I made a tasteless Parasite joke upthread but after reading f.'s posts I can see how it may indeed apply here...
...also "arbitration" ;-)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 15 April 2024 03:11 (five months ago) link
Exactly! Tbh I hadn't thought of the employment law angle until you mentioned Ippei's salary and "arbitration" a few weeks back. It has been bothering me ever since.
Parasite is a good reference. And the culture of keeping up and desperation portrayed in Squid Game. There's something so unnecessary here, like this whole Caught Stealing situation should never have happened.
― felicity, Monday, 15 April 2024 03:54 (five months ago) link
f., I would like to declare that I/we are extremely fortunate to have someone of your background, experience and wisdom posting on this silly board.
I may have missed the opportunity to tell you but I always appreciate you!
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 15 April 2024 04:00 (five months ago) link
You're too kind but it's appreciated nonetheless.
May all your tacos come in 10s :)
― felicity, Monday, 15 April 2024 04:06 (five months ago) link
ah... such simpler times...
!!!!! Just realized I met Shohei's translator a long time ago when he was a fresh faced Red Sox employee... let me go dig up a picture lol.― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, December 8, 2023 3:44 PM (four months ago)You met Ippei? Wow!― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, December 8, 2023 3:47 PM (four months ago)I can't find it (my flickr account is now paywalled?). I sat next to him and Hideki Okajima at a sushi bar in SF when the Red Sox were in town to face the A's.― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, December 8, 2023 3:55 PM (four months ago)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, December 8, 2023 3:44 PM (four months ago)
You met Ippei? Wow!
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, December 8, 2023 3:47 PM (four months ago)
I can't find it (my flickr account is now paywalled?). I sat next to him and Hideki Okajima at a sushi bar in SF when the Red Sox were in town to face the A's.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, December 8, 2023 3:55 PM (four months ago)
We've since learned that Ippei was only Okajima's translator for his short (and unfruitful) Spring Training stint with the Yankees which means the interpreter I met when Okajima was with the Red Sox was Ryo Shinkawa...
At any rate, here is a picture of Okajima's signature on MY translator lol, my trusty Sharp PW-SH4 which was a constant companion in my oversees biz journeys when an interpreter was unavailable.
https://i.imgur.com/jPik9IE.png
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:35 (five months ago) link
You met Ippei? Wow!― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, December 8, 2023 3:47 PM (four months ago)lmaooooo
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:38 (five months ago) link
We are all Ippei
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:43 (five months ago) link
Wrong Ippei address.
btw I don't think flickr is paywalled. But I seem to remember they did do something funky a while back that required going in and adjusting settings if you want any of your photos to be public.
― felicity, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:49 (five months ago) link
Yeah, I couldn't find that pic when I first searched flickr but I was able to find it when I searched by year and location: 2008 @ Sakana Sushi
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:59 (five months ago) link
I saw Okajima pitch (LOOGy) the following year @ Fenway...
YOUR baseball photos thread
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 22:10 (five months ago) link
450ftHardest hit ball by ohtani so farHardest hit ball in 2024Hardest hit ball by a Dodger in the statcast eraJust a bonkers bomb
https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s/OPXxm8nszD
― H.P, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 02:08 (four months ago) link
I know his HR is the big story, but (from Posnanski):
In case you haven’t been staying up for West Coast games, Shohei Ohtani is hitting .364/.430/.677 with 11 doubles in 25 games. As great as Ohtani has been, he’s never been much of a doubles hitter; his career high in doubles was 30 in 2022.
As longtime readers know, I spent a lot of time rooting for someone to hit 60 doubles in a season. It has not happened since 1936. Freddie Freeman ALMOST did it last year (he finished with 59), and Nick Castellanos ALMOST did it in 2019 (he finished with 58), so the dream goes on.
