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In José Altuve’s first at-bat with fans in attendance–he was booed. Goes to show that the fans don’t forget anything.
Especially when you cheat.
One year later, José Altuve is still getting booed.
— FOX Sports Midwest (@FSMidwest) March 7, 2021
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After a dismal 60-game season, Jose was probably hoping for some peace and normalcy in his first season with fans. Fortunately for the fans of baseball, we get to decide what type of treatment he receives. He can’t rob competitive balance from a generation of baseball fans and expect no repercussions.
And for those of you who are wondering why fans haven’t let this go:
Last season having no fans essentially delayed the Astros’ punishment. We never wish injury on any player, but we do hope for a long and miserable season for Altuve and crew. After all the excuses they’ve made, the least they could do is be uncomfortable.
Pound sand, Jose.
HAHAHA!! That was great Gary!! I couldn’t agree with you more
Yes, the fans have a lot of catching up to do with the Stros after a year off from one another. The thing about baseball fans is that they have more robust attention spans than other fans. This means they can recall the details of history, and enjoy calling attention to them…repeatedly. Wait until Joe Kelly takes the hill against Correa with thousands of fans.
Make them dread playing baseball, sounds good to me. A baseball fan never forgets
Could not agree more! The Astros should have forfeited that title.
Oh man, leave the poor guy alone. Just kidding, I help he gets booed every at bat. He should have been suspended for a year along with the rest of the cheaters.
So glad my Royals beat those cheaters in the playoffs when they met.
People on social media are so uneducated and stupid. Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard Round the World” which won the Giants the pennant in 1951 was the result of sign stealing during that season. It’s been proven and was even included in Ken Burns’ legendary PBS documentary, “Baseball”. The bat he used is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Despite the cheating, people give Thomson and the team a pass, despite no apologies whatsoever. Cheating in baseball has ALWAYS run rampant, from doctoring baseballs to loading bats and many other forms of what they used to call, “gamesmanship”. Nut job Keith Olberman in the documentary even said there was something “noble” about a pitcher sneaking from the clubhouse to the umpire’s locker room to retrieve Albert Bell’s cork loaded bat after it was confiscated and Gaylord Perry was famous for greasing up baseballs and made the Hall of Fame.
Yet the Astros are to where cursed forever.
Now this is the part where reasonable people in the past would stop and say, “wow, I didn’t know that, let me reassess this based upon the facts”. But people aren’t capable of that anymore, because it’s funner to grab social media rocks and stone any sinner mercilessly while hyperventilating about things that used to be accepted as a part of sports.
Why do football coaches hold a card over their mouths when calling in plays???? Because every coach on every team KNOWS teams employ lip readers to try to steal
those calls and relay them to the defense.
Sheesh, people.
Arrogance and ignorance are going cause Outkick to lose customers. Look at the bleeding of subscribers happening at the Athletic.
If there was ONE player on the team that didn’t play that game, it was Altuve.
And baseball is the sport most likely to permanently affix the Scarlett Letter to certain teams and players while turning a blind eye to transgressions committed by the “kids who sit at the cool table”.