Freddie Freeman on World Series MVP, Ohtani Media Mayhem and His Surprising Backup Career | Ep 109
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incredible moment game one, obviously walk off grand slam homer on, yeah how to affect did that feel? What series bases loaded?

I don't really remember. I have black.

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of course. sure. I guess today is from funn valley, california's, an eight time all star N L M B P two O M M L B. First he's won a golden girl, a bab ruth award, the N L hanger award.

And he is now a two time.

Get twenty twenty .

four world series M P.

Thank you. I like that .

energy.

Yeah it's I still have really like have time to sit and even like kind of take IT all and it's been kind of a role when I did. Jimmy came el last night doing praising with the kids and so but it's pretty cool, man. Like this is what I mean, you know you guys know this is what you start out to do every single year when you show up for us and spring training and, uh, it's so hard to win champion chips so you guys know and there to actually have IT happen um a lot of things have to go right health to be .

on our side tune. We were .

fortunate we were playing really good baseball. So to get another one specially, i'm from our california. So to have one when you where you from, it's pretty, pretty special .

like yes.

I mean I if you are big enough bad as health doesn't even have to be underside, you play through everything it's so sometimes okay.

at the .

first of around .

I wasn't place OK, but yeah, help is not on my side. We are able to push IT through. And ultimately, when you do push your body through things and you come out on the other side of with success, I just kind of make everything sweet.

Of course.

course does this one top, top the first .

one know i've been asset I don't like comparing .

sure understandable.

But your first one is special. That group of guys head with the braze was pretty amazing. I I don't know. I think just because my dad was able to see so much of these games um since were all from south in california, I won't say I mean champing chips or champion chips. It's there. They're both the best and the next one is going to be even that much Better than the it's hard to compare. But two great teams I got to be a part of, and hopefully with my time with the daughters, this first of many love.

that man said, what was first you did after you want when you ve got home?

Like, what is? Well, that's a crazy. We said, we went on getaway day, so we had to fly. We left ankiel dian at three A M got to the airport. We flew, we landed at like nine thirty in the morning and .

it's just halloween, it's just .

halloween and um we had to get the kids I to get iron man 和 and spider man .

ready a role。 Yeah IT .

immediately in the dead we had a blab and then we had to play. The next morning we flew the patris playing home. Actually, you know, they let us have the patch is playing.

he go. And so we .

are going to .

have like a big party on the plane. And within an hour everyone was a sleeve. It's five o'clock in the morning and we were just like, would you give everything you have? You exhausted after these games. And then we celebrate IT in the clubhouse, and you have to do all the interviews.

media that clubhouse IT looks like fucking rocket in in there. There was a lot of energy.

anything there? There is a lot ent. And so when you thought, like, I will just keep IT going on the plane.

And within an hour I was a sleep. I woke up after hour. Everyone else is asleep in of, yeah, we will wait for you after the parade ago. I'll try this a good everybody .

just smells like champaign .

yeah that's successful .

or champagne .

being also on everybody.

You have a pace a bit.

but you're just .

pouring IT in. Yes, this is what we work hard for to go through this care. I like.

I love this. I don't my burning so bad, but going.

you got to go on with the correct eye wear.

Men got to go. Guy, just, guys just want partia. He wants to burn like people love that time I had lasted these things like very I need, I need to protect.

Yes yeah pretty .

import for hittable no doubt my birthday ah thank you for m and did it's .

what do you get birthday .

after like thirty five? I can't mean like I I don't know, it's just downright like I know .

anybody over .

yeah now I just get excited .

for my kid's birthday.

Yes, what do you want to for your birthday day? And we celebrating this? Like we going to need some cake.

the pancakes that try to be making mouse, you've make them and they don't end up being very good.

Yeah, exactly right.

Before the world series we had ccs of bathie and we were talking some some baseball with him going into the you guys in the Young battle in IT out and he said that thirty percent of fredy freeman is Better than one hundred percent, anybody else in quotes that's a cc said, but where you thirty percent going into the world's series.

I would say have a little higher than nice.

nice. yes.

So we had a break between the N. L, C. S. In the world series about five days and the first two rounds and felt like here's the fence.

I felt like I i've always chasing the pain, trying to get on the other side of IT. yeah. But those five days really helped me. I was able to treat IT really, really a really well. And I didn't run one time because I don't want to flare the up at, oh, so the first thing actually ran was an introductions into game one. And as I was running.

as I wow, I feel feel good giving our lives.

And I made IT to the trainers because everyone gets introduced and everyone so excited. Like did you like you're not limping for IT as and I know this is great, but by the six or seven thinning of every game, my heel would start to hurt where the acquis attaches into the heel. That's where I was starting to her because the Spike of my c was going into my heel.

For sure, that suck, but the system .

and thinning IT was kind of hurting. But the addams would take over by then. But I would say I was probably around above fifty percent because my rib was OK by then and I broke my finger two in August. So I didn't really help but think, yeah, I just so many ration we're kind .

of talk to about, you have to be fortunate to be able to make these deep play off runs, man, yeah and you can you guys, we're battle tested in that regard more than anybody in the league.

