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It may not have been a bad story for him but it woud have been a bad story for MLB to have a player directly pay gamblers. Even if it's not you making the bets, the important exchange is the $$, so it's not leap to say Ohtani is gambling, and then you have to find out if it's on baseball, then the Angels. In this regard it's not about who made the bets but who's bank account they came from. That's who is doing the gambling. MLB wants no part of that so they try to make Ohtani the victim of a "degenerate gambler"

so we're clear.... MLB can take money from gambling. But players cannot give money to gambling.

If it's not Ohtani making the bets then I think what happned was this guy racked up the debts and Ohtani paid it. Then MLB found out and they changed the story and this guy is out.

The Clintons and MacDougals give their regards.

But you aren't defending him....

When I am on a road by myself and driving 15 MPH over the speed limit, and a cop sitting in a ditch sees me and gives me a ticket... is he targeting me? What about other people on other roads? There's no victim. Nobody got hurt. If I am parked out front of a store, in the "fire lane", and I get a ticket, but there's no fire.... there's no victim. Nobody got hurt.

it's funny how you say he's guilty and you aren't defending him but you spend all this time defending him.

I love that scene. It's on my rotation of youtube clips to watch. I also like the introduction of Larry, Daryl, and Daryl on Newhart where they will "do anything for a buck" I'm reading James Burrows's book, he directed Taxi, Cheers, Friends, WIll and Grace.... he said the biggest laughs he ever got from a single scene was the famous Driving Test scene in Taxi. He also said Will and Grace was the funniest overall show he did. God, I miss the 3 camera setup with a laugh track. Real theatrical throwbacks.

Sparky! I remember when Tram invited him to ST to sit in with the staff. Good to see him in uniform again.

Like the dudes who say they aren't racist but why can rappers use the N word but we can't? (And they refer to any music by a black person as 'that rap music')

There is no way on God's green earth that MLB will let it be known that Ohtani had a gambling problem if that's what occurred here. Not saying he did, I'm willing to believe that it's simply this guy racked up debts and Ohtani wanted to pay it off for him. But the changing of the stories makes believing that suspect. I just saw a list of the MLB players with the highest endorsement earnings, he was over $60-70M a year. The next guys up were under $10. MLB isn't going to let that type of marketing be tainted. It's not unusual for performers at such a high level to be into gambling to such a degree, we have Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods as examples. I believe the competitive fire that makes them excel at such a level can be triggered by the same things in the brain that a gambling win, no matter how bit or small, delivers. They have to compete, they want to win.

The Mexicans don’t like playing in the cold.

This could go in a lot of directions. Is the interpreter a fall guy? would MLB have the balls to do something given the intense sponsorship from gambling companies and that it’s Ohtani?

this guy isn’t used to a woman or a black person let alone a black woman talking to him this way.

Whatever version of "The Sisters" in the jail he ends up in will administer justice.

The instructions have me taking some laxatives and mixing a 238g bottle of powder with 64 ounces of gataorade. Looks like I can have coffee, tea, soda (Which I don't really drink), popsicles... just as long as nothing is red. I'm not worried about the laxative piece of it, we have bidets in the house and I have an area of privacy in my basement office so can do what's needed without bothering anybody. I say that now, ha ha. It's the fasting that I won't like. But it's important to do.

I just scheduled my first colonoscopy. Obviously I've heard the worst part is the prep with fasting and drinking the stuff... I'm just letting y'all know in case it prompts someone to get off their ass and schedule theirs if eligible.

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Tigers will have 3 All Stars and be in 1st pace at the break.

The government going after an entity that cheated is not a hard thing to sell to a true independent. Rules were broken, per the jury verdict. My only point is anybody who thinks that the gov't is targeting or being unfair to him isn't an independent and is probably voting for him anyway, or not voting at all. Nobody is going to say "You know, I wasn't going to vote for the guy but dagummit, this is just persecution, Trump 2024!"

If anyone sees a conviction in a civil case about fraud and that it's Donald Trump and is sympathetic that maybe the government is victimizing him then I wouldn't call them independent. A true independent would look at it as "If I were to sue somebody, and win, then I want to make sure the courts do their job to get my award to me"

Just not a fan of the "I went 12 rounds in the ring" look.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/politics/trump-bond-deadline-panic/index.html I wonder if he can get a couple of them to go under the amount to meet the overall total? This is fun.

That tweet came from this article in Salon about how the evangalicals handle the sexual roles between men and women. https://www.salon.com/2024/03/20/evangelicals-embrace-raunchy-photos--yet-they-hate-as-much-as-ever/ Key paragraph about this tweet: This is a perfect distillation of Gibson's point. Keisling isn't celebrating sex, much less sexual pleasure. On the contrary, he's signaling to these girls that sex is a weapon to be used by men to degrade them. He is telling these girls that their accomplishments are a joke to him and that the only value he sees in them is as sex objects. His behavior is in direct opposition to sex-positivity. Instead, girls and women are made to feel bad and grossed out by sex.