Posted October 6, 200519 yr A buddy of mine who really is out there told me MLB games are fixed. He said there's a reason the Braves win the division every year $$$$ TBS. He believes in the last 10 years every World Series champion has had a hidden agenda by MLB. He said that players along with MLB controls who wins and loses. He said the Marlins were told to back off the last two weeks of the season.LOL I told him he's been reading too much of Jose book. The guy is out there, I thought I'd post this to share a good laugh with others.
October 6, 200519 yr There are times that I really feel as if there is a mandate from the MLB offices to give borderline calls to the more marketable team (I mean, just look at the regular season strike-zone given to nationally marketable teams like the Yankees, Cubs and Braves, it gets absurd sometimes). However, I don't think the games are completely fixed, but if you were to tell me that the MLB told it's umpires to err on the side of big market clubs, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
October 6, 200519 yr My buddy told me that the government controls our minds through flu shots. He also thinks that there's a secret race living six inches under Denver and they're all named Mortonson. And he thinks Spanish and Italian are the same language.
October 6, 200519 yr So, if the MLB games are fixed, then does that mean that all the homeruns are planned and the ball is controlled by a remote control or somethin? If so, then that must be why some balls hit very weakly off the end of the bat go out for homers..
October 6, 200519 yr A buddy of mine who really is out there told me MLB games are fixed. He said there's a reason the Braves win the division every year $$$$ TBS. He believes in the last 10 years every World Series champion has had a hidden agenda by MLB. He said that players along with MLB controls who wins and loses. He said the Marlins were told to back off the last two weeks of the season.LOL I told him he's been reading too much of Jose book. The guy is out there, I thought I'd post this to share a good laugh with others. is your buddy a Cubs fans? TSwift25, are you serious in thinking there is a mandate to call borderline strikes? common
October 6, 200519 yr A buddy of mine who really is out there told me MLB games are fixed. He said there's a reason the Braves win the division every year $$$$ TBS. He believes in the last 10 years every World Series champion has had a hidden agenda by MLB. He said that players along with MLB controls who wins and loses. He said the Marlins were told to back off the last two weeks of the season.LOL I told him he's been reading too much of Jose book. The guy is out there, I thought I'd post this to share a good laugh with others. is your buddy a Cubs fans? TSwift25, are you serious in thinking there is a mandate to call borderline strikes? common Stop saying common, it's come on.
October 6, 200519 yr My buddy told me that the government controls our minds through flu shots. He also thinks that there's a secret race living six inches under Denver and they're all named Mortonson. And he thinks Spanish and Italian are the same language. :lol :lol :lol :lol
October 6, 200519 yr A buddy of mine who really is out there told me MLB games are fixed. He said there's a reason the Braves win the division every year $$$$ TBS. He believes in the last 10 years every World Series champion has had a hidden agenda by MLB. He said that players along with MLB controls who wins and loses. He said the Marlins were told to back off the last two weeks of the season.LOL I told him he's been reading too much of Jose book. The guy is out there, I thought I'd post this to share a good laugh with others. is your buddy a Cubs fans? TSwift25, are you serious in thinking there is a mandate to call borderline strikes? common I didn't, but then I watched Leiter get the calls with the Yankees (especially that game against Boston) that he never got here this season. I mean, think about his last game with the Marlins, and then his first with the Yankees...he didn't pitch all that differently, yet he had drastically different results. I never said I thought without question it happened, I said that if you were to tell me that such a memo exists, I wouldn't be at all surprised. FWIW, Baseball is probably the easiest of the big 4 sports to fix simply because refs/umpires exert so much more control over the game than they do in any of the other sports.
October 6, 200519 yr I think baseball would be one of the hardest games to fix... Even a professional baseball player isn't guaranteed to hit a fastball over the fence. A lot of fastballs down the middle are ground ball outs, pop outs, etc... That's why a great baseball player fails 7 out of every 10 times at bat... Umpires can only have so much say without making anything look obvious. Balls and strikes are one way, but unless every batter either walks or strikes out, there is still way too much left in the player's hands.
