WEBVTT - Off Season Dodger Talk (1-6-26) 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.320 This is off season Dodger Talk. 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:04.640 Get in on the show by calling eight sixty six 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.880 Non e seven two seventy four hashtag. 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:13.160 Dodger Talk and now your host David Basse. Hey, welcome 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.759 to Dodger Talk. David Vase with you for the first 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.759 time in twenty twenty six, getting you ready for the 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:24.919 Dodgers Cactus League opener, which is just right around the 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:29.560 corner February twenty first, right here on AM five to 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:34.280 seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers will kick off the Cactus 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.239 League portion of their schedule for the first time in 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:41.640 three years. They will have opening Day in North America, 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:45.400 so somewhat of a normal spring training and we have 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:49.279 got you covered starting tonight on Dodger Talk. We've got 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.320 a great show for you tonight. We'll climb. As you 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.959 just heard, Money Petros and Kate's mentioned one of the 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.960 heroes of the Dodgers championship run in the World Series, 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.560 a man that came out of nowhere to pitch the 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:08.240 final four innings of that eighteen inning marathon through a 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:12.800 career high seventy two pitches and helped the Dodgers get 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.920 their only win of the World Series at Dodgers Stadium 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:20.480 in Game three. He will join us in thirteen minutes. 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:24.080 We'll climb coming up at the bottom of the hour, 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.880 I'll let you know what I know about the possibilities 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.720 of Trek Skoubol being traded. And we have some late 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:38.080 breaking Bob Bishek Kyle Tucker rumors circulating from Toronto because 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.520 the Blue Jays held a press conference today to introduce 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:48.480 their newest signing, and that is the infielder from Japan Okamoto. 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.360 He signed with the Blue Jays and is expected to 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.840 play third base. And we'll get more and more into 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.680 what that means for Bob Bishett and Kyle Tucker and 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.360 how the Dodgers may be waiting in the wings for 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.400 one of those two players. But before we get to 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.520 all that, Before we get to all that, I just 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.079 want to share with you that I've done a lot 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.920 of things so far this offseason and over the Christmas break. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.480 I've been to a Laker game, I've been to a 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.760 Kings game, I've been to a Rams game. And I 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:26.480 could tell you, hands down right now, major League Baseball, 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.640 in the experience of being at a major League stadium, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:36.240 especially Dodgers Stadium, tops all of it SOFI Stadium, beautiful place, 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:38.320 but I don't want to get there at nine in 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.040 the morning to be able to beat the traffic. I 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.480 don't want to have to leave with eight minutes left 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.960 in the fourth quarter. And by the way, have you 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.440 ever been to an NFL game in person? They talk 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:54.960 about baseball being slow? Oh my goodness, the NFL in person. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.160 If you have low attention span, you can't sit there. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.240 I mean, no wonder people are getting up, getting drinks, 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:07.079 getting food. There is so much time in between snaps, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:12.360 so much time in halftime. Forget about that just TV timeouts. 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.280 I mean, at some point we have to celebrate the 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:20.560 fact that Major League Baseball in twenty twenty six is 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:25.960 the best experience. It's the best and most entertaining sport 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.760 out there. I mean, NHL in person is amazing. I 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.880 can't knock that. It was a great experience to be 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.520 at the Kings game on Dodger Night. But the Lakers, 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.240 I mean, the Lakers are as much of an afterthought 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.600 now as they were right after Magic Johnson retired in 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:47.040 nineteen ninety one. I mean, we are talking about Sedale 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:51.440 three vlade Eldon Campbell days right now. As far as 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.560 you know, just the feelings towards the Lakers. I know 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.040 they got Luca, I know they got Lebron, but I 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.560 think we all know they're not going anywhere. And until 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:05.640 Mark Walter and his group put their stamp on things, 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.760 it's gonna be that way. And the NBA product is atrocious. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.880 I used to love the NBA. I love the Lakers. 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.279 It's unwatchable right now. The way they play the game. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:21.279 They talk about, you know, analytics ruining baseball, Well, you 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.359 add to a certain extent, they went too far, and 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.640 I would argue that some team still go too far. 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.560 But the Commissioner of baseball, and I don't give him 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:35.159 too many compliments, he kind of got the rails back 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:40.200 on to make this a better sport to watch, a 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:44.480 more entertaining sport. And the Dodgers are the most entertaining team, 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.680 and we are so spoiled in Los Angeles the last 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:53.719 ten plus years. But the NBA is unwatchable. They ruined it. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.560 It's a three point euro game. Now it's unwatchable. Can't 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:02.880 watch the NBA. So my point is everybody around baseball 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.200 wants to complain about it. I think at some point 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.720 everybody needs to acknowledge baseball is the most entertaining sport 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:15.919 out there. And maybe I'm spoiled because we cover the Dodgers. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.880 We see the Dodgers every single night. That may be true. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:25.240 But this postseason was amazing. Last year's postseason was amazing, 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:29.560 This regular season was amazing. And the Dodgers being as 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.719 good as they are is not ruining baseball. It's making 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.200 it ten times better. When the Yankees, the Dodgers, the 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.960 Red Sox are good, Baseball is in a better place. 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:45.080 So there's my thing. And also, you know, everybody talked about, 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.280 you know, the baseball playoffs and the records of some 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.360 of these division winners and the reseeding the last couple 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.880 of years. How about what we got on our hands 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:58.280 on Saturday afternoon, our own rams, My rams, that's right, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:02.520 My rams are going to Carolina on a short week 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.920 to play a one thirty Pacific time game, a four 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:10.719 to thirty Eastern game against a division winner that has 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.720 an under five hundred record. The Panthers are eight to nine. 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.320 You're telling me the Panthers should have a home game 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.560 and not the Rams. So everybody goes up in arms, 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.800 including our very own Matt money Smith I mean, mister 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.839 nfl over here talks about reseting in baseball. Has he 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:32.760 mentioned once in the last two days about how disproportionate 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:37.479 the seating is in the NFL, especially this Saturday with 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.680 the Rams. I bet he hasn't. But when it comes 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.880 to baseball, everybody wants to poke holes in the best 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:50.760 sport this side of the NFL. Eight six six nine 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.640 eight seven two five seventy is the phone number we 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.920 are taking phone calls. We are going to have time 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.520 to take your calls at the bottom of the hour. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.160 But really, I mean, I just had to get those 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:06.640 things off my chest. Major League Baseball, this side of 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.520 the NFL, is the best professional sports league out there 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:15.520 right now, hands down the NBA. There is zero buzz 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:20.720 about the NBA. Nobody cares about the NBA. I'm sorry. 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:27.360 Baseball right now has such a golden opportunity to capitalize 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.120 on the great players and the great league and the 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:34.200 great presentation of the game. They can't squander it. They've 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.960 got to amplify it. And speaking of that, you know 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:43.160 some of these platforms that they've made deals with, you know, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.720 it's hard for people to keep up with where these 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.000 games are going to be at and there's a report 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:52.880 today that Peacock has reached out to Clayton Kershaw to 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:57.640 be their lead broadcast analyst. That's a great choice. It's 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.760 outside the box choice, it's the right choice. Will he 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.480 accept I would say it's fifty to fifty. I don't 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:08.800 know how committed he is to being mister mom for 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:13.600 twenty four seven, three sixty five, But being a national 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.240 broadcaster is not as big of a commitment as being 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:21.720 Eric Carros or Oral Herscheizer splitting being the analyst for 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:26.040 the Dodgers, the two best analysts the Dodgers have that's 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.520 on TV. That's not as big of a commitment as 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:33.440 Rick Monday calling every single game on radio this year. 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.000 So I think it's a good fit. I think he 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.640 would be great. He has great insights. I could tell 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:43.480 you talking to Clayton, not only during interviews, but without 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.120 the microphone. He has taught me a lot. He has 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:51.440 opened my eyes a lot when he's on headset during 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.079 games the last five six seven years, in the middle 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.360 of innings. I think he's really insightful. I don't think 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:01.360 he's cookie cutter. I think I know for a fact 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:06.520 that he has not only evaluated other hitters, but has 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.720 evaluated other broadcasters, so he seems to believe that he 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.559 hasn't figured out. It's not as easy as I'm sure 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.040 he believes it is. It does take some effort. And 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.479 Charlie Steiner once pointed something out to me that I 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:25.360 still believe is one hundred percent true. There are athletes 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:30.600 that are in the broadcast booth that are just former athletes, 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.120 but the great ones that have made the transition. The 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:39.720 Chris collins Worth, the John Smoltz, guys like that, Oral Herscheizer, 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:44.600 Eric Carrows, those type of guys, they are broadcasters that 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.920 used to play. That's the biggest difference. And you can 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.080 tell the difference pick anybody out that is the analyst, 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.200 no matter what sport it is. Are they just a 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.280 guy that is relying on, you know, what they did 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.600 as a player and hanging around the cage and that's 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.160 what they're going with with no other preparation, or are 