WEBVTT - Offseason Dodger Talk (1-23-26) 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:02.719 All come on back. 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.320 Before you know it, they'll be back on the field 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:06.440 at Camelback Ranch. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:08.240 Why can't this be spring training? 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:12.440 But our coverage of the blue never stops a sports 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.239 This is off season Dodger Talk. Get in on the 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:20.200 show by calling eight six six seven four hashtag Dodger 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.000 Talk and now your host, David Basse. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:27.960 Welcome to Dodger Talk. 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.920 David Vasse with you until eight o'clock tonight here on 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.919 a five to seventy LA Sports and we have a 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.520 great show for you tonight. Sometimes it just works out 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.560 this way some nights where we don't have a guest, 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.960 or we have one guest as the centerpiece to the hour, 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:50.000 but sometimes they all come crawling back on the same night. Well, 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.120 one guy, Chris Taylor is going to join us. He 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.840 did not crawl back. I wanted to help him out 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.680 and make you aware of his third annual CT Plunge, 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.760 which is happening again at the Manhattan Beach Pier on 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:08.720 Sunday morning, February first, for a great cause, pediatric cancer 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.800 Near and dear to Chris Taylor and his wife Mary's Hart, 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.360 because obviously they want to help the kids and want 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.760 to help those kids that are bad only cancer. So 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.959 great cause you can register on Chris Taylor's Instagram. He 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.960 has the link in his bio. But my guy Joe Kelly, 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.160 who is on the world tour, who said he has 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.039 not retired, he has just decided to stop playing baseball, 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.759 is going to join us at the bottom of the hour. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:40.200 Chris Taylor in fifteen minutes and Joe Kelly at the 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:44.880 bottom of the hour. So a very heavy interview show 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.240 tonight here on Dodger Talk. And look like I said, 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:52.000 sometimes that happens and other times you know, it's all 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.400 about you. But we may have some time for phone 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.000 calls at eight sixty six nine, eight seven, two, five 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.040 seventy if we can't get to you tonight. We have 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:05.120 three shows next week, and don't forget, we have a 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:09.200 show a week from Saturday. That's right, a Saturday Dodger 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:13.680 Talk from Dodger Fest at Dodger Stadium is happening on 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.440 January thirty first, from ten to one. We will be 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:22.520 broadcasting live from Dodger Stadium. And if you want tickets, 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.880 which you should and to be there, go to Dodgers 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:30.040 dot com slash Dodgerfest for all the great experiences the 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:34.480 Dodgers will be having out there at Dodger Fest. Don't forget, 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.160 Cactus League play is right around the corner. The first 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.680 game for the Dodgers is going to be on February 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.880 twenty first in Tempe, Arizona, against the Angels. We will 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.640 carry it live right here on Dodgers Radio AM five 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.359 to seventy LA Sports and the voices of Spring Training 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.480 Baseball Rick Monday and Tim Neverett will have the call. 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.440 And then on Opening Day at. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:04.679 Dodger STATEUM March twenty sixth against the Arizona Diamondbacks. That's 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:08.640 a nationally televised game on their new broadcast partner, Major 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:13.960 League Baseball's new broadcast partner, Peacock. So the game time 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.840 for opening day a little bit different. Five point forty 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.840 ish opening Day, so it should be special to celebrate 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.840 the back to back World Series champions and to hoist 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.760 another flag out there in center field and more talk, 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.200 more talk about you know, the Dodgers, they're out of control. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:38.120 Other teams can't compete. You remember this time last year, 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.040 everybody said the Dodgers were going to break the Mariners 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.400 record of one hundred and sixteen wins. They were going 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.560 to blow by it when one hundred and twenty games. Well, 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:53.800 it turned out the Dodgers won ninety three games, won 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.800 the NLS by only three games. It was the Milwaukee 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.120 Brewers that had the best record in the National League, 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.640 it was the Phillies that had the second best record 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.480 in the National League, and the Dodgers had the third 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:12.400 best record at ninety three wins. So again, this time 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:17.240 last year, there was such an overreaction to what the 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.640 Dodgers were doing to try to be better, to try 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:24.279 to win the World Series. Again and again, the voices 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.720 are getting louder and louder of overreaction and emotional people 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:34.120 from basically that live in small markets. Saint Louis, Kansas City, 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.720 you know, Saint Louis, I have news for you. The 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:42.320 owner demolished the old Busch Stadium. It was a parking lot. 