October 6, 200519 yr A buddy of mine who really is out there told me MLB games are fixed. He said there's a reason the Braves win the division every year $$$$ TBS. He believes in the last 10 years every World Series champion has had a hidden agenda by MLB. He said that players along with MLB controls who wins and loses. He said the Marlins were told to back off the last two weeks of the season.LOL I told him he's been reading too much of Jose book. The guy is out there, I thought I'd post this to share a good laugh with others. is your buddy a Cubs fans? TSwift25, are you serious in thinking there is a mandate to call borderline strikes? common Stop saying common, it's come on. who cares? stop being the grammar police. and i want whatever your boy is smoking The "real" FAN :lol
October 6, 200519 yr I think baseball would be one of the hardest games to fix... Even a professional baseball player isn't guaranteed to hit a fastball over the fence. A lot of fastballs down the middle are ground ball outs, pop outs, etc... That's why a great baseball player fails 7 out of every 10 times at bat... Umpires can only have so much say without making anything look obvious. Balls and strikes are one way, but unless every batter either walks or strikes out, there is still way too much left in the player's hands. I'm not saying that the ending is scripted, if that were the case, then yes, I agree baseball's near impossible to fix completely, what I'm saying is that it wouldn't surprise me if baseball told umpires to make every attempt to make sure that the Cubs, Cardinals, Yankees, Red Sox, Giants, Mets, Dodgers and Braves are playing meaningful games in September. Why? Because those teams have established fan-bases in all parts of the country, not just in a 30 mile radius from their home field. I mean, how much more control does an umpire have saying whether that borderline 2-2 pitch to Barry Bonds was a ball than lets say an NFL ref deeming a catch made by Terrel Owens to be in bounds...especially given instant replay and coaches' challenges. Baseball's the only sport where one official (the homeplate umpire) has unilateral control of the game.
October 6, 200519 yr A buddy of mine who really is out there told me MLB games are fixed. He said there's a reason the Braves win the division every year $$$$ TBS. He believes in the last 10 years every World Series champion has had a hidden agenda by MLB. He said that players along with MLB controls who wins and loses. He said the Marlins were told to back off the last two weeks of the season.LOL I told him he's been reading too much of Jose book. The guy is out there, I thought I'd post this to share a good laugh with others. is your buddy a Cubs fans? TSwift25, are you serious in thinking there is a mandate to call borderline strikes? common I didn't, but then I watched Leiter get the calls with the Yankees (especially that game against Boston) that he never got here this season. I mean, think about his last game with the Marlins, and then his first with the Yankees...he didn't pitch all that differently, yet he had drastically different results. I never said I thought without question it happened, I said that if you were to tell me that such a memo exists, I wouldn't be at all surprised. FWIW, Baseball is probably the easiest of the big 4 sports to fix simply because refs/umpires exert so much more control over the game than they do in any of the other sports. it happens all the time with any pitcher in baseball. it depends who is behind the plate at any given time.
October 6, 200519 yr A buddy of mine who really is out there told me MLB games are fixed. He said there's a reason the Braves win the division every year $$$$ TBS. He believes in the last 10 years every World Series champion has had a hidden agenda by MLB. He said that players along with MLB controls who wins and loses. He said the Marlins were told to back off the last two weeks of the season.LOL I told him he's been reading too much of Jose book. The guy is out there, I thought I'd post this to share a good laugh with others. is your buddy a Cubs fans? TSwift25, are you serious in thinking there is a mandate to call borderline strikes? common I didn't, but then I watched Leiter get the calls with the Yankees (especially that game against Boston) that he never got here this season. I mean, think about his last game with the Marlins, and then his first with the Yankees...he didn't pitch all that differently, yet he had drastically different results. I never said I thought without question it happened, I said that if you were to tell me that such a memo exists, I wouldn't be at all surprised. FWIW, Baseball is probably the easiest of the big 4 sports to fix simply because refs/umpires exert so much more control over the game than they do in any of the other sports. it happens all the time with any pitcher in baseball. it depends who is behind the plate at any given time. That's true too, I was hoping someone would say that. But have you looked at Leiter's numbers with the Yankees versus the Marlins this season, it's kind of interesting, but he's the same guy, pitching the same game. I mean, in almost 20 fewer innings with the Yankees, he only had 7 fewer strike-outs, and his percentage of walks per inning fell from 75% to 61%. So simply changing uniforms is going to cause a drastic change in walk-ratios and strike-out ratios?
