This is what happens when leagues openly partner, endorse, and interact with sports betting/gambling operations.
@nikolastruesdell4038
6 ай бұрын
Lack of information didn’t stop mlb from screwing Trevor Bauer imediatly without entire story
@bannankev
6 ай бұрын
I mean big difference between the two cases. But yeah, he got it alright. Still isnt wanted back.
@cmbox1184
6 ай бұрын
If he wasn’t an asshole maybe he would’ve gotten another shot already
@jimwerther
6 ай бұрын
Excellent point, nikolastruesdell. MLB blackballing Bauer is disgustingly unfair.
@ltsgoyanks
6 ай бұрын
Lost in translation 2 starring Bobby Lee... I'd watch that
@rossdilworth3412
6 ай бұрын
MLB suspends every player involved with domestic abuse issues regardless....the only thing different was it wasn't an 80 game suspension, it was 300.
@michaelconger6420
6 ай бұрын
The lingering question seems to be, since we're early on in this, what professional illegal bookie extends that much credit to an interpreter? That right there is a major red flag.
@jldraw
6 ай бұрын
Ippei allegedly made around half a million dollars a year. Not necessarily your average Joe. Regardless he wasn’t getting paid the “going rate” for interpreters and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he wasn’t essentially a kept man who was looked after by a benefactor (Ohtani) which is not all that uncommon.
@jayc21825
6 ай бұрын
Bingo. No bookie is going to extend 4.5 million to someone who’s making half a million a year (or thereabouts). Period I don’t know if that means the bookie was aware that Shohei was backing Ippei financially or what. I’m not suggesting anything nefarious. But there’s definitely smoke
@TheMattTrakker
6 ай бұрын
@@jldraw Even if he made 500k, that's like 300k after Cali taxes. No bookie is ever extending him anywhere near 4.5m in credit.
@jldraw
6 ай бұрын
@@TheMattTrakkerDepends. We don’t know yet exactly what Ippei was making on the side working for Ohtani or what his yearly expenses are. You just need enough to get into the conversation and I’d bet dollars to doughnuts (no pun intended) that he was there and I’m a dead ender on that point. There is an old axiom that “I made X amount of dollars this year and spent X+Y amount of dollars”. The world of high stakes gambling is rife with these stories. There isn’t a doubt in my mind.
@hidetoshitakahashi3881
6 ай бұрын
Did you watch Metthew Bowyer's( bookie) lawyer's statement on TV? The Washington Post asked her why Ippei was given such a big credit. She said, because his best friend is Ohtani. From the very beginning, Bowyer was targeting on Ohtani.
@rari1055
6 ай бұрын
Tiki single handedly got me to totally switch over to the Michael Kay show on 98.7. This guy talks with an arrogance that he is better then his listeners and co workers. He definitely acts like he is smarter then everyone. Just listen to how he forces unnecessarily words that aren’t even “sophisticated” or “complex” into whatever he is discussing. I can’t wait to see the ratings come out.
@jldraw
6 ай бұрын
Well Michael Kay has predicted that WFAN will go bankrupt within the year so we’ll see. But if you watch Kay’s take on this situation it’s just as sensationalistic as WFANs. Scandal is the life blood of sports talk radio. I remember when the Barry Bonds/Roger Clemens PED scandals broke during the offseason in 2007 I believe. WFAN lived off of that for months. It was a baseball offseason dream. They talked about it non stop every day that offseason beating it into the ground like a dead horse.
@romanc.5074
6 ай бұрын
Throwing the translator to the wolves. Who is that naive.
@sixtynine2856
6 ай бұрын
You wish, Bud. You wish. Tell us how you really feel?
@romanc.5074
6 ай бұрын
You are doing the same thing. 🤗@@sixtynine2856
@Str8Maddeness
6 ай бұрын
@@sixtynine2856 You wish. We don't have to. The facts are what they are.
