When you look for a scripted production, you either look for incidents like the Tuck Rule, the Samaki Walker shot, the Calvin Johnson ruling in Week 1, Super Bowl XXXVI's ending, and the like -- or you look for statistical anomalies which just say "That CAN'T be right."
It is clear that the New York Yankees are going to the World Series. There is too much money riding on that they don't. It is almost as clear that they will play the Philadelphia Phillies.
Why? Look at this statistical anomaly.
We all hear about "home field advantage" and all this noise in Major League Baseball.
The home team, with Friday night's 6-5 comeback win by the Yankees over Texas is the sixth consecutive playoff game played by Texas in which the visiting team has won. In the entire American League playoffs, the home team is now 1-8. The only win by a home team in the entire American League playoffs was the Game 3 clincher by the Yankees over the Twins.
Overall in the playoffs, the home team is now 4-12.
Anyone who tells me something is not being rigged here is either simply ignorant to the facts (I'm not sure, frankly, you could have that kind of a record, as a home team, in most cases, even if all the games were being played in Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and Wrigley Field!) or too gullible to be reasoned with.
Follow the money.
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