The Stalker, The Hoax and Jeff Locke

[E5 Yaz]

An incredible story. Two kids from New Hampshire. One grows up to become a major league pitcher. The other, bitter, begins a hoax about the major leaguer fixing games that ultimately begins an intense and bizarre investigation.
 
http://www.si.com/mlb/2014/08/12/mlb-gambling-facebook-game-fixing?xid=aol_home&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl49%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D514808
 
 

 

[TeddysBonefish]

Great read. Thanks!

 

[Average Reds]

That was a great read. Also a chilling look at how the MLB security folks operate as if they are above the law.

 

[OttoC]

That was a great read. Also a chilling look at how the MLB security folks operate as if they are above the law.

 
I think that is more and more how the police in general operate nowadays.

 

[Average Reds]

I understand. Still chilling.

 

[mt8thsw9th]

Yeah, the way the MLB handled that somehow made Barr look like a sympathetic character. Just simply terrifying that a private company can have the police threaten families because of silly rumors started by a nobody, told to some other lowlife bookies.

 

[MakMan44]

Yeah, the way the MLB handled that somehow made Barr look like a sympathetic character. Just simply terrifying that a private company can have the police threaten families because of silly rumors started by a nobody, told to some other lowlife bookies.

Agreed. 
 
Great read, thanks for posting it. 

 

[doc]

 
That shit has  been going on for a long time.

 

[glennhoffmania]

Unrelated to this story, but it made me think of it, I worked at a restaurant back in the 90s in Brookline, and one of my co-workers swore that MLB players were paid to throw games.  He said that the mafia was behind it, and they'd pay 7 or 8 players in any given game $1m each to make sure the team lost.  Obviously no one had smart phones, but he had a pager that game him game updates.  One day he told me that a pitcher (I think for the Reds) wouldn't make it out of the first inning.  He'd fake an injury to get taken out to help make sure the Reds lost.  Later on he checked his pager and showed me that there was a pitching change in the first inning.  I was floored.  But I still didn't and don't believe his fixing story.

 

[E5 Yaz]

As creepy as the MLB actions were, what really hit me as psychotic was ... after all of that ... Barr tries to contact Locke again at the end. No matter how he was treated, guy's got issues

 

[LogansDad]

Yeah, I hope Locke has gotten a no contact or restraining order against this guy.  He needs help, seriously.