Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, I was dragged to Bingo night at the school.
Speaker 2: Today I'm with a World Series hero, a man that
Speaker 2: has the distinction of hitting two walk off home runs
Speaker 2: in the World Series. I mean, I can't be dabbling
Speaker 2: with these parents at a school hall. I'm here with
Speaker 2: my guy, Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 3: It's good to be back.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna comment on your big not wanting a knight.
Speaker 3: It's good to be back.
Speaker 2: Yes, Does this feel for you like the real kickoff
Speaker 2: that spring training is around the corner?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: This definitely is when. I don't think I've been back
Speaker 1: since the parade for you. Yeah, so it's nice to
Speaker 1: come back. See the fans again. I mean we see
Speaker 1: him every day.
Speaker 3: Believe me.
Speaker 1: They come up and say how appreciative they are of
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. So yeah, I would say
Speaker 1: FanFest is the official kickoff, and then what we got
Speaker 1: one more week until all the baseball team says now.
Speaker 3: It's our turn or whatever.
Speaker 1: The super Bowl they always give that same little quote out.
Speaker 1: But I would say Banfest for all the teams, it's
Speaker 1: the real kickoff to the.
Speaker 2: Getting ready when you're around the streets of La Yeah,
Speaker 2: and people come up to you. Can you feel the
Speaker 2: effect that you've had on their lives their families?
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, definitely. I mean especially here like Miguel
Speaker 1: and I did the luncheon about about forty five minutes ago,
Speaker 1: and so many people of you know, they had someone
Speaker 1: had a widow maker and that was made it through
Speaker 1: the widow maker the heart attack and was able to
Speaker 1: come through and then we brought and brought her joy
Speaker 1: watching us play on the TV. Like, there's so many
Speaker 1: stories that we get told here at FanFest that really
Speaker 1: makes you feel what these fans and what we mean
Speaker 1: to them and what they mean to us. I mean,
Speaker 1: we were trying to tell them. It's not lost on
Speaker 1: us when we come in July eighteenth and on Tuesday
Speaker 1: and there's fifty four thousand people here and we understand
Speaker 1: how how awesome the fans are. And so when you
Speaker 1: get to hear the little stories of what Dodger Baseball
Speaker 1: means to them, it's not just we're just not a
Speaker 1: team to them, this is their livelihood.
Speaker 3: It's we're family to them, and.
Speaker 1: It really is special to be able to hear all
Speaker 1: the stories from fans that we've been able to create
Speaker 1: memories for them in the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: I know you mean so much to the fan base
Speaker 2: in Atlanta and Braise fans, but what you've done with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers feels like you've cemented your legacy with this
Speaker 2: franchise as well. That doesn't happen to too many players
Speaker 2: where you can say you had an indelible mark on two.
Speaker 1: Franchises, and you know, obviously these last you know, year
Speaker 1: or two. If people are talking about most people won't
Speaker 1: even remember my first twelve years.
Speaker 3: I said.
Speaker 1: I always respond with, I'm like, that just means I'm
Speaker 1: doing my job really well. And I adored my twelve
Speaker 1: years with the Braise. We won a championship there. But
Speaker 1: these last four years, being able to be playing in
Speaker 1: front of my family day in and day out, night
Speaker 1: after night, see my dad in front rows.
Speaker 2: Giving him a hug after it's been special.
Speaker 3: It really yeahs. But to be able to like, for
Speaker 3: you to even think.
Speaker 1: That after four years, that just makes me like I've
Speaker 1: done my job the best of I possibly can, and
Speaker 1: we've created some really cool things that are going to
Speaker 1: last in people's minds forever and for you to say
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff and people to think that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, that just means I've done my job, o.
Speaker 2: Catch Yeah, I would say so. I would say so.
Speaker 2: And you've been out there every day. We all know
Speaker 2: how much you pride yourself, Yeah on starting as many
Speaker 2: of the one hundred and sixty two as possible. Yeah,
Speaker 2: have they started to talk to you about what they've
Speaker 2: been saying?
