WEBVTT - Off Season Dodger Talk (1-8-26) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.280 This is off season Dodger Talk. 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:04.600 Get in on the show by calling eight sixty six 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:10.720 seven hashtag Dodger Talk and now your host, David Bassey. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.800 We are not in Siritos. No, we are not at 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:19.599 a BJS in Siritos. We are at the Sportsnet LA 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:24.880 studios where I just finished access Sportsnet Dodgers and we 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:30.080 were joined by three time, three time World Series champion 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.560 Max Muncy, and we will share part of that conversation 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.400 with you coming up at seven point fifteen at the 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.280 bottom of the hour, we are going to be joined 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:44.720 by the PCL Pacific Coast League. For those that don't know, 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:50.320 the Pacific Coast League Player of the Year and now 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:55.760 added to the Dodgers' forty man roster, Ryan Ward. Yes, 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.960 that Ryan Ward. And the reason why we're having Ryan 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:04.160 on the show is because I don't want to harbor 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.640 this type of resentment to a guy I don't even know, 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.880 to a guy that had a great season. And the 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:16.680 reason why I harbored minimal amount of resentment towards Ryan 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:22.919 Ward is the fact that probably from I don't know, July, 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:28.640 after the All Star break until maybe even the Wildcard series, 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:34.840 somebody called the show somebody at the stadium would ask 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:40.200 me about him. One of the broadcasters would ask me, 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.319 why aren't they calling this guy up? Why is he 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.800 not up here? Why is Michael Conforto in left field? 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:51.840 And quite honestly, I didn't have a great answer, but 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.560 all I could relay is the fact that the Dodgers 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:59.280 were sticking with Conforto. Well, Confordo's gone and Ryan Ward 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.640 now on the forty man roster. And now Ryan Ward 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.880 is going to be on the show tonight, and we'll 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.680 see what Ryan Ward is all about on the show 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.440 tonight as a personality, as a guy that we're going 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.960 to get to know. And we'll see how much of 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.600 an opportunity Ryan Ward gets this season. A lot of 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.919 it is contingent on you know who the Dodgers are 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:28.080 able to either trade for or sign this offseason to 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:32.600 help upgrade not only their outfield defense but also their offense. 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:37.200 Their offense was not very good the second half of 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:43.360 the season. They scored almost twenty five less runs in 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.960 the postseason this year than what they did when they 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.919 beat the Yankees and went through the postseason last year 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:54.520 in twenty twenty four. So Andrew Friedman is very aware 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.760 of the fact that their offense wasn't very good the 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.200 second half of last year, and he wants to make 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.240 it better, and there are a few guys on the 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.600 free agent market that can help him make it better. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.080 There are opportunities on the trade market that could help 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.960 him make it better. So the Dodgers are not done adding, 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:17.120 but there's no rush because there are a number of 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:21.600 different ways the Dodgers can pivot now. I've been a 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.440 big advocate for the Dodgers to sign Bo Bishett, but 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.840 it seems like the Phillies now are the team that 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:34.440 are emerging as the front runners to sign Bishett. The Phillies, 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.800 in case you missed it, hired former Dodger manager and 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:45.160 more recently, former Blue Jays bench coach Don Mattinglee to 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.560 be their bench coach, and from what we can gather 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.280 out of Toronto is that Bo Boshett and Don Mattinglee 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.320 had a very tight relationship and that may have played 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:01.400 into why the Phillies hired Don Mattinglee, among other reasons, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:06.360 to be their bench coach. Now and Bob Bashett is 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.840 scheduled to have either a video call or an in 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:14.000 person call with the Phillies coming up next week. According 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.640 to John Hayman, his camp is looking for three hundred 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.880 million dollars. I don't know if that's true or not, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:25.120 but Phillies players are reportedly texting Bashett encouraging him to 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.760 sign with them. And the Phillies are a very left 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.960 handed oriented team, so they could use a really good 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.400 right handed hitter like Bo Bashett, who is only twenty 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.719 eight years old and already in his career, has led 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.000 the league in hits two different times. And that's why 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.200 I'm a big fan of Bobashett. I think the Dodgers 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.880 had some level of interest in Bobashett. It may still do, 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.720 but it feels like the Dodgers are focusing on the 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.280 outfield and we hear so much about Kyle Tucker. Look, 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.440 Bobashett isn't going back to Toronto, so the chances are 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.200 very high the Blue Jays are zeroing in and closing 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:09.600 in on a deal for Kyle Tucker. Now we've heard, 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.400 and I've told you this before, that the Dodgers have 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:16.320 this saying amongst their front office people that Andrew Friedman 