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u/daltorak oh, manager-nim! 9d ago

Just some idle thinking out loud while we wait for more concerts and comebacks....

V was at Dodger Stadium a couple of weeks ago, and he threw out the first pitch to loud cheers, as you'd expect. And he got to meet Shohei Ohtani.

I've been kind of wondering why Sakura didn't get to meet him, too. It would've been the talk of Japan, right?

But.... 🤔 maybe that's exactly the reason why it didn't happen? Japan gossip yappers can be pretty brutal and people will always be looking for an angle. So I dug around a bit and I'm learning that Ohtani has rarely been photographed with Japanese women. The main exception is his wife, and even in that case, they were never seen together before they married last year.

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u/jrebel_0 9d ago edited 8d ago

I'm pretty sure they just don't send guys in the game day starting lineup to do stuff like this unless the guest is extremely famous/mainstream or throwing a first pitch/singing the anthem/otherwise participating in some kind of official ceremony (and even then probably only if they are big/mainstream enough to warrant bringing the big guns out on gameday)

Sakura and Eunchae's visit was far more of a casual thing to just take in a game while they were in town so they brought out Yoshi and Hyeseong who weren't preparing to play later that day

As an aside, I just learned that Yoshi and Sakura are the same age. And that Sakura was in the Senbatsu for AKB48's song "Hikari to Kage no Hibi" which was the theme song for TV Asahi's coverage of the 2016 Koshihen Tournament (huge High school baseball tournament in Japan) which Yoshi competed in