Nez Balelo

And I do think you have to kind of give Nez credit for kind of steering, right, kind of respecting Ohtani's wishes in that way.

But I do think a lot of times when there are communication issues with the team, you're never really quite sure where does Ohtani end and where does Nez Balelo start, right? And we've had this, and I'm sure at some point we'll do a thing about what it's like to kind of cover Ohtani.

and a lot of kind of the media right the way he kind of deals with that situation and that's kind of like one question i've always had it's just kind of like okay well how much of this is nez how much of this is with otani and so i think you know just have a conversation

about it

Yes, yes.

Nez Balelo of CAA, big high-powered agency and agent.

Right.

And, and she tried to talk to him.

... that Ippei said Ohtani didn't want anyone to mess with, that he just wanted this to be private, and so it was sort of off limits to the people who were handling Ohtani's books.

Mm-hmm.

And Nez Balelo backed that up, and basically when the people who were handling Ohtani's finances were like, "Hey, what's going on with this account?"

Yeah.