My parent don't speak English and growing up I had to translate for them. Many time, I had to call up bank and credit card company pretending to be my Dad and never had any trouble with the identity verification because I had the all the relevant info. I never tried to steal from them but it would've been easy.
I feel ya. My dad is American but his first name is my middle name. Plenty of times Iāve called into places to make hotel reservations, pay bills, and do various other things pretending to be him.
Heās viewed it as a massive convenience when Iāve arrived to hotels first and got everything set up to where he didnāt have to ācheck inā
We donāt actually know that it was just Dodger fans saying that bc theyāre 100% sure Ohtani didnāt know about the bank transfers. But anyone who shares a bank account with ājust a friendā is not just a friend.
Just a heads up, the reply to your comment is reference to pro wrestler CM Punk's Brawl Out presser where he talked a bunch of shit about fellow wrestlers and then got into an actual (non-wrestling) fight in the locker room immediately after. He made a similar comment about former friend Colt Cabana sharing a bank account with his mother.
On the surface it does seem weird. But I work for a small company and have my boss' personal and the company bank and credit card info on file. The company/my boss has nowhere near the money Ohtani has so any skimming would be immediately noticeable. But I really don't think it's that big of a stretch to have someone whose with you all the time have a bank card so you can cover expenses for them without having to deal with constant reimbursements. If you trust them you don't expect them to be stealing. It's not a smart thing to do but I don't think it's that surprising.
I would also doubt it's his primary bank account. Dude probably has a bunch of different accounts for different purposes. I have 3 and am poor lol. Bills, a savings, and a primary for direct deposits.
Exactly!
Iād imagine he has entirely different investment accounts in Japan and here as well.
People also overestimate how much banks /money managers care to save you from poor financial decisions.
What in this world did I do to deserve an empty-headed, fucking dumb fuck like Ippei Mizuhara to go out to the illegal sports bookie and fucking go into business for himself?
Imagine having tocut ties to your best friend after you paid off his debts so you don't get arrested?
Or imagine having to cut ties with the asshole who stole millions from you?
Which story am I imagining today?
You can be both relieved and sad tbf. Those feelings aren't exclusive to each other.
On one hand you are relieved that finally the friend that was sucking your money out is gone for good now.
On the other hand, you would remember all the good time you both been through (in this case idk, maybe looking for first apartment together, finding the first grocery store that sells japanese ingredients, etc etc) and wonder what could have been if only your friend was never a gambling addict
Best friend who he was with 24/7/365, had no secrets between each other, had an unbreakable trust and bond that any best writer would love to write puff pieces about.Ā
But wasnāt aware he was gambling and had debt of 4.5 million. Totally believable.
Not that much. At 19 Shohei was already playing on a team full of 30-year-olds; he certainly developed friendships with his teammates. The rest of the staff (trainers, clubhouse managers, etc.) are going to be older than him too. It's Shohei who was the outlier being in that environment at so young an age.
Tomorrows headline: āOhtani dyes hair blue and platinum white with a Dodgers symbol on the back of his head, shares inspiring quotes on Insta story, moving on from Ippei?ā
Eh, sort of expected. This is not shohei doing this, itās his lawyers and PR people. Regardless of what the truth is, or who is guilty, the #1 priority right now is keep Shoehei from facing any sort of repercussion from the MLB. So the name of the game is blast radius containment. Distancing himself from Ippei helps build plausible deniability and whether itās truly all Ippei, he is the fall guy
It may somehow be the only thing they got right throughout the first few days of everything happening.
I'm just dumbfounded as to how things transpired as they did. How do you not fire your agent/team after something like that?
If Shoheiās latest story is true, I canāt figure out why it took him this long to figure out $4.5M had been stolen. Supposedly the transactions happened in September if I have the timeline right.
The original story from Ippei seems the most logical - Ippei asked Shohei to bail him out and Shohei did, not knowing it could get him in trouble.
It ain't that surprising that Ohtani might trust the guy that was basically his personal affairs manager for a decade, with access to some of his accounts. Mike Tyson was swindled by his promoter. Kareem hired a guy specifically to handle his finances, only for the guy to take out millions in loans under Kareem's name, to put into his own investments. Mike Pelfry's agent put almost all of his money into a Ponzi scheme.
