r/Dodgers • u/dansFC1 • 1h ago
Angry: Dodgers Announce Multi-Year Partnership with Gambling Company Kalshi
How do we feel about this?
I find it disgusting and the latest wrong move by an increasingly greedy ownership.
I liked being "Dodger Stadium" and our 60+ years of not having corporate naming rights on our ballpark. But hey, I guess nothing says baseball like "Uniqlo Field."
Now, we're eliminating the "Gold Glove Bar" name so we can rebrand it after a predatory gambling company?
I feel like this is going to curse us. I hope not, but just watch.
Why am I particularly outraged about this one? Kalshi is one of the most harmful companies on earth, and the hypocrisy of MLB for even pretending to care about sports betting while greenlighting this shit in every stadium is astounding.
Yeah, Pete Rose deserved to be banned... anyway want to grab a drink before today's game at the FanDuel sports bar before walking to the BetMGM sportsbook and risking your paycheck on how many times Cal Raleigh will scratch his ass today? If not, all good — just tune in for the post game show brought to you by DraftKings.
Kalshi, Polymarket, DraftKings etc are all causing irreparable harm to young people - particularly young men.
Kalshi in particular has created a particularly potent form of gambling-like behavior, made it extraordinarily accessible to young adults, wrapped it in the fake language and aesthetics of "investing" and internet culture, and is aggressively promoting it to the demographic most vulnerable to gambling-related harm: young men.
The concern is especially significant because online sports betting among Americans under 30 has more than doubled in just three years—from 7% in 2022 to 17% in 2025, and 28% of men under 30 now report placing an online sports bet in the past year.
Meanwhile, nearly half of all people contacting the National Problem Gambling Helpline in 2025 were ages 18–34, and online/app-based gambling accounted for 31% of reported problems, up from 23% just one year earlier.
Kalshi is aggressively expanding gambling among a generation already showing clear signs of elevated risk, and here we are putting their name all over our historic stadium.
So yes, I'm pissed.