00:00i give otani a lot of credit for speaking to the media through you know with his translator
00:04meeting with the media as well but what was the purpose why now right what what what was the per
00:11he didn't have to do this but i i think that in a way like i i'm gonna guess he's
00:18sitting down with
00:18dave roberts and dave roberts is like listen you know like we like we're gonna defer to you you've
00:24it you've won two mvps but we think we think it's it's best you stop you know like that that
00:30could
00:31have been the conversation i i and then otani's like no i want to play yep and roberts is probably
00:37like no we really don't want you to play and otani's like look then this is on me i'll go
00:45meet
00:45with the media i'll go tell them what's going on i'm gonna i'm gonna i want to be everyone
00:49understand what's happening i want to tell them i'm gonna be able to bounce back and if something
00:53goes sour then you then you put that all on me and dave roberts is probably like hey what are
00:59we
00:59gonna do this guy has been the best player in baseball going on four or five years now he's
01:04a two-time mvp how am i gonna tell this guy no even in the nlcs so the decision is
01:10sort of taken
01:10out of his hands and there's very few players that are above their teams or above like let's just say
01:16organizations and otani happens to be one i don't know how many honestly i don't even know how many
01:21how many others there are maybe mike trout probably can call his own shots with the angels he's been at
01:26it so long he's a future hall of famer probably could do whatever he wants but we're talking about
01:30a handful of players right now going in baseball that can say hey i want to play and you got
01:36to put
01:37me in that that's the only thing i can think of here because had he not met uh with media
01:42today
01:42and i'm not big on like reading in into that sort of stuff but had he not done that i
01:47think that that
01:48would be it joe i i think they would be like all right that's it call it a day uh
01:52but the fact
01:53that he did that probably on his own was to to take some pressure off the dodgers to say hey
01:59look
02:00here's the reasoning by my struggle behind my struggles it's kind of crazy that uh that he did
02:07because the all we heard after they lost game two was are they gonna bench otani like a bench
02:12otani i mean it was every article it was that was the talk of the entire thing and then dave
02:18roberts
02:19having to answer questions about it dave roberts says he's not healthy it's the knee it's this it's
02:24that we all know we can see that that's not the problem but at what point craig does it become
02:31can't be about you at this point otani if you were 80 we'd be you know what i mean but
02:37it is clear especially tonight at home if he let's say again oh for four a couple of strikeouts
02:44craig what are we doing for game four look i i don't i don't know i i don't know you're
02:50right
02:50it's a very fair question to ask again if they're down 3-0 i mean this kid depaula is not
02:56a slouch
02:56like he's not a nobody right like he like their their options are thin it's not great but depaula is
03:03not a zero it's it's not like they have a minor league guy to come in and play for him
03:09it's not
03:09the case but i i think i i maybe that's part of the conversation too joe where they'll give you
03:15one
03:15more day to figure it out
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