Danny Funt
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602 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 5 Feb
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There was an executive who told me, you know, if you think about it, he said, my job is basically to slowly bleed someone dry.
And the techniques that they do to do that, I don't think you have to be moralistic to find issue with that.
So his predecessor, David Stern, was among the commissioners who testified during the PASPA hearings and said this is an evil.
He went even further with that, speaking with Chris Christie, who was leading the charge.
The governor of New Jersey.
Yes.
Christie told me that David Stern, who's passed away, said that gambling treats athletes like chattel.
And he just got very animated describing how awful it was.
The year that Stern resigned and his deputy, Adam Silver, took over, he wrote an op-ed in The New York Times in 2014 saying, legalize and regulate gambling.
Publicly, that this was happening underground anyway.
He quoted a number that $400 billion were being wagered illegally every year, which I think is a what?
Yeah, my understanding is...
He was looking mainly at British soccer, at the English Premier League, and how incredibly it had grown in recent years, in large part because teams there embraced gambling and got all this interest from foreign gambling sponsors that put their brands on the fronts of jerseys and poured all this money into the EPL.
And Silver, who very clearly wants the NBA to grow internationally, said, what are we doing missing out on that opportunity?
Yeah, hard to understate what an existential threat the 1919 World Series was to the future of baseball and sports in general.
After eight players on the White Sox, including Shoeless Joe, obviously, and others, colluded with gamblers to throw the World Series.
It was eventually sniffed out by a reporter.
They were prosecuted.
They were exonerated, ultimately.
And there's a funny scene that someone else reported that they and the jurors celebrated at an Italian restaurant after that verdict was read.
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