Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: Did Michael Kopech Predict Shohei Ohtani's Historic Game?
26 Oct 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Linda has also agreed on his side. But I just want to let you know, Michael, that Joe, I talked to Joe yesterday. Okay. He wants to do this at his house.
At his house? Yeah.
At his house. Yeah, yeah.
I'm down. I've never got an invite to Joe's house, so I'd love to go. All right. It seems like I'm kind of inviting myself at this point, but, you know, I'm down to do it.
No, he said, when I sent the photo of you saying you would get a baseball's important tattoo if you win the World Series, it's like, my guy, my guy. So are you excited about it? Yeah, absolutely. I told you, I put it right below the trophy. All right.
I'm stoked. Yeah.
So, all right, so last time I talked to you, I just wanted to say how you doing, how's everything going, everything good? Good.
So I unfortunately shut down for the season, so I won't be able to pitch. But to get here, to be, you know, around a group of guys that have done this two years in a row, it's kind of special to me in a different way because my son's a dual citizen, so he'll actually be here for the World Series. Yeah. So a lot of really cool things about this one for me, even though I'm not getting to pitch.
Yeah. Can you explain that? So your son's a dual citizen, so he can come in, and so what's the dynamic with that?
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Chapter 2: What does it feel like to support your team during the World Series as an injured player?
But, you know, at some point he'll get to look back and he'll see that his dad was here at the World Series and he was able to watch a Blue Jays game, which is important to the Canadians. So I think it'd be cool for him. That's awesome.
So what's his name? River. What a great man. Yeah, you did nail the names. But I do want to ask you, I've seen a lot of you in the dugout, like front and center. It's a different thing, right? I mean, you lived a life in the bullpen during the... By the way, Joe told a good story about home run calls in the bullpen, which I... Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we'll save that for another day.
But what has that been like? Because I do see you a lot on TV, and... You seem, obviously, like you're into it. You're not active, but you're into it. It's a whole new... We talk about living different lives, different worlds. What's that been like?
So I think the thing for us, and what makes this team really special, and what I think makes probably most good teams really special, is when someone does well, we all do well. And so getting to be up front in the dugout, you know, every big hit, every...
error that the other team makes every you know executed ground ball uh out at third on a bunt it's supposed to be a sack but whatever it is getting fired up about all those plays seeing our guys just execute and do their job um it like i get just excited about that as i would if i were to have a big strikeout or a big moment um maybe not center stage but from the sidelines it's it's really easy to see how these guys are pouring into it so it's exciting to
It's funny because I was just thinking of when you would be in the dugout for that long. And it was probably the last game. I mean, the last game of last year.
Yeah.
Right?
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Chapter 3: How does Michael Kopech feel about his son's dual citizenship?
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Yeah, the last time I would have pitched early in a game and spent multiple innings in a dugout would have been the postseason last year. Before that, it was years ago when I was starting. But I'm not unfamiliar with it. No, you used to be a starter. But not like this. I mean, this is like... Yeah, I'm not seeing the biggest games in action up close right there.
I got to see Shohei perform one of the greatest games of all time from the front row of the dugout. Things like that I'm not used to, but it's really cool.
Along those lines, because we had said, when I was talking to Joe, he said he thought that Jonathan Erb had called that.
So what's funny, I was just talking to, so we call him J-Bone, I was just talking to J-Bone. Yesterday, him and I, first game of the postseason this year, we're like, what, Shohei's going to go out there, he's going to strike out the side in the first inning, and he's going to hit a home run.
And we're like, yeah, he's going to have a three-homer game, and he's probably going to throw a no-hitter. So really all that's left is he's going to need to throw a no-hitter. Wait, you said that? You guys said that? Yeah, we said that. Because you say these outlandish things about Shohei, and you kind of say them jokingly, but you're like, he could actually do this stuff. You know what I mean?
And then he goes out there and does something like that.
It's incredible. Did you guys get together and say, that was a collab though.
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