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.480 they actually doing some homework in the hotel room at 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.720 their house before they show up at the ballpark. That's 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.640 a broadcaster. And I firmly believe that if Kershaw went, 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.080 you know, it's not if it's a matter of when 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.360 he goes into the broadcast booth and whatever he does, 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.600 I believe that it will be at the stadium in 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.480 the booth instead of being on a desk. That's just 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:28.560 my own personal opinion. He will be really good and 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.560 insightful and open your eyes and make you learn things 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.520 that you may not otherwise have known. So, if it's 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.480 this year with Peacock, if it's five years down the 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.839 line after John Smoltz believes that, you know, he wants 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.440 to just be on the golf course twenty four to seven. 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:51.120 Kershaw's that guy. He's the next guy. Trust eight sixty 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.280 six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.440 We're gonna take a time out when we come back. 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.679 One of the key members of the Dodgers twenty twenty 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.720 five World Championship team, Will Cline, will join us next 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.400 on AM five to seventy LA Sports. David Vasse with 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:11.160 you until eight o'clock tonight on Dodgers Radio AM five 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.640 to seventy LA Sports. You can find us as well 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.839 on the iHeartRadio app. Make us one of your presets. 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.000 You can find all the podcasts, all the interviews, all 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:25.959 the shows of Dodger Talk on the iHeartRadio podcast. Our 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.079 next show is going to be on Thursday night at 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:33.720 seven o'clock. And hey, we're still celebrating back to back 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:37.560 World championships. Why wouldn't you? And we are joinin right 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.040 now by a man that was a huge part of 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.240 the twenty twenty five World Series, a man that many 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.680 of you may not have known in spring training, but 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.760 he certainly made his presence known in the postseason. That 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.520 is the one and only winning pitcher from Game three 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:58.480 of the World Series, Will clinb Will, Happy New Year, 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.360 and thanks a lot for taking the time time to 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:00.839 call in. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.280 Yeah, happy to you guys. Thanks for having me on 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:05.960 this as an honor. 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.280 Hey, it's an honor to have you on. You are 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:13.520 definitely a champion of the Dodgers, a champion of the city. 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.280 What's life been like for Will Klein ever since the 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.920 Dodgers won Game seven of the World Series. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:26.040 It's definitely been a different offseason than last year. It's 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.200 kind of been, you know, all over the place, like 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.320 doing cool things like I've heard from you know, like 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.160 I mean, like getting brand deals and like just meeting 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.160 people I wouldn't have without, you know, everything that happened 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:42.720 this year and obviously World Serious Champions is a pretty 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.800 cool addition to know some awards, and so that's that's 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:50.320 certainly one of a kind. And so just yeah, just 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.360 trying to take time to appreciate everything that's happened this 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.120 year and how thankful we are for everything the Dodgers 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.079 and everyone that supports the Dodgers, everything I've done. So 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.840 it's been it's been really really fun to you know, 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.280 kind of take all in and feel the sport for everybody. 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.440 Will We were on different buses for the parade and 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.840 we missed each other that day. What was it like 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.360 for you to see the sea of humanity on the 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.360 streets of Los Angeles caring so much about you and 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:22.280 the rest of the Dodgers. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.600 It was not at all what I expected. It was 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.720 a million times cooler, and you know, maybe just so 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:32.160 appreciative for everything that the fans do, and you know, 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.160 like I grew up a baseball fan and like I 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:38.240 was like die hard, and I like root for all 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:39.920 sorts of other sports, and so to be on that 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.839 side for you know, millions of people and to get 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.000 to see them out there and how like excited and 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.880 they see kids taking off school to come to the 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.160 parade and you see people that have been fans for 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.720 like eighty years doing the same thing, and so just 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:57.000 see that and like that they're there to like celebrate 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.200 something that I had a part of and you know 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.000 we all did as a as a team. Was just 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.600 it really makes you appreciate the little thing a little more. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.520 Will Kleine is our guest. World Series Champion. Will Klein 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.880 is our guest. You know, after the World Series and 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.880 actually the day of the parade, Clayton Kershaw told me, 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.760 I never saw the final out. I never knew what 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.840 happened to end Game seven of the World Series. Did 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.960 you see the final out? Did you know what was 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.720 going on? Did you do you remember Kershaw being so 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:27.360 locked in? 