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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I already love the 2024 season
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It seems almost inconceivable that they would suspend or ban Ohtani, as that would be so incomprehensibly detrimental to the game's present and future, and so that's probably exactly what Manfred will do.
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the signs were there https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1678717023721857024?s=46&t=Fatz1FdflCVFz-RimfH4Aw
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Mar 21, 2024 01:26
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Hearing reports that Ohtani assassinated the Boeing whistleblower
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Mar 21, 2024 01:28
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hmm maybe he won't be a HoF shoe in
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Mar 21, 2024 01:32
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Traxis posted:Hearing reports that Ohtani assassinated the Boeing whistleblower somebody check his house for kate middleton
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Mar 21, 2024 01:32
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Trade Ohtani to the Angels as punishment. Can't wait for the inevitable Angels sports gambling ring to come to light.
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Mar 21, 2024 01:38
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Ohtani will be confined to playing 81 home games per season as a Toronto Blue Jay after being banned from America for his crimes.
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Mar 21, 2024 01:41
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Good Dog posted:Can't wait for the inevitable Angels sports gambling ring to come to light. This surely explains why they were so awful the entire time Ohtani was there.
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Mar 21, 2024 01:42
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live with fruit posted:This surely explains why they were so awful the entire time Ohtani was there. Yeah but they made a fortune!
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Mar 21, 2024 01:44
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Anthony Rendon hates baseball because his one true passion is betting against the Angels
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Mar 21, 2024 01:44
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I don't think Ohtani made the bets but I'm 100% sure he paid the debt for his guy and that's still a no-no
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Mar 21, 2024 01:45
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Tatsuta Age posted:has shohei been banned from returning to America yet 'Ladies and gentlemen, your Los Angeles Angels of International Waters starting lineup! ...brought to you by DraftKings!'
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Mar 21, 2024 01:46
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Harlock posted:I don't think Ohtani made the bets but I'm 100% sure he paid the debt for his guy and that's still a no-no This is exactly what got Pete Rose nailed to the wall, paying his guy's gambling debts, which his guy swore he was was betting Rose's behalf (and, notwithstanding the guy was a scumbag and a semiprofessional liar, was probably true, and at any rate Rose has since acknowledged was true) while Rose swore the opposite. That all blew up in Rose's face because he refused to pay the scumbag a big pile of hush money, Ohtani probably will not make the same mistake and his former interpreter will probably testify it was all his own betting
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Mar 21, 2024 01:49
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Teddybear posted:It seems almost inconceivable that they would suspend or ban Ohtani, as that would be so incomprehensibly detrimental to the game's present and future, and so that's probably exactly what Manfred will do. I've been told Manfred will never punish players so Ohtani for cy young and at least two other awards to help him through these trying times.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Can you even imagine if Manfred had to drop the ban hammer on Shohei? I don't know if this sport would survive. this Bally strike call brought to you by draftkings
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Mar 21, 2024 01:54
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zoux posted:Shohei announces retirement so he can pursue his first love, basketball. Space Slam when?
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Dameius posted:I've been told Manfred will never punish players so Ohtani for cy young and at least two other awards to help him through these trying times.
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https://twitter.com/Montreal_Expos/status/1770574098613047446
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Popete posted:Sports gambling addiction is going to be the Opioid Epidemic of the 2020s and anyone with an ounce of foresight could see it coming. Yeah there have been lots of articles for years out of the UK where laws around betting have been loose for a while about people losing a ton, struggling to stay away, then getting microtargetted ads tailored to their betting habits & being lured back to ruin themselves more. There was a new WSJ podcast ep about someone losing $400k mostly through Draftkings. Didn’t fit stereotype as she’s a psychologist in her 40s. This is made worse by how the betting companies are run by not great people who are gonna have an infinite lobbying budget to steamroll whatever remaining protections there are in the next few years.
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Harlock posted:I don't think Ohtani made the bets but I'm 100% sure he paid the debt for his guy and that's still a no-no
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bawfuls posted:harsh but fair and most importantly, consistent Dodgers will need something to console themselves with while watching baseball in October, after all.
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bawfuls posted:what are the potential consequences here? If we assume this is what happened and it is proven Ippei wasn’t placing bets on Ohtani’s behalf, does it matter if he only bet on non-baseball sports? Does the league care or is the issue limited to legal problems around the illegal sportsbook?
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Yeah honestly even if Ohtani himself can 100% substantiate that he didn't do any gambling, he could still be in trouble for paying millions out of his own pocket to illegal bookies even if it was to cover somebody else's debts. I think if the actual facts turn out to be "Ohtani's friend got in deep, Ohtani bailed him out as a favor, the end no moral" then he'd get off with a relatively light punishment (Ippei probably not so much) since what he did was bad but mostly just because he was an idiot rube trying to help a friend. The pivot to the theft angle after the initial story does make it seem like Ohtani maybe paid before consulting with his lawyers and then they freaked out he'd done it and are trying to spin the story to protect their client. Or Ippei really did steal it and Ohtani initially tried to cover for it but is now walking it back, who knows. Crazy stuff, if there were two players who I really did not expect to ever be wrapped up in scandal like this it'd be like, Ohtani and Trout.
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This is just a stutter step for Mizuhara.
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Unless they have betting slips with Ohtanis fingerprints on them and cancelled checks like Jordan to bookies, he'll skate. The interpreter is toast as far as ever setting foot in an MLB clubhouse ever again, but MLB isn't going to suspend or ban the biggest star in a generation. BigBallChunkyTime fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Mar 21, 2024 |
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Jordan Gretzky Ohtani We only need the greatest of all time in Football to be caught for gambling. Dan Marino I know what you did
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Whoa, I heard Shohei had been banned for life but didn't hear for what. Guess now I know
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Tungsten arm probably made a bet or two in his day
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Jordan There's a whole gambling ad about Tom Brady not being allowed
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bawfuls posted:what are the odds that Ippei was placing proxy bets for Ohtani and it's Ohtani with the gambling addiction who's now hanging him out to dry??  There's too many potential jokes to make about deferred money and our_crimes.txt that I simply can't choose.
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AsInHowe posted:There's a whole gambling ad about Tom Brady not being allowed Ya but what's that gotta do with the GOAT Dan Marino?
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Real talk though: Even Year Bullshit is insanely powerful and starting right on time with the first game of the year.
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Craptacular! posted:
how dare you insinuate that the dodgers dumped the crimes willy nilly in a txt file It was an xls file
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What I don’t get is using an illegal bookie when you can’t walk down the street these days without seeing an ad for a legal gambling service
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:What I don’t get is using an illegal bookie when you can’t walk down the street these days without seeing an ad for a legal gambling service sports gambling still illegal in California (and I'll vote to keep it so every opportunity they give me) this news is bonkers. imagine if this is all a smokescreen for the face of MLB's crippling gambling addiction
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:What I don’t get is using an illegal bookie when you can’t walk down the street these days without seeing an ad for a legal gambling service Both Ippei and Shohei are (or were as the case may be) employees of MLB clubs, they're not allowed to gamble on sports even if it is legal.
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