April 29, 2025 • 5 mins
DV catches up with the Dodger closer before first pitch against the Marlins.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
And an exclusive interview with David Bassey or Dodger talker.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey Tanner last night, big milestone in your career, five
hundredth career strikeout against your former team, the Marlins.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
How where were you that you were getting close to
that number? Didn't even know.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
I don't pay attention to it. I saw from my wife.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
My wife let me know, and I was like, didn't
know that, but oh, well, on to the next one.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I guess, yeah, I guess, like when you get that
baseball after the game, though, to know it came kind
of full circle pitching against the team where you really
blossom blossom?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Did it mean a little bit more? I didn't get
the ball. You didn't get the baseball.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I mean I didn't know. I didn't know I had
any any meeting behind it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And my wife was like, did you get the ball?
It's like I didn't even know about it. So, I mean,
hopefully we got it somewhere, but if not, okay.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Can you take us through like what really clicked for
you with the Marlins to make you this guy that's
as respected as you are as far as closing games.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
When I got there, I started working hard with Melsotomeyer
Junior and Wellington Cepada, and then just when we had
Skip Schumacher. I mean he was confident in me, and
I trusted my stuff. And confidence has a lot to
do with baseball. I mean, if you're confident out there,
just move on to the next pitch, and you're always ready, ready,
ready to go, and ready, ready for war.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And it seems like this year you're throwing more strikes
than you ever have before. Where have the Dodgers taken you?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I mean, there's there's so many resources here, It's it's incredible.
I Mean I go back there and I talked to
Connor Mark Barto, and I just I just look at
what I was doing right what I need to fix,
because I mean every day I want to I want
to be better than I was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
But what is it about you throwing more strikes this year?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I got no clue. I just I'm just trying to
attack the That's what I was trying to go around
the question.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I mean, I don't know, just going out there and
just trying to get people out and three pitches or.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Less, where do you feel like your fastball's at? Where
do you feel like your slider's at?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
At this point in the.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Season, answered, Uh, I was talking to Elvis Andrews in Texas.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
He said, he faced you back in the day.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Elvis Andrews. I think I was with it goes with
Baltimore at the time. That's when it was just mainly fastball.
Those times were a lot of strikes, a lot of balls.
It was going everywhere. But uh no, I mean I
feel like they're both at a good place and uh yeah,
I'm just gonna keep rolling with it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Do you feel like you kind of ease into the
season or as a closer? Is there anything that you
can even come close to even thinking that way?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Oh? No, I mean, I mean baseball is hard.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I mean it's I think it's the hardest sport there
is and I mean you gotta go out there and
some days you're on, some days you're off, and when
you're off you have to figure it out. I mean,
your team's teams are relying on you and you're trying
to get out and I mean, ultimately, you just you
just want to win every day, and I mean that's
our goal. We try to win every day and just
move on to the next. So, I mean, did it
start slow, Yeah, But I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
That's whatever. Yeah, I hear. You just keep going a
specially in your position.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
How do you make those mechanical adjustments when you're being
called upon on a nightly basis in the highest of
leverage positions?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Oh yeah, I mean we have so many resources with Connor,
and I'm just going there and look at all all
the numbers and see where I'm at, see where my
release sight is, see.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Where everything is.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And I'm a guy that I need visuals before like
reading the numbers.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Like if he'll show me the visuals and I like
look at it and then I'll try to go correct
it that day.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And catch what tenn Or.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Scott's got his best buddy with him, Evan Phillips. It
was just you might hate him more now because you
guys are around each other a lot more down there
in the bullpen. You guys have been good friends. What's
it like finally to be together in that bullpen.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Oh no, it's good. I mean, it's it's like old
times back in back in Baltimore from eighteen nineteen all
the way up. I mean, we're close in the offseason.
It's good to have him down there.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
It's a friendly face coming to a new place, and
it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
How much is it at this point in time, time
of the season, does a bullpen start to come together
as its own group.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
It's a small family's oide of a big family.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So I mean it starts, it starts as very training
and then day one it's it's it's we're locked and loaded,
ready to go.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It feels like everybody has their own different role as
a personality. You know, who's the guy that cracks the
jokes to keep things.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Like Kirby Definitely Kirby ates the guy's a character.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Back in the day, maybe two or three years ago,
they used to keep tallies on home run predictions for
your own team.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Did they still do anything similar to that? Down there?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
It seems like a personal question. So, uh, maybe maybe
there is, maybe there's not. Maybe I'm on the board
a couple.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Of times, but maybe I'm not. Okay, hell, but so
I'm gonna leave the answer.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But Tanner Scott's a man of mystery. Why don't you
show America that beautiful bald head of yours? Tony Gonsolin
showed his yesterday.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Okay, Tony is Tony's like a half bald person like
he doesn't fully commit on shaving every other day.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I mean, if you're gonna be bald, you got the
it every other day. It's gotta be a nice shine.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Show us how it looks.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Can't do that, I mean just just zooming on owl.
Al's got a beautiful bald head. I'm like, how do
I get that? I want that?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You are truly a man of mystery. Won't show the
head without the hat. You won't tell us what's going
on in the bullpen?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Pooled back there?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
All right, I'll bolt, I'll show my bald head when
you shave yours.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
All right, deal, let's do it perfect.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
So that's never gonna happen exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I need to keep as much as I got tannered.
