Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talking.
Speaker 1: They all always come crawling back, you know, when I'm
Speaker 1: around them every day. They get tired of me and
Speaker 1: then they start to have vassay withdrawal. And that's what
Speaker 1: started to happen for Joe Kelly. An incredible picture, incredible career,
Speaker 1: three times World Series champion, Mariachi Joe legend, and he's
Speaker 1: texting me, I miss you so much.
Speaker 2: I miss you so much, and so.
Speaker 1: Here he is, though, one and only Mariachi Joe Kelly
Speaker 1: from Parts Unknown on Dodger Talk. Did I describe that perfectly?
Speaker 1: Or do you have some issues with anything?
Speaker 3: I said, no, And the ten thousand dollars for thirty
Speaker 3: minutes is nice. Thank you for that, Toode.
Speaker 2: You are having so much.
Speaker 3: All things, hey, that was our agreement right on contract.
Speaker 3: You pay me ten grand for thirty minutes and you
Speaker 3: can say whatever you'd like it.
Speaker 2: It's in the mail.
Speaker 3: It's in the mail, okay, ten thousand paces geez wow?
Speaker 1: Yes, Papa, Hey, I will say this, you didn't forget
Speaker 1: the little people when you got your ring last year.
Speaker 1: You did take time out of your family to say
Speaker 1: hi to me, so I wasn't sure if it was
Speaker 1: going to go that way.
Speaker 3: No, of course you're uh, you're one of the little
Speaker 3: people compared to the Dodger well oiled machine, right, But
Speaker 3: you're not a little person. You have your own niche, right,
Speaker 3: you have your own fan base. Your people meet you
Speaker 3: and they think you are what you think of me,
Speaker 3: Joe Kelly. So people come to meet you and like, oh,
Speaker 3: David Vasse, you're the best. Listen to your show. You're
Speaker 3: popular amongst your crowd. But yes, you are a little
Speaker 3: compared to me saying hi to everyone else was at
Speaker 3: Dodger Stadium. But you're not little to me.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I actually was buying my wife a birthday present and
Speaker 1: the guy that was helping me listens to the show
Speaker 1: and I said, hey, I'm going to have Joe Kelly
Speaker 1: on the show tonight. And he said, oh, I have
Speaker 1: I have his number seventeen jersey. I said, oh, you're
Speaker 1: the one that still has one. So people still.
Speaker 3: Love you, dude. There's people still with number seventeen jerseys,
Speaker 3: and those are those are going more for a Pokemon
Speaker 3: cards nowadays. That og og skin, the Joe Kelly seventeen
Speaker 3: it's pretty rare. I love that those are one of one.
Speaker 3: You know, it's kind of like going to Disneyland and
Speaker 3: you're like one of those pin collectors. You know, it's
Speaker 3: like one of those those own little things. Are you're
Speaker 3: going to find the hidden Mickey's. And when you're waiting
Speaker 3: in line and someone walks around with a Joe Kelly
Speaker 3: seventeen jersey, you're like, he gets it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: It's not like a guy that's walking around with a
Speaker 1: brand new Dodger hat that says twenty five World champs.
Speaker 1: It's a legit Dodger fan if they have a seventeen
Speaker 1: Kelly jersey, Oh, die.
Speaker 3: Hard, bro, you know they watched You know, they're watching
Speaker 3: ninety percent of all Dodger.
Speaker 2: Games, no doubt. Hey, since you know.
Speaker 3: You asked you you go up to those fans, you say, Hey,
Speaker 3: who the frick do you think we should cut? Or
Speaker 3: who the hell do you think we should trade? They'll
Speaker 3: give you a right they'll give you a straight answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you go up to a guy with a
Speaker 1: brand new hat, they'll just talk about otani.
Speaker 3: Guy with a brand new Kyle Tucker jersey have no idea? Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: what I like the Dodgers. Yeah, we should trade nobody.
Speaker 1: Since you're not playing baseball anymore. How many times have
Speaker 1: you been to Disneyland in the last couple of years?
Speaker 3: Once? Bro?
Speaker 2: What your years?
Speaker 3: Years?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Two years, last two years, dude.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you just heard what I said
Speaker 3: like five minutes ago about you know, you being like
Speaker 3: the little person. But if I go to Disneyland, it's
Speaker 3: not like I could just walk around there pretty easily,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So every time I go
Speaker 3: to Disneyland, I'll waste money which I should put in
Speaker 3: my kids saving the account. But I'll buy I'll buy
Speaker 3: the plaids, you know what I mean. I'll buy the
Speaker 3: VP tour, even if it's just like four of us,
Speaker 3: just so we feel like do everything and you know,
Speaker 3: get in and out. And I mean I'm only doing
Speaker 3: that once a year.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's worth it.
Speaker 3: We have passes. Yeah, Me and Ashley used to live
Speaker 3: in Anaheim actually probably like three minutes Fromain in the
Speaker 3: Stadium and then like six minutes from Disneyland, like on
Speaker 3: a bicycle. Like my first couple of years in the league.
