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1 posted on 11/09/2025 11:44:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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https://www.mlb.com/news/emmanuel-clase-luis-ortiz-indicted-in-new-york


2 posted on 11/09/2025 11:46:43 AM PST by DFG
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“Say it ain’t so, Joe.”


3 posted on 11/09/2025 11:47:28 AM PST by Billthedrill
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The tip of the iceberg.


4 posted on 11/09/2025 11:47:33 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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The only good Indian is an arrested Guardian.


6 posted on 11/09/2025 11:52:27 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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Push sport betting as much as possible and this is what you get. All sports at all levels probably have people fixing games/results.


9 posted on 11/09/2025 11:55:50 AM PST by ChuckHam
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Incredible that players making more money than most can imagine would do this.

I’m a Cleveland Indians fan and I say ban them for life. Pete Rose did less and got banned for life.


10 posted on 11/09/2025 11:56:15 AM PST by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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They should be banned for life.

If they’re just the tip of the iceberg, investigate the hell out of the rest involved and ban them all, no matter how many.


14 posted on 11/09/2025 12:07:15 PM PST by Deo volente (In the US in 2024, 25 people were executed total. More children are aborted than that in a half hour)
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Clase, baseball’s dominant closer from 2022 through 2024, is making a base salary of $4.5 million this year. While Ortiz is on a one-year deal, Clase is signed through 2026 with $10 million club options for 2027 and 2028. Ortiz earned $782,600 in salary last season.

Lifestyles more expensive than their earnings and looking for some easy way to pay for it. Man approaches and says “hey, you wanna make a deal”.


17 posted on 11/09/2025 12:11:19 PM PST by Wuli ( )
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Not only corrupt and criminal but stupid. Clase got a few thousand dollars and threw away a multimillion dollar contract.


20 posted on 11/09/2025 12:25:46 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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Meanwhile, from three days ago...

Disney Signs DraftKings as ESPN’s New Sports-Betting Partner

Disney wants to be your cradle to grave bookie.

22 posted on 11/09/2025 12:42:32 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/two-current-major-league-baseball-players-charged-sports-betting-and-money-laundering

There’s a link to the indictment at the above.


25 posted on 11/09/2025 12:47:23 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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Betting by sports players on their own games? Shocked I tell you...SHOCKED!


26 posted on 11/09/2025 12:48:22 PM PST by rottndog (There's Baseball and nothing else in October. )
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When they start arresting owners for pre-arranging results we will be getting somewhere…


27 posted on 11/09/2025 12:49:15 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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Wait... sports is rigged? I’m so confused. Is it possible that Jake Paul didn’t really beat Mike Tyson?


31 posted on 11/09/2025 1:09:44 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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The White Hospice went intentionally 'soft' against prosecuting rampant sports betting fraud, and also permitted gaming companies to get in and out of bed with network/cable. Just even a quick read of the Penn-Portnoy saga tells even the most casual observer that there is so . much . more . going on that is not getting any kind of reportage.

So it's interesting that all the players involved (not "players" players but the stakeholders) did not sufficiently kiss the Trump ring, and there are probably a jillion sports bettors at DOJ and FBI that have been screwed by their (own fault) jank parlays, got a remarkable amount of hotline leads on the skels, and decided to do a little investigatin'...

33 posted on 11/09/2025 1:18:45 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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Every ball game has a degree of luck to it rigging it will make betting easier for a profit.

That sound right huh Moe.


34 posted on 11/09/2025 1:39:15 PM PST by Vaduz
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Interesting financial choice. He tried to win $7k. He has made $15M at baseball already. He is scheduled to make $10M each of the next two years. And he risked that for $7,000?


35 posted on 11/09/2025 2:06:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Dominicans can leave the Island, but can’t leave the corruption behind them. Sad. The MINIMUM MLB salary is 760k a year which is what Ortiz was making, Clase was more like 5 million last year.


37 posted on 11/09/2025 2:17:29 PM PST by DAC21
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And they said Pete “I Only Bet on My Team to Win” Rose was the problem....


38 posted on 11/09/2025 2:44:23 PM PST by Vesuvian
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That’s so unexpected! *drink*


39 posted on 11/09/2025 3:59:04 PM PST by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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