The Los Angeles Dodgers fire Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani's long-time interpreter. Mizuhara was accused by Ohtani's attorneys of engaging in a “massive theft” of Ohtani's funds to place bets with an illegal bookmaker, according to the LA Times.
[Nightengale] The Los Angeles Dodgers fire Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani's long-time interpreter.
https://x.com/bnightengale/status/1770567153202376865?s=52&t=2DyfyoGPjd90tGtLQn18Sg
4 Comments
amansman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
What do we think? Fall guy?
headie_sage@fanaticus.social · 2 pts · 2y
100% Ippei's his best friend! That's how you know Ippei's a real one. Only a best friend would fall on his sword like that
amansman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Especially if that sword meant no time and a lot of money. Everyone needs an Ippei.
runwaylights@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
If he is, then it's not covered up very well with all the different stories out there