1918 title tainted?

[DirtDog]

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/mlb/news/story?id=6396358

 

Apparently the Cubs threw it just like the White Sox did the following year. The prize money wasn't enough so the players threw the game to make a pretty penny and buy themselves the finest automawhatzits on the market.

 

Interesting story.

[Cocos Disciples]

A) Strong thread title for an article that says there is a "hint" that it was thrown.

 

B ) Don't care, it was almost a century ago.

[witty_alias]

YAWWWWWWN....who cares.

[SoxSport]

It's not the Red Sox who are "tainted"--it's the Cubs.

[yeszir]

My ENTIRE life is a lie

[Dojji]

Corruption in baseball in the early 20th Century! Say it ain't so!

[La Munson]

And the life of a Cubs fan just gets worse and worse

[Wil Corderos Wife]

Or perhaps we were just that kickass that it LOOKED like it was thrown - a la 2004 and 2007

[Palodios]

Is there really any amount of money that you could pay the Yankees to throw a playoff series to the Red Sox? I'm sure if it there was someone would have tried it

[DirtDog]

A) Strong thread title for an article that says there is a "hint" that it was thrown.

 

B ) Don't care, it was almost a century ago.

 

A ) Meant to put a question mark on the thread title. Wasn't trying to spew out a questionable theory as fact.

 

B ) If you don't care, then don't post. Was just providing an article that sheds some insight into Boston Red Sox past. I think it applies seeing as this is a Boston Red Sox forum.

[DirtDog]

Is there really any amount of money that you could pay the Yankees to throw a playoff series to the Red Sox? I'm sure if it there was someone would have tried it

 

It would be interesting but I really don't think it's possible these days. The players make so much money that you'd really have to throw a substancial amount of dough at them for them to do it. These days large bets are tracked very well in Vegas and I just don't think there is any bogus syndication outside of Vegas that can front or invest that kind of money just to fix a game.

[a700hitter]

Sounds like a story created by some whiny Cub fans.

[Palodios]

It would be interesting but I really don't think it's possible these days. The players make so much money that you'd really have to throw a substancial amount of dough at them for them to do it. These days large bets are tracked very well in Vegas and I just don't think there is any bogus syndication outside of Vegas that can front or invest that kind of money just to fix a game.

 

I wasn't necessarily talking about gambling:lol:

[BornToRun]

The Cubs didn't just throw that series, they threw the whole f***in' century

[Cocos Disciples]

A ) Meant to put a question mark on the thread title. Wasn't trying to spew out a questionable theory as fact.

 

B ) If you don't care, then don't post. Was just providing an article that sheds some insight into Boston Red Sox past. I think it applies seeing as this is a Boston Red Sox forum.

 

But if I don't post, how else will my post count go up???

[italstallianion]

But if I don't post' date=' how else will my post count go up???[/quote']

 

 

By secretly posting in the "secret" mod forum.

[Meh]

If the Sox bought out the Cubs back then got to wonder if they did the same with the Rockies and Cardinals.

[Youk Of The Nation]

By secretly posting in the "secret" mod forum.

 

Actually, I was curious about that some time ago, so I tested. Apparently, our Mod Forum posts don't add to our post counts.

[DirtDog]

But if I don't post' date=' how else will my post count go up???[/quote']

 

If you agree with a post, just quote it without giving your opinion. Your post count will go up in no time.

[Palodios]

If you agree with a post' date=' just quote it without giving your opinion. Your post count will go up in no time.[/quote']

[Palodios]

You know, I feel like that is cheating.

[SoxSport]

The Red Sox didn't "throw" the World Series, it was the Cubs, MAYBE, who did. It is the Cubs, MAYBE, who are tainted. Not the Red Sox.

 

Some people like to mimic the media. ESPN has a NY bias (their main market), and never misses an opportunity to dig at the Red Sox.

 

You could say every World Series the Yankees won in the 1920s was tainted. Because they won them with key players (more than just the Babe) bought from the Red Sox championship teams a few years before--to turn a losing American League NY team around. By just changing uniforms.You won't hear that on ESPN.

[DirtDog]

The Red Sox didn't "throw" the World Series, it was the Cubs, MAYBE, who did. It is the Cubs, MAYBE, who are tainted. Not the Red Sox.

 

Some people like to mimic the media. ESPN has a NY bias (their main market), and never misses an opportunity to dig at the Red Sox.

 

You could say every World Series the Yankees won in the 1920s was tainted. Because they won them with key players (more than just the Babe) bought from the Red Sox championship teams a few years before--to turn a losing American League NY team around. By just changing uniforms.You won't hear that on ESPN.

 

I said the title may have been tainted, not the Red Sox team. Obviously the Red Sox did nothign wrong. But if you play for a title and you later learn your opposition tanked for a payday... would you feel 100% fufilled? Or like you completely earned it? No.

 

Also, the part I bolded in your post really doesn't make much sense to me.

[Palodios]

I said the title may have been tainted' date=' not the Red Sox team. Obviously the Red Sox did nothign wrong. But if you play for a title and you later learn your opposition tanked for a payday... would you feel 100% fufilled? Or like you completely earned it? [/quote']

 

Oh come on, what on earth are the odds of the Cubs actually winning the world series?

[Divinity]

If the Sox bought out the Cubs back then got to wonder if they did the same with the Rockies and Cardinals.

 

Nah, instead of paying off other teams they decided it would be more economic to send Ortiz and Manny a lifetime supply of PED's.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

I understand it was just a joke but it falls flat because the Yankees are guilty of the same thing.

[SoxSport]

I said the title may have been tainted, not the Red Sox team. Obviously the Red Sox did nothign wrong. But if you play for a title and you later learn your opposition tanked for a payday... would you feel 100% fufilled? Or like you completely earned it? No.

 

 

Tainted is not the right word. Tainted title implies tainted Red Sox.

 

The Yankees, by the way, bought their first championships in the early 1920s. Courtesy of the Red Sox. You could look it up.

[jacksonianmarch]

It's almost 100 yrs ago. Who gives a f***

[hasser45]

its nearly a century ago , what are you gonna do lol