Shohei Ohtani gets the contract, stays on the west coast, and I’m sure is guaranteed a substantial amount of the $700 million he signs for– you know, in case he ends up being a disappointment from here on out because it turns out he’s injury-prone and has already played the best baseball of his life.
Seven hundred million dollars. Sorry. I can’t summon “good for him” anymore. If an organization has that much money to spend on one person who plays a kid’s game, count me out as a fan. It’s difficult to relate, to not think in terms of fabulously misplaced priorities.
It’s one helluva mortgage. The Dodgers better hope he gets healthy. I’m sure they’ve structured the deal so everybody wins, except maybe the ones who have to pay to get in to see him. And they still have to put a cohesive, productive unit of nine egos on the field.
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