EOG
The Rise and Fall of BetOnSports Book Preview
August 16, 2007
The 134 page novel "The Rise and Fall of BetOnSports" is to be released later this week. This book was written from an inside view of the goings on at BetOnSports as well as various other aspects of the offshore gambling industry. EOG has received an advanced copy and has printed an excerpt for you to preview below.
From Chapter 5 - Office Wars, the Terrorist Strikes Back, and the Return of the Gambler (The 2001 BetOnSports.com Football Season)
Pete than began taking me on a tour of the renovations done at NASA since my last visit. They had erected a state of the art ninth floor playground with a full bar, casino tables, restaurants, gym, VIP guest rooms, and covered pool and sun deck on the top floor. None of this was for employees and I chose to work out in the public gym on the 4th floor of the mall which had superior equipment. I am not sure but this might have been an innovative move by the "G". The pool, bar, and casino were beautiful. The VIP rooms were unfinished and so were the restaurants. Originally this elaborate facility was meant for big bettors but eventually the brain trust started thinking and realized that media giants such as Jim Rome who was bringing in more new customers than any single source of media was the type of guy they needed to schmooze in Costa Rica.
After meeting with Pete he took me to some new offices on the 9th floor that included the recently arrested puppet CEO David Caruthers and "G's" sister Laura Beth was now using his office on the ninth floor. I met David that past spring and he really seemed not too impressive. He was very reserved and quiet but did smile. For the most part he was holed up in a corner office as the CEO but when it came down to decisions I never ever dealt with him it was always "G". When I would be having a meeting in the VIP room there might be a time when "G" would dismiss David for our private marketing/advertising conversations and there were also times when "G" told David to wait outside until he was finished with his meetings. As a CEO it had to frustrate David to have no real authority but he was a well paid puppet who earned his money since spending the past year under house arrest in St. Louis awaiting the betonsports.com trial. I really never did speak with David a whole lot even though we lived in the same condominium building he was rather awkward and never good about responding to a basic hello or good morning outside the office. His desire to get from out of the shadows of "G" probably in my opinion led to his vociferous ways with US politicians (A BIG NO! NO! Can't you understand the big red stop sign?) And his eventual doom in St. Louis.
Laura Beth on the other hand was really a waste of air. She didn't do anything of any importance although I am sure she played more sports than either of her brothers as she was definitely on the masculine side. I wouldn't be surprised if she pissed while standing up. She even had the gall to say to me one time, "What you're doing is nothing special it's all G's money". She might have been masculine but the envious streak was without a doubt her feminine side coming out. She would also get herself arrested currently and also as part of the online pharmacy scheme where she would have prescriptions forged so product could go out that much quicker. Again greed at work, you can make a lot of money when you can spend money to advertise an online pharmacy. Why screw it up by doing something illegal? Also you could make a lot of money in running an online gaming company. Why screw it up by doing so many illegal things where the list goes on and on of which I am sure the 22 counts that "G" faces in the St. Louis courts his all-world attorneys will have a tough time explaining more than a few of them.
Down in the VIP lounge this time around "G" was all smiles and gave me a big, friendly, warm handshake saying "good to see you Hacksaw!" I was more than surprised. My first thoughts were that he was just stand offish to people that he did not know for less than a year and by now we had frequent meetings. The reality probably was I was delivering a big time ad campaign at a fraction of the cost to him. Little did I know that after a future dictatorial one sided negotiation my fraction would be substantially smaller than the $350,000 plus I expected to earn for a year's worth of hard work along with paying my own expenses including air fares, taxis, etc. in travel to and from Costa Rica.
One of the issues I pressed "G" with was re-branding the company from NASA Sports Book International to Betonsports.com. Why not? We already owned the URL. "G" hated this idea the day I presented it, blasting me that the name of the company was NASA Sports Book International and it was to be used in all radio ad copy just like it was used in print. One day later in the 8th floor VIP room "G" announced that all ad copy for creative starting with radio from here on out would be branded as betonsports.com and NASA would be phased out. I never was one to worry about who gets credit for what but I wanted to ask "G" if he remembered our conversation less than 24 hours ago? This was a small victory that would be overshadowed by a series of ugly events over the next two weeks.