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.720 They built that beautiful, brand new Bush Stadium, and in 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.440 that parking lot, over the course of the last I 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.560 don't know, ten years, they have built kind of like 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:56.159 an la live in that parking lot. And the owner 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:02.320 of the Cardinals owns all that restaurants, drinking places. He 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.600 is getting all that revenue. Why are the Cardinals rebuilding. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.880 Are the Cardinals all of a sudden baseball poor. No, 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:17.560 it's just the owners prerogative not to reinvest in the team. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:22.520 So once again, don't point the finger at the Dodgers, 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.000 because the Dodgers used to have an owner that didn't 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.360 want to invest in the team. They wanted to invest 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:33.279 in their houses, in their limo drivers, and everything else 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.839 except the team. We know all about that. It wasn't 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.680 that long ago, only fifteen years ago, sixteen years ago, 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:46.520 that Frank McCort bankrupt the Dodgers. So we know how 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:50.080 much passion there is for Dodger baseball. And if you 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.640 give any fan base a reason to come to the game, 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.400 they will be yours. They will be eating out the 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:01.599 palm of your hand. That's with a It's not just la. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.200 The Dodgers are where they always should have been, at 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.080 the level of the Yankees and the Red Sox to 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.880 be able to go out there and be aggressive in 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:15.559 free agency. Now, it wasn't the Dodgers. I'll say it again, 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:20.239 it wasn't the Dodgers that offered Kyle Tucker this short term, 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.120 fifty five million dollar contract. That was the Mets, and 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.839 the Dodgers said all right, how about sixty? And he 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.000 said yes for a number of different reasons. And in 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.119 case you missed our show two nights ago, you should 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.040 go back and listen to our interview with Kyle Tucker. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.760 It'll tell you that this guy does not want to 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.920 be at the forefront center of attention. And I don't 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.159 believe he would have done well in New York with 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.679 that kind of pressure, even with Juan Soto there. 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:50.120 He is going to. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.479 Blend in here in Los Angeles and he is going 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.920 to be you know, I believe the Dodgers are going 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.560 to bring out the best in him, and Dave Roberts 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:04.119 actually set it where he wants to bring out even 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.080 more out of Kyle Tucker to be better defensively, be 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.560 a better base runner, be a better hitter, and we'll 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.960 get to where Kyle Tucker should hit in the lineup 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.600 in just a moment. But you know, going back to 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:20.800 this overreaction amongst baseball people that are saying, now this 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.840 is going to trigger his salary cap It shouldn't. Like 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.960 I mentioned two nights ago, Scott boris incredibly the voice 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:33.760 of reason saying what I have maintained that the Dodgers 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:38.120 have a megastar who signed the most unique contract to 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:43.600 allow the Dodgers to make millions upon millions in endorsement 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:48.720 and sponsorship and also be allowed to go out and 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:53.640 sign more players to surround O Tani because of the 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:57.960 unique deferred contract. That's all the Dodgers are guilty of. 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.600 There's nothing in the rules that the Dodgers couldn't do that. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.880 Out there in DeVos, Switzerland, the DeVos Conference, one of 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:10.840 the Dodgers' main owners, Todd Bowley, spoke publicly for the 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:15.840 first time with Sportico about how baseball is freaking out 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.800 over what the Dodgers are doing. And Mark Walter and 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:23.400 Todd Bowley don't really make public comments too often about 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.720 the Dodgers, but here was Todd at the DeVos Convention 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.120 conference out there in Switzerland. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:35.360 Ultimately, you want really big teams that are really pulling 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.280 the league forward, and I think that there's just going 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.640 to have to be a little bit of teeth gnashing 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:42.520 around how it moves forward. 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.960 But if somebody does point the figure the Dodgers and 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.079 say it's a problem for baseball, you say, what, the. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.080 Yankees have twenty seven World titles, and you know, we're 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:56.120 you know, roughly twenty behind. So I think that the 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:02.439 facts are that you know, baseball has Ultimately you want 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.640 really big teams that are really pulling the league forward. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:11.160 That's the reality of it. You need big market teams 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:15.280 to pull these major sports through. The NFL is so unique, 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.560 it's not a regional sport. But you need the Lakers 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.640 and Celtics in the Knicks in the NBA. You need 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.360 the Dodgers, the Yankees, the Red Sox, the Mets, the 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:30.240 Cubs to be players in some way or some form, 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.280 to give some drama, to give some talking points to 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.480 all of us to talk about and keep the sport relevant. 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:42.000 And the last two years of Baseball and World Series 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:47.600 has put Baseball in the conversation above the NBA. That 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.560 hasn't happened in a long time. And I firmly believe 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.840 it's about the Dodgers. It's about the Dodgers versus the Yankees. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.959 In twenty four, Otani and Judge being in the same 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.760 World Series for the first time ever, Baseball had their 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.800 two biggest stars in the World Series. I mean, that's 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:12.199 like having Magic and Bird, having the Celtics with Garnett 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.719 and Kobe in in the finals. The Dodgers are good 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.520 for baseball. What they're doing is good for the sport. 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.680 And oh, by the way, they are making the other 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.400 teams a lot of money. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.760 two five seventy is the phone number. All right, let's 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.600 get to where Kyle Tucker is going to hit in 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:35.160 the lineup. I thought it was hilarious when you hear 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.880 some of these talking heads. Oh, I got the lineup here, 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:43.040 Kyle Tucker's going to hit sixth. Really, the guy they 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.839 just paid sixty million dollars annually to is going to 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:49.120 hit sixth. Dave Roberts put a stop to that pretty 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:50.400 quickly two days ago. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.560 Kyle's in the in the hot box, right in the 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.320 hopper right now. So I think for me, I was 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.640 talking to Gomer and Andrew just recently, and it's just 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.440 fun to kind of think about, you know, where Kyle's 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.160 going to hit in the lineup, and obviously he'll be 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.440 in right field, and Tao's excited about playing left field. 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.920 You know, he'll be in the top third. I don't 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.760 want you guys to hold me to it right now, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.000 but you know, second or third seems to make sense. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.400 It makes so much sense. I never. 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.720 I was laughing when I heard people say I think 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.480 he's going to hit sixth, and even MLB dot Com 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.560 had some projected lineup where they said he was going 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:29.360 to hit sixth. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:30.240 No chance. 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.959 You don't pay a guy sixty million dollars to hit sixth. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:38.079 And the reason why Kyle Tucker should hit second is 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.760 because he was really good against lefties. He had an 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:45.720 ops of eight forty two last year against lefties or 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:49.520 in his career against lefties. So you know you have 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:54.280 Otani Tucker and to start the year, I'll go Mookie 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.400 Bets hitting third. I'll give Mooki Betts the first two 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.280 months of the season to prove that last year was 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:04.520 an outlier. But at some point, if Mooki Betts resembles 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.679 the Mooki Bets offensively from a year ago, you gotta 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.800 consider having Will Smith be your number three hitter and 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.600 Freddie Freeman being your cleanup hitter, having Teoscar Hernandez and 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.360 Muncy follow and see where it goes from there. But 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:24.080 I will say this, Mooki Bets is a great player. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.600 I would find it hard to believe even at age 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:31.559 thirty three, he is going to have another type of 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.560 offensive season that he had a year ago, because that 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.440 was the worst offensive season of his career and he 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:42.920 only got things going in September. So I would say 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.199 the lineup is very fluid at this point in time, 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:52.720 but I would advocate to have Otani, Tucker Bets Freeman 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:58.080 to begin the season as my first four hitters. Eight six, six, nine, 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.920 eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. When 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.520 we continue on Dodger Talk, we are going to catch 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.640 up with a fan favorite. He started the year with 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.320 the Dodgers, finished it with the Angels, but certainly a 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.720 big part of what the Dodgers started back in twenty 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.800 fifteen twenty sixteen. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.160 And that is Chris Taylor. Don't go anywhere. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:22.040 We got Chris Taylor next and Joe Kelly Mariachi Joe 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.960 crawling back to Dodger Talk at the bottom of the 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:32.600 hour right here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:39.320 This is off season Dodger Talk on your official home 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.200 of the Los Angeles. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:46.080 Dodgers, a M five to seventy LA Sports. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.440 Well, welcome back to Dodger Talk. David Vaz say with 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.520 you all until eight o'clock. 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.920 Tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports, and 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.040 I am so happy to be joined by a man 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.160 that put in so much for the Dodgers in his 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.880 ten seasons with them. One of the biggest home runs 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.480 in Dodger playoff history, the wildcard walk off home run 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.280 in twenty twenty one, such a big part of the 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.960 Dodgers going to the World Series in twenty seventeen and 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.320 twenty eighteen, and being a big part of their championship 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.840 in twenty twenty And certainly a guy that will always 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.960 be remembered in Dodger history as part of such a 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.400 special group of guys from the moment that he arrived 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.280 to you know, the time that things started to change 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:38.160 as far as the chapters in Dodger history. But he 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.760 has not forgotten his baseball roots, his second home here 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.920 in Los Angeles, because he and his wife Mary are 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:51.680 going to have their third annual Polar Plunge benefiting Friendship 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:57.840 Foundation and Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation, presented by Sketchers and 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.360 Schwartz Capitol Group. And that it is the one and 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:05.520 only Chris Taylor CT. Awesome to still have you on 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.360 Dodger Talk. Awesome that you and Mary are continuing what 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.920 you started three years ago. Thank you for coming on. 