Ray William Johnson

Because remember, they run the betting website.

So they start throwing thousands of dollars on each game that Tim is refereeing, and it works.

The bets are successful most of the time.

And pretty soon, these guys are making massive amounts of money.

And neither Tim nor Jack has any idea that these guys are copying their bets.

They think it's still their private little operation between the two of them.

Now here's where the story gets really crazy.

So a few years pass, and it's now 2006.

And at this point, the Animals Betting Syndicate has disbanded.

I'm not exactly sure why, I couldn't find any reason for it.

But one of the guys from the syndicate, this guy, Batista, Batista decides to start his own operation as an independent betting broker.

Which means he's gonna take a bunch of his clients' money and bet it for them to, you know, get the best odds and stuff.

And Batista, he wants to be extremely successful at this, and he knows that the best way to do that is to get Tim involved.

No more just copying Jack's bets like everyone else was doing, he wants direct access to Tim.

So he reaches out to him, and they agree to meet up at a restaurant.

And there, Batista tells Tim that he knows about everything.

He knows about him and Jack's whole scam and that he knows that they're placing bets on games that he officiates.

Then Batista starts trying to manipulate Tim by painting Jack as a villain.

He tells him that Jack has been secretly betting huge amounts of money behind his back and that Jack is over here getting super rich off of Tim's hard work.

And this manipulation works.