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  • Good News? Bad News?

    The bad news is Prince Andrew’s troubles are far from over.  And this time he will not only get kicked out of the Royal family for good but he might wind up in jail!  So says historian Andrew Lownie.  Underaged girls again!  No, this time it’s financial improprieties.  We know, we know what you’re thinking a royal in prison!  Think of the embarrassment to the royal family!  Oh the horror!  Has a Royal ever been in prison before?  Well yeah, so maybe it’s not so bad.  Edward II comes to mind and Richard II as well.  So it’s not unprecedented.  It wouldn’t be just him, in the history books of England and its Royals.  But one additional note for ex-Prince Andrew, those guys Edward II and Richard II, they died in prison.

    And Cleveland Guardian pitcher Emmanuel Clase has been indicted on whole host of charges relating to gambling.  Every degenerate gambler and anyone who knows a degenerate gambler, knows they will bet on anything and everything.  And with the new sports betting around everywhere you turn, you can bet on everything and anything.  Including whether the pitcher will throw a strike or a ball on the next pitch.  Clase and his buddies decided he’d tell them what he was going to throw every now and then.  Better than good news (no pun intended)  this was great news for them.  How could they lose?  And these friends of Emmanuel Clase cashed in big time.  But then, well, the bad news.  Clase tipped them off with the usual where and when he was going to throw a ball.  But, then, the batter who wasn’t in on it, swung and missed.  Even though the ball wasn’t even near the strike zone.  But once the batter swung, it was a strike in the score book, no matter how much the ball missed the plate by.  Worse news is, someone talked.  So there’s a lot of indictments now.  And Emmanuel Clase isn’t throwing any pitches, anymore.  Boo hoo.

    And this is a biggie!  The government is open again!  We leave it to you as to whether that is good news or bad news

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  • Sports and Gambling

    While this latest NBA betting scandal explodes, try to understand that sports and gambling go hand in hand.  This is not to say situations like the current one with the NBA happen a lot and we’re not trying to spread conspiracy theories.  And, this is not just about bettors who may or may not know anything about the games they bet on.  This is just a little insight.

    If you were or are an athlete of any kind, it was probably was the amateur kind.  That means you weren’t doing it for a living.  But it doesn’t mean, there wasn’t any gambling going on.  Some leagues have an entry fee and the winning team or top teams get to divey up some of that money.  But even if it was a league just for fun or you’re just playing with friends in a pick up game, it doesn’t mean you weren’t betting on anything.  At the very least, you were betting on your skills.  Every ballplayer in every game is doing that.  Everyone wants to win and play well doing it.  It’s why we all play.  But what will happen and how you will perform in any game, is the great unknown.

    You could be hitting a line drive on every batting practice pitch and then pop up or strike out in every at bat in the actual game.  Or just the opposite.  You could step up to the plate in the game and just hit line drive after line drive.  Or you could walk out onto the basketball court and sink every practice shot and then proceed to shoot 2 for 10 in the game.  Or just the keep hitting your shots in the game as you did in practice.  You just never know.  Of course you work on your skills.  That’s what practice is for.  And, if you’re playing well, you have a lot of confidence but then, you just never know.  Everyone has a bad game.  We don’t care who you are.  So every game is… well, a gamble.  So all athletes every where, are gamblers.

    When we were young we would bet on ourselves.  We’d bet the other team we could beat them and put up a $100 to prove it.  That was a lot of money back then.  And the money heightened the competition for us. Money heightens the competition for everyone, everywhere.  That’s why they tell you what the winning share in every sport is.  The Superbowl winner gets…  World Series winner gets…  The Masters Champion gets…

    It was not uncommon in my old neighborhood for players to leave the field and wind up working for bookies.  Or in one case, becoming a bookie.  And, of course becoming bettors too, a whole lot of bettors.  There are a whole lot of neighborhoods and a whole lot of bettors out there.

    The athlete gets that big adrenaline rush from making a great play or winning the big game.  The bettor gets that too, when they put their money down.  No one should be too surprised that the bettor and the athlete, might be the same guy.

    So as we said in the beginning, this is not to say that professional sports is riddled with gambling or create conspiracy theories.  Just understand that gambling and sports go hand in hand.  It’s the just the nature of the beast.

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