Incredible moment game one obviously walk-off Grand Slam home run yeah how the did that feel World Series basis loaded I don't really remember I've kind of blacked [Music] out welcome back to new heights a wry show produced by wave sports and entertainment we are your host I'm Travis Kel's my big bro Jason Kelsey uh subscribe on YouTube wry Plus or Wherever you get your podcast and follow the show on all social media at New Height show uh 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 uh tell the people who we have on the show today of course Trev Our Guest today is from Fountain Valley California he's an eight time allar NL MVP two time all MLB first team won a Golden Glove a Babe Ruth award the NL Hank Aaron award and he is now a two-time Series Champion please welcome Mr Freddy Freeman yes sir oh yeah baby don't forget that 2024 World Series MVP appreciate you guys thank you I like that hype hype right there
got bring in with the with the energy baby yeah it's it's kind of I still haven't really like had time to sit and even like kind of take it all in it's been kind of a rwind I did Jimmy Kimmel last night doing Parades trick-or-treating with the kids it's nuts 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 uh it's so hard to win championships as you guys
know and yeah to actually have it happen um things a lot of things have to go right Health has to be on our side fortunate in that yeah yeah we were we were fortunate we were playing really Good base at the end so to get another one especially I'm from Southern California so to have one when you're where you're from it's pretty pretty special [ __ ] yeah man that shit's got to be awesome I mean I 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 Ser sometimes sometimes okay the first couple rounds I wasn't playing so good but uh 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 s with success it just kind of makes everything that much sweeter of course of course does this one top the uh 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 have we had with the Braves um was pretty amazing I I don't Know I think just because my dad was able to see so much of these games uh since we're all from Southern California I I wouldn't say I mean championships are championships it's it's they're both they're both the best and the next one's going to be even that much better than the others I don't know it's hard to compare them but two great teams I got to be a part of and hopefully with my time with the Dodgers this is
first of many [ __ ] 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 so we W on getaway day uh so we had a fly we left Yankee Stadium at 3:00 a.m. got to the airport and we flew home so we landed at like 9:30 in the morning perfect which is Halloween which is Halloween and um we had to get the kids I had to get Iron Man Hulk and Spider-Man ready to roll right
away yeah immediately into Dad mode and uh we had a blast and then we had the parade the next morning we flew the Patriots plane home actually you know they they let us have the Patriots plane shout out to Robert Craft there you go and so we were going to have like a big party on the plane and within an hour everyone was asleep like it's 5:00 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 to do all
the interviews media that clubhous it looked [ __ ] rocking in there there was a lot of energy being released in there yeah there was a lot and you you just kind of spent you know you spent and so we thought we were like oh we'll just keep it going on the plane and with in an hour I was asleep I woke up after an hour everyone else is asleep and I was like yeah we we'll wait for after the parade to go we we'll try this Again everybody just smells like champagne yeah that's a
smell of success you know beer just beer and champagne being tossed on everybody you like the taste of it but you're just pouring it in it is this is this is what we worked hard for to go through this I don't care if I like I love this I don't care if my eyes can't see anything cuz it's burning so bad but do this you got to you got to go in with the correct eyewear man got To go in with those some guys just want the burn you know like Kershaw he wants the burn
like some guys love that stuff I had lasic these things are like very I need I need to protect these guys yeah pretty important for hitting the ball no doubt hey happy birthday oh thank you Fred yeah man dude it's uh where do you get feel like every birthday after like 35 that can't mean like I I don't know it's just down right like I don't know sorry anybody over right now I just get Excited for my kids birthdays yeah like what do you want to do for your birthday dad are we celebrating this like
what do we we're g to eat some cake the pancakes that try to be Mickey Mouse you make them and they don't end up being very good you know yeah exactly right before the World Series uh we had CCE zathia on and we were talking some uh some baseball with him going into the uh you guys and the uh and the Yanks battling it out and uh he said that 30% of Freddy Freeman is better than 100% of anybody else End quotes that's what cc said man were you at 30% going into the World Series
I I would say I was a little higher than that yeah so we had a break between the NLCS in the world series about five days and uh 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 M really uh really well and I didn't run one time CU I didn't want to flare the ankle up at all yeah so the first
