Carton Reacts to Shohei Ohtani Securing 4th NL MVP

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00:00So Shohei Ohtani wins his fourth MVP award in the last five years.

00:04And the same kind of scenario, I don't know whether he's home or where the heck he was, right?

00:08His wife's there, the dog's there.

00:10And this is just now a week and a half since Shohei Ohtani spoke beautiful English

00:15at the end of the Dodgers Championship Parade out there in, what do you guys call it?

00:20Shea Ravine or something like that? Dodger Stadium, whatever.

00:24Chavez Ravine.

00:25Chavez.

00:26So sorry, I'm not from L.A.

00:27But he spoke, we did a whole segment on it.

00:31Like he speaks perfect English, right?

00:32Great English, yes he does.

00:33So we know that the need for an interpreter is Fugazi.

00:37Now he's not the only one.

00:38There's a lot of other people who don't have English as their primary language,

00:42whether it be Spanish or German or whatever the case may be, right, who use interpreters.

00:48Now the far majority of them, once they get to the year 7, 8, 9, 10 in Major League Baseball,

00:54they only use the interpreter as a crutch.

00:56And because they don't want to talk to the media, so they have the interpreter do it.

01:00And I've been convinced, by the way, that a lot of these interpreters just make up what the dude said.

01:06Like, let's say my main language was gibberish, all right?

01:10And you're the reporter, and you asked me a question.

01:13Go ahead, ask me a question.

01:13I go, what's it like to win your fourth MVP?

01:16Right.

01:16Now I would say, you know,

01:17We don't know what the hell that means.

01:23Now I'm going to be the interpreter.

01:25So I hear my client go,

01:27Right?

01:29Well, it's really one of the most important things.

01:31It's a team sport, and it's great that I won.

01:34But this is really about the guys batting behind me and the great pitching staff

01:38and guys getting on base and giving me this amazing, blah, blah, blah, right?

01:42Uh-huh.

01:42Because the interpreter ain't stupid.

01:44He knows the right answer, right?

01:45God willing, best foot forward.

01:47All the cliches.

01:48Yeah.

01:49All I said was,

01:50And the guy's like, I know what he meant.

01:54And he goes on like a soliloquy, right?

01:56Uh, okay.

01:56Okay?

01:57Now, this is not just Japanese language, guys.

01:59It's Spanish language, German language.

02:01I want to be clear.

02:01A lot of these guys we know as a fact use the interpreters as a crutch

02:06and because they don't want to speak English to you.

02:09Yeah.

02:09Okay?

02:09Yeah.

02:10So I made the comment a week ago, and I think it kind of went viral,

02:13that the more I think about it, now that I'm clearly aware

02:16that Shohei Otani speaks perfect English and is capable of doing it,

02:21well, maybe the last interpreter, Ipe, the guy that's in prison right now

02:25because of the gambling scandal and wire fraud and all that stuff,

02:28maybe he wasn't a real interpreter.

02:30Maybe he was just a gambling buddy and a buffer for Otani,

02:33and we're going to learn more about this story later on in life, right?

02:36Okay.

02:37And that story went viral.

02:39Yeah.

02:39So I know, like, if it gets a million views at some point,

02:42somebody close to the Dodgers saw it.

02:45Yeah.

02:45Somebody close to Otani saw it.

02:47Yeah.

02:47Players are aware of it, right?

02:49Yeah.

02:50So I'm now convinced that yesterday,

02:53when he wins the MVP award for the fourth time in five years,

02:58and you know the questions,

03:00you asked the perfect question,

03:01and we know the answer.

03:02Mm-hmm.

03:03You know, I'm humbled by it.

03:04Right.

03:05You know, this is for my family,

03:07and whatever.

03:08That's right.

03:09I'm now convinced someone said to me,

03:11yo, my man,

03:13you got to go back to using the interpreter

03:14because people are on to you right now.

03:17People are now questioning,

03:18why do you have an interpreter

03:20when you don't need an interpreter?

03:21And it was just interesting to me.

03:23At the celebration of the second consecutive World Series,

03:28no interpreter needed,

03:29and he spoke beautiful English.

03:31Yes.

03:32Now he's sitting at the crib.

03:34In Japan.

03:35Right.

03:35In Japan.

03:35As he gets his fourth award,

03:37and he obviously knows he's going to win it,

03:39or he wouldn't have the camera set up on him, right?

03:41And all of a sudden,

03:43he's looking around,

03:44and he's like,

03:45man, I better use the interpreter

03:46before they time it to that gambling scandal again.

03:49I know I'm the only guy thinking it,

03:53but that's why I'm special.

03:54Can you honestly tell me

03:55that not a little part of you thinks

03:58there's something for Gazy going on?

04:00Absolutely.

04:01But I believe each row was the same way.

04:03Each row, I feel like, played 20 years,

04:05and he had the same interpreter that whole time.

04:08Sure.

04:09I know he spoke perfect English as well.

04:11He speaks perfect English.

04:11So, yes, the question is only,

04:14was it the gambling part?

04:17As Craig takes it for the people.

04:18Well, it's our guy, Carl.

04:19Yeah, for the people.

04:20I think that's part of it.

04:21Like, I know the best story I ever heard

04:24about guys not speaking English.

04:27You know, Yao Ming,

04:28the great basketball player for the Houston Rockets,

04:30told this great story.

04:31I think it was at a Hall of Fame celebration for Shaq,

04:33okay, when Shaq got in.

04:35And Yao Ming said,

04:37I don't know if Yao told it or Shaq told it.

04:38Shaq told it about him.

04:39Shaq told it, yeah.

04:40So, it's the same story.

04:41Like, they played together,

04:43and for an entire year,

04:44never spoke to each other.

04:46And they didn't speak to each other

04:47because Shaquille O'Neal assumed

04:50that Yao Ming couldn't speak English.

04:54Yeah.

04:54And Yao Ming assumed that Shaq was just standoffish

04:58and didn't want to talk to him.

05:00Didn't want to talk to him, right.

05:00So, they never spoke to him.

05:02At all.

05:02And then, at some point,

05:04he said, good shot of something.

05:06Right.

05:06And then Shaq goes, wait,

05:07you can speak English?

05:08And I was like, yeah.

05:10Yeah, of course I can.

05:12So, I don't know.

05:12I just think the Shaquille O'Neal thing

05:15just struck me as odd

05:17because we know he doesn't need it.

05:18No.

05:19And maybe because he's, you know,

05:20in his home country,

05:22it's more comfortable for the people around him

05:23who might not speak English.

05:25You know, whoever the family members

05:27outside of his wife.

05:28Yeah.

05:28That were in that room.

05:29So, maybe he's doing it for their benefit.

05:30So, I want to be fair about this.

05:32But there's something fishy going on, man.

05:34So, I don't know.

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