Controls the narrative. Story told on his terms, with his preferred timeline. Keeps it lower profile (despite everybody able to access all information these days). I agree that it is suspect and said as much at the beginning of this thread.
He wanted control over what questions he was asked. He may have even had control over the editing of the interview. ESPN would not have given him that.
Nook, I don't know what happened with that first post. I intended to reply to JR, not yours. Sorry about that.
That may dissipate, though it won't obviously disappear. I suspect three things might lessen some of the passion for it: 1) this playoff run, free of any suspect behavior, reinforces how good these guys are and might - *might* - lessen the media's fixation on the scandal. I certainly suspect they'll be less dumb/lazy about it; 2) if the Dodgers win the World Series, that is going to make one fan base much *less* angry; 3) people, generally, lose their appetite (which might also fuel the media moving on). Fans still don't like the Patriots - but there's not a lot of vitriol toward them and their cheating was far more egregious.
4) at some point, the Yankee letter will come out and people will realize it was more widespread (and MLB will try to clamp down on further discussion of it)
My hope is that Chase Utley will open up about the 2017 Dodgers and IF they cheated. The Astros thought they were stealing signs...maybe legally but would still like to know,
Has Brian McCann ever made any public comments on the scandal? Seems like he'd be the type to have said something if he felt like it was wrong.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/02/13/giants-cheating-home-run-1951/ Illegally stealing the opposing catcher’s signals started in at least 1899 with a set of opera glasses, a man behind the center field wall and the Philadelphia Phillies, Prager’s research found. The New York Highlanders had a center field spy in 1909. The Chicago Cubs in 1946. “Every team with a scoreboard in center field has a spy inside at one time or another,” Hall of Fame second baseman Rogers Hornsby wrote in 1962.
I tried searching because I thought he did and only thing I found was he reportedly wanted them to stop. Apparently he approached Beltran about it. But I couldn't find anything about him publicly talking about it. Found another article and Evan Gattis said McCann was never a fan and hates being linked to it. Gattis said he knew it was eating him up inside.
