Yes, this sounds crazy, but I’ve personally heard multiple baseball fans compare it to the Black Sox scandal. Here’s to hoping it will be downgraded to “Deflategate” in baseball’s collective memory sometime soon.
“A century from now, everyone will remember what the 2017 Astros did.”
It was a Manafort joke.
The weirdest, most fucked up thing about the 2017 World Series is still the fact that the baseballs suddenly changed so much that pop-ups started flying out of Dodger Stadium like it was Coors Field
NO IT WAS THE ASTROS CHEATING!
It was really hot those days you see…
That certainly was the explanation at the time.
It is so not even close to the Black Sox scandal, both in process and gravity.
Not that it rules out anything, but high temperatures can increase fly ball length by 5 - 15 ft everything else being equal.
So right, Ty. To say it is similar just feeds the hysteria.
The Astro were trying to win; the Black Sox were trying to lose. There’s a huge difference. However, I’ve heard hyperbole to the effect that they are similar.
I suppose they’re similar in that baseball hasn’t had a ton of major scandals (real or perceived), but I’d agree that this is nowhere near the Black Sox or Pete Rose in severity.
or steroids scandal.