The Show, the Voice and Grandpa: A PTFO Surprise

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Boog Xiambi, thank you for being here, sitting in that chair, by the way.

Love being in this chair.

It's really good to have you back.

I've been trying ever since we had you on the show last, I've been trying to speak from the bottom of my

diaphragm.

Just remembering which part of

frame the phram 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 in here and just say stuff to myself and like this is what i do for a living what would you say to yourself if i wasn't here What are the vocal exercises that you would run or the vocal masturbation that you would do more than exercising, clearly?

I have red sneakers on.

I love my red sneakers.

I look slimmer in black.

My hair looks good.

I like me.

Those not watching on YouTube, Booga is just gazing at his own reflection.

That's right.

Look, we, though, as a show,

had you do some, I would say, credibility imperiling things the last time you were on.

I had totally forgotten.

So early in the year, the Cubs play the Dodgers, and I run into Joe Poznanski and Mike Schur.

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.

Swinging a ball driven right field towards the corner, slicing fairball.

That's going to get into the corner.

And Velociraptor is on his horse.

On his way to third.

Velociraptor, they're going to send him.

Soto trying to dig it out.

Velociraptor on his way to the plate.

And save.

Ball game.

Cubs win.

Pablo Torre, the hero, as he knocks in Velociraptor.

And the Cubs walk it off.

And Mike Schreer's like, I wrote that.

We did assemble a writer's room.

Yeah.

And then I got credit for it.

But it was really the guy who wrote, you know, The Office and Parks and Reckon, whatever.

So ridiculous

and wonderful.

And a credit truly to the credibility of,

as I always say, the best voice in baseball, the best voice in announcing the guy with a Strativarius in his diaphragm.

And the thing that I didn't talk to you enough about last time that I was confronted by on the internet was the work you do in video games.

The video game boog

is known to a whole universe that I think I've aged out of because I'm not, because of Violet being her age and me being too busy to have fun anymore.

I'm less fluent in the world that you are also the voice of.

MLB the show.

How do you feel that?

How does that sort of like

make itself known to you?

I will say it's the one space,

yeah, when a nine or 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.

Play-by-play announcer, John Book Shambi, and color analyst Chris Singleton.

Swing of the deep drive and forget it.

Zingy, he's been red hot.

Man, he is really seeing the ball well in this one.

And watch their eyes get big.

Yeah, I can't lie, dig that it's exciting that in some way i might be impacting some kids love for baseball through this silly game people play this thing a lot yes and so the idea that a someone in baseball is doing the thing that baseball has always

been anxious about which is reaching out and converting converting baptizing young people

sure yeah you get to feel that and you're the voice of that.

But then there's a video that I saw recently.

This is the reason why I brought you into the studio today.

Because the video is not this, actually.

It is arguably the opposite.

He's got MLB to show in his house.

He's sitting on his couch, older 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,

is like,

what's going on over there?

What's the score of?

I didn't know that was possible or a thing anybody wanted to do.

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.

It's Aaron Judge now.

Here's a sway to drive left field and he knew it.

Amazing.

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 that this guy is out here merging the two worlds, virtual and real, in a way that I, I, my mind was blown upon learning of this man and his passion.

The outside of the binder says MLB the show.

I mean, this is where, you know, it's not like digital have rarely been so interwoven.

Holy cow.

And so I have an idea,

and I just need you to be willing to imperil your credibility again.

Sure.

Because

this, this 86-year-old man

and say grandson may or may not be on their way here, and you may or may not need to be the voice of the very thing that I have been talking about.

Really?

You're going to need to

do something that I have full confidence in your ability to do,

which is

A, be yourself.

And B,

be your monkey.

That's what you're really saying.

I'm going to need you to dance.

I mean, it's literally, it's dancing, but it's also like, and you're going to put your hand up the back of my shirt and then just like, yeah, turn me into your sort of Muppet.

I'm going to be all up in there, man.

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Sir.

Hello.

Hello.

How are you?

Oh, the pleasure's all mine.

Call me me Kim.

Kim.

Kim?

Kim.

Kim.

That's it.

That's not my real name, but.

Wait a minute.

What do you mean it's not your real name?

My real name is Joey Kim, my legal name.

But my mother had a sense of humor.

