Shohei Ohtani signs with the Dodgers (10 years, $700 million)

[stormngt]

1 hour ago, ScottM said:

I spent years preparing for this and it still hurts.

No opt-outs is going to be painful but it's hard to imagine that this Dodgers team doesn't win a ring or 2... Man. 

$700M is just insane, I don't care how much is deferred. Go get Yamamoto.

 

Laughing my ass off when they don't 

[BTH]

LMAO.

Sam Blum is posted up outside Angel Stadium right now

 

[Dtwncbad]

I have already turned the page, and Ohtani was my favorite player.  Ohtani is where he wants to be and so be it.

Let’s get back to making the best possible decisions to improve this team given where the team is now.

 

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

27 minutes ago, Dtwncbad said:

I am sure my opinions annoy some and it is certain that many disagree with me regularly.

But I will go out on a limb and predict few think I am literally actually a useless, vacuous idiot moron.

Ditto.... Which is fine with me everyone is allowed their opinion...

[ten ocho recon scout]

1 hour ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

Welcome to the Halo's Giancarlo Stanton!!

 

1 hour ago, m0nkey said:

But poor Mexicans

What are the odds these two posts were back to back?

Stanton and poor Mexicans 

Life's a trip, que no.

[stormngt]

1 hour ago, Ron Mexico said:

 

 

 

F Blum.  Anyone buys your FA at 700 million deserves what they get.  Only thing Arte is to blame is not trading Ohtani.

[stormngt]

1 hour ago, angelsnationtalk said:

Angels fans have 0 reason to be upset with Ohtani. The dude simply wants to play on a winning team. Does it suck that he left? Hell yes it does. 

The only person to blame is the owner for not having a talented enough organization to compete and make him want to stay. 

Dude wants 700 million

[3pitchwalk]

that's a lot of money for a dh.

mlb can finally market ohtani for the playoffs, tho. at least for the first round. yay.

[Mark68]

25 minutes ago, HeavenlyHalos said:

We are really looking at the possibility that Trout is a lifelong Angel and never wins a single playoff game. That's incredible to me. God I hope Arte sells.

There is precedent. Ted Williams played for the Red Sox and never even played a postseason game. The Sox and Indians played a 155th game for the AL pennant in 1948, but the Indians won that game 8-3. Williams went 1-4.

[Stradling]

Dodgers have the means to go get pitching, but as of right now, they have no pitching.  The Angels rotation has less question marks right now than the Dodgers.  Don’t read this as the Angels are going to be better than the Dodgers, but today, the Angels rotation going into next year, is better than the Dodgers.  I am sure the Dodgers will address this, but as of now they don’t have any starting pitching. 

[budice0]

 

[Angels 1961]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Kolarek strikeouts Ohtani to help Angels defeat Dodgers.

[mmc]

 

[Angels 1961]

You are right, all the focus will not just be on one player next year. Is he staying should we trade him time to move on. I predict halos have a winning season next year. 

[fan_since79]

random post from Facebook:

Confirmed the dodgers are going to be a beast in the regular season and choke on the playoffs….so nothing's changing

[jsnpritchett]

Lol. Not wasting any time.

 

Edited December 9, 2023 by jsnpritchett

[budice0]

 

[Mark68]

Jays fans have now had a taste of the "Buttercup Experience".

[3pitchwalk]

1 minute ago, budice0 said:

 

the doyers mightve taken ohtani but theyll always have that plane.

[ettin]

1 hour ago, Swordsman78 said:

Classic "walkoff" response. 

When the good Lord was creating humans he made the bodies first, and had them wait in line for their brains.   Well you know what?  A bunch of those bodies got up and walked off.

 

Sounds like you have first-hand "knowledge".

[Swordsman78]

1 minute ago, ettin said:

Sounds like you have first-hand "knowledge".

Yes I have been dealing with Strad for awhile now.   You're on the radar now too.

[EDinTUSTIN]

I can't help but to wonder if the stupid NL decided to not copy the AL by instituting the DH how this would've played out for the Dodgers? Would they have paid 70 mil or one year of someone to butt-warm a portion of a bench? Obviously, he wanted to stay on the west coast seeing as he didn't sign with the Jays where he could've almost been the face of the Canadian sports world. Would he have agreed to stay on the West Coast, which would have limited him to Seattle or Anaheim, had the NL not tried to imitate the AL? Which brings me to that next annoyance: Why have two separate leagues now? Or why engage in interleague play? It is nonsense as far as I am concerned.

[T.G.]

I feel bad for the Japanese tourists who are going to get mugged in the parking lot.

[Inside Pitch]

11 minutes ago, Swordsman78 said:

Yes I have been dealing with Strad for awhile now.   You're on the radar now too.

This is akin to a quadriplegic challenging someone to a dance off.

[Inside Pitch]

7 minutes ago, EDinTUSTIN said:

I can't help but to wonder if the stupid NL decided to not copy the AL by instituting the DH how this would've played out for the Dodgers? Would they have paid 70 mil or one year of someone to butt-warm a portion of a bench? Obviously, he wanted to stay on the west coast seeing as he didn't sign with the Jays where he could've almost been the face of the Canadian sports world. Would he have agreed to stay on the West Coast, which would have limited him to Seattle or Anaheim, had the NL not tried to imitate the AL? Which brings me to that next annoyance: Why have two separate leagues now? Or why engage in interleague play? It is nonsense as far as I am concerned.

If the DH had been a thing in the NL 6 years ago, he wouldn't have ever been an Angel.