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But I wonder if that wasn't as big also because it was West Coast.

Because why isn't Otani that big?

He's big, but he's not...

I don't know. Maybe just because it's baseball and it's West Coast.

That's what I was thinking last night.

I don't know. Why have I not paid more attention to this?

If he was on the Yankees, would you know everything about it all the time?

I mean, just how, do you feel like you know way more and pay way more attention to Aaron

Judge?

Because I don't.

I think about Otani as often as I think about Aaron Judge.

I think it's just structurally, and I, you know, I want to talk about why I think

football is popular.

But football has just done a great job of being calibrated as like a national game.

Like we care about Falcons Eagles.

Whereas like if that were the equivalent game in baseball, unless you're a fan of the Falcons or the Eagles, no one cares.

Like it's just, you just follow your team and that's what you care about. And that's kind of, I think, how baseball has mostly always been. I think that's how I've experienced. So, you know, you just don't get, like a regular, you know, if Otani's playing the Rockies and they're putting it on TNT, you're not watching that.

You don't care about the Dodgers or the Rockies. But if they played one game a week, I might. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's it. Yeah, there's so many. Like, it just doesn't matter. Like, even if you care about the greatness of the Dodgers, which, like, I do a little bit. I think they're a really cool franchise. I support

the way that they've spent a ton of money trying to get good, and I think a lot of other teams

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