Confirmed with Link: Bally Sports becoming FanDuel Sports on Oct 21

[Linkens Mastery]

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[BlueDream]

I have no issue with sports betting but honestly it’s just annoying at this point how it’s everywhere you look.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

I have no issue with sports betting but honestly it’s just annoying at this point how it’s everywhere you look.

100%

 

[Brian39]

Worth noting that this is a partnership between Fan Duel and Diamond Sports and not a transfer of ownership. I'm curious how this will impact the actual broadcasts. It's easy to assume that this means a bunch of gambling content, but Bally's is also a casino and we didn't get any of that with them.

 

[Snubbed4Vezina]

I'm an avid NHL bettor and I 100% absolutely cannot stand how much sports have become flooded with betting talk. It's dangerous and needs to be curtailed.

 

[STL fan in MN]

I assume this is just some sort of branding change and doesn’t really change the unknown of where/how Blues games will be broadcast after this season?

 

[TheDizee]

Hopefully they get rid of Rivers soon

 

[SirPaste]

I have no issue with sports betting but honestly it’s just annoying at this point how it’s everywhere you look.

Bally's was already a gambling company so the name is just changing from one to another.

 

[Dr Robot]

Bally's was already a gambling company so the name is just changing from one to another.

It could just be a naming rights but there might also be agreements in place for promotion of Fandual sports betting in addition. A lot of other broadcasts are putting significant time towards odds and parleys more so than we’ve seen so it’s not unreasonable to worry that’s a direction ours might veer more sharply towards.

 

[BlueDream]

Bally's was already a gambling company so the name is just changing from one to another.

Honestly didn’t even know that. I had never heard of Bally’s before they took over for FS.

But that may help explain why Bally’s has been terrible from day 1, IMO.

 

[Spear]

It could just be a naming rights but there might also be agreements in place for promotion of Fandual sports betting in addition. A lot of other broadcasts are putting significant time towards odds and parleys more so than we’ve seen so it’s not unreasonable to worry that’s a direction ours might veer more sharply towards.

I would be shocked if that didn't happen.

 

[AjaxManifesto]

I guess VGK were ahead of the curve.

Sports are just becoming one big slot machine.

 

[mk80]

I would definitely expect much more sports betting integration into the broadcasts. Maybe I’m just crazy but I thought I remember reading that was supposed to happen when Bally’s signed on, but it never seemed to happen.

 

[Falco Lombardi]

Just give me a better scorebug please.

 

[DoubleK81]

I DESPISE the amount of sports betting ads and talk in the NHL. I get that the NHL are getting paid bigtime by them and I am an active bettor, but kids don't need to be exposed to this shit. It can easily ruin lives if you have no self control or get lucky early and think its always going to be that way.

 

[542365]

Sports betting is still “illegal” in Missouri so it would be pretty stupid for them to be allowed to plaster betting talk/odds all over the telecast. It’s encouraging the audience to commit a crime.