I’m with you guys. There’s a lot to process as a fan right now, but I’m not going to let MLB taint 2017 with only the evidence in the report.
Also, someone should ask the motherfucking Yankees if knowing Lance McCullers was going throw a curveball for the 24th consecutive time made any fucking difference when he completely dominated them to win the 2017 pennant.
…bud!
Regardless of yesterday’s news, the Astros still earned their World Series Championship in 2017. Electronic sign stealing isn’t the reason they were a really good team or why they were able to beat the Red Sox, Yankees and Dodgers in the playoffs. Personally, I wouldn’t take down your mementos.
The 2017 World Series is not tainted for me because quite frankly, the numbers show that the “cheating” simply did not help. There is no other way to explain why they were better on the road that whole season than they were at home.
Serious question - what the hell is milealkie?
Alkie, when it seems he’ll never end.
I’m keeping 'em up! Fuck this shit.
It’s Algonquin for “the good land.”
This is my favorite rejoinder.
The saintly Aaron Judge apparently deleted some post congratulating Altuve for winning the 2017 MVP.
That makes it all worth it. What a putz. I’m sure he wasn’t at all aware of the fact that his team got fined for cheating that very same year.
I had a friend here in Houston say he should have never started rooting for a Houston team. I told him to go back to his cheating Cardinals. There are sanctimonious jackasses all over the place right now.
Depends on who is saying “he is not a good guy.” Luhnow drew fire originally from baseball lifers because he was an outsider who used analytics and hired nerds for the FO, not former players. The baseball people were shunning an outsider who espoused methods and theories they ridiculed. There was no jealousy or envy originally. They made fun of him. He exacerbated this cold shoulder by not being warm and fuzzy or a backslapper. He was a pariah to baseball people, and they shunned him and defamed him. Now they got him and say “See? I told you he is not a good guy.”
Just got a call from my friend in baseball. Interesting comments, but not for here.
Baseball’s antipathy towards Luhnow goes well beyond any generational or philosophical divide.
That’s my impression of Lunhow as well.
Socially awkward at worst as far as interpersonal stuff is concerned.
All this likely ended his baseball career, but the hyenas want more. The Passan article today highlights that clearly.
I’m sick of this “Manfred caught the Astros cheating” national spin as well. They didn’t get caught. One of their own betrayed them. MLB didn’t do shit about cheating. It was a couple of noisy reporters, one with an axe to grind, and a disgruntled ex who squealed like a sad little rat.
I love to contrast MLB’s current moral outrage with its tolerance and celebration of steroid-fueled home runs.
Exactly. Like doping was not using technology to gain an advantage or what?
Keep banging the drum, Ken. Please, please drop the hammer and blow this thing wide open.
Rosenthal: People at every level of the sport bear responsibility for baseball’s current sign-stealing mess