Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Vasse or Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: We're here right now with three time World Series champion,
Speaker 2: one of the veterans in that Dodger bullpen, and certainly
Speaker 2: a guy that loves David Vassey and that's why he's
Speaker 2: here with us on a beautiful Sunday. Thanks a lot,
Speaker 2: Blake trying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, might I stressed the viewers? Those are your words,
Speaker 1: not mine.
Speaker 2: I love to hate. First question, Blake, this past week,
Speaker 2: you've done something that you haven't done all season long,
Speaker 2: pitch back to back games. Does that mean things are
Speaker 2: trending in a different direction for you? How much do
Speaker 2: you relish those opportunities?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean the fact that it's been a couple
Speaker 1: of times this week has been great, testing the body
Speaker 1: a little bit more and seeing how it bounces back,
Speaker 1: and you know, an unfortunate one and against the Giants,
Speaker 1: you know, not getting the quick outs like I was
Speaker 1: hoping to with the with the guys on base for Yama.
Speaker 1: But you know, yesterday was nice to check the box
Speaker 1: face some guys I've seen you a little bit. I
Speaker 1: had really good careers, obviously one of them being Mic.
Speaker 1: It's always fun facing against the guy who commands his
Speaker 1: own so well as he does and sucks that I've
Speaker 1: walked him now a couple of times. So but yeah,
Speaker 1: he's you know, getting back out there and having a
Speaker 1: back to back and slightly long one but efficient at
Speaker 1: the same time.
Speaker 2: It was nice to see you were needed and so
Speaker 2: we're so many of the other relievers set eight relievers
Speaker 2: used in that bullpaying game on Friday night. What's it
Speaker 2: like amongst the bullpen when you do have to have
Speaker 2: a bullpaying game and you guys pitch a shutout. How
Speaker 2: much celebration amongst all of you was there?
Speaker 1: You know, I think in the past it's been more
Speaker 1: celebrated between us. You know, this year's been so great
Speaker 1: because we've never really had to do that. Our starters
Speaker 1: were so good and we've always had great starters here,
Speaker 1: but you know, the season's tough, and sometimes guys performed
Speaker 1: to their ability and everyone in the five or of
Speaker 1: man rotations clicking right now, so you kind of forget,
Speaker 1: you know, like in twenty one we had some really
Speaker 1: good starters, but maybe not five deep that were healthy,
Speaker 1: and so we had to do some bullpen games. And
Speaker 1: back then it was like, yeah, we did it guys.
Speaker 1: You know, like last time it was you know, we're
Speaker 1: we're glad that we could pick up our team. You
Speaker 1: know it was it's whenever you can do your job
Speaker 1: and give the guys a break, and you know some
Speaker 1: guys are going through it, so to bless the team
Speaker 1: from our angle is always fun.
Speaker 2: How do you guys approach that? I know, from the
Speaker 2: outside looking in, it's a different type of pitch game.
Speaker 2: But for you as relievers to be successful, do you
Speaker 2: have to treat it like there's a starter in the
Speaker 2: game and you're just coming in whenever your group of
Speaker 2: hitters are coming to the plate. No.
Speaker 1: I think it's just same as it's been every year.
Speaker 1: Whenever your name's called, you just go get the house
Speaker 1: that you're asked of, that are asked of you, And
Speaker 1: if you try to make it more than that, it
Speaker 1: becomes harder. You don't need to add any more pressure
Speaker 1: to yourself. The game is already hard enough. And you know,
Speaker 1: like coming in, it's kind of cool to come in
Speaker 1: the fourth end and you know, I'm like, I haven't
Speaker 1: come in the fourth and along time and we showed up,
Speaker 1: We're like, hey, who's starting today, who's starting to you know,
Speaker 1: Investie on his typical rant, like.
Speaker 2: He goes, tryg's nervous, he's got to start.
Speaker 1: I said I would relish the moment to start a
Speaker 1: game again. I haven't done it since fourteen, So found
Speaker 1: out Will was doing it. He got the nod and
Speaker 1: then just kind of piecing it from there, just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out in my earlier later who's my run?
Speaker 1: You know a lot of rieties here, So it's more
Speaker 1: or less like at what point in the game that
Speaker 1: they want to throw me out there? So, yeah, just
Speaker 1: do your job when our name's called it. He keeps
Speaker 1: it simple and takes a stress off everything else.
