MLB 2024

[MrPryck2U]

So, the MLB regular season is under way in South Korea for the first time ever. Some dude on the Pads needs a to fix his glove.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

This Ohtani interpreter gambling story seems very fishy

 

[gump]

Well it looks like it was concocted quickly to hide the fact that he was paying off his friend’s illegal debt?

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

That it does.

Oh yea, Shoehi was paying off my debts.

Uh that's illegal.

What? Oh, uh, I was robbed!

 

[Hewson]

Eh, what's a few bucks bet on a few games.

 

[DaveC]

there is precisely 0.000% chance that a bookie lets a translator run up nearly $5 million in credit without some sort of guarantee that the debt would be covered.

either Shohei fully knew about it and agreed to back the debts, or the translator is a master liar, forger, and thief.

whatever happened, I have a feeling that we've only just peeled the skin off this many-layered onion.

 

[MrPryck2U]

Nothing like a scandal to start off the season! Well, that and the shitty new uniforms. Baseball is back!

 

[gump]

Maybe the reason Ohtani could live with those deferrals was all the gambling money he was making on the side?

I'm joking. Maybe.

You know what would be funny: if he were to be suspended for a season or two, he would - I think - only lose the $2m he is owed, but the Dodgers would be on the hook for the deferrals. I think!

 

[gump]

This is a really good read on the situation, by the way: https://cupofcoffee.beehiiv.com/p/cup-coffee-extra-breaking-shohei-ohtaniippei-mizuhara-story

 

[MrPryck2U]

Anything can happen, but if Ohtani is banned that would absolutely suck.

 

[DaveC]

BREAKING: Ohtani suddenly retires from baseball, will play basketball next season

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

He describes his relationship with Ohtani, whom he first met in 2013, as "brothers," and says he spends more time with Ohtani than with his wife.

Mizuhara's debt ballooned to $4 million by early 2023, he tells ESPN, and that's when he says he went to Ohtani for help. He says he feared losing Ohtani's trust, and he also feared for his safety, that someone might come to his house.

"I explained my situation," he says. "And obviously he wasn't happy about it, but he said he would help me."

Asked if Ohtani knew the person owed the money was a bookie, Mizuhara says his friend "didn't have any clue."

"I just told him I need to send a wire to pay off the debt," Mizuhara says. "He didn't ask if it was illegal, didn't question me about that."

Mizuhara says that, after Ohtani agreed to pay the debts, the two of them logged into Ohtani's bank account on Ohtani's computer and sent eight or nine transactions, each at $500,000, over several months. They added "loan" to the description field in the transactions. Mizuhara estimates the final payment was made in October.

Asked by ESPN if he thought he would be putting himself or Ohtani at risk by asking Ohtani to pay the debts, Mizuhara says, "I don't think either of us thought about that at the time at all."

Mizuhara declines to tell ESPN the full amount he lost gambling but confirms it's at least $4.5 million. He calls it "embarrassing."

"My wife doesn't even know about any of this until even right now," he says.

He says he felt uncomfortable and guilty for a few weeks after asking Ohtani to pay back his debts, but that Ohtani moved on. "It was hard to see him," Mizuhara says, "He's a great guy and pretty much he went on with his life like nothing ever happened."

Asked if he intended to pay back Ohtani, Mizuhara says he told his friend he would. He adds that Ohtani has never gambled and "thinks gambling is terrible."

"He sees that people, teammates would be gambling all the time, and he'll be like, 'Why are they doing this? Gambling is not good.' He would make comments like that. People would ask him to go to casinos on road trips, and he would never go. No, he's not into it."

Yeaaaaaaaaa Ohtani was definitely betting himself through an illegal bookie. This story is bullshit.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Ohtani will speak to the media today, where he will say that it wasn't him who was gambling. it was Kim Mulkey.

 

[Hewson]

Ohtani will speak to the media today, where he will say that it wasn't him who was gambling. it was Kim Mulkey.

Through his interpreter?

 

[gump]

Ohtani will speak to the media today, where he will say that it wasn't him who was gambling. it was Kim Mulkey.

He will read a statement, it seems.

My "I will not be taking questions at this point" has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Ohtani after realizing what his spokesperson told ESPN came with an automatic one year suspension

 

[gump]

Seems relevant:

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

This whole idea that he didn't understand what was being said until he had it translated to him screams of Sammy Sosa needing an interpreter to answer steroid questions.

 

[gump]

Happy opening day! The Knicks are so good that I barely paid attention to baseball, so this sneaked up on me. But can't wait to see Juan Soto in pinstripes.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

LIGHT THE BEAM!!!

 

[gump]

LOL.

That dude will do whatever is necessary to collect his competitive balance checks.

 

[Hewson]

LIGHT THE BEAM!!!

10,624 seats, so the stadium will be 20% full rather than the current 4% on average.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

if they're going to play in a AAA stadium... there, uh, there's a AAA stadium in Las Vegas.

the fuck are you doing, A's?

 

[DaveC]

i really dig the colours and details on the new phillies city connect jerseys but that font is an abomination that ruins the whole thing. why do the L's look like cowboy boots??

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

The NBA's city editions have some big winners and clear losers, which is understandable because it's hard to come up with something new every single year.

But how Nike has managed to pretty much fuck up every single MLB city edition (Nats aside), when it's just one jersey that you keep for a long time, is beyond my comprehension

 

[Hewson]

I like the Philly hats.

 

[DaveC]

The Rockies city connect unis are awesome too. But yeah besides COL and WAS the rest are mostly ass.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

it seems like the Mets will be doing a 7 Line themed, possibly purple, jersey for their City Connect and, well, i'm frightened



also the 7 doesn't go over the queensboro so wtf