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Are bets taken by illegal bookies typically made available to the public? Edit: Just read through the thread. When he says "the same bookie" in his 3rd tweet he means the same bookie who took the bets described in his first couple tweets. I don't think he's perusing the data of the LA mob-associated bookie Ohtani made payments to report on the bets they took.
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Kind of need context around how rare bets that big are. And the massive parlay lost because he struck out 7 and the K was under 6.5. Pretty sure he's also lying about the numbers. For example, the bet on the +2500 parlay would yield 10M (400k bet), not a 10M bet at +2500 that would yield 250M. Also, what does he mean by Ohtani's friend's bookie?
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Jared Jones Gavin Stone Ceddanne Rafaela Luis Matos Richie Palacios come to mind as non-blue chip guys who seemed to get a bit of helium this spring
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The Rockies have the following extensions on the books: - Kyle Freeland 5/64 - Charlie Blackmon 1/13 - Ryan McMahon 6/70 - Antonio Senzatela 5/50.5 - Daniel Bard 2/19 - Ezequiel Tovar 7/84 - Elias Diaz 3/14.5 They've also refused to trade guys like Cron, and Story in recent years, letting them walk for nothing via free agency. They get players, then just keep them forever regardless of whether or not they're actually any good.
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I'll never understand the Rockies' tendency to keep all of the players who keep leading them to 65-win seasons.
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2024)
BTS replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I think so too, unless The_DH is on to something and Volgelbach gave up the guarantee. -
General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2024)
BTS replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Thought it would be Lukes over Vogelbach with the 2M salary triggering. Gonna guess Little or Pop get removed from the 40-man. -
I didn't call it a non-story, I said it will blow over quickly. You're free to disagree with me, and I don't consider it trolling. I'm just telling you not to think out loud here about how he might get off easy because he's not white. That's bait, and will (already has) derail the thread. We don't even know what he did or what the repercussions are, so there's no reason whatsoever to guess about the role race will play.
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What are you talking about?
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The race part is the only part I consider bait. Please feel free to discuss the issue to your heart's content without trying to derail the thread with an argument about racial grievances.
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It's not. connorp knows its not. He knows that there's not going to be an appetite to see Ohtani ostracized from baseball over the situation as it currently appears, and he knows that the situation has nothing to do with race. His existence on this forum at this point is stopping in to bait people into stupid arguments that may or may not having anything to do with baseball.
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I understand the situation, I just think it’s stupid trolling to post about how mlb or the media would handle this any differently if it was like Mike Trout or Bryce Harper involved, for racial reasons.
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Craziest think about the article is that Mizuhara's salary was only 85K. I've seen people guessing that he was making as much as much as 500k a year. Leveraging your employer's wealth to run up a 4.5M gambling debt to the Yakuza or whatever on a middle class income is some next level degeneracy.
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2024)
BTS replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
how did Yariel Rodriguez look yesterday? -
Ohtani and his friend both seem to be f***ing idiots. But this story is going to blow over quickly.
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This is a really stupid post. Media won't push "accountability" narative because no fans are going to care about Ohtani sending money to a bookie to cover his friend's gambling debts. Especially not when MLB pushes gambling at every turn.
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Ceddanne Rafaela the latest rookie to be named to an opening day roster. Incentivizing teams to carry top prospects from opening day is one of the best things MLB has ever done.
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I'm now firmly in the camp of people who don't care about deferrals. Player and team agree to a contract that will pay him 12.5M between now and 2038. The NPV of the deal is calculated in the same way for all 30 teams, and will be applied to the luxury tax number for this year. Every team in the league was free to offer him more money up front, and presumably none wanted to.
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Serven projects for a wRC+ of 54. He's 29. No way he should be carried on the 40-man once Jansen is back.
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Good point
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I think you're right that if they need to open up a spot for Votto or Vogelbach very soon it would be a reliever (Little or Pop). If Lukes makes the team and they don't need to add someone until Votto is ready or Jansen is activated, maybe it's Serven or Mitch White plays himself out of a 26-man spot.
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Isn't he looking at potentially years of jail time, and a completely tarnished reputation? I'm not sure there's a sum of money that would convince me to spend years in prison.
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Neither version of the story really checks out. 1) A bookie allowed an interpreter to rack up a 4.5M debt for some reason and then Ohtani was good enough to pay it off, but realized that was illegal and then lied about it. 2) The interpreter had access to 4.5M of Ohtani's cash, stole it, gambled on it, and Ohtani only learned about this after laughing it up with his pal after yesterday's game.
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Betts is a machine
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My god Muncy
