My god the D&D might be less negative and have more intelligent takes than the Astros forum and the Garm. What the hell is going on?
How? He’s asking why he would throw these *allegation* out and basically his old team under the bus when they won a ring together.
The way he commented, sounds like they already have a hint of what MLB is going to do... and they don't really appear all that phased by it. Honestly, they shouldn't.... the fact that this story has created the myth that the Astros can't do anything without trash can noises seems to have also affected some Astros fans here. This team is stacked... regardless of all factors.
Technically though, isn’t admitting it the right thing to do. As long as the Astros continue to lie to the media, the media will continue to try and corner them. And it will work. The media will stop the day they own it.
Musgrove sounds like Sosa, McGwire, and Lance Armstrong. He’s just pivoting away from what happened. I don’t mind that they tried to cheat, but at least own it. It’s the edge we needed to win it over all of the other hard working players and teams and it obviously worked.
The Astros could spin this if they declare, “that’s no moon.” lol. Then it’s a movie with brad pitt and we go into legendary status.
Well let's pretend for a minute that they won the WS because a few of their hits were 100% attributable to cheating. What is MLB going to do about it? The worst thing MLB can do the sport is strip a title and taint their own league. So they'll issue some fines maybe, some small suspension?, maybe draft pick? Well worth it.
The day after this broke Luhnow made a comment to the effect that they always play to what they believe to be within the confines of the rules. We've come to find out the camera in center field was not against the rules, it's an MLB approved camera. In 2017, viewing the feed of this camera somewhere outside the dugout was allowed, right? So going off of Luhnow's initial statement I can see the Astros making their case that the camera was legal. The placement of the monitor was legally outside of the dugout (maybe), and they didn't use technology to relay info about signs, they beat on a trashcan outside of the dugout; whereas, the Red Sox used an Apple Watch to relay info about signs. They're probably saying they stayed in that "gray area" of the rules that weren't made clearer until after this took place.
