DEFENDING ASTROS CHEATING COULD RAILROAD JESSICA MENDOZA'S CAREER

Remember when we wrote JESSICA MENDOZA'S BIG MOUTH WILL SEAL BELTRAN'S FATE
the other day and shortly after that Carlos Beltran got canned by the Mets? After all, it was really stupid for a Mets adviser to come out and defend illegal activity in a clubhouse as long as no one on the outside knew about it.

She tried to slam Mike Fiers for exposing the concocted scheme by the Astros, but in the end, the nation spoke out... calling Fiers a hero and Mendoza a ridiculous coward. Mendoza tried to backtrack knowing she was in trouble, but it was too late. In fact, I'm going to suggest that if the Mets were smart, they'd fire her. Now, last time I checked you can't fire someone for being stupid, but you can fire a person for making your organization look bad.  She did that to the Mets... she needs to go.

But don't forget, she also works for ESPN. Well, the rumor is that at this hour, she could be soon replaced... with the great David Cone.

NJ.com writes:

"The Post has learned, an intriguing option has emerged — YES Network’s David Cone. Cone and ESPN have been in discussions about potential roles, including SNB, sources said. ... If Mendoza is replaced, ESPN executives stressed it will not be because of her comments on TV Thursday in which, among other things, she said it was ‘tough to swallow’ that former Astros pitcher Mike Fiers…"

Don't believe that ESPN isn't doing this for the Fiers comments, folks.  Truth is no one wants to be connected to the sign-stealing scandal, because it's so disgusting, so untrustworthy and so wrong, attaching ones self or organization to it or anyone associated with it will just make you look bad too.


It's like the cheese touch.  Stay away or you'll be known as the kid who touched the cheese. ESPN doesn't want to be associated with cheese touching... uh, er... Mendoza.  And trust me, it has everything to do with her stupid comments.

Stay tuned on this one.

JIM CRANE KNEW & MADE MILLIONS OFF OF ASTROS CHEATING ANTICS

There is no way a smart baseball guy like Jim Crane, owner of the Houston Astros, didn't know of the sign-stealing mechanism that his team was using and created.  He not only knew, he ignored it, because that franchise was making him more money than ever by the 2018 season.  And when money talks, things don't seem do bad, even though they are... even though they go against the rules... even though those bad things are ruining the integrity of the game. This guy's a greedy scumbag.

 In short, when you are raking in big dollars for cheating and if you don't speak about it publicly and instead keep internal in the confines of the clubhouse walls... ANYTHING goes.  That's what moron Jessica Mendoza, the Mets adviser was suggesting when she went after Mike Fiers for exposing it... and that's what Jim Crane was doing when he acted like he knew nothing about it.

The bottom line is this though... Crane knew, because he had to fire his GM Luhnow and manger AJ Hinch to show face.  Some can say that they were involved in the daily baseball operations and Crane's just the money guy. But that's my point. It goes much deeper than Hinch and Luhnow.

Jim Crane needs to be investigated. The players need to be investigated and so does Reid Ryan, the Astros president of operations. You know... the one that moved the camera in centerfield "to get a better view for advertising during home games." I'm paraphrasing there, but that's basically what he said.

In essence, the advertisers came, they filled Jim Crane's pockets with a ton of jack, and at the same time, Astros players were concocting schemes to wait on certain pitches against their opponent to make their own big money at the end of each season with big numbers for home games.

The problem runs deep in Houston. It's disgusting and the King cheater in all of this is Jim Crane.  Rob Manfred and MLB needs to make a statement that is two-fold over the next few days. IT'S A MUST. If Manfred doesn't, we know it's a coverup.

1. Manfred needs to speak to the buzzer scandal that has spread like wildfire across the media and the league, tainting the game and destroying the integrity of it.

2. Manfred must force Jim Crane to sell his team. They are trash. They have no respect for the game or their opponent. They don't come to play hard... they come to cheat a win whenever they can.  That has become clear over the past 24 hours watching players like Jose Altuve, Alex Bregman and Carlos Correa block comments on their Instagram. The Astros are hiding and are on the run. 

