BIB on the Go: Did Michael Kopech Predict Shohei Ohtani's Historic Game?
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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?
Yeah, so he was actually, so just me being his dad, he's an automatic U.S. citizen, but he was born in Vancouver, and his mom's from Ottawa, so they live here full-time. In Toronto? Yeah. Oh, in Canada. They live in Vancouver. But yeah, he gets to come over here pretty easy, go back and forth from the States. Things are a little more difficult with that because you have to have either a green card or a U.S. passport, what have you. Either way, he gets to experience both sides of the world between that imaginary line there. How old is he? He's four. So I was going to say, is he a Blue Jays fan? No, he's a dad fan. Yeah, exactly. He's a fan of whatever sports teams play in that day. He didn't even know who dad plays for.
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?
How does Michael Kopech feel about his son's dual citizenship?
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