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Lucas Giolito: The Impact of Sports Betting on Athlete Safety
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it just keeps rearing its ugly head as Lucas Giolito says that he gets threats every night
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from betters after games. And it's been going on now with everyone in sports. These betters are,
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you know, going after players and blaming them for their lost bets and tickets and prop bets.
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And it's become a real problem in sports without a doubt with the players and with the teams.
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You know, it's funny, Scott, me and Paul Bovey talked about this about, I don't know,
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10 years ago or so, seven, 10 years ago, right before like legalized sports betting before,
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before it became this big boom and it's legal in 35 States or whatnot. And we discussed how,
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you know, like when an NBA team, Scott scores 110 points, you get a free taco,
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you get a free piece of pizza. If the Dodgers score five runs or whatnot.
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And remember once LeBron, the Cavaliers in Cleveland, it was a hundred points and the
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Cavaliers got to 99. LeBron didn't take a shot late in the game. And he took a, he took a pot
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shot at the fans after and said, do they really care about a freaking free burrito? And it was
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like, yeah, they do. And me and Paul said at the time, you imagine what it's going to be
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like in the modern era when people have money on the game, everybody has money on the game,
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instead of just like, you know, the hardcores that are used to like an act like adults when
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they lose a bet. When everybody, if these, if these jerks, Scott are panicking over losing a
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piece of pizza, what are they going to do when like to actually lose a bet? And now we're in a
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social media age, which I don't know why it's called social media because there's nothing social
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about it, but it's hit a new low, Scott. Like it's hit a new low. Like, you know, you and I are old
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enough. I remember logging onto the internet for the first time and not even knowing what to look
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for. I was like, Oh, what the hell is this? I was like, I typed in, you know, Buffalo bills. I was
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like, Whoa, look, there's pictures of the bills. So I've been around since day one of the internet
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people. And it's never been the cesspool of hate that it is now, right? There's always been fringe
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groups and this and that. And, and there's always been negativity. It's easy to talk and
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say things, you know, from the comfort of, of your house when you're anonymous, but the
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modern era now, Scott, like it's just right to kill yourself. And this has been going on
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forever though. So like Giolito's feeling it now, you know, as well as I do, what do you
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think kids on LSU go through? You think they hear nice things from people on campus when they
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lose, right? Like really nasty stuff, right? I had a friend that played for the Colorado
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Buffaloes years ago and he told me like, it was really bad. He said like, basically like
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the players hated the students, hated like the university. Everyone was racist. And like,
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it was just like over the top. This has been happening forever, but before it was mostly
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like black athletes that just dealt with this, right? Jackie Robinson was getting death threats
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in the forties. All right. Yeah. I mean like, you know, Mickey Mantle wasn't right. So like
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black athletes have been dealing with this sort of level of over the top hate and hyperbole
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over the years. Now it's caught up. I don't, you know, I don't blame it all on gambling. It's
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not just gambling. Um, it's just a, a level of discourse that society has right now. Yeah.
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Dude, you can tweet like, what a nice looking poodle or what a nice looking dog, Scott. And
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people will come at you and basically say, you know, they'll, they'll twist something into like
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everything. The sky's not blue anymore, right? We live in an alternate fact universe. So people
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can say whatever the hell they want and they feel it and get away with it. Look at the guy at the
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stadium, Scott, that told Marte, I'm glad your mother died. Really? At a baseball game? There's
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nothing wrong with saying to a visiting player, you know what? You suck. Your team sucks. Hey,
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your batting average sucks. Nothing wrong with old school sports chirping, but this level of over
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the topness and you see what the WNBA and the words that people use about them. And like I said,
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there's, I'm not into political correctness, but the lid was like ripped off and we've gone
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not from like to, Oh, you know, it's, it's freedom of speech. It's just more like freedom to hate right
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now. That's what it is. God, there's everybody's a hater. Everybody has a smart ass comment about
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everything now. And if you're a pro athlete, don't go online.
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