I was waiting for the first Astros ticket holder to sue. Glad we got that out of the way. Interested to see what other complete ****ing morons crawl out.
From the Chronicle article as well, is this even real life? In addition, a rare handwritten lawsuit has been filed in federal court in Nevada against the Astros and Red Sox by a Georgia man who says he placed a $7,500 bet at a Nevada casino, picking the Dodgers to win the World Series, and in 2018 placed a $6,000 bet on the Dodgers through Draft Kings to win the World Series. The Dodgers, of course, lost both years to the Astros and Red Sox, respectively, and the plaintiff says he subsequently lost his car, his apartment and his job. His lawsuit accuses the Astros and Red Sox of violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization statute and of conspiring to defraud him. The plaintiff lists his address as the Georgia Department of Corrections’ Long State Prison in Ludowici, Ga. Georgia prison records indicate that he is serving a 20-year sentence for aggravated stalking and received five-year sentences on two other charges.
This is funny. Good job Astros! They now made the entire city and baseball team a freaking target forever! Anything that franchise does will forever be questioned.
I gotta say that one of my biggest disappointments is nobody in the organization realizing how bad this would be once it eventually leaked out. I barely think what they did qualifies as cheating, so it doesn't ethically bother me one bit. The stupidity of not knowing how everyone else would handle this is unbelievably bad, though. The players are just young guys mainly focused on baseball, and the coaches and front office have their own jobs, but, c'mon... At the age of 21, having been fairly politically engaged at the time, I could have told everyone EXACTLY why this was a terrible idea. If I'd been in that locker room, I would've at least had the understanding to say something like this if I'd had the nerve to: "No, guys, it's not about ethics. I don't care about the infinite interpretations of 'ethics.' It's about politics and politicking. Houston is the perfect whipping boy and scapegoat if this ever gets out. And it will. How do you expect it not to? And once that happens, the media is never going to let up because they're lazy, and they inherently hate Houston compared to other major cities. And the commissioner's office, knowing all this, is going to throw us to the wolves to try to shift everything onto us and away from itself, because it has willing 'useful idiots' in the media to go along with this." The fact that nobody in the organization had any sense of this is staggering. This whole shitstorm, while "unfair" in my eyes, was entirely predictable. And that's what disappoints me the most.
Honestly the owners need to trade every player on the roster and the owners need to sell the team asap. Start from scratch. That's the only way this team does not get ass beaten all season. They are literally doing the ass whooping tour this season. Every team is going to "accidentally" hurt them. Think of it as a shaming tour. Every player is pretty much going to be naked on the field with **** thrown on them.
1) Change the team name back to the Colt 45's. 2) Hire investigators to scoop up cr@p on the other teams. 3) Get a news outlet to publish all the dirt. Change the focus from us to them. 4) Kidnap Mike Fiers and dump him in the Australian outback somewhere. 5) Hack MLB league office computers and publish all the facts held back. 6) F#ck the Rangers.
Or we could go with option B, unleash a virus that backs up the court system for decades and puts the league on pause. It's diabolical. But nearly impossible to pull off given Houston has no access or traction in China.
Astros just trying to deal with a virus like the rest of us. This one just happens to be named Mike Bolsinger.