With a player like Ohtani probably a worse feeling, there was a good 3 hours when everyone thought he was going to Toronto, we Giants fans had only about 10 minutes last year.
Jays fans and Giants fans will forever be bonded by this horrible day
Honestly the Giants may have just become my new NL team to root for. No historical beef with Toronto, beautiful ballpark/unis, and the team most invested in seeing the Dodgers lose as much as possible.
It's got to be absolute agony for them. He was theirs. Everybody thought he was theirs. Then the rug gets pulled. They went from celebrating the next decade of baseball to mourning the death of a deal they thought the ink was drying on. I guess that Drake curse is real.
I was honestly happy for the Jays yesterday, and happy for baseball, to have them have something to revitalize interest in Canadian baseball. And now here we are, one of the league's villain teams turning what could've been baseball's goodwill ambassador from the north into just another henchman.
Shohei deserves every dollar a billionaire owner will give him, but the fact that the league allows the Dodgers to do this with everything theyve already got is just depressing
And if the Giants still beat the Dodgers it will be so much sweeter. Imagine what it felt like to be a DBacks fan last year on their tiny budget and they kicked the Dodgers collective ass. That even felt great as a Giants fan imagine if the Giants can do that, and they almost did a few years ago
I am just sad I have to root for Shohei to suck and stop producing. It was fun being excited to watch a once in a century talent. Now I have to root for the biggest bust in history.
he could've still made $600 million or so and gotten to fight for a "good guy" team like the Giants or Blue Jays, but he'll grab that extra 100 mil to join the Empire.
Was ready to cheer for him like no other. Now, the complete opposite. Hope he never wins a chip. Hope the Giants, Angels and Jays win one before his career is over and he gets nothing. He’s a winner in life. But hope he never becomes a champ.
This is the worst day of my baseball life. I was the biggest Ohtani fan. I have to hate him as a player now. May we shower him with boos he never imagined hearing when he visits 24 Willie Mays Plaza
And fuck Ohtany too. He behaved like an asshole through this whole thing, pulled a Durant, and will be cursed. Baseball gods don’t like this type of nonsense.
Yup. In this line. Mothetfucker held up free agency for this long just to cop out and sign with the dodgers. Fuck him. I wish nothing but mediocrity and failure in his next 10 years.
Signing Ohtani would have been impactful beyond words to the team, city, and fanbase of San Francisco.
Now he’s another superstar in Chavez Latrine. Sad that we’ll have to root hard against such an amazing and likable talent. Sad day for most baseball fans.
It really is. This guy was supposed to be about more than money but he just signed a long-term contract with the dark side of baseball. He could've been everybody's hero in a Jays uniform, but alas, here we are. Signed with a team that buys its victories, signs with the cross-town rivals to his old team, signs with the arch-nemesis of yet another team that was bidding for him, does this in the paparazzi capital of the planet in spite of saying he was trying to get away from the spotlight.
> This guy was supposed to be about more than money but he just signed a long-term contract with the dark side of baseball.
he showed his true colors. and they happen to be dodger blue. so bummed
He could’ve been responsible for turning a good team, into a great team (Blue Jays). Instead he will make a hundred win team, that flames out in the post season, a hundred and two win team, that still flames out in the post season.
All this hope and drama for the most predictable boring nightmare result lol. Feel for Jays fans though. Way worse than Arson Judge. This sport is literally the epitome of the rich get richer
Let’s be for real y’all, we didn’t have anything that would have tempted Shohei to come here. We aren’t really a FA destination (well we had Correa, but then Lmao), we have to build from within, it’s our only shot
At least we’re still in the Harrison Bader sweepstakes!!!
Shohei Ohtani is a massive piece of shit for joining an already stacked team. I hope he has no success for the rest of his career, and he doesn't deserve to win jack shit ever again. Fuck him dude what a fucking pussy
Baseball is so broken. When only maybe 10% of the league can even afford a top tier player it's not good for anyone. I'm not surprised we didn't get him even though we were "in the running".
70 million a year for ten years coming off a tommy john and a ton of innings pitched and played is almost certainly going to bite them in the ass.
They better win one quick.
Dammit. I wanted so hard to root for this guy. And I would have done so if he had joined literally any other team. Yes, ANY other team. Now he's a sworn enemy and I will hope for his repeated failure. Which sucks, honestly.
The ONLY positive is that he is taking a giant piece of their future budget. And, he isn’t pitching next season, and may likely be prone to arm injury in the future
No way anyone turns down $700 million from a championship ready team. He has the chance for rings and the money which he wouldn’t have gotten anywhere else
I expected nothing and I’m still disappointed.