@sixtynine2856
6 ай бұрын
@@Str8Maddeness Sure buddy. Whatever you say. 🙄
@JustMeELC
6 ай бұрын
Regardless, Ohtani will face zero consequences guilty or not. Manfred will 100% protect his golden goose guilty (obviously) or not. He will spout bs & Ippei's family will become generationally rich for taking the fall. Period Full Stop ugh
@vidowatcher91
6 ай бұрын
You're both right, yes, needs to be investigated. There is a federal investigation, Tiki's legal advice is sound, say nothing until you have to. That's good advice in any legal proceeding you find yourself in, do not say anything without a lawyer
@bannankev
6 ай бұрын
💯 get a lawyer and dont say a damn thing to anyone but said lawyer. The more you talk the more you screw yourself
@jamesrage1717
6 ай бұрын
Hasn't ohtani and his interpreter lived in California long enough to know that gambling is illegal there? Why didn't ohtani just wire the money to his interpreters account instead of wiring it to the illegal bookies?
@Kellyguzman0511
6 ай бұрын
But if it was Bauer…..
@inbredhorses
6 ай бұрын
Imagine comparing domestic violence to sports betting 😂 whatta Clown
@XxDanny80xX
6 ай бұрын
MLB owes Bauer one for sure
@stephennixon9609
6 ай бұрын
Tiki is totally wrong. MLB Network should report what is going on with this story. If it was someone other than Ohtani you can be sure they would be reporting on it. MLB doesn't want to deal with this story until they absolutely have too and that will be whatever the Federal investigation turns up. MLB didn't do anything about the Steroid Era until they absolutely had to because they were thriving off of it. They didn't punish the Astros players who were involved in cheating to win a Championship and now the supposed Face Of Baseball might be involved in the biggest scandal the sport has seen since 1919.
@densnow4816
6 ай бұрын
Ohtani IS implicated. Wire transfer is felony, whether he did it as favor or other reason. Nobody disputes that Ohtani involved in that.
@sixtynine2856
6 ай бұрын
Ohtani, at most, is guilty of bailing his friend out from his gambling debt incurred. Had the sports betting "agency" took wagers in Chicago Il, this would be a non-story. But it took wagers in CA. That's the only difference. It's not rape and battery, theft, assault, or any violent crimes. These holier-than-thou commenters (not you specifically) are either bored and enjoy a little drama, are fans of rival teams, or just HATES [🤔] Ohtani for some reason. Point being: It's not that big of a deal. People gamble (not likely Ohtani and probably just Ippei).
@Platerpus7
6 ай бұрын
@@sixtynine2856it’s a crime so you’re entire comment is irrelevant
@sixtynine2856
6 ай бұрын
@@Platerpus7 My brother gambles using the local bookie at his pool hall. Whoop-tie Doo. Come arrest him too then. Do your due diligence. 🙄
@Platerpus7
6 ай бұрын
@@sixtynine2856people can gamble yes, but you can’t gamble on games you are impacting. If he did that he needs to be banned from baseball. Period. MLB is notorious for sweeping things under the rug. Even if he did not, then he paid off someone’s gambling debt which is a crime. Nobody outside of dodgers fans are defending this. Dodgers are going to lose in the first round with our without Ohtani.
@sixtynine2856
6 ай бұрын
@@Platerpus7 Of course gambling in the sport you're playing in is a big no-no. You only do that when you are desperate for cash knowing you have insider knowledge. Ohtani has hundreds of millions in deferred money and millions more in sponsorship annually. He's gotta be some kind of degenerate to wager money on MLB games when he's generationally wealthy. It doesn't make one lick of sense.
@MsDJDaze
6 ай бұрын
I hate when Tikki plays devil’s advocate 🤦🏽♀️ 😅
@CapoKabar
6 ай бұрын
Let the story unfold and facts come out first. We all know everyone is an Ohtani hater already but jesus. MLB cant have their cake and eat it too. If you frown om gambling, why the hell let it in? The bookies have been adamant they have NO proof of first hand bets from Ohtani. Pete was thrown under the bus by his bookies. End of story. And with a high profile attorney, Ohtani will mop the floor with MLB and maybe even get Pete Rose into hall of fame!!
@chesteradams7423
6 ай бұрын
I don't trust MLB either.
@jimwerther
6 ай бұрын
Evan is way off about MLB. It was Selig who covered up the steroids thing for years. Manfred addressed the sign-stealing thing head-on. The buzzers allegation was utterly baseless. Prior to that, every team did what the Asteos were doing, and every study showed it didn't help anyway. Where MLB humiliates itself is with its blackballing of Trevor Bauer.
