Speaker 1: The Giants.
Speaker 2: Though, on Saturday, in the afternoon before the four point
Speaker 2: fifteen game, we'll be putting a number of players on
Speaker 2: the Wall of Fame, including our next guest, Pablo Sandoval,
Speaker 2: three time World Series Champion, twenty twelve World Series MVP.
Speaker 2: He's back in town the Kung Fu Pandam. He's with
Speaker 2: us on the UMA guest Line to talk a little
Speaker 2: bit about the weekend ahead.
Speaker 1: Pablo, how are you hi?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 4: Doing my friend doing the packing all my stuff my
Speaker 4: family to head to the airport to get to San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Oh man, we're so excited that you're coming to town.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I was reading your story.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously we know all about you because you
Speaker 2: were here and what a great career you had here.
Speaker 2: But I was reading the story, Pablo, about when you
Speaker 2: were a kid, how you.
Speaker 1: Used to practice baseball in.
Speaker 2: An empty two car garage with Michael, your brother who
Speaker 2: played in the I think the Twins organization. Can do
Speaker 2: you remember those days of the two of you guys
Speaker 2: as little guys playing baseball in the garage.
Speaker 5: So I do remember, man, just about back back back
Speaker 5: then when you know when that uh, when we join
Speaker 5: young guys joined our life doing.
Speaker 4: A lot of things in the in the garage.
Speaker 5: And play bowl with the rum stick and and baseball.
Speaker 4: We we sucks.
Speaker 1: That is awesome. That is awesome. Is it?
Speaker 2: Is it safe to say you know that a couple
Speaker 2: X giants art were your heroes as a kid. I
Speaker 2: mean you grew up in Venezuela. How much was omarvs.
Speaker 2: Scale and Andres Galarraga? How much were they important to
Speaker 2: you as as like maybe you're young, your idols as
Speaker 2: a youngster, I mean a lot.
Speaker 4: For me, you know, especially Undressed.
Speaker 6: This big cat, the big cabin is one of my
Speaker 6: mother guys that I always look at because the big guy,
Speaker 6: how he handled those two things playing.
Speaker 4: First base and Omar Omar. I want to want to
Speaker 4: play short style because Omar. So you know, it's one
Speaker 4: of the things.
Speaker 5: That you know, I've got the opportunity to share time
Speaker 5: we Omar when.
Speaker 4: I when I got the call ou to Big Blizabeth,
Speaker 4: you know we we address is.
Speaker 5: You know, had a couple I had an opportunity in
Speaker 5: the war baseball class.
Speaker 4: He had a hitting coach, learned a lot from him.
Speaker 1: Hey do you still play in the winter in Venezuela?
Speaker 1: And and how.
Speaker 2: Long will you if you are you still playing? And
Speaker 2: and and how long do you plan on playing?
Speaker 4: No, no, I'm not playing.
Speaker 5: I take a time to spend time with my family,
Speaker 5: you know, guy, give me the opportunity to.
Speaker 4: Share times with my kids and my family.
Speaker 5: And you know, I just enjoying the time I had
Speaker 5: a new new babies six the six months and and
Speaker 5: and enjoying their time hasad being a dat.
Speaker 2: So now is this kid number five for you? Or
Speaker 2: number six? Space six?
Speaker 1: Wow? Wow? That well?
Speaker 2: Congratulations? And you're what you're living in Miami? You're down
Speaker 2: in Miami now?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I live in my Yes, I'm Miami now.
Speaker 1: Well, man, we're excited to hear you. Giants.
Speaker 2: Fans obviously are so excited that you'll be back this weekend.
Speaker 2: I got to ask you about, you know, Game one
Speaker 2: of the twenty twelve World Series, Pablo, you're one of
Speaker 2: four players to hit three bombs in a World Series game.
Speaker 2: You're on a list with Babe Ruth, Albert poolholes in,
Speaker 2: Reggie Jackson, Mister October, what was your recollections of that
Speaker 2: night against Verlander at Oracle Park?
Speaker 1: What a special night that was?
Speaker 5: What is so special that you know that they you know,
Speaker 5: the three Homers and you know everything the Bride of
Speaker 5: Science that So you know, I got opportunity to have
Speaker 5: a great teammates.
Speaker 4: I have great support from my teammates.
Speaker 5: So if it if I don't have that, we don't
Speaker 5: get to that, I don't get the opportunity to play
Speaker 5: in the Words series. Well, you know, my teammates do
Speaker 5: everything to make the nine special for me.
Speaker 2: You you were a guy that you could hit a
Speaker 2: ball off your you know, off the ground, and you
Speaker 2: could hit a ball around your eyes.
Speaker 1: Where did that come from? That?
