Official Shohei Ohtani Thread (Update: Ohtani signs with Dodgers 10 years, $700 million)

[pilkoids]

One thing I heard earlier today is that December 8th is apparently a day of luck in Japan?
He signed on Anaheim on December 8th, which may be the reason he wants to finalize something today?

"Japan celebrates Bodhi Day on December 8, following the Western calendar. Buddhists around the world are celebrating Bodhi Day. Also called Buddha's Enlightenment Day, it commemorates when Siddhartha Gautama attained awakening — or enlightenment — some 2,600 years ago, becoming the Buddha."

[JN]

So they created a special show to tell us nothing.
This ownership and team... good lord, they better get it done at this point.

[vaff87]

Apparently that press conference thing was a fake tweet.

Yeah, if there was a press conference scheduled for tonight it would be public news, so the press can show up.

[Cyrus]

There won't be any press conf today, at best maybe we'll find out. Do we actually know that he was on that flight, or is even flying here.

[s e n s i]

Read on Twitter

one of nightengale or morosi's ass absolutely on the line right now

[James_Raptors]

Do we actually know that he was on that flight, or is even flying here.

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[Randle McMurphy]

Is it Darvish 2.0 time?

[Cyrus]

LOL reliving the KAwhi thing all over again....Get all excited only to find out he's signed with the Dodgers!

Welcome Matt Champman and another guy who strikeouts 200-300 times a year a bat.

[Stromile12]

Not again

[pilkoids]

if nothing else this was all very entertaining

[Randle McMurphy]

BNS just confirmed Nightengale, so Morosi was exposed as a fraud (hardly surprising).

So who was actually on that plane all day lol

[Vampirate]

Shapiro convincing that ****head Ed Rogers to spend serious money on Shohei (and since he got here) has been a welcome surprise. This team should be flexing its money with how much I used to pay for my bills lmao.

Tbh, even from a greed perspective, this decision is easy.

Whatever money is spent on Ohtani (likely over half a billion dollars) will be dwarfed by Ohtani's market and sales.

[duppyy]

lol everyone got rickrolled today.

[Michael Bradley]

Jon Morosi never had credibility to begin with, but I can't imagine how his image survives this. He flat out lied.

[Hottie McShotty]

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[Fairview4Life]

Guys, it’s fine. He just needed more time to pack.

[Fairview4Life]

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I…think you should keep reading.

[Davey0]

BNS just confirmed Nightengale, so Morosi was exposed as a fraud (hardly surprising).

So who was actually on that plane all day lol

If I looked like Ohtani and knew all about this. I'd be walking around in Toronto just to make people talk. Someone did us good lol

[SharoneWright]

3-D chess by the Dodgers? Create a fire storm by leaking to Dodgers Nation, generating massive Toronto buzz, thereby turning off Ohtani from Toronto?

[Madvillainy2004]

Morosi is such a fraud man lmao can't believe I got bamboozled again.