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protected if something goes wrong. Jay are you a Shohayo Tani fan?

I think so.

J Caspian Kang is a writer for the New Yorker and a sports fan.

I called him up to talk baseball.

You don't sound very committed. Well, I think that normally under normal conditions that I wouldn't be,

just because he plays for the Dodgers, he played for the Angels.

Those are not teams that I generally agree for, but nobody since Babe Ruth has really done what he's done.

It's been like a hundred years I guess so.

Shohe Otani has been MVP twice now his nickname is Showtime and the comparison with Babe Ruth

comes up a lot.

You know, he doesn't really speak too much to the media,

at least not in English, and so it's almost like this alien landed in the major leagues and started doing things

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