again soon. JD.

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Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, definitely, Man, I'll talk to you later.