Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts Jokes About Blacking Out While Dancing With Ice Cube

Winning a championship will make you lose all inhibitions.

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts became the latest example when he—in his own words—started dancing on Ice Cube during his performance of “It Was a Good Day” during the team’s World Series championship celebration last week.

“I think I blacked out,” Roberts told Dodgers star Mookie Betts at the 2:20 mark on his podcast On Base With Mookie Betts.

“That was my ass dropping right there,” Roberts commented while they watched the clip together, to which Betts responded, “You ain’t get that low, though, Doc.”

“‘Cause I got a bad knee, I still know my limits,” Roberts joked.

“I would love to go on tour with Ice Cube,” Roberts continued. “This was like, it took me back to 1988 when I had a Nissan Sentra, a red Sentra, and I had my two tens in a wood box. Because that was what you did back in the day.”

Roberts recalled listening to NWA and Ice Cube all day long on the woofers in his trunk, causing his beaten up license plate to rattle along to the music.

Prior to the parade, Roberts said he told everyone from the players to the coaches to the front office that “we’ve got to enjoy this to the fullest because it’s been since 1988 that this city has had a parade.”

The Dodgers won the World Series in 2020, but did not hold a parade due to the pandemic.

Roberts revisited the feeling he had seeing Cube perform, confessing that his fandom dates back to the time of cassette tapes. “I had cassette tapes, listening to that dude,” he reminisced at the 54:50 mark. “And so, he’s on stage and I’m like, ‘This is my last chance, man, I’m gonna go do it.”

Roberts explained he had to keep his game face when Cube performed prior to Game 2 of the World Series.

In other baseball news, LA Dodgers star Kiké Hernandez recently joked that Fat Joe’s performance during the World Series helped seal the fate of the New York Yankees. “Then we go to New York, and this guy, he used to be fat and he isn’t fat anymore. His name is Joe. He came out and sang, and we didn’t need to play anymore because after that performance we had already won,” said Hernandez a the Dodgers Championship Parade.