Speaker 3: We lived right and sorry ride in Anaheim and we
Speaker 3: were we were members and This is more COVID because
Speaker 3: COVID kind of changing everything where they got rid of
Speaker 3: like the annual pass holder type thing, like they're kind
Speaker 3: of bringing it back.
Speaker 2: But you are a Disney nerd.
Speaker 3: Dude, I'm not a Disney nerd. I just like free,
Speaker 3: like like entertainment, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's not free? Are you? Are you a member of
Speaker 2: a Club thirty three? Are you a club? Are you
Speaker 2: a Club thirty three member? No?
Speaker 3: But I've been a few times with my dad, his
Speaker 3: his childhood best friends, the couple of remembers.
Speaker 1: Wow, mooching off a Club thirty three member? Very Joe
Speaker 1: Kelly like.
Speaker 3: Hey, I would, I would. Uh, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: bash Club thirty three because you know I might go
Speaker 3: there one time.
Speaker 2: Are you on the list before before.
Speaker 3: Being a member of Club thirty three? The food is
Speaker 3: no better than like, you know, tacos, lost trolos, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. But I mean that's firing. But
Speaker 3: the food is not great.
Speaker 2: All right, So we're not missing out too much.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no no, But it's cool just to
Speaker 3: say you're getting in there, all right.
Speaker 1: I love it. Joe Kelly is our guest. If you
Speaker 1: need any advice on how to navigate Disneyland. He's your guy,
Speaker 1: but you're the perfect guy to have on the show
Speaker 1: with all these people overreacting again because the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: trying to win. I thought that was the point of
Speaker 1: professional sports. What have you made about all these people
Speaker 1: saying there's gonna be a lockout. Now the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: are playing unfairly, nobody else has a chance. Since you're
Speaker 1: the guy that is a best selling author with an
Speaker 1: incredible book, a damn near perfect game, reclaiming America's pastime,
Speaker 1: what do you make of all this?
Speaker 3: I love it. I love when people are mad and sad.
Speaker 3: There's nothing I'm not a very happy guy. You could
Speaker 3: ask my wife. But what makes me happy is other
Speaker 3: people bitching and complaining, you know what I mean, God,
Speaker 3: it makes me feel so good. I don't even play,
Speaker 3: but I just like to stir the pot and see
Speaker 3: all the animosity. It's wonderful. I think it's great for
Speaker 3: the game of baseball. There's no way it's gonna be fixed.
Speaker 3: I don't care about people saying there's a lockout. There's
Speaker 3: a lockout last time, guys, You know what I mean,
Speaker 3: There's gonna be a lockout. There's always gonna be a
Speaker 3: lockout eventually for to see who you know, how long
Speaker 3: it goes, that is to be seen, obviously. But I mean,
Speaker 3: these guys were all free agents. It's it's it's not
Speaker 3: something that's very hard to do, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I don't understand what Joe Kelly unfiltered on Dodger talk.
Speaker 1: So okay, I'm a big believer that what the Dodgers
Speaker 1: have done is just make baseball more relevant, having the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and Yankees in the World Series, having that epic
Speaker 1: World Series. How can anybody say the Dodgers are bad
Speaker 1: for baseball? The Dodgers being this good is great for baseball.
Speaker 3: Of course, it's great for baseball. You know, there's any
Speaker 3: given day I could go on, you know, someone giving
Speaker 3: an interview or I mean, you got NBA analysts, you know,
Speaker 3: talking about Dodgers in baseball. You got NFL reporters talking
Speaker 3: Dodgers and talking baseball, you know what I mean. You
Speaker 3: got comedians getting mad with the effected Dodgers signing baseball
Speaker 3: like you're doing something right in as an owner and
Speaker 3: as a league. If you could get all these people
Speaker 3: who didn't really care about baseball now talking about it
Speaker 3: as a top of conversation. You know, that's just good pubs.
Speaker 3: It's good pub and it's gonna open a lot of
Speaker 3: eyes to like the new the new CBA. That's gonna
Speaker 3: be fun. There's gona be people giving their input and
Speaker 3: following along, you know, day by day on this kind
Speaker 3: of thing that you know, don't really watch sports.
Speaker 1: Joe Kelly is our guest who did not announce his retirement,
Speaker 1: just said he's not going to play baseball anymore.
Speaker 2: Uh, just to let.
Speaker 1: You know, you still have your mural at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 1: up on the reserve level. Maybe that'll change after this interview,
Speaker 1: but you still got it up there right now. And
Speaker 1: I was just wondering the reaction that you got when
Speaker 1: you start to say these things that you're not pitching anymore,
Speaker 1: you're not retiring.
Speaker 2: Uh what what did it? Did it trigger anything inside
Speaker 2: of you?
Speaker 1: The reaction you got from fans in Saint Louis, Boston
Speaker 1: and La.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think it.
Speaker 2: You were really celebrated. It was like a victory tour
Speaker 2: last week.
Speaker 3: I know, but I don't. I'm not aware of that.
