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well, you seem to be missing my arg, You do it because you enjoy it, there is a dopamine event associated with the behavior. No dopamine event, no behavior. I would say you have the cart and horse reversed. Behavior is driven by neurological response.

also a good point. When gambling is advertised the 'product' being sold is you losing your money directly to the house. At least A-B is giving you a beer.

LOL. It has nothing to do with prudery to me. Gambling comes down to how you are wired. I get no entertainment value out of gambling. Zip, Zero, NADA. period. For me it's in the same class as country music () . So for me it's just stupid from any angle and the house always gets its cut. If you are wired so there is a pleasure payoff associated to winning a money bet, then you are automatically closer to risk of addiction but hopefully not close enough to be pulled over the edge. It's true that's not really different from alcohol but I would say the difference is that you can enjoy the taste of drink without the benefit of the buzz. It exists in two different sensory realms. I'm not sure the bet's pleasure return can be divided from the same property that can be addictive. Maybe.....

It was kind of disgusting watching Edmonton go the cheap shot route in the 3rd. Everything wrong with hockey. Hope the Av's kick their butts the rest of the way.

you're a fish that's already hooked, you are just aren't landed yet. Best of luck.

Vito says addiction to gambling is only bad for your legs.

It's too bad Armando couldn't actually pitch. The most fitting ending would have been to go on to have a great career anyway. For the guy to have so quickly disappeared into obscurity in a way devalues the attention to perfect games as significant events. Of course Don Larson was no great shakes as a pitcher either , though he did stick around the majors for a long time...

Like Canada didn't learn Gretz was a sell out when he went to LA?

Beer used at any level below intoxication returns a positive value to the purchaser. Every gambler will eventually lose money,

I like this quote from the idiot Sheriff: You didn't get it under control, moron, the perp killed himself for you.

War in the IT age?

Oilers lose their cool, take three stupid penalties in the 3rd to take themselves out of any chance of coming back.

LOL - Keith still wasn't done. Singled in the 9th to make it 4/5, 2B BB 2HR for the night.

for starters the heinousness of a crime should not even be an admissible consideration in a trial of guilt because it is wholly immaterial to the question of guilt or innocence and only serves to inflame opinion against a defendant who should be presumed innocent. To me it's one of the great abuses of US criminal trial conduct in general.

add another walk and run scored each for Keith and Perez. WM not satisfied to let Toledo have all the fun, had now scored 16 runs in their game.

doesn't look like there are any flights out of Columbus to NYC this late.....

How excited can you be when it's only what was expected?

If you hurt yourself scoring on a home run after you have walked you should just go ahead and file your retirement papers....🤣

maybe they're working off left over MLB stock from last year....

LOL 22 hits and 25 runs and still only in the 6th at Columbus. Hens down 3 but closing!

Don't know what they are waiting for with Keith. Perez on base twice also - hit and walk. Dylan Smith may have had a long sit down before he went out in the 5th and gave up the last two. Not a good reason but it does happen.

at least a month away, wouldn't you say?

"GOP candidate calls for defunding the Police!" I want to see this ad.

Baez is striking out at the 2nd lowest rate of his career. His biggest problem isn't that he is swinging at more pitches than usual, it's that's he not hitting them hard.

excellent read: https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-folly-of-off-ramps?s=r