Lopez avoids earnest talk about the joke, though he told Live Wire Radio in 2014 that he liked to goof off before games to ease his nerves. “I feel like my earliest encounters with mascots, they were never too receptive of me,” Lopez told Bleacher Report in 2015. _____Your Morning Briefing is published weekday mornings and updated online. Sign up here to get it by email in the Australian, Asian, European or American morning. You can also receive an Evening Briefing on U.S. weeknights.

Source: New York Times October 15, 2018 19:34 UTC