It’s not me, it’s Yu

[Cubswin11]

“Darvish not mentally tough enough to hear boos” -Jesse Rogers

[PackLandVA]

Glad he's still alive after opening this thread today.

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i know he's rich and everything, but it's gotta be a weird/terrible feeling knowing that people will hate you if your arm breaks again, and ultimately there's nothing you can do to prevent it. i'd be freaking out every time my arm felt a little tiny bit sore. if you have even a tiny bit of something like ocd on top of it, that seems like it would be a nightmare.

[Old Style]

Yu to have a finger amputated. Or he left with a blister today. One of the above.

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[Brian]

I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've heard Yu talking in English, I don't know what I expected his voice to be like but that's not it.

[Bluescale]

I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've heard Yu talking in English, I don't know what I expected his voice to be like but that's not it.

 

With English that good, I'm shocked he ever uses a translator.

[PackLandVA]

Are we sure it's not dubbed like those Godzilla movies in the 70s??

[David]

I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've heard Yu talking in English, I don't know what I expected his voice to be like but that's not it.

 

With English that good, I'm shocked he ever uses a translator.

 

I spoke Spanish before I spoke English and I still speak it exclusively with my mother and that generation of my family...Despite being fluent, I'm still incredibly self conscious when I speak it to other native speakers, so I totally get why he'd want an interpreter in a professional and public setting where the whole world is going to be judging whatever he says.

 

That said, props to him for going without one. He speaks much better than I would've guessed. I wonder if he was taught in school growing up.

[PackLandVA]

Wasn't there some mention last year after he signed (maybe sometime in ST) that he wanted to learn to speak English better during his tenure with the Cubs?

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Despite being fluent in over 6 million forms of communication, I'm still incredibly self conscious when I speak it to other native speakers.

[Brian]

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[squally1313]

Wasn't there some mention last year after he signed (maybe sometime in ST) that he wanted to learn to speak English better during his tenure with the Cubs?

 

I don't really remember hearing anything about it until this offseason, and always kinda thought it was (unfortunately) a response to him being called soft/unfriendly/whatever other bad adjectives the media put on him.

[Derwood]

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Someone needs a manicure...

[minnesotacubsfan]

I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've heard Yu talking in English, I don't know what I expected his voice to be like but that's not it.

 

With English that good, I'm shocked he ever uses a translator.

 

....surprisingly he sounded Japanese. or not surprisingly

[Deeg]

My experience is that Japanese people, more than most, are extremely self-conscious about embarrassing themselves (as with bad pronunciation) in front of others (apart from at the izakaya after work or the karaoke bar). And there's a great fear of meaning being misinterpreted because of a lack of understanding of the nuance of English.

 

It's worth remembering that Yu is only half-Japanese, and likely grew up hearing and (and maybe speaking) non-Japanese language earlier and more often than most Japanese kids.

[Brian]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvS2wyyHvIS/?utm_source=ig_embed

[Sammy Sofa]

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It's time for another installment of Whose Disgusting Baseball Finger Is This?

[David]

at least it's not basketball feet

[Brian]

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[JudasIscariotTheBird]

God damn, Neil is the man.

[PackLandVA]

Did Yu say he put "a" pee on it??

[Cubswin11]

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[The_Achiever]

Despite last night's extremely annoying loss, I am encouraged by Yu's performance.

 

He looked comfortable and confident out there. I'll take it.