Quote Originally Posted by bodio:
Personal? Why would it be personal? It's never personal. I'm just pointing out the fact that reasons like "team A is gonna tank on purpose", "team A is in a must-win game", "team B is unmotivated to give 100% on the field" are all designed to make bettors feel 'warm and fuzzy' about their selections. That's it. Those are superficial reasons to make a play.
As to your point that Yankees are 'tanking lately', that's another absurd statement. Yankees are 6-3 in their last 9 games. They beat Tampa 3 out of 5 games and Red Sox 2 out of 3 in that span. How is this tanking?
Where do you come up with this stuff? 
Unless Girardi, came up to me and said, "Composite, we're planning on tanking the games vs Tampa so the Red Sox will miss the playoffs" this is simply an educated guess.
But it's not something stupid like "this is a must-win game for the Red Sox." One thing is patently clear: Yanks want the Red Sox to miss the playoffs. You don't hear any Yankee saying they hope to knock Tampa out of the playoffs.
They'd benefit by losing to TB. So they may not play 100%. I don't understand why that's so controversial. I could be wrong. But I could be right. If I'm right, the odds of TB winning go up dramatically. Probably a lot higher than 66% as reflected in the current odds.
BTW, I meant they tanked the last game of the TB series in NY. Then played 3 tough games vs Boston and then lost again last night.
After clinching the East, Yanks lost 15-6 to TB. Then they won 2 of 3 vs Boston, losing only in 14 innings. Then they lost 5-2 to TB yesterday.
I'm not the only one suggesting that the Yanks could be tanking.
The Daily News for instance wrote:
"New York finds itself in an interesting pickle in that losing to the Rays hurts Boston's postseason chances. The final two games of the regular season mean nothing to the Bombers and everything to the Rays, who pulled into a tie with the Red Sox for the AL wild card Monday night. ... Does [Joe Girardi] go all out to protect the integrity of the playoff race or does he do what he feels is necessary to best prepare the Yankees for Friday's Game 1? "My first objective is to make sure our team is ready and healthy to go on Friday," Girardi said. "That's what we have to do. It's a tough situation." Nobody is suggesting that Girardi has plans to tank these last two games in an attempt to help the Rays get into the playoffs, but it wouldn't be the worst idea"
Like the Giants call..
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