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Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Basse for Dodger Talking.

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Speaker 1: David Vasse with you until eight o'clock tonight here on

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Speaker 1: a five seventy LA Sports. We'll get back to your

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Speaker 1: phone calls in a moment eight sixty six nine eight

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Speaker 1: but by one of my favorite people. He has been

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Speaker 1: a key member of Dave Roberts' coaching staff on their

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Speaker 1: way to back to back World Series championships. He is

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Speaker 1: the best third base coach in all of Major League

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Speaker 1: Baseball and that is the one and only pride of Barstow, Dino, Ebel, Dino,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot for calling in. Hey, you're at a hibernation.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for calling in.

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Speaker 2: Hey. Thanks David. Always great talking to you and looking

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Speaker 2: forward to another championship season. Can't wait and getting ready

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Speaker 2: to get to spring training.

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Speaker 1: Have you have you worked with any of the players

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Speaker 1: this offseason, Dino, have you seen any of the guys?

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Speaker 2: Well, this week started with Kim's in town. Months he's

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Speaker 2: in town, so there's gonna be guys coming in and

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Speaker 2: out of the stadium. So yeah, we guys are coming

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Speaker 2: in and getting work all winter long. Especially in the

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Speaker 2: weight room. But now they're starting to get their routine down,

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Speaker 2: getting some fly balls, ground ball. So it's getting closer

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Speaker 2: to spring training, and that's when guys will start to

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Speaker 2: come in at Dodgers Stadium and start getting prepared for

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Speaker 2: spring training.

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Speaker 1: Dino, Before we look forward, let's look back at an

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Speaker 1: incredible World Series. First question is have you watched one

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Speaker 1: of Game six or Game seven all the way through

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Speaker 1: or is there a particular play that you go back

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Speaker 1: to watch the most since you guys won Game seven.

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Speaker 2: Well, David, to tell you the truth, with being at

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Speaker 2: home and you know watching you know some highlights, I

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Speaker 2: just I don't go through all all, you know, pitch

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Speaker 2: to pitch, inning, the inning. But the highlights that I

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Speaker 2: just keep going back to is Game six when Key K,

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Speaker 2: you know, throws the ball on the soft you know,

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Speaker 2: Lin's ride to left field and doubling up and Rojas

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Speaker 2: making that great pick. And then Game seven just numerous

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Speaker 2: defensive plays, one on Rojas and then you know the

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Speaker 2: Yoshi come in and close that game out. So those

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Speaker 2: are the things that just you know, the home run

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Speaker 2: Rojas home run Will Smith in the eleventh goes deep

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Speaker 2: to win it. But just going back to the Philly series,

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Speaker 2: the comebacker and the pitcher throws it away just highlights,

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Speaker 2: you know, parts of each series with the Brewers, you know,

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Speaker 2: the dominant pitching we had in four game series, So

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Speaker 2: show hayes ten punchouts and three home runs. So that's

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Speaker 2: kind of what I usually look at. But what an

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Speaker 2: incredible run, What an incredible series from Game one from

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati to the Game seven in Toronto. Never will forget it,

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Speaker 2: and what an exciting year.

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Speaker 1: Two of the guys that you know really well were

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Speaker 1: on the show before Christmas, and that was Mickey Hatcher

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Speaker 1: and Mike Sosha, and you obviously are one of the

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Speaker 1: value of ninety feet and each actually taking big leads

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Speaker 1: from third base. They each said that Isaiah Kana Filefa,

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Speaker 1: he should have taken a more aggressive lead, and if

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Speaker 1: World Series championships. What did you think about that play?

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Speaker 1: How close was it?

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Speaker 2: Well, you're looking back and you know the game of inches,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, if you know, if he gets off a

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Speaker 2: little bit more left handed hitter. The odds are that

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Speaker 2: you know, he's probably not going to hit into a

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Speaker 2: double up the runner at third base. But you know,

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Speaker 2: going back in the moment and then the dugout, I'm

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Speaker 2: watching our defense, and I see the coach, third base

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Speaker 2: coach febulous who's a good third base coach, go over

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Speaker 2: So it's on it's on the it's on the video

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Speaker 2: you can't blame the player. This is what they hit.