She cut it off and made Kim.

That's it.

But my last name is Soriano.

So I was going to say, any relation to

Alfonso.

No.

Same name, not the same money.

That's a difference.

Well played.

So this is New Jersey's own Kim Soriano, the 86-year-old from the viral video, which has been shared now and viewed well over a million times across TikTok and Instagram and all these other platforms.

And what Kim proved to be as soon as I met him is a real character.

Because

yeah, I just met him right then when I walked into our studio in that scene you just heard.

He was sitting at my desk.

My mic wasn't even on yet.

But what caught my attention even more immediately was the binder that Kim brought with him.

Because what Kim's grandson Matt had told us is that his grandpa has not only been playing MLB the show as the Yankees, his favorite team,

but also he's been scoring the 162 games he has been playing on the video game every season over two decades now.

Meaning that Kim is logging the unfolding details of a virtual video game by hand as if he himself is also sitting in the stands or at home watching a real game.

Which sounds crazy, obviously.

The internet's favorite sports grandpa is basically merging a beloved analog ritual, which Bookshambi, by the way, also does for every real life game that he calls in the booth,

with the video game world.

And Kim's binder, which is now sitting here atop our desk, is the unambiguously earnest proof,

which does make me feel a little guilty

about what I'm about to do.

So

the book you have brought with you in studio today.

Can you describe it for people who may just be listening to us?

What does it look like?

What does it say on the front cover?

Well, I just put this on, okay, the show.

I just, because that's what I play, the show, okay.

Now, what I do is I play every single Yankee

opened up.

Yeah,

I keep score

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

copy company, right?

And I get 182

copies, and that's it.

So, you're when does this start when the game comes out?

You get 182 copies ready for the new release of every game?

Yeah, let's say the season opened this year, I think March 27th or something like that.

I usually go beginning of March.

And will you play one game per day matching the real life schedule?

Yes.

Oh, my God.

So you've been living a parallel Yankees season as this season has gone through.

You can call it that, yeah.

Yeah.

Does Giancarlo Stanton also have double tennis elbow in your universe, in your timeline?

I make it like tennis thumbs.

Yeah, I got blisters.

I got

blisters on my fingers, as a wise man once.

And I'll tell you this.

In all the years, I have never been bored playing this game.

And in fact, I look forward to the next day.

And that's it.

It takes me about...

hour and 15 minutes, hour and 20 minutes to play the game.

And in your case, because you, like me, we're both Yankee fans,

you're living a parallel Yankee season that I have to imagine is better than what we've been experiencing in real life so far.

Yes.

How are you guys doing in your timeline?

We're both in first place.

Amazing.

Sometimes it scares me because I'll play a game

and they may come close to the game that I'm actually playing.

Yeah.

What they play.

Right.

So right now, if I can remember right, I'm like,

I'm in first place by three games.

They're in first place by two and a half.

Right.

Right.

So it's, it's sometimes just so scary.

So what you're saying is that sometimes the video game in real life,

they

match up.

Match up, even interact.

Maybe the streams cross every now and again.

Yeah.

This has gotten a little spooky, Kim.

You may have more power in your controller and these thumbs than I realized.

The only thing I do when I play the game, I hit only.

I don't pitch.

I set everything up automatic.

Automatic pitching.

Oh, you automate pitching.

Automate pitching, automate base running, throwing.

And all I do is hit.

Yeah.

Why is that?

Because I was never too good at the other.

I'm getting a sense of how much you use this video game where you can do anything as truly like a simulation of something like your actual lived experience here on this version of planet Earth.

I've tried pitching.

I've tried hitting and

hitting and throwing, base running.

I'm not good at that.

And then they're noisy.

But hitting.

Do you think you would have covered first like Garrett Cole?

No, I don't think so.

Yeah,

can't get on for that one.

That still haunts me, by the way.

I was at game five at the stadium.

You were there?

World Series.

Yeah, I was there.

Really?

Yeah, I paid money off of StubHub to attend.

Well, he's out for the year or so.

Yeah, I know.

I'm not giving him a break, though.

See, and I go that also.

What do you do?

If Gerald calls out, I'll injure him.

You'll take a digital crowbar, take him out back.

There's

an app on here, okay, that you can manually injure a player.

