MLB players upset with the Astros
The Bandwagon is back, but everything is worse! Hannah Keyser takes you through all the terrible things - like the Astros cheating, the Red Sox cheating and the Mets’ entanglement with it all - that have happened in baseball and around the world in the 265 days since she told you to pick the Nationals in the World Series. What a simpler time that was…
Video Transcript
- Players being mad at the Astros!
HANNAH KEYSER: Yeah, they were very mad at the Astros. So rumors of the Astros' sign stealing have been swirling around baseball for years. Don't let Rob Manfred tell you otherwise. But once the proof was public, players around the league were able to be pissed about it in public, too. And boy, were they.
CODY BELLINGER: Altuve stole an MVP from Judge '17. Everyone knows they stole the ring from us.
KRIS BRYANT: A lot of the apology yesterday was a lot about 2017, 2017. It's like, I'm pretty sure it was going on in 2018 and 2019, too. If they didn't get caught, they'd still be doing it. And you know, they're only doing this apology because they got caught.
HANNAH KEYSER: You guys, Mike Trout said that he "lost some respect" for them. And he does "not agree" with the punishment, which, scaled to his usual level of spice, is practically a profanity laden diatribe that goes on so long it crosses from revelatory into grandstanding. But enough about Trevor Bauer.
Hearing from guys on the Dodgers, Aaron Judge, and Yu Darvish, who was frankly being way classier than he needs to be considering his history against the Astros, really helped to underscore the stakes of cheating in baseball. Namely, that it really can ruin someone's career. I'm going to have to give this 2.5 yikes for sowing discord within the labor union, but 3 and 1/2 nostalgic fans for it being the last baseball news cycle we got to enjoy before the pandemic.
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