Agreeing with a Barstool article, and a Carrabis article in particular, really has me questioning my beliefs.
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If you do not agree with that article, I will question your beliefs too.
This board has been pretty prescient about this whole steaming pile of shit.
Personally, I’ve run the whole gamut of emotions. Currently…extremely pissed off with the most being at Manfred and his band of merry little elves.
I suspect Manfred is deeply entrenched.
Because if the lid does get blown, this is the kind of thing that could lead to his ouster.
Oh yeah, I am big time pissed at Manfred too for losing his mind over this. To me, his reaction was angrily showing Houston what happens when absolute power is defied. The Astros were a convenient easy target because they are not New York or Boston.
Chris Young has recanted and Gammons carried the walk-back on his twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/pgammo
Not saying it didn’t happen but they are circling the wagons.
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MLB will bury their head in the sand about this just like they did with steroids. It will take another Fiers like whistleblower to get more investigations. They don’t care about what Will Clark or McDowell said a about LaRussa.
Tom Verducci explained the extensive setup the Dodgers were using in 2018…
Here’s how quickly things have changed, according to a Dodgers source. Three years ago, if you walked into the Dodgers’ video room behind their Dodger Stadium dugout you would likely have found Zack Greinke pouring over video of opposing hitters, looking for any edge he could find to match up his stuff against their weakness. This year, if you walked into the same room you would have found a small army of 20-something analysts in polo shirts and slacks pouring over video from the in-house cameras, like the security room at a Vegas casino. Most teams train their cameras on the catcher, the pitcher (from several angles), the third base coach and the dugout. These cameras are not used for training purposes. They are used expressly for stealing signs and deciphering “tells” from pitchers.
But it wasn’t a public, unrecanted statement by a current player, so I guess MLB doesn’t consider it actionable.
This is Verducci who ought to have as much impact as Rosenthal and Drehlich.
It should, but it’s a year and a half old article.
I did not notice the date, but the substance still is timely.
Also it doesn’t implicate the Astros, so the commissioner’s office can’t get a hard-on about it.
And now, Rose has asked for his lifetime ban to be lifted because what he did “is not as bad as what the Astros did”. Excuse me while I vomit.
After all the denied reinstatement applications, and after being told time and time again why, Rose still refuses to admit he did anything wrong.
“It was a perfect transaction!”
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Unless there’s money involved:
https://www.amazon.com/Pete-Sorry-Baseball-Autographed-Official/dp/B07JZJDC59
And Steinbrenner and the grieving CC Sabathia reflect on what might have been. Credit the bagman ESPN for a journalistic assist
‘I’m so mad right now, but for the good of the game I guess we should all just move on and never speak of this again.’
Ok, Hal.
Ask Hal how many runs they scored in those four games. Did we cheat on defense too?
Move on before they get investigated. Asshat