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Hypocritical MLB replaces steroids with gambling in money grab

You mean you’re watching a baseball game just to watch it? You don’t have any action in it or on it? You don’t have money bet on it? And you call yourself a fan?

What’s the matter with you? Everyone, by now, should be betting, every night and every day and in every way — and at MLB’s insistence!

If MLB’s money-first steroid era has, in fact, ended, the next money-first, disgrace-to-come period has arrived in the form of leagues, their teams and their networks looking for their rake and take of online, per se sports gambling and bookmaking operations — replete with seedy come-ons targeting young men to win millions at no advertised risk.