Joey Votto

It was just a constant reminder of, dude, you couldn't be less special.

But the amazing part, you were wearing your Cincinnati Reds uniform when you were traveling and nobody recognized you.

Wow.

Eye black.

My number on the back.

Are we taking Otani for granted today?

He hasn't even gotten hot.

I know that he's had a really nice start to the pitching side of things, but offensively, I don't even sense that.

And I was reading that he's still not satisfied, but I saw some stuff yesterday in his swings that tell me we really...

And I don't like using hyperbole.

I think I'm going to try to, in the course of my media career, to be as tame as possible.

But I really think we might be in the middle of one of, if not the greatest season in the history of baseball.

And I say that because, first of all, most of the all-time great seasons have asterisks slash question marks.

And the other few...

were before integration was even a part of the game.

And so the extreme ends of greatness were mitigated because integration was a part of the game.

And he's playing against the very, very best in the world now.

So to me, I think we have a chance to see one of the great seasons of all time.

it feels like the Cy Young is really important to him.

And I mean, he's got, I don't know if you say unfair advantage.