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Speaker 2: They teach in the organization. So Febulist goes down, draws

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Speaker 2: this is what Toronto teaches this is what the third

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Speaker 2: the dirt, and the player did exactly what he was

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Speaker 2: try to teach pitch to pitch. Now I look to

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Speaker 2: take a shorter primary lead, then we got to get

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Speaker 2: a better secondary lead. But if you get a bigger lead,

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Speaker 2: then you got to cut down on the secondary lead.

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Speaker 2: So one or the other what we do. That's what

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Speaker 2: we would have done in that moment. But you can't

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Speaker 2: blame the player. He did exactly what he was supposed

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Speaker 1: Another key play in game seven was when Andy po

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Speaker 1: Haz was fresh into the game. After that play and

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Speaker 1: the game for Tommy Edmand. Can you take us through

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Speaker 1: what you saw on how how it transpired where Pahes

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Speaker 1: with Key Gange catches the ball right.

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Speaker 2: He's down there, down there by me. He's you know,

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Speaker 2: watching the game where everybody's standing up on here. You know,

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Speaker 2: the game is on the line. And then you know

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Speaker 2: his name is called, so Danny Lehman, the bench coach,

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Speaker 2: then you know they call time out and boom, there

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Speaker 2: at Edmund who's coming in from center field. He thinks

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Speaker 2: he's he's looking at me like, where's my glove? And

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Speaker 2: you know it's we're not going to the five man infield.

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Speaker 2: They decided not to, and you know we got the chopper.

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Speaker 2: That's when you know Varshow chops the ball to Rojats.

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Speaker 2: He makes the plate to play. But we had all

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Speaker 2: just you know, Dave thought, let's put in our best

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Speaker 2: If it is hitting the outfield, we're in shallow, so

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Speaker 2: that in that situation, they've got to go over our

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Speaker 2: that's that's looking back, that's living the moment. That's what happened,

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Speaker 2: all right.

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Speaker 1: Dino Ebel, the Dodgers third base coach, nobody has a

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Speaker 1: better view of home runs than you do, and an

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Speaker 1: experience of high fiving these guys every time they hit one.

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Speaker 1: Take us through what you saw when Miguel Rojas tied

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Speaker 1: the game when you were down to your final two outs,

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Speaker 1: and what was it like congratulating him when he rounded

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Speaker 2: Oh man, that was just what a thrill. You know,

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Speaker 2: I've been in some big moments, some big games where

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Speaker 2: you know, last year, thirty three men Game one hits

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Speaker 2: the Grand Slam, which we'll never forget that. But you

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Speaker 2: But you know, the count goes to three and two,

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Speaker 2: and you know, all I'm thinking out there is just

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Speaker 2: come on, Rojas. He's a contact guy. I felt he

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Speaker 2: to put a good swing on it. But when he

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Speaker 2: it acts just it went quiet, and just it was

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Speaker 2: So in the moment, it wasn't like a Dodger Stadium,

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Speaker 1: With how quiet it was at Rogers Center after Rojas

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah it was. He was, you know, yelling, you know,

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Speaker 2: and it's just pure excitement. That momentum just shipped it

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Speaker 2: I looked at their dougout. It was like they couldn't

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Speaker 2: believe what happened. And all we heard, all I heard

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Speaker 2: what I went through in that in that in that period.

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Speaker 1: Of time, that's amazing. Deno Ebel, Dodgers third base coach,

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Speaker 1: back to back World Series champion third base coach, is

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Speaker 1: our guest. Was it similar when Will Smith hit his

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Speaker 1: go ahead home run in the eleventh inning? Do you

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Speaker 1: know similar experience with only hearing the family section?

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Speaker 1: Can't wait to see ninety one back in that third

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Speaker 2: Thanks David, always a pleasure talking baseball with you. Go Dodgers.

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