Trying to Make Sense of New Ohtani News
The Valenti Show
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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Mike and Rico open the show reacting to a new report about the true amount of money that Shohei Ohtani's translator Ippei Mizuhara stole from the baseball superstar's account. They wonder how Ohtani could not have known about this.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in |
| 0:03.0 | beautiful Thursday afternoon. |
| 0:05.0 | We're ready to rock and roll. |
| 0:06.0 | We got a lot to talk about. |
| 0:08.0 | Tigers won't be one of them. |
| 0:10.0 | Let's just move on to other things |
| 0:12.0 | because we have so many storylines |
| 0:14.1 | including when good Christians go bad the story of Rico Beard. But can we start just briefly? |
| 0:21.2 | I want to ask this question again. |
| 0:23.0 | How was Otani not aware of any of this? |
| 0:26.0 | How was his interpreter stealing half a mill a week, |
| 0:30.0 | $2 million a month and $24 million dollars a year and he didn't notice and he |
| 0:36.3 | had no part in it how was he cleared so quickly I know I know conspiracy theory I'm wearing a tin foil hat Mike that's not a conspiracy theory that's just good |
| 0:46.3 | common sense okay crazy he didn't siphon five hundred dollars a month that can easily |
| 0:54.0 | oh tonne makes so much money you could probably even take a thousand dollars he |
| 0:59.1 | wouldn't miss it a half a million dollars a a week a week. Right, it's red. Like, wait, what am I paying for that's a half a million dollars each week? What did I buy some property? I don't know, like apparently this man has never checked his bank account. |
| 1:18.5 | Hold on, conspiracy theory level 1 through 10. Where am I at according to listeners. |
| 1:24.0 | Look I said from the start... |
| 1:26.0 | Where is 1 being low and 10 being like 10 will... |
| 1:29.0 | 1 being you're dead on, it's not a conspiracy, I actually think you're right five being like no it's kind of conspiracy but you're not crazy 10 |
| 1:38.4 | You're bill space manly. You're insane |
| 1:41.9 | But we said this at the start. He's too big to fail. He's baseball's |
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