00:00You know, certainly, Sam, this is a story that we talked about a little bit.
00:03Can't really expect anything like this to happen in sports, especially with the amount of money that these players are making to risk their lives, their families and their salaries and their freedom over a couple of pitches in Major League Baseball.
00:17Kind of a sad story for me to see this happen, but Major League Baseball definitely stepping in and right away doing something, Sam, that we've talked about many times.
00:25I mean, people talk about not eliminating bets or eliminating bets.
00:30Max bets on all this stuff across the board is the easiest way to let people still have fun, but take away a lot of the bad actors involved in the game.
00:41Yeah, definitely. I think, you know, it's really unfortunate that we keep seeing these scandals happen, but it's really significant with, you know, the latest one with these two pitchers.
00:50You had pretty much a direct response from Major League Baseball and sports books, not just saying we condemn this, we're working to, you know, crack down on this kind of stuff.
01:01And this is the legal industry working the way it's supposed to.
01:03They actually changed the rules here.
01:06Like you're saying, Craig, they now have a $200 limit on these micro bet pitch markets where you can bet on what pitch a pitcher is going to throw, whether it's going to be a ball, a strike, whether in these cases, too, you could bet on how fast the pitcher was throwing.
01:19Stuff that was very easily manipulatable by, you know, a single pitcher can just, you know, in these cases, threw one in the dirt to start an inning.
01:27And it was actually, you know, some of the sports betting technology and integrity stuff we have that tracked, hey, this was the craziest arm angle Class A has ever thrown this season.
01:36So it's one of the reasons we were able to find this stuff.
01:39But I think it is really significant that now you're having these new betting rules in place as a direct response from these, you know, these scandals, whatever you want to call them, coming to light.
01:49Now, we obviously don't know how many times something like this has happened previously before we had, you know, legalized sports betting widely adopted in the U.S.
01:58You know, offshore sports books haven't been able to offer as sophisticated markets as these.
02:02So, you know, maybe there's a little difference there.
02:04But I think now the question is, what else do we look at when you talk about the easiest way to curtail this kind of stuff?
02:10You know, last year when Jonte Porter, who was on a two-way contract in the NBA, when it was found that he was part of the scandal, Sportsbook stopped offering player props on two-way contract players.
02:22That was their response.
02:23And, you know, we have another response here, which goes obviously further with, you know, limiting the amount you can bet.
02:29So I'm really interested to see what happens next, whether it's another sport like the NBA, which is dealing with its own, you know, scandal, so to speak, and its own headlines with the FBI and what else comes.
02:39Because this is the same FBI team that also brought the NBA scandals to light.
02:44So I'd have to imagine they're working on some other stuff as well right now.
02:47And the timing is definitely not a coincidence, but definitely some very significant news in the gambling world that now you're not going to be able to bet more than $200 on a specific pitch market.
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