time I actually ran was an introductions into game one and as I was running I was like whoa I I think I can do this feeling good I'm giving High FES and I make it to the trainers because everyone gets introduced and everyone's so excited like did you like you're not limping Freddy I said I know this is great but by the sixth or seventh ending of every Game like my heel would start to hurt where the 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 it was probably around above 50% because my rib was okay by then and I I broke my finger too in August so that didn't really help But things were yeah I just so many 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 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 glaz now you know kers came back and then got hurt again we lost Gavin Stone who was huge for us throughout the course of the Year yep we just we were just losing relievers left And right we lost Evan Phillips who was one of our better relievers all year right before the World Series um Joe Kelly got hurt we had a lot of unfortunate injuries but great teams overcome those kind of adversities and we were able to do that and
it seemed like we hit 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 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 and it started early Because you signed show and he has everything that he had to deal with like when we were in Korea to start the year so yeah rallying around a new teammate that quick and that as a group that fast I think it only helped us you know and you know if we can rally around Shi and help him get through the probably the toughest time
of that he's had to deal with with then we could deal with all our other little things that we had to deal with and and 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 Shi 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 your family your yeah your dad was a big part of this right and 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 so I'm just going to have to stop missing which is perect Dude so yeah so that was that was nld DS I was going through a lot to play um obviously with my fractured rib and doing a lot of extra things with more than just treatment so um after the game three of nlds I got a call from my dad about like 11 o'clock at night and I had had a talk like that with my father in a long time and 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 me I'll just I I put blinders on comp out there yeah and that was the first time I was like okay whoa 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 in L DS game four 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 that's no doubt oh yeah thank God that guy didn't listen to me I listened to him a couple times but yeah I think it's just special like I 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 world series on the biggest stage it it made everything I did a couple weeks Earlier worth it you know in my mind how I am when I'm 55 or 6 years old you know but who need who needs ankles when you're 55 man new hips they're making all types of new [ __ ] rep it yeah yeah they probably have hydraulics in these things coming up soon no uh we we both grew up with a [ __ ] amazing father um and he got us into everything man I'm talking about
basball he coach us a lot in baseball and really all sports he was always kind Of I think because I was always older so I was definitely better growing up but Trav played more competively yeah at every like Milestone he was better so I would say tra I well I was I had the cheat code I was my dad 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 hand full of games two years older and I'm facing guys that are like yeah thr throwing real 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 to get through it man but our uh our father was so responsible for our our love of sports our love of you know just competing how much was your dad responsible to getting you into baseball oh I 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 dodgess uh 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 a Tigers fan because he grew up on in Windsor Ontario in Canada so right right across the border so he was a big Tigers fan yeah [ __ ] yeah that's right and then my grandfather moved to
California so That's how we came to be in California but I grew up an angels fan my favorite player was Garett Anderson growing up just that left-handed beautiful sweet swing from the left side so hell yeah baby when people ask me like 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's 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 he you know he still throws me batting practice to this day is that right yeah in the offseason so like right now I'll take about two months off of 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 Freddy 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 there you know like I'll figure it out in spring training I 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 throwing he he's
he thinks he's not very good but I think he's great nice man Somewhere over the plate hell yeah man yeah that's so [ __ ] cool man yeah well you you guys shared a incredible moment game one obviously walk-off Grand Slam home run yeah how the [ __ ] did that feel yeah yeah World Series Bas is loaded like what does that feel like yeah I I don't Really remember I've kind of blacked out you I can only imagine we talk about it all the time you're trying to remember got really excited I can't yeah
I can't remember the feeling it's but when they walked mooki intentionally which I knew they were going to left on left I just kind of you kind of figured the situation out and I started replaying so I watched Show's at bats against Nester Cortez because every time sh 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 it backs against the wall which it was this is brilliant man [ __ ] love this and he was throwing Cutters
and Sliders away to sh and then like heaters in and up an in so I usually Look Away to just drive the ball to left Center and I was like you know what I'm going to switch this up and I'm going to look closer to me so I don't swing at the Cutter or slide her away so I was looking heater in to like up and in and and I guessed right guess [ __ ] perfect dude he threw it right in the spot I was looking and I mean you 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 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 went Statue of Liberty or anything like that I just It was just 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 in the world that's one you style on yeah that is one to style