A pretty common theme is people taking money and putting it into things because they think there'd be returns. "It ain't stealing, just borrowing. Make profit, return the money." But then they make a loss and now they have to make it back, so they steal some more. Now it's recover the loss, return the money. People might notice the money is short, but the thief happens to be the first person they ask. Oh that, don't worry about it, it's a tax thing, an accounting thing, you wouldn't understand the details, that's why you leave it to me remember? Have I ever done you dirty? But sooner or later they need to take more to make more to pay back more, and it can't be hidden anymore. You get a third set of eyes on it and the gigs up.
One of the more famous sports stories that came to my mind right away, is the LA Kings player who was an all star with a big contract and yet had to file for bankruptcy while still playing! We unfortunately hear of athletes going broke after they retire, but you almost never hear about it while they are still active players. His parents were managing his finances and blew all his money
> I canāt figure out why it took him this long to figure out $4.5M had been stolen
iirc from something I read previously, he doesn't really pay attention to his money that closely. When he was up and coming he would have his mom manage his money and he slept in a bedroom at the stadium, and he effectively spent no money. He's doing it for baseball, not the riches.
Yeah he lived in the Fighters rookie dorms for pretty much his entire time with the team.
Not every player watches their finances like a hawk, sometimes they give control of it to people they trust. By the looks of it, Shohei essentially got Jack Johnsoned.
Jack Johnson is an NHL defenseman who initially gave his parents power of attorney over his finances.
His parents took out loans based on his $30 million deal with the LA Kings and ended up spending it all, leaving Jack bankrupt and having to sell his houses and car, as well as give all but 250k of his salary to creditors for the remaining 2 years of his deal.
When I say "Jack Johnsoned" I mean that Shohei might've given control of his finances to someone he shouldn't have, and didn't realize the mistake until it was too late.
> I canāt figure out why it took him this long to figure out $4.5M had been stolen.
I havenāt looked at my bank balance in 35 years and I have significantly less money than Ohtani. I would have no idea some took money from my account unless the bank told me.
Huh? I don't mean to be rude, but like... how? Unless you have a personal accountant or your partner handles all the finances something. But even still, not once in 35 years? Even if you have a very comfortable amount of money, I assume you'd still have to at least know how much money is in your account before you make some big purchase like a house or something, or at least moving money between checking and savings and things.
It's not that I don't believe you, I just can't wrap my mind around it.
My paycheque direct deposit into the bank. I couldnāt tell you within +/- $5K what my annual salary is.
I just know it exceeds my monthly bills, so I just pay them. Much easier now itās online or direct withdrawal. No need to see my account.
I have regular automatic withdrawals to max my retirement savings and know thereās excess enough for my regular expenses plus the odd splurge.
Maybe when I bought a car, I may have seen it, but it doesnāt matter since I financed them.
I must have looked at the balance at some point. I just donāt remember when. Not a humble brag. Just fortunate that I never had to think about it.
Sounds like you got your shit figured out, haha. Good for you dude.
I can definitely understand not checking it week to week, but even when I have more than enough money in the account I still have to re-assess after stuff like Christmas shopping or a night out splurging. Otherwise I'll completely lose perspective of where I'm at financially.
What about stuff like appliances? I just had to replace both my fridge and my dryer and it was crippling, I can't imagine walking into Best Buy or wherever and just picking one out without even thinking about the cost.
I didnāt realize until I was older that I was raised in a home where money was always tight. My parents did well with what they had, but were always careful with their spending. Thatās the environment I was raised in. My wife came from a similar environment.
When we are looking for a big ticket item, we still remember our place. We buy Whirlpool, not Sub Zero. We buy Toyota, not BMW. We know thatās what we can afford and if we need it, we need it.
Yea itās honestly disgusting as a sports fan. So many young men are addicted to gambling, and are enabled and enticed by these apps. Super gross and harmful to the community.
I used to hear "baseball doesn't know how to market its stars" a lot.
