Posted on 06/05/2025 10:11:55 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Trump has been a longtime supporter of Rose, who was permanently placed on the ineligible list in 1989 as part of an agreement with MLB after an investigation unearthed ample evidence that he had gambled on the Cincinnati Reds while he was managing them. Rose agreed to the punishment without formally admitting guilt, but had his requests for reinstatement rejected or ignored by three different MLB commissioners, including Manfred, before his death in 2023.
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Think how Joe Paterno’s life ended.
“lesson to any other gamblers”
That’s rich! When’s the last time you watched a MLB game? All game long the broadcast feeds you betting tips and info. I’d say the biggest advertising source of revenue for MLB are the gamblers!
As far as lessons for gamblers, watch a MLB broadcast. MLB teaches you parleys and anything else useful for Betting On Baseball every game, all game long.
As far as pro athletes gambling these days, I wouldn’t doubt it’s rampant....and it also wouldn’t surprise me in the least that betting on one’s own team isn’t common as well.
I mean think about it, just nfl wise you can’t watch a game without being inundated with online gambling opportunities....not to mention drafting and all the rest of it.
Yeah, it’s blatantly hypocritical for baseball management to point a finger at Pete Rose while taking money from sports betting companies.
I would not have reinstated Rose on any terms as a lesson to any other gamblers.
The players aren’t corrupted by their personal betting. The players are corrupted by the trillion dollar betting industry.
It’s not about Rose. It’s about the Black Sox.
My point is that the anti-gambling rule was to prevent another Black Sox scandal, where batters intentionally strike out, fielders intentionally commit errors, etc. Bottom line: the issue was players betting against their own team (or getting paid by gamblers who were betting against their team) and then actively sabotaging their own team. Pete Rose did not do this. 99% of his bets involved games that his team was not participating in. And in the few games that Pete bet on involving the Reds, he bet them to win (according to his bookie). The New York and East Coast media hated (and hates) Pete Rose, and that’s why he was banned from baseball for so long.
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