If you want someone for your next celebrity roast, Ichiro Suzuki could be your guy. Mixing sneaky humor with heartfelt messages, the first Japanese-born player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame stole the show Sunday in Cooperstown.

This article was originally published on www.si.com as Ichiro Suzuki Roasted Marlins With Ruthless One-Liner During Hall of Fame Speech. Seattle Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki was the star of Sunday's Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony, as he absolutely crushed his induction speech with a number of lines that had fans cracking up.

Ichiro Suzuki stole the show with his nearly 20-minute speech, delivered in English. Long known to those around him for speaking English well, Ichiro always chose to speak publicly in Japanese, using an interpreter.