IT seemed like you yeah, we lost glass now, you know, current came back and then I heard again we lost Gavin stone, who is huge for us throughout the course. The year we just we were just losing relievers. Nothing right. We lost. And phillips, who was one of our Better relieve s all year right before the world series, uh joe Kelly at heard we had a lot of unfortunate injuries, but great teams overcome those kind of adversities, and we are able to do that. They seem like we had every speed up hostel on the road and we just somehow managed to overcome those.

And I might just be speaking out out of mind here, but doesn't that make IT seem like it's so much more of a family of a team when you can battle through those kind of things? IT just seemed like you guys were so much more of a team than the yankee's man. And I don't know what i'm not saying anything bad about what the yankees had over there, but I just seemed like that together is the comradery, the chemistry IT just seemed like you guys had a little bit more of that. And then I was going .

on in the other dog out. We had a lot with that had started early because you signed show, hey, and he had everything that he had to deal with, like when we in korea to start the year. So roling around a new teammate, that's quick.

And that as a group that fast, I think, IT only helped us, you know. And you know, if we can rally around, show hey and help him get through the part of the toughest time of that he's had to deal with, then we could deal with for all our other little things that we had to deal with. And obviously with my family in late july, then around around us is just we had a lot of things were as a group to rally around.

And IT was so fast and so special to see the group of guys and how we came together over and overcame things that we just had a lot that made us that close throughout the course of the year. And unfortunately, we had a really early on with show, hey and his thing. But sometimes that's Better you know, to come together as a group that like we did yes.

adversity always brings people closer. Speaking of your your family, your yeah your dad was a big part of this, right? Yeah he had a great, I thought probably best quote i've seen in a while between like a dad and the sun friday.

This is not worth IT. I know you love baseball. I love baseball, but it's not worth what you're going through. And your answer to him was that only hurts when I miss. Yes, i'm just .

gonna have, which is, so .

yeah.

that was, that was N, L, D. S. I was going through a lot to play, obviously, with my fracture ribbon, doing a lot of extra things with more than just treatment.

So after the game, three of n nbs, I got ta call from my dad about like eleven clock ck at night. And I had to talk like that with my father a long time. And I was kind of just a little upset.

Know, like, hey, you need to look out for yourself down the road and that was the first time I really took a step. Could i'll do anything to be on based? I body, put blinders on, get to be out there a, and that was the first time I like, okay, well, what take?

Let's take us that back and, you know, marry with three kids. So like, and then I SAT out the next game I set out in the s game, for I just couldn't do IT again, like physically was just not able to put myself through what I was going through again. I think when I hit the grand slammed in the world series and he was front row, I think he was, I think he was happy and stop.

Yeah.

no down. yeah.

God.

I got, didn't listen to me.

I listen to him a couple time. But yeah.

I think it's just special like I when you go through all that, that you for me to get on the field and then actually come up and be successful in the worlds series on the bigger stage IT IT made everything I did a couple weeks earlier .

worth IT in my .

mind will see I am .

when i'm sixty five or six years old, needs plaining. And the .

new year .

I have high .

draft of these things actually. Come on something now we we both grew up with a an amazing father um and he got us into everything man and i'm talking about .

what he coached .

a lot of baseball and really all sports. He was always the mark as I was .

always older. So I was definitely Better growing up a trave.

I played more every.

yeah, at every, like milestone. He was Better. So was a trap I would like.

I was, I had the cheek at. I was my dead and big. I keli would go to all the teams that Jason was on. I had just put this guy on your, you know, you're going next body, and sure enough, I would play at least a hand fully games, two years older. And i'm facing guys that are like.

yeah, throw through.

You find a way to to to get through a man. But our father was so responsible for our love of sports, our love of just competing. How much was your dad responsibility of getting .

you in a baseball? Wouldn't be here without him. yeah. I said, I have two older brothers that love baseball too. But obviously, my dad is the one .

that loves baseball to the core.

but he always daders. So we grew up actually in orge company.

I W W ten minutes.

But my dad is from canada, and he grew up a tiger's fan because grew up on in windsor, ontario, in canada, so across the border. So use a big tigers fan.

yeah, fucking.

And then my grandfather moved to california, so that's how we came to be in california. I grew up in Angel fan, my favor players, gear Anderson, growing up just at the left end of beautiful.

sweet swing in the left side. So, oh yeah, baby.

when people asked me, like, what advice do you have, my ten year old? I said, it's not for the ten year old. It's for you. The parent, you know, like my dad, loved practicing and throwing batting practice in doing those kind of things with me every single days.

So so when you have .

a parent that loves IT, just as much as I loved IT IT kind of match made in heaven. So my dad was the one that LED me to baseball in the order.

I just loved that feel .

that fireman yeah and you know he's still throws me batting practice to this day is in the yeah in the off season. So I like right now i'll take about two months off of a baseball activities. I started working tomorrow, but based activities I don't pick up till january, and i'll go to my high school in orge counting and will go and spend an hour together.

And I work out with him, and he throws me back in practice, sixty nine years old, and he still throws, and two years to go today, I don't not very good anymore, I said, but that's the thing is dead. It's not about that. It's about the hour we spent to get there.

You know, like i've figured out in spring training, oh, I hit every day there, but I just want to hit with you. And this is our thing, you know. And so cool, yeah, he's still throw and he thinks he's never good about things. He's great to .

somewhere over the play. Alia, man, yeah, that's so fucked and cool man.

yeah, you guys shared an incredible moment. Game one, obviously walk off grand slam home on, yeah, how the fuck do that field?

yes. Yeah what .

series bases loaded? Like what does that feel like?

