Players betting on baseball hardly is a surprise when virtually every major sports league and sports media company is bombarding the general public with advertisements urging them to gamble. The leagues are willing to make the tradeoff for the payoff, particularly if they only need to punish a few relatively anonymous players along the way.

The real danger is if actual stars get sucked in, and/or if players who bet influence the outcome of games. Major League Baseball, in issuing a lifetime ban to Tucupita Marcano and one-year suspensions to four others on Tuesday, took pains in detailing each penalty to say, “There is no evidence to suggest – and (the player) denies – that any outcomes in the baseball games on which he placed bets were compromised, influenced, or manipulated in any way.”

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