- [Narrator] Before we kick off the video, I just want to say that this is part two of a two-part Fumble Dimension series. If you haven't seen part one, I strongly suggest you do. We'll put the link in the description below. What else? What else? Oh, we also have a Twitch channel. Follow that so you could see funny stuff like this. - [Commentator] This season, coach set their goal. They obviously won whenever-- - What? - They didn't think they got off to a great enough start. Well here they are, looking at two and NUMBER_TOKEN right now. - Dude, he fare caught it to end the game. What is happening? - Alright. Welcome back to The Fumble Dimension. (upbeat music) - In Shohei Ohtani, we have the sort of guy we haven't really had since Bo Jackson, a guy who can hold two very different jobs and not only reach the top echelon in both, but dominated both. If he were strictly a position player, his numbers would be wild enough. In an era of extreme specialization, he led the league in triples and damn near led the league in home runs, which is something no one ever does. But he's also the best pitcher on his team. Development that were he a fictional character would get laughed out of any writer's room. As a little kid in Kansas City, Bo Jackson was my hero. It was a perfect introduction to baseball, really. He played four, more or less, full seasons with the Kansas City Royals. And in those four seasons, the Royals never even made the playoffs. They were usually miles off. I was really young, too young to understand things like division standings. And when the world series came on every fall, I couldn't understand why my guys weren't there. Where are the Royals? Where's Bo Jackson, my personal superhero, the greatest athlete on the entire planet. And that's what made this the most appropriate introduction to baseball. It doesn't matter how brilliant or iconic any one player is. He's just one guy, and he figures into the greater equation only so much. Now, decades later, we're seeing the exact same thing. Four years into Shohei Ohtani's career, it's already becoming a running joke among baseball fans, who, regardless of affiliation, desperately want to see him play post-season baseball. He routinely achieves things that virtually no living baseball fan has ever witnessed, but his team, the Los Angeles Angels, doesn't follow along. They don't even budge. In all four seasons of the Ohtani era, the Angels have finished fourth in a five team division. Sure, Ohtani is only NUMBER_TOKEN years old. He and the Angels probably have plenty more chances ahead to reach the playoffs together. But in baseball, nothing is inevitable. Look, if your lawnmower won't start, you're certainly free to keep ripping away at the court. Maybe if you tried long enough, it will. But it hasn't. And there's no promise it will. Just ask their neighbors in the division, the Seattle Mariners. They fielded historical greats like Ichiro Suzuki and Felix Hernandez. And they've
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN we also have a Twitch channel. Follow that so you could see funny stuff like this. - [Commentator] This season, coach set their goal. They obviously won whenever-- - What? - They didn't think they got off to a great enough start. Well here they are, looking at two and NUMBER_TOKEN right now. - Dude, he fare caught it to end the game. What is happening? - Alright. END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN