May

Giants Barry Zito misses radio show because of unicorns?

By Allan

CSN Bay Area host Mychael Urban has a regular radio show with Barry Zito, but last weekend Zito couldn’t make it. Why? Check out this audio clip that Urban received from Zito: Barry Zito’s voicemail

For those that don’t have audio, here’s the transcript (but I highly recommend listening to the voicemail):

Urb, Z. Uh, dude, not good man, um. So I came down to the Unicorn club to have some breakfast this morning to see a couple friends. I went downstairs to the stables; saw a couple unicorns down there. I went up to this one that was my favorite, you know the one I told you about, Powder and I started playing with his mane and braiding it and stuff and I don’t know what happened. The stable manager came in and started yelling at me. Freaked out. Told me he was being quarantined because he had some kind of something and now I’m a threat to his health and now their just like holding me down here. They told me I can make just one call and I’m calling you. Luckily I memorized your number, which is rare these days. So dude I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t even know if I can get to the yard for the game today. It’s brutal dude. So I don’t know. I can’t make the show, bu I may need you to come down here to help me dude. You’re the only one that knows where this place is and um dude. Follow your instinct dude. If you don’t see me at noon just come down dude.

Nobody other than Zito or Urban probably know what the voicemail message means. For those outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, Zito names his weekly show The Unicorn Hour for their magical and mythical qualities. I’m wondering if Zito is stuck in because of “extra-curricular” activities from the night before. He did win his game on Sunday to make him 6-1, so if this show was taped for Sunday then he missed his show because of his start preparations.

Information from Kevin Kaduk of Big League Stew was used in this article.