Yeah, I think I don't really remember. I've kind of blacked out.

I can only mine.

All time you got .

really excited. My kids, yeah, yeah. I can't .

remember the feeling it's, but when they walked moki intentionally, which I knew they were going to left on, left, just you to figure out the situation out. And I started to replying. So I watched show hays at bats against mr.

Cortez, because every time of show hay walks into the box, the picture feels like he's back against the wall. So like, what do you he going to throw if he thinks his back against? Of all which IT was.

this is brilliant man, fuck.

love this. And he was thrown in cutter and slighter away to show, hey and then, like Peters, in and up and and so I usually look away to just drive the ball of center. And I was like, you know, I mean, to switch this up and i'm going to look closer to me so I don't swing at the cut or sider away. So I was looking, hear in to like up and in and I guess right he through the right .

in the spot I was .

looking and I mean, you you you still hit IT and you still get because you can make you miss mistake all the time. But I just hit IT and I knew is gone right when I hit IT know those are the ones where you just hit and I don't know why with that you .

liberty really like that because .

I don't I don't pick home round. I don't do that. I just usually .

hit him and just run around the basis.

But I in the world that do IT .

and I was fucking awesome. dude.

I mean.

we got a picture. Sit up right here too. That is so fuck I can.

Oh.

usually we waive at the bullpen, but when I looked, when we come around second base, we late. Wait, both guys.

they're going.

not the band.

Anymore the I obviously got the home play my goal rose goes like pretty stop jumping like I don't want you to get hurt and you see that there's I look at him so I don't feel a thing.

So I knew my dad, I was sitting .

front row because he was sitting right, right in the front row of the seats for summaries. I don't know. I decided that, you know what? I'm going to share this with him. I ran over and just screamed in his face there was no no words known that then and we were just .

screaming there was a lot said, there was a lot said in that screamed .

IT was an hour conversation in those two screams .

yes so I love IT. IT was just like.

you can't script that. I mean, bottom ten world serious yankees dogger everyone's been talking about at all week and to walk IT off and be the first one to do IT on a grand slam that was.

I wish I could feel. Remember that feeling though moment like crazy. Man, yeah, kk actually .

reached out, so congratulations. So yeah, he's a, he's a good man. He does T V for the tigers now. So I am going to see ite a bit. It's the link together now is pretty special because, you know, he came out and hit that that home and against denot's crassly and they won the world series that year um but then like joe Davis calling that he I mean kind of ask for .

a Better call on that is all about the announcer.

Sometimes if they nail IT with the call, IT makes IT back much Better. And luckily we have joe Davis at all year around and then to have them for fox to I was so I just everything just went perfectly together.

Well, I want to go back to what you were just talking about because I don't I love learn to out about, I guess players process of when you say you're looking in, what do you mean but like you're still looking at the ball coming .

out of his hand though.

right? Yeah so okay, I so I pick. So i'm a lane hitter, so OK so here's the just put a square up. So usually i'm looking out of d of the plate just so I can stay in and lying everything to left center because i'm left handed. So instead I X that out because if i'm looking out there, I might swing out.

The cutter and slider are going away.

going away from and and I don't want to swing at that because that's just i'm i'm going to be dead if I so instead, I looked on the inside part of the plate so closer to me. And so if i'm looking there, if anything is middle to middle way, i'll just check off of that. I would even like attempt to swing at that.

yes. And so that's why I went closer because if he throws the cutter slighter in that lane, then it's going to end up middle le right. And then I could still hit that, but I wanted to be brain closer so I could be so I wouldn't .

have .

to swing out.

Any pictures is .

going away from me. That's why I just it's weird.

It's a about IT doesn't some crazy x do?

What were the .

reaction from the kids? How crazy was that seeing the little ones after you hit a home .

run like that? Yeah so charly my eight old, he is like, so I hit the home runs and that's always asking his daddy, are you going to be the MVP? I said.

the the only thing that .

cares about you, I just don't know, there is a lot of games left, but my three year olds don't really understand what's really going on. So but they are all excess. They don't care if you go over four. That's the beauty of the charlie is really into baseball like and like knows everything about IT so he was pretty fighter up after .

the again. Here you start thrown to bet bp with him if you have .

an already men yeah, he's got practice on .

ight i'll be taken to go.

I'm going to might need a mask and stuff to hide.

but yeah.

yeah, do we to talk about this fucking, in my mind, absolutely historical moment in the world series, one of the fucking yankees fans try to take a ball out of mukee bests glove.

Dude, you then try to.

He did. yeah.

Oh my lucky god too, how a fucker of third was this?

yeah.

But what you guys saying in the bit, like was that like motivation? Like these mother fuckers, they are folking nake in .

the ball out of our globes.

What these guys so i'm i'm in first, you know, i'm watching gone, i'm yelling, you ve got room, you got room, just you can. Hear me, can you? And then i'd see him like he's not coming .

back into play. yeah.

I like what is going on and see. I can see them like try to rip .

this lovel. And then I see the ball. I I like .

what has happened and then all i'm thinking .

about is this now still.