Speaker 1: Are you already know what I'm gonna say? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: going to I'm going to be trying to play one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two games.
Speaker 2: So we should tell Dalton Rushing put that first phase
Speaker 2: glove away.
Speaker 1: All I can say to that is I will be
Speaker 1: prepared to play one hundred and sixty two games. I will,
Speaker 1: I think you know, I will be ready to go.
Speaker 1: And then if they come in and tell me that
Speaker 1: they want me to have a day off, then audible
Speaker 1: fight in that moment. But my job, my mindset, how
Speaker 1: I get ready to play every single game, and that's
Speaker 1: what I'm going to do. And so that just means
Speaker 1: I gotta get three hits every game. So that can't
Speaker 1: take me out a lot of talk and Andrew, I'm
Speaker 1: not coming out.
Speaker 2: That's right, I'm counting the doubles and they hit.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like that. I like that.
Speaker 2: Hey, last year. People have a quick memory. We forget
Speaker 2: took the day off yesterday. When I went through your
Speaker 2: I went through your place, that you're 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 3: There, we've been. We've done a lot of things together today. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's special.
Speaker 2: But you always talk about the game rewarding you, Freddy.
Speaker 1: It really does honor you. That game has honored him.
Speaker 1: We just got what he means to us. There's so
Speaker 1: many traditions that he started winning series. We get together
Speaker 1: to Caselfie as a group after those series wins, we
Speaker 1: toasted each other. We talk about how the player, the
Speaker 1: game and the series he created that. I think there's
Speaker 1: no bigger honor for us inside that clubhouse in the
Speaker 1: Roy Campanella Award, and he's won it back to back years.
Speaker 1: It's voted on by the people in that clubhouse. He
Speaker 1: comes in every day. The game honors you. Because he
Speaker 1: didn't play at all in the NLC. Yes, he didn't
Speaker 1: play the first few games of the World Series and
Speaker 1: then he gets his opportunity, it becomes a Dodger hero.
Speaker 1: I meanah, he really is a hero. And I think
Speaker 1: you guys heard it on backstage Dodgers when I said,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh again, I still think about it all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 2: It is the great Dodger time.
Speaker 3: This year is the greatest home Ryde. It's so amazing.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and he gets to play one more, he
Speaker 1: gets to re sign, gets to end his career with
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, and he's I know he's gonna wants to
Speaker 1: coach with us, so he'll be.
Speaker 3: Here forever, we hope.
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman as well, you haven't done the worm anytime recently,
Speaker 2: Andrew Freeman said he wants to put a stop to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm gonna be done with that. I
Speaker 3: hadn't done it.
Speaker 2: That was impressive, Freddy.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that I hadn't done the worm.
Speaker 2: Gosh, I didn't think you had it in you.
Speaker 1: It had been a long time, probably fourteen fifteen years
Speaker 1: of that. I used to be able to, like right
Speaker 1: now we're in the bullpen. I used to be able
Speaker 1: to do it the whole length of this volt who
Speaker 1: as you saw on that video, I hit it like
Speaker 1: four times on the ground and then how to get
Speaker 1: back up.
Speaker 3: That was kind of hurt a little bit too much. Well,
Speaker 3: just the way you delivered it, thank you, the way.
Speaker 2: It's not just the worm, it's the way you delivered
Speaker 2: the worst.
Speaker 1: Site that And I was just minding my business on
Speaker 1: the outside, watching everybody else have fun at Mookie's house,
Speaker 1: and I was just enjoying it. And then you know,
Speaker 1: when Keik starts hyping you up, he'd be the not
Speaker 1: fun guy and not do something. So I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'll bring this out. Yeah, I'm glad
Speaker 1: I was able to nail it in a lot of
Speaker 1: people's eyes. You're like, you know, it's good. When my
Speaker 1: wife told me he goes, a lot of people thought
Speaker 1: that was Ai. That's it, that's a I did that
Speaker 1: pretty well. I just not used to the big man
Speaker 1: getting down on the ground, like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah twice, even as wedding.
