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The Shohei Ohtani & Jontay Porter Gambling Scandals Are Crazy! · Kenny Wallace Media

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What do you think of this so tiny situation?
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To me, he looks like a fool one way or the other.
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I ain't buying it. I ain't buying it, first of all.
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Thank you. First of all, they did.
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Whether he's innocent or not, they did change their story.
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Yes, and that is a red flag. I'm sorry.
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I find it very hard to believe that you give anyone hell, even
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I know, OK, your wife or whatever, but somebody that has
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access to your account, to that level, and you're making those
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payments. And here's the other thing, by
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the way, I was thinking about this because we're never going
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to know the whole story. Everyone's going to lie a little
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bit. They're going to dig, though.
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They're going to dig and somebody's going to, somebody's
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going to turn when when this, when this guy has the feds at
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his door and he starts to chirp and he starts to sing for his
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supper. But here's what I was thinking.
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Everybody, everybody knows people that gamble, right?
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We all do. I've gambled before.
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I have friends that gamble. I have friends that have gambled
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too much. I've gambled too much on a
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random weekend. You know, for example, Otani's
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with this dude all the time. They're going to lunch, they're
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going to dinner. You know when this dude has too
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much on the line of a game, the game is on.
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Thank you. I get, I get in a bad mood if I
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lose 50 bucks on a game. I don't even care about if this
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dude is betting 10s of thousands or whatever it is.
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You know, this dude's a gambler, You know, he's probably always
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got the game on. He's always checking the scores,
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he's always on the phone, he's always looking at the scores,
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He's always calling the bookie. Whatever it is.
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There is no way Shohei Otani if they're that good of friends and
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they're with each other non-stop.
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There's no way Shohei Otani does not know that this dude is a
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degen when it comes to gambling. If you hang out with a
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degenerate gambler, which I have millions of times, they are
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stressed out. Like you cannot believe they
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talk out loud again. They're on their phone freaking
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out. They're doing this.
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They're on emotional roller coaster, emotional roller
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coaster. Not to mention the bookie, like
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he's loaning you money. You know what I mean?
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Like, how does he know exactly that?
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You as a translator, how much money you making?
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And you you're you're gambling a lot of money away.
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That's the other part. So if if what we read is he's
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making 300K to 500K, which is a nice amount of money, but you
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don't get that line of credit extended based on that, you get
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it extended based on your close to 100 millionaire type dude.
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But you have to be really close. You think that bookies like,
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well, I know Otani. OK, here you go.
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No, no, no. Let me see Otani.
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Let me talk to him. Let me see something real quick
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like it's just it doesn't add up, Charlie.
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And that's the ML BS Superstar face of the League.
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He looked like a Jackass. It could.
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Get dirtier. You know what?
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And Pete Rose did have a great response.
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He's like, I wish I had a translator.
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It is so true, so true. If Otani spoke English, I'm
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sorry, it would be a totally different story.
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Because you just when you have a translator, it's very easy to
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get out of these questions. All you have to do is and go
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back to Sammy Sosa in front of Congress when all of a sudden he
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forgot how to speak English. It's just, I'm sorry, it's
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easier when you have a translator to duck all of this.
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It is 100%. So do you think do you think
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you'll see Shohei Otani suspended this year?
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They're going to say Shohei, you can't pitch this year because he
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wasn't going to pitch anyway. You don't think?
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They're going to suspend. Them.
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Oh man, could I see a little little suspension.
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And gamer. Something like that.
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I just. I don't think it's going to be.
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I don't think it's going to be a big suspension.
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I think they're going to have the the least thorough
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investigation in the history of sports.
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Who would you rather be right now?
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Shohei Ohtani's interpreter or Diddly P?
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Diddly I. Thought you're going to say
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Jonte Porter or the Jonte. Porter Yeah, yeah.
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Well, in a weird way, the Jonte Porter story is even I know.
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I want to say, well, it's certainly funnier now.
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Clearly Jonte Porter is not Shohei, but the Jonte Porter
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story, where we have a lot of facts with show.
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Hey, there's a little more of a muddled scenario of what
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happened, but when I saw it twice.
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But then I saw another article where there's three games.
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If people don't realize how these gambling scandals are
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flagged, they're flagged by Vegas or a book.
