How To Invent a Fake Superstar

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 52 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) Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-QzVmd8TEjw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre, finds out I am Pablo Torre and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.2	Eventually, I run out of questions. He runs out of Korea to talk about, you know, sports careers of finite.
0:13.0	I can't keep pressing him about these things. And there was a split second where I thought,
0:19.6	shake hands and let him go. Right after the set.
0:22.9	You're listening to Giraffe King's Network.
0:33.9	Make match days easy with Google Pay.
0:36.9	When the last train before kickoff leaves in five, tap in with your Android phone to catch it.
0:42.9	Nice dress.
0:45.9	And if the queue for the merch store means extra time, tap to pay faster than you can say,
0:51.9	come on England.
0:54.9	Fast, safe, simple.
0:57.9	Match days made easy with Google Pay. Add a card to Google Wallet.
1:09.9	So I'm trying to keep up with all of the Shohyoutani MLB free agency stuff.
1:13.9	And every part of this makes me laugh.
1:17.9	Breaking news from Major League Baseball where Shohyoutani is signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1:23.9	The two-way superstar will get a 10-year deal worth $700 million.
1:28.9	Far and away, the largest contract in the history of North American sports.
1:34.9	Why?
1:35.9	Because A, remember when Shohyoutani was coming over and he was like being rumored as the Japanese
1:41.9	Babe Ruth.
1:42.9	And everyone was doubting him.
1:43.9	Like, could he possibly pitch?
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