Speaker 1: Yeah, in a seven or four. Here we are, Patrick
Speaker 1: Morrish A big show today. It's a big, big show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess Pablo Lopez is like five minutes away.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be here even earlier than we thought. Possibly
Speaker 2: he's almost here. Haven't met him?
Speaker 3: Party? Super cool?
Speaker 1: Can't wait?
Speaker 3: And did you? I don't know if you guys saw.
Speaker 2: What I posted on Twitter last night and stuff, but
Speaker 2: I posted like a fake Pablo Lopez initials card.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do you see some of the things that I wrote
Speaker 2: on that because I just did.
Speaker 3: A two minute Google search. Yeah, he I believe.
Speaker 2: I think both of his parents were doctors and he
Speaker 2: was accepted to medical school and he was sixteen years old.
Speaker 3: He had friends, I think on the Marlins.
Speaker 2: I think that called him Google because he just knew everything.
Speaker 2: So they would ask him questions and he would know.
Speaker 2: So that nickname was Yeah. But you guys, Matt Burke
Speaker 2: went to Harvard. You guys beat him? Do Young Park's
Speaker 2: been on Jeopardy? You guys beat him once? Right, But
Speaker 2: I'm just saying it's so Pablo might be super super smart,
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean he's going to beat this game.
Speaker 3: It's a different beast.
Speaker 1: So his memory still works.
Speaker 2: His memory probably still works, So I guess he's extremely
Speaker 2: smart excepted to metal schools sixteen.
Speaker 3: That's incredible. That's insane.
Speaker 2: Good speak something like four plus languages fluently.
Speaker 1: I don't speak one.
Speaker 3: I don't speak one.
Speaker 4: Sau.
Speaker 3: You're not well read like Daniel Lambert.
Speaker 2: No, speaking of not speaking more than one language, not
Speaker 2: Mark peris.
Speaker 5: How are we doing, Lay's I felt so lazy in
Speaker 5: hockey locker rooms. Those Europeans that they obviously speak multiple
Speaker 5: because it's so easy to travel around there, like Mary's.
Speaker 3: Cherikowski could speak seven different languages and all this.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, he was wow yeah so yeah, and then
Speaker 5: there was me butchering English and.
Speaker 2: Man it worked out. Yeah, you could score goals. That's
Speaker 2: that was the language of hockey. Yep, portuge Man, Portuguese
Speaker 2: and Italian.
Speaker 1: I mean, because you're.
Speaker 3: Too great languages? Are you kidding me? Portuguese too?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: This guy and is your favorite kind of breakfast Oh
Speaker 3: yeah you can. You can also throw about a ninety
Speaker 3: eight mile an hour fastball.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's that. He won't be the definition of God
Speaker 6: giving with both hands. So smart guy, super smart, good
Speaker 6: looking and athletic. And now he's filthy rich.
Speaker 1: Who throws a stinker? I mean that's a sinker. Sorry,
Speaker 1: it's his version.
Speaker 3: No, that was Daniel Lambert's the ultimate Lamber. Daniel Lamber alone,
Speaker 3: he's been dead for two hundred plus years.
Speaker 1: Who cares leave Daniel alone?
Speaker 3: Great bit? All right, should we do the news quickly
Speaker 3: before Pablo walks in? All right, let's go, here we go.
Speaker 1: The other news is that the poor guy.
Speaker 6: Mar camfe news with Chris Hockey, Poor Marcus Sore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean again, you're in great shape, dude, but
Speaker 1: you're out there skating around, like really getting after it.
Speaker 1: That's got to be using muscles. You ain't used it
Speaker 1: a long time, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they are screaming at me right now for it.
Speaker 5: It was it's so much fun to get back and
Speaker 5: do those charity games and everything, and down there at
Speaker 5: the Hockey Day, it was. It was an awesome venue.
Speaker 5: So it was a great setup. We got some really
Speaker 5: cool uniforms, I gotta be honest with you, sweet, right,
Speaker 5: like kind of the eighty Olympic USA Blue ones. We
Speaker 5: got some crazy cool uniforms. And yeah, it's great to
Speaker 5: get back together with everybody. It's so funny because you're
Speaker 5: all excited in the first period and you get out
Speaker 5: there and you're like, this doesn't feel too bad. I
Speaker 5: think I might be And by the time the second
Speaker 5: period starts, you want to die. By the third period,
Speaker 5: I couldn't move. It was hysterical because we were down
Speaker 5: I think eight to three into the third period, and
Speaker 5: one of our guys on the bench like, all right, guys,
Speaker 5: we got to start getting some shots.
Speaker 3: And I turned and looked at them like, we got
Speaker 3: to get.
Speaker 5: It across the red line first, Like, we're not even
Speaker 5: getting it out of our end.
Speaker 3: So who's on your team? Give us the names that
Speaker 3: we would know.
Speaker 5: Pauli Martin, Joe Mauer, Taylor Chorney, Jeff Tafe was out
Speaker 5: there for US. Adam Wilcox was out there playing Folie
Speaker 5: for US.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I'm blanking now. Of course, not Pablo Lopez,
Speaker 3: Carter R. Carter was out there. No, Pablo.
Speaker 5: Pablo is another. But maur was out there. It's too
Speaker 5: tall to play. Probably I actually got I I had.
Speaker 5: I stole Myers jersey and made him sign it, because
Speaker 5: I don't know how many people have a game, warned Joe.
Speaker 3: Mauerger's hockey jerseys. But yeah, I had.
Speaker 5: I made sure I took that right away from him.
Speaker 7: The ace of the Minnesota Twins walked in. So I'm
Speaker 7: going to go to work now.
Speaker 3: I love you. I will see you next Friday.
Speaker 4: Love you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, go to my website John crist dot com. But
Speaker 7: be first speaking engage you.
Speaker 1: Hockey day tonight.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, Hockey days the hockey day you are, and
Speaker 7: Mark will be signing bottles of Northland, So.
Speaker 3: Come donate to the u h L and get a bottle.
Speaker 2: Awesome, there he goes, all right. Minnesota Twins picture. Pablo
Speaker 2: Lopez makes his Power Trip debut. Right now, he's got
Speaker 2: to work.
Speaker 3: You can't hear. Hey, I'll help you. You got it?
Speaker 3: There we go. Yeah, good morning man, good morning. How
Speaker 3: are you doing good? How are you very cool?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I get that microphone over in front of them. Yes,
Speaker 1: you don't mind the.
Speaker 3: Venezuela right, not like Veneesuota Miami, which is where I
Speaker 3: just came from. I was just telling Mitch, who drove
Speaker 3: me here, I had experience whether like these just once before.
Speaker 3: Then when where you throw boiling water into it's like powder.
Speaker 3: But I don't know. He feels like I've never experienced
Speaker 3: it because he was just crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's ridiculous. Yeah, it's it's nuts, but we'll get
Speaker 2: through it. We're hardy Minnesota's and.
Speaker 3: I hear there's a hockey game outside today already. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: oh yeah. And you even sweat today, and you sweed,
Speaker 3: oh yeah yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 5: They'll get hot, they will get yeah. And and the
Speaker 5: nice thing about what they got going on that the
Speaker 5: United here is League is very very warm benches. They
Speaker 5: got some heaters just pumping into those things, so it's
Speaker 5: it's very comfortable.