Speaker 2: That gigantic you know, you have the ability to hit
Speaker 2: any pitch. Really, you're the ultimate bad ball hitter, almost
Speaker 2: like a Vladdie Guerrero.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the time we play in UH and the garage.
Speaker 5: As we we survives out there, we learn how to
Speaker 5: hale double.
Speaker 2: Now you're you were a switch hitter, but I didn't
Speaker 2: realize you also could throw with both hands.
Speaker 1: You're almost borderline ambidextrous as a player, weren't.
Speaker 5: You, Nobama. I made myself right handed, so I was
Speaker 5: born and lefty. My grandpa want me to play more positions.
Speaker 5: So was the opportunity to play more position be right handed,
Speaker 5: so he made me throw balls every day back then,
Speaker 5: and if I don't hit the chest, I had to
Speaker 5: do a small lap in the gash.
Speaker 1: I saw that.
Speaker 2: You know, when you were here, one of your teammates,
Speaker 2: Berry Zito, gave you the Moniker, the nickname the kung
Speaker 2: Fu Panda. Do you remember Zito calling you that for
Speaker 2: the first time and did you like it the first
Speaker 2: time you heard it?
Speaker 4: Yes, I did. I remember Barry and Rachel. Really, I
Speaker 4: was the guy who name I was and san Hele
Speaker 4: player at the play.
Speaker 5: Then you hit the ball, I got opportunity to go
Speaker 5: and score and play at.
Speaker 4: The play, I jump over the catcher. That's when I
Speaker 4: started the new name.
Speaker 5: And you know, I realized that what's men young guy, shobby.
Speaker 3: Guy that no one doesn't know, and he can do
Speaker 3: a lot of things.
Speaker 1: You know. The Giants fans loved you.
Speaker 2: The relationship was incredible, and then of course you signed
Speaker 2: the big money deal to go to Boston and it
Speaker 2: didn't work out, but you came back and Giants fans
Speaker 2: embraced you again and you had two great stints with
Speaker 2: the Giants. Did when you look at that Boston foray?
Speaker 2: Obviously it was good for your bank account. But if
Speaker 2: you could do that again, would you have would you
Speaker 2: have stayed or would you have still have gone to Boston?
Speaker 5: Batayls Ulla always gonna say I was made a business
Speaker 5: day and uh, you know that's the thing that I
Speaker 5: always stuck too with my wife.
Speaker 4: If back then, then I'm not going nowhere.
Speaker 2: You're going into the Wall of Fame this weekend with
Speaker 2: some of your teammates, Pablo Bust, your Panic, Crawford Belt.
Speaker 1: You got a word about those guys.
Speaker 2: I mean you guys won three three World Series titles ten, twelve,
Speaker 2: and fourteen, some very special teams there. Uh, do you
Speaker 2: have any any anecdotes or stories or anything, any recollections
Speaker 2: of of your your your your, your, your teammates that
Speaker 2: are going into the Wall.
Speaker 1: Of Fame with you this weekend?
Speaker 4: Man, Like I said, with those guys, the guys going
Speaker 4: on to the World fame.
Speaker 5: If you can see it as first base, second base, shortstop,
Speaker 5: third base on the cashier, the main core of the
Speaker 5: of the Diamonds.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, the organization do a great job, give the
Speaker 3: opportunity to a young guys to get to a big
Speaker 3: leason and you know those five years we got Gray
Speaker 3: Dynasty and Gray Group.
Speaker 5: And it's not about the fives is going last year
Speaker 5: they made they pull the fight, the four guys, the
Speaker 5: four booping.
Speaker 4: So it's everyone in that group and those years that
Speaker 4: we have.
Speaker 5: And you know what's what's a great time to spend
Speaker 5: with them, and you know, do a lot of teams
Speaker 5: and I'm not happy for them and for for this
Speaker 5: because there's no every day you guys gonna gonna be
Speaker 5: in a wall of fame for a team. So you
Speaker 5: know that's mean they do a great job and we
Speaker 5: do a lot of things for the team.
Speaker 1: Probably a couple of ass before we let you go.
Speaker 2: Boach is among like a bunch of guys are showing up,
Speaker 2: a lot of ex giants, Jeremy Affelt, Santiago Casilla, some
Speaker 2: of the old school guys, Chilie Davis, Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: Sean Dunston, Dave Draveki, the hack Man. There's gonna be
Speaker 2: a lot of Dave Righetti. There's gonna be a lot
Speaker 2: of giants coming to town for this very exciting you
Speaker 2: always had, Uh, you seem like a great relationship with
Speaker 2: Boach and yet Boach made some some tough decisions and
Speaker 2: they weren't always favorable for you, but you guys, maintained
Speaker 2: a great relationship. How did you maintain that relationship through
Speaker 2: some adversity and some some some tough times.
Speaker 5: You know, one of the things that from Bush is
Speaker 5: it comes to you tell you the things, the things
Speaker 5: that you don't want to hurt. It straight on your face.
