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Let\u2019s get one thing out of the way \u2013 I have no dislike for Shohei Ohtani.\u00a0 Even if he is Japanese and the world has basically fetishized him into oblivion, I don\u2019t have any beef with the guy.\u00a0 He legitimately is basically the greatest player to have played the game of baseball at this point and seems like a pretty humble and level-headed human being.<\/span><\/p>\n But the way FOX and the rest of the media world has continuously forced him down the throats of every baseball fan, sports fan or just television watcher, is definitely making me sour on the concept of Shohei Ohtani, and it goes without saying, is among the chief reasons why not one iota of my being won\u2019t be rooting for the Dodgers to take the L in the World Series.<\/span><\/p>\n Nobody likes being told what to do.\u00a0 I don\u2019t like being told what to do.\u00a0 I definitely don\u2019t like being told what I need to like, and the way FOX has gone so ridiculously out of the way to put Ohtani on this pedestal has been ridiculous and embarrassing frankly, and not even being teammates with Freddie Freeman, whom I will always be a fan of, and would ordinarily be okay with him winning another World Series with someone else as long as it weren\u2019t with the Dodgers.<\/span><\/p>\n The \u201cX Time Away from Shohei Ohtani\u201d was mortifying to discover that FOX was doing, and I\u2019m glad to have been watching more AL playoffs as opposed to the NL, because it seemed inevitable that the Dodgers were going to win the pennant after vanquishing of the Padres, and although I didn\u2019t witness any of these obnoxious bumpers myself, I saw plenty of screen caps and memes enough to know just how much I hated them.<\/span><\/p>\n This is the kind of thing that would make me hope for failure and ineffective at-bats, but because he really is that incredible of a baseball player, of course he delivered in many of these long-called for at-bats, which added to the e-bile I felt in my thoughts about the Shohei Ohtani coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n Like, whether it\u2019s on television, or on various social media platforms, or ESPN or any other sports sites, one of my go-to snarky remarks is that I can hear the Oriental gong<\/em> going off whenever Shohei Ohtani is being discussed, because that\u2019s just how much he has caught the imagination of the collective world with his baseball talents.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost obnoxious to know that he\u2019s actually a pretty decent dude, notwithstanding the potential gambling problem\/scandal from the start of the season which was kind of refreshing to think that amid all of his Mr. Perfect-isms, he was flawed too like the rest of us.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, I thought that I would have more to say about the subject than this, but I basically got my point across.\u00a0 Enough with the Shohei Ohtani coverage, and at this point, him winning the World Series with the also-insufferable Dodgers is the absolute worst-case scenario there is as far as baseball is concerned.\u00a0 It validates flagrant spending, egregious marketing of Japanese superstars, and makes a whole lot of obnoxious front-running Dodgers fans happy, which I can\u2019t abide for.\u00a0 I\u2019d rather side with the devils I know, and actively root for the Yankees, if for nothing at all, would make mythical wife and my mother-in-law really pleased to see the Commissioner\u2019s Trophy being hoisted in the Bronx.<\/span><\/p>\n But my parting thought, as insufferably obnoxious the Shohei Ohtani coverage and the Japan fetish has been these playoffs and this season, shoutout to Tommy Edman for being the NLCS MVP; that\u2019s right, a half-KOREAN guy being the best player on the Dodgers for going 11-for-27 with an OPS of 1.023 and a home run.<\/span><\/p>\n Suck it, weebs<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s get one thing out of the way \u2013 I have no dislike for Shohei Ohtani.\u00a0 Even if he is Japanese and the world has basically fetishized him into oblivion, I don\u2019t have any beef with the guy.\u00a0 He legitimately is basically the greatest player to have played the game of baseball at this point … Continue reading FOX\u2019s Shohei Ohtani coverage is out of control<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,45,103,83,89,69,49],"class_list":["post-50236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-fail","tag-motherland","tag-observations","tag-racism","tag-television","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50238,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50236\/revisions\/50238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}