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Originally Posted by OneRib
You answered the question in your own post. If he bets on his team, then the way he plays or manages is artificial. Does he change the staring rotation on an off day? Bring in the closer early? Leave a star pitcher out longer. Cancel an off day for a hot hitter? All kinds of unnatural moves could occur because he bet on the game.
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Agree completely. If they have 4 games this week, the one he bet on may be far more important than the rest.
I live in Cincinnati and feel like he understood the rules and broke them, then denied it until it made financial sense to come clean, now is sorry he did all of it and wants us to go along with it. If he had made one bet, was caught, confessed immediately, said he was sorry, etc. I would feel sorry for him. Instead the whole thing (betting, denial, etc) went on for year.
I could see putting his accomplishments in the HOF, what he did as a player was great and I don't believe he did anything against the rules to accomplish them, unlike the PED users.