Oh my god! Is this guy for real? Did you even hear what they reported? Ippei is the one who opened the bank account for Ohtani. He assisted Ohtani with the password, knew all of the information of Ohtani, impersonated his voice to pass the verification, told his financial advisor Shohei wanted the account to be private. What more explanation do you need????

David’s ego won’t let him admit he was totally wrong. He is looking more like a fool.

Just read the 37 pages of the official federal investigation. Ohtani didn’t even have access to his own bank account as the contact information was changed to Ippei’s who falsely identified to the bank as Ohtani. They have the recordings with the banks and every conversation with the between the bookmaker and Mizuhara.. please just get the information openly available or just don’t comment without knowledge.

Ohtani is completely a victim here. Some haters still suspect Ohtani’s involvement or his knowledge of Ippei’s addiction but no frauds will let their victims know their struggles or the reasons why they are stealing from them.

David doesnt leave the house in the morning until he's done praying that Ohtani is guilty of gambling on baseball

He can’t accept the facts

The area Ohtani was reckless is TRUST! That is a huge humanitarian problem! We are approaching a point nobody trusts anyone!

Samson is still hoping for Ohtani to be suspended.

Yeah. Tim Duncan had $25 million stolen from him.

Why is so hard for people to believe He didn’t know; that’s literally how fraud works. fraud requires deception and when someone has all the required personal information the deception becomes easier

Shohei must be one of the busiest men on the planet. Not only is he constantly training and playing baseball, with all the traveling, interviews, public appearances, making commercials, he is also a husband with a tight family. So, to think Shohei was clueless about what Ippei did behind his back is totally believable.

David is super biased😂

People will believe what they want, regardless of the truth to keep the stories and clicks going. Best to just thumbs down and don't subscribe.

David Sampson is losing credibility everyday he speaks on this matter 😂

Give Ippei a chance to win the money back.

I paused and stopped watching around the 2min mark. I understand the internet trolls are going to do their thing, but it's disappointing that the media continues to be uninformed. Lots of misinformation being given out. Please read the actual report.

if ohtani was a greedy guy he would not defer his contract. A gambling addict will take that money asap

17000 bets in 2 years is FULL TIME NONSTOP BETTING. If you think Ohtani, who is obsessed with baseball and rehabbing, signing to a new team etc, had the time to make 17000 bets over 2 years you're insane. - WW

David Samsung doesn’t seem to be a dumb person. If he read the report he already knows the facts, however, his job is to keep the story going.

Can’t he just accept the fact that the agents went through the entire text messages exchanged between Ohtani and Ippei from 2020 to 2024 and found ZERO evidence that Ohtani was involved in gambling.

In the context of Ippei's text admitting he stole, that is not really reckless. At that point, he knew that there was a full investigation and he knew he would be found out. He knew they would look at Ohtani's phone, look into the bookie's records, and probably at that time knew the Feds would obtain audio recordings of him lying to bank employees. Ippei was not "reckless', as this guy in the Marlins cap says. He just knew he was caught and he was going to go down.

For Ohtani, Ippei was his only close friend from Japan, and Ohtani's family trusted him. It could be said that He had no choice but to trust Ippei in an unfamiliar place.

Rich eisen better apologize. He's been an asshole this whole time

David Samson can go punch air. Bad GM and now is an internet talk host.

Mizuhara's addiction of gambling has reached to the point similar to the alcohol addiction or drug addiction, unable to stop himself, losing a judgement of what is legal or illegal. He said he didn't know the gambling was illegal, but knowing of being illegal to steal money from someone else, he willingly committed the fraud, which includes a wire frauds, identity thefts, account takeover and

This has to be the B team on Dan's show. These guys are too young to be this stupid.

Billy Gil is such a conspiracy theorist...

How stupid are these people? He owes an additional $24 million to an illegal gambling operation that is being investigated by the Feds. No, they can’t collect from Ippei. In fact, I don’t think they even have a legal claim.

It’s an illegal contract , so legally he doesn’t have to pay the money to the bookie

