We had ourselves an all-time day of baseball nonsense on Friday.
If youre a fan of any team involved its a goddamn nightmare.
If youre on the outside looking in like I was today, its a hilarious circus to witness.
Shohei Ohtani entered his free agency begging the media to not run with bullshit.
He pleaded with teams to keep their talks private as he mulled the biggest decision of his life.
Speculation and rumors proceeded to go into hyperdrive.
Drake of course couldn’t help himself.
Rumors of a 6:00 PM local press conference started to trickle out.
It was done, the Jays had landed the biggest free agent in baseball history.
That guy on the plane?
The dude from Shark Tank, not Shohei Ohtani.
Theres being wrong in sports media and then theres getting community noted by fucking Bob Nightengale.
And lets quickly give some flowers to Bob.
Legacy tweet by him.
Hang it in the rafters.
Somewhere Thom Brennaman smiled.
If only Castellanos had at bats today.
Honestly if Shohei doesnt end up as a Blue Jay I think Morosi has to hang em up.
Dude is going to have an entire country after him, maybe two with Japan.
You cant fuck up the way he did.
Jays fans are understandably not handling this well.
Theyve already endured so much disappointment with their current roster.
Adding in the despair of a guy not even on the team?
Were lucky there havent been a string of homicides across the border tied to this news.
The latest from Ohtani is that there is none.
Hes still taking his time and asking for respect, privacy, and honesty from the media.
Yeah good luck with that.
Jim Bowden pretending to know what hes talking about tells you where we are with things.
Passan is the one secretly feeding them these lies so that he comes out on top in the end.
Its the perfect crime, just need to find dumb dumbs naive enough to buy it.
Heyman, Bob, Morosi, Bowden?
Or…the Dodgers leaked the Blue Jays rumors to throw this whole crapshoot upside down.
Just watch the world burn kinda shit.
Feels like the door is wide open at this point.
If a decision is to come this weekend we might be in for pure chaos.
Not like those offers are going to vanish.
Fun times, unless youre of course a fan of a team right in the thick of this decision.
Tough day for the Six.
Hang in there folks.
redemption today is spelled B-O-B.
What a time to be alive.
