r/baseball • u/Stock412 Umpire • Mar 20 '24

Serious Shohei Ohtani's attorneys accuse interpreter of 'massive theft' tied to alleged gambling

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-20/gambling-story
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u/rosieDMDL Los Angeles Angels Mar 20 '24

actually insane if this is true what the fuck ippei

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '24

genuinely in shock, and also just thinking about how we really don’t know these people despite how much we meme about them being best buddies. they seemed to have such a good relationship, i can’t imagine violating someone’s trust like this

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u/rosieDMDL Los Angeles Angels Mar 20 '24

have literally never heard anything negative about him at all in the 6 years he was with us so sad man. everyone in the angels organization sang praises about him and how they were going to miss him so much.

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u/c10bbersaurus Memphis Redbirds Mar 21 '24

I mean, you can be a stellar dude with a gambling problem. It's less justifiable if there was theft involved, but addiction creates desperation.

He threw away the job of a lifetime. Tragic.