I just explained the Astros cheating scandal to my 14-year old son and he looked me square in the eye and said "Dad, f**k the Yankees and Dodgers." He's now getting a new phone.
I just explained the Astros cheating scandal to my 7-year-old and his level of moral outrage was pitch perfect. "They should be disqualified from baseball forever!!" he said with gusto when I was done.
It's really not complicated.
Greinke story just told on MLB Network Radio. AJ Ellis went to the mound to talk to him in a big spot and Zack proposed him a trade in their fantasy football league. 🤣🤣
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That girl was 14, which is statutory rape, and makes him a pedophile. The child's age doesn't have to be in the single digits to qualify someone as a pedophile.
My oldest son works for Sun Devil Athletics and was working the ticket area for the baseball team yesterday. Zack Greinke came to buy tickets from him. My son told him he was a huge Astros fan and Greinke says to him "well, the team is good but the city sucks." LOL!
Seeing baseball fans are cheering Jake Marisnick and Cameron Maybin while booing every player in an
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uniform tells me this is more faux outrage than anything else. The majority of baseball fans are just booing anything
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because that's what they've been told to do.
I just realized Hinch used Tucker to PH as a strategic move to force Cash to use his last LH reliever. This move prevented Cash from having a LH face Brantley in the 8th inning and we saw what happened there. As it turned out this was a brilliant move by Hinch.
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It's very confusing to me that the Red Sox got caught cheating twice, threw a low-level video technician under the bus to save their asses, and rehired the manager that was behind the 2nd cheating incident and no one cares.
One of the privileges of being a senior at Round Rock High School is you can purchase a personal parking spot and paint it how you wish for the school year. My oldest son decided to go with this painting for his spot.
A ton of credit to Yainer Diaz and Jon Singleton for getting on base in the 9th inning. You can’t understate how huge those two plate appearances were.
The
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are missing Yordan, Brantley, LMJ, Urquidy, Baez, and Gurriel. They have played the 2 best teams in MLB over the past 4 games, 3 of them were winnable they won 1. They are only 1 game behind the A's in the loss column and it's only late May. The world is not ending.
I still can't get enough of watching this play. My favorite part of the video is how they synced up "Thunderstruck" with Machete pounding his chest. I'll be watching this over and over again for a while.
If we're being honest the reason fans of other teams want
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players suspended is because they're a damn good team who very well could win the 2020 World Series.
If the Yankees can't beat the
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with their $324 ace on the mound and half the Astros pitching staff on the IL they have no chance in a 7-game series.
I've been an
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fan for 43 years and never has a player grabbed my attention and adoration the way Zack Greinke has in just 1 year. I didn't know what to expect from him as I had heard about his social anxiety but damn it if he hasn't been so freaking enjoyable to watch.
The
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got nothing from Yuli, Bregman, and Reddick in the postseason, lost their ace, closer, and best hitter from last year, and still came one game away from making the World Series again. All in all, it's absolutely amazing they got this far...but it still sucks losing.
Can we take a minute and give James Click some credit? Those bullpen additions didn't look good after the trade but they've been huge in the postseason.
No JV, Gerrit Cole, Springer, Peak Osuna, Peak Will Harris, a crappy bullpen for the first 4 months of the season, on pace to win 96 games, and we think Dusty Baker is a problem? Some teams could only be so lucky to have these "problems."
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I still think there is a sizable group of
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fans out there that don't understand how ridiculously great Ryan Pressly has been in an Astros uniform. He has a 178 ERA+, 2.36 FIP, 0.915 WHIP, with 6.2 H/9, and 11.5 K/9. Can anyone find me 2 relief pitchers in MLB better?
In the 1960s the Dodgers had a mound that was 5 inches higher than league regulations (20" and limit was 15"). This wasn't discovered until late 1966. Drysdale won the '62 Cy Young and Koufax won 4 straight from 63-66. The Dodgers won the World Series in '63 and '65. CHEATERS!!!
I know many
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fans don't like him but Chris "Mad Dog" Russo just went off on the Dodgers and Joe Kelly on MLB Network Radio. He said he's tired of their whining and they need to just shut up and win a championship.
The
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getting 4 players selected to the ASG and all 4 saying FU to MLB is the kind of spite I live for. Whether their reasons are real or not I choose to think they put together a collaborative effort to tell MLB to stick it up their ass.
I'm weirdly fixated on the
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bringing back Collin McHugh. He just seems like a perfect match for what the team needs. He shouldn't cost too much, can give you multiple inning outings from the bullpen, & his added slider is a weapon he didn't have the last time he was here.
Fans of other teams hate the Astros because they keep winning. The cheating scandal just gives them a deflection to use as a reason. If the
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faded into oblivion after the 2019 season, never making another postseason, no one would mention the cheating. Winners are hated.
Meant to send this at the end of BP before that second game. Check out that baseball 🤯 signed by: Jose Altuve, Framber Valdez, Jeremy Peña, Dusty Baker, Reggie Jackson - wow!
You think the
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are hated now? Just wait until they win the 2021 World Series and Astros fans become the most obnoxious fans ever on social media. It's going to be glorious.