I don't know.

I was catch .

like .

which i've never seen this .

before.

This in the rule book.

see out not .

so .

afterwards .

he goes, I think he said that's like one of the only couple times I wanted .

to fight someone. You don't see M S like one like you.

but I see the aft because it's hard to see in the moment. You know, I don't have a great angle. I just see the ball flying out.

And but after where you can delete like the still picture is the fan. One fan is holding his risk, you know. And then the other one is like trying to post global open. I was like.

wow, I get out. I was like the .

first secondary .

in those. He was very smart.

They were there. Two endings spent ten thousand dollars, five on the tickets and kicked out just like that's a waste of money.

I just kick out in a lifetime ban to able to back. They weren't allowed for game five.

but I don't know about their season ticket holders, I guess for the anchors and that's and I heard they said, if any, that they were planning that forever as Susan ticket holders. Like if that ever happened, that's what we're .

gonna that everything yes. I mean, I look like they had that thing remediated you .

out and just happened in the world series on the biggest stage.

insane.

You're gonna b his ARM. I'm going to go for the ball. Right glove.

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That's the farmers dog that calm slashed new heights. I think a little bit about the daggers team we were talking about, the adversity guys went through all season long. You still ended up the best team of baseball through the regular season, ninety eight games.

Do you prefer .

being the favorite ite or the one seed baseball? weird. Like I guess you as a third team in what was like fifteen years, something like that was that thirteen?

It's been a while that two number one .

I think yes yeah two .

number one teams to be in the world series ah there's .

some crazy that .

but the last three years they changed IT, where if you're have the best record you get like five days off or whatever in between yeah man.

that huge.

The previous two years we lost in the first round and the year before we got swept and then the year before that we won. The first one had been lost three arrow. So there's always, is this talk of what's best, what's smart, do you want and like? But as we want to be the best team, you want me to be the whole playoff.

And we could see we started off a game, one to a dodger stadium in the world series. why? Why would you want to start on the road? You know, like that doesn't sound great.

Ga york.

and it's your own fans. Yeah, you're sleeping in your own beds. You know you're not in hotel beds. There are so many different so many more pros than cons then doing that kind of stuff.

So I think there's just a lot to talk about because we didn't play very about the previous two years. So let's maybe be the two seed let's get instead of get this match up. Now if you just play a good baseball, you're going on like and you have a really good team, you're going to ultimately most likely win.

It's just baseball. So hard to predict. Like last year booking, I went one for twenty one in the playoff. So like you can't really predict that kind of stuff. So it's I say be number one, sees a different game.

man.

yeah b once see, be the best. Get home field advanced throughout the course and do things is differently, like we did so during those five days. We watch the poddies games and like kind of a watch party of like the the braves and podds to see who we were.

And we just stay together. You know, we washed together. We practice together. Usually we would just do our practice and go home. The previous two years this year, we switched up and stayed together as long as we could .

keep IT as a unit.

That's I I think we were just trying to do some things differently.

All of the paid .

off men yeah you know it's just like we said at the beginning of IT, it's one month. Just ground this one month like no kids at the because we the dodges are great. They let us spring our kids in the field before games during the regular season.

H hey, out all day long if you want, but in the playoff, really like, let's just ask that and let's just focus on each other, focus on this group in the clubhouse. And we can give ourselves for a month to this and you know, ultimately paid off. And obviously, we played really good baseball with IT, too. So a lot of things just worked in our favor.

Like i've heard a lot about like the the by like baseball, such a rhyme sport. How much that affects in then? It's a short series afterwards. But I think I like what you said about a home feel of vantage. Like do you just focus on me in the best team? Don't like just win the win games when baseball games and the rest of that takes here with .

suba and that it's like, no, jessy, you're a huge filly fan and stuff. So it's if we were to go into the bank on games and say the how can that be good? You know, like it's not like you rather be at home as much as you possibly can. So just be the one seed and ground IT out and figure out that five days. And we ultimately, he did IT this year .

baseball season is so fucking long, I can even imagine having to played that many fucking games, day in， day out with just a little like maybe a day or two hear there where you're not actually play in the game and it's .

unable traveling on those days.

So yeah, exactly. It's definitely the most rolling in my mind in terms of are having to find your routine, right? Can you speak a little bit on like what IT really I mean, you said training camp is kind of where you get you get the get locked in and get the lot about you want to korea in the psych? How crazy is that starting in korea? And my knowing that you've got an entire hundred and sixty games left in the city is like.

it's insane. Yeah, it's a lot. Luckily, this is naturally my sixteen year so i've kind of got to use to IT. But when you i've never started international like we did this year. And ah so we had to go to spring training about two weeks earlier than we Normally do this year and then we were playing real games in mid march in korea. And crazy it's okay for position players, but it's more of pitchers like they are wrapping up to be full throat mid march gotto .

be faster yeah and that's a .

lot when you think about we still have eight more months prety much to go, right? And you can see IT like we have a glass now and yma model both pitched that those two games in korea and they both got her this year. So it's kind of you don't know, that's kind of a core relation of ramping up too fast, but it's it's a lot underbody to fly.

especially over see .

twelve hours, thirty hours to korea and then play and fly back. And we actually flew back and went back in the spring training after those two games. So we were playing, we played three games that didn't matter really, but and we're going to do to get next year.