Speaker 5: And you respect that because that's the thing you want
Speaker 5: from your manager. And it's one of the things his
Speaker 5: favorly doing it. And you know, Bush for me was
Speaker 5: a mental as a dad. I don't want to play.
Speaker 5: I want to play to make that happy. So you know,
Speaker 5: made that happy. And and that's one of the things.
Speaker 5: And every time that I got on the field, where
Speaker 5: when he put me what position, he.
Speaker 4: Told me first?
Speaker 5: Can we first said third? I played a couple of times.
Speaker 5: Second when I pay, And you know I always gonna
Speaker 5: do with love and impassion because he teached me how
Speaker 5: to do those things.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Twenty ten, I was part of the team. But in
Speaker 5: the playoffs he made a decision he want to win,
Speaker 5: and I respect that.
Speaker 4: And we got a couple.
Speaker 5: A little talk and the man and two thous and
Speaker 5: ten and you and I always said it is and
Speaker 5: I tell him, one of these days is gonna come back,
Speaker 5: and you know, I want to make it happen. And
Speaker 5: you know soon later twenty twelves can and you know
Speaker 5: I pull all the Word together to wait for that moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I mean, you make a good point.
Speaker 2: He went to Fontineau in the twenty ten World Series,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure that didn't sit well with you. But
Speaker 2: you didn't go south. You didn't quit, you didn't pack
Speaker 2: it in, you didn't pout about it. You just worked
Speaker 2: and you were a key cog on those twelve and
Speaker 2: fourteen teams. Like the lasting image we have of fourteen
Speaker 2: is the uh Sally Perez pop fly landing in your glove.
Speaker 1: Take us back to that, Take us back to that moment.
Speaker 2: Man, how cool was that to catch the final out
Speaker 2: of the twenty fourteen World Series?
Speaker 4: All that release, that release about it?
Speaker 5: He goes, you know those games tense and you know
Speaker 5: you got you just just you know you you your
Speaker 5: body is gonna feel released after you made the last
Speaker 5: hour of the of.
Speaker 4: That Word series, because if you see that series, almost
Speaker 4: every series we went to the last game. It was
Speaker 4: always we went to almost the last game. And you know, mentally,
Speaker 4: I was tired and and you know when when that
Speaker 4: ball asked Gregor and centerfield, I'm like, no, this can't happen.
Speaker 5: And you know, I just I just want to make
Speaker 5: sure when the ball come to me, just catch and
Speaker 5: you know, make sure that I got my.
Speaker 1: Gloves exact put that thing away.
Speaker 2: How amazing was bum Gardner's performance in your mind that night?
Speaker 4: Unbelievable? It is that not only all playoff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really.
Speaker 4: During the season. You know, he went straight out. He
Speaker 4: don't remind me too.
Speaker 2: And to Recito, Hey, Pablo, last one for you, man,
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, I know you were finished there.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say last one for you before we
Speaker 1: let you go.
Speaker 2: We really appreciate your time and and we're excited that
Speaker 2: you're coming to town Saturday night. You somebody said to
Speaker 2: me once, man, you don't work baseball. You play baseball.
Speaker 2: But there's a lot of stress in the game. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of stress involved. You're facing your stats on
Speaker 2: the scoreboard and.
Speaker 1: The fans and the expectations. But you kept it loose
Speaker 1: and played the game.
Speaker 2: And there was like kind of this infectious joy about
Speaker 2: the way you played the game.
Speaker 1: Where did that come from. Where did that joy of
Speaker 1: playing the game come from?
Speaker 4: My dad teach me when one thing when I watch
Speaker 4: the young kid, and I always keep it with me.
Speaker 4: What's how they call the game game of baseball? It's
Speaker 4: a game as a key? How you play the.
Speaker 7: Game enjoying it? So why I know it's your work,
Speaker 7: it's you your career, But why you don't play that
Speaker 7: game enjoying it. You're gonna have good days and bad days. Well,
Speaker 7: guess what if you got three hundred at bath you
Speaker 7: got a hundred hits? How are you hitting?
Speaker 4: It's not how they m the time you sell is
Speaker 4: how the time you want to keep company and enjoying
Speaker 4: the time you're gonna play.
Speaker 1: You played the game at a high level and we
Speaker 1: really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: And Giants fans are going to be out there celebrating
Speaker 2: you guys on Saturday before the game.
Speaker 1: Pablo safe travels.
Speaker 2: Congrats on the new one, by the way, and we're
Speaker 2: excited to see you and Belt and Crawford and Panic
Speaker 2: and Posey and.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: Soak it all in and enjoy Saturday. Thanks for jumping
Speaker 2: on KMBR. We appreciate your time.
Speaker 4: Thank you, man, I appreciate it.