How To Invent a Fake Superstar
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
As a teenage prankster crashing the football transfer window, Kieran Morris juiced the Wikipedia page for an obscure player across the globe, and word spread from London to the MLS of a legend in the making: The Honduran Maradona. Ten years later, our correspondent finds out what really happened to Alexander Lopez.
(Adapted from an episode of Sports Explains the World)
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| 0:32.5 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:34.7 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:39.0 | Eventually, I run out of questions. He runs out of career to talk about, you know, sports careers |
| 0:44.7 | are finite. I can't keep pressing him about these things. And there was a split second where I thought, |
| 0:52.0 | shake hands and let him go. Right after this ad. |
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| 1:15.8 | So I'm trying to keep up with all of these Shohei Otani MLB free agency stuff. |
| 1:19.0 | And every part of this makes me laugh. |
| 1:26.0 | Breaking news from Major League Baseball where Shohei Otani is signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers. |
| 1:28.9 | The two-way superstar will get a 10-year deal worth $700 million, far and away the largest contract in the history of North American sports. |
| 1:37.0 | Why? Because A, remember like when Shai Otani was coming over and he was like being rumored |
| 1:43.0 | as the Japanese Babe Ruth. |
| 1:44.7 | Sure. |
| 1:45.1 | And everyone was doubting him. Like, could he possibly pitch? And now he's making $700 million over like a hundred years or whatever it is that the Dodgers worked out in that deal. The hype was so high on him that it's impossible to reach it. And he's exceeded it. He's exceeded it. You never see that. other than LeBron, who was on S.I. as like a kid, you never see somebody with that type of hype |
| 1:44.8 | reaching. reach it and he's exceeded it. He's exceeded it. You never see that other than like LeBron, who was on S.I. As like a kid, you never see somebody with that type of hype reach it and |
| 2:05.2 | exceed it usually. It's insane. At this point, Babe Ruth is an insult to show A. Otani. |
| 2:09.9 | Right. Babe Ruth never had the entire internet cracking a private plane from Southern California |
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