Was Shohei Ohtani the one Gambling in Betting Scandal? | The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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- In the midst of a Shohei Ohtani betting scandal involving his translator, Billy Gil does what he does best, as he questions all translators before Adnan Virk and David Samson join us. Adnan and David discuss the weight of what these allegations could mean for Ohtani and baseball and look at the potential best and worst case scenarios. David Samson also gives a unique perspective with his experience as former Marlins team president and working with Ichiro and his translator. Tony’s conspiracy theory board makes its return briefly before it gets him sent to the penalty box. Finally, David and Adnan share their top five Jazz movies.
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Who gets a 4.5 m credit line with an illegal bookie? An interpreter? BS.
You need to cover all of Tony’s investigation into this Ohtani story 🕵🏻♂️
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wow they actually talked about the thing in the title of the video said
Right!!
Producer F'd up!
Samson’s a breath of fresh air on the show sometimes just cause he has actual information about a sport.
I like him. I know most don’t. And yes, some things he has done are terrible.. but I get it.
The stench of our hypocrisy is unbearable. We constantly promote gambling like it's Black Friday & Christmas and then we act 'shocked'. 😎
This sounds like the greatest 30 for 30 ever produced
[0:00-20:58] Adnan Virk & David Samson, Shohei Ohtani scandal
[20:59-24:39] Top 5 Jazz movies
Dan in Studio, Chris EP
Roy, Billy, Jessica, and Tony in the Shipping Container
The fact that this is sponsored by draft kings is beyond hilarious
Great Ebert quote Adnan 🙌🏼 him Siskel and Kael did so much for evolving cinema criticism into a productive art form that helped drive the art instead of just sell or decry it. Feels like a lot of YT essay format still pulls from their spirit, always nice to hear their actual words pulled out
Smh. The fact that some states have legal stuff and some don't, it's all dumb. "Gambling" is illegal in California, and in my state.. yet i live walking distance from a casino/horse track. There's tons of lottery tickets you can buy. But.. you can't use DraftKings. Lol it's all dumb.
Remember gambling is sanctioned but native Americans the native Indians are the only one who can facilitate and operate any type of gambling when they say gambling it’s illegal in a state it just means the specific tribe doesn’t allow any outside gambling that’s not supervised under them , gambling /casino is literally reparations for the native Americans for their genocide
@@38FLIMZ thanks for the info I did know that,if it's true
@@38FLIMZwe should give them more free blankets then this would be over
Mizuhara's gambling habit rubbed off on Shohei as they spent a lot of time together. They both enjoyed gambling together, and Shohei provided the funds. There is no way Shohei was completely ignorant of his finances. Their stories keep changing because they are doing an awful job at damage control and trying to protect Shohei's career.
The Washington Post published a feature article on Mr. Bowyer's identity. Although he declined to be interviewed in person, they succeeded in eliciting valuable comments from his lawyer, Diane Bess.
Beth acknowledged that Bowyer is a bookmaker, and commented, "He has never spoken to Ohtani, never met him, never emailed him, and the only person he had in contact with was Ippei." It is said that Ohtani's name was found in the bank's remittance records, but only Mizuhara was involved in the bet, and she asserted that "there is not a single athlete among Mr. Bowyer's customers in the first place."
When asked why Bowyer let a professional interpreter with an annual income of only six figures swim to such a high level of debt, she replied, "Why? Because he's Ohtani's best friend." On the other hand, she said that he "does not know" the face value of the debt that Mr. Mizuhara has.
Beth described Mizuhara as an "addictive gambler." Speaking to federal prosecutors investigating Bowyer, she said, "I got an inquiry from ESPN in January this year, and I called them (federal prosecutors), and I told them about Ohtani's involvement, but they didn't show any interest."
It's very clear that from the very beginning, Bowyer's target was Ohtani. Ippei was simply a bait.
Ohtani clearly was gambling. There is no way a bookie would extend millions in credit to an interpreter, and there is no way an interpreter employed by the Dodgers would be able to initiate millions in wire transfers from Ohtani's bank account. That cover story is absolutely ridiculous.
Yup, he definitely was. I believe it's a one year ban for illegal non-baseball gambling. We'll see if MLB has the balls to do it to their biggest star.
So he was gambling. Who f**king cares. It's his money. As long as he's not betting on baseball. Making this story bigger than it is.
It was Pepe Silva!
Tony needs a bigger budget for all of his investigations.
