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If he ends up getting banned from baseball and loses his $700 million contract there's only one thing he can do. Start a kick channel and embrace his inner rat king. hqdefault.jpg
 
This fuckin zip ain't getting banned. Maybe, just maybe, he'll be given a performative slap on the wrist by the MLB, but that's it. They're absolutely going to throw the interpreter under the bus, and hold him down, just to make sure the bus doesn't miss.
Although he's a fucking neanderthalic retard, Pete Rose deserves to be in the MLB HOF and hopefully, the fallout of this will be the impetus needed to get him in. Having him unbanned from baseball itself is perhaps another matter (although, if the MLB is going to go full retard with their hypocrisy they might as well let Pete, Shoeless Joe and the rest of the Black Sox back in).
 
That interpreter likely did nothing wrong and now he's being railroaded by the MLB and their lawyers. The Dodgers are a big market franchise, Ohtani is going to skate without facing any consequences. Never work for people like this, they can just decide you're taking the fall and the media will circle the wagons for them, because they've got a $700million contract.

E: gay mobile autocorrect
 
Dynamite Ninja said:
You do realize that pachinko machines exist and are a legal form of gambling in Japan don't you?
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Gambling for cash is illegal in Japan. Pachinko is considered a form of “gaming” and the operators have to utilize legal loopholes by indirectly offering cash rewards for the tokens (which themselves are received for attaining a certain amount of Pachinko balls).

It’s looked down upon and also operated by Koreans who are similarly involved in every illicit business that you can think of in Japan.

Your point would only be salient if Ohtani had a Pachinko habit, for which there is no evidence. Had he ever visited a Pachinko parlor then it would have been massive news.

Some more news that I’ve been able to glean:

According to accounts from his acquaintances, Ippei Mizuhara upon college graduation, entered a school which trained casino dealers.

He was found to be lacking the requisite capability to be a dealer and thereby quit the program.

He then decided to become an interpreter which set him on the career path that he is on currently.

All accounts thus far point to bets being made on International Soccer, NFL games and College Basketball games.

The Soccer one in particular is interesting because Ippei played Soccer for many years.

Several of Ohtani’s MLB team-mates have been interviewed and 1 particular consensus was that Ohtani doesn’t pay attention to sports outside of Baseball.

The above circumstances continue to strengthen the claim that Ippei has a compulsive gambling addiction and an affinity for casinos and gambling as institutions.

Ohtani’s main risk at this stage is how he and his legal team can manage the fact that transfers were made from his bank account to the bookie’s associates (this is 1 particular correction that I have to make as I initially thought that it was only 2 separate payments of $500 K and not the whole amount, which it apparently was).

Another point would be that Ippei apparently told him and the team 2 different things. Ohtani went livid when the other translator explained what Ippei had said to the team because it was different from what Ippei had confessed to Ohtani.

I expect that the MLB investigation will get wrapped up relatively quickly. The Federal investigation will likely take several months.

I suppose that the key questions (especially from a courtroom perspective) would be the following:

Can they prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Ohtani was the one who personally made the bank transfers and not Ippei ?

Will Ohtani’s lawyers be able to successfully argue that Ohtani was misled about the nature of the payments (even if he was the one who made them) ?

Will the records of all bets made by the bookie also show that there were no Baseball bets ?

1 more thing that comes to mind: if Ohtani was a degenerate gambler then why did he defer such a huge % of his contract ? You’d think that he would want as much cash on hand as possible to place bets.
 
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Neighborhood Janny said:
Just imagine every time he gets announced during away games the organist starts playing “The Gambler”
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Or Motorhead's "Ace of Spades"

Speaking of Japan, here's a fascinating and lulzy listen:

Intentionally walking a gaijin so he doesn't get a Triple Crown is a level of spite only possible in Grorious Nippon.
 
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Mordecai 3 Finger Brown said:
Luke Voit is one of those one-dimensional sluggers who I always think had a better career than he actually did.

Simply because I remember him benefiting from a few redhot months of that BS Yankee pixie dust once upon a time.
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Unless he decides to stay in AAA forever I wish him luck in his 1-2 years in KBO or NPB then retirement.
 
I’m a petty asshole, but I hope this all blows up on the Dodgers and their pay-to-win strategy.

Go Reds, fuck LA.
 
Bassomatic said:
Man this Ohtani drama brings me down.
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I hear you man. Ohtani is one of the extremely few athletes who I can actually properly support.

In most sports, things have gotten progressively more pozz'd and fucked up with all the nigger worship, BLM and general tranny faggotry madness.

Ohtani was perfect from that perspective. Doesn't even talk to the media much and simply focused on being the best Baseball player that he can be. From all accounts in Japan and overseas, is a genuinely good dude who is single-mindedly focused on Baseball.

It's one of the very few situations where you can actually escape from all of the real world insanity for a few hours. I'm confident that when the dust settles, he'll be fine although in the eyes of some joyless faggots his "legacy" will be stained...but I could give 2 shits about what these miserable fucks think.

More news:

Although Ippei has claimed that he graduated from UC Riverside, administrators at the college are saying that there is no record of him ever having attended the institution.

The plot thickens...
 
Illidan Stormrage said:
I hear you man. Ohtani is one of the extremely few athletes who I can actually properly support.

In most sports, things have gotten progressively more pozz'd and fucked up with all the nigger worship, BLM and general tranny faggotry madness.

Ohtani was perfect from that perspective. Doesn't even talk to the media much and simply focused on being the best Baseball player that he can be. From all accounts in Japan and overseas, is a genuinely good dude who is single-mindedly focused on Baseball.

It's one of the very few situations where you can actually escape from all of the real world insanity for a few hours. I'm confident that when the dust settles, he'll be fine although in the eyes of some joyless faggots his "legacy" will be stained...but I could give 2 shits about what these miserable fucks think.
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He probably tried to pay off his friend’s gambling debts with the hundreds of millions of dollars he makes just to be a good friend, and didn’t realize it was against the law. His party, his friend, and the Dodgers all panic trying to flip the story around, and a big shit-show ensues.
 
BrainSand63 said:
He probably tried to pay off his friend’s gambling debts.
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Why would a bookie take the risk that an interpreter could get his hands on $4.5million in the first place? Unless the bets were for the guy with the millions and not his lowly paid interpreter who is on record of making $85K annually and not the $500K annually that MLB and the Dodgers are using the media to push. And paying off the debts in secret without telling his wife and family that he is emptying the bank accounts of $4.5million is also absurd. Like Ohtani's business manager or accountant wouldn't question him needing a $4.5million cash transfer to a guy whose name comes up in arrest records for gambling?

Guy was gambling and using his interpreter to place the bets and got caught. MLB will protect him. Probably nothing will happen to him but every away game will be hilarious to see what the chants and signs are when he visits.
 
Iron Hamster said:
He was certainly no Kevin Maas
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Certainly not
Maas was a left-handed batter. As a result, many of his home runs went into the right field stands. About halfway through the season a group of a dozen or so young ladies began wearing "Maas-tops" to Yankees home games and sitting in the right field stands. Whenever Maas hit a home run to right, the girls would get up, remove their tops and jump up and down until Maas finished circling the bases.
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Btw all the old scrubs in Mets camp got sent to AAA including Voit as predicted, except veteran utilityman Zack Short since JD Martinez being a typical Boras late signing now needs a few extra weeks to get ready.

The Yankees vs los Diablos Rojos game presumably with Trevor Bauer is on in less than an hour

Opening day (the real one not the fake Korea one) is almost here LET'S GOOOOOOOO!
 
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