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

A Red Sox tradition

 

FYI, Jessica Mendoza --ESPN employee and Mets special assistant, no conflict there -- has a problem with Mike Fiers going public.

https://nypost.com/2020/01/16/jessi...rips-mike-fiers-for-exposing-astros-cheating/

 

What on earth, lady?
When asked about Fiers role in the matter, here's what Mendoza said:

"I get it. If you're with the Oakland A's and you're on another team, I mean, heck yeah, you better be telling your teammates, 'Look, hey, heads up, if you hear some noises when you're pitching, this is what's going on.

But to go public, it didn't sit well with me. It made me sad for the sport that that's how all this got found out. This wasn't something that MLB naturally investigated or that even other teams complained about it because they naturally heard about and then investigations happen. It came from within. It was a player that was a part of it. That benefitted from it during the regular season when he was a part of that team. ... It's something you don't do. I totally get telling your future teammates, helping them win, letting people know. But to go public with it and all them out, it's hard to swallow."

 

It's January 15 and it is going to take a doozy to knock this off as the worst hot take of the year.

But ESPN and Fox Sports will spend the next 11 and a half months trying

 

Quite a journalist, isn't she? Probably like those stories that naturally write themselves, no gumshoe required.

 

I'm sure talk-radio's version of vanilla-flavored wallpaper was all over her.

 

Holy shit, Beltran quit.

One of these days I'll learn how to embed a tweet. Today is not that day.

 

Once this was out there, there's no way Beltran could survive.

 

It's about time. It was a terrible look for the Mets to go forward with him as their manager, especially after the Astros fired Hinch and the Red Sox moved on from Cora.