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of The Wall Street Journal this week Some of the more commercially visible league and network-affiliated sports betting operations — such as BetMGM, ESPN Bet and Caesars — that try to trick customers into losing their money with endless TV ads — are struggling to scare off the lucky few who have a bad habit of winning all the time.
In other words, if you are one of those young adult men happily celebrating big money in TV ads (the only ones shown there), these sportsbooks will no longer accept your bets or will severely limit them to relatively small amounts.
Dave Holmes, an online sports bettor from Chicago, told the WSJ that his bets were only rejected when he began winning.
Another South Dakota native, Michael Holt, lives near the Iowa border, where online sports betting is illegal but legal in Iowa. Holt was betting modest amounts of $50 on college basketball games, but only after he started winning did he get a warning from ESPN Bet and Caesars, who wouldn’t let him bet more than $5 to $10 per game.
“I would like to know why this is happening,” Holmes said, referring to a request for comment from the WSJ but did not receive a response.
Holmes seems particularly frustrated as an unwelcome patron at legal sportsbooks, estimating that she has made around $50,000 since she began responding to the advertised offers, many of which bear the licensed logos of affiliated professional sports leagues such as the NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB and Disney’s ESPN.
So I would suggest that both Holmes and the WSJ direct very pertinent questions to those who already know, or should know, the answers, starting with sports commissioners.
It’s worth noting that Tuesday’s “kids” All-Star Game, broadcast on Fox, was chock-full of invitations to gamble on baseball during the game.
While these sports betting schemes are not designed to lose money, when players who do win are denied further action or limited to split action, it is clearly an example of a bad way to lose. They are clearly not cooperating with the league’s sanctioned money-losing scheme.
So what about commercials that only show super successful people? I think this is false advertising that repeatedly robs the weak, and could be subject to legal action.
Finally, one more question: Most TV ads always contain small letters with a phone number for “gambling addicts.” But if everyone in the ads wins, why would anyone become addicted to gambling?
Roku is the latest addition to the Yankees’ dizzying carousel of TV options
This describes the Pete Alonso in me:
Another tough job for Rob Manfred’s money-first MLB hide-and-seek TV mandate: Sunday’s Yankees-Orioles game, which ended with a shocking giveaway for the Orioles, started before noon, out of sight of tens of thousands of potential viewers and tucked away on a channel few people know exists.
So what is a Roku TV? On Sunday we talked about replacing the F with an R to make Roku. If that doesn’t make sense, you get it, right?
The country singer’s Yoko Ono-esque rendition of our national anthem at the All-Star Game — she later claimed she was drunk and in need of medical attention — gave Manfred a lesson in quality control, even though her disheveled appearance and singing voice seemed in keeping with it.
From now on, his choice of character will surely be a vulgar, N-word-spouting, woman-degrading, crotch-grabbing rapper, probably Ghostface Killah on loan from Roger Goodell.
I loved Manfred’s response to the annually ugly and conventional wisdom-defying All-Star Game team uniforms (on sale now!), contrasting this with a return to regular season team uniforms which are logical and better for the game.
“I completely understand that sentiment and why people love that tradition,” Manfred said.
But he strayed closer to the truth, saying the “conversation” would need to involve “Nike and some of our partners.”
Do we have to consult with Nike? Hell, he’s the Commissioner of MLB! Demand that Nike do this!
I always admired the pitching of Bud Black, a small left-hander who used courage and resourcefulness to post a 121-116 record and 42 complete games, often with weak teams.
But you won’t see any of that as the Rockies’ manager — he’s just a manager obsessed with analytics and on the mound.
On Sunday, with Carlos Mendoza and Black taking turns trying to pull off a losing effort against the Rockies and Mets, Colorado relief pitcher Nick Mears pitched in the seventh inning. Mears struck out the third, fourth and fifth batters in the Mets’ lineup.
But Black brought in Jalen Beeks in the eighth inning, who allowed a single, a walk, a double and two runs against the three batters he faced before being replaced.
Black “managed to turn” an 8-3 lead into a final score of 8-5, even though the Mets left runners on base in the ninth inning, though it is not clear why.
That same day in Baltimore, Aaron Boone replaced three straight relief pitchers who had allowed one hit and struck out five, finally replacing sometime closer Clay Holmes, who gave up two walks and two hits in the bottom of the ninth inning and took the self-destructive loss.
Maybe they do it to keep the audience hooked, after all, it’s not like we can’t foresee it happening today, tomorrow, or for the past 12 years.
Hulk doesn’t destroy the steroid problem
People were hoping that children’s TV hero Hulk Hogan, who is speaking at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, would mention the influx of illegal drugs at the border with Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
It was where Vince McMahon’s WWF doctor George Zahorian was headquartered, and where he shipped Hogan (and McMahon) career-changing steroids before Zahorian served prison time for felony drug distribution.
There’s a photo of McMahon, Hogan and Zahorian smiling with their arms around each other, taken long before President Trump was inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame by his eccentric friend McMahon.
By the way, I am still subscribing to the Surprise Party.
In supporting biological males, who currently often unfairly win girls’ and women’s sports, New York Attorney General Letitia James should, in the interest of fairness and justice, answer this question: “Why don’t biological females who identify as male excel in boys’ and men’s sports?”
Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake, America’s most notorious reckless drivers who now co-own a Manhattan sports bar, missed out on the chance to name it “Recite the Alphabet, Don’t Sing.”
Reader and radio host Jody Davis suggests that an ESPN graphic scroll will soon report that Bronny James has “hit his fifth triple single.”
I used to watch the entire MLB All-Star Game, and now if I ask the next day, “Who won?”, I’ll get an answer of, “I don’t know.”
Breaking news: An ESPN headline sent in by reader Phil Glowacz read, “Rookie phenom Paul Skenes selected to first MLB All-Star Game.” In fairness, no matter how much ESPN searched, it was hard to find a veteran All-Star Game rookie.
I had a horrible nightmare. I was at a banquet and John Smoltz was the after-dinner speaker.