"Tony Calatayud F$#@s Around and Never Finds Out" working title.
More than anything Shohei wishes he had taken English classes after baseball practice.
His poor English speaking is the biggest tool in his bullshit Arsenal.
Yeah he’d lose his cover if he did that so..
@@1TightMinute He can't cover from a Federal Investigation by multiple agencies. The *actual* evidence clearly showed Ohtani was a victim of theft, ya'll jumped the gun big time.
@@XxXDestroyer no it doesn’t.
Anyone remember PETE ROSE? He claims he never HAD his assistant bet on Baseball either….yet-he’s still banned for life.
How do you NOT know your millions of dollars are being stolen 🤔
HIS NEW BRIDE TOOK IT 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@glenchristenson6308jJajaja...Mamiko just steals if someone steals from her first....jajajajaj...For example, If I provide some good data from a scientific experiment, and someone steals it, then the next experiment this person does, will not work..or a spaceshift can explode...something like that...We are not alone...
@dopenerd Why would you assume everyone always knows exactly how much they have in their accounts? Not sure if you have a family but I manage all finances for my family. My wife doesn’t have a clue how much money we have in our accounts. My best friend makes $200k a year and his wife manages their finances and he has no clue how much money he has in his accounts. Ohtani is focused on baseball and he makes $60+ million a year and he is known to not care about money. why is it so hard to believe that he would not know exactly how much money he has in his accounts?
@@lifejourney8704 c'mon man, $500,000 has to be approved by acct holder.
If Ohtani is found to have bet on his games, and isn't banned, Pete Rose should immediately be reinstated and placed in Cooperstown.
Exactly I mean the fact he isn’t still is just mind blowing
Even if he just paid off the gambling debts of his friend that it was a step too far. You think you could have found an intermediary to help them out. Used his own bank account was criminally stupid and could be worth a charge even if he wasn't the one betting
😂 nope
No bets were on baseball.. go cry for Pete rose on a diff story
Reckless Speculation
Samson has grown on me. The dude knows his stuff
Massive deferred payments in Ohtani’s contract a lot more suspicious now
Why? Wouldn’t he want money upfront?
@@limitlesspursuit because if he has a gambling problem, he might burn through that money quickly and post playing career be broke. Deferred payment assures guaranteed income in the future, and sectioned out, so that acts as the governor on gambling, not actual self discipline to not gamble. But again all speculation at this point. But still suspicious
Hmmm🤔
Sounds like too responsible of a solution for someone with a gambling problem.
🙄 No ugh Stop lol. BUT even if guilty we'll never know, he'll face no consequences, & Ippeis family will be generationally rich.
If it’s a cover up I don’t see the interpreter taking federal time or doing federal time Ohtani
I hate sports gambling and the effect it's having on the entire sports world.
Billy was on fire today, great show
Anyone who knows about betting with a bookie knows that 4.5 million in credit is something that multi millionaires/billionaires get. Not normal folks. Common sense should tell you that Ohtani HAS to be involved cause aint no interpreter getting 4.5 million in credit. Its just that simple.
we will always stand by your side shohei... from brazil.
Ohtani is clearly involved, there's just no bookie that would run that balance to a no-name bettor.
I love how people are ignoring that Ippei , like all translators, is the guy who is responsible for getting these foreign born players settled in America. Making sure to get them id cards, helping with opening bank accounts, looking over loans to interpret things with accountants etc. Therefore, he was well aware of a LOT if not pretty much all of Ohtani's personal details including account #s and passwords. Ohtani wouldn't be the first famous and wealthy person to swindled out of money by an inner-circle person.
@@user-zm4wy4fy6o I love how people completely ignore Japanese honor culture. If he stole this money, gambled it away, and then was caught, it would be an unfathomable dishonor to him and his family. The Japanese value honor and loyalty far more than money. He would have killed himself already.
@@jmorris023 it's a good thing that Ippei, who was in born in Japan , actually grew up in LA not in Japan then, huh? People making up shit without having any general knowledge of the individuals involved too. The more plausible person to be a degen gambler would be the guy who was raised as an American. 🤣😂🤣🤦♂️
@@jmorris023 Good thing that Ippei was raised in southern CA then and is American through and through at this point.
@@user-zm4wy4fy6o Still part of the culture.
National media is taking this too lightly. Ppl are going to fold, it could be the interpreter, the gambling dude from Orange County, etc. I say the odds are stacked against Baseball to come out of this squeaky clean.
