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Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The ladder for a wannabe GM requires great balance — and not just when you're power-washing bathrooms in Coney Island as a minor-league intern. But Pablo's former classmate possesses an almost comically even-keeled nature that has led him to the top of Major League Baseball, making unemotional (and historically expensive) decisions as President of Baseball Operations for the New York Mets. His journey from racing in a hot-dog costume to working under the Big Apple spotlight for the richest owner in sports has meant turning off sports-talk radio, texting with Darryl Strawberry and, somehow, having no idea who Grimace was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out.
0:02.2	I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.9	I think that the Mets fans need to calm down because they will get it done.
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1:00.0	I was thinking like, so we were, we were freshmen when Facebook.
1:04.9	Yep.
1:05.5	When the facebook.com launched.
1:07.3	Do you remember like?
1:08.4	Oh, yeah.
1:09.4	I thought it was going to like die in two weeks. I actually,
1:14.1	I remember sitting in Annenberg, our freshman dining hall, which is the closest thing to
1:20.7	like Hogwarts that actually exists. So I remember sitting there and reading an article
1:25.8	in the Crimson.
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