@jldraw
6 ай бұрын
True. While I’m not the biggest Manfred supporter in the world many folks have unrealistic expectations of him when it comes to his place in the game. They expect him to be the adjudicator of the game in the way a judge oversees his court room. But Manfred actually works for the owners not the other way around and in regards to the Astros, his hands were tied by the powerful MLBPA who would have never allowed the players involved to be disciplined for their roles in the scandal. This gambling scandal might as well prove another contentious issue between league and union because the union will continue to do everything to insulate the players especially the face of the league and Manfred whose job it is to promote/grow the game of baseball so that the owners can continue to make money off their teams is going to have to weigh the fallout of any disciplinary action taken against Ohtani knowing that it could adversely affect the well being of the game from an international standpoint as Ohtani is basically the international arm of baseball as it stands.
@JFerg393
6 ай бұрын
Shoeless Joe, Pete Rose, Ohtani? Some of the greats cut down by too much action. I wonder if Phil and Michael have had Executive games with Shohei and a few boxes of ziti got passed around
@BakiSmaki27
6 ай бұрын
Somethings rotten in Cooperstown...
@KevPez-IS
6 ай бұрын
Let the feds do their investigation first, then MLB
@ernestpolk9555
6 ай бұрын
Pete Rose for MLB HOF!!!!!! and Denny McLain!! and the whole Houston team!!!!!
@apilgrim8715
6 ай бұрын
The erosion of trust in MLB is a real issue.
@jldraw
6 ай бұрын
I don’t know how much of an issue it is anymore. I believe trust in professional sports went by the wayside once it became dominated by billionaires employing millionaires. Many people across the globe still enjoy sports of course but there is clearly an us/them mentality that has made the connection between the athlete and fan less tangible than it was in the mid twentieth century. When specifically speaking of baseball add to that the number of scandals that have hit the game since the eighties and I believe most rational people will tell you that their faith in baseball as being the squeaky clean American past time eroded long ago and yet many of these same people continue to watch. I don’t see this current scandal significantly moving the needle either way as it’s merely another brick landing on a house of cards that was squashed flat decades ago but continues to sustain in spite of itself.
@jelambertson
6 ай бұрын
I am implicating Ohtani. Nobody gives a $4.5M line of credit to somebody making a half a million a year or less. Ohtani had to know about it and the ridiculous story change is evidence that would eventually lead to the truth if MLB wants the truth. WTF did they expect when they got totally into bed with all this gambling. Greed overcame brains.
@jldraw
6 ай бұрын
I absolutely believe that if indeed this scandal does not involve wagers being taken on baseball, MLB will do everything they can to diffuse the situation which is why this is a NOTHING BURGER that the sports media is trying their best to sensationalize. Craig Carton explained quite proficiently in the prior video as to why Ohtani will likely not be indicted in this case that is being built against this gambling ring. Prosecutions generally speaking tend to swim upstream not downstream and while Ohtani is the “big name” in terms of public recognition in terms of the offense in question he seems like a bit player if not a victim of fraud. So that essentially puts the legal component of this issue to bed and clears MLB from being compelled to take action against a player who’s committed a crime. Now all they have to determine is whether or not Ippei was betting on baseball and given how sensitive MLB is to bad press, if they had any inkling that Ohtani could be tied to Ippei potentially betting ON BASEBALL there is no way they would’ve allowed Ohtani to suit up for The Dodgers this morning. I wouldn’t be surprised if MLB has already surmised that their exposure on this is minimal and therefore are going to do everything they can to insulate Ohtani, The Dodgers and by extension themselves from the fallout of this scandal.
@GeoffNelson
6 ай бұрын
That's a good point about betting on baseball. If he were desperately in debt of course he would.
@Str8Maddeness
6 ай бұрын
You mean the way they jumped to conclusions with Trevor Bauer? Ruined his career over nothing. This actually hurts the game and MLB is wishing it all away.
@jimwerther
6 ай бұрын
The treatment of Bauer is shameful
@josephradesco9040
6 ай бұрын
Evans Wright has cover up because of who it is if you had a translator, would you pay his gambling debt 4 1/2 million dollars and this isn’t the first time that is spooky was paid
@jldraw
6 ай бұрын
Ippei isn’t merely Ohtani’s translator. He essentially was one of his closest confidants and friends. So their relationship clearly extended beyond the professional side of the relationship that MLB fans were privy to. The entertainment industry is wrought with stories about celebrities supporting family, friends and acquaintances who were involved in nefarious activities and the one commonality in all of these stories is rarely if ever is the celebrity ever implicated in those activities. In most cases they are either portrayed as the victim of fraud or the unwitting party to the downfall of someone they cared about. This will likely be no different.
