I was surprised at his tone also. Of course the steroids benefited the Yankees more than any other franchise, so Costas was tossing a mulligan there
I’ll pay attention to him when he gets a better toupee and loses the lifts.
I’m not sure if this helps or hurts but I’m firmly on the side of ‘shut the fuck up.’
Jeez, someone put a muzzle on that dipshit.
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Because an apology is always most convincing when delivered with the same tone and affect as the Terminator asking you for your clothes and the keys to your motorcycle…
“We didn’t anticipate the Osuna thing would catch that much heat,’’ said Crane…
Then he fired the PR guy.
Jim Crane needs to just be quiet. The Astros made their bed and now they must lie in it, right or wrong. Nothing he says at this point will change how many people outside of the Astros’ organization feel about the 2017 season.
It will likely never be proven, but I’ll go to my grave believing that the Dodgers are hypocrites concerning the entire sign-stealing scandal, anyway. The Brewers believed they were illegally stealing signs during the 2018 NLCS, and the Mets thought the Dodgers were stealing signs last season. The Dodgers are every bit as cutting edge with analytics as the Astros, and you can’t tell me they didn’t try and push the limits, either. They, like the Red Sox and Yankees, are lucky they are MLB’s Golden Geese, and they didn’t have a Mike Fiers in their clubhouse and a Brandon Taubman in their front office.
The Astros getting a much harsher punishment than the Red Sox is the equivalent of SMU football getting the death penalty for illegally having boosters pay players when it was rampant throughout the Southwest Conference at the time.
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Every time I hear a Dodger player or fan chiriping, my mind drifts back to this 2018 article by Tom Verducci, where he says:
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.
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Cintron suspended for 20 games.
And just 6 for Laureano. WTF
Or 5. I have seen both.
It was originally reported as 5 but 6 seems to be the accurate one.
It’s baffling to me that the punishment for “provoking” someone to do a wrong thing gets 4x the punishment as actually doing the wrong thing. Bum rushing a dugout is an order of magnitude more “wrong” than saying something bad about someone else’s mother, full stop. Thought exercise: if Laureano hadn’t charged the dugout, would Cintron have faced any penalty for his words? Nope. But it’s somehow worth 20 games because Laureano’s a hot-head?
People are trying to justify harsher punishment for Cintron because, as a coach, he’s supposed to be the more “responsible” one, but that’s just infantalizing Laureano. Poor widdle baby couldn’t contwol himself when the man said something mean. Laureano is a grown-ass man who is responsible for his choices. I don’t see a problem with Cintron getting 20 games–MLB should be taking a whole lot of draconian anti-COVID measures, including clamping down on stupid scrums–but in no world is what Cintron said worse than what Laureano did, Laureano’s punishment should be equal or greater.
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Also, Laureano provoked the whole incident. He got hit by a pitch, unintentionally. That’s something that happens in baseball. Then he started riding the rookie who hit him in an over the top (and admittedly funny) way, which provoked Cintron’s comment. You can’t expect a team to stay silent when an opponent is abusing their teammate.
The As went public yesterday accusing Manfred of protecting and coddling the Astros so they think (the As said) they can get away with anything.
I guess my expectations of MLB to do anything right went out the window in early February.
Manfred has officially left Selig in the dust. Unbelievable.
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It’s a shame this team’s pitching staff is depleted beyond recognition.
It would have been so satisfying to the the best team in baseball again.
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Laureano has a union, and his suspension will get knocked down to 3 games. Cintron has none, and his will stay at 20 games. This is all about being Manfred giving in to those wishing for multiple rounds of punishment for the Astros.
I’m not sure what the rationale is here. Is the punishment so severe because this was considered to be strike two after Taubman for ‘being a total jerk’ offenses? So if an Astros pitcher is caught scuffing the ball next year, would he get a harsher penalty because that would be strike two for ‘tampering with equipment’ offenses?
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