The Houston Astros were eliminated from the playoffs on Saturday night, and, LAST night, the team they CHEATED out of a world title in 2017, the Dodgers, advanced to the 2020 World Series. Sweet!!
The Astros, only 29-31 in the "regular" Covid-shortened 2020 "season," somehow managed to advance to the playoffs and take the Tampa Bay Rays to Game 7 in the ALCS. No doubt, during the "regular," shortened "season" they benefitted from have NO live fans in the stands to BOO them (because of their sign-stealing scandal, revealed last winter). The team LIMPED into the postseason and several ERRORS by the biggest cheater of all (physical AND mental errors), little JOSE ALTUVE, may well have played a part in them losing that (ALCS) series. Now....had the Astros WON the ALCS, advanced to the WORLD Series and won THAT, would it have RELEGITIMIZED them as World Champs?? Not hardly. It would not have redeemed THEIR image, but it would have been ANOTHER strike against BASEBALL'S image to think that a team of cheaters, in THE shortest excuse for a baseball "season" ever, could get that far after having a sub-.500 "season." (I must admit that, had they come back from that 0-3 deficit in the ALCS to win Game 7, that WOULD have been impressive but it would not have washed away their guilt for cheating the Dodgers, in 2017. And....thankfully they DIDN'T come back from that 0-3 hole)!! ONLY A FULL ADMISSION OF THE ASTROS' GUILT AND SEVERE PENALTIES BY MLB FOR THEIR CHEATING IN 2017 CAN BEGIN TO BLOT OUT THAT STAIN. I say, declare the DODGERS the 2017 World Champs!!
Another question. Wouldn't it have been better for baseball, and more JUST, if the Astros DID win the ALCS and now THEY would face the Dodgers in the World Series, starting tomorrow night?? Thus giving the Dodgers another chance to meet and beat them?? Not really. How do we know they wouldn't cheat, and BEAT, the Dodgers AGAIN?? How do we know they wouldn't PREVAIL in a best-of-seven though they WEREN'T the best team, not even a .500 team, in the "regular" season?? After all, a limited number of fans WILL be allowed in the stands for the World Series and "fans" in the stands are what helped the Astros cheat (and win) in 2017. No, I like it THIS way....Dodgers IN, Astros OUT of the 2020 World Series. If the Dodgers beat the RAYS that validates THEM, in my opinion. Even if they DON'T win it all, they STILL got farther than the CHEATERS did this way.
In closing, to this point I've been rooting for the RAYS after they eliminated my Yankees in the playoffs....no more. I want the DODGERS to win the Series (I rooted for them in the '88 Fall Classic, you know....the Kirk Gibson homerun year, the year of "O.H.".....Orel Hershisher).
I wouldn't mind this Series going seven games, like the ALCS and NLCS just did, but I want the DODGERS to win it all.....while the 29-31 cheating ASTROS watch it at home, on TV.
Sweet!!
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