It does seem pretty unreasonable to me. He’s an 81yo life long dodgers fan. You make exceptions like you’ve always done. It’s what makes human, and sets us apart from computers.

Someone at the soulless corporation fucked up, and there will be no consequences, even though there should be.

They could have done this for like 5 game minutes of what they pay Ohtani (~$500).

But it fits with the general trend of MLB being openly hostile to their fans for a while now.