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@Brandon_Warne
No, he said he THOUGHT she was 16. Ignorance of the law is not a defense. No charges were filed because this didn't become known until the statute of limitations had expired. It's despicable you're even defending this. Pedophilia has many interpretations. He's a disgusting person
Yankees fans after signing Cole to a $324M over 9 years: He's worth every penny
Yankees fans after Astros sign Verlander for $50M over 2 years: Horrible contract and I'm glad the Yankees didn't pay him that amount.
C.C. Sabathia has been awfully quiet about the Yankees cheating, which he knew about as a member of those teams. He sure had a lot to say about the Astros cheating. Hypocrisy comes in all shapes.
In 2017-2018 when the
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utilized the trash-can banging system they hit better on the road than they did at home. In 2019, when all cameras were on an 8-second delay they crushed it at home compared to on the road. The evidence suggests their system hurt more than help them.
I can't even explain how much respect I have for Jose Abreu agreeing to accept his minor league assignment. It's such a selfless move on his part to help the team. He could've just said "I'm not doing it. You can keep me on the roster or DFA me."
The one superstar on the
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who gets the most hate from Astros fans is Carlos Correa and I don't think anyone shined better today with his answers than Correa did. He handled everything very well, imo.
My oldest son was at the game tonight. He now 0-5 attending Astros games this year for a team that is 19 games above .500. He's attending tomorrow and Sunday as well. I've told him his college tuition is cut off unless the Astros win the next 2 games. Drastic measures are needed.
Will Harris spent 5 years in Houston. During those 5 years he had a 2.36 ERA, 175 ERA+, 2.99 FIP, 0.987 WHIP, and a 9.5 K/9. Damn, that dude was so good for the Astros and I just don't think he ever was fully appreciated for how great he was during those 5 years.
Since May 25th the
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are 15-7. Among the teams they have played include the Dodgers, Padres, Red Sox, Blue Jays, and White Sox. They aren't just beating up on the cupcakes in the league.
At what point do we acknowledge this is not the same Dusty Baker who managed the Giants and Cubs? He's making pitching moves based on analytics and listening to his coaching staff. Pulling Framber when he did probably saved the game for the
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.
I've said this before, but I'll repeat it again. There are 2 primary reasons the
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scandal is being treated so outrageously than prior cheating issues.
1. Social media
2. They won the WS and beat the Yankees along the way.
I can't believe what I'm hearing on MLB Network Radio right now. They are making the case if the
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win the World Series this year they can be viewed as a dynasty.
They just said on the Rangers radio broadcast that Yordan is the only player in MLB history to have 30 HRs and 30 doubles in his first 100 games. Literally, the only player ever to accomplish this feat.
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I don't know about the rest of you but I'm getting that special feeling about the 2021 Houston Astros. They seem to be really motivated this year and I like what I'm seeing.
My favorite part of this
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buzzers is that they decided to use them in the ALCS and then just said, screw it, we don't need it in the World Series and decided to lose all 4 games at home.
The
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beat the Rangers 10-4 last night, the Skeeters beat the Express 5-1, and the Hooks beat the Roughriders 6-5. The handing out of Ls to the Rangers and their affiliates continues.
The two players
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love to hate the most, Maldonado and Abreu, are largely responsible for this win tonight. It’s either the 6 seed or 2 seed for the Astros.
Hot Take:
If in 2017, Aaron Judge knew what pitch was coming as the Astros did, he would have hit at least 74 home runs, and broken Barry Bonds' record of 73.
The
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have 16 games remaining. If they go 6-10 (not likely) Oakland would have to go 13-3 just to tie them. Start breaking open the champagne, Astros fans.
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offer to Cole:
7/$315M with $50M paid each of the first 3 years, opt out after year 3 with years 4-7 paying $45M, $45M, $40M, $35M. New CBA raises the luxury tax line significantly and Crane only pays a penalty in years 1 and 2. Why the F not?
The most ironic thing about this Ohtani scandal is Dodgers fans trying to minimize a federal crime & claiming cheating at baseball, something done for over 100 years, is much worse than committing a federal crime. The deflection & mental gymnastics is fun to see though
The
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are playing the Royals and Rangers this week while Oakland is playing Seattle and the Yankees. If the Astros don't come out of this week further ahead than they are now they have no one to blame but themselves.
Chris "Mad Dog" Russo said today on High Heat that he understands people thinking the 2017 World Series is tainted, but he personally doesn't think the sign stealing impacted the playoffs.
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It’s refreshing to see a tweet about Dusty Baker where all the replies laud him and his achievements. Congratulations to the greatest manager in Astros history! This is much deserved.
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fans, if you were given the opportunity to completely get rid of the current team, from ownership down, but have to wait 3 years for a new expansion team to play in Houston at NRG would you do it?
Does anyone else think Adam Wainwright was a great addition to the FS1 broadcasts? He had such great pitching insight and overall commentary. I hope to see more of him in the booth.
Just a reminder of an LA Times story:
"new analyses of the Astros’ 2017 season by baseball’s corps of unofficial statisticians — “sabermetricians,” to the sport — indicate that the Astros didn’t gain anything from their cheating; in fact, it may have hurt them"
Things that may you go hmm.
Aaron Judge in the 2017 playoffs:
Home: 7-21, 3 HRs, 2 2B, 10 RBIs
Road: 2-27, 1 HR, 1 RBI
Maybe, just maybe, players hit better at home than they do on the road in the playoffs. Unless we think Aaron Judge was wearing a buzzer also.
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