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Gambling Is Ruining Sports
The Free Press ^ | April 4, 2024 | Joe Nocera

Posted on 05/22/2024 6:13:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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To: Boiler Plate

What movie is that from?


21 posted on 05/22/2024 7:32:50 PM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s a long list of things that have contributed to the ruination of sports.
Gambling is a big reason.
Other reasons include extremely high prices for everything, no more amateurs everyone’s getting paid now, idiot drunken fans/criminals at the games, taxpayers funding billionaires’ stadiums, dumbing down of the rules, idiot zebras that are blind and dumb.


22 posted on 05/22/2024 7:33:10 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: Newtoidaho

Almost forgot, also the woke anti American kneeling fools.


23 posted on 05/22/2024 7:35:01 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: Romans Nine

Rollerball (1975)


24 posted on 05/22/2024 7:40:32 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: cowboyusa

100%


25 posted on 05/22/2024 7:49:07 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: 38special

Professional golfers came from gamblers paying golfers to play matches so that they could bet on the matches.


26 posted on 05/22/2024 7:59:17 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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To: MinorityRepublican

When I find myself agreeing with Bill Bradley, the guy that saw to it being banned despite it being legal in almost the entire rest of the world-I know that I need to rethink things.


27 posted on 05/22/2024 8:01:47 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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To: Rummyfan

I completely agree.

I don’t have a problem with betting on games per se - I’ve done it; pools, fantasy leagues, even parlay cards in Vegas (and I’ll copy to, ummm... parlays NOT in Vegas, but well past the statute of limitations, IRS watcher!).

I still love a lot of that - and I’ll be playing both fantasy football and running my rotisserie baseball team until they pry them from cold, dead hands.

But yeesh... You cannot *watch* a game - or even read about players or teams or teams you enjoy anymore without getting buried in ads and stupid stuff about proposition bets.

It’s gotten so ridiculously out of control.

I’m very much a libertarian on most things involving individual actions: Do what you want so long as you take responsibility and I don’t have to pay for your failures.

But - yikes. I’m so tired of watching/reading/etc sports I like where 80% of it involves prop bets I don’t care about.

I mean, even if I end up drafting Josh Jacobs - there’s a damn limit to how much I care about his game number!!! Not being a degenerate gambler, I’d rather he post 10 yards in 3-0 win than run for 200 with 2 TDs in a 35-42 loss!


28 posted on 05/22/2024 8:20:11 PM PDT by Capn Hayek (Capital is not responsible for Labor's lack of planning)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I feel it skews NFL refereeing, one way or another. jmo


29 posted on 05/22/2024 9:36:13 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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To: citizen

I notice the same.


30 posted on 05/22/2024 9:41:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

And let’s not forget the neighborhood “Numbers operations”.


31 posted on 05/22/2024 9:51:13 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: MinorityRepublican

NIL and the portal are ruining college football. You see players that play for 3 even 4 schools over their college career.


32 posted on 05/22/2024 9:54:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Boiler Plate

“Ladies and Gentlemen, our Corporate Anthem.”


33 posted on 05/22/2024 9:55:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 38special

The horses don’t know that people are gambling on them.


34 posted on 05/22/2024 9:57:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

“...The horses don’t know that people are gambling on them...”
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The Jockey’s do.

Now, how about greyhound racing?


35 posted on 05/22/2024 10:24:03 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m watching the Rangers/Panthers game last night and the graphics being shown on the ice and boards were for draft kings. Just another way to destroy the American fabric.


36 posted on 05/23/2024 3:45:48 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Give the Anti-Israel Protesters a one way ticket to fight with Hamas. )
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To: Capn Hayek
...and I’ll be playing both fantasy football and running my rotisserie baseball team until they pry them from cold, dead hands.

Same here.

37 posted on 05/23/2024 5:32:25 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: BozoTexino

Football is the opiate of the masses


38 posted on 05/23/2024 5:45:39 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: dfwgator

All sports are going to go the way of Pro Wrestling.

100% entertainment 0% competition.


39 posted on 05/24/2024 6:57:59 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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