00:00Now let's get to a story that we covered last week on the surface a little bit with Sam McQuillan,
00:05which is this idea that Louisiana wants to protect their athletes more and stop or at least at least
00:11deter the harassment of athletes, Pat. But as I asked Sam, and I will ask you the same,
00:17is this something that's genuinely enforceable? It seems really hard to, you know, go to social
00:24media accounts and try and find who these people really are. And then, you know, fans yelling,
00:28you know, you lost my parlay, things like that. How do they enforce this sort of thing?
00:33Yeah. So I think that's something that the state regulators will have to work with both sports
00:39books and the athletes and teams themselves and hearing from them what might, you know, be the
00:46issues. And, you know, this is, this was a big issue, I think a couple of years ago when, you
00:51know,
00:52the Dayton head basketball coach came out and said, hey, our players are getting bombarded with
00:58threats and all of this. The NCAA, you know, has come out and strong push for banning collegiate
01:06prop bets, which they, you know, believe will help protect player safety. Because if you can't,
01:10you know, guess that, you know, Jeremy Fears Jr. for my Spartan fans out there, you know,
01:17I'm a Spartan, you know, doesn't make these many assists, then you're not going to send him a dirty,
01:22you know, a mean text or DM. So yeah, it is questionable on how you can enforce it. But yeah,
01:29this passed unanimously in the Louisiana legislature. And, you know, so obviously,
01:34they believe that there is some way to enforce it. And we'll see, I'm sure they'll do a good job
01:38of
01:38letting us know how many people they do end up punishing, or things like that. Similarly, and I
01:43think this might kind of be a better way of understanding how they might enforce it is there's a
01:49bill-in process in New York that is similar. And it would prohibit bettors from having sports betting
01:56accounts from complaints that are criminally connected to threats to athletes, refs, coaches,
02:03the like. So I think that if it's elevated to the fact to the law enforcement, that's when you can
02:09say,
02:10okay, we can enforce this. And you're not going to have a sports betting account. You're going to get
02:14fined probably maybe if it's severe enough, maybe some jail time, who's to say. So that's a huge
02:20factor there in Louisiana and New York potentially. And it does know, and you know, now that you've
02:26asked this, maybe I'll do this, do a little digging for you. And we can talk about it next week
02:30is,
02:30you know, Ohio banned, harassing, or has banned sports betting accounts for people who have been
02:39found to be guilty of this. And so has West Virginia. So I'll do some looking into that and see
02:42how
02:43many people have enforced and see how we can do that. And I'll do that just for you, Craig.
02:48But in Louisiana, I should also note, last year, they unanimously banned sweepstakes casinos.
02:57The governor came back and vetoed that bill and said that the regulator has enforceable rights to
03:03that. And then they sent 40 season desist letters. This year, the legislature returned and still weren't
03:08happy with the sweepstakes kind of laws on the books. So they went ahead and added it to the
03:12racketeering charges in Louisiana and the governor signed that as well. So some big action in
03:18Louisiana in terms of governor signatures for those bills.
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