soxfan49

I work in banking so let me give me two cents (I may be late but I'm too lazy to read the rest of the thread): What you posted isn't out of the ordinary at all. Most celebrities, athletes, people of high net worth don't have their money in personal accounts. Most create corporations/LLC's and have direct deposits to fund their personal accounts which also helps them not spend as much (ideally). It'd be very unsurprising if Ohtani didn't have some type of LLC set up with a few "signers" on it who can essentially do anything on an account with the exception of close it, open another inside of the entity, or add more signers. I'd assume in this case Ohtani's lawyer, financial advisor, and (apparently) his translator were signers, and therefore Ippei could've easily sent a 4.5M wire on his own My assumption is what's already been posted: Ohtani signed off on the wire or gave the approval for Ippei to send it and then retracted his statement when he realized there are laws against wiring money for illegal gambling FWIW, anything over 10k is reported, yes, but wires don't fall in that category. It's only if it's physical cash being withdrawn or deposited from an account. Even a $20k check/cashiers check/20 money orders totaling $20k ($1k max per money money is the rule) isn't reported unless the person getting the cashiers check/MO is giving paper cash in exchange Keep in mind in business accounts it's a lot more laid back. In a personal account I can't go to a bank and deposited paper cash into your account unless I'm on the account as an owner. It would have to be a check/MO/cashiers check. In a business though, anyone can deposit cash into an account. The only thing that prompts the report is over $10k of cash in a single day. If I went to a Bank of America now and took out $6k and then another branch tonight and did it again, that is reported, but if I wait for tomorrow for the other $6k, I'm good. Of course doing $9k one day and $8k the next and $9500 the next day is called layering/structing and is just as bad, but again, a wire for 4.5M is not reported

He signed Robert to an $88M deal

Maybe he can make up for his second TJ with another 1.000 OPS year

Outside of April, when has Kelenic been a good offensive player?

Mike Monaco might suck but at least he isn't corny! Drrrr

Benetti quotes to the athletic last year: Benetti signed a new two-year White Sox contract in late January. But as he told the Sun-Times on Feb. 2, the talks were “kind of a pain.” “I would push back on that I’m not happy to be here,” he said. “Because I absolutely am. I promise you I wouldn’t be in the booth if I didn’t want to be here and they didn’t want me on some level as well. But I don’t like being told what to say. And I want to be emotionally honest, with what matters to me like that. The two instances you brought up are frustrating to me. Because, well, because I love doing this so much.”

He was pissed off last year about his contract. He probably got lowballed again and had it. He's too busy for the Sox doing other stuff but not the Tigers? That's a cop out answer from the worst organization in sports. Everyone can be happy now when they have some wanker in the booth who's dead ass serious as the team loses 105 games!

Yeah almost and then it dribbled into the OF

What the hell is this goof doing?

How did that dipshit PR only get to second?

Houston astros, still abiding by the unwritten rules. What a joke

How about Neptune?

Do you disagree? The quote was: AZ has built a super young wild card team, has been a top farm for years now. They are led by one of the most complete players in baseball and he’s in year 2. It’s a great place to pick for player dev. In 2020, the Sox had built a super young playoff team & had been a top farm for years. They were led by one of the most conplete players in baseball (Robert) See how Hahn did the same thing now?

Rick Hahn did the literally the same exact thing once upon a time

2/3 are from super successful organizations in KC and ARZ! Woo hoo!

They'll take a slappy college middle infielder or a college 1B/DH type anyway so who cares

And my god does Giolito suck ass

The Sox are 0-4 since the big personality'd GM of the Sox spoke to the locker room!

Len came to the Sox to do radio (mostly radio anyway). I think if they tried to put him on tv full time he'd leave

Beckham does color. Benetti does pxp. I have no clue who will replace Benetti down the road but it does seem inevitable

Don't you worry though. Said GM talked to the boys yesterday before the game. It really has paid dividends in the 2 games since! What an inspiration

The only 2 good questions were by Jon Greenberg who has taken it upon himself to tear the Sox apart the last few weeks. Unfortunately the rest did not follow suit. Merkin, of course, led the way and asked horseshit questions

We couldn't be so lucky