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Originally Posted by PatCummings
The greater topic might involve finding a way to glorify watching replays, reading PPs, studying trends, managing spreadsheets, sitting at your computer for hours...or hanging out at your local, OTB and plowing it through with the AARPers drinking Sanka, by request. I won't argue that there isn't some glory in smoking out a $10,000 pick four bet that cost you $72, but the steps to get there might make for some challenging television in 30/60 seconds. Should we support it - yes, if it can get done.
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It would help if we had bettors to market who had no formal education, and have emerged from button factories to have made hundreds of millions of dollars from betting horses.
As long as the betting public is burdened by draconian takeout rates -- the game has no chance to compete with the NFL, MLB, or even the NBA.