"Dismisses Illegal Gambling But Ohtani Was Human Too The name that I sang in a nervous voice despite the feeling of betrayal
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The Dodgers and Angels are also holding a pre-season freeway series exhibition game this year. The Dodgers hosted the series again this year despite the fact that there were variables of long-distance travel before the season due to the schedule of the "2024 Major League World Tour Seoul Series" held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on March 20 and 21. However, this game was not a problem on the 26th. The media all over the world focused on a press conference before the game. It was the day Shohei Ohtani (30, LA Dodgers) finally opened his mouth.
Ohtani, who made a historic contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers to write a new 10-year history of professional sports worth 700 million U.S. dollars ahead of this season, is in trouble due to his involvement in an unsavory incident. Mizuhara Ifei, who has been an interpreter since Ohtani moved to the Major League in 2018, has been caught for illegal gambling. If it was simply a personal deviation from interpreting, all he had to do was change the interpretation and finish it. However, under the circumstances of the investigation, Otani's account was discovered in the case, which escalated the situation. It has developed into a big incident in which local media hit breaking news every day with extraordinary interest.
Since the incident was reported by ESPN and other media outlets, Ohtani has kept a tight distance from the reporters and has been keeping a secret. The incident was reported ahead of the second game of the Seoul Series against the San Diego Padres on March 21, and Ohtani avoided the incident thoroughly, trying not to make contact with the reporters at all from March 21. Local media speculated that since the incident is under investigation, Ohtani would avoid making an official announcement until the investigation is completed. However, as Ohtani announced a press conference on March 26, he drew keen attention. It was literally a frontal breakthrough.
He explained what had become a hot topic among the media and fans one by one for 11 to 12 minutes. Ohtani did not give a question-and-answer session to reporters as expected, but ended the press conference by reading a statement. He kept his distance from reporters again this time, as he was banned from taking photos at the press conference. Instead, he made a statement in a little more detail to explain the facts accurately and correct the current controversy.
"It's really hard to put into words how I feel at this point. I am sad and shocked. I have never placed a bet on baseball or other sports," Ohtani told a news conference on Wednesday. "There are some issues that are under investigation, so I want you to understand that there is a limit to what we can talk about," he said. "I never made a sports bet or asked for a bet. I never asked for a remittance. I didn't even know that happened until a few days ago. To sum up, Mizuhara stole money from my account and lied to everyone around me." He has denied all of his allegations that local media suspected.
First of all, the case, which was revealed through a 90-minute interview between Mizuhara Ifei and ESPN, is an illegal sports gambling case by Mizuhara Ifei, an interpreter for Ohtani. In 2021, Mizuhara met an illegal gambling site operator named Matthew Boyer in San Diego. Since then, Mizuhara has become involved in sports gambling by Boyer's illegal company. However, Mizuhara lost a large amount of money in this gambling, and her debt snowballed as she made a bigger bet to make up for the loss. Mizuhara is known to have owed a whopping $4.5 million over a period of more than three years starting in 2021. Mizuhara's annual salary estimate is between $300,000 and $600,000. He owes nearly 10 times his annual salary.
Mizuhara strongly claimed that Ohtani was not involved in gambling and that she did not bet on baseball either. She claimed to have bet on basketball, American football and overseas soccer. There is actually nothing wrong with betting on non-baseball events on websites that are legally regulated by Major League Baseball. However, the state of California is a representative U.S. region that does not allow betting on sports, and of course, Boyer's business was illegal as well. Mizuhara did not bet on baseball, but punishment is inevitable. When the incident was reportedly known, the Dodgers fired Mizuhara ahead of the second game of the Seoul Series. Mizuhara reportedly apologized for his mistake after the first game, with players, coaching staff, and front office staff gathering at the clubhouse.
The issue was Ohtani's connection. Mizuhara stated in her first interview with ESPN that Ohtani paid off her debt on behalf of her. She said she was displeased to learn that she was in gambling debt, but transferred the money directly to Boyer to help her. Although Ohtani may not know when Mizuhara started illegal gambling, it is said that he found out about the situation in September and October last year when money was withdrawn from his account to Boyer's account. According to federal law, Ohtani is guilty of paying off his illegal gambling debt on behalf of him even if he did not gamble.
On the contrary, Ohtani's representatives claimed that Ohtani had no idea of the incident, had never sent money, and that Mizuhara illegally accessed Ohtani's account and stole the money secretly. Ohtani, who defined Mizuhara as a suspect in a "large-scale theft case," has sued him. Ohtani requested ESPN for a correction report, and the main point of the report is that when ESPN asked Mizuhara again, Mizuhara admitted his lie.
Ohtani also made the same argument at a press conference on Wednesday. "Last week in Korea, the media asked my spokesperson if I was potentially involved in sports betting," Ohtani said. "But Mizuhara did not disclose to me that there had been such media coverage of me or anyone else involved. She claimed that she told the media and my spokesperson that I had paid off the debt on behalf of her friend," she said.
"The first time I recognized this fact was at a team meeting after the Korean opening game," he said, adding, "But I was feeling strange."
BY: 토토사이트 순위