Speaker 3: That's see, that's what's the good thing about having no
Speaker 3: social media or nothing.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's why. Maybe that's why you're.
Speaker 3: Sad all the time. I'm not sad all the time.
Speaker 3: I'm very contented. Brother. Uh maybe if I said I retired, though,
Speaker 3: they'd rip that mural down. No, No, I feel like
Speaker 3: I ain't gonna say I'm not playing. They'll keep it. Yes,
Speaker 3: I think that there's no way they take it down.
Speaker 3: You know what this is why, because ever since that
Speaker 3: mural has been up, the Dodgers have one World Series.
Speaker 3: You take it down, you're gonna lose World Series. They're
Speaker 3: gonna drinx it.
Speaker 2: Wow, all right, you're saying that's the lucky charm.
Speaker 3: I mean, you take that mural down. Let's see if
Speaker 3: they win the World Series.
Speaker 1: I love it. I want you man, I love that.
Speaker 1: I hope you loan your Maadiachi jacket to one of
Speaker 1: the guys when they get their rings this year, when
Speaker 1: they go out to the line and they, uh.
Speaker 3: One, who do you think should wear it?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I think skinny enough, because dude, when I threw that
Speaker 3: first picture was so tight on me. I guess I'm
Speaker 3: like one ninety five now I played it. I played
Speaker 3: at like one eighty five and my arms are so yoke, dude,
Speaker 3: I couldn't even I bounce the ball. I couldn't lose
Speaker 3: my arm. It's so tight.
Speaker 2: You're saying you're so.
Speaker 3: Jackinny enough to wear that thing.
Speaker 2: You're ain't your swool patrol?
Speaker 3: Now, Oh, bro, I'm stronger, you know the you know
Speaker 3: the joke man Bradford of the best Shapeer of Life.
Speaker 3: I'm way stronger than when I played. Wow, if there's
Speaker 3: a fist fight, there's like now now I could do
Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like, so Joe Kelly fight club, walk up on me.
Speaker 3: Like I'm way more prepared than when I was playing baseball.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think Yama, Moto or Mookie would fit into
Speaker 1: that jacket.
Speaker 3: Oh, Mookie Will obviously, Yama would obviously. That's it. We
Speaker 3: only have two.
Speaker 1: I mean, who else, Like Barnes isn't on the t
Speaker 1: won't be there? I would say, Barnes.
Speaker 3: What about he wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Will Will Will Smith?
Speaker 3: Yeah too strong? Yeah. Ama is a good, good call, bro.
Speaker 1: He's a legend already. You know him and Walker Buehler
Speaker 1: are legends forever due.
Speaker 2: We should pitch it to him.
Speaker 3: I would like Yama do it. Yeah, pitch to him.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: All right, here's another question for you.
Speaker 1: Did you see Freddie Freeman at the UH at the
Speaker 1: party after they won the World Series do the Worm?
Speaker 1: What did you think about his worm skills? I?
Speaker 3: I did it. It went, it went across.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: I figured I was watching Maybor's with a spectrum like
Speaker 3: a licker game or something. Yeah, but yeah, I did see.
Speaker 3: I think it's I think it's a solid worm.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, hey, uh, this is part one
Speaker 1: of our five part series.
Speaker 3: So unlike your I got to earn that ten grand right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So unlike your podcast that could go on
Speaker 1: and on, this is a live show, so we got
Speaker 1: to uh, we gotta end it here.
Speaker 2: But let's let's do this again soon. Maybe you'll come in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, take people, have some people call in because I know,
Speaker 3: I know, I've your producer, and they kind of went
Speaker 3: behind your back and told me that I could have
Speaker 3: your show whenever I said yes, So people call in.
Speaker 3: Let me know if you want me to take over
Speaker 3: a Vasse show. We can still have him. He could
Speaker 3: be like a you know, maybe a regular, have a
Speaker 3: couple of appearances. But let me know if you want
Speaker 3: me to run dodge, you talk, get back to me.
Speaker 3: Get on the phones, dial in JK or DV.
Speaker 2: Wow, JK. We're going to the initials route.
Speaker 3: Now, huh yes, sir?
Speaker 1: All right, maybe uh do you? Maybe you could find
Speaker 1: your way to Burbank. You just gotta get over the
Speaker 1: dirt roads and in Riverside and Rancho and find your
Speaker 1: way to the one thirty four.
Speaker 3: I know where it's at.
Speaker 2: Bro All right, let's.
Speaker 1: Make it happen before spring training or in spring training.
Speaker 1: We'll take some calls together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll be out there in spring training. We got
Speaker 3: a tournament. Actually, we're coming to bring the team to
Speaker 3: maybe the practice field and see what's going on.
Speaker 1: All right, sounds good. Thanks a lot for coming on
Speaker 1: and congratulations on, you know, just being a guy that
Speaker 1: lives at home and mooches off other people and Club
Speaker 1: thirty three and where's his mickey ears all over the
Speaker 1: streets of Riverside.
Speaker 3: I feel like a normal American now, Thanks,