Astros hit with 1-year suspensions for manager, GM, and heavy draft penalties UPDATE: Sox fire Cora

Let's not bring heyabbott into this.

 

Whatever, bored racist. You sing that same one-note tune at home? You really add nothing except this one tired saw. Learn a new song. Or maybe study how to walk on sidewalks without getting bullied.

 

1 and 1a

 

I’m too lazy to look for a Carlos Beltrán Hall of Famer thread but how does this affect his chances?

 

Gotta imagine some people will take it into consideration. They'll just assume he was cheating all along. Maybe that's why he didn't swing to end that infamous Mets playoff game; maybe his signal guy was telling him to look for a fastball.

 

Just get Jonah Keri to pitch it. Oh, wait ...

 

He's more of a batter than a pitcher. Allegedly.

 

Serve it up, Knock it down.

 

Let’s say he used a buzzer — wouldn’t everyone on the team know that and wouldn’t want to rip his shirt off? Or just ask Mike Fiers?

 

While MLB is obviously covering this up, hoping to make it go away, and the Verduccis and Kirkjians dutifully carry their water, Mike Clevenger of the Indians is having none of it.

Mike Clevinger on Astros: None of 'those motherf------ should be able to look us in the eye' - TSN.ca

 

Good stuff.

 

One thing I don't understand is how the catchers didn't figure this out. Catcher calls for a breaking ball and hears banging noise, calls for a fastball and doesn't. I think I would put that together by the third inning of the first game in Houston. How can a catcher play three straight games and not understand what is going on?