20 Comments on Uh Oh. Now it’s the MLB

  6. Dewey, Cheatem and Howe play 1st 2nd and 3rd bases. I Don’t Know and I Don’t Care are the team’s chief of operations and its manager. Anyone caught willingly betting or cheating on baseball needs to be banned permanently from MLB. And the same goes for other sports as well. Give em the Lance Armstrong treatment.

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  7. Txn4Evr – ALL professional sports are rigged!

    My thoughts exactly. Why should baseball be exempt?
    I was wondering about Clase towards the end of the seaason thinking he was at the end of his career or throwing games… same thing now.

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  8. The last playoff or superbowl I bet on was Seattle versus Pittsburgh in the superbowl. The game was so obviously rigged that the Seattle quarterback, after losing the ball in someone’s fumble tackled the opponent who had recovered the ball and was called for ‘blocking below the knee’ for the penalty. This among multiple questionable calls and the constant sucking of Gerome Bettis’s schlong as he was retiring! The terrible towel! It was blatant. Of course the faux reasonable people said, you’re just a homie, nothing to see there. Sportsball used to be a thing, it’s just something for the proles to gamble on anymore.

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  14. @Walter: putting my rooting for Seattle aside, I have seen several non-Seattle videos and comments saying that was the most incompetent/dirtiest officiating in a Super Bowl game. That was before the Seahawks were an “approved” team.

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  15. The degree of cheating is proportional to the amount of money money moving around and how often it changes hands. There are billions and billions in pro sports and it changes hands constantly.

    There are probably quite a few people involved in pro sports who aren’t crooks. Heavy emphasis on the word few.

    I toy with the idea that all the anti-betting (and anti-doping) rules should be shitcanned, and all the players required to go on the field with guns and knives. That might be interesting enough to get me to watch.

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  16. Professional sports are, for most of us, just entertainment. So let’s change the rules and adjust our expectations.

    As Uncle Al mentioned, get rid of all of the PED anti-doping rules. Hey, “my body, my choice” right? Who wouldn’t prefer to see some 300 pound muscle bound dude hulk smash a fastball 800 feet out of the stadium, as opposed to some pitcher nibbling the corners looking for a strike call? Or follow that jacked up hyper active shortstop with a meth addiction who not only covers his position well, but also snags balls from the third and second baseman and still manages to throw it to himself at first for the out?

    Eliminate any rules that have anything with betting or fixing games. The owners can save a lot of money – cap salaries at $100,000 a year and require players to supplement their income with payments from gamblers and casinos. It could add drama to the game: “at bat, Ricardo Diego – who needs a hit or else he may lose his house to foreclosure due to crippling gambling addiction.” Or watching a pitcher fire a fastball into the first base dugout in an effort to induce a walk, or a batter desperately chasing curve balls 20 feet outside and in the dirt. An intentional walk to Otani would probably consist of 4 balls thrown at his head. As an added bonus, fans who bet on the Blue Jays to win the World Series in 2025 may have had a chance to win their bets, and the Colorado Rockies or Chicago White Sox may be relevant again.

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  17. “As Uncle Al mentioned, get rid of all of the PED anti-doping rules”

    Exactly. At that level it’s not a question of whether they are doing it or not it’s a question of whether or not they’ve been caught.

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  20. MLB did a dumb thing 30 years ago when it banned players from using chewing baccy. They said it was bad for kids to see that.

    When I was younger than 16, I couldn’t legally buy any tobacco product anyhow, so I don’t know what the big deal was.

    MLB seems to have no problem with teams promoting “Rainbow Gay Days”, which promotes a life style worse than chewing tobacco.

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