Running athletes busted for gambling thread

Yeah, this legalized sports betting thing seems to be going just great...

 

Ohtani has been on an MLB roster and he’s still claiming to not speak English?

 

No hablo ingles

 

New Balance: We Got Now (+130)

 

It would be wise when dealing with Ohtani for a news org to bring their own interpreter - don't you think?

 

https://translate.google.co.jp/?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&op=translate

 

https://www.dailynews.com/2024/03/25/questions-raised-about-resume-of-shohei-ohtanis-ex-interpreter/

Just FYI, y'all: Ippei exhibited no gambling behavior in front of his high school soccer coach.

“He never exhibited gambling behavior,” Kemp Wells, the school’s head soccer coach, wrote Saturday, March 23, in a text message.

Who writes this shit? Who edits this shit?

 

I don’t know; to me that tracks since he exhibited no behavior at all to anyone at UC Riverside.

 

I think he's not confident in his English to comfortably take and answer questions. There was a story about when Ippei made the announcement to the locker room that Ohtani paid off his debt, Ohtani understood enough to have a WTF moment. It would make sense he knows some English but isn't good enough to use it in a presser. I have the same problem with Spanish. I'm around it enough and am forced to use it enough that I should be a better speaker than I am. I'm just not. At some point, if I'm trying to communicate complex ideas it all falls apart for me. It's also very hard to learn past a certain age.

 

It's likw that fr me with French. Mu written and aural comprehension is good enough for me to know what's going on around me, but my speaking ability is miles and miles behind that. And without practice, it erodes fiurther.

 

In a few years when 97 percent of sports fans have crippling gambling addictions ESPN will have Van Pelt quietly retire Bad Beats the same way they moved away from Jacked Up clips.