@Ayouguys
6 ай бұрын
The second Ohtani wired the first check in his own name to an illegal book making operation, he put himself in a situation where he could have been blackmailed. MLB should at least make sure he wasn't.
@CarlJaysonJr
6 ай бұрын
Let’s say Ohtani never placed a bet on baseball or any other sport. How stupid could Ohtani be to get involved in any way with this translator’s gambling problems? Why would he risk his career and all that money to help out a degenerate gambler? Did no one tell him about Pete Rose?
@jldraw
6 ай бұрын
We spoke briefly in another thread but folks with disposable income make poor decisions with their finances all the time by either employing or placing their money in the hands of people who ultimately betray them. In 1990, MC Hammer was basically printing money. A few years later he was filing for bankruptcy allegedly because he gave superfluous jobs to basically every Tom, Dick and Harry around and was friendly to a fault in regard to supporting those around him. George Harrison’s film company ended up being the subject of a multi million dollar lawsuit once Harrison learned that his friend and business partner had been using funds allocated for the film company to allegedly cover personal debt. Harrison was eventually awarded eleven million pounds by the British courts. The stuff happens to wealthy folk all the time.
@e.m8817
6 ай бұрын
The purpose of betting is to make money... for Othani money is not a priority and there are facts that prove it. Othani basically worked for nothing for the Angel's and then he got the greatest contracted in sport history and he deffered more than 90% of his salary.... There are a lot baseball haters that always want the worst for baseball..... Sorry baseball is American national pastime!!
@slapjones1959
6 ай бұрын
Bruno Mars network is 175 million and he has a 50 million dollar gambling debt explains that. Michael Jordan prints money and he's gambling.
@ZZSmithReal
6 ай бұрын
So rich people don't gamble? Seriously? If they're inclined to gamble they're often among the highest rollers and the most addicted.
@MarshallHendrix-nx2gg
6 ай бұрын
If you bet to make money, then you are a complete imbecile. The purpose of betting is to have fun. Nobody wins money.
@jimwerther
6 ай бұрын
@@ZZSmithReal Ohtani would not ruin his career over this. Makes no sense.
@michaelconger6420
6 ай бұрын
Crazy to think that a person can be so rich, to think nothing of $4.1 Mil being lost!😂 Meh, I have MUCH more! Lol😅
@franksuppa742
6 ай бұрын
He’s been implicated in almost paying $5 million to an illegal bookie from his account Those are facts but no that wasn’t him. He was just doing a favor for a friend. And paying off and illegal gambling debt Worth almost $5 million when you are the face of baseball in multiple countries why would you even want to get involved in that unless you didn’t have a choice?
@AliSimeon
6 ай бұрын
Tiki is way off on this . Why is he defending them so hard for no reason, weird
@robertponzini3422
6 ай бұрын
I've got some property in Arizona to sell Tiki. Gimme a break!
@evilzilla4053
6 ай бұрын
Reports: Yankees used dugout phone, replay room to steal signs in 2015-16 Yankees and their fans got no room to talk cover up kings
@bannankev
6 ай бұрын
Liesssss but go ahead and push the narrative
@jimwerther
6 ай бұрын
@@bannankev Did you even read The Athletic story which broke all this? They emphasized heavily that this was a league-wide issue, not a Houston issue.
@elcapitan2293
6 ай бұрын
Did the interpreter admit to stealing? I thought he admitted to borrowing money from Ohtani. Big difference Tikki
@bannankev
6 ай бұрын
He said in the first interview that Ohtani covered the money losses for him by giving the money to the bettor. Which is illegal on a couple accounts. One the CBA. Two it’s illegal in Cali to sports bet. So the transfer of money is illegal. That would implicate Ohtani in this as well. In a second interview recounted his story saying it was stolen from him… the guy that’s been literally inseparable from Ohtani stole 4.5 MILLION dollars? Come on…. Oh and ESPN confirmed the money on two occasions came directly from Ohtani bank account. 500k ea. which is the same amount the interpreter said they transferred to the bookie. 500k amounts… 🤔 smell like a cover up for a star athlete. No reason to change the story from he gave it to me otherwise.
