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Originally posted by The Dad Fisherman
I see nothing wrong w/ betting on the team you are managing as long as your betting on them to win. There's no proof that he ever bet AGAINST a team he was managing. If they could prove that I'd agree w/ you a hundred percent...but they haven't.
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Uh huh. You don't think that in a 162 game season, the fact that a manager has $25,000 riding on his team to win, say, 20 selected games, might make him manage those games like they were Game 7 of the Series instead of looking at the bigger picture? That he might risk injury to a good pitcher who was complaining of some soreness, or start someone who was due for a rest, or send up a pinch hitter who was nursing an injury, or deplete his bullpen trying to get back into a 7-1 game instead of throwing his 11th pitcher out there? I don't have a problem with him betting as a player, but there's a huge problem with him doing so as a manager.
As far as betting on his team to lose---think about it for a minute. What freakin' idiot of a bookie in his right mind would take such a bet from a manager/gambler in a position to control the outcome of that bet? Do you think a bookie would take a bet from a boxer who wanted to bet that he'd lose a fight? If you do, please tell me that bookie's name
So yeah, I believe he never bet against his team, for that reason, and that reason alone.
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