4:13 I know this skeptical hypothetical was basically thrown out in passing, but I think things are being viewed through the wrong paradigm. Ippei's machinations weren't some elaborate 4-D chess maneuvers. He wasn't hacking through firewalls and figuring out passwords w/ algorithms speeding through millions of possible permutations. The degree of difficulty of what he did was that of a college student stealing passwords and banking information from his trusting exchange student roommate. And the nature of the theft wasn't some elaborately schemed 10-year plan where he'd siphon off "unnoticed" increments of cash into multiple untraceable offshore accounts. If anything, his theft was more akin to a desperate junkie pilfering bits of his mother's cash she had hidden in some cookie tin on the top shelf of her closet. He needed a fix and he was strapped for the buy money. And this analogy can be extended onto Shohei's side of things too. Just like the mother, he had no reason to think that his cookie tin stash wasn't safe sitting where it was. Especially because it was just a "stash" and hardly the sum total of her disposable income. Maybe she didn't know her son knew the whereabouts of the stash or even about the existence of it. But she had no reason to go out of her way to check it on a regular basis. (And in Shohei's case, doing something even that seemingly routine would likely have required some English-speaking assistance.) As for the "smoking gun" and Ippei's other "sloppy" text messages with the bookie, it's pretty obvious why they were in the form they were. He apparently met the guy at a poker game and they had a friendly rapport. And when it got the point Ippei was desperate for another bump (knowing full well that he could get cut off any minute, not only from his gambling habit itself but also the only means he saw to recoup his losses and replenish the stolen funds), of course he's going to try coming across as charming and disarming as possible. And when the walls started closing in, Ippei was rightfully shitting his pants. When people do that, they tend to reach out to someone for relief or reassurance. Unfortunately for him, this bookie was LITERALLY the only person he could reach out to that he didn't have to explain the whole backstory to. And when the bookie tried to reassure him that it was a cover-up (because there's no way he knew he was making payments by sneaking into Shohei's account), Ippei added the part about technically stealing. The reason he added this was because he was hoping for additional reassurance as the first one was given w/o knowledge of all the facts. It's like the following: A: My girl's mad at me because I had lunch with my ex. B: Don't worry about. It was just lunch. It's not like you cheated on her. A: Actually, I kinda, sorta did... He needed to hear SOMEONE say it'll be okay. Finally, the reason he probably said "technically," was because he genuinely thought he was "borrowing" without permission but with every intent on paying back all the money once he recouped his losses. Most of these "legitimate questions" are incredibly lazy. They come from such a narrow and myopic scope of understanding and arrive at an some implied conclusion w/ very little critical thinking. It's exhausting.

Samson thinks life is a movie. He is living in a fantasy land.

It is very common in Japanese culture, that traditionally the men make the money and the women take care of the home (including the bills). So it may not have been unusual for him to ever check his own banking records.

That 'Free Ippei' shirt didn't age well

FIY they are not "Close Friends" you could watch the past interviews of Ohtani...Try to search first before dragging words😡

Ippei will get a slap on the wrist. I already know this because his bond was only $25K. If I get into a fight at a bar and go to jail, I might get the same bond amount. 😝

This story is WILD. Thats one of the wildest acts of betrayal I ever heard of in my life

in other news, ippei's family just bought a castle

The last minute, extremely well crafted story which completely absolves the most famous and wealthy party and establishes the poor best friend as responsible with minimum jail time seems quite plausible! Our justice system at work!

Ippei dropping more coin at the casino than Michael J Fox at a parking meter.

The interpreter is an absolute genius ! He not only kept shohe otani in the dark but he kept all his many accountants that handle his moneys in the dark and blocked All communications to the attorneys also! I'm assuming he filed his yearly tax return and explained all these in and out going monies to the IRS ?

Baloney - you guys are such suckers!! This sounds exactly like those stories written about how McGwire’s workout and supplement regimen was revolutionizing the game back in like 1998

People have different strengths and weaknesses. You can be one of the best in the world at one thing (baseball) and completely fail at another (preventing fraud). Just like I couldn't be a professional baseball player, but I'm sure many of them couldn't do my job either.

Why would the guy sweat when he bet someone's else money

Dude, Billy... you sound insane.

Wow. Really weird. Dodgers are breathing a sigh of relief their cash cow was only robbed.

Legal gambling can only be good for the integrity of baseball and other US sports. Yeah.

Justice for Bauer...

These media clowns are trying to destroy Shohei after he immediately gave up his phone to the FBI..and are still all over Tom Brady's jock when he destroyed his

It's funny how people believe that story, even if it's true.

Mike looks so young

David Samson !! Whoever it is,, you have bad reputation in Japan. Just stay where you are

Samson is obnoxious. He makes clear that there's NO evidence that Ohtani had anything to do with gambling; in fact, the thousands of emails between Ohtani and Mizuhara never mention betting once, and Mizuhara admits to the bookie that he stole from Ohtani. Yet Samsun has to leave room for more reckless speculation and trolling, because this little media "scandal" story is just too valuable for the irresponsible commentators. As for MLB, it's reasonable for them to do whatever independent investigation they have going to ensure this doesn't have some tawdry details that could hurt them. But maybe they should consider the fact that MLB and the teams are all heavily involved with gambling in various forms. It's out of control, and MLB is the one that holds responsibility for the gambling cancer.

Watching Dodgers fans fume because people have doubts about the story is hilarious.

I don't believe it

Shohmei the money

#bye. Norby

He's as bad as Stephen A smith

IPEI WAS NOT A FALL GUY. STOP IT. HATERS GONNA HATE. YOU SHOULD BE SUED.

There's not a chance in hell Shoei isn't in on this, you mean to tell me Shoei was banking somewhere that didn't have any employees that speak Japanese GTFOH.

Shit, they're clearly sleeping together.

The guy makes a great scapegoat. me personally, I dont buy it. Y'all will swallow the official MLB story. Same people that jate on Bauer.

Naw.. I'll wait till all the information comes out.. something still doesn't smell right

Nobody is skeptical of these Japanese?

If fans believe him it's mostly because the media presented this as "interpreter fired, alleged to have gambling problem.." instead of the more factual and I think newsworthy lead which was "millions of dollars on ohtani account goes to illegal sports book."

Is everyone dumb? This guy just took the heat for Ohtani.

🤔 shit still isn't adding up but who knows…..

The only way for anyone to actually believe Ohtani's story is you accept that he's an incredibly stupid person. I'd much rather believe he's a gambling addict tbh.

this guy is taking a fall. he is the fall guy for otani

Can I get the name of that bank?