@billblondheim1383
6 ай бұрын
Pete Otani 😂
@josephradesco9040
6 ай бұрын
Hey Tiki, what stops Otani for asking his translator to take the hit for him and he’ll pay him off
@bannankev
6 ай бұрын
Probably a lengthy prison sentence. I mean we can be the best of friends. But I’m not spending my life behind bars for you. Sorry we ain’t that GOOD of friends.
@sixtynine2856
6 ай бұрын
Occam's Razor dictates that Ippei is the gambler. Betting on sports is NOT a Japanese cultural past-time whereas in the US, it is -- which Ippei happens to be raised in (USA). Ohtani has no lick of an idea about football, basketball, tennis, etc., and he doesn't care either. All he knows and cares about is baseball (MLB). So the only realistic avenue for him to bet on is baseball BUT that is colossally stupid because -- common sense also dictates -- you shouldn't bet on the games you are scheduled to play and you really shouldn't bet on any other games either because of a conflict of interest -- and, especially, insider knowledge -- will present itself sooner or later when you belong in the same league. It's common sense. Shohei is a world class athlete with hundreds of millions in deferred money set aside for him. Sports gambling is beneath him -- no use (he's generationally wealthy) or time for it -- and is typically reserved for the (not so rich) general public -- which Ippei is essentially a part of. I struggle to think Ohtani can be that dense.
@Hunterbidenscrackrock
6 ай бұрын
@@bannankevlol life? Try like 3-5 years. And federal prison is notoriously more mundane than state.
@Platerpus7
6 ай бұрын
Not a damn thing
@Platerpus7
6 ай бұрын
@@bannankevI’d spend a few years behind bars for 20 million.
@irishrover6102
6 ай бұрын
Who did this guy use as his collateral to continue to be able to bet with a bookie when he millions down? My gut says he used his bosses name, Ohtani. No bookie will let bets in the hundreds of thousands of dollars unless the customer is connected to large amounts of cash or someone who will cover the bets. If there is smoke there is fire! MLB cannot be trusted and we can only hope the FBI will het it right! The bookie will talk!!! Good luck Dodgers!
@ZZSmithReal
6 ай бұрын
Or they knew he was acting as a straw man to place bets for Ohtani.
@jldraw
6 ай бұрын
Ippei was allegedly clearing half a million dollars a year from MLB for being Ohtani’s interpreter. That amount of money alone would’ve gotten him into the conversation to place high level bets. If Ohtani was also contributing to his income by employing him personally to take care of other aspects of his professional and personal life well that would be even more money across Ippei’s hands. Suffice to say Ippei was not likely riding around in an economy car and buying off brands. This was someone who was well off, enjoyed gambling and had the means to do so.
@rossdilworth3412
6 ай бұрын
What did u want them to do with the astros? Fold the team and turn minute maid park into a flea market? That would make Yankee fans happy cuz they can't beat them no matter what. Their punishment was unprecedented. Fine, draft picks, suspended manager and General manager....I don't understand what the hell Evan is talking about.
@SownSky
6 ай бұрын
And yet they got to keep the WS ring that may have not been won if they did not cheat.
@rossdilworth3412
6 ай бұрын
@@SownSky take away 09 from the Yankees...a rod (suspended for cheating. Cano (suspended for cheating) melky Cabrera (suspended for cheating) Manny on 04 red Sox (suspended for cheating). So that cheating was more noble?
@rossdilworth3412
6 ай бұрын
@@sk1nz28 suspend the whole team...the players association would never allow that. take away their rings? Ridiculous, you throwing back 09 with all the cheaters on that team? Not hard to grasp.
@fredcapolongo6984
6 ай бұрын
This guy is the tiger woods baseball. It is a cover up
@rossdilworth3412
6 ай бұрын
@@fredcapolongo6984 I think if u think altuve needs a buzzer to hit a big home run in the playoffs you are unbelievably dumb. I don't understand how it would even work. If Judge hits a big home run in the playoffs, that's suspicious, cuz he rolls over and is a stiff when it matters most. Glad you guys paid him all that money!!!! Couldn't be happier, he's a loser, he's tall though.
