News Article: Shohei Ohtani signs in Canada

[Habaneros]

Wow , Shohei Ohtani signs with the Blue Jays?
Tickets will be in high demand ...

https://www.si.com/mlb/angels/news/shohei-ohtani-to-leave-angels-sign-with-toronto-blue-jays-ml0802

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[sampollock]

he has not signed yet?? no ink on paper yet

 

[Redux91]

Wow , Shohei Ohtani signs with the Blue Jays?
Tickets will be in high demand ...

https://www.si.com/mlb/angels/news/shohei-ohtani-to-leave-angels-sign-with-toronto-blue-jays-ml0802

Bold article

Most reports say it's not 100% done

But there is a private jet traveling from Anaheim to Toronto a lot of people have their eye on apparently..

 

[417]

If this is true, i'm changing cell phone providers immediately.

Someone's gotta pay for that contract and it ain't gonna be Mr. Rogers lol

 

[habdynasty]

This will be my Christmas gift if it happens.

 

[Runner77]

 

[Adam Michaels]

If this is true, i'm changing cell phone providers immediately.

Someone's gotta pay for that contract and it ain't gonna be Mr. Rogers lol

Just don't go with Bell. Because you'll still be paying for that contract.

 

[417]

Just don't go with Bell. Because you'll still be paying for that contract.

Probably just gonna use my work phone for personal use lol.

Already paying way too much, I can’t imagine after an Ohtani tax

Sheesh

 

[Natey]

It's f***ing Hossa all over again. I expect he'll be a Dodger by nightfall.

This will be my Christmas gift if it happens.

I can't remember one of my favourite teams EVER getting a free agent like this.... so I fully expect it not to happen.

The Jays have got a few good ones - but never an elite player. The Habs have never, in my life that I recall. The Raptors won the championship and couldn't even resign Kawhi. The Eagles have mostly built through trades or the draft. And Wolves are too low in the Premier League to draw legitimate interest.

 

[David Suzuki]

can’t trust someone who is a habs fan who cheers for a toronto sports team

very odd dynamic

 

[Adam Michaels]

Imagine the plane from Anaheim to Toronto is Pat Verbeek on his way to visit his old friend and teammate Shanahan.

 

[Redux91]

can’t trust someone who is a habs fan who cheers for a toronto sports team

very odd dynamic

If you call them the Canada Raptors and the Canada Jays

It helps a bit lol..

 

[Habs13]

Who??

 

[Natey]

can’t trust someone who is a habs fan who cheers for a toronto sports team

very odd dynamic

Stupidest thing I've ever heard on these forums.... and that says something.

Also, f*** the Expos.

 

[admiralcadillac]

Stupidest thing I've ever heard on these forums.... and that says something.

Also, f*** the Expos.

Why?

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Stupidest thing I've ever heard on these forums.... and that says something.

Also, f*** the Expos.

crazy considering i agree with everything he is saying. Montreal residents rooting for the bluejays is a sin. I get it if you don't live in the city though whatever

 

[Apoplectic Habs Fan]

I saw Ohtani's glove at airport

Oh wait, im sure the joke has been done

 

[David Suzuki]

If you call them the Canada Raptors and the Canada Jays

It helps a bit lol..

nope still a toronto team, toronto is as foreign to me as new york city may as well be a yankees fan at least they have history

crazy considering i agree with everything he is saying. Montreal residents rooting for the bluejays is a sin. I get it if you don't live in the city though whatever

i don’t live in montreal but it’s just common sense to me

 

[Max2]

I was a huge Expos fan and after they left,I completely lost interest in baseball. It's only been over the past couple of years, that I started following the majors again. I don't mind the Blue Jays at all and follow them and the Yankees casually and would like to see the only Canadian team do well and get a star player. I also casually follow the Raptors.Different sports and still and always will have an excessive hatred of the Leafs. lol

 

[Runner77]

I was a huge Expos fan and after they left,I completely lost interest in baseball. It's only been over the past couple of years, that I started following the majors again. I don't mind the Blue Jays at all and follow them and the Yankees casually and would like to see the only Canadian team do well and get a star player. I also casually follow the Raptors.Different sports and still and always will have an excessive hatred of the Leafs. lol

There is more Expos merchandise being worn than when the team was active. I also stopped watching baseball as closely since they left.

Couldn’t stomach what the Blue Jays did when they voted to contract the Expos and when they went behind their backs to rob the Expos of their Canada wide broadcasting rights that they had grandfathered before the Jays even existed. But, that’s ancient history.

I understand that the play for Rogers is to recoup some of the money paid to Ohtani by, among other options, selling off broadcast rights to their games in Japan. Interesting to see if it pans out but usually, in this type of context, Ohtani may just be using the Jays to up his ante elsewhere.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

There is more Expos merchandise being worn than when the team was active. I also stopped watching baseball as closely since they left.

Couldn’t stomach what the Blue Jays did when they voted to contract the Expos and when they went behind their backs to rob the Expos of their Canada wide broadcasting rights that they had grandfathered before the Jays even existed. But, that’s ancient history.

I understand that the play for Rogers is to recoup some of the money paid to Ohtani by, among other options, selling off broadcast rights to their games in Japan. Interesting to see if it pans out but usually, in this type of context, Ohtani may just be using the Jays to up his ante elsewhere.

Expos fans should cheer for the Orioles. They were the only team to vote against moving the Expos. I cheerrd for the Orioles before 1969 - Palmer, Dobson, McNally, Cuellar, Boog, Brooks, Frank.

 

[Jaynki]

THE HYPE IS REAL.

OHTANI EN ROUTE TO TORONTO VIA JON MOROSI

HOLY SMOKES

 

[sampollock]

Bold article

Most reports say it's not 100% done

But there is a private jet traveling from Anaheim to Toronto a lot of people have their eye on apparently..

its Elvis

 

[Michelangelo]

 

[Michelangelo]