We start in japan next year and we're playing the cuts to real games in japan's. We're going to do IT likely. We have some experience now, but it's just a lot, you know, and you get into the routine and you can understand the the flying, getting to how your body is gona recover.

And I mean, you you guys know, you guys know everyone knows our bodies pretty well. So whatever you have to do to get your body ready, you just do IT and you just kind of think about everything else later. And you, uh, yeah, hundred six to do things is why you really got about IT. You know, you just do IT. You know, like you just wake up and go and .

then you play an extra thirty. If you are lucky enough, you play an extra thirty on top .

of IT yeah and like we did and then you have a spring trading games. So you're playing pretty like I play probably over two hundred and ten games this year, you know and now you get a couple of months. We played always through october. And so now our all students even shorter because we have to go to japan next year and I mean, spring changes in .

three months and like it's .

absolutely .

second yes.

I more than more than three really .

going into sixteen. And I hear you rather you do you think baseball at that point is that you think it's going to be a international league?

I think it's hard.

I mean, obviously, the expose were .

the blue James. I think it's just more of the flying much. So we do like london series um every year now and it's hard to could you have to fly over there and play and and come back and your body clocks off? H you just don't have enough time. I don't think to be able to fly to these countries all over her. I think it's still a north american game just for the trial aspects because then if you're going international, affecting other schedules and teams and stuff like that, yeah I think would this ultimately be like the couple games here and there in different countries to grow the game, which I think we're doing a great job of yeah to have a team in england. I just don't think it's really possible because of the travel of that sense.

Yes, if i'm commissioner.

one day .

figured out, there we go, there we go to miss freeman getting double baby.

did you catch a shut .

up from the Brown I .

heard and he start my name wrong the first time .

you show the why?

I'm very particular about my name yeah just spill IT right now. I already corrected IT if I ah he put the I E on IT um because a lot of people I think I like I don't know why i'm particular about my name .

but particular about IT we go yeah yeah france .

come to a couple games know throughout the course of the regular season um so it's pretty cool. I mean, as athletes, you just respect everybody. Lebron, is the Green business playing a little time so it's it's pretty cool.

Yeah it's it's special. You just I guess you just means you done something really good. You know people you know you know like probably we can keep doing IT and city in the lay with him. We're going I think we're going to later .

game on friday. So the dodgers.

so nice to be on the g regi. So yeah, I think because it's the first home game since we want IT, so I think a few of us going to go to so yeah, that's A M A D. Know, be cool.

Speaking of vali, what was the parade like? I know the last digest ity missed IT, right, because was tovie year.

So what was like? Yeah, IT was pretty, pretty amazing. We did IT kind around city hall about a mile long. There was fans on light poles. Just every china just get up.

Yeah, yeah.

And I was on the bus with walk buler so and kicky hernan's so our bus with a little crazy go, they were how to on IT was just, I think they haven't. They have had a parade for daughter since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight.

right? That dim, I think.

was a long time come in. So twenty, twenty that didn't have IT.

So I think there is a lot .

of making up .

to do with that is all in. yes. I think when we won, they were they went not the night we were in when we were in new york. They're going crazy in L A.

So I think they're still celebrating because I think K K did uh, raising canes like he was out there like kind of doing that kind of and they were in full forest that other fans are so great. I mean, we have fifty three thousand people every single night IT doesn't matter if it's tuesday on june second. Now they are out there in four or so. It's just a special group of fans and they were waiting a long time for this.

Ah it's crazy after you in that was one of the things I missed when we want the super bowl and minister A C and social media that like the entire fan basis taking over the city filled out like broad reaches line of people ah and that would .

have been so cool to be set on fire ever they had.

Think there is a couple big .

set on fire in the night. We listen.

It's the time to do IT .

nothing says celebration like public val, this is a bit that's .

I I don't want to have speaking of that into out .

there this for you know yeah.

I think both of you are parade, prose .

parades per the Kelly .

love the parade.

And we do.

So did you have any? Did you have any bears throw at you?

Yeah, we actually had one to hit one of why?

See, do a little. We got a not throw full beer.

One of our wives got hit. Yeah, I got stitches.

And yes.

because you don't you can't see almost.

So I never see a flying bear coming. It's .

ridiculous. The ball, and you're just getting plant in the head over the place. And then I had my kids with me on my try like block and yeah yeah but IT is dangerous. But ah I think he took like a chap SHE got issues and moved on.

nice. We're from clive, ohio. We think of L A new york. Like these are like the meca of sports, right? Although the dodges, the lakes, the ganges is the next.

That's like it's kind of like the the legends that mean grass. Ky played both both sides. He played for the rangers.

He play for the kings. You're literally one of those like coastal legends that i've ever played the game. Like you you're probably going to have a statue outside of digger stadium of you holding up the bed.

Sure you hit the fucking in world series. How fucking cool is IT to like play and like a big market like that. And I just read the benefits of like having fifty three thousand in the stadium every single game. Yeah it's .

special when I first came over here, twenty to the the third chance from the first time I got there, like it's hard even .

really put .

into words IT really is cool. And the last these three years i've been here just like you when you are okay. So when I was the brains and we came in to play the dogged IT was like the energy level of the stadium is just like you. You raise your your senses and your you want to play that much Better when you walk into into dogger steam. Their speakers feel like the speakers are like inside you, like there, like the base.

