MLB Corruption: High Stakes Hitting Home Runs in Greed

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00:00You can't fix stupid. Like, we're all human. Sometimes we do stupid things in our lives,

00:05but sometimes you say, boy, is the risk versus the reward here going to make sense for a player?

00:11And half the time it doesn't, which is what makes these stories so crazy.

00:15We started off the show today with a great caffeinated Joe where he talked about

00:17the heck is going on in Major League Baseball and why would players making millions of dollars

00:21throw away their careers for $5,000, $7,000 as a cut for throwing a pitch that could be a ball

00:28or a really heat fastball here? Talking Baseball sent out a tweet just to start the explanation

00:34here on what's going on with the Cleveland Guardians. Prosecutors alleged that Luis Ortiz was paid $5,000

00:39for throwing an intentional ball on June 15th and Emmanuel Classe was given $5,000 for facilitating

00:46it. They did it again on June 27th with the respective payments increasing to $7,000 on

00:51that occasion. Classe and Ortiz could face up to 65 years in prison if convicted on all charges here.

00:57Joe, making millions of dollars and try to make an extra $5,000. I understand everybody,

01:03no matter how much money you have, you're always looking to grind for more, but this just isn't

01:07innocent and you got to be kidding me. With legalized sports gambling and people getting

01:10caught all the time, did they actually think that they would continue this for years making

01:15seven to 10,000 every single game and nobody would catch up to this? That's the madness I find

01:21myself actually looking at Joe. Yeah, and listen, I mean, the agent, I believe, as well as an attorney

01:29for Ortiz has completely denied all of this. I don't know how you deny it, Donnie, when they have

01:36the actual text messages during the games, plus they have the video proof in the games of exactly what

01:44happened. They have the back and forth. They have the money wide. They have it all documented. So I

01:51don't know how you work your way around this, but it appears also that Classe was the one originally

01:58doing it and then recruited Ortiz into the scheme here as well. And I just don't, I mean, we're talking

02:06upwards of $20 million and a brand new multimillion dollar contract. Classe would have been up for here

02:13as the game, one of the game's best closers. And for what? I have no idea what they're doing here.

02:19It makes absolutely no sense unless it's pure greed, Donnie, just absolute pure greed.

02:26Like if you're fixing like, you know, issues or games, right? And it's like, okay, I'm going to try

02:30to fix the Superbowl. Hey, millions of dollars are getting bet on both sides and millions of dollars

02:35in single wagers. So it's like, Hey, if I slip an extra 50 grand, nobody's going to notice. If you are

02:41an integrity watchdog service, which the major league baseball, NFL, all the professional sports

02:45implore, and they send the report that go, we usually get $500 in wagers combined on this type

02:51of wager. We just took 30 grand and it won. Oh, they did it again. And it won at this point.

02:57You see where we're going with this? Like it's so easy to flag in a market. That's it's not like,

03:01Hey, I'm going to go seven innings and make sure I get eight cakes. Maybe the easiest fixable market

03:05would be, let me just throw a ball in the dirt at this point right now. And it works out.

03:09Now how we combat these issues are exactly what they've done. The only issue I have Joe

03:13is why does it take so long? If you uncover something like two years ago, shouldn't you

03:18say, okay, we're going to flag that. We're going to watch the next time he pitches. Ooh,

03:22betting irregularities again, flag it again, send the major league baseball and you sit class A

03:28N or T's down for three or four days to get involved inside of the situation. Why did we wait

03:33two full years before we heard anything about these pitches?

03:37Well, I don't, well, I don't think they had class A under investigation two years ago. I think

03:43what they, when all of this was going down and again, Don, it's a very, it's a very small group

03:49of people that pulled this kind of information, right? We saw it with the NBA, you know, there's,

03:55there's only a handful of guys that could do it over two years and get away with it. And that's

04:01exactly what they're saying. They're talking about two plus years, Donnie, more than a hundred,

04:05either straight bets or parlays just on class A's pitches, velocity and result of it here.

04:13Then he recruits Ortiz. So they might've just uncovered it, let's say at first of last year.

04:20And now through the investigation, they have figured out that this has been going on for two plus years.

04:26It's just, and to have the text message. I mean, they have it in print. They have,

04:30they have everything they need. It's just mind numbing that these guys would risk all of that.

04:37These aren't like double A players. We're, I mean, we're talking about guys that are multi-millionaires

04:42playing a sport that has no salary cap, Donnie, not unbelievable.

04:47By the way, looking at, looking at this one, May 28th, 2025. And some of the reading here,

04:51better had said a text message. They're going to play a parlay in this one, but class A threw a pitch

04:55that appeared to be a ball, but the bat is swung at it. Like, I'll tell you, if you're, that's great.

05:00Like, and I, and I haven't seen the pitch, but I probably assume it's not like two inches off the plate.

05:04Like, how did this guy swing at this pitch right now? How do we lose it?

05:07So even when you have a fix that's in, a player can be even more stupid and mess up your fix, Joe.

05:13I, and, but then you're documenting it with me, with gifts. Like, what are you doing?

05:19Unbelievable. Don't press send. Don't press send. We'll see you in hour number two.

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