Let
me get this straight: Shoeless Joe
Jackson and Pete Rose can’t get into the Hall of Fame because they bet on
baseball, but the Commissioner has no problem with all those WINBIGBUCKS!!!-commercials
running between innings of playoff games.
According
to an editorial in yesterday’s Tribune, Internet fantasy sports (betting) is
generating tons of revenue along with suspicions of insider cheating. Worse yet, one site has Fox TV and NHL
investors while another has backing from NBC and the NBA. There’s no better way to insure a betting
scandal among players than for a league to invest in a glorified Internet
bookie.
Right
now, MLB merely looks hypocritical, but that could change, if not Shoeless
Joe’s chances of making it into Cooperstown.
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