That's right Straw Hats, there's a whole lot more gold! In the sky! More than you could ever dream! Now, go find a mysterious bird, and we'll make some free adjustments to your ship that will make you fly MILES into the air! Haha. HAHA! MWAHAHAHA no seriously get out of here we need alone time with your ship.

>There's also the idea that Bellamy only beat Cricket up because of all the pirates he'd killed, and stole the gold to give to their families

Ahaha...what?

Guys, guys.. What if Cricket was actually Sabo all along? WOOOOOAH!

>because they are pirates and all
But.. they're not. Cricket SEEMS to have been an ex-pirate; they're all deep sea divers/treasure finders now.

OP please take your pills.

Well, both of the monkey guys do have huge jolly rogers on their ships.

http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Saruyama_Alliance

I'm pretty sure they're supposed to be pirates.

>>27677
They are pirates. Cricket isn't (anymore.)

>>27679

Or... IS HE?!

That explains why the Merry was so damaged she couldn't sail anymore after Skypeia. Not because Usopp is a poor shipworker.

BECAUSE CRICKET SABOTAGED THE SHIP. If going Merry hand't liked the crew so much, she would've fallen apart in that knockup stream.

What's more, Bellamy even tried to warn them about how dangerous it was to belief the things cricket said. But did they listen? NO. They beat him up.

Poor Bellamy.

>>27677
Huh. I actually didn't know they were pirate crews. Hm. Go figure.

Okay, there are at least two big holes just in the foundation of it. The first is that supposedly it's suspicious that Masira shows up quickly after the ship falls. According to the conspiracy theory, he would have known it was falling because they know the knockup stream and thus would just 'catch' the ships as they come back down.
But the ship was incredibly old. It fell off Skypeia, there was no 'schedule' for that. Even if there was some elaborate plan, there's no way Masira would have known it was falling then and there. There's nothing suspicious, it was just luck and that they're ALWAYS searching.
And if Cricket hadn't repaired the ship, it would have been completely wrecked in the knockup stream. It's blatantly stated by Cricket (and honestly the ship was in pretty poor shape), the Strawhats see the ship getting its shit wrecked during the stream and Blackbeard's vessel (which hadn't been touched by Cricket) can't take the thing at all. Why bother sabotaging a ship that would never survive the trip already?

But really the craziest part is that Bellamy's supposed to be a kind hearted hero and now I'll stop being a dick about it.

Spreeses, stop going anon. It's dumb.