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Comment by spike021 | Hacker News Reader

It's become very toxic in baseball. just google "baseball player", "threats", and "gambling" and you'll see what I mean.

edit for examples:

* https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/red-sox-pitcher-confront...

* https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/article/mlb-threat...

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It's awful when watching sports. I don't think I can get five minutes in an NFL game without seeing something about sports betting. It's in the commercials, sponsored segments, graphic placements, apps, etc. It's fucking gross.

NCAA women's sports too.

These young women don't have the money to hire security and are especially vulnerable as a result

I mean if we're going cut back on the worst offenses of sports gambling it seems like "you can only gamble on professional sports" could be a potential easy win.

The next step would probably be eliminating betting on individual players, you can still bet on weird stuff but it would have to be $team does $thing. It wouldn't work for solo sports but given the most popular sports are all team sports it would cover a lot.

This kind of stuff is repulsive to me. I'm sure it's similar elsewhere too, but my local radio stations in the Midwest have been running ads about not harassing athletes over sports betting. The whole thing is comical to me, since they are collecting massive amounts of tax revenue from the whole thing to begin with and paying for the ads with it.

They are great things coming from it, like school funding, but the whole concept doesn't really sit well with me.

https://casinocontrol.ohio.gov/home/news-and-events/all-news...

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