August 16, 2007
The 134 page novel "The Rise and Fall of BetOnSports" is to be released later this week. This book was written from an inside view of the goings on at BetOnSports as well as various other aspects of the offshore gambling industry. EOG has received an advanced copy and has printed an excerpt for you to preview below.
From Chapter 5 - Office Wars, the Terrorist Strikes Back, and the Return of the Gambler (The 2001 BetOnSports.com Football Season)
Pete than began taking me on a tour of the renovations done at NASA since my last visit. They had erected a state of the art ninth floor playground with a full bar, casino tables, restaurants, gym, VIP guest rooms, and covered pool and sun deck on the top floor. None of this was for employees and I chose to work out in the public gym on the 4th floor of the mall which had superior equipment. I am not sure but this might have been an innovative move by the "G". The pool, bar, and casino were beautiful. The VIP rooms were unfinished and so were the restaurants. Originally this elaborate facility was meant for big bettors but eventually the brain trust started thinking and realized that media giants such as Jim Rome who was bringing in more new customers than any single source of media was the type of guy they needed to schmooze in Costa Rica.
After meeting with Pete he took me to some new offices on the 9th floor that included the recently arrested puppet CEO David Caruthers and "G's" sister Laura Beth was now using his office on the ninth floor. I met David that past spring and he really seemed not too impressive. He was very reserved and quiet but did smile. For the most part he was holed up in a corner office as the CEO but when it came down to decisions I never ever dealt with him it was always "G". When I would be having a meeting in the VIP room there might be a time when "G" would dismiss David for our private marketing/advertising conversations and there were also times when "G" told David to wait outside until he was finished with his meetings. As a CEO it had to frustrate David to have no real authority but he was a well paid puppet who earned his money since spending the past year under house arrest in St. Louis awaiting the betonsports.com trial. I really never did speak with David a whole lot even though we lived in the same condominium building he was rather awkward and never good about responding to a basic hello or good morning outside the office. His desire to get from out of the shadows of "G" probably in my opinion led to his vociferous ways with US politicians (A BIG NO! NO! Can't you understand the big red stop sign?) And his eventual doom in St. Louis.
Laura Beth on the other hand was really a waste of air. She didn't do anything of any importance although I am sure she played more sports than either of her brothers as she was definitely on the masculine side. I wouldn't be surprised if she pissed while standing up. She even had the gall to say to me one time, "What you're doing is nothing special it's all G's money". She might have been masculine but the envious streak was without a doubt her feminine side coming out. She would also get herself arrested currently and also as part of the online pharmacy scheme where she would have prescriptions forged so product could go out that much quicker. Again greed at work, you can make a lot of money when you can spend money to advertise an online pharmacy. Why screw it up by doing something illegal? Also you could make a lot of money in running an online gaming company. Why screw it up by doing so many illegal things where the list goes on and on of which I am sure the 22 counts that "G" faces in the St. Louis courts his all-world attorneys will have a tough time explaining more than a few of them.
Down in the VIP lounge this time around "G" was all smiles and gave me a big, friendly, warm handshake saying "good to see you Hacksaw!" I was more than surprised. My first thoughts were that he was just stand offish to people that he did not know for less than a year and by now we had frequent meetings. The reality probably was I was delivering a big time ad campaign at a fraction of the cost to him. Little did I know that after a future dictatorial one sided negotiation my fraction would be substantially smaller than the $350,000 plus I expected to earn for a year's worth of hard work along with paying my own expenses including air fares, taxis, etc. in travel to and from Costa Rica.
One of the issues I pressed "G" with was re-branding the company from NASA Sports Book International to Betonsports.com. Why not? We already owned the URL. "G" hated this idea the day I presented it, blasting me that the name of the company was NASA Sports Book International and it was to be used in all radio ad copy just like it was used in print. One day later in the 8th floor VIP room "G" announced that all ad copy for creative starting with radio from here on out would be branded as betonsports.com and NASA would be phased out. I never was one to worry about who gets credit for what but I wanted to ask "G" if he remembered our conversation less than 24 hours ago? This was a small victory that would be overshadowed by a series of ugly events over the next two weeks.