If Shohei Ohtani is the guy who challenges for 60 doubles this year, I might just explode in happiness.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 18:40 (four months ago) link
Yeah, he's hitting 99% of his balls to right field (Source: eye test) and if they're a little further to the right than to the middle of right field, they end up doubles. Happens a lot.
― H.P, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:34 (four months ago) link
make it 13 doubles in 26
― H.P, Thursday, 25 April 2024 00:54 (four months ago) link
On pace for 81. Easy.
― H.P, Thursday, 25 April 2024 00:55 (four months ago) link
Wtf 14 in 26. He gets a double in the 8th, and the 9th!
― H.P, Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:18 (four months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLci2DdaIAAZk8z?format=jpg&name=small
https://cdn8.openculture.com/2017/08/20195102/soviet-censorship-naval-commissar-vanishes.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 26 April 2024 17:36 (four months ago) link
Stalin comparison is lol but also, that’s the worst Ohtani drawing! Strange when the visual is such a huge part of his appeal.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 26 April 2024 17:56 (four months ago) link
Ohtani’s on pace for 230 hits #sss
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 27 April 2024 04:33 (four months ago) link
Shohei Ohtani was booed before and after his 1st AB at Rogers Centre. The fans acted like jilted lovers, seeing Ohtani in #Dodgers blue. After he responded w/ a HR, his teammates greeted him in the dugout with more boos. "He got a big kick out of that.”https://t.co/9WOdwssL3X— Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr) April 27, 2024
― H.P, Saturday, 27 April 2024 20:05 (four months ago) link
They're still mad about the #ohtaniplane
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 27 April 2024 23:37 (four months ago) link
I just love the idea of the dugout booing ohtani after all of his hits. "Booooooo stop making us look bad!"
― H.P, Saturday, 27 April 2024 23:41 (four months ago) link
dodgers are in pittsburgh the first week of june; hope the fans boo him for not signing with the pirates
― mookieproof, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:28 (four months ago) link
Lol
― H.P, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:48 (four months ago) link
changed my DN
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 20:27 (four months ago) link
brilliant, kudos
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 20:54 (four months ago) link
pretty good
― omar little, Sunday, 5 May 2024 22:09 (four months ago) link
Geez
― frogbs, Sunday, 5 May 2024 22:56 (four months ago) link
Can confirm
― H.P, Monday, 6 May 2024 00:44 (four months ago) link
Thought this guy was injured?
The 2025 rotation of healthy Ohtani, Glasgow, Yamamoto, Kershaw keeps me up at night, tossing and turning, cold sweats, mumbling prayers, visions of titanium UCLs, perfect games flash across the ceiling, post-season sweeps celebrations ringing in my ears
― H.P, Monday, 6 May 2024 00:48 (four months ago) link
Then I wake up and we’re sweeping the braves
― H.P, Monday, 6 May 2024 00:49 (four months ago) link
it's pretty hard to hit a ball 464 ft, even moreso to slightly opposite field.
― omar little, Monday, 6 May 2024 01:09 (four months ago) link
Leading the NL in hitting and slugging, but Betts still #1 in bWAR (and OBP).
― clemenza, Monday, 6 May 2024 17:25 (four months ago) link
In his MVP and MVP runner-up seasons of 2021-2022, his bWAR for batting was 4.9 and 3.4 respectively, he's already at 2.4 and on pace for over 9.0, which is even more impressive considering how much of his previous WAR value was due to his pitching.
― omar little, Monday, 6 May 2024 17:34 (four months ago) link
Wonder if a team's ever had two 10+ WAR guys.
― clemenza, Monday, 6 May 2024 17:38 (four months ago) link
Good place to start, the '27 Yankees: Ruth, 12.6; Gehrig, 11.9. Beyond that, probably not.
