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Just curious if Patriots fans empathize at all with the Houston Astros and the incessant cHeAtErS label they get? If you do a deep dive, you'll realize that this is actually very similar to Spygate where one team (the best team) shoulders the blame for a cheating scandal that was rampant throughout the league, and the advanced stats show this is basically a nothing burger in the big picture...that is, every team tries to get an edge and cheat, the league doesn't care and practically encourages it, and then a bunch of losers (many of whom do basically the same thing) suddenly start crying and making excuses, demanding cavity searches, confessions, etc. Keep in mind that all of the dirt on the Astros is true, but like the Patriots, the only reason it got so much attention is because they're the target of the investigation, whereas the dirt on other teams is essentially swept under the rug. It's no different than an NCAA "investigation" to promote "fairness" and other BS, yet the investigation is limited in scope to nailing one team as a satanic group of evildoers and the other teams are the poor victims, despite that they were doing the same thing.
Since the revelations in 2017, the Astros are still the closest thing to a modern day dynasty in baseball. Their win totals since 2017:
2018: 103 wins (made ALCS)
2019: 107 wins (made World Series)
2020: 29 wins* (made ALCS)
2021: 95 wins (made World Series)
2022: 106 wins (made World Series)
*strike shortened
They've made it to at least the ALCS in all five seasons and this is their third time making the World Series...which is insanely hard to do in baseball with the playoff format and randomness.
I honestly don't see much of a difference between this and SPYGATE!!!!!!!! (omg omg omg) A bunch of biased, self-righteous crap, with the media/league refusing to have any objectivity or ability to retroactively admit they went overboard. Thoughts?
Since the revelations in 2017, the Astros are still the closest thing to a modern day dynasty in baseball. Their win totals since 2017:
2018: 103 wins (made ALCS)
2019: 107 wins (made World Series)
2020: 29 wins* (made ALCS)
2021: 95 wins (made World Series)
2022: 106 wins (made World Series)
*strike shortened
They've made it to at least the ALCS in all five seasons and this is their third time making the World Series...which is insanely hard to do in baseball with the playoff format and randomness.
I honestly don't see much of a difference between this and SPYGATE!!!!!!!! (omg omg omg) A bunch of biased, self-righteous crap, with the media/league refusing to have any objectivity or ability to retroactively admit they went overboard. Thoughts?