Should we be Skeptical of Federal Investigation of Shohei Ohtani? DOUG GOTTLIEB SHOW

okay so um I guess there's good news for shotani as his interpreter has worked out a plea deal with multiple federal crimes so here's what they found that his interpreter had lost $40 million in illegal gambling for 40 million uh who has the details ISO I you got the details oh do I have details all right so his net losses were $41 million so the amounts that he wagered and one were in the hundreds of million dollars now among other details in the complaint it alleges that in Fe wait wait Meara not Otani I know SL slow down here okay so he won hundreds million dollar but he lost $40 million yeah so his net losses were his net losses were $41 million so his gross his gross winning was over $100 million M but his net losses so he must have lost like 150 and W 110 right is that am I doing the math correct I I can find it for you specifically but yes what in the hell like it's those are crazy number okay keep going what else they find all right among among other things the complaint States an anecdote from February of 2022 mizuhara falsely identified himself as Otani over the phone and claimed to the bank that he was attempting to wire money to an individual who turned out to be the bookmaker for a car loan and the complaint notes that the caller spoke fluent English and that Otani of course does not speak fluent uh fluent English now the tale of the tape during a 25mon period just over two years mizuhara played bed 19,000 Wagers so his total losing bets $183 million his total winning bets therefore $142 million and that's how you get the net loss of $41 million is there is there any proof that Otani I know they they're saying like there's no proof that he knew anything about it but is there any proof that he knew nothing about it there is zero evidence that he knew anything about it and also what's notable according to the Department of Justice none of the Wagers were on baseball out of 19,000 all right J St you're a cynic about just about everything no not we're not I'm not saying anything not and he'll he'll admittedly so and the dodg are your team but you're super cynical about this what do you think well I I think another detail that I'm not sure if I will uh also said that you know they're working on a plea deal this is going to be get pled out before any Discovery before any trial before the public knows the details this so the information we're getting is strictly what the feds are choosing to give us okay and what they've concluded is that Otani knew nothing about it um I don't know as to your point 30 seconds ago Doug they can't prove that he did not know about it they can't prove that he did know about it they you can't prove a negative uh um I think a lot of people have a lot to lose in this Major League Baseball by extension the American economy uh for this to be kind of dismissed and someone be a fall guy for this to just make it go away and plead it away I think is in everyone's best interest I just the story doesn't add up from the very beginning this doesn't add up and the conclusion the FED tell me why it doesn't add up yes tell me why it doesn't add up okay the day of the South Korea series opening day essentially um he agreed to the translator agreed to a 90-minute sit down with the investigative unit at ESPN where he disclosed all of this gambling uh information his losses and that his friend shoh Otani uh knew about the bets and chose to cover $4.5 million in debt he chose to give that interview by somebody's Authority and then he went into the Dodgers Clubhouse and told them the exact same story including the ownership group in the locker room he told that exact same story where Otani is very aware of all this and then 3 hours later we find out that otani's lawyers say that he was robbed and that this that he had nothing to do with this that he had no knowledge of this so if you go if you give that context I believe the first story I really do I just don't believe the way the story changed I don't believe the current story and the fact that this is being pled away and we're never really going to know the story unless somebody does some good investigating um I still am skeptical about this the entire you don't think anybody's going to do deep investigation I hope they do I hope somebody does their job and and goes above and beyond what the feds have determined here okay but what if I um what if again um we start with realization don't you think that the feds if they found Otani linked at all that we know about it maybe like this has always been my thing with the conspiracy theorists in the NBA you know conspiracy theorists everywhere like nowadays it's really really hard to hide something right because you have public um what's it called where you get public records you have these acts where you can go Freedom of Information Freedom of Information Act Right with Freedom of Information Act I just I don't see that there's any way that they can hide I would while there won't be a lot of people there's got to be somebody out there that would like to see him exposed if possible if there's any exposure I feel like it will come to light well think about that um the account was otani's account right yes reading this this it sounds like the translator just broke into his account and then took off the notifications that that he was uh out this money so there is a link to OT a direct link to Otani but the only thing that that we can't prove or disprove is that there was communication between the two about it and I don't know if that'll ever come out um but I will say this I don't know if Otani ever made the bets I don't know if he ever uh he obviously didn't bet on baseball so we're cool but I just don't I think he was very aware of his friends's gambling addiction and very well aware of the the bets and I think Otani did do the bets I think he he was in on the bets like hey put put 100,000 bucks on Iowa on Monday night you know it's I think he was aware of all that you think he knew that he was betting over a100 million he shouldn't he well I don't know I don't know about that but 19,000 bets by your best friend your closest uh manager I I just can't see this being kept from him do you know who's your closest friend who you don't not not your girlfriend who's your closest friend uh let's see maybe a guy named Pete all right does Pete gamble on Sports sure do you know how much he gambles on Sports I don't no but I definitely am told told he best a lot Sam do you who's your best friend uh Thomas Thomas yes doesn't go by Tommy he goes by Tom now I still call him Thomas because