Ohtani and the interpreter

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Re: Ohtani and the interpreter

Post by Benjamin Grimm » Tue Jun 04, 2024 11:56 am

The Athletic wrote:MLB’s Department of Investigations found Marcano placed 387 baseball bets, including 231 MLB-related bets, through a legal sportsbook in 2022 and 2023, the league said. He bet more than $150,000 on baseball, including $87,319 on MLB-related bets, the league said. Additionally, Marcano placed 25 bets on Pirates games last season while he was on the team. However, all of these wagers occurred after he suffered a season-ending knee injury in July 2023.
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Re: Ohtani and the interpreter

Post by Cowtipper » Tue Jun 04, 2024 12:06 pm

kcmets wrote: Tue Jun 04, 2024 11:53 am
Cowtipper wrote: Tue Jun 04, 2024 11:40 amImagine how many are throwing games right now.
Imagine how many Mets threw games in May and how much
money they and their families won!?!
In one of the game threads I actually mentioned that they were throwing games, tongue in cheek somewhat. But maybe they really are.
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Post by metirish » Tue Jun 04, 2024 12:35 pm

Kelly from the As bet less than $100 on games , he was making $740k this season
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Post by MFS62 » Sun Jun 09, 2024 2:49 pm

The intrusion of gamblers into MLB is becoming a problem - with threats:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/m ... 028741007/
They receive death threats.
They are followed home by strangers.
They are abused and derided.
They are Major League Baseball players, who can tell you all about the menacing threats that have been inflicted upon their lives since MLB and gambling companies got into bed together.
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Sun Jun 09, 2024 3:35 pm

MFS62 wrote: Sun Jun 09, 2024 2:49 pm The intrusion of gamblers into MLB is becoming a problem - with threats:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/m ... 028741007/
They receive death threats.
They are followed home by strangers.
They are abused and derided.
They are Major League Baseball players, who can tell you all about the menacing threats that have been inflicted upon their lives since MLB and gambling companies got into bed together.
Wow. This is new to me. This is a problem I had no idea existed until I read that piece. Not to sound like the "Master of the Obvious", but it's so true that money really is the root of all evil. The most extreme example being these greedy corporate scumbag fatcats who are going to destroy our planet by knowingly undermining the climate change movement because the multi millions of dollars that they already have arn't enough dollars for them. /gets off soapbox
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Post by Edgy MD » Mon Jun 10, 2024 8:49 am

What an out-and-out mess.

What a totally predictable out-and-out mess.
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Post by metirish » Fri Jun 14, 2024 8:07 pm

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Post by Edgy MD » Fri Jun 14, 2024 11:26 pm

Whether or not he's guilty, the league is slipping into a whack-a-mole situation.

They have to keep the problem at bay as well as the specter contained. If the perception of honest competition is affected, MLB could lose big.
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Re: Ohtani and the interpreter

Post by ashie62 » Sat Jun 15, 2024 1:05 pm

Marcano was on the winning side of his baseball bets just 4% of the time

I have not seen any unsavory rumors on the ump

Whether it's social media, artificial intelligence or online gaming...

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