Waiting for teams to have "Garbage Can Night" when the Astros come to town.
It’s because ESPN likes anger. And drama.
Next time don't use a garbage can to send signals. Use some tech in the batters' ear.
Personally, I would have liked to hit with no hints from afar.
“Sports Illustrated reported that the Astros named eight other teams they believe cheated in 2017 and 2018”
LOL, so the lead cheater know other cheaters who cheated them too?? What a joke.
Cora was a loud-mouthed anti-Trumper. Too bad, so sad!
#TrumpCurse
Liars & cheaters...killing sports, politics and innocent individuals since time began.
game 3. 2017 WS. good lord, the dodgers got screwed.
So according to ESPN, the owner if a baseball team should be aware of every incident that occurs in his organization.
Wish they felt the same about the Secretary of State position.
I don’t get this. It is like walking naked in front of a open window, and complaining that people on the sidewalk are looking at you.
The Nationals lost. This was seen as karma.
IIRC Astro players also made anti-Trump comments. When they won the series, liberals cheered the Astros.
Am I remembering this correctly?
I just don’t get this ‘scandal’.
If signs are used in public to communicate with players who are also in public then who cares if someone monitors those signs and decodes them?
If you’re going to send coded messages in public then you need to change your codes somewhat frequently.
Just ask Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto about this and he’ll agree.
They should have voided the Astros championships, given them to the teams they beat and keep them from post season play for 5 seasons. Watch the talent jump ship, and rightfully so. They should get the NCAA type of death penalty.
Yawn.
And in directly related news...
And there is a new Shazam movie coming.
The new Xbox Series X will be released in 2020.
All these childhood diversions...so much news.
Everyone involved must receive a lifetime ban.
That includes Crane and every coach and every player who received the message or transmitted the message. Or, who knew it was occurring and did not rat it out.
No matter the consequence.
Above all, protect the integrity of the sport and the viability of the league.
Anything less will kill baseball.
As an Astros fan, my biggest regret is that we didn’t use our comparative advantage to win two World Series.
Baseball is dying as are other sports.
Maybe baseball should outlaw signs.
MLB celebrated Bonds, McGuire, Sosa etc. who were obviously bulking up and crushing homeruns while the owners raked in the cash. Nothing done until much later with the HOF voters refusing to induct cheaters. Now, with evidence of massive cheating they slap the hands of the perps team management while the offending players skate. MLB resembles Ed McMahon’s wrestling more each day.
Waiting for teams to have "Garbage Can Night" when the Astros come to town.
“Major League Baseball was righting an obvious wrong.”
Leave it to ESPN to declare the BS.
Stealing signs has been around for over 100 years and everyone was doing it from little league, to the MLB, to international competitions.
And in knowing this, who are they going to punish for this fallacy? For the process to work, everyone that batted had to be aware of the signs that were stolen by sound. Further, and not less, someone was adding location with probably had signs so the batter would know the pitch and where. But the entire team would have been in the know and practicing it.
So Houston fires a coach and GM, then Boston fires their manager as he invented the system while at Houston, and this is supposed to end it and catch all that needed punishment? They are being forced to fall on their swords to con the public and let them think something is being done. It isn’t. And at the same time, a player at Houston during the use of the cheating was hired as a manager in New York and is rumored to be stepping down because of the scandal.
The entire Houston staff and players were dirty. This is no different than the Black Sox scandal a century ago. But don’t worry...in rides the media with their BS and will protect the league. And this time, they have no one like Ruth to bail them out on the field. About time these overpaid children were forced to step up and reap what you sow, or as it is written, from the New Testament of the Bible, Galatians 6:7, for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.
rwood