That is sadistic, Kim.

And I didn't realize that was possible.

Well, I got the hi, how you do it.

Oh, what is that?

Well, here.

Oh, you're taking a slip of paper from your

user setting.

You have instructions you've written down on a torn-off torn-off scrap of paper.

Go to gameplay, general, set to manual.

Set to manual.

Yeah, you set injuries to manual so you can control it.

Do you feel like a god when you do that?

Do you feel like you're in control of everything when you do that?

It just feels like an intoxicating power to manual.

Actually, I think I feel more realistic.

I haven't played this game in probably 15 years.

Okay.

And you've been playing it every season 182-ish times a year.

82-ish.

Because the Yankees are making the the postseason.

If I get to the playoffs.

Yeah.

You're smiling.

And I got to say this.

I'm not going to be a good person.

I have never gotten to the World Series except for last year.

This is an honest suffering you signed up for.

Does it hurt to not make and win the World Series?

You know,

Bubble, at times, yeah.

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.

Well, sometimes my wife says,

what are you crazy?

Because like I'll strike out and I'll go.

Bang the table.

But

all in all, it's fun and I enjoy it.

Yeah.

And that's it.

I don't have, I guess you could call it the hobby.

I mean, it feels like a lifestyle at this point.

I don't collect stamps.

I don't collect coins.

I don't go fishing, hunting.

Should we start playing maybe?

So this is not a competitive game.

Can this be a tour?

You take me, Kim, on a tour of your world.

Okay.

All right, so while all of this is happening in our studio, I do need to reveal to you what 86-year-old Kim Soriano does not know as the two of us sit here wearing headphones, which is that behind the reflective darkened glass of the PTFO studio, where my producers normally sit, is John Boog Shiambi, 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 guy who calls games for the Chicago Cubs on television, as well as the World Series for ESPN Radio, in addition to the hundreds of hours of pre-recorded voice work he does for MLB the show,

is

to do something similar.

But something I did not realize at all when we set up this whole prank/slash experiment is that Kim Soriano, perhaps predictably in retrospect, has a lot of opinions about Boog's line of work.

That's the thing I don't like about this game 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.

Yeah.

And that's the problem with

the show.

It's repetitive.

You're saying that when you play the game, it all feels like that damn voice just keeps on saying the same

shit over and over again.

Is the announcer, though, a good announcer in your view?

I oh, he's a good announcer, okay?

Okay, but he tend to see the same thing over and over every single day.

That's just the yeah, and I don't want to hear the stories anymore

because you've you've heard them all, I heard them all, yeah.

Yankees, Cubs,

and that starts it, yeah.

But what we've already done here that the internet's favorite sports grandpa does not yet realize, but his grandson Matt does,

is go into the game's manual settings.

Not to injure any players, but to manually mute the show's announcing team of play-by-play man John Boog Shiambi 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.

Welcome to Wrigleyfield, 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.

A couple of lefties.

It'll be Max Freed and Shota Imanaga.

I never played on a screen this big.

Oh, yeah.

Imanaga takes the mound.

Take a look at the numbers for the left-hander, a season-ago, an all-star Shota Imanaga, and a 2-9-1 ERA.

Anthony Volpe climbs in for the Yankees, and we're ready to go from the friendly confines.

So now this should work if I try to hit it, right?

Yeah, yes.

I'm going to throw you some heat.

Spoiler alert.

Imanaga ready to work.

Volpe waits, and here we go.

Oh, boy.

And the first pitch missing a little bit low for ball one.

Fans wanted that call to strike.

So one and nothing of the Yankees shortstop.

The lefty from Japan, Imanaga fires.

And a swing and a miss.

Anthony Volpe, who grew up a Yankees fan,

Checks his swing the pitch misses low it's two and one there you go

I don't like what I'm doing here

and a pitch totally no

come on and that misses three and one tight strike zone here in the early going

see it's a good game

and a pitch swing and a miss

Four seam fastball right there and now the count is full.

Nobody on nobody out just getting started here at wrigley 3-2 pitch check swing did he go yes he did

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

chisholm fouls one off

and that one hit foul so an opportunity for the yankees as pablo needs to clean up the defense see right now he's hurt and i won't play him

I didn't even see that.

