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“Ohtani. Home run. Awesome. Ohtani. Home run.”
Kokochan Hayakawa, a talking parrot who has about 48,000 followers Instagramis one of the millions of fans of shohei ohtaniBaseball superstar acted again los angeles dodgers In the World Series.
“He is the greatest,” said Hideyuki Kamimura, who heads a dental clinic in a city in the north. Tokyo And goes to Los Angeles every year to watch a Dodgers game.
Although the Dodgers trail Toronto 3–2 in the World Series, Kamimura is still confident that Ohtani and the Dodgers will win.
He likes Ohtani so much that he has a collection of Ohtani memorabilia, including three of the player’s helmets, one of which he bought at an auction for $10 million.
Kamimura said, “Ohtani has always delivered dramatic victorious endings from completely dire situations.”
ohtani is hard to avoid JapanEven though the country is stuck with its World Series counterpart, the ongoing Japan Series. The SoftBank Hawks are competing for their 12th championship against the Hanshin Tigers, one of Japan’s oldest clubs dating back to the 1930s.
As well as being able to watch Ohtani’s games live – after breakfast in Tokyo time – he is also popular in advertisements and his face appears on billboards, merchandise and TV.
He’s showing up everywhere in Tokyo, offering everything from watches to bottled water, noodles to omusubi (rice balls). He reportedly makes approximately $100 million annually from endorsements, in addition to his $2 million salary from the Dodgers.
In an advertisement for a home security company, Ohtani also encounters a Japanese baseball legend who died this year at the age of 89. Ohtani taking on a young Shigeo Nagashima in a computer-graphics dream faceoff. The ad ends before the ball reaches the plate.
His Dodgers teammates have mocked Ohtani’s gesture in a sunscreen commercial in which he pulls the bottle up to his face and mimics it while rounding the bases.
To Japanese fans, Ohtani is perfect: He hits home runs, pitches brilliantly, steals bases and has a reputation for being kind and humble.
Max Beding, a Sydney chemist, looked delighted after purchasing an Ohtani hat while on holiday in Japan. Baseball isn’t that big in Australia but Beding is moving to America and wants proof he’s keeping up with the times.
“Living in Japan, I’ve seen what a cultural person he is,” Beding said of Ohtani. “He’s a tremendous athlete.”
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