Running athletes busted for gambling thread

But lets be honest, any time a pro athlete does a press scrum he's talking to gamblers Do news orgs even have guidelines about sports staffers betting these days? And lets be real, now that the genie is out of the bottle, the revenue has been generated - even when something bad happens - and it will - don't expect sports leagues to turn off the tap.

 

He's going to step away for a year and play for the Chicago Bulls.

 

Rule 21 has entered the chat.

Maybe the translator thought it didn't apply to him.

 

https://content.mlb.com/documents/8/2/2/296982822/Major_League_Rule_21.pdf

They can always ban anyone under section (f). But, even if Ohtani IS/WAS guilty - you would think baseball would give him a pass because losing him would cost the league a ton of future revenue, particularly the overseas market. We already know $$$$>Integrity of the game is Rule 1 section 1 of the Commissioners handbook.

 

This is a pretty obvious case isn't it? Ohtani was gambling and having the interpreter place the bets. As always happens in that situation, the interpreter began skimming. Then he began betting the skim on his own and losing, then just stealing Ohtani's bets, telling him he lost, and using that to cover his own losses. One of Ohtani's business inner circle finally realized not even Krusty the Klown lost so many bets in a row and the internal audit began.

 

How do you steal a bet and tell somebody they lost if they actually won? Are you counting on them not to remember their bets?

 

MLB doesn't even have proscribed penalties for MLB players gambling. It's all at the discretion of the commissioner.

Wheeee!

 

Ask this guy:

 

Juggling the amounts bet. I don't think Ohtani kept a ledger, so as the betting churn increased, the interpreter would say "you won X on the Rams but lost 3X on the Seahawks" when the reality was Ohtani bet 1.5X on the Rams and 2X on the Seahawks. If the interpreter was smart enough to steal a consistent number of relatively small sums, he could keep the scam going a good long while. We know from his Dodger contract that either Ohtani doesn't really comprehend large sums of money (many people don't), had advisors all too well aware he was gambling big, or both.

 

I wonder what Janet Gretxky thinks about all this?