Shoehei Ohtani's 50/50 ball caught at loanDepot Park gets $4.39M at auction... who is the rightful seller of this baseball?
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00:00Shohei Ohtani's 50-50 ball that was caught at Lone Depot Park has sold for a whopping
00:09$4.39 million.
00:12Geez, man, $4.35 million.
00:16Hey, I have a question.
00:21Yep.
00:23Does this interpreter get anything if they win a World Series?
00:26The one who left in scandal?
00:28The one that took the hit for Shohei, so Shohei could go 50-50.
00:32I'm sure Shohei will take care of him.
00:34I don't know if the team will get him one.
00:35I'm not saying the team.
00:36I'm talking about Mr. Ohtani.
00:38I don't know.
00:39Didn't that guy end up having to plead guilty to some stuff?
00:41He pled guilty and took the hit.
00:43So he's like Greg Anderson for Barry Bonds.
00:46One of the most diehard friends ever.
00:48You talk about loyalty, you know I always wear loyalty over money shirts.
00:52Greg Anderson is that loyal.
00:54So I think Shohei's interpreter better get something because if he so happens, hopefully
01:00not win a World Series, this what would have been a turmoil, you know, very bad season
01:09for him ended up being one of the best seasons in Major League Baseball's history.
01:14This is, well, there's an interesting thing going on with this.
01:17So it breaks the record, which was previously held by the Mark McGwire 70 ball, which was
01:21bought for $3 million in 1999.
01:24The Barry Bonds.
01:25Then I saw the 73.
01:27I don't know.
01:28I don't know.
01:29But I actually, I don't know what happened to the Barry Bonds ball.
01:31And I mean, do remember, like, it's not like there wasn't, you know, all that.
01:39Didn't somebody buy it to put like an asterisk on it or something like that?
01:41Am I mistaken there?
01:43I feel like somebody did that with the Barry Bonds.
01:45So maybe his ball didn't sell for as much.
01:47How?
01:48Well, I mean, Barry Bonds is going to get an asterisk.
01:50How does Mark McGwire not get an asterisk?
01:52Well, he did.
01:53I mean, but at the time, if it's sold in 1999, it really, because I even remember back in
01:58the day, I remember there was a whole thing where they're like, well, what's Andrew Steen?
02:01What's interesting.
02:02I remember like Mark McGwire left a muscle supplement in his locker and he goes, oh,
02:07it's natural.
02:08It's not banned.
02:09And so it didn't really have the stigma as much when Barry Bonds it, it goes, you read
02:13like the game of shadows.
02:14It was kind of the motivation for Barry Bonds taking steroids because he's like, look at
02:18these bums.
02:19How many home runs they're hitting?
02:20You imagine if I took steroids and then he did, and he just obliterated everything they
02:24did.
02:25It was a great experiment by Barry Bonds, one of the great scientists of our time, because
02:29if bums take steroids and hit 70, but I take steroids, I could smash that record.
02:35He was right.
02:36I mean, it makes perfect sense.
02:37It does.
02:38It does.
02:39If I hit 400 home runs on natural, what happens if I take a little PB?
02:44He can hit 400 home runs after 37.
02:48They would not reveal the, the, uh, they would not reveal the owner or the buyer of this.
02:55The problem with this also is there's apparently a lawsuit going on over the ball because,
03:01uh, I believe an 18 year old is claiming that the guy who walked away with the ball, that
03:06he had it stolen from him.
03:07So there's actually, it says through litigation, uh, though the litigation over the ball's
03:11initial ownership is playing out in Florida and agreement was reached on October 7th between
03:15the auction house and quote, all parties that allowed the auction to proceed and conclude
03:20apart from the lawsuits over the ball's ownership.
03:22How are you going to prove that I stole it from you?
03:25I think there's video of it.
03:26I think there's some video of it, but wait, how is it video of me?
03:29Like, did I take it out of your possession or are we fighting for it?
03:32And I don't know.
03:33I don't know if it's like, see, I don't know if it's like, is there conclusive evidence?
03:37I don't know if this is like the NFL.
03:39That's why the law play out the video, like all you see is a bunch of people piling up
03:43on each other.
03:44If there's not conclusive evidence, possession is not intended for the law.
03:47It's inconclusive evidence.
03:49The original call stands, it's your ball or they could settle, you know, maybe they could
03:53settle on a split, but okay.
03:57I mean, listen, if you're going in with zero and you get a split of something, you'd be
04:02happy, right?
04:03But it all depends on how much money is being spent on this, on this baseball.
04:09I feel like this is a case, a lawyer would want to take on just to be like, you know,
04:14I was in that case.
04:16Schmidt that says if Tobin was a lawyer, the defense would be finders keepers.
04:20I believe he's right though, because here's the thing.
04:23You got to figure this is not a, this is an international, um, uh, art.
04:30I want to, I mean, for the lack of better term, somebody, somebody from another country
04:34could have bought this ball.
