Pete Rose makes eye-popping comment about Shohei Ohtani amid gambling scandal with ex-translator

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The gambling scandal surrounding Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, where his ex-translator allegedly stole $4.5 million from him to cover his debts, has many in the baseball world speculating as to how involved Ohtani really was. 

Ohtani publicly addressed the situation for the first time on Monday, when he said he never placed sports bets, nor did he go through somebody else to do so. He detailed his side of the story, saying Ippei Mizuhara, his English-Japanese interpreter since breaking into MLB, stole money from him rather than his story of Ohtani knowingly paying off his gambling debts to help his close friend. 

As the story unfolds on both sides, and MLB and the IRS open investigations on the situation, Major League Baseball’s hit king Pete Rose had an interesting comment about it all.

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Cincinnati Reds great Pete Rose is honored, along with his teammates from the 1976 World Series Championship team, prior to the start of the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the San Diego Padres at Great American Ball Park on June 24, 2016 in Cincinnati. (Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)

"Well, back in the ‘70s and ‘80s, I wish I’d have had an interpreter. I’d be scot-free," he said in a video posted to social media on Monday night. 

Of course, "Charlie Hustle" is not in the National Baseball Hall of Fame today because he was deemed permanently ineligible from baseball amid accusations that he gambled on baseball games. He vehemently denied the accusations up until 2004, when he admitted he placed wagers on games only in which he managed. 

In 2015, an ESPN investigation suggested Rose