Samson and Adnan need to do a joint movie podcast call cine-fights
Thank you Billy for that throwaway line why they were using a bookie. Instead of doing it legally, it is still not allowed in California. I knew I could come to you with the answers. Because there are so many of you. Someone had to spit it out :)
We just need to find Pepe Silvia.
We need the booky data. Bets slips 🤔
Just a matter of time, everything will be revealed 😅
Burned after settlement. But there's no doubt the ticket writer would know if there was an Angels bet from that account.
How’d they discover this again?
There is a federal investigation into the bookie and otani's name came up when investigating bank records.
Apparently the bets were on European soccer games and soccer is big in Japan meaning Ohtani could have been interested.
Ohtani has a huge team of financial experts, assistants and support staff so it's easy for the left hand to not know what the right hand is doing. I worked in the Trust industry (managing wealthy individual's assets and employee benefit plans and corporate and government retirement funds, etc.) for 20 years and let me tell you, we were often understaffed, overworked, and each person was specialized, knowing their own particular job functions well but not knowing what other people's jobs were in detail. There was a lady officer in our company who had been embezzling money for years from one of her wealthy clients and the only way it was caught was that she went on a vacation and there just happened to be an audit while she was away and that is when the auditors found out; otherwise they would have never discovered the crime. When a lot of people are involved in an operation or organization, it is easy to not question every transaction and just assume someone else is monitoring things. It's called the "bystander effect" or "diffusion of responsbility" phenomenon. Kind of like the incident when Kitty Genovese was raped and killed in NYC and many people in the apartment building heard her cries for help as it was being committed but assumed someone was going to call the police or help her, so no one did anything.
I frequently lament that Samson should be fired into the sun but the Ohtani story is one of his better uses.
If he were on a dozen times a year instead of a dozen times a month, that'd be about the right dosage.
“Coming off the turnip truck” is insane
Was waiting for him to throw a slur out
Ohtani is no babe in the woods. He knows what he’s been doing.
That, sir, is RECKLESS ESPECULATION! 😁@@ChocolateMilk1978
@cameronwilliams1427 Is it, though? Isn't it just an idiom for a stupid or unsophisticated person?
@ydcee3123 You are correct. Saying somebody just fell off the turnip truck is the same as saying they were born yesterday. Not sure how that is a slur...
yall forgot the "time zone"
Ohtani is full of himself and people didn't want to see it. When some one is full of themselves they'll trip up sooner or later.
I already have my kids poster for game 1 vs the Cheatros of LA... SAY IT AINT SHO!!!!!!!!!😅
Could it be that Ohtani was using his interpreter to, in effect, launder his bets?
Yes. That is literally what everyone is worried about.
@@roachasaurus2020 if this theory is proven true, I think Ohtani’s going to become the Pete Rose of the 21st Century.
There’s no way the most famous superstar athlete in the world, Shohei Ohtani, primed since childhood to be the chosen one in baseball, gambled by placing a bet using WIRE TRANSFER/ CHECK WITH HIS NAME, DOLLAR AMOUNT, DATE, TIME, PAYED TO BOOKIE’S NAME. To me That’s the obvious that jumps out, maybe he knew about Ippes gambling debt, and being a good friend paid off the debt, which is perfectly legal, but just a bad look.
@ghingisoverland6932 maybe is not smart
@@ghingisoverland6932, I agree with you. I really think Ippei has a gambling addiction.
Adnan covered the BBW convention
You would have to be pretty incurious and naive not to at least investigate. That money went directly from his account. His story doesn't make a lot of sense. We'll probably never know for sure but I will probably always assume the interpreter is taking the fall.
I love how people are ignoring that Ippei , like all interpreters, is the guy who is responsible for getting these foreign born players settled in America. Making sure to get them id cards, helping with opening bank accounts, looking over loans to interpret things with accountants etc. Therefore, he was well aware of a LOT if not pretty much all of Ohtani's personal details including account #s and passwords. Ohtani wouldn't be the first famous and wealthy person to swindled out of money by an inner-circle person.
The fact that the money when directly from otani's account kind of makes me think he wasn't the one placing bets. If you were to go as far as to use a middle man to place your bets because you know it's illegal, you wouldn't wire money directly from your account with your name on it. You would place the money in an account that isn't directly traceable to you or at the very least give the money to the middle man to place the bet.
@@GoodToBeGold08 lmao You must be a fan f one of the teas Ohtani spurned in 2018 or in this offseason.