― clemenza, Monday, 6 May 2024 17:44 (four months ago) link
yeah, at least by fWAR, there have only been a handful of seasons where multiple players reached 10.0+ fWAR:
2001: Barry Bonds (12.5, SFG) and Randy Johnson (10.4, ARI)1965: Willie Mays (10.7, SFG) and Sandy Koufax (10.0, LAD)1961: Mickey Mantle (10.3, NYY) and Norm Cash (10.2, DET)1948: Stan Musial (11.0, STL) and Lou Boudreau (10.9, CLE)1927: Babe Ruth (12.9, NYY), Lou Gehrig (12.4, NYY), and Rogers Hornsby (10.4, NYG)1924: Babe Ruth (12.3, NYY) and Rogers Hornsby (12.2, STL)1921: Babe Ruth (13.7, NYY) and Rogers Hornsby (11.1, STL)1908: Honus Wagner (11.8, PIT) and Christy Mathewson (10.8, NYG)
― z_tbd, Monday, 6 May 2024 21:56 (four months ago) link
Almost three bWARs in 2018: Mookie (10.7), deGrom and Trout at 9.9.
― clemenza, Monday, 6 May 2024 22:15 (four months ago) link
Not enough energy to start looking up all the bWARs, but 2000 had Pedro and A-Rod both above 10.0.
― clemenza, Monday, 6 May 2024 22:17 (four months ago) link
Ohtani's batting average (.365) is currently higher than The Angel's win percentage (.361)
― H.P, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 04:31 (four months ago) link
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/shohei-ohtani-gambling-scandal-interpreter-ippei-mizuhara-to-plead-guilty-faces-up-to-33-years-in-prison/
Mizuhara, described by the Attorney's Office as Ohtani's "de facto manager," will plead guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of subscribing to a false tax return at an arraignment scheduled for May 14. He faces a maximum sentence of 33 years in prison, five years of supervised release and a fine of $1,250,000.The 39-year-old former interpreter will be required to pay full restitution to his victims, which includes $16,975,010 to Victim A, Ohtani, and $1,149,400 to the IRS.
The 39-year-old former interpreter will be required to pay full restitution to his victims, which includes $16,975,010 to Victim A, Ohtani, and $1,149,400 to the IRS.
As well as the millions siphoned out of Ohtani's account to pay off gambling debt, Mizuhara also bought $325,000 worth of baseball cards on eBay and other online resellers in order to flip them and profit himself. In September 2023, Ohtani agreed to pay for Mizuhara's $60,000 dental work and provided him with a check. Instead, according to prosecutors, Mizuhara paid the bill with Ohtani's debit card and deposited the check into his personal account.Mizuhara also admitted to falsely reporting his taxable income on his IRS tax returns in 2022, resulting in the tax fraud charge. According to the plea deal, Mizuhara falsely claimed he was single when he was in fact married and failed to report additional income of $4,100,000 that year.
Mizuhara also admitted to falsely reporting his taxable income on his IRS tax returns in 2022, resulting in the tax fraud charge. According to the plea deal, Mizuhara falsely claimed he was single when he was in fact married and failed to report additional income of $4,100,000 that year.
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 22:07 (four months ago) link
Not a good day to be an ippei-stan
― H.P, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 22:25 (four months ago) link
In September 2023, Ohtani agreed to pay for Mizuhara's $60,000 dental work and provided him with a check.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 22:45 (four months ago) link
POV scant minutes after you took the over AND the spread:
https://streamable.com/jnpw0y
#freeippei
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 May 2024 05:01 (four months ago) link
First walk-off hit as a Dodger yesterday ... and his first walk-off in four years? I know the Angels were a bad team when he played there (if you're not winning, you're not getting walk-off hits) but that's still a surprising non-stat.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 20 May 2024 10:41 (four months ago) link
Not sure if this was noted in the New Yorker thread:
https://i.postimg.cc/2S7VvbLc/shohei.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 19:55 (three months ago) link
(Nothing inside that I can see.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 19:56 (three months ago) link
cmon whaaat
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:28 (three months ago) link
The worst part is, he doesn't even look anything like that
― H.P, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:33 (three months ago) link