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.800 coined is hanging around the backboard in case a guy 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:24.240 like Freddie Freeman doesn't re sign with his team, or 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.480 a guy like Mookie Bets becomes available in a trade 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:33.000 among others. So if Kyle Tucker and the Blue Jays 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:37.320 can't come up with a significant number, maybe Kyle Tucker 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.480 does settle for a three or four year deal. If 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.800 that was the case, I feel like the Dodgers would 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:46.120 be definitely interested, and that's the reason why you're hearing 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.720 their name. But it seems like the Blue Jays are 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.800 going to sign him. We haven't mentioned Cody Bellinger in 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.719 a while on this show, and I feel like a 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:00.559 reunion from what I can gather, a reunion with Cody 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.080 Bellinger is still not out of the question. 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:03.599 Now. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.800 The Yankees really need Cody Bellinger to come back, but 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.640 the Yankees are a mess now. According to a few 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:15.599 different reports, Scott Boris is seeking a seven year deal 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.279 from the Yankees for Cody Bellinger at an annual average 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.640 salary of thirty million dollars. So that would be seven years, 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.840 two hundred and ten million dollars. I don't see the 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:31.200 Dodgers doing that. Maybe the Yankees are desperate enough to 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.240 do that, but I could see the Dodgers saying, okay, 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.360 thirty million dollars a year for Cody Bellinger, how about 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:43.840 three years, how about four years? Things are being equal? 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.160 If the Yankees are not going six or seven years 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.680 or even five years, why wouldn't Cody Bellinger want to 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:54.120 come back? And I can understand, and I've mentioned this 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:59.000 the sentiment of let's turn the page on those Dodgers. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.919 Let's turn the page and move on. From Justin Turner, 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:07.880 from Kenley Jansen, from Corey Seeger, from Cody Bellinger. I 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.920 can understand that the Dodgers have won back to back 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:16.960 World Series championships without those players. But Cody Bellinger is 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.080 still only thirty years old, and he was a really 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:25.000 popular player here. He won the MVP and talking to Cody, 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.840 keeping in touch with Cody, he's become a way more 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:33.840 mature player in person since he left the Dodgers after 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.520 what the twenty two season, And let's not forget Cody 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.520 Bellinger came up with a lot of big hits for 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:45.120 the Dodgers in the postseason. They don't advance to the 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:49.480 NLCS in twenty twenty one if Cody Bellinger doesn't come 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.840 up with a huge hitting game five of the NLDS 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:58.160 in San Francisco, to name one, of many. How about 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:02.960 the twenty twenty postseason catches home runs. I mean, he 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.720 wasn't the same for a while after hitting that huge 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.240 home run in the NLCS and Keik Hernandez giving him 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:13.840 a shoal forearm shoulder shiver. It seems like he has 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.160 He hasn't returned to the player before that, but he's 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.920 become a better player and he knows himself a lot 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.800 better than he did when we last saw him in 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:28.800 a Dodger uniform. So one way or the other, whether 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.600 it's Kyle Tucker, whether it's Cody Bellinger, whether it's making 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.520 a trade for a Brendan Donovan or a Lars Noubar, 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.440 Andrew Friedman is going to upgrade the offense. And he 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.240 still has a lot of options on the board of 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.600 outfielders to name just a handful that are out there 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:53.120 that are still available and huge impact players. So there there, 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.280 it's incredible to say this on January eighth, one eight day. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.720 I'm celebrating Yamamoto one eight day, by the way, but 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.720 on January eighth, and we are just a little over 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.800 a month from when the Dodgers report to camp, Kyle 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:14.440 Tucker Cody Bellinger are still on the board. Lars new 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:19.280 Bar and Brendan Donovan have not been traded, so to 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.520 put it lightly, there are still as many options on 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.880 January eighth as there were on December first, So the 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:32.560 Dodgers are not feeling the urgency. Now there is a 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.359 player of interest that did not come to an arbitration 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.679 agreement with his team. We'll let you know who that is. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.760 We'll let you know how far apart the two sides 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.040 are and how that may change the dynamic of his 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:50.440 availability in the trade market. We got Max Munsey coming 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.080 up next, and at the bottom of the hour, Ryan 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.960 Ward David vass live from the Sports net LA studios 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:01.600 with you until eight o'clock tonight right here, seventy LA Sports. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.920 David Vassa with you until eight o'clock tonight here on 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.400 a five to seventy LA Sports. Thanks to the folks 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.160 here at sports net LA for inviting me back for 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:16.560 access sports Net Dodgers, and thanks to them for allowing 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.760 me to squat in one of the offices here to 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:24.400 host Dodger Talk until eight o'clock. Coming up at the 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:29.440 bottom of the hour, Pacific Coast League MVP and Dodger 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.360 nerd Cult legend Ryan Ward is going to join us 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.360 and can't wait to meet Ryan Ward. Can't wait to 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.360 talk to him coming up at the bottom of the hour. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.760 You know, I mentioned this on Petro some money. I 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.000 went back to my alma mater last night, Notre Dame 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.480 High School in Sherman Oaks. It wasn't as bougie when 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.439 I graduated there in nineteen ninety four, but still a 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.600 grade school, A great place to send your kids if 0:10:55.600 --> 0:11:01.199 you can. But I went back because my cousin who's 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.320 like my sister, her son now is a grown man 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.480 and teaches there and is an assistant basketball coach for 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.520 the varsity team. So I decided to go back there 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:16.040 support the school, support him, and they embarrassed me. They 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.360 blew a sixteen point lead going into the fourth quarter 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.120 and lost by a point to Loyola. But that's a 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.000 that's not the highlight of the day. I actually saw 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:32.440 my old dean of boys at the school, and he 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.880 turns out to be now the president of Notre Dame 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:40.800 High School, Rob Thomas. No, not that Rob Thomas. Mister 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.680 Thomas is now the president of Notre Dame High School. 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.560 And I always try to stander the radar, and I said, hey, 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.079 I remember you. You were the Diana Boys when I 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.080 went to school here. He's like, yeah, when'd you graduate? 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.960 What's your name? David Vasse ninety four? I listened to 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:01.560 the show, Well there we go. So high school ever 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:06.400 needs me because of you know, their president, Rob Thomas, 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.679 I would be there for them. Great guy, a man 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:14.040 of strength and dignity and class, Rob Thomas. All Right. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.840 I mentioned that Trek scooble Well. I did not say 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.920 his name, but I mentioned a player did not come 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:27.400 to an agreement as many players did for to avoid arbitration. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:33.240 Scott Boris, Scott Trek Scougbell's agent exchanged a number of 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:37.240 thirty two million dollars with the Tigers. The Tigers came 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:42.520 back with nineteen million dollars. That's a big disparity, right there. 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:47.840 Not Usually a gap like that does not happen in 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.800 arbitration trying to avoid arbitration. Just in case you're wondering, 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.920 the record for a pitcher in these type of situations 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:02.719 was David Price back in twenty fifteen, who got nineteen 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:09.560 point seven five million dollars. So the Tigers, you know, 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:16.800 ten eleven years later, want to pay Trek's Scouble less 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.640 than what David Price got for being, you know, equally 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.360 as good of a pitcher at that time, maybe less 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.280 than twenty fifteen. That's a thirteen million dollar cap gap 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.800 between the Tigers and Schoolball right now. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:32.880 Yeah, I'm not. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:37.120 Gonna say this is going to trigger anything to change 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:41.760 significantly as far as the Tigers trading Schooble. But if 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:45.880 they do go into an arbitration hearing and what happens 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:51.000 there is the team basically tears down the player to 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:55.080 try to get the arbiter to side with them to 0:13:55.280 --> 0:14:00.360 pay the player less. That can get very contentious. And 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.080 that's the reason why Andrew Freeman for the most part, 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:08.040 has avoided arbitration hearings with the majority of his players 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.080 outside of War one or two, going back to his 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:15.800 days with the Rays. So I'll say this, if the 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:20.160 Tigers and school Bowl go into arbitration and the Tigers 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.840 are going to try to poke holes in Tarrek's Schoolbull's 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.360 game to try to bring him down to closer to 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.080 their offer of nineteen million dollars, I can assure you 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.720 number one, Trek Scuble will not re sign with the 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:38.640 Tigers when he becomes a free agent and the chances 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:47.000 of him being traded go up significantly. Now, I don't 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.120 think it's going to get there, because they have until 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.520 the end of the month to try to compromise on 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.480 a number. But certainly Scott Boris, this is an indicator 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:01.080 of Scott Boris asking for thirty eighty two million dollars 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:05.520 to avoid arbitration and the Tigers submitting nineteen million dollars 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.400 that Scott bores not only is trying to set a 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.840 record in arbitration, but I can assure you Scott bores 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.040 Is trying is going to try to set a new 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:20.080 record to top the contract of Garrett Cole and Yoshi 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:25.120 Yamamoto for Schooble in free agency. That's what all this 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:29.560 signals to me, more than Schooble all of a sudden 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.560 being traded to the Dodgers, the Mets or anywhere else. 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.840 That's what it tells me. Eight six six nine eighty 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.800 seven two five seventy is the phone number. Would you 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.720 want a reunion with Cody Bellinger? I've laid it all 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:47.120 out for you. Would you want a reunion with Cody Bellinger? 