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That's always been the case. If you go back to that famous
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scandal of Arizona State, which people have seen the movies and
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the documentaries, I saw it that was flagged by the bookmakers in
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Vegas. When they look around, they see
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tons of kids in Arizona State, sweatshirts in every every
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freaking casino betting on like a random Thursday night game
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versus whoever. Washington State, whoever the
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hell that game was When John Tay Porter, who barely plays, who
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would ever bet on him? Think about that.
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Unless you're his John Tay. I went to Mizzou.
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But when? That's the most profitable bet
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of the night. Two different times.
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And apparently there were three nights in question.
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But it's just the easiest scheme to catch.
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Yeah, dude. And then, I mean, he left the
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games with injuries. Oh, my eye hurts.
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Oh, I have the flu. I got to go to the bathroom.
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It's just, it's hilarious. And and again, whether it's him,
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a family member, a friend, I don't know the exact situation,
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but this is just so easy to catch.
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Yeah, so. What's going to happen with him?
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We'll see. This is where how good you are
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matters. Shohei is so good that they want
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this to go away. Jonte Porter, all due respect,
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love the kid. I remember talking to him when
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he was at Mizzou. Great kid, great family.
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Jonte Porter is a guy who you can get rid of.
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The NBA can just basically say you're gone.
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See. Ya, we'll make an example.
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Of you. And that's that's what happens
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when you're a two way player that makes 400 K and you're not.
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You're not a great NBA player. He makes 400 Ki.
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Think 415 wow two way contract. Oh wow.
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So he OK. I remember those two way
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contracts. Damn, he only makes 400K in the
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NBA. Well, I think if you're if
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you're on the roster, don't you make at least a million ish in
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the NBA? I made more money in him.
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Well, he's back and forth with the G League, whatever they call
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these guys. Oh, they call those two way
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contracts. Yeah, you never want that two
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way contract. You get sent down.
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You're making that minor league coin, which is a big gap.
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Do we got somebody on the Marks appliance?
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Is it Mizzou Stan? It's Mizzou, Stan.
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Stanley, what's up, baby? Well, what's up, brother man,
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How you doing? Man, we're chilling, dude.
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A lot of drama and we love it. I do too.
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Hey, you you just he he took the Porter out of my.
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I was going to talk about him too.
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That was pretty funny. But listen to show Hail Connie
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thing 222 things here, man. First of all, the fact that if
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this guy did have access to his bank account, which is just
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completely unfathomable, I don't.
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I don't care how good a friend you I have great friends that I
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have known for over 50 years, and none of those people have
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access to my bank. Now, of course, I don't have
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$700 million to access, not even close.
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But but my So that's one of the big question.
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Here's the other thing, and this is the thing I don't hear a lot
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of people talking about. I agree with you guys, 100%
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Major League Baseball is going to go completely out of their
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way to cover this up because this is their guy.
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This is their guy they're in bed with baby time.
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He's the star of the stars. But here's the deal, man.
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If this dude lied to federal investigators, he his least of
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his worries is his His. Major League Baseball.
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That's prison time. When you lie to the feds, if
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they're investigating this dude gambling, you know Tani has lied
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to them. He's screwed.
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Forget about baseball, Worry about the federal government
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coming after you because gambling and sports gambling in
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California is illegal. And the guy that you know got
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the interpreter busted was already under investigation.
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So this is going to come out. This is going to come out and
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it's going to be dirty and it's not going to be nice.
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And and you know, I feel for the kid, I I think gambling should
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be legal in all states. But yeah, whatever, man.
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As a gambling man, do you think this year we'll see something
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with Shohei meaning a suspension?
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Or you know even more than that. Cami's federal investigation
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seem to take, you know, sometimes years.
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So if God knows, you know how long that's going to go.
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But but it wouldn't surprise me if come fall they don't and I'm
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not saying he's going to be charged or anything like that
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but when the when the you know when the when The Dirty laundry
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finally comes out and and if you guys are right and he just
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straight up lied and if he lied to the fence he's really screwed
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but hopefully he didn't do that. But anyway hey man you guys know
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I love your show. Thanks a lot man.
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Keep fighting. Good fight.
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Right on, baby. And remember this now totally
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different scenario, but it kind of reminds me of that Deshaun
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Watson contract. Remember how they they kind of
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figured out his contract where, oh, you're going to be
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suspended, but we're going to pay you nothing this year so the
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suspension doesn't hit you. You get your money at the end.
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As we all know, Shohei deferred the crap out of this contract.
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Is there a connection there, Charlie?
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Well, I have, I have read and a lot a lot of this is
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speculation. It's all good.
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But hey, it's it's what people talk about.
