Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Kalam View Post
In case there was any question about the Ohtani situation, i was speaking to someone very connected to the So Cal sports betting scene, and he confirmed Ohtani is a big soccer betting whale, and it’s a very open secret. And as far as he knows there was no baseball bets. And the interpreter is falling on the sword for him.

just saw another thread for this, so Druff feel free to move this.
We will monitor this. The more i think about this story the more questions i have.

I heard Ippei played poker in SoCal and that is how he met the bookie. Druff prolly played with these guys - or wishes he did.

There is no way these two life-long best buddies, Ippei & Shohei, didn’t have shared interests.

As desperately as MLB will want to bury this …. I dunno. Of course, anywhere but California this is a non story.

Unless degen Ippei bet Angels or Dodgers. Here’s a guy who at one time was behind $4.5m and he isn’t gonna be at least a little bit apt to use an advantage to relieve the pressure.
I was starting to lean towards Ippei being the beard before that Kalam post.

Maybe me being naive about the big-dollar bookie scene, but now would Ippei get such a high credit line without Shohei, at the very least, backing him?