2024 MLB Thread

[oblong]

I'm not a gambler but why would you share accounts?  Is there an incentive on volume?

[Tenacious D]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

I'm not a gambler but why would you share accounts?  Is there an incentive on volume?

CYA

[Hongbit]

Just speculating but I think this could be a case of him betting on football through another account while fully knowing it was strictly forbidden.   

The only other thing I could think of is that he had a son in college under 21 and he set the account up for to bet on.  

[chasfh]

Baseball had no incentive to protect Hoberg's job, since he's not a marketable player*, although they do have an incentive to cover his betting on baseball itself, since all revealing that would accomplish is to raise questions about other umpires, then players, then baseball's association with gambling itself.

I have no idea whether Hoberg actually did gamble on baseball—all I am opining on here is what the incentives for Baseball are.

 

* - It could also be argued that Hoberg, as a relatively unknown person in the game, makes a useful object lesson for others in the game when it comes to their own gambling on baseball, and the lesson is, "cover your tracks better than this guy did."

 

[Hongbit]

I brought the topic up last summer but it would be so easy for an MLB umpire to fix results for the gambling community.   Much easier than maybe any other sport.  

The ability now to bet on props like runs scored or not in the first inning, pitcher strikeouts or total batters faced could be easily manipulated solely by the home plate umpire.  The more that MLB and the umpires union continue to ignore poorly called games without any questions or potential punishment for the umpire makes it even easier to do without getting caught.     

MLB believes that umps work by a code to honor and protect the sanctity of the game.  I am sure that almost all of them do but it just takes one to see it as a job they do to make money and pay the bills.  

Another reason they need roboumps.  

Edited 10 hours ago by Hongbit

[Tigermojo]

Grichuk going back to AZ.

[gehringer_2]

Just now, Tigermojo said:

Grichuk going back to AZ.

good