WEBVTT - J.D. Martinez (2-27-26) 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:04.840 And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talker. 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:10.879 I am really excited to have our next guest join 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:13.720 us for the first time over the phone, for the 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:18.000 first time technically on Dodger Talk. He was a recurring 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:22.880 guest on the pregame show. He only spent one year 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.920 with the Dodgers, but it was a fantastic year. He 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:31.440 was part of the first quartet in Dodger history to 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.760 drive in one hundred runs in the same season. That 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.240 was back in twenty twenty three when he hit thirty 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.960 three home runs and drove in one hundred and three 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:45.560 runs for the Dodgers. And we had a special handshake. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:49.280 We connected over me breaking my wrist on the Milwaukee 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.680 slide in spring training and from that point on, the 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:57.040 magic with the Deadfish handshake took off. And that is 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:02.080 America's dh JD Mark teen is JD. Great to have 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.240 you on the show. I miss you, Hey, I. 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.880 Miss you too. Man, It's great talking to you. You 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.720 are on Bess. How I'm late. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.320 Life is good. I have not gone down any slides, 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.319 I haven't broken any ribs. I'm doing okay, thank god. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:19.240 Yeah, I don't think you're allowed to go to any 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:20.000 slides anymore. 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.280 I feel like I have to have some redemption. Maybe 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:27.160 go on a fishing boat with you, or maybe do 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.640 some some skiing with you. Maybe we can work that out. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.000 Oh that would be great. I would love nothing more. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.160 I would love to see than skiing down the slopes, 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.039 especially knowing how fragile you are. 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.760 JD didn't know who the hell I was until he 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.040 saw the slide highlight one spring training moment, and then 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.440 from that point on, Uh, it was. It was a 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:52.880 great year in twenty twenty three. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.400 Yeah, I think it was a blooper that was being 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.600 run on TV. I remember seeing that. I'd be like, 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.760 oh my gosh, who is that guy? And everyone's like, 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:01.800 that's David, that's our media guy. I said, I got 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.120 to beat this guy. How do you break your hands 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:05.880 sliding down a slide? I've never heard of. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.240 That, dude. It was a fast ride. It was a 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.240 fast slide. I don't know I slowed it down. I 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.400 feel like I did everybody of public service. 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.600 I love it. I love it. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:23.120 Hey, JD. Martinez is living his best life. He's fishing 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.720 nearly every day out there in Florida. He was just 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:32.080 in Park City, Utah skiing and now he's in the ohright, 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.920 oh sorry, sorry, Aspen. Yes, that's uh. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.960 Yeah, yeah, I had a lot of homers. I get 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.200 to go to Aspen, a. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.480 Lot of dingers for JD Martinez to go to Aspen. 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.440 And now he's in the desert for the Desert Smash 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:51.880 in Lakina starting on Monday. He's a celebrity pickleball player. Now, 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.600 I mean, is that the level of pickleball you're at 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.160 right now where you're a celebrity? 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.280 I mean pretty much. I mean I don't know. I 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.360 mean it's if my back could hold up a little 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.000 bit more, I think I can kind of get good 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.920 at it, but I always run into my back issues, 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.400 you know, And was it for that, I think I'd be, 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.880 you know, out there competing, trying to compete more. But 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.440 I'm excited for it. I'm excited. I know a lot 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.000 of there's gonna be a lot of pros out there. 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.440 There's gonna be a lot of really good players, and 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.760 I'm excited to go and you know, play alongside of them. 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:27.680 It'll be fun. Yeah. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.480 Will Ferrell is supposed to be one of the other 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.960 celebrities with JD Martinez. Maybe you could be doubles like 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:34.920 Krushaw's ping pong tournament. 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.640 I remember that. Yeah, Kershaw kind of Kershaw rigged that 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.720 ping pong tournament so he would win. I know it. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.720 So who's a better pickleball player? You or Mookie Betts? 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.520 Oh? I don't know. I think I'm gonna have to 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.360 say me. I'm sorry, Smoke. I love him, but I 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.960 think I got them. I'll just play more though. That's 0:03:58.960 --> 0:03:59.640 the problem. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.080 Yeah, exactly. I mean, how do you have back problems 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.040 when you play pickleball? You barely move? 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.120 I mean, what are you talking about? You got to 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.360 stop bend over. There's a lot of things you gotta do. 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:14.120 I don't see it. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:15.400 A lot of things you do. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.720 I don't see why this is such a phenomenon across 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:20.360 the country. