God, I still love Ichiro. One of the all time greats.

I live in Kansas City, and he's not wrong.

@tannerwilson4843

2 жыл бұрын

KC is becoming a big soccer city! Should be a serious contender to be a host city for the 2026 World Cup when that gets announced this fall.

@bettyswallocks6411

2 жыл бұрын

Why do Kansans keep rats in socks?

@IWearTimepants

2 жыл бұрын

@@bettyswallocks6411 better question: why doesn't everyone else??

@jonstefanik9400

Жыл бұрын

@@bettyswallocks6411 Missourians

Ichiro probably best contact hitter of all time. What an artistic swing. And let's not forget how good he was in the oufield either!

@GasGotti

2 жыл бұрын

And base runner

@Kobe_Jay_Kenobii

Жыл бұрын

Greatest productive player of all time, production wins games

@LysergiCoyotl

Жыл бұрын

@@Kobe_Jay_Kenobii Well production could imply a lot of things? Best average with RISP? Most RBI per at bat? Most WAR? I think WAR is the metric that best estimates a players overall affect on winning throughout their career, Babe Ruth has the highest.

@shawnuel

7 ай бұрын

@@LysergiCoyotl WAR includes defense in the equation. I’d say that wRC+ is the best metric for strictly offensive production. It factors in several things like park factors, situational hitting etc.

I love Ichiro Suzuki!!!

@waryaawariiri1812

2 жыл бұрын

I like Keisuke _Honda_ better.

Kansas City resident here. It's August 1, and Ichiro isn't wrong.

Ichiro. what an amazing genius.

Ichiro is even more kind and humble than you’d expect! I’ve been able to meet him a couple times and he even signed a ball for me, which he almost never does

Ichiro also played with the Miami (Florida) Marlins. We loved him. He was great.

No one like Ichiro. Great ballplayer. Great sense of humor. Speaks English very well.

I’ll never forget walking by Ichiro when I was like 6 or 7. I was brought onto the field at Veteran’s stadium to play tug of war against the mascots between innings at a Phillies-Mariners game. I walked by Ichiro bc he was on deck and he patted me on the shoulder when I was walking off the field. Awesome guy.

Only saw the thumbnail and thought. Oh how nice Stephen is interviewing Stephen Colbert.

@affanyfan

2 жыл бұрын

They look like cousins!

@romulus1878

2 жыл бұрын

Although somehow Bob Costas is even more boring.

My brother loved Ichiro growing up!! He still has some posters of him up in his childhood bedroom at home :) it’s nice to hear his name for the first time in a few years and bring up nice childhood memories :)

Kansas Citian here. This is true.

@deborahfreedman333

2 жыл бұрын

My mom grew up in the east bottoms of Kansas City. After the second time the family dry goods store was burned down in riots, they moved out to Raytown. I spent few summers there, and it wasn't the heat that did me in, it was the humidity. It felt like a steam sauna.

@grantego553

2 жыл бұрын

@@deborahfreedman333 Northland KC native here. Humidity is the worst in KC.

@vanessapierson4913

2 жыл бұрын

true. so so true.

Among Seattle Mariner fans, this story is legend. Bret Boone taught him this phrase, I believe but Ichiro mixed up the order a bit. It is “2 rats ******* in a sock”

@vatonorteno

11 ай бұрын

Ah. That makes sense now. It doesn't the way he said it.

@lukegilbert946

7 ай бұрын

I think it's wool sock, which would be even hotter!

@shawnuel

7 ай бұрын

@@lukegilbert946 You are right! It is wool sock.

Ichiro's a jewel!!

OMG, love any baseball stories! Thank you Bob for sharing this one !

God almighty!!! Everything about this is pure gold!!! ⚾️❤😂

I LOVE ICHIRO SUZUKI! He is the best contact hitter and the best outfielder !! and. the best base runner

I heard the rats in a wool sock years ago. It is real Bob.

"They're even worse than you think, because, Ichiro, there's no such expression as that." 😆 _There is now!_

Bob is a gentleman and scholar, a kind and rare commodity.

I saw Bob Costas in real life at the Olympic Complex in Jamsil, Seoul in 1988. He was a young, handsome, and promising caster back then, but already retired. Time just flies by so fast.

He’s such a good man

I've been to Kansas City. Can confirm.

What a master!

Ichiro Suzuki was also a figure featured in one of the Star Trek episodes. I really appreciated that episode, i think it was Deep space 9

@jamesmoore1317

2 жыл бұрын

Makes sense considering Sisko was a huge baseball fan.

@joshuagingrich3881

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not so sure about that. Sure, Sisko was a big baseball fan, but DS9 was 1993-99, which was before Ichiro came to the states. So I doubt it was him

@Statsy10

2 жыл бұрын

It was a fictional baseball player Sisko was talking about. In fact DS9 ran from 1993-1999, while Ichiro only came over to the Mariners in 2001.

@jamesmoore1317

2 жыл бұрын

oof, I wondered if the timing was right and it seems not.

@LateNiteBreaks

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure that was Buck Bokai, played by Keone Young.

That is a saying though, he just misspoke. The saying is "it's hotter than two rats fucking in a sock." A reference to the fact that rats mate quick like rabbits and a confined space warms up quickly.

@seang3019

2 жыл бұрын

Also it's like totally hot.

@Justusson

2 жыл бұрын

@@seang3019 Seek help.

@DuranmanX

2 жыл бұрын

@@seang3019 nice to see John Oliver in a Stephen Colbert video

@seang3019

2 жыл бұрын

@@Justusson I've joined a support group.

@Justusson

2 жыл бұрын

@@seang3019 😂👍

Bob Costas says his favorite interview was Ichiro Suzuki... Michael Jordan: "And I took it personally"

@pedronoa1973

2 жыл бұрын

😂

So happy mr. Costas is back.

