A: Major League Baseball’s 2025 World Series took place last week. The games between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays were so exciting.
B: As the highest-paid baseball player in the world, Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers was an incandescant superstar.
A: The Dodgers signed a record-breaking 10-year, US$700 million contract with Ohtani in 2023. As former ESPN reporter Joon Lee analyzed, the team quickly made back all the investment in the player’s first season.
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B: Wow, how is that possible?
A: Firstly, tourism from Japan to Los Angeles has surged by 90 percent since Ohtani signed the deal, with the majority of Japanese tourists attending Dodgers’ games.
A: 美國職棒大聯盟2025年「世界大賽」上週精彩開打，洛杉磯道奇隊和多倫多藍鳥隊的比賽真刺激。
B: 道奇的大谷翔平仍是場上最耀眼的超級巨星，不愧是全球收入最高棒球選手。
A: 道奇在2023年以破紀錄的10年7億美元（約214億台幣）簽下大谷，根據ESPN前記者Joon Lee近日的分析，該隊在第一個球季結束時合約就已全部回本！
B: 天啊這是怎麼做到的？
A: 首先、自簽約後洛杉磯的日本遊客暴增90％，而絕大多數遊客都會去道奇看球。
（By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times／台北時報張迪）
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