"Altuve, Astros Apologize (and Look REALLY Small in the Process)"

Jose Altuve and the Houston Astros have "apologized" for their cheating which helped them win the 2017 World Championship of Baseball.  This is more than the cheating RED SOX have done, I grant you. However, with MANY fans (me too) it's SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH.  Read this link...

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/jose-altuve-astros-cheater-los-angeles-tv-station-021157567.html

Jose Altuve IN PARTICULAR angers me because he beat out Yankee AARON JUDGE (shown to the left of Altuve, in the photo) for the Most Valuable Player that year. Many of us felt JUDGE deserved it, and attributed his coming in second place, behind the diminutive Altuve, to these factors:

     1.) That eternal, undeniable, ever-present Anti-Yankee Bias, and

     2.) Major League Baseball wanting to "promote" a short guy, make him a "role model" to inspire kids that "size doesn't matter."


Look, I'm 6'3" and I have never made fun of any guy who's shorter than me, and I don't think JUDGE is any more a creation of our sovereign God that ALTUVE is, just because he's taller.  But on the other hand, ALTUVE is no better than JUDGE because he's SHORTER. And I got sick of all the Altuve Idolaters who were putting their diminutive hero up on a pedestal (no pun intended.) How's that working out now that it's been revealed that ALTUVE AND THE CHEATING ASTROS BATTERS KNEW WHAT PITCH WAS COMING MOST OF THE TIME?

Pathetically, Major League Baseball cannot DISCIPLINE the players by removing the Astros' 2017 title OR Altuve's 2017 MVP Award.

However, I predict three ways that the Astros WILL pay for what they've done.

     1.) Home attendance WILL suffer as demoralized Astros fans will stop supporting these cheaters.

     2.) ROAD attendance will spike....with fans who come to mercilessly BOO the Astros. The Astros play the Yanks IN NEW YORK Sept. 21st-24th....they'd better bring extra security for Altuve, SOME Yankee fans are CRAZY.

     And, 3.) Jose Altuve plays SECOND BASE?? Sooner or later an opposing player WILL "take him out" while "breaking up a double play" because the other PLAYERS feel cheated by him and the Astros.  I'm not saying revenge is RIGHT, I'm just saying it's COMING because I'm a realist.


The link above points out ways that this team will pay IN THE LONG RUN, as well.

In conclusion, the Houston Astros look SMALL after their "apology."  

They should have suspended, or even banned, THEMSELVES.