Speaker 2: Okay, Pablo, I don't know if you were listening on
Speaker 2: the drive over, but we just basically kissed a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of ass. We're like, look, this dude is super smart,
Speaker 2: he's athletic, you're filthy rich, you're a good looking dude.
Speaker 2: What are what are any of those individually like, because none.
Speaker 1: Of us any.
Speaker 3: Of those Well you forgot to say I have great
Speaker 3: hair too, when you said that's now. Man, It's just
Speaker 3: I'm just happy to be here, happy to be here,
Speaker 3: and it's just baseball brought me here, Baseball has given
Speaker 3: me so much, and I just try to represent where
Speaker 3: I come from as good as I can, no matter
Speaker 3: like the situation. I mean the uniform I put on.
Speaker 3: I just try to represent where I come from. You
Speaker 3: know what they say, play for the team on the
Speaker 3: play for the for the team you have been from.
Speaker 3: Or also you're representing your name in the back of
Speaker 3: your jersey. So just super grateful every day and that's
Speaker 3: how I try to like approach it.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me about your hometown, your homeland, where
Speaker 1: you're from. I obviously I have never been to Venezuela.
Speaker 1: I would love to know about it.
Speaker 3: Okay, So geographically, if you have Venezuela in front of you,
Speaker 3: I am on the most western state, which borders with Colombia,
Speaker 3: and then I'm on like the city that's like on
Speaker 3: on a lake, on a huge lake. I think it's
Speaker 3: the largest lake lake atlant America. And it's particularly cool
Speaker 3: because it connects with the Caribbean. So it's very very hot.
Speaker 3: It's very hot, very warm, it's very flat, but it's
Speaker 3: so culturally diverse, culturally rich, rich, so it's just a
Speaker 3: really cool place and I have so many fun memories. Baseball.
Speaker 3: It's the biggest sport back in Venezuela, so I grew
Speaker 3: up playing baseball along some other sports. I play tennis,
Speaker 3: I play volleyball. So but it's just there's the people
Speaker 3: are just very warm, Like Latin culture is very warm.
Speaker 3: I'm very warm, very affectionate as it is. So that's
Speaker 3: like one of the things I miss the most when
Speaker 3: I go home. And then like I say, at my
Speaker 3: grandma's house, I say that, like I sleep with in
Speaker 3: her bunk bed. And it's just such a cool place
Speaker 3: to be. And it's geographically located. I'm like four hours
Speaker 3: away from the mountains, four hours away from the beach,
Speaker 3: four hours away from like the big prairies, kind of
Speaker 3: like our Midwest to say, like just flat like farmland.
Speaker 3: So it's it's a really cool place that I try
Speaker 3: to go back every single year.
Speaker 2: What's the what's the flora and the fauna aspects of
Speaker 2: that area? What do we got for animals and stuff?
Speaker 2: What are you dealing with down there in Venezuela. Sure
Speaker 2: we have the kapi Wata, like the biggest roading in
Speaker 2: the world. It's originated to like the Amazon part of
Speaker 2: like Venezuela.
Speaker 3: Are we talking I don't know, like twenty pounds for
Speaker 3: our roading, Hey, that's a twenty pound much big is roading?
Speaker 3: But they're pretty cute.
Speaker 1: He's got to hit it. You's got to hit it.
Speaker 3: That's gross. Are they dangerous or they're just big? They're
Speaker 3: just there and they's just like a live stuffed animal. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so they're just there. They're they're cute.
Speaker 1: And it's a huge lake. Looking at a picture of
Speaker 1: it right now, that is a giant lake.
Speaker 3: I know. Wow.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And you were talking about how everybody played baseball. That's
Speaker 1: how it was when I was growing up here. Not
Speaker 1: so much anymore, but was that a situation where everybody
Speaker 1: met in the park and played baseball.
Speaker 3: Everybody everybody like so cool. I grew up playing baseball
Speaker 3: with the people I went to school with, like my neighbors,
Speaker 3: and it was just playing baseball like either on the
Speaker 3: field or we used to go to these banks that
Speaker 3: had a huge part in love, and we used to
Speaker 3: go and we used to play baseball with our hands.
Speaker 3: So we would just like either grab tennis balls or
Speaker 3: like a much softer like cross ball and hit it
Speaker 3: with our hands. And we used to play like two
Speaker 3: bases like baseball, so it was only two bases and
Speaker 3: you would play like that, or we would play with
Speaker 3: bottle caps you threw the bottle caps and hit it
Speaker 3: with a broomstick, So like God, so pretty cool. Rules
Speaker 3: Like if the catcher caught it without you swinging, it
Speaker 3: didn't matter where he caught, it would be a strike.
Speaker 3: But if you swing amazon the catcher catches it, then
Speaker 3: it's a strikeout. Then you want to speed up the game,
Speaker 3: and you would play up to like three innings and
Speaker 3: it was just a fun time. So everything is like
Speaker 3: baseball related. You're always moving, you're always making a swing motion,
Speaker 3: you're always doing like a throwing motion. So baseball's just
Speaker 3: a huge bar. And now that I'm able to fortunately
Speaker 3: be in the situation, I mean, it's just really cool
Speaker 3: to like go back and like look back to like
Speaker 3: the status I used to play when I was little,
Speaker 3: and see how how much of the passion is still
Speaker 3: growing down there.
Speaker 2: Learning with a bottle cap should make it feel like
Speaker 2: a baseball is the size of a beach ball.
Speaker 3: At baseball with that bad after that, it's like hitting
Speaker 3: with the church's door. Yeah, you're hitting a beach with
Speaker 3: the church's door. That thing is just massive. But my
Speaker 3: dad also used to throw beans, like black beans or
Speaker 3: like any kind stuff like that. He would like throw
Speaker 3: that to me in the backyard is just like we
Speaker 3: gotta train your eye. We gotta train your eyes. It
Speaker 3: didn't work because I have to wear contact the house.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe I was just focusing so much on heat
Speaker 3: of the beans that my eyes got all messed up.
Speaker 3: But it was just a lot of baseball, which is fun, damn.
Speaker 1: And you you hit left handed and throw right handed
Speaker 1: the other way around? Which one is it?
Speaker 3: I throw riety? He had left and I heavy living
Speaker 3: hits in the big leags, right, we can't. I have
Speaker 3: to mention that. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, that stat ready
Speaker 3: to go right, one hundred and thirty one batting average.
Speaker 3: When did you realize you could pitch like you can?
Speaker 3: They made me. Yeah, I wanted to. I wanted to
Speaker 3: be a position player because I like to hit. I
Speaker 3: like to, you know, shag baseballs in the outfield. But
Speaker 3: when I was trying out, I was just very slow.
Speaker 3: So when I was fourteen fifteen, I was still very
Speaker 3: good at baseball for that age, but I was just
Speaker 3: very slow. But I gave it a try. So my
Speaker 3: dad took me to track and feel less. And so
Speaker 3: when I make it there, the track and field Coach's like,
Speaker 3: let me see your form and I do my phone.
Speaker 3: It's like, well, the good thing is your form sucks,
Speaker 3: so we can get you better. We can bet you faster.
Speaker 3: So I ran the sixty sixty yard ash and I
Speaker 3: was like a seven point six, which is super slow.
