Pablo Torre Finds Out - The Show, the Voice and Grandpa: A PTFO Surprise

Episode Date: May 22, 2025

He became the internet's favorite sports grandfather for playing at least 162 games a year as the Yankees on MLB The Show, for two decades — and keeping score, by hand. What 86-year-old Kim Soriano didn't know, when he sat down to play with Pablo in our studio, is that Jon "Boog" Sciambi — the video game's announcer and the best voice in baseball — was doing the play-by-play, live. And what happened next will make you fall in love with the game all over again... into the great beyond.• Previously on PTFO: The Best Voice in Sports Goes Deephttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMdaTnTrXco Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre. Today's episode is brought to you by Draft Kings. Draft Kings, the crown is yours. And today we're going to find out what this sound is. Bellinger, trying to throw it in. Let go of the baseball, Pablo. Right after this ad.

You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Booghambi, thank you for being here, sitting in that chair, by the way. Love being in this chair. It's really good to have you back. I've been trying ever since we. had you on the show last i've been trying to speak from the bottom of my yeah of my from your diaphragm was remembering which part of the fram the the fram the the fram this sound quality in here is so good and calm it's yeah it's really it's really wonderful i mean literally if you just if you wanted

to leave for like three minutes i would just sit here and just say stuff to myself and like this is what i do for a living what would you say to yourself if i wasn't here what would you say to yourself if i wasn't here What are the vocal exercises that you would run, or the vocal masturbation that you would do more than exercising, clearly? I have red sneakers on. I love my red sneakers. I look slimmer in black. My hair looks good. I like me.

Those not watching on YouTube, Boogh is just gazing at his own reflection. That's right. Look, we, though, as a show, had you do, some, I would say, credibility imperiling things the last time you were on. I had totally forgotten. So early in the year, the Cubs play the Dodgers, and I run into Joe Posnansky and Mike Schor. And at some point, it comes up what we had done. And I had just disconnected and forgotten.

I said, you know, Velociraptor on his horse, the kick and the pitch. Swang in a ball driven, right field, towards the corner, slicing fairball. That's going to get into the corner, and Velociraptor is on his horse. On his way to third, Velociraptor, they're going to send him. Soto trying to dig it out. Velociraptor on his way to the plate, and save ballgame. Cubs win. Pablo Torre the hero as a knocks in Velociraptor and the Cubs walk it off.

And Mike Scher's like, I wrote that. We did assemble a writer's room. And then I got credit for it. But it was really the guy wrote, you know, the office and parks and rec and whatever. So ridiculous. And wonderful. And a credit truly to the credibility of, as I always say, the best voice in baseball, the best voice in announcing the guy with a Stradivarius in a diaphragm. And the thing that I didn't talk to you enough about last time that I was confronted by on the internet.

was the work you do in video games. The video game boog is known to a whole universe that I think I've aged out of because I'm not, because of Violet being her age and me being too busy to have fun anymore. I'm less fluent in the world

that you are also the voice of. MLB, the show. How do you feel that? How does that sort of like make itself known to you? I will say it's the one space. Yeah, when a nine or ten-year-old kid is excited to meet me, or I say, hey, do you play MLB to show? And they say, yeah, and I say, I'm that guy.

Play-by-play announced at John Boog, Shambi, and color analyst, Chris Singleton. Swing in a deep drive and forget it. Singing, he's been red hot. Man, he is really seeing the ball well in this one. And watch their eyes get big. Yeah, I can't lie, dig that. It's exciting that in some way I might be impacting some kids' love for baseball through this silly game. People play this thing a lot.

Yes. And so the idea that, A, someone in baseball is doing the thing that baseball has always been anxious about, which is reaching out and converting, converting, baptizing young people. A little bit, sure, yeah. You get to feel that, and you're the voice of that. But then there's a video that I saw recently. This is the reason why I brought you in the studio today.

