Ludwig Shares Shohei Ohtani Story and How He Became a Dodgers Fan

[@bizzz.R]

Lud picked the perfect time to be a Dodgers fan. Once in a lifetime talent!

[@rhfluffyfishfury9105]

Yeah, but it’s also the easiest time in history

[@harpot678]

@@rhfluffyfishfury9105 Yeah it is. Not only Dodgers but Baseball needs to take whatever it can get lmao

[@kilge1072]

Mookie Betts really is a once in a lifetime talent.

[@dudemanofdude]

​@harpot678 true

[@royfablooo2810]

Baseball needed a Guy like Ohtani, Every sport need their Golden Boy that would carry their League for the next years. It's one of the reason a league would still be relevant.

[@everythinglakers1713]

Only reason I ever showed any interest in baseball highlights were Ohtani on the Angels, and once u switched to the Dodgers who was my team since middle school, it was set. Finally learned the rules, how intricate the sport is, and it’s one of my favorites now as a Dodger fan

[@awsomelife101]

exactly, stars are what makes a league great. plus add in the insanity that was the entire NL side of the post season. the whole padres-dodgers series and that mets run starting with the doubleheader in atlanta. such a great time to get into baseball

[@herewegoagain7403]

he picked a good time to get into baseball! helluva post season

[@MaximusTheChosenOne]

At least on the NL side of things

[@WobblyMelon]

Shohei Ohtani made me interested in baseball

[@rickdeckard9810]

I just admire greatness and Ohtani is simply incredible.

[@CrumbMuffins]

As someone who hated baseball as a kid/teen with a dad that hated it too. Baseball is the sport that you fall in love with in your early to mid 20s. Like imagine coming home from work, just turning on the game and listen to it in the background while you do laundry/cook/clean whatever and by the time you’re done with your chores you sit down with your dinner and boom it’s the middle of the 7th and you get to watch the last 30 mins of a game! It’s perfect, and there’s so many damn games it becomes a nearly 9month habit. You get your friends into convince them to ditch work for a random day game in the middle May you have couple drinks at the ballpark. It’s a great sport.

[@Caspeaon]

I’m not a Dodgers fan I’m a Shohei Ohtani fan. That man is an international treasure.

[@halo10001]

Ohtani literally dragged me into loving baseball since he joined the Angels in 2018. I'm Japanese and he was going around the news about how much potential he has so I started following him and holy shit, he blossomed into one of the greatest athletes I've ever seen.

[@TheMicahwitz]

I hope we get more bandwagon dodger fans! That’s how the fanbase grows! We’re glad to have you man, welcome to the dodger family!

[@noahscool9]

I also became a fan because of Shohei😂😂😂

[@dudemanofdude]

:(

[@DFusions_]

There's about 10m total in LA county m, the rest are around the state and the world You can live in San Francisco and see a lot of Blue in a crowd of Oranges

[@duke_rabbit]

I'm proud of you son

[@daitran5745]

My first baseball was when shohei did 50 50 at marling loandepot Park..now i follow and learn everything about stats and gonna buy mlb pass to wtch for 2025 season..now i cant enough of baseball..thanks to ohtani

[@TheRover87]

I'm with you! I have no main baseball team to cheer for, but I've been an Ohtani fan since his Angels rookie season and cheered for him and the Angels. Once he signed with the Dodgers, I continued to cheer for him and his new team. I was so happy he signed with the Dodgers because it meant he would finally experience the playoffs and it's a dream come true that he won the world series in his first year with them! Here's to many more championships!

[@rics1714]

Holy shit this was so good, especially cuz I also got into baseball because of Ohtani and now I’m a Dodgers fan 😂

[@jonathanfernandez-yo9zr]

Fuck yeah brother Dodgers for life

[@Fernando_8A]

Welcome to Los Angeles Lud, you have so much to learn as a newly dodger fan!

[@mikio6444]

Ohtani and Mahomes are both great and likeable ambassadors of their sports. I’m from Philly but I can appreciate greatness and not taking it for granted.

[@iman8738]

i absolutely hate mahomes i cant stand him, but Ohtani is a literal god

[@flinartist]

I became a fan of baseball after watching the World Baseball Classic being Mexican and seeing them go far was amazing. On the second hand I’m from Orange County and seeing Mike trout vs ohtani was amazing and knowing they play on the same team back home made me an Angels fan. Now being an Angels fan I’m depressed af

[@austinrodriguez4272]

I’m happy to see it. Growing up I only had a few friends really into baseball and now I’m older I feel I’ve succeeded in getting more friends and family into baseball. My cousin became a dodger fan this year and he won the world series😂, I can only be happy for him lol. As a giants fan it hurt to see but I love a good rivalry

[@TheKuroArisu]

Was not expecting a Teoscar story! :D Love Teo!

