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

[jsnpritchett]

58 minutes ago, ScottM said:

This is called credit card "miscoding" and it's a key part of proving fraud. Ippei implicated Ohtani in this...

 

It's not "credit card" miscoding if it's a wire, right?  It's just miscoding.

[Tank]

this is an incredible event. ohtani is such a fun guy to watch. you want him to be as nice as he appears in public, but you just never know. but i won't be surprised at all to hear that ippei is taking the fall for him.

EDITED because i did a knuckleheaded thing.

Edited March 21 by Tank

[James]

Ohtani truly loves the Angels organization and knew this was coming so he decided to stick it to the Dodgers. 

[Make Angels Great Again]

I think the story here is as follows:

 

• Ohtani's name was leaked to reporters from the FBI investigation into the bookie.
• Reporters reach out to Ohtani through his spokesperson for comment. Ippei gives the interview yesterday to ESPN.
• The Dodgers get wind of this, realize Ohtani is implicated from Ippei's interview and is attempting to change the story from "Ohtani paid off illegal bookie for Ippei" to "Ippei stole the money from Ohtani to pay his gambling debt."
• Ippei must have some incentive to go along with it.

 

I guess it's equally likely that Ohtani participated in some of it himself. But who knows.

[AngelsLakersFan]

I hope we get some Yakuza references soon.... that would be siiick.

[T.G.]

[James]

Just now, Tank said:

this is an incredible event. ohtani is such a fun guy to watch. you want him to be as nice as he appears in public, but you just never know. but i won't be surprised at all to hear that ippei is taking the fall for him.

one of the things my daughter found said it's possible ippei was also laying bets for arte. if so, stay tuned.

[Blarg]

I wonder who Ohtani will use as his interpreter at his FBI interview.  

[AngelsLakersFan]

3 minutes ago, Tank said:

one of the things my daughter found said it's possible ippei was also laying bets for arte. if so, stay tuned.

Now that is the most insane thing I've read all day

[James]

Dodger should sign Trevor Bauer stat!

[James]

1 minute ago, Blarg said:

I wonder who Ohtani will use as his interpreter at his FBI interview.  

Jose Mota

[T.G.]

1 minute ago, Blarg said:

I wonder who Ohtani will use as his interpreter at his FBI interview.  

@failos

[T.G.]

4 minutes ago, Tank said:

this is an incredible event. ohtani is such a fun guy to watch. you want him to be as nice as he appears in public, but you just never know. but i won't be surprised at all to hear that ippei is taking the fall for him.

one of the things my daughter found said it's possible ippei was also laying bets for arte. if so, stay tuned.

I'm shocked to read this gossip from you.

[James]

Ippei tried to play games of skill but he just wasn't very good at it.

[jsnpritchett]

11 minutes ago, Tank said:

 

one of the things my daughter found said it's possible ippei was also laying bets for arte. if so, stay tuned.

Lol, are you talking about this? If so, it's a joke because BTH hates Arte.

 

 

[angelsfan100]

24 minutes ago, RallyMo said:

Shohei is gonna be playing to D league hoops for the Lakers organization soon.

[Tank]

7 minutes ago, T.G. said:

I'm shocked to read this gossip from you.

when a big story like this first breaks, there are always a lot of things thrown out there. she only saw it from one source, so i'm doubtful the owner of the team is asking an interpreter to include him in gambling, but we've also lived long enough to know that there are times when there's some credibility to stuff that most, at first, shake their heads at.

[tdawg87]

4 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Lol, are you talking about this? If so, it's a joke because BTH hates Arte.

 

 

I don't think BTH is Tank's daughter.

[Tank]

5 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Lol, are you talking about this? If so, it's a joke because BTH hates Arte.

 

 

nope, not from him.

just double checked with her and she said it was a random response from someone, not a source that reported on it. that's my fault for not getting better details from her before posting it here.

too late to delete it here at this point. 

my apologies to everyone.

[Tank]

3 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

I don't think BTH is Tank's daughter.

he's not; you're correct.

[tdawg87]

Just now, Tank said:

he's not; you're correct.

[angelsfan100]

In the immortal words of my grandfather - you jerked off too close to the sun, mother f*cker!

[warped]

Ohtani is no longer an Angel

[jsnpritchett]

14 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

I don't think BTH is Tank's daughter.

I wasn't saying this was his daughter.  I was asking if that was the tweet she saw that led her to the info about Arte being involved. 

[Taylor]

31 minutes ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

I think the story here is as follows:

 

• Ohtani's name was leaked to reporters from the FBI investigation into the bookie.
• Reporters reach out to Ohtani through his spokesperson for comment. Ippei gives the interview yesterday to ESPN.
• The Dodgers get wind of this, realize Ohtani is implicated from Ippei's interview and is attempting to change the story from "Ohtani paid off illegal bookie for Ippei" to "Ippei stole the money from Ohtani to pay his gambling debt."
• Ippei must have some incentive to go along with it.

 

I guess it's equally likely that Ohtani participated in some of it himself. But who knows.

I dunno, man. Sounds like a witch hunt to me.