I’m sure most of them are knowledgeable already anyway. I won’t go into all the reasons why here as I don’t want to be accused of corrupting the 10-year-olds reading this and are leading a sheltered life. A guy I know on the street corner (we’ll call him Angie for this piece - since that’s his name!) has been making book for a long time and he’s not at all concerned with the competition. And why not? With the added take in the state coffers they can raise their own salaries. Now our legislators have decided that they want to be our bookie. 6, 1788 when it became a state with their own “personal contact” or more recently online. Massachusetts residents have been betting on sporting events since Feb. He said, “It’s a lock.” After the game, (we lost) a bunch of us hopped in a car and got on the Long Island “Expressway.” True to its name it was a “parking lot.” We just made it, put down our money, won, and hightailed it out of there. I said if I had won half the tips I had gotten I’d already be a millionaire. I was warming up for a high school alumni soccer game with other alums, and a guy I didn’t know announced that his dad had a horse in the second at Roosevelt that night that was fixed to win. “Say it ain’t so Joe” - need I mention the Black Sox scandal of 1919?īelow is one of many personal experiences I’ve had. To repeat, we learned early on the city streets. I uttered, “It must be the point spread.” My astonished dad looked at his jaded grade schooler in disbelief. With seconds to go, one of the New York players tossed the ball into his own basket.
PROLEVEL BEATS PRO
On the pro level, as a 10- year-old I was watching a Knicks game with my dad on TV and the Knicks were winning by a wide margin for a change. With college kids today facing smothering debt, I can’t help but wonder how some might react to a “free tuition” offer. In the early 1950s, my dad was greatly disappointed upon learning of the City College of New York basketball point shaving scandal. Let’s face it, gambling on sporting events has existed since the first shot was put in the first Olympiad. Before I give you my opinion on the matter (it is the opinion page after all) I’d like to share a few experiences on the subject during my 77-plus years on the planet. Our elected officials in Massachusetts just made sports betting legal in the state. (The Sox are losing way too much this year.) I get my gambling fix each day when I take my life in my hands and get behind the wheel of my car.
You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out. You’re dealt your hand, and you play it the best way you know how. Heck, life itself is a crapshoot so they say. We learned to bet and gamble early in the city back then in the 1950s. ‘Oh yeah? Ya wanna bet? I’ll bet my dad can beat up your dad.” I’ll bet I heard that kind of talk as a kid a million times in The Bronx school yards before it came to blows.
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