Pod Insights Pablo Torre Finds Out The Show, the Voice and Grandpa: A PTFO Surprise About this episode 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.
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2:58 Pablo Torre? am Pablo Torre. Today's episode is brought to you by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. And today, we're going to find out what this sound is.
3:08 Speaker 02 Bellinger trying to throw it in. Let go of the baseball, Pablo.
3:13 Pablo Torre? Right after this ad.
3:16 Speaker 02 You're listening to DraftKings Network.
3:31 Pablo Torre? Boog Shambi, thank you for being here sitting in that chair, by the way.
3:34 Speaker 02 Love being in this chair.
3:36 Pablo Torre? 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
3:42 Speaker 02 Yeah.
3:42 Pablo Torre? of my
3:43 Speaker 02 From your diaphragm?
3:43 Pablo Torre? Diaphragm. I was remembering which part of
3:45 Speaker 02 The fram.
3:47 Pablo Torre? The fram.
3:49 Speaker 02 The 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.
4:06 Pablo Torre? 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?
4:17 Speaker 02 I have red sneakers on. I love my red sneakers.
4:23 Speaker 02 I look slimmer in black.
4:27 Speaker 02 My hair looks good. I like me.
4:30 Pablo Torre? Those that are watching on YouTube, Boog is just gazing at his own reflection.
4:33 Speaker 02 That's right.
4:34 Pablo Torre? Look, we, though, as a, as a show, had you do some, I would say, credibility imperiling things the last time you were on.
4:45 Speaker 02 I had totally forgotten.
4:49 Speaker 02 So, early in the year, the Cubs play the Dodgers, and I run into Joe Poznanski and Mike Schur.
4:55 Pablo Torre? Oh, sure.
4:57 Speaker 02 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. Swing and a ball driven, right field, towards the corner, slicing, fair ball! That's gonna get into the corner, and Velociraptor is on his horse, on his way to third. Velociraptor, they're gonna send him! Soto trying to dig it out. Velociraptor on his way to the plate, and saved! Ballgame, Cubs win! Pablo Torre the hero, as he knocks in Velociraptor, and the Cubs walk it off. And Mike Schur's like, "I wrote that."
5:41 Pablo Torre? We did assemble a writer's room. And then I got credit for it. But it was really the guy who wrote, you know, The Office and Parks and Rec and whatever.
5:48 Speaker 02 So ridiculous, and wonderful.
5:51 Pablo Torre? 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 strata varius 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?
6:15 Speaker 02 Yeah.
6:16 Pablo Torre? Is known to a whole universe that I, 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, I, 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?
6:44 Speaker 02 I will say, it's the one space, yeah, when a nine or 10-year-old kid is excited to meet me, or I say, "Hey, do you play MLB The Show?" And they say, "Yeah." And I say, "I'm that guy."
7:00 Speaker 03 Play-by-play announcer John Buxomby and color analyst Chris Singleton.
7:06 Speaker 02 Drive and forget it. Singy, he's been red hot.
7:10 Speaker 04 Man, he is really seeing the ball well in this one.
7:13 Speaker 02 And watch their eyes get big. Yeah, can't lie, I dig that. It's exciting that in some way I might be impacting some kids' love for baseball through this silly game.
7:28 Pablo Torre? People play this thing a lot.
7:29 Speaker 02 Yes.
7:30 Pablo Torre? 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.
7:44 Speaker 02 Sure, yeah.
7:45 Pablo Torre? 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 into studio today.
7:53 Speaker 02 I know.
7:55 Pablo Torre? Because the video is not this, actually. It is arguably the opposite.
8:03 Speaker 02 He's got MLB The Show in his house. He's sitting on his couch, older gentleman, 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 scorecard.
8:24 Pablo Torre? Yes.
8:25 Speaker 02 Is like, hmm, what's going on over there? What's he keeping score of?
8:28 Pablo Torre? I didn't know that was possible.
8:30 Speaker 02 Right.
8:30 Pablo Torre? Or a thing anybody wanted to do.
8:32 Speaker 02 Yep.
8:32 Pablo Torre? But of course, when you are, apparently, an 86-year-old 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.
8:45 Speaker 02 It's Aaron Judge now.
8:49 Speaker 02 Here's a swing and a drive, left field, and he knew it.
8:55 Speaker 02 Amazing.
8:56 Pablo Torre? Because it's 2025 now. And that's true, that you can play a video game at age 86 for 20 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 that this guy is out here merging the two worlds, virtual and real, in a way that I, my mind was blown upon learning of this man and his passion.
