Thanks, i am trying to get better with each show.
I've heard Morse on Alex's show before (and wasn't he on C2C at some point?) Good interview. I don't know if I totally buy it (that the whole system is fixed) but certainly there is fixing documented in sports. And I find highly suspect the NFL. With such a limited amount of game, the number of come-backs, the convenient spaces for ads and time-slots, and the whole Hollywood production of it.
Another point is manipulating that is totally legit. Is the changing of rules over seasons specifically related to bringing in more ad time, generating more viewers (hence hockeys back-and-forth with fighting or changes to allow less defense), and "more scoring" etc. Sure this might impact every team but could skew things towards a certain team or type of play/player. Had a great defense tackler but now "hits to heads banned", had a good hockey enforcer but now "fighting is banned", etc. Very good points he has about the arguments about the leagues calling themselves "entertainment" legally and the cartel/monopoly aspect and in the college programs that are amateur only in how they treat the players. Interesting soccer ('football') is more capitalistic than any of our major league sports. No relegation in the minor-leagues in our sports (could you imagine the Astros, or any bad team, sent down for having one bad season and now playing AA ball?), we have cartel-like trading/contract/and draftpicks, and so on.....