Shohei Ohtani Cleared in MLB Betting Investigation

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00:02 - Matt, let's start with the Shohei Otani story.

00:06 It is now over.

00:09 I got a statement in my email yesterday out of nowhere

00:11 from one of Otani's representatives.

00:13 So I'm assuming that's it.

00:14 Dodgers released a statement too.

00:16 What's crazy to me, Matt, we have seen so many other stories

00:22 and so many other investigations take years.

00:24 How in the world did they get this open

00:26 and shut in two months?

00:29 - Yeah, that's a great question.

00:30 I remember when this was originally developing

00:32 and I thought, man, this is gonna be basically what you said

00:35 this is gonna go on for a while.

00:37 We're gonna get twists, turns.

00:39 He said, he said, and here we are early June, case closed,

00:44 nothing to see here, moving on, stop asking questions,

00:48 stop looking into this.

00:50 And I mean, it sounds like it is certainly

00:53 with he plead guilty and it seems like that's that.

00:57 And Major League Baseball's concluded,

00:58 Shohei had nothing to do with it.

01:00 I still think there might be more we find out here

01:04 and there, some drips and drops, but yeah, it's pretty crazy

01:09 and especially when you look at the sheer amount of bets

01:12 he put into play and his wins and his losses are staggering.

01:16 And you just think, well, at some point,

01:18 Shohei Otani had to know something was up,

01:22 even if someone else was managing his money

01:24 and this guy was very good at developing his sneaky plan,

01:29 but apparently not and apparently this is what went down

01:33 and I guess we're all gonna move on

01:35 'cause the Dodgers told us to move on,

01:38 Major League Baseball told us to move on,

01:40 the courts told us to move on

01:41 and I guess the good news is we have enough other cases

01:45 to move on too because it seems like

01:47 there's a new one every day,

01:48 at least when it comes to betting indiscretions

01:50 by a professional athlete.

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