9:27 Speaker 02 The outside of the binder says MLB The Show.
9:32 Speaker 02 I mean, this is, you know, it's not like we-
9:33 Pablo Torre? Analog and digital have rarely been so interwoven.
9:36 Speaker 02 Holy cow.
9:39 Pablo Torre? And so, I have an idea. And I just need you to be willing to imperil your credibility again.
9:48 Speaker 02 Sure.
9:49 Pablo Torre? Because this, this 86-year-old man,
9:53 Speaker 02 Mm-hmm.
9:53 Pablo Torre? 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.
10:04 Speaker 02 Really?
10:05 Pablo Torre? You're gonna need to, to, to do something that I have full confidence your ability to do.
10:11 Speaker 02 Okay.
10:12 Pablo Torre? Which is, um, A, be yourself. And, and B-
10:18 Speaker 02 Be your monkey, that's what you're really saying.
10:20 Pablo Torre? I'm gonna need you to dance.
10:24 Speaker 02 I mean, it's liter-, it's, it's dancing, but it's also like, and you're gonna put your hand up the back of my shirt, and then just like-
10:32 Pablo Torre? Yeah.
10:33 Speaker 02 Turn me into your, your sort of muppet.
10:36 Pablo Torre? I'm gonna be all up in there, man.
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15:01 Pablo Torre? Sir.
15:03 Speaker 03 Hello.
15:03 Pablo Torre? Hello.
15:04 Speaker 03 Hello, how are you?
15:05 Pablo Torre? Oh, the pleasure's all mine.
15:06 Speaker 03 Call me Kim.
15:07 Pablo Torre? Kim?
15:08 Speaker 03 Kim.
15:08 Pablo Torre? Kim, okay.
15:10 Speaker 03 That's not my real name, but...
15:12 Pablo Torre? Wait a minute, what do you mean it's not your real name?
15:14 Speaker 03 My real name is Joey Kim, my legal name.
15:18 Speaker 03 But my mother had a sense of humor. She cut it off and made Kim. So that's it, so. But my last name is Soriano.
15:25 Pablo Torre? So I was gonna say, any relation to...
15:27 Speaker 03 No.
15:28 Pablo Torre? Alfonso?
15:30 Speaker 03 No. Same name, not the same money.
15:36 Speaker 03 That's the difference.
15:39 Pablo Torre? Well played.
15:43 Speaker 03 So this is...
15:44 Pablo Torre? 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, um, 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. Uh, my mic wasn't even on yet. But what caught my attention even more immediately 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,
16:28 Pablo Torre? 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 Buxyambi, 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,
17:12 Pablo Torre? 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?
17:35 Speaker 03 Well, I just put this on, okay? This show, I just, because that's what I play, the show, okay? Now, what I do is I play every single Yankee.
17:43 Pablo Torre? Yeah, this blue binder opened up, yeah.
17:46 Speaker 03 I keep score.
17:48 Pablo Torre? Yes.
17:48 Speaker 03 Of the lineup, and I keep score. And this is the, this right here is the blank page. And I, what I do is I go to a, a copy company.
18:00 Pablo Torre? Right.
18:01 Speaker 03 And I get a hundred and eighty-two, a hundred and eighty-two copies, and that's it.
18:06 Pablo Torre? So you're, when does this start, when the game comes out? You get a hundred and eighty-two copies, ready for the new release of every game?
18:13 Speaker 03 Yeah, let's say the, the season opened this year, I think, March twenty-seventh or something like that. I usually go beginning of March.
18:20 Pablo Torre? And will you play one game per day, matching the real-life schedule?
18:24 Speaker 03 Yes.
18:25 Pablo Torre? Oh, my God. So you've been living a parallel Yankees season, as this season has unfolded.
18:30 Speaker 03 You can call it that, yeah, yeah.
18:33 Pablo Torre? Does Giancarlo Stanton also have double tennis elbow in your universe, in your timeline?
18:37 Speaker 03 I make it like tennis thumbs.
18:42 Pablo Torre? Yeah, I got blisters, I got, I got, yeah, blisters on my fingers, as, as a wise man once.
18:47 Speaker 03 Uh, but, and I, and I'll tell you, I'll tell you this, in all the years, I have never been bored playing this game. And in fact, I look forward to the next day. And that's it. It takes me about hour and fifteen minutes, hour and twenty minutes to play the game.
19:03 Pablo Torre? And in your case, because you, like me, we're both Yankee fans, uh, you're, 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.
