Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talking.
Speaker 1: It's Mother's Day at Dodger Stadium. Happy Mother's Day to
Speaker 1: all the moms out there and a man that values
Speaker 1: mother's his wife, his mom is the man, the legend himself,
Speaker 1: the great Snell Zilla, two time, two time cy Young
Speaker 1: Award winner back on the mound last night, Blake, thanks
Speaker 1: a lot for the time, appreciated.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the intro.
Speaker 1: Heart's Day and our guy r J Pete one of
Speaker 1: the best club he's in that clubhouse obviously his mom,
Speaker 1: Holly Robinson Pete, a big listener, big Dodger fan. You
Speaker 1: want to give your mom a shout out, RJ.
Speaker 2: Happy Mother's Day. Mom.
Speaker 1: I'm over here with Blake snow right now. You know,
Speaker 1: I just want to wish you the best and I'm
Speaker 1: always gonna be there for you no matter what.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 1: How about that that's a guy that loves his.
Speaker 2: Mom, loves his mom. Who doesn't love their mom?
Speaker 1: Last night, it was great to see you back out
Speaker 1: on the mound. I know you wanted to pitch longer
Speaker 1: in the game, but how did it feel to be
Speaker 1: back out?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I felt great.
Speaker 3: Lots to learn but I'll clean it up quickly, and yeah,
Speaker 3: get back to where I need to be. I feel great,
Speaker 3: body feels great, recovering great. Really like where I'm at.
Speaker 3: So obviously, you know, giving up five runs is not
Speaker 3: the goal, and that's annoying. But the best part is
Speaker 3: we have, you know, something to learn from. We see
Speaker 3: how we gave up those runs, we adjust, we get better,
Speaker 3: and then going into the next one, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: we see how much work we put in and if
Speaker 3: we're getting better.
Speaker 1: And I was surprised after the game last night how
Speaker 1: candid you were about the changes you made to try
Speaker 1: to limit inflammation, to be a better eater, a better
Speaker 1: sleeper all that you really you really opened up after
Speaker 1: the game last night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I put a lot of work in.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm just I want to play. I want
Speaker 3: that to be very apparent.
Speaker 2: I want to be on the field and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I love to do. So I'm gonna
Speaker 3: try to do everything I can to make sure I
Speaker 3: make the most.
Speaker 1: Have you started to evolve at thirty three years old?
Speaker 1: I can explain to you what evolved means after the interview,
Speaker 1: but it means changing with age.
Speaker 2: Bro. You think come on bro with you.
Speaker 3: Dog, listen to me, man, I learned evolve when Pokemon
Speaker 3: came out.
Speaker 2: Okay, a long time ago. Dog.
Speaker 1: Okay. So we're transitioning into Blake Snell's other fun thing,
Speaker 1: Zilla Breaks. It seems it's incredible how professional athletes are
Speaker 1: so into Pokemon and baseball cards and everything else. What's
Speaker 1: going on with that?
Speaker 2: It's the best. What sports cards? Don't? You don't like
Speaker 2: sports cards?
Speaker 1: I love them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unbelievable. Imagine when you hit a one on one.
Speaker 1: Who does that?
Speaker 2: I do it?
Speaker 1: Have you got a one on one, A one of one,
Speaker 1: a one on one, A one of one, yeah, and
Speaker 1: a one on one with David Vasse with you?
Speaker 2: No? Hey, sports cards is so much fun. That's what
Speaker 2: maybe you want to do.
Speaker 3: Zella breaks because the amount of fun that I have
Speaker 3: breaking my own cards, So it's yeah, it's just unbelievable.
Speaker 2: It's like when when you're not playing and you could,
Speaker 2: then you know you need something.
Speaker 3: And there's adrenaline in sports cards, on hitting high cards,
Speaker 3: and you know when when I was hurt and I
Speaker 3: was watching all the time, it was just it was tough.
Speaker 3: So that kind of gave me, like some form of adrenaline.
Speaker 3: But then obviously it was like, well, how do I
Speaker 3: get on the field because this is like what this
Speaker 3: is like my favorite you know, part of my life
Speaker 3: outside of my you know, my family that I've created.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so that's kind of how everything like evolved.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 1: So how does all this work? Zilla Breaks?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you get easily.
