Kiké Hernandez's live TV f-bomb almost played role in derailing Dodgers' playoff run

Kiké Hernández's antics after the Dodgers took to the NLDS from the Padres were met with mixed reviews. In a postgame interview aired on FOX with Ken Rosenthal, which was broadcast live to almost 13 million people, Rosenthal asked Hernández what made these Dodgers different. Hernández made sure to clarify that they were live before saying, with a shrug and a smug smile, "The fact that we don't give a f—"

Rosenthal quickly sent Hernández away and the broadcast tried to shrug it off, but it quickly went viral, which was probably Hernández's intention.

During the Dodgers' NLCS celebrations, David Vassegh posed a similar question to him in the locker room, but made sure to clarify that they were once again live. Hernández, who already looked more than a little inebriated, said, "What I want to say about this team, I can't because I'll get in trouble."

It was pretty clear that he'd gotten a stern talking to from whatever poor soul runs the Dodgers PR team, but in a new interview with The Shop, he revealed that the repercussions were almost a lot worse. He said, "I did get fined for that. I was gonna get an even heftier fine, and I was gonna get a game suspension, but having a good agent and having a good player union came in handy."

Kiké Hernández revealed he almost got suspended for dropping an f-bomb after Dodgers' NLDS victory

Game 1 of the NLCS against the Mets was a rout — just the first of many during that series, as it turned out — and Hernández collected two hits and scored two of LA's nine runs. Given the final score, the Dodgers probably wouldn't have taken too much of a blow without him in the lineup, but his presence certainly didn't hurt anything.

Hernández also said that, while he did have to apologize, he was "50-50 on the honesty part of it." He defended his decision to say what he did and explained he thought there might be a delay in the broadcast. Thanks to his Wasserman agent and the players' union, he avoided suspension and the fine he was slapped with was lowered.

He said, "I think it made the postseason run a little more epic for the fans, because they bought into that mentality and they had fun with it too." Well, he's sort of right. It definitely did provide a little more color to postseason proceedings.