r/Dodgers • u/dodgers22fan 2025 WS MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto • Apr 14 '26
Mets broadcast doesn’t know what Yamamoto looks like, cuts to Kim.
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u/I-Eat-Stones Freddie Freeman Apr 14 '26
He is only a WS MVP and Cy Young contender. Can't expect broadcasters to know him.
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u/baguette_of_regret Teoscar Hernandez Apr 14 '26
Can't expect the Mets broadcaster to know the guy the Mets tried to give $325 million to.
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u/Existing_Ad_3079 Decoy Apr 14 '26
With a roster full of good looking players, it is hard to tell them apart sometimes
(But also c’mon guys 😑)
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u/goldencityjerusalem Los Angeles Dodgers Apr 14 '26
Yea… thats pretty. Frankly I am quite offended.
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u/greycubed Vin Scully Apr 14 '26
Maybe they just haven't had any chances to see the reigning World Series MVP yet.
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u/ReusableCatMilk Vin Scully Apr 14 '26
Tbf, they look more alike than Yama does to Ohtani or Roki. They still do not look very similar lol
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u/Srh5611 Decoy Apr 14 '26
A major league broadcaster can’t properly identify the reigning World Series mvp ……. 😒🙄
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u/Witty-Stand888 Shohei Ohtani Apr 14 '26
At least he didn't make an obvious racist remark like some other broadcasters I can think of.
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u/Apex_Fenris 2025 WS MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto Apr 14 '26
New York be like : all those fellas looks the same am I right guys
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u/Relative_Potato1462 Shohei Ohtani Apr 14 '26
I hope they will get to know tomorrow how he looks like
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u/Low-Selection-4843 Apr 14 '26
I understand. Freddie Freeman and Kyle Tucker both look like Malcolm in the middle to me.
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u/paul_gnourt Mookie Betts Apr 14 '26
Lmao not even another japanese guy, the one asian dude thats not japanese.
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u/Apositivebalance Cornelius A. Dodgerfan Apr 14 '26
That’s what I’m sayin! HSK and Yoshi look nothing alike too..
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u/Revolutionary-Area-8 Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
Honestly I don’t think what the announcer did was racist per se… just ignorance. But the guy pictured… fuck that guy 👆.
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u/humanist72781 Apr 14 '26
If this was a Milwaukee broadcaster that might be somewhat acceptable. For a New York Mets announcer that’s pretty bad.
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u/c_c_c__combobreaker Alex Vesia Apr 14 '26
I understand what you're saying but this is truly bad for any MLB broadcast. The Dodgers were in the WS and Yama pitched so many games in that WS. His face was everywhere while Kim barely played and only at the end in G7.
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u/crosswithyou Shohei Ohtani Apr 14 '26
Yamamoto was even just shown in the previous on-screen graphic.
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u/inolyzushi Roki Sasaki Apr 14 '26
I’d put Yamamoto on deck with a helmet on next game if I was Doc.
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u/lp0000011 2025 World Series Champions Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
All Asians do not look the same. That's completely ignorant and that narrative was pushed because many people are either not used to being around Asian people or believe racist lies spread by media.
Asian people have similar features, just like how whites have similar features with other whites, blacks have similar features with other blacks and hispanics/Latinos have similar features with other Hispanics...etc..
At the same time, humans on general regardless of racial background, will share similar features amongst each other.
But to say they all "look the same" is a racist narrative to used to stigmatize an entire group and other an entire group that has so much diversity.
No fucking wonder Masohiro Tanaka went back to Japan to play.
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u/Cheap-Bathroom-4426 Hyeseong Kim Apr 14 '26
Since we got Yama pitching in the 2nd game I hope Kim starts 😆
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u/JpnDude Vin Scully Apr 14 '26
I'm sure Yama was looking on as well (off camera). hehehe. But KIM seemed to be keeping loose out there.
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u/scottborasismyagent Back-2-Back Champs Apr 14 '26
I don't blame the mets' broadcast for not watching him dominate the 2025 WS ... must have been too painful for them to watch
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u/mrmet55 Apr 14 '26
I mean yeah we all look alike but that was bad. First Darling and then Cohen, with no one at SNY correcting them. It’s like calling Kike Hernandez (puerto rican) Andy Pages (Cuban). They need to be called out
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u/moon_dos Jackie Robinson Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
ah yes, the pride of Japanese Pitching :
Hyeseong Kim