we've been friends for a long time Thomas yeah Thomas been on Sports no Thomas married no do you know who Thomas's girlfriend is yes Dr Anne Dr an love Dr Anne okay how much do you know about his personal life um quite a bit right how in depth though um we talk probably once a week I understand but I I I'm not saying you don't talk but there's lots of things hide something like that from me yeah um I don't think so oh I totally disagree he's just very transparent as a person again there's but there's all everybody has people can keep secrets yeah yeah and again it's not that you're keeping secret about gambling now part of this is did you guys see in the introductory press conference how somebody asked how they met and they joked about it being at a Vegas uh a bender in Vegas a bender a gambling Bender in Vegas right and they both laughed about it both laughed about it my guess would be that ootani knew he liked to gamble uh and part of it is and we talk about this all the time culturally I'll give you culturally in Japan gambling is a much more uh everyday part of lives like it's not as looked as nefarious in nefarious terms as it is here every culture looks at things differently it it's one of the things that um we have a tough time as Americans is we want people to absorb what we believe our way of life is the way of life but we don't there's lots of context that we don't understand you know lots of context that we don't understand and in Japan I've been told that the Japanese culture gambling is a much bigger part of their culture than it is in ours um in Hawaii you know I have a couple of dear friends who have lived in Hawaii and I've always asked like why isn't gambling allowed in Hawaii they're like because Hawaiians love to gamble they're like okay that doesn't make any sense right if they love to gamble and you could create more revenue for the government like yeah the fear is that in Hawaii if they legalize gambling everybody will go broke everybody will go broke so there's different cultures and those cultures look at gambling very differently so I think it's reasonable to go hey Otani knows my my man likes to bet and bet a lot but I can't think that those numbers I can't think that he knew that do you think that somebody who makes I think that I think they said his his um salary was 500,000 bucks do you think that a guy with that much salary could make $150 million in bets wait wait a minute the translator salary was $500,000 I've heard that in the past yes well we here's what IO you're perishing into we've actually done segments on doesn't he have the greatest job of all time yeah I'm going to go download he gets to go to he gets to go to baseball games and like he gets to hang out with his best friend in the clubhouse every day and help him with an interview every now and again the Angels called him the 26th man he was everywhere with Otani that's why all this is a little shady to me well by the way just on that point I'm going to read you guys a passage about that directly from the doj complaint by the way when I hear passage I do feel like it's the Bible but go ahead otani's agent was aware of the account in question and asked mizuhara on multiple occasions about the account mizuhara told the agent the account was private and that Otani did not want anyone else to monitor that account the agent stated he did not confirm these representations directly with Otani but stated he had no reason not to believe mizuhara you don't buy that I just think that the the the translator has agreed to be the Fall Guy and he's absorbed all of this so even that recap that's just that's so so if it's not the translator then sh Otani has a massive gambling problem I I think they both do I think they they both but again what you're saying is if it's not the translator sh Otani has a massive gambling problem and massive gambling problems don't just go away you don't just go like oh I'm gonna cut cold turkey doesn't happle with drinking doesn't happle with drugs doesn't help with sex doesn't help with any of these things it doesn't just go away because you got scared straight and there would be there would be I understand it's technically under his account but there would be somebody would know something and people don't keep their mouth shut anymore like I don't know if you've heard uh lebatard did a thing a long time ago on Tiger Woods on how Tiger Woods grew up in one era and then that era changed he grew up in the era where Michael Jordan Charles Barkley all the big stars whatever that he was around could do whatever they wanted in their personal lives and nobody bothered and then that all changed and we suddenly you know collectively started grasping at our pearls and when he got outed uh other things Chang our societal view of marital infidelity had changed dramatically so it didn't make what he did better or worse or whatever it's just before you know Babe Ruth famous womanizer and like to drink and like these things that were like we usually never mention them because it was their personal life now it became very very public right and so with that in mind I believe with all this things be public I know that shohi was a mysterious character like no one knew anything about shohi so it's very possible that this is who he really is it's also possible to to think that he got ConEd by a con man that who would think you're best friend is capable of this it's a great question and I don't know the answer to how about this angle um and this is a theory out there that was started by me uh think about the deferment plan think about think about the deferment remember the Dodgers were surprised because the the agents came to the Dodgers with that deferment plan you know Shi is going to get the bulk of the money at the very end of this contract and I was thinking if you have a gambling addiction and your agent knows addiction the deferment plan is a perfect way of uh disciplining that addiction we're not going to give you the bulk sum we're not going to give you um the the equal payments now because you're going to gamble it all away you have 10 years to clean up your act and then you get 700 million bucks at the end do you ever believe in the good people he works in sports radio I I'm I'm a skeptic for sure but I like to think about these things okay I mean listen Scott drew did stay at Baylor for less money than going to Kentucky like it does there are good people who do good things and there are people that get snookered right like conman wouldn't be able to be con man if all of us were in on the cons

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Published: Thu Apr 11 2024