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I believe the first story. MLB might have had to punish Ohtani if they stuck with the first story, even though, he was just bailing his friend out of a debt.
MLB would rather convince everyone, Ohtani was just robbed.
If:
Pay-off friends gambling debt- Ohtani knew what the money was intended to do, which somewhat makes him guilty.
Simply robbed- Ohtani and MLB escape and save face!
We will see just how strong and influential the MLB is!
interpreter fired but gambling debts paid off
Ohtani continues as if nothing happened
MLB strong as ever
CLASSIC COVER-UP!
Because that is part of his job. Interpreter is like a personal manager. He pays the bills, runs the errands. It's extremely common with Asian players both in Japan/Korea and the US. They have the players bank cards and credit cards. Ohtani loads the account and the interpreter takes care of daily things from paying restaurant bills to making sure his wife/gf gets her bday presents. He could have easily been skimming it for years
I think the only shame in this is that I think for the most part everyone held Ohtani with all his talent on a pedestal but much like Tiger Woods who everyone held on a pedestal until all his screwing around some of the shine comes off them and you have to admit Tiger never got his back nor will Ohtani there will always be the dark cloud over him its now not all about baseball. Its almost like Karma comes back to bite them in the ass.
Wild story.
Seems like ohtani may have been the gambler...although he was in a near-perfect situation because "he doesn't speak english" and therefore the acceptance that the middle-man(ippei) runs all his life activities that require English (groceries, banking, bills, shopping, bookie) gives him a bit of an "escape-route"
The only other side that makes sense is that Bowyer knew ohtani was ippei best friend and would pay the tab to avoid it going public.
Or that Bowyer being able to claim ohtank as a client to help attract other high-end clients...although he would still want to collect the 4.5 mill debt
Or ippei lied to Bowyer and said the bets were from ohtani when they were his own bets (ohtani would obviously be extended much larger credit than ippei)
Wouldn't have even known if ippei had just brought the guy cash
Established in 1995,
if only the Hit King had an interpreter back in his gambling degen days 
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