OK, the Red Sox won, and honestly, they deserved to win. They played better, especially in the endgame parts of the past few games. Also, Schilling was a warrior of epic proportions last night. I'm not really that upset. I'm mostly tired, and glad that I'm not compelled to stay up and watch FOX for the next 10 days until 12:30 or so, minimally.
However...I have a conspiracy theory. I'm not normally the one that comes up with these things, but this makes an eerie sense.
If you were going to have the Yankees throw the series, who would you approach to do it? Who is the ONE guy that you know will be in there in most of the wins, and who can turn it around subtly? Mariano Rivera, of course. Two blown saves in a row for the best reliever in post season history--by a lot.
Ok, now i think Mariano is a great guy...and he probably is. But if you were an underworld figure, or someone with some resources and wanted to show Mariano that he'd better do what you were telling him to, how would you convince him? Not money, he's already very rich. Would you threaten his family? And to show you meant business if he didn't comply, or threatened to go to the police, would you kill his family? No, you'd kill someone close, but not his family. That keeps the threat alive.
Did we forget that he came back for game 1 from the funeral of his close, but not immediate family, killed in a freak pool accident? In Panama, do you think that sort of thing would be hard to cover up?
So...it's crazy, I know, but it IS a bit scary. It could easily be true.
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