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    4/15: Gil vs. Bassitt

    Sorry, I'm here, just intensely unreliable. Will try to be more useful in the future
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    This bookmaker actually seems pretty chill for a guy who does illegal things for a living and is owed tens of millions of now-unrecoverable dollars by someone being investigated by the feds
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    Pre-withholdings (California at the top tax bracket, so that's essentially 50% gone), pre-agent-cut, and pre-purchases. He must have bought some real estate, paid some limited salaries of his reps, maybe made some illiquid investments that couldn't easily be stolen, etc
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    So Mizuhara, after paying the stolen $16M of his $40M debt, was still $24M in the hole to the bookie? I'm amazed an illegal bookmaking operation has the liquidity to allow someone to get that far in debt. No wonder the feds care, this must be a giant racket
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    Right, I meant how much money he'd made prior to the 2023 season ($30M salary in 2023, ~$10M in salaries prior to that, plus the $2.5M signing bonus), just for context on how this theft amount was potentially near to or more than Ohtani's entire net worth just several months earlier
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    $16M is a TON of money for someone that, prior to 2023, had only made like $13M pretax from his MLB salaries. Ohtani obviously has had endorsements, baseball income in Japan, etc, but that is a super meaningful amount of money even to him (at least until he signed his $700M contract, which this...
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    I have to be honest... while not being a lawyer, I think folks have focused overly much on the betting angle, when Ohtani's accusation of theft in the millions of dollars basically upped the stakes a lot. The feds may not care about charging gamblers, but they may care about large-scale bank...
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    Makes sense, but it can't be an "alleged" theft at this point, can it? Mizuhara must be confirming it rather than denying, otherwise presumably Ohtani would have lied to the FBI (since apparently he's spoken to investigators at this point). So I assume Mizuhara is pleading guilty to some kind of...
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    Why would the Feds want a plea deal if this was super cut-and-dried? Maybe he'll help them charge the bookie.
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    4/10 - Weathers vs. Stroman

    Not Giambi's walkoff in extras his first year? https://www.pinstripealley.com/2022/3/21/22986732/yankees-best-games-jason-giambi-walk-off-grand-slam-2002-twins-bernie-williams-posada-soriano I guess maybe there was only 1 out there
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    4/10 - Weathers vs. Stroman

    Well, that one he picked the right pitch, just somehow shortarmed himself
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    4/10 - Weathers vs. Stroman

    Oh well. I like the Soto messed with Scott, that was an awesome AB to watch
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    4/10 - Weathers vs. Stroman

    Need to see another replay, but from what I recall, even if that's a clean throw and he was out at first, Rizzo had no time to go home. Meaning Anderson didn't score on Volpe's error, he just straight up scored from 2nd on a grounder to short. I think that means that Anderson MUST have...
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    4/10 - Weathers vs. Stroman

    Man, Verdugo really giving Scott a hand there. Why make him work when you can swing at ball 3 when you're down 3 runs
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    4/10 - Weathers vs. Stroman

    I think he's got to go home there, right? i would have to watch that again but I think they had Anderson easy rounding third. You can't score from 2nd on a groundout to short without the fielder doing something dumb
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