What do you think about the Houston Astros cheating scandal and the punishment the team received?

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Personally I think it was more than deserved; their $5 million fine should have been even bigger and losing the draft picks was deserved as well. If you aren't familiar with the scandal, look it up; essentially they had a video feed from the outfield and were stealing signs from the opposing catcher, then making a loud noise from the dugout to let their batter (the Astros batter) know what type of pitch was going to come.

No players were punished.

Answer 1

Fiiggy

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Well it looks like one player (at the time) will soon be getting a slap on the wrist. I think it was just about right. I would have added to this punishment: life time bans for Jeff Luhnow, AJ Hinch and also add an asterisk to their WS win. They essentially stole the WS from the Dodgers and i genuinely dislike the Dodgers and still feel this way. Houston Astros have tossed away any legitimacy they had. What a garbage organization, it'll take a while to rid themselves of this stink.

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Liam_Hayden

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I think the proper response to cheating of this nature is, in addition to the other [penalties, to vacate the title. To not do so is to condone the cheating. I mean $5M and a few draft picks are chump change to the owners and any team would trade those for a World Series Title.

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Liam_Hayden

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They should also have to vacate the AL Championship title. In fact, they should have every home win that season go into the books as a forfeit. And if the Red Sox in 2018 pulled a similar scam they should also get stripped of their titles for the WS and AL for that year.

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Liam_Hayden

They should also have to vacate the AL Championship title. In fact, they should have every home win that season go into the books as a forfeit. And if the Red Sox in 2018 pulled a similar scam they should also get stripped of their titles for the WS and AL for that year.

What do you think about the Houston Astros cheating scandal and the punishment the team received?

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