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I I do think there's an interesting argument about,
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let's just say, hypothetically, what if Shohei did have a
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gambling problem? If that's the case, this is a
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hypothetical. I have no idea.
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But if he did, and you're and you're smart, you would defer a
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lot of money to protect yourself.
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You're saving yourself, Austin Powers, from yourself by not
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allowing yourself to gamble all that money away.
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Yep. Yep.
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Again, that's a hypothetical I don't know.
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There's a lot of connections. But guess what?
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You know what? When you get into a problem like
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this, you don't give very much information and you change your
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story. People are going to speculate,
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and that's fine. And I speculate, you speculate.
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All of our listeners speculate. Cole If there was a little prop
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out of Shohei and Diddy sharing a A cell together, would you
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throw coin down on that? Plus a million.
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This is a drama fast left and. Right, they might.
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Be in two different prisons or two different areas of the
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prisons based off of the crimes that they're involved in.
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Either way, with the Otani thing, dude, he looks like a
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fool. You know who would throw a coin
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on that? Otani.
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Bet on yourself. Bet on yourself.
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Damn, dude. Crazy.
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Yeah, I don't know. And by the way, I'm sure I I
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almost don't want to bring it up.
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I'm sure people are bringing up that one.
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That random guy's tweets, I I don't know if those have
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BeenVerified me. No, some dude basically said oh,
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on these days there were huge bets and Shohei was really bad
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and to me I have not seen that verified.
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Throwing game. That was also by a guy with 200
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followers. So look, Same.
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I don't want to say. Same with Pete Rose.
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I'm not even saying Shohei Ohtani bet on baseball.
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I have no clue. I would be very surprised if he
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doesn't gamble. And I'll just tell you right
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now, there's no way on earth he didn't know what his buddy was
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up to. Ding, Ding, Ding. 100,000% If
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you're a degen gambler, you're looking over and your buddy is
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refreshing his phone on the on the Clemson versus Virginia Tech
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basketball game every two. It's the most annoying thing in
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the world. Yes, to hang out with the
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degenerate gambler. It is.
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They annoy the hell out of you. They make you stressed out.
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They give you anxiety, anxiety. Anxiety.
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They do. He's chasing the Hawaii game on
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Saturday. Night.
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Yeah, calm down, Jays. Louise, man.
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But then. Here's their part.
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Here's their part. And again, I'm just speculating.
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This is just a guy talking. It's all good, baby.
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Let's say ippy, ippy, this guy ippe, ippe.
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I'm not sure how you pronounce it.
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Ippe, IPPE. I like Ippe.
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Let's say he is a D Gen. gambler, which it sure sounds
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like either he is or SHO he is somebody's AD Gen. gambler.
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OK, Or somebody bets a lot. By the way, if you make 50
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million, I know this is gonna sound weird, but guys that make
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a ton of money bet a ton of money.
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So you and I bet 50 and 100 bucks and 25 bucks.
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Well, if you're if you make 70 million this number, it is not
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as crazy as you think. Honestly.
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I mean, look at Dana White. Dana White, OK, I'm talking
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about if it's Shohei. Shohei has a $700 million
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contract. He has crazy endorsements.
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All I'm saying is like Dana White, that's hundreds of
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thousands, if not, you know, millions on the line.
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It sounds crazy, but if you're if you're worth 500 million or
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whatever the number is, it's not as crazy as you think because
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people bet proportionally. That's all I'm saying.
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But this is what I'll say. If you get in bad with a gambler
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and then you're a, let's say you bet college football, but now
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you're in deep. Now you're down 3,000,000, but
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you're attached to baseball and you have inside information on
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baseball. You're in the clubhouse.
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A lot of times your intentions are good.
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I'm sure Pete Rose started off just betting football.
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But then you get in deep. You start signing away
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autographed baseballs every day. Hey, Pete, I don't need another
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thousand autographed balls. I need money.
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That's when you go I'm, I'm I'm in real deep and I have inside
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info to get myself out of this. Yep, 'cause I'm in the
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clubhouse. And again, I know.
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We've got that blister. I'm just talking.
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No, I know. No, we talked about that the
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other day. We told we were talking cause
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Cole's like you can get, I don't mind gambling and stuff like
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that, but it's all connected. If you're a player, like even in
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the NHL, you gamble, you get over your head.
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Now you kind of, you kind of know what's going on.
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A goalie has a porn bicep a little bit.
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You know, the guys went out the night before.
