Gambling coming to OPACY?

[eddie83]

2 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

Sure it's a little overboard but you are fooling yourself if you think this is anything but more money in the pocket of ownership.

Of course it’s all about money. It always is. 

[Sports Guy]

11 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

Of course it’s all about money. It always is. 

It’s as if people don’t understand that it’s a business.  

[rm5678]

4 hours ago, Frobby said:

I just wish Draft Kings and Fan Duel would come up with some better commercials.  At least they got rid of the one where the manager and the ump are arguing over nothing, and the very irritating hostess of the last several Draft Kings ads.  The current ones are more boring and unfunny, rather than affirmatively obnoxious.  

Jessie Coffield (the previous hostess) might be coming back. She had a baby recently, which is why the new boring guy has replaced her for now.

[survivedc]

11 minutes ago, rm5678 said:

Jessie Coffield (the previous hostess) might be coming back. She had a baby recently, which is why the new boring guy has replaced her for now.

I don’t know if it’s her or the writing but those commercials are really annoying.

[Moose Milligan]

17 minutes ago, rm5678 said:

Jessie Coffield (the previous hostess) might be coming back. She had a baby recently, which is why the new boring guy has replaced her for now.

Please no.

[survivedc]

The constant updating of odds and the play by play gambling opportunities are what bother me. Live bets, exotic plays and companies like barstool are really preying on young (mostly) men who can now casually get into it.

As someone who used to bet pretty often, it became hard to enjoy sports if you didn’t have anything riding on it. Took me a while to get over that and now I’ll bet on an NFL game or two a week.

Mostly just wish the gambling weren’t so in your face and you could just follow the game for the stories and athletic feats. 

[EddeeEddee]

The level of greed in MLB and sports in general has gotten out of hand.  A sports book at a stadium is another reason not to take kids to a sporting event.  

Gambling should be nowhere near the playing field, and the only way I would support MLB promoted legalized gambling at all is if it lowered ticket prices, prompted baseball to be on regular local TV again, and/or was largely spent on youth sports leagues.  Of course, none of these things will happen. 

[eddie83]

43 minutes ago, rm5678 said:

Jessie Coffield (the previous hostess) might be coming back. She had a baby recently, which is why the new boring guy has replaced her for now.

We see so many of these commercials because nobody else is apparently buying ad time.  

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

59 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

We see so many of these commercials because nobody else is apparently buying ad time.  

Every commercial on MASN is seemingly Draft Kings or for CarShield. 

[DrungoHazewood]

12 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

So you don't want people who are addicted to gambling to be able to go to baseball games?

 

I think the Orioles have a big incentive to make sure all the addicted gamblers come to their games. Well, at least until they're completely destitute.

[Sports Guy]

1 minute ago, DrungoHazewood said:

I think the Orioles have a big incentive to make sure all the addicted gamblers come to their games. Well, at least until they're completely destitute.

You do know that tons of people gamble and do it responsibly and don’t lose everything, right?  
 

Your over the top scenarios apply to very few people overall.

Edited August 18, 2022 by Sports Guy

[DrungoHazewood]

10 hours ago, EddeeEddee said:

The level of greed in MLB and sports in general has gotten out of hand.  A sports book at a stadium is another reason not to take kids to a sporting event.  

Gambling should be nowhere near the playing field, and the only way I would support MLB promoted legalized gambling at all is if it lowered ticket prices, prompted baseball to be on regular local TV again, and/or was largely spent on youth sports leagues.  Of course, none of these things will happen. 

Camden Yards was paid for, at least in theory, by lottery proceeds.  So, yeah!, free stadium.  Paid for by the folks lining up at the grocery store to play their numbers. 483 of them.  When you're in line behind them and just want to pay your $3 for milk before it curdles. I don't know, maybe Memorial Stadium wasn't so bad.

[DrungoHazewood]

12 hours ago, Sports Guy said:

Except baseball isn’t that popular.  

You get it! Baseball would be in great shape if a huge gambling scandal hit because everyone under 40 would just keep going to all those games and watching on TV less than the NFL, NBA, soccer, NASCAR, movies, streaming, social media, etc.

Edited August 18, 2022 by DrungoHazewood

[Sports Guy]

10 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

You get it! Baseball would be in great shape if a huge gambling scandal hit because everyone under 40 would just keep going to all those games and watching on TV less than the NFL, NBA, soccer, NASCAR, movies, streaming, social media, etc.

Do you sit on a rocking chair on your front porch yelling at kids to “get off your lawn”?

As I read your comments on this thread, that’s how I’m picturing you.    

Edited August 18, 2022 by Sports Guy

[DrungoHazewood]

43 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

You do know that tons of people gamble and do it responsibly and don’t lose everything, right?  
 

Your over the top scenarios apply to very few people overall.

Sure. Just like relatively few people who pick up a beer are alcoholics, and many people who smoke don't get lung cancer.  Most people will not bankrupt their family at the Orioles sportsbook.  Some will. 

But then the Orioles and MLB start counting on this revenue stream. The bookkeepers and the marketers immediately start thinking of ways to increase gambling revenues, take more risks.  As cable money declines, attendance stagnates or declines across the league, and streaming doesn't make up for it, gambling may well slide in and fill that gap.  What happens in 2030 or 2040 if gambling money is  30%, 40% or more of revenues? Every day people are putting big money on the Orioles to lose.  People are putting not-insignificant money on the closer to blow today's save?  With all this being not only legal, but out in the open and the teams are heavily incentivized to keep the revenues flowing someone is going to look the other way when some poor schlub puts his entire $2M retirement savings on some rookie making MLB minimum striking out to lead off the game and... whatta you know, he does strike out.  Or even better, some ump making $250k a year and he's officiating a play that someone put 10 times that down on the outcome.

There's a reason that the early professional leagues very publicly distanced themselves from gambling, and MLB has done that for nearly 150 years.  Backtracking on this will probably be fine for most people most of the time.  Until it isn't.

Edited August 18, 2022 by DrungoHazewood