Apologize to Ohtani

Espn started this whole circus. Their reporter Tisha Thompson never checked with Ohtani to begin with lol Where the f is she?

Where is the apology? You guys assumed Ohtani was involved last week

Rich, your fans will think you are cool for honestly admitting that you were biased and apologizing to Shohei. The time to apologize is right now.

HEY LOOK at Rich trying to pivot acting as if he's been fair the whole time. 🤦‍♂😅

He had Tisha Thompson and didn’t ask her any of the tough questions. Now he’s claiming he was skeptical because of the Mark McGuire situation. They blew this whole thing up. Horrible journalism

Now that's what you call actual reporting the facts and not speculating on what could or couldn't be. Take notes brother

I hope people will accept the investigation that came out as the truth. Do not allow yourself to be angry and jealous, you will gain nothing by destroying someone.

Waiting for an apology video.

Ohtani's agent, accountants, and financial advisors all kept asking Ippei to see the account, but Ippei spoke for Ohtani and said Ohtani wanted to keep it private. Thought you read the 37 page report, Alden.

What I find interesting is that Dave Roberts have alluded in interviews that Ippei had restricted Ohtani from directly communicating with the team. Every communications went through him. Now that he is gone, the barrier has been lifted and the communication with Ohtani is free flowing. Apparently, Ippei used Ohtani's lack of English and total trust in him to control what he wants Ohtani to hear and to believe is true.

大谷批判してた人間って、自分自身が犯罪者思考なんだよね。 だから、そういう考えに行き着く。

Rich you were right to say: Say it ain't Sho! It wasn't Sho!

5:55 Typically, companies will hire staff who speak the language of their foreign client to speak directly to the client, and will not rely on an outside interpreter like Ippei. Even the agency in the report acknowledged that they would hire their own interpreters for their Japanese-speaking staff and Mizuhara was the exception. And Ippei was not supposed to have control over the account in question, which was also described in the report. He was able to access it and change notification settings because he helped set it up when Ohtani first moved to California back in 2018. Ohtani was under the impression that his accountants had complete control and were monitoring everything while Ippei had no permission to access any of his accounts. You'd think these advisors would have been suspicious when Ohtani didn't show up to their financial meeting and only Mizuhara was there. They already had asked questions about it and expressed concerns before. Even if they believed Mizuhara's story that Ohtani was sick and couldn't show, they could have rescheduled the meeting or have had him on conference call.

even cowherd had a fairer take on the subject than you rich, imagine that? 🤔

Hey L👀k, a sports analyst NOT trying to sensationalize this. 😅

Shohei is a very private person. It is possible that ohtanis team believed Ippei lies because of how private he is.

Could the fact no one questioned that Ohtani wanted to keep the account private maybe be due to people thinking it might be a cultural thing or the fact that Ohtani seems like a private person to begin with considering even his teammates were surprised to hear he quietly got married.

Apparently the interpreter filed his yearly tax returns for him also ! Hell of a guy ! I'm so glad the IRS was understanding about all these moneys coming in and out of this account !

Will it matter if people blocked the Rich Eisen KZfaq channel?

*People looking for an apology or thinking that the government never covered anything up during an investigation are so dumb. Bookies don't ever allow random gamblers to generate a $4.5 million debt unless they know that the person making the bets can easily cover the debt. The bookie knew he was dealing with Ohtani directly, or by proxy via Ippei. If it's not true, then the only other explanation is that Ohtani is a gullible fool, not noticing that millions and millions of dollars were missing. That's almost worse than gambling.*

Gambling addiction or a way to transfer the winnings to his personal account? Id be gambling a lot too if someone else paid the losses and i kept the winnings lol

Someone had to be filing his taxes with access to bank statements. The IRS must have tracked the many large withdrawals of cash as wire transfers. There still seems to be a hole in this story somewhere. Its one thing to hide this from Ohtani but this would need to be hidden from the IRS too. I'm worried about making a $50 tax mistake but $60 million is flying around and accountants don't even notice?

Big apology to Ohtani is way over due

Rich.I'm your fun..I love you. but many Japanese people are starting to hate you... Please invite ohtani to a this show sometime. sry I'm not good at English. thanks for your kindness.

If I were an attorney for Shohei, I would pursue a legal liability from Angels !? Are you familiar with “drum shop law”, which makes a restaurant liable once a drunk patron ends up causing legal problems outside of a restaurant ? Angels hired Ippei as an interpreter for Shohei, but did not make sure that Ippei was acting for the best interest of Shohei when he was taking care of Shohei’s bank account ? Angels must have some liability in this wrong doing by Ippei. After all, Ippei was AN EMPLOYEE of Angels. This unprecedented incident must be looked into as a liability issue from an organization who hired Ippei.

i am your stan rich. you not wrong for asking questions.

Am I a bad person because I really don't care ether way about this scandal? Baseball is so far behind in my want to go to and watch events that it appears desperately to need a scandal to get eyes on the game...

The interpreter will go to jail for 2 years Mac and get a fat paycheck from MLB. He’s set up for life

Ohtani is still a bad guy for sitting in silence and saying nothing while innocent women and children in Gaza starve.