New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce - Freddie Freeman on World Series MVP, Ohtani Media Mayhem and His Surprising Backup Career | Ep 109

Episode Date: November 8, 2024

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How the fuck did that feel? World Series bases loaded. I don't really remember. I've kind of blacked out. Welcome back to New Heights. So Wondry show produced by Wavesports and Entertainment. We are your host. I'm Travis Kelsey. Is my big bro, Jason Kelsie. Subscribe on YouTube, Wondry Plus or wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with 1S. This is

a very, very, very, very special episode of New Heights because today we've got World Series Champion joining us. That's right, Jason, please do the honors as you always do. Tell the people who we have on the show today. Of course, Trav, our guest today is from Fountain Valley, California. He's an eight time Hall Star, NL MVP, two time All-MLB First Team. He's won a Golden Glove, a Babe Ruth Award,

the NL Hank Aaron Award, and he is now a two-time World Series champion. Please welcome Mr. Freddy Freeman! Yes sir! Yeah baby! Don't forget that 2024 World Series MVP. Yeah, I appreciate you guys. Thank you. I like that hype right there. Oh yeah, we gotta have fun with you. You had to bring it the with the energy, baby

Yeah, it's it's kind of I still haven't really like have time to sit and even like kind of take it all in It's been kind of a whirlwind. I did Jimmy Kimmel last night doing parades trick-or-treating with the kids 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 in spring training. And it's so hard to win championships, as you guys know, and to actually have it happen. A lot of things have to go right. Health has to be on our side.

You gotta be fortunate in that, yeah. Yeah, we were fortunate, and we were playing really good baseball at the end. So to get another one, especially, I'm from Southern California, so to have one where you're from, it's pretty, pretty special. Fuck yeah, man. That shit's gotta be awesome. I mean, if you're a big enough badass, health doesn't even have to be on your side. You

just play through everything it sounds like. Seriously, man. Sometimes, sometimes okay. The first couple rounds I wasn't playing so good. But yeah, health was not on my side, but we were able to push it through. And ultimately, when you do push your body through things, and you come out on the other side of six with success, it just kind of makes everything that much sweeter. Of course, of course. Does this one top the top the first one?

Ah, you know, I've been asked that it's I don't like comparing. Sure. Understandable. Well, your first one's always special and that group of guys that we had with the Braves was pretty amazing. I don't know, I think just because my dad was able to see so much of these games, since we're all from Southern California, I wouldn't say, I mean, championships are championships.

It's, they're both the best and the next one's gonna be even that much better than the others, I don't know It's hard to compare but two great teams I got to be a part of and hopefully With my time with the dodgers is first of many Fuck. Yeah, man. Love that man's mindset. What was the first thing you did after you won when you got home? Like what is Uh, well, that's the crazy thing. We still we went on getaway day Uh, so we had to fly.

We left Yankee Stadium at 3 a.m., got to the airport, and we flew home. So we landed at like 9.30 in the morning. Perfect night. All day. All day. There you go. Halloween. Halloween.

And we had to get the kids, I had to get Iron Man, Hulk, and Spider-Man ready to roll. There you go. Dad mode right away. Yeah. go, dad mode right away. Yeah, immediately into dad mode. And we had a blast. And then we had the parade the next morning. We flew the Patriots plane home, actually. You know, they let us have the Patriots plane.

Shout out to Robert Kreff. There you go. And so we were gonna have like a big party on the plane. And within an hour, everyone was asleep. Yeah, right? Everyone was just like, this has been. Because it's five o'clock in the morning and we just like, when you give everything you have,

you're exhausted after these games. And then we celebrated in the clubhouse and you have to do all the interviews, media. That clubhouse, it looked fucking rockin' in there. There was a lot of energy being released in there, yeah. There was a lot. And you just kind of spend, you know, and so we thought we were like, Oh,

we'll just keep it going on the plane. And within an hour I was asleep. I woke up after an hour, everyone else is asleep. And I was like, yeah, we'll wait for it after the parade to go. We'll, we'll try this again. Everybody just smells like champagne. Yeah, that's a smell of success. You know, Everybody just smells like champagne. Yeah, that's the smell of success. Just beer and champagne being tossed on everybody. You don't really like the taste of it, but you're just pouring it in. Yeah, it is.

This is what we worked hard for, to go through this. I don't care if I like it. I love this. I don't care if my eyes can't see anything because it's burning so bad, but I'm going to do this. You got to go in with the correct eyewear, man. Got to go in with those goggles next time. Some guys just want the burn. You know, like Kershaw, he wants the burn. Like

some guys love that stuff. I had LASIK. These things are like very, I need to protect these guys. Yeah. Pretty important for hitting a ball. No doubt. Hey, happy birthday. Oh, thank you, Freddie. Yeah, man. Dude. It's a birthday after like 35. I can't mean like, I don't know. It's just downhill, right? Like, I don't know. I just get excited for my kids birthdays.

Yeah. What do you want to do for your birthday? That are we celebrating this? Like, what are we going to eat? Okay. The pancakes that try to be Mickey Mouse. You make them and they don't end up being very good Before the World Series we had CC's of atheon and we were talking some some baseball with them going into the

You guys and the in the Yanks battling it out and he said that 30% of Freddie Freeman is better than a hundred percent Anybody else in quotes. That's what CC said, man. Were you at 30% going into the world series? I would say I was a little higher than that. Yeah. So we had a break between the NLCS and the world series about five days. And the first two rounds, it felt like, you know, here's the fence. I felt like I was 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, really well. And I didn't run one time because

I didn't want to flare the ankle up at all. Yeah. So the first time I actually ran was an introduction into game one. And as I was running, I was like, Whoa, I think I can do this. Good feeling. Good. I'm giving my lies and I make it to the trainers because everyone gets introduced and everyone's so excited. Like, did you like you're not limping pretty. I said, I know this is great. But by the sixth or seventh inning of every game, like my heel would start to hurt where the Achilles attaches into the heel. That's that's where it was starting to hurt because the spike

of my cleat was going into my heel. For sure. Yeah, that sucks. By the sixth or seventh inning, it was kind of hurting, but the adrenaline would take over by then. But I would say I was probably around above 50% because my rib was okay by then and I broke my finger too in August so that didn't really help but things were yeah I had just so many energy and injuries it's just crazy we're kind of talking about you have to be fortunate to be able to make these

deep playoff runs man yeah and and you guys you guys were battle tested in that regard more than anybody in the league it seemed like yeah yeah we lost glass now you know Kersh came back and then got hurt again. We lost Gavin Stone, who was huge for us throughout the course of the year. We were just losing relievers left and right. We lost Evan Phillips, who is one of our better relievers all year, right before the World Series. Joe Kelly got hurt.