I was talking to you.

Oh, you're mad that the rosters on this one haven't updated.

Chisholm is down on strikes and now here's a matchup.

It'll be Judge and Imanaga.

And this one drove back to center field.

Crow Armstrong, the early dive.

Now he'll retrieve it and fire it in.

And a single from Aaron Judge, big number 99 on base.

Two aboard and one out.

I feel old these days, but not so old that a literal grandpa explaining how video games works to me isn't deeply confidence-shaking.

Here's the former cub, Cody Bellinger.

This is drilled right field.

Tucker is there to make the catch.

See how realistic it is?

That's realistic, man.

This whole thing, by the way, the announcers,

they're on top of it.

They're on top of it so repetitive and realistic

and now it's giancarlos stanton tennis elbow or not here he is i don't play him either he's out

yeah because he has double tennis elbow obviously huh because he has the double elbow tendonitis

yes yeah Two away opportunity for the Yankees as Stanton fouls it away, and it's one and one

On the ground, Berkman will pick it up.

Races at the same time.

You're pretty good at this.

Thank you.

That's the field.

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 back.

That's pretty good.

It is pretty good.

Now, what happens here now?

So I believe that...

Okay, so in this case,

you're pitching.

So do you want to hit?

Do you want to?

Yeah, why not?

Okay, all right.

Okay.

I'll be the cubs still.

So we're switching controllers because Kim refuses as a permanent DH in video games.

You are going to hit, and I'm going to now pitch.

So I should be able to hit now, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Ian Hap stands in facing Garrett Cole.

And a swing and a miss.

Early reports had Max Freed on the mound, but instead it will be the right-hander Cole

if you're scoring at home.

All the strike on the leadoff, man.

Three-time gold glove winner Ian Hap swings.

See, what I like about this game, the stadiums are realistic.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

The play is realistic.

One and two.

Here comes.

Swing and a miss, and it gets past the catcher Wells.

And safe at first is Ian Happ.

How do you like that?

In the first inning, each team with a strikeout and a reach and a wild pitch.

Waka Waka.

Honestly, like the repetitiveness of the announcers, this guy's on top of it.

Beautiful day here at the friendly confines.

Suzuki hammers one.

That's in the air right center field.

Bellinger can't get it.

That'll bang up against the brick wall as it hits off the ivy.

Bellinger trying to throw it in.

Let go of the baseball, Pablo.

Wait a minute.

I got a question.

How was that done?

Well, they mentioned your name

and the blue sweater.

How is that?

Who was broadcasting the game?

Isn't this game?

That doesn't happen for you?

That doesn't happen for you?

No.

Michael Bush at the plate now.

Wait,

hold on, hold on.

Totally different.

That's.

I don't know.

And Bush takes a stride.

Wait, you're saying you've played this game this often and that's not happened yet.

Well,

here at Wrigley Field, John Shomby with you, Chris Singleton on assignment.

And they chant, Let's Go Cubbies.

You see,

that's the same guy that announces it, Jamby.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

But they never mentioned that the other guy is on assignment because that other guy, Chris Singleton, is always there.

And he's the one that comes up with the story, the repetitive.

So, in other words, Shambi, you're like, that guy's cool.

It's Singleton.

You're just like, come on, man.

Golden opportunity for the Cubs.

He's the color guy.

And yeah.

So the

conversation

for him.

See?

Here comes.

That's just newfangled baseball.

Lots going on there.

And that was nasty.

Garrett Cole, the backward strikeout.

And Bush down on strikes.

Here comes Dansby Swanson.

And that one in there for a strike.

It is nothing at one.

What a gorgeous afternoon here on the north side of Chicago.

The Cubs looking to strike first.

John Schomby without the always repetitive Chris Singleton here on MLB to show as that one gets away.

Do you miss Chris Singleton?

Do you miss Chris Singleton?

What about John Shomby?

Do you like John Shambi?

The other nod, the color guy?

Yeah.

Chris Singleton?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The same stuff over and over.

Right, right.

We're going to work on fixing that.

Hi.

How are you?

Good.

I'm John Shambi.

Oh,

John.

Nice to meet you.

Yes.

Love you playing MLB the Show.

Nice meeting you.

It's a pleasure.

