Outside of here, people are still hooked on their amazon, netflix, cable, sports…
They stream this shit, doesn't register in ratings. ONE of these addictions has to go down, and go down hard. Let it be baseball first, as it's the oldest, thus falling the hardest, and the Communists are obliterating it anyway. Put it out of its pathetic misery. NFL with highest ratings is already known for being a bunch of criminals, so who'd be shocked if that crap was (figuratively speaking→) blown up?
They used Pete Rose to cover for the Gambling Umpires -
Say it ain't so, Vincent
By MICHAEL O'KEEFFE DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER JUL 29, 2007
…at the height of the Pete Rose gambling investigation, Vincent let two umpires who had associated with gamblers and bookies off with barely a slap on the wrist - a decision he still believes was proper.
In 1989, at the height of the furor over Rose, Vincent quietly placed umpires Frank Pulli and Rich Garcia on probation for two years after they admitted placing bets with bookies on sporting events. Major League Baseball kept the investigation secret for years, and it didn't become public until the Daily News broke the story 13 years later, in March 2002.
In many ways, the umpire case seemed to reek with hypocrisy: Vincent quietly gave the umpires a pass even as he was banishing one of the best players in baseball history.
"We know they told the truth because we knew the story before we asked the questions. We did a very thorough investigation," Dowd says. "The punishment fit the crime."
What Dowd didn't say is that Pulli reportedly made bets from locker rooms and paid off in team parking lots after games. The Boston Herald reported that the probe revealed that Pulli bet with a New Jersey bookie who was an associate of the Genovese crime family.
Vincent and Dowd's lenience toward the umpires is all the more remarkable since both men have old-school opinions about gambling in an age where casinos have sprouted up in practically every state and sports books are just a computer-mouse click away.
Dowd, who also investigated illegal betting by Don Zimmer and Lenny Dykstra, says gambling is a cancer: Players, coaches and umpires, even with today's inflated salaries, can find themselves in debt to tough guys who wouldn't think twice about firebombing their homes if they miss a payment. The pressure to share locker room information - who's hurt? who's feuding? who's going to be traded? - can be overwhelming when you're in hock to guys who play rough.
Pulli and Garcia continued on with their careers. Pulli was an umpire supervisor before he retired. Garcia now serves in that position.
"They were high-quality people and they were dedicated to baseball," Vincent says. "Publicizing the disciplinary actions taken against them would have served no purpose." https://archive.is/4K9b7
https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ain-vincent-article-1.264666
UMPIRES were being investigated by Bart Giamatti from the get-go.
Capone went down for Tax Evasion. He'd qualify for head of the Boy Scouts, the A.G., and Treasurer for The Vatican today.