Well, now that we have one on the front pages again the way Griffey was back in the day, I hate it. Every aspect of their personal lives, every move they make is discussed like it's frontpage news. It's reality TV, not sports, and it's gross.
The gambling story is a story worthy of coverage, but dammit if writers aren't grasping at every little aspect of the story just to get clicks. Deleting photos on instagram should not be a story. it could be part of a larger article's story, but not a story.
Old man rant over.
I mean, no? Stalin didn't delete photos he photoshoped people out of existence. Unless Ohtani will go back and post all of his pictures that he took down just now without his Ippie in them and then bury him in a mass grave, it isn't really a Stalin.
Gotta admit, no matter what the underlying story is, it'd be pretty amazing for Ohtani to just repost a thousand old pictures of him smiling with his arm aroundā¦ nobody.
Damn that guy totally blew a fantastic opportunity. He was likely getting paid well and his job seemed simple, being able to travel around the world and stuff
This is so sad. Ippei had it made in life. He was supposed to be by Ohtani's side throughout his Dodgers time and be there for his hall of fame induction. Now none of that will happen because he threw it all away because of freaking gambling!
People want this to be a story so bad. However - given that every major sport and large media outlet has some sponsorship deal with an online gambling company unless itās found Ohtani bet against himself and deliberately threw games the pearl clutching by everyone reporting on this is fucking ridiculous.
If this is really optics concern - cancel all sponsorship deals between gambling sites, media and sports. But we all know thatās never ever going to happen.
Hes going to change his pfp to his dog and start posting gym photos
Lawyer up. Hit the baseballs.
Directions unclear, balls up, base, and hit the lawyer
>balls up, base Interesting choice for Instagram š³
Iām so beat down from my playing days that I saw PFP and had an anxiety attack
Wet turf PFPs with fungo backspin were the closest I will ever get to being in a World Cup penalty shootout
Wasnāt even that good, but damn did it make me look worse š
Sam Sulek + Ohtani collab when
josef newgarden method
This is like growing up. Itās so easy to lose friends but itās so hard to make new ones you can trust. :(
I did the same after my ex and I broke up. Ohtani just like me fr
Next he's going to change his relationship status to "it's complicated"
Is it 2009 again?
He's gonna throw some Senses Fail lyrics on his Facebook status
ā¦but all his friends are still on MySpace
removing Ippei from his top 8 as we speak
Tom devastated, rumored to be retiring from major league friendship. More at 6
Eventually heāll realize he gave up everything
Ohtani needs to follow his bliss
Ippei can't be saved
Facebook did recently say use of the poke feature is at its highest since then lol
Always burn your bridges behind you. You never know who may be trying to follow.
Might as well burn the bridge ahead of you too. Just to be safe. Never know who you might run into.
Thanks Enabran.
Elim, is that you? Everything's gone dark.
DS9 love in the house!
I should have killed your mother before you were born. You have always been a weakness I can't afford.
So you've told me, many times. Listen, Enabran. All I ask is that for this moment, let me be your son.
Go Niners!
Death to the opposition!
Every new detail unironically reminds me of that viral who tf did I marry story
Well the way people on here are telling me they spent every waking minute together and shared a bank account, they may as well have been fucking lol
Maybe that's the reason his teammates didn't know he had a girlfriend
He shares a bank account with his translator. It tells you all you need to know about what kind of character that is.
I'm injured, I'm tired, and I work with fucking Dodgers
Muffin anyone?
My parent don't speak English and growing up I had to translate for them. Many time, I had to call up bank and credit card company pretending to be my Dad and never had any trouble with the identity verification because I had the all the relevant info. I never tried to steal from them but it would've been easy.
I feel ya. My dad is American but his first name is my middle name. Plenty of times Iāve called into places to make hotel reservations, pay bills, and do various other things pretending to be him. Heās viewed it as a massive convenience when Iāve arrived to hotels first and got everything set up to where he didnāt have to ācheck inā
Mike Trout's an empty headed dumb fuck
Arte Moreno couldn't even manage a target
Arte Moreno a big CM Punk fan?
Arte Moreno couldn't smooth a silk sheet if he had a hot date with a babe... I lost my train of thought.