Speaker 2: Some of the guys after the game, we're joking with
Speaker 2: Will Klein. He was acting a little different because he
Speaker 2: was the starter. He was had his chest puffed out
Speaker 2: a little differently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not everybody's made for the limelight, you know. I
Speaker 1: think he should be proud of how he threw. He
Speaker 1: had a bigger moment in the World Series. But he
Speaker 1: that guy's so talented and with his stuff, he can
Speaker 1: throw one of his five pitches per at bat and
Speaker 1: have a low pitch count and throw two plus innings
Speaker 1: if he has to, not that you ideally want him
Speaker 1: to do that, but you know he's more than capable.
Speaker 1: We got a guy falling.
Speaker 2: Over here, sorry, no harm, no foul over.
Speaker 1: There, had a tech guy over here. Just eat eat us.
Speaker 2: So back to Will Klein. Forget about the pitching. Blake
Speaker 2: Trining has been trying to get Will Kline to shave
Speaker 2: his mustache of his beard. Any success. I mean, he
Speaker 2: still's got the mustache. So anything getting closer to.
Speaker 1: That, well, it's not in my camp anymore. I put
Speaker 1: that on you and your viewers to make a vote
Speaker 1: when he was on your show, and it seemed like
Speaker 1: he kind of acknowledged if your viewers called in and
Speaker 1: the poll was, yeah, shave your mustache, it's probably gonna happen. Okay,
Speaker 1: So it's not on me.
Speaker 2: It's on me.
Speaker 1: Stop kicking the buckets to me. They have the balls
Speaker 1: in your court.
Speaker 2: Okay, sounds good. Thank you say okay, sounds good. So
Speaker 2: there you go. Let us know.
Speaker 1: I need a heavy vote, even if you don't think
Speaker 1: it'll look good, Just do it. Just say yes, one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. And on Will Cline shaving his mustache, keep
Speaker 1: the beard only a mustache, full amish, respect the people,
Speaker 1: hard workers. Will's a hard worker.
Speaker 2: So okay, before I let you go, another hard worker,
Speaker 2: Kirby Yates part of your bullpen last year. What a
Speaker 2: celebration yesterday before the game to present him with his
Speaker 2: World Series ring. It seemed like he was one of
Speaker 2: the more popular teammates. Why was he so special to
Speaker 2: the group last year?
Speaker 1: He had a couple guys who are veterans that came over,
Speaker 1: you know, Mikey, Comforto and Kirby and you know, amongst
Speaker 1: a couple other guys that I'm sure I'm gonna forget.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Curb being in the bullpen, having such a
Speaker 1: great career and then being with us as a you know,
Speaker 1: just a good teammate, you know, lightens the mood, jokester,
Speaker 1: phenomenal stuff, went through some injuries and whatnot. So having
Speaker 1: a chance to see someone who's had a long career
Speaker 1: win a World Series with you and being able to
Speaker 1: share that ring with him is pretty special.
Speaker 2: So he did a lot of things behind the scenes
Speaker 2: during the postseason. From what I understand, throwing live BPS
Speaker 2: that goes a long way, I would imagine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, he's he was no one's more
Speaker 1: frustrated than he was with having to go through those injuries.
Speaker 1: You know, he is to compete. We all work our
Speaker 1: whole careers to be at a point like this, and
Speaker 1: so from that point on, you know, you try to
Speaker 1: figure out a way to be involved in and he is.
Speaker 1: He was. I don't think there's anybody else who helped
Speaker 1: Boosom moralemore than he did from just keeping the guy's
Speaker 1: light when things were hard. And you know, it's also
Speaker 1: not easy from his standpoint to try to stay involved
Speaker 1: when you know you're not throwing. And so Kirby's, you know,
Speaker 1: just such a special dude. So we're we were honored
Speaker 1: to do that. And I'm hopefully going to be in
Speaker 1: contact with that guy the rest of my life from
Speaker 1: from you know, from from Afar. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many more years we both have in this game. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of cool to see a couple of guys
Speaker 1: still doing it.
Speaker 2: Blake, thanks a lot for the time. You've had a
Speaker 2: tremendous career, and just like the great Frank Stallone saying
Speaker 2: once you're far from over, thanks all right, there he
Speaker 2: goes Blake trying you want to show the hair.
Speaker 1: No, Dave, that's for you, Okay, made for the TV.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Blake, send it back to you.