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Da da da da. And you're desperate.
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You're desperate. This big boy that you're
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gambling with is like calling you now.
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Maybe he's threatening you a little bit.
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Your girl is at home by herself and you're on the road for a
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week. Desperate times call for
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desperate measures. Dang, right.
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What happened to Marty Brador what happened?
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Oh, your bicep? Oh, I'm just asking.
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Hey, Marty, you want to go out tonight?
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You want to go out tonight, Marty, until the wee hours in
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the morning, you know. Yeah, dude, That's where the
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Gray area comes in. That's where that's the
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shadiness comes in, man. Damn gambling's a big deal,
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dude. It is.
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It is a monster deal. It is an addiction beyond
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belief. And I've been and I'm an addict.
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And now I'd rather be a gambling addict because I can feel like,
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well, I don't. Know I can ruin your life too.
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Ruin your life too, man. You get over your head like bad
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things are going to happen. You know you're not going to
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withdraw and shake and piss out of your ass for five months and
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but boy oh boy, somebody might be.
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Some big boys might be knocking on your door when you're out of
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town and your cute little girlfriend's in there.
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Or you also just again it's all relative.
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I have a call him a friend. 2 marriages ruined.
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That's another thing by his gambling addiction, because
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financially it absolutely murders.
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Can't catch up. You cannot catch up.
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Wow, wow, wow, wow. That's just there's crazy stuff
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going on, man. But what you said about gambling
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being everywhere, that's where it's now different.
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And look, I think at this point, I don't even care.
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Pete Rose. I feel bad for him.
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Whenever I see Pete Rose in Vegas signing autographs in
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front of a freaking card table, I feel bad for him.
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I know. Listen, I know he has other
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issues, by the way. I'm not condoning that in any
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way, shape or form at this point.
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If Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame, I don't care.
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But it's also a different climate because every sports
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league is 1000% in bed with all of these sports books.
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They're going to be building sports books at the stadiums.
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They already are next door in states where it's legal.
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They're all getting millions, hundreds of millions.
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These will be billion dollar contracts for FanDuel and
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DraftKings. And whatever it is, all these
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sports leagues are in bed with gambling now, so it's different.
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So that kid from Ottawa, they got 40 games for gambling.
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What's his name again? I forgot.
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Tim Peele texted me about that. Yeah, what is his name?
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What the Hell's his name? He's supposed to be a good
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player, but he's like, showed a picture of him.
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He's got a gambling website on his helmet.
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He does Shane Pinto. Shane Pinto Yeah, good Lord man,
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crazy stuff. Get him in.
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Audi exchange sucks on Kirkwood, 855-2828 to a 55.
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Victoria on the east side chimes in and goes up.
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Come on, Bob. Self deprecation isn't a good
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look on you, Bob. Wait.
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Keep going. Actually emphasize, cut a Mick.
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Oh, let's see here. The reason it's not OK for
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professional athletes to gamble on other sports is because they
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know plenty of other athletes in other sports as well.
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Same agents, same schools, etcetera. 314 Put a name in,
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please. For sure.
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Insider training. Yeah, dude, you get jammed up,
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you'll do anything. I mean, look, we've all done.
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I don't say, I'll say I like it's not inside information, but
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we're all in clubhouses back in the day and and people that
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report on the team. I'm not saying they're 1000%
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experts. They know exactly what the what
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the trainer knows. But look, you can see a dude
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walking out of the stadium in a boot, or you can see a dude
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walking out with crutches. Or you can see a dude who's
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walking out perfectly fine when people think he might be hurt.
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Or you just kind of peek in the trainers room when they don't
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close the door, see what's going on whenever they're working on
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somebody's hand. Or I used to.
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I know you did too. And hell, you were.
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You were what? I'm not saying you're one of the
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people I'm talking about, but I would literally be at the bars
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and the the players are there too.
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And you know that now again, they're playing the next day at
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7:00 PM. I'm not saying it's the end of
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the world, but if you were to see, let's just say
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hypothetically, let's say you see the starting pitcher for
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next day, maybe it's a day game. I don't know.
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Again, this is all a hypothetical.
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Maybe you see the starting pitcher just getting hammered
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the night before. That's information for you.
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He walks out with a cute blonde. You're like, yeah, he's going to
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be up a long. It's going to be a long night
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for him. Then he's got to take a cab
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home. Either he's driving or all the
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way home, like Cole had to do the other day, which is like 45
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minutes both ways. And by the way.