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:23.680 Oh, it's addicted. It's so addicted. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.159 Why Why is it because you little ping pong and 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.080 you move around a little bit. I know you're a competitor, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.880 but what makes you so good to bring your game 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.960 to the desert smash and really want to fly across 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:37.200 the country to be part of this. 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.240 I mean it's one of those things you know, you 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.760 get invited. It's a cool experience. Uh, you get to 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.800 go alongside and test your test your skills against some 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:52.200 of the pros out there. So it's definitely a you know, 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:53.960 nothing I like more than a good challenge. So I'm 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.120 excited to just go out there and see what I went. 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.400 Earlier this year, I went to Dallas for a for 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.560 the same kind of thing, and I got to play 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:06.560 against Dirk Novisky and Carol Owens and Tifu and it 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.760 was just fun. It's a fun, cool experience. And we 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.719 got to go up against some of the pickleball pros 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.400 like Ben Jons and of course they put me on 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.840 singles against Annaalie Waters, who's probably the best pickleball player ever, 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.200 and I got absolutely demolished. It was a very humbling 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:24.719 experience for him, and I truly enjoyed it. All right, Yeah, 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:25.919 it's just good. It's good fun. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.839 How did you do against Dirk Nowitzki? I would say 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.600 he has the length on you. 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.520 Yeah, Dirk, I got I got him though. I beat 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:36.280 him though, Yeah, he's got it. He definitely got the 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.520 length on me. But he's it's a little hard for 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.440 him to, you know, bend over, he's so tall, so 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.560 I was able to keep the ball low on him. 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:47.120 Okay, explain this to me. In pickleball, you always hear 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.359 everybody talk about the kitchen, the kitchen. Can you explain 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.480 to us what the kitchen is in pickleball? 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.200 All right? The kitchen is that little it's like the 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:00.600 boss that's outlined right next to the net, and in 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.960 the kitchen, you can ever go into the kitchen unless 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.680 the ball goes in the kitchen. Got right. You can. 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.919 You can reach in there, but you can't touch the 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.000 ground in the kitchen unless the ball bounces in the kitchen. 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.080 Once the ball bounces in the kitchen, then you can 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.520 go in there and hit the ball. Then you're allowed 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.279 to You're allowed to go over in the kitchen. It 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.640 just keeps people back so that not everybody would just 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:23.640 run to the net, you know. 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.040 Okay, so once the ball bounces in the kitchen, that's 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:31.560 when you can play it. Yeah, exactly, Okay, thank you. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.480 I appreciate you explaining that to me. I I'm going 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.159 to try it one of these days. But I feel 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.840 like I need a bigger challenge than pickleball in my life. 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:40.840 Yeah, I don't. I don't know if pickleball is a 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.160 sport for you, though, David, this is the issue. You know, 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.920 you're you're a little because you're a little fragile. I 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.400 don't see a lot of athleticism from you. Uh, you're 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.359 gonna need hand eye coordination, reaction. I think there are 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.840 a lot of skills that you don't have. So I 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.080 don't know what kind of a you know, advise you 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.159 to stay away from it. It's got a lot of 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:01.719 injuries in the pickleball game. 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:06.359 Okay, thank you. I appreciate your concern. How about fishing 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:10.119 for swordfish? How about fishing for swordfish? 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.520 Hey, we could go. We could go. I got my 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.560 boat down here and you can come down whenever you want. Oh, man, enjoyable. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.560 You don't make me feel like. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.560 I'm on vacation every time I watch you on Instagram 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.920 on the boat. I mean, you are living your best 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:29.640 life after just basically dedicating your previous what thirty years 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.640 to baseball. I mean, I love that you're enjoying yourself. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.560 I appreciate it. Man, It's been fun. Honestly, I kind 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:41.239 of pick A and I one adventure to do every month, 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.240 and I try to go out there and do it. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.520 I'm a dad now, so you know I have that 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.720 currently pushing my daughter around a little a little car thing. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.640 Oh yeah, I'm not on adventures, but I'm not on 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.680 my one adventure a month. I come back and I'm 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.480 playing dad for the next three weeks, you know. So 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:02.880 I try to just enjoy it and make the best 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:03.360 out of it. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:08.480 But that George Clooney beard is still perfectly fine. It 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.960 has not even gotten too long. It is perfect for JD. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.200 Martinez and you still have your I. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.680 Keep it clean, yeah, yeah, keep it clean. I got, 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:20.400 I got, I got a few more white hair than 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:21.760 it now. But I'm good. 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.880 How since you were known for being a cage rat, 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.320 how liberating is your life now that you don't have 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:34.400 the burden of having to be America's dh. 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.360 Oh my gosh, it's amazing. I love it. People are like, 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.839 how are you enjoying it? I'm like, they're like, do 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.800 you miss it? I'm like, I miss the boys. I 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.520 miss everything's feeling good and my body's feeling good, But 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.959 I don't miss the preparation and all that stuff that 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:50.880 goes into it to get my body ready just to 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.560 go out there and have four back in the game 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.160 and everything I have to do. That's that's definitely a burden. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.840 You know that's been taking off my shoulders in. 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.200 Twenty three with the dodge. How long would it take 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:03.520 you to get ready for a game? 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.760 Oh my goodness. I mean I said ever since spot 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.839 like twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, I think is when 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.160 it started. It would probably take me like an hour 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.160 on the training room table and then an hour in 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.640 the gym, and then from there I'm kind of ready 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.280 to start batting practice and get ready to go, you know, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:25.960 like get my body moving around. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:31.319 That's amazing. I mean, people don't understand that you guys 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.960 show up well before first pitch, not an hour before, 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.680 especially guys like you. And I used to hear Chase 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.080 Suttley at the end of his career showing up at 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.640 noon for a seventy ten game just to get ready. 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.640 Oh yeah, I mean for me, I was a little 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.600 bit different, you know. I mean, no one really understood this, 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.720 but I was. You know, I would wake up in 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:57.200 the morning at nine ten o'clock, eat breakfast, and go 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.600 to the cage and do my whole you know, what 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.040 I would work on the night before, what I was 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:03.640 going to work on that day that I saw the 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.400 night before, I was gonna go and I was gonna, 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.400 you know, go test it out and go to the 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.040 cage for like an hour, hour and a half and 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.160 then go and start my like, you know, go to 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.720 the field around twelve one o'clock and start my day there. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.800 So my day really started around like nine ten o'clock. 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.720 And and now, do you did you have any withdrawals 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.640 last year your first year out of the game, and 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.520 how did you get over those withdrawals? 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:40.360 I definitely didn't have any withdrawals, for sure. Zero withdrawals. Yeah, 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:44.680 my withdrawals was like the guys hanging out with the 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:49.080 guys in the clubhouse talking crap, like the bus rides 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:51.840 like that kind of stuff. You know. That was that 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.080 was what I missed. But I'm still able to do 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.360 all that here. You know, I have my whole morning 0:10:56.400 --> 0:11:01.000 routine here that I do, and I started doing, you know, 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.400 doing things I've never been able to do. Last year 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.880 was you know, taking these trips, learning how to free dive, 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.120 learning like you know, just different styles of fishing and 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.280 trying to go and go on like you know, crazy 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.199 adventures where we take the boat. I mean, we did 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:18.880 a few trips this year. We took the boat one 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.000 hundred and fifty miles out in the middle of nowhere, 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.240 stuck on the boat for three days and just fish 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.640 for three days like some like more hardcore stuff than 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:27.480 ever been able to do. 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:29.160 That's amazing. 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.920 It's been. It's been great, dude, it's been fun. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.800 Next, the Dodger sucked you back in last year when 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.920 we were in Tampa. It was it was out there 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.720 that that you got sucked back in to be the 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.520 mookie whisperer to help him try to get out of 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.720 the season long slump. Yeah. 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.360 Yeah, yeah, I mean me and MUK go way back, 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:56.080 so you know, for him, I definitely made the exception 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.120 of coming out and going out there and spending a 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.520 weekend with them and you know, trying to get him 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.720 back on track. It was like, God, a few times 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.920 we did it? Did it? I did it there? And 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:08.040 then I did in l A too. 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:09.400 Did you really? 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.079 So? Yeah? 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.800 Help him with? What do you help him with? 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:15.040 How? 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.120 Why does J. D. Martinez connect with him so much? 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:22.880 I don't know. I mean I think we both a 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.560 want of trust. He trusts me, uh he you know, 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.600 he values my opinion on everything. And from there it 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.200 was kind of one of those things where we just 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:36.720 we work well together, and I don't know, I feel 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.280 like I just have a really good understanding of his 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:43.360 swing and his mind. You know, Mooke's Mooke's you know, unbelievable, 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.720 unbelievable talent, as everybody knows. He's just sometimes this game 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.040 it just derails you sometimes and you need someone to 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.320 you know, lock it back in. You know. Robert, Robert 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.920 was that guy. Robert was that guy for me. You know, 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.440 every time I would get derailed, Robert would kind of 0:12:58.480 --> 0:12:59.960 guide me back in and it was a lot of 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.160 trust that I put into him, and it always kind 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.040 of works. Sometimes you just got to turn your brain 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.120 off and let someone else think for you, cause you 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:10.120 just get in your own way. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.080 Mooki's coming to camp earlier than I've ever seen him 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.160 come to camp to work since twenty twenty. Do you 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.840 expect him you know, there's a lot of people that 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.760 expect the beginning of the end last year for Mooki. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.280 Do you expect him to have you know, more of 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:26.560 a Mooki type year? 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.360 Yeah, I mean, you just the thing with Muke is 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.280 you just you know, you never know, he just turns 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:34.880 on a switch and all of a sudden, he doesn't 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:36.600 get out for freaking three months and you're like, what 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.200 the heck just happened. It's like Freddie. You know, they're 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.360 able to just go on these runs where you're like, 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.640 good luck, you know. So for me to see that, 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:50.880 I always for me, I always expect MOOKI to have 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:52.800 a great year. You know. I tell him every I 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.640 tell him all the time. I said, Muke, I said, 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.280 there's no reason that you can't win MVP every single 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.600 year because you have that kind of ability. 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.720 And if I mean to you again this year, would 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.160 you answer the phone? Would they be able to suck 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.800 you back into the cage? 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.880 I mean, if Mookie called me, yeah, I definitely would, 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:14.240 you know, I mean, Muskie's my guy. 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.280 So what what it. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.280 Always been, We've always had a bigger relationship. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.920 I wanted I wanted you to be part of what 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.920 they got now. But watching it the last two years, 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.480 do you even watch their games? Did you even watch 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:29.440 the World Series? 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:35.520 Yeah? No, The World Series is unbelievable. I mean it's 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:40.040 kind of it was. It was unreal games with you know, Toronto, 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.600 and it was it was crazy. It was crazy. It 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.160 was just crazy. You know, there were so many times 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:46.560 you thought Toronto was going to win the game. They 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.920 were just right there and I was like, Oh, if 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:50.440 they don't score here, they're not going to win this 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.320 type thing. And you know, the Dodgers just you guys 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.880 just had that veteran you know, leadership and presence and 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.320 it's just a veteran club. And you give you give 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.160 those guys with that much talent enough opportunities, they're gonna 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:05.520 you guys are going to find a way for sure. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:06.760 And I think that's what happened. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:11.400 Hey, JD. Martinez is going to be at the big 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:15.360 Smash in Lakenta beginning on Monday, the Desert Smash. But 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.200 I got to ask you when you were at the 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.040 Red Sox and you guys beat the Dodgers. Chris Sale 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.160 did heroic things, including you know, coming out of the 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.800 bullpen in game five, where would you rank with where 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.000 what Yamamoto did in game six and seven? 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:35.520 Especially unreal, unbelievable. You know, Nadi Valdi was our guy, 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:39.320 that he was our Yama Moto in that twenty eighteen run. 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.280 But what I mean what Yamamoto did was I mean, 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.760 it was definitely the reason he won the MVP. I 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.880 mean that was ridiculous. I faced him one time in 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:54.320 twenty twenty, twenty twenty four with the Mets at our 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:58.000 place and it was freezing, and I remember he was 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.240 throwing himself, like Jesus, how does anybody hit this guy? 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.080 This guy's nasty. He didn't know what the hell the 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.560 ball was gonna do. It was like playing with the 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.200 ball at ninety seven miles an hour. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.120 Yeah, I mean he is, you know, he is small 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.640 in stature and his hands aren't as big as Pedro 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.600 Martinez JD. But I don't know he found something after 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.080 he came off the IL in twenty four. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.720 Yeah, he was. I mean he was feeling it. He 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.600 felt great. You could see it that he felt great, 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:33.040 and he just rode that whole wave, you know, and 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.240 he was just he was lighted out. 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.600 Where were you watching Game seven of the World Series 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.400 on a boat somewhere? Where were you? 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:48.160 Now? No, it was actually watching game on the games earlier, 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.000 like on a boat. Me and alex Avila were on 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:55.800 his boat. He's got a sixty eight foot Vikings, beautiful boat, 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.320 and we were on his boat watching it. But the 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.720 game seven, I was on my I was on my 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.160 couch with my friends and I was I was standing 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:04.840 up the whole game. I was like, oh my god, 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.679 this is crazy. There was I mean, there were so 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.720 many plays the play at the plate that Blue Jays 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:14.000 had bases loaded, like two three times. You guys had 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.800 bases loaded. No one to get it no longer, you know, 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.080 drive in that last run. And I was like, oh, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.520 this is not looking good for Toronto. I already see it. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.119 You can't give these guys this amount of opportunities, you know. 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:31.280 And it was just I mean, kudos to the Dodgers man, 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.160 and you know what Andrew's been able to do there. 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.919 It's unbelievable the team he's been able to put together. 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.080 Do you think they repeat this year? 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.280 I mean, it's hard to see it. It's hard to 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:46.040 say no, you know. I mean it's hard to say no. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.280 It's just one of those things where, I mean, that's 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.919 the lineup, the pitching, Like, there's not many weaknesses the 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.159 Dodgers have. It's just the only weakness that they have 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.159 is that they've been to the World Series, you know, 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.520 the last two years and they've won. So that's a 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.120 lot of wear and tear on the bodies. And that's 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.000 the only downside you you look at when you see 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:06.400 a team like that, trying to go back and threepeat. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:08.280 I mean, it's not a lot of the teams have 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:11.480 done it. It's so tough with health, you know, you 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:15.280 got to keep everybody healthy and those those leverage innings, 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.080 those things that you know, like what Yamamoto was able 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.320 to do, we saw it in twenty eighteen coming back 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.800 in twenty nineteen with Rick Porcello and David Price, that 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:26.760 you could see those guys had to really stretch it 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.680 out in eighteen and they kind of caught up to 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.960 them in nineteen. So that's just that's the hardest part 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.119 about you know, about the playoffs and pushing it that 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.359 long because you don't know, you know, the wear and 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.240 tear you create because you're just so much adrenaline going 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:42.600 through you in those games. 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.600 Well, he would know. He beat the Dodgers with the 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:49.399 Red Sox in twenty eighteen. He finished his career with 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:53.040 three hundred and thirty one home runs, and his most 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.920 magical season was not in Boston. It was right here 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.080 in La in my opinion, just kidding JD. That was 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:03.840 that was my favorite year. We had so much Yeah, man, 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.000 we had so much fun. And uh uh, I hope 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.159 you come back to La. I hope the Dodgers can 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:12.159 find a place for you, because you do have a 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:14.800 lot to offer. But at the very least, the Mookie 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:18.680 whisperer always has a bat phone for Mookie to call 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:22.040 to get him back on track. I feel like you 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.480 you're more than Mookie's whisper. You have a lot to 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.440 offer to a lot of guys. JD. So uh, maybe 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:29.720 when you dock the boat you could go to the 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:30.800 cache and help guys. 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.680 I appreciate it. We'll see, we'll see. I miss I 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.280 miss you too, buddy. I've always been watching I'm watching you. 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:42.320 I watch all your interviews every now and then to 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.119 see who else. Uh you're giving that debtfish handshake to 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:47.879 I tried with Conforno. 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:50.240 It got him going for a week, but you know, 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:51.800 it can only do so much. 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:54.600 Yeah, I feel that. 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.040 Now people are talking about my nipples instead of my 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:03.720 wrist and my dead fish handshake now, Oh no, for real? 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.520 Oh yeah. During the celebration, it went, uh, you. 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:12.120 Know, with got to be something k did h Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:12.520 it was. 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:14.679 It was that and they showed it on Jimmy Kimmel 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:15.960