Sorry, but gambling is not worse than steroids. If he gambled on MLB games, maybe, but this affected zero other people otherwise.
Wrong, someone who gambles and plays has an incentive to throw games which directly impact the entire game.
Wrong, roach
@@TheBatugan77 Nope
Shoh me the money! 💰
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"I WANNA TALK'TO SAAAMSON/FLY ME TO THE MOON N GET LIFTED!!"
-Dave Chappelle, as drug kingpin Samson, from one of the top 5 greatest movies centered on drug use, "Half-Baked." And yes, Samson and Adnan should both make that top 5 list.
He plays the clip to introduce the segment "So you want to talk to Samson" on NPDS.
I love Neil Diamond…David says…said no man ever…😂😮…
In a gadda data vida, baby!
The 'stache is propostrous!
Is there even a remote possibility that this could potentially result in an impeachment ?
Put a camera on jess at all times
Dodgers thought they got the Japanese babe Ruth but instead it’s Pete Rose
Pete also worked through his crew, its gambling 101, gives a ready fall guy
Can u prove that
@@kinghova9197 just all current evidence, we'll see if coverup becomes competent soon enough.
😂😂😂😂😂 chill out fam
The Slippery slope
None of this would be a problem if Ohtani just used a legal gambling site like Draftkings
Finally Adnan gets a #1 right. Whiplash is the only jazz movie that matters.
Top Jazz movie: Disney's Soul
Can I get a shirt of Tony's board?
Pete Rose says hi
Ask Pablo Torre to find out.
Yakuza 👀
Egg yoo faq’n yung, huddy up and faq’n buy!!!🤨
David's the guy! So good covering his stupidity and doesn't even need a fall guy. The"impossible" happened! He looks like he really know something😂
Ohtani will face zero consequence lol & Ippei's family will be rich generationally... nothing to do with culture Period Full Stop! Even if hands down guilty we will never know 🙄 Suspension lolololol smh. Learn from MLB & Manfred's history ugh
If none of the bets were related to baseball then i couldnt give a shit
Right absolutely stupid. Making it Bigger than it is. Unless of course it's on baseball. But they already said he never bet on baseball. Who gives a sh*t if he gambled on other sports.
Ohtani is untouchable
"Say it ain't so..?? Shooo!!!🤣 Thank you to my #NYYankees for not signing him...
Of course it is likely Ohtani was betting.
He was DEFINITELY the one gambling. Given when he’s in the US and where he’s from, it seems highly unlikely he was gambling on sports without doing it on baseball.
Ohtani won't be touched but there will be a commission by bud selig 20 years from now
Wait wait wait, so they can't even bet on other sports outside of baseball?
They can if it’s legal. Using a bookie in California isn’t legal gambling.
I love how people are ignoring that Ippei , like all translators, is the guy who is responsible for getting these foreign born players settled in America. Making sure to get them id cards, helping with opening bank accounts, looking over loans to interpret things with accountants etc. Therefore, he was well aware of a LOT if not pretty much all of Ohtani's personal details including account #s and passwords. Ohtani wouldn't be the first famous and wealthy person to swindled out of money by an inner-circle person.
Exactly, no one is bringing what you mentioned up…how convenient
Agreed
Sure, the interpreter also has mad computer hacking skills to fuck around with bank wire transfers, the most secure network outside the Pentagon 😂
Every other athlete that has gambled has been getting hit with fines and suspensions but shohei ohtani money was stolen??
Quite literally, yes.
ohtani was the one gambling....do you really think the other guy had control of over 5 million dollars....i know MLB wants to protect him but lets be be real....ohtani could not just bet 10 thousand on a game....gambling is about the rush when you win...but every gambler bets based on what he earns or owns
Who the fuck is Sinead O'Tawney? Some Irish golfer chick?
My question here is if in Japanese baseball gambling is allowed. Could it be that Shohei Ohtani is still operating largely within the cultural norms of Japanese baseball?
They still get extensive training in ethics when they join the league. Fact I think every year they have to do with seminar on gambling.
@@michaelcorcoran8768 I see. But could it be that in the case of a player like Ohtani that training needs to be more comprehensive given the shift in culture from Japan to the United States?
Maybe ohtani bet it and paid the interpreter to take the fall! Because he'd get kicked out of baseball, for betting on baseball and whatever else
Betting scandals in 2024 is akin to people getting upset for ladies showing their ankles back in the day.