[@cartierr6717]

Wished he talked about Freddie’s walk off grand slam, I was going crazy when that happened

[@LatinPlayer10]

Well, he wasn’t at that game.

[@cartierr6717]

@@LatinPlayer10 IK that but it’s still one of the most legendary homers in the history of the sport. Feel like he could’ve mentioned it at least especially if he considers himself a dodgers fan now

[@DFusions_]

My dad and I were watching the game in separate rooms, I was talking to my mom and hears him cheering from the back

[@TheEventForumZ]

I got into baseball last year when I was on a long holiday in Japan & caught the JPN v ITA WBC game on TV while eating Toruko Rice at a cafe in Nagasaki. Shit's got me hooked and I sacked 2 of my morning plans for the semi & final and been a fan ever since. Never regretting that decision

[@DLO269]

I started getting into baseball in the post season watching game 1 dodgers padres, and since my family loves the dodgers, I started to follow them as the post season went on. Never regretting it after that game 1 vs the Yankees. Awesome sport! :3

[@shigindia]

Subscribing to your channel from Japan because of Shohei.

[@PhoctorDill]

Glad to hear you came around on baseball! As someone who’s been a hardcore fan for my entire life, I would recommend learning about pitching. The game gets infinitely more interesting when you dont have to wait for someone to hit a ball in play to be entertained. Every at-bat is chess match that is constantly changing based on the situation, and once you start to understand it the game gets fascinating

[@anthonyloia2589]

Ohtani angels jersey is fire.

[@lukaszepesi]

Same for me even though I played some baseball with my dad growing up I never cared about watching the game until Ohtani :)

[@marlrobert48]

Great, experience. Subscribed for being Dodgers Fan.

[@Andorski]

I think the pitch clock has helped a lot in making watching baseball more viewable to new fans. It just helps speed everything up.

[@Alexander_Grant]

Wish the MLB would do more to educate potential fans. There really is nothing like a hot dog, a beer, and some people to talk to at a baseball game. Last game I went to I caught a BP home run, and that is one of my greatest treasures I have. I've been to about 10 games and never got close. Been a lifelong fan though, played through high school. Never been a big fan of Ludwig, but it's cool to hear, maybe it convinced some people to be fans.

[@shahs1221]

Speaking as someone who has recently gotten more interested due to Ohtani and the Dodgers, I didn't think that the sport was bad but just too complicated to just pick up on compared to any other sport (also we have no baseball culture where I'm from, so it's almost a nonexistent entity in my head besides seeing it occasionally on tv or in the movies). One thing I always did love were the uniforms though 😂 But yeah this year has been so wild and that Dodgers vs Yankees final was something out of a movie and I'm completely in love now! Let's go, Dodgers! 💙

[@liawoodi]

In my country you can never hear about baseball, but look at me, because one day in december 2023 a man named Shohei Ohtani popped out on my fyp with his contract and made me a baseball addict.The only bad thing about it is that I'm the only one that knows about it here lol so I watch live games by myself and celebrate by myself and fight myself when we lose. Also the earliest games can be at 1 am. And I do watch almost every game.Thank you Shohei

[@av5829]

I started watching baseball thanks to Ichiro Suzuki - started watching some again when I saw some Trout stuff then again when Ohtani joined him… Still supporting Ohtani now lol and Idgaf if I get called a bandwagon 🤣🤣 I like watching good players play the sport 👏🏾

[@end-b2w]

this is a gold❤ like this story so much. Also love baseball because shohei. Not even touch a baseball yet.

[@michaelg5945]

Baseball is sweet rn. THE PITCHCLOCK IS SO GOOD

[@1Epicocity]

Growing up in New Hampshire during the 04 Red Sox but a stark Brady fan is insane to me.

[@daitran5745]

I m a bandwagon baseball ..i became a fan of baseball because of ohtani and now dodger fan

[@ChocolateJorge]

Good story, great team! GO DODGERS !!

