Not to mention the outrage is such fucking bullshit. Nobody fucking cares about any of this shit, they just finally have a reason to boo the team that has kicked their ass for the last half decade.
Every fanbase wanted their team to sign Springer. Every fanbase will want their team to sign Correa. Every fanbase with a managerial opening wanted Hinch. The Red Sox couldn't bring back Cora fast enough. Marwin Gonzalez, despite statistically being the worst abuser of the trash can system resulting in a career year and a $21MM contract, is never booed. Michael Brantley, who WASN'T EVEN ON OUR FUCKING TEAM, gets cheers when he's hit by a pitch. It's all performative outrage and it's a goddamn joke.
I've always said if anyone actually cared about the integrity of baseball, if anyone actually wanted to get the truth on what was going down in the league, then Cameron Maybin would be a much larger name in this whole thing. One of the most respected "good guys" in the sport gets traded to the Astros mid-season 2017, and you can hear bangs during his ABs by his second game with the team. If what the Astros was doing was as out of bounds as everyone wants us to believe, there's no way in hell you get a guy like Maybin to partake almost immediately. It just doesn't check out, yet nobody that I've heard has ever even brought his name up (and I'm sure he gets cheers during his ABs because nobody really cares about what you did once you leave Houston).
It's all fucking bullshit and I'm ready to fuck shit up this year.