Jeff Passan says Shohei Ohtani earns over $100 million a year off the field and helped the Dodgers become MLB’s first $1 billion revenue franchise
“Personally, with all of the advertisements, sponsorships, and stuff like that, it’s upward of $100 million.”
“The Los Angeles Dodgers are not the Los Angeles Dodgers—they are the Shohei Ohtani Shell Corporation.”
“Good for them. They saw what the Angels never did.”
“They understood that Ohtani himself is a monolith.”
“They saw the international possibilities in Japan.”
“They saw the business possibilities.”
“It’s everything—the tours, the tourists, the merchandise, the sponsorships, the whole kit and caboodle.”
“The Dodgers just last year became the first Major League Baseball franchise to have more than $1 billion in revenue in one year.”
“And they’re going to do it again this year
Carmelo Anthony explains why a $100,000,000 contract doesn’t make professional athletes rich for life
“$100 million… let’s not get that twisted.”
“It’s not really $100 million.”
“You’re taking 50% to 60% off the top.”
“So that $10 million becomes $5 million.”
“Then you’ve got taxes in every state you play in.”
“You’ve got a house.”
“You’re taking care of your mom.”
“You’ve got a 4% agent fee.”
“You’re not working with $10 million anymore, you’re working with $5 million.”
“That drastic lifestyle change is what messes a lot of athletes up mentally.”
“You’ve got to budget how you pay your mortgage.”
“You’ve got to budget your food.”
“$100 million is not $100 million.”
“You’re not even seeing 50% of that money.”
Nvidia $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang says Nvidia’s new AI PC can run “everything the world has ever created”
“This is the N1X that we built in partnership with MediaTek.”
“100% of Nvidia’s software stack runs here.”
“If you want to run digital biology, no problem. Seismic processing, no problem. Astrophysics, no problem.”
“Every single application Nvidia has ever created and every single application that Windows has ever run.”
“This computer literally runs everything the world has ever created, plus it now runs agents.”
“An incredible computer. I’m so proud of it.”