I’m not.
I don’t think it’s about the money (well, not entirely) at a certain point, it’s about the “thrill” and at a certain point, it can then also be easy to get into a spot of trouble.
I hate that Fanduel and other online betting is so omnipresent - every damn game features every other commercial. Now, they even have their own bars and attachments to stadiums.
This was inevitable.
You can’t expect to constantly be splashing every element of every game with online better and then be surprised when a bunch of 20somethings, many of whom aren’t particularly educated, decide to partake.
Still, I’m an absolutist: Banned for life. I never expect nor want to see either Clase or Ortiz pitch in MLB again.
That’s about the only thing baseball can do since it sold its soul to the gambling devil. Better if they detached but since they won’t? The eternal banhammer is the only way to keep it at least limited.
The thing people wringing their hands about legalized gambling are missing is that these people getting caught are getting caught in part because the legal betting apps share suspicious info with the FBI (largely because it’s bad for their bottom line, no altruism here). This stuff has been going on forever, but when gambling was all illegal nobody involved was talking. Most of the big betting scandals of the last 30 years start with a legal sports book calling the cops.