“Is Boston Red Sox corrupt by associating with Online Gambling?”

While the hullabaloo erupts over online gambling the news that Boston Red Sox have contracted an agreement with Partypoker.com. based in Gibraltar and considered one of the leading offshore online casinos in the world. If that’s not enough, the Gibraltar-based company runs for the fun of it, a main advertiser for Red Sox, namely, Partypoker.net, an online poker site. At the present, Partypoker.net is sponsoring a Red Sox versus Yankee fans poker contest as Parypoker.net happens to be a major sponsor of Red Sox spring training. The Red Sox owns the NESN television network which will broadcast the contest. Naturally, visitors are not permitted to make actual cash bets as Partypoker.net must hold to the legality of the occasion. However, simply by providing this amusement site, it does in fact encourage online poker playing. The world’s largest poker school is how people describe the site Partypoker.net.

By attempting to legalize the online gambling industry, those who criticize the agreement between Boston Red Sox and Partypoker.net,, state that it’s quite disgusting as the fans who applaud the Red Sox business empire see that by combining its name with online gambling it is to the detriment of the Bay State. A National Coalition Against Gambling Expansion board member, Carey Theil, say that it causes concern and makes people wonder when a corporation such as Red Sox decided to make a contract with an online gambling company. According to Theil, it is an act which should not be carried out.

The Democrat for Bridgewater, Representative David Flynn is in complete agreement and is currently preparing a bill to prevent online gambling hobbies by gamblers in the Bay state. According to Flynn, the legal gaming industry in the state is damaged by online gambling which also eats up tax money and is uncontrolled. Flynn also remarked that it was big disappointment for him to see how Rod Sox has decided to associate itself with the industry of Internet gambling. Flynn further added that while there is an attempt to bring down unemployment and salvage and industry which is so admired, and now they are simply throwing salt on the wounds.

National Coalition Against Gambling ’s spokesman Tom Grey, considers that you shouldn’t combine gambling and professional sports. Take Pete Rose for example. Furthermore, the field of sports has always endeavored to maintain a gap between gambling and sports. However, it’s all about money when you consider the Red Sox agreement.

Internet gambling continues to burst with popularity despite all the efforts aimed at stopping its growth. For example, using the 1960 Wire Act, the United States government at the federal level has endeavored to stop people participating in online gambling, and attempts have been made at obstructing credit card usage and transactions with online companies, as well as efforts to sue online casino operators – but all in vain. Furthermore, a lot of states don’t officially have a prohibition on Internet gambling, for instance, Bay State does not apply an anti-Internet gambling state law.