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I dont disagree that they are well run, but also their ability to just blow away offers for the best trade candidates because of it is annoying. Mookie Betts, Max Scherzer, Trea Turner... no other team had a chance. All 3 of those players could have significantly helped the Sox (RF, 2B, Ace SP). Even if they wanted to trade for them, they would have never had a chance tho because Dodgers.

Go Braves. Not going to be a real good look for the MLB when the World Series contenders are one of the caught cheating AL teams and the Dodgers who simply flex their economic might to win. What's the point of fucking competition at this point? If the Sox weren't up and coming, I'd probably drop my interest in this buttcheeks league.

I have a very hard time seeing someone as strong minded as Tim Anderson lie about something because he thinks his bosses will be mad if he doesnt say what they want to hear. Typing it out now, it makes even less sense to think about! The Tim Anderson... suddenly a Yes man.

Well I'm not a huge TLR fan at all but if TA7 and Pito want him back, so be it. I trust their judgment.

Maybe, they sure looked like they knew what was coming instead of guessing most of the time. Correa said he would have fallen on his face if it was offspeed but I recall very few Astros looking bad on offspeed... most of the time they just had this uncanny ability to spit on anything close. I think part of the reason we walked so many of them is because worked counts so annoyingly well... again I have not seen a team work counts that well in a long long time. Maybe they just elevated themselves for the playoffs, maybe they fucking cheat. Cant rule either out because of their history.

Really except for game 3, Houston played a perfect series offensively. Your post, your awe of what they were able to do and the mad props you are giving them for being so great is a testament to this. I also havent seen a team perform that well offensively in quite some time! So much so that to me it is all frankly suspicious. Some competitive video games that get littered cheaters make you suspicious of everyone, even if they simply are a really good player. The same thing is happening to me with the Astros. It's almost like the Sox had fresh codes at the beginning of every game, then the Astros figured out the codes and wrecked our starters into oblivion by inning 3. The only time it didnt seem like they had something on us was that 5 inning bullpen stretch... and perhaps Tepera alluded to what he believes may still be happening. The Astros want to point to their road OPS as a reason why they dont cheat, how on Gods earth do they expect me to believe that they havent found a way to cheat on the road too? Fuck the Astros. 5 LCS in a row isnt just because they are good. I think that organization is full of shit and all of them should be banned from baseball. And I have literally no reason to believe theyve stopped cheating because the players received basically zero repercussions.

Yeah, what a reunion!

Did I see Gurriel bitching at Altuve in the dugout?

No, fuck you!

I know we all have our differences sometimes but I love all you fine people because we all bleed black and white. We may argue over the details, but we are brethren. Let's all be miserable together now!

OMG I hope Hallion is mic'd up.

His nose is just so far away from his mouth.

Anyone remember when Dallas Keuchel called out this teams positioning?

I hate Brantley's 1 inch upper lip.

Most of these cheating fucks don't even deserve to be on the same field as our players.

I would have hoped that this organization would have been neutered for at least 10 years instead of the relative wrist slap they got.

It better be the fucking Giants because I'm not inclined to cheer for a team that simply flexes its economic might to put other teams in submission. Giants or bust. And it's just a bad look for the MLB to have one of Houston / Boston vs. Dodgers. What's the fucking point of competition when you have people who were caught cheating and people who simply have more money as your finalists?

I hope McCullers hair gets stuck in a Radio Flyer wheel.

Bro I told you I was going full meathead. Shouldn't need to ask any questions there lol

Something should have happened that would have actually hurt their chances of being a good team. No one wants to see these fuckers in the playoffs, even less so seeing them advance. You think anyone's going to be happy with MLB watching people who were caught cheating win a championship a few years later?

I'm going full meathead right now. The fact that the Astros feel that they ever needed to cheat blows my mind because they ALREADY DONT SWING AT ANYTHING THAT THEY DONT WANT TO SWING AT. Fuck these fucking assholes. I hope the Red Sox blow them away if our Sox don't find a way back.

Holy fuck the Astros are annoying. That team should have been made into a AAA team after getting caught fucking cheating.

The worst.

If they postpone this, it better not be another day game. Again, people plan around this shit solely because the Divisional Series has to have their stupid ass schedule. Hard to plan around another day game...

Shake my head at the people bitching about Yasmani. OMG he doesn't have a hit, like we don't respect a guy who is crushing the ball? He finally crushed one enough this time that no one could catch it, AND THEN had his AJP moment on the basepaths. EPIC! Still don't know why he called a first pitch fastball to Tucker from Kopech though. Woof. I said it right away this needs to be offspeed.