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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
We will see, my friend. I hope you are right. I also hope you remember what you said if and when a scandal happens.
By the way, would you say Pete Rose was rather well-off and had prospects for much, much more when he succumbed to temptation? Or was he hard up at the time? A legitimate question, for I don't know for sure.
So, your argument is that athletes make too much money to indulge? ALL athletes in ALL sports? And nobody goes through his wad quickly and foolishly? Hmmm.
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There is no indication that Rose accepted money to throw games. The charge was that he bet on Reds games while he was player/coach.
I would agree that vigilance will be needed to avoid players getting involved with gambling interests, but that was already extant, which is why Rose was banned, well before anything like this was legalized.
I would respectfully disagree, however, with rudel that even league minimum players are too well paid to be tempted. It is not unusual for players to get into money issues, even with what may seem to be bountiful salaries.
To some extent, I think that the sports books have only themselves to blame if they make short term prop bets easily available and well known and they seem to get bit on the butt occasionally.