The Shohei Ohtani Sweepstakes came to an end on Friday afternoon.
The Los Angeles Angels were revealed as the winners of the Japanese star’s services and Twitter was set ablaze with the news of the highly-touted pitcher-hitter’s decision.
Baseball Twitter’s reaction to Ohtani signing pic.twitter.com/nGB6H0OtMR
— kevin (@kh_ness) December 8, 2017
Here are some of the best non-Mariners reactions (don’t worry, we’ll get to the Seattle fans later).
— Mike Trout (@MikeTrout) December 8, 2017
When you hear Shohei Ohtani chooses to sign with the angels pic.twitter.com/dgnYZAgWfX
— Ryan Estabrooke (@EstaRyan12) December 8, 2017
It took the Ohtani news to remind me that the Angels owe The Ghost Of Albert Pujols $27M, $28M, $29M, and $30M over the next four seasons.
My god.
— Keegan Matheson (@KeeganMatheson) December 8, 2017
Mariners: We got all this money for you
Angels: Oh yeah? Well we got Disneyland (and Mike Trout)
Ohtani: pic.twitter.com/eR3aKxR0Rq— 5280 Jingle Bell Rox (@5280Rox) December 8, 2017
What if Ohtani is actually baseball's next Rick Ankiel?
— Andrew Joe Potter (@AndrewJoePotter) December 8, 2017
And finally, Mariners fans weighed in on their worst nightmare.
sports are bad and life is pain
— Mina Kimes (@minakimes) December 8, 2017
#Ohtani to the #Angels, not the #Mariners? pic.twitter.com/UjKF2KWxsf
— Derek Deis (@DerekKXLY) December 8, 2017
And this was mine (considering he chose a division rival of the Mariners): pic.twitter.com/EAJsBhK7Rt
— Wayne Stell #EdgarHOF (@waynestell) December 8, 2017
Mean while at the mariners front office pic.twitter.com/FkIXjRBfId
— Dustin Langer (@dlanger1974) December 8, 2017
Rinse, repeat pic.twitter.com/OMZRi8K7t4
— Kayla Kringle (@VixenRogue) December 8, 2017
This is actually happening by the way.
EMERGENCY OHTANI VIDEO
Jordan the Mariners fan is not ok pic.twitter.com/SPKsvnLRs5
— Cespedes Family BBQ (@CespedesBBQ) December 8, 2017
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