Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talker.
Speaker 1: How about those color receipts. Maybe we should play some
Speaker 1: of those back tomorrow night as well. I mean, you
Speaker 1: could go back and listen to that on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: app as many times as you want. And thank you
Speaker 1: to our guy, our screener and producer calling ye for
Speaker 1: pulling those receipts again, that was phenomenal. You're lucky I
Speaker 1: didn't share those receipts with Clayton Kershaw. Instead, we reflected
Speaker 1: on his final opportunity to win a World Series championship,
Speaker 1: and we had a chance to catch up with the
Speaker 1: Greg Kershaw at media day earlier this afternoon. All right, Clayton,
Speaker 1: your final World Series Media Day. I know this is
Speaker 1: what you really lived for, coming back for one final year.
Speaker 2: This is it. This is why I'm here. Good to
Speaker 2: talk to everybody here. This is it.
Speaker 1: Have you been able to enjoy the moment of this
Speaker 1: and the last couple of months of the season more
Speaker 1: than you've allowed yourself to enjoy other moments of your career?
Speaker 2: I think so. I think so.
Speaker 3: I yeah, I usually try not to get too wrapped
Speaker 3: up and everything, but yeah, once I kind of came
Speaker 3: out and said that I was finished. It's hard not to,
Speaker 3: you know, it's hard not to be a little bit reflective.
Speaker 3: And you know, the few moments I had, you know,
Speaker 3: the last home game at Dodger Stadium, the last game
Speaker 3: in Seattle is just it is really special and getting
Speaker 3: to celebrate you know, the victories in the postseason all that, like,
Speaker 3: I know, I maybe have one more time to.
Speaker 2: Get to do that.
Speaker 3: So it's yeah, all that stuff you can't help but
Speaker 3: kind of look back and just be grateful.
Speaker 2: For it all.
Speaker 1: During this journey of the postseason, I've seen players from
Speaker 1: other teams, you know, workouts or before the games go
Speaker 1: out of their way to kind of just salute you.
Speaker 2: Have you noticed that, how.
Speaker 1: Guys that you may not have expected come up to
Speaker 1: you and just you know, say congratulations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think everybody it is. It's I'm
Speaker 2: super honored by that.
Speaker 1: You know, not.
Speaker 3: Do you never expect anybody to say, you know, nice things,
Speaker 3: especially when you're playing against you. But to have guys say,
Speaker 3: you know, a great career, you know, enjoyed playing against
Speaker 3: you or competing all that stuff is uh is very
Speaker 3: is awesome, you know, it really is because the peers.
Speaker 3: You know, your peers are kind of that's who the
Speaker 3: opinions matter. You know, there's a lot of people outside
Speaker 3: this game that will say things that don't understand.
Speaker 2: So to have have your peers respect is uh.
Speaker 3: I've always said that guys inside your clubhouse and guys
Speaker 3: around the game, that's the that's the most important thing
Speaker 3: as far as your reputation.
Speaker 1: Has the some of the more uncomfortable things is for
Speaker 1: you to hear that and hear people celebrate you, and
Speaker 1: even guys in your own clubhouse have that type of
Speaker 1: respect and vocalize it, even maybe making goat sounds at times.
Speaker 2: I just tell them not to make it weird, Dave,
Speaker 2: I just tell them, don't make it weird.
Speaker 3: And so we you know. But yeah, we've got We've
Speaker 3: got a lot of awesome guys. I think everybody it's
Speaker 3: just a I think it's a mutual thing. I'm so
Speaker 3: grateful for all these guys and it's just pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Is there something to be said about everything you've accomplished
Speaker 1: certain players on this team have accomplished individually and as
Speaker 1: a group, that you guys are still hungry for more?
Speaker 1: Are there guys? Playing with a chip on their shoulder
Speaker 1: to prove something for themselves and for the group.
Speaker 2: Is that part of this.
Speaker 3: No, I just think we're a great team and this
Speaker 3: is what we're supposed to do. I mean, I think
Speaker 3: it's as simple as that, Like we don't have We've
Speaker 3: got one goal at the beginning of every season, and
Speaker 3: it takes the right type of superstars. You know, and
Speaker 3: Andrew does a great job. You know when you look
Speaker 3: at show, Hey, Mookie, Freddie, the top three guys on down,
Speaker 3: they're superstar players, but their mindset is just to win
Speaker 3: the World Series, and so they do everything that they
Speaker 3: possibly can.
Speaker 2: To help us win the World Series.
Speaker 3: So I've been around guys where they've been great players
Speaker 3: that might that might not necessarily be the case at times,
Speaker 3: and so to have that is just like that that
Speaker 3: trickle down effect makes everybody realize that that's that's why
Speaker 3: we're here, and that's why we are a Dodger. That's
Speaker 3: what we signed up to do, and we're going to
Speaker 3: try to do that over the course of the next
Speaker 3: ten days.
Speaker 1: Doesn't that make this team unique? Because you have been
Speaker 1: teammates with guys that had a lot of talent, but
Speaker 1: didn't have the work ethic to be able to fulfill it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's work ethic.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3: I just know that there's kind of like a a
Speaker 3: factor of wanting to win and what that looks like.
Speaker 3: And you saw it last year with Freddy's ankle. You
Speaker 3: see it this year with Mookie becoming a.
Speaker 2: Goal globe shortstop. You see it with Shohy.
Speaker 3: Doing everything he can to be the best hitter and
Speaker 3: the best pitcher. And that trickles all the way down,
Speaker 3: like Will Smith trying to play through a broken hand,
Speaker 3: or you know, like just just everybody pitcher's stepping up,
Speaker 3: you know, pitching all the time, all bullpen guys throwing instantly.
Speaker 2: You know, just different.
Speaker 3: Stuff like they see these guys do it, so that
Speaker 3: means that they they're going to fall in line too,
Speaker 3: And that's that's just pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Before I'll let you go, you've been a game one
Speaker 1: starter many times in your career. Blake is kind of
Speaker 1: setting the tone every series. What have you seen as
Speaker 1: far as the growth from when he first started pitching
Speaker 1: to where he's at right now with you guys.
Speaker 3: I've always said that Blake when he's right, is top
Speaker 3: top two to three pitchers in the game. I've said
Speaker 3: that when he was in Tampa, I said that when
Speaker 3: he was in San Diego, San Francisco. He's he's special,
Speaker 3: he really is, and you're seeing that now. He's got
Speaker 3: four pitches that are elite and he uh, he loves
Speaker 3: to compete, he really does.
Speaker 2: So it's uh, I'm excited to watch tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Have you seen Donnie yet.
Speaker 3: Haven't seen Donnay yet. Haven't seen don yet. I'll get
Speaker 3: him hug and tell him I'm happier here. But this
Speaker 3: is as far as it goes. Thank you, Clayton, all right, Thanks.
Speaker 1: Last dance for Clayton Kershaw. Not too many players get
Speaker 1: to go out as a champion, let alone a back
Speaker 1: to back World Series champion, and that's the opportunity that
Speaker 1: Kershaw and the Dodgers have in front of them as
Speaker 1: it all gets started tomorrow night, Game one here in Toronto.