Just yes, you really can and .

it's just an incredible fan base. Everyone has eyes on L A. And how we're going to go about IT and then you sign show, hey, you spend like we spent the past also see.

And so now really, I was like people are waiting for you to see if you're going to fail with all that that you've done and for us to go out there and fail and win the whole thing yeah, that makes IT a little bit sweeter because I think everyone who's waiting like all there's their flag, there's their fly, right? That's what's wrong. Oh, no, they can do that.

And I think that's what they are looking for. But to do something where like, so I went to Jimmy camel last night. We got picked up and our our driver goes, you you made me cry three times this year no.

And one was the great, obviously with my snacks and my the story, my dad. So it's just when you have people that care so much and for you to be able to do something to make people happy. And that's that's why we play sports. It's to bring joy for three hours, four hours to people and be able to bring that to households around a california daughter. Fans all over.

I think that's what's more cool to me after all this time and to bring a championing chip with seven caliphs i'm from that's that's pretty special tune for my dad and my family to be there yeah I don't know about the status you actually like. You have to play more than six, seven, eight years of the one team. But see.

or it's going .

to hit a grand slammed.

And nicks has the stand, walk up. And every year, I rather not do I rather just win ten nothing every time.

Did you do? What was IT like was at the circus that everyone felt like he was going to be bringing. So hao, tony, to L A, how crazy was that when he first got there? Did you like, feel the attention kind of go up a little bit more or what?

Oh yeah. So the first day I showed up the spring training show, he was already there and i'm pulling in and i've already spent two years with dodgers. And when I pulled in, there's probably one hundred cameras just filming every car that drives them and because they don't know which one show hey or you know bo you know your motto ah so it's mostly all the japanese reporters.

And sure, i've never seen so many cameras throughout the course of the year. Then I did this year. IT was maham everywhere we went.

And so show how you started leading off at the end of the year. And we have muki hitting second, me heating third. And IT is a this nucleus are laughing.

So it's like, say, it's the top of the eight of top the night show. Hey, has this last at bat. Fifteen thousand people are just immediate aid, get up other seats and just walk out staying. They are like us show, he's .

done .

so the chess .

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Okay and that's what it's like, show. He is such, uh, like global superstar and everywhere we went, every city is they want to see him, rightfully so. I mean, he went fifty fifty this year when first MVP.

Dh it's he's just incredible. And what people forget is that he we have he's rehab Tommy john and so he was rehab and getting his ARM and then he goes out and hits fifty home run. It's special and watching all about his business every day that is crazy and it's going to be pitching next year and just just it's mind blowing. IT really is that's what we do in like little league and he's doing IT and big days you know .

like yeah it's .

bahar everywhere we go because of you have it's GTA .

be fun as hell, man and probably a little bit sweeter when you can, you know, find a way to come together. And I know he had the shoulder there at the end of the world series, so find out a way to win IT for him. no. And all those cameras around him. And O, C, man, I should had to be cool.

And yeah, I mean, we don't. But like, even though he got hurt and we were able bring home for him like, N, L, C, S, the home money hit off the seas in the N, L, C, S, there's so many moments and that we would never be where we were without U, C. And show, hey, you for show he to get hurt at the end of game too. And for us to still go out there and win IT, um I just show you how good our team is and IT will be for a long time. Should be a special few years of fully has .

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We end every interview with a seven called, we gotto ask. You don't have to answer those, so you can tell the fuck off. If you don't want to answer, you wwtp be anything too crazy.

And it's exactly what this sounds like. We're going to ask you, uh, rapid fire questions, and you decide what they want to answer. Not so Jason, Jason, job.

yeah. If you didn't play baseball, yes, what sport would you played?

I want to play a sport.

What have even done? Did you play .

anything to? I wanted to be A C, P, A.

Nobody wants to be A C, P, A.

What do you talking want to do? Yeah, my dad, ah oh, his own cpa firm with my uncle, his brother freak to put in cbs.

shout out, set out the region free.

Yeah.

i've made my dad. I .

wanted to .

be A C. P. A. I know this sounds crazy, but I was going to doing your taxes. You know.

do you do your own taxes now?

I don't.

I gave about that .

dream a long time ago.

That's so I can funny. I'm not gonna was not expecting that you were expected .

no second.

That's the very time I think in the last time, probably the chinese .

team you affected to the canadian national team.

Okay.

how do we get you back to the us? How do we get .

back the U. S, if you right?

So I mean, if everybody knows my story, both my parents are canadian. They're born raves in canada. I lost my mom when I was ten years old to know nova skin cancer and he never became A U.

S. citizen. Um SHE was canadian through through. So I do I represent in canada on the national stage, uh, to honor my mother. Beautiful man. I don't know that's what you want, what want me to do, but that's what I feel like I should be doing um so unfortunately, I don't think I maybe coming back to the united states and that just I do IT for my for my mom who passed away when I was then .

the story like that man in hell did go ahead.

It's as good as a reason .

of i've .

ever heard yeah C B.

A.

And ada.

