Before Game 2 of the World Series, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred assured baseball fans that the league is staying “really vigilant” as the sports world reacts to the NBA’s recent betting scandal.

After federal officials arrested nearly three dozen people, including Miami Heat star Terry Rozier and Portland Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billups, Manfred said on Saturday, October 25 that the MLB’s “No. 1 priority is to protect the integrity of the game.”

“We didn’t ask to have legalized sports betting,” Manfred, 67, told reporters. “It kind of came, and that’s the environment in which we operate. Now we don’t have a lot of choice about that, and if it’s going to change — broadly change — probably the only way it would happen is the federal government.”

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