Speaker 3: Well, you bid for like spots, you can buy your
Speaker 3: own you know, your own box or case of cards.
Speaker 3: It's more expensive, or you could do when we do
Speaker 3: breaks on whatnot. You just need to follow the Zilla
Speaker 3: breaks ig account and then you can you know, get
Speaker 3: one team or two teams in a break and it's
Speaker 3: a lot cheaper and you can try to then hit
Speaker 3: those teams. And right now is the perfect time to
Speaker 3: getting because everything's so cheap because we're new, so it's
Speaker 3: you know, you're getting a steal right off the bat.
Speaker 1: I like it. Do you use promo code? Dave assay?
Speaker 3: We'll see, We'll see how many people mess with you
Speaker 3: and we look at the IG.
Speaker 1: Blake Snell is our guest. Now you mentioned the one
Speaker 1: of one cards. We know about Otani's and yamamotos. What's
Speaker 1: the holy grail for a Blake? Snell card, I.
Speaker 2: Don't collect my card.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm chasing show Hey, just like everybody else chasing
Speaker 3: show chasing Yama. I like Transcendent Baseball the most. It's
Speaker 3: the most expensive though it's it's expensive, but those are
Speaker 3: I mean, man, it's just so much fun. And when
Speaker 3: I saw I saw someone that rip that bought a
Speaker 3: Transcendent case in our stream. You know, they hit a
Speaker 3: one of five show Hey Rokie autograph. That was pretty sick.
Speaker 3: They hit a one on one Big Poppy, that was
Speaker 3: pretty sick. They hit a three or five there, Jeter. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they hit some some pretty impressive cars. There's more that
Speaker 3: I'm missing out on. And then there's MVP Baseball. You
Speaker 3: know that's Show and Judge. That's pretty amazing as well
Speaker 3: seeing those. And then for other people there's Sapphire and
Speaker 3: MLB Draft or a Bowman draft, and uh, those are
Speaker 3: really good too, because you're chasing rookies. You know they're
Speaker 3: they're for you know, they just got drafted. You're chasing those.
Speaker 3: So like a Brady Ebol, I'm chasing.
Speaker 2: That one on one.
Speaker 1: Okay, I love it. I believe in the height, Yes,
Speaker 1: so do I definitely. Connor Griffin I'm trying to chase
Speaker 1: that right now.
Speaker 3: See you're getting it. Look at you evolved in front
Speaker 3: of our eyes.
Speaker 1: Well circle right now, college right here, knowledge, he's got
Speaker 1: his backup man, hype man r JP right here too.
Speaker 1: I love seeing the smile. The vibe is great. That
Speaker 1: is a great sign that this is only going to
Speaker 1: the next level moving forward. So thank you for the time.
Speaker 1: Happy Mother's Day to your wife. You got two beautiful
Speaker 1: kids and she holds it down for you. While you're
Speaker 1: doing Zilla breaks, you're streaming and you're pitching.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pitching is my focus. You know, we're back to pitching.
Speaker 3: But I definitely I'll try to stream if I can
Speaker 3: connect with fans and then Zella breaks that goes on.
Speaker 3: My little brother's doing that. Who's hilarious, so go check
Speaker 3: him out. But yeah, baseball this is my focus. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna get better, the starts are gonna get better, and
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna continue to learn and become, you know,
Speaker 3: the pitcher I'm trying to be.
Speaker 1: I want that change up in curveball more.
Speaker 2: Next start, I need the fastball more.
Speaker 3: I think the fastball sets it all up, so the
Speaker 3: fastball didn't get hit. Everything else kind of got broken
Speaker 3: that hit, But yeah, well we'll learn. We're gonna get
Speaker 3: a lot better. I think my next one's Friday against
Speaker 3: say Angels, that's what I think. I don't know yet,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I gotta get ready for them. A lot
Speaker 3: of guys are having good years there, so a lot
Speaker 3: to learn, and yeah, just get.
Speaker 2: Get better in the zone. Understand, the zone's a little
Speaker 2: smaller this year now.
