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Charles Curtis

Who’s Tungsten Arm O’Doyle? The legendary Angels meme involving Shohei Ohtani, explained

Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. Have you seen tweets about a guy named Tungsten Arm O’Doyle? Or jokes about him and something having to do with the Los Angeles Angels? We’re here to help.

Yes, Tungsten Arm O’Doyle. A baseball legend right up there with Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown.

But you may have seen his name pop up a lot in connection with the Los Angeles Angels and you might be confused. And that makes sense! We’re here to help you with that. Let’s dive in here:

Wait, who?!

You know, Tungsten Arm O’Doyle! You must have heard about him from back in the day, right?

He was ... real?

Sadly no. I was kidding.

This all started with a tweet back in 2021 from @matttomic:

So why am I seeing it everywhere now?

Because it continues to be true. Ohtani and Trout continue to wow us, but then the Angels keep losing despite having two of the best baseball players in the world. Heck, on Opening Day 2023, this happened!

We'd call that a Tungsten Arm O'Doyle Game?

You bet! And when Ohtani faced Trout in the World Baseball Classic, the joke was everywhere:

I wish he was real.

Well, he is. Sorta.

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