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Re: Hows your Weather?

Hot and humid, looks like summer has started. Getting close to record highs today almost 90, current humidity is 89.

d_blades

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Especially considering that the taboo that was sports betting is now at the forefront of every broadcast. As Frank said last night, they were “lifetime” bans. Lifetime is over when you’re dead. It still doesn’t mean any of them will get into the Hall of Fame.

Me personally, I feel that the hypocrisy is beyond ridiculous. The different sports entities have all embraced gambling and are making fortunes off of it. Seems like every segment is brought to you by one of the gambling sites. All of the sports shows have devoted entire blocks of programming towards it. Are players receiving part of that revenue? If not, they should be because it is revenue derived directly from their actions. It’s no different than jersey sales. Then you have the networks that have always chastised athletes for gambling. Yet they also devote segment to sports betting. I understand rules are rules…and I agree. But the hypocrisy is just as bad as the crime.

Rdp77

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Re: What are you reading?

@TRayB said:

@Rdp77 said:
https://apple.news/Ahmmo97ZBRdq7TnRa5rh8uw

Didn’t think I’d ever see it happen.

I, for one, am glad it has, and I hope he gets into the Hall.

I pretty firmly disagree. If he was in fact only betting on his own team to win (which there's no way to prove, how do we know he wasn't taking them against the spread, or god forbid betting against them), then he's still impacting the integrity of the game. He can do things such as saving his best reliever for the next game, where he could have already bet what is called a look-ahead line. He can overextend a pitcher in a game that he has extra money on. He can know whether a promising young player is or isn't getting called up from the minor leagues. It's a cardinal sin for a reason, and I think that permanent lifetime ban from ever playing or being associated with the game in any way is an important thing for every future player or employee to have in the back of their mind, should they get approached by someone telling them to fake an injury, or tamper with the baseballs, or something like that.