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:13.480 What's up? 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.920 I say, yeah, thank you what an intro. Appreciate it 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.120 and you know, always good to be on with it. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.320 What has motivated you and Mary, even after having your 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:27.200 second child seven weeks ago, to keep this going and 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:31.040 to keep your roots in Los Angeles. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.840 Yeah, you know, we're just trying to keep the momentum going. 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:35.200 Really. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.880 You know, Manhattan Beach is are home now. We've been 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.160 there for four years, I think. 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:42.200 And. 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.080 We did. 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:47.760 Three years. 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.160 We've done an event and this will be we did 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.880 a top golf event our first year there and then 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.160 the last two we did the Polar Plunge and that 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:03.160 I think we were really changed with the momentum we 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.440 built from the first year to the second year and 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.720 just trying to continue that trend and hopefully it continues 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.680 to grow and get bigger and better and ultimately like 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.480 it's a lot of fun. I think it brings the 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:20.360 whole community together. But also you know, the goal is 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:24.160 to as much money as we can for these awesome organizations. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.520 You know, the Friendship Foundation you mentioned, they're a staple 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.600 in the South Bay community. They've been around forever. They're 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.600 in the process of building a state of the art 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.440 Friendship Campus that is going to do some amazing work 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:43.760 there and help all kids with special needs. And then 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:48.120 so we've worked with them the last two years on 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.560 the Polar Plunch and then we added the Pediatric Cancer 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:56.240 Research Foundation as our second beneficiary this year, and that 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.520 has a special place in my heart just because I've 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.440 you know, one of my closest friends, the reason I 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:07.440 started the CT three Foundation, he lost his fight with cancer, 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.680 and you know, just over the years through the foundation, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:17.760 we've we've met so many special kids that are struggling 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.439 with their fight with cancer. And the unfortunate part of 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:28.000 you know, doing this and you know, trying to to 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.119 do the work a foundation does is you meet a 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.240 lot of kids and it's not what's happy endings. And 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:39.800 we've really had some special bonds with these kids and 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:44.160 their families. And one of the kids we met her, 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:48.800 his mom introduced us to the to PCRF, and we 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.679 thought it was a great way to, you know, help 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:58.640 kind of represent him and help out in the California area. 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.520 We haven't done a whole lot with cancer out in 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.000 California and mors in Virginia. So glad we're going to 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:06.920 add them as our second beneficiary. 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:11.240 The third annual CT three Polar Plunge is on Sunday, 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:15.639 February first. It's at the Manhattan Beach Pier. It starts 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.439 at nine o'clock and to register very simple. Just go 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:22.800 to Chris Taylor's Instagram page and in the bio you 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.720 can link and sign up for a great cause. And honestly, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.320 a player that has a foundation sometimes can just be that. 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.960 But I think everybody understands how genuine your foundation is, 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.639 especially after everything you said and the intentions behind it. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.919 How many of your former teammates do you believe are 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.520 going to take the plunge CT. 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:48.840 Yeah, I think we're going to have a great turnout again. 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:52.639 You know, I've reached out to all of my former teammates. 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:57.199 All the Dodgers got the inby obviously, and then I 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.240 think we're going to get a couple other guys too 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:03.879 that aren't with the Dodgers, either former Dodgers or guys 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:08.919 I've played with on the Angels, or maybe even just 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:13.920 like some local California kids that I've played against. We're 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.480 really trying to get it to be get as many 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:22.000 of the local athletes in the LA area to come 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:26.919 out and yeah, so I think it should be a 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:27.600 good turnout. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.720 There will be some Dodgers there, of course, but. 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.360 Yeah, I think I think there will be a lot 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.720 of familiar faces, not only baseball, but maybe some other 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:40.520 sports as well. 