Dan Patrick Reacts To Ohtani's Press Conference Addressing Interpreter Gambling Scandal | 3/26/24

all righty Satan what is the poll question that we're going to start out hour one with well do you want to start with shohi sure do we go with something as simple as Do You Believe show Otani but how much am I believe like the whole story do I believe him do I believe they had nothing to do with this um how much involvement do you think shoh had yeah I'm trying to be fair Yeah It's tricky because I mean he sounded like he uh had been taken advantage of that he was innocent that he didn't know what was going on it's just it's really rare when we have some kind of sports crime or somebody related uh to a crime who is involved in sports I mean mantio is the one where everybody got that wrong because we kept thinking how could you be duped like that well he was duped like that but it's really rare when somebody says hey I had nothing to do with this Lance Armstrong he was America's hero I had nothing to do with that Mark Maguire America zero nothing to do with it's just rare when it happens but it does happen and you still have to go into this going I need to hear both sides and that's that's the troubling part for me it feels like there's been a couple of different stories I think that there was maybe some troubleshooting that went on from otani's uh you know side of this and they did a good job you know they they basically said look this guy's been lying all of his life the jobs that he's had but he's been a friend of otan for since they were teenagers and how much access did you give him I guess I'd still want to know why would a bookie an illegal bookie give somebody like his interpreter that much room so you're going to give him that much credit I mean it's there's millions of dollars here he doesn't have millions of dollars and I think that's what a bookie would at least be curious about where's this money coming from are you going to be able to cover this and maybe it's hey he covered this uh you know I don't care where the money came from a bookie doesn't care they just want the money yes he but he has the appearance of access to an unbelievable fortune and now granted I haven't I've never once worked with an illegal bookie yeah but my sense of The Craft is that they're not necessarily as concerned about can you cover your bets but you're going to cover your bets one way or the other so I I don't do bookie say like I don't do you have enough in your account for this this seems awfully like a lot they they normally don't let you have like a half a million dollars or a million dollars I know I know high school kids whose parents had to take out another mortgage on their house to cover that kid's gambling debts and that that was a minor yeah how did he get access if if he you know did he have access to you know the wire transfer I'm curious about that you know how did you know did the bank flag this that would be another thing like where's this money going that's a lot of money so there there just there there's questions here and he didn't take questions I thought you know he said uh at 1.8 it's great to talk to you about this well they didn't really talk it was just he an interpreter was saying you know his side of the story but there's a lot of questions that still exist with this and I'll go back to what Bob Nightingale The Great baseball writer for USA Today said that he thinks worst case scenario Otani may get fin for this and maybe that's all it is maybe he's and I don't know what baseball's investigation uh you know what it's going to try to find out or pin its uh investigation on but it would take that long if I'm the commissioner to say to Otani hey I want to talk to you I got questions and uh here are my questions tell me so I can understand this so you know we can do our due diligence here and uh we can move on the the illegal bookie has been investigated for a couple of years now and I think they just saw that wow that's a that's a big number that's coming your way and where's it coming from and Otani said he was surprised he didn't know anything about this he was told after game one in uh South Korea and it makes sense because he and muhara are standing next to each other in The Dugout they're like having fun everything's good so that that's an image that I keep replaying that those two in the Dugout and they're just chatting it didn't feel like that there was any real issue and here is uh Otani talking about when he found out that there was a problem so EP has been telling everybody around that he that EP has been communicating with shoh on all this account to my representative to the team and that hasn't been true the first time I knew about this gambling uh E's gambling was after the first game when we had team meeting in the clubhouse so during the team meeting obviously eepe was speaking English and I didn't have a translator on my side but even with that I kind of understood what was going on and started to feel that there was something a Miss then he goes on to say that epe the uh interpreter had access to his account and finally when we went back to the hotel and talked one to one that was when I was uh when I found out that he had a massive uh debt and it was revealed to me during that meeting that he e admitted that he was sending money uh using my account to a bookmaker and then he wanted to put this on record so I'm going to put it on record on this sport or on this show that what he was talking about if he had anything to do with betting so I never bet on baseball any other sports or never have asked somebody to do it on my behalf uh and I have never uh went through a bookmaker uh to bet on Sports okay had to get that out there just so you know cuz that we're curious about that has he ever placed a bet before whether it's on baseball or not has somebody placed a bet for you that's also something that we would be curious about but this is the first real hiccup with you know shoh other than this it's been this great curiosity this Phenom this now the best player in the sport uh the next Babe Ruth a $700 million contract playing for the Dodgers now you're going to play in playoff games everything was great got married everything was great then all of a sudden boom got hit with this but as far as you know it might quiet down now now usually this is what happens like something explodes right in front of you and then you look for the Fallout and then all of a sudden you'll revisit this I don't know when baseball comes out with its investigation if you've been investigating this illegal bookie for two years that'll give you an idea this moves at a snail's pace here and I don't know if we find out anything anytime soon that either is you know exonerates Otani backs up his story or maybe adds more questions to this but what he did yesterday was I thought maybe going to be a conversation with reporters it turned out that it was one-sided and he was going to give his thoughts on all of this which I think he came off pretty well but still my job is to be curious and suspicious and just because we all love Otani it's a great story great team uh you still have to have questions answered there and uh we'll continue to follow it see if there's something that's there I think it's It's tricky to get into oh baseball should suspend him okay why oh it's he's the he's Pete Rose no he's not like we don't want to wait anymore everybody's got to have a hot take you got to be fair I mean it may not be great programming may not be great radio but you still have to be fair and maybe he was duped so it I I know at first you're like well it's an interpreter no it's his best friend it's somebody who said he spends more time with and has spent more time with than his now wife they've known each other a long long time I'm just curious from you know once again Otani never was curious that his interpreter his best friend lied about working for the Red Sox and the Yankees that to me would have come up in conversation hey why did you say you worked for the Yankees in the Red Sox and you didn't and and it sounds like his interpreter has a pattern of of lying and here's another one that came up yesterday and somebody in baseball said this that it's easy to go well why would you give this guy access to your account or how could you not know this there are husbands and wives who are keeping things from one another it happens all the time happens in business you can have a personal assistant but if you're a gambler or a drug addict or an alcoholic you do your best to hide those things I was just surprised that The Interpreter tells ESPN that Otani covered my bets they came from his account that's where the red flag came up for me okay so that that never happened why did he say that you want to protect your best friend you didn't protect your best friend doing that if you have a problem then you know that that's where you should have been at least fair to Otani if he is totally innocent did he know anything about this but doesn't sound like he did and it goes back to where Otani said after game one I'm in South Korea and then I realized that there's something up here yeah E Yeah that's the thing about liars they lie yeah yeah you know I mean if you just if you just take everything from The Interpreter was gambling and then lied to everybody uh it all kind of makes sense in some in at least to me and you got to be a really good liar uh if you're going to try to do that where you're hiding $4.5 million and Otani is not going to see it or somebody's not going to see it or the bank's not going to flag it I mean pretty incredible yeah Paul the one thing about this story is Otani and his team have declared a direction a clear direction we never bet we never knew about it we didn't participate we didn't fund it we didn't had no knowledge until after that game there's no going back on that one no you know this this if anything goes the other way on this one it'll go completely the other way they've picked their ction and it it has to be the right one but they have to say that whether it's true or not you have to say that cuz if you don't then all of a sudden everybody's going to go oh he's lying now the investigation starts to heat up a little bit

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Published: Tue Mar 26 2024