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Originally Posted by ptper
This whole story could be bonanza for MLB/Manfred. We've been talking about it all off-season, it will certainly be a story throughout this season. Houston will be the most hated to team on the road (move over, evil empire), tv ratings and park attendance should be pretty high as a result. All because the contrition wasn't genuine--pathetic, really. I'll certainly be watching their first road game to the Bronx Zoo, unless, some kind soul can hook me up with some tix, lol.
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It should be too. Personnel within the Astros specifically told Manfred during his investigation that 8 other teams were using tech to steal signs too. That apparently got thrown in the trash by Manfred though because nothing has been done after he handed out punishment to the Astros.
Pretty ridiculous to me. From the beginning, MLB should've just said "look, this is a league-wide issue, we messed up by not policing it properly but going forward we're doing more to make sure it doesn't happen again."
But instead they decided to just duck around any form of responsibility and pointed blame at someone so they could punish and look like the good guys.