The utter Hypocrisy of Baseball, so many of their owners have owned and gambled on Horses. How many Owners gamble on games? Especially teams that are group owned.
I live in Vegas, If Rose bet against his team maybe they have something there, but, I understand he only bet on his team. I see no conflict of interest.
We have a POTUS who is betting he can ruin our country and what are we doing about that important issue.
It is a huge conflict of interest that he bet on his own team. The very best teams in baseball win only about 60% of their games. The very worst teams stil win about 40% of their games. Most teams are fairly close to 50%.
On any given day, the chances of winning are very dependent on the matchup of pitchers. A starting pitcher can only pitch about once every five days. Most teams #1 pitcher is much better than their #4 or #5 pitchers.
A bit baseball manager’s job is to time their pitching rotations to gain an edge in the most possible games. If a manager can give up one probable loss, where their #5 pitcher goes against another teams #1 pitcher, it may be worth it to get 2 or 3 games where they will have an edge (your #1 pitcher goes against their #2, your #2 pitcher goes against their #3). Everyone in the organization is counting on the manager making those kind of day-to-day decisions with the single-minded goal of maximizing the total number of wins for the team.
Pete Rose was a manager for the Reds. Pete Rose controlled the starting lineups and pitching rotation for the Reds. If he is betting money on the Reds winning in a given day, he has a strong incentive to use his best pitchers on days when they are really not needed to improve the chances of winning on that single day, rather than helping the team win the most games over the course of season.
Pete Rose denied for years what he did, despite the weight of the evidence. Even though he has now admitted it, he has never really come clean about the extent, or apologized completely for it. I’m not ready to say he should be in the Hall of Fame.
“I understand he only bet on his team. I see no conflict of interest.”
I agree with that too, and so does my friend who is quite the “score-keeper” in life, if you know what I mean.
Betting on your team to win means you're probably going to overuse your pitching staff to win games.