I know. Because the video is not this, actually. It is arguably the opposite. He's got MLB to show in his house. He's sitting on his couch, older gentlemen, and he keeps score. So he's clearly playing and he keeps score of the game that he's playing,

which is wild. And of course, the dork in me that loves keeping score, likes keeping a really clean score card. Yes. It's like, what's going on over there? What's he keeping score? I didn't know that was possible.

Right. Or a thing anybody wanted to do. Yep. But of course, when you are apparently, in 86-year-old's gentleman, whose grandson has decided to actually share with the world the thing that he's been seeing his grandfather doing, apparently, for 20 years.

It's Aaron Judge now. Amazing. Because it's 2025 now. And that's true. You can play a video game at age 86 for 20 years or so years and play and score it as if it's a real game. That this is the thing that the Internet agreed, like, we must celebrate.

People need to know. know that this guy is out here, merging the two worlds, virtual and real in a way that my mind was blown upon learning of this man and his passion. The outside of the binder says MLB the show. I mean, this is, you know, it's not like we- Analog and digital have rarely been so interwoven. Holy cow. And so I have an idea and I just need you to be willing to imperil your.

credibility again. Sure. Because this this 86 year old man and say grandson may or may not be on their way here and you may or may not need to be the voice of the very thing that I have been talking about. Really? You're going to need to to do something that I have full confidence your ability to do. Okay. Which is, um, A, be yourself. And, and B. And, and, B. You're going to, Be your monkey. That's what you're really saying. I'm getting you'd you to dance. I mean, it's

dancing, but it's also like, and you're going to put your hand up the back of my shirt and then just like turn me into your sort of Muppet. I'm going to be all up in there, man. Well, whoa. Hello. Hello, how are you? Oh, the pleasure's all mine.

Call me Kim. Kim. Kim. Kim. Kim. Kim. Kim. Kim. That's not my real name, but. Wait, him, what do you mean?

It's not your real name? My real name is Joey Kim, my legal name. But my mother had a sense of humor. She cut it off and made Kim. That's it. But my last name was Soriano. So I was going to say, any relation to Alfonso? No.

Same name, not the same money. That's a difference. Well played. So this is New Jersey's, own Kim Soriano, the 86-year-old from the viral video, which has been shared now and viewed well over a million times across TikTok and Instagram and all these other platforms. And what Kim proved to be as soon as I met him is a real character. Because, yeah, I just met him right then when I walked into our studio in that scene you just heard. He was sitting at my desk.

My mic wasn't even on yet. But what caught my attention even more immediately was, was the binder that Kim brought with him. Because what Kim's grandson Matt had told us is that his grandpa has not only been playing MLB the show as the Yankees, his favorite team, but also he's been scoring the 162 games he has been playing on the video game every season, over two decades now. Meaning that Kim is logging the unfolding details of a virtual video game by hand as if he himself is also sitting in the stands or at home watching a real game,

which sounds crazy, obviously. The internet's favorite sports grandpa is basically merging a beloved analog ritual, which Bukshambi, by the way, also does for every real-life game that he calls in the booth. With the video game world. And Kim's Binder, which is now sitting here atop our desk, is the unambiguously earnest proof.

which does make me feel a little guilty about what I'm about to do. So the book you have brought with you in studio today, can you describe it for people who may just be listening to us? What does it look like? What does it say on the front cover? Well, I just put this on, okay, the show. I just, because that's what I play, the show, okay? Now, what I do is that I play every single Yankee.

Yeah, this blue bind is opened up. Yeah. I keep score. Yes. Of the lineup and I keep score. And this is the, this right here is the blank page. And what I do is I go to a copy company. Right.

