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I have to laugh at the new commercials warning of sports gambling.
Where were these spots five years ago before a generation of young and old lost their homes, savings accounts, marriages to the couple clicks on your phone?
They've got your credit card numbers, folks.
It reminds me of the 1950s when tobacco companies gave out free smokes on every street corner. The first couple packs were free.
Now every sports gambling ad offers you up $100 to get started.
Yeah, don't worry about that small print at the bottom of your TV screen. Nothing to see here.
On another subject, can we please stop calling uber talented high school freshmen young?
Most of these kids have been playing AAU since they were 10 and travel ball several months a year since they were five or six years old.
By the time they're 14, they've got 8-10 years of playing high level competition so when they show up for a game against Ferndale, well, let's just say it's not a fair fight.
Yes, young chronologically, not young in true sports experience. Take it from a dad who had his boys at tournaments in different states for years before they ever laced it up their ninth grade year.
Jeff Bartlett, Bellwood