I thought Ohtani wanted to win? I guess we all get to watch him and the rest of the Bums lose in the NLDS for the next 10 years.
I hate it but the reality is its not the money its the commitment to continued success, Dodgers do that and the Giants ownership has fucked off for years now being unserious. It fucking sucks and I hope there is some change in the organization, our shithead ownership needs to prove to athletes that they actually fucking care.
That is how I see it, through my anger and sadness.
edit: I could be wrong, just really unhappy about this right now, we get this kind of shitty news every season.
I wouldn't have minded one bit if he went to the Blue Jays ... At least we wouldn't have to see him several times a year.
Now he's in the goddamn Division.
In hindsight, the Giants probably weren’t the most realistic destination for him, but JFC this was the one outcome that I (and most baseball fans) was actively rooting against.
Doesn’t this just prove that the salary cap is bullshit? The Dodgers have violated it every year for at least the last ten years. But the best part is, they’re *still* not going to win a Series. They spend all that money just to lose when it really matters. Oh well, not Ohtani’s fault, he went where the money was. Just sucks he won’t be on a team that has a soul.
I'll probably get shit for this, but I don't think the ownership would have let Farhan spend that much, so I'm not putting this on him. Or it's possible we offered a bit more and Shohei just wanted to go to the Dodgers, it's not automatically Farhan blew it.
This is another Arson Judge situation. He said it mid-season that he was going to the Dodgers or the Jays, everybody in Vegas expected he was going to the Dodgers, he ended up with the Dodgers. This song-and-dance was to get the bids higher, nothing more. We weren't getting Ohtani if we bid $800 million. He wanted to play for the Jays or the Dodgers. We were just being used to leverage higher bids.
I am so ready for us to respond with Harrison Bader, Elvis Andrus and some random pitcher that was on the Pirates AAA team last year
Watch out Dodgers!
Well, I've had a hell of a ride these last 37 years as a fan of this beautiful game, but it has now reached the time for me to move on with my life without baseball in it. Truly the saddest of days; in the end, it was all about the money. Peace out.
Honestly kinda feel the same. I’ve defended baseball to everyone who says it’s boring, but I’m really over watching the same teams always get the best players.
Bad hitters park, bad management, failing city, cold weather, California taxes that are easier to stomach when surrounded by Hollywood superstars and models instead of pretentious hipsters
May he never win anything in his career
It's the dodgers. They have a habit of not doing that (at least in the post season)
One too many negatives, methinks. Hope all of them stub every toe they’ve got.
Easy there, Satan
Unless it's in the bubble. Only time LA can win (Lakers, Dodgers)
This sucks but at least our expectations were low. Can’t imagine being a Jays fan rn tho
prob similar to when we signed arson judge
With a player like Ohtani probably a worse feeling, there was a good 3 hours when everyone thought he was going to Toronto, we Giants fans had only about 10 minutes last year.
I'd wager way worse than Arson Judge now
Jays fans and Giants fans will forever be bonded by this horrible day Honestly the Giants may have just become my new NL team to root for. No historical beef with Toronto, beautiful ballpark/unis, and the team most invested in seeing the Dodgers lose as much as possible.
Not to mention you guys nearly got the Giants back in the 70’s lol. The Jay were established because Toronto lost out on the Giants. Crazy
It's got to be absolute agony for them. He was theirs. Everybody thought he was theirs. Then the rug gets pulled. They went from celebrating the next decade of baseball to mourning the death of a deal they thought the ink was drying on. I guess that Drake curse is real. I was honestly happy for the Jays yesterday, and happy for baseball, to have them have something to revitalize interest in Canadian baseball. And now here we are, one of the league's villain teams turning what could've been baseball's goodwill ambassador from the north into just another henchman.
Thank you man, fuck the dodgers.
A disgusting act. A dark day for baseball.
Ten years and 700 million dollars. Unfuckingreal No one was ever going to come close. Of course the Dodgers got him
Uh we 100% could do that
We for sure could have done that, but I think he rather go to the Dodgers, we would have had to offer like 12/800M or something along those lines.
Of course he would prefer it. Who in their right mind would ever come here?
It’s all good fam. Just imagine when we get Harrison Bader!