And I get 182 copies. 182 copies there. And that's it. So your, when does this start when the game comes out? You get 182 copies ready for the new release of every game? Yeah, let's say the season open this. year, I think March 27th or something like that. I usually go beginning of March. And will you play one game per day matching the real life schedule? Yes. Oh my God. So you've

been living a parallel Yankees season as this season has done folded. I guess you can call it that. Yeah. Yeah. Does Giancarlo Stanton also have double tennis elbow in your universe in your timeline? No, I make it like tennis thumbs. Whatever. Yeah, I got blisters. I got, yeah, I'm blisters on my fingers as a wise man once. And I'll tell you this. In all the years, I have never been bored playing this game. And the fact, I look forward to the next day. And that's it.

It takes me about an hour and 15 minutes, hour and 20 minutes, to play the game. And in your case, because you like me, we're both Yankee fans, you're living a parallel Yankee season that I have to imagine is better than what we've been experiencing in real life so far. Yes. How are you guys doing in your timeline? We're both in first place. Amazing.

Sometimes it scares me because I'll play a game and they may come close to the game that I'm actually playing. Yeah. What they play. Right. So right now, if I can remember, right, I'm in first place about three games. They're in first place by two and a half. Right.

Right. So it's sometimes it's scary. So what you're saying is that sometimes, the video game in real life, they could match up, match up, even interact, maybe the streams cross every now and again. Yeah.

This has gotten a little spooky, Kim. You may have more power in your controller in these thumbs than I realized. The only thing I do, when I play the game, I hit only. I don't pitch. I put, I set everything up automatic,

automatic pitch. Oh, you automate pitching. Automate pitching, automate. Base running, throwing, and all I do is hit. Yeah. Why is that? Because I was never too good at the other. I'm getting a sense of how much you use this video game where you can do anything as truly like a simulation of something like your actual lived experience here on this version of planet Earth.

I've tried pitching and throwing, base running. I'm not good at that. It didn't go great. But hitting. would have covered first like Garrett Cole? Garrett, no, I don't think so. Yeah, can't get on him for that one. That still haunts me, by the way.

I was at Game 5 at the stadium. You were there? World Series. Yeah, I was there. Really? Yeah, I paid money off a stub hub to attend. Well, he's out for the year. Yeah, I know.

I'm not giving him a break, though. See, and I do that also. What do you do? If Garol's out, I'll injure him. You'll take a digital crowbar, take him out back. There's a nap on here that you can manually injure a player. That is sadistic, Kim. And I didn't realize that was possible.

Well, I got the, how you do it? Oh, what is that? Well, here. Oh, you're taking a slip of paper from your blue binder. You go to the user setting. You have instructions you've written down on a torn off scrap of paper. Go to gameplay, general, set to manual. Set to manual.

Yeah, you set injuries to manual so you can control it. Do you feel like a god when you do that? Do you feel like you're in control of everything when you do that? It just feels like an intoxicating power. No, I know. Actually, I think I feel is more realistic. I haven't played this game in probably 15 years. Okay. And you've been playing it every season 182-ish times a year.

82-ish, yeah. Because the Yankees are making the postseason. If I get to the playoffs? Yeah. You're smiling with the confidence of a Yankee fan in the playoffs. I have never got to. to the World Series except for last year.

This is an honest suffering you signed up for. Is it hurt to not make and win the World Series? You know, Bobo, at times, yeah. I feel like you live, you are carrying

and feeling the marathon that is the baseball season and in a way that no video game player is actually signing up for. No one else is doing this. Well, sometimes my wife says, well, when are you crazy? Because, like, I'll strike out and I'll go.

bang the table but all and all it's fun and I enjoy it and that's it I don't have I guess you can call it's a hobby I mean it feels like a lifestyle at this point I don't collect stamps I don't collect coins I'll go fishing hunting

should we start playing maybe so this is not a competitive game can this be a tour you take me Kim on a tour of your world Okay. All right, so while all of this is happening in our studio, I do need to reveal to you what 86-year-old Kim Soriano does not know as the two of us sit here wearing headphones,

which is that behind the reflective darkened glass of the PTFO studio, where my producers normally sit, is John Boog Chambi, the voice of Kim's favorite thing in the entire world and the man who is going to surprise him in real life when Boog walks into the studio to join us. But before any of that can happen, what I've asked Boog to do in his capacity

