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This is too funny. The background is this: the Amateur draft for baseball players is going on in Japan. A kid in Okinawa was hoping to be picked by Fukuoka Daiei Hawks, but was actually picked earlier in the draft by Bobby Valentine's Lotte Marines. That's Bobby Valentine doing his dramatic pick up there.
The kid, Ohmine, is in shock.
His highschool manager Mr. Ishimine is reported to have said:

寝耳に水の指名に伊志嶺監督は「豆腐の角に頭をぶつけて死にたい」と苦しい胸の内を吐露した。

That translates as "I want to bang my head against a corner of a tofu and die".