Welcome to the Boc Talk podcast on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.

Introducing your host, NBC Sports Bay Area's Jessica Kleinschmidt.

Hey y'all, welcome back to another episode of Bop Talk from the studio that is my room,

presented by Wendy's.

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So my next guest, like, I'm going to say this for all the guests.

I would never have you on here if I wasn't excited to have you, but I'm really, really excited

about this one. A Mr. Rob Friedman, y'all know him is at Pitching Ninja on the Twitter.com.

I have been a fan of this man's work for years since before he got over 100,000

followers on Twitter, which is like, that's like saying used to go to watch this underground band

before they made it big. Like, we get it. You saw Goo Goo Goo Dolls before Iris. Cool, man.

But this is how I feel about him um if you don't

know who he is he is the guy who gets to post all these really awesome pitches in jiff form it's

pronounced jiff i don't want to hear it um on the twitter dot com and he's been blown away by some of

these guys like he's had you darvish slide into his DMs before talking about his pitching and

everything like that.

And, you know, they say don't meet your heroes because you're usually let down, which is,

I've been lucky enough where I haven't been let down, but it's still early, you know, we'll see.

But I got to meet Rob,

actually at last, at the last World Series before the Nationals took it over. It was game two in Houston at Minutemade Park. And those balls fly there. I've seen it firsthand. Like,

damn, okay. So it was really cool. We had a drink before he went to the park. And I can't wait for him to admit the type of cocktail this man likes to drink. I was quite impressed, but it takes a real man to drink this type of drink. But he was great. We got a sweet compliments of the Twitter.com, which was funny because it's how he met. And you get to see

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