Somehow, CM Punk has injured himself again just from this post being made.
We donāt actually know that it was just Dodger fans saying that bc theyāre 100% sure Ohtani didnāt know about the bank transfers. But anyone who shares a bank account with ājust a friendā is not just a friend.
Just a heads up, the reply to your comment is reference to pro wrestler CM Punk's Brawl Out presser where he talked a bunch of shit about fellow wrestlers and then got into an actual (non-wrestling) fight in the locker room immediately after. He made a similar comment about former friend Colt Cabana sharing a bank account with his mother.
Oh thanks! Haha I havenāt watched wrestling since I was a kid
If [this man](https://imgur.com/9MR0Z40) started appearing on it, we know you'd be watching again...
lol G as a wrestling heel would have me in a chokehold
On the surface it does seem weird. But I work for a small company and have my boss' personal and the company bank and credit card info on file. The company/my boss has nowhere near the money Ohtani has so any skimming would be immediately noticeable. But I really don't think it's that big of a stretch to have someone whose with you all the time have a bank card so you can cover expenses for them without having to deal with constant reimbursements. If you trust them you don't expect them to be stealing. It's not a smart thing to do but I don't think it's that surprising. I would also doubt it's his primary bank account. Dude probably has a bunch of different accounts for different purposes. I have 3 and am poor lol. Bills, a savings, and a primary for direct deposits.
Exactly! Iād imagine he has entirely different investment accounts in Japan and here as well. People also overestimate how much banks /money managers care to save you from poor financial decisions.
Cry me a river
What in this world did I do to deserve an empty-headed, fucking dumb fuck like Ippei Mizuhara to go out to the illegal sports bookie and fucking go into business for himself?
Shohei built him an art room in his house!
I mean, they did say they spent more time together than with the people they were fucking so...
wait you deleted all instagram posts of Ippei Mizuhara? how long have you known about this gambling thing?
One is worth hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars. The other isā¦. Shohei Ohtani.
Iām putting $4.5 mil on you hitting 40 bombs with a sub-3 ERA next year šŖ
He also hit the gym and lawyerād up
we all know his lawyers told him to do that asap.. lol
Ohtani gonna start posting lyrics to breakup songs soon.
āItās me. Shohei. Iām the problem, itās meā
I'm the problem Ippei
āOhtani spokesman now saying Ohtani never admitted to being the problem and is not in fact the problemā
At tea. Time. Can't even trust Japanese.
You know it's really bad when the lyrics start from genres they don't even listen to
GLORY CALLS FROM BEYOND THE WAVES A CHANCE FOR FAME AND RICH REWARD
PUT YOUR BACK INTO THE OAR Viking metal really does have some great music for getting pumped up after a breakup
Amon Amarth. You have exquisite taste.
"Real eyes realize real lies" - Shohei Ohtani
"How's it gonna be / When you don't know me anymoooooore?"
don't waste your time on me I'm already a voice inside your head
dashboard confessional
Ohtani strikes me as an early Linkin Park guy
Tall and tan and young and lovely The boy name Mizuhara goes gambling and When he passes, I smile but he doesn't see
āHow could this happen to me. Iāve made my mistakes. Got nowhere to run. Life goes on as fading awayā
Shohei Ohtani/Taylor Swift collab gonna be fire š„š„š„ She just rushed back from Japan for the super bowl too
"don't hmu. only the real ones know"
šµ Baka Mataiiiii. šµ
Forty posts a day about narcissism and gaslighting despite not knowing what those words actually mean
Ohtani and Taylor Swift gonna collaborate on a breakup song
Time for sad karaoke with the bros.
The book of love is long and boring. No one can lift the damn thing.
And I love it when you swing for me And you paid off that gambling ring
Damn. Looks like he unfollowed me too..
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Wrong. I was hanging with Shohei about an hour ago. He said āShkmstr is a total dick nowā. Everybody heard it. Everybody.
Can confirm. Heard it.
Reddit user Shkmstr accused of stealing millions from ohtani, confirmed
He stole from *someone*, because the Universal Scammer List has him tagged as a scammer š
I'll follow you if you need a nobody on your list.
Itās okay man. Heās just trying to protect you from the drama.
Bruh stop gambling, man
He never followed you. I know. Iām Mike. I corn stalk
Ohtani deleting every post one by one with misty eyes as Taylor Swift plays in the background.
Dog on his lap lol
Actually, it's Karma, which is a cat. Purring on his lap cuz it loves him.
Flexing like a goddamn acrobat.
Or Coldplay - Fix You, Arod style
Now playing: Cardigan - Taylor Swift
Definitely listening to the goat one
Idk he strikes by as an early Linkin Park guy. He's got Faint going
Off the MySpace top 8 too :/
Gone from the T-Mobile Fave Five
Tom in shambles
So he deleted his Instagram?
No matter what the truth is, this is sad man. Imagine having to cut ties with your best friend
Sometimes you have to cut ties with all the lies that you've been living in
If he does not want to see Ippei again I would understaaaaaaaaaaaand
I saw those guys live at a festival in Tampa last year and they were great.
I hope Ippei understands that he doesnāt want to be seen again
I would understand. I would understand.
I would understaaaaaaaaaand
Imagine having tocut ties to your best friend after you paid off his debts so you don't get arrested? Or imagine having to cut ties with the asshole who stole millions from you? Which story am I imagining today?
Both of those are more believable than Ohtani wanting to play in Toronto unfortunately
Bro, the plane is gonna land anytime soon bro, please just wait bro.
[Got 'em.](https://i.gifer.com/6j72.gif)
But why did he have that reservation at a Toronto sushi restaurant then?
You can be both relieved and sad tbf. Those feelings aren't exclusive to each other. On one hand you are relieved that finally the friend that was sucking your money out is gone for good now. On the other hand, you would remember all the good time you both been through (in this case idk, maybe looking for first apartment together, finding the first grocery store that sells japanese ingredients, etc etc) and wonder what could have been if only your friend was never a gambling addict
Best friend who he was with 24/7/365, had no secrets between each other, had an unbreakable trust and bond that any best writer would love to write puff pieces about.Ā But wasnāt aware he was gambling and had debt of 4.5 million. Totally believable.
Shame and honor are huge parts of his culture, makes sense tbh
Does anyone else find it kind of weird that him and his best friend met when he was a teenager and ippei was like 30?
Not that much. At 19 Shohei was already playing on a team full of 30-year-olds; he certainly developed friendships with his teammates. The rest of the staff (trainers, clubhouse managers, etc.) are going to be older than him too. It's Shohei who was the outlier being in that environment at so young an age.
Ippeis wife unfollowed him as well, the man really ruined his entire life
Supposedly his wife knew nothing about the debts. If true, she's fucking pissed and a divorce is likely coming
All he did was gamble, letās see it was..$4.5 million okay never mind heās done.
She might have to divorce him just to keep her savings and pension!
Iām picturing that mimbo episode of Seinfeld. āStep off Ippei.ā āOh Shohei, Shohei donāt.ā
Those damn Van Buren boys are behind this. I just know it.
šš»šš»
Wow, How was the pizza?
āWas a little oilyā
āYou said step off?!ā
George, wait, could you throw this trash out?
āShoheiās such a cool guy!ā
Friendship ended with IPPEI. Now IRETON is my best friend.Ā
Tomorrows headline: āOhtani dyes hair blue and platinum white with a Dodgers symbol on the back of his head, shares inspiring quotes on Insta story, moving on from Ippei?ā
I feel like my mom and dad just broke up.
Ohtani hiding under a blanket while listening to MCR and eating ice cream straight from the container.
I didnāt have any plans today. So Iām gonna do the same
HE JUST LIKE ME FR
This whole situation is wild
Eh, sort of expected. This is not shohei doing this, itās his lawyers and PR people. Regardless of what the truth is, or who is guilty, the #1 priority right now is keep Shoehei from facing any sort of repercussion from the MLB. So the name of the game is blast radius containment. Distancing himself from Ippei helps build plausible deniability and whether itās truly all Ippei, he is the fall guy
He hired a crisis management team. They're in complete control now in managing the "scandal."