Dang it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Thanks a lot for the time, and Lad, you're on
the Dodgers side now, so is Otani.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I'm happy to be his team and I don't want
to have to face him.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Thanks a lot for the time, No problem, Thank you,
And an exclusive interview with David Bassey or Dodger talker.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey Tanner last night, big milestone in your career, five
hundredth career strikeout against your former team, the Marlins.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
How where were you that you were getting close to
that number? Didn't even know.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
I don't pay attention to it. I saw from my wife.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
My wife let me know, and I was like, didn't
know that, but oh, well, on to the next one.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I guess, yeah, I guess, like when you get that
baseball after the game, though, to know it came kind
of full circle pitching against the team where you really
blossom blossom?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Did it mean a little bit more? I didn't get
the ball. You didn't get the baseball.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I mean I didn't know. I didn't know I had
any any meeting behind it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And my wife was like, did you get the ball?
It's like I didn't even know about it. So, I mean,
hopefully we got it somewhere, but if not, okay.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Can you take us through like what really clicked for
you with the Marlins to make you this guy that's
as respected as you are as far as closing games.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
When I got there, I started working hard with Melsotomeyer
Junior and Wellington Cepada, and then just when we had
Skip Schumacher. I mean he was confident in me, and
I trusted my stuff. And confidence has a lot to
do with baseball. I mean, if you're confident out there,
just move on to the next pitch, and you're always ready, ready,
ready to go, and ready, ready for war.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And it seems like this year you're throwing more strikes
than you ever have before. Where have the Dodgers taken you?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I mean, there's there's so many resources here, It's it's incredible.
I Mean I go back there and I talked to
Connor Mark Barto, and I just I just look at
what I was doing right what I need to fix,
because I mean every day I want to I want
to be better than I was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
But what is it about you throwing more strikes this year?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I got no clue. I just I'm just trying to
attack the That's what I was trying to go around
the question.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I mean, I don't know, just going out there and
just trying to get people out and three pitches or.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Less, where do you feel like your fastball's at? Where
do you feel like your slider's at?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
At this point in the.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Season, answered, Uh, I was talking to Elvis Andrews in Texas.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
He said, he faced you back in the day.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Elvis Andrews. I think I was with it goes with
Baltimore at the time. That's when it was just mainly fastball.
Those times were a lot of strikes, a lot of balls.
It was going everywhere. But uh no, I mean I
feel like they're both at a good place and uh yeah,
I'm just gonna keep rolling with it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Do you feel like you kind of ease into the
season or as a closer? Is there anything that you
can even come close to even thinking that way?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Oh? No, I mean, I mean baseball is hard.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I mean it's I think it's the hardest sport there
is and I mean you gotta go out there and
some days you're on, some days you're off, and when
you're off you have to figure it out. I mean,
your team's teams are relying on you and you're trying
to get out and I mean, ultimately, you just you
just want to win every day, and I mean that's
our goal. We try to win every day and just
move on to the next. So, I mean, did it
start slow, Yeah, But I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
That's whatever. Yeah, I hear. You just keep going a
specially in your position.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
How do you make those mechanical adjustments when you're being
called upon on a nightly basis in the highest of
leverage positions?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Oh yeah, I mean we have so many resources with Connor,
and I'm just going there and look at all all
the numbers and see where I'm at, see where my
release sight is, see.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Where everything is.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And I'm a guy that I need visuals before like
reading the numbers.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Like if he'll show me the visuals and I like
look at it and then I'll try to go correct
it that day.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And catch what tenn Or.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Scott's got his best buddy with him, Evan Phillips. It
was just you might hate him more now because you
guys are around each other a lot more down there
in the bullpen. You guys have been good friends. What's
it like finally to be together in that bullpen.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Oh no, it's good. I mean, it's it's like old
times back in back in Baltimore from eighteen nineteen all
the way up. I mean, we're close in the offseason.
It's good to have him down there.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
It's a friendly face coming to a new place, and
it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
How much is it at this point in time, time
of the season, does a bullpen start to come together
as its own group.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
It's a small family's oide of a big family.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So I mean it starts, it starts as very training
and then day one it's it's it's we're locked and loaded,
ready to go.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It feels like everybody has their own different role as
a personality. You know, who's the guy that cracks the
jokes to keep things.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Like Kirby Definitely Kirby ates the guy's a character.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Back in the day, maybe two or three years ago,
they used to keep tallies on home run predictions for
your own team.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Did they still do anything similar to that? Down there?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
It seems like a personal question. So, uh, maybe maybe
there is, maybe there's not. Maybe I'm on the board
a couple.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Of times, but maybe I'm not. Okay, hell, but so
I'm gonna leave the answer.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But Tanner Scott's a man of mystery. Why don't you
show America that beautiful bald head of yours? Tony Gonsolin
showed his yesterday.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Okay, Tony is Tony's like a half bald person like
he doesn't fully commit on shaving every other day.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I mean, if you're gonna be bald, you got the
it every other day. It's gotta be a nice shine.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Show us how it looks.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Can't do that, I mean just just zooming on owl.
Al's got a beautiful bald head. I'm like, how do
I get that? I want that?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You are truly a man of mystery. Won't show the
head without the hat. You won't tell us what's going
on in the bullpen?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Pooled back there?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
All right, I'll bolt, I'll show my bald head when
you shave yours.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
All right, deal, let's do it perfect.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
So that's never gonna happen exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I need to keep as much as I got tannered.
Dang it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Thanks a lot for the time, and Lad, you're on
the Dodgers side now, so is Otani.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I'm happy to be his team and I don't want
to have to face him.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Thanks a lot for the time, No problem, Thank you,
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!