World Series Final Game - Was the Score Rigged?
One of the biggest conspiracies is that all major sports are rigged. The reason they are rigged, is because there is a lot of betting on it. No, not in Vegas, but in board rooms. Broadcasters are betting that exciting sports will bring in more viewers and seats to the stands. No point in a great team taking out another with a huge lopsided score. It is best to make things close and exciting to keep the fans attention and their spending money.
We just finished the World Series of Baseball. I won't get into how that is a bad name. If you don't know or don't care, the Houston Astros won. Which is nice, because they were just hit by a hugh hurricane and they are bidding for Amazon's HQ2. I mean, there's noway a disaster affecting a professional team would be relieved by a win of the top title. That's just craziness!
Anyway, beyond the possibility that its all rigged for ratings and corporate bucks, it is pretty hard to get an exact number, unless you grabbed a book from the future to bet on past sporting games.
Or, unless you are shaving points during a basketball game to cover bets for the mob.
But, with baseball, it would be pretty easy to allow or not allow runs. And, maybe this happened or it didn't. I'm not saying that it did. However, I will share with you this bit of luck/not so lucky thing that just happened to me.
@grantcardone posted an article Guess Dodgers-Astros Score, Win $100 Steem. I have no idea who he is and while it might be one of those "buying upvotes schemes", I figured, it wouldn't hurt to give it a shot. Its just a comment, upvote, resteem and a follow. M'eh. So, I decided to figure out how I would determine the score. To do that, I looked back at the previous scores from the games that already played.
I noticed that there were some games that were lower in the number of scores than others. It was almost every other game. Game 5 was a big difference in scores, so I threw that one out. I then only looked at the lower scoring games and saw 1,3 and 5 repeated in the scores. Since 3 had been used 3 times already, I figured it wouldn't be used again. That left 1 and 5. Now, I didn't take into account that the Astros hadn't won a World Series before. I probably should have realized that they were going for the upset. I guess a few more minutes on the Interweb would have gotten me to think that and done the coin flip to change which team got which number.
Here was my comment with a follow up reply:
Since nobody else came even close to the winning numbers, I think I should get some sort of prize.
What do you think?
Coming from someone who played baseball for much of their early years in life, I can tell you it is very VERY difficult to rig a baseball game. I watched most if not every inning of that series and it was some incredible baseball to watch. The 13-12 game was absolutely one of the exciting games to ever watch. If that was rigged, then I am incredibly impressed by the players abilities to destroy home run after home run (which is not easy).
But hey who knows, maybe someone got in the ear of Yu Darvish back home and that is all it took.
As for your bet, definitely agree that you should've won something.
Hard to rig, unless people on both teams and the umpires were involved.
Thanks for the comment.
You should have told me your logic and I would have commented the other way. I was 1 off for both teams Astros 4 Dodgers 2. Argggg.
I saw that after I posted this.
Soooo close.