Do you feel MLB, or any other league, is compromised by legal sports betting?

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  • RangeFinder
    SBR Hall of Famer
    • 10-27-16
    • 8041

    #1
    Do you feel MLB, or any other league, is compromised by legal sports betting?
    MLBPA is expressing concern about the possibility of players being compromised.

    The MLB Players Association expressed concern about the ongoing legalization and normalization of sports betting in the United States.
    In an interview with the media at the All-Star Game, MLBPA executive director Tony Clark indicated that he’s not entirely comfortable with the direction of sports betting as it relates to Major League Baseball.
    “We’re entering a very delicate and, dare I say, dangerous world here,” Clark said on Tuesday. “We hope that it is truly beneficial for our game moving forward and that everyone who is involved benefits from it in one fashion or another.”
    The MLB has welcomed advertisements of legal sportsbooks with the teams and broadcasts.Some baseball clubs have taken it a step further. BetMGM opened a retail sportsbook at Nationals Park earlier this year for fans to place bets while attending Washington Nationals games.
    Furthermore, DraftKings announced plans to open a retail sportsbook at Wrigley Field next season.
    Clark suggested that sportsbooks and the players are now closer than ever.
    “When you have players suggest that no sooner was PASPA repealed, that they started to have book houses following them on social media,” Clark said. “That gets you a little twitchy pretty quick.”
    Clark said the MLBPA will continue to work with state lawmakers and state regulators to ensure the players are protected and the integrity of the game stays in tact.
    “We’ll continue to pound the pavement in each of the state legislatures that have language in place and those that don’t yet that are potentially coming online, to ensure that as much as anything, our players are protected,” Clark said.
  • jjgold
    SBR Aristocracy
    • 07-20-05
    • 388179

    #2
    Lol no

    Players make too
    Much money

    These guys could care less about winning $1000 bet
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    • texhooper
      SBR Posting Legend
      • 01-05-09
      • 10001

      #3
      Baseball always been poons about this. And those “book houses” are not following players on social media so they can lure them into cheating! How stupid would that be!!! They want them to do ads for them if anything at all
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      • JIBBBY
        SBR Aristocracy
        • 12-10-09
        • 83686

        #4
        Shit teams at times I think could fix games with starting player influence. Never know?

        I think the fix could be in with any sport every blue moon..
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        • flyingillini
          SBR Aristocracy
          • 12-06-06
          • 41219

          #5
          Smaller soccer leagues in the world can be much easier. I know some players in the V league in Vietnam, if they are just a mid tier player they are making 1,500-2,000 a month, that is for all the games in the season and then training for the rest of the year.
          המוסד‎
          המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים‎
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          • jjgold
            SBR Aristocracy
            • 07-20-05
            • 388179

            #6
            Only small soccer like illini said
            Small tennis
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            • Snowball
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              • 11-15-09
              • 30056

              #7
              yes, tennis, soccer sometimes but not usually, and college basketball, both most often in the lowlier players, teams and less essential events only.

              it happens in golf also, but there it is basically impossible to identify

              i don't think it happens in the top 4 US pro leagues.
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              • icon
                SBR MVP
                • 01-09-18
                • 3460

                #8
                Originally posted by JIBBBY
                Shit teams at times I think could fix games with starting player influence. Never know?

                I think the fix could be in with any sport every blue moon..
                tinfoilhats.com
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                • play4win
                  SBR MVP
                  • 06-23-11
                  • 2208

                  #9
                  all leagues even the servia-montenegroian female handball league
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                  • Otters27
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                    • 07-14-07
                    • 30759

                    #10
                    College basketball. Maybe lower levels
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                    • slayer14
                      SBR Posting Legend
                      • 08-12-13
                      • 22010

                      #11
                      mlb is the best league in the world no chance they fix
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                      • pologq
                        SBR Posting Legend
                        • 10-07-12
                        • 19899

                        #12
                        there can be corruption in any game at any time. we have seen lots of questionable plays and calls thru the years that make you wonder.
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                        • Roscoe_Word
                          SBR MVP
                          • 02-28-12
                          • 3999

                          #13
                          I think players might make bets, but insulate themselves.

                          A friend's, cousin's nephew puts a bet in for him.

                          They'd probably go several layers beyond that.
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                          • Chi_archie
                            SBR Aristocracy
                            • 07-22-08
                            • 63168

                            #14
                            nope. what could make it worth the risk of losing it all?

                            they all, already earned a lottery win essentially
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                            • kidcudi92
                              SBR Posting Legend
                              • 12-14-11
                              • 15434

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Chi_archie
                              nope. what could make it worth the risk of losing it all?

                              they all, already earned a lottery win essentially


                              well.........


                              • "Atlanta Falcons receiver Calvin Ridley was suspended for at least the entire 2022 season for gambling on N.F.L. games last year, one of the harshest penalties a major American sports league has doled out since the N.F.L. rushed to embrace an expansion of legalized wagering on games."
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                              • mtneer1212
                                SBR MVP
                                • 06-22-08
                                • 4993

                                #16
                                Originally posted by kidcudi92
                                well.........


                                • "Atlanta Falcons receiver Calvin Ridley was suspended for at least the entire 2022 season for gambling on N.F.L. games last year, one of the harshest penalties a major American sports league has doled out since the N.F.L. rushed to embrace an expansion of legalized wagering on games."
                                In a game he wasn't playing in, for less than $100. Ridley isn't crooked, he is just stupid.
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                                • kidcudi92
                                  SBR Posting Legend
                                  • 12-14-11
                                  • 15434

                                  #17
                                  Originally posted by mtneer1212
                                  In a game he wasn't playing in, for less than $100. Ridley isn't crooked, he is just stupid.
                                  all the same in the eyes of the NFL



                                  "officer, i did wrong, but i'm stupid!!"
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                                  • juicername
                                    SBR Hall of Famer
                                    • 10-14-15
                                    • 6906

                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by kidcudi92
                                    all the same in the eyes of the NFL



                                    "officer, i did wrong, but i'm stupid!!"
                                    yeah he should be punished as the rule are now, but in no way was the game compromised.
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                                    • jjgold
                                      SBR Aristocracy
                                      • 07-20-05
                                      • 388179

                                      #19
                                      Ranger so many times you post stuff like your an amateur
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                                      • mackave
                                        SBR MVP
                                        • 03-22-14
                                        • 4971

                                        #20
                                        NBA one of the best shows out there
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                                        • comet52
                                          SBR Hustler
                                          • 10-16-19
                                          • 59

                                          #21
                                          How does Tony Clark feel about the Astros cheating scandal? PEDS? And who knows what else is going on in MLB. I think he's got better areas to focus his concerns on than gambling.
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                                          • RangeFinder
                                            SBR Hall of Famer
                                            • 10-27-16
                                            • 8041

                                            #22
                                            Originally posted by jjgold
                                            Ranger so many times you post stuff like your an amateur
                                            Ripping a page right out of your book.
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                                            • Gaze73
                                              SBR MVP
                                              • 01-27-14
                                              • 3291

                                              #23
                                              No. Gambling is legal in EU and 99.9% of games are not fixed, probably 99.99% in the high profile leagues.
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                                              • d2bets
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                                                • 08-10-05
                                                • 39995

                                                #24
                                                Clark never said anything about game-fixing. People here just assuming that. I think he's somehow more worried about disgruntled bettor threatening and/or physically harming a player.
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