The Most Astounding Thing About The Shohei Ohtani Scandal | Hour 3
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Trista and Juju will be around here together to talk about WNBA things that me and Zaslow weren't able to get to because there have been an assortment of things around here that we haven't been able to get to. Zas is arguing with his wife. He has put his foot down. He is simply refusing to go to something she wants to go to. And Amin also has a theme song update from yesterday. And I don't know whether we're going to have time to get to these things. I also have an answer to Mike's top five about easiest cool people. And Mike also knows who it was that James Johnson beat up on the Heat as well. It's a happen to know, but we haven't had time to get to any of these things. And now I've got Tisha Thompson, who's doing real journalism out here.
She's chasing down the story that for a brief flash, we're like, hey, Shohei Ohtani, was he cheating? What happened? No, interpreter took everything. Okay, Shohei's fine. All right. Greatest scandal in the history of sports. No, nothing here. Okay, never mind. So she's been doing real journalism about this. She broke the initial story back in 2024 and now The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani is a six episode series. Thank you, Tisha, for joining us. How shadowy is all of this stuff? Like what's real, what's true and what's not?
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.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–8:22
2
What is the Shohei Ohtani–Ippei Mizuhara scandal and why did it resurface now?
8:22–10:51
3
How did Tisha Thompson first receive the tip about Ohtani’s bank wires?
10:51–15:31
4
What evidence linked Shohei Ohtani’s bank account to an illegal bookmaker?
15:31–23:41
5
Why did Ippei Mizuhara’s interview create an international incident?
23:41–29:08
6
How did Mizuhara initially describe Shohei’s involvement and why did he later recant?
29:08–32:56
7
What did federal investigators find when they reviewed 40,000 text messages and seized evidence?
32:56–42:45
Speakers
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