So we meet again, at the intersection of No Foresight and Unintended Consequences.
When our top courts and state legislatures declared sports gambling legal, they fired a starter’s pistol for a gold rush of betting house operators to seize the territories, sports leagues, individual pro teams and sports networks all eager for their cut of what most of them once decried and defied as immoral, sports-diminishing, ill-spent and ill-gained money.
Hallelujah redacted!
Almost immediately, MLB, with its decree that starting lineups must be filed with the league no later than 15 minutes before game time, signaled that it’s now accountable to partnered gambling operations.