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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Hey Sarah here. One of the best parts of working

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Speaker 2: working to bring you coverage with a truly global perspective.

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Speaker 2: Today's Big Take is an example of that. It's an

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Speaker 2: episode from our team in Hong Kong, hosted by my

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Speaker 2: colleague Tanya Chen. It's about a globe trotting baseball superstar,

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Speaker 2: an eye popping contract, and a bid to secure a

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Speaker 2: bright future for America's favorite pastime by taking it to Asia.

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Speaker 2: Here's Tanya.

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Speaker 1: This Wednesday, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego

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Speaker 1: Baseball game in South Korea. When tickets for the game

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Speaker 3: This is a huge deal in Asia and in Korea.

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Speaker 1: That's my colleague Janet Paskin, a senior editor here at Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: She says there are a few reasons those tickets disappeared

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Speaker 3: It features two really exciting teams. They each have notable

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Speaker 3: to see show. Heyo Tani.

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Speaker 1: Just listen to how excited the MLB is to feature.

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Speaker 3: Him clapping for show Hey who goes to the opposite field?

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Speaker 3: Show Hey Otani puts on the show the Bronx.

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Speaker 1: You Bet, Showtime, Me and Arlington Tonight. It never stops amazing.

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Speaker 3: First show Heyo Tani is the biggest star in baseball

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Speaker 1: It was the biggest sports contract in history, and for

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Speaker 1: and his meteoric rise is central to Major League Baseball's future.

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Speaker 3: Sho Hey Otani is an incredible gift to Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 1: So can Otani help the league knock it out of

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Speaker 1: meets the MLB's ambitions in Asia. This is the big

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Speaker 1: take from Bloomberg News. I'm Tanya Chen. Ask any sports

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Speaker 1: league and they'll tell you their fans are getting old.

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Speaker 1: Young people don't watch games as much as they used

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Speaker 1: A few years ago, Major League Baseball started to look

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest stars baseball has ever seen, twenty

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Speaker 3: What we are seeing with shoe Heotani right now is

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Speaker 1: After playing in Japan for five years, Otani joined the

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Speaker 3: So this is like a World Cup of Baseball. It's

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Speaker 3: Heyo Tani's playing for Japan, his Angels teammate Mike Trout,

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Speaker 3: sho Heo Tani gets Trout to swing at a slider

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Speaker 1: The game was monumental, and not too long after that match,

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Speaker 1: Otani shocked the baseball world again by signing a ten year,

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Speaker 1: seven hundred million dollar contract with the LA Dodgers. It

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Speaker 3: You might think seven hundred million dollars, ten years, seventy

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Speaker 3: His fame and his talent and this incredible feat that

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Speaker 1: them achieve that. Last December, the La Dodgers signed a

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Speaker 1: My colleague Janet says the deal was a historic bet

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Speaker 1: The games in Soul this Wednesday will solidify the league's

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Speaker 3: Major League Baseball plans out it's international games years in advance,

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Speaker 1: And all of that means more business opportunities. These days,

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Speaker 1: Also, there just aren't enough games played in Asia.

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Speaker 1: And that's why the Soul games this week are so important.

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Speaker 3: That's partly why they're playing these games in Seoul. It

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Speaker 3: League Baseball can't do is they can't play games once

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Speaker 1: This is a big take from Bloomberg News. I'm Tanya Chen.

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Speaker 1: This episode was produced by Young Young and Naomi, with

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Speaker 1: additional reporting from Jenny Sunman Lee and so He Kim.

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