The 2017 Houston Astros Debacle - by Moses

      It is now known that the 2017 Houston Astros used camera footage to relay signs against the grain of the game of baseball, leading them to a World Series Title in 2017.  In fact, in the A.L Championship Series against the Yankees, Jose Altuve hit the game winning Home-run in Game 7, using the technology of having a wire on him (pulsing to indicate he would see a breaking ball that he took out of the yard), and when he rounded the bases was caught saying 'don't rip off my jersey!!!' to hide the wiretap from the media.

  In baseball circles there is much talk about how Major Leaguers are going to treat the guilty party.  There has been talk of Jose Altuve being targeted for the start of the 2020 campaign.  Personally, I wouldn't exact the infractions with payback, however, many Big Leaguers see the infractions as being offensive to the game of baseball.  This could lead to a few players from that 2017 Astros Team getting drilled by an inside fastball.  At this point I ask a simple question;  What would former Dodger great Don Newcombe say about it?  Would he challenge one of these ballplayers with an inside fastball?  I think so.  Most pitchers in the game will pitch inside on their manager's, catcher's, and their own personal whims, within the etiquette of the game of baseball itself.

  Should the Owner's, and Commissioner of the game of MLB have the right to dole out suspensions on a pitcher's whims to pitch inside, if he misses and drills the player in the head?  An important question to ask if we're supposed to believe in a utopian society where conflict doesn't exist.  When Ray Chapman was killed by a pitch to the head there was no action taken against the pitcher who threw the ball, one Carl Mays.  It was accepted that pitching inside was a part of the game and within the etiquette of the sport.  I don't anticipate a pitcher knowingly trying to drill a batter in the head, and even if he were to state after the game that he did it would be hard pressed to pass guilt on the action of pitching a high and hard one.  Let's have some level of tolerance here people, the reality is that we don't have sports with zero levels of accountability.  It's really just a means' of justifying man made cluster fucks.