No surprise huh. 👀
That's baseball's fault for Being so militant about it for a century and then completely flipping on their head
How so? The integrity of the players involved in the game is paramount. If they’re throwing games, what’s the point?
lol🤣well said!
Professional athletes with the ability to impact games are way to competitive the would only bet on themselves. People act like it's 1919 still and these players are making peanuts. They're multimillionaire that live in the lap of luxury. The only players you could potentially corrupt are Minor Leaguers and maybe a bench player, they couldn't impact the game enough to be valued to "gamblers".
Ohtani scandal will be swept under the rug just like the Astros cheating scandal. Ohtani is what makes MLB exciting to watch again. The league will protect Ohtani at all costs.
The Feds don't care about MLB or Ohtani. Sweep that!
Now that the gambling flood gates have been opened, good luck keeping pro sports legit. The fact that this and many other sports networks are “owned” by Draft Kings, etc., the conflicts of interest are even murkier.
Sports haven been considered entertainment for awhile now
All the actual evidence points to ohtani. “The interpreter said he did it and the bookie is a bad person” is the defense. It doesn’t matter they aren’t going to dig bc they don’t want to kill their golden goose. If this was the old days then he would already be out but people in this generation want to believe lied to. At the very least, ignorance is not an excuse. He should be held accountable bc if he isn’t then anyone can use this defense to get out of any crime they want. A drug lord, “oh it was my butler.” It came from his account. If he was truly trusted an interpreter with these decisions then he should pay for his stupidity.
Well it turns out they did dig, and all the actual evidence done by a Federal Investigation and a 37 page document pointed to Ohtani being a clear victim of theft. If the old days were condemning someone before proven guilty then I'm damn glad this generation has grown from that.
Well it turns out multiple Federal agencies did dig, and the actual evidence after a Federal Investigation gave a 37 page document showing Ohtani is a clear victim of theft. I'm glad this generation doesn't condemn people before proven guilty.
Well it turns out multiple Federal agencies did dig, and the actually evidence after a Federal Investigation gave a 37 page document showing Ohtani is a clear victim of theft.
BakaOhtani is the Gambler😤
The Othani story is a huge freakin' deal. I wonder how streamers will cover it?
If the worst case scenario happens, Otani needs to be banned for life. Just like Pete Rose.
Not to be a massive Chud in the CZcams comment section but at 13:39 it means something different over there. It means finger hearts in Korean culture not a money sign
My wife nor my best friend, a border agent, have access to my bank accounts. This stinks.
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Gata dathering?
Please don’t let him get suspended especially on opening day - I’ve spent hundreds of dollars on that
Free Pete Rose!!
leaving Mo Better Blues out of the list Sampson is criminal
Every time my Dodgers sign a guy it’s always something. Is the curse real?
IT'S THE OWNERSHIP! NEVER. EVER HAPPENED WITH THE O'MALLEY'S
Im willing to bet Shohei Ohtani so sorry
I can say that because I am not a public figure
BANNED FOR LIFE or reinstate PETE IMMEDIATELY
Stop lol. Rose isn't in the HOF for more than gambling & even if Ohtani's guilty we'll never know & there will be zero consequence 🙄
@@JustMeELC 🤣 what besides gambling is keeping Rose out?? Cap Anson is in and he is who established the no black players rule in the 1880s, Yawkey is in and he refused to hire any blacks until like 1960. Cobb charged with attempted murder, Cepeda convicted and served time for drug trafficking, Ruth rumored to have been with underage women, plus many other players with serious character, moral and legal issues. So they're in but Rose is out, for what besides gambling?🤨
You have found ohtani guilty allready and loving it .vultures
What does a David Samson live show provide? Getting lectured at in person?
far more intelligence than you could muster
Maybe Ohtani's wife was gambling
This is an untenable situation. You can’t NOT ban Otani even if they UN-ban Rose. No integrity Dodgers Baseball, your story smells worse than trumps diapers.
Ooooof
Lebatard lookin rough.
Time waits for nobody.
Of course Shohei gambles. No idiot bookie wud extend 4.5mil credit to an interpreter n no idiot wud bail out his interpreter for 4.5mil
Mizuhara's gambling habit rubbed off on Shohei as they spent a lot of time together. They both enjoyed gambling together, and Shohei provided the funds. There is no way Shohei was completely ignorant of his finances. Their stories keep changing because they are doing an awful job at damage control and trying to protect Shohei's career.