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Bromigo
this is not two cents its about 75 bucks and some change brohan holy smokes take that to the bankJust gonna give my two cents on this whole Astros thing. If anyone from players, media, coaches, people in MLB, etc are upset with what the ASTROS did I hope to god you were just as upset when the whole Steriod Scandal happened in MLB. If not you are a hypocrite and anything you say shouldn't be taken seriously. This is another black eye for baseball and Manfred like Selig went soft on punishment for the situation. Beltran should get a life time ban as he was also in the PED scandal as well. I'm still confused on Hinch. Sounds like he wanted no part of it and destroyed stuff but never told people to stop it. It sounds like he was either afraid of going against his employer or something else. Crane should lose the team and the team should be MLB owned. Cora deserves a hefty suspension and any and all players should be banned for the entire upcoming season no matter what. The Astros should have a ban on signing FAs and post season play. I hate taking away awards and such though. I'm cool with individual awards but not cool with taking titles away. We can just put an asterisk next to them like many of us do with the Patriots titles anyway.
I find it ironic how some of the same media members or former players who defended the Steroid Scandal are losing their #### over this. You're a hypocrite. Why are performance enhancers ok by your standards but what the Astros did blasphemy against the sport? Both put a black eye n the sport. I felt robbed and honestly had I been older and spending money on MLB during the steroid era I'd be looking into suing MLB for false advertisement of players and product as it was not a natural occurrence. I was paying for something that was advanced by drugs not skill. I literally lost so much respect for players I liked from ARod (My #2 to Ken Griffey at the time) to Clemens, to Sosa and Bonds, Palmerio etc. This is a horrible look for the game and Manfred simple gave them a slap on the wrist. I'm going out on a limb and going to say like Selig the journalist and entire league knew about the PED scandal there are important people in MLB who knew about the Astros cheating and hoping to keep it under wraps similar to Selig and the PEDs and The NBA with Stern sweeping the better allegations on Donaghey and NBA refs was tried to kept quite for yrs. My best guess is after all the issues in Houston with the storms and what the city went through MLB didn't want to put more strain on the city nor MLB with possible cheating allegations by a team that was bringing so many in the Houston community together. I'm with guys like Trevor Bauer and Cody Bellinger here. Lost a lot of respect for those players and the organization and the commissioner is a ####### clown to the league.
Finally all I got to say to every player or team pissed off. Time to stop acting like a bunch of ####### and do something about it. Old School baseball some chin music and eat dirt to the batter and some dirty slides. I'll just say if anything unfortunate happens to an Astros player don't think anyone will have sympathy for them. They brought it on themselves and the organization. They disgraced the city, the fans, the sport and the name of the organization. Owners all the way down to everyone involved.