We had a lot of unfortunate injuries, but great teams overcome those kinds of adversities and we were able to do that. It seemed like we had every speed bump possible on a road and we just somehow managed to overcome those. I might just be speaking out of 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 Yankees man, and I don't know what I'm not saying anything bad about what the Yankees

had over there, but it just seemed like the togetherness, the camaraderie, the chemistry, it just seemed like you guys had a little bit more of that than than what was going on in the other dugout. We had a lot we said it started early because you signed Shohei and he has everything that he had to deal with, like when we were in Korea to start the year or so. Rallying around a new teammate, that's quick and that as a group that fast, I think it only helped us. If we can rally around Shohay and help him get through the probably the toughest time that he's had to deal with, then we could deal with all our other little things that we had

to deal with. Then obviously with my family in late July, them rallying around us, it 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. It's we just had a lot that made us that close throughout the course of the year. And unfortunately, we had it really early on with Shohei and his thing. But sometimes that's better, you know, to kind of come together as a group that like we did.

Yeah, man. Adversity always brings people closer. Speaking of your family, your dad was a big part of this, right? Yeah. He had a great I thought probably the best quote I've seen in a while between like a dad and his son Freddy 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 it only hurts when I miss That was that was NLDS. I was going through a lot to play, obviously with my fractured rib and doing a lot of extra

things with more than just treatment. So after the game three of NLDS, I got a call from my dad about 11 o'clock at night and I had a talk like that with my father a long time. It was kind of just a little upset, you know, like, hey, you need to look out for yourself down the road. And that was the first time I really took a step because I'll do anything to be on a baseball field. I think anybody that knows the I'll just I put blinders on. I'm going to get out there.

Yeah. And that was the first time I was like, OK, well, what take? Let's take a step back. And I, you know, I'm married with three kids. So like, and that and I sat out the next game, I sat out and I'll be asking for I just couldn't do it again. I physically was just not able to put myself through what I was going through again. I think when I hit the grand slam in the World Series, and he was front row, I think he was I think he was happy I didn't stop. Yeah, of course. No doubt. Oh, yeah. Thank God that guy didn't stop. Yeah, of course. That's no doubt. Oh yeah.

Thank God that guy didn't listen to me. Like. I listened to him a couple times, but. Thank you. Yeah, I think it's just special. Like, 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 World Series on the biggest stage, it made everything I did a couple weeks earlier worth it. You know, in my mind. We'll see how I am when I'm 55 or six years old. You know? But in my mind it was worth it. Who needs ankles when you're 55, man? They're making new ankles, new knees, good.

They're making all types of new shit. Replace it, yeah. Exactly. They probably have hydraulics in these things. The next coming up soon. No, we both grew up with a fucking amazing father. And he got us into everything, man. I'm talking about baseball.

He coached us a lot in baseball and really all sports. He was always kind of. I think it's hard because I was always older, so I was definitely better growing up a trav. I played more competitively. Yeah, at every like milestone he was better. So I would say trap. I would lie.

I was I had the cheat code. I was my debt and big Ed Kelsey would go to all the teams that Jason was on and he'd be and he'd be like, Hey, just put this guy on your roster. You never know when you're going to need an extra body. And sure enough, I would play at least a handful of games two years older and I'm facing guys that are like, yeah, throwing real need. I had two older brothers. That's what made me so much, you know, made me be who I was too, you know, that's all it is. You

find a way to to get through it, man. But our our father was so responsible for our our love of sports, our love of, you know, just competing. How much was your dad responsible at getting you into baseball? Oh, I wouldn't be here without him. Yeah. Obviously I have two older brothers that love baseball too, but obviously my dad is the one

that loves baseball to the core. Nice, was he always a Dodgers? No, so we grew up actually in Orange County. So I grew up 10 minutes from Angel Stadium. Wow. But my dad is from Canada, and he grew up 10 minutes from Angel Stadium. Wow. But my dad is from Canada and he grew up a Tigers fan because he grew up in Windsor, Ontario in Canada. So right across the border.

So he was a big Tigers fan. Yeah, fuck yeah. And then my grandfather moved to California and so that's how we came to be in California. But I grew up an Angels fan. My favorite player was Garrett Anderson growing up. Just that left-handed, beautiful, sweet swing from the left side.

Hell yeah, baby. When people ask me, what advice do you have for my 10-year-old? I said, it's not for the 10-year-old, it's for you, the parent. You know, like my dad loved practicing and throwing batting practice and doing those kind of things with me every single day.

So. So cool, man. When you have a parent that loves it just as much as I loved it, it kind of things with me every single day. 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. And then obviously I just loved it. He was fueling that fire, man. Yeah.

And he's still, you know, he still throws me batting practice to this day. Is that right? Yeah, in the off season. So like right now I'll take about two months off of baseball activities. I start working out tomorrow, but baseball activities I don't pick up till January and I'll go to my high school in Orange County and we'll go and spend an hour together. And I work out with him and he throws me batting practice.

