Thread: Pete Rose
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Old 01-06-2008, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by shading-scars View Post
Betting on the team you manage is unethical? Why is that? he manages his team and coaches them to win. To have confidence in the players you have spent so much time on to train them to win and then placing a bet saying you think they will win is bad? I do not see the logic. If he bet against his team, that would be bad, but for his team, there is nothing at all wrong with that. He was paid to lead them to victory and to be that confident in them to place a bet on them is good.
I read that professional boxer Winky Wright bet a large sum of money on himself to win, thereby more than doubling his payday when he did, and a lot of people applauded him for the amount of confidence he showed in himself. I really don't see how what Rose did was any different
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