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I see you can do a Yankee fan. Now do Jack Nicholson!

That’s actually true. So far all the evidence we know of rests on the hiring of former Astros. But jacko’s already stripped the Sox draft picks while exonerating the Yankees...

You’re paraphrasing in a way to make it more suspicious. Cora never said those s bolder words. Now he did say “I was joking when I said Carlos Beltrán was their biggest free agent acquisition” and then went on about details. Sure, he absolutely could have been alluding to cheating. Or he might have meant something else. They did do things besides cheat together, and Beltrán seems to draw praise from everyone everywhere. My mind is open on all this and while I admit I have some strong suspicions, there is a chance I’m wrong. And that doesn’t mean anything is being covered up. Of course, it doesn’t eliminate the possibility either;)

The league dismissed that as BS. They should have. “Beltran’s niece” tweeted about it happening after Beltrán left the team. It’s not only doubtful the Astros kept them Yankee employee Beltrán in the fold if new cheating methods, it’s even more doubtful they kept his niece up to date...

I’m all for trashing the Yankees. But again, isn’t there the possibility that Cora called him that because he likes and respects Beltrán? Or do you think all dirty players like to drop public hidden clues of the guilt? Now I can acknowledge EVERYTHING you have said on this subject might be right. Some of it probably is. But can you acknowledge the opposite possibility - that you are 100% incorrect?

But again, you don’t KNOW any of this. You might be right, but you also might be wrong about everything Right now, we KNOW about the Astros and Cora’s involvement. But on the Sox, all we know is an anonymous person says they cheated to. Do we really even know it was a player? Some people have already created this whole scenario where Henry and Kennedy brought in Cora specifically to cheat and Manfred is working his tail off to keep their names out of it. Could that all be true? Sure. But it also actually might not be. Heck when word came out the other day that the investigation into the Red Sox cheating scandal wasn’t revealing much, how many on here reacted that this was proof of Manfred’s cover up? And how many considered that maybe they didn’t cheat at all? But please don’t go using Bradley’s and Pearce’s postseason as proof. Didn’t the original charges state this was regular season only? And only with runners on second? Is that even enough of a sample to cause the team’s offense to explode? Not to mention, when you start using small samples as “proof” that something happened, you enter some really scary territory. So Bradley’s 3 for 15 n the ALCS is “proof” he had to be cheating? HE HIT .200!!! And even then, is improved performance always prof of cheating? One has to wonder at what point in 1961 should people have questioned if Roger Maris was on steroids, despite many of them not existing yet. I’m not saying this team is clean. And this scandal has done wonders for this dead message board this off-season. But that doesn’t mean maybe some of the assumptions don’t need to be reeled in every now and then...

Ok before you claim your head isn’t and won’t be buried in the sand, what exactly do you know as facts? There seem to be a lot of leaps and assumptions going on. So far we know an anonymous player said the Sox stole signs. Possibly not even a player. We also know Cora was involved in a similar scheme one year previous. What else do we really know?

The Mets didn’t fire Beltran because of his failure to win a game so far. You can’t go accusing these investigations as being driven by PR and then be surprised if actual moves are...

Greg Bird. Watch for it. Such a Bloom move...

So that settles it. Betts will sign with the Wyoming Cowboys...

Correction: Bum position player for bum pitcher with options remaining...

Or eschew months of investigation and implement earpieces for pitchers and catchers to prevent anyone from being able to employ this tactic. If each franchise has an Amazon Prime account, this can be done tomorrow...

Some of that can be attributed to players like Carlo Correa replacing Villar and then eventually reaching the legal drinking age. But no one really does epitomize the effect better than Marwin Gonzalez...

But will they be competitive?

So you think Pedroia will see the dugout this year?

Why so negative on Tito? Hated all that winning?

Hal Chase did receive the lifetime suspension for gambling on baseball. And then of course, there were the Black Sox...

He also seems to publicly downplay the defensive contributions of any catcher who can hit, otherwise he might find himself admitting there were better all around catchers than he is...

A suspension is imminent. But this incident will carry enough tarnish to prevent anyone from ever hiring him to manage again. And very likely, to coach again. He simply doesn’t bring enough to the dugout to overshadow all the questions that will accompany any subsequent hiring, even as a bullpen coach...

The Sox should step back for 2020 if they trade Betts, but it isn’t a white flag for the season, depending on what they get back....

Scioscia won’t work. We don’t have a closer for him to burn out..,

I get the Sox have some higher priorities, but it does seem like trading