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amcoolio wrote:I’m sorry but it’s hard to take the FBI seriously. They aren’t the institution they once were. They frankly look like a joke in that video
fatlever wrote:This whole thing today was just a disrespectful clown show of a media stunt. Clearly they timed this arrest to happen during opening week when all the eyeballs are on the NBA. Why on Earth is the director of the FBI giving a press conference on arresting Sports gamblers? Just using high profile names to get attention Or to distract from the usual chaos. And then they did terry dirty by putting him in shackles and giving him a 10 million bond like he was some kind of pedophile. Oh never mind...
Balllin wrote:Zion Williamson is 6-5, with a 6-10 wingspan. I see him as a slightly better Kenneth Faried.
Liver_Pooty wrote:fatlever wrote:This whole thing today was just a disrespectful clown show of a media stunt. Clearly they timed this arrest to happen during opening week when all the eyeballs are on the NBA. Why on Earth is the director of the FBI giving a press conference on arresting Sports gamblers? Just using high profile names to get attention Or to distract from the usual chaos. And then they did terry dirty by putting him in shackles and giving him a 10 million bond like he was some kind of pedophile. Oh never mind...
Stephen A had an interesting take on first take.
fatlever wrote:Liver_Pooty wrote:fatlever wrote:This whole thing today was just a disrespectful clown show of a media stunt. Clearly they timed this arrest to happen during opening week when all the eyeballs are on the NBA. Why on Earth is the director of the FBI giving a press conference on arresting Sports gamblers? Just using high profile names to get attention Or to distract from the usual chaos. And then they did terry dirty by putting him in shackles and giving him a 10 million bond like he was some kind of pedophile. Oh never mind...
Stephen A had an interesting take on first take.
What did he say? I heard some mentions to it on WFNZ today when I was driving around. They just mentioned politics in his effort to test the waters of his own entrance into politics.
Balllin wrote:Zion Williamson is 6-5, with a 6-10 wingspan. I see him as a slightly better Kenneth Faried.
Balllin wrote:Zion Williamson is 6-5, with a 6-10 wingspan. I see him as a slightly better Kenneth Faried.
fatlever wrote:Liver_Pooty wrote:fatlever wrote:This whole thing today was just a disrespectful clown show of a media stunt. Clearly they timed this arrest to happen during opening week when all the eyeballs are on the NBA. Why on Earth is the director of the FBI giving a press conference on arresting Sports gamblers? Just using high profile names to get attention Or to distract from the usual chaos. And then they did terry dirty by putting him in shackles and giving him a 10 million bond like he was some kind of pedophile. Oh never mind...
Stephen A had an interesting take on first take.
What did he say? I heard some mentions to it on WFNZ today when I was driving around. They just mentioned politics in his effort to test the waters of his own entrance into politics.
Braggins wrote:I don't know that going back to it being straight up illegal is the answer, but at the very least they need to extremely heavily regulate the sports betting industry. Off the top of my head, the betting companies and industry in general should be banned from doing most forms of advertisement. They need to be banned from doing any kinds of endorsement deals or partnerships with sports leagues. Sports media coverage shouldn't be allowed to promote it or talk about betting lines and all that stuff.
I never thought about it before it happened because gambling has always been irrelevant to me, but I don't think I could have predicted how much of a disaster legalizing sports gambling in this way was going to be.
Hornet Mania wrote:Braggins wrote:I don't know that going back to it being straight up illegal is the answer, but at the very least they need to extremely heavily regulate the sports betting industry. Off the top of my head, the betting companies and industry in general should be banned from doing most forms of advertisement. They need to be banned from doing any kinds of endorsement deals or partnerships with sports leagues. Sports media coverage shouldn't be allowed to promote it or talk about betting lines and all that stuff.
I never thought about it before it happened because gambling has always been irrelevant to me, but I don't think I could have predicted how much of a disaster legalizing sports gambling in this way was going to be.
The problem is nonstop ads and promotion . Free $200 for your first $5 bet, etc.
If gambling had been legalized and there were zero ads except perhaps 'sports gambling destroys lives' it would have mitigated a massive amount of the damage. We already know this with tobacco and weed, it's already enshrined in the law for those vices. Gambling should be treated the same. You can do it in sanctioned locations for which there is no advertising whatsoever. The people that want to do it know where it is, they always have.
The normies are getting roped in by the millions thanks to these apps and ads and their poor grasp of math and the sportsbooks are being fed legions of easy marks.
Kings jazzyosemiteben wrote:What game should I watch tonight? Thinking front runners are Pistons - Rockets and Spurs - Pelicans.
Gotta go spurs. Wemby, castle, harper. Add in some slim zion for good measure.yosemiteben wrote:What game should I watch tonight? Thinking front runners are Pistons - Rockets and Spurs - Pelicans.
fatlever wrote:Kings jazzyosemiteben wrote:What game should I watch tonight? Thinking front runners are Pistons - Rockets and Spurs - Pelicans.
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