My thought also. What’s a teen girl when the Dodgers/Yankees/BoSox were denied?
It’s not one, or two, or three girls. In this clip from IG, using play/pause to read, you can see Fiers trolling during an Astros game, undeterred by the girl being in high school but (to his credit?) ducking out when she says she is 16. He knows the laws wherever he is, and is only interested in girls within weeks of legal “graduation” as it were. It’s been going on for a long time, and not subtly (see second tweet). He is truly despicable.
Pedofiers has a curious moral compass.
so sick and scary to think on especially with a teen age granddaughter
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He’s a bit like Jm Bouton.
The below link is what seems to me an incredibly time consuming act. An Astros fan named Tony Adams went through the trouble of watching games and logging each time a " garage can bang" could be heard during the 2017 season.
He logged over 8000 pitches! Anyway, Marwin’s at bats logged the most bangs while Altuve logged the least.
http://signstealingscandal.com/players/
The original story said some players didn’t like it. Looks like that means Altuve.
Lord I hope it’s true. Both for my peace of mind and for all the jackals out there, it’d be nice if Altuve could shine thru as having some integrity.
Either way I hope the Astros demolish opposing pitching staffs with a vengeance this season.
Me too. My only fear is if they come out pressing to prove themselves and struggle early, we’ll have to listen to all the I-told-ya-so’s from all the riffraff.
I am not worried about the hitters next year. Unless they are devastated by injuries (knock on wood) they will very probably set more records. A whole year of Alvarez and a healthy Altuve? A whole year of (hurting knuckles) Springer? Of (knuckles bleeding) Correa? Some real growth from Tucker?
But Cole, Miley, Harris…
I’m hoping that Tucker makes it impossible for the manager to keep him out of the lineup. The outfield is crowded right now. The rotation is a bit scary. I keep telling myself that we won it in '17 with a rotation that was nowhere near as good as it was last year.
I can’t figure how to quote a prior post on mobile. But in response to the guy who logged all the pitches with bangs:
The commissioners warning came down Sept 15: “if you do it after today I bring wrath to your GM and coach”. Tony’s log says he only heard bangs in three games after that date. If true, our players just sacrificed innovative and successful GM, Coach, and four top picks in order to win a series split over a 95 loss White Sox team.
The rotation is worse than scary. Hope Whitley is who we thought he was.
If that guy’s log is accurate, what dumbasses those guys were.
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The commissioner’s report also stated that we cheated all through the postseason, though I have yet to hear of any auditory evidence to that end.
Honestly the most annoying parts of the report to me were the vague “at some point in 2018” they stopped cheating part and the vague and much recycled (rightly or wrongly) denunciations of the “culture” of the F.O.
Hit the reply button, find the text you want to quote, highlight it, and a little “quote” doohickey pops up. Just touch that and the text will be quoted in your reply.
ETA: just realized you can simply highlight the text, hit quote, and it’ll open the reply for you.
(Nice site, Waldo!)
Dude with the log should be able to review all post-season games in 2017.
Bang bang
The log suggests the banging stopped just before the end of the regular season. People have studied game film of the postseason and not found evidence of banging. Did this mean they stopped live signals entirely or just switched to a different method? If they stopped entirely, why? The report says rules violations continued into the postseason but does not specify what kind. Was it still live signals or just the in-game film study?
In-game film study without more should not be illegal. More bullshit going after the Astros. Scouts do the same thing in-game.
It is interesting that in the original Athletic story, Fiers could not deliver accusations/proof of cheating during the postseason. It may mean the live signals stopped then while use of the film room continued (the latter would be less obvious, especially to a non-position player).
Just speculating here, but the rule violation could have been relaying information in-person from the replay room. Signs might not have been conveyed to the batter real-time, but could have been shared in the dugout for use with runners on second.