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Gambling is why at least 80% of the viewers are tuned in to pretty much any sporting event. They may go over the top with it now, but ignoring the gambling aspects used to be equally silly.
A little high on your estimate:
https://www.nielsen.com/insights/202...hey-represent/
She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning
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Chip R (11-28-2022)
JustaFan (11-21-2022)
Man that 2019 roster was wild. Puig pulling his best Pete Rose impression, Amir Garrett trying to fight everyone, Trevor Bauer doing whatever Trevor Bauer does off the field, Derek Dietrich constantly doing curls in the dugout, Joey Votto drinking his fancy coffee, and maybe the most innocent personality ever in Scooter Gennett along for the ride. That clubhouse had to be wild.
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Chip R (11-17-2022),Old school 1983 (11-18-2022),Wayne Krivsky (11-15-2022)
lol tennis is such a red flag
If someone you love is betting tennis get them help immediately.
To be clear, I love tennis, but that's the height of degeneracy.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
M2 (11-17-2022),Old school 1983 (11-18-2022),stlwahoo (11-15-2022),Wonderful Monds (11-16-2022)
Betting is unbelievably destructive. Unlike smoking cigarettes (which though it’s terrible is still mostly a self.-inflicted danger), gambling destroys families, kids’ futures, marriages, and is often a trigger for suicide. I don’t know how to legislate it—legislating away liquor didn’t work so well, for example—but I’d think some kind of reining in of the industry should be possible.
“And when finally they sense that some position cannot be sustained, they do not re-examine their ideas. Instead, they simply change the subject.” Jamie Galbraith
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It's also fun.
Gambling is fine, but the crazy marketing for it is what needs to go. I think people know at this point anyhow.
Also, even though Puig claims to not have gambled on baseball, you just can't have players betting during their season. It opens up the possibility of shenanigans and players influencing certain betting lines or prop bets.
Chip R (11-17-2022)
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