Red Sox Pitcher Confronts Commissioner About Gambling, Social Media Threats
https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/red-sox-pitcher-confronts-commissioner-about-gambling-social-media-threats-2102617Giolito told Rob Bradford on the Baseball Isn't Boring podcast that the threats against Boston pitcher Liam Hendriks in May were hardly an isolated incident.
Giolito said the online threats are getting worse "by the year, by the week, by the day."
"I'm getting messages after every game," he said. "Even games where I pitched well, where they're mad at me because I hit the strikeout over instead of being under; prop bets, all these crazy things. People put hundreds of dollars on it. They don't have a lot of money but they're gambling it anyway because it's a disease. They freak out."
It's not just baseball.
Gambling and sports.
Nothing could possibly go wrong.
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Never understood how the betting/gambling thing was so enticing. I'd never travel to Texas or Florida (unless Disneyworld) and Las Vegas is #3 on that list. 
True story. Physicists had a convention in Las Vegas. Being smart, they realized that the house takes 10% off the top and gambling was a losing game. They gambled zilch, and were uninvited for any future conventions.
Oops, make that banned.
https://qz.com/work/1249513/was-a-convention-of-physicists-really-banned-from-las-vegas
The casino’s take that weekend was so low that the group was allegedly asked never to return to the MGM Grand, or to the city of Las Vegas—or so says the legend the APS has repeated for the last 32 years. The most effective way to take the house, it seems, is to simply refuse to play its games.
The tune, "It's a Small World" played in my mind for weeks after that visit. Thanks for the link to that article. 
I've been through Napa wine country and the SW wine country. Cali is a miracle state! You're so lucky to be there. I'm in Blue Maryland, so that's pretty good. But the humidity.
Weathermen, medical /public health, firemen, sports figures,teachers.... 
