Shohei Ohtani Is the Best Thing To Happen In Sports | The Jim Rome Show 

Jim Rome: "He's not only the best thing happening in baseball. He is the best thing happening in sports. And even that might not be enough." Classic.

Ohtani is so much fun to watch. He’s a gift to baseball.

So the next day he leads off in a day game and gets two hits and two walks and a sac fly. And the Angels come back to win after being down by eight in the fifth inning.

Rome is the man. According to Stephen A Smith, nobody cares about Ohtani's achievements because he needs an interpreter (i.e. he is a foreigner who can't speak American). I sincerely hope Smith's America is in the past, like he should be.

Jim, wrong about people not following what Otani is doing. For the first yime EVER I watch RU-vid every night to see what he's done. I'm also watching your show whenever you talk about him. Anyone who's ever played baseball or followed it knows that we are witnessing something historic and that may never be seen again. We have to savor this moment in time and remember it forever. This young man is doing something no one thought possible and it will end when he can't do it anymore or his team management forces him to choose on position to play. Babe Ruth was a great pitcher with Boston and a great homerun hitter with NY bute Babe never did BOTH at the same time. It would be interesting to see what Zack Greinke could do playing both wayd because he has an amazingly ability to hit homeruns. Yes, keep shouting about Shohei, he's a wonderful guilty pleasure.

Ohtani brought me back to watch baseball. He deserves 10x more media attention.

People are way too obsessed with the “legend” of babe Ruth. Ohtani is doing stuff Ruth never came close to doing, and at a way higher level. Yet no one seems to be talking about it and I have no idea way. He’s brought me back into baseball and I know that’s true for many others as well. Got me beginning to to think this is some race shit

50 HRs, 100 RBIs, 20 Steals, 10 Wins, 100 Strikeouts. This guy is a real life Roy Hobbs without all the drama.

I this age of woke athletes, Shohei is a literal breath of fresh air. A guy who loves the game and knows how to play it!

i'm going to be rich. I bought like $40K of topps cards, topps auto balls, ticket stubs all back in 2018!!! 50 Ohtani rookie year bobbleheads (angels giveaway).. i thought i was crazy.. Now, everything goes up in value!!! OHTANI BACK TO BACK MVP!!! 2 more years with Angels, so it will be all stats years...

And also don't forget, he's also leading his team with 18 steals - something a regular DH and/or pitcher would not be doing.

"he has more HR's than runs allowed as a starting pitcher" .... yeah, that's a crazy ass stat....

"Ohtanian"

He truly is a gift to baseball. Pitches right handed and hits left? God couldn’t have made a more perfect baseball player.

He plays baseball as we played when we were kids. With passion and love. That’s the difference

100 mph pitching! 400ft home runs! Solid defender! Fast runner! Humble! Likeable ^_^ :-)

I'm not even into baseball....but this guy is something else, it makes a snoozing sport exciting to watch when he's pitching and hitting.

Ohtani is underappreciated!! Besides being the greatest pitcher/hitter of ALL TIME, he is a class act! He plays the game with a smile on his face and shows respect to his opponents. A Detriot commentator was suspended for impersonating an Asian accent. Ohtani was asked about the commentator's actions and Ohtani said," I was not offended at all." He's not only the best thing happening in sports, he is the best thing happening in America!

I don't watch baseball but I watch Shohei. All the way from India.

I hope Ohtani gets at least one ring in the MLB. I know there are some great players who never got one, but dude really deserves one.