on that's the only style I got is walking and pointing my bat I got nothing else dude and it was [ __ ] awesome dude yeah and so I mean we got a picture sitting up right here dude that is so [ __ ] iconic man good so I uh usually we wave at the Bullpen but when I looked at when we come around second base we wave to our Bullpen guys they are going nuts nobody's even looking at you they're not in the bullpen anymore at that point right if it's a walkoff they're out
in the bullpen like ah like started screaming at him and then I obviously got the home plate Miguel Roos goes like Freddy stop 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 screaming at him and then man I knew my dad was sitting front row cuz he he was sitting right right in the front row of the seats and uh for some reason I don't know I just was like you know what I'm going to share this with
him so I ran over and just screamed in his face there was no no words no nothing and we were just screaming at there was a lot said there was a lot said in that scream it was all understood it was an hour Conversation in those two screams you know so F I loved it 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 and a grand slam that was
you know it's I wish I could feel remember that feeling though just thinking about it dude leg Kirk Gibson Moment Like This is it's crazy man it's it's Kirk actually Reached out and said congratulations so he's a good he's a good man he he does radio uh TV for the Tigers now so I get to see him quite a bit 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 ekor Le and they won the World Series that year um 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 that much better and luckily we have we have Joe Davis all year round and then to have him for Fox too and that was special it 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 yeah I So I pick so I'm a lane hitter so like 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 at the cutter and slider going away from going away from and I and I don't want to swing at that
because that's just I'm I'm gon 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 at any pitches going away from me that's Why I did that sure that's brilliant yeah dude it's it's weird you know it's just it's just L it's not it's off I hear you it's a theor it's it's science in here you know sounds crazy when you talk about it dude 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 World Series so Charlie my eight-year-old he's like so
I Hit the Home Run and he that's all he's asking he goes Daddy are you going to be the MVP I said Charlie it's been one game you the only thing theold cares about I don't know there's a lot of 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 over four that's the beauty of it you know over 444 there still dad 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 them to there there we go I'm going to might need a mask and stuff to hide but yeah right yeah dude we got to talk about this [ __ ] in my mind absolutely hysterical moment in the world series one of the [ __ ] Yankees fans tried to take a ball out of mookie Bets's glove dude he didn't try to he did oh yeah oh my [ __ ]
gosh dude how [ __ ] absurd was this yeah like what were you guys saying in the B like was that like motivation like these [ __ ] are [ __ ] yanking the ball out of our gloves [ __ ] these guys so I'm I'm in first you know and I'm watching going I'm yelling you got room you got room just he can't hear me anyways I don't even know why I was saying that but that's what you're Taught to do and so catch it and then I see him like his AR he's not
coming back into play yeah I'm like what is going on and then I can see I can see them like trying to rip his glove open and then I see the ball flying out of his I was like I was like what just happened and then all I'm thinking about is this man is this is this an out still I don't know like I was worried About did he catch it or not like what just happened I've never seen this before is this in the rule books 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 times I wanted to fight someone you know's a great dude too man you don't see him you don't see him as like want to want to fight somebody he's as good as it gets Happy Lucky all the time but Then I see the afterward because it's hard to see 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 L like the
still picture is the fans 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 out what the it was like the first or second inning in those super inconspicuous it was very Smart they 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 huh just kicked out I think they got a lifetime ban yeah they got they're like never going to be able to go back
to a ballpark they didn't they weren't allowed for game five but I don't know about their season ticket holders I guess are the Yankees and that's and they I heard they said if any of that They were play that forever as season ticket holders like if that ever happened that's what we're going to do if that ever they I mean it looked like they had that thing premeditated perect planned out and it just happened in the world series on the biggest stage it's insane you're going to grab his arm yeah I'm gonna go for the
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what is it third team in it's been a while that two number ones I think yeah two number one teams have 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 wanted to be the one seed because we got home field home field advantage the whole playoffs you know and and you can see we started off at game one- two at Dodgers stadium in the world series why why would you want to start on the road you know like that doesn't sound great especially in a jungle like New York man you know and get your own fans hell 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 oh maybe be the two seed let's get this instead of get this match up 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's so hard to predict like last year mooki
and I went 1 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 seed it's just a different game man yeah be number one C be the best get HomeField advantage 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 try to keep it as a unit oh that's interesting that's awesome man I I think we 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 we the Dodgers are great they Let us bring our kids to the field
before games dur in the regular season uh hang out all day long if you want but in the playoffs we're like let's just ask that and let's just focus on each other Focus as 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 um the buy like baseball's such a rhythm sport how much that affects
it 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 F 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 one Two and like say the NLCS that how can that be good for someone you know like it's not like youd
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 [ __ ] long I can't even imagine having to play that many [ __ ] games 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 you're usually traveling on those days so it's yeah exactly and it's just I can only yeah it's uh
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 uh get locked in and get the load boo 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 SE it's like it's insane yeah it's it's a lot um 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 okay 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 l glasow 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 it's a lot on your body to fly especially overseas [ __ ] 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 and so we were playing we played three games that didn't matter really but it it's
CRA and we're going to do it again next year we start in Japan next year and we're playing the Cubs to real games in Japan so we're going to have to do it luckily we have some experience now but it it's just a lot you know and you get into the Routine and you kind of understand the 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 yeah it it it yeah 162 games is a lot I never really thought about it you know you just do it you know like it's you just wake up and go and then you play an Extra 30 if you 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 offseason's even shorter because we have to go to Japan next year and I mean spring training's 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 yeah especially going into 16 I hear you brother yeah do you think baseball gets to that point is it you think it's going to be an international league um I I think it's hard um I mean obviously the Expos were
you know we still the Blue Jays uh I think it's just more of the flying so we do like a London series um every year now and it's hard to because 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 aspect because then if you're going internal you're affecting other schedules and teams and stuff like that so yeah
I think we 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 Hell yeah to have team in England I just don't think it's really possible because of the travel of that makes sense yeah absolutely if I'm commissioner one day we'll figure it out there we go there we go Miss Freeman get him dialed in baby yeah did you catch the shout out from LeBron I heard and he spelled my name wrong did he the first time yeah you spelled
it with a Y there it is yeah I'm very particular about my name I just Spill it right you know I heard I heard he corrected it he put yeah he put the iie on it um cuz a lot of people I think started correcting I don't know why I'm particular about my name but well it's your name it's a good thing me it's a good thing to be particular about it there we go yeah yeah LeBron's come to a couple games you know throughout the course of the regular season um 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 with you man yeah it's it's special you just I guess you just means you've done something really good you know people you know you know like hopefully we can keep doing it in City of La with him we're going I think we're going to Laker game on Friday so uh the Dodgers so we'll be there you guys going to be on the floor getting recognized aw I think so yeah
I think there because it's the First home game since we we we won it so I think a few of us are going to go and you know we get to see the show baby yeah that's a fun them and AD you know it it's going to be cool speaking of La what was the parade like I know uh the last Dodgers team missed it right because it was the co year so what was what was it like to yeah it was pretty pretty amazing we did it kind of around City Hall about a mile
long um there was fans on light poles just every trying to Just get a glimpse and I was on the bus with Walker bu so and Kik Hernandez so our bus was a little crazy oh yeah oh yeah there we go fun it was just I think they haven't they haven'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 fans we're we're going both celebrations yeah yeah they
they put it all in one um I think When we won they were they went nuts the night we were in when we were in New York they were going crazy in La so they 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 Dodger fans are so great I meanu 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 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 broad Street's just line man that would have been so cool to be buses being set on fire every they had to grease the poles I think there was a couple 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 I don't want to speak any of that into out there and have them go for it you know yeah I think both of you are uh parade Pros you know big parade guys big parade the Kelsey love the parades we do we do I'll tell you did you have any did you have any beers thrown at you uh yeah we Actually had one hit one of our wives see dude that's
