There has been an arrogance about the Houston Astros, that they were smarter than everyone else, stronger than everyone, bolder than everyone and on Monday afternoon that wall of pomposity came tumbling down.
Rob Manfred, the previously milquetoast look-the-other-way commissioner, shed his reputation in one stunning afternoon on the national stage. He hammered the Astros in every way but one. He suspended the GM and the manager. He took the lifeblood first and second-round draft picks away for the next two years. He made the owner pay.
And now, for public consumption, the 2017 and 2018 World Series champions are in doubt, without an asterisk, but clearly dubious champions. That, by itself, leaves enough reason for suspicion about how successful the technology and its usage happened to work. Manager Hinch, who admitted he was aware of the sign-stealing but wasn’t part of it or in agreement of its usage, wasn’t strong enough or bold enough to shut the cameras down. Winning was intoxicating. The culture was overwhelming. The Astros were fostering the mentality that winning was all that mattered — and it didn’t matter how.
This is new wave baseball doing new waves things. The Astros used technology to foster sign-stealing, essentially it was computer enhanced cheating. The Astros have long been an analytics darling: This was taking statistical manipulation to a whole new level. And they did it because they believed they could get away with it.
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