This has been bugging me for the past few days, so it’s time to (mildly) Pit the online sports gambling industry.
Let me state that I am no prude, and I believe that people should be free to make their own decisions, even if they’re bad decisions, as long as they bring no harm to anyone else. We can debate ad nauseam how much gambling contributes to societal ills, how much it (and/or its expansion) should be regulated, etc. But at the end of the day, I come down on the free market side of things – which is to say, let the rubes lose their money if they want to. I voted “Yes” on allowing Missouri to legalize sports betting.
The problem is that now these online sportsbooks are pimping their product to the nth degree here. Seems like every commerical is about Draft Kings or Fanduel being legal in Missouri soon, and download our app now and get all of this bonus swag like bonus catch or bet-matching or whatever the fuck they’re offering. I’m about one percent irked about the existence of this predatory industry, and about 99 percent irked at the fact that they’re leaning so hard into the Hard Sell that I can’t escape their ads.
/rant over