what I'm saying actually get a little dang we got to not throw full beers yeah all right we can't it's like a [ __ ] it's a it's a grenade we can't do that yeah one of our wives got hit yeah got stitches and yeah it's cuz you don't you can't see them all are you kidding me dude I I never see a flying beer coming it's ridiculous at all and then they throw the little like um little sh 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 and yeah yeah but it it's dangerous but yeah I think she 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 are like the mecca of sports right all the the Dodgers the Lakers the Yankees the Knicks it'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 after you hit the [ __ ] World Series home run dude how [ __ ] 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 it's special when I first came over Here in 22 the the Freddy chance from the first time I got there like it's hard to even really
put into words so cool man it it it really is cool and uh the last these three years I've been here just like you when you okay so when with the Braves when we came in to play the Dodgers it was like the energy level of the of the stadium it's just like you you raise your your senses and you're you want to play that much better when you walk into into Dodger Stadium their Speakers feel like the speakers are like inside like they're like the base it's yeah 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 Shi you spend like we spent this past offseason 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 because I think everyone's waiting like oh there's their flaw there's their fly 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 our driver goes you you made me cry three times this year you know and like 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 what's 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 um after all this time and to bring a championship to where 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 we'll see or you just got to hit a grand slam in whe Ser Nick F Nick
Nick FES has a St yeah just walk off Grand Slams every year I rather not do that I'd rather just win 10 nothing every time you know there you go there you go dude what was it like was it the circus that everyone felt like it was going to be bringing Sho Otani to La how crazy was it 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 to spring training Shi was already there and I'm
pulling in and you know I've already spent two years with Dodgers and uh when I pulled in there's probably a 100 cameras just filming every car that driv in you know and CU they don't know which one's Shi or Yoshi noou you know Yamamoto so it's mostly All the Japanese reporters and sure I've never seen so many cameras throughout the course of the year um than I did this year it was Mayhem everywhere we went and so Shi started leading off at the end of the year and we have mooki hitting second me hitting third
and it is it this Mook and I started laughing so it's like say it's the top of the top in the ninth Shi 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 ah sh's done so stop it deck and we're like gez they don't care about no way that was quick way man okay and that's what it's a like Shi is such a like Global Superstar right and everywhere he went every city it's want to see him rightfully so I
mean he went 50/50 this year he's going to win first MVP as DH it's it's it's he's just incredible and what people forget is that he rehabed 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 and 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 mindblowing it really is that's what we do in like little league and he's doing it you know big leagues you
know like yeah it's it's Mayhem everywhere we go because of show that's awesome it's Got to be fun as hell man and uh probably a little bit sweeter when you when you can you know find a way to come together and I know he uh he had the shoulder there at the end of of the World Series so finding a way to win it for him knowing all those cameras around him and and Yoshi man that [ __ ] had to be cool man 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 the Home Run he hit off of ceas and the Nlds like there's so many moments and that we would never be where we were without Yoshi and Shi and you know for Shi 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
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code new heights for 10% off terms apply once again uh code new heights for 10% off Freddy um we end every interview with a segment called we got to ask you don't have to Answer though so you can tell us the [ __ ] off if you don't want to answer it it won't be anything too crazy um and it's exactly what it sounds like we're going to ask you a rapid fire questions and you decide whether you want to answer them or not so Jason Jason jump it off yeah if uh if you didn't
play baseball yeah what sport would you have played oo probably wouldn't have played a sport wouldn't have even done it did you play any other I wanted to be I Wanted to be a CPA time out nobody wants to be a CPA what are you talking about my my want to do taxes yeah my dad uh owns his own CPA firm with my uncle his brother Freeman CPAs and Shout Out shout out to freaking free I've made my dad retire though so he's not I wanted to be a CPA I know it sounds crazy but
I I was going to be doing your taxes you guys do you do your own taxes now uh no I don't I gave up on that dream a long time ago guys yeah that that ship sailed 20 years ago nice that's so [ __ ] funny that I'm not gonna lie was not expecting that you weren't expecting not one second 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 uh defected yeah right so I mean if anybody knows my story both my parents uh are Canadian they're born and raised in Canada I lost my mom when I was 10 years old to melanoma skin cancer and um she never became a US citizen um she was Canadian through and through so I do I represent Team Canada on the national stage uh to honor my mother that's beautiful man I don't know if that's what she wants would want me to do but that's what I feel like I should be doing um so unfortunately I
