Lima's Wild Pitch: Let Athletes Legally Bet on Their Own Games
Lima's Wild Pitch: Let Athletes Legally Bet on Their Own Games  
Podcast: The Ken Carman Show with Anthony Lima
Published On: Thu Jul 02 2026
Description: After more social media jabs over the Manziel-Sanders stats debate, Lima pitches a genuinely bizarre solution to the sports gambling problem: let athletes bet on themselves as long as every wager is made fully public, comparing it to tracking congressional stock trades. Ken immediately pokes holes in the idea, pushing Lima on bet minimums, maximums, and whether prop bets like Shedeur's passing yards or Malik Beasley's rebounds would just turn players into walking incentive structures. The segment turns into an increasingly absurd back-and-forth, complete with jokes about a shadowy "Big Golf" conspiracy, before Ken shuts the idea down as a bad precedent that would make fans question the integrity of every game.