04:35That's what I'm saying.
04:37So does that make it not a us case?
04:42That's what I'm saying.
04:43Well, the lawsuit's a Florida case.
04:45It happened.
04:46Well, does it make it not a Florida case?
04:47If the balls were sold, they're saying in this, that the parties, they said all parties,
04:53the sale is the sale.
04:55So I think the person's allowed to get the ball, no matter what, it's probably going
04:58to go into account the money.
04:59And then the money is going to be either divvied up or going to one owner.
05:03I think the person is getting their ball.
05:04I think that sucks.
05:05Cause they just tying up my man's money with a frivolous law case, a lawsuit, which is
05:12crazy.
05:13You can do that.
05:14Wow.
05:15You better have the money for that.
05:16Frivolous law.
05:17Is it frivolous?
05:18I think it's frivolous.
05:19Fine.
05:20You're so you're a finders keepers.
05:21Whoever gets the ball, gets the ball.
05:22You see how they fight over them balls.
05:24I have seen people.
05:25Listen, we saw with Barry Bonds and some people dive in the water for balls.
05:28Right.
05:29That's true.
05:30So like, yeah, you saying, oh, he didn't fight.
05:33He didn't, he didn't fight fairly tough.
05:36Be a man, toughen up little 18 year old get in there.
05:41That's what it wait.
05:42Every time we see, wait, every time we seen him fight over a baseball, what did it look
05:46like?
05:47It didn't look like, oh no, it's yours.
05:48What if it was a child?
05:49All right.
05:50Well, let's say, let's say this.
05:51What, what if it was a pop should have been in there to protect.
05:55What if it's a melee?
05:56What if it bounced into Tommy's lap?
05:57That's what it's always been.
05:59It has always been a mate.
06:01Wait, every time, wait, every time we've watched them fight for one of these balls
06:07has been a melee and nobody until Florida has said, no, I had it first.
06:13Nobody.
06:14I don't know.
06:17I'm telling you when you see that ball golf in the air, look at all the people converging
06:23on that ball.
06:24Oh, it's crazy.
06:25Whoever comes up with it after diving on the ground in the dog pile, they immediately
06:30are escorted right out the stadium.
06:33Like think about that, right?
06:35Did you buy tickets that game, particularly that section in the yes.
06:40So then yes.
06:41Okay.
06:42So then it happens because I think that, uh, was it the 50th one where you're talking about
06:46that was a opportunity.
06:47It went up a taco.
06:48It went to the, it went to the former Cleveland or whatever it's right now.
06:51So you're not even, you're not assuming that that's going to go left field.
06:57So when it's there, you better have it.
06:59You better have hands and be able to catch that ball.
07:01You need to go like, look, you're right.
07:03If you're going to sit in the outfield for that game, you should have gone no Marlins
07:08Jersey.
07:09You should have gone full zip pocket hoodie or something like that.
07:12So that thing goes in your kangaroo pouch.
07:14Nobody gets it.
07:15That's it.
07:16That's it.
07:18Because you just cost yourself probably six or seven figures.
07:20If you don't do that, but then being said, like what declares possession?
07:25Like it was, see, this is where the ball in your head, no dude, if you have the ball and
07:31somebody rips the ball from you, after you got the ball, that's that's that's that.
07:35Oh, let me ask you this.
07:38If I walk out of that and some guy at the bar punches me in the face and takes the base
07:43That's a whole different death.
07:45That's different.
07:46That's different.
07:47Wait, wait.
07:48What if you were still if you were still in the area and the ball, you didn't come down
07:56with two feet inbounds and the ball, even though you have it right, you have you haven't
08:01had possession of it.
08:03It's all fair game.
08:04You got a man up.
08:05Tuck that thing in.
08:08You know where to put it.
08:09Yeah.
08:10Go ahead and put it by Bluetooth.
08:11Yeah.
08:12Right there.
08:13Yeah.
08:14This is, this is the kind of case I would like to be a, you know what, as long as we've
08:20been watching these types of events where people trying to catch these, uh, these balls,
08:28right.
08:29It's been a dog pile, right?
08:31You is now you, you go complain that you didn't get, if you're talking about a ball of this
08:35significance that was actually fought our first time we've had like cell phone footage.
08:42Usually it's like, ah, there's one video, but you can't show them where that ball went.
08:48And they show over and over, look at the dog pile for the ball that was going to be worth
08:51a lot of money.
08:52Like an overview, like in the, in the thing, no one in that section is filming the pile.
08:59They're trying to get the ball.
09:00There's a ball in your section where 4.3 million and you filmed it.
09:15There's footage of it.
09:16Like I'm not making this up.
09:17I'm going to send it to you guys during the break.
09:19It's just bad.
09:21Take a break.
09:22More to come on the show.
09:23Poor loser.
09:24Sore loser.
09:26Him didn't get the ball.
09:28Oh, well we're going to sue.
09:30Daddy, daddy, please don't just sue for the ball.