Danny Funt
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602 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 5 Feb
Danny Funt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But there's so much to learn from that.
And as you alluded to, every decade since then, there's been a gambling scandal.
And you might say...
Athletes make too much money nowadays.
They would never do something so foolish.
Yeah, which once again was exactly what Bud Selig of Major League Baseball and David Stern and Paul Tagliabue and all these commissioners predicted was you would have actual instances of corruption and a general degradation of trust in the integrity of what we're watching.
And immediately after Class A and Chauncey Billups and others were arrested, a poll came out that showed that 65% of Americans think corruption
Some athletes are colluding with gamblers to affect the outcomes of games.
A key argument for legalization was, in fact, it'll strengthen the integrity of games because we'll be able to monitor all this betting activity.
I've spoken with the companies tasked with doing that monitoring, and they say, A, there's still a lot of betting going on under the table.
We can't monitor that.
Any savvy fixer is not going to go bet on FanDuel.
They'll go offshore or with a street bookie.
We'd have little chance of catching that.
So we haven't snuffed out that threat.
And beyond that, there's simply too much ground to cover when you carve up a game and do thousands of betting opportunities.
Like you were saying, a single pitch is something you can risk a lot of money on.
These companies can't possibly investigate every suspicious bet tied to a pitch in a baseball game.
Well, let's not accuse Adam Sandler's character of beating the house.
He's a mess, actually.
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