Our first guest is one of the best pitchers in Major League
history.
Last week, he led the Los Angeles Dodgers
to their first World Series championship since 1988.
Please welcome, Clayton Kershaw.
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Wooh!
Clayton.
Hey, guys.
Thanks for having me, Ellen.
This is awesome.
Thanks for being had.
Thanks so much.
It's good to see you again.
You were here once before.
Congratulate-- has it sunk in yet?
What's it feeling like today?
No.
I've been telling people everywhere just
to keep saying, World Series champs, just to see if it
sinks in a little bit more.
But man, it's just a great feeling.
I love hearing it.
It's so awesome.
I mean, it's always fun to win.
But, you know, especially you've lost before.
You must have imagined what that would feel like to win.
Is it the same?
Is it better?
How's it feel in comparison to what you imagined?
Yeah.
I think it's everything and more.
I don't really know what I expected.
But just to be able to say you're the last team standing
and you finally won.
Like you said, we haven't won in 32 years.
And so it's great to be able to bring home
a championship to the city of L.A. after 32 years.
To get to be a part of that team, man,
I'm just so happy, just so content.
And to get to celebrate with the guys, I mean,
it's just the best.
It's awesome.
Well, listen.
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We need it.
2020 needed this.
So thank you very much for making something good
happen in 2020.
Oh, man.
This is the best.
And even the Lakers won too.
I was saying, whenever it's safe to do so, a Laker-Dodger parade
in L.A. That would be awesome.
We should that together as one [INAUDIBLE]
That would be great.
Yeah.
Yes.
And Rams.
Hopefully, the Rams win.
So we have a whole--
Yeah.
And your friends, your family were there.
I know how important your family is to you.
That must have been incredible to have them there.
Yeah.
You know, if you would've told me in April,
May that we were going to get to go to the World Series
and actually have fans in the stands.
And my friends and family could actually
watch the game in the stands, I wouldn't have believed you.
So to be able to do all that in front of them and--
because they sacrificed so much.
My wife is in the bubble with me for a month
straight with three kiddos.
So she deserves a ton of credit for that too.
And she was just so happy, and maybe to get out of the bubble
too.
But also to win The World Series is awesome.
Yeah.
I bet that was nice for her too.
Yeah.
I think a lot of people can relate that you've
been doing these Zoom calls.
And your kids are interrupting.
And I think that's just part of being
at home and on a Zoom call.
But that's happening a lot.
Look, there's a little pop up there.
Yeah.
There's Cali Yeah.
Yeah.
Charley's back there too.
They missed the field so much.
And so I thought, hey, I'll try to do one interview.
And see if they can hold it together, and they didn't.
But it was fun though nonetheless.
And they had a great time.
And that hopefully, it distracted people
from my answers.
So I just looked at them as very--
Well, it's going to be fun to keep that and let
them see that.
Like, when you were doing this press conference
for winning the World Series, and then
they get to see themselves doing that.
I think that's adorable.
So there's been a lot of talk about your teammate
who tested positive for COVID during the game.
What was your reaction to that?
I was in the bullpen so I didn't know
what was going on until after the game, obviously.
But I think the main thing is we all just feel bad for JT.
You know, he's been such a mainstay with the Dodgers
now for six, seven years.
And he's worked so hard.
He's been such a key member of our team
to win The World Series.
So terrible for him.
But hopefully, he can take solace like the rest of us
in the fact that we won a World Series.
And that hopefully, someday we'll
get to all celebrate together soon.
Yeah you were autotuning during some of that on that answer.
It was really cool.
So you've been with the Dodgers your entire career.
Do you see yourself being a Dodger forever?
I hope so.
I don't know what it holds, but I'll be there next year for
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We hope so too.
Thank you so much for being with us today.
And congratulations again.
Thanks for having, me on.
Thanks guys.
All right.
Bye.
We'll be right back.