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:51.920 Or are you of the thinking that the Dodger should 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.440 just turn the page from those group of players that 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:01.760 Lefia free agency or, in Bals case, the Dodgers decided 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.880 not to tender uh back in twenty twenty two. Where 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.320 do you stand? Are you open to a Bellinger reunion 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.360 or do you believe it's time for the Dodgers to 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:16.000 move on and find somebody else. I'm of the mindset 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:20.359 that Cody Bellinger should be back in a Dodger uniform 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.000 if it makes sense. Four year deal. I'm all in 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.360 four years at thirty million dollars, I'm all in bring 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.320 him back. He could play all three outfield positions. He's 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.160 a playoff player, he knows the culture of the Dodgers. 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.280 He's a great guy. The players would love to have 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:42.000 him back. And if you're talking about giving Freddie Freeman 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.720 more days off at first base, who better than Cody 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:50.000 Bellinger to give him those days off? Eight six six nine, 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.360 eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Cody 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:57.440 Bellinger was part of the twenty twenty World Series championship 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:03.840 that was Max Munsey's first three World Series championships. Max Munsey, 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.760 a three time World Series champion, part of the dodgers 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:12.679 first ever back to back World Series Championship team joined 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:17.400 us on Sportsnet LA, myself, Jerry Harriston Junior, and Kirsten Watson, 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.280 And here's part of our conversation. And I asked Muncie, 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:26.560 how difficult was it to repeat as champions? Now that 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.360 you've had some time to exhale and celebrate, how difficult 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.639 is it to repeat as world champions? 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:39.760 Yeah, you know, it's it's something that you can't really 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.199 discuss in like a short segment, like there needs to 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.399 be a long talk about it one day. But you know, 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.560 as I mentioned, the off seasons get short, and that's 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.520 what you want. But when your off season is so short, 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.359 you don't have, you know, the full time to recover. 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.920 Most guys when when the off season comes, they'll take 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.280 you know, anywhere from like two weeks to a full 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.159 month off before when they get back into training. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.200 And for us, we don't have that time. 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.320 You know, you have to get right back into training, 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.120 and so your body is not getting a full time 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:07.600 to recover. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.680 And you know. 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.040 That's where with the long season you start seeing some 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:13.760 of the guys break down a little bit. There's just 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.439 not enough time to recover, and you know, there's not 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.320 really anything you can do about that. We're trying to 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.879 be smarter about how we're managing guys and you know, 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.439 workloads and that kind of stuff. But at the end 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.199 of the day, you have to get recovery. And you know, 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.439 for us, when in that that that first World Series, 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:32.600 you know, we started in Korea and then you win 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.879 the first World Series, and then we start in Japan 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:35.960 and win another World Series. 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.399 So you're talking about, you know, our season was already longer. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.760 Than anyone else, just as you know, as it was 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:43.640 just starting overseas, and then we went to the World 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:45.600 Series and you know, so that's back to back years 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:50.000 of having just the longest season possible. It takes a 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:52.879 toll on everybody, and that's why it's so hard to 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.119 go out there and keep winning. And that's why you 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:56.720 saw a lot of the dips, you know, as this 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.520 season went on. It's just it's tough. It's tough to 0:18:59.560 --> 0:18:59.840 keep that. 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.280 You know, Max, you spoke on Superman, who we all 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.720 know he was probably the greatest player to ever play 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.080 this game in Shoyo Tani, and you got a couple 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.800 other superstars like obviously Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman. But when 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.360 you speak on and you're a star in your own right, 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.720 but when you speak on the other guys, because it 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.399 took everybody last year and really the year before, but 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:23.719 especially last year, it took everybody to win that World Series. 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.200 Yeah, it's really cool for me to, like, you know, 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.440 the small times I've had to reflect on it, it's 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:34.880 really cool to look back and just realize, we don't 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.959 win that World Series without every single person that participated 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.399 in it. You know, every single guy on the roster 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:42.800 played a key part in winning that World Series. It 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.720 wasn't just one guy taken over, you know, the World 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:48.639 Series and past Freddy kind of took over for us, 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:52.800 and this year it was literally every single guy played 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.639 at least one role throughout the entire postseason. And you know, 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:57.520 you could just name a guy on the roster and 0:19:57.520 --> 0:19:59.480 you can say, oh, that guy made a play. You 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.520 look at just Dean in center field with you know, 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.440 the ball that got stuck. You look at Will Klein, 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.720 who was in Arizona for every series prior to the 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:11.600 World Series. You know, Tommy making defensive plays, Mookie doing 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.600 what he did Ashore and then having a big hit 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:14.400 in Game six and. 