shohei ohtani alert

cmon whaaat

You disapprove? A Pinterest page suggests they've done around 25 baseball covers, most of a general nature. Seems like quite an honour--artists do mess around with details. All that's missing is a Roger Angell piece inside.

Well it suggests he bets on games, which seems borderline libellous

Oh, god, I totally missed that!

I guess you could be charitable and take that as "makes a lot of money"...but you're almost certainly right.

(If they ever got sued, I bet that'd be their defense, though. "Gambling? How so...")

took that as pocket ripe for picking/his focus is on the game

That's a nice interpretation. I say we go with that

hmm maybe

(I didn't see it as particularly libellous, more an illustration on how shohei's game and the fat stacks of cash surrounding that game are insepperable; ippei-gate just being one product of that)

But Bulb's phrasing for simple and pointed.

I honestly just thought it was a cute New Yorker cover on how he is well paid. Never thought of the others but now it's ambiguous.

Shohei, be careful of your money!

I thought it was a comment on his un-deferred salary (pocket-change) because he is anti-tax.

#freeippei

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-22/dodgers-star-shohei-ohtani-buys-la-canada-flintridge-mansion-for-7-85-million

I think he's making more than 2 million a year

more pics here https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/shohei-ohtani-buys-southern-california-mansion/

i feel like it's surprisingly modest?

He seems to like modern. Don't know if the $17m Big Island, Hawaii house he's building has been mentioned here yet

https://maunakealiving.com/real-estate/the-vista/

Goes up against Paul Skenes tonight.

Should be fun. Tough loss for Glasnow, though the man can wear the hell out of a sock.

On the subject of whether regular people still think Ohtani gambles, our 18yo nephew was under the impression that Ohtani had been caught gambling and hadn't heard anything about him being cleared. He openly says he hates baseball, although we were playing trivia at a brewery showing the game so he did ask "Is Paul Skenes good?" 😉

That's related (though different) to what I was saying on a different thread: that my friend, a casual fan who assumes that Ohtani's story is just a cover, might be a better barometer of general opinion than more dedicated fans, who Want to Believe.

There's a pretty high correlation in 2024 between people who enjoy sports and people who enjoy gambling. Many would rather imagine Ohtani is a cool antihero gambler instead of accept that he is a fucking moron.

Those two qualities are a package deal btw

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/local-2/shohei-ohtanis-ex-interpreter-ippei-mizuhara-banned-from-delivering-for-uber-eats/3431730/

The former interpreter for the Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, Ippei Mizuhara, has lost his other job as an Uber Eats driver.

Mizuhara was banned from delivering for Uber Eats due to his pending litigation, a spokesperson told NBC4.

"Mizuhara has been an UberEats courier for a few years. Given these recent charges, he no longer has access to the platform," said Gabriela Condarco-Quesada, with Uber Eats.

what???

when it rains it pours

Can't imagine why he was so tempted steal millions when he had multiple lucrative income sources

a modern day Robin Hood #freeIppei

Ippei going to become a figure of speech… “Lately I’ve been livin kinda Ippei”

born ippei

That’s right baby

I've got a game on that I'm not really paying attention to, I look up and immediately see a high fastball get absolutely smoked, without even registering an outline of the player I immeidately know it's Ohtani. only thing similar i can think of is that one year where Steph Curry was constantly shooting from 30+ feet out and drilling an insane percentage, before everyone tried to do that (before getting yelled at by their coach)

New balance collection dropped. I really like the t shirt design

https://www.newbalance.com/pd/shohei-ohtani-graphic-t-shirt/MT43717.html

https://archive.ph/gTbAR

https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/sports/2024/08/08/former-ippei-mizuhara-prosecutor-discusses-socal-s--largest-illegal-bookmaking-operations-

38hr, 35sb. Inside shot of the first 50-50 season

I'm assuming no one has joined the 40-40 club in the month of august either?

39-37 today. Just got a base hit. I wanna see him attempt to steal 2nd, 3rd and home everytime he's got the chance. I believe in 50-50!!!!!

dodgers: “we need a gold shohei bobblehead”

bobblehead manufacturer: “best i can do is gold Bill Clinton” https://t.co/bQEmsolKyF

— Emily Nyman (@EmSheDoesIt) August 23, 2024

Wow

What a way to get it. Base hit would do, but 40/40 called

That was so sick. High recommend to watch the bottom of the 9th. Took a lot of luck to get him to the plate there! Great team inning capped off by what everyone hoped for, but no one thought would happen in that spot (choke up the bat! Single will do it!)

50/50 up next?

You know it (he is in pace!). 32 games left for 9 hr and 10 stolen bases.

I really think only injury can keep him from 50-50 at this point. First 50-50 leads to first DH MVP

genuinely wonder if it's possible he could've been like a +5 WAR pitcher as well, it boggles the brain

Very excited to watch the answer to that question next year. he's currently at 6.3 war DH for 42mil. Average free agency $/war is 6.7mil (https://www.paraballnotes.com/blog/the-trend-in-war-for-free-agents) so he's playing to at least to the average $/war in an injury year when he's literally only half the player he is supposed to be. Most likely ends up above average with an extra month to go. Very vindicating to play to the highest ever contract amount (By AAV and Total) while injured and still totally be worth it.

43/43

Back to the ol' stomping ground today. Boos/cheers ratio?

47/47

twenty-three minutes later 47/48

genuinely insane, like this guy's whole deal was that he could hit AND pitch at a high level, now he might be the first ever to do a 50/50 season, like what the fuck