as a guy who calls games for the Chicago Cubs on television, as well as the World Series for ESPN Radio, in addition to the hundreds of hours of pre-recorded voice work he does for MLB the show, is to do something similar. But something I did not realize at all when we set up this whole prank, is that Kim Soriano, perhaps predictably, in retrospect,

has a lot of opinions about Boog's line of work. That's the thing I don't like about this game. The announcers are too repetitive. It's the same thing. So I put it on the lowest volume I could think without totally shutting it off. Yeah. And that's the problem with the show. It's repetitive

You're saying that when you play the game It all feels like that that damn voice Just keeps on saying the same Same shit over and over again Is the announcer though a good announcer in your view Oh he's a good announcer Okay But the tendency to the same thing over and over

Every single day That's just the Yeah I don't want to hear the stories anymore Because you've heard them all I heard them all Yeah Yankees, Cubs. And that starts it.

Yeah. But what we've already done here that the internet's favorite sports grandpa does not yet realize, but his grandson Matt does, is go into the game's manual settings. Not to injure any players, but to manually mute the show's announcing team

of Play-by-Playman, John Boog Chambi, and Color Guy, and former MLVee outfielder, Chris Singleton. all together, which would allow the real booge behind the glass to do play-by-play of our virtual Yankees Cubs game live into the headphones that Matt's grandpa and I are both wearing in studio, at least until Kim notices. Welcome to Wrigley Field, everybody. A beautiful day for baseball's second oldest park in the majors. It's the Yankees and the Cubs. As we get ready for baseball, baseball on a gorgeous afternoon, and we've got a good pitching matchup. A couple of lefties. It will be Max Fried and Shota Imanaga. I never plan on a screen this big.

Oh, yeah. Imanaga takes the mound. Take a look at the numbers for the left-hander. A season to go on All-Star Shota Imanaga and a 291 ERA. Anthony Volpe climbs in for the Yankees, and we're ready to go from the friendly confines. So now this should work if I try to hit it. Yeah, yes, I'm gonna throw you some heat. Spoiler alert. Imanaga ready to work. Volpey waits and here we go.

Oh boy. And the first pitch missing a little bit low for ball one. Fans wanted that call to strike. So one and nothing of the Yankee shortstop. The lefty from Japan, Imanaga fires and a swing and a miss. Anthony Volpe, you grew up a Yankees fan. Checks his swing. The pitch misses low. It's two and one.

There you go. I don't like what I'm doing here. And a pitch. Totally no. Oh, come on. And that misses three and one. Tight strike zone here in the early going. See, it's a good game.

And a pitch. Swing and a miss. Woo. Four seem fastball right there. And now the count is full. Nobody on, nobody out just getting started. here at Rigley. Three two pitch. Check swing, did he go? Yes, he did.

I'm not gonna lie to you, Kim. I don't really know what I'm doing, and I now understand why you only hit. Chisholm fouls won off, and that one hit foul. So an opportunity for the Yankees is Pablo needs to clean up the defense. See, right now he's hurt and I won't play him. I didn't even see that one. Come on, I was talking about.

Oh, you're mad that the roster's on this one have an updated. Chisholm is down on strikes. And now here's a matchup. It'll be Judge and Imanaga. Oh, boy. And this one dribble out to center field. Crow Armstrong, the early dive. Now he'll retrieve it and fire it in.

And a single from Aaron Judge, big number 99 on base. Two aboard and one out. I feel old these days, but not so old that a literal grandpa explaining how video games works to me isn't deeply confidence-shaking. Here's the former cub, Cody Bellinger. This is drilled right field. Tucker is there to make the catch. See how realistic it is? That's realistic, man. This whole thing.

By the way, the announcers? Yeah. They're on top of it. They're on top of it. They're on top of it. So repetitive and realistic. And now it's John Carlos Stanton. Tennis elbow or not, here he is.

