It’s been approximately 70 hours since Shohei Ohtani chose the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, tipping the expected balance of power in the AL West and breaking the hearts of Mariners fans and Jerry Dipoto alike. Rejection stings, and when it arrives it usually brings its nastier cousin, failure. Fear of rejection and failure can be paralyzing, and it comes for us all at some point. Apparently the famously garrulous Jerry sat in silence at lunch on Friday, stunned that his efforts been in vain, and that he had lost out to the organization that effectively ran him out of town less than five years ago.
How the Mariners move past Ohtani’s rejection
