Derek Jeter's final home game against the Orioles was rigged so that he would hit a walk off

Alrighty then, I'll start. The game in question is the game that occurred on September 25th between the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles, a game that featured Derek Jeter's last appearance on the field as a Yankee at Yankee Stadium, and a game that happened to end with Derek Jeter hitting in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Arguments for why the game wasnt rigged:1) A conspiracy of this size would be too big to keep everyone involved quiet about itFor an MLB game to be rigged in a way that Derek Jeter would have the game-winning hit in the bottom of the 9th inning, there would have to have been an extensive collaboration of organizations and entities to set it up and keep quiet about it. A conspiracy to rig the end of a baseball game (7th inning to the 9th inning) would have to at the very least involve several players and managers of both the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles, but a conspiracy of this size could very well also involve top level heads of the MLB itself such as Bud Selig, ESPN, any and all advertisers of Jeter and Yankee apparel, the front office administrations and owners of both teams, etc. No amount of money in the world would be enough to keep everyone quiet, especially since the players of the New York Yankees are known for being almost stupidly over-paid. Several players on the Yankees alone have some of the largest contracts in the history of the MLB, meaning that no amount of money in the world could keep them quiet since all of them not only are making so much money [1], but have also already made so much money [2][1] http://en.wikipedia.org...[2] http://en.wikipedia.org...A conspiracy of this size would be impossible to keep quiet since so many people involved in it are making/have made so much money. No amount of money in the world could pay so many ridiculously rich people to keep quiet, meaning it would be impossible for a conspiracy to have happened since there is no means for having those involved keep quiet. 2) Its very possible that the events of the game could happen as they did. Look on any Sportscenter broadcast on any given day during MLB season, and odds are that some team somewhere had a walk-off win. Walk-off wins are incredibly common-place in baseball, and the Yankees and Derek Jeter are no exception. The Yankees this year alone have had 14 walk off wins this year alone [3], and Jeter was hitting pretty well (.353 average with 9 RBI's) in his last few games [4]. Hell, Jeter's own damn nickname is 'Captain Clutch' for coming up big when the game is on the line! [5][3] http://www.wjla.com...[4] http://espn.go.com...[5] http://en.wikipedia.org...Its certainly possible for Derek Jeter to have hit the game winning hit through his own talent in his last career home game, and certainly more possible for him to have won the game through his natural talent than an elaborate conspiracy theory that rigged the game for him. 3) The Orioles would never have agreed to throw a game since they still have a lot on the lineFor there to have been a conspiracy for Jeter's last home game to be rigged, the conspiracy would have required the consent of the Baltimore Orioles to lose the game, which this late in the season would never have happened since the Orioles are competing for home field advantage. Following the game against the Yankees, the Orioles were 3 games behind the Angels for the best record in the American League, and the team with the best record at the end of the season winning Home Field Advantage throughout the playoffs, which is a big deal. Since the Orioles lost the game, the only way for them to win home field advantage throughout the playoffs would be if they won all of their remaining games in the regular season, while the Angels would also have to lose all of the games they have left. [6] In other words, it is now almost impossible for the Orioles to win home field advantage throughout the playoffs. [6] http://www.wjla.com...So then why would the Orioles agree to throw one of their crucial last games in the regular season and risk losing home field advantage throughout the playoffs, just so that a player on an opposing team could have a memorable last at-bat at home? The Orioles aren't a very wealthy team, but again, no amount of money in the world could get the Orioles to almost certainly lose home field advantage4) The game was going to be a spectacle no matter what happened. Jeter's last home game was going to be a huge event for baseball, maybe even bigger than anything that happens in the playoffs. Yankees fans and Jeter fans alike were tuning in to watch Jeter's last game, and thousands of Yankee + Jeter fans would keep snatching up any Jeter merchandise they wanted regardless if Jeter had a good game or not. The Yankees and MLB itself was getting loads of free publicity from Jeter's last home game, probably making a crapload of money from jersey sales as well, and the tv ratings for the last few Yankee home games were huge! [7][7] http://www.forbes.com...So the question is, why would MLB fix a game to be a huge spectacle and event, when the game was ALREADY a huge spectacle? Before Jeter even came up to bat the game was attracting record audiences on tv, and the yankees themselves were already charging huge prices for tickets to the game that were being snatched up [8]. Neither the Yankees nor the MLB would have made substantially more money from rigging the game than they were already making, meaning that they had zero reason for rigging the game in the first place. [8] http://www.nydailynews.com...5) Rigging the game would have been a public relations DISASTER for the MLBConspiracies of this size tend to be found out almost immediately since almost nothing these days escapes media scrutiny, especially in sports. The MLB itself is still trying to sort out the ongoing steroids problem that plagues the sport, with the biggest scandal in MLB being the biogenesis thing that caused A-Rod to be banned for an entire year. That was a simple drug conspiracy though, game rigging on the other hand, especially rigging the game of Jeter's last home game as a Yankee, would have been such a controversy that the MLB could NEVER get over it. It would be a conspiracy that would be talked about for a hundred years.....The MLB had far more to lose than they had to gain from rigging Jeter's last home game, which strongly suggests that the MLB wouldn't have supported rigging it at all. Such a controversy would have also forever haunted the Yankees and the Orioles, meaning they also had a lot more to lose than they had to gain from agreeing to rig the last game6) A conspiracy of this size is far too big to have been successfully carried out in secrecyRigging a professional baseball game would require days, even weeks or months of planning beforehand. In addition to that, the planning would have to have all been done in complete secrecy so that nobody would discover the game was going to be fixed in the first place.We all live in a day and age where people's conversations and phones are regularly hacked and leaked to the press for everyone to see and hear, and if someone were to be organizing something as complex and illegal as rigging a major league baseball game so that Jeter could get a walk off hit in the bottom of the 9th inning, someone would surely have overheard about it and leaked it to the press. It's simply impossible for a person or organization to undertake such a conspiracy and pull it off without anyone leaking anything about it, because there is no person or organization that is that organized, powerful, and secretive. I would love to see who Birdlandmemories believes is in charge of orchestrating this elaborate conspiracy and how they pulled this off, which brings me to my final argument7) Who or what on Earth could possibly have planned to rig Jeter's last home game?Since the MLB had more then enough reasons to not rig the game, since the Yankees and the MLB were already getting huge publicity out of the game, and since the Orioles were still competing for home field advantage throughout the playoffs and couldnt afford to throw a game, then who could organize all of these entities into fixing the game? Nobody had much to benefit from Jeter hitting a walk off in his final home game since several parties were already benefitting plenty, while everyone also had lots to lose if they did agree to rig the game. This means that whoever or whatever organized this conspiracy would have to be some other organization or person other than the Yankees, the Orioles, or the MLB itself, who had enough power and influence to bend these organizations to their will and agree to fix the game..... And the simple truth is that there is no organization or person in existence that has that much power. Not even the US government itself could force both teams to rig the game and force the MLB to let it happen, so who possibly could?