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ESPN’s Buster Olney asks, “where is our pound of flesh?” Why is Manfred protecting the Astros?
WFW
President Trump should pardon the Astros.
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Or go fuck himself.
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I like the bit at the end where Joel Sherman suggests they suspend the team owner for 2 years.
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I saw elsewhere on Twitter that MLB Network scrubbed that video from their YouTube channel recently.
The Athletic is determined to keep this story going. Fiers today. No, I did not read it.
I skimmed it and recommend you do not read it. It’s really nothing but a woah is me kind of story.
But one of the stupid comments made me wonder, did he ever apologize for cheating?
What date was this video from?
Recall that Girardi had one of the few evenhanded responses.
America is going run out of high horses any day now.
I can’t express how much I detest Mike Fiers.
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So why wasn’t this a bigger deal when it broke? And why is it never (or I havent heard) brought up for context when talking about '17?
The most famous homer in MLB history…
https://www.espn.com/classic/s/2001/0201/1054936.html
A NY team won the World Series by using electronics to steal signs! They had a guy in the outfield with a telescope, who stole signs. They had an electrician rig up a system that allowed the spotter to buzz the bullpen of the pitch, the bullpen then signaled the hitter.
WTF. Where was the outrage? It happened against the Dodgers too (LOL).
Here’s Hank Greenberg explaining how the Tigers used the scope on a hunting rifle to steal signs and relay them directly to the batter in 1940. Sign stealing helped the Tigers win the 1940 pennant - Vintage Detroit Collection
“I think the record will bear it out,” wrote Greenberg. “As I remember, between the two of us we hit one or two home runs for seventeen consecutive days during the month of September. Either Rudy [York] would hit one, or I would hit one, or sometimes we would each hit two. I think it was picking up those signs that were instrumental in enabling us to win that 1940 pennant.”
The Tigers would go on to lose in 7 to the Reds who won for the first time since their scandal tainted victory in 1919.
ETA: The Giants won the pennant but lost to the Yankees in the WS.
Out of all of this, the part I find most confusing is why didn’t teams simply change their signs? If they were not smart enough to do that, they probably shouldn’t have won anyway.
They constantly did. Correa’s break down of the '17 WS made that abundantly clear.
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As did all the mound visits, which prompted the limit on such beginning in 2018.
That’s obviously what pisses that dickhead Manfred off the most, that the upshot of the whole thing was that the games were lengthened.
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