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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link
We are all Ippei
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:43 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week ago) link
make it 13 doubles in 26
― H.P, Thursday, 25 April 2024 00:54 (one week ago) link
On pace for 81. Easy.
― H.P, Thursday, 25 April 2024 00:55 (one week ago) link
Wtf 14 in 26. He gets a double in the 8th, and the 9th!
― H.P, Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:18 (one week 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 (six days 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 (six days 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 (five days 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 (five days ago) link
They're still mad about the #ohtaniplane
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 27 April 2024 23:37 (five days 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 (five days 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 days ago) link
Lol
― H.P, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:48 (four days ago) link
changed my DN
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 20:27 (yesterday) link
brilliant, kudos
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 20:54 (yesterday) link