@tunnelrat78
6 ай бұрын
I dont think Tiki knows what the word "implicated" means
@taylormcc
6 ай бұрын
Burying this just like they buried the Yankees letter
@bannankev
6 ай бұрын
except it didn’t contain anything when it came out. But I mean cry again. Probably the same people who think the Astros didn’t cheat lmfaoooooooooooooooooooo
@jimwerther
6 ай бұрын
@@bannankev The Astros did what everyone else was doing. And studies showed it didn't help anyway. Much ado about nothing.
@stevieg5907
6 ай бұрын
Gambling is about to ruin sports. We are gonna have a bunch of pete roses in all sports. You cant have gambling and sports in ANY capacity.
@johnpatrick5297
6 ай бұрын
Ohtani…meet Pete Rose
@andrewrosner9397
6 ай бұрын
Rose bet on baseball. Very different
@bannankev
6 ай бұрын
@@andrewrosner9397because you know the full story. Nobody does currently. Bets were made on the very least soccer and basketball. Of course mlb wouldn’t come out and say after mere hours that it’s arguable biggest free agent pitcher bet on games when mlb doesn’t know the story. It needs to be investigated for sure.
@jldraw
6 ай бұрын
@@andrewrosner9397True and there are also many of us, myself included who believe that if Rose had handled business better in the aftermath of the fallout in 1989, the entire issue might be looked upon in a different light today. Essentially Pete Rose has been banned from baseball for thirty years not just for gambling on the sport but his handling of the situation once he was caught.
@akiyajapan
6 ай бұрын
He keeps saying "Ohtani isn't implicated, he's a victim," but right now the opposite is true. The narrative changed super fast so Ohtani's team HAS implicated him. Why is it so hard for him to just admit that his co-host is right? MLB can't be trusted and this needs a satisfactory, transparent investigation.
@MarcRavingMad
6 ай бұрын
His name is on wire transfers. Whether or not he did anything illegal, he's definitely implicated in this. It's crazy for Tiki to say otherwise.
@alexhuevera939
6 ай бұрын
mlb page shows no mention
@2011blueman
6 ай бұрын
Ohtani clearly was gambling. There is no way a bookie would extend millions in credit to an interpreter. That cover story is absolutely ridiculous.
@themysteriousshadow5701
6 ай бұрын
Great point!
@jldraw
6 ай бұрын
Ippei allegedly cleared half a million dollars a year from MLB alone so he certainly had the funds to at least get him to the table so to speak in order to place high level bets.
@JustMeELC
6 ай бұрын
@@jldraw Roflmao NO BOOKIE is extending 4.5 million credit to ANYONE making 500 thousand a year lol... Let alone the guy who works directly for the biggest international sports name who's every action is under a microscope 🙄 Regardless Manfred will do everything possible to protect his golden goose (cue bs spin, distraction, & absurd lies) Ippei will take the fall & his family will get generational wealth from Ohtani for doing it 🙄
@ethefilmguy3388
6 ай бұрын
@@jldrawthat’s 250K after taxes in California. 5 MM credit from a bookie?? That is only possible with the last name Ohtani. Also the bookie was bragging about having ohtani as a client so he def knew who was financially backing the bet
@jimwerther
6 ай бұрын
You don't know that. Don't jump to conclusions.
@reimaida6679
6 ай бұрын
Barber-san, FYI, Mizuhara's 'first' name is pronounced 'ip-pay' (as in 'nip') not 'eye-pay'.
@JWD1992
6 ай бұрын
Definitely not good for the MLB in terms of competing with the other sports to have star power. The MLB desperately wants to have its Pat Mahomes or LeBron James; a household name beyond the core fans of the sport. Ohtani looks like he can be all this and more. However, a gambling scandal would not rock the league's reputation like it would have in years past. Gambling is more accepted now than it ever has been in the history of professional baseball. Think about the moral climate in which the Black Sox scandal took place. The 18th Amendment had been ratified earlier that year. Even when Pete Rose was banned, you could really only gamble legally in Las Vegas (back when things really did stay there), Atlantic City, Indian reservations, and riverboats. And you could only bet on sports in Vegas, which was this little mob-run fantasy world far off in the desert, not the epicenter of popular culture that it has become. Yes, the idea that the sport is inauthentic is damaging, but the stigma of gambling is not there anymore. The general public will not view the league as being in the evil clutches of the criminal underworld. It won't hurt the league any more than the Astros scandal. In fact, it will be less damaging. If Ohtani did anything, it was while he was on the Angels and not playing in any big games.