Um in an April twenty twenty one you were struck out by cubs first baseman big rise man .

anthy rizo should the year keys .

have maybe just thrown him in there game you know the world series actually said that .

to be in the stadium I think again three and four guys, you know I should have pitch. You know what's worse about that? I was four for four with in that game with a home run. And I struck out against Anthony y riddle.

Now you .

ruined at my .

whole night like.

man, I was doing good. But it's it's so hard to hit against position players because you lose your approach and you just like an anything is a friend of my and i'm .

just laughing at the mount after living .

up fifty month or what are we doing racy you .

reminds me of what was that? Oh, my guess is not brooky of the year. What's the one we're like? His autumn has to go and he has to do the other .

and IT looks under glove and see low soft the sofa.

Yes, and she's not understands .

and he just loves IT know to do.

Class right show I oti signed the largest contract of professional sports history at ten years, seven hundred million dollars. Does he ever make you pick up the check?

We actually split the last one. So yeah so .

we did .

a team dinner, new york and yeah show hand. I split and with kershaw so a lot of that suffering. So he's not really getting paid.

I didn't. So they still do deferred contracts and baseball .

and sixty eight million of his seventy million years, the firm and .

it's like through like twenty fifty, something like like .

mookie and show here are going to be like fifty years old.

Jx.

but I heard he makes a turn off the field.

so I think he's in. You have any a use force? What something people would be surprised to hear about a tony, because is still very much a mystery, because he he's still like, kind of learn.

The I can say is when he gets on the plane, he literally just reads comics.

the whole flight, really. Yeah, there are any life is .

like charlie Brown, or like in .

this.

is became to be A C, P. A. know. So wants to read comics, you know, yeah.

I get thousand .

of draggle sey, do you? coming.

Can you tell us the story of chipper jone saving you on a atv.

okay. So this is two thousand and fourteen. Um we are doing like kind of about braves caravans.

So you go like kind of before the season starts and in elana, you can get snow every couple years. And in the winter time, of course, IT decides to snow that one day. And my wife and my house is about forty minutes from Turner field, the old stadium.

And that's where we were, where we were during that cuban. And when they that's okay, it's snowing. We all got to go home so but we go out and they had let everyone out in atlantic at the same time schools work, everyone like go home and it's just IT just became my snow again.

That's what they were call on IT. So I lived forty minutes away and chipper, and I lived about like point one miles from each other. So we were pretty closed. And I made IT to about, I would say, ten minutes from our houses after about twelve hours.

stop. IT, yes.

So I was trying to get home, and you just cars going up hills and sliding back down, so you really couldn't really go anywhere. So I pulled into a parking lot about ten minutes from my house, and I had like one percent battery left in my phones. I text in my wife a picture of where I was and I was like i'm just going to sleep here um and just wait you know till the next morning and my wife was actually at Taylor and chipper his their house and cheaper .

decides to go for camel 对。

i'm not leaving him out there. So yes Chelsea shows cheaper er the picture and goes all I know where he is within three months later shipper's coming out in v like it's parking lot like skating through .

save the and .

I was like, no way.

this is just any eighties.

Me home eighty vives me back to his house and has a piron and I was not wearing close suited for snow and I am just shivering and yeah, seeing in a car night. yes. So they all that kind of sorts for you .

pulled up on the A T V. Like like, love Christmas on.

They are falling up shaking.

Yeah, it's a good story now. But at the time I was not not the best.

do have not like that. They had to be pretty epic. You see the A, T, V coming right at you. Like what? fuck?

You.

yes.

Treated to two a kid .

few miles back.

Man, that's fucking gold.

You were voted friendly, as in filter to chat with on base by your fellow hilly baseball players that that surprise you. What is what happens at first space? Even happens. Be an award.

yeah. I didn't know that I was award until I told that I was noted that, I mean, I was, i'm friendly. I I like to talk everybody.

If you get to hit and get the first base, I always tell a nice job. nice. Hit this game hard.

Yeah, yeah.

life is hard. So i'm going to 然后 i'll pick you up。 And a lot of them since i've been playing so long, i've gotten to know a lot of people.

So most of time, like we're just kind of like just talking about life. And obviously, this year everyone kept asking me about, know, my son max, and it's just conversations. But usually around August, people started talking about fancy football at first base, like who you didn't take and like that. It's just I just I just talked everybody because sometimes when you do talk to someone, you can pick someone off and thought, so i'm not trying to do that and actually .

I move with over.

I just generally like talking to you. But if we do pick you up, i'm sorry, but no, I I just talked everybody. That is the first place.

It's it's fun. Sports is fun. It's all all I can. Someone based you to pick those .

battles to in football, you don't want to get anybody too fired up to or out up guy like match s me. I only want to talk to show my shit to max. Max is going to turn to absolute having, if if you say the wrong things, who whose the guy that you would vote for is the .

friendly is like lindore, uh, Frances indoor, when you get the second, always great. Like then not like aussie albee, brave second basement one for rizo. Obviously, at first, joe voto was another very .

talk of guy at first.

So there's a lot of guy, a lot of guys and baseball just friendly yeah, I just talk. But being a first base when you encounter everyone. So yeah, there's a lot of good guys in sport. I go with the door at second basis rather than .

expensive if you ever pull off a hidden ball tric.

no.

