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Originally Posted by monkeyman576
I own it up to not really understanding the celebrity culture of the American media. Nomo and Ichiro really seemed to play up being a celebrity and Ohtani seems kind of like the opposite, to be honest.
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I totally get that he doesn't want it to be a LeBron James "just how much attention-wh0ring can I do" type of thing. But I don't see the point of not wanting teams to even acknowledge that they've met with him. Seems awful prima-donna-ish of him to even ask that. If it were as simple as he's not really into the circus of it all, he'd simply ask clubs to keep their discussion private and then go about his business without any fanfare. I mean, what is accomplished by "there are rumors and reports that he met with the Cubs, Jays, and Giants..." vs. it simply being reported that "the clubs and his representatives have acknowledged that they've met with the Cubs, Jays, and Giants, but little is known about the substance of those discussions." That latter would make perfect sense. The former is pointless. It's certainly his right to ask for that level of secrecy, but it doesn't accomplish anything.