Mariana van Zeller

The best player, baseball player ever, apparently, is Otani.

He's in the Dodgers.

He was signed up for the Dodgers.

It turns out that his translator, who is also his best friend because Otani is Japanese and doesn't speak fluent or doesn't speak English.

So he has a translator who is also his best friend in the U.S., was with him 24-7, had a gambling problem.

And the bookie in this gambling problem was a guy called Matt Boyer, fascinating guy.

Grew up in Orange County and built an empire.

I mean, making millions of dollars as an illegal bookie.

Flying private jets, betting insane amounts of money himself.

He's also a gambling addict, but had high athletes from all over and important celebrities, basically placing bets with him.

Instead of placing them online, they placed them with him, but all illegal.

And it was found out just before he was about to sign for the Dodgers, the Otani, that while they were investigating a casino in Vegas, they came across this bookie.

And through this bookie, they found out that Otani's translator, and possibly they thought initially maybe Otani, was illegally betting.

This is a guy that stands to make millions for the Dodgers, for all the companies that he sponsors.

So this was a fucking massive deal.

And it turns out that Otani was not the one betting, that it was his translator.

Matt Boyer, who was at the center of the scandal, believes that Otani knew that he had, that his friend and translator had a betting, gambling problem.

But he came out and said he had no idea.

And, you know, nobody wanted this problem on their hands for the amount of money that you could lose.

Right.