… walk into a bar. No, wait, that’s not what I want…<\/p>\n
In the interval before this morning’s Mike and Mike show became the Tiger Woods Scandal Hour, they were talking about Tim Donaghy and his allegations about the NBA<\/a>, which basically amount to the league being just a few steps up from the WWE. Mike Greenberg in particular kept blasting these rumors as completely outlandish because the sort of game-fixing Donaghy alleges would be blatantly illegal, and if it was exposed, people would go to jail. “These are wealthy and powerful people,” he said, more or less, “You’re crazy if you think they’d risk jail<\/em> to get an extra game in the Kings-Lakers series.”<\/p>\n While Donaghy is very likely full of crap, this is a terrible counter-argument, for the reasons alluded to in the title. Eliot Spitzer was a wealthy and powerful man, and you’d be crazy to think he would be frequenting $5,000\/hour prostitutes while Governor of New York. And yet… Bernie Madoff was a wealthy and successful businessman, and you’d be crazy to think he was running a massive Ponzi scheme. And yet…<\/p>\n To paraphrase H. L. Mencken, it would be difficult to go broke underestimating the arrogant stupidity of wealthy and powerful men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … walk into a bar. No, wait, that’s not what I want… In the interval before this morning’s Mike and Mike show became the Tiger Woods Scandal Hour, they were talking about Tim Donaghy and his allegations about the NBA, which basically amount to the league being just a few steps up from the WWE.… Continue reading David Stern, Eliot Spitzer, and Bernie Madoff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28,75,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-politics","category-society","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}