19:15 Speaker 03 Yes.
19:16 Pablo Torre? How, how are you guys doing in your timeline?
19:19 Speaker 03 We're both in first place.
19:20 Pablo Torre? Amazing.
19:20 Speaker 03 Sometimes it scares me, because I'll play a game, and they're, a- a- and they may come close to the game that I'm actually playing.
19:29 Pablo Torre? Yeah.
19:30 Speaker 03 What they play.
19:31 Pablo Torre? Right.
19:32 Speaker 03 So right now, if I can remember right, I'm like, I'm in first place about three games, they're in first place by two and a half.
19:39 Pablo Torre? Right, right.
19:41 Speaker 03 So it's, it's sometimes it's scary.
19:43 Pablo Torre? So what you're saying is that sometimes the video game in real life, they, they sometimes match up, even interact. Maybe the streams cross every now and again.
19:52 Speaker 03 Yeah.
19:53 Pablo Torre? This has gotten a little spooky, Kim. You may have more power in your controller in these thumbs than than I realized.
20:01 Speaker 03 The only thing I do when I play the game, I hit only. I don't pitch. I put I I set everything up automatic. Automatic.
20:10 Pablo Torre? Oh, you automate pitching?
20:12 Speaker 03 Automate pitching, automate base running, throwing, and all I do is hit.
20:19 Pablo Torre? Yeah. Why is that?
20:21 Speaker 03 Because I was never too good at the other.
20:24 Pablo Torre? 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.
20:35 Speaker 03 I've tried pitching. I've tried hitting and throwing, base running. I'm not good at that.
20:42 Pablo Torre? Didn't go great.
20:42 Speaker 03 So but hitting.
20:44 Pablo Torre? Do you think you would have covered first like Garrett Cole?
20:47 Speaker 03 Garrett? No, I don't think so.
20:48 Pablo Torre? Yeah, can't get on can't get on for that one. That still haunts me, by the way. I was at game five at the stadium.
20:55 Speaker 03 You were there?
20:56 Pablo Torre? World Series. Yeah, I was there.
20:57 Speaker 03 Really?
20:57 Pablo Torre? Yeah, I paid money off a StubHub.
20:59 Speaker 03 Okay.
21:00 Pablo Torre? To attend.
21:01 Speaker 03 Well, he's out for the year, so.
21:02 Pablo Torre? Yeah, I know. I'm not giving him a break, though.
21:04 Speaker 03 See, and I do that also.
21:06 Pablo Torre? What do you do?
21:07 Speaker 03 If Garrett Cole's out?
21:09 Pablo Torre? Yeah.
21:09 Speaker 03 I'll injure him.
21:11 Pablo Torre? You'll take a digital crowbar, take him out back?
21:15 Speaker 03 There's a an app on here, okay, that you can manually injure a player.
21:21 Pablo Torre? That is sadistic, Kim. And I didn't realize that was possible.
21:25 Speaker 03 Well, I got the how you do it.
21:28 Pablo Torre? Oh, what is that?
21:29 Speaker 03 Well, here.
21:31 Pablo Torre? Oh, you're taking a slip of paper from your blue binder?
21:32 Speaker 03 User setting.
21:34 Pablo Torre? Oh, you have you have you have instructions you've written down on a torn off scrap of paper?
21:38 Speaker 03 Go to gameplay, general, set to manual.
21:40 Pablo Torre? Set to manual.
21:41 Speaker 03 Yeah, you set injuries to manual so you can control it.
21:44 Pablo Torre? 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 to manually injure.
21:54 Speaker 03 Actually, I think I feel more realistic.
21:56 Pablo Torre? I haven't played this game in probably 15 years.
21:59 Speaker 03 Okay.
22:00 Pablo Torre? And you've been playing it every season. 182-ish times a year.
22:05 Speaker 03 Eighty-two-ish.
22:05 Pablo Torre? Because the Yankees are making the postseason.
22:07 Speaker 03 If I get to the playoffs?
22:08 Pablo Torre? Yeah. You're smiling with the confidence of a Yankee fan in the playoffs.
22:13 Speaker 03 I have never got to the World Series except for last year.
22:16 Pablo Torre? This is an honest suffering you signed up for. Does it hurt to not make and win the World Series?
22:23 Speaker 03 You know, well, at times, yeah.
22:28 Pablo Torre? I feel like you live, you are carrying and feeling the marathon that is the baseball season in a way that no video game player is actually signing up for. No one else is doing this.
22:38 Speaker 03 Well, sometimes my wife says, "What are you crazy?" Because like I'll strike out and I'll go.
22:44 Pablo Torre? Bang the table.
22:49 Speaker 03 But all in all, it's fun and I enjoy it.
22:53 Pablo Torre? Yeah.
22:54 Speaker 03 And that's it. I don't have, I guess you could call it a hobby.
22:58 Pablo Torre? I mean, it feels like a lifestyle at this point.
23:00 Speaker 03 I don't collect stamps, I don't collect coins, I don't go fishing, hunting, that.
23:04 Pablo Torre? 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.
23:13 Speaker 03 Okay.
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26:46 Pablo Torre? 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,
27:28 Pablo Torre? 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 slash experiment is that Kim Soriano, perhaps predictably in retrospect, has a lot of opinions about Boog's line of work.
27:55 Speaker 03 That's the thing I don't like about this game is the announcers are too repetitive. It's the same thing. So I put it on the lowest volume I could think of without totally shutting it off.
28:09 Pablo Torre? Yeah.
28:09 Speaker 03 And that's the problem with the show.
28:13 Pablo Torre? Hmm.
28:14 Speaker 03 It's repetitive.
28:16 Pablo Torre? You're saying that when you play the game, it all feels like that damn voice just keeps on saying the same same [BLEEP] over and over again?
28:24 Speaker 03 Yup.
28:25 Pablo Torre? Is the announcer, though, a good announcer in your view?
28:27 Speaker 03 He's a good announcer.
28:29 Pablo Torre? Okay.
28:30 Speaker 03 Okay, but he has a tendency to say the same thing over and over every single day.
28:33 Pablo Torre? Like it's just the...
28:35 Speaker 03 Yeah, and I don't want to hear the stories anymore.
28:37 Pablo Torre? I know, because you've heard them all.
28:39 Speaker 03 I heard them all, yeah.
28:42 Pablo Torre? Yankees, Cubs.
28:46 Speaker 03 And that starts it.
28:47 Pablo Torre? Yeah.
28:52 Pablo Torre? 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-Play Man John Boog Chiambi, and Color Guy and former MLB outfielder Chris Singleton, all together. Which would allow the real Boog, 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.
29:36 Speaker 02 Welcome to Wrigley Field, everybody. A beautiful day for baseball, second oldest park in the majors. It's the Yankees and the Cubs. As we get ready for baseball on a gorgeous afternoon, and we've got a good pitching matchup. Couple of lefties, it'll be Max Fried and Shota Imanaga.
29:57 Speaker 03 I've never played in a screen this big.
29:59 Pablo Torre? Oh, yeah. Imanaga takes the mound.
30:02 Speaker 02 Take a look at the numbers for the left-hander. A season ago, an All-Star, Shota Imanaga, and a 2.91 ERA. Anthony Volpe climbs in for the Yankees, and we're ready to go from the friendly confines.
30:17 Speaker 03 So now, this should work if I try to hit it, right?
30:19 Pablo Torre? Yeah, yes, I'm gonna, I'm gonna throw you some heat. Spoiler alert.
30:25 Speaker 02 Imanaga, ready to work. Volpe waits, and here we go.
30:28 Pablo Torre? Oh, boy.
30:29 Speaker 02 And the first pitch, missing a little bit low for ball one. Fans wanted that call to strike, so 1-0 for the Yankee shortstop. The lefty from Japan, Imanaga fires, and a swing and a miss.
30:48 Speaker 02 Anthony Volpe, grew up a Yankees fan.
30:52 Speaker 02 Checks his swing, the pitch misses low, it's 2-1.
30:55 Speaker 03 There you go.
30:57 Pablo Torre? I don't like what I'm doing here.
31:00 Speaker 02 And a pitch.
31:00 Pablo Torre? Totally no. Oh, come on.
31:03 Speaker 02 And that misses. 3-1. Tight strike zone here in the early going.
31:09 Speaker 03 It's a good game.
31:11 Speaker 02 And a pitch. Swing and a miss. Four seam fastball right there and now the count is full. Nobody on, nobody out, just getting started here at Wrigley. Three, two pitch. Check swing. Did he go? Yes, he did.
31:28 Pablo Torre? I'm not, I'm not gonna lie to you, Kim. Um, I don't really know what I'm doing and uh, I now understand why you only hit.
31:37 Speaker 02 Oh, yeah. Chisholm fouls one off.