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:29.800 Yeah? 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:35.320 I was, I mean I was shaking that entire Oh 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.880 but yeah, Kershaw was warming up because I know they 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.160 had a lefty either on deck or coming up in 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.360 a couple and we had to yell at him in 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.240 between innings to come in and start warming up because 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:48.960 he was like playing catch on the field, you know, 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.040 just probably as like a one last time kind of deal, 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.760 and he was out there throwing and we had to 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.760 like yell and then he couldn't hear us from the bullpen, 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.360 so someone had to go down onto the field actually 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.040 get them to come up and like warm up. 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.560 And so I know, he said, like you thought he 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:05.240 was in Like. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:06.800 He didn't realize we had got an adult play to 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.400 end it. And so that's like to not be able 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.840 to appreciate it instantly. It was kind of kind of 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:13.840 funny for it to like happen to him, of all people. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.840 That's just how locked in he gets. And obviously that's 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.120 why he had had such a story career. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:20.120 But it's really. 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:21.880 Funny that, like, of all people to not be able 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.560 to like appreciate it right away, it was it happened 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:25.239 to him. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:29.000 So you're telling me that in between innings of that 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.120 part of Game seven of the World Series, eighth ninth 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:36.440 innings ish maybe tenth inning, that Kershaw was playing catch 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.200 on the field instead of in the bullpen. 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:45.400 Well, like a bullpen catcher or pitcher goes down and 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.200 warm stuff, either like the right fielder or the left 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.000 fielder in between most things like on the road and 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.320 stuff with like how far think ta Oska is in 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.200 right field? So like they're out there and then our 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.400 bullpen's right there. So you know, Kershaw being Kershaw, like 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:59.520 he can kind of override anyone and goes down I'm 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.400 gonna go do that, And so he went down. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.760 There to kind of appreciate it. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.080 One last time, and he was playing catch with in 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.200 between and they're like, yeah, curse, I got to get 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.160 ready and and like yeah, we were literally yelling from 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.360 the bullpen and so he couldn't hear us because it 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.960 was pretty loud there, and so yes, someone had to 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.720 go get them. But it's like it's a normal thing, 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.840 like either a bolben catcher or like a pitcher warms 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.840 up with like throws them between innings with outfielders, you know, 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.880 to help us stal those and them. But I think 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:30.160 he just kind of want to do it one last 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.400 time and kind of turned into a funny moment for. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:32.960 All of us. 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:37.160 That's amazing. Will Klein is our guest. All right, Well, 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.240 I know you've been asked this a million times. I 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.960 interviewed you after Game three of the World Series, after 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.600 Freddy's walk off home run. What do you remember the 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.680 most about getting through those four innings? And if you 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.400 don't do that, there's a very good chance, with the 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.240 way things played out, the Dodgers don't win the World 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.400 Series has Well, let's start with the first part of 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.520 that question. How did you get through each and every 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:05.800 one of those four innings? 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.879 Yeah, I think I just there's something about like that 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.800 last man standing thing that kind of kicks you into overdrive. 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.680 I think it's like a really cool like fight or flight, 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.119 Like you don't really get to ever experience it except 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.280 for like those extreme situations. So it's like being that 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.960 last guy out there just kind of motivates you even 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.720 more and just be able to like do it for 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.280 the city of Los Angeles, for the team, for everyone watching, 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.760 you know, just drives you. And so each inning, like 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.119 you hear the crowd go crazy after you get that 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.440 last out, like Okay, I can keep doing this a 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.479 little more. And you know, every time I came in, 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.120 I just kept thinking, like, we're not losing this game, 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.359 Like I told them, I didn't care how long I 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.880 had to go, like we weren't going to lose a game. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.760 But then I was done after four and so if 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:54.760 Yama goes in, who knows what happens there. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.040 Yeah, that that was amazing. You know, one thing that 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.639 struck me will and maybe you can describe what you 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:06.000 were feeling on the mound your teammates in your dugout, 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.800 they were willing you to every strike, to every out, 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.040 to every inning. How much did you feed off of 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:16.199 that emotion from your dugout to help push you to 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.000 kind of pick you up emotionally. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:24.280 Yeah, I really felt that, especially those last the third 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.680 and the fourth ending there. The first two you're like 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.680 running like that's nothing super extraordinary except for it being 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.240 the World Series and you know, super stressful. But you 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.120 get to the third and the fourth and uncharted territories 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:39.760 for me as a pitcher, and you know, you start 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:41.920 to feel a little bit and you try to dig deep. 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:43.920 But then you like feel those guys and you feel. 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.600 Them like cheering freef pitch and you feel them like 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.000 yelling at you, like keep going and stuff like that. 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.880 And that's just like if you know, if they can 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.080 believe in me, I can believe in myself too, and 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.320 so it just it definitely gives you like an extra 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.600 ten percent, you know, in your fuel tank to keep going. 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.120 And so well, especially like in the last inning, like, man, 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:04.879 those guys I could I could hear them, you know, 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.280 they were they were the ones to keep me afloat them, 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:09.679 and you know, all the fans and stuff, So they 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.200 were pretty much the only reason I got through that 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:12.760 last inning. 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.520 I think, Hey, when I saw you coming back to 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.679 the dugout in the seventeenth inning, it felt like you 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:22.520 had emptied the emotional tank. How did you pick yourself 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.600 up to go back out there for the eighteenth I was, 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.280 you know, you always hear about that when you emptied 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.119 the tank, you feel like you're done. How did you 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.879 how did you pick yourself back up emotionally after the 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:39.200 seventeenth inning to go back out there for the eighteenth. 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.119 Yeah, that's that's a really good question because you always 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.960 see guys that go crazy if you didn't last out, 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:47.720 like come back out the next daying it doesn't go 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:51.239 so well. Well, I was just you know, as soon 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:53.199 as that third out happened, I'm like all right, like 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:54.320 you know, might as well. 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:54.920 Go do it again. 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.920 Like you get up there and like I think, you 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.640 throw the first fish and in the adournaline you know, 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:02.760 took over again. 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.120 But like I got back in the. 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.040 Dugout, we had a chance at that inning, and so 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:08.879 like you're sitting there like cheering on your team. But 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.239 as soon as two outs of team. I just kind 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.320 of stapped there and brought myself back back there earth, 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.600 back to you know, the moment, and try to like 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.960 get back into the game. And so just like I 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.080 really worked with my breathing this year and like mental 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:26.760 stuff and so be able to get myself back in 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:30.400 the zone in the midst of so much chaos. It's 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:31.960 a little bit of extra effort, but just be able 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.600 to like call myself and find it and be like, 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:36.879 all right, let's let's just go do this one more time, 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:39.239 you know, like that we're not losing this game. Like 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:41.719 that was a huge part of just just staying that 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:43.920 over and over and over again until you start believing it. 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:45.920 And so that just kept me going. 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.040 And then you get back on that mound and you 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:50.600 hear all the fans again, all the all the teammates 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:52.960 and the dugout and it kicks starts for you too. 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:57.480 Will kleinb when did you kind of click keeping your 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:59.960 composure and the breathing to be able to help you 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.439 throw strikes and also be the type of picture that 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.040 a lot of the members of the coaching staff believed 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:08.560 you can be and do what you did in game 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:10.480 three of the World Series of what point in the 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:14.399 season did you really turn all of that around your composure, 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:15.879 your mound presence. 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.920 Yeah, I remember I had a couple of tough ones, 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:25.280 Like my tenure when I first got here wasn't bad, 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:27.359 Like the results were good, but I had a couple. 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:30.639 I had a top one in Milwaukee where you're up 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:32.119 there and you're not throwing strikes and it feels like 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:35.240 you just can't. And so we had like we have 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:37.959 a really good staff and really good mental health and 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:40.719 mental skills people, and so just I sat down one day, 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:42.520 I was just talk talk to them for a while 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:46.520 about it, and they're like everyone everyone feels the same way. 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:48.800 It's like sometimes you don't feel like you belong with 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:53.000 especially Knight the Dodgers Clubhouse. And then they're like, well 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:55.320 everyone has thought that at some point you do belong. 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:57.560 You want to be here if you don't, And then 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:01.960