Speaker 3: So within a few months he got me down to
Speaker 3: like a seventh flat. But then my fifteen year old me,
Speaker 3: I was playing a Picico game and I'd play hard
Speaker 3: and I was leading to home plane. I broke my
Speaker 3: ankle because I crashed with a catcher. So by the
Speaker 3: time I came back, I was back to my seven
Speaker 3: point six. And it was October of twenty eleven and
Speaker 3: my signing period was July twenty twelve. So I was
Speaker 3: super slow, but the arm was still there. So a
Speaker 3: couple of scouts were like they invited me to a tryout,
Speaker 3: making me think I was gonna go as an outfield.
Speaker 3: They were like, why don't you just get on the
Speaker 3: mound real quick? And I'm like, sure, why not? Then
Speaker 3: I started like getting on the mound, and I started
Speaker 3: like creeping up every time I got on the mount,
Speaker 3: until like I finally made the transition, and I didn't
Speaker 3: want to. I honestly didn't want to. But then I
Speaker 3: knew like I was running out of time and the
Speaker 3: windows to sign are super short, like as an international
Speaker 3: free agent. So my dad convinced me, like, just like,
Speaker 3: let's just take the opportunity. Let's get in the business,
Speaker 3: like getting the into the into Pro Bowl. And after that,
Speaker 3: if for whatever reason you try to like make a
Speaker 3: switch or like we can persuade someone to make make
Speaker 3: a position player. Never happened. I sucked a pitching, but
Speaker 3: I started developing that love for it, and I mean
Speaker 3: here I am.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: Wow, and you signed with the marriage at sixteen? Is
Speaker 1: that right?
Speaker 3: Yes, July signed. I signed July fourth, twenty twelve, So
Speaker 3: right at sixteen years old? Wow?
Speaker 1: What you've left so much of a life. I'm fifty
Speaker 1: five and I I've done nothing.
Speaker 2: Some of these, some of these team names that you
Speaker 2: played for going through the miners and getting back up.
Speaker 3: And getting to the majors, what's your favorite one? Let
Speaker 3: me guess, I mean, you stay gotta be the baby Cakes.
Speaker 2: Baby, the New Orleans Babycakes, the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp.
Speaker 3: The Modesta Nuts, Yeah, the Modesto Nuts is awesome. The
Speaker 3: clnt Are lumber Kings. Yes, these are just cool ass names.
Speaker 3: The minor league has some lead names, the lead names,
Speaker 3: e lead promos. People are just having fun and because
Speaker 3: these are such some of them are such small towns
Speaker 3: that people just like devote themselves to watch us play
Speaker 3: for I mean the minor In the minor league, you
Speaker 3: play one hundred and forty games, so for seventy games,
Speaker 3: like that's what people do. So you get to meet
Speaker 3: some people that are just devote not even like when
Speaker 3: I'm when I was playing in Clinton, people were not
Speaker 3: Seattle Mariners fans, they were lumber Kings fans because that's
Speaker 3: the hometown team, if you know what I mean. So
Speaker 3: you get to meet a lot of people that are
Speaker 3: passionate about the little things and then they have all
Speaker 3: kinds of promotions to make it fun for the fans.
Speaker 3: So it's the minor leagues are They're tough. They're tough.
Speaker 3: They're definitely a humbling experience. They get you ready for
Speaker 3: like the real world real quick. But it's also fun
Speaker 3: like if you appreciate like where you are that that
Speaker 3: like for that day. Like I used to tell myself,
Speaker 3: these are my big leagues for right now, I know
Speaker 3: what the big league star, but for today these are
Speaker 3: my big leaks, and I have to like play hard.
Speaker 3: I have to go for it. So when you find
Speaker 3: moments like that, you can have a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Our baby cakes cakes or is it something that has
Speaker 2: nothing to do with desserts?
Speaker 3: Like, what the hell are baby cakes? I remember it's
Speaker 3: something with like a donut or something that sounds but
Speaker 3: don't look up the baby cakes mask good, it's pretty
Speaker 3: I think I've seen it. Yeah, he's like a huge baby.
Speaker 3: It's like this New Orleans. Yeah, I mean they mean yes,
Speaker 3: are like you know, like the place to get him
Speaker 3: is Cafed Dumont Like right, so good, so good. I
Speaker 3: got into the French quarters when I was there, so
Speaker 3: so good again.
Speaker 1: Uh. In case you're just turning in, that's Pablo Lopez
Speaker 1: of the Minnesota Twins. I already love him. And to
Speaker 1: your left right there, that's Marni.
Speaker 3: Gellmer Marni Man.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you guys know each other, right, No.
Speaker 8: Cross paths a few times, yeah, but when I was
Speaker 8: covering the team more regularly, you were not there.
Speaker 3: It was pre Pablo.
Speaker 9: It was baby cake and it jump.
Speaker 3: We speak Spanish when we see each other, right more?
Speaker 3: Oh lah see speaking of that.
Speaker 2: So, Pablo, I don't know if you knew this, but
Speaker 2: according to your Wikipedia page, you speak like something four
Speaker 2: plus language fluently something like that for Ish, right.
Speaker 3: I learned him growing up just because I was at
Speaker 3: this like linguistic institute my parents put name because my
Speaker 3: parents were like insane about education. Yes, both doctors, Yeah exactly, so,
Speaker 3: so they put me at this place where like there,
Speaker 3: we was just fitting me all these subjects in different languages.
Speaker 3: But when I met it to my eighth grade, so
Speaker 3: twelve years old, they asked me which way I wanted
Speaker 3: to intensify in. So I'm having this conversation with you
Speaker 3: right now because I chose to intensify in English. Got it.
Speaker 3: So that's why I'm able to have this conversation. I was, right.
Speaker 2: Well, so here's my follow up. So the man over
Speaker 2: there meets us. Paul Lamberg took what four years of Mandarin?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, how much do you know? Nihow that's what
Speaker 3: he has me?
Speaker 7: How much?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all. Yes, So we try something here.
Speaker 2: Let's try this, say like good morning, nice to me,
Speaker 2: eat you in some language, and let's just see if
Speaker 2: he can guess the language.
Speaker 3: Yes, uh, Spanish a different one, uh bungeem eagle Portuguese. Yes,
Speaker 3: that's cheating.
Speaker 10: Because you were listening when we mentioned Portuguese, only listening
Speaker 10: when he got here, when if you were watching this dream,
Speaker 10: you looked around like you were, you know, going through
Speaker 10: your brain like that sounds.
Speaker 3: A little bit like Portuguese.
Speaker 6: And something right right, And I think you guys said
Speaker 6: speak under Yeah, but that means you were listening.
Speaker 3: At least thirty minutes ago.
Speaker 9: Fantastic and you're a wordsmith.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you for how many Martie me? How you
Speaker 3: know it's Mandarin? Yeah?
Speaker 9: How do you?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Sam, sounds like Colleen knows at least twice as much
Speaker 2: man as you.
Speaker 3: Yes, I guess we go to the same barber, that's what.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: Pablo will pass.
Speaker 2: This makes his Power Trip debut now that he makes
Speaker 2: his initials debut in like a fifty minutes or so.
Speaker 10: More with Pablo Lopizod of the Minnesota Twins, Marnie Gellner,
Speaker 10: and Mark Parrish.
Speaker 3: After this Poward Trip Morning Show on the fan.
Speaker 1: Ball, It's the Power Trip Morning Show at seven twenty six.
