How an NHL Team Drafted a Fake Japanese Person

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The greatest trick the Buffalo Sabres ever pulled was convincing the world that Taro Tsujimoto really existed. Correspondent Michael J. Mooney takes us from a mysterious call in western New York to a hockey rink in the Himalayas — and explains why this completely made-up human has never felt more alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:05.6	He's still skating on his pond in Tokyo and you know he'll sometimes pay a visit but he never stays long.
0:11.2	Right after this ad.
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0:53.0	Okay, so I don't know if you know this, but they want us to call the sphere just
1:05.3	sphere now. I refuse to do this like it did with the Facebook, still the Facebook to me.
1:12.6	But the sphere is the... Facebook, still the Facebook to me.
1:15.6	But the sphere is the site of the most technologically advanced draft
1:17.6	in the history of sports television,
1:20.8	which is happening tonight.
1:23.0	The 2024 Upper Deck NHL Draft will be held at Spear Las Vegas.
1:29.0	The draft will utilize Spears cutting edge technologies.
1:34.0	This will truly be a unique draft unlike any other.
1:38.4	And NHL Commissioner Gary Betman, who definitely
1:41.0	wasn't reading that off a cute card held slightly off screen is actually
1:44.9	right.
1:45.9	Like I'm not a huge hockey fan or anything, but this is going to be unlike any other draft.
1:51.7	You're going to see names and stats and video
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