don't think I'm going to be coming back to the United States and that it's just I do it for my 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 of I've ever heard E Yeah Yeah CPA and defec to Canada what else we got yeah um in April 2021 you were uh struck out by Cub's first baseman big Riz man Anthony Rizzo oh jeez yeah yeah should the Yankees have maybe just thrown him in there at the game When
the were loaded the World Series 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 against you what you know what what's worse about that I was four for four with in that game with a home run and I struck out against Anthony rizel and I was like you ruined my whole night you know like throwing meatballs man 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's a friend of mine so I'm just laughing at the mountain he starts flipping up 50 m hour curveball I'm just like what are we doing Str out and I'm like this is embarrassing you know reminds me of what was that uh uh oh my gosh this not Rookie of the Year what's the one where like his arm has to get 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 glov he throws soft and she's nodding in the
stands and he just lobs it do it yes dude you know what to do classic all right sh Otani signed the largest contract in professional sports history at 10 years $700 million damn yeah does he ever make you pick up up the check um we actually split the last one So oh there good teamate so we we did a team dinner in New York and yeah Shi and I split and with Kershaw so a lot of that's deferred so he's not really getting paid you know that is I didn't so they still do deferred contracts
in baseball and that help he 68 million of his 70 million of years deferred and it's like through like 2050 or something like that right it's like ridiculous and Sh are going to be like 50 years old check You but I heard he makes a ton off the field so I think he's doing do you have any juice for us what's something uh people would be surprised to hear about Otani because it's still very much a mystery because he's uh he's still like kind of learning the the only thing I can say is when he
gets on the plane he literally just reads uh Comics the whole flight oh really yeah are they are are any like is he like Charlie Brown in it or like what Kind of comics anime comics and that's what he reads all flight it's there you go and Jason was a big anim want to be a CPA you know so he wants to read Comics you know yeah I down with some Dragon Ball Z there you go yeah exactly Goku baby can you tell us the story of Chipper Jones saving you on an ATV yeah okay
so this is 2014 um we are doing doing like kind of a Braves Caravan so you go like kind of before the season starts and in Atlanta You can get snow every couple years um in the in the winter time of course it decides to snow that one day and uh 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 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 snow Mageddon 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 on my phone so I texted my wife a picture of where I was and I was like I'm just going to sleep here uh 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 a [ __ ] doing anything go 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's cominging on an ATV like into the parking lot like skiding through you know save the day and I was like no way this is just unbelievable he brings me a jacket and he ATS me home ATVs me back to his house and has a fire on and I'm like I was not wearing clothes suited for snow and I am just shivering and dude yeah thankfully got me I would have been sleeping in a car you know all night but so they made bobbleheads and did
all that kind of sorts for for that P you pulled up on The ATV like uh like Lloyd Christmas on dumber dumber just I was literally like shaking yeah it's a good story now but at the time I was not dude I'm not going to lie though that had to be pretty epic you see the ATV coming right at you like what the [ __ ] is this slid it into it wasn't just like came up and just dramatic he was having so much fun with it you know 18 mil to the gall his H
traded it to a kid a few miles back oh man that's [ __ ] gold all right you were voted friendliest infil to chat with on Bas by your fellow major league baseball players did that surprise you what is is what happens at first base you have this be an award yeah I I didn't know that was an award until I got told that I was voted that I mean I I'm friendly I I like to talk to everybody um if you get a hit and get the first base I always tell you nice Job
nice hit uh this game's hard yeah life is hard so I'm gonna I'll I'll pick you up and a lot of them since I've been playing so long uh 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 um usually around August people start talking about fantasy football at first base like who you GNA take and Stuff like that it's just I just I just
talk to everybody because sometimes when you do talk to someone you can pick someone off and thought um I'm not trying to do that I'm actually Mo if I've ever I'm just generally like talking to you but if we do pick you off I'm sorry but um no I just I I just talk 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's different you know it really you got pick those battles too in football you don't want to
get anybody too fired up too red up like a guy like Max CR you you only want to talk so much [ __ ] to Max Max is GNA turn into absolute [ __ ] Havoc 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 Lindor when you get the second it's always great and then like Aussie ALB Brave second baseman's wonderful Rizzo obviously at first Joey vad was another very talkative guy at first so there's a lot of guy a lot