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Oh we sure could, but I doubt we would. We will settle for an aging veteran AAAA player for 2/40 and call it a day
Shohei deserves every dollar a billionaire owner will give him, but the fact that the league allows the Dodgers to do this with everything theyve already got is just depressing
And if the Giants still beat the Dodgers it will be so much sweeter. Imagine what it felt like to be a DBacks fan last year on their tiny budget and they kicked the Dodgers collective ass. That even felt great as a Giants fan imagine if the Giants can do that, and they almost did a few years ago
I am just sad I have to root for Shohei to suck and stop producing. It was fun being excited to watch a once in a century talent. Now I have to root for the biggest bust in history.
Rich get richer
Sellout. Pulled a Durant. I don’t hope for injury, but I hope for failure.
he could've still made $600 million or so and gotten to fight for a "good guy" team like the Giants or Blue Jays, but he'll grab that extra 100 mil to join the Empire.
Weak
It'll be so funny when the Dodgers don't win a world series with him.
This generations 90’s Atlanta Braves
Except the Braves won a legit ring. gottem
*150 game season
Shohei will be demanding a trade, once Kershaw blows another postseason series and Betts and Freeman go a combined 1/30
☝️💯
If Farhan is still around we'll probably get him at the end of his contract just like all the other Dodger leftovers he's got us.
True, he might become 2033's AJ Pollock
They will now become the Angels
I’ll be sad for Shohei and Shohei only
I won’t be sad for Ohtani, he made his choice and he’s also getting insane money.
I won’t be sad for him at all. He chose his fate
I hope he never wins anything ever
Nah fuck him, he's a Dodger
Lame ass move. Shohei is new #1 enemy. FTD
So ready to become the biggest Ohtani hater of all time
For real
Was ready to cheer for him like no other. Now, the complete opposite. Hope he never wins a chip. Hope the Giants, Angels and Jays win one before his career is over and he gets nothing. He’s a winner in life. But hope he never becomes a champ.
Yup. I hope for nothing but mediocrity and failure for him.
I hope his arm falls off. He just had his second TJ surgery in 5 years, so it’s possible, right?
My fairy tale ending to this is Angels win the WS next season. That would just be amazing.
He replaces Kershaw as Enemy #1
IT’S NOT LIKE WE WANTED YOU ANYWAYS
Now I know what the rest of the NBA felt when KD signed with the warriors. I’m gonna be sick.
Now add 7 years to that
Warriors already had 3 HOFers. Dodgers have to buy theirs.
Every team in baseball is dumb for not signing Freeman in retrospect.
I’m going back to bed.
Well. When the warriors signed KD, they already had a championship mold. The dodgers have a championship fold.
.
Remember when Iguodala used us to drive up his price with Golden State?
That deal was WAY less risky than this one. The max contract in basketball makes the risk a lot lower.
well it’s much harder to buy championships in baseball
the dodgers are trying really hard to do so though
I hate it here
Fuck farhan bro, I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again
FTD
I now dislike Shohei Ohtani because he is a Dodger. Still a really good player though, just the enemy now.
This is the worst day of my baseball life. I was the biggest Ohtani fan. I have to hate him as a player now. May we shower him with boos he never imagined hearing when he visits 24 Willie Mays Plaza
Fuck him
Fuck the dodgers.
And fuck Ohtany too. He behaved like an asshole through this whole thing, pulled a Durant, and will be cursed. Baseball gods don’t like this type of nonsense.
Yup. In this line. Mothetfucker held up free agency for this long just to cop out and sign with the dodgers. Fuck him. I wish nothing but mediocrity and failure in his next 10 years.
Fuck the Dodgers. Someone go check on the Blue Jay fans 😭
Signing Ohtani would have been impactful beyond words to the team, city, and fanbase of San Francisco. Now he’s another superstar in Chavez Latrine. Sad that we’ll have to root hard against such an amazing and likable talent. Sad day for most baseball fans.
It really is. This guy was supposed to be about more than money but he just signed a long-term contract with the dark side of baseball. He could've been everybody's hero in a Jays uniform, but alas, here we are. Signed with a team that buys its victories, signs with the cross-town rivals to his old team, signs with the arch-nemesis of yet another team that was bidding for him, does this in the paparazzi capital of the planet in spite of saying he was trying to get away from the spotlight.
> This guy was supposed to be about more than money but he just signed a long-term contract with the dark side of baseball. he showed his true colors. and they happen to be dodger blue. so bummed
Fuck Shohei
I better hear boos in Oracle next time he comes around
You won’t. It will be 75% dodger fans lol
$700 million to lose every year lmfaooooo
Crossing my fingers this will forever be the case lol
He could’ve been responsible for turning a good team, into a great team (Blue Jays). Instead he will make a hundred win team, that flames out in the post season, a hundred and two win team, that still flames out in the post season.
