Ex-Angels Player David Fletcher Caught with Illegal Bookie
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00:00 I have to start with this.
00:06 David Fletcher, former Angels player, gambled with an illegal bookie as well.
00:15 Does baseball have a gambling problem?
00:18 What are we going to have one of these every month now?
00:22 I mean, Scotty, when I read this story, you were the first person that I thought of because
00:27 you the whole time they were doing the investigation with Otani's translator.
00:33 Otani, you were like, "I don't know.
00:35 Something doesn't smell right."
00:36 So now we have the information that Fletcher, one of Otani's best friends in baseball, was
00:41 betting with the same illegal bookmaker that Otani's translator was.
00:46 I guess one thing that I would be unclear about is we don't know how much English Otani
00:55 speaks.
00:56 So what does it mean for one of his best friends to be an American, obviously, who only speaks
01:01 English?
01:02 That is a little bit unclear to me.
01:04 Does baseball have a betting problem?
01:06 You know, I would hesitate to say that.
01:09 I mean, I don't know if there's any evidence that Fletcher's stuff was widespread.
01:14 For example, I thought that John Tay Porter's stuff was darker than this because that seems
01:20 like a more insidious problem because there are a lot more two-way guys and stuff in the
01:24 NBA who could make money off of the John Tay Porter style thing.
01:29 [MUSIC]
01:31 (bells chiming)