Hey guys we are getting close to a new year. Figured I would start this early so we had plenty of time to discuss any rule changes and make sure we got a full slate of teams. Are there any rule changes or different stat categories anyone would prefer this year? Looks like opening day is March 26 so I would think we want to have the draft a few days before that. Maybe Sunday the 22? As always payments are due before the draft. Let me know if you are in again. I think we are going to need 2 more people unless anyone below decides to bow out also. Thus the early thread.
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The problem for the Astros is that this may fuel them for a couple of months but after awhile it will get exhausting. They will have to fight back for 162 games or at least 81 road games. Other teams and fans only have to do it for a handful of games. I see it wearing the Astros down more than fueling them to a championship.
I'm not denying any of that. I'm just stating that no one knows what kind of effect it had it the postseason and especially in the World Series. So to definitively say that it had minimal impact is ignorant. So would definitively saying it's the only reason the Astros won. No one will ever truly know what effect it had in that series. It likely had some impact in a series in which every pitch matters. The extent of that impact will never be know unless Astros players come out and admit that the only reason they got a certain hit, walk, home run was from the sign stealing.
Sign stealing can absolutely give a team a huge advantage during a 7 game series. Whether it did for the Astros we will never know. Knowing what pitch is coming is a huge advantage to a batter. Sometimes, though, it doesn't matter because that pitcher has a pitch that is just unhittable at that moment, just ask Bellinger.
Then why did they keep doing it? The idea that it didn't help them is just plain stupid. Of course it helped. That's why they started it in the first place. That's why they kept doing it after the commissioner warned every team about harsher penalties to come.
Astros fans: You can't trust the fake Beltran Niece account. It's clearly all bullshit.
Also Astros fans: This fake twitter account run by an Astros fan out for revenge is clearly telling the truth about Fiers sleeping with a 17 year old (legal) girl is the gospel truth. The dude is a pedophile who should be executed.