In an exclusive interview with the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred discussed the expansion of legalized sports betting and the challenges — and benefits — it represents to the league.
Rob Manfred didn't wax nostalgic about the pre-legalization era; he understands and appreciates the transparency that legalization has provided.with the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred discussed the expansion of legalized sports betting and the challenges — and benefits — it represents to the league.
MLB was a longtime opponent of legalized sports betting. In fact, MLB was a litigant in a lawsuit, opposing New Jersey’s effort to legalize sports betting. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of New Jersey. The 2018 decision forever changed the US sports betting landscape.
In fact, in May — just months after the translator for the MLB’s AL MVP Shohei Ohtani, Ippei Mizuhara, was“We were kind of dragged into legalized sports betting as a litigant in a case that ended up in the Supreme Court,” Manfred said. “Having said that, I recognize — probably better today than when we were involved in that litigation — that one of the advantages of legalization is it's a heck of a lot easier to monitor what's going on than it is with an illegal operation.
Manfred doesn’t wax nostalgic about the pre-legalization era. He understands the appreciates the transparency legalization has provided.
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