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[@TomHoefWrites](/creator/twitter/TomHoefWrites)
"@fuzzyfromyt Dodgers have the 2nd highest payroll in baseball PLUS over a billion dollars in deferred contracts. Next closest team to that is the Mets at $XXX million in deferred contracts. Dodgers have the biggest financial advantage in the history of sports. Thats just a fact"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979234236776214553) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-17T17:13Z 1599 followers, 7104 engagements


"There is zero chance I will ever feel for any other team ever suffering a big loss on a bonehead play. Every time the Mets kick the ball around youve got XX other fanbases & the national baseball media tweeting LOLMets Jeff included. So #PhiLOLies it is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1976475105095197085) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-10T02:29Z 1599 followers, 133.2K engagements


"@DrewSav Tim Meadows was one of the most underrated & best SNL performers during a relatively weak period of the show. When they ejected most of the cast prior to Will Ferrell & companys first season they kept Meadows. Hes worked very steadily ever since. Hilarious dude"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1977524883153404048) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-13T00:00Z 1600 followers, XX engagements


"Gotta say the Blue Jays sure do look like theyre on EVERYthing. 🤔 Maybe Castillo was just hanging everything. 🤷♂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1978996967129723230) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-17T01:30Z 1600 followers, XXX engagements


"@JohnDoe1439425 @Mike68560734145 @fuzzyfromyt No he asked ChatGPT clearly he wins. 🤣🤣🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979275886990917734) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-17T19:58Z 1600 followers, XX engagements


"Ohtanis out of the game but hes not really because he still gets to bat because MLB rewrote the rules for him as he approached free agency to increase his contract value"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979377629909389572) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T02:42Z 1598 followers, XXX engagements


"@sandibachom Bunch of masked Nazi cowards getting their a$$es handed to them by one NYC woman. Welcome to the Big Apple Nazis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1978282474787451167) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-15T02:11Z 1599 followers, 9831 engagements


"@ethan_v3 You had to expect this response when your already-loaded team was gifted Ohtani for nothing. Nobody really cared that the Dodgers gave Ohtani $XXX million. They cared when they got to defer almost the entire salary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979312122858193127) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-17T22:22Z 1599 followers, 33.6K engagements


"@joonlee Well this is why MLB placed him in LA: to take full advantage of his economic benefits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979603510753988774) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T17:40Z 1599 followers, XX engagements


"@ShaunMorash We should be celebrating the greatest single-game performance of all time. Instead it all feels kinda gross because MLB so blatantly & obviously moved heaven & Earth and bent the rules in order to get us to last night. None of it was organic. It was meticulously planned"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979607522206962112) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T17:56Z 1599 followers, XXX engagements


"@javiruchis1 @SnackMyFridgeUp They cant though because MLB steers all the elite Japanese players to LA because that turns Japan into a billion-dollar market for the league"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1978884730582859796) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-16T18:04Z 1598 followers, XX engagements


"I dont know who needs to hear this but the #Dodgers have over a billion dollars in deferred contracts. The next closest team is indeed the #Mets. At $XXX million. The Dodgers are working with a financial advantage like no other in sports history. Thats just a fact"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979224189732114802) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-17T16:33Z 1598 followers, XXX engagements


"@BeersandBasebal @joonlee And MLB absolutely put him there. That deferral deal was their idea. You think the Yankees wouldnt have jumped at that deal It was never offered to them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979606170483487114) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T17:51Z 1598 followers, X engagements


"@TigersJUK Emmanuel Clase has been investigated for X months while Ohtanis gambling investigation took X days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979609709377102256) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T18:05Z 1602 followers, XX engagements


"@BasedTorba I need you to know that the vast majority of young men do not talk like that in their group chats. They do not praise Hitler gas chambers & rape even in private. If you do youre the outlier not the norm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1978875740041978224) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-16T17:28Z 1602 followers, XX engagements


"@DrkGT500 @javiruchis1 @SnackMyFridgeUp Emmanuel Clases career is likely over because MLB though he threw one sus pitch but Ohtani can lose millions betting on baseball blame it on his interpreter & MLB just looks the other way (and makes him take a deferred contract so hell be less likely to gamble while in LA.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1978885337267986504) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-16T18:06Z 1601 followers, XXX engagements


"@vodkasnowflake @seizethebanks He already is alt-right. Horseshoe theory is real. The anti-Kamala leftists proved it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1978922108034929043) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-16T20:32Z 1599 followers, 1478 engagements


"@tabularasa_89 @dcdurkel @czabe Yep. Only the Dodgers would be allowed to pay Ohtani all of his money in XX years while ignoring his gambling problem. That Japanese-to-LA market is worth billions to MLB; thats why theyre guiding all the Japanese stars there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979220957941096794) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-17T16:20Z 1603 followers, XX engagements


"Lets put it in perspective. If you add deferred money the #Mets 2025 payroll is a whopping $461000000. If you add deferred money to the #Dodgers 2025 payroll its $1362000000. So three times the Mets payroll. And #MLB allowed this. There needs to be a stoppage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979224195444756748) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-17T16:33Z 1599 followers, 2277 engagements


"@OpenedCreation @fuzzyfromyt I will go to my grave believing Ohtanis deferred package was not only something MLB would only approve for the Dodgers but that it was MLBs idea to try & ensure Ohtani would have less cash on hand during his playing career to keep his INTERPRETER from gambling too much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979235858646466779) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-17T17:19Z 1599 followers, XXX engagements


