It's bad. Would be bad on any team. Still could be. You really have to

Jan 16, 2020
6:35:32pm

777 All-American

put the hammer on this. As someone who lived through the 1989 World Series only to find out later the bash brothers were juicing, it's crap, and yes taints that championship. Cheating is cheating. There is no justifying it.

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Here is the biggest argument I have that this whole sign stealing fiasco is

troutmaster13

1/16/20 6:07pm

...it sounds like they were certainly cheating...you can stop right there.

Lifi

1/16/20 6:10pm

Counterargument

Sandstone Cougar

1/16/20 6:13pm

Kershaw is a Choke artist in the post season, that's my counter

troutmaster13

1/16/20 6:14pm

Yet he dominated them at home when they weren’t stealing signs. I watched the

califcougar

1/16/20 6:17pm

That's a pretty dishonest narrative given what we know now.

jdub

1/16/20 6:43pm

Now look at playoffs and read the reports that they changed the system during

califcougar

1/16/20 6:15pm

I don’t think Manfred’s report definitively stated that cheating only happened at home games.

TCuz

1/16/20 6:15pm

I'm pretty sure that was the only place they could do it. Is a road team going

troutmaster13

1/16/20 6:19pm

Opposing teams have kicked their employees out of their stadium for filming

califcougar

1/16/20 6:20pm

A. It’s nonsense you’re arguing this. B. Early reports claimed their bullpen

Pee Wee Reese

1/16/20 6:21pm

The report states they were using the live game feed from the normal centerfield camera.

TCuz

1/16/20 6:22pm

Didn’t someone say that they had a monitor set up right outside the dugout at

Martin Van Nostrand

1/16/20 6:51pm

Yes, that’s how they did it at home. Who knows on the road.

TCuz

1/16/20 6:55pm

So it didn’t help yet they chose to do it over a period of time & in key games?

garyfan

1/16/20 6:21pm

this problem would be solved if catchers stopped publicly announcing every pitch

The Shazad

1/16/20 6:22pm

Agreed. I can't understand why this isn't happening, especially after now

troutmaster13

1/16/20 6:24pm

Why especially now? I thought that information wasn’t helpful to the Astros…

garyfan

1/16/20 6:29pm

There's no way they broke out the cheating every single at bat in every single home game.

CouchPotato

1/16/20 6:27pm

It's pretty well-established that they used it in the post-season.

Game Changer

1/16/20 6:33pm

It's bad. Would be bad on any team. Still could be. You really have to

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