Draft Kings

It usually takes me about the same amount of time to fill out my shitty DraftKings lineup as it does to pick my shitty lotto numbers.

 

Unless there's a "quick play" where they pick the lineup for you, it's still different.

Plus, a lot of the folks blowing money on lotto don't have a computer, internet, or a credit card. They're unlikely customers for DraftKings, but they're the lottery's bread and butter.

 

Ragu is trying to Zing! me, but instead he has completely misrepresented by objection to the state-run lottery.

There is a good reason I haven't started any threads on slot machines.

 

I get it. It was a joke. I honestly don't give a shit one way or another. I will say that I have won more on DraftKings in the past year than I have playing the lottery. For now anyway. Until I give it all back.

 

I know, but still felt like it was worth pointing out.

I'm sure that once you set up the account, and have all of your credit card info on file, they make it very easy for you to spend your money.

 

It's a hell of a lot of fun, but I basically need to spend the offseason learning the leagues inside and out.

You think you know baseball. And then you try to pick a Fan Duel lineup on the fly.

 

You absolutely, positively, unequivocally could not be more wrong. Not even if you wrote a book called, "Jack Morris: The Case for Cooperstown."

Yes, lotteries are a problem because they exploit poor people. And so are slot machines. And so are cigarettes.

The government isn't operating slot machines, though. And the government isn't selling cigarettes.

Hence my objection to lotteries, and not to slot machines and cigarettes.

 

I'd go further than you, and include cigarettes, because of the high taxes.

We know cigarettes are deadly, and addictive, and the government has essentially made themselves partners with the cigarette companies. They're hooked on the revenue.

 

Ahem ... while this is technically true, the government's not selling cigarettes doesn't remove its guilt for being a senior partner in their manufacture/sale.

 

True. But governments rely on both to make boatloads of money, and the elected officials who spend this cash will do almost anything to see that there's more of it coming in next week, next month, next year . . .