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MLB hits Tucupita Marcano with lifetime ban for betting on baseball games (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Wilshire to c/mlb

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[–] givesomefucks 0 points 7 months ago

Honestly, betting probably isn't the main reason games get fixed.

If not a single legal or illicit bet was made on a game, there's still a huge reason for games to be fixed:

League profit sharing.

A lot of teams make their money from the league share. So it's in every owners best interest for the season and especially playoffs/championships for there to be a good story every season.

More important than any single team winning, they want people watching on TV for that ad revenue sharing.