Chapter 1: What insights does Brandon Gomes share about the Dodgers' success?
Yeah, there should be some passion. This doesn't have to be boring.
You don't get bored by baseball. Okay, one thing the game needs is more people like you. You. You. You. You. You.
You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You.
You. You. You. There's no human being on the planet I'd rather be talking to more than Brandon Gomes. That's a fact. That's a fact. It feels like a stretch, but okay. No, it's a fact. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Always enjoy our conversations. By the way, I congratulated you on the field at Rogers Center, but there was a lot going on.
So let me just take this moment to also congratulate you. Now that things are in a more civilized setting, that I was still like... I was still reeling from shaking Tony Robbins hand. So he's a big dude. Well, I mean, he's great.
Yeah.
Yeah. You have to, you have to like, I said this to people, people who know you shallow, how the whole movie shallow, how all I can think of, like, as I'm talking to, it is great to talk to you.
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Chapter 2: How did Brandon Gomes feel after winning the World Series?
See, you see him on the field after the, the world series right away, which is always cool. But all I can think about is when I go to shake this hand, all I can think of is that seed and shallow howl. It was like, your mitts are huge. Oh, that is awesome. Yeah. So anyway, congratulations is what I'm trying to say.
Speaking of parades, I was trying to remember, Brandon, I think you had a good parade story, didn't you? Like championship parade story as a kid or something?
Well, when the Cats won, When they beat the Rams, our English teacher let us skip to go up to the Super Bowl parade. That's right. A couple of my friends went up and were there for that, which was awesome.
That's right. Obviously, I don't know if people know this, but they should, that you have now been on the other side of the parade. You've been actually in the parade. That first time that you were able to be in a parade... Did little Brandon Gomes, or not little, I mean, you were little. Right. I was a high schooler, but in comparison. It wasn't that long ago, by the way.
But did you think, did you give yourself that minute to say, man, I was that kid?
Yeah, definitely some pinch me moments along the way. Obviously, you've had been incredibly fortunate the last few years, being able to you know, go back to back and accomplish what we have as an organization.
So there's a, in the moment there's a, when you're going through, you know, you're so mired in it that you don't get that chance, but like on the parade last year, this year, being with my kids and my wife, there's definitely like, Oh my God, like this is, this is pretty cool. And like some real appreciation of how special it is.
Well, the obvious question are, will you go to the next Patriots parade? No, I will not make this right back if they win in a couple weeks. Yeah, that seems like you have other stuff going on. Yeah, so I am interested. You talk about your success, and we talk a lot. Every team that wins a World Series is trying to bottle, how do you win another World Series? Obviously, you guys did it.
It's a cliche question, Brandon, so I apologize. But what did you learn about that? Because, again, I've seen every team does this. We think we've studied it, and we've looked at it, and we think if we do this, this, and this. But now that you have done it, what was your takeaway? What did you actually learn about actually being able to repeat?
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Chapter 3: What memorable stories does Brandon have from championship parades?
Like you just want to do well for each other. Right. Yeah. Right. Great quote. And so I think about you guys because everyone talks about all the big bad Dodgers. They have all this money and everything else. But here's the thing. You have to have a group. And I'm not only talking about the players. I'm talking about the front office.
That you have this atmosphere, this environment where you want to do well for each other. And I guess it's easier said than done. But how much... How much has that meant to your success, I guess?
Yeah, I think it's obviously way more enjoyable when you're doing it around people that you love to be around and have the same goals. I think what's so great about the people that we get to work with is we all are perfectly aligned on we want to win as many World Series as possible. we have players in the clubhouse are superstars have zero ego and all they care about is winning.
So then that mentality up and down, um, the organization and knowing that we're all, and we all want the same things, but that doesn't mean we're going to agree on everything.
Um, which is good, which is super healthy.
Yeah. We're going to have our, our, you know, healthy arguments or disagreements and talk about the different angles. but you can do that when you're like, okay, we're all, we're all in this to just win a world series, right? Great. Then we'd be, we can share anything we want.
Um, so I think it's, that's what's most fun about like getting up and going to work every day in the off season, knowing what we're building towards. Um, and knowing that, you know, when we're signing somebody or looking to trade somebody, you can have those conversations with, um,
you know, Freddie Mookie show, like all of those guys that have been here for a while, a little months, like those are conversations that can be had like, Oh, okay. Yeah, I get it. Or like they have an opinion or, you know, we are mindful of like how it all works together. But then you have these guys who really just care about winning and it makes our jobs a lot easier for sure.