I don't play him either. He's out. Yeah, because he has double tennis elbow, obviously. Huh? Because he has the double elbow tendonitis? Yes. Yeah. Two away, opportunity for the Yankees as Stanton fouls it away, and it's one and one.

On the ground, workmen will pick it up. Racist at the runner. I'll tell you, you're pretty good at this. Thank you. At the fielding. That's some good defense by the man in the blue sweater. End of a half-fitting. The Yankees, nothing.

The Cubs coming to bat. That's pretty good. It is pretty good. Now, what happens here now? So I believe that, okay, so in this case, you're pitching. So do you want to hit? Do you want to...

Yeah, why not? Okay, all right. Okay. I'll be the Cubs still. So we're switching controllers because Kim refuses as a permanent DH in video games. You are going to hit, and I'm going to now pitch. So I should be able to hit now, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ian Hap stands in facing Garrett Cole.

And a swing and a miss. Early reports had Max Fried on the mound, but instead it will be the right-hander Cole if you're scoring it home. All the strike on the leadoff man. Three-time gold glove winner, Ian Hap. Swings. See, what I like about this game, the stadiums are realistic. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

The play is realistic. One and two. Here comes. Swing and a miss, and it gets past the catcher wells. And safe at first is Ian Hap. How do you like that? The first inning, each team with a strikeout, and a reach in a wild pitch. Waka, Waka.

Honestly, like, the repetitiveness of the announcers, this guy's on top of it. Beautiful day here at the friendly confide, Suzuki Hammers won. Back in the air right center field. Bellinger can't get it. That'll bang up against the brick walls and hits off the ivy. Bellinger trying to throw it in. Let go of the baseball, Pablo. Wait a minute, I've got to question.

How is that done? They mentioned your name and the blue sweater. How is that? Who was broadcasting the game? Isn't this game? That doesn't happen for you? That doesn't happen for you? No.

Michael Bush at the plate now. This is totally different. Totally different. That's, I don't know. And Bush takes a strike. Wait, you're saying you've played this game this often, and that's not happened yet. Well,

here at Wrigley Field, John Chamby with you, Chris Singleton on assignment. And they chant, Let's Go Cubbies. You see, that's the same guy that announces it.

Jambi? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they never mentioned that the other guy is on assignment because that other guy, Chris Singleton, is always there. And he's the one

that comes up with the story. They're repetitive. So, in other words, Afterwards, Shambi, you're like, that guy's cool. It's Singleton where you're just like, come on. Golden opportunity for the Cubs. He's the color guy. And yeah, so.

And, uh, that's all right. That's a violation. It's a ball. See? Here comes. That's, that's just newfangled baseball. A lot's going on. And that was nasty.

Garrett Cole, the backwards strikeout. And Bush down on strikes. Here comes. Danesby Swanson. And that one in there for a strike, it is nothing at one. What a gorgeous afternoon here on the north side of Chicago. The Cubs looking to strike first. John Chambi without the always repetitive Chris Singleton here on MLB, the show as that one gets away.

Do you miss Chris Singleton? Do you miss Chris Singleton? What about John Chamby? Do you like John Chamby? The other not, the color guy? Yeah. Chris Singleton? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The same stuff over and over. Right, right. We're going to work on fixing that. Hi. How are you? Good. I'm John Shambi. Oh, Johnny.

Nice to meet you. Yes. Love you playing MLB to show. Nice reading. It's a pleasure. Yes. We got rid of Chris Singleton and his stories, and it's just me. It's just me.

Is it just you? Just me. He's not here. I mean, eventually he's going to come and talk to you. No, of course, it's not. He's going to be pretty pissed on. He's already pissed off by texting. It's pretty predativeness that drives you green. Well, I mean, you play the game a lot. You do play the game a lot. I mean, you're playing a lot of the games, you know? Like, we've been recording like 400 hours, like, but it's hard, you know? I play 160. I've been playing this game since 2006. It's amazing. So nice to meet you. Yes. Your video on TikTok, amazing. I love. that you keep score.

