In the end, baseball is a game, but in life, if you're a cheater... you'll always be a cheater. And Jose Altuve is a cheater. That speaks volumes in the world of humanity and common decency and everyone knows this. And so, while the Yankees couldn't sweep the Astros because of a tiny Altuve home run, you move on as a team and as a fan. But trust me when I tell you... Yankee fans and baseball fans don't forget cheats and it changes nothing for the torture and abuse we will deliver to Altuve for the rest of his baseball life. He's a loser, a cheat, a tool. Mark my words, we will shorten his baseball career... he'll lose his damn mind.
The Yankees lost the last game to the Astros. The New York Post writes:
“It was just a great feeling,” Altuve said of his swing that broke the Yankees’ five-game winning streak, and broke a few hearts too. He clearly wasn’t in the mood after the game to celebrate the payback, or to do an end-zone dance for reporters via Zoom. Maybe Altuve didn’t want the fans know just how much they got to him these last three days. Maybe this was his way to remind people that he’s been doing this for a long time — hitting baseballs where opponents can’t catch them — whether the fans have been cheering for him, or chanting against him.
“I’m just trying to do my best to play the game,” Altuve said. “You don’t like to get booed by anybody, but that’s part of the game. I was just going out there trying to do my best to help my team win.”
But here's the thing that will always drive us crazy... saying stuff to the media like "I'm just trying to do my best to play the game", and getting caught cheating and sign stealing and then stealing a championship are 2 very different things. No one trusts what Altuve says. It really doesn't matter what he says. Reputation is a pretty serious thing and Altuve's, Correa's, theirs have been tainted... forever.
Yanks lose this one, but Yankee fans? They won this series BIG TIME... it was awesome! Keep it up!
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