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Decent drive, dude. Drive.
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Let's last 20 years at least once a month.
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Scenic Edwardsville. I'll have gotten a text from a
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friend of mine, no matter if I'm here in Saint Louis or back at
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Michigan State. Hey, do you think so?
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And so is going to play? And this is just somebody who
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covers the team every once in a while, even back at Michigan
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State. Hey, is whoever Is Shannon Brown
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hurt? Hey, is Drew Stanton going to
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play? Hey, is the Cardinals blah,
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blah, blah? Is this guy injured?
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Hey, is this guy going to be this?
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Javon Ringer. Javon Ringer.
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Nice tailback. But I'm saying I know I am not
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even a beat writer and I I used to get a text from a friend at
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least once a month, if not once a week or so about a team I
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cover. Just thinking I know more so he
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can put a bet down. I know.
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Fandel's going to get flagged. They're going to be like, who's
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this guy in East St. Louis IL who's betting hundreds
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of thousands of dollars in all these Guardians games?
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But think about this now. See, I won't do that.
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But look, you bet on the teams that you and, and we can just
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take this to fans too. You bet on the teams you like.
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You bet on your team. So in Missouri, people are going
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to bet on Mizzou, They're going to bet on the Cardinals, they're
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going to bet on the Blues, whatever it is.
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And then you bet on the big games, Alabama football and all
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that. But you bet on the teams that
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you know and you do know. Look, if you're betting on
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Slough basketball, you do probably have a better knowledge
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of Slough basketball than a lot of other people in the country.
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Well. If you're going to bet on
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Mizzou, you should bet that they're.
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Going to lose basketball. How were they versus the spread
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though? I have no clue.
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That's a good question. You know what I wish?
20:07
I wish Andy Murray was a degenerate gambler.
20:09
You know why? Because he would have played me
20:12
all the damn time. He would give me a CI would have
20:15
been on 1st unit power. Because he was trying to lose,
20:17
you're saying? Yeah.
20:20
You know, Cam, get back out there.
20:21
Cam, get back out. Why is Cam playing 20 minutes?
20:24
Imagine that. Great man, man.
20:27
Oh man. Yeah.
20:28
I played dude. I play with guys at Gamble,
20:31
dude. Well, that they know.
20:32
A couple that sniped into the NHL with a couple pretty big
20:36
names we know. We know a couple.
20:38
You know what I mean? It's there's there's a couple
20:40
connection with some big dogs. You know it is.
20:42
It is what it is. Oh, let's see here, 314 put
20:46
that. Put the name in, please.
20:47
Let's see here. Odds are Mr. I don't know what
20:52
the. Hell, I'm just not buying it.
20:53
That's all I'm saying. I'm just not buying it.
20:54
I don't think anybody else buys it either.
20:57
Patrico chimes and goes Real question If this is a mid level
21:00
pro player and his friend slash assistant instead of Otani and
21:03
his interpreter, is this as big of a story anywhere else?
21:07
I mean, no, no. It could be Jonte Porter.
21:11
Yeah. It could be the baseball version
21:13
of Jonte Porter. But is that, do you see that
21:16
everywhere? The Jonte Porter thing is it
21:18
blowing up like it is Otani. Well, how about you would know
21:20
better, Cole. A lot of football players have
21:23
these six games. Suspensions, Jameson Williams
21:26
locally here, Calvin Ridley betting on some props and
21:30
whatnot. So it's happening a lot in the
21:31
NFL. Yeah, it's definitely becoming a
21:34
bit of a thing. So it's we just we talked about
21:38
it last week when Anthony Beck was on the show.
21:40
Rocco Beck, the reason he was a starter is because the starting
21:43
quarterback in front of him got kicked off the team.
21:45
That's right, because he was involved in that big betting
21:49
scandal that somehow only rocked the state of Iowa with both
21:52
teams. And then that or not both.
21:55
A lot of teams, but with both schools in that state.
21:58
You excited about the Battlehawks, Charlie?
22:00
Oh yeah, is that this week? We don't know did.
22:05
You just interview him. I think it's next week starts.
22:09
March 28th. Shoot.
22:11
OK, it is this. Isn't that like tomorrow?
22:14
What's today? The 27th Wait, is it Saturday?
22:17
This weekend. I think they said March 28th, it
22:20
starts. So maybe there's a game for the
22:22
league. Tomorrow.
22:23
Not the, not, not the Battlehawks.
22:26
Now, now I need to know. Now I.
