I tried to write a similar comment, but yours is so much more succinct. This article might the least self-aware piece I have ever read. It made me a tad nauseous to see someone try so hard to establish her own lack of privilege.

Always fun to joke about mass executions based on race. Keep up the contributions!

“In fact I still don’t know what it would be like to feel automatically deserving of something”

Maybe you don’t get it: the people betting on sports and the players competing in them are two different sets of people — except for the rare case of corruption. Meanwhile, back on Wall St., company insiders are allowed to trade their own stock. Analysts with inside information are allowed to tell their clients when…

Big difference is that you were seeing actual PnL. No one sees the actual PnL of touts.

No.

What are you talking about? Sports outcomes are based on an actual human exertion. Stock market outcomes are based on the rise/fall of polls of theoretical value. Which one sounds more arbitrary to you?

Absolutely. Your hourly wage if you are only doing pure arbs will be about $10. Very different story 15 years ago.

The exact same thing is happening in DFS.

I’m thinking more in the online poker boom of the early 2000s [and playing 8 hands at once]. If you weren’t up every month, you just weren’t any good.

That, or just be really good at sports prediction, understand risk, and make a living off it from your home office. it’s certainly the exception, but it does occur.

Eh, poker really doesn’t have the massive swings that sports betting does. A great poker player shouldn’t have any losing months, if he is playing in the right games. Every sports bettor has a ton of losing months on the other hand.

Always good to see the scum exposed. There is literally only one site I know of that forces users to keep accurate records: www.pickmonitor.com. Most people don’t even sell picks there; they just use the platform for performance tracking and analytics. And yes, most of the users are lifetime losing handicappers, just…

Where do all these dogs shit and urinate for three hours? Porta-hydrants?

A 45-minute trolley ride from LA to SM is “glorious?” Interesting.

Reilly.

Soccer: intimidate, shove, and/or kill the ref.

Mute security guard at the zoo gorilla habitat.

Would Gawker have posted the vid if was about a famous NBA player? How about a famous woman?

Yelling at the refs within an inch of their faces and pushing them is something that is not tolerated in *any* US sport. It’s a not a “quirk;” it is not “soccer players arguing.” This is players directly interfering with an official’s ability to make a call. Again, special.