Bully for Gov. Mike DeWine and Major League Baseball for the (limited) restrictions they’re imposing on proposition betting – gambling on specific actions by a given athlete in big-time sports.

But what DeWine, a Cedarville Republican, and the baseball clubs want to do falls far, far short of what is needed.

Ohio must ban prop bets. Period. Because the big-money greed that prop bets attract, like metal filings to a magnet, is a sure-fire formula for (a) cheating and (b) regulatory hanky-panky in state capitals.

Already, according to Statehouse filings – even before the governor, with or without a complacent General Assembly, acts – the sports-betting industry fields almost 20 lobbyists on Capitol Square. That hints at the enormous profits they rake in and want to protect. (By comparis

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