Cheating
In a billion dollar industry where many millions are won or lost by the outcome of a simple game, do you think that it will be just left up to chance? Surely that is not a sound business model. Some gamblers who are shrewd and serious businessmen, and who are in a position to throw a game—or at least do something to alter the final score—might possibly do it in order to cash in.
Most people who are involved in sports—either directly as players, officials, fans, etc., or remotely associated as readers of the newspaper sports page, or viewers of the TV sports news—have cheated, or thought about the idea of cheating at least once in their lifetime. So there is a substantial record of cheating, and plots to cheat, by everyone.The reason why there are laws to control cheating is because, if there were no laws, then everyone would be cheating.
Despite constant reports in the media about the rigging of games, fans are so gullible that they keep on betting and losing their money. Gambling is an addiction, so they do it even though they know that they will lose. But the problem is so much deeper than that, because even people who don't gamble on sports, and who are aware of the widespread rigging, watch the games as if they think it's real. This is the strange effect that sports have on the human psyche, and why sports must be banned completely.
Baseball
Cheaters have always rigged games.
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