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Jack, you should have already known Uchiyama understood English


When Jack was getting fined for disobeying his manager and disrespecting the equipment, Jack gives an additional 10000y. When asked why, he said it was for the next time. After a pause, Uchiyama said, in Japanese, when the next time will be. Uchiyama asked this without Yoshi translating Jacks statement about next time.

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Good point...and besides, do you think he would have hidden it for all those years from all of the other Ganji players he had like Hammer? That would have been an idiotic thing to do when needing to communicate with them.

Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

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I think Jack is the first player he uses English with as a manager.
He said he's the "Japanese Manager of a Japanese baseball team that you (Jack) agreed to play for; it is your (Jack's) duty to learn my ways- not the other way around."
Also, Hammer said (when he saw Uchiyama yelling encouragement at Jack running stairs), "I'll be damned. He speaks English." To which Yoji (the translator) replied, *beep* in disbelief.

I don't think he's EVER used English as manager of the Dragons up to that point.

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No, that only showed that he could understand at least some simple words, which isn't unusual in Japan. "For the next time" is not a complicated sentence. Just because he could understand that didn't mean he could understand the language as a whole.

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