Astros stealing signs

[Largent80]

I live 35 miles from Houston but have no allegiance.

It seems like people are desperate for negativity of any kind.

Bang...Bang....Hahahaha...Laughable on a very large scale.

 

[Threedee]

Astros manager and GM suspended for one year and fined. Red Sox manager is next on the chopping block, and will likely join them

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/284 ... d-1-season

 

[JGfromtheNW]

Ken Rosenthal now reporting that "Astros owner Jim Crane just announced the firings of Luhnow and Hinch."

 

[Seahaaaawks]

Loss of 1st and 2nd round picks in 2020/2021 too and a 5 million dollar fine. Serves them right haha!!! But what they did wasnt a big deal :roll: mlb feels differently

 

[IndyHawk]

Loss of 1st and 2nd round picks in 2020/2021 too and a 5 million dollar fine. Serves them right haha!!! But what they did wasnt a big deal :roll: mlb feels differently

It's a big deal..It's called cheating.and it's wrong for many reasons.
That punishment is severe and people lost their jobs..I'd say that tells
you it's a big deal.
Stealing a Championship ..No big deal :34853_doh:

 

[Seahaaaawks]

Loss of 1st and 2nd round picks in 2020/2021 too and a 5 million dollar fine. Serves them right haha!!! But what they did wasnt a big deal :roll: mlb feels differently

It's a big deal..It's called cheating.and it's wrong for many reasons.
That punishment is severe and people lost their jobs..I'd say that tells
you it's a big deal.
Stealing a Championship ..No big deal :34853_doh:

I was obviously being sarcastic hence the eye roll... there were posters above who said it wasnt a big deal ukeface:

 

[HAWKAMANIA]

I’m really surprised by how many were involved. I also think the punishment is too light. They should be stripped of their World Series title as well.

 

[Seahaaaawks]

I’m really surprised by how many were involved. I also think the punishment is too light. They should be stripped of their World Series title as well.

Agreed. And no surprise that Alex Cora was the bench coach on the Astros... then he managed the Red Sox !!! Both LA’s losses came from the same cheating coaching staff. Robbed! ukeface: ukeface:
I remember watching them in the playoffs and WS... saying to my buddies how crazy it is their whole lineup from top to bottom squares everything up. They smashed the ball. Never a can of corn fly ball. Everything was hard hit on a line. And we were thinking how could they be this good. Well, they cheated!

 

[Threedee]

I’m really surprised by how many were involved. I also think the punishment is too light. They should be stripped of their World Series title as well.

That's how the NCAA would handle it.

 

[Sports Hernia]

Not a big Manfred fan but like the way he handled this, handled this better than the NFL would have, see slap on the wrist (Patriots).

Would like to see other teams AND players who were involved be held accountable as well.

 

[hawksfansinceday1]

Not a big Manfred fan but like the way he handled this, handled this better than the NFL would have, see slap on the wrist (Patriots).......

Kraft probably pays (off) at a better rate

 

[Uncle Si]

Not a big Manfred fan but like the way he handled this, handled this better than the NFL would have, see slap on the wrist (Patriots).

Would like to see other teams AND players who were involved be held accountable as well.

Think the issue here is that it's a common part of the game. But the Astros used tech to do it...


Seems a harsh penalty, really. But will send the message that old school gamesmanship needs to stay in the century it came about

 

[Sports Hernia]

Not a big Manfred fan but like the way he handled this, handled this better than the NFL would have, see slap on the wrist (Patriots).

Would like to see other teams AND players who were involved be held accountable as well.

Think the issue here is that it's a common part of the game. But the Astros used tech to do it...


Seems a harsh penalty, really. But will send the message that old school gamesmanship needs to stay in the century it came about

Stealing signs IS part of the game, we used to do it in upper little league.
You cannot however use technology to do so. That is the issue.

You can combat this by changing signs frequently, but with MLB cracking down on number of mound visits this makes it harder. Though I think you’ll see more “wrist band” systems, where a coach will call out a number which corresponds to pitch on the wristband. Already seeing this at the highschool/upper select baseball level.

 

[HAWKAMANIA]

It’s sad, because I like Altuve and Correa, but they benefited from this and who knows how much it impacted their BA? And Aaron judge deleted an IG message congratulating Altuve on his MVP in 2017 lol.

 

[JGfromtheNW]

I feel like the punishment was too light TBH. There's evidence of them doing it in the WS against the Dodgers, which I think warrants stripping the title from them.

 

[DomeHawk]

Take away the titles.

Best way to stop cheating.

 

[Uncle Si]

Not a big Manfred fan but like the way he handled this, handled this better than the NFL would have, see slap on the wrist (Patriots).

Would like to see other teams AND players who were involved be held accountable as well.

Think the issue here is that it's a common part of the game. But the Astros used tech to do it...


Seems a harsh penalty, really. But will send the message that old school gamesmanship needs to stay in the century it came about

Stealing signs IS part of the game, we used to do it in upper little league.
You cannot however use technology to do so. That is the issue.

You can combat this by changing signs frequently, but with MLB cracking down on number of mound visits this makes it harder. Though I think you’ll see more “wrist band” systems, where a coach will call out a number which corresponds to pitch on the wristband. Already seeing this at the highschool/upper select baseball level.

Yes.. like I said.. the difference is the tech component.

Just surprised the punishment was so harsh. But message was sent.

 

[Cyrus12]

Wish the NFL had the balls to deal with the Patriots like this...like someone said above they should be stripped of their titles.

 

[Crizilla]

I think this is more severe because it was happening during games. I guess Hinch and Cora were getting signals sent to their watch or some shit

 

[Sports Hernia]

Red Sox just fired Cora over this. I bet there is more to follow.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/284 ... s-baseball