One year ago today, Shohei Ohtani was on a plane to Toronto

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1. Fuck Jon Morosi.

2. I hope you step on a lego today

3. I hate it, thanks 🥲

4. Bob Nightengale one year ago today around 4 pm

   

5. Easily one of the funniest off season sagas in recent memory

6. It was a painful ending, but that was the most fun I can remember and off-season day being.

7. I’ve been asking about this.. we need to create a power ranking or some sort with these guys with sources.

8. Still my favorite day on r/baseball

   That shit was wild

9. In return, the baseball God’s will reward the Blue Jays with Juan Soto today.

10. This was Morosi’s 12/25

    The level of engagement he created with people checking flight trackers, culminating in a reporter just posting the Canadian flag. Hoornstra putting his reputation on the line. To learning it was just a Shark Tank guy. To the announcement from Shohei soon after.

    Yeah everyone can clown, but it was as exciting as it gets

11. As a Jays fan, THANK YOU, MOROSI. This was the most hope I’ve had since 2015/2016. Even if it was dashed shortly after, I’ll never forget those two hours of pure excitement and optimism :’)

12. I forgot that this was a Morosi tweet and a couple of weeks ago when someone was asking for good mlb reporters to follow, I mentioned his name and couldn’t figure out why I was getting downvoted

    Makes more sense now

13. The one positive for us was to learn a very important lesson: Never, ever get your hopes up for a superstar free agent to sign here, regardless of what’s reported, unless he’s literally in the building holding up the jersey. When Soto finally signs with the Yankees or Mets after Boras extracts every last dollar he can, I won’t feel any disappointment.

14. honest mistake, Robert Herjavec looks just like Shohei Ohtani if you’re Mr. Magoo

15. I always knew he was a fucking idiot

    But this absolutely torpedoed any credibility Morosi had left

16. I’m still upset that Ohtani didn’t win in Anaheim.

17. Why this gotta be the top of my Reddit.

18. Now Assad is on a plane. Coincidence? I think not.

19. What ranks higher for yall arson judge or the plane saga?

20. Morosi is a moron but no one pissed me off from this saga more than Rosenthal. Absolutely classless “writing” after the fact. Bad for baseball

21. This was such a moment

22. Remember Buster Olney writing a whole story crying because Ohtani wasn’t going about free agency the way he wanted?

23. I love how different Shohei and Soto are lol.

    Literal silence vs negotiation in public basically lol

24. I’m still at Pearson airport waiting

25. The memes were great.

26. Man, that plane has been in the air for a year now??? Will it ever land?

27. “Sources: Juan Soto is en route to Toronto today.”

28. He stayed at the same hotel as Kawhi that summer

29. whats fucking worse is fucking Shai Davidi being all like “oh no no no you should believe reliable sources toronto, don’t be stupid like you just were” yeah, like one of your fellow BWA members you see over numb nuts

    I’m fine with takin L’s, i’m mad a being shat on by others for toronto being a sub standard city in there eyes, fine say the quite part out loud you hate Canada, but whatever, THAT? That makes me hold a grudge lol

30. 

31. It was just the dude from Shark Tank 😂

32. Ah, so this is why i feel like depression eating today. Got it.

33. Fuck it’s crazy how fast a year goes by

34. That trip probably took him from 600 to 700 million with the Dodgers

35. I fell to my knees in a cheesesteak shop

36. Ahhh, what a time as a Blue Jays fan haha

37. Got that ring, cut the fat.

38. Hello darkness my old friend

39. this is equally as gold as Arson Judge to San Francisco

40. Blue Jays fans, are you able to laugh about what happened a year ago now?

41. When I first saw reports of a plane headed to Toronto I wasn’t concerned. I assumed it was someone heading home from Disneyland. Then I saw this tweet and my heart sank. The only thing giving my life was radio silence from Passan. Then Heyman and Nightengale refuted the report and it was all happy fun times from there. What a day.

42. Why must you make me remember 🙁

    Also, fuck Morosi dude. I had absolutely no belief Ohtani would sign with the Jays before he tweeted that stupid fucking flag.

43. Kikuchi I’m gonna need some sushi reservations for sasaki please

44. I’ve still never forgiven Robert Herjavec. I mean, I didn’t like him in the first place, but I haven’t forgiven him, either. 

45. So Soto is signing today?

46. I remember posting [this](https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Tommy-gets-whacked-in-Goodfellas.jpg) photo of “Dave Roberts meeting with management” on another site