31:42 Speaker 02 And that one hit foul. So an opportunity for the Yankees as Pablo needs to clean up the defense.
31:49 Speaker 03 See, right now he's hurt and I won't play him.
31:52 Speaker 03 I didn't even see that one. I was talking to you.
31:56 Pablo Torre? Oh, you're mad that the rosters on this one haven't updated.
31:59 Speaker 02 Chisholm is down on strikes and now here's a matchup. It'll be Judge and Imanaga.
32:07 Pablo Torre? Oh, boy.
32:08 Speaker 02 This one drilled 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.
32:24 Pablo Torre? 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.
32:34 Speaker 02 Here's the former Cub Cody Bellinger.
32:39 Speaker 02 This is drilled right field. Tucker is there to make the catch.
32:44 Speaker 03 See how realistic it is?
32:45 Pablo Torre? That's realistic, man. This whole thing. By the way, the announcers?
32:48 Speaker 03 Yeah.
32:49 Pablo Torre? They're, they're on top of it. They're on top of it.
32:53 Speaker 02 So repetitive and realistic.
32:56 Speaker 02 And now it's Giancarlo Stanton. Tennis elbow or not, here he is.
33:00 Speaker 03 I don't play him either. He's out.
33:07 Pablo Torre? Yeah, cuz he has double tennis elbow, obviously.
33:09 Speaker 03 Huh?
33:10 Pablo Torre? Cuz he has the double elbow tendonitis.
33:12 Speaker 03 Yes.
33:13 Pablo Torre? Yeah.
33:14 Speaker 02 Two away, opportunity for the Yankees as Stanton fouls it away and it's one and one.
33:23 Speaker 02 On the ground, Borkman will pick it up.
33:26 Speaker 03 Okay, you're pretty good at this.
33:29 Pablo Torre? Thank you.
33:30 Speaker 03 At the fielding.
33:31 Speaker 02 Number three. That's some good defense by the man in the blue sweater. End of a half inning, the Yankees nothing, the Cubs coming to bat.
33:41 Pablo Torre? That's pretty good.
33:42 Speaker 03 It is pretty good. Now, what happens here now?
33:47 Pablo Torre? So I believe that, okay, so in this case.
33:50 Speaker 03 Yeah.
33:51 Pablo Torre? You're pitching, so do you wanna hit? Do you wanna?
33:55 Speaker 03 Yeah, why not?
33:56 Pablo Torre? Okay, alright.
33:57 Speaker 03 Okay. I'll be the Cubs still.
33:59 Pablo Torre? So we're switching controllers because Kim refuses as a permanent DH in video games. You are gonna hit and I'm gonna now pitch.
34:08 Speaker 03 So I should be able to hit now, right?
34:10 Pablo Torre? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:12 Speaker 02 Ian Happ 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 at home.
34:30 Speaker 02 All the strike on the leadoff man. Three-time Gold Glove winner Ian Happ swings and misses.
34:37 Speaker 03 The stadiums are realistic.
34:39 Pablo Torre? Yeah. Oh, yeah.
34:40 Speaker 03 The play is realistic.
34:43 Speaker 02 One and two. Here comes.
34:47 Pablo Torre? Ooh.
34:47 Speaker 02 Swing and a miss and it gets past the catcher Wells. And safe at first is Ian Happ. How do you like that? In the first inning, each team with a strikeout and a reach and a wild pitch. Waka waka.
35:03 Pablo Torre? Honestly, like, the competitiveness of the announcers, this guy's on top of it.
35:09 Speaker 02 Beautiful day here at the Friendly Confine. Suzuki hammers one. Backs 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.
35:26 Speaker 03 Wait a minute, I gotta go. How was that done?
35:29 Pablo Torre? What?
35:30 Speaker 03 They mentioned your name and the blue sweater. How was that? Who was broadcasting the game?
35:36 Pablo Torre? That's
35:39 Pablo Torre? Isn't this game that doesn't happen for you?
35:41 Speaker 03 Huh?
35:42 Pablo Torre? That doesn't happen for you?
35:44 Speaker 03 No.
35:44 Speaker 02 Michael Bush at the plate now.
35:46 Pablo Torre? Wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.
35:47 Speaker 03 Totally different.
35:49 Pablo Torre? That's... I don't know.
35:54 Speaker 02 And Bush takes a strike.
35:55 Pablo Torre? Wait, you're saying you've played this game this often and that's not happened yet?
35:59 Speaker 03 Well, eh...
36:02 Speaker 02 Here at Wrigley Field, John Shombi with you, Chris Singleton on assignment. And they chant, "Let's go Cubbies."
