[MrEdd]

The silliness of people throwing huge sums of money into guys swinging a bat at a little ball, or folks in fancy clothes wagering on cards, or people sitting at a computer playing some head to head conflict carried out with lighted pixels doesn't render any of those things an appropriate area of focus for grown ups.

All those things are simply leisure pass times.
None of them are more important than sitting and reading a book, or chatting over are cup of coffee. Or watching some old sitcom rerun for television people.

These are all mere diversions. Ridiculous amounts of money do not elevate them to impractical events, it just separates people who had money to burn on their relaxation from a portion of it.

Organized crime always preys on people who are foolish with their money, so of course there is a lot of it where you have a group of people who are by their mental outlook very loose with their money. You can't remove crime from the suckers unless you teach the suckers to be more circumspect with their finances.

The problem with suckers is that there's one born every minute, and two to take him.

[discostu]

Leisure past times make money. And there’s nothing wrong with that. The human brain requires relaxation.

When organized crime gets an angle into sports it hits more than just people foolish with their money. Game fixing attacks the industry. We’ve got enough businesses taking on water in the country without adding to that list. You might not be able to remove the crime from the suckers but you CAN remove the suckers from the league. Hence the lifetime ban.