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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Shohei Ohtani's 50th home run ball

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

You're a baseball guy? I am. As a Cuban, I'm obly. I don't have a choice in one. It's the one sport we can play. That's it.

0:08.0

It's very fair. There's certain rules around this place. We call them things. In in this case it's Jerry can say or

0:14.2

then some a lot of times it's things a dual can say that we can't say and that's

0:18.8

good job that that's one of them that's one of them yeah you know I mean that's just

0:22.0

a fact well it's you can say that that's what my them yeah you know I mean that's just a fact well it you can say that that's

0:24.1

what's also there's no Cuban Olympic team you know why because all the athletes are

0:27.1

already here that's the thing I can say all right so show hey Otani is arguably the best player in baseball.

0:35.0

He has had an incredible season.

0:38.0

He has hit now more than 50 home runs, and he has stolen more than 50 bases.

0:42.0

That has never happened before in

0:44.3

the history of professional baseball that some guys hit 50 home runs and stolen

0:47.6

50 bases in the same season. And the other day he hit his 50th home run when he had stolen his 50th base and then he hit his 50th home run and a fan with the with at the ball game

1:00.7

the Otani plays with Los Angeles Dodgers, caught that baseball, which makes it a historic baseball.

1:07.0

And the Dodgers went to this fan and said, hey, that's a historic baseball it either you know we'd like to

1:15.4

either give it to him or very likely it would end up in Cooperstown New York at the

1:19.1

Baseball Hall of Fame or we might put it in a you know display here or

1:22.3

whatever we'd like to have that baseball back and we might

1:23.0

like to have that baseball back and we're prepared to compensate you for the

1:27.3

baseball.

1:28.3

How does 300,000 sound?

1:31.2

Now, $300,000 might sound like a lot of money and by the way yahoo has a full detail of this of

1:37.4

this story if you'd like to read more for yourself sounds like a lot of money but

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