All right. We got to get booed to sit down with us. Yeah, this is yesterday, you know. I wanted to show you I have my, so I keep score on an iPad. Yeah. But it looks exactly like this. And I wanted to show you my scorecard

from the World Series, because I called the World Series on radio. This is the blind ones. Yeah, so there you go. I have them, too. I can show you mine. Yeah, yeah. I would like to see it.

Absolutely. Can you... Can you move your chair from the other side of the glass? When you walked in and you said, your chance. I like my blank.

How great is that, by the way, to play on that? Wouldn't you love to play all the time there? Yeah. It's pretty cool. It is. All right back. I'm going to get my score card and I'll show you and we'll get a chair in there.

So, surprise. Huh? I said, surprise. Yes. I looked and I said, no. To myself, like everything went blank. I, part of me, Kim, feels very bad for what we perpetrated on you.

No. The other part of me could not be happier. So while Boog has stepped out to grab his iPad and his own meticulously kept scorecards from the 2024 World Series when the Dodgers beat the Yankees in, you know, our actual timeline, which is parallel to the virtual timeline where Kim Soriano's virtual Yankees made the World Series, for the first time in their history, I do just need to jump in here to clarify that I am not quite sure

if our starstruck and pitching averse and 86-year-old grandpa totally understood what had just happened to him here in the Pablo Torre finds out studio. And who could blame it? What we've just done, um, you're now, you're now, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that we just...

The what? We played an entirely fake. Fake? So Boog was announcing that game. Yeah. From the other side of the garage. I don't care. I thought it was cool.

Oh, my God. I mean, just, just the, there are a couple of moments when he personally mentioned my name where I was like, Boog, you are flying way too close to the sun right now. He's going to find out. I said to myself, wait. You mentioned Pablo Damage, a guy in the blue sweater. I said, I never heard this. I was going to say, you would be the one person on earth to note that this does not typically happen in this video game. And you did notice that.

But you were very polite. You were very polite. But he does a great job announcing. He's going to come sit with us. He's got the best voice in baseball. Yes. I'm just going to say that. Yeah.

By far. By far. Yes. Boog is, um, is an old friend of mine. And so we're going to, we're going to bring him in. That's what my World Series score. You can just page it and with your hands, but that's... It's similar.

Yeah. And I use the same, single way you do the double. Yeah. Single, same as I do it. Yep. Except it's a groundball or short. I'll put G.S. Okay.

And then a dollar sign through it. Ah. Well, because we're gone at a second, it's S. Right. So I do 6-3, 4-3, that type of stuff. Is this a normal way what broadcaster's... So I would say... I would say close to half of us now.

I would say close to half of us now use that, but I would say half are still using paper. Oh, really? Yeah. So, like, this is just a scam. of your sheet. I'll tell you, that's, it's detailed. Yeah, so, and then, like,

so that's the Dodgers down there, and this is game one. And you can save all, all. Yeah, I have every game. I have all, so like. Jeez, maybe I should get something like. So, like, right, so this is game five of the World Series. Right.

So that's that. This is, game four so you so Kim was asking why are you here and I feel like that's a reasonable question given that you just appeared out of the LED screen in my studio but when you showed up you

I'm going to tell it my so I am here because Pablo and I are good friends and he told me he showed me the the TikTok video and he said I think it'd be, I've come in to do the show a few times, and he said, don't you think it'd be fun to come in? And torture the internet's favorite sports.

You've got the perfect voice for the perfect. Thank you. And better than Michael Kay. I'm telling, can we cut that part out? Yeah, we're going to clip that, send it to Michael Kay. Well, that's okay. That's my opinion. Well, you know I'm a New York City guy, by the way.

