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So who's gonna CQ all the sports betting influencers and local sports media. Or is this just the new normal, you don't get sports without some amount of flakking for the sports books. The only POV local sports media can have is through the book. No honest sports talk, just $.
I don't have enough $ to bet on sports so I have no skin here, except as being in adjacent industry. Was funny listening to local media + guests talking about locks & degenerate picks and all that. I laughed. But then. So wrong! Should color the way sports coverage is perceived.
Before legalized betting, I could just accept bad takes as bad takes. That's what made it fun. Zero stakes disagreement over, you know. Quality of the latest HS backup QB starting for da bearss. Whatever.
And now it's like. Are you telling me he's great so I bet the over this week? Because he's gonna cover? Are you telling me about this matchup favoring Team A because the money is already on Team B and the books need to balance their risk? It introduces doubt into the system
Anyway. I was told the lock was over 56 and you'd be lucky to get that. "And actually I locked in yesterday."
There's zero consequence for some fast talker in this space to talk absolute bullshit. Books could think the +/- is 52 and get a bunch of goons to push the over at 56.
There's zero consequence for some fast talker in this space to talk absolute bullshit. Books could think the +/- is 52 and get a bunch of goons to push the over at 56.
Now everyone who listens to sports radio who rushed in a bet on Sunday just for shits bc, it's end of a long week and they want a little excitement on an otherwise routine Sunday. They're putting money down because the trusted sports talkers told em it was at least plausible.
It's different. Stocks isn't something you put your 6yo into because you want them to learn team sport. Nobody has emotional connection to $pickyourstock bc of generational or geography or family ties. Sports occupies a unique space in society https://twitter.com/eddieftw/status/1358624518420508679?s=19
