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Old 02-08-2020, 03:41 PM   #277
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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr View Post
The best "drop the mic" point I've heard to show why Rose's gambling was 100x's worse for baseball was from a commentator about 10 yrs ago. He said imagine if the Mitchell report was about gambling and not baseball. That every team in the league had someone who bet on the game, not juiced up. What would that mean for MLB? It would have killed the sport. Period.
How do we know they don't. How many players come and go each year? Is
reasonable to think Rose was the only player betting on baseball? Seems like thinking the players on the Mitchell report were the only players using steroids.
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