So I grew up, I went to Regis High School in New York. He and I went, we're separated by a few years. years but okay but this game this game like i said i saw paulo it's realistic it doesn't look like a video game doesn't look like a pacman you know where they where they run like crazy it's actual it's crazy how much the players look like the players don't you think so in real life so today boo-goos on the side of the glass yeah narrating uh Truman showing as it were your experience in our studio but when it comes to like how you actually recorded all of this for the game yeah so one of the things that's tough and i understand for the people that have been playing for a long time you know again

you have to remember how frequently you're playing the game relative to you know the amount of games that are actually being you know called so you're going to hear some of the same stuff but the way we have to record it in order to stitch it together, I have to say, I record Aaron Judge's name and I say, Aaron Judge, and then I say, Judge, and then I say, Judge, so that they can stitch them all together, so that I can say Aaron Judge from California. But then if I want to say, judge, swings and drives one. So they just take judge. But then if I want to make a point,

and I say, Judge, who is a pretty good high school basketball player, like there's all these intonations that you have to follow. So you're just, you're recording. And then any type of exciting play, you have a, I'll come in and record

and they'll say, we're going to record a walk-off Homer in the division series, a walk-off homer in the LCS on and on. It's amazing the way it's done because every game you broadcast it's different. It's different. Different.

Totally different. Yeah. You know, and when I say the repetitive, there is more, it's more. No, actually, if I, no, I put on a lot of YouTube shows and people who review, they say the same thing.

They say, what they do is they turn the commentating all over them down. I just like that what I plan to be truly a, I had no idea how this was going to go. What I underestimated was how Kim had the most developed perspective of anybody into how many combinations of words your pre-recorded voice could fit into. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, and then the part that was hysterical was that I was, I made the reference to him in the blue sweater and he caught that. And then I said his name and I said his name. And he was like, well, he was like, Wait a second. The AI, man, crazy times. That's right. You never know.

You know, the robots. Am I a robot right now, Kim? Hard to tell. You know? You know, and the thing is, again, like I've been playing this since the inception of... Yeah. Since 2006. Okay, since the 20th year.

I have never been bored. Can I ask you just what made you pick up the game in the first place and say, this is how I'm going to spend the next, at this point, 20 years? Oh, I never figured that. I was going to play it for 20 years. But I used to imagine games. In fact, I used to go to my grandmother's house, and in the backyard they had great steps, and I used to throw the ball against the steps to make believe on pitching and hitting.

Okay? And then, the years go on, I don't know if you remember. You probably do when we didn't have the Internet. It was a dial-up. Oh, yeah. I started with that. Oh, wow. Yeah, I used to plug it in.

Sure. It was New Jersey Bell. And then I developed this. That's it. And how long did it take you for you to fall in love with this game as? Immediately. Immediately. And then I get very disappointed at the end of the season.

Because it's over. What am I going to do for me? When the season ends, when your season ends for you. Well, I end the season basically around the same. time right so have you ever considered playing more games in between no you're saying the hard shake of the head season's over I love this before we say thank you and let you go Kim free you from the psychological experiment that you've unwittingly entered into thanks to your accomplice of a grandson do you have anything you want to tell booge at the end here

Do you have any last thoughts about this thing that you love, that he happens to be the voice of that you may or not have? I just hope it continues until I go to the Great Beyond. No. And I just want the game to continue because they enjoy playing it. Yeah, you love baseball, don't you? I do. Yeah.

I do. I am confident that in the Great Beyond, We can get boobed, you know, just be on the side of the glass, maybe. You've done a great job. I appreciate it. But I'm really happy to be here. I cannot tell you how delightful it is for this entire thing to have just happened in front of me. Well, there was a joke about Pete and Mike, who are the best of friends.

They loved baseball. They did everything together. They played every single game. Well, one day Pete dies. Goes to heaven. Two days later, they comes down. I says, Mike, I got good news. bad news. The good news is baseball in heaven. Bad news you're pitching tomorrow.

This has been Pablo Torre finds out a metal art media production. And I'll talk to you next time.