And remember, she's speaking as the wife of a non Astro since Colin is an UFA.
mathguy86 said:
We must be the worst cheaters in the world. Losing all 4 games at home and all.
Nuke LaLoosh said:
"Before the World Series this year, members of the Washington Nationals organization received warnings from others around the game to beware of everything from flashing lights to whistling to a person relaying signs from the train that runs above left field, sources told ESPN."
I need the train thing to be true. Fkn Bobby Dynamite.
03_Aggie said:
It was an off season article that is doing exactly what it was intended to do, generate clicks/talks in a dead time.
Can't wait to watch these boys mash next year. They're going to salty over this.
Like I said a while back. If there are rules against it specifically, then shame on the Astros. If there was a gray area left by the MLB, then I'd be angry that the Astros were not exploiting it. Smart teams piss other teams off a lot because it makes them mad they didn't think of doing that.Deluxe said:
Richard Justice said on the radio this morning that Brian McCann walked his signals out to the mound during the 2017 ALCS because he knew the Yankees were using technology to steal signs. And he would know what the Yankees were up to... he played for them the year before. Beltran did as well. And it would make sense that the Yankees have been by far the most paranoid team about what we're up to because they were doing it too.
I'm guessing there's alot of keeping up with the Joneses going on here. Our competition had an edge. Beltran and McCann knew it. Sounds like we responded by doing it ourselves (as a number of other teams like the Red Sox did).
It's telling how this issue kind of came up in the last two ALCS's and then just disappeared quickly. The Red Sox, Astros and Yankees were all doing it, so none of them had a leg to stand on in accusing the others. Same thing with the pitchers using sticky substances.
After the 2017 season, MLB banned cameras foul pole to foul pole and put in mound visit limits (among other things) to help combat the issue. I suspect there will be major penalties if it's proven that any team violated the new rules post 2017. But so far it looks like the violations on video that I've seen were from 2017, when presumably many more teams than just the Astros were doing it.
It's a pretty common media trend right now:E said:
Listened to that as well, really good info.
Nothing will happen with the 2017 stuff, just a bunch on internet fodder then we'll all forget and no teams will do anything.
Two things he noted were that 1. Notice how no other teams are coming out against the Stros and how everyone is keeping their mouth shut 2. Remember the Red Sox last year with blatant pine tar cheating and no one cared soon after?
Everyone's doing it. It just sucks to be the team getting caught.
I posted this on the regular season thread back in June after the Cy Sneed debut (10-0 L to the Pirates). I thought it was strange that intern-type guys were so paranoid about sign stealing that they were having a conversation with a superior about something so far-fetched as a guy on the rooftop signaling batters. Not evidence for anything other than that all the way down to the lowest levels of the organization this is something that was known to be happening and was a priority to keep an eye out for.PSully97 said:
Caught the game yesterday with my old man. Our first game together was in the Dome 35+ years ago and over the years we have seen some classics...and this was not one of them, but as I get older I appreciate getting to spend the time with my dad doing something we both love.
Something funny to report about the game: We were sitting in sec. 119 towards the back and a couple of younger guys with Astros lanyards & IDs were in front of us, one of them manning a camcorder on a tripod filming a close-up of the pitchers, the other was charting pitches on a tablet.
After 5 or 6 innings of Pirate HR Derby, they start looking at and talking about a guy on the Union Station rooftop that is waving his arms around, taking zoomed-in pics of him and texting those to a group text of people trying to figure out if he's just a joker waving at one of his friends in the stadium or if he's signaling the Pirates batters. I was really hoping to be able to break a sign stealing story and have an excuse for Peacock, but no Pirates batters were looking up there and eventually the rooftop guy went away. I do think it's great that we have paranoid interns looking for malfeasance.