Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger
Speaker 1: Talker Freddie Freeman. What else can this guy do?
Speaker 2: Emotionally exhausted, kissing babies, hitting home runs, walk off style?
Speaker 2: What was How does it feel now for me?
Speaker 3: Gosh, it's amazing. I was telling you telling a lot
Speaker 3: of people. I feel like there's double the fans out
Speaker 3: there today. Absolutely incredible to do something that hasn't been
Speaker 3: done in twenty five years. Like you said, I'm emotionally exhausted,
Speaker 3: physically tired, mentally drained.
Speaker 1: Wow, what a way to end it. What a series,
Speaker 1: what a what a game? Seven? Just special?
Speaker 3: And again we've had four over four million fans come
Speaker 3: out to watch us, and then you saw all those
Speaker 3: people out the prey and then this whole stadium fill
Speaker 3: it up again. It's just an incredible feeling to be
Speaker 3: able to deliver for the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Obviously, fifty thousand fans chant Freddy every single night. But
Speaker 2: with everything you said, did you realize how much this
Speaker 2: team meant to the city.
Speaker 1: You really like when you put on.
Speaker 3: A uniform every day and you grind, you're you're like
Speaker 3: in it, but when you show up, let's just say
Speaker 3: June twelfth, and it's a Monday, and you come out
Speaker 3: here and there's fifty two thousand people here. You realize
Speaker 3: how much the Dodgers mean to this city. And if
Speaker 3: you take pride when you put on this uniform, it
Speaker 3: means the world to not only everybody that playing, but
Speaker 3: to the city and fans across the world now that
Speaker 3: are Dodger fans, and it means a lot to put
Speaker 3: on this uniform every single day.
Speaker 1: It's a true honor.
Speaker 3: And to be able to bring home back to back
Speaker 3: World Series titles for this city, I couldn't have asked
Speaker 3: for anything more.
Speaker 2: How much does the rest of the baseball world and
Speaker 2: maybe even the fans in LA fail to appreciate the
Speaker 2: fact you are back to back World Series champions. You've
Speaker 2: started each of the last two years before everybody else
Speaker 2: finished it later than anybody else. And you started in
Speaker 2: Tokyo this year and you finished in Canada.
Speaker 3: I know sometimes you forget where you started, and it's
Speaker 3: like it feels like we've been playing for a long
Speaker 3: time and we have.
Speaker 1: That's what's so great about our team and how.
Speaker 3: Hard it is, Like we've had short off seasons, our
Speaker 3: pitching comes out and does it again year in and
Speaker 3: year out. It's another short off season, but it's a
Speaker 3: great short offseason.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've got spring training like.
Speaker 3: One hundred days, so it's a it's a lot on us,
Speaker 3: but when you deliver, it's all worth it at the end,
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's eight months, nine months of grinding,
Speaker 3: traveling all around the whole world playing baseball, fans coming
Speaker 3: out to see us playing great baseball, and then deliver
Speaker 3: a championship after everything that you go through, and of
Speaker 3: course of the year of the grind that leaving the
Speaker 3: families the road, it takes a lot. It takes a
Speaker 3: lot of you know, mental effort, physical effort, a lot
Speaker 3: of tapping into the fans energy, not only at Dounter
Speaker 3: State and when we go on the road sometimes it's
Speaker 3: like it feels like.
Speaker 1: A home game.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they travel well for us, and we need all
Speaker 3: their help through because it's one hundred and sixty two
Speaker 3: game grind and sometimes you need a little extra oomp
Speaker 3: for the fans and they deliver.
Speaker 2: Every single time you caught the final out, Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: delivered the double play to you, Where did that baseball go?
Speaker 1: Freddie?
Speaker 3: That baseball I waited for Doc in his office right
Speaker 3: before we sprayed Champagne, and I gave it to him
Speaker 3: and I hugged him. I said, you deserve this more
Speaker 3: than anybody. And so Dave Roberts has the baseball.
Speaker 2: Hey, there's his son, Cole. He wants he wants that baseball.
Speaker 1: He's gonna ask his dad. You can steal it. That's
Speaker 1: not on me, Freddie.
Speaker 2: I'll say this, going back to last year's World Series.
Speaker 2: You playing on basically one leg. You set the tone
Speaker 2: by example for this team. And you see how many
Speaker 2: guys this year played through a lot of injuries. It
Speaker 2: started with you, Freddie.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that every kind word. Every time I've run
Speaker 3: into fans and they say wonderful things, it means a lot.
Speaker 3: I love this game, I love my teammates. I leave
Speaker 3: everything on the field every single night. So if it
Speaker 3: wears off on some people, that makes me happy. But
Speaker 3: there's a lot of people that grind through injuries throughout
Speaker 3: the course of Some people don't even know what they're
Speaker 3: going through, and they're out there leaving it all in
Speaker 3: the field.
Speaker 1: And to be a little part of that makes me happy.
Speaker 3: And when you do it and you grind through injuries,
Speaker 3: and you push through certain things and you win a championship.
Speaker 1: It's all worth it at the end.
Speaker 2: Since you went consecutive championships, Freddy, that means you and
Speaker 2: me back to back at Hobby Airs, Newport, Pasadena, everywhere
Speaker 2: in between.
Speaker 1: I'll see you there, Me and Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2: The party Victory. The Victory Tour starts right now, baby.
Speaker 1: Thank you, David