Corruption in Pro Sports

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcoming Rory O'Neil back to the program twenty four to

(00:02):
seven News National Correspondent on Really, if you look at this,
Rory is really kind of disturbing. First, we had the
NBA scandal with several arrested, you know, for rigging games
and making you know, insider prop bets, and now baseball

(00:22):
two pitchers for the Cleveland Guardians. What about all this
corruption in pro sports?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well right, and how many other players are out there
trying to run a similar scam right now? And then
on the outside, if you do want to place a
bet on some of these games, you know, are we
getting a fair shake? And you know that's an issue
about whether or not people will want to keep on gambling,
because look, this has become ingrained in things sports. Betting,

(00:50):
especially moving online, especially now to our phones, is a
key component of this sport more of all, to sports
moving forward. And now it calls into question whether or
not you can try us what you see or is
this like watching professional wrestling these days and everything's been scripted.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
I see more of this coming in the future, if
not in this particular case for the NBA case than
in other cases. I mean, the amount of money involved
in the ease with which these guys can do this,
and who knows how many of them got away with
it already.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Right well, right, and you know, to try to get
ahead of things. Maybe not, they're not ahead anymore. But
Major League Baseball and it's gaming operators now will put
a cap on bets for individual pitches. So now you
can't bet more than two hundred dollars on an individual
pitch and the loss to be excluded from parlay, So
they won't be as attractive essentially for these players to

(01:45):
get involved, you know, because in this case, these two
pitchers were allegedly partnering up with friends in the Dominican
Republic to tell them, hey, look, you know, look for
a pitch over ninety five miles per hour at this time,
or look for a fastball or herb ball here, or
pitching the dirt here. And they were actually in communication

(02:05):
during the games allegedly as to what pitch may be
coming up when they get back on the mound.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, or teas in class say, if they're convicted, they
go away for a long time, right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
These are serious charges on a services wire fraud, conspiracy,
conspiracy to influence sports contests, and money laundering, conspiracy and again,
and this is for crime for illegal bets that may
have totaled almost half a million dollars over a few years.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I thought I was a little strange when I threw
a couple underhanded, But no, I understand that all right. Now,
what about people getting their their doctor's advice from a
computer instead of their doctor. That's a big trend now, right.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, it is and something we're probably going to experience
more of as our doctors try to communicate with us
the way that we communicate today, and that's largely through
our phones. This study out of the UK was interesting.
Now it only compares text messages to text messages, right,
it doesn't compare an in person doctor's visit.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
That's different.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
But if you're getting a quick follow up text or
message from your doctor, they say that the ones the
messages from the AI, the chat GPT are actually warmer,
more understanding, more considerate of the patient concerns than the
ones that come from a doctor.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Well, people have been going to doctor Google for years now.
Would you you never do that? Because uh you you
immediately jumped to okay, I've got galloping cancer. I mean,
it's just right well, here's what it could be. I
don't want to hear.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
That this galloping can't say yeah, right.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Right, So so they're getting more warmth from.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
AI right well, And then I think that's in large
part because doctors are looking at the end of the day,
let me return thirty emails from patients, and they're just
hanging out answers one after one for different patient concerns,
Whereas in that same split.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Second, AI has the capability to craft a warmer, more sentimental,
sort of hallmark card message in order to break the
news or to explain things in more detail where your
doctor may be a bit more pressed for time, next, next, next,
I can thinket through.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
These primary fine primary care practice is really from the
doctors I've talked to, is a far cry from what
it used to be. And they're just they're just hassled
all the time. You know, they're under pressure from their
employer the big companies to okay, keep moving through here,
keep moving you know, it's just different. That kind of
ties into the whole healthcare discussion we were having earlier. Rory,

(04:40):
thanks have a wonderful thing, you bet