Speaker 1: But Gvin forced me you didn't feel it was his wedding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I felt like I was getting pushed.
Speaker 3: To do something. I didn't like that.
Speaker 2: But like a circus client, amuse us at our wedding exactly.
Speaker 1: But like you just said, it was his wedding. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: oh fine, I'll do it for you.
Speaker 2: And can you can you tell us what the key
Speaker 2: is to executing a goodly.
Speaker 1: I really don't know. Like everyone goes, how did you learn,
Speaker 1: I said, I don't.
Speaker 2: I've just been you were doing that at a high school.
Speaker 3: I'm okay, I was just there yesterday.
Speaker 1: Most people will see me on the field, sitting in
Speaker 1: the same seat in the dugout. Serious, but I have
Speaker 1: fun when I play. Most people don't know I I
Speaker 1: can dance a little bit and move around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you got a little glimpse of it on
Speaker 3: the worm.
Speaker 2: All right, I love it.
Speaker 3: I'm done.
Speaker 1: I'll be done with it though, unless we win again,
Speaker 1: and I'll bring it three P, three P. I'll bring
Speaker 1: 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 3: Okay, But.
Speaker 2: I like that we got a six to seven out
Speaker 2: of rookie today.
Speaker 3: Jeez.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what you guys are doing here on fan
Speaker 1: Fast and I was I'm one of the few people
Speaker 1: that congratulate anybody that doesn't want to play in.
Speaker 2: The World Baseball Classic. Oh so congratulations. Oh by the way,
Speaker 2: before I let you go, speaking of Canada, okay, talk
Speaker 2: about two viral things that blew up surrounding Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: beside your walk off home run in Game three, the Worm,
Speaker 2: of course, and then that commercial you did with the
Speaker 2: kids the children's hospital. Yeah, Ryan, Ryan Reynolds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's first the kids in Toronto.
Speaker 1: And Ryan reached out and wanted to, you know, we
Speaker 1: we do something together to help raise funds. And when
Speaker 1: he reached out, I was like, Okay, that sounds pretty
Speaker 1: fun and obviously hospitals and kids it means a lot
Speaker 1: to me, obviously with what we've gone through as a family,
Speaker 1: So to help raise money for a hospital in Toronto,
Speaker 1: I jumped at it with him and it came out
Speaker 1: really good. I'm usually not wanting to act or do
Speaker 1: anything like that, but I had I had fun. Those
Speaker 1: kids were awesome, It was great. It turned out really
Speaker 1: really well, and I had fun doing it. Got to
Speaker 1: meet some really cool kids from the hospital that did
Speaker 1: it with me, and they got to hear their stories
Speaker 1: and what they went through. And those kids are doing
Speaker 1: really well right now. So hopefully we raise a lot
Speaker 1: of money for that hospital and we can, we can
Speaker 1: make sure some more kids can get out of that hospital.
Speaker 2: It resonated with everybody, the comedic timing and just what
Speaker 2: it means. Yeah, I think you did your job.
Speaker 3: Appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and I hope the kids of in Toronto.
Speaker 1: The hospital got a lot of money out of it,
Speaker 1: and hopefully we can find some cures and get those
Speaker 1: 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 3: I know, we got to.
Speaker 2: I admire everything you stand for two.
Speaker 3: Weeks from now, we'll see each other every day, every day.
Speaker 2: I won't bring any iPads. My guy, Freddie Freeman. H
Speaker 2: Glass Now is yawning. I mean like he's writing a
Speaker 2: three point stance ady to tackle me.
Speaker 1: I'm at the TV when I was doing TV Wow,
Speaker 1: and I got sidetracked for how beautiful he was.
Speaker 2: I know what a man. Can We take a photo
Speaker 2: on live radio and Glassnow could come over. We could
Speaker 2: just pass the mic, the hot mic all right here,
Speaker 2: My guy, Freddie Freeman, A champion of the people, a
Speaker 2: champion to everybody everywhere,