Do you think do you think it's like I don't want to go that though .

that's kind of yeah, that's I think and I won't do IT. Now I would beat you fair .

square because I we're doing in this week, we could pulled off.

just take you roll back more because if you don't pull off, you look like an idiot. Just attack someone on the base yes, or waiting is just come on, just throw the ball back to the picture.

So good. What what your least favorite pitch.

I think the hardest test pitch to hit is a well located, fast ball. Like to be honest, if you can locate your pitches, pitching always is going to be Better than hitting. If you can locate your pitches, you're always going to get us out. It's so hard to hit that.

But hardest in sports.

I just don't like cutter stuff, moved from mighty hand moving and even I did hit a couple of them in the world series.

But yes.

that's good way to answer is that you're really nail I don't really .

hate .

they know that fast ball right down the middle play.

it's the world like I I don't want to see like ninety percent cutter next year.

But the best pitch .

is a well located festive because if you pitch off your festival, then IT sets of all your other pitches. And so that's kind of how that works. But it's so hard to hit your spots and that's why you know make what we make because it's hard to hit those spots three times a row.

I say well located festival.

hardest pitch.

nice. Well, speaking of well located fast ball and pitching Jason things, they should move the mountain back in baseball, he says.

thought might be, might increase offense a little bit more, you know, just just like maybe one foot.

Go back to commissioner freedom. You ever consider movie the because I do not .

agree more because I think you would cause .

more injuries .

to pitchers. Oh really guys, we because 就是 even put away， they might try and through harder. And I mean, you see like there's a lot of injuries and baseball and pictures and I mean, you're throwing ninety five hundred every guys doing that.

So razi if you move IT back even a foot, I feel like you're going na try and throw harder. And I think just more injuries would happen. The only thing I say if I was commissioner, is getaway night games should be illegal.

Nine games on getaway days. Oh, nice, nice. Yeah yeah. So don't like there's we we're getting enough .

for I am like there's no way our bodies are good enough and like the next day you're just grind and you you're not your best self. So I think we should do getting with that maybe my only thing, but I get this only night baseball and stuff like that.

But yeah, the league should do that. Man, that seems doable.

But I get IT. It's like it's a thursday and whatever city, iran and you have to want to call game people can't come, you know, because they're work and I I do get that but it's called on us. But yeah.

I want to some money. I have .

a bunch.

I guess this .

following question, uh, do you think there are any majority baseball players that cross over into an sport, whether .

it's .

fl NBA H, I see running some else before I see .

his one hundred and fifty five pounds.

So yeah.

if you got hit, I don't know how luke he's gna get back up. I would say moki bowling, he or he does .

IT provider boler I think .

there's guys I could do IT it's too sports is so hard like at the highest level I mean, yeah he says IT like there's no way we can go in there and run around and catch up all with someone coming and going to take our heads off. I am going to be running straight to the sideline.

There's it's just .

what you guys do is special， what we do, what basis all players like. It's just there's a reason why you guys were the best and let's .

just stick to one support. I crazy.

crazy talk. Maybe i've sure there's golfers like teachers and golfers.

There's yes.

that's the whole thing. Goal is crazy too. Like like those guys are so good.

ridiculous, ridiculous how much control they have of everything I .

know and the ball is not moving and you think you should just IT perfectly every time and just silence. Three hundred dollars other way. Okay, I can hit.

but I know I have no one .

to blame but myself.

Big wind, gust wind.

just keep right. May we got one .

last question here? Rather, we heard that your son actually picks your walkup songs.

yeah.

Can you tell us about that? Or which which one was your favorite that he's join so far?

Okay, so charly picks my walk up songs every year. Uh, he started this in two thousand twenty one, when he was around four years old. I was driving to the field one day. And he, because I said, when you're old enough, i'll let you pick my walk out songs. And he because, oh, daddy, i'm old enough now.

And I okay, so .

nice .

it's he loves bad .

bunny loves so .

he grows. He grown up and you know clubhouses and spanish music all over the place and he has we actually took into a bad bunning concert in spring change so cool um yeah i've had bad bunny as I walk up songs um for four years and the first year and daughter he picked the different one he picked bilal mego which means dance with me and that's kind of the song we've kept but then the he has another one he picks bad bny every .

single year so does he speak finish .

he understand if if you knew what bad when he was saying I don't. I won't allow .

him to listen to the music anymore.

There is one song he picked. And I like, I told Chelsea.

is like.

we can play. Everyone like dodger fans speaks spanish. So right? I I can't walk up to this. And I like, i'm a married .

man of three .

kids and what .

he is saying .

doesn't .

correct for lyrics. And I said, if you are like that, I can have you out those years.

He actually did say, go, dad, I might pick something else other than bad bunny next year. So I like, wow, these these maybe .

picks my neck, my back.

but it's been bad bunny for four, eight years. We'll see. But hey, it's working. I know right?

Maybe you ve got to stick with bad bunny's a great dude. And I ve got to meet him a few weeks ago, and he's awesome. Oh, he's picking some good.

He's in picking good dude, good guys. music. Well, does that? Man.

yeah.

that was fun. Guys, do you got some graduates? World's M. V P. Could be happier for your men. Family guy, go and enjoy this all season and all the doors that open up when you you know, working for a baby yeah, you know, when I start listened to a bad bony right now.

guys.

are you guys how ready?

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