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The Valenti Show

HOUR 2: Ippei Mizuhara Charged, Lions' Ideal Draft Outcome, In Football Today

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico go from discussing one crime in the first hour to another in the second, breaking down the news that Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani's former translator, has been charged with bank fraud. They ask how Ohtani could have not known about this and if there's more to the story. Then, they wonder what your ideal outcome would be for the Lions' draft with it being 2 weeks from today before Rico gives the guys some teams that have some pressure to nail the NFL Draft in an "In Football Today".

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right I know I am supposed to deliver some NFL draft to you and I'm going to but I mean you just heard that in the update

0:08.0

And guys I know you're out there like sometimes you shake your added stuff and you go really am I supposed to believe now for me to believe that

0:17.7

Otani had nothing to do with this you need me to believe that he granted his interpreter independent access to his checking account and then had no idea 16 million dollars went missing no idea what it was for. I don't even know how you'd get authorization to

0:37.8

access O'Connor's. I mean you guys know how banks roll. Oh don't take your

0:42.3

money they just don't want to give it to you.

0:45.2

You got to go through a retiniscan for your own money. So hold on. So Skippy Mc Skipperson

0:51.6

over here, whatever his interpreter's name is,

0:54.6

is able to gain access and clear 16 million in withdrawals.

0:59.7

And the takeaway I'm supposed to accept for Major League Baseball is nothing to see here.

1:06.2

Not only that, but if I read it correctly, nothing to see here, case closed, and we don't need to audit Otani's account we don't need

1:16.0

to audit his bank account it when he's it yeah it's done and over with in three weeks here's

1:21.7

the other thing we We figured it out.

1:23.7

I don't care what kind of sports book you're running.

1:25.5

I don't care if you're straight up La Kosa Nostra.

1:28.1

You are to mob.

1:30.0

You're not getting 40 million in debt without a backer.

1:34.2

No casino would allow it.

1:36.7

Like not even have Bruno Mars rumors stuff.

1:39.2

Yeah, different.

1:39.8

Bruno Mars making $100 million a year. You're the interpreter. How did he give $40 million in that?

1:47.7

And that's just it. You're only the interpreter. Your job is to stand there and translate

1:51.8

between the American media and Otani.

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