"Venmo users are prohibited from acting in a manner that could be considered harassment. Venmo requests are just one avenue for people to harass athletes online and can actually be among the more innocuous forms of heckling. These people would never say it to your face and they just feel so comfortable with this social media stuff that there's no accountability. In May, an intoxicated bettor overseas sent messages on social media threatening to murder the family of Houston Astros pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. after a bad start. But when they win money on a parlay, no one's ever sent me any of the money," he said on "The Next Round" podcast.