Bob's Bullets: Ohtani's explanation on Mizuhara's betting scandal lacked clarity. Robert Whiting.

Bob's Bullets: Ohtani's explanation on Mizuhara's betting scandal lacked clarity.
ROBERT WHITING MAR 26, 2024
URL https://robertwhiting.substack.com/p/bobs-bullets-ohtanis-explanation

TOKYO — Shohei Ohtani addressed the media today with a brief statement. His new interpreter Will Ireton translated his remarks into English.

“Ippei (Mizuhara) has been stealing money from my account and has been telling lies,” Ohtani said. “I never bet on sports or have willfully sent money to the bookmaker.

“I never bet on baseball or any other sports or never have asked somebody to do it on my behalf,” he stressed, “and I have never gone through a bookmaker to bet on sports. and was never asked to assist betting payment for anyone else.”

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Robert (Bob) Whiting is a best-selling, critically-acclaimed author who has written extensively on Japan, Japanese-American relations, and sports. His book You Gotta Have Wa was a Pulitzer Prize candidate and has recently been included in the Society for American Baseball Research’s (SABR) top fifty baseball books of the last fifty years"

https://sabr.org/50at50/books

His latest book is Tokyo Junkie, https://amzn.to/3MdUyr9 a memoir focused on his life in Japan that combines Japanese post-war history and Japanese-American relations with his own experiences. You can read the foreword here, and excerpts here:

https://www.fccj.or.jp/sites/default/files/2021-04/04-April-2021-Number1Shimbun-v14.pdf

This site - https://tokyojunkie.com/archive/ - is a work-in-progress archive of Bob’s work.

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