Yoshinobu Yamamoto: I ‘probably’ would’ve signed with Dodger

The geography and weather are wonderful in Southern California (and many other places in California), but you can have the plastic, self-entitled people in and around Los Angeles.  I always found people in the Bay Area to be more affable, accepting, and they will let you in a lane in traffic rather than intentionally accelerating and cutting you off to prevent anyone from getting ahead of them - even in highway parking-lot conditions, causing you to miss your exit.  Maddening.  

Also, without the creative contract that Ohtani accepted/proffered, the Dodgers would not have been able to drive up the price to what they paid to secure Yamamoto.  I'll take New Yorkers and The Big Apple/City That Never Sleeps to play baseball for a living.  As many Californians say, "Another shitty day in paradise."

I can also do without "The Wave," beachballs interrupting the field of play, and fans showing up in the third inning and leaving in the seventh, while spending the entire time in between talking non-stop on their phones or to friends behind them, almost never looking at the field of play.  Then, you have the gang-bangers fighting in the stands multiple times during a game, while the people around them hold up their phones to record it and post it later on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, etc.  Oh, and the "knowledgeable" Dodger fans actually watching the game, yelling "Balk" at the opposing pitcher when there is no one on base.  

Yamamoto went to the place that offered the most money, which some pundits predicted that he would.