They are guilty... EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. But it starts at the top, folks.  MLB must remove Jim Crane too.

JESSICA MENDOZA'S BIG MOUTH WILL SEAL BELTRAN'S FATE

You're really gonna call out a major league ballplayer for doing the right thing and shedding light on the sign-stealing scandal, Jessica Mendoza? Really? You're really gonna screw over your Mets team, kiddo.

I guess we just like to keep secrets now. I guess we don't care about steroids in baseball, using technology to steal signs... but betting on baseball... that's bad.  If anything, these cheating techniques being exposed is going to clean up the sport. But I guess Jessica Mendoza likes the game all fouled up.  She needs to be quiet.

The New York Post writes:

"Mendoza, the Mets special assistant and ESPN announcer, criticized former Astros pitcher Mike Fiers for his role in exposing Houston‘s sign-stealing system, which led to the firings of manager A.J. Hinch, general manager Jeff Luhnow and Red Sox manager Alex Cora.

'Honestly, it made me sad for the sport that this is how it all got found out,' Mendoza said on ESPN’s “Golic and Wingo” on Thursday.

'This wasn’t something that MLB naturally investigated or other teams complained about because they naturally heard about and then investigation happened. It came from within. It was a player that was a part of it, that benefitted from it during the regular season when he was a part of the team. When I first heard about it, it hits you like any teammate would. It’s something that you don’t do.'"

First off, you're not a teammate Jessica. I don't even get that. Secondly...what, being a snitch is bad but cheating isn't if it's quiet and contained within a team clubhouse? Are we seriously suggesting this?

Look, you want to "steal signs", you get to second, you see what the catcher's signaling and you look for a pattern that you can relay to your teammates in the hopes to find the opponent's weaknesses. That's clean baseball. Sometimes it works, sometimes it a guess and whatever man... the goal is to win fair and square anyway, so why are these top athletes even going further than that? I'll never know. But that kind of "sign stealing" has been going on since the beginning of time.

But that's not what we're talking about. She thinks that really bad behavior, setting up devices, having a code that can be relayed to the batter... that's alright. You know...TECHNOLOGY. A PLANNED, STRATEGIC OPERATION, that's allowed even though the rules suggest the opposite. Jessica thinks that as long as it's among the players, quiet, even though illegal, THAT'S OK. But they way... SHE'S AN ADVISOR FOR THE METS! What Mets front office person thought it was a good idea to send her out and talk about this... because I'll tell you something, Jessica Mendoza just made it worse for the Mets!

Mike Fiers, now an opponent is a God damn hero for blowing this out of the water.  It's the biggest cheating scandal since steroids. It's bigger these days than Shoeless "Joe" Jackson.

Oh yeah... and that was known as the Black Sox scandal... eight men out... as in 8 men were removed from baseball by Judge Landis in 1921.  That was big... this is bigger.

And I get it. Some idiot in the Mets front office told Mendoza to say something because their beloved Carlos Beltran just got his big Mets manager job and they are trying to deflect.  But she's terrible at it.  Beltran was part of the problem.  Beltran must be fired and Mendoza needs to zip it.

The Mets finally made moves that were good for their team.  But if they keep Beltran, they will be part of the sign-stealing scandal problem too.  Maybe not fair... but accurate.

Let's call this what it is... BS. We all know Alex Cora, Carlos Beltran, AJ Hinch, Luhnow, Crane... all these morons need to be removed from their respective jobs.  Some of them should be banned for life just like those Black Sox from back in the 1920's.

And the biggest problem today is in the Mets front office.  They've never been good at baseball since the days of Gooden and Orosco.  I'd say they've gotten worse every decade.  And from the sounds of it, their advisor just dug them deeper suggesting technological sign stealing is perfectly fine... as long as the public doesn't get wind of it.

I wonder what the Mets have planned this season with Beltran at the helm? After all... My thought is if he decides to cheat... Jessica Mendoza would be fine with it.

Pathetic... all of them.