He's 69 years old and he still throws. And the last two years he goes, Freddie, I don't, I'm not very good anymore. I said, but that's the thing. I said, Dad, it's not about that. It's about the hour we spend together. You know? Like, I'll figure it out in spring training. I'll 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 throwing. He thinks he's not very good, but I think he's great. Nice, man. You just hit it somewhere over the plate. Hell yeah, man. Yeah. That's so fucking baddest. Somewhere over the plate. Hell, yeah, man. Yeah. That's so fucking cool, man.

Yeah. Well, you guys have shared an incredible moment. Game one, obviously. Walk off Grand Slam home run. Yeah. How the fuck did that feel? Yeah. Yeah. World Series bases loaded. Like, what does that feel like? Yeah, I I don't really remember.

I've kind of blacked out. I can only imagine. We talk about it all the time. You're trying to remember. I got really excited. Yeah, I can't remember the feeling. But when they walked Mookie intentionally, which I knew they were going to left on left,

you kind of figure the situation out. And I started replaying. So I watched shoheys at bats against Nestor Cortez because every time shohey walks into the box the pitcher feels like he's backs against the wall so I was like what is he going to throw if he if he thinks his backs against the wall which it was this is brilliant man fuck love this and he was throwing cutters and sliders away to shohey and then like heaters in and up and in so I Usually look away to just drive the ball to left center

And I was like, you know, I'm gonna switch this up and I'm gonna look closer to me So I don't swing at the cutter slider away So I was looking heater in to like up and in and I guessed right guessed right. Dude, he threw it right. So good spot. I was looking and I mean, you still got to hit it and you still got because you can make you miss mistakes all the time. But I just hit it and I knew it was gone right when I hit it. You know, those are the ones where you just hit and I don't know why I would have your Liberty or anything like that. Because I

don't like I don't pimp home runs. I don't do that. I just usually hit them and just run around the bases. But that's one of the world's, that's what you style on. Yeah. That is one style on. That's the only style I got is walking and pointing my bat. I got nothing else. Dude. And it was fucking awesome, dude. Yeah. And so I mean, we got a picture sitting up right here, too. That is so fucking Usually we wave at the bullpen But when I looked at when we come around second base and we lay wave to our bullpen guys, they're going nuts I obviously got the home plate Miguel Rojas goes like jumping. Like, I don't want you to get hurt. And if you see it, there's a, I look at him and says, I don't feel a thing. I'm screaming at him.

And then I knew my dad was sitting front row because he was sitting right in the front row of the seats. And for some reason, I don't know, I just said, you know what, I'm going to share this with him. So I ran over and just screamed in his face. There was no words, no nothing. And we were just screaming at each other. There was a lot said in that scream. It was all understood. It was an hour conversation in those two screams.

You know? Yeah, right. I loved it. It was just like, you can't script it. I mean, bottom 10th, World Series, Yankees, Dodgers, everyone's been talking about it all week and to walk it off and be the first one to do it on a grand slam. That was, you know, it's, I wish I could feel, remember that feeling though. It's just thinking about it, dude. It's like a legit Kirk Gibson moment. Like this is crazy, man.

It's, it's unreal. Kirk actually reached out and said, congratulations. So he's a good he's a good man. He does radio TV for the Tigers now. So I get to see him quite a bit. But it's it's the link together now is pretty special because, you know, he came out and hit that that home run against Dennis sectors Lee and they won the World Series that year. But then like Joe Davis calling that he I mean, couldn't have asked for a better call on that. Yeah. It's all about the announcer sometimes if they nail it with the call it makes it back

much better. And luckily we had we have Joe Davis all year round and then to have him for Fox two and that was special. It's 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 nerding out about, I guess, players process. So when you say you're looking in, what do you mean by like, you're still looking at the ball coming out of his hand though, right? Like, okay, so I pick. So I'm a lane hitter. So say here's the let's just put a square up. So usually I'm looking outer third of the plate just so I can stay in and just line 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 going away from here. And I don't want to swing at that because that's just, I'm going to be dead if I do that. So instead I looked on the inside part of the plate. So closer to me. And so if I'm

looking there, if anything's middle to middle away, I'll just check off of it. I won't even like attempt to swing at that. Yes. And so that's why I went closer. Because if he throws the cutter slider in that lane, then it's going to end up middle, middle, right? And then I can still hit that. But I wanted to be bring it closer. So I could be so I wouldn't have to swing out any pitchers going away from me. That's why I did that. That's brilliant. Yeah, it's it's weird. You know, it's just it's just late. It's off. It's

it's a theory. It's science in here. Yeah, it sounds crazy when you talk about it. It doesn't sound crazy. It actually sounds awesome. Dude, 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 Charlie, my eight year old, he's like, so I hit the home run and he, that's all he's asking is daddy, are you going to be the MVP? I said, Charlie, it's been one game. The only thing the you don't care about. I said, Oh, no, there's a lot of games left, but my three year olds don't really understand what's really going on.

So but they were all excited. They don't care if you go for four. That's the beauty of it. You know, over 444 there. That's your still bad, but Charlie is really into baseball like and like knows everything about it. So he was pretty fired up after the game. Hell yeah, man.

You got to start throwing some BP with him if you haven't already, man. Oh yeah. He's got practice tonight. I'll be taking him too. There we go. There we go. I might need a mask and stuff to hide, but. Yeah, right.

Dude, we got to talk about this fucking, in in my mind absolutely hysterical moment in the World Series One of the fucking Yankees fans tried to take a ball out of Mookie Betts's glove, dude He didn't try to he did. Oh Yeah, oh my How fucking absurd was this Yeah, like what were you guys saying in the bit? Like was that like motivation? Like these motherfuckers are fucking yanking the ball

out of our gloves. Fuck these guys. So I'm in first, you know, and I'm watching him going, I'm yelling, you got room, you got room. Just, he can't hear me anyway. I don't even know why I was saying that, but that's just what you're taught to do. That's what you're supposed to do.