36:10 Speaker 03 You see, that's the same guy that announces it, Shombi?
36:14 Pablo Torre? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
36:15 Speaker 03 But they never mentioned that the other guy is on assignment, because that other guy, Chris Singleton,
36:20 Pablo Torre? Yeah.
36:21 Speaker 03 is always there, and he's the one that comes up with the story, the repetitive.
36:27 Pablo Torre? So, in other words, Shombi, you're like, "That guy's cool." It's Singleton where you're just like, "Come on."
36:32 Speaker 03 Yeah.
36:33 Speaker 02 Golden opportunity for the Cubs.
36:34 Pablo Torre? He's the color guy and, and, yeah, so...
36:37 Speaker 02 And, eh...
36:38 Speaker 03 That's all right, I don't...
36:39 Pablo Torre? I'm trying to have a conversation with him.
36:43 Speaker 03 See?
36:45 Speaker 02 Here it comes.
36:47 Pablo Torre? Isn't, that's, that's just newfangled baseball. Lots going on.
36:49 Speaker 02 And that was nasty. Garrett Cole, the backward strikeout. And Bush down on strikes. Here comes Dansby Swanson.
37:04 Speaker 02 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 Shombi without the always repetitive Chris Singleton here on MLB The Show, as that one gets away.
37:23 Pablo Torre? Do you miss Chris Singleton? Do you miss Chris Singleton?
37:28 Speaker 02 What about John Shombi? Do you like John Shombi?
37:30 Speaker 03 Eh, the other, not the color guy?
37:34 Pablo Torre? Yeah.
37:34 Speaker 03 Chris Singleton?
37:35 Pablo Torre? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
37:37 Speaker 03 The same stuff over and over.
37:39 Pablo Torre? Right, right.
37:40 Speaker 02 We're gonna work on fixing that.
37:41 Speaker 03 Hi.
37:41 Speaker 02 How are you?
37:42 Speaker 03 Good.
37:42 Speaker 02 I'm John Shombi.
37:44 Speaker 03 Oh, John.
37:46 Speaker 02 Nice to meet you.
37:47 Speaker 03 Yes.
37:47 Speaker 02 Love you playing MLB The Show.
37:49 Speaker 03 Nice meeting you. It's a pleasure.
37:51 Speaker 02 Yes. We got rid of Chris Singleton and his stories, and it's just me. It's just me.
37:58 Speaker 03 Is it just you?
37:59 Speaker 02 It's just me. He's not here. I mean, eventually, he's gonna come and talk to you.
38:03 Speaker 03 No, of course it's not.
38:05 Pablo Torre? He's gonna be pretty pissed off.
38:06 Speaker 02 He's already pissed off, I texted him.
38:08 Speaker 03 That drives you crazy.
38:09 Speaker 02 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?
38:18 Speaker 03 I, I play 160. I've been playing this game since 2006.
38:23 Speaker 02 It's amazing. So nice to meet you. I-
38:25 Speaker 03 Yes.
38:26 Speaker 02 Your video on TikTok, amazing. I love that you keep score. That is-
38:32 Pablo Torre? Alright, we gotta, we gotta get Boog to sit down with us.
38:34 Speaker 03 Yeah, this was yesterday, you know.
38:36 Speaker 02 I wanted to show you, I have my, uh, so I keep score on an iPad.
38:40 Speaker 03 Yeah.
38:40 Speaker 02 But it, 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.
38:48 Speaker 03 This is a blank one.
38:49 Speaker 02 Yeah, so there you go. I have them, I have them too. I'll show you, I can show you mine.
38:52 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, I would like to see that.
38:53 Speaker 02 Absolutely. Want to go grab that?
38:55 Pablo Torre? Can you move your chair from the other side of the glass?
38:57 Speaker 03 When you walked in, you said your chance, I said-
39:02 Speaker 03 I like where it blank.
39:04 Speaker 02 How great is that, by the way, to play on that? Wouldn't you love to play, play all the time there?
39:09 Speaker 03 Yeah.
39:09 Speaker 02 It's pretty cool.
39:10 Speaker 03 It is.
39:10 Speaker 02 Alright, I'm right back. I'm gonna get my, I'll get my scorecard and I'll show you and we'll get, get a chair in there.
39:16 Pablo Torre? So, sup- surprise. I said surprise.
39:22 Speaker 03 Yes.
39:25 Speaker 03 I looked, I said, nah, to myself, like, everything went blank.
