everyone know cares, knows plenty of teams were cheating, nobody cared before, nobody will care now about what the yankees did
The Red Sox literally had a full blown scandal with investigation (and penalties)… and they managed to pin it all on some low level staffer and re-hire Cora and nobody cares. This will make a similar small impact. How a story gets reported (and then further embellished, and written from a slant that there was only one team at fault) matters. The media can make a big deal about something or minimize something based on collateral damage. Houston, unfortunately, has no impact in the sports media landscape in terms of blowback… if they want to go roughshod on Houston, they can/will without fear of any repercussions.
Of course they did. They also had a leg up on the investigation (after seeing what happened with the Astros, despite full immunity) to know that if they had a consistent story/approach, the damage would be minimized.
They were just riding the coattails. The Athletic website would probably no longer exist today if it wasn’t for that story (and the subscribers/legitimization that happened as a result).
Most fans have moved on from the Astros were the only ones to cheat to what the Astros did was worse than others...but still just as bad. This will just further escalate that narrative and "The Astros cheated worse" will drown out the Yankees stuff. If there is something to indicate Manfred covered up for the Yankees then it will be, "the Astros were never punished, so what does it matter."
Once you get on the wrong side of Crane… whether you’re in the front office (Luhnow/Ryan), a player, a media member, or a journalist…. He seems to effectively cut ties. We still don’t know the back-room deal between himself and the commissioner… and we also know the issues the league had with Luhnow went beyond the scandal (or he’d have had another job by now).
I wish this story came out after work, so I could drink heavily and laugh all night long. https://theathletic.com/news/brian-...ions-by-astros/CaahiodAk5tY/?source=twitterhq "The only thing that stopped (us) was something that was so illegal and horrific," Cashman told The Athletic. "So I get offended when I start hearing we haven't been to the World Series since '09. Because I’m like, 'Well, I think we actually did it the right way.' Pulled it down, brought it back up. Drafted well, traded well, developed well, signed well. The only thing that derailed us was a cheating circumstance that threw us off."