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:18.160 Seven for US, and. 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.560 You know, every single guy played a role to where 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:21.879 if we didn't have any one of those guys, we 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.119 don't win. And that's a really cool thing for me 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.000 to look back and just realize how much of a 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:26.879 team effort it was. 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:29.840 Wait a minute, you just said that you've only taken 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:33.159 small parts of your off season to reflect on the 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.120 World Championship, something that hasn't been done in twenty years. 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.639 To repeat, what have you been doing? One see that 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.360 you're so busy that you can't reflect. Max, feel free 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:42.640 to yell at him. Yell at him. 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:45.000 Don't worry. He gets yelled at all the time. 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:45.480 He knows it. 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.160 I've been I've been busy, man. We got we got 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.280 maybe number three popping out any day here. 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:51.560 You know. 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:53.760 I've been trying to train and get get you know, 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:56.600 get ready for the season, and you know, the holidays, 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:58.240 it's it's a whirlwind. 0:20:58.240 --> 0:20:58.359 Man. 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:00.320 Like I said, I feel like we've only had like 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:02.639 a week off from when the end of the season happened. 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:06.040 And you know, it's already it's already January and we're 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:08.199 going to be in Arizona before you know it. So 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:10.680 it's ah, you don't really have time to just sit 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:12.960 around and you know, just gloat about it. 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:14.280 You have to. You have to start getting ready and 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:16.000 prepare for the next season because it comes quick. 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:19.000 Maxally formulas you always have a quick one for you. 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.239 We all happen to know. There were some tattoos that 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:24.520 of course made the way around the world. If you 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:28.160 guys go back to back to back, are you committing 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:30.240 to getting a tattoo as well? 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:33.400 No, I'm not gonna catch that. I don't I don't 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:34.639 do needles. I can't do it. 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:36.920 So you know, there might be some other guys that 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:38.560 will commit to it, but I'm not going to commit 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:38.800 to that. 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:41.199 You will not see me on that table with my 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:41.720 pants down. 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:45.359 I'll promise you that I can able the procedure for you, Max, 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:46.080 if you need me to. 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:49.800 Oh, if you're there, you definitely will not see me. 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:54.479 You know, if you're there to day, I probably will 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.720 be at the party. Let's be honest, Max, We thank 0:21:57.800 --> 0:21:59.000 you as always. 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:01.240 We can't wait to see you here shortly what only 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:03.320 a month, Not that we're counting down or anything, so 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:05.960 enjoy the rest of your off season. We're wishing the 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:08.560 best to you and Kelly. Hopefully baby number three is 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:09.040 here soon. 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:09.639 So thank you. 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:12.960 As always us Rutch. Of course, love you, Dave. You know, 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:14.959 I give you crap all the time. You're the man. 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:19.280 Muncie there he is, Max Munzie. I love you too, Moncie. 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:22.600 And Max is in La his wife Kelly, who's a 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:26.120 great woman, getting ready to deliver their third child, and 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:30.480 their great parents, great people. And you know, during this offseason, 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:35.040 I've gotten more questions about whether or not Max Munsey 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:39.239 hates me or not. He does not hate me, And 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.080 that's the beautiful part about it. We want you to 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:45.640 believe he hates me. He has taken the torch from 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:49.320 Andre Ethier with the insults, and nobody can figure out 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:53.800 whether or not Munsey's being serious and is disdained for me, 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:57.359 or hate if you want to use a stronger word, 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:00.800 or whether or not he's just fooling around. Well, I'd 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:04.399 like to believe he's just messing around. And you know, 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:12.359 maybe some days there is some you know, basically not 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.960 feeling great towards me days. You know, I feel like 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:19.919 there's some days of resentment towards me, no doubt, but 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:22.640 Munsey and I find a way to coexist, and he's 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:26.600 a great guy. And without his home run in game seven, 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:31.720 and Jerry even asked him this in the interview. It's 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:35.000 one of the most overlooked home runs of Game seven. 0:23:35.480 --> 0:23:40.320 If Munsey doesn't pull the Dodgers within one run, there 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:43.800 is no ninth inning, there is no Will Smith, there 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:47.840