[@fram24]

That was the appropriate response Lud

[@Galactic123]

Here's a similarity between me, who has been a diehard baseball fan for about 35 years, and Lud, who has been a fan for about a month and a half. Neither of us have ever seen a baseball player as good as Shohei Ohtani.

[@ryang9982]

The end is too good

[@ReploidWars]

Perfectly acceptable response 👏

[@blanketsjack]

this guys storytelling is legit unmatched holy

[@Marthyboy88]

Always was interested in baseball when I was younger, but didn't really care enough to watch it. Nowadays? The game is electric af. It's MUCH faster and the storylines are so good. Hopefully will still be amazing.

[@batgangonone]

As a fan since I was a kid, I don’t care if you’re a bandwagon fan, but take the time to learn the game, know the team, go to the games, watch the games at home, but don’t just claim the team when they win. The amount of heartbreak some of us have gone through is what makes these moments so sweet.

[@VannTheDawn]

I became a baseball fan through playing Out of The Park Baseball 07 as a kid. As I already knew of Barry Bonds before, and because I was a fan of the 49ers, I chose the Giants as my team to follow. Lo and behold, they won 3 straight World Series championships from 2010-2014.

[@sandydelrosario6748]

This video ended exactly how I thought it would, and I still laughed lol.

[@shinsupremacy4533]

I'm a web novel reader and I found this novel titled The Hitting Zone. It's about a baseball batting genius who has a traumatic childhood and after reading that I became interested in baseball because it's been written so well, and I'm glad I read that novel because it brings me to ohtani and dodgers before they've won the world series

[@yvette9181]

Hence, the Boy Wonder 😊

[@sean6253]

As a lifelong Red Sox fan, the team passed down to me by my dad, it hurt me to my core hearing him just gloss over going to Fenway, the most historic baseball park in America. I would dream to go.

[@Nateberries]

welcome to the winning team

[@WestCoastSamoan]

As a lifetime Dodgers fan, welcome to the club 😂

[@anthonyloia2589]

Welcome to baseball. Ur lucky enough to be a fan of the team that will likely win every World Series for the next 3-5 years. Ohtani is a generational player.

[@iman8738]

2007 redsox team went hard 💯💯💯

[@PlayoffZoro]

Regular season baseball can be incredibly boring especially around august/september but the post season is the gold mine

[@Humanistic_]

Welcome aboard. Just don't disrespect our boy Kershaw. He's not as dominant as he used to be but we don't care. We love him no matter what after what he's done for this team. He deserves our unconditional support

[@gameaddiction91]

The Jomboy shoutout! He's great at explaining baseball and making it exciting for non fans

[@MGsac98252]

Welcome to the club.

[@killswitch141]

WE LOVE LA 💙⚾️

[@JosephY29]

I am in the same boat as him, but freddie freeman fan!

[@TheBubba544]

I worked for Cha Cha for a while. Cha cha was the best thing to do with friends when you were just chilling at home doing nothing just asking random questions.

[@nastyeggplant]

Bro was wearing that angels ohtani jersey for years just to follow him tot the dodgers 😂😂

[@aljon5947]

being a baseball fan and postseason baseball fan is diff

[@cbot9302]

I hold the belief that a sport is only as interesting as you are invested in it. A player or story/legacy or team you deeply want to win instantly makes everything about the sport 10x more interesting and fun to watch. Probably why in the US soccer isn't popular; there's no relative talent in the US and there's no one to root for, so no one (relatively) actually finds watching soccer fun. Every sport has TV viewership and fans for a reason, you just have to be in the right place at the right time to find that reason

[@sporer_]

As a baseball diehard, welcome!! Our sport rules!!!

[@DiabIe37]

TV writers wish they could come up with an ending like this.

[@psychedeliccoffee2737]

Go Dodgers!

[@0bject1v3]

goathei goatani

[@AllenStanten]

Welcome to the club. It’s a great spectator sport because you can watch casually or at a deep level of understanding the strategy, the execution and emotion. I was an only child raised by a single mom.Sports, and baseball in particular, were my entertainment. I also played baseball my entire childhood, and learned to love it more by playing and competing. Go Dodgers!

[@illtakethebox]

Bro you bring a glove to the World Series

[@DFusions_]

Being called a bandwagoner cause of a player is different than being a fan cause the team won the championship NBA fans are the biggest ones cause if the Warriors dynasty, I've been a Lakers fan before 2018 but got more into basketball cause of NBA 2K, my friends accuse me of being a Lakers bandwagoner cause I started watching when LeBron joined, I've watched more games when Kobe played before LeBron joined, plus it ain't bandwagonning if you live near the team Anyways Shohei is bringing in a lot of new fans to the team especially from Japan

[@magnumbrahms5339]

baseball is for kids with father is what I learned.

