Breaking Down Yet Another Gambling Controversy
The Valenti Show
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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Mike and Rico react to the news that multiple MLB players will be punished for gambling-related violations, wondering if there's now a problem across all the major sports leagues.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, three o'clock. If you're looking for Tiger Baseball, we open the show with it. |
| 0:06.2 | Above 500, got a shot for a sweep tonight, and it was a question of positivity versus passion. |
| 0:13.8 | What more, you know, are you ready to buy in etc? |
| 0:15.9 | It's all there. |
| 0:17.3 | I don't know what to do because they're winning in unsustainable ways but they're winning |
| 0:23.4 | and all I care about is can I do radio in mid-July |
| 0:27.1 | where we can have legitimate conversations about buying |
| 0:30.6 | going for the wild card and having a pen and chase. That's all I care about. |
| 0:34.0 | Do not care about anything else. So, see what they do tonight, see if my Aida can not throw batting practice out there. |
| 0:42.0 | Very disappointed in him. |
| 0:44.7 | The guy over his career I've liked, he has been dreadful. |
| 0:48.0 | I want to bring up something else. |
| 0:51.4 | And I don't know if this goes anywhere because I'm not sure fans even read these stories. |
| 1:00.8 | But it's about sports and gambling and not people not the the obscene revenues that the |
| 1:08.8 | sports book are making and make no mistake. I mean I have a contract with a sports book book I have never said it's a great idea |
| 1:14.5 | it's an entertainment product and if you've got a little extra cheddar and that's your fun and you |
| 1:18.7 | and you're responsible yeah if you're a ding-dong and you end up under an overpass, that's your problem. |
| 1:23.7 | The point I'm making is, it's invaded sports. |
| 1:28.7 | Now, work with me. |
| 1:31.1 | I may bomb setting this up. You may please listen. It's free so |
| 1:36.3 | Here's your runway go ahead. All right. It's like the Tigers. No, it's just I feel like |
| 1:47.9 | You're seeing more players getting busted and now you have the baseball story about the Padres three other players around the league, betting on baseball, betting on their own team. |
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