@jimwerther
6 ай бұрын
Interesting comment
@hesback-joeysworldtourytpm967
6 ай бұрын
🙂Ohtani (caught red-handed): "I didn't do it, my 'butler did it."
@dpdip
6 ай бұрын
This is the LAST thing that Major League Baseball needed, especially during a time where they want to try to grow in popularity again. This is the undisputed best baseball player on the planet and face of the game being implicated in something that can possibly get him banned for life. I believe he bailed a friend out without realizing that he was still violating the CBA, but who knows?
@RM-ny2kb
6 ай бұрын
God Tiki does nothing but defend all that’s wrong with sports. Hey wfan why don’t you combine tierney roberts and then combine tiki and Sal and see what show has the worst ratings in the history of the wfan. Time to end Tiki and Sal
@ep9691
6 ай бұрын
well this didn't age well.. MLB is now investigating Shohei.. stop judging people before all the facts come out
@carlosvids7473
6 ай бұрын
Tiki is out of his fucking mind…
@chiefjoes.wiggumindonutswe5662
6 ай бұрын
👊👆Evan is on a ravenous witch-hunt for the downfall of Ohtani??! 👀😰
@mrrez006
6 ай бұрын
Evan, what institution do you have full confidence or trust in? I can’t name even one 🤔
@mikefagan6840
6 ай бұрын
Gambling SCANDLE ????? MLB PROMOTES GAMBLING! BS
@geraldineyarborough9496
6 ай бұрын
Evan Roberts is a CLOWN SHOW! This is the same guy who WHINES about the Houston Astros cheating scandal and at the same time will call Belicheck the GOAT coach, despite the fact that Belicheck got caught doing the football version of what the Astros did!😂 NO CREDIBILITY!
@Platerpus7
6 ай бұрын
Hard to disagree with Evan being a clown but he’s right about this. Ohtani at best committed a crime paying off a gambling debt for someone. At worst he was gambling on games in which case needs to be banned from the game. This is not a good situation for him. Unfortunately mlb will do its best to cover this up.
@geraldineyarborough9496
6 ай бұрын
@@Platerpus7 Yeah, but he's a HYPOCRITE! And if Ohtani was a Met or Yankee, something tells me we wouldn't get this same energy from Evan! It would be more of a lets wait see approach!
@jimwerther
6 ай бұрын
@@geraldineyarborough9496 The sign-stealing scandal is the most overblown story of all time. It isn't 1% of the steroids scandal.
@geraldineyarborough9496
6 ай бұрын
@@jimwerther Yeah, try telling that to the NY Talking Heads and Yankee fans!😂
@jimwerther
6 ай бұрын
@@geraldineyarborough9496 The Athletic article strongly emphasized that every team did it. Later studies showed it actually didn't help, either.
@ghostdogzx-1474
6 ай бұрын
MLB didn’t cover this up. This was covered up by Ohtani’s lawyers when they threw Ippei under the bus before MLB even had time to digest what happened. Also, this is a legal issue. This is not up to MLB.
@jldraw
6 ай бұрын
They did throw him off the boat apparently after Ippei himself apologized after the first game in Seoul for gambling. Friedman then reiterated what Ippei said to ESPN that Ohtani covered his debts. At that point is when Ippei was tossed overboard as Ohtani indicated that Friedman’s statement was not in line with his understanding as to what happened (Ohtani covering the debt). That was essentially the end of Ippei’s relationship with The Dodgers except for the fact that subsequent to this exchange that was reported on by the Washington Posts Chelsea Janes, Ippei throws himself under the bus by stating that Ohtani had no idea that he was siphoning money or had knowledge that he was placing bets.
@foghatrocks
6 ай бұрын
Manfred Stinks.
@Uchiyeehaw
6 ай бұрын
Yall also forgot to mention the 2018 red sox that cheated with apple watches and the other teams that were cheating too 🥴
@ltsgoyanks
6 ай бұрын
Ohtani spearheading the idea to defer salary makes this very suspicious.
