The Absurdity Of the Ohtani Situation
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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The guys discuss the latest in the Shohei Ohtani situation, including whether MLB will investigate or not.
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| 0:00.0 | I want to bring this up just because it's a really incredible story and I understand |
| 0:06.4 | baseball doesn't get us very far but this show a otani story that broke is absolutely wild. And the MLB not investigating, although I think I know why, is even more |
| 0:19.8 | why. All right? This is one of the murkiest most, I don't want to use the word shocking, but it's just wild. |
| 0:27.0 | So look, basically here's where I think we understand where we're at. |
| 0:33.8 | So, Otani's bank account was sending wire transfers to illegal bookies. |
| 0:40.5 | I mean that's the long and short here so basically it sounds like the |
| 0:46.2 | actual story could be his translator got in way too deep in gambling debts |
| 0:55.0 | maybe he goes to Otani for help. Do me a solid. |
| 0:56.0 | Right, wrong people find out about it. |
| 0:58.0 | Translator goes, |
| 1:00.0 | Yo, I got this, I'll lay on the sword. |
| 1:02.0 | One problem, O' Otani's team then just |
| 1:04.9 | denies the whole damn thing and you end up here now Otani's not currently |
| 1:11.3 | facing discipline we're talking about over $5 million here. |
| 1:15.8 | The MLB has said we're not actively investigating it, |
| 1:19.7 | but now the interpreter, who is essentially |
| 1:22.4 | a part of the Dodgers organization has been fired. |
| 1:26.0 | Look you can start with the first thing which is show hey you make 700 million dollars. |
| 1:32.4 | What possible adrenaline rush are you getting from betting whatever amount of money. |
| 1:37.8 | But my point is, you can't convince me that this isn't, this is my opinion. You're not going to convince me |
| 1:47.2 | he's not having the translator go and rifle the bets because he's too famous to open an account. |
| 1:51.6 | Second of all, brother if I had a bill I'd be ringing |
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