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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
This leads to a "hmmm" moment. So, is the dividing line as follows: It's okay to bet on sports; it's okay to bet on your sport; it's okay to bet on your league; but it's NOT okay to bet on your team, one way or the other?
(This is what continues to sink Pete Rose.)
If so, good luck to those experts that I mentioned, filtering all the betting that could lead up to $1.5 million in gambling debt to find the instances where one bet on his own team. They are going to need to be good at their jobs.
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It was never okay for any baseball player or manager to bet on their own games or on other games. The Supreme Court decision changed nothing.
So yes, it's okay for Joe Schmoe to bet on baseball all they want since they have no influence on the outcome and no it's not okay for a player to do the same.
Now, with that being said, I could do without MLB, NHL, NFL and al. embracing gambling (it's just not good optics, but that's personal bias), but I guess the money is too good to pass up.