‘Not Like Us’ Hits Laborious

Shohei Ohtani is a large contributor to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ back-to-back World Series titles. With Yoshinobu Yamamoto hailed as MVP, there is not any doubt this MLB staff can repeat its championship run subsequent 12 months.

For Ohtani, successful over the Toronto Blue Jays is a satisfying mission to perform, however greater than that, trolling Drake has caught followers off guard on-line.

Dodgers Celebrate Historic Repeat in Style

Coming off their seven-game barnburner of a sequence towards the Toronto Blue Jays, the Dodgers needed to remind everybody why there is not any staff fairly like them. It was a sequence stuffed with drama, depth, and heartbreak, largely for Toronto followers.

At one level, the Blue Jays have been inches from capturing their first World Series title since 1993, solely to see Ohtani and Co. squash these goals in very spectacular style.

According to Sports Illustrated, Ohtani was unstoppable all through the sequence, particularly within the marathon 18-inning Game 3, the place he reached a document 9 instances and smashed two homers. His efficiency did greater than tilt the steadiness of momentum in LA’s favor; it additionally spoke volumes to his status as the game’s most electrical two-way participant.

Ohtani Aiming for Third Straight Title

During the Dodgers’ parade at Dodger Stadium, Ohtani spoke to followers in English once more, a continued signal of consolation on and off the sphere. He dropped a teaser for the staff’s subsequent mission: a historic three-peat. The Japanese phenom’s management and charisma have change into as central to the Dodgers’ tradition as his expertise on the mound and on the plate.

“We’re not done yet,” Ohtani informed the followers, who cheered wildly. “Let’s do it again next year!”

Ohtani’s post-parade message hits totally different. After the parade, the Japanese baseball pitcher took to social media to share moments from the celebration, together with photographs together with his spouse, Mamiko. But what actually caught followers’ consideration, nevertheless, was his track alternative: Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”

Of course, the monitor, very famously a diss towards Canadian rapper Drake, an avid Blue Jays fan-wasn’t some arbitrary choose: this was a cheeky, well-placed jab that captured completely LA’s swagger and confidence after defeating Toronto. It did not take lengthy for followers to note the delicate message; feedback shortly crammed with laughing emojis and “cold move” reactions.