The Secret World of Baseball Interpreters — and Shohei Ohtani | PTFO

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  @krhimself · 2 years ago (edited)

  This topic hits really close to home for me: my mom wound up serving as a translator/liaison during the 2010s for a Japanese wrestler who had just been signed under the WWE&apos;s umbrella. The wrestler had basically nothing in way of a support system when he arrived, and she was apparently the only person at Full Sail (which handled production for the WWE shows he performed in) who spoke fluent Japanese — and that was enough for WWE to source her and link her up with the wrestler. She helped him set up a bank account, set up bill payments, took him to the DMV, pretty much anything that wasn&apos;t directly related to wrestling (though she did get front row seats to shows, and meet active and former wrestlers as part of the gig).<br><br>The pod did an amazing job portraying this, but people really would be shocked at how small the support systems (if they even exist) can be for even legit superstars like Shohei, let alone for Japanese ballplayers and athletes who aren&apos;t nearly as famous as he is... and also how informal the process can be for finding someone to run that tiny little system.

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  @Floboyzlad17 · 2 years ago

  This is a fantastic episode and makes me feel really bad for shohei, dude just needs some good friends to hang out with

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  @FatherMarty · 2 years ago

  I find it completely plausable that Ohtani knew nothing. &nbsp;Didn&apos;t he defer the largest part of the contract he signed? &nbsp;They guy, as long as he can play major league baseball, just appears to not be interested in the wealth involved.

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• BI

  @billharris7235 · 2 years ago

  If I was Shohei, I&apos;d sue CAA for malpractice to the tune of $16 million.

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  @V37-417 · 2 years ago

  This episode deserves to be shown on all mainstream media across the world.

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  @mish422 · 2 years ago

  Movie making material. Fascinating but a traumatic experience for Ohtani.<br>Good thing he is married now.

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  @j0sh707 · 2 years ago

  Fascinating reporting as always.

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  @Fp919-y8y · 2 years ago

  This whole incident makes it brutally clear that most Americans who marvel at Shohei Ohtani&apos;s talents these past 6 years don&apos;t truly know who he is as a person. They mistake that just because someone doesn&apos;t speak English in interviews, means he hasn&apos;t been telling you who he is through his actions and in his own native language half of his life that&apos;s lived under the glare of the spotlights for almost TWO DECADES. If you are blessed to actually know in depth about Shohei Ohtani&apos;s admirable &amp; loveable high character or if you want to learn by doing simple research into old interviews and articles of him from teammates, coaches, and his parents. Don&apos;t worry if some are in Japanese because Google translate and Youtube translate will translate MOST of those interviews. You will learn that Shohei is so beloved because he is someone who through his consistent actions since childhood, values being someone of high character just as much as he values being the best baseball player in the world. It&apos;s even part of his goal setting since a teenager to get good karma by putting out good karma into the world by picking up trash, treating people well. <br><br>Almost two decades worth of information on him has been chronicled &amp; he has behaved consistently since childhood to adulthood, as someone who values doing things the right way to make his family and his country proud. &nbsp;As quoted in the in depth GQ article on him written in 2022, &quot;Shohei was from his earliest age what&apos;s known in Japan as a yakyu shonen—a kid who eats, sleeps, and breathes baseball.&quot; He has no interest nor time between sleeping to recover his body from the amount of demands he puts on it to be the best in the world at TWO very specialized HOF level sports CAREERS to do anything else. Anyone who is a the top of any field will tell you the amount of discipline and time it takes to be great, much less the greatest in history at one career much less two. That is why he is so clueless about other non baseball life things the rest of us take for granted. He&apos;s the sports equivalent of the absent minded professor. He deserves sympathy and empathy for being a victim, not the willful racism masking as conspiracy theories &amp; theorists who want to ignore overwhelming EVIDENCE &amp; FACTS collected by the IRS, US Attorneys Office, Homeland Securities and other government agencies ON TOP of almost two DECADES of film footages, interviews by those who know him, grew up with him, worked with him. <br><br>We need to hold accountable the willfully ignorant haters on the internet who illegally defame him by claiming &quot;conspiracy&quot; from nothing but their OPINIONS in the face of almost TWO DECADES of news stories, articles, and now government FACTS and EVIDENCE. Please upvote, like and subscribe to videos &amp; content creators like this &amp; of those who try to get the truth out about Shohei based on facts &amp; also report, downvotes the lies &amp; racisms aimed at Shohei. At this point what they are doing is illegally spreading lies because it&apos;s no longer an opinion that he&apos;s innocent, but there is overwhelming evidence and facts that he is. They are committing libel and defamation at best and racist hate disguised at conspiracy mongering at worst. Shohei&apos;s worked his butt off and dedicated his entire life to being the greatest baseball player as well as person, and bringing so much joy entertaining millions around the world. The least us fans owe him is to not let the jealous racists dirty his stellar and beloved reputation that he&apos;s worked so hard to earn with their willfully ignorant lies. At least don&apos;t reward them by giving them clicks &amp; views, but downvote &amp; report them because though Youtube, Reddit, Instagram, X, and others may not show the downvotes, enough votes &amp; reports hate, abuse &amp; harassment will affect their ratings &amp; eventually get them banned for spreading hate &amp; lies. Sadly a lie allowed to go unchallenged eventually become the truth for the ignorants. Don’t respond directly to the liars &amp; their lies or even make any references about them, but report them and post separately the facts &amp; truths so they aren’t rewarded with attention &amp; money and social media is flooded with 100x if not thousands more truths to drown out each lie. Thank you for helping to spread this message and protecting Shohei - as well as attending my Ted Talk.

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  @sherbear_LA_native · 2 years ago

  Shohei needed Mariko

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  @noahblanc8105 · 2 years ago

  I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE

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  @nostradumass6248 · 1 year ago

  it’s been said before but the most remarkable feat of pablo’s show is turning parakeet cortes from insufferable heat fan to lovable producer

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  @Pugmantis1473 · 2 years ago

  The last part where he claims Mizuhara “falling on a sword” for Ohtani is equally plausible isn’t plausible at all lol <br><br>They would have then had to dupe the Justice Department, IRS criminal investigation unit, and Department of Homeland security. That would include tens of thousands of texts between all parties involved, forensically scrubbing all evidence of Ohtani’s involvement, etc. <br><br>The IRS doesn’t miss lol They took down Al Capone. They aren’t gonna be duped by a baseball player and his friend lol

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