On the topic of gambling: Did Big A hear about the recent news that MGM apparently has Bruno Mars on the hook for $50 milllion of debt? Seems a bit like an Elvis Presley situation all-over where the casino will have him perform until the end of time without him being able to make the payments...
@@greencrusader6488Yeah it could be possible that the insider or whoever leaked this news could be lying, but could also be a scenario where they agreed to forgive the gambling debt if he does some residency shows for free, or he agrees to continue with the residency or some other deal like that.
People often overestimate the amount of money artists get after the labels, managers and all the other leeches take their cut. I'm not worried that Bruno Mars will live out of a shoebox anytime soon of course. According to some of his friends Bruno Mars seems to think that you have to 'learn to gamble' and eventually get better at it... It is quite hard to kick a gambling addiction if your contract chains you to a casino and your habit is profitable to your employer.
Coming from an aussie where gambling has been fucked and basically unregulated for years, the US is heading in a veryyyy similar direction and it's not good
Euro Frog here: Late last year there was a massive scandal in Italian Football were three Players, Nicolo Zaniolo, Nicolo Fangioli and Sandro Tonali, got busted for Gambling. Tonali and Zaniolo were interrogated by the Police while they were with the Italian National Team, before they were kicked out of the Team. Tonali was banned from playing Football for 10 months, Fangiolo for 12 months. Though I'm pretty sure they also bet on Football Games (no idea if within Italy or somewhere else), so it's understandable they got fucked hard. Though I must say it's incredibly hypocritical of all these Leagues, they take all these sponsorships from Gambling Companies, but when their Players do it all Hell breaks lose. Of course you don't want them betting on Games they have any influence over, but who cares if Shohei puts a Grand on the Japanese Football National Team winning the Asian Cup?
You wanna tell me a guy who gives all the money he earns to his mom and only gets a small allowance and spends every waking moment focused on baseball suddenly decided to gamble 4 million dollars? He also turned down a lot of money to go to the MLB earlier. And his 10 year contract only pays most of the money in the last year. To me it's much more believable that the interpreter who has a lot of time and money on his hands in a foreign country made bad decisions. And Ohtani tried to help him out to avoid the embarassment and public attention etc. But it backfired and now the media loves the story because his name is attached to it.
I believe the first story of Shohei doing something stupid but good intentioned to cover for his friend and it unfortunately has legal consequences. Even as a Giants fan(Dodgers Rival) I really hope he doesn't miss time from the sport. Kind of reminds me of the Simpsons clip where Mark Mcgwire shows up and asks if everyone would like to know something important or watch him hit dingers lol If anyone is more interested Jomboy has an excellent video covering everything so far
The problem with athletes gambling was summed up best by Jason Kelce imo. He pointed out that all it takes is a few bad bets to put you so far in the hole that the bookie gives you an out by telling you to take a fall so he can cash in on it. Any sports gambling by a major athlete puts the integrity of the sport at risk.
@@guppy719 why not? the translator was making $500k a year while with Ohtani. translator could also lie and say he's making the bets for ohtani. It's not far fetched so there's unlikely to be an extensive check done to make sure the translator is being truthful. Besides, if the translator isn't good for the money, you can always threaten ohtani for the money because of how close the translator is to him; ohtani would be likely to pay the debt in order to avoid the reputational damage. Doesn't really make a lot of sense to me if Ohtani really is involved though. Why have his close friend/translator who everyone knows/recognizes make the bets? Why not get some unknown guy in his camp to do this for him. Surely he's got some close friends that aren't well known who would be willing to make bets on his behalf. Heck, he could have probably hired his lawyer to do it for him. Also, why an illegal bookie? He has the resources to gamble legally while hiding the evidence.
If they charge his translator for stealing the money it would likely be wire fraud which is a federal crime If it’s just gambling that would be a state crime. If it was match fixing and betting on his own games that would be federal i think
I don't know if it's crazy but I feel like the only thing they shouldn't be allowed to bet on is themselves to lose, I'd even be down for Athletes to bet win only markets on their own games
But then they are basically pressured to bet on themselves every single game, it would kinda look bad if your favourite team bet on themselves for the last 5 games and then this particular one don't
@@user-mt4un4xl6s if they're not public, you lose the public's trust in the integrity of the game. Some fluke error happens and everybody will claim it was rigged. Bookies and casinos aren't going to get as much action since the outcome seems predetermined. You'll lose viewership as well as fan interest.
I wonder if you bet on yourself to win would you still get in trouble?? Or if you bet on yourself with the over 🤔 you would just play hard so is that illegal ?
