The baseball offseason has arrived and Chicago Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish has taken up a few extracurricular activities. The Osaka-born player has expanded his social media presence, with recent posts on Twitter — poking fun at teammates and playfully roasting other starters — being picked up by domestic media.
Darvish’s online activity has also attracted a lot of attention at home, albeit via uploads onto his YouTube account. Darvish has come up with clever video ideas before, but his latest viral material has been more straightforward in terms of content. Sitting in a sparsely furnished room, Darvish simply looks directly into the camera and just talks. Popular topics include his thoughts on the scariest hitters he has ever faced in Japan and, in a particularly vulnerable moment, his recollection of a scandal from high school where he was caught smoking at a pachinko parlor. He also shows off his pet parrot.
These clips gained a lot of attention on Twitter, while also being picked up by sites such as RocketNews24 and Yahoo! News, among others.
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