Grant's Rant: 6-5-24 Gambling Stupidity

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Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Two professional athletes have received lifetime bans for gambling on their sport and own teams. My question is why? Tucupita Marcano of the Padres received a lifetime ban after an investigation revealed that Marcano bet on games while a member of the Pirates. This past winter, Jontay Porter of the Raptors was given a lifetime ban for betting on NBA games, including those he played in. Again, Why? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's time for France.
0:03.0	And this rant is brought to you by New Works Plumbing of Sacramento.
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0:14.8	If you are a professional athlete,
0:17.0	and we'll keep it just to professional athletes right now.
0:20.5	And you bet on the sport And you will be in, especially your team, you are an idiot.
0:28.6	And you will eventually get caught.
0:30.6	Of course, you know by now, the latest is Tukapita Marcano, San Diego Padres infielder.
0:38.0	He has received a lifetime band because he bet on Major League Baseball games.
0:44.5	He was a member of the Pirates and he was found to have bet on 25 Pirates games
0:49.5	while he was on their injured list,
0:51.5	but get a load of this.
0:53.2	He didn't appear in any of them,
0:55.1	nor did he win any of the wagers.
0:57.8	How about that?
0:59.4	According to the investigation, he placed
1:03.7	three hundred and eighty seven bets.
1:07.0	How about that?
1:08.8	He wager a hundred and fifty thousand dollars total
1:11.8	with over eighty87,000 on Major League Baseball related bets, most of them reportedly
1:18.9	parlays, and he won only 4.3% of them.
1:25.0	Idiot.
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