Seven years ago today, the United States Supreme Court opened the valves for the legalized game in any state that wants to adopt it. Most have.
This has changed attitudes. Deleted stigma. Made the bets available to everyone and all those with a smartphone.
This also helped to lay the basics of steep baseball about the front concerning Pete Rose, and other players whose game had led to banishments.
Now, the ultimate confrontation in the integrity of the game comes with a deadline. Once the player dies, he is forgiven and forgotten. The player is not renovated. It is no longer permanent ineligible. He can be elected to the temple of fame.
Thought is that, as the player is no longer, you know, alive, he can no longer threaten the integrity of the game. Obviously, this does not erase the behavior that has led to banishment.
The offense apparently does not matter. The punishment of “Sho schoolss” Joe Jackson came from the ultimate violation of competitive integrity – participating in the launch of a championship. But he’s back in the fold now too.
Football has not yet experienced a scandal similar to those who brought Rose and Jackson. When so, what will happen? Will there be a really permanent ban? Will this permanent ban expire when the player will do it?
Whatever the reason why the MLB commissioner, Rob Manfred, has changed his mind (some people think that his thought was considerably influenced by a recent meeting with the president), the result becomes one less brick in the firewall between rampant fans and a clear and bright line for players and coaches who become corrupt by the game.
The biggest change of thought comes from the new reality that the radiation of a player who has corrected games and / or bet on the games in which he was involved ends when the player dies. It is just to wonder if it will also change.
If the throwing of games no longer justifies to permanently eject the sport player because his death the tile with the house, the debt can undoubtedly be paid before dying. Maybe when he is 80 years old. Maybe he is 75 years old. And 70?
Perhaps the ultimate punishment will have a maximum duration of twenty years, for example.
The fact is as follows: now that the game is as accepted as other defects without victim (and now that all the sports leagues are largely benefiting), the players and the coaches have been trapped by Lady Luck will apparently not justify the same consequences for life and less. Although this hardly means that there will be no punishment or that the punishment will not be serious, it is suddenly more a sanction which lasts eternally.
It only lasts until the player has gone to the beyond. With new revisions that were prevenable before coming potentially as the game becomes as anchored in the American experience as to drink and smoke.