Speaker 3: I've been watching it, but I thought it was the same,
Speaker 3: But being out there is a completely different thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard, did you say that after the game
Speaker 1: as well? The abs. That's something we didn't really take
Speaker 1: into account. How different was it pitching last night with that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was weird. I mean, I think
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: I went from twenty sixteen, where the zone was a
Speaker 3: real strike zone, like an actual strike zone chest to knees,
Speaker 3: you know, and you had will a room on the
Speaker 3: outside part of the plate, inside part of the plate.
Speaker 2: So now the top of.
Speaker 3: The strike zone is below the belt, so you just
Speaker 3: cut off a foot of zone and then the bottom
Speaker 3: of the zone is knees, which it's always been, but
Speaker 3: even that is a little high, I still think. And
Speaker 3: then there's no east to West, it has to be
Speaker 3: on the plate. So yeah, it's to me, I'm not
Speaker 3: a fan of it because I understand what the league's
Speaker 3: trying to do, but I can't.
Speaker 2: Do nothing about.
Speaker 3: I gotta throw in the zone and attack and you know,
Speaker 3: be the best I can be. But I think there
Speaker 3: needs to be something that favors the pitchers next if
Speaker 3: they do another move, it has to favor the pictures
Speaker 3: because everything they've done the favorite hitters speed us up
Speaker 3: with our warm up time. You know, you could barely
Speaker 3: get eight pitches if you're rushing through it, and then
Speaker 3: you got a pitch you only got fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2: That is.
Speaker 3: It depends on hitter pitcher, but it's still I think
Speaker 3: it's still favors hit her. And then now the zone
Speaker 3: is just it's the abs is shrinked the zone because
Speaker 3: now they're getting the umps getting called out more and
Speaker 3: so it's a whole thing. But something has to favor
Speaker 3: the picture. Everything I think they've done is the favorite hitter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it made no secrets about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's like, can we favorite the picture because
Speaker 3: they keep saying, well, the pitchers are getting better, Well,
Speaker 3: why do we get.
Speaker 2: Penalized for that?
Speaker 1: Makes sense.
Speaker 2: Why, Yeah, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: Chicks dig the lung ball, that's why.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well.
Speaker 1: Was that something that you were unsure of last night?
Speaker 3: I mean I thought I was hitting the outside part
Speaker 3: of the plate and I was just off.
Speaker 2: Some of them hit like they clip, but he's calling them.
Speaker 3: So it's like you're looking at that and you're just like,
Speaker 3: man like, so you're gonna give me no part of
Speaker 3: the zone. You're not gonna give anything that clips when
Speaker 3: it's a strike, Like, if you're gonna if the zone's
Speaker 3: gonna be that small, like, there has to be some
Speaker 3: give and take.
Speaker 1: When I watch it and the replays here, I feel
Speaker 1: like they've got to have at least a certain percentage
Speaker 1: of the baseball to be in the strike zone instead
Speaker 1: of just barely touching it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there has to be some east and
Speaker 3: west here, or some north and south of the zone
Speaker 3: that you know, you give us. It can't just be
Speaker 3: a can we're throwing into. Like yeah, I mean, there's
Speaker 3: nothing you can do about it. You gotta throw strikes,
Speaker 3: you gotta attack, there's no excuse to it. But watching it,
Speaker 3: being a part of it, you're definitely like, man like,
Speaker 3: do you I want like them to go whoever thought
Speaker 3: of this great idea of making the strike zone that small?
Speaker 3: I want them to go out there and throw against
Speaker 3: big league hitters. The zone is tiny, and think about it.
Speaker 3: I don't hear hitters ever complaining anymore.
Speaker 1: No, they're not complaining at all.
Speaker 3: Never complaining because they realize the zone is tiny.
Speaker 1: Well that's another learning curve for you for the next start.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, for me, I just I've learned his own
Speaker 3: so I got to get in it, and yeah, I'll
Speaker 3: do that. So you know, with me, you know, complaining
Speaker 3: about it, it's also in me understanding you know what
Speaker 3: I need to do to succeed, and there's no excuses,
Speaker 3: you know, get in the zone. This is what we
Speaker 3: have to do to be the best, and that's what
Speaker 3: we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: Thanks Snell, You're the man. Great to have you on
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Speaker 2: A Happy Mother's Day to all the moms. We love y'all.