Speaker 3: Here we are.
Speaker 1: You're listening live. It's whatever time it is. Whenever you're
Speaker 1: listening to it. If you're listening on the podcast, cast
Speaker 1: A dozens in the main studio, including our new friend
Speaker 1: Minnesota twin, Pablo Lopez, and our old friend Marnie Gilner.
Speaker 3: I mean so old, so old, I mean old.
Speaker 1: Listen, we've been friends forever.
Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah, that's rights for grants.
Speaker 2: So, Pablo, are you familiar with the game you're about
Speaker 2: to play in fifty minutes?
Speaker 3: And are you familiar with.
Speaker 2: The fact that about a year ago your teammate Ryan
Speaker 2: Jeffers played and one which is not easy to do?
Speaker 3: So the pressure's on man about I think if I
Speaker 3: say no, I don't know, absolutely not. You'll figure it out.
Speaker 3: You're smart. Yes, we'll walk it out. I'll try my
Speaker 3: beta minute. I'll have a fun I'll bring some good vibes.
Speaker 3: I'll be charming, so it'll be little fun.
Speaker 1: Check it over.
Speaker 9: You get extra points for charm in this show.
Speaker 3: Perfect If I get any rides, just a bonus, and
Speaker 3: then Jeffers will trash talk you.
Speaker 2: That's okay, love it. Should we do a little bit
Speaker 2: of sports sauce. You could throw some stuff at Pablo
Speaker 2: and see what he thinks.
Speaker 5: Okay, It's time for a fan five on the Power
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Speaker 6: V Minnesota Wild beat the Red Wings four to three
Speaker 6: and zero. Te Corolla capriceofs scored twice, including the overtime winner.
Speaker 6: Quinn Hughes had three assists. The Wilder twenty nine fourteen
Speaker 6: to nine. They battle the Panthers tomorrow at eight pm.
Speaker 5: Perry, Uh and yeah, you know what, since I was
Speaker 5: down in Northfield at has swim meet last night, Zacho,
Speaker 5: you want to take this one.
Speaker 4: I'd love to uh my aunt, Yeah, okay, uh yeah, no.
Speaker 4: It was was a great win for the wild You know,
Speaker 4: broad Wings.
Speaker 3: We talked about it on Wednesday.
Speaker 4: A very good team and it looked like it it
Speaker 4: looked had a bit of a playoff look, particularly for
Speaker 4: the end of it. And uh yeah, Coroll capriz off
Speaker 4: breakout game has been not struggling but not producing like
Speaker 4: he normally does, and he, oh boy did he produce.
Speaker 3: Got a big overtime game winner. There was a Chris
Speaker 3: Hockey lookalike. It was.
Speaker 4: It was a good night in Saint Paul and hopefully
Speaker 4: that continues on Hockey Day tomorrow night against the Florida Panthers,
Speaker 4: and as you know, Parish you said it on Wednesday,
Speaker 4: It's very true. Just never gets any easier in this
Speaker 4: the schedule as they steam roll towards the Olympic break right.
Speaker 3: Nailed it, Pablo.
Speaker 2: They ever had you do Let's play hockey the Wild
Speaker 2: ever had you out.
Speaker 3: To a game? They actually did when they played the
Speaker 3: Panthers in Miami. I think it was in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 3: so it's been the only time I've watched it Wild Yeah,
Speaker 3: play in person, which was super cool, super cool. Sure. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Florida has been pretty good for a long time.
Speaker 1: A hockey ice hockey reroll big in Venezuela, be huge,
Speaker 1: you know, mountains.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're gonna have a good team for
Speaker 3: the Winter Olympics. You know, I'm gonna take up break
Speaker 3: from spring training to go. Yeah.
Speaker 6: The Wolves are a sinking ship. They just four straight
Speaker 6: and two of their losses they were double digit favorites.
Speaker 6: They lost last night one twenty one to fifteen to
Speaker 6: the Bulls.
Speaker 3: They host the Warriors tomorrow Martins at four thirty.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's not been a good stretch, especially these last two.
Speaker 3: Last night.
Speaker 8: Anthony Edwards has got two fouls in the first four minutes,
Speaker 8: and normally he plays all twelve minutes of the first quarter,
Speaker 8: and it things like that can throw him off, and
Speaker 8: that threw him off, and he just didn't I don't know.
Speaker 8: He never looked like himself. He was missing shots in
Speaker 8: the lane that he would normally fall for him. He
Speaker 8: was nine for twenty five, had twenty points, which you
Speaker 8: have these nights.
Speaker 9: He is human and he is allowed to have.
Speaker 8: An off night. It just wasn't a good night to
Speaker 8: have an off night. And the Wolves defense just is
Speaker 8: not good enough right now, and it needs to it
Speaker 8: needs to correct. And I don't think that we should
Speaker 8: lower our expectations because this from week to week we
Speaker 8: could think we're challenging for a championship or our ship
Speaker 8: is sinking as you phrased it sas thank you, and
Speaker 8: it will go back to we can contend for a
Speaker 8: championship in a week as soon as this kind of
Speaker 8: straightens itself out.
Speaker 3: They desperately need a point guard.
Speaker 9: They need something else.
Speaker 3: Mike Condley, great, dude, now it's over.
Speaker 6: Devincenzo can't really do it, and Dillingham doesn't get off
Speaker 6: the bench.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and bones Highland here and there is a great option.
Speaker 8: But last night he was one for six and had
Speaker 8: three points. So the bench total had twenty eight points.
Speaker 8: NAS had twenty of them. So outside of NAS read
Speaker 8: the bench yes, just probably doesn't have enough.
Speaker 9: Probably play any basketball in Venezuela.
Speaker 3: Only because I was toll during recess in school. But
Speaker 3: actually so we do have a basketball league, which is
Speaker 3: not good enough. It's not very good. But I used
Speaker 3: to go basketball games with my dad, and my dad
Speaker 3: played more basketball than I did. I would just play
Speaker 3: for fun. But it's you have to be insanely athletic
Speaker 3: to play basketball, and I don't know how those people
Speaker 3: move that will when they're that tall, Like they make
Speaker 3: me look short, and they make me look like I'm
Speaker 3: not that athletic. So I do admire and respect what
Speaker 3: they do. And I hear some people say like, oh,
Speaker 3: they only play twelve minutes four times, like that's just
Speaker 3: non stop back and forth, not even doing suicides, like
Speaker 3: back and forth and never stuff, never ending. So I
Speaker 3: don't know much about basketball, but from athletes standpoint, I
Speaker 3: admire like what they can do physically and the way
Speaker 3: they perform.
Speaker 2: They're in good shame, super dumb question because I know
Speaker 2: every team has their own athletic trainer and staff and
Speaker 2: nutritionists and doctors and stuff, but how often do Minnesota
Speaker 2: Twins players overlap with other sports teams in the Twin Cities?
Speaker 2: Like do you ever cross paths with a trainer with
Speaker 2: a wild member of Vikings player?
Speaker 3: Wolf? And anything like that doesn't happen too much. But
Speaker 3: these last season in twenty twenty five, I was injured
Speaker 3: most of it, and then there was a moment where
Speaker 3: I was doing my rehabit target field and I know
Speaker 3: that Wolves were using target field to run like stands,
Speaker 3: like them running up and down the stands, and Anthony
Speaker 3: Others was one of them, and that was super cool.
