Name: Calvin Ridley, Pete Rose, and Sports Betting
Uploaded: 2022-03-08T19:35:53.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Calvin Ridley, Pete Rose, and Sports Betting' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-03-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Calvin Ridley, Pete Rose, and Sports Betting' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-03-08. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- I remember reading this story - You want to belong.
- about NBA referees that would shave points.
- Oh really? - They were corrupt.
- Yeah, the one guy, right?
- Oh, the guys went to jail.
- Yeah. - Didn't they, Jamie?
You knew about all that stuff, right?
- Oh yeah.
- Guys went to jail, didn't they?
- Yes, you sure did.
- Yeah, I remember that guy.
- Actually, just as you're saying this,
was an NFL player today suspended for a year
for betting on NFL games.
- Oh really? - Yeah.
- Dirty. - Wait a minute.
- Why can't you bet on a game?
- That you're in? - That you're not in it.
- There's a lot you can do to manipulate the points
when it's one play that can change the game.
- But if you're not in it. - But if you're not playing.
- No, yeah, that's not, he's in the game.
- Yeah, but your old roommate from college is playing.
- Right, and he can tell you if someone's hurt.
- Yeah. - I think you can bet
on the game that you're not in.
- But why can't you bet on a game that you're in
if you're betting to win?
Like, we're gonna fuck them up.
I'm so confident I'm gonna bet money.
- I don't know that that's what's happening.
- That's Pete Rose, right?
- No, Pete Rose bet the other way, though.
- He did?
- Yeah, Pete Rose apparently bet the other way.
- He did.
I love this label.
- I think that's true, isn't that dope?
- This band, rather.
- I'll get you some of those.
- I think he said he never did.
- I thought he said he did.
- I thought, yeah, I thought he didn't bet against us.
I thought that was like his thing.
Like, hey, I didn't bet against us.
- I thought so, too.
And then I read an article.
- Oh, really?
Contrary to popular belief, Pete Rose bet against his team.
- Oy.
- Which is, urr.
- Oy.
- Which means, urr.
- So Barry Bonds is never gonna be in the Hall of Fame?
- That might not be true.
- Yeah, no, I'm actually looking at what happened
with this player, too.
It says, "A league investigation uncovered no evidence
indicating any inside information was used,
or that any game was compromised in any way.
"There was no evidence suggesting any awareness
"by coaches, staff, teammates, or any other players
"of his betting activity.
"It took place during a five-day period in late November
"while he was away from the team
"and away from the club's facility
"on the non-football illness list."
- And he was betting for his team?
- I don't, I honestly don't know that part now.
It doesn't say.
- Find out if Pete Rose bet against his team,
'cause if not, we're gonna have to edit that out.
I don't want Pete Rose to be mad at me.
- Yeah.
- If I'm, I mean, I could be wrong.
I do remember reading that, but--
- Yeah.
- The thing is, I've read shit about me that's not true,
so maybe writing things about him that's not true.
- Yeah, even the thing we're about to look up
might not be true.
- Yeah, so he said in the book,
he never bet against the Reds.
- Right.
I thought so.
- But he was making bets, I believe,
in a way that maybe he had,
he was managing the team,
so he could have done things to manipulate stuff.
Like by playing a player to win the game real hard tonight,
fucking up tomorrow's game.
- Oh.
- Playing a pitcher to get the strikes and--
- But did he, oh, I see, I see.
So he fucked the team by betting,
so he didn't make strategically wise decisions
'cause he was trying to cover a point spread.
- And that's probably why he got in trouble,
whether or not that actually happened or was speculation,
I think that's where I'm like,
I wasn't even alive then, so I don't--
- Well, that's why betting on it,
all these questions come up.
That's why you can't do it.
- Would you just look up Pete Rose
actually did bet against his team?
- I look, so I'm 100% looking.
Quotes from Pete Rose.
Quote from Dan Patrick's show.
"I bet on my team every night.
I didn't bet on my team four nights a week.
I bet on my team to win every night
because I loved my team.
I believed in my team.
I did everything in my power every night to win that game."
- So the story that I read that said
that he didn't bet on his team,
that he bet against his team, that's horseshit.
- Probably, but that's--
- According to him.
- Yeah, people don't, I don't think they believe him
because they would say, of course you're saying that.
- Yeah, right.
- According to him.
- The problem is, I don't know how many
gambling junkies you've ever met.
Do you know any?
- Not really.
- I've known quite a few that have real problems
and those motherfuckers will come up with
any reason at all to gamble.
- Mm-hmm.
- And they get, they're sick.
- It's like, do you remember when Kitty Dukakis
was drinking aftershave or some shit?
- Right, yeah, yeah.
- She was so sick, she was an alcoholic
and she was so sick that she was drinking
like whatever she could find.
- Yeah.
- That's the thing with the gamblers.
- Do you think that--
- It's a sickness.
- Do you think that the,
how do you feel about gambling being now available
to everybody all over the country?
- I think people need lessons
and how to manage their thought process.
And I think gambling is exciting and it's like,
when I was in Vegas a few months ago
with Whitney Cummings.
- Here's probably the issue.
- Rose did not bet on the Reds to win
in the four games.
Here it is.
The four that Rose didn't bet on,
the Reds were all started by Bill Gullickson.
The problem comes when you realize this,
if he bet the Reds to win every night,
when the four nights he didn't bet on the Reds
would send up a gigantic red flag.
The gamblers would know that Rose
wasn't betting on the Reds,
so this may be the right time to bet against them.
You might say Rose was still trying to win those games
and yes, maybe he was,
but if you take a closer look at the games in question,
it becomes even more disturbing.
Then they break down each of these games in question.
- So he might have bet against his team.
- It's too many questions.
It's just too much, you know.
- Or just even by not betting,
maybe he's paying back a debt to somebody he owed money to.
- Right.
- I'll not bet here, but you can make your money.
- Right, you can make money here, yeah.