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  1. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    Many athletes/entertainers do have the infrastructure. My brother banks pro athletes and actors and deals with business managers all the time. As you can imagine, there are varying capabilities there. His bank has many fraud protection mechanisms in place and they catch stuff all the time. The...
  2. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    All good. And I’m perfectly cool with being told I’m wrong. Legitimately just trying to understand the opposite position. Ultimately, we all agree on the most important thing…that we just don’t have enough info here to definitively make any determinations. “Fan fiction” is probably an apt term...
  3. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    Why don’t you cite specific cases and let’s have a look then? Because I’m not reading the same thing you are.
  4. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    This is not an accurate characterization at all.
  5. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    In many of these cases, the one committing fraud was the advisor. This is why I would like to know more about how his money is managed because it could provide some clues. These accounts have to be funded from somewhere. Someone is directing those funds. I’m not sure what information we’ll...
  6. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    All of this is true but Shohei Ohtani isn’t Baker Mayfield. He is a billionaire dollar brand potentially. He is the best player in baseball. He is in a different stratosphere from almost every other athlete. Many of these fraud cases are by people they know and trusted and that’s certainly true...
  7. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    Giving access is one thing. Giving access and then having nobody monitor said access is another. That’s the piece that needs to be answered. We just don’t have any clue on how Ohtani’s team is structured but I would be surprised if it’s that unsophisticated. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ippei had...
  8. BigSoxFan

    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    Operating income is revenue less operating expenses, like salaries, overhead, etc. so it tells you how profitable your core business is.
  9. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    No apologies needed. I think what makes this story so fascinating is that a wide range of outcomes remains plausible until we know more. But just because something is plausible doesn’t make it true. We simply need more facts.
  10. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    Just want to caution that Tokyo Sox isn’t the only one with knowledge of Japanese culture here. My wife is Japanese and I’ve been 10+ times now and have had countless conversations with her friends and family. Doesn’t make me an expert - not close or it - but not everyone here is a novice on the...
  11. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    None of us know anything here, including you. If you want to give Ohtani the benefit of the doubt based on circumstantial evidence or support, that’s your choice. If others want to be more skeptical based on their lived experience or read of the current known facts, that’s theirs. We simply...
  12. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    It still requires one to believe that nobody in Ohtani’s orbit was monitoring his banking activity, either Ohtani himself or his business managers. I think focusing on who is getting text alerts is missing the point.
  13. BigSoxFan

    Misc. Pats Offseason News

    Simple reality is almost everyone who gets a major promotion to a position they’ve never worked is in over their head in the first year. I don’t really care how Mayo looks right now, I care that he learns and adjusts. He knows football. He knows how to coach. I’d bet he’ll learn and get better...
  14. BigSoxFan

    Revised contract predictions for Snell and Montgomery

    I think he and Boras almost certainly overplayed his hand. Find it hard to imagine he didn’t have $100M+ offers on the table earlier in the offseason.
  15. BigSoxFan

    Revised contract predictions for Snell and Montgomery

    Ha, whatever. Just glad it wasn’t the Yankees. Fire this offseason into the sun. What an organizational failure.
  16. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    I wasn’t the one the suggest they should detain him, especially in a foreign country without any jurisdiction. Was just pushing back on calling Mizuhara a “random associate”, which he wasn’t. He was their employee and that carries a certain level of responsibility with it as an employer. Once...
  17. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    Mizuhara was a Dodgers employee. He wasn’t some random associate. I don’t know if being abroad impacted how they operated but he was their employee until they fired him.
  18. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    Ha, feel free to do so! Was just providing my perspective that for clients at my firm, committing fraud would be very tough and I know client teams that have snuffed out fraud attempts like this. But I think Lex makes a good point that we don’t really know how his financial empire is set up and...
  19. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    I deal with this stuff professionally and I know the systems that are in place for clients like this. Fraud generally happens with poor internal controls, like trusting a business manager unconditionally. I can’t speak to the Jaguars situation but whoever their CFO is sucks at his/her job...
  20. BigSoxFan

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    If the proper tracking systems were in place, someone would know the money left the account. The pertinent information that we don’t yet know is whether or not Ippei had access and what Ohtani’s financial advisor situation was during this time. If he didn’t have any of this in place, we’re...