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For the first time in history, the score was changed in Chicago's favor from 89-83 to 89-84. In the first quarter Ben Gordon scored a long jumper for two points. With 5:44 left in the game, it was changed to a three pointer. Where else but in Chicago does a home team get a reprieve like that? It's happened to me many times. I have a trade where there's a substantial profit. "They're taking that down. They missed that someone on the other side of the ring was bidding ahead of you." Usually it happened within the first five minutes after the event. But I've had it happen a few hours later. Sports imitates life.

Where else but in Chicago would the referees be seen coming out of the stadium with their others wearing Go Chicago shirts. Usually one expects the referees to be neutral. But most of all how could a series go to six overtimes in just seven games with four of the games going to overtime, with the margins of victory being 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 10 and 21 points? This must be quantified in the markets with five small changes in the last seven. It wouldn't give the big boys much chance to have done much damage and created the booms and busts so necessary for the "public to do themselves in." Finally this series went in terms of wins for the first six games: c, b, b, c, b, c, Let's call it a rise for a Chicago win and a decline for Boston in keeping with the ecology of markets. Happened 57 times the last 10 years on daily S&P. And sure enough the expectation is for b's, the -1 to win with an expectation of -0.3% . Don't ask what happens on the second day of the month.


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  1. Penn State Clips on May 3, 2009 2:46 pm

    Last night's game was played in Boston, not Chicago.

    A two vs. three is a reviewable play, even later in the game. Gordon's shot was clearly beyond the arc (I don't know how they missed it the first time) and the addition of a point was correct. Your claim that this was "the first time in history" this has happened is demonstrably untrue.

  2. vniederhoffer on May 3, 2009 9:05 pm

    Mr. Penn State knows much more about basketball than I do and I am grateful for his more precise focus as I am a poor player and only know about how to lose by watching the Knicks and my uncle Howie who was on the Brooklyn College team. I didn't say however that it was in Chicago. That much I knew. And I was under the impression it was very rare to change a score an hour or so later, especially with all the stuff about the referees' being in the pocket. I do know it wasn't very rare in Chicago on the boards, much to my cost. vic

  3. Penn State Clips on May 3, 2009 11:11 pm

    “I didn’t say however that it was in Chicago.”

    Sorry, apparently my poor reading comprehension skills are biting me on the butt again.

    Upon further review, it’s clear that this passage indicated the game was being played in Boston and the Bulls were the road team: “For the first time in history, the score was changed in Chicago’s favor from 89-83 to 89-84. In the first quarter Ben Gordon scored a long jumper for two points. With 5:44 left in the game, it was changed to a three pointer. Where else but in Chicago does a home team get a reprieve like that?”

  4. vniederhoffer on May 4, 2009 12:19 am

    Mr. Penn State, you are a hard man to debate. Yes. I made a typo. I watched the game. What I meant is where else but in Chicago could something like that happen? Do you have any speculative insights to share other than correcting me? I am well aware of my lacunae, and if I were to try to strive for the exactness you would prefer, why I would not be able to afford to sponsor this site. vic

  5. Mark Johnson/White Glove Moving on May 4, 2009 11:29 am

    Of course one has to wonder what the point spread on the sides and over/under was?

    The torn tickets and payouts that were not reversed if in fact that extra point mattered.

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