MyNameIsJonas
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Yes, but a self imposed one by the owner of selling their best player and crying Pooris boston even going to get punished....?
Yes, but a self imposed one by the owner of selling their best player and crying Pooris boston even going to get punished....?
Situation is a mess but Manfred couldnt strip them of the title
Its just a hunk of metal anyway.
Manfred couldn't have handled any part of this worse.
why?
And why didn’t the players pay a price.
The team should of been suspended for this year and paid a stiffer penalty
However this would of created a shit show of litigation , grievances etc... from the players union
League is about to try to hammer a new CBA soon , this would of been a clustrfuk mess
The owners / players are all to blame . There was no mechanism in place to stop this and its all on Manfred and MLB
This is like Silver trying to go for the jugular knowing the Raps paid off refs and other officials to fix the title for us
The severity is 10x greater than giving a team a moderate penalty than stripng the Raps title
Yeah, you can't really penalize current players for mistakes of the former players. So what a lot of people are suggesting definitely make no sense and have no chance of happening.
That being said, I definitely think there is enough evidence around that they could have officially vacated their title. I mean, it's not like you can take away the emotion from the fans who went through it back then, and all you're really doing is putting an asterisk officially in the record books. The way both the Astros and the league have handled this has definitely caused it to be a ton worse than it could have been.
Heck, if the Astros PR essentially came out as a "we cheated, and we are terribly sorry", with the players admitting to everything, that would have gone a long way to people not caring as much. But the fact that they came and basically have said that it doesn't matter that they cheated, it just pushes people the wrong way.