It isn’t right to bask in other people’s failures, but let’s be honest, we all do it from time to time. And this past March, most Mariners fans did it with Shohei Ohtani.
They saw a Japanese sensation humbled by the best baseball players in the world. They thought maybe his decision to spurn Seattle in favor of Anaheim wouldn’t be so torturous after all. They saw his shoddy spring-training stats and figured the hype was Himalayans higher than his actual skill set.
Then the regular season started. My goodness.
How do you react to him if you’re a lifelong M’s fan?