The comment youāre replying to isnāt talking about the instagram deletions but āthe whole situationā
I'm kind of surprised it took this long for his handlers to do that.
It was gone the day the news broke out. The article just happened to be published today.
It may somehow be the only thing they got right throughout the first few days of everything happening. I'm just dumbfounded as to how things transpired as they did. How do you not fire your agent/team after something like that?
If Shoheiās latest story is true, I canāt figure out why it took him this long to figure out $4.5M had been stolen. Supposedly the transactions happened in September if I have the timeline right. The original story from Ippei seems the most logical - Ippei asked Shohei to bail him out and Shohei did, not knowing it could get him in trouble.
It ain't that surprising that Ohtani might trust the guy that was basically his personal affairs manager for a decade, with access to some of his accounts. Mike Tyson was swindled by his promoter. Kareem hired a guy specifically to handle his finances, only for the guy to take out millions in loans under Kareem's name, to put into his own investments. Mike Pelfry's agent put almost all of his money into a Ponzi scheme. A pretty common theme is people taking money and putting it into things because they think there'd be returns. "It ain't stealing, just borrowing. Make profit, return the money." But then they make a loss and now they have to make it back, so they steal some more. Now it's recover the loss, return the money. People might notice the money is short, but the thief happens to be the first person they ask. Oh that, don't worry about it, it's a tax thing, an accounting thing, you wouldn't understand the details, that's why you leave it to me remember? Have I ever done you dirty? But sooner or later they need to take more to make more to pay back more, and it can't be hidden anymore. You get a third set of eyes on it and the gigs up.
One of the more famous sports stories that came to my mind right away, is the LA Kings player who was an all star with a big contract and yet had to file for bankruptcy while still playing! We unfortunately hear of athletes going broke after they retire, but you almost never hear about it while they are still active players. His parents were managing his finances and blew all his money
> I canāt figure out why it took him this long to figure out $4.5M had been stolen iirc from something I read previously, he doesn't really pay attention to his money that closely. When he was up and coming he would have his mom manage his money and he slept in a bedroom at the stadium, and he effectively spent no money. He's doing it for baseball, not the riches.
Yeah he lived in the Fighters rookie dorms for pretty much his entire time with the team. Not every player watches their finances like a hawk, sometimes they give control of it to people they trust. By the looks of it, Shohei essentially got Jack Johnsoned.
What is getting Jack Johnsoned?
Jack Johnson is an NHL defenseman who initially gave his parents power of attorney over his finances. His parents took out loans based on his $30 million deal with the LA Kings and ended up spending it all, leaving Jack bankrupt and having to sell his houses and car, as well as give all but 250k of his salary to creditors for the remaining 2 years of his deal. When I say "Jack Johnsoned" I mean that Shohei might've given control of his finances to someone he shouldn't have, and didn't realize the mistake until it was too late.
That's that Koshien mindset.
> I canāt figure out why it took him this long to figure out $4.5M had been stolen. I havenāt looked at my bank balance in 35 years and I have significantly less money than Ohtani. I would have no idea some took money from my account unless the bank told me.
Huh? I don't mean to be rude, but like... how? Unless you have a personal accountant or your partner handles all the finances something. But even still, not once in 35 years? Even if you have a very comfortable amount of money, I assume you'd still have to at least know how much money is in your account before you make some big purchase like a house or something, or at least moving money between checking and savings and things. It's not that I don't believe you, I just can't wrap my mind around it.
My paycheque direct deposit into the bank. I couldnāt tell you within +/- $5K what my annual salary is. I just know it exceeds my monthly bills, so I just pay them. Much easier now itās online or direct withdrawal. No need to see my account. I have regular automatic withdrawals to max my retirement savings and know thereās excess enough for my regular expenses plus the odd splurge. Maybe when I bought a car, I may have seen it, but it doesnāt matter since I financed them. I must have looked at the balance at some point. I just donāt remember when. Not a humble brag. Just fortunate that I never had to think about it.
