AL E - Baltimore AL C - Minnesota AL W - Houston AL WC - Texas, NYY, Toronto NL E - Atlanta NL C - Chicago NL W - LAD NL WC - Philly, Arizona, SF MVPs - Harper; Seager CYs - Webb; Burnes
terrible is a bad word for it exceedingly mediocre, and there's not really a big favorite, I just think the Cards fall flat.
Not that this is a great indicator but on MLB The Show players are ranked as common, bronze, silver, gold, diamond. 85+ rated players are diamonds, some teams have 4-5 diamonds. The NL Central has zero diamonds.
they also gave Vlad a Diamond for marketing purposes I tend to think that the Cards will be fine enough to bounce back in that division and the Cubs will be fine. Neither are 90 game winners but they shouldn’t be ass.
This. Counting on some young guys in the lineup to show some development (Gorman, Walker, Winn) and for Goldy and Arenado to have bounce back years. Good news is the bullpen can’t be any worse… right?
Starting to wonder if Ohtani is just really naive. Wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility if he’s really just been a baseball junkie 24/7 for most of his life.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_(ice_hockey) On November 20, 2014, the Columbus Dispatch reported that Johnson had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, claiming just $50,000 in assets against $10 to $15 million in estimated debts.[46] Shortly after signing his first major contract, a seven-year, $30.5 million deal with the Los Angeles Kings, Johnson granted his mother, Tina Johnson, power of attorney over all his finances. Over the next few years, she and Johnson's father, John II, took out several large, high-interest loans against Johnson's future earnings, a lending practice known as "monetizing," and spent the money on homes, cars and travel.[47] Lenders, among whom was Iowa Congressman-elect Rod Blum, eventually brought three lawsuits against Johnson for defaulting on over $6 million in debt. In court documents, Johnson claimed to have had no knowledge of his parents' spending, but will not pursue criminal charges against them. He has sued Miller, National Mortgage Resources and an investment firm, CYA Investments, for at least $1.5 million, including for punitive damages.[46] By 2016, Johnson had come to an agreement with almost all of his creditors and agreed to liquidate two homes and a luxury car and would only keep $246,000 each of the next two seasons, making him the "lowest-paid player in the NHL for the next two seasons."[48]
I do believe shohei but I’m curious about how his team is set up that there’s no checks and balances to ippei moving that much money out of his accounts. I fully can grasp why he’d have access, especially given the comments of the translator sideline reporter last Thursday saying that’s part of their duties, but was there no one else watching his money?
just a widdle kid who didn’t know any better. if anything his greatest weakness is he simply loves too much
This says a lot about me, but im so bad with money and dont pay attention to it enough that this could easily happen to me.
I’m skeptical as fuck that Ohtani knew nothing, but it also wouldn’t surprise me if he actually knew nothing
I think the story is nonsense but I would also take no joy in a generational player being kicked out of baseball so I’m cool if we all just pretend to believe him.
Weren't the feds looking into the wire transfers (in his name, btw) back in January? Simply no way his story is true. Feels like a lot of overthinking around an athlete wiring money to an illegal bookie in his own name
Assuming Ippei operated as his personal assistant, not that unusual that he'd have access to his money to buy random stuff for him and pay bills. I'd think he'd have accountant that would see 500k wires but maybe he didn't have one. It's crazy to think he wouldn't miss 4.5m over a few months but that's believable too. I guess it just comes down to how it was paid. I don't think a local book is giving a random guy 500k+ credit lines at a time. That's the part that makes no sense.
What if the guy got in deep with bad people and Ohtani paid off his debt so he didn't get killed? Based solely on movie plots that seems like the most likely story here.