Ippei fired by Dodgers after being accused of theft by Ohtani’s attorney’s

[Inside Pitch]

6 minutes ago, Tank said:

pericles ruled for 30 years and paid people to serve in gov't! 

So he's to blame for career politicians! 

[Spirit]

I'm sure ToyoTires, Daiso and Guggenheim have got to be thrilled to have their names behind this hostage video

[Inside Pitch]

Just now, Tank said:

so basically ippei stole money from his account to pay off the debt without ohtani's permission, then lied to pretty much everyone about what happened.

That's apparently the current story.  

[Angels 1961]

Did he mention anything about Joe Jacksons shoes?

[Tank]

1 minute ago, Spirit said:

I'm sure ToyoTires, Daiso and Guggenheim have got to be thrilled to have their names behind this hostage video

"I'm Tony Stark, and for too long, my weapons have been used . . . "

[T.G.]

So Ippei thought Ohtani would never see his original interview with ESPN?

[ScottM]

So how did Friedman know to tell the team that Ohtani paid the debt? I find it super hard to believe that Friedman just talked to Ippei and ran with it.

[ScottM]

Dan O'Dowd: "That was an angry young man right there."

He's almost 30...

[jsnpritchett]

Lol at Dan O'Dowd on MLB Network going on and on about what a "marvelous" statement this was, how Othani looked "angry," etc.  Not sure what we was watching.

[katie]

Just now, ScottM said:

Dan O'Dowd: "That was an angry young man right there."

He's almost 30...

That’s young. 

[James]

Just now, jsnpritchett said:

Lol at Dan O'Dowd on MLB Network going on and on about what a "marvelous" statement this was, how Othani looked "angry," etc.  Not sure what we was watching.

Playing politics. Pretty pathetic. 

[ScottM]

Just now, katie said:

That’s young. 

lol sorry!

FBI doesn't care...

[Tank]

2 minutes ago, Inside Pitch said:

So he's to blame for career politicians! 

no! that fault belongs to the egyptian pharaohs, those dirty inbred SOBs.

[nothing, Nothing]

also sorry but no way in hell is the dodgers top brass showing up in front of the full dodgers team and tell them ippie first story without speaking to ohatni and or his pr team first to make sure that is what ohtani wanted the dodgers players to know. by going this i didn't know route that means the dodgers brass took ippie story and then called a team meeting to explain everything without even talking to ohatni and confirming the story lol 

[bloodbrother]

3 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Lol at Dan O'Dowd on MLB Network going on and on about what a "marvelous" statement this was, how Othani looked "angry," etc.  Not sure what we was watching.

Really was quite hilarious considering his only frame of reference here is the loose translation/cliff notes version the interpreter gave us regarding Ohtani's comments(Unless O'Dowd is fluent in Japanese, which I'll assume isn't the case)

[cals]

It's actually hilarious someone in the Dodgers front office couldn't do a google search for a certified Japanese translator in the LA area before the game.

That's Angels level incompetence right there. 

[Slegnaac]

14 minutes ago, T.G. said:

So Ippei thought Ohtani would never see his original interview with ESPN?

not with a Japanese sound track

[T.G.]

It all sounds sketchy.

[jsnpritchett]

2 minutes ago, cals said:

It's actually hilarious someone in the Dodgers front office couldn't do a google search for a certified Japanese translator in the LA area before the game.

That's Angels level incompetence right there. 

I mentioned yesterday that this guy has been translating for Yamamoto, too.  So someone with the team believes he's good, I guess.

[cals]

1 minute ago, jsnpritchett said:

I mentioned yesterday that this guy has been translating for Yamamoto, too.  So someone with the team believes he's good, I guess.

I deal with interpreters every day. That dude is awful.

[Slegnaac]

This begs the question, does Ohtani have any representatives that speak Japanese?  If not, he should consider getting new representation.

[T.G.]

[jsnpritchett]

Just now, cals said:

I deal with interpreters every day. That dude is awful.

I'm not disagreeing.  I also found him to be tough to listen to just now.  I'm just pointing out that for whatever reason, the Dodgers seem to think he's good.

[budice0]

New interpreter guy was very Rendon.  Clock-in, Clock-Out.  Gave Ohtani a couple wtf looks

[bloodbrother]

5 minutes ago, cals said:

It's actually hilarious someone in the Dodgers front office couldn't do a google search for a certified Japanese translator in the LA area before the game.

That's Angels level incompetence right there. 

Ohtani would be talking for about 2 straight minutes and then the translator would have some simple 10 second translation of what Ohtani said before coming to an abrupt stop. Even Ohtani was looking at him confused at times