Speaker 3: So our pitt for the Twins was really good friends
Speaker 3: with I think the strengths coach for the Wolves. So
Speaker 3: we overlap a target field once or twice, so that
Speaker 3: was pretty cool. Cool, Yeah, right, Saus.
Speaker 6: The Baltimore Ravens are hiring former Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse
Speaker 6: Minter is their head coach, ats a five year deal.
Speaker 9: Duh.
Speaker 6: The NFL Final Four set and the Showdown starts on
Speaker 6: Sunday with the Pats at Denver. The Patriots are a
Speaker 6: four and a half point favorite over the home team,
Speaker 6: the Denver Broncos. Then at five thirty, the Seahawks battle
Speaker 6: the Rams. The Seahawks are a two and a half
Speaker 6: point favorite.
Speaker 1: Wow, I can't wait. Yeah, you like football, American football
Speaker 1: at all, Pablo.
Speaker 3: I like it. I'm still learning in Yeah. Mitch, who
Speaker 3: drove me here from the Twins, actually was my GM
Speaker 3: for my first ever fantasy football league. I never got
Speaker 3: a text that we won, so I assume we did
Speaker 3: now win, but too it was fun. I think we
Speaker 3: swore the most points a couple of weeks here and there.
Speaker 2: If you never got a text, is there a chance
Speaker 2: that you just deposited the money and it just ran.
Speaker 3: I don't think so, but you never know. But it
Speaker 3: was fun. It was cool to learn about that. He
Speaker 3: was mad at me because I didn't go to the draft,
Speaker 3: but he drafted the one player I wanted him to draft,
Speaker 3: so that was good, which was the kicker for the Patriots.
Speaker 3: I know, the only Venice Swelling in the NFL right now,
Speaker 3: but I wanted him to drafting in the first round then.
Speaker 3: But he did make a good point. If I'm a
Speaker 3: GM and I draft I think the last round the
Speaker 3: player you wanted me to be drafting the first round
Speaker 3: them is I'm a good gem. I'm like, you know,
Speaker 3: you're not wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he did say that, and he got him, got
Speaker 2: him late, Yes, he got him late.
Speaker 3: Last pick. See.
Speaker 8: Does that make the Patriots your favorite NFL team because
Speaker 8: of that connection?
Speaker 3: Yes? But the originally is a forty nine Ers just
Speaker 3: because it's like fun, I'm number forty nine and I'm
Speaker 3: not like really like into football. Sorry, I'm number forty nine.
Speaker 3: Let me just be a forty nine Ers fan just
Speaker 3: to just to make it fun. But yeah, right now,
Speaker 3: like the four that are left, I'm going for the
Speaker 3: Patriots because of the kicker. How'd you find the love
Speaker 3: of forty nine?
Speaker 2: Do you have some kind of personal significance to that
Speaker 2: or is that just a number you picked up early?
Speaker 3: I actually didn't pick it, but when they gave it
Speaker 3: to me, there was a couple of pitchers that I
Speaker 3: admired with number forty nine. Ja Corietto was one of
Speaker 3: them who was like super super good when he was
Speaker 3: with his Chicago Cubs once. So when they gave me
Speaker 3: forty nine, I'm like, you know, it's a really good
Speaker 3: pitching number. By the time I considered changing in my
Speaker 3: family had gear with forty nine all over, so I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: I can't do this to them, So I just stuck
Speaker 3: with it. And anymore, if I want to go somewhere now,
Speaker 3: I have to like buy the number. Like that's a
Speaker 3: tradition in sports where you go somewhere, and like if
Speaker 3: you want that number, you have to buy it. So
Speaker 3: when I came to the Twins, I had to buy
Speaker 3: it from Louis Varln. So I call him and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 3: like can I take forty nine? So like yeah, you
Speaker 3: can take it. And then like spring training, I bought
Speaker 3: him a couple of suits with like some tailor that
Speaker 3: went to our camp. Not a bad deal.
Speaker 6: What's the what is the biggest amount or biggest gift
Speaker 6: you've seen exchange for a number?
Speaker 3: I have heard of twenty thousand dollars watches. I once
Speaker 3: here about a motorcycle. And I know a guy that
Speaker 3: used to be with the Padress when Juan Soda go
Speaker 3: traded to the Padres almost got one Soda to give
Speaker 3: him a boat, but then settle.
Speaker 1: For a watch.
Speaker 3: So some of these deals, well do you see do
Speaker 3: you see the old tiny with Joe Kelly one tiny
Speaker 3: got him a Porsche. Yeah, my goodness, yeah, he got
Speaker 3: him a whole whole car. He signed a seven hundred
Speaker 3: million dollars deal.
Speaker 5: He could us all yeah, yeah, yeah, dinner from Michael Packa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mitch, Bob me a suit with your fantasy football many.
Speaker 3: A porn.
Speaker 2: Taylor Rogers is back with the Twins. That's in the
Speaker 2: news today too. Taylor agreed to a one year, two
Speaker 2: million dollar deal with the Twins. Thirty five years old.
Speaker 2: Was he here when you were here? What year did
Speaker 2: you get here?
Speaker 3: I got here for the season of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: so he was no longer year. But in baseball, when
Speaker 3: you have good reputations like the one he does, like
Speaker 3: you know that he's a fantastic human being. Great picture.
Speaker 3: Also for the Twins a couple of years back, So
Speaker 3: super excited to get to know him and then just
Speaker 3: learn from him what he's learned with other teams, so
Speaker 3: we can like bring back into our culture and you know,
Speaker 3: get a good vibe going get something good in the clubhouse.
Speaker 3: So when you get good, good people, good people that
Speaker 3: are also good players, like into the clubhouse, you know,
Speaker 3: like we're gonna be able to change a lot of
Speaker 3: We're gonna be able to bring a lot of good
Speaker 3: things into like our philosophy, our community. So super excited
Speaker 3: to meet and him. Hopefully I get to meet him
Speaker 3: this weekend.
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 8: I was just gonna ask about his entrance song, because
Speaker 8: didn't Michigan confirm, didn't Taylor Rogers have the chain by
Speaker 8: Fleetwood Mac. His entrance from the bullpen was awesome and
Speaker 8: the ribbon board would have chains on it. And if
Speaker 8: you think of Fleetwood Mac, you've I've seen you sing
Speaker 8: this in concert.
Speaker 1: Ye, huh, great song.
Speaker 8: I would never think what a great baseball entrance song,
Speaker 8: but then you hear it and it's sort of dark
Speaker 8: and it will never break because it doesn't on the surface,
Speaker 8: so like a good pick, but it worked.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 9: And you, as a starter, don't have a bullpen entrance song.
Speaker 3: No, I don't have a bullpen entrance, but well I
Speaker 3: do get the luxury they play my song for like
Speaker 3: a good thirty forty seconds. Some relievers they get, some
Speaker 3: relievers they get get the short end on the stick
Speaker 3: because someone comes in and like they're doing some promo
Speaker 3: and then by the time the promo's over, the picture
Speaker 3: has to pitch, so if some relivers do get the
Speaker 3: short end on the stick, I get a little spoiled
Speaker 3: because I do get like at least thirty seconds of
Speaker 3: my song with a little hype of video. So I mean,
Speaker 3: you win some, you lose some. But the closer entrance
Speaker 3: are really really cool. That's been so fun to see
Speaker 3: in the last I don't know, anywhere from five to
Speaker 3: six years, how teams are making a cool, like cool
Speaker 3: experience when you bring your closer, making light shows, turning
Speaker 3: the lights off, like obviously we all know they joined
Speaker 3: RAM one and then anywhere around the league you see
Speaker 3: teams trying to wind up each other with the entrances.