Yeah, hey. And so I see him catch it. And then I see him like, he's not coming back into play. I'm like, what is going on? And then I can see them like trying to rip his glove off. And then I see the ball go flying out of his glove. I was like, what just happened? And then, oh, I'm thinking about, is this,

is this an out still? I don't know. I was worried about out. Did he catch it or not? Like what just happened? I've never seen this before. Is this in the rule books? Yeah.

Have they found a rule for this yet? Is he out? Yeah. You know, like, so afterwards he goes, I think he said that's like one of the only couple of times I've wanted out? Yeah, you know, like, so afterwards he goes, I think he said that's like one of the only couple times I've wanted to fight someone, you know, in this game. Yeah, oh, sure. Mookie's a great dude too, man.

I think you don't see him as, you don't see him as like, wanting to fight somebody. He is as good as he gets, happy to love you all the time. Hell yeah. But then I see the, afterwards, cause it's hard to see it in the moment, you know, I didn't have a great angle of it.

I just see the ball flying out. And but afterwards you could like the still picture is the fan. One fan is holding his wrist, you know, and then the other one is like trying to pull his glove open. I was like, wow, you know, it was like the first or second inning in the super inconspicuous. It was like the first or second inning and those super inconspicuous. It was very smart. They were there for two innings, spent $10,000 probably on those tickets and kicked out. You know, I'm just like, geez, that's a waste of money. I just kicked out. I think

they got a lifetime ban. They're like never going to be able to go back to a ballpark. They weren't allowed for game five, but I don't know about their season ticket holders, I guess, for the Yankees. And that's, and they, I heard they said if any of that they were planning that forever as season ticket holders, like if that ever happened, that's what we're gonna do. I mean, it looked like they had that thing premeditated. And it just happened in the World Series on the biggest

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what was it like 15 years or something like that? Was it 13? It's been a while that I do number ones. I find Yeah, yeah. Two number one teams to be in the World Series. Yeah, there's some crazy stat. 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's 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 but then lost three in a row

So there's always this talk of what's best. What's smart? Do you want I'm like but as We want to be the best team you want to be we want to be the one seed Yeah, because don't ever think won't feel the feel to manage the whole playoffs, you know And and you can see we started off at game one and two at Dodger Stadium in the World Series. Why would you want to start on the road? You know, like that doesn't sound right. Especially in a jungle like New York, man. You know, and get your own fans.

Oh, yeah. You're sleeping in your own beds, you know, you're not in hotel beds. There's so many different so many more pros than cons than doing that kind of stuff. So I think it was just a lot of talk about because we didn't play very well the previous two years. So let's maybe be the two seed. Let's get this instead of get this matchup. No, if you just play good baseball, you're going to like, and you have a really good

team, you're going to ultimately most likely win. It's just baseball is so hard to predict. Like last year, Mookie and I went one for 21 in the playoffs. So it's like, you can't really predict that kind of stuff. So it's, I say, be number one, see just a different game, man. Yeah. Be number one, see, be the best, get home field of vans throughout the course and do things differently. Like we did. So during those five days,

we watched the Padres games and like kind of a watch party of the like the Braves and Padres to see who we were. And we just stayed together. You know, we watched them together. We practiced together. Usually we would just do our practice and then go home. The previous two years, this year we switched it up and stayed together as long as we could keep it as a unit. Oh, that's interesting. That's awesome, man. I think we were just trying to do some things that's interesting. That's awesome, man.

I think we were just trying to do some things differently. All of it paid off, man. Yeah, you know, it's just like we said at the beginning of it, it's one month, just grind this one month, like no kids at the, because the Dodgers are great. They let us bring our kids to the field before games during the regular season, hang out all day long if you want.

But in the playoffs, we were like, let's just axe 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 it paid off. And obviously we played really good baseball with it too. So a lot of things just worked in our favor. That's awesome, man.

I've heard a lot about like the, the buy, like baseball is such a rhythm sport, how much that affects and then it's a short series afterwards. But I think I like what you said about home field advantage. Like, dude, just focus on being the best team. Don't feel like just win, win games, win baseball games. And the rest of it takes care of itself. I think that's. Yeah, it's just like, I know, Jason, you're a huge Phillies fan and stuff.

So it's like if we were to go into the bank on games, we have to and like, say the NLCS, how can that be good for someone? You know, like it's not, like you'd rather be at home as much as you possibly can. So just be the one seed and grind it out and figure out that five days. And we ultimately did it this year.

Baseball season is so fucking long. I can't even imagine having to play that many fucking I know Day in day out with just a little like maybe a day or two here or there where you're not actually playing the game And it's unbelievable usually traveling on those days. So it's yeah exactly and it's just I can own Yeah, it's it's definitely the most grueling in my mind in terms of 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 load of, you went to Korea and it's like, how crazy is it starting in Korea and like knowing that you got an entire

160 games left in the, like it's insane. Yeah, it's a lot. Luckily this is next year will be my 16th year. So I've kind of gotten used to it, but when you, I've never started internationally like we did this year. And 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 it's crazy. It's OK for position players, but it's more of pitchers. Like they're ramping up to be full throttle mid-March. You got to be faster. Yeah. And that's a lot. When you think about we still have eight more months pretty much to go.

Right. And you can see it like we lost. Glasnow and Yamamoto both pitched in those two games in Korea and they both got hurt this year. So it's kind of you don't know if that's kind of a correlation of ramping up too fast. But it's a lot under body to fly especially overseas. Fuck yeah. 12 hours 13 hours to Korea and then play and fly back.

And we actually flew back and went back into spring training after those two games. So we were playing, we played three games that didn't matter really, but it's crazy. And we're gonna do it again next year. We start in Japan next year and we're playing the Cubs two real games in Japan. So we're gonna have to do it.

Luckily we have some experience now, but it's just a lot. You know, and you get into the routine and you kind of understand the flying, getting to how your body is going to recover. And I mean, you guys, you guys know, you guys know, everyone knows their 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 it, yeah.

