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The Greg Hill Show

Wiggy says if he was playing today, he wouldn't touch gambling

The Greg Hill Show

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Wiggy says if he was playing today, he wouldn't touch gambling

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0:00.0

There are now two major league baseball players who have been suspended pending a gambling

0:07.0

investigation. We were talking about it earlier and about whether or not that is potentially

0:14.2

more of a widespread problem. And not only in major league baseball, I in in all of sports so um i i i don't know

0:25.5

i don't know what you do about it there are you have involved all of the uh sports wagering

0:34.4

platforms in your sport as sponsors.

0:38.4

So I don't know.

0:41.2

I don't know how you handle that.

0:48.2

I guess if you see clear cut evidence that a guy is doing something that is affecting the outcome of a game for his own benefit, then you have to do something there.

0:53.5

What's going to have to happen is that people are going to have to get severe punishments, and that's going to be what stops others from doing it, because I'm sure that there is people on certain teams that say, like, oh, I do it. It's so easy to get away with. All you need is one on a team. and then other guys like oh well if he's doing it like i'm going to do it and so on and so forth i do though

0:54.7

wiggie said this at the beginning get away with. All you need is one on a team. And then other guys like, oh, well, if he's doing it,

1:10.9

like, I'm going to do it and so on and so forth. I do, though, Wiggy said this at the beginning, because at first I was saying, I bet over 50% of players do this. Wiggy had a good point where if you can bet on other sports and you have the itch, do that. It takes somebody who has like a serious addiction to then risk their entire career.

1:09.5

Well, not a serious addiction.

1:10.2

What if you lose money betting on other sports? you have the itch do that it takes somebody who has like a serious addiction to then risk their

1:28.5

entire career what if you lose money betting on other sports and you know you can win it bet

1:32.9

betting on win it back betting on your own well then that means you you have a problem because no it

1:38.2

just means you lost money no no no there's a difference between come on Curtis I gamble there's a

1:42.8

difference between losing money and now you're in a hole where you go,

1:47.3

I've got to bet on myself to get this money back.

1:49.5

Those are two different things.

1:50.3

But you said what about the players need to have severe penalties?

1:54.1

This is one of the unintended consequences of totally and completely ignoring the Shohei thing,

2:00.2

where if they're not going to punish the best player in the history of the sport potentially,

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