The Boston Red Sox agreement with MGM casino is another level added to the connection between gaming and sports. The Red Sox are now immersed in the gaming culture with various agreements that could eventually compromise the baseball and all sports. What could possibly go wrong?
Pete Rose remains in baseball exile for the most horrendous of crimes that relate to the game and that is gambling on the sport – especially his own team. Rose was absolutely guilty and deserved the maximum penalty that then commissioner Bart Giamatti could deliver.
Baseball was a virtual centerpiece for the classic line “The fix is in” and cleaning of the hive was necessary after the infamous Black Sox Scandal that was hatched in Boston at the Hotel Buckminster that is just a fly ball away from Fenway Park.