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Post by DBBN on Oct 14, 2012 15:44:16 GMT -5
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Post by Grarliner on Oct 14, 2012 16:00:59 GMT -5
Interesting. You have to feel it's not possible for stuff like this not to happen regularly.
Personally, I do not believe in Davydenko's innocence. From review of the evidence, I just don't think they had definitive proof against him, which is very difficult to obtain. Anybody with a shred of intelligence would use go-betweens and not personally implicate himself.
I would not in any way be surprised if Dolgopolov was guilty of some underhanded stuff, either. I don't want this to sound chauvinistic, but let's remember that people in Russia and the former SSRs grew up in a completely different culture. Bribes and graft are ways of life. They don't look on it in the same way that we do. It's embedded in their culture. The entire government of Russia now is a corrupt kleptocracy. It would not shock me at all if someone like Dog felt like upping his incentive for playing Umag by throwing a match.
I guess we are supposed to feel consoled that this supposedly does not take place in Grand Slam events?
Things like this feel as inevitable as tanking is. Yes, players will occasionally not try in matches they feel are not very significant for them. So ... what if you could make some money on that? Very tempting for a certain type of personality, I'm sure.
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Post by lexpretend on Oct 15, 2012 3:30:05 GMT -5
Baghdatis seems like an odd target for Savic.
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Post by janie on Oct 15, 2012 6:10:29 GMT -5
Why did the writer decide it was Baghdatis who was referred to in the report? Bad writing to just declare it's him w/ no explanation. Plot hole!
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Post by jon on Oct 15, 2012 8:28:01 GMT -5
I think the writer is implying that Baghdatis was the only player who played all three of Belgrade 2009, Beijing 2010 and Moscow 2010.
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Post by DBBN on Oct 15, 2012 19:05:48 GMT -5
Indeed, that's basically what the article says.
He did elaborate on Twitter a bit more, though, saying that there were other players who it could have been, but the text messages were in English. Although now he's waffling and saying it could have been Snotso.
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Post by Old Hag on Oct 15, 2012 23:14:06 GMT -5
If he thinks it could be Snotso, then the Dolgopolov connection doesn't fit. This smells like nonsense to me.
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Post by janie on Oct 16, 2012 6:21:45 GMT -5
Indeed, that's basically what the article says. He did elaborate on Twitter a bit more, though, saying that there were other players who it could have been, but the text messages were in English. Although now he's waffling and saying it could have been Snotso. Too late now; he already trashed Baghdatis to the world. What a jerk. |
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Post by lexpretend on Oct 16, 2012 6:26:00 GMT -5
Baghdatis comes out of it untarnished though, right? He was approached by the FORCES OF CORRUPTION!!!!1111 and he immediately went to the authorities like a good boy.
Another thing that doesn't add up is the writer calling Savic and Baghdatis old friends. They exchanged mobile numbers in 2009 and the first betting overture was made less than a year later. That's not "old friends". Unless they were friends from before they had each others' numbers and the writer didn't feel like telling us.
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Post by The Chloe on Oct 16, 2012 15:07:32 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't get Baghdatis looking bad in this at all. I suppose that one could say it'd make him a "rat", but I like to think that those of us not currently starring on the Sopranos would agree that, if this is true, he did the right thing.
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Post by DBBN on Oct 16, 2012 19:25:58 GMT -5
Indeed, that's basically what the article says. He did elaborate on Twitter a bit more, though, saying that there were other players who it could have been, but the text messages were in English. Although now he's waffling and saying it could have been Snotso. Too late now; he already trashed Baghdatis to the world. What a jerk. Yeah, as Alex and Becca said, Baghdatis is the Hero of the piece! Anyway the Hero is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, which is that this is still going on, both at large volume and precipitous heights. |
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Post by janie on Oct 17, 2012 6:01:58 GMT -5
One can only learn Baghdatis' role in the piece by actually reading the whole thing, and when one doesn't feel like reading the whole thing, one shouid not rashly post against it based on the Way It Looks. I'm busted!  |
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Post by DBBN on Oct 17, 2012 7:06:55 GMT -5
You should run for President.
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Post by Brinyi on Oct 17, 2012 14:27:57 GMT -5
It seems that no other media has taken the ball and run with it, lending credence to the activation of Rongrong's nonsense detector. If there was a whiff of truth in this someone would have at least mentioned it, the Daily Mail or whatever.
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Post by Grarliner on Oct 17, 2012 18:45:32 GMT -5
The Daily Mail responds to truth?
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Post by Brinyi on Oct 18, 2012 9:34:51 GMT -5
Mainly whiffs thereof.
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And Dolgirl doesn't look too above-board here...
And Dolgirl doesn't look too above-board here...
