Bet Your Bottom Dollar

[Edgy MD]

I think most accounts suggest many different back channels have been tried with the intent to get Pete to agree to terms in exchange for the league being willing to revisit the ban down the line, and they've been rebuffed.



Really, to hear Dowd tell it, from the beginning, the whole investigation with Rose was done with the intent go get him to come clean, after which the league could work with him to put his image back together. It's largely forgotten, but Dowd also investigated Lenny Dykstra for high-stakes gambling, and Dowd was able to convince Dykstra to put a halt to it during his playing career and avoid the ugliness that Pete Rose dragged the game through.



And when you have less impulse control that Lenny Dykstra, things aren't good.



Also, I propose a hard ban on Pete Rose betting cracks for the duration of this thread.

[kcmets]

I'll lay 3 to 5 odds he'll never change hairstyles (or wigs, if case may be).



I really don't care if Pete gets in or not at at this point. I was just attempting

humor with the advertising gig thing up above.

[Frayed Knot]

https://twitter.com/KaplanSportsBiz/status/1488172262444306438

The Nats/Lerner family are essentially playing catch-up here as Ted Leonsis, owner of the Capitals & Wizards in the same city, already has a sports book in his arena.



By coincidence, HBO's REAL SPORTS show this month has a segment on the relation between sports and gambling. When asked about his or the team's responsibility

for any problem gamblers who might (will!) develop on account of this equivalent of bringing the brewery to alcoholics, Leonsis passed the buck to Caeser's, the licensed

franchise in whatever that building is called this month, saying that they are the ones responsible for monitoring the bettors for signs of problems. Only problem is, the

way sports books deal with addicted gamblers is to actively seek to keep them addicted. Regular "clients" are assigned an account manager (or some such title) whose

job it is to contact guys who have stopped placing bets and offer them a 'freebie' which, they hope, is enough to get the fish hooked again. And it often works.

[Frayed Knot]

The bottom of the screen crawl on MLBN is packed with odds, lines, over/unders, etc. for each game. The starting pitchers are the only non-gambling info included.



So the network run by the sport now looks like a gambling site which just happens to be showing baseball info at that moment.





Also, as a consequence of all that, the crawl is twice as thick as normal meaning more of your screen is cluttered up with junk most of us don't want.