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Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>: video emerges of MLB star Bryce Harper giving personalized message to FanDuel gambling addict, with implications that it was done so to continue to encourage gambler to keep pissing away money<\/span><\/p>\n Personally, I enjoy gambling despite the fact that I don\u2019t do it nearly as much as I did when I was in my twenties.\u00a0 Obviously, I am an enthusiast of sports as well, seeing as how a good 40-50% of my brog\u2019s content is usually related to sports, or at least is full of sports analogies, flexing the encyclopedic wealth of sports knowledge I like to believe I have.<\/span><\/p>\n However, gambling on sports, is something that I don\u2019t do.<\/span><\/p>\n Because I have never won a sports bet in my entire life.<\/span><\/p>\n Like really, I can trace it all back to the three times in which I\u2019ve bet actual money on sports, with all three ending up with L\u2019s:<\/span><\/p>\n The point is, I\u2019m no stranger to gambling, but gambling on sports is just something I don\u2019t do.\u00a0 I\u2019m fortunate that in spite of the competitive nature I can sometimes exhibit, I (hopefully) don\u2019t have that facet of my brain that snaps and goes off the deep end when it comes to gambling and I\u2019ve always been able to restrain myself from making any dives into oblivion when it comes to the pitfall of one more time<\/em> that unfortunately befalls many others.<\/span><\/p>\n Like this poor dude in the article who has wagered over $18M* through FanDuel betting, and has lost $2M over the last 5-6 years, which doesn\u2019t sound that<\/em> bad as far as the ratio of what he\u2019s bet versus what he\u2019s lost, but considering he\u2019s lost his house and contemplated suicide, there\u2019s a lot of murky details in the dark water that would really help if were made clearer.<\/span><\/p>\n *unclear in the scope of the story of how much of this $18M is actual money and not promotional or bonus funds because it does matter in the grand spectrum and could be misleading if left unclear<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n The last thing I\u2019d want is to miss paying any sort of bill because of gambling, much less my mortgage, to the frequency in which I fall into foreclosure and ultimately lose my family\u2019s home.\u00a0 This is a stark reminder of the potentially fatal consequences of gambling addiction, and I\u2019m always astonished at how most everyone knows this, but we\u2019re still in the present reality where it\u2019s very much not just a meme:<\/span><\/p>\n Welcome back to SportsCenter presented by ESPN Bet, for more on the Ohtani situation we go to our FanDuel MLB Insider Jeff Passan at our DraftKings Studio in Los Angeles brought to you by Caesar\u2019s Sportsbook<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The crazy horrific variable about this whole story is the involvement of an actual, high-profile, top-tier professional athlete in Bryce Harper, where the high-level narrative that is perceived is that he made a personalized video at the encouragement of FanDuel, to passively encourage this addict to continue gambling, because he\u2019s getting a very special incentive because of his spend history.<\/span><\/p>\n There is absolutely zero manner in which this is not a horrible look for FanDuel, for MLB, for the Philadelphia Phillies, and especially for Bryce Harper, on several levels, including one that I\u2019d like to isolate being, his supposedly devout Mormon faith.<\/span><\/p>\n Yes, I think all religions are full of shit, and Mormonism is probably no exception when it comes to gray areas and loose interpretations, but the Church of LDS supposedly is opposed to all forms of gambling, so it\u2019s really weird and unnerving that a Mormon like Bryce Harper that has the influence (money, status) to get married at one of their sacred castles, is basically an accomplice to enabling a gambler to continue to ruin the lives of himself and his family, and there\u2019s nothing that can be done or said at this amount of evidence where anyone comes out looking good from it.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s like, because Harper himself is not doing the actual gambling, it\u2019ll be swept under the rug as something harmless, and that he and his faith are not responsible for those who do, and that there\u2019s no explicit rule against enabling<\/a>, which is precisely what he is doing and what the intention of the video was meant to do.<\/span><\/p>\n Also, want to iso this, because wtf:<\/span><\/p>\n your host Bryttanni at FanDuel<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I mean we\u2019ve all seen some truly Mr. Garvey names<\/a> in our lives these days, but this one actually manages to stand out.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m really curious to see how this pans out, or if Harper, the Phillies and MLB are just going to keep their lips zipped, and hope for it to go away, especially when the inevitable strike and lockout is going to take place in the winter because all the owners and all the players are a bunch of greedy fucks and I\u2019m inclined to blow the whole sport out of existence in spite of how much I love the game, just because it doesn\u2019t seem like there\u2019s going to be any other way to eradicate the greed and corruption otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n But at least Harper, and anyone else entwined with FanDuel or any other gambling racket will have a way to make some coin on the side when next season is cancelled due to work stoppage, and I\u2019m sure no more degenerate gamblers are going to suffer and possibly die in the process. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Philadelphia Inquirer: video emerges of MLB star Bryce Harper giving personalized message to FanDuel gambling addict, with implications that it was done so to continue to encourage gambler to keep pissing away money Personally, I enjoy gambling despite the fact that I don\u2019t do it nearly as much as I did when I was in … Continue reading Wonder what the Mormon faith feels about enabling, 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![enabling<\/a>, which is precisely what he is doing and what the intention of the video was meant to do.<\/span><\/p>\nAlso, want to iso this, because wtf:<\/span><\/p>\nyour host Bryttanni at FanDuel<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nI mean we\u2019ve all seen some truly Mr. Garvey names<\/a> in our lives these days, but this one actually manages to stand out.<\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m really curious to see how this pans out, or if Harper, the Phillies and MLB are just going to keep their lips zipped, and hope for it to go away, especially when the inevitable strike and lockout is going to take place in the winter because all the owners and all the players are a bunch of greedy fucks and I\u2019m inclined to blow the whole sport out of existence in spite of how much I love the game, just because it doesn\u2019t seem like there\u2019s going to be any other way to eradicate the greed and corruption otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\nBut at least Harper, and anyone else entwined with FanDuel or any other gambling racket will have a way to make some coin on the side when next season is cancelled due to work stoppage, and I\u2019m sure no more degenerate gamblers are going to suffer and possibly die in the process. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Inquirer: video emerges of MLB star Bryce Harper giving personalized message to FanDuel gambling addict, with implications that it was done so to continue to encourage gambler to keep pissing away money Personally, I enjoy gambling despite the fact that I don\u2019t do it nearly as much as I did when I was in … Continue reading Wonder what the Mormon faith feels about enabling, Bryce?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,79,45,152,191,205,52,58,190,49],"class_list":["post-51340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-gambling","tag-greed","tag-mlb","tag-owned","tag-sports","tag-white-people","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51342,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51340\/revisions\/51342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/i.redd.it\/34tebc3ia3f81.jpg\"){kind=link}