22:28
Need Am I excited about the Battlehawks?
22:30
I am excited about anything that helps Saint Louis.
22:33
Derek, Charlie, that's the answer I was looking for.
22:35
Now will I watch? I don't really watch almost any
22:39
sports anymore. Yeah.
22:40
Oh, they do play. Besides NASCAR.
22:42
They. They play Saturday.
22:44
By the Hawks Way, this Saturday against Hague.
22:47
They play the Michigan Panthers, no longer coached by Jeff
22:51
Fisher. Michigan Panthers.
22:53
I think they're coached by Mike Nolan.
22:55
OK, in. Michigan.
22:58
Yes, OK. But that league.
23:00
So what was the other league? The US.
23:03
FL If I'm not mistaken, they were the Michigan Panthers.
23:06
Did they ever actually set foot in Michigan?
23:08
Weren't all the games played in Alabama?
23:11
That's quite possible. I think that might be the case
23:14
where all of those games were played in the same stadium in
23:17
Alabama. Am I in a COVID?
23:19
Didn't. You actually fell have a thing
23:21
though, where like everybody was practicing in the same place and
23:24
then coming to Saint Louis for the games.
23:26
This past year, the first year, 2020, before COVID, everybody
23:31
was in their home markets, which was cool, 'cause you went to
23:34
Rams Park to cover them and all that.
23:35
Ta'amu, Jordan Ta'amu. And then this past iteration of
23:40
the XFL, they all were in the Dallas Fort Worth area at a hub.
23:45
I'm fond of that city. By the way, somebody the other
23:49
day was talking about the NCAA tournament bubble from the COVID
23:54
year, and I think this also speaks to COVID.
23:57
I had no recollection of how it went down or where it was.
24:01
So it would have been 2021, correct?
24:03
Where was it played? I don't even remember that.
24:05
Indianapolis Here's how I know. So was the whole tournament like
24:09
a whole month? I I It couldn't have been the
24:12
entire tournament at Indianapolis.
24:15
I think it was though, wasn't it?
24:16
At different Didn't you have Hinkle Field House you had you
24:19
had different arenas around Indianapolis?
24:22
Maybe they had to have done like 4 different cities though, I
24:24
know. They're trying to sneak in some
24:26
girls wherever they were. Well, that was the NBA bubble.
24:29
Oh. OK.
24:30
That that's what I'm thinking of.
24:32
There was a Seahawks player who tried to It was a Seahawks 7th
24:35
round pick who got cut from the team because he was sneaking
24:38
girls into training camp. That was a football player.
24:40
Football player in. A bag, right?
24:42
Yeah, something. Wasn't she dressed up as a hotel
24:46
employer or something? I think she was dressed.
24:48
Up as a dude. There you go.
24:49
I thought he was. I thought she was in like a big
24:51
bag and he's carrying her in. No that.
24:53
Hockey bag. That I can see now that somebody
24:56
did that. What are?
24:57
You going to check my bag? Think about this dude, if you're
25:00
in the bubble for a month and there's a good looking staff
25:04
member, even if even if she's not good looking after a couple
25:08
weeks. About to say.
25:09
Then it turns into like prison. It's like it's a woman.
25:11
Well, that's why you're talking. You were talking earlier about
25:14
prison, where you're saying Ohtani and they call him the
25:17
Diddler. One of those guys may enjoy
25:20
prison. I don't know.
25:22
Yeah. Weird man.
25:24
Did you see the meme of the bicycle?
25:26
Yes, yeah. Yes, the getaway bike.
25:29
Yeah, that, Antonio that. Antonio Brown tweeted.
25:33
Oh, was that him? Yeah, probably.
25:34
OK, I saw it. He's all over the place.
25:36
I saw it from a buddy of mine. Antonio Brown.
25:38
Look, man, I know Antonio Brown is a bad dude This.
25:41
Guy of a Jackass. He's funny, he.
25:43
Is. Funny on He's very funny.
25:45
What do you call Caitlin Clark? Mel Gibson.
25:47
Mel Gibson. That's not.
25:50
Funny, there was a slow motion cutaway of her as they were
25:53
throwing it to commercial where she yelled STFU to I don't know
26:00
who. She looked.
26:02
Dude, she's taking a beating online.
26:03
But but she was like. Screaming and belting it out and
26:06
then Antonio Brown just quote tweeted it and goes freedom dash
26:11
Mel Gibson. God, I mean, man, she was.
26:15
She lost her mind the other day, though.