Yes.

we got rid of Chris Singleton and his stories, and it's just me.

It's just me

Is it just you?

It's just me.

He's not here.

I mean, eventually he's going to come and talk to me.

He's going to be pretty pissed off.

He's already pissed off.

I text him.

That drives you crazy.

Well, I mean, you play the game a lot.

You do play the game a lot.

I mean, you're playing a lot of the games, you know, like we've been recording like 400 hours, like, but it's hard, you know?

I play 160.

I've been playing this game since 2006.

It's amazing.

So nice to meet you.

Yes.

Your video on TikTok, amazing.

I love that you keep score.

That's it.

All right.

We got to get Boo to sit down with us.

Yeah, this was yesterday.

I wanted to show you.

I have my,

so I keep score on an iPad.

Yeah.

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.

This is the blank ones.

Yeah, so there you go.

I have them too.

I'll show you.

I can show you mine.

Yeah, yeah, I would like to see that.

Absolutely.

Can you

go grab that?

Can you move your chair from the other side of the glass?

You walked in and you said you're John's.

I like wearing blank.

How great is that, by the way, to play on that?

Wouldn't you love to play your play all the time there?

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

It is.

All right, I'm right back.

I'm going to get my score card and I'll show you and we'll get a chair in there.

So,

surprise.

I said, surprise.

Yes.

Surprise.

I looked and I said,

no,

I saw like everything went blank.

Part of me, Kim, feels very bad for what we've perpetrated on you.

No.

The other part of me

could not be happier.

So, while Boog has stepped out to grab his iPad and his own meticulously kept scorecards from the 2024 World Series, when the Dodgers beat the Yankees in, you know, our actual timeline, which is parallel to the virtual timeline where Kim Soriano's virtual Yankees made the World Series for the first time in their history,

I do just need to jump in here to clarify that I am not quite sure if our starstruck and pitching a verse 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 him

what we've just done um

you're now you're now I'm sorry I'm sorry that we just go what we we we played an entirely fake

fake

so boog was announcing that game yeah from the other side of the glass.

I don't care.

I thought it was cool.

Oh my God.

I mean, just

the, there are a couple of moments when he personally mentioned my name where I was like, Boog, you are flying way too close to the sun right now.

He's got to find out.

I said to myself, wait, were you mentioning Babo game?

The guy in the blue sweater.

I said, I never heard this.

I was going to say, you would be the one person on earth to note that this does not typically happen in this video game, and you did notice that.

But you were very polite.

You were very polite.

But he does a great job of announcing.

He's going to come sit with us.

He's got the best voice in baseball.

Yes.

I was just going to say that.

By far.

By far.

Yes.

Boog is

an old friend of mine.

And so

we're going to bring him in.

That's what my World Series score.

You can just page it with your hands.

But that's...

It's similar.

Yeah.

And I use the same, same way you do a double single, same as I do it.

Except that it's a ground ball or short, I'll put G S.

Okay.

And then a dollar sign to it.

Ah.

Well, because we're grounded a second,

it's S.

Right.

So I do 6, 3, 4, 3, that type of stuff.

Is this normal way what broadcasters

use?

So

I would say close to half of us now.

I would say close to half of us now use that, but I would say half are still using paper.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

So, like, this is just a scan of your sheet.

I tell you, that's

detailed.

Yeah.

So, and then, like,

so that's the Dodgers down there, and this is game one.

And you can save all yeah, I have every game.

I have all so like geez, maybe I should get something like that.

So like

right so this is game five of the world series.

Right.

So that's that.

This is

game four.

So you

so

Kim was asking,

why are you here?

And I feel like that's a reasonable question, given that you just appeared out of the LED screen in my studio.

But when you showed up, y'all went totally my...

So I am here because Pablo and I are good friends.

And he told me,

he showed me the TikTok video.

And he said,

I've come in to do the show a few times.

And he said, don't you think it'd be fun to come in and

torture the internet space?

You've got the perfect voice for.

thank you.

And better than Michael Kay.

I'm telling, can we cut that part out and just go to the next one?

Yeah, we're going to clip that, send it to Michael Kay.

Well, that's your cast, my opinion.

Well, you know, I'm a New York City guy, by the way.

So

I grew up, I went to Regis High School in New York.

