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Is sports betting new?

• theluketaylor 1y ago
  Betting as a major sponsor and league endorsed? Yes, very new. We've come a long way from the black sox and Pete Rose being banned for life over gambling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Rose#Permanent_ineligibility_and_reinstatement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Rose#Permanent_ineligibil...
  • popularrecluse 1y ago
    It's only a matter of time before we're right back there.
    • theluketaylor 1y ago
      We're already there. Emmanuel Clase is under investigation for fixing pitches and can't play right now. I don't love sports betting in general, but I really hate betting on short term events like specific pitches or a strikeout. There is way too much incentive to fix.
• Spivak 1y ago
  Legal sports betting via app which turned gambling into a casual activity for hundreds of millions of new players. These apps made a market that previously placed 4 billion in bets to 125 billion. This is very new. Their rise and market is so large that only 5% of sports bets aren't placed through one of these apps.
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• mcmcmc 1y ago
  Online/mobile sports betting is relatively new, was only legalized in the last decade. It’s grown massively in popularity
• IncreasePosts 1y ago
  Legalized, league-approved sport betting is new-ish (2018). And sports betting has grown 25x since then. Not sure if I agree with OPs take though. It might just be that baseball is a traditional, conservative game and they are hesitant to change it. maybe that's why they're just using robo umps for challenges, and not for every pitch, which would be easy to do and would further the all-about-betting theory.