162 games is a lot. I never really thought about it. You know, you just do it. You know, like you just wake up and go. And then you play an extra 30. If you're lucky enough, you play an extra 30 on top of it. Yeah. And like we did. And then you have spring training games.

So you're playing pretty like, I played probably over 210 games this year, you know, it's And now you get a couple months. We played all the way through October and so now our off season is even shorter because we have to go to Japan next year and I mean spring training is in three months for us and it's just like it's absolutely wait a second. Yeah, I need more than that. I need more than three months off. Especially going into 16. I hear you brother. Yeah. Do you more than that. I need more than three months off. Yeah, especially going into 16. I hear you, brother. Yeah. Do you think baseball gets to that point?

You think it's going to be an international league? I think it's hard. I mean, obviously the Expos were, you know, Canada. Yeah, we still have the Blue Jays. I think it's just more of the flying. So we do like a London series every year now and it's hard to, cause you have to fly over there and play and then come back and your body clocks are off. You just don't have enough time, I don't think to be able to fly to these countries all over. I think

it's still a North American game just for the travel aspects because then if you're going internationally, you're affecting other schedules and teams and stuff like that. So I think we'd just 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. To have a team in England, I just don't think it's really possible

because of the travel of that. It makes sense. Yeah, absolutely. If I'm commissioner one day, we'll figure it out. There we go. There we go. To Miss Freeman. Get them dialed in, baby.

Did you catch a shout out from LeBron? I heard and he spelled my name wrong. Did he? The first time. Yeah, he spelled it with a Y. There it is. Yeah. I'm very particular about my name. I Did the first time. Yeah. You still do with a Y. There it is. Yeah. I'm very particular about my name. I just spell it right. You know, I heard he corrected it. He did.

He put yeah, he put the IE on it because a lot of people I think started correcting it. I don't know why I'm particular about my name, but well, it's your name. It's a good thing. It's a good thing to be particular about it. There we go. Yeah. Yeah. TheBrons come to a couple games, you know throughout the course of the regular season So it's it's pretty cool. I mean as athletes you just respect everybody and like LeBron is the greatest basketball player of all time So it's kind of it's pretty cool. And it's you man. Yeah, it's it's special You just I guess you just means you've done something really good. You know?

Hopefully we can keep doing it in the city of LA with him. I think we're going to a Laker game on Friday, so the Dodgers. Nice, right? You guys are going to be on the floor getting recognized? I think so, yeah. Because it's the first home game since we won it, so I think a few of us are going to go, and we'll get to see the Broncos. The lake show, baby.

Yeah. That's awesome. That's a fun them and ad you know it's gonna be cool. Speaking of LA. What was the parade like? I know the last Dodgers team missed it right because of the covid year. So what was what was it like? Yeah, it was pretty pretty amazing. We did it kind of around city hall about a mile long. Yeah, there was fans on light poles, just every turn to just get a glimpse. And I was on the bus with Walker Bueller,

and Kike Hernandez, so our bus was a little crazy. Oh yeah, there we go. They were outie bucks. It was just, I think they haven't had a parade for Dodgers since 1988. God damn. I think it was a long time coming, so 2020 they didn't had a parade for Dodgers since 1988. Right. God damn. I think it was a long time coming. So 2020 they didn't have it.

So I think there was a lot of making up to do with the Vans. We're going both celebrations. Yeah, they put it all in one. I think when we won, they went nuts the night we were, when we were in New York, they were going crazy in LA. So I think they're still celebrating because I think TK did uh raising canes like he was out there like kind of doing that kind of stuff and they were in full

force. The other fans are so great. I mean we have 53,000 people every single night. It doesn't matter if it's a Tuesday on June 2nd you know they are out there in full force so it's just a special group of fans and they were waiting a long time for this. Yeah, it's crazy after you win. That was one of the things I've missed when we won the Super Bowl up in Minnesota. You see on social media that like the entire fan base is taking over the city of Philadelphia.

Like the broad streets just lined up people. My man, that would have been so cool to be in that moment. Buses are being set on fire, everything had to grease the poles. Yeah. I think there was a couple of things set on fire in LA the night we went to. Yeah. Hey, man, listen. It's the time to do it.

Nothing says celebration like public vandalism. It's the best. Yeah. That's why I don't want to speak any of that out there and have them go for it. I think both of you are parade pros. You know, parade guys, parade guys. The Kelsey love the parade. We do.

We do. I'll tell you, did you have any, did you have any beers thrown at you? Yeah, we actually had one hit one of our wives. See, dude, that's what I'm saying. It actually gets a little dangerous. We gotta not throw full beers. Yeah. All right. We can't that's like a fucking It's a grenade. We can't do that. Yeah, one of our wives got hit. Yeah, I got stitches and

Yeah, cuz you don't you can't see all like there's kidding I Never see a flying beer coming. It's ridiculous. No, at all. And then they throw the little, like, little shots. Fireball shooters? Yeah. Fireball shots. And you're just, boom, getting punked in the head all over the place. And then I had my kids with me,

so I'm like trying to like block them. Yeah. Yeah, but it's dangerous, but yeah. I think she took it like a champ. She got the stitches and moved on. Nice. We're from Cleveland, Ohio. We think of LA, New York, like these are like the Mecca of sports, right? All the Dodgers, the Lakers, the Yankees, the Knicks. That's like, it's kind

of like the the legends. I mean, Gretzky played both both sides. He played for the Rangers, he played for the Kings. You're literally one of those like coastal legends that have ever played the game. Like dude, you're probably gonna have a statue outside of Dodger Stadium of you holding up the bat and after you hit the fucking World Series home run, dude. How fucking cool is it to like play

in like a big market like that? And to just reap the benefits of like having 53,000 in the stadium every single game. Yeah, it's special. When I first came over here in 22, the Freddie Chance from the first time I got there, like it's hard to even really put into words. So cool, man. It really is cool. And the last these three years I've been here, just like you, when you, okay. So when I was with the Braves and we came in to play the Dodgers, it was like the energy level of the stadium. It's just like, you, you raise your, your senses and your, you