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:44.680 Hey, maybe you can get Cody Bellinger, who just signed 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.040 a big contract with the Yankees, to show up now 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:49.960 CT Is he too big for the plunge? 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:52.640 Yeah, you need to get out of him about that. 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.400 Maybe we can seem up on Cody. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:56.920 Oh, yeah, for sure. 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.400 I'll add you to a group text and we'll really 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:04.320 get everybody going there. You go, Hey, I saw this 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.400 video and I saw that you commented on it when 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:09.280 we talk about some of the great times in the 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.760 Greek group of teams that you had your former hitting coach, 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:16.359 Turner Ward posted on his Instagram behind the scenes type 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.040 of video justin Turner in the cage, a young Cody 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.560 Bellinger must have been twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen with his 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.359 EyeBlack on, and you guys were all in the uniform 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:31.000 watching you kind of mimic Turner's you know, famous stance 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.720 and laid kick and all that. When you saw that video, 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.600 do you remember it like it was yesterday, And what 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.520 do you remember the most about those times in the cage. 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:45.639 I do remember that. And it's funny because Turner was 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.240 the one that was always Turner Ward or hitting coach 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:50.320 at the time. He was the one always trying to 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:54.280 mimic everyone's batting stance, and so he kind of started that, 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:59.920 and like, just like Turner, I'm terrible. I'm so bad 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:04.600 that trying to imitate my teammates swing. Some of the 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.000 guys are very good, and I don't know if it's 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:10.240 like body awareness or what. That type of athleticism is 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:15.280 where you can see something and make it. I mean, 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:18.399 everybody knows about batting stance guy, right, Yeah, but I 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:23.879 do not have that coordination, and whenever I try to 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:27.119 copy somebody's stance, it ends up looking like my swing. 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:27.439 And I. 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:32.520 Kind of already knew that, but then seeing the video 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:36.439 it just confirmed that already, like, oh, that looks nothing 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:40.080 like JT. Maybe like when I'm holding the bat before 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:42.160 I start the sling, you can kind of see it, 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:44.680 but then I just do my slang and it's exactly 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:45.159 the same. 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.280 What did you think about the look on Cody Bellinger's 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:49.840 face on the couch? 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:52.399 Yeah, I don't know. 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:54.480 I gotta ask him what was going through is I'm 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:56.760 sure he was like what is he trying to do 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:57.320 right now? 0:21:57.840 --> 0:21:59.919 And then you see Jack Peterson walk by in his 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:04.040 uniform with one of his Jock Peterson phases of haircuts, 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:05.800 kind of like a fro Hawk walking by. 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:11.199 Yeah, yeah, one of Jackson manilocks, and Jock actually was 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.440 pretty good at imitating. I mean, he's had so many 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:20.080 different stances, so maybe maybe that has something to do 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:20.480 with it. 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.200 Hey, what do you remember the most and what made 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.680 those teams so special? Especially you know, the teams from 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:30.560 twenty seventeen to twenty twenty. I have to include twenty 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:34.480 twenty because you guys won the World Series after coming 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:37.440 up short in seventeen and eighteen. What do you remember 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:41.040 the most and what should we remember the most about 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:43.399 those teams and those group of players that you were 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:44.560 such a big part of. 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:49.520 Yeah, I thought we just had a good core group 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:53.639 of guys that you know, we're all so close and 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:56.560 were all still keep in touch. You know, years later 0:22:56.840 --> 0:22:59.720 of us, a lot of us are not playing on 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:06.399 the team anymore, but you know, I think that bond 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:10.120 from those years, as you know, we still go on 0:23:10.320 --> 0:23:12.200 vacations together in the offseason. 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.760 We you know, so it kind. 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:18.080 Of shows how close that group was, and it showed 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:22.520 on the field, I think, And yeah, it's just I 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:24.880 think we're always going to remember those years. Those were 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:30.119 special teams and you know, some of the best years 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:33.359 playing baseball, the most fun times. 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:34.600 I've had, no doubt. 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:36.959 It was so special being around you guys and just 0:23:37.000 --> 0:23:39.520 seeing how you were able to get over the hump 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:42.480 over the Cubs and then finally, you know, we all 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:45.199 know what should have taken place in twenty seventeen, but 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:48.800 you guys had such a special group, and I think 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:51.439 what made it special CT is that you guys failed 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:54.000 together and then you succeeded together. 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:59.160 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You know, it did take a few 0:23:59.240 --> 0:24:02.439 years to get over the hunt, and it made it 0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:05.639