Translation:

Of course it wasn’t fixed. Baseball games are never fixed. It just doesn’t ever happen. Except for when it did happen. But then it never happened again because everyone in baseball is good and holy so there is no way this could ever happen and so it is a waste of everyones time and bandwidth to make stupid polls to find out what is the general consensus. It couldn’t ever happen again, for real, I mean, really…well, maybe it could but I don’t think so.

Unlike the NBA, where calls are more subjective, umpires would have a tough time fixing a game without it being obvious. Yesterday would be an example of being too obvious.

although I like to think it was fixed b/c the Giants would, in my mind, never lose to the Dodgers on their own.

what groug said

so you are saying the Giants fixed the games?

There were outside influences involved, IIRC.

sample size

that ended the 2002 series

1955-2004

We’ve discussed many a crazy theory at work. My two personal favorites:

Hollow Earth
Jesus was the first vampire

Those are good times right there.

Who’s assigning it, you?

There is a conspiracy theory that a guy in Asia had teams of agents spend years mostly killing time and they took over airplanes, blah, blah, blah. Do you buy that one?

Why do you assume that the idea was that MLB would do it? Why wouldn’t the motive be the same as endless conspiracies that have been proven, money? What was the money line? How would the conspirators be caught? The NBA ref was a raving idiot.

When presented with a false choice, the answer is always neither.

For god’s sake— is the idea that MLB itself would do this? Why?

-First off, for any of this to make any sense whatsoever, you need to know that Casey Blake is Bud Selig’s secret son. Selig had an affair many years ago with Casey Blake’s mother, Esmeralda Blake. In order to keep his wife from finding out, Esmeralda forced him to not only pay her monthly hush money, but also to promise her something: That if Bud were ever to become commissioner of Major League Baseball, he would not only guarantee that Casey Blake would become a Major League Baseball player, but that his team would win at least 2 out of 3 games against the San Francisco Giants on the dates of August 11th through August 13th.

Also, if you rearrange the letters in "Bud Selig’s secret son Casey Blake

They would have to have someone on the inside to throw these games. They needed someone with the ability to distract the fans, the players, and the most cagey of all: Bruce Bochy. When it comes to distraction, the most arresting, surefire way to grab someones attention is with high-pitched noises. That points to one place: The Jr. Giants Announcers. They are double-agents that were all sired in Bud Selig’s extra-marital affairs. Each time the Jr. Giants announcer says “NOW BATTING!”, the umpires microchips are tripped, and they are hypnotized into making egregious calls in favor of whatever team Casey Blake is on. When the Jr. Giants announcers squeals “YOU GEEEEENIO VELLLLEEEZZZZZZ”, everyone in the crowd covers their ears, allowing Blake to give the verbal signal to Papa Bud that everything is going according to plan.

There’s also a long sad list of actual conspiracies perpetrated by evil government fucks.

Once you’ve gone over the list, it’s hard to believe there’s anything the powerful wouldn’t do for more power.

I’m not sayin I’m a conspiracy theorist, I’m just sayin I don’t drink good-government coolaid.

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It could be that, regardless of officiating, the US team has as good a chance of winning in Mexico City as a #16 seed has of winning its first-round game during March Madness.

I think that the giants are a big enough market team that MLB would want us in the playoffs. Sure were not the yanks red sox mets cubs dodgers or angels but I think we occupy that second tier with the tigers white sox cardinals phillies etc. I bet MLB would have hated if Cleveland had beat Boston in 2007.

Yes, ratings would be higher if the WORLD SERIES had teams from the most major cities (so why doesn’t MLB fix it every year so that it’s dodgers-yankees?). We are far from the WS at the moment, and the dodgers are on a near-certain path to the playoffs— if we catch them, wouldn’t they become favored for the wild card? So you’re suggesting the possibility that MLB is fixing something that doesn’t need fixing. Ok, check. Yeah. Doesn’t make any sense as to motive. Way too premature. The motive to do that would be in the playoffs, would they not?

Next, you are actually suggesting that MLB’s front office — which is made up of several people — might actually be conspiring with the umpires — made up of several more people and at least a dozen umpire crews. And ALL of these people would have to be willing to commit a felony that would very likely be found out (conspiracies are quite difficult to keep secret when they involve that many people). Not only that, but ALL these people would have to agree to an imprisonable offense IMMEDIATELY upon hearing the offer. I mean, if even ONE of those people said ‘no’ and went public, the whole thing is up.

Finally, it is MID-AUGUST, and you are talking about fixing the World Series participants NOW? Putting aside the fact that under the theory you’re suggesting, LA still makes the playoffs so these conspirators are still in the exact same spot, you’re ignoring the benefits to baseball if the races down the stretch are TIGHTER, not looser. Why would baseball benefit from having blowouts in the standings all during September? You’re not making any sense, mang.

But no, I think the umps just blew it this series.

i barely know ’er

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity”