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Bleacher Creature

(11,257 posts)
6. Betting on your own team to win isn't any better.
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 06:27 PM
Feb 2020

You can't bet on your team to win all 162 games. Even a team that wins 110 games - which would make it one of the greatest teams of all time - will lose 52 games.

There's just no way that he didn't manage his team differently on days when he didn't bet on them to win. He may not have intentionally done anything different, but it doesn't matter. And who knows if he didn't impact his team days that he did bet on them. Part of being a manager means managing your team for a long season. Who's to say that he didn't overuse his bullpen, including by risking injury, on days when he had large amounts on the Reds to win?

coti

(4,612 posts)
8. Not only that but if he got into debt with a bookie, he compromised himself
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 06:30 PM
Feb 2020

Trump is compromised to all kinds of bad people, he doesn't see anything wrong with that.

marble falls

(57,145 posts)
7. Nah, he was involved in more than one or two instances and had been sanctioned and ...
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 06:28 PM
Feb 2020

then he did it again. Even if he was only betting on the Reds to win, he could have been point shaving and by the mere fact of betting, underworld types had a secret about him to black mail him with.

Pete did what he did multiple times after being caught at and lied to investigators about, it. No Hall of Fame, yet.

2naSalit

(86,743 posts)
10. Not me.
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 06:46 PM
Feb 2020

He fucking cheated, got busted and that's that. Just like impeachment, his sentence is forever.

Goodheart

(5,334 posts)
12. donald j. trump is too stupid to understand that betting exclusively on only one's own team
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 09:02 PM
Feb 2020

is just about as bad as betting on the opposition. That shouldn't be hard to figure out. Why? Because what message do you send to your betting colleagues when you DON'T bet? Think about it.

ooky

(8,926 posts)
15. Right wing is a disease. One of the symptoms is the notion
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 09:56 PM
Feb 2020

that rules (and laws) do not apply to you.

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