The Hello, welcome to episode 1236 of The Sleeper and the Bust. It is Friday, December 8th. I'm your host Paul Spore.

Joining this morning by Justin Mason. Justin, we have talked recently, so it hasn't been a lot

going on, but good morning. Hey, it's Otani Watch. I know now we're on the big Otani Watch. We have literally no news since the time. Well, we have the report that is decision is imminent.

Okay, well that literally just went up, but when I had originally,

when we were getting ready to start,

and I had refreshed trade rumors, the last thing that was up when we recorded yesterday

was the first was still at the top of the page. Now it had been updated this thing,

Dave Rubinstein reportedly in talks to acquire the Baltimore Orioles, something

about ownership there. It had been updated at 11.59 PM Central, but it was the last thing that was up when you and I talked

yesterday afternoon for the pod and then the

first thing this morning. Since then two things have happened including the showayotani decision

reportedly imminent and then something that they have called the opener,

which is probably just their morning post over there.

So we haven't had much news, except that.

What do you think about this?

I do want to talk about the Otani stuff real quick because we don't have any real

tracking of who's in this that much, right? We've got obviously the Dodgers, the Jays have become prominent in this.

You had an interesting angle that I didn't even think about looking at

the betting markets as a way of gleaning some information here.

So why don't you take the lead here and give us some

information on Otani? People might know where he's at by the time this goes if he

signs in an hour but absent that give us some info that you've gleaned from the Otani talks here.

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