Dave Damaschek

That's sports, man.

That's the whole point.

The things that will resonate in a quarter century or a century from now are those singular moments.

You know, you may not like sports.

The fact that Bobby Thompson, if you were a Dodgers fan that day, you may not like that Bobby Thompson hit that home run when he did back in 51, but he hit that home run, and that's why we know who Bobby Thompson is now.

You have to come through in big spots for your name to loom over the generations to come.

That's how it works, everybody.

I'm sorry, Kyle Vannoy.

You know, one of the great ironies of sports conversation, rolling conversations, is that we all want to be able to rightly assert, I'm watching, we're watching the best in the history of.

Contextualize the players and teams we're watching right now and how they compare with those of the past.

And we love to do that and make our case for it.

We're watching the greatest baseball player

of all time and this is what we're talking about is griping about like yeah he takes too long to take his pads off and to get back out there on the hump this is where we are we we have to tear down these things to instead of celebrating this otani is the greatest player in the history of people we should rejoice about that and lean into it instead of like man he's taking too long

I mean, for real, Manfred should weigh in here.

It's so completely arbitrary.

And the fact that we're talking about a two-minute stopwatch on the transition...

between innings and all of that is, like I say, completely arbitrary.

So Manfred should step in and accommodate the star of his sport.

Otani is the number one reason why baseball is making strides at catching up with pro basketball a little bit more than any other, I would say.

So I would say...