My, how times have changed. Used to be, get involved in something like this, you get banned, not just susupended.
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JayJ79 wrote:people got banned for betting on poker?
I can see the ban for betting on MLB baseball games, but I don't understand why betting on a poker game should result in a ban.
MLB issued lifetime bans to Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for merely associating with gamblers. (They had accepted jobs as casino greeters.) The bans were rescinded five years later. If MLB will ban players for something as innocuous as this, it's not too much of a stretch to see them banning A-Rod for actually gambling, as has already happened with several players going all the way back to the 1800s, including the immortal Pete Rose.
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
JayJ79 wrote:people got banned for betting on poker?
I can see the ban for betting on MLB baseball games, but I don't understand why betting on a poker game should result in a ban.
MLB issued lifetime bans to Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for merely associating with gamblers. (They had accepted jobs as casino greeters.) The bans were rescinded five years later. If MLB will ban players for something as innocuous as this, it's not too much of a stretch to see them banning A-Rod for actually gambling, as has already happened with several players going all the way back to the 1800s, including the immortal Pete Rose.
Pete was banned for gambling on BASEBALL. Big difference.
SuperHornet wrote:
MLB issued lifetime bans to Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for merely associating with gamblers. (They had accepted jobs as casino greeters.) The bans were rescinded five years later. If MLB will ban players for something as innocuous as this, it's not too much of a stretch to see them banning A-Rod for actually gambling, as has already happened with several players going all the way back to the 1800s, including the immortal Pete Rose.
Pete was banned for gambling on BASEBALL. Big difference.
Exactly...
Regarding A-Rod and the current situation...he was warned by MLB for past involvement in similar gambling...he was told to stay away from it...
If he gets suspended, its going to be more for ignoring the Commish than for atual gambling...IMHO...
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SuperHornet wrote:
MLB issued lifetime bans to Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for merely associating with gamblers. (They had accepted jobs as casino greeters.) The bans were rescinded five years later. If MLB will ban players for something as innocuous as this, it's not too much of a stretch to see them banning A-Rod for actually gambling, as has already happened with several players going all the way back to the 1800s, including the immortal Pete Rose.
Pete was banned for gambling on BASEBALL. Big difference.
His ban is listed as gambling, PERIOD. Sure, there's that extra factor. But as noted, others have been banned for gambling, which could include almost anything. And if the organization will ban Mantle and Mays for merely standing at the door saying hi to people (the "associating with gamblers" bit), how can they NOT ban A-Rod without losing all cred?
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
Pete was banned for gambling on BASEBALL. Big difference.
His ban is listed as gambling, PERIOD. Sure, there's that extra factor. But as noted, others have been banned for gambling, which could include almost anything. And if the organization will ban Mantle and Mays for merely standing at the door saying hi to people (the "associating with gamblers" bit), how can they NOT ban A-Rod without losing all cred?
SuperHornet wrote:
His ban is listed as gambling, PERIOD. Sure, there's that extra factor. But as noted, others have been banned for gambling, which could include almost anything. And if the organization will ban Mantle and Mays for merely standing at the door saying hi to people (the "associating with gamblers" bit), how can they NOT ban A-Rod without losing all cred?
MLB has cred?
news to me.
Good point. The commish is an idiot and has been a walking conflict of interest from the day he took the bloody job.
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
Rose was banned for the basrball aspect of gambling, not gambling itself. If the MLB banned every player that gambled on an occasional poker game there'd be no one left to play the game