Speaker 3: So it's really cool to see.
Speaker 8: Because they used to just jog in from the bullpen
Speaker 8: and pitch. Yeah, there was nothing, and now it's.
Speaker 3: And now it's now it's a part of the game.
Speaker 3: It's awesome. Yeah, what's your what's your song? I usually
Speaker 3: stick to song by Venezuelan artists, so like last year
Speaker 3: I had one by this Banayana, which is like my
Speaker 3: favorite band right now. But I always try to go
Speaker 3: for something that's a little like HiPE, so like I
Speaker 3: won Venezuela, but I want something that people can like
Speaker 3: move to or dance to, so but I usually try
Speaker 3: to stick to like that kind of like that artist
Speaker 3: love It sounds good.
Speaker 2: All right, More with Pablo Lopez is the Minnesota Twins
Speaker 2: After this Power Drew Morning Joe on the Fan.
Speaker 1: All right, too quick back bathroom break. But don't worry.
Speaker 1: Perry's here and I'm here.
Speaker 3: We got we got this covered. We don't need anyone else.
Speaker 1: Can you want to talk about like other sports, like
Speaker 1: basketball stuff like that. Yeah, let's let's break down our
Speaker 1: experts in phone and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're going to break down to the Celtics Golden
Speaker 5: State Hawk.
Speaker 9: Thanks for the unrivaled assist.
Speaker 1: You're welcome.
Speaker 9: Usually Corey isn't here to guide me through that that grid.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, you know you can tell the ones that
Speaker 8: the real radio professionals, sure, those that just kind.
Speaker 9: Of dip in and out.
Speaker 3: She was actually just making fun of me for not
Speaker 3: being able to read that. That's why I can't do
Speaker 3: live spots.
Speaker 5: So I kind of enjoyed the fact that she messed
Speaker 5: it up, you.
Speaker 1: Know, Corey, Yes, sir, I love when we have guests
Speaker 1: in and I try to learn a little bit more
Speaker 1: about him and Pablo Lopez is here, the Minnesota Twins,
Speaker 1: of course, and his home country of Venezuela. Here's something
Speaker 1: I did not know until this morning. Christopher Columbus discovered essentially,
Speaker 1: you know what, as we say, Venezuela on his third voyage.
Speaker 1: I didn't know he did more than one, did you guys?
Speaker 1: Oh no, fourteen ninety two we've heard about that. But
Speaker 1: in fourteen ninety eight, I'm the current drug him over
Speaker 1: to Venezuela. There he was, how about that? Didn't know that?
Speaker 1: Learning about your beautiful country and when I say beautiful,
Speaker 1: my goodness, the pictures, holy moly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know you know it's called Venezuela.
Speaker 1: I do not.
Speaker 3: So when people first made it to like what it's,
Speaker 3: what's Venezuela right now? They made it actually to my
Speaker 3: state through the lake and they saw these like little
Speaker 3: houses floating in the water, and then they say like, oh,
Speaker 3: it looks like Venice. So Venezuela pretty much meant little Venice.
Speaker 3: Oh so, because he gave that feeling. So like these
Speaker 3: houses were called parafitos that's pa la fa a no
Speaker 3: f I t o s. And then like these were
Speaker 3: just like floating houses, so people were moving like in boats.
Speaker 3: So they gave like this like Spanish like girls that
Speaker 3: impression of like little Venice. Oh wow, I did not
Speaker 3: know that, never thought of that. That makes sense.
Speaker 8: Did all the kids and especially all the boys played
Speaker 8: baseball all the time when you were growing up?
Speaker 3: Most of us, like most of us were always at
Speaker 3: the baseball field. That's why I said, like my my
Speaker 3: classmates were also my teammates, my team, like my neighbors
Speaker 3: were also my teammates, and we were always just playing baseball.
Speaker 3: And like soccer is also big play, but soccers was
Speaker 3: more like what you would play either on recess at
Speaker 3: school or like sometimes played on the streets, just like
Speaker 3: play soccer, Like you would put like two rocks like
Speaker 3: at the end of the street and two rocks on
Speaker 3: the other like that. That was like the gold sos
Speaker 3: like if the if the ball went through those, you
Speaker 3: would score. But it was mainly baseball. Baseball was like
Speaker 3: the most organized to play for a team like little
Speaker 3: leagues and then do a lot of like travel ball
Speaker 3: within they so it was yeah, like the passion for it.
Speaker 3: It's crazy and it's cool that at least, like my
Speaker 3: hometown is still keeping up with the baseball tradition, and
Speaker 3: I try to help out as much as I can now,
Speaker 3: like sending like supplies for like my brand deals with
Speaker 3: like Mizuno that they send me equipment. I also have
Speaker 3: a worked on my deal that I get some donation money,
Speaker 3: so like I get to buy a decent amount of
Speaker 3: gear and equipment and I send it back home to
Speaker 3: like the little league where I play. That Wow, awesome.
Speaker 1: I've got a bunch of random baseball questions that okay
Speaker 1: with you, Absolutely okay. As a pitcher, do you have
Speaker 1: to throw the baseball every day or do you feel
Speaker 1: like you should?
Speaker 3: So I'm on a five day cycle. The only day
Speaker 3: I don't throw it's a day after pitching, and it's
Speaker 3: for two reasons. Number one is for rest, like recovery,
Speaker 3: like I do enough to recover with like working out
Speaker 3: and shoulder exercises. The second reason is because I'm so
Speaker 3: sorry the day after pitching that I'm not really getting
Speaker 3: anything out of throwing that day, Like I'm not like
Speaker 3: I'm not getting stronger, I'm not getting better at throwing
Speaker 3: that day because I'm just so beat up. So the
Speaker 3: other days I do throw consistently, so Each day has
Speaker 3: a certain distance and volumes. So Day one, I don't throw.
Speaker 3: Day two it's like a moderate free covery day. Day
Speaker 3: three we call it a bullpen day, which is a
Speaker 3: high intensity to day. And then day four it's like
Speaker 3: moderate too low because I'm getting ready for day five,
Speaker 3: which is game day.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry minding a figure. My You max out, according
Speaker 1: to Wikipedia at ninety seven miles per hour fastball, but
Speaker 1: your average velocities ninety two to ninety five. Can you
Speaker 1: tell the difference between a ninety one mile prior fastball
Speaker 1: and a ninety eight mile prior fastball or ninety seven
Speaker 1: mile pro fastball when it leaves your hand?
Speaker 3: Absolutely kill? Really, I mean, and you can tell, like
Speaker 3: on the pregame bullpen like oh I'm pumping today, or like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to figure it out today. And it
Speaker 3: just is the nature of the game, is the nature
Speaker 3: of life, you know, Like I wish every single day
Speaker 3: I felt my best or like I had my a stuff,
Speaker 3: but it's all gonna happen. Like over thirty two starts
Speaker 3: in a season, I may have my best stuff like
Speaker 3: eight times. So you're talking like for twenty four stars.
