Alex Bregman's a cheater, Jose Altuve should just give back his MVP from 2017, Justin Verlander is a cheater and everyone in that Astros front office needs to be removed. Oh... and that World Series championship? It's a sham.
My 17 year old said it best, reading everything about this latest development involving the Astros stealing signs. "F Altuve", "F all of them." A huge baseball fan, and someone who is the first to give credit to players that earn it... doesn't feel that way about the Astros these days. No one should.
While stealing signs isn't illegal on the field... if you are strategically using electronics to manipulate the game and then getting that information to your players... you're cheating and heads should roll, but the top on down. And I don't mean fines... because fines are easy to play for these rich players. I'm talking about suspensions... firings and having a World Series championship stripped. Make it hurt.
In case you have zero idea what I'm talking about, it turns out the Astros are doing some pretty bad things. The New York Post writes this:
"The Astros, already under investigation by commissioner Rob Manfred for conduct during an off-the-field incident last month, announced Tuesday their intention to cooperate with Major League Baseball in investigating allegations they illegally, electronically stole signs from opponents in 2017 by utilizing a center-field camera in Minute Maid Park focused on the other team’s catcher and then deploying methods — most notably relying on employees or players to bang on a trash can to signal when a breaking pitch or offspeed pitch was coming — to alert the hitter at the plate.
Given the timing of the accusations, which current A’s pitcher Mike Fiers, a member of the 2017 Astros, voiced on the record to The Athletic, the Yankees must wonder whether they were cheated out of a World Series appearance that season. Houston edged the Yankees in that American League Championship Series, winning all four games at home and losing all three at Yankee Stadium.
As Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge tweeted, above a link detailing the story, “Wait…what….?”
Another member of the 2017 Yankees, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said, 'To actually have somebody hitting a garbage can, pretty much the whole game, that’s pretty much your job, whoever is doing that. It stinks. You wish you could go back in time and figure that out earlier, because we thought we were the better team. We probably were the better team.'"
And Astros fans will say "Hey, this is an investigation, let it play out first before you start the accuse them of cheating." Um... they cheated. Using the word investigation just makes it official, but there's definitely a problem here.
And Cashman is smart to not say too much right now, but did say this: “I don’t think it’s a technological question alone. It’s just conduct... You decide to play by the rules, or you don’t. And if you don’t, there’s consequences."
Conduct. Damn straight! And that brings me back to the punishment. When it becomes clear this happened, take the championship away... because they didn't actually win it.
Why cheat when a team like the Astros, with the talent and strength are perfectly capable of winning a championship ANYWAY? Why do players and teams... Alex Rodriguez comes to mind... when everyone knows they are talented, do these dudes think they need to have an edge to ensure they win? Cheating is wrong. That's one thing I teach my kids every day. I'd rather you work and earn it, than cheat your way to the top... because with that manufactured win comes curiosity and skepticism next. Do it right the first time.
And so yeah, the Astros cheated. And it doesn't matter if it was 1 guy of half the team, THEY ALL DID.
Congrats to the Yankees for winning the 2017 ALCS. fair and square. And to quote my kid when referencing the Astros... "F all of them."
Disappointing.
Lol! Not butt hurt at all. If the Disastros are found guilty, you can take that comment and swallow your mom with it like she should've swallowed you!
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