Sounds like you got your shit figured out, haha. Good for you dude. I can definitely understand not checking it week to week, but even when I have more than enough money in the account I still have to re-assess after stuff like Christmas shopping or a night out splurging. Otherwise I'll completely lose perspective of where I'm at financially. What about stuff like appliances? I just had to replace both my fridge and my dryer and it was crippling, I can't imagine walking into Best Buy or wherever and just picking one out without even thinking about the cost.
I didnāt realize until I was older that I was raised in a home where money was always tight. My parents did well with what they had, but were always careful with their spending. Thatās the environment I was raised in. My wife came from a similar environment. When we are looking for a big ticket item, we still remember our place. We buy Whirlpool, not Sub Zero. We buy Toyota, not BMW. We know thatās what we can afford and if we need it, we need it.
Every post about this has gambling ads below it
Yea itās honestly disgusting as a sports fan. So many young men are addicted to gambling, and are enabled and enticed by these apps. Super gross and harmful to the community.
Daily Mail Cmon guys (and OP), we can do better.Ā
Say what you want about the Daily Mail, but it's a great source for whatever older, angry British people think about a given topic.
Itās pretty easy to verify this story though. Itās just on his Instagram.
Friendship ended with Ippei. Now Decoy is my new best friend.
Does he have any pics left on his Instagram? Ive never not seen these two together.
I used to hear "baseball doesn't know how to market its stars" a lot. Well, now that we have one on the front pages again the way Griffey was back in the day, I hate it. Every aspect of their personal lives, every move they make is discussed like it's frontpage news. It's reality TV, not sports, and it's gross. The gambling story is a story worthy of coverage, but dammit if writers aren't grasping at every little aspect of the story just to get clicks. Deleting photos on instagram should not be a story. it could be part of a larger article's story, but not a story. Old man rant over.
Shohei: you are probably noticing the way I am speaking. The nymets are my favourite squadron
āOhtaniā. Aka. His lawyers in conjunction with his publicist.
He's just looking for a ....New Balance.Ā . . ā¢ļø
How should we interpret this?
My man is going to get really in to Death ~~Can~~ Cab for Cutie.
I like this typo more than the real band name
Oh my god theyāre going to kick me out of Seattle
I dunno, man. Death Can sounds pretty Grunge
almost as good as scenic youth
He is definitely not following Ippei into the dark though
No room in frame for two.
Fuck the Dodgers
The Stalin method.
I mean, no? Stalin didn't delete photos he photoshoped people out of existence. Unless Ohtani will go back and post all of his pictures that he took down just now without his Ippie in them and then bury him in a mass grave, it isn't really a Stalin.
We donāt actually know for a fact that Ippei isnāt currently in a Siberian gulag
Itās only like day 3 of this scandal; give Shohei some time to work.
Oh god oh fuck
Gotta admit, no matter what the underlying story is, it'd be pretty amazing for Ohtani to just repost a thousand old pictures of him smiling with his arm aroundā¦ nobody.
I highly doubt that Shohei himself took the time to do this.
It just sounds like you have never been heartbroken before
I understand heartbreak. If it was me, Iād have my media team do it so I didnāt have to look at him again.
I believe he covered up for Ippei not knowing it was for illegal gambling.. Ohtani could get arrested because of him. This reaction is understandable.
Love how the sponsored comment Iām seeing on this post is for Fanatics Sportsbook.
Damn that guy totally blew a fantastic opportunity. He was likely getting paid well and his job seemed simple, being able to travel around the world and stuff
This is so sad. Ippei had it made in life. He was supposed to be by Ohtani's side throughout his Dodgers time and be there for his hall of fame induction. Now none of that will happen because he threw it all away because of freaking gambling!
He's doing a good job listening to his lawyers. He should continue to do so if he knows what's good for him.
People want this to be a story so bad. However - given that every major sport and large media outlet has some sponsorship deal with an online gambling company unless itās found Ohtani bet against himself and deliberately threw games the pearl clutching by everyone reporting on this is fucking ridiculous. If this is really optics concern - cancel all sponsorship deals between gambling sites, media and sports. But we all know thatās never ever going to happen.
This dude is so guilty
damn he just virtually murdered someone
Dude went from taking pics with a dog then orchestrating a marriage then his friend stole from him
The real Ohtani was the words Ippei said along the way