want to play that much better when you walk into, into Dodger stadium, their speakers feel like the speakers are like inside. You like it there like the base. It's, and it's just, you really can. And it's just an incredible fan base. Everyone has eyes on LA and how we're going to go about it. And then you sign show. Hey, you spend like we spent this past off season. So now really, and it's almost 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 not fail and win the whole thing,

that makes it a little bit sweeter. Cause I think everyone's waiting like, Oh, there's their flaw. There's their flaw. That's what's wrong. Oh no, they can't do that. I think that's what they were waiting for. But to do something where like, so I went to Jimmy Kimmel last night, we got picked up and our driver goes you made me cry three times this year, you know, and one was the grand slam, obviously with my son Max and my the story of 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 why we play sports. It's to bring joy for three hours, four hours to people and to be able to bring that to households around LA,

California, Dodger fans all over. I think that's what's more cool to me after all this time. And to bring a championship to Southern California where I'm from. That's that's pretty special too. And for my dad and my family to be there. Yeah. I don't know about the statue. I feel like you have to play more than six, seven, eight years with one team, but we'll see. We'll see. Or you just got to hit a grand slam. Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick,

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Did you feel the attention go up a little bit more or what? Oh yeah, so the first day I showed up to spring training, Shohei 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 100 cameras just filming every car that drives in, you know? Because they don't know which one's Shohei,

or Yoshinobu, you know, Yamamoto. So it's mostly all the Japanese reporters. Sure. I've never seen so many cameras throughout the course of the year than I did this year. It was mayhem everywhere we went. Shohei started leading off at the end of the year. We have Muki hitting second, me hitting third. And it is, this, Mookie and I started laughing. So it's like, say it's the top of the eighth or top of the ninth, Shohei has his last at bat.

15,000 people are just immediately get up out of their seats and just walk out of the stadium. They're like, oh, Shohei's done, so. Whoa! Like, oh, stop it. Mookie and I are on deck and we're like, geez, they don't care about us at all. No way.

That was quick. No way. That was quick. No way. Man, okay. And that's what it's like. Shohei is such a global superstar. And everywhere he went, every city, they want to see him, rightfully so. I mean, he went 50-50 this year.

He's going to win first MVP at DH. He's just incredible. And what people forget is that he rehabbed, he's rehabbing Tommy John. And so he was rehabbing and getting his arm and then he goes out and hits 50 home runs. It's special to watch him go about his business every day. It's crazy.

And he's going to be pitching next year. And it just, it's just, it's mind blowing. It really is. That's what we do in like little league and he's doing it and you know, in the big leagues, you know, like yeah, it's, it's mayhem everywhere we go because of Shohei. It's gotta be fun as hell, man. And probably a little bit sweeter when you, when you can, you know, find a way to come together. And I know he he had the shoulder there at the end of the World Series. So find a way to win it for him, knowing all those cameras around him and and Yoshi, man, that had to be cool.

Yeah, I mean, we don't. But like, even though he got hurt and we were able to bring it home for him, like NLCS and the home run he hit off the seas and then all the like, there's so many moments and that we would never be where we were without Yoshi and Shohei and you know for Shohei to Get hurt at the end of game two and for us to still go out there and win it That just shows you how good our team is and it will be for a long time It should be a special few years. Hopefully you guys got a good culture man It seems like everybody's in it for the right reasons, man

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answer them or not. So Jason Jason jump it off. Yeah. Uh if you didn't play baseball, yeah. What sport would you have played? Oh, probably wouldn't have played a sport. Wouldn't have even done it. Did you play any other sports? I wanted to be a CPA. Time out. Nobody wants to be a CPA. What are you talking about? That's my my dad.

Yeah, my dad owns his own CPA firm with my uncle, his brother, Freeman and CPAs. And I love numbers. Shout out the friggin free. Yeah, I've made my dad retire though. So he's not doing it. I wanted to be a CPA. I know it sounds crazy, but I was going to be doing your taxes.

You guys do you do your own taxes now? No, I don't. I gave up on that dream a long time ago. That ship sailed 20 years ago. Nice. That's so fucking funny. I'm not going to lie. I was not expecting that. You weren't expecting a CPA. No, not one second. That's amazing. That's the first time, I think, and the last time probably. In 2017, you defected to the Canadian national team. Okay. How do we get you back to the US? How do we get you back on the US team?

Defected. Right. So I mean, if anybody knows my story, both my parents are Canadian, they're born and raised in Canada, I lost my mom when I was 10 years old to melanoma skin cancer. And she never became a US citizen. She was Canadian through and through. So I So I represent Team Canada on the national stage to honor my mother. That's beautiful, man. I don't know if that's what she would want me to do, but that's what I feel like I should be doing.

So unfortunately, I don't think I'm gonna be coming back to the United States. It's just, I do it for my mom who passed away when I was 10. Yeah. A story like that, man. Hell yeah. Go ahead. That's as good as a reason if I've ever heard a CPA and defecting to Canada. In April 2021, you were struck out by Cubs first baseman big Riz man Anthony Rizzo Should the Yankees have maybe just thrown him in there at the game

Actually said that to me in Yankee Stadium, I think it was game three or four. He goes, you know what I should have pitched You know what's worse about that? I was four for four in that game with a home run, and I struck out against Anthony Rizzo. I was like, you ruined my whole night. You know, like. I was balling. I was doing good.

But it's like, it's so hard to hit against position players because you lose your approach and you just like, and Anthony is a friend of mine, so I'm just laughing at the mound. The fact that yeah he starts flipping up 50 mana on curveball so I'm just like what are we doing? Yeah and I shook out and I'm like this is embarrassing you know. Reminds me of what was that uh uh oh my gosh it's not rookie of the year what's the one where like his arm has to get ready? Yeah, you're right. And he has to do the underhand one at the end. He looks under his glove and sees it's his mom's glove.