@azman73681
6 ай бұрын
Shame on MLB and owners..bring back Bauer n put Pete Rose in HOF
@azman73681
6 ай бұрын
Interrogate ohtani n yippei at Guantanamo bay n u'll find out Ohtani is the mastermind.
@jimwerther
6 ай бұрын
Oh, stop.
@bannankev
6 ай бұрын
14:55. Just listen here on. ESPN had one story and the story CHANGED. Why???? If nothing happened why make changes to the story?
@Platerpus7
6 ай бұрын
Because the original story implicates Ohtani of a crime.
@bannankev
6 ай бұрын
@@Platerpus7EXACTLY!
@Landis_Grant
6 ай бұрын
This is the death knell for MLB.
@RetroModern3
6 ай бұрын
No it’s not 😂
@vinnythewebsurfer
6 ай бұрын
Signed-some schmuck. September, 1920.
@e.m8817
6 ай бұрын
MLB is now more alive than ever!!
@NYCCamper
6 ай бұрын
Mlb is far behind football and basketball.
@jldraw
6 ай бұрын
Nah the general public doesn’t get riled up about issues like gambling like they did in the early twentieth century when it was illegal and deemed morally scandalous activity. If anything I believe the general public is wont to believe that professional sports have some degree of “dirty element” to them and after the cocaine and PED scandals MLB is no exception. What you are reading a lot online is social media outrage that happens every time a celebrity or person who has achieved a certain standard of living is even mentioned in connection with a scandal. It’s not outrage over gambling by any means!
@dvhughesdesign
6 ай бұрын
A sports gambling scandal?!!?!??!?? Gee whiz, whoda thought normalizing iphone gambling would cause such a controversy?
@bannankev
6 ай бұрын
You can gamble on anything. Phones, computers, bookies, etc. “iPhone gambling” lmfaoooo
@dvhughesdesign
6 ай бұрын
@@bannankev It was a statement about convenience, Einstein. Try harder.
@bannankev
6 ай бұрын
@@dvhughesdesignand just as I said the same PHONES. no need to specify what kinda phone. Omg he’s got an iPhone oh no he’s gonna gamble hahahhahaha try harder bwahahhahahaha
@dvhughesdesign
6 ай бұрын
@@bannankev Jesus still loves you, Chucklenuts.
@andrewrosner9397
6 ай бұрын
Evan is an a-SS hat. As long as he didn’t bet on baseball, even if he did gamble, the most he should get is a small 10-20 game suspension for “conduct unbecoming” if he did gamble at all.
@rustinpeace9303
6 ай бұрын
Not true. Since he gambled illegally thru orange county, ohtani has violated the CBA. If he would have done so in vegas, legal. orange county no
@bannankev
6 ай бұрын
yeah it violates the CBA AND CALIFORNIA LAW. Regardless he’s gonna be in trouble.
@jldraw
6 ай бұрын
@@bannankevNah he’s gonna skate. The writing is already on the wall. From a legal perspective, prosecutions tend to swim upstream not downstream. If Ohtani was indeed implicated in this illegal gambling ring he would be the primary target of this investigation (which has been active for nearly three months now) much in the same way that Lori Loughlin was the primary target in the “Varsity Blues” scandal a few years ago. The feds had the goods on her, she was a prominent name and thus became a primary target of the investigation while others such as Bill Macy who were “on the fringes” walked away clean. Ohtani aside from what is being reported by the sports media and social media is being portrayed as a fringe player and quite possibly the victim of fraud which tells me the prosecution is focusing on the bettors including Ippei who were actively involved in the illegal gambling ring. As far as MLB is concerned there are tea leaves there too. The fact that Ohtani was allowed to participate in the Seoul series this morning, a goodwill series that is being staged to promote MLB abroad tells me that he is deemed too valuable to MLB for them to take disciplinary action against him which would damage his brand and by extension theirs. Unless it can be proven that he was a direct party to betting on baseball, MLB will do everything and anything to protect him from the fallout of this scandal.
@azman73681
6 ай бұрын
No wonder fewer n fewer ppl watch MLB
@Nicholas73004
6 ай бұрын
Who's the guy wanting the world to end?
@seeya5176
6 ай бұрын
He is guilty.
@Str8Maddeness
6 ай бұрын
How is he not implicated?? The money came from HIS ACCOUNT!! That's implication enough!
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