Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew

Brandt. That music underscoring is from the one and only Sam Brandt. And we're presented as always

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We're going to talk about gambling.

We're going to talk about the big story coming out of the NFL where suspension, not just for 2019, but 2020 as well.

Massive suspension of a player most of us have never heard of.

Josh Shaw on injured reserve with the Arizona Cardinals.

For betting on football and betting on his own team, and as we'll hear, betting against his own team.

We're in a new world of sports betting, as I've talked about many times, where legalization is happening, state by state, around the country.

But NFL players can't bet.

So the person that's been doing a lot of reporting on this and is the voice that I go

to, as I have before on this podcast is david purdom

of espn he's their gambling guru he's their gambling writer he's their gambling on-air

personality has been covering this way before gambling was a thing as they say

david is my guest on the business of sports podcast this week first another rant of week, and I'll go to baseball because what's happening there

is very interesting to me.

They're talking about contraction, and not contraction of any major league team, but contraction

of multiple.

I'm hearing 40, count them 40 minor league teams.

And I think what Major League Baseball is saying is these 40 teams are so

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