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Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona
10-23-25 - NBA Gambling Sting Up To 31 Arrests Already This Morning
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You might have a minute or so to go on that. Looks pretty done to me. 9am right around the corner. Then we'll be done for our morning and Fitz will take over at 2 and start handing out these words. Get you a thousand bucks in your pocket. We buy your love. That's what we do. We're not afraid to say it. We care enough to occasionally offer you some money to stick around and that's nice. I can't get enough of this gambling thing. I keep reading more. 31 people already have been arrested this morning. And the incredible thing that the FBI is doing that includes the NBA and the one thing that they said this thing is, it's absolutely enveloped the NBA and the Mafia, Genovese, politicians. Well, I haven't heard yet, but not yet. But they. Yeah, the thing I was just reading basically said this is what's interesting is that, you know, last week that whole thing came out on the governor Chicago big card player, but he has on the tax report. Well, that's also based on the idea that politically they're trying to attack each other like crazy. So everything is we hate Pritzker, we hate Trump, we hate this. Yeah, we hate that guy. But the fact that there could be politicians that you know in the big games. We'll see. Poker games. Yeah, these they were funneling through evidently some elaborate computer cheating system to take money from these poker games. It's a lot like there's a lot going on. But the, the word envelops the NBA is not good for the NBA because that was. Evidently that's a thing. But yeah. 31 people, 11 states, wire fraud, money laundering, extortion. And here's the cool part. It's called Operation Nothing But Net. We have a whole department that sits and thinks this stuff up the way we do. Like band names. And so that's a good band name. We should change it to. That's a good FBI operation name. Operation Grandma Squirter. Like that kind of thing. Same as abandoned. But I want, I always want to know what, what ideas were thrown out that. Now I don't like that. Operation to the Hoop. No. Sounds stupid. Kind of dumb. Alley oop. Yeah, operation. Yeah, stuff like that. But how do they do it? Is it just the first thing that comes to mind or is there like a. An hour long meeting and then they draw out of a hat? It's always clever. I mean we've always. Exactly. But we do that because we're actually promoting an event. Why do you do it for this. Operation Hellcat. Yeah, that's probably Operation NBA Hellcat. Anyway. Operation Nothing But Net. Yeah. And there's videos of the rosier guy for the Heat faking an injury when he hit the mark of his under. He was like a 15 point under on a game and then he pretended to be hurt and managed to stay at the under. And the betting was huge on that. So they've got numbers on this all day long. It's crazy. I was talking to a guy online, he's like, you think that the sports gambling things would be liable. You're out of your mind. Oh, I know they're going to try and probably will get away with it. But now more than ever, we, as just general citizens, thanks to these gambling apps, have a track record of what we've bet on, up and down. And they say it's legal. It's in their words, legal online betting. And if it turns out it's all not right, then it becomes illegal online betting. And we've got, you know, a history in our phone or on our computer of what we've done to sit back and say, all right, what are we going to do about that retribution? I know it would be a tough fight, but I remember back in the 90s when I worked at Tony Roma's, my. One of my co workers name was Chad and he went to Asuk and he's like, hey, I got a bookie. Like, oh, what do we do with him? He's like a bookie, we'll call in college bets. So we would make college bets together and throw cash at him. And we were doing pretty good. And back and forth we go. And the bookie one day goes to Chad's place and puts a gun in his face and says, you're screwing me on this, this and this. And Chad's like, I don't know what you're talking about. He had the wrong place, the wrong guy. He thought Chad was the bad. That was another dude. And Chad came back and I'm like, alright, here's my bets. And he goes, we're never doing it again. Like why? And he goes, had a gun in my face last night because some guy said we weren't paying our bets. I'm like, we haven't missed a thing. And I'm like, oh, he had the wrong dude. And so that. But there was. We couldn't call the cops. You couldn't do anything about it because what we were doing wasn't legal either. Now with the word legal attached to everything, you know, you know, fanduel is not going to come and put a gun in my head and go, you didn't bet on that Blazers game. You heard, well, okay, FanDuel. But it says in my history that I it's legal. So it screws these online sports books too. They didn't get behind this. They've been doing it. They've been doing the best they can. Oh, this is going to get hairy. This guy says, has anyone noticed the Kansas City Chiefs haven't covered a spread till last weekend for over a year? That's true. Every game they won last year was like a three points. They barely cover spreads. When you play the Raiders you're going to accidentally beat them by 30 so that you know. And nobody took that one anyway. But still they've got a 14 point spread coming up this week. Commanders if it lands on 13 or 14. What I don't understand is it was the first game of the year the other night, Kevin Durant in Houston. I was talking to a guy online on this too and they had the over under on his points for the game at 23 and a half and he scored 23. How do you know he's with a new team? You don't know what they're going to be doing, how much they're going to use him in the office. They nailed it. Or do they look at. They put the number. Did you look at. Hell yes. If I was a player, I'd be all over ads. I would be. I would be susceptible to that as a player. If I'm like, I'm supposed to get three assists. When I get two, I'm going to make bad passes. You know, I'm not negating much. I'm one of the Ben, like if I'm Colin Gillespie of the Suns, I'm like, I'm supposed to have big. Even though you're not getting anything out of it, you're just wondering, oh, no. How many people that I would call like someone like you. The way it works and just say, hey, over under on assist is for tonight. Good idea to put a lot on me under and leave it at that. I wouldn't have to call you. I just tell you, like right here. Go under. I'm not going over for promise. No way I'm going to pass it to dudes who can't shoot. I want to make bad decisions. Going to drop the ball a lot. I might get sat down today. I'm new next to them. We're splitting it. Shohei Otani. There's no way sh Ohtani wasn't involved in what was going on. That got swept. That got swept big. Because you get the greatest player in baseball history now sitting there with a couple million dollars. And he got to blame his translator. They shipped that guy out of town. I'm sure he's fine. Shohei knew exactly what was going on, though. Let's not fool ourselves. Crazy. Oh, I love everybody. I'm sure the translator is just fine. Yeah. Oh, he's. He's taken care. Oh, yeah, he's okay. We got the nine o' clock word coming up in just a little bit. Prepare yourself for that. And of course, Dale Hellistrate coming in on this oddly strange sports day. And we'll talk to dale next. It's 98K upd, Arizona's most powerful, powerful rock radio station. Y it's John Holmer here shailing away from my friends at new vision Auto Glass. Brady just had his windshield replaced. Toledo just had his windshield replaced. And Brett evidently got jealous because his windshield got cracked on his drive to work the other day. New vision auto glass, they're your best friends. 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