SMITH CONCLUDED HIS TWITTER VIDEO BY SAYING:
“Baseball is a great game. But baseball’s audience is significantly older than the NBA, the NFL audience, etc, etc.
“That’s what I’m talking about, nothing more. We’re only talking about Ohtani because he’s phenomenal. He’s in the Home Run Derby, he’s got 33 home runs with a .279 batting average, plus he can pitch, he’s the second coming of Babe Ruth.
“Practically. We know that it’s an international sport, we know that it’s great, and baseball having the global appeal that it does, fine.
“But in the United States, all I was saying is that when you’re a superstar, if you can speak the English language, then guess what?
“That’s going to make it that much easier and less challenging to promote the sport. That’s all I was saying. About anybody. Later,” Smith said.
