Ohtani Thread - Special Sheriff's Edition (Update: confirmed going to the Dodgers)

[Jonn]

Signing with the Dodgers would be so f***ing boring for Baseball.

[tazsub3]

Lot of hate tweets from south of border regarding Ohtani saying it's bad for baseball. The pricks.

 

Thats what makes it sweeter. It took a Japanese to restore pride and avenge our decade of missing out agony....

 

もう一杯お願いします

 

Mōippai onegaishimasu aka one more sake please !

[rydermike]

Insert Cartman licking tears gif

 

If the Americans want to complain, they can suck our baseballs

 

[jaysthebest]

lol on Reddit, there are so many fake videos of Ohtani's arrival at Pearson airport.

[Frenchsoup]

Shohei is a Transformational type player. The best Free agent ever. Such a good guy, he deserves every cent. That US currency turned into Canadian dollars makes this such an easy decision for him to choose us.. He loves Kooch 2.

[Pendleton]

[glory]

Lot of hate tweets from south of border regarding Ohtani saying it's bad for baseball. The pricks.

 

Ohtani playing in LA where no one in the East coast wants to stay up and watch the games wouldn't be good for baseball either. The best thing for baseball would have been Ohtani going to the Yankees. With that not in play, I don't think it matters ultimately. If anything, Ohtani in the East coast playing the Yankees, Red Sox, etc, a lot more is going to get more eye balls on him. It's up to Fox, ESPN, TBS, etc, to determine whether they want to air those games nationally.

[jaysthebest]

TBH Ohtani going to LA would be good for the fans in Japan because they can watch his game during lunch.

[Delgalladay]

Lot of hate tweets from south of border regarding Ohtani saying it's bad for baseball. The pricks.

 

The Cubs fans' tweets are more amusing to me right now. They think if the Jays sign Ohtani that they'll have to dump salary and they're getting Bichette.

[John_Havok]

Ohtani playing in LA where no one in the East coast wants to stay up and watch the games wouldn't be good for baseball either. The best thing for baseball would have been Ohtani going to the Yankees. With that not in play, I don't think it matters ultimately. If anything, Ohtani in the East coast playing the Yankees, Red Sox, etc, a lot more is going to get more eye balls on him. It's up to Fox, ESPN, TBS, etc, to determine whether they want to air those games nationally.

 

The best thing for baseball is to have people talking about baseball. Ohtani signing in Toronto makes people talk all the way through ST and into the season.

 

Ohtani signing in LA makes everyone go "Oh, yeah that's what we thought" and moves on to the next signing in 5 minutes.

[Jonn]

Is Twitter baiting or is the rumoured 6PM Press Conference real?

[Omar]

The team received the same type of derision from American sports media back when they were winning world series titles as well so it's nothing new. It just went into hibernation for several decades.

 

I don't recall that much hate back then, but it was before the social media era. Do these people not realize that mlb is an international game?

[Jays24]

Trying to understand why the Mets would spend all that money but then sit something like this out lol.

[jaysthebest]

Is Twitter baiting or is the rumoured 6PM Press Conference real?

 

I guess it's fake.

[jaysblue]

lol, did you go to the airport just to scope things out?

 

I’m a covered aviation photographer on the side so usually I’m around YYZ haha

 

Sportsnet, CBC, and Reuters were here haha

[Jays24]

Is Twitter baiting or is the rumoured 6PM Press Conference real?

 

Haven't heard it anywhere other than the 1 guy so assuming it's fake.

[max silver]

Trying to understand why the Mets would spend all that money but then sit something like this out lol.

 

It seems more likely that Ohtani simply wasn't interested in signing in New York.

[jaysblue]

Only way is if Ohtani is already here or coming in later. CBC guys still here. Shi Davidi drove off as well as the Sportsnet truck haha

[Dick_Pole]

Americans raging about Canada one-upping them is real rich given that half of them make idle threats about moving to Canada whenever their not-preferred politician wins power. With all that whining, they should understand why one guy might actually want to leave!

[Krylian]

I can’t believe the Jays are in on this. Pretty sure everyone assumed Ohtani to the Dodgers was a foregone conclusion.

 

I know I did.

[Ray]

Bob Nightengale’s latest tweet…

 

 

Uh…..

[HERPDERP]

wtf Bob Nightengale saying Ohtani is not in Toronto

[DigitalRock]

It’s f***ing happening holy s***

[Carlos Danger]

Is Twitter baiting or is the rumoured 6PM Press Conference real?

 

It wouldn't make sense anyway... You don't leave that narrow a window for a flight coming in.. Friday evening is not ideal also... Hadn't heard anything from anyone about it so the press would not even be there..

[tazsub3]

better in toronto, they can watch over breakfast or during the usual long commutes to work

when i was in hk, i would watch nhl games at the breakfest table before hitting the office. was insane

[rydermike]

[Jonn]

 

Jon Morsi you’re done pal.

[glory]

If Nightengale is right, then Morosi better be cancelled.

 

He should have been cancelled a long time ago, but this should be credibility destroying if true.

[jaysthebest]

I am so tired of this Ohtani saga.

 

Hope he just makes a decision sooner than later so I don't have to refresh Reddit periodically.

[RobinThicc]

Morosi should serve prison time