Chuck Garfien gives Munetaka Murakami permission to answer questions in Spanish, which causes some confusion

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1. Damn he was filled with pure panic for a split second.

2. Murakami instantly thought “Man I’m still learning beginners English and preparing for next season fuck do you mean I gotta speak Spanish”

3. At first, I thought he was trolling Murakami. On my rewatch of the video, I realized that this was just a big misunderstanding. Let’s all laugh at the irony of the man’s statement!

4. the sheer terror on his face

5. He looks like Yoshinobu if Yoshinobu ate Ohtani

6. Señor Murakamí

7. This is way funnier than I was imagining, bro looked like he walked into the final and realized he’d studied for the wrong subject

8. Garfinkel

9. love how Murakami’s interpreter matches his aura

10. why did he choose the White Sox but not the Mets???

11. He looked so worried haha

12. 

    Murakami at the end:

13. I’m really starting to love this guy lol. Hope he does well except against the Tigers.

14. I read the headline to mean that Murakami speaks fluent Spanish and wanted to answer questions in it, so there was some confusion here too.

15. His reaction was priceless. 

16. This is great 😂😂

17. Murakami looking like he wants to phone a friend, Yamamoto?

18. Basically every Japanese person’s worst nightmare. Like showing up to the entrance exams and realizing you studied the wrong subjects. His parents will be furious when they find out he didn’t get into any of the decent high schools.

19. Chuck is so used to guys from Cuba and the DR coming over

20. Interpreter looks like retired Yakuza

21. The north side had Mike Imanaga… allow me to introduce you to the South Side’s Miguel Murakami

22. Señor Murakami sounds like Señor Urami.

    IYKYK

23. He should learn Spanish now too but only do his interviews in Spanish.

24. As an aside, the vowel sounds in Japanese are the same as those in Spanish:

    /a/ /i/ /u/ /e/ /o/ is the order in Japanese.

    If you know of those sound like in Spanish you know what they sound like in Japanese