He became the internet's favorite sports grandfather for playing at least 162 games a year as the Yankees on MLB The Show, for two decades — and keeping score, by hand. What 86-year-old Kim Soriano didn't know, when he sat down to play with Pablo in our studio, is that Jon "Boog" Sciambi — the video game's announcer and the best voice in baseball — was doing the play-by-play, live. And what happened next will make you fall in love with the game all over again... into the great beyond. • Previously on PTFO: The Best Voice in Sports Goes Deep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMdaTnTrXco Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the surprise behind the PTFO studio glass?
And you've been playing it every season 182-ish times a year. 82-ish, yeah. Because the Yankees are making the postseason.
If I get to the playoffs?
Yeah. You're smiling with the confidence of a Yankee fan in the playoffs.
I have never gone 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, probably 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, well, 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 guess you could call it a 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.
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Chapter 7: What role does John Boog Shambi play in this episode?
Does Giancarlo Stanton also have double tennis elbow in your universe, in your timeline?
I make it like tennis thumbs.
Yeah, 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 an hour and 15 minutes, an 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.
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