Ohtani and the interpreter

[Benjamin Grimm]

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.

[Cowtipper]

Imagine 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.

[metirish]

Kelly from the As bet less than $100 on games , he was making $740k this season

[MFS62]

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.

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

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

[Edgy MD]

What an out-and-out mess.

What a totally predictable out-and-out mess.

[metirish]

[Edgy MD]

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.

[ashie62]

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...

Once Pandora gets out of the box you lose any control that you think you had over things even if illusory