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To: Forgotten Amendments

Don’t you mean throwing a game for money?

Big difference in my book.

Mike


16 posted on 08/13/2013 1:52:17 PM PDT by doublecansiter (without cartridge, load in nine times, LOAD!)
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To: doublecansiter
Don’t you mean throwing a game for money?

That's exactly what I meant. I thought "bribe" would leave me with less words to misspell.

The first five years or so of Pete's career, the MLB minimum was $5,000. The guys who drove the team bus made more than that! A mobster could buy these guys for life. Bernie Goldberg did a piece on REAL SPORTS intimating that certain 1978 Yankees (Reggie) were in deep debt to mobsters and dropped fly balls.

Thanks to Curt Flood, Marvin Miller and the free market, nowadays all players have more money than any mobsters. But, I bet they still prey upon NCAA athletes.

57 posted on 08/13/2013 4:57:20 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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