"@cs0rx @DodgerZack @MooneyOwnsYou At what point did I say anything was wrong But they ARE carrying the 2nd highest current day payroll while also deferring over a billion dollars in salary when the next closest team is deferring $XXX million. That is a huge financial advantage. This again is just a fact"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979272853187908037) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-17T19:46Z 1601 followers, XX engagements


"Intentionally walking Vladdy in the 4th with one man on #Mariners might deserve to lose this one I fear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979324809067794600) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-17T23:13Z 1599 followers, XXX engagements


"@ColeIsKing_ MLB was always gonna send him to LA. Well sweep your gambling problem under the rug but youre going to the Dodgers & taking a massively deferred contract"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979386480909783450) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T03:18Z 1599 followers, 3004 engagements


"@ShaunMorash @Roger774501171 At least the Bulls made Jordan go away for X years when he had a massive gambling scandal. Maybe MLB should make Ohtani go spend X years playing basketball"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979604057711919286) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T17:42Z 1599 followers, 1526 engagements


"Normally I agree: owners who dont spend are the real problem in baseball. But what #MLB has orchestrated in LA guiding Ohtani & all the other Japanese stars there allowing the Dodgers to lay out $XXXX billion in deferrals has completely warped competitive balance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979605954825257443) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T17:50Z 1599 followers, XXX engagements


"And they (MLB) did it in a complete bald-faced money grab cracking open the LA-Japanese market worth multi-billions in revenue to them. Out of sheer greed MLB purposely turned the Dodgers into the Harlem Globetrotters & the rest of the league into the Washington Generals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979605957509263673) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T17:50Z 1599 followers, XX engagements


"@ShaunMorash Because its so manufactured. MLB saw him as a a massive international marketing opportunity changed rules to benefit him forced him into the market that would be the most lucrative for them built up the team around him & swept his massive gambling scandal under the rug"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979606892331909491) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T17:53Z 1599 followers, XXX engagements


"@Cecconi140 Bro if you cant see that MLB has given LA advantages the rest of the league is not allowed to have over the base several years then I cant help you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979607799102374006) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T17:57Z 1599 followers, XX engagements


"@bythewaybro @joe_rampe MLBs gonna place him in LA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979607931482968097) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T17:58Z 1600 followers, XX engagements


"@Joba_44 Because MLB has billions of international dollars invested in Ohtani specifically & baseball media is forbidden from writing negatively about him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979608496279814382) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T18:00Z 1599 followers, XX engagements


"@HoodieFrazier The Dodgers and MLB are in lockstep; all they care about is making billions of dollars out of Japan. The end"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979609994854006850) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T18:06Z 1599 followers, XX engagements


"@Kerryisking @GuardsJoey Yeah it would be great for the Tigers if MLB would guide the greatest player in the world to Detroit while sweeping his massive gambling scandal under the rug & allowing the Tigers to hand out $XXXX billion in deferrals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979610902065467604) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T18:09Z 1599 followers, XX engagements


"@Cecconi140 @Mets No MLB has rigged the system for LA as much as a league can rig the system for any single team. The league saw those multi-billion dollar LA-Tokyo revenue streams & orchestrated this whole Dodgers team so they could tap into them. Thats whats happened here. Full stop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979611340202496168) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T18:11Z 1599 followers, XX engagements


"@JulianGuilarte1 No the Dodgers & MLB are way worse & way more blatant about it than even Georges Yankees ever were. The league was never as invested in molding the Yankees into an unbeatable super team as much as they are the Dodgers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979612213171134496) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T18:15Z 1599 followers, XX engagements


"The modern world is completely shaped by monopoly-holding trillionaires & billionaires yet people still refuse to believe whats been done by #MLB in broad daylight: the league manufactured the Ohtani Dodgers to maximize international profits competitive balance be damned.🤷♂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979612910411550769) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T18:17Z 1599 followers, XX engagements


"@Cecconi140 @Mets No I see the leagues hand in all of this & I have from the moment Ohtanis gambling scandal was swept under the rug & the league placed him in LA with a massive deferred deal that nobody else would ever have been allowed to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979615352280748365) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T18:27Z 1599 followers, XX engagements


"@Cecconi140 @Mets I have no idea why you keep coming back to Stearns. None of this has anything to do with any philosophies held by any executives working for any team. This is about Manfred building the Dodgers into what they are to maximize revenue from the Japanese marketplace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979615864149180568) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T18:29Z 1599 followers, XX engagements


"Ive spent XX hours talking about baseball on this hell site so naturally Twitter is suddenly pumping elected MAGA a-holes making fun of protesters into my feed. Seems organic. 😑 Everything just absolutely sucks now. Everything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979616800058036236) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T18:33Z 1599 followers, XX engagements


"@muddypistol @ShaunMorash Youre living in denial my dude but thats the reason the whole Ohtani thing feels gross & fake to me. Hes a tremendous talent so it sucks that MLB decided to turn the Dodgers into the Savannah Bananas just to better market him & squeeze every last red cent they can from him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979659542842810474) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T21:23Z 1599 followers, XX engagements


"@IlliniDodgers @ShaunMorash Oh you think MLB didnt stack the deck to get Ohtani in LA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomHoefWrites/status/1979668415976796354) [@TomHoefWrites](/creator/x/TomHoefWrites) 2025-10-18T21:58Z 1599 followers, XX engagements