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El Supremo

(20,365 posts)
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 02:54 PM Oct 2015

Toronto fans start petition to have Canadian mounties investigate conspiracy against Blue Jays

The petition, which had 9,600 signatures as of Sunday night, included a letter to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It reads:

Investigate MLB For Match Fixing and Conspiracy Against The Toronto Blue Jays. The evidence is clear, MLB’s refusal to open the dome, the matinee starts during the week, while games in Texas will be during prime time, The MLB Network Broadcasters openly criticizing Toronto’s crowd, the blown review of Troy Tulowitzki’s tag on Rougned Odor at second base, when video evidence clearly showed Odor off the bag, and last but not least, the inconsistent, embarrassing strike zone of home plate umpire Vic Carapazza. The motives for this conspiracy is clear: Major League Baseball wants teams to go deep in to the playoffs that will be profitable in the American market, so having Canada’s only team win one of the most competitive divisions in the league and be the higher seeded team in the ALDS is less then ideal for them.

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/for-petes-sake/article38793684.html


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Toronto fans start petition to have Canadian mounties investigate conspiracy against Blue Jays (Original Post) El Supremo Oct 2015 OP
The Mounties always get their man! KamaAina Oct 2015 #1
We had The Lone Ranger. They had... El Supremo Oct 2015 #2
Oh great! bluedigger Oct 2015 #3
Hmmm. Now at least they would have gotten to the bottom of the deflated balls issue!! madinmaryland Oct 2015 #4
Is that some sort of swipe at our friends, the Mounties? bluedigger Oct 2015 #7
$$$$$$$$$$ CanSocDem Oct 2015 #5
Do you guys really call a baseball game a "match"??? El Supremo Oct 2015 #6
All that Maple Leafs angst must really be messing with their heads. GoCubsGo Oct 2015 #8
 

CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)
5. $$$$$$$$$$
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 08:42 PM
Oct 2015


This:

Major League Baseball wants teams to go deep in to the playoffs that will be profitable in the American market, so having Canada’s only team win one of the most competitive divisions in the league and be the higher seeded team in the ALDS is less then ideal for them.


We're used to this shit. Not so the new kids on the block...


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El Supremo

(20,365 posts)
6. Do you guys really call a baseball game a "match"???
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 09:14 PM
Oct 2015

Like Cricket?

I'd like to see the Blue Jays move to somewhere more appreciative - like Mexico.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
8. All that Maple Leafs angst must really be messing with their heads.
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 03:00 PM
Oct 2015

I am sure the RCMP has more pertinent things to investigate, besides the fact that an MLB home plate umpire is making up his own strike zone. Pssssttt...Several others have been doing that, as well. The same goes for blown calls elsewhere on the field. Now, off to get some things done before the Cubs-Cards game starts at 4:30 ET (i.e, matinee time).

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