And it's easier said than done to, to, get that environment, to get that collection of players. But I think that there's a credit to you guys. And, you know, it's a lazy narrative about the Dodgers, about, as I said, the money and everything else. And I think the smart people in baseball will look at it in a lot of different ways.
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Chapter 4: What strategies does Gomes believe contribute to repeating success in baseball?
You talk to him and hear his brain. Our group will even potentially bring this to another level. A lot of it is betting on our environment of guys who are this good. Is there a little more juice to be squeezed? Our coaches are fantastic at having these, you know, superstar type players, but it's still challenging them to focus on the little things like,
you know, there's, there's value in the margins there. So I think a lot of that, when you, when you have the right person who's ready to work and wants to win, you can, you know, even the best players, there's a little more in there that you can get out of it.
Yeah. I love that. I mean, I love that again, the evolution of getting to know, because everyone thinks they know everyone does their best to know. And then you like, Oh wait, I didn't realize that. I didn't realize that. And you talk about speaking to not realizing we don't, we always say at the GM meetings or whatever, Hey GM, what do you think that the off season is going to look like? Right.
Yeah. I mean, and you get these answers. Oh, I think it's going to be like, we just don't know. And this Brandon, I feel like this off season was even more different than last off season. I think it's, I think it's dragged out more. I mean, you tell me if I'm wrong. Because you're in the middle of it.
You're in the middle of conversations about how agents are approaching, how players are approaching, how other teams are approaching trades, all of that.
But one of the quotes that you had when you were on with us before, and I love it, and I've cited it a million times about, you know, we do our best to make sure that we don't have to get desperate and pay three times, three X at the trade deadline. We're doing our best to do that. It's hard to do, but we're doing our best to do that.
So you go in the offseason with all the plans, and then you hit, wait a second, this offseason looks a little bit different. How has this, that's my very long-winded way of asking you, how has this offseason looked differently? How has it felt differently?
Yeah, I think for us personally, which is really what we care about and focus on, going into the offseason, it was, hey, we run this team back We think this is a championship caliber team. There's going to be a couple of needle movers available. Not sure how much we're going to be able to access them, whether that's via trade or free agency, but we feel really good.
We had a lot of great performances out of a team that won the World Series. We also had guys that performed below their career average. If those guys just have a normal bounce back year, you're like, oh my God, this lineup is...
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Chapter 5: How does the Dodgers' front office ensure a winning culture?
I think there's an underappreciation of how hard it is to make the jump. Never mind baseball. Baseball aside, just life. There's a lot that gets thrown at you as guys are moving over. We saw it with Yama and the big difference from year one to year two, just from a comfort level. He was as accomplished of a pitcher as he possibly can be.
Um, so I think it's have the same expectations for Rokey from, from year one to year two, just being able to really just focus on baseball now and having a fully, uh, healthy, strong offseason to come in. He's somebody we couldn't be more pumped about.
Any new WBC commitments, decommits, anything? Any WBC news from your roster? No, just curse, right? Okay. I guess. I lose track.
Yeah. No, I think we've got who we've got right now.
That's good. That's, I mean... It's, uh, yeah. Well, I, I have the, uh, what's in, in fall river, big Portuguese like community, right? Right. Yeah. Is it Brazil? So this is what we're doing. Brandon, I'm making baseballs and boring shirts and different languages. We did the Japanese one, right? Obviously. But I want to do one in Portuguese for Brazil. Okay.
I might have to text you to see if I get it. You're asking the wrong guy. You must have friends.
Yeah, my friend, I think we all grew up, we only know how to say the best words.
Well, speaking of t-shirts, the last thing is we, like you said, we're doing a best shape of our life club. We ask people just to pick one thing by opening day. They want to be, they want to excel at, they want to be among the best shape of their life, Joe. is benching 225 pounds once. Amir Garrett's doing a windmill dunk. He took mine.
You know, people losing weight, people lifting, running, whatever it is. So what do you want? I just did one with Kyson Weatherspoon, a Red Sox prospect, who wants to break 85 and golf. And the payoff, of course, is the I'm in the best shape of my life club t-shirt. Oh, man. Honestly, of all GMs, you're the one who I say you might be there. You might be there. It can be anything.
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