Danny Funt
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602 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 5 Feb
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so that those prop bets on his points and rebounds and assists and things like that would go under.
That was something that people were betting hundreds of thousands of dollars to win on.
And I hear bookmakers so upset about that who've been at this for a long time because they would never have dreamed of letting you stand to win hundreds of thousands of bucks on –
A guy like John T. Porter, they knew that was ripe for fixing.
It was so corruptible.
And yet because the online business is, you know, their biggest moneymaker is these parlays, they've rushed into offering as many ways of building parlays as possible and accepted that a price you might pay for that is the corruption of sports.
Yeah, I'd love to get into that.
But the first name that popped in my head was Bob Costas, who spoke with me.
And his father had a gambling problem, he told me.
And so when he was calling baseball games and they wanted him to tout parlays or read sportsbook ads, he said, I just don't feel comfortable doing that.
And they gave him a pass.
The takeaway, I think, is you need to be a 30-time Emmy winner, a legend of broadcasting, to be able to opt out of that.
It's just become a fact of life.
for so many journalists.
But at the same time, I don't wanna let people like Bill Simmons off the hook because they've made millions and millions of dollars by hawking sports books, normalizing the idea that firing all these parlays and low odds prop bets is just the way to be a sports fan nowadays.
The influence of that on making this the default way of engaging with sports can't be understated.
A consequence of it besides just giving the impression that this is a harmless thing
no big deal way of being a fan now, is it also handcuffs a lot of sports outlets that could be reporting on the dangers of betting, rising addiction, the risks of corruption we were just talking about.
All of that, you'll be watching sports networks and feel like there's a conspicuous silence about that stuff.
Even with Bill Simmons, as I wrote about in the book, this guy who is
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