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18 Jan 20
The post that was quoted here has been removed"Sport holds a mirror up to society and the reflection isn’t always pleasant, but baseball’s toothless response to its biggest scandal since the steroid era offers up a particularly unsparing map of our flaws: proof positive that cheating in American society, while frowned upon, is ultimately accepted."
- This quote copied & pasted by courtesy of Duchess64
Never one to miss an opportunity to bash the U.S.: Duchess64 displays considerable hypocrisy in warping the issue of cheating in sport. A fact which has become all-too-common in the world.
Presumably, she approves of Kenya's doping scandal. She hasn't said anything against it. Therefore she must be guilty through omission. 😀
(I bet she hates taking her own medicine too!)
18 Jan 20
@handyandy said😡
The Astros should be stripped of their 2017 World Series title.
Alex Cora, the Houston bench coach who devised the sign-stealing system, moved on to the Boston Red Sox in 2018 and guided that team to another World Series title. What a coincidence!
The loser in both cases was the Los Angeles Dodgers.
19 Jan 20
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@wolfe63 saidMy Reds never have this problem cuz they always forfeit before any game they play.
If it's proven that they were using tech to steal signs during the 2017 World Series. Then they were cheating.
So, yep! A forfeit would be in order.
it would be even sadder if they cheated as well. Even if they did, it would not help them.............
You can't just hand the title to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Look at the teams that the Astros beat getting to the world series, too.
Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees. They deserve a voice too, so ya know what? Leave it alone!
PS: the league has said there were "7 or 8" other teams that they are looking at as well. Wouldn't it be a hoot if the LA Dodgers was one of them LOL
The post that was quoted here has been removedThere is nothing fair about sports. One side has the advantage for various reasons while the other side is scrambling to compensate for them.
The best team at this wins.
How many times have teams cheated? We will never know, especially in the era of players taking steroids, etc.
At the end of the day, the one team that wins, wins, and if not caught cheating while in the act still wins.
That's sports.
The post that was quoted here has been removed"Is cheating the rotten heart of American sports?
That's rather poetic Duchess. It also speaks rather loudly about your true feelings about American sports. To answer your provocative question though, I'd say "No" Cheating happens sometimes in American sports - no doubt about it, but to brand all of American sports as "rotten" because of this and a few other isolated incidents, seems off base "pardon my pun" For one game or season where cheating was involved, there are many where cheating is not. For perspective, a former martial arts teacher of mine once said to a student discouraged about his lack of progress: "Sometimes we focus too hard on the 1-2 things we're doing wrong, and we forget about the 100 or 200 things we're doing right" 🙂
30 Jan 20
The post that was quoted here has been removedWhat do you propose?
And then think very hard how this impacts other trams, too, that have some of those players on their roster.
Like I pointed out, you'll never have the justice you want by automatically awarding the championship to the Dodgers
