What's your take on what Stephen A Smith said about Ohetani?

He says that the face of baseball shouldn't be someone who needs an interpreter. 

I mean, there are amazing Hispanic talent in the game and English is their second language. Do they not matter? I'm just seeing what you guys think. I love Shohei, the dude is on fire. I'm glad Maddon took over the team. Mike S wasnt utilizing him properly. Get a friendly discussion going. 

Who cares if he needs an interpreter? Guy is a stud player.

The real issue is that, like Trout, he’s wasting away with a mediocre franchise. 

my take on what stephen a said is stephen shouldn't be commenting on shit he doesn't know about. that guy will say anything to get more views, much like his ufc commentary

Many of those Hispanic guys do learn English.

America is the only country that allows athletes to not speak the native language.

Mexican owner, Italian manager, mixture of nationalities as teammates.

Stephen A stirs the pot...thats what he's paid to do.

Matsui, park, ichiro,...very little or no English.

To me it's a non issue...play ball and win me some cash; +300

I agree with what you all say. Angel's need to start to winning or it's a waste of a career

Ohtani

Stephen A. Smith gets paid to be an asshole. Where can we sign up?

@undermysac

 12 large

@LuckyGuy

 Shohei 

Angles can hit. Trout out and 2 more starters are out. All Angles need is pitching.

Who cares about anything Stephen A Smith says. He should have been sent packing with Jemele Hill!

@Unclebenelli

 Agreed

That's not what he said though...as usual people are just waking up to be offended about everything. You could make the case that his comments were insensitive but that's about it. 

It's obvious what he meant, it's harder to market the game to the American/Canadian public if the stars can't communicate to the public.

He is right in some sense, for example look at hockey with the Blackhawks in the last decade, even before Kane & Toews won cups....they used marketing to bring a lot of fans back (the videos are on youtube) and it worked to perfection.

He is wrong in that he is miscalculating the power of sheer talent, guys like Vlad/Acuna/Ohtani will bring butts to the seats.  

+300 lol

I get it. I understand what he meant. But now it's almost as if he is almost taking it back. He could've word it differently.  It's just that I dont think I've ever seen someone say about anyone else in another sport,  "hey, he should speak english better if he wants to be marketable. " 

Just my opinion. That's all

@Raidernator76

 Yeah I agree he could have worded it a better, that's why it was insensitive but that also kind of comes with the territory of Stephen's personality, being loud and obnoxious lol

Smith's unhinged rant about Ohtani is unsupported by facts, and plainly xenophobic. And if you're familiar with Smith at all, it probably won't it surprise you that he was essentially on the other side of this argument on July 6, less than a week ago. He loudly complained that MLB "has a damn modern day Babe Ruth on their hands and what are they doing about it?"   

Clearly, a d*ck

if you live in this country for longer than a year and make big bucks in this country, the least you can do is learn the fugging language. 

Really held Ichiro back, didn't it?

@Contrarian21

 why should he, to appease ignorant mules like you?

Stephen A Smith is a beligerent, annoying piece of shit who is continuously wrong in his predictions yet continues to act like his predictions mean anything.

When all the sh1tty players from MERICA who don't make it here go to other countries, don't learn their language and also require an interpreter, what then? 

European, Chinese basketball

S.Korean, Japanese baseball

Stephen Smith is a double standard s.o.b. and of course, when he says it, its not racist..

Bring Neymar Jr or Lionel Messei to play in our JOKE of a soccer league, MLS (major league soccer) and see what that racist Stephen A Smith says..

Also has he said anything about Vladimir Guerro Jr?  Who only speaks Spanish? Nope, didn't think so. Let's just pick on the Asian players.

I would love to see that fucker, Stephen A. Smith get canceled/fired but I'm sure he brings in a lot of views..