The MLB’s new partnership with MGM Resorts has already resulted in the first of a number of expected rule changes.
This one calls f
or managers of all MLB clubs to submit their team lineups to the Commissioner’s office before anyone else. This office will then send them on to the media, PR and other entities.
News of the change was broken by Peter Gammons, the legendary Hall of Fame baseball writer. He calls the law controversial and quotes an unnamed team manager as saying: “I’m really bothered by this.”
Change is not always welcomed by society, but this one makes a lot of sense.
Managers weekly juggle their teams in order to rest their superstars. Match-winning pitchers and batters need to be given a break in back-breaking seasons that take a toll. Undisclosed injuries can also affect a team’s performance.
Accurate knowledge is the key to fair betting
Sportsbooks and punters of New Jersey and the seven other states where betting is legal need to know these things. To ensure that wagering is fair and transparent, bookies and bettors should have access to as much knowledge as possible.
Some old-school baseball followers won’t like the change. This is already being reflected by some of their tweets.
This won’t be the case, however, with the new school that believes legal betting is far more preferable to what it is replacing.
Before the Supreme Court ended the ban on sports betting, illegal offshore betting was costing the USA a packet.
To give you some idea of how much, we only need to look at New Jersey.
In the first six months after the ban on sports wagering ended, its sportsbooks brought in over a billion dollars. Yes, and all this from punters inside the New Jersey state border.
It also put millions of tax dollars into the state coffers of New Jersey.