[@astrothetic7313]

As an Astros fan, i wanna know how he feels about 2017

[@drdannydude123]

welcome to the club son

[@senyah]

Baseball is something that requires a lot of knowledge to understand. That's why you see so many people who don't understand just how hard it is to hit a baseball off elite pitching. It doesn't surprise me that Ludwig, a guy with the hottest takes ive ever heard, didn't like baseball. At least he can kind of enjoy it now. Having a father growing up would have helped if he was any kind of decent dad. My dad only gave a fuck about baseball and football. It's crazy because baseball for me isn't about athleticism and we all know it's not the most athletic sport, but it's a sport that requires so much thought process and hand eye coordination. It's nothing like hockey. Hockey to me is something I thought was fake until I was into my 20s. I never met someone who was a fan of hockey but now I am a fan of hockey and I think they are probably number 1/2 most athletic sports out there.

[@FranciscoRodriguez-ly9so]

Dodger fan here, don’t get too cocky bro. We’ve suffered many many many heartbreaks. Specially 2021-2023. Either way man welcome to dodger nation. It’s gonna be a rollercoaster. FYI BB means base on balls, just means a walk. But on a scorecard it’s marked as a BB. ER means earned run. A pitcher can give up a run and it’s considered unearned. Say for example a batter swings and the bat hits the catcher’s glove. That batter is awarded 1st base due to catcher’s interference. If later in the inning that batter scores then the run is considered unearned because it wasn’t the pitchers fault and it won’t count against the pitcher’s stats. And there more examples of unearned runs but way too many to list.

[@herewegoagain7403]

all of your examples are shown in world series game 5

[@sean6253]

As a Red Sox fan, thank you for winning the world Series. But as a Baseball fan, please never cry about heartbreaks when you team is going to dominate baseball for the next decade.

[@FranciscoRodriguez-ly9so]

@@sean6253bro it’s baseball. Nothing is ever guaranteed.

[@mikol.69420]

Years of heartbreak from the knicks made me a fan of players not teams.

[@Sandy-lz1ms]

😂 love it

[@fewny2691]

I'm just a bandwagon Ohtani fan. If he got traded to a team like the marlins I would be a marlins fan.

[@oscarponce6045]

“Get fu*ked” 😂😂😂

[@kenny0626]

I’m exactly like you 😂

[@user-bz5kr8fg3l]

❤❤❤🎉

[@Ghasthund]

Bad title, Ohtani had almost nothing to do with this story

[@Kotaro1326]

Having the title with Ohtani’s name gets views.

[@GergChannel]

Crazy shit i was at the same game and tommy edmans bomb got hit at us

[@KingMacbean]

Hockey is an incredibly hype sport but not a lot of people watch it because as a family it is a very expensive sport to put your child in.

[@Bozopack]

New england diss owns you.

[@philip7833]

Lmao “there were only two players on the angels worth paying any attention to” those to player consequentially happen to be the two best players in the league

[@harpot678]

This is so gas "Let me address the allegations, the allegations are true but don't go far enough."

[@joshryan78]

You shouldn't say that a Dodgers fan. You should say that as a baseball fan

[@Mark-ls8ov]

Im a white sox fan 😭

[@brando_3ando]

There’s no way tickets were only 7$ and there was hardly people there if shohei was playing.

[@og_lesk6218]

A became a dodger fan when i met my wife

[@Summer-pn1wm]

Terminally online baseball fans just hate Shohei because he's not American

[@davidday2373]

LOL he said Soccer was more exciting than Baseball

[@noddingout]

Bro won’t admit he just loves baseball and specifically the dodgers because theyre a big deal in Japan now

[@CoachJohnMcGuirk]

That's the end of the story? 😂

[@jinyboi]

Lud watching jomboy🤣

[@KGUYDOG]

A gambling man from Japan. of course Shohei Ohtani is Ludwig's guy.

[@davidday2373]

It's cringe to used "stan" 😂

[@iMarssss]

Fakiest shit ever smh

[@AnalogLanguage]

Baseball is for people with attention spans. You can figure out the rest 🤣

[@KentMansley6969]

Understandably enough. He’s the only reason the MLB has gained so many new viewers.