Stupidness 1.1

Easy money is so hard to say no to. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, when the opportunity comes you have (wherever you like it or not) to think about. People with a little common sense can say “thanks, but no thanks”, but you have to think about it. Drug dealing, extortions, gambling, they all are easy money. Specially gambling, if you are outside of the US probably is not an illegal activity, and you have an ego to feed, you want to probe how much sports knowledge the old rooftop is holding. Ì worked in the gambling industry and I’ve had a couple of bucks riding the result of some nearly impossible to predict parlay, it feels damn good when you got it right, but it doesn’t feel that bad when you got it wrong, after all it was nearly impossible to predict

The New Times reported yesterday that NBA referee Tim Donaghy, a 13-year veteran is being investigated for his involvement in gambling activities, apparently he has been fixing some games and that’s a no, no. This is bad, this is really, really bad for the league, as I’ve written in previous posts the league is not in that good of a shape to be able to sustain a scandal like this. But they will have to, it’s a reality, even though if something magical happen and the FBI comes out and said “Ups, wrong league”, now people is thinking about it, people had always thought about it, but know we have federal probes. Every time there's a no call or a controversial call we are thinking about it, and now things like the DWade Free Throw Parade (the NBA calls it NBA Finals 2006) are really going to be in the minds of fans (specially Mavs fans )

So, what’s going to happen here, I don’t know, Mark Cuban has some thoughts, he’s probably right being a millionaire and CEO and me being jealous of him. I do think we can trust David Stern, he’s a quite good commissioner, he’s had his miscues, but in general he’s been very solid. The one thing I’m sure of, Donaghy has called his last game and that’s apparently a good thing.