Rose, who was disqualified from baseball for betting on games, claims that if he had an interpreter, he would get away with it.
Many in the baseball community are speculating about how engaged Los Angeles Dodgers sensation Shohei Ohtani was in the gambling controversy, in which it is claimed that his former translator took $4.5 million from him in order to pay off his debts.
Ohtani said he never wagered on sports and that he never used a middleman to do so on Monday, when he first publicly addressed the issue. He went into detail about his version of events, claiming that rather than Ohtani consciously paying off his gambling debts to support his close friend, Ippei Mizuhara, his English-Japanese interpreter since breaking into MLB, stole money from him.
Major League Baseball’s hit king, Pete Rose, had an intriguing observation regarding the entire issue as the story develops on both fronts and the IRS and MLB launch investigations.
“Well, I wish I had an interpreter in the 1970s and 1980s. In a Monday night video that was shared on social media, he declared, “I’d be scot-free.”
Of course, “Charlie Hustle” was permanently disqualified from baseball due to allegations that he wagered on baseball games, which is why he is not inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame today. Until 2004, when he acknowledged that he exclusively wagered on games that he managed, he angrily refuted the charges.
Rose is obviously conjecturing that Ohtani is not as involved in this gambling issue as he claims to be. Whether or not Mizuhara was betting on Ohtani will eventually be determined by MLB’s investigation, but there have been rumors circulating on social media that he was the fall person since Mizuhara was betting on him. They are all just opinions in the end.
When Mizuhara was in South Korea for the Seoul Series against the San Diego Padres, Ohtani said he was “beyond shocked” to discover that she had a gambling addiction. He detailed his discovery process, beginning with the media’s questioning of a “representative in my camp” regarding possible ties to the sports betting scam.
