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Astros GM suspended for one year after it was found that team cheated using technology to win World Series in 2017. (UPDATE: GM and manager fired)
- Thread starter Uzumaki Goku
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that's some bullshit
now they can hire a qualified manager this year. astros should not be allowed to do this. they should be forced to have some scrubby acting manager all year.
now they can hire a qualified manager this year. astros should not be allowed to do this. they should be forced to have some scrubby acting manager all year.
Lol, this is such backwards thinking. The sport doesn't look compromised when cheaters get punished harshly. It looks compromised when cheaters get away with it!
goodbye career
league sending a message
1st and 2nd round picks for the next two years now revoked......thats fucking HUGE
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Smart choice to be honest. The owner has to look like he actually cares about this -- good way to act like he's one of the good guys. They were already suspended without pay so may as well just move on.
These guys will be back somewhere in the future though. No doubt about it.
Shit might as well cheat in professional sports. Get that chip and tell everyone to fuck off as you know the punishment won't be severe. Belichick gets it.
I almost assure that from the league's point of view, the integrity of the sport remains intact, despite what their investigation uncovered. If they were to strip a team of a World Series title (and that whole season becomes a wash, basically) then that position becomes a lot harder to defend and no league wants to be in that position.
Ah when you typed no one cared, you meant the NFL didn't care. And Deflategate was absolutely nothing and has never been proven definitively. The science didn't even line up. As opposed to this situation, where both the Red Sox and Astros have been caught redhanded.
I actually find it really impressive that a batter is able to focus on both his hearing for the trash can and the pitcher at the same time. How long is it from a sign call to a pitch if a pitcher is in the stretch vs the wind-up? Is that enough time for a batter to process the information and change their approach? Apparently it was enough time, I'm just impressed they could do all that.
there are like 3 franchises in the entire sport that wouldn't trade this for a World Series pennant.
It's sad that he has to hand out a harsher punishment than the league.
Yeah this is fucked. Weak ass "punishment" that lets the players skate when they knew what they were doing, lets the owner skate, lets the championship remain, etc.
I don't doubt that is their opinion and I'm saying that is 100% wrong. And it's pretty easy to see how it is wrong if you just think to yourself...what would make me think that they are doing their best to preserve the integrity of the sport? Stripping the title or not?
I am much less likely to watch MLB games next season if they stick to these impotent punishments with Houston and Boston when their investigation wraps up. I am much more likely if they strip some titles and instill a sense of integrity moving forward.
Thread title should be updated to they got fired. I think that changes things a bit.
But Cora should get a lifetime ban, if it's all true. My only defense of hin would be that a bunch of Astros personnel are blaming it on someone who is no longer on the astros.
But Cora should get a lifetime ban, if it's all true. My only defense of hin would be that a bunch of Astros personnel are blaming it on someone who is no longer on the astros.
Cora and the Redsox would have been really worried if the Astros 2017 championship was stripped, because their 2018 championship would have been stripped too
not the same but i think injuring players on purpose is worse. you could ruin somebodies career and with how shitty the contracts are for many players they could lose a ton of money if they are cut.
The investigator said he didn't know anything about it. I doubt he'd fire Lunhow or Hinch if he did as they could just say as much and he'd look like an ass.
Instead it will just be obviously compromised with little to no effort made to correct the problem. So compromised right up to the top of the league instead of just one organization within the league.
There was already a season with no title winner in relatively recent memory (1994). It wasn't the end of the world then and it wouldn't be the end of the world now. They do not deserve to be rewarded for cheating. And they have been.
It was a nothing offense.
And as a Red Sox fan, the Sox better fire their GM and coach next when the MLB releases their findings about them.
Averaged a World Series every other year with us. Truly incredible.
Not in baseball it aint. Astros got away with cheating their way to a title with nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
But MLB didn't (at least publicly) mandate the firing, their punishment was only suspension.
From Manfred's statement today regarding this exact situation:
How the fuck do you not punish the players?