Here’s what the Houston Astros owner Jim Crane should voluntarily do right now about his team’s World Series cheating scandal

Mark Gavagan
1 min readFeb 19, 2020
Clayton Kershaw reacts after giving up a three-run home run to the Astros’ Yuli Gurriel during the 2017 World Series, Game 5

This excerpt from Bill Plaschke’s LA Times column“Dodgers definitely were cheated out of 2017 World Series title by Astros’ sign-stealing” explains what happened:

“(Astros) used technology at Minute Maid Park to steal the Dodgers’ signs. Their hitters knew what pitches were coming. They gleefully pounced on them. They accumulated 18 runs with 26 hits and six home runs in two series-changing victories that have now indelibly stamped an asterisk on an event forever marred by a sickening truth.

The Dodgers were cheated out of the 2017 World Series championship.”

Here’s how Astros Owner Jim Crane reacted:

Here’s what he SHOULD do:

→ Relinquish the championship

→ Return the trophy

→ SINCERELY apologize

→ Personally repay every penny of bonuses etc. received by the organization and every player, manager, etc. for “winning”

→ Advise that the team’s economic benefit has been completely repaid. If individuals decide to do anything beyond that, it’s their personal decision

→ And lastly, PERSONALLY spend 30 hours cleaning-up trash near the Los Angeles Dodgers stadium as “community service”

And here’s a #video about the cheating scandal:

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