39:30 Pablo Torre? I, I, part of me, Kim, feels very bad for what we perpetrated on you.
39:36 Speaker 03 No.
39:36 Pablo Torre? The other part of me could not be happier.
39:57 Pablo Torre? 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
40:41 Pablo Torre? sorry. I'm sorry that we just
40:43 Speaker 03 The what?
40:44 Pablo Torre? We, we, we played an entirely fake
40:47 Speaker 03 Fake?
40:48 Pablo Torre? So Boog was announcing that game
40:51 Speaker 03 Yeah.
40:52 Pablo Torre? From the other side of the glass.
40:53 Speaker 03 I don't care. I thought it was cool.
40:59 Pablo Torre? Oh my God. I mean, just, 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 is gonna find out and
41:12 Speaker 03 I said to my son, wait, we used to mention Pablo, the guy in the blue sweater.
41:16 Pablo Torre? You did, you did.
41:17 Speaker 03 I said, I never heard this, but
41:21 Pablo Torre? I was gonna 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. Um, but you were very polite. You were very polite.
41:32 Speaker 03 But he does, he does a great job announcing.
41:35 Pablo Torre? He's gonna, he's gonna come sit with us.
41:38 Speaker 03 He's got the
41:39 Pablo Torre? He's got the best voice in baseball.
41:41 Speaker 03 Yes. I was just, I was just gonna say that. By far, by far.
41:46 Pablo Torre? Yes. Boog is, um, is an old friend of mine. And so we're gonna, we're gonna bring him in.
41:56 Speaker 02 That's what my World Series score, you can just page it and with your hands, but that's.
42:02 Speaker 03 It's similar.
42:03 Speaker 02 Yeah.
42:04 Speaker 03 And I use the same, same way you do the double.
42:07 Speaker 02 Yeah.
42:07 Speaker 03 Single, same as I do it.
42:09 Speaker 02 Yep.
42:10 Speaker 03 Except if the ground ball is short, I'll put G S.
42:13 Speaker 02 Okay.
42:14 Speaker 03 And then a dollar sign to it.
42:15 Speaker 02 Ah.
42:16 Speaker 03 Well, because we're grounded a second, it's, it's S.
42:19 Speaker 02 Right, so I, I do six, three, four, three, that type of stuff.
42:23 Speaker 03 Is this the normal way what broadcasters?
42:26 Speaker 02 Hey, so I would say, I would say close to half of us now, um, I would say close to half of us now use that, but I would say half are still using paper.
42:39 Speaker 03 Oh, really?
42:40 Speaker 02 Yeah. So like this is just a scan of your sheet.
42:45 Speaker 03 I tell you, that's, it's, it's detailed.
42:47 Speaker 02 Yeah, so, and then like, so that's the Dodgers down there and this is game one.
42:55 Speaker 03 And you, and you can save all?
42:57 Speaker 02 Yeah, I have every game. I have all, all, so like.
43:00 Speaker 03 Geez, maybe I should get something like that.
43:02 Speaker 02 So like, right, so this is game five of the World Series.
43:08 Speaker 03 Right.
43:09 Speaker 02 So that's that. This is game four.
43:15 Pablo Torre? So you, I, so Kim was asking.
43:19 Speaker 02 Yeah.
43:19 Pablo Torre? 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.
43:28 Speaker 03 Well, when you showed up, y'all went totally like.
43:31 Speaker 02 So I am here because Pablo and I are good friends and he told me, uh, he showed me the, the TikTok video. And he said, I think it'd be, we, 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?
43:48 Pablo Torre? And torture, uh, the internet's favorite sports grandpa.
43:53 Speaker 02 Thank you.
43:54 Speaker 03 And better than Michael K.
43:57 Speaker 02 Oh, I'm telling, we get, can we cut that part out and just email to him?
44:01 Pablo Torre? Clip that, send it to, to Michael K.
44:03 Speaker 03 That's okay, that's my opinion.
44:04 Speaker 02 Well, you know, I'm a New York City guy, by the way. So I grew up, I grew up, I went to Regis High School in New York. He and I went, we were separated by a few years, but.
44:13 Speaker 03 Okay. But this game, this game, like I said, I was telling Pablo, it's, it's realistic?
44:21 Speaker 03 It doesn't look like a video game, doesn't look like a Pac-Man, you know, where they run like crazy. It's actual.
44:27 Speaker 02 It's crazy how much the players look like the players, don't you think?
44:31 Pablo Torre? So in real life, so today Boog was on the other side of the glass.
