The commissioner says the Astros’ cheating scheme was discontinued in 2018. He’s lucky Houston is not about to unveil a 2019 championship banner
During the World Series this past fall, after watching the Houston Astros coolly thump the Washington Nationals three straight times to take a 3-2 lead back to Houston, I considered what to write on the off day.
What if Washington had not managed that late-inning surge, one that included a controversial Houston pitching change and a two-run homer that dinged off the right-field foul pole, granting the Nationals two runs by the thinnest of margins? What if the Astros were heading into 2020 as Major League Baseball’s defending champions? Would commissioner Rob Manfred have been more likely to consider vacating World Series titles for what was revealed to be a comprehensive cheating scandal if the Astros...
While Manfred was wiping the chalkboard clean, he made a point of taking a swipe at the Most Hated Team in Baseball thing, without actually saying those words. He called the Astros’ baseball-operations culture “problematic,” including the way its treats employees, other teams, the media and other outside entities.
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