October 6, 200519 yr A buddy of mine who really is out there told me MLB games are fixed. He said there's a reason the Braves win the division every year $$$$ TBS. He believes in the last 10 years every World Series champion has had a hidden agenda by MLB. He said that players along with MLB controls who wins and loses. He said the Marlins were told to back off the last two weeks of the season.LOL I told him he's been reading too much of Jose book. The guy is out there, I thought I'd post this to share a good laugh with others. is your buddy a Cubs fans? TSwift25, are you serious in thinking there is a mandate to call borderline strikes? common I didn't, but then I watched Leiter get the calls with the Yankees (especially that game against Boston) that he never got here this season. I mean, think about his last game with the Marlins, and then his first with the Yankees...he didn't pitch all that differently, yet he had drastically different results. I never said I thought without question it happened, I said that if you were to tell me that such a memo exists, I wouldn't be at all surprised. FWIW, Baseball is probably the easiest of the big 4 sports to fix simply because refs/umpires exert so much more control over the game than they do in any of the other sports. it happens all the time with any pitcher in baseball. it depends who is behind the plate at any given time. That's true too, I was hoping someone would say that. But have you looked at Leiter's numbers with the Yankees versus the Marlins this season, it's kind of interesting, but he's the same guy, pitching the same game. I mean, in almost 20 fewer innings with the Yankees, he only had 7 fewer strike-outs, and his percentage of walks per inning fell from 75% to 61%. So simply changing uniforms is going to cause a drastic change in walk-ratios and strike-out ratios? change of scenerie, different coaches, luck, ball bouncing his way? very difficult to point why, it could be a billion things. Remember the old saying, baseball is a game of inches. A small adjustment could go a long way (either on the positive or on the negative).
October 6, 200519 yr I think baseball would be one of the hardest games to fix... Even a professional baseball player isn't guaranteed to hit a fastball over the fence. A lot of fastballs down the middle are ground ball outs, pop outs, etc... That's why a great baseball player fails 7 out of every 10 times at bat... Umpires can only have so much say without making anything look obvious. Balls and strikes are one way, but unless every batter either walks or strikes out, there is still way too much left in the player's hands. If your "great baseball player" only has a .300 OBP, he ain't so great.
October 6, 200519 yr Author guys not only does this guy believe the umps control who wins and loses, but that players are in on it too. He says its for the better of game that players do certain things, like slow pitches down to able to hit them in certain situation during a game, going down with unexplain injuries. The guy is unbelievable I can't talk baseball with him anymore.
October 7, 200519 yr guys not only does this guy believe the umps control who wins and loses, but that players are in on it too. He says its for the better of game that players do certain things, like slow pitches down to able to hit them in certain situation during a game, going down with unexplain injuries. The guy is unbelievable I can't talk baseball with him anymore. This guy is an idiot. He probably has some agenda against baseball. With the thousands of baseball players that have played in the big leagues if there was a fix going on a disgruntled former player would have said something long ago.
October 7, 200519 yr I think baseball would be one of the hardest games to fix... Even a professional baseball player isn't guaranteed to hit a fastball over the fence. A lot of fastballs down the middle are ground ball outs, pop outs, etc... That's why a great baseball player fails 7 out of every 10 times at bat... Umpires can only have so much say without making anything look obvious. Balls and strikes are one way, but unless every batter either walks or strikes out, there is still way too much left in the player's hands. If your "great baseball player" only has a .300 OBP, he ain't so great. Actually, if he fails 7 out of 10 times, that would give him a .300 AVG. Walks and HBP don't count as AB's, so therefore it doesn't count as one of the 10 times.
October 7, 200519 yr I agree with the disgruntled former player thing and that baseball rigs game would be stupid because if that were true and were to leak baseball would go away
October 8, 200519 yr Author He probably thinks everyone is out to get him too. :lol yeap everybody is a racist to him
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