Guardians reliever Emmanuel Clase placed on paid leave amid MLB's sports betting inve

[Handsome Wes]

Originally Posted by Promethius88

What if pro athletes are participating in card breaks? Is that considered gambling in the eyes of leagues yet?

of course not

card breaks don't do anything to affect the integrity of the game

but when gamblers tell you to do something, and you intentionally do that thing, that's really bad

[SaveMeTheGum]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

I don't think the concern is that gamblers get cheated. It's that players are fixing the outcomes of games.

What did they think was going to happen when they got in bed with gambling.

[no10pin]

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You guys are slipping, I'm very disappointed.

[duwal]

Originally Posted by Bosoxfan5990

These guys are idiots.

he should have just hired an interpreter to do it like Ohtani did

[auctionjmm]

Originally Posted by SaveMeTheGum

What did they think was going to happen when they got in bed with gambling.

You clearly have a problem with gambling, but none of that excuses paid professionals from not acting like paid professionals. If I use my company credit card to book a vacation for myself, I'm not gonna go to my employer and say "What did you think was going to happen if you gave me a credit card?" There is no excuse. His job is still the same even if Bob in Row T is now allowed to bet on him.

[no10pin]

Originally Posted by duwal

he should have just hired an interpreter to do it like Ohtani did

[asujbl]

Originally Posted by auctionjmm

You clearly have a problem with gambling, but none of that excuses paid professionals from not acting like paid professionals. If I use my company credit card to book a vacation for myself, I'm not gonna go to my employer and say "What did you think was going to happen if you gave me a credit card?" There is no excuse. His job is still the same even if Bob in Row T is now allowed to bet on him.

This

Gambling is awesome. I will bet some more tonight

Think it through though

[no10pin]

Originally Posted by auctionjmm

You clearly have a problem with gambling, but none of that excuses paid professionals from not acting like paid professionals. If I use my company credit card to book a vacation for myself, I'm not gonna go to my employer and say "What did you think was going to happen if you gave me a credit card?" There is no excuse. His job is still the same even if Bob in Row T is now allowed to bet on him.

Right, if we took away everything that someone out there can abuse, then nothing fun would be left. At some point people need to be adults who would actually think through risking a multi-million dollar contract on something stupid.

I'm assuming they will lower the limits on the live simple outcome stuff so that it won't be an attractive option anymore.

[K111]

Just the beginning, blame Manfred who wants to make money from the sports betting garbage, this is going to be the steroid era part 2 with the players/umpires who will be indicted or suspected and eventually they will ban sports betting when they realize the fans are staying away because it is to tainted, but for now they are going to make their money

[JRX]

Originally Posted by K111

Just the beginning, blame Manfred who wants to make money from the sports betting garbage, this is going to be the steroid era part 2 with the players/umpires who will be indicted or suspected and eventually they will ban sports betting when they realize the fans are staying away because it is to tainted, but for now they are going to make their money

I don't think they will ever go that far, they may ban in game wagering. According to some people on this board, all these people must be losers.

https://www.usnews.com/banking/artic...nd-debt-survey

[asujbl]

Originally Posted by K111

Just the beginning, blame Manfred who wants to make money from the sports betting garbage, this is going to be the steroid era part 2 with the players/umpires who will be indicted or suspected and eventually they will ban sports betting when they realize the fans are staying away because it is to tainted, but for now they are going to make their money

This is so stupid

Every league is exactly the same. Don’t be a child

Gambling will be here forever. Forever. Did you hear me in the back? Forever

Players just need to keep their act together

[Hollywood42]

Really bad look for Clase and CLE, and baseball as a whole. Wonder how many more people are going to get wrapped up in this, this specific case or just in general in th efuture

[asujbl]

Originally Posted by Hollywood42

Really bad look for Clase and CLE, and baseball as a whole. Wonder how many more people are going to get wrapped up in this, this specific case or just in general in th efuture

What does this have to do with Cleveland exactly?

[Hollywood42]

I mean this is the second player on their team that has been placed on leave for this? Doesn't make you wonder just a little bit?

Originally Posted by asujbl

What does this have to do with Cleveland exactly?

[asujbl]

Originally Posted by Hollywood42

I mean this is the second player on their team that has been placed on leave for this? Doesn't make you wonder just a little bit?

Not even a little bit

I worry more about the Dominican Republic

[Hollywood42]

What a strange thing to say

Originally Posted by asujbl

Not even a little bit

I worry more about the Dominican Republic

[asujbl]

Originally Posted by Hollywood42

What a strange thing to say

Why would you say that?

[asujbl]

Originally Posted by Hollywood42

What a strange thing to say

Both pitchers are from the DR

I’d be more interested in what might happening at home then what is happening in Cleveland

You can’t grasp that?

[Noles939913]

Might as well just start a thread tracking all players busted across all sports. This one was so intentional it’s hilarious but in his defense he did apparently bet on his team to beat the spread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nbamemes/co...ith_5_seconds/

[PuddleMonkey]

Originally Posted by auctionjmm

Certainly not that a 20 million dollar closer would need to bet in-game to help himself or a friend.

Originally Posted by JRX

He's not making 20M

I'm more interested in if he rents or owns.

[hammertime]

Originally Posted by auctionjmm

You clearly have a problem with gambling, but none of that excuses paid professionals from not acting like paid professionals. If I use my company credit card to book a vacation for myself, I'm not gonna go to my employer and say "What did you think was going to happen if you gave me a credit card?" There is no excuse. His job is still the same even if Bob in Row T is now allowed to bet on him.

Exactly. I say this as someone who does zero sports betting.

[89Giants]

Originally Posted by PuddleMonkey

I'm more interested in if he rents or owns.

Clearly he's a home owner. If he got caught gambling hes not smart enough to know its better to rent than purchase a home.

[LondonGames]

Originally Posted by JRX

Actually it is because now there's instant betting / prop bets on next pitches. Previously there was a several hour delay between bet and result. Nobody was taking action that so and so would throw certain pitches.

lol. live betting has existed since the internet.

action on a single pitch has nothing to do with what you're saying. these schemes are planned way in advance, not in real time. it's not like the pitcher has a phone in his pocket texting his friend to bet the pitch as it's being delivered.

as a previous poster already stated, the problem has always existed and now it's getting exposed simply because sites track it. match fixing has always existed and this is no different.

Ortiz & Clase are likely going to be banned for life.

[LondonGames]

Originally Posted by Hollywood42

What a strange thing to say

agreed totally weird thing to say. wtf?

pretty racist imo

[LondonGames]

MLB already made an example out of Tucupita Marcano. what these guys did is egregiously worse than just betting on games.

they are T O A S T