Speaker 3: You're just grinding, like you're just like three out of
Speaker 3: four times, you're like have to figure out with why
Speaker 3: you have you you may not have your A stuff,
Speaker 3: but I have to bake my beast off my A
Speaker 3: stuff for the day. But like when those eight stars
Speaker 3: that I do have myself, like nothing's gonna stop me.
Speaker 3: Like I'm gonna be pumping those ninety sevens ninety eight,
Speaker 3: so I'm gonna be able to like hit my spots
Speaker 3: and every time I'm gonna be able to throw whatever
Speaker 3: pitch in any count. So those are the fun days
Speaker 3: and those are when those are like your elite stars.
Speaker 3: We're all bound to have, like those stars, we're bound
Speaker 3: to like have to battle through some and then. So
Speaker 3: but you can definitely tell when you have your A stuff.
Speaker 3: You can definitely tell when like when the balls like
Speaker 3: have like that downhel angle and it's just like you're
Speaker 3: never gonna go Like.
Speaker 2: Can the opposing team know before the game like, oh crap,
Speaker 2: like Pablo's got it. They can they see it on
Speaker 2: the mound before the game even starts at year that
Speaker 2: you're just flinging it.
Speaker 3: They can see in big trouble, they can see it
Speaker 3: within the first five pitches. The first five pitches, the
Speaker 3: first two batters, they can see it. They can also
Speaker 3: see it the other way. They can also see it
Speaker 3: if you don't have it. So that's why I try
Speaker 3: to be like very emotionless on the mound, like I
Speaker 3: try to make it. I try emphasize on the trick.
Speaker 3: I try to make it seem like everything I'm doing
Speaker 3: is by design, Like if I'm all over the place,
Speaker 3: I'm like try to be composed to be like that's
Speaker 3: my plan. I may be freaking out on the inside,
Speaker 3: like what was my stuff right? Like why am I
Speaker 3: not throwing strikes when I want to throw strikes? But
Speaker 3: on the outside, you have to make it seem like
Speaker 3: that's your plan for the day, Like you, that's you,
Speaker 3: that's your approach for the day, Like, oh, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be effectively wild today. In the meantime, trying to throw
Speaker 3: middle middle and it is just going open in on
Speaker 3: these guys. But the opposing team, they're like sharks man.
Speaker 3: They smell the blood, Like if they see you bleeding,
Speaker 3: they're gonna make you bleed. They're gonna step on you.
Speaker 3: They're gonna like find little things to do to row
Speaker 3: you up. Even more so, you have to like find
Speaker 3: ways within yourself to stay composed and then externalize that
Speaker 3: sense of confidence. I always say that most of life's
Speaker 3: most of life is about confidence. And the tricky thing
Speaker 3: about confidence someone knows if it's real or fake. So
Speaker 3: if you look confident people, my thing you are and
Speaker 3: then you try to go with it. And then as
Speaker 3: a start, do I get the luxury to try to
Speaker 3: go deep into the game. So then like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna figure out and let me let me try to,
Speaker 3: let me try in this moment where it's not a
Speaker 3: high livered situation to see if I can find this pitch.
Speaker 3: And then when you find it, and then things are
Speaker 3: if they start getting in this proof and then like
Speaker 3: back the fourth, the fifth to sixth in and like
Speaker 3: I'm locked in and I'm able to give the depth
Speaker 3: that I want to give. Who's the top? Oh?
Speaker 6: Sorry, mart who's the toughest pitcher you you face? Or
Speaker 6: excuse me, hitter that you just even if you have
Speaker 6: your ace stuff, you can't get out.
Speaker 3: Who is? Who's somebody that comes to mind? Corey Sieger? Yeah,
Speaker 3: who's now with the Texas Rangers? Like he, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's mostly one of the And I've heard these things before,
Speaker 3: Like some batters, whether it's because of their batting stands
Speaker 3: or where they stand in the box, they might be
Speaker 3: able to see the ball better out of like any
Speaker 3: specific any particular pictures hands. So like Corey Seekers has here.
Speaker 3: I think you see like three homers off of me,
Speaker 3: all three on different pitches. So I'm so the last
Speaker 3: time I face him, like I usually do reports for
Speaker 3: the nine guys, I'm gonna face like, I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: emphasize some Corey Siger, it was you. It was just
Speaker 3: like a personal thing. I made it personal, like my
Speaker 3: reports were so specific for him. I'm like, let me
Speaker 3: just find where all the blue blues good like blues
Speaker 3: means where they're cold in the batting zone, in the
Speaker 3: strike zone. So I'm like, let me find all the
Speaker 3: blue So where the blue is with what pitch, what location,
Speaker 3: what count So like I made all this plan like
Speaker 3: Cory Seekers, Mi g He's not gonna beat me. You
Speaker 3: always hear like this is a guy that cannot beat you.
Speaker 3: You want to get after this guy. So I found
Speaker 3: the spot, and I'm like, I'm just gonna pepper him
Speaker 3: with fastballs inside because in the last two weeks leading
Speaker 3: up to that game, he was not getting to that spot.
Speaker 3: So I was just peppering him. And that day, thankfully
Speaker 3: I had my a stuff, so I was pumping ninety
Speaker 3: seven ninety eight opening his kitchen. And then when you
Speaker 3: see them cheat, then you buy. Then you buy yourself
Speaker 3: some real estate out there. So they always say for pitching,
Speaker 3: like batters can't cover and can't cover everything. If you're thinking,
Speaker 3: you can cover outside. So once I made him aware
Speaker 3: of in, then I exposed him outside and then that's
Speaker 3: just the back and forth. That's just the back and forth.
Speaker 3: You use something to open something else. You want to
Speaker 3: be one step ahead, Like if I'm going to get
Speaker 3: you out with a change up, I have to make
Speaker 3: you respect the other part of the zone. So about
Speaker 3: it like him that day, I just made it like
Speaker 3: my mission to be one step ahead of him. Genius. Wow.
Speaker 8: The in the course of a game, when you often
Speaker 8: see like an umpire throw a fresh ball or get
Speaker 8: the catcher, get a fresh ball from the umpire and
Speaker 8: throw to the pitcher and then it's an immediate like
Speaker 8: a couple of spins around the hand and toss that
Speaker 8: one out.
Speaker 9: I need anyone when that happens to you.
Speaker 8: What is it that you feel on the baseball that
Speaker 8: you don't like most often that you need to feel
Speaker 8: when you get a fresh pearl.
Speaker 3: They just feel slippery, they feel sleeppery, they feel wet.
Speaker 3: Just because some games are so hot, the umpires are
Speaker 3: also sweating, and the umpires kip their balls on the
Speaker 3: packets next to them, so sometimes you get one and
Speaker 3: there's zkim wet. I'm like, this is just sweating. As
Speaker 3: much as I am. I'm behind the patcher. So I
Speaker 3: actually have a fun joke with my friend Fred, who's
Speaker 3: the security guard for the Twins. He sits at the
Speaker 3: end of the dog out, so he's like, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: count how many of baseballs you throw out, because I
Speaker 3: throw a get a load of baseballs. Like every time
Speaker 3: I get a baseball, I toss it out. I mean,
Speaker 3: I get a baseball and I don't like it, I
Speaker 3: toss it out. So he keeps strake up how many
Speaker 3: I do. So it's quite a bit.
