And they don’t make them more positive than Escobar. Rojas - ahem, Marty the Zebra - says Escobar is always there to “lift you up from the depths.” “You need to be around positive people,” adds catcher Stephen Vogt. “You look at Eddie and he makes you smile,” says catcher Carson Kelly. He is joyously loud and speaks at a machine-gun pace with an endearingly thick Venezuelan accent that turns just about anything he says into a team catchphrase.Īrizona’s other players may have had teammates they loved, but no one they loved quite like they love Escobar. He takes a deep interest in the people around him, whether it’s assigning them alter egos from children’s movies or guiding them through a rough patch at the plate. It’s silliness like this that makes the 32-year-old Escobar the most beloved player on the team. It all may seem to be the height of frivolity, but it’s not. I said, ‘You’re the princess, so I’ll call you Elsa.’” “Now, Tim Locastro is gone” - traded to the Yankees earlier this month - “so the princess is Andy Young. I called him Princess,” Escobar explains. (Imagine not wanting to hear why.) “Because Tim Locastro was the most beautiful guy on the team. “You know why?” Escobar asks an interlocutor. And, leaving the DreamWorks Animation family entirely, Andrew Young is Elsa. The diminutive Daulton Varsho is Kowalski the Penguin. Josh Rojas is the cut-up, so he gets to be Marty the Zebra, a character voiced by Chris Rock. More importantly, Escobar has seized on the misunderstanding as a chance to make Arizona’s young players feel welcomed. “So now,” Smith says, arriving at the point, “he says ‘Shamu Power’ all the time.” When Alex the Lion lamented the presumed presence of Shamu, Escobar “just assumed he had to compete with another lion.” He’s not at the zoo.’ He’s like, ‘No, Shamu is a lion.’” It went on like this for a while.Ī quick review of the movie uncovered the cause of the mix-up. “He said he wanted to see Shamu,” Smith says. A road trip to San Diego loomed, and Escobar was planning a trip to the zoo. Jeremy and I tied for last place, the shame.(Good teacher award, last place after teaching).A bunch of other stuff happens, but that’s what you need to know.Īs Smith and Escobar sat in the Chase Field weight room late last month, a similar miscommunication occurred. He will get his comeuppance like Bennie in the Mummy movie, mwa ha ha. Felix got the win (yawn) as expected but he is now becoming the lightning rod and "I never win act" is fooling no one anymore. was in the strongest position but didn't quite leverage it and probably hung on to his income a turn too long but was in a good position. I had to focus in keeping LA rather then just expand to the good stuff. I was concerned that Felix got the best starting spot and if there is anyone who doesn't need a good start it's him I had a good area near LA that I thought would be a good income generator but Jeremy came in right away guns a blazin' and hurt both of us. I kept talking but everyone was completely silent so it was weird I couldn't gauge if I had communicated it properly but no one was lost so that looked good. and I blanked the first 2 minutes on how to teach but then it all came back to me. I won and celebrated imagining myself at the park with the Eiffel Tower spraying Champaign all around. I got a bunch of wood that turned into a bunch of gold (8s) and then I got 35vp just from a bonus tile and being on 5 8s. Each sector will score at game end if it has 4 keys in it, when that happens whoever put the 4th key in the area chooses one of the end game points it's worth. I was able to put out some monuments and get some controls of decent point areas. I went for 3's that got me gold stars and moved me down the bonus track to take goodies. Nothing earth shattering here but still entertaining but not enough for me to buy it. Things you can do on your turn are place a key in a sector and get 0-7 coins, or pay to move your key in a sector up and collect the corresponding reward. It's divided up into 6 sectors with 6 places in each sector. Paris is an area control game with some resource management. The others are pirates, zombies and sadly cats. It had a circular board so I was on my guard as there are usually 3 or 4 things that seem to always tip off that a game might be bad and one of those things in my books is a circular board. If you put fancy bits please make sure they don't hamper play. This came with the fancy super thick bits and a 3d Arch de Triumph but Craig wisely didn't assemble it as it would block board view. They have done some of my favorite designs like Heaven & Ale. (Craig, Leann, Michael and Scott) (4P) - I was excited to play this new Kiesling & Kramer design.
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