Update on Shohei Ohtani theft allegations & HR ball controversy | The Pat McAfee Show 

When everything was exposed, Ippei begged Ohtani to pretend that you had shouldered the debt, but he refused. Ippei tried to involve Ohtani to the end.

To those who really want to believe that Ohtani is guilty. Please read the affidavit. Why do so many people form opinions about a story they have not read? Are you intentionally keeping the information out of date because you don't want to know that Ohtani is innocent? Sorry my English is bad.

As a Japanese, I would say Shohei’s English ability is somewhat around 20-30% of native people, which is enough to have casual and baseball related conversation, but not enough to communicate complicated situations. Regarding Ippei’s translation, I remember some big mistakes (probably intentional). For example, when Shohei said good things about Korean players, Ippei said he doesn’t care. Considering tensions between two countries…

“Allegedly”. Bro… The dude wrote in a text “Yes, technically I’m stealing from Ohtani.”. And the released info by the feds is as clear as it can be. There’s nothing “alleged” here. Only not yet convicted.

This is what happened with Will Ireton (Ohtani's new interpreter) and the HR ball. After Ohtani's first HR ball as a Dodger was caught by a fan, she was escorted out by some park staff and (allegedly) forced to agree to return the ball to Ohtani. The method of that retrieval was controversial. In addition, after this agreement was communicated to Ohtani, he answered during the post-game interview in Japanese that "(someone) spoke to the fan and she agreed to return the ball". When he said that, he skipped the subject probably because he didn't know exactly who spoke to her and it is customary to skip the subject in Japanese language when the subject is either obvious or unknown. Ireton, however, translated it in English as "I (Ohtani) spoke to the fan" by adding the subject at his discretion. Some reporters took issues and purported as if Ohtani had lied about it. Ireton should have known that Ohtani hadn't spoken to the fan because if he had, Ireton would have been called in to help Ohtani talking to the fan.

i think you’re forgetting that based on the filing, Ippei also was intentional in removing the eyes of Ohtani’s agent . when he helped Ohtani create his bank account in 2018, he said that Ohtani did not want to share his bank details to them. All the while Ohtani was made to believe that his agent and accountants have visibility of his bank account, and ippei does not have access to it. it is also a failure from his agents.

Great show👍 Ippei sucks 💩😡 a legit liar!! We 100% believe in Shohei and support him!! 🦄🤴💙

Pat's the only guy with common sense. Seriously why do people think the mlb is bigger than feds and IRS? Goddamn fools

I can't imagine why people still believe this is a coverup, even after three Federal agencies had a detailed report exonerating Shohei and nailing Mizuhara. The Feds have no reason to risk their careers and reputation (not to speak of getting indicted if caught) for one MLB player.

Thank you Pat.

ippei is the fall guy! the haters said. but it turns out ippei wanted shohei to take the fall for him.

Being able to hold a basic English convo is not the same as some detailed convo level when it comes to financial issue.

Pat McAfee is fair, and he is helluva funny.

Ok so say Shohei gambled. Ok so he gambled. Like why are the conspiracy theorists spending so much of their energy on this. He'll just get a fine. But HE IS NOT, 9,700 pages of text messages assuming 60 lines per page is roundly 582,000 text messages.

Jeff wanted Shohei in jail.... He needs to find a new job

That specific account was created in haste to register a salary account the week he arrived to USA 2018, in Arizona during Spring Training. After the opening, Shohei NEVER used this account as soon as he was back in LA, his Agency created new necessary accounts which Shohei used all these years. So the account in question hasn’t been used, nor withdrawn money from since. Just accumulating payments and bonuses all these years. So Ohtani didn’t have any notifications and didn’t think much of it because he didn’t have any transaction, he thought.

One of the requirements from Shohei was the new interpreter had to know what the money line was on a handicapper of an Over/Under parlay of a triple action teaser bet.

I believe that shohei works through an interpeter is mostly for his japanese audience as much for him understanding the language

No the new interpreter didn’t lie, but it’s in Japanese language that the subject is not mentioned, can be taken either as Shohei met the person or somebody else met the person. Will Ireton (the new interpreter) is more substance than Ippei who became sloppier and sloppier the past years…

What about Giancarlo Stanton? He's been stealing from the Yankees for years!

Hey, Jeff Passan apologizesed about Even a second doubting SHOHEI Otani in YoTube..just yesterday ‼️　JEFF , what a world you clould say such an insane as putting a SHOHEI OOtani down. Nobody gonna believe you will be a great source to talk about SHOHEI OHTANI ever ‼️

If Ippei was not ohtanis translator we won’t have a Dodger ohtani. Just imagine what lies and biased advice he was telling ohtani so they won’t have to move out of LA. We could have ohtani blue jay or Yankees ohtani

Take a responsible what you are talking about. Take the risk.

Pat McAfee has never sat down in his life

These monsters are scary, like Halloween scary....

I’m Asian and I like to gamble with my own money not my wife money.

Passan hates Ohtani so I’m sure he is hoping Ohtani was in on the betting .

Pat McAfee is "a rat" and keeps lying about Shohei Ohtani's negative stories even Ohtani is proven innocent.

Why ruin the look of your show with AJ sitting there a smiling like a dough head

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This show is a joke. They know shit about anything. Sports shit like this is why I don't watch them

I would say I'm an ohtani fan. At bare minimum I try to catch as much of his at bats as I can, even if it's highlights. I'm trying to go to a reds game where they play the Dodgers. That said, I'm not totally sure here. I just don't understand how anyone has their buddies bank account info. Like my very best friends in the world who I would trust with my life dint know a single digit of my bank account. Now I get he had to help him, but he had access to his money?! I mean if so, then I'll believe it.

Pat and his ‘baseball is boring’ takes are such a snooze.

Don't trust this man He is making a story that can't believe. It's fake guy

The Feds would absolutely cover something like this up.

I haven't really been paying attention to this, but I have yet to hear whether or not this guy had legal access to Ohtani's accounts, or if he had power of attorney. It would seem that he would need that in order to carry out a theft of this level. Also, how were all of these transfers conducted and not flagged as suspicious by the bank. I mean, the IRS climbs up us average peoples a**es over $500.00.