Yank Poleyev is a longtime reader of this column, and to further prove that preferences don’t factor in, he’s a lifelong fan of the Cleveland baseball team.
Last week, Poreyev sent an email worth sharing. It emphasized the human condition and how those in the most positions of authority are trying to exploit every penny of the delicate situation.
“Thankfully, I don’t gamble at all, but my daughter and I put $10 into the March Madness pool. We still have plenty of life, but we really need Clemson to beat Alabama. I did…even though I didn’t pick either team and normally wouldn’t have had any interest in the outcome.
“But we were glued to the screen, and each time [Alabama’s Mark] Sears’ 3-point shot was a dagger to the soul.
“I can’t imagine what would happen if I had a lot of hard-earned (or borrowed) money to spend on these games.”
On the contrary, I think he has a pretty good idea of the temporary or lasting insanity that plagues life when the cards and balls roll and disappear, whether it’s roulette or basketball.
You don’t have to be a genius, much less have a degree in social studies, to figure out the rest. It’s a deal between drug traffickers and their customers. It is essential to warn future customers, especially young people and those with an “indomitable spirit”, to stay far away from such easy and corrosive addictions, as careers, families and society will be ruined. is.
So I suspect that Poleiev can actually imagine the daily anxiety of a daily sports bettor, day in and day out, until he can no longer wash away the inevitable losses.
I don’t think anyone understood this better than Roger Goodell. Currently, he is paid about $70 million apiece to play silly roles.
In 2003, he banned the Las Vegas Tourism Authority from running a 30-second Super Bowl spot promoting Las Vegas tourism. He knew that “Las Vegas” and “tourism” were fool’s rules for low-odds gambling, including bets placed at sportsbooks.
In 2009, Goodell sent a soul-crushing letter to Delaware’s governor to protest the state’s plan to award state lottery tickets to NFL teams. There it was written:
“By legalizing sports betting, it will be in Delaware’s interest to create more new gamblers than ever before as the state looks to maximize the revenue generated from this promotion. Additional Gambling The negative impact on society cannot be minimized within the community.”
Three years later, Goodell protested New Jersey’s attempt to legalize sports betting, saying, “There could be gambling going on within the NFL, match-fixing and whatever the consequences are.” “That threat has been a very strongly held view within the NFL for decades.” It can be subject to outside influences, which can cause a lot of damage to the NFL, and it’s very difficult to recover from that. ”
And in 2017, they said, “We remain strongly opposed to legalized sports gambling. The integrity of our games comes first, and we will not compromise on that.”
Since much of the NFL’s revenue currently comes from gambling, which is based on NFL fans and TV viewers losing money as their sole business mission, Goodell’s NFL would like to see its customers similarly incentivized to lose money. We are an official business partner of legal bookmakers. The illegal bookmakers who were answering the betting phones in the boiler room before them.
So I think Poreyev, and probably his daughter too, have a pretty good idea of what would happen if they had a lot of hard-earned (or borrowed) money riding on these games. Masu.
On Thursday afternoon, I watched the Marlins vs. Twins on the Rob Manfred-backed MLB Network. During the television broadcast, the betting lines for that night’s MLB game scrolled over and over again.
Don’t look for a big league bunt, you won’t find anyone.
The idea that this MLB season, like last season, will be vastly improved by removing artificial additives and baseball in its purest form remains a canard, despite evidence to the contrary. It is something that is repeated regardless.
As seen Thursday on SNY, the Tigers vs. Mets at Citi Field was 3-3 going into the bottom of the ninth inning for the first of two innings. The Mets put a runner on second base with no outs. Please alert grounds staff. This will end soon.
Francisco Lindor then struck out. Francisco Alverez grounded out into a double play to end the 9th inning. The runner on second base didn’t even reach third base with no outs.
It was still 3-3 in the bottom of the 10th inning, and the new-age automatic runner — the one Michael Kay harshly (and cleverly) called “Manfred Mann” — was on second base with no outs.
Brett Batty struck out after a futile and clumsy attempt to bunt a runner to third base. Ron Darling laments that at the highest levels of baseball, especially among middle-order hitters, the bunt is an important fundamental that is no longer called upon or practiced, and has been lost to meaninglessness.
Starling Marte popped out to shortstop, Jeff McNeil walked, and Tyrone Taylor struck out.
Thus, in consecutive innings, with no outs and no outs on second base, the Mets were unable to even reach third base. The Tigers won 6-3 in the 11th inning. 14 pitchers recorded a total of 21K.
Yes, MLB, new and much improved.
Combat can have real costs.
What does a “fan” of “sports” need to learn?
The Rangers’ Yahoos shout “Rempe!” After Matt Lempe exchanged fists to the head in Wednesday’s game against the Devils, it was equally exciting when Chris Simon and Derek Boogaard exchanged bare-handed punches to the head of each other during their time with the Rangers.
Simon passed away last month at the age of 52. His family suspects that the cause of his suicide was CTE (brain injury caused by frequent blows to his head). Mr. Boogaard died at the age of 28. A post-mortem examination revealed CTE.
What does this season’s opening game between the Pirates and Marlins have in common with the 1996 World Series champion Yankees?
Marlins pitcher Ryan Weathers is the son of David Weathers, who pitched for the Yanks in the 1996 series. Bucs third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes is the son of Yanks third baseman Charlie Hayes, who caught the final out against the Braves.
NCAA Tournament Notepad: I can’t get this out of my head: Arizona led by five points late in the second half when Dayton’s Kobe Ellis led off a 3-2 fastbreak. But he put his body up, took the 3, and missed. Then he fouled an Arizona player on the other side. Arizona won by 10 points, up 7 points from him. Basketball 2024.
Want to identify what the NCAA Loophole Scam is? Instead of “Graduate Transfer Portal” we call it “Master’s Transfer Portal”.
Now that the Illinois basketball season is over, star Terrence Shannon is facing rape charges from December. It’s reminiscent of Michigan State guard and future NBA coach Scott Skiles, who had to report to serve time for a DWI shortly after Michigan State was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament.
There, LSU star Angel Reese wears long, bold false eyelashes, makeup and poses for Sports Illustrated in a tiny bikini, but after LSU lost to Iowa last week, she complained that they were being “sexualized.” Well then!
