Tyler Glasnow is a Dodger Thanks to Brad Paisley
Tyler Glasnow is set to take the mound when the Los Angeles Dodgers host the Texas Rangers Friday eveninghowever there was a probability he would not be taking part in for LA in any respect if it wasn’t for a nation music celebrity.
Glasnow, a dark-horse Cy Young candidate who hails from Santa Clarita, was traded to his hometown group in December 2023 from the Tampa Bay Rays.
When Dodgers superfan Brad Paisley appeared on the Dodgers Territory podcasthe revealed his key function in bringing Glasnow dwelling.
Brad Paisley Hosted a Trade Summit for the Dodgers
Paisley mentioned he was internet hosting a few dozen Dodgers entrance workplace members at his dwelling when he was placed on the telephone with Erik Neander, president of baseball operations for the Rays, and the singer invited Neander to be a part of them.
“He put Erik Neander on the phone and I said, ‘Hey, you’re with the wrong team, you can be here,’” Paisley recounted. “And then he said, ‘Man, I wish I could,’ and then he got on there with Andrew [Friedman, the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations]and he said, ‘That sounds like Brad Paisley. That’s a good impression.’ And Andrew said, ‘No, we’re really at his house, and he’s got a bar, and we’re all hanging out.’”
After Friedman confirmed with Paisley that his invitation to Neander was actual, Paisley discovered himself internet hosting commerce discussions.
“The next thing you know, eight Tampa Bay Rays front office people walk in,” Paisley mentioned. “We’ve already got about 30 Dodgers. There’s eight Rays.”
While Paisley was a beneficiant host, he did not go all out. Instead, he dangled a carrot to encourage the commerce discussions.
“It was about 11 o’clock when Erik came in,” Paisley mentioned. “And here’s the GM of the Rays, and he sits down at the bar and he’s like, ‘What do you got?’ And I said, ‘Well, this whole top shelf is the most expensive stuff. And you don’t get that until Tyler Glasnow is a Dodger.’ He’s like, ‘Fine, I’ll just deal with you. ‘What do you think of so-and-so?’ I’m like, ‘That’d be a great Ray.’”
After some private discussions between the teams, Friedman indicated to Paisley that “it’s looking good.”
“And then a couple of days later, he wrote me, ‘You get the assist,’ which is really fun,” Paisley said. “It is what you hope. When I consider baseball motion pictures or any of this stuff, I consider guys at a bar, piano music within the background, and so they write some stuff down on a serviette after which they’re like, ‘What do you suppose?’ ‘Yeah, we’ll do this.’ That’s sort of the way it occurred.”
The Dodgers and Rays Weren’t All Business at Paisley’s House
While it is unclear how lengthy the talks lasted, the social gathering actually went on into the wee hours of the morning.
Paisley refused to title names, and even establish this individual’s group, however one govt had fairly a night time.
“They stayed until 4 in the morning and called an Uber,” he mentioned. “One of the front office people with one of the teams face planted in the front yard on the way to the Uber. Not kidding. Had grass stains on their faces when they got back to the hotel at 5 in the morning. And yeah, this is all true.”
Hope stays that sooner or later, we’ll discover out who this is.
Katie Woo, reporter for TheAthletic and co-host of Dodgers Territory, said on social media that she’s digging into the story.
“It is my civic duty as a journalist to find out which MLB exec face-planted leaving Brad Paisley’s house tonight,” she wrote.