It's his mom's softball glove so he throws a softball. He pulls the thing apart and sees it's his mom's. And she's nodding in the stands and he just lobs it. Do it. Yes. Dude, you know what to do. Yeah. Classic. All right, Shohei Otani signed the largest contract in professional sports history at 10 years, $700 million. Yeah. Does he ever make you pick

up the check? We actually split the last one. So yeah, good teammates. So we did a team dinner in New York and yeah, Shohei and I split and with Kershaw. So a lot of that's deferred. So he's not really getting paid, you know? That is, so they still do deferred contracts in baseball. And that helps. He has 68 million of his 70 million a year is deferred. And it's like through like 2050 or something like that, right?

It's like ridiculous. Me, Mookie, and Shohei are going to be like 50 years old so I can check. Still getting checks. Yeah. But I heard he makes a ton off the field, so I think he's doing just fine. He's doing all right. He's doing all right. You have any juice for us?

What's something people would be surprised to hear about Otani? Because it's still very much a mystery because he's he's still like kind of learning the only thing i could say is when he gets on the plane he literally just reads comics the whole flight really yeah are they are any like is he like Charlie Brown in it or like what kind of comics are these like anime comics and that's what he reads all flight. It's there you go. And Jason was a big anime guy. I wanted to be a CPA, you know, so he wants to read comics, you know? Yeah.

I get it. Let's get down with some Dragon Ball Z. There you go. Yeah, exactly. No coupons. Can you tell us the story of Chipper Jones saving you on ATV? Yeah, okay.

So this is 2014. We're doing kind of a Braves caravan. So you go kind of before the season starts. And in Atlanta, you can get snow every couple of years in the winter time. Of course, it decides to snow that one day. And my wife's and I house is about 40 minutes from Turner Field, the old stadium.

And that's where we were, where, where we were during that caravan. And when they decided, okay, it's snowing, we all got to go home. So, but we go out and they had let everyone out in Atlanta at the same time, schools, work, everyone, like go home. And it just, it just became like snowmageddon. That's what they were calling it. So I lived 40 minutes away and Chipper and I lived about, you know, like 0.1 miles from each other.

So we were pretty close and I made it to about, I would say 10 minutes from our houses after about 12 hours. Stop it. Yeah, so I was trying to get home and you just got cars going up hills and sliding back down. So you really couldn't really go anywhere. So I pulled into a parking lot about 10 minutes from our house and I had like 1% battery left

in my phone. So I texted my wife a picture of where I was and I was like, I'm just going to sleep here and just wait, you know, till the next morning. And my wife was actually at Taylor and Chipper, his wife, their, their house. And, um, Chipper decides to go full camo. I'm not leaving him out there. So Chelsea shows Chipper the picture and goes, Oh, I know where he is. And within 30 minutes later, Chipper is coming on an ATV, like he's in the parking lot, like skidding through, you

know? You're here to save the day. And I was like, no way. This is just unbelievable. And he brings me a jacket and he ATs me home, ATVs me back to his house and has the fire on, and I'm like, I was not wearing clothes suited for snow, and I am just shivering, and yeah. Thankfully, he came to see me, I would have been sleeping in a car all night, but yeah. So they made bobbleheads and did all that kind of sorts

for that kind of stuff. You pulled up on the ATV like Lloyd Christmas on Dumber Dumber just. Exactly, I was literally like holding up, You pulled up on the ATV like like Lloyd Christmas on Dumber Dumber It's a good story now, but at the time I was not Dude, I'm not gonna lie though. That had to be pretty epic. You see the ATV coming right at you like what the fuck He was having so much fun with it, you know, 18 miles to the gallery. Traded to a kid a few miles back. Oh, man, that's fucking gold.

You were voted friendliest infielder to chat with on base by your fellow major league baseball players. Did that surprise you? What is what happens at first base? You have this be an award. Yeah, I didn't know that was an award until I got told that I was voted that. I mean, I'm friendly. I like to talk to everybody. If you get a hit and get the first base, I always tell you nice job.

Nice hit. This game's hard. Yeah. Yeah. Life is hard. So I'm gonna, 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 the time, like, we're just kind of like just talking about life. And obviously, this year, everyone kept asking me about, you know, my son Max, and it's just conversations. But usually around August, people started talking about fantasy football at first base, like who you're gonna take and stuff like that. It's just, I'm just, I just talked to everybody. Cause sometimes when you do talk to someone,

you can pick someone off and I'm not trying to do that. I'm actually talking to you, but if we do pick you off, I'm sorry. But, um, no, I just, I just talked to everybody that gets the first base. It's, it's fun. Sports is fun. It's not football. I'm not trying to like hit someone, you know, it's baseball is different. You know, it really is. Pick those battles too. In football, you don't want to get anybody too fired up to her out. Like a guy like Max, you only want to talk so much shit to Max. Max is going to turn into absolute fucking having if, uh,

if you say the wrong things, who's, who's the guy that you would vote for is the friendliest. Like Lindor, uh, Francisco and door when you get the second, it's always great. Like then Ozzy Albies, brave second baseman is wonderful. Rizzo, obviously at first Joey Vato was another very talkative guy at first. So there's a lot of guys, a lot of guys in baseball are just friendly and kind of just talk but being a first baseman you encounter everyone.

So there's a lot of good guys in sports. I go with Lynn Dora at second base. He's probably the next friendliest. Have you ever pulled off a hit and ball trick? No. Gosh. Do you think it's like, dude, I don't want to go that low that's kind of yeah, that's I wouldn't do it

Would have beat you fair and square. We're doing it this week. We can pull it off I'll just tag you as a road back more because if you don't pull it off You look like an idiot just tag someone to tag someone on the base or waiting. Come on, just throw the ball back to the pitcher. So good. What's your least favorite pitch? I think the hardest pitch to hit is a well-located fastball. 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 thing in sports. I just don't like cutters. So stuff from right hander moving in, even though I did hit a couple of them in the World Series, but I heard you. Yeah, but just a few. That's a good way to answer it.