44:34 Speaker 02 Yeah.
44:36 Pablo Torre? 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.
44:46 Speaker 02 Yeah. So one of the things that's tough, and I understand for the people that have been playing it 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 gonna 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.
45:28 Speaker 02 Um, but then if I wanna say Judge, swings and drives one, so, so they just take Judge. But then if I wanna make a point, I say, Judge, who was 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 gonna record a walk-off homer in the division series. A walk-off homer in the LCS, in the, you know, on and on, so.
46:05 Speaker 03 It's, it's, it's amazing the way it's done because every game you broadcast, it's a diff, it's different.
46:10 Speaker 02 Different.
46:11 Speaker 03 Totally different.
46:12 Speaker 02 Yeah.
46:13 Speaker 03 You know. And when I say the repetitive, there is more, it's more. No, actually, if I, and I know, 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 commentator all the way down.
46:28 Pablo Torre? I just like that what I planned to be truly a, I had no idea how this was gonna 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.
46:47 Speaker 02 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, and I said his name and he was like, wait a second. So.
47:02 Pablo Torre? Look at the AI, man. Crazy times. I don't know.
47:04 Speaker 02 That's right. You never know.
47:05 Pablo Torre? You know, they're robots. Am I a robot right now, Kim? Hard to tell. You know?
47:10 Speaker 03 You know, and the thing is, again, like I've been playing this since the inception of, yeah, since 2006. Okay. This is the 20th year. I have never been bored.
47:19 Pablo Torre? Can I ask you just what made you pick up the game in the first place and say, this is how I'm gonna spend the next, at this point, 20 years?
47:30 Speaker 03 Oh, I never figured that. That I was gonna 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 gray steps and I used to throw the ball against the steps to make believe I'm pitching and hitting. Okay? And, 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.
47:56 Pablo Torre? Oh, yeah.
47:57 Speaker 03 I started with that.
47:58 Pablo Torre? Oh, wow.
47:59 Speaker 03 I, I, yeah, I used to plug it in.
48:01 Pablo Torre? Sure.
48:02 Speaker 03 It was New Jersey Bell. And then, and then I developed this. That's it.
48:08 Pablo Torre? And how long did it take you for you to fall in love with this game as?
48:11 Speaker 03 Immediately. Immediately. Um, and then I get very disappointed.
48:18 Speaker 03 At the end of the season.
48:20 Speaker 02 Cause it's over.
48:21 Speaker 03 I what if, what am I gonna do?
48:23 Pablo Torre? When the season ends, when your season ends for you.
48:27 Speaker 03 Well, I end the season basically around the same time.
48:30 Pablo Torre? Right. So have you ever considered playing more games in between?
48:37 Speaker 02 No.
48:37 Pablo Torre? You're saying the season's over.
48:39 Speaker 03 Season's over.
48:41 Speaker 02 I love this.
48:42 Pablo Torre? Before, uh, we say thank you and, uh, let you go, Kim, for you from the psychological experiment that you unwittingly entered into, thanks to your accomplice of a grandson. Do you have anything you want to tell Boog at the end here? Do you have, uh, any, any last, uh, thoughts about, about this thing that you love, that he happens to be the voice of?
49:04 Speaker 03 I just hope it continues until I go to the great beyond.
49:10 Speaker 02 Oh.
49:13 Speaker 03 No, I just want the game to continue because I enjoy playing it.
49:16 Speaker 02 Yeah, you love baseball, don't you?
49:18 Speaker 03 I do.
49:18 Speaker 02 Yeah.
49:19 Speaker 03 I, I, I do.
49:21 Pablo Torre? I am confident that, uh, in the great beyond, uh, we can get Boog to, you know, just be on the side of the glass, maybe.
49:29 Speaker 03 You've done a great job. Really, really.
49:31 Speaker 02 I appreciate it.
49:31 Speaker 03 But, uh, I, I'm really happy to be here.
49:34 Pablo Torre? It's, I, I cannot tell you how delightful it is for this entire thing to have just happened in front of me.
49:41 Speaker 03 Well, there was a joke about Pete and Mike, who are best of friends. They love baseball. They did everything together. They played every single game. Well, one day Pete dies, goes to heaven. Two days later, comes down and says, Mike, I got good news and bad news. Good news is baseball in heaven. Bad news, you're pitching tomorrow.
50:10 Pablo Torre? This has been Pablo Torre Finds Out, a Meadowlark Media production. And I'll talk to you next time.
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