Any thoughts on this case. Ohtani’s personal translator was in huge gambling debt. And Ohtani was wiring money to pay off his gambling debts. At least that’s the story they want us to believe.
Hmmmmmm they were apparently best friends.
My buddies who are all way more into baseball than I am think it makes more sense for Ohtani to have the gambling problem and that the translator was the fall guy.
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Yea… hard to say. This guy has literally been Ohtani’s shadow for 5 plus years. They are always together. Super fishy IMO
Who will never work another day in his life after this. And I don’t mean that in a tragic sense.
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We need Jake Adelstein and Det Hiroto getting to the bottom of this stat. Gotta be Yakuza involved somehow.
I see it the other way. Ohtani has enough offseason, road games in gambling states and international travel to gamble all he wants…AND…he has everything to risk, while dipshit buddy knows Ohtani will bail him out. No risk, and he comes off as a dipshit overall.
AND, the bookie that the FBI caught that kicked this off has said he has never seen, talked to or texted Ohtani in any way, thus fouling up any.attempt to later go back and say he did for a deal.
AND if Ohtani had a gambling problem, he wouldn’t be wiring the money from his own account to an illegal bookie. Thats what you have lawyers or strawmen for.
Lawyers, who I’m assuming, stepped in after freaking out that they got word Ohtani’s camp set up the ESPN interview for dipshit buddy to come forward and say it was all him, Ohtani wouldn’t give him the money directly to pay off the bookie because he was a degenerate, and thus stood over me and watched me transfer the money to the bookie from Ohtani’s accounts directly.
THAT was a giant OH SHIT moment and the lawyers got Ohtani in a room alone and explained to him that dipshit buddy just admitted to interstate criminal funding FROM YOUR BANK ACCOUNT WITH YOUR KNOWLEDGE of an illegal gambling operation of FBI thinks its big enough to get a PR win size and Ohtani is in danger of ClubFed ( though IMO, not really)…
The Wednesday game Ohtani and dipshit buddy were in the dugout together yukking it up. This morning’s game ( they are in Korea) he was alone on the bench looking like he had just put his dog down.
The flip flop story now of Ohtani saying it was theft is the paperiest of plausible deniability veneer and I’m sure dipshit was told- Recant, say it was all you, Ohtani was Sgt Schultz the whole time…and maybe we drop bags of cash in your car at night, along with asking for a light sentence for the gambling… You’re fired either way, but if you say anything else, we will $2000 an hour your ass into Federal Prison until Japan’s population is half sex robots.
Dude will work as a translator in a Chinese casino in Macao. Book it.
This part killed me… lol
And for the record sex robots need loving too. 
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I more meant Ohtani will cut him a fat retirement check, but whatever works for him.
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