Just the pitches that you're really nailing. I don't want to tell people I really hate when they throw that fastball right down the middle of the plate. It's the worst. I don't want to see like 90% cutters next year, you know? But the best pitch is a well-located fastball because if you pitch off your fastball, then it sets up all your other pitches. And so that's kind of how it works.

But it's so hard to hit your spots. And that's why, you know, we make what we make because it's hard to hit those spots three times in a row. No doubt. No doubt. I say well-located fastball, hardest pitch. Nice. Well, speaking of well-located fastballs and pitching, Jason thinks they should move the mound back in baseball. He says getting thought it might be might increase offense a little bit more.

You know, just a bit, just like like maybe one foot go back to Commissioner Freeman. Do you would you would you ever consider moving them? I do not agree more because I think it would cause more injuries to pitchers. Oh, really guys We want to throw harder because there are even a foot away They might try and throw harder and I mean you can foot away, they might try and throw harder. And I mean, you can see like there's a lot of injuries in baseball and pitchers and I mean we're throwing 95 to 100 every guy's doing that. So if you move it back even a foot, I feel like you're going to try and throw it harder. And I think it's just more injuries would happen. The only thing I say if I was commissioner is getaway night games

should be illegal. No night games on getaway night games should be illegal. No night games. On getaway days. Oh nice nice yeah yeah yeah I got you. CC said the same thing. Yeah CC said the exact same thing. There's like there's we're getting it at 4am like there's no way our bodies are good enough and like the next day you're just grinding you know and you're not your best self so I think we

should do getaway that would be my only thing. But I get the Sunday 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 you're in and you have a one o'clock game. People can't come, you know, because they're in work. And I do get that. But it's hard on us. But yeah. They want to capitalize on prime time money.

I get it all. But yeah. Well, you're fair. You're a fair guy. We've asked a bunch of guests this following question. Do you think there are any major league baseball players that could cross over into another sport, whether it's the NFL, NBA? I saw some routes before. I see. look he runs Ross He can do it to me is pretty athletic in a lot of different. He could do it, but Mookie is also

155 pounds though. Yeah, if he got hit, I don't know how Mookie is gonna get back up I would say Mookie bowling. He already does it. Yeah I would say Mookie bowling. He already does it. Yeah. He's already a professional bowler. Um, I think there's guys that could do it. I, it's two sports is so hard, like at the highest level. I mean, yeah, you guys are like, there's no way we can go in there and run a route and catch a ball with someone coming in, gonna take our heads off. I am going to be running straight to the sideline.

It's just what you guys do is special. What we do, what basketball players, like it just, there's a reason why you guys are the best and let's just stick to one sport. I think that's smart. Just crazy, crazy talk. Maybe, I'm sure there's golfers, like pitchers and golfers. Dude, there's some guys that can-

Yeah, that's a whole thing. Golf is crazy too. Like, like those guys are so good. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous how much control they have of everything. I know. And the ball is not moving and you think you should just hit it perfectly every time and it just slices 300 yards the

other way. Okay, I can hit them on moving, but I can't. I have no one to blame but myself. Oh, big wind gusts. Wind gusts can even knock them. All right, we got one last question here, brother. We heard that your son actually picks your walk-up songs. Can you tell us about that?

Which one was your favorite that he's chosen so far? Okay, so Charlie picks my walk-up songs every year. Can you tell us about that or which one was your favorite that he's chosen so far? Okay, so Charlie picks my walk-up songs every year. He started this in 2021 when he was around four years old. I was driving to the field one day and he goes, I said, when you're old enough, I'll let you pick my walk-out songs. And he goes, oh daddy, I'm old enough now. And I said, okay.

Nice. He loves bad bunny. loves. So he he's grows up, he's grown up in, you know, clubhouses and Spanish musics all over the place. And he has I we actually took him to a bad bunny concert in spring training. So yeah, I've had Bad Bunny as my walk-up songs for four years. And the first year in Dodgers, he picked a different one. He picked Baila Comigo, which means dance with me.

And that's kind of the song we've kept. But then he has another one. He picks Bad Bunny every single year. Does he speak Spanish? No. Does he understand the songs? If he knew what Bad Bunny was saying, I wouldn't allow him to listen to the music anymore. There was one song he picked and I told Chelsea, I was like, we can't play this song.

I can't walk up to the play of this. Because Dodger fans speak Spanish. I can't walk up to the plate. Because everyone, like, Dodger fans speak Spanish. So I'm like, I can't walk up to this. And I'm like, I'm a married man of three kids. And what he is saying doesn't correlate with me. Way to do your homework, though. Yeah. Way to do your homework.

I looked up some lyrics, and I said, Charlie, we can't pick that one. You got to, yeah. Sorry, bud. We're gonna have to pick another one. Sorry, bud. Actually, you're gonna have to stop listening to that. I can't have you out here just singing those lyrics.

He actually did say, he goes, daddy, I might pick something else other than bad bunny next year. So I'm like, whoa He's so we'll see maybe picks up My neck my back, but it's been bad bunny for four straight years. So we'll see what hey, it's working I know right. Maybe you got to stick with it bad bunnies a great dude, man I got to meet him a few weeks ago, man. He's awesome. Oh, he's picking some good. He's picking picking good dude. Good, good guys music. Well, brother. Yeah, does it man? Yeah, that was fun guys. You guys are all ready. Thank you guys. Thank you so much. Congratulations. World Series MVP. Couldn't be happier for you, man. Family guy. Go ahead and enjoy this off season. I appreciate it.

And all the doors that open up when you, you know I'm working for it, baby. Yeah, yeah. You know it, man. I'm gonna start listening to some Bad Bunny right now. All right, guys. You know, I appreciate you guys. All righty, and that wraps up this episode of New Heights. That's right, thank you.

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