Shohei Ohtani is a mutant freak.
 

51-51. 6-6, 3 HRs, 2SB, 10RBI, 5XBH. What the utter eff does that? I'm 99% certain we are living among aliens. Because Ohtani is a walking talking alien. Just wow. Oh, and LAD has 9 games left to play. 60-60 anyone? Oh, and Ohtani's technically 'rehabbing' after his Tommy John surgery. Discuss. Shit yerself. Speak in tongues. Have at it. This is one of those moments.

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Unreal.

I use to like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Now I just watch the Kansas City Chiefs. They also happen to be my favorite sports team.

It's sad that baseball lives in the shadows of the NFL and NBA.

This is the most underappreciated display of greatness that I can think of in modern sports.

The dude needs a national holiday.

To reach 50/50 with probably the greatest game ever played is absolutely bonkers.

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Please explain to me in football terms?

Mahomes hit 55 TD passes and 5,500 yards in the same game by throwing for 6 TDs, 500 yards, rushing for another 100 yards, and scoring 2 TDs on the ground.

Something like that.

Ohtani is to baseball what carcosa is to trivia.

It’s not that sad. Baseball deserves the spot it is in very very much so

Gotta tip the cap to him. Modern day Babe Ruth.

eh, he's no Angel Berrora

And should be banned for gambling Muahaha

i really think the amount of games hurts its regular season watchability. its just theres so many it makes each game feel so inconsequential, especially compared to football where every game matters so much. Sometimes i feel like even hockey and basketball have too many games and theyre only at 82 lol.

playoff baseball is like an entirely different beast, its almost like watching a different sport compared to regular season baseball

And when ohtanis arm heals, then assume mahomes also plays CB and allows zero receptions against Justin Jefferson with 2 INTs

How is there a 6 foot 4 Japanese person?

I think there is some truth to that. But I think the biggest issue is actually lack of access for most people to their local team/games. Growing up, everyone I knew had baseball on in the background. Now, without a pay package, most people can't even watch their local team. Baseball has only it's self to blame for it's "demise". That being said, I'm not sure sad is the way to describe it. The players are making more than ever, the fans who wish to have access to all the games can pay for them. As for Ohtani, he's an international mega star who I am sure is not lacking in attention and recognition.

All I know about this guy is his contract...this MFer is currently rehabbing from Tommy John surgery, and will resume pitching one he's fully healed???

Word is that he may pitch in the postseason.

I'm not a baseball guy, but that seems even more impressive than starting the 50/50 club.

Yeah but I heard he’s terrible at betting games.

the saddest thing is I can't enjoy this as much because I absolutely hate the Dodgers.

why , God?

Who cares why or how they got there?

That's not my point at all. :shake:

Sounds like something ESPN should cover.

But then I remembered he's not a Cowboy or a Laker or LeBron..

ohtani is like if mahomes lined up at DE and got 15 sacks on top of being an elite qb lmao

Shohei Othani has been caught stealing four times with 51 successful steal attempts.

Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo says that feat tells you what kind of student of the game Ohtani is. He thinks Ohtani spends a lot of time studying pitcher's moves. It's crazy to me that he does all this and still has time to do his pitcher's work and rehab on that side.

Really wish I cared more, but Dodgers.

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Bring back the steroid era!

Very apt comparison!!!

The two videos embedded in the OP are SportsCenter segments...?

That would be a step in the right direction. Cut the games down to 120 and make it so your fans could watch OTA instead of buying bullshit packages and you got a stew cooking

This is true. West Coast Yankees doing amazing things really doesn’t do it for me

Except that carcosa bats over 1.000 on trivia answers.

Has his former agent committed seppuku yet?

steroid era was kinda heat tho, and so was the cocaine era lmao

Pretty weak considering he didn't even pitch that day.

I kid. An all-time great performance to be sure.

When LeBron and Mahomes accomplish amazing feats as the marquee players in their respective sports… they are interviewed and speak directly to the public.

Ohtani still requiring a translator… including after his historic game yesterday… is a factor.

That’s just a PR reality.

And a lot of Americans just don’t give as much of a shit when it’s a foreigner breaking records.

Usain Bolt reached that crossover/mainstream celebrity status in America.

Baseball lost all credibility when they shunned Bonds and Rocket from the Hall.

He’s married too so he’s not an incel like you

I obviously wouldn't know, but I feel like it'd be a pretty cool thing to walk around the rest of your life talking about how I hit an inside the park home run on the first pitch to lead off a World Series.

As much as they benefited financially from the steroid era and they PUNISH those that participated in it ROFL Greedy bastards didn't give that money back to the fans for MLB "ruining integrity of the game"

I think you're thinking of Escobar

Nah. They lost credibility when they made David Ortiz a first ballot HoFer after taking a firm stance on steroid use and the hall, not to mention the handful of other known users currently in the HoF. I have no problem if they want to say Bonds and Clemens arent in because of steroids, but you can't then turn around and say a guy who was popped for steroids the year before a ban was put in place is a first ballot.

Yeah while he is AMAZING and everyting..........

People just overlook the gambling.. Sure wish Rose got the same treatment

Is Ohtani a pedo too?

Impressive. Pitching and hitting is crazy. So far, he's a one in a hundred-year type player.

Pete Rose

I would like to apply for the Ohtani interpreter position

What was the result of his gambling investigation? I thought this player would have been on the investigation list by now.

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If Pete Rose isn't in the HOF, Bonds, Sosa and Clemens absolutely don't belong.
Their cheating was worse.

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Baseball had nothing to do with it. The Baseball Writers Association of America kept them out.

They're not entitled to the Hall of Fame anyway.

They knew what they did was wrong. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

They got to keep their money. They got to keep their records. Keeping them out is a message to other players that cheating has consequences.

Tom Verducci is a steroid hardliner.

Rob Manfred declares Ortiz's 2003 failed test should not be considered a true positive for legal reasons.

Verducci uses Manfred's edict as a justisfication to vote for Ortiz.

There's more to it than this. Ortiz is the face of the 2000s-10s Red Sox, the face of the 2004 comeback, the man who declared this is our ****ing city. The writers liked him and gave him a pass. "The politics of glory" as Bill James once appropriately remarked.

From what I read his translator /manager was stealing money from him and gambling with it.

Yeah, I don't think Ohtani is in any kind of trouble or is the focus of any investigations. I believe I read that they found that his translator stole from him without his knowledge, so Shohei is in the clear.

Exactly. It's all a popularity contest. They have no credibility voting him in. Guess who else has only that 2003 test as evidence of steroid use. Sammy Sosa. Did he get Verducci's vote?

Bud selig hiring a Red Sox guy to lead up the steroids investigation then to conveniently leave off names from their World Series runs is a stain on the stain.

I agree with that. And Pete rose and shoeless Joe too. Because throwing games is even worse.

If there’s ever an unconscionable snub it’s curt schilling who is a borderline HOFer but is also probably blackballed for personal beliefs

Oh damn.