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Get to Know Your Loons: Alan Garcia

June 13, 2013

Full Name: Alan Garcia Sosa

Hometown: Hermosillo Sonora, Mexico

Residence: Hermosillo Sonora, Mexico

Favorite movie: The Butterfly Effect

Favorite TV show: That 70's Show

Favorite musicians: Lifehouse, Trey Songz ,The Weeknd, John Mayer, Wiz Khalifa

Types of music on your iPod: Rap, Spanish music

Music to work out to: Rap

Most embarrassing song on your iPod: Sometimes by Britney Spears

Favorite actor: Ashton Kutcher

Celebrity crush: Blake Lively

Dinner with three people, dead or alive: Mariano Rivera, my dad and Fernando Valenzuela. We could talk about baseball all night

Favorite food: Italian

Farthest you've ever traveled from your hometown: Dominican Republic

Top three things on bucket list: 1) Make it to the big leagues 2) Visit Dubai 3) Learn how to play the guitar

Dream vacation: Dubai

Favorite cartoon as a kid: Tom & Jerry

Last book you read: The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

Person who taught you the most: My dad

Favorite baseball player, then and now: Ken Griffey Jr. and Mariano Rivera

If you could face one batter: Adrian Gonzalez

Favorite MLB team when you were growing up: Dodgers

Favorite athletes in other sports: Kobe Bryant, Cristiano Ronaldo and Rafael Nadal

Best moment as a Loon: My debut as a Loon, had three strikeouts in two innings.

Your "welcome to pro baseball" moment: When the second batter I faced in Ogden last year hit a home run

If you weren't a baseball player, you would be: A doctor

First car: 2007 Mustang

Dream car: Lamborghini

Current car: Mustang

Most rowdy Loon on bus rides: Miguel Sulbaran

Quietest Loon: Aaron Miller

Most intense Loons during workouts: Pat Stover

Best dressing Loon: Malcolm Holland

Your BFF on the team: Julio Urias

Loon most likely to be on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette: James Baldwin

Loon that is always on their phone: Malcolm Holland

Favorite thing to do on an off-day: Sleep

Magazine subscriptions: Sports Illustrated and Men's Health

Favorite websites: Instagram

One thing you can't live without: Music

First job: Baseball player

Favorite subject in school: Science

Favorite sport besides baseball: Basketball

Best and worst part of being a ballplayer: Best - Get to go to a lot of places; Worst - Being away from family

Favorite offseason activities: Going out with friends

Biggest fear: Failure

Most famous person in your cell phone: Luis Cruz

Biggest baseball influence: My dad

Biggest life influence: My brothers

Best advice you've ever received: Always give a good first impression