Here you go.

go. go. Presser. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Friday, December 15th,

2023.

Thank God it's Friday.

We had a big presser.

Shohe Ottani introduced to the Dodgers,

introduced to the fans, hundreds of media members,

3 o'clock Pacific, making sure that it was convenient in Japan.

As a matter of fact, let me just take a quick peek,

because I assume they planned properly.

What time do we think it is in Tokyo right now?

It's 10 o'clock a.m. PM 10 PM so it's 14 hours ahead so it's 17 hours ahead of

California so 3 plus 3 is 12 and then plus 5 is 8. So it was 8 a.m. in the morning in

in Japan when the press conference happened.

O'Tani comes out, he's wearing a suit. Here comes Andrew Friedman, the president of baseball operations,

and he gives a talk about how great show hey is.

And I wanted to give you a few comments from that press conference

that made me smile as an executive thinking back

to all the press conferences that I was a part of and the planning that goes in.

You have to have a press release ready with statements.

You organize the questions, you practice with the player and the owner and the president and the GM questions who's going to take what

everything is completely timed you work with your network because the biggest

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