What is a fixed game in sports betting?

What is a fixed game in sports betting? Listen, Joe. We got together, most of the guys, and the thing is… We're gonna drop a couple of games in the Series. Everybody. Chick, me, Cicotte, Lefty… Fred and Hap and Buck — everybody. Some of them — well, I won't name names — but I had to tell 'em no, we can't leave Joe out of this. He's one of us. You want me? We need you, Joe. You'd be an awful sap to turn it down at this point, Joe. It'd just be stupid not to do it. You don't want to be stupid, do you, Joe? People are gonna be awful pissed if you upset their plans, Joe. You don't want to piss everybody off, do you, Joe? You don't want me mad at you, do you? Everybody else is in. Everybody. We need you. Okay. There's a good boy. You won't have to look bad — just ease off a bit. That's all we want. Oh, about the money — at least ten grand on top of your regular Series pay. That was Eight Men Out — the 1919 Chicago White Sox being talked into dropping World Series games for gamblers, with ten grand on top of their series pay. A game decided before it's played: a fixed game. A game whose result has been deliberately manipulated — players, officials, or insiders losing on purpose or shaving points so that someone with inside knowledge can bet on it. In plain terms: the outcome was decided before anyone placed a fair bet. It's a crime, and it's the reason books and leagues watch betting patterns so closely. “Money that lopsided with no news? The book is asking if the fix is in.” Let's use this example. The real 1919 Series: Cincinnati beat Chicago five games to three. Court records suggest the eight players were paid somewhere between seventy and a hundred thousand dollars. A jury acquitted them on August second, 1921 — and the next day, baseball’s commissioner banned all eight. When a result is bought, every honest ticket on that game was priced on a lie. Fixing a game, or betting on one you know is fixed, is a crime in every legal market. Lines move and books differ. Nothing here is a guarantee or a command to bet — it's how the number works.