VGK’s Best Postseason Players All Had One Important Thing In Common

Oops George. I can’t agree with you about Smith. I believe it is essential to keep the Misfit line intact.

Smith is very hard to replace. Solid two way player, dangerous in PK and OT. He hit a zillion posts this past season. An inch was the difference between 14 goals and 20. In an 82 games season, he would have been over 20 goals. How much of the salary cap would it cost to replace him? Smith ain’t the problem. VGK need a top notch 1st line center and move Stephenson to Tuch/Roy. Now they’ve got three scoring lines. Only one player away. And Smith ain’t the problem.

You know why he made that comment about taking it easy? It was in response to Canada not letting US friends and family of players into Canada to watch games.

As for the Sox, several, several of those players had HoF games. They could not prove most of those players did anything illegal

And sorry for comparing you to Pauline… That was a little harsh

“Shoeless” Joe Jackson, the star outfielder and one of the best hitters in the game, confessed in sworn grand jury testimony to having accepted $5,000 cash from the gamblers. It was also Jackson’s sworn testimony that he never met or spoke to any of the gamblers and was only told about the fix through conversations with other White Sox players. The other players that were in on the fix informed him that he would be getting $20,000 cash divided up in equal payments after each loss. Jackson’s testimony was that he played to win in the entire Series and did nothing on the field to throw any of the games in any way. His roommate, pitcher Lefty Williams, brought $5,000 cash up to their hotel room after losing Game 4 in Chicago and threw it down as they were packing to leave to travel back to Cincinnati. This was the only money that Jackson received at any time.[29] He later recanted his confession and professed his innocence to no effect until his death in 1951. The extent of Jackson’s collaboration with the scheme is hotly debated.[8]
Fred McMullin, utility infielder. McMullin would not have been included in the fix had he not overheard the other players’ conversations. His role as team scout may have had more impact on the fix since he saw minimal playing time in the series.
Charles “Swede” Risberg, shortstop. Risberg was Gandil’s assistant and the “muscle” of the playing group. He went 2-for-25 at the plate and committed four errors in the series.
George “Buck” Weaver, third baseman. Weaver attended the initial meetings, and while he did not go in on the fix, he knew about it. In an interview in 1956, Gandil said that it was Weaver’s idea to get the money up front from the gamblers.[13] Landis banished him on this basis, stating, “Men associating with crooks and gamblers could expect no leniency.” On January 13, 1922, Weaver unsuccessfully applied for reinstatement. Like Jackson, Weaver continued to profess his innocence to successive baseball commissioners to no effect.
Claude “Lefty” Williams, pitcher. Went 0–3 with a 6.63 ERA for the series. Only one other pitcher in baseball history, reliever George Frazier of the 1981 New York Yankees, has ever lost three games in one World Series. The third game Williams lost was Game 8 – baseball’s decision to revert to a best of seven Series in 1922 significantly reduced the opportunity for a pitcher to obtain three decisions in a Series.
Also banned was Joe Gedeon, second baseman for the St. Louis Browns. Gedeon placed bets since he learned of the fix from Risberg, a friend of his. He informed Comiskey of the fix after the Series in an effort to gain a reward. He was banned for life by Landis along with the eight White Sox, and died in 1941.[30]

The indefinite suspensions imposed by Landis in relation to the scandal were the most suspensions of any duration to be simultaneously imposed until 2013 when 13 player suspensions of between 50 and 211 games were announced following the doping-related Biogenesis scandal.