of guys in baseball are just friendly and kind of just talk but being a first baseman you encounter everyone so yeah there's a lot of good guys in sports but I go with Lindor at second base he's probably the next friendliest have you ever pulled off a hit and ball trick no gosh do you think do you think it's like I don't want to Go that that's kind of yeah that's kind I think it's kind leag I would I wouldn't do it no I would have beat you fair and square coach is like we're doing
it this week we can pull it off I'll just tag you and throw it back more because if you don't pull it off you look like an idiot just trying to tag someone on the base or waiting is just come on just throw the ball back to the pitcher so good what's your what's your least favorite pitch I think the hardest 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 thing in sports I just don't like Cutters so stuff move from right-hander moving in even though I did hit a couple of them in the World Series but all right yeah but just a few that's a good Way to answer it just the pictures that you're really nailing I don't want to tell people I really hate when they throw that fast ball right down the middle of the it's the worst like I I don't I don't want to see like 90% Cutters next year
you know but the best pitch is at well-located fast ball because if you pitch off your fast ball 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 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 awesome well speaking of well-located fast balls and pitching uh Jason thinks they should move the mound back in baseball he says I
thought it might be it might increase offense a little bit more you know just a bit just like maybe one foot go back to commissioner Freeman do you uh would You would you ever consider moving the M back in baseball I do not agree more because I think it would cause more injuries to Pitchers oh oh really guys would probably want try and throw harder uh because they're even a 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 is doing that so it's crazy if you move it back even a foot I feel like you're Going to try and throw it 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 no night games on getaway days oh nice nice yeah yeah got CC said the same thing yeah CC said the exact same thing there's like there's we we're getting in at 400 a.m. am 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 get it 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 I I do get that but it's hard on us but yeah they want to cap
on yeah well you're fair you're a fair guy We've asked a bunch of guests this following question uh 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 m running some routes before I've seen M running some RS he can do he's he's pretty athletic in a lot of different sport could do it but mooki is also 155 pounds so yeah if he got hit I don't know how Mook is going to get back up you Know I would say mookie bowling
he already does it he's already a professional bowler um I think there's guys that could do it it's two sports is so hard like at the highest level I mean yeah you guys like there's no way we could go in there and run a route and catch a ball with someone coming and gonna take our heads off I am gonna be running straight to the sidelines please you know like there it's just what you 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 think that's smart with just crazy crazy talk maybe go I'm sure there's golfers like pitchers and golfers dude there's that's the 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 it's and the ball's not moving and you think you should just hit it perfectly Every time and it just slices 300 yards the other way like okay I can hit the one moving but I can't hit the one I have no one
to blame but myself right oh big wind gust wind gust came knocked yeah exactly maybe yeah all right we got one last question here brother 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 chosen so Far um Okay so Charlie picks my walkup songs every year uh 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
walkout songs and he goes well Daddy I'm old enough now and I said okay so nice it's he loves Bad Bunny uh loves so he he's grows he's grown up in you know clubhouses and Spanish music all over the place and he has I we Actually took him to a Bad Bunny concert in spring training this past year um yeah I've had bad bunny as my walkup songs um for four years and the first year in Dodgers he picked a different one he picked Bila comigo which means dance with me and that's kind of the
song we've kept but then the ne he has another one he picks Bad Bunny every single year so does he does he speak Spanish uh no does he understand the songs if he knew what if he knew what Bad Bunny was saying I don't I I I wouldn't allow him to listen to the to the music anymore um there was one song he picked and I was like I told Chelsea I was like we can't play this I can't walk to this I can't walk because everyone like Dodger fans speak Spanish so I'm like I
can't 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 way to do your homework though way do your homework lyrics said Charlie We can't pick that one you got to yeah sorry to pick another one sorry but actually you're going to 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
he picks uh 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 and Bad Bunny is 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 that does it man yeah that was fun guys you guys are aesome congratulations World Series MVP couldn't be happier for you man Family Guy go ahead and enjoy this offseason
I appreciate and all the doors that open up when you hey you know I'm working for It baby you know it man I'm gonna start listening to some Bad Bunny right [Laughter] now all right guys appreciate you guys all righty and that wraps up this episode of new heights that's right thank you of course to Our Guest Freddy Freeman Freddy free make sure you're subscribed on YouTube to the new heights Channel and follow New Heights on the Wonder app or wherever you get your podcast we'll be back with a new episode On Wednesday of course
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