What the new Oriole scoreboard looks like

[Going Underground]

About the same with the Sportsbook ad .

 

Edited March 29, 2023 by Going Underground

[Can_of_corn]

Dumb motto.  Should have gone with "We are a safer bet than Crypto."

[Going Underground]

3 minutes ago, Going Underground said:

About the same with the Sportsbook ad .

 

 

[interloper]

"Good teams win, great teams cover" is a pretty good analogy for how the Orioles are kind of being run. 

[Moose Milligan]

Gambling culture is so tacky.  

[Sports Guy]

I look forward to being able to gamble at the park if I want to, although I don’t usually get on baseball.

[Can_of_corn]

7 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

I look forward to being able to gamble at the park if I want to, although I don’t usually get on baseball.

You didn't have a smart phone?

[glenn__davis]

14 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Gambling culture is so tacky.  

I'm so over it already lol.  

[Frobby]

19 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Gambling culture is so tacky.  

I just worry that problem gambling is going to skyrocket.   And yeah, I think we can expect more gambling scandals involving players.   

My big reasons for not gambling:

1.  The odds are rigged to favor the house, so if you do it a lot, you’re almost sure to lose.  

2.  I’m fully aware that I’m not objective.  

 

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I just worry that problem gambling is going to skyrocket.   And yeah, I think we can expect more gambling scandals involving players.   

My big reasons for not gambling:

1.  The odds are rigged to favor the house, so if you do it a lot, you’re almost sure to lose.  

2.  I’m fully aware that I’m not objective.  

 

I expect we are going to start seeing societal consequences to the boom and normalization of gambling in the near future.

 

[Moose Milligan]

3 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I just worry that problem gambling is going to skyrocket.   And yeah, I think we can expect more gambling scandals involving players.   

My big reasons for not gambling:

1.  The odds are rigged to favor the house, so if you do it a lot, you’re almost sure to lose.  

2.  I’m fully aware that I’m not objective.  

 

I don't think there will be many gambling scandals, if any, involving players.  The Black Sox were underpaid in an era where a lot of ballplayers worked regular jobs in the offseason.  And they hated Comiskey.  Pete Rose was a degenerate gambler, he was an outlier.

Ballplayers today make too much and there's too much on the line for any of them to be as stupid as Rose to bet on their own sport...or their own teams.  I don't care if any of them gamble on other sports or whatever else they do in their spare time.

I just think most gambling culture is tacky, all the ****ing Fanduel ads, all of the gambling house ads are just so smarmy.  Like a step or two above a strip club taxi cab topper in NYC.  While I like a good strip club, I also don't want to see Hustler's logo or a Ritz Cabaret sign on an outfield fence.  They're all too similar for me.

 

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, Moose Milligan said:

I don't think there will be many gambling scandals, if any, involving players.  The Black Sox were underpaid in an era where a lot of ballplayers worked regular jobs in the offseason.  And they hated Comiskey.  Pete Rose was a degenerate gambler, he was an outlier.

Ballplayers today make too much and there's too much on the line for any of them to be as stupid as Rose to bet on their own sport...or their own teams.  I don't care if any of them gamble on other sports or whatever else they do in their spare time.

I just think most gambling culture is tacky, all the ****ing Fanduel ads, all of the gambling house ads are just so smarmy.  Like a step or two above a strip club taxi cab topper in NYC.  While I like a good strip club, I also don't want to see Hustler's logo or a Ritz Cabaret sign on an outfield fence.  They're all too similar for me.

 

It's cool.  They will just have Trout play professional basketball for a season.

[Pickles]

2 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I expect we are going to start seeing societal consequences to the boom and normalization of gambling in the near future.

 

As one who works with young adults, I can tell you the consequences are already here.  We have 20 year old who can't read a novel (or read cursive for that matter) or do algebra, but they spend hours analyzing minute pick-em NBA prop bets.

Their brains are being wired to gamble.  Gambling is addictive and the people pushing this- politicians, "business" interests- know that damn well.

[Moose Milligan]

9 minutes ago, Pickles said:

As one who works with young adults, I can tell you the consequences are already here.  We have 20 year old who can't read a novel (or read cursive for that matter) or do algebra, but they spend hours analyzing minute pick-em NBA prop bets.

Their brains are being wired to gamble.  Gambling is addictive and the people pushing this- politicians, "business" interests- know that damn well.

I'm just here to say that algebra is overrated and not an essential life skill.

Signed,

An English Major.

[Pickles]

2 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I'm just here to say that algebra is overrated and not an essential life skill.

Signed,

An English Major.

 I understand what you're saying but somebody is going to have to build the bridges and maintain the infastructure.  

But I am much more concerned with their mental and spiritual well-being.  Social media, instant and ubiquitous pornography, surrounded by cultural rot and decay, and now gambling being pushed into every corner of society......

I hate to break it to ya'll, but this don't end well.

Edited March 30, 2023 by Pickles