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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
I think most people can tell the difference between taking advertising from legal gambling and associating with an illegal bookie. I think most players know they can't associate with illegal gambling because it is drilled into their skull on a regular basis. You have to really want it to somehow confuse or equate the two.
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Then baseball leadership really wanted to confuse the two up until two years ago. Up until two years ago, MLB prevented team personnel from being involved with gambling. In fact, baseball suspended Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle from the game in the 80s for being goodwill ambassadors for Atlantic City casinos with Bowie Kuhn saying at the time "a casino was “no place for a baseball hero and Hall of Famer.”
I am not giving anyone involved in baseball or any other sport a pass for engaging in illegal gambling, gambling on their sport or going against the gambling rules of their sport. However, there was a time when it was really black and white when it came to gambling. No one was allowed to have any association with gambling. Now we have shades of grey like we used to have in the college sports realm.
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