The commissioner has battered the Astros with the first year long suspension for two major pieces of an organization since the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal:
That is a Thor Hammer level penalty, and apparently Alex Cora is next:
Jeff Passan is more plugged in than my appliances, and here is one explanation for it:
There’s Cora mentioned in the first section. Hinch and Luhnow gone for a year, Cora even more? The only things getting punishments like this have been gambling and steroids. Stealing signs electronically has risen to that level now.
Duck Cora.
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Um, by the way, the “Black Sox” were banned for life. Not quite the same thing.
Not exactly the same no, but it is the only other time in MLB history more than one person was suspended for a full year. So the Athletic writers, the MLB Network Analysts, many of the ESPN writers all coming to the same conclusion means we’re all trolls I guess.
Yeah, the 1919 team was banned for life. Not really the same now, is it? Gets attention, though, doesn’t it? #troll