Speaker 9: But why are you tossing them?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 3: They're all wet, They're just slippery, They're slippery. They just
Speaker 3: feel like.
Speaker 9: Well, then you get one all of a sudden it's sandpaper,
Speaker 9: like there it is.
Speaker 3: Well, that's just like some sometimes there's no consistence because
Speaker 3: it's actually people who's roping these baseballs with a special
Speaker 3: mud that they use. But like you know, it's a
Speaker 3: human element of it. Like some might be a little darker,
Speaker 3: so it might be a little clearer. So there's just
Speaker 3: there's just a few that just feel too slippery. But
Speaker 3: then also I feel bad if I ask for a
Speaker 3: new one and I get one it's also sleepery. I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: I can't do I can't be these guys. So I
Speaker 3: just then then if I get it a second time,
Speaker 3: I have to deal with in.
Speaker 2: So a couple of months ago, we had your new manager,
Speaker 2: Derek Shelton.
Speaker 3: It seems like a great dude. We liked him a
Speaker 3: lot fun times.
Speaker 2: How much in game difference can a manager make for
Speaker 2: a starting pitcher? Like what is the role during the game,
Speaker 2: not necessarily coaching off the field before the game?
Speaker 3: Like what what?
Speaker 2: How important is the relationship between you and Derek. It's
Speaker 2: a It's a huge relationship.
Speaker 3: It's a huge component and the biggest thing it's about confidence.
Speaker 3: You know, you want your manager to trust you when
Speaker 3: you're in the mountain, then you are the best guy.
Speaker 3: You are the best picture to get get this better out. Now,
Speaker 3: that's earned. You don't get that for free. You gotta
Speaker 3: earn it. So you have to find moments in a
Speaker 3: season where like it's one of those situations where like, oh,
Speaker 3: the manager might take me out, but I want to
Speaker 3: prove to him that in these situations I can still perform.
Speaker 3: I'm still your better option, your best option. It could
Speaker 3: be later in the game, I'm better than any reliever
Speaker 3: right now. Like, that's the mentality you have to have,
Speaker 3: and you got to earn that. So you have to
Speaker 3: like have conversations with your manager, like leading up to
Speaker 3: the game or like the relationship you build with him
Speaker 3: to let them let the manager know like, hey, I'm
Speaker 3: a competitor. I get the luxury to be spoiled for
Speaker 3: four days to get ready for this game. But on
Speaker 3: this game, you gotta let me die on that mound.
Speaker 3: You gotta let me just blead for my guys. You
Speaker 3: gotta let me just be your best option. Like I
Speaker 3: have four days to recover, just let me go all out.
Speaker 3: So you let the manager know that that's your mentality,
Speaker 3: Like that's just how I prepare mysel and then when
Speaker 3: you're on the mountain, like that's six seventh inning basis loading, No, ou,
Speaker 3: it's late in the game. Like the manager knows that
Speaker 3: your built for those moments, and then when he gives
Speaker 3: you the opportunity, then you can screw up because then
Speaker 3: you're not gonna get it again. Then like the next situation,
Speaker 3: it's a high leverage moment, then he's gonna take you out,
Speaker 3: which is fine. That's why we have a great bullpen set.
Speaker 3: That's why relievers are so nasty nowadays, so they can
Speaker 3: get you out of those situations. But like you know,
Speaker 3: it's that like ego that we all have as athletes,
Speaker 3: Like I want to be the guy to get out
Speaker 3: of any situation. So like the manager having your back
Speaker 3: in those moments, it just makes a huge difference. And
Speaker 3: that's like the kind of guy that Shelton looks to be.
Speaker 3: Like he called me the day after he got higher,
Speaker 3: which I thought was a super professional move, and like
Speaker 3: I appreciated it to no end. So I'm excited to
Speaker 3: meet him in person two because then we had a
Speaker 3: couple of zoom sessions. But I'm super excited.
Speaker 1: Pablo Lopezigan's our guests in the Minsota Twins, and I
Speaker 1: want to be your best friend now if that's possible.
Speaker 1: You throw a baseball ninety eight miles per hour. You
Speaker 1: have a weapon in your hand every time you throw
Speaker 1: the ball. Do you ever does that ever factor into
Speaker 1: your head that you you know, have you ever clobbered anybody?
Speaker 3: Does that?
Speaker 1: Does that wear you? Do you? Do you? And if
Speaker 1: you do, do you stay up late feeling bad about it?
Speaker 1: How do you deal with that?
Speaker 3: I have? I have my first share of uh hit
Speaker 3: by pitches, And it's a it's a mentality, like when
Speaker 3: you're on the mound, you you just know that you
Speaker 3: can be afraid of like making people aware that you
Speaker 3: have that weapon. You know the way you word it,
Speaker 3: and like you have that weapon, you never like you
Speaker 3: never want to hurt anybody. Let's like, let me let
Speaker 3: me just make sure that I'm saying that you never
Speaker 3: want to hurt anybody, Like if anything has a pitcher,
Speaker 3: I never want to throw balls. I want to throw
Speaker 3: high quality pitches. I want to throw high quality strikes.
Speaker 3: But there's some situations and you know, you may not
Speaker 3: be feeling that you're hitting all of your spots, but
Speaker 3: you also don't want to miss over the zone and
Speaker 3: then like you end up and you end up hitting somebody.
Speaker 3: But I took about being emotionless. I talk about being
Speaker 3: kind of like stoic on the mount, and you can
Speaker 3: show a little bit of like remorse when that happen,
Speaker 3: and you have to just make it seem like, hey,
Speaker 3: I may you aware that I'm gonna pitch inside, and
Speaker 3: then the batter like the battery on the ondex circles
Speaker 3: paying attention to add the batters and the dog or
Speaker 3: paying attention to that, like this guy's not afraid to
Speaker 3: pitch in. This guy's not afraid to show that we
Speaker 3: can't get to come from the mount. So you can
Speaker 3: you can flip in to be a little bit positive,
Speaker 3: like I'm gonna use this to make them aware that
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pitch inside. But you also don't want to
Speaker 3: do that. Like a few years back, I was pitching
Speaker 3: against the Saint Louis Cardinals and there was a guy
Speaker 3: that we had to throw inside and I hit him
Speaker 3: in the hand on accident and I actually broke something.
Speaker 3: And he was a Venezuelan guy. So after the game,
Speaker 3: I DM him on Instagram'm like, dude, I'm really sorry,
Speaker 3: like I heard the news. I hope, like you know,
Speaker 3: speed of recovery. He's like the warmant's part of the game,
Speaker 3: Like I know you're a true pro, so like you
Speaker 3: do you do feel bad after the fact. Or one
Speaker 3: time it happened and the player, the other player for
Speaker 3: the Royals had to get X raised in our clubhouse
Speaker 3: after and I saw him and I'm like, dude, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: He's like, don't worry about it. So we do have
Speaker 3: that like after the game, after the fact, once we
Speaker 3: flipped to switch off to like, shoot, I'm not pitching anymore,
Speaker 3: Like how's the guy doing?
Speaker 2: So yeah, yep, wow, all right, that's Pablo Lopezant and
Speaker 2: the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 3: We'll do one more segment with him before we play Initials.
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Speaker 2: Jack Belt will give Pablo a chance to play the
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