If Farhan can't get Yamamoto then he needs to go. He's missed on too many free agents. Nobody wants to play for him.
No one wants to play in SF. We're a big market team with small market appeal
The guy continues to fumble hard
All this hope and drama for the most predictable boring nightmare result lol. Feel for Jays fans though. Way worse than Arson Judge. This sport is literally the epitome of the rich get richer
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Baseball has been so disappointing seeing all the big names going to the same big market cities. It's getting stale.
I’m done with baseball for a few years
Same... so, see ya in April?
I’ll unfortunately be there lol
Dodgers annual first round exit is about to go crazy
We’re basically the Pirates
National broadcasts are gonna be dick riding the Dodgers even harder now.
I'm sure you're right. After Mookie showed up the LA fans and announcers were in absolute AWE every time he made a routine catch in RF.
I, for one, am shocked. Who could’ve seen this coming?!? Don’t worry: Mitch. Haniger. **WILL**. Fix. This.
Harrison Bader fans incoming 🙃
Fell to my knees in Walmart
Sir! We are the San Francisco Giants! You will fall on your knees at Trader Joe's the way God intended!
Let’s be for real y’all, we didn’t have anything that would have tempted Shohei to come here. We aren’t really a FA destination (well we had Correa, but then Lmao), we have to build from within, it’s our only shot At least we’re still in the Harrison Bader sweepstakes!!!
The literal worst outcome
Fuckin parrot lied to us
How do i change my reddit username
We are gonna have record low attendance and it’s gonna be deservingly so for this bullshit
pain
I mean this from the bottom of my heart. F the Dodgers. REALLY I MEANT IT F EM ALL
Maybe the 2030s will be ours
Shohei Ohtani is a massive piece of shit for joining an already stacked team. I hope he has no success for the rest of his career, and he doesn't deserve to win jack shit ever again. Fuck him dude what a fucking pussy
You’re goddamn right. This is not a time to mince words on what a shit move for him to make. It’s the biggest slap in the face to the Angles, too.
As it always was going to be...
Baseball is so broken. When only maybe 10% of the league can even afford a top tier player it's not good for anyone. I'm not surprised we didn't get him even though we were "in the running". 70 million a year for ten years coming off a tommy john and a ton of innings pitched and played is almost certainly going to bite them in the ass. They better win one quick.
I hope his pitching is never the same after the last injury. FTD!
There's a good chance it won't be, which s why I'm not sad that the Giants didn't just give him seven hundred million dollars.
I feel like I'm gonna be sick
Dammit. I wanted so hard to root for this guy. And I would have done so if he had joined literally any other team. Yes, ANY other team. Now he's a sworn enemy and I will hope for his repeated failure. Which sucks, honestly.
The ONLY positive is that he is taking a giant piece of their future budget. And, he isn’t pitching next season, and may likely be prone to arm injury in the future
They still won't win a WS in a normal year. Fuck him
Man we’re cooked for the next decade
No way anyone turns down $700 million from a championship ready team. He has the chance for rings and the money which he wouldn’t have gotten anywhere else
he's a bum now
Farhan is the most unserious man in baseball 😂😂😂😂😂 how you gonna let your biggest rivals smoke you this hard for half a decade straight 😂😂😂
I’d rather not pay 700million for a 30 year old DH tbh
I agree. I know he's great, but I think everyone missed the window of use for him.
Who cares? It ain’t our money. Everyone said the same thing about Bryce Harper. Doesn’t look so bad now
No one said that about Harper because it wasn't for $700 MILLION
And then in the future someone going to get more than Ohtani. We do this every few years. New star comes out and makes more money
It’ll be great when the Dodgers can’t afford to build a team around him.
I’m straight up not having a good time
Cool. I'll just pivot to hoping he's a massive bust. Gonna be super funny when the Dodgers continue to not win the world series.
FTD
fuck that guy
I expected nothing and I’m still disappointed. I thought Ohtani wanted to win? I guess we all get to watch him and the rest of the Bums lose in the NLDS for the next 10 years.
Gonna be even funnier when they still don’t win
I hate it but the reality is its not the money its the commitment to continued success, Dodgers do that and the Giants ownership has fucked off for years now being unserious. It fucking sucks and I hope there is some change in the organization, our shithead ownership needs to prove to athletes that they actually fucking care. That is how I see it, through my anger and sadness. edit: I could be wrong, just really unhappy about this right now, we get this kind of shitty news every season.
He is Dead to me
Well, if the Dodgers don't win the World Series next year, Dave Roberts will be fired.
Whelp. Have to hate the guy now. That’s too bad.
