Carlos Beltran Has Been Linked To The Astros Sign-Stealing Scandal And As A Mets Fan, I Fucking Love It
The Athletic- Major League Baseball’s investigation into the Astros and sign stealing is virtually certain to include interviews with three current managers — the Astros’ AJ Hinch, the Red Sox’s Alex Cora and the Mets’ Carlos Beltrán. Hinch was the Astros’ manager in 2017, and sources said both Cora and Beltrán played a key role in devising the sign-stealing system the team used that season. The Astros stole signs electronically, according to pitcher Mike Fiers and three other sources inside the organization at the time, violating major league rules.
LETS FUCKING GO METS, BABY!!! I'll admit that I was a little skeptical about the Carlos Beltran hiring because he lacked managerial experience and had a demeanor that seemed to cause friction with New York fans as well as media members. But after reading about Beltran allegedly playing a significant role in a system that helped lead the Astros to their first World Series two years ago alongside the guy that led the Red Sox to a World Series last year, I am now all in on him because he is clearly a guy with a beautiful baseball mind that will think outside the box and do whatever it takes to win a game. Meanwhile the guy he replaced continued to trot out Robbie Cano's corpse in the 3-hole because he believed in luck and used to giggle like a school girl when his team would fall behind.
Is Major League Baseball stripping franchises of World Series titles because it came out their players stealing signs with telescopes, scuffing up balls, or shooting the cream, the clear, and steroids that I couldn't pronounce if I tried straight into their eyeballs? Fuck no. This isn't the NCAA where the Powers That Be take down a banner because a kid cheated on a test or borrowed $10 from a buddy. It's professional sports. And even when those banners are taken down, everyone knows who the champion of that season was, and it sure as shit isn't the team that took the L in the National Championship.
I'm sure the moral police will break the doors down and yell about how stealing signs is technically cheating. But if your team isn't cheating, it isn't trying. I bet all the teams the Astros played had their own little schemes going that either didn't work as well or just haven't been discovered. And don't talk to me about culture in sports because there is no culture on the planet better than winning. If you are above your team trying to get a competitive advantage in the highest level of a sport, you can go play basketball with this self-snitching nerd.
Actually lets bring it back to baseball since it is the country's past time run by the most sanctimonious sports writers in all the land and go to MLB's moral authority for what he thinks about all this malfeasance while looking at his home/road splits during the 2017 postseason.
I'll take that as a "No Comment".
Forgot about rules. I'd be fine with the Mets breaking actual laws to win a title. Maybe not anything that actually kills someone (unless they are bad guys I guess). But I'd turn a blind eye to almost anything else if it meant I could see a World Series parade before I die. The 1986 Mets didn't give a flying fuck about the rule book or the letter of the law and Bernie Madoff broke the law, took a bunch of the Wilpons' money, and have turned the Mets into a mid-market team with a big market zip code despite Madoff's victims recouping a bunch of money.
Which is why I'm not worried about a major punishment coming for Beltran. If Rob Manfred and the rest of the rat fucks at MLB can willfully allow the Mets to be run by a bunch of penny-pinching circus clowns that probably commute to Citi Field packed dick-to-ass in a clown car to save on gas money while dragging their feet on every time big free agent and pocketing insurance money, they aren't going to hamstring them for shit their manager did back when he was playing. If the reason Beltran got hired is because he figured out the perfect way to steal signs using the angles at Citi Field and whatever bum ass Windows 95 technology the Wilpons installed there, I'd love it. In fact, I wish Carlos had a camera at Shea back in 2006 to tell him that Adam Wainwright's curveball from hell was coming so he could have parked it deep into the Flushing night instead of watching it land in Yadi Molina's glove while his bat laid on his shoulder. Hopefully whatever happens during and after the investigation doesn't change what Beltran planned to do to help the Mets win, because baseball scandals come and go while banners fly forever. Just give me a goddamn World Series trophy and as many asterisks as you want. I don't give a shit.