He and I went, we're separated by a few years, but

this game, this game, like I said, I was telling Pablo,

it's realistic.

It doesn't look like a video game.

It doesn't look like a Pac-Man, you know,

where they run like crazy.

It's actual.

It's crazy how much the players look like the players, don't you think?

So in real life, so today, Boogo's on the other side of the glass

narrating Truman showing, as it were,

your experience in our studio.

But when it comes to like how you actually recorded all of this for the game.

Yeah.

So one of the things that's tough, and I understand for the people that have been playing 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 going to hear some of the same stuff, but the way we have to record it in order to stitch it together, I have to say, I record Aaron Judge's name and I say, Aaron Judge.

And then I say, judge, and then I say, judge, so that they can stitch them all together.

So that I can say,

Aaron Judge from California.

But then if I want to say, judge, swings and drives one.

So they just take judge.

But then if I want to make a point and I say, judge, who is a pretty good high school basketball player, like there's all these intonations that you have to follow.

So you're just, you're recording.

And then any type of exciting play, you have a, a, I'll come in and record, and they'll say, we're going to record a walk-off homer in the division series, a walk-off homer in the

LCS, in the, you know, on and on.

So

it's amazing the way it's done because every game you broadcast, it's a different, it's different.

Different.

Totally different.

Yeah.

You know.

And when I say the repetitive, it's more, it's more.

No, actually, if I, and I, no, I put on a lot of YouTube shows and people who review, they say the same thing.

They say what they do is they turn the commentator all over.

I just like that what I planned to be truly a, I had no idea how this was going to go.

What I underestimated was how Kim had the most developed perspective of anybody into how many combinations of words your pre-recorded voice could fit into.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, and then the part that was hysterical was that I was,

I made the reference to him in the blue sweater and he caught that.

And then I said his name.

And I said his name.

And he was like, wait a second.

So the AI, man, crazy times.

I don't know.

That's right.

You never know.

You know, they're robots.

Am I a robot right now, Kim?

Hard to tell.

You know?

You know, and the thing is, again, like I've been playing this since the inception of

2006.

Okay, since the 20th year, I have never been bored.

Can I ask you just what made you pick up the game in the first place and say, this is how I'm going to spend the next, at this point, 20 years?

Oh, I never figured that.

That I was going to play for 20 years.

But I used to imagine games.

In fact, I used to go to my grandmother's house and in the backyard, they had great steps.

And I used to throw the ball against the steps to make believe I'm pitching and hitting.

Okay.

And then the years go on,

I don't know if you remember, you probably do, when we didn't have the internet.

It was a dial-up.

Oh, yeah.

I started with that.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, I used to plug it in.

Sure.

And it was New Jersey Bell.

And then I developed this.

That's it.

And how long did it take you for you to fall in love with this game?

Immediately.

Immediately.

And then I get very disappointed at the end of the season.

Because it's over.

What am I going to do?

When the season ends, when your season ends for you, which is...

Well, I end the season basically around the same time.

Right.

So have you ever considered playing

more games in between?

No.

You said that.

And a hard shake of the head.

Season's over.

I love this.

Before

we say thank you and

let you go, Kim, for you from the psychological experiment that you've unwittingly entered into thanks to your accomplice of a grandson.

Do you have anything you want to tell Boog at the end here?

Do you have any last

thoughts about

this thing that you love, that he happens to be the voice of that you're going to be able to do that?

I just hope it continues

until I go to the Great Beyond.

No, I just want the game to continue because I enjoy playing it.

Yeah, you love baseball, don't you?

I do.

Yeah,

I do.

I am confident that in the great beyond, we can get booked, you know, just be on the side of the glass, maybe.

You've done a great job.

We really, really appreciate it.

But I'm really happy to be here.

Sorry to I cannot tell you how delightful it is for this entire thing to have just happened in front of me.

Well, there was a joke.

About Pete and Mike, who are the best of friends.

They love baseball.

They did everything together.

They played every single game.

Well, one day Pete dies, goes to heaven.

Two days later, he comes down and says, Mike, I got good news and bad news.

Good news is baseball in heaven.

Bad news, you're pitching tomorrow.

This has been Pablo Torre finds out a Metalark media production.

And I'll talk to you next time.