Lmao I wasn't expecting him to swear🤣🤣🤣 we all know where he learned that one from

KCMO represent! But yeah, we have some sauce and sayings.

Missouri weather during the summer is *_AWFUL!_* You are drenched in your own sweat in 15 minutes of stepping outside. Tops... 100+degrees with fully saturated air.

The first Japanese superstar in baseball was Nomo!

@shawnuel

2 жыл бұрын

There were a few successful pitchers in MLB before Ichiro but he was the first successful everyday player.

@kurisu10fa

2 жыл бұрын

@@shawnuel But in the interview he said Ichiro was the first Japanese superstar in baseball.

@shawnuel

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurisu10fa I would agree. In no way would I consider Hideo Nomo a superstar. A very good player for a few years. 20.9 career bWAR, 123-109 record. 4.24 lifetime ERA His first 2 seasons were excellent. Rookie of the year first season and 4th in Cy Young voting both years. An All-Star his rookie year. Never again. Never close to Cy Young again. Hitters figured him out quickly. Again good solid career. Nowhere near a Superstar, IMO.

@my2l

2 жыл бұрын

If nomo continued what he did the first couple seasons with the dodgers u could many call him that, but his career numbers are not superstar levels.

Born and raised in Kansas City. I moved to Pittsburgh a few years ago and it feels like I put the weather on Easy Mode.

@PatClevenger0709

10 ай бұрын

I grew up in Kansas City. Moved to Pittsburgh in 1997. The weather here is nothing compared to KC.

Colbert's doppelganger

🧡

AHEm that expression is in the Urban Dictionary.

I live in kansas city and we will now MAKE this a saying. because it’s true.

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🌲

But WHAT WAS IN THE BAG, Bob?!?!

0:04 They look like twins! :)

When you're on I-70 traveling to KC, right when you're approaching the city on the outskirts there should be a sign that says, "Welcome to Kansas City ("here in August, it's hotter than 2 rats f*ckin' in a wool sock") 😂

Ichiro Suzuki also played for the As for a few years. I loved that lineup.

@shawnuel

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, he played for Seattle, NY Yankees and the Miami Marlins. No one else.

@ThePerrperr

2 жыл бұрын

@@shawnuel i watched him wear the green and gold in person

@shawnuel

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePerrperr Could you be thinking of Catcher Kurt Suzuki? He started his career in Oakland.

It's "Two Rat's fucking in a wool sock" but still hilarious

The weirdest Olympics ever. We won't even have Bob Costas guiding us through them

@purplefishies

2 жыл бұрын

Thank god...we never needed his useless pontificating and endless droning.

Anyone know what was in the bag that he brought out in the first part of the interview?

@christineneff3724

2 жыл бұрын

Rats?

Shoutout to r/baseball, y'all knew this already.

@b3z3jm3nny

2 жыл бұрын

i didn't know about the king kong / godzilla question tho!

He’s not wrong

I wish he’d announce broadcast a couple Seattle Mariners games. That’d be a treat

Funny

I thought when I first saw this on a direct feed that Ichiro said ‘Tourette’s in a f**ng sock’ and I had to google this clip

its supposed to be , hotter than 2 rats *ucking in a sock! LOL

Emily Blunt's atittude & charisma 💥

They look the same in the thumbnail haha

Love Costas, but what happened with that bag?

Shoutout to Shohei Ohtani

why is stephen colbert interviewing his brother

😂😂😂😂

Bob and Steven could be identical twins

he forgot Hideo Nomo

Well what do you think happens to all those missing socks from the dryer?

@susanfanning9480

2 жыл бұрын

Gasp!!

@MrVovansim

2 жыл бұрын

It's not the underpants gnomes??

Who is the guy that looks life STEPHEN COBERT??!! What

Bob Costas has aged well..I think 🤔

KC

ending was weird

Bob and Stephen look like brothers. Or cousins.

It’s too hot in Kansas City.

WHAT WAS IN THE BAG???!!

Does anyone else here think Bob would have made a great replacement for Alex Trebek on Jeopardy? He probably wouldn't want the job, though...

Oh, Bob. There’s no need to dye your hair to match your jacket.

@dawnpalmby5100

2 жыл бұрын

Check your colour setting bc his jacket is purple n his hair is brunette

@sammygirl6910

2 жыл бұрын

He's going for late 80s Howard Cosell I think.

@dennismurphy2979

2 жыл бұрын

He's had his face stretched out as well, although the lighting here is more flattering than the last interview I saw him on, Real Time w/ Bill Maher

@leavingitblank9363

2 жыл бұрын

@@dennismurphy2979 And fake cheekbone implants, it looks like.

What was in the bag 🤔

I want bob costas to narrate my inner monologue

ending seemed abrupt. i smell 💨

I cant get the white marks to vanish on this video.

Shit's messed up.

the facelift bubble cheeks and the jet black hair.......sigh

vanilla cake with vanilla ice cream

Looks lie brothers

PINKEYE!

Face Lifi

A fine Olympic presenter. But the US Olympic coverage has always been highly selective...even to the point of propaganda like proportions...showing, with rare exceptions, only American victories, making endless excuses for failures, ignoring foreign victors, editing the opening ceremony to exclude things that bother or puzzle the American viewer, and even going to far as to manipulate the medals table. Anything to sustain the idea of US supremacy in everything.

Looks like child man BC is aging gracefully…..with a little help.

KC worst weather on the planet

No such a expression as that? Bob must have voted for Joe 🤷‍♂️

Bad hair piece, lousy hair coloring of what's left, saggy Jowells but he had those huge cheek bones added. Plastic Surgery is Obvious, Looks like he's my age...