Los Angeles Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts has a playful message for Los Angeles Lakers followers about Shohei Ohtani, now that the MLB and NBA groups can have the identical majority proprietor.
“Fingers off of Shohei,” he stated, smiling. “They obtained sufficient superstars carrying the purple and gold. Go away him alone.”
Social media was teeming with pictures of the Japanese two-way celebrity’s face and physique in a Lakers jersey after information broke Wednesday that Dodgers controlling proprietor Mark Walter is shopping for a majority curiosity within the Lakers from the Buss household for $10 billion.
FOX baseball analyst Ben Verlander posted on-line: “We’re actually about to have Shohei Ohtani out right here dropping 50 on Christmas Day for the Lakers. What a time to be alive.”
One other individual steered Ohtani may very well be a two-way participant for the Lakers, whereas somebody questioned if the Lakers would begin Ohtani on the 2 or 3 place. Others thanked Ohtani for deferring most of his $700 million, 10-year contract and, as one individual posted, “placing all that cash in Mark Walters’ pockets so he should purchase and save the Lakers franchise.”
The Lakers have already got a Japanese participant in ahead Rui Hachimura.
“I feel Hachimura is caring for the Japanese aspect of issues,” Roberts stated. “We’ll have Shohei on the baseball aspect.”
Final December, Ohtani and his spouse attended a Lakers recreation and had been offered personalised jerseys. His spouse, Mamiko Tanaka, performed 4 seasons for the Fujitsu Crimson Wave of the Girls’s Japan Basketball League.
Roberts appeared to heat to the suggestion that he is likely to be sitting within the celebrity-packed courtside seats at Lakers video games this winter.
“I’m positive lots of people have hit Mark up,” he stated, “however I would add myself to the checklist.”
Reporting by The Related Press.
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