Tisha Thompson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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Well, it took six episodes to tell the story, so I think that tells you there's a whole lot of information that we had to sort through to try to even get to the first article that we wrote in March of 2024 to help folks remember what was going on.
I received a tip just before the big news went out that Shohei Ohtani had signed a record-setting deal, $700 million, 10 years with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
That whole time that everybody was talking about this big deal, and oh my gosh, so much money, and he's going to be a dodger, I was behind the scenes trying to figure out if this tip I'd been told was true, which was Shohei Ohtani's bank account was sending half a million dollar wires
to an illegal bookmaking operation.
And I know everyone who watches your show is an expert on sports, but just for the folks who may not remember, not only is it against MLB rules to bet on baseball, it's also against the rules to use a bookie, an illegal bookmaker.
So if you're a player with MLB, you cannot do that.
So we were trying to figure out, well, what the heck was going on?
We knew it was connected to...
an illegal bookie.
Well, who is that illegal bookie?
We had to figure out who that was.
There was a federal investigation that was under seal.
And then, just as I think I'm starting to figure it out because I've actually seen the wires that have Shohei Ohtani's name on them, his bank account on them, I...
get tipped off again, it might be Ipe.
Ipe might be the one laying the bets.
And of course, Ipe Misahara is or was Shohei Ohtani's interpreter.
But as our podcast, The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani charts out, it was so much more complicated than that.
This was not the normal baseball player interpreter relationship.
Well, so in January of 2024, I see the wires.
I see some of the wires.
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