Chess Lessons And Compulsive Mopping: The Method To Joey Votto’s Madness
The Lead
Wondery
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🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Heading into this MLB season — the 15th of his career — it looked like Joey Votto might be on the decline. But this summer, the charismatic Cincinnati Reds first baseman has found another gear. The Athletic’s Trent Rosecrans collected stories about Votto’s larger-than-life personality, and today, he joins us to look at how the veteran’s sometimes strange behavior (including non-stop mopping) helps power his still-elite production.
Read the full story about Joey Votto from Trent Rosecrans, Rustin Dodd and Jayson Jenks: https://theathletic.com/2479327/2021/04/13/joey-votto-is-playing-chess-and-the-rest-of-us-are-playing-checkers-reds-first-baseman-may-be-the-most-interesting-man-in-baseball/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:53.0 | Heading into the season, the 15th of his big lead career. |
| 0:57.0 | It looked like Joey Vado might be on the decline, but this summer the Reds First Basement has found another gear. |
| 1:05.0 | Joey Vado first page high fly deep flat, top for the old bads, bads, bads, bads, swing in the bed with some bad intention. |
| 1:16.0 | The athletics check rosecran's collected stories about Vado's larger than life personality. |
| 1:21.0 | Today he joins us to look at how the veteran's sometimes strange behavior helps power his impressive production. |
| 1:28.0 | He is most unpredictable guy that there is and not only is he unpredictable, he's smarter than the rest of us and it plays out on the field. |
| 1:40.0 | From wandering in the athletic, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky. It's Thursday, August 26th and this is the lead. |
| 1:46.0 | Joey, a lot of people would have left you guys for dead tonight. |
| 1:49.0 | An office of explosion, what's it say about you guys hanging in there? Oh man, you don't listen to them. Come on Jim. |
| 2:01.0 | Well Trent, Joey Vado is a couple weeks away from his 38th birthday and he's really been having a Renaissance season. |
| 2:08.0 | That includes a pretty big milestone recently. |
| 2:11.0 | Pal, 2000 hits for Joey Vado. Can you give us a sense of how good Vado has been this year and in particular how good he's been the last four or five weeks? |
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