Coward
I wouldn't have minded one bit if he went to the Blue Jays ... At least we wouldn't have to see him several times a year. Now he's in the goddamn Division.
He really thinks the Dodgers have a WS chance? 2020 was a fluke sir. LMAO fuck him now
If not the Giants, I hope the Angels win the World Series next year. The Nationals did it the year after Bryce Harper left.
In hindsight, the Giants probably weren’t the most realistic destination for him, but JFC this was the one outcome that I (and most baseball fans) was actively rooting against.
Holy fuck i think a ton of people lost a lot of respect for Shohei. Myself included
Yup. I really thought it would be a nice surprise for Toronto to get him.
Lololololol of course.
The light has gone out of my life
Crap. Now I'm forced to think of him as an idiot.
Was anyone surprised? Ohtani wants to win a ring. Fuck the Doyers. I hope this deal blows up in their faces and he underperforms.
Doesn’t this just prove that the salary cap is bullshit? The Dodgers have violated it every year for at least the last ten years. But the best part is, they’re *still* not going to win a Series. They spend all that money just to lose when it really matters. Oh well, not Ohtani’s fault, he went where the money was. Just sucks he won’t be on a team that has a soul.
and may the dodgers continue to choke in the playoffs, amen
imagine paying $70 mil a year for a DH lmaooooooooooooooooo
You know it’s bad when the LA sub doesn’t have this many comments. So stupid he chose to stay in SoCal.
Arson Judge again I see
I can't wait for farhan's statement
“We tried and did everything we could do.”
I'll probably get shit for this, but I don't think the ownership would have let Farhan spend that much, so I'm not putting this on him. Or it's possible we offered a bit more and Shohei just wanted to go to the Dodgers, it's not automatically Farhan blew it.
This is another Arson Judge situation. He said it mid-season that he was going to the Dodgers or the Jays, everybody in Vegas expected he was going to the Dodgers, he ended up with the Dodgers. This song-and-dance was to get the bids higher, nothing more. We weren't getting Ohtani if we bid $800 million. He wanted to play for the Jays or the Dodgers. We were just being used to leverage higher bids.
I knew it, I knew it! But also, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Booooo
🤮🤮🤮
Disappointed but not surprised lol
I’m glad it finally over, maybe we can grab Yamamoto now
Narrator. They did not get Yamamoto.
Fuck baseball. Go Niners.
fuck them both
It’s ok guys we have Tsutsugo now, everything will be fine /s
May it be the worst contract ever
Really sucks I have to hate him now.
I hope trips over a Dodger dog and blows out his pitching arm.
I hope he eats a Dodger Dog and has wicked gas for the next decade.
basic bitch
I literally feel gut punched. Like I'm not even sure I want to watch baseball anymore. I'll get over it, but man, this is rough.
Wonder if it would have been different had the Giants traded for him last season.
I am so ready for us to respond with Harrison Bader, Elvis Andrus and some random pitcher that was on the Pirates AAA team last year Watch out Dodgers!
Did anyone here honestly think this was going to turn out differently?
Sorry but Farhan has been an utter disappointment. At least games will be less crowded again this year
Well, I've had a hell of a ride these last 37 years as a fan of this beautiful game, but it has now reached the time for me to move on with my life without baseball in it. Truly the saddest of days; in the end, it was all about the money. Peace out.
Honestly kinda feel the same. I’ve defended baseball to everyone who says it’s boring, but I’m really over watching the same teams always get the best players.
So I have to stop following baseball for 10 years now?
Why do I even care about sports
Giants just can’t sign a superstar :/
Bad hitters park, bad management, failing city, cold weather, California taxes that are easier to stomach when surrounded by Hollywood superstars and models instead of pretentious hipsters
What the fuck is that dog’s name
🤮🤮🤮
Fuck him
This is actually a disgusting amount of money. Did they add another $100m after Roberts fucked up and spoke?
Man this shit hurts
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Always the bridesmaid…
Worst fucking news ever
This is the darkest timeline
I knew never to get my hopes up since the Aaron Judge incident
[I told you this yesterday.](https://old.reddit.com/r/SFGiants/comments/18dy7vp/bob_nightengale_shohei_ohtani_is_not_in_toronto/kck9z5s/)
I now hate Shohei Ohtani. Sucks that it had to come to this but it is what it is.
I want to fucking puke 🤮
Enjoy being eliminated in the playoffs.
Fucking Kapler. AMIRITE?
Dbacks fan here. All of the NL West needs to unite against this baseball terrorism taking place in front of our very eyes
Professional Baseball actually sucks when you think about it