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Post by vermontsox1 on Jun 4, 2024 9:08:00 GMT -5
Jay Groome suspended for a year for violations of MLB's sports betting policy.
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 4, 2024 9:11:59 GMT -5
I can't believe Groome was still on their 40 man.
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 4, 2024 10:00:27 GMT -5
Gotta say, does not strike me as just to suspend the guy for a year because of a handful of $15 bets
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Post by bcsox on Jun 4, 2024 10:04:16 GMT -5
Wasn’t it Groome’s father who has a bad history with this, or was it some other vice?
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 4, 2024 10:17:55 GMT -5
Wasn’t it Groome’s father who has a bad history with this, or was it some other vice? The cops caught him with drugs and guns and said he was a drug dealer. Not sure what ended up happening to the case. |
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Post by cdj on Jun 4, 2024 10:34:45 GMT -5
Wasn’t it Groome’s father who has a bad history with this, or was it some other vice? The cops caught him with drugs and guns and said he was a drug dealer. Not sure what ended up happening to the case. Sentenced to 35 months in prison |
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Post by orion09 on Jun 4, 2024 11:02:47 GMT -5
Have to think that may more or less close the door on his baseball career. He’s been at AAA and is still only 25, but 8.55 ERA and 7.5 BB/9 in 134.2 IP last year, and only 5 IP (??) so far this year. Another year missed…
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Post by incandenza on Jun 4, 2024 12:19:50 GMT -5
This suspension brought to you by DraftKings TM. Visit mlb.com/draftkings to bet on who will be the next MLB star to get suspended for betting on baseball! |
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Post by 61bosox on Jun 4, 2024 12:30:08 GMT -5
Hypocrites! Do as I say, not as I do. The suspensions are over the top.
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Post by greenmonster on Jun 4, 2024 12:57:02 GMT -5
This suspension brought to you by DraftKings TM. Visit mlb.com/draftkings to bet on who will be the next MLB star to get suspended for betting on baseball! Can I bet that it won't be Ohtani? |
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Post by soxfaninnj on Jun 4, 2024 13:07:56 GMT -5
This suspension brought to you by DraftKings TM. Visit mlb.com/draftkings to bet on who will be the next MLB star to get suspended for betting on baseball! Can I bet that it won't be Ohtani? When it comes to lesser no name players mlb knows the serial number of the bills that they bet with, when it comes to Othani they don’t know even know what day of the week it is. |
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Post by seamus on Jun 4, 2024 13:37:59 GMT -5
I have no problem with draconian punishments for players gambling in the abstract because the competitive integrity of the game has to be held sacrosanct, but what on earth do leagues expect hyper-competitive young people (some of whom have disposable money for the first time) to do when all sports coverage is inundated with betting lines, gambling sponsorships, prop bets, and more?
It's interesting to compare to the steroids/PED era. With PEDs, MLB actually handled things somewhat reasonably by not retroactively punishing players for conduct that the league absolutely endorsed, while the media engaged in largely hypocritical histrionics once the public decided Barry Bonds had taken the fun out of juicing. With this gambling stuff, MLB (and the NBA, NFL, NCAA, etc.) punishes the players, it largely gets downplayed or brushed aside by the media, and the leagues and the networks/websites keep cashing the sportsbooks' checks.
EDIT: In Groome's case specifically, that luck is so absurdly bad that I almost think MLB should have said, "Look, you've been punished enough."
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Post by scottysmalls on Jun 4, 2024 13:40:10 GMT -5
Is it really that hard not to bet on baseball when you're playing baseball? Just don't bet on baseball. No sympathy for that regardless of league sponsors. It's just dumb.
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Post by incandenza on Jun 4, 2024 14:06:09 GMT -5
I have no problem with draconian punishments for players gambling in the abstract because the competitive integrity of the game has to be held sacrosanct, but what on earth do leagues expect hyper-competitive young people (some of whom have disposable money for the first time) to do when all sports coverage is inundated with betting lines, gambling sponsorships, prop bets, and more?It's interesting to compare to the steroids/PED era. With PEDs, MLB actually handled things somewhat reasonably by not retroactively punishing players for conduct that the league absolutely endorsed, while the media engaged in largely hypocritical histrionics once the public decided Barry Bonds had taken the fun out of juicing. With this gambling stuff, MLB (and the NBA, NFL, NCAA, etc.) punishes the players, it largely gets downplayed or brushed aside by the media, and the leagues and the networks/websites keep cashing the sportsbooks' checks. EDIT: In Groome's case specifically, that luck is so absurdly bad that I almost think MLB should have said, "Look, you've been punished enough." Not only this, but apparently it's totally acceptable and common for players to bet on sports other than baseball. Is it possible that Groome made a few $15 bets, not because he was so irrationally self-destructive that he'd risk his career for it, but because he just wasn't aware of this subtlety, or took it to be one of those unenforced rules that no one really cared about? |
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Post by GyIantosca on Jun 5, 2024 12:15:25 GMT -5
I can't believe Groome was still on their 40 man. My thoughts exactly |
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Post by iamnotluistiant on Jun 5, 2024 12:58:11 GMT -5
Hope that Groome the person is doing okay and making a transition/plans for life post being a hyped baseball prospect--sounds like he's had a lot to deal with growing up and through his career.
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