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Eastwood

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  1. I'm just getting you to keep posting so I have to scroll by your avatar multiple times when I open the thread.
  2. Astros actually have a championship, so this comparison is no good. Please try again.
  3. I'm telling y'all, the MLB is begging for people to STFU about it. This is the next doping scandal if it doesn't go away. The journalists are digging and the pitchers want it to happen.
  4. You knew what you were doing.
  5. Ok, I'm done here. I've been arguing with a Jomboy conspiracy theorist.
  6. Which is why the Astros walked and why any player who continues to bring attention to it this season (Joe Kelly, come on down) is going to get rung up. To continue on a point I've touched on earlier, I really do feel for pitchers and why they're mad. They have to deal with juiced players because homeruns bring ratings. They have to deal with a juiced ball because homeruns bring ratings. They have to deal with sign stealing because homeruns bring ratings. There are probably guys out there sitting at a desk wearing business casual right now because his last pitch in the minors was to some juiced dude who jacked a juiced ball out of the park after being fed the sign from a guy in the rafters with a camera. It really does suck. But the MLB allows it.
  7. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2902334-report-new-rule-allows-mlb-to-suspend-players-without-pay-for-stealing-signs?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial Oh.
  8. Insane. Biggest cheating scandal in the history of the sport? ANY sport? Ever? C'mon, son.
  9. Should NFL teams hack headsets? No. Should teams be using tech to steal signs? No. I can recall murmurs and grumbling about visiting team headset outages in the NFL, but no outright headset hacking. We've had plenty of examples of teams using tech to steal signs, though. My overall beef with the MLB is that it doesn't seem to care about rule enforcement. They let shit go until they have absolutely no choice but to publicly address it. The MLB front office is the least proactive and most reactive front office in all of sports and the most mismanaged front office in all of sports. It's your absolute prerogative as a fan to come in here and sling shit in Astro fans' faces for cheating. By all means. But do so with the honest realization that this was a league-wide problem, not an Astros problem. The ridiculous pearl clutching over all of this is insane. Jomboy wants to start buzzer conspiracy theories when the Red Sox were using actual buzzers through Apple watches. People want to call the Astros the worst cheaters in baseball history but the Cardinals literally committed a federal crime to cheat by hacking. What I have been saying in this thread is that baseball fans and pitchers need to let this go. You got your licks in, you can throw your mental asterisk on the 2017 trophy, go with God. But the Astros are going to get tired of being whipping boys on this. The fact that the front office gave the Astros blanket immunity and issued zero punishment after their investigation should be a huge red flag to the fan base of the entire league. The Astros and the front office made a deal. Why? I think we know why. The pitchers aren't happy with it. Delusional baseball fans who overly romanticize the game and sit at home with their glove in their lap and actively score the game with a pencil and paper aren't happy with it. Joe Kelly wasn't happy with it, obviously, and the MLB wasn't happy with Joe Kelly because every time somebody does that shit, we have to talk about rampant cheating in the MLB going unpunished. Again.
  10. Astros weren't the first to use tech, weren't the only ones using tech, won't be the last to use tech, and teams are still using tech to this day.
  11. They stole signs. They are still the 2017 World Series champs. I still cheer for them. But it doesn't make me a hypocrite to say everyone does it. What I'm saying is that if the media and pitchers keep picking at this scab, then we'll end up with the whole thing blown wide open and people aren't going to like it.
  12. Lol. We're going to find out that the Astros, Sox, Yankees, and Dodgers are the Conseco, McGuire, Sosa, and Bonds of the pitch stealing era. They're all doing it.
  13. I can see the logic behind leaving him in there this early in the season. If Javier gets out of this without any damage done, it's a huge confidence booster that carries over later in the season.
  14. Eastwood

    2020 MLB thread

    Sir, this is stupidbullshithorns dot com. Highland cattle out front should have told you.
  15. This is a very Augie Garrido-esque inning.
  16. Eastwood

    2020 MLB thread

    I said way back when all this was fresh in late 2019 that the reason the Astros got blanket immunity is because Mike Fiers went outside the family by going to a journalist and threw the Astros under the bus when this is actually a league-wide problem. The Astros agreed to take the heat and keep the cheating scandal restricted to them as long as they weren't punished severely and as long as everyone puts it behind them ASAP. The problem is that I think pitchers are fed up with their stats and contracts being affected by what is essentially league-wide cheating through sophisticated sign stealing and now that there is blood in the water, they want sign stealing to stop altogether. It's the steroid era all over again. A league-wide problem that the MLB turns a blind eye to and buries their head in the sand until the press gets their teeth into it, then players come out and start slinging soundbites to try to deflect from their team, then it eventually turns out that if one team gets an asterisk, then a whole decade gets an asterisk. That's the MLB, gentlemen. It's fun to beat up on the Astros now like it was fun to beat up on Bonds in the early 2000s. The reality is that baseball is, and always has been, a very dirty sport.
  17. They had to do something immediately otherwise it would be out of control from the jump. There isn't an ump on the planet who could keep the game under wraps without the MLB sending some kind of message. It was also probably a message to all other pitchers to put any Astros vendetta aside and play the damn season. There are enough distractions, as it is.
  18. Yup. If anyone knows about cheaters, it's Joe Kelly. And I always get a kick out of a pitcher going out there and writing checks that his lineup will have to cash later.
  19. Eastwood

    2020 MLB thread

    "This team's cheating was different because..." It wasn't your brand of cheating, therefore it is cheating. They were universally condemned because people had to act shocked, shocked I tell you, even though some version of it happens in every single club house at all levels of professional baseball. The pitchers are enjoying the opportunity because they are the ones adversely affected by it on every team. Every pitcher's numbers are affected by sign stealing every year and they get to take it out on the Astros. Hooray for them. The righteous indignation of the fans of a sport where cheating is romanticized and huge part of the lore is amazing, though. NASCAR might have been the first sport to openly embrace "if you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'," but baseball long perfected that mentality back when NASCAR was nothing but a bunch of hillbilly moonshiners.
  20. It's because the opposite requires him to admit some kind of fault on his part. Between this and the white power video, it also makes it the second time this month that he retweets something so obviously wrong on its face that the best excuse his handlers will be able to come up with is that he was unaware of the full content of what he was retweeting. Throughout this entire presidency, the threshold of "absurd" keeps getting pushed farther and farther back. I miss the good old days where we would point and laugh at a foreign leader like Duterte who would wave a gun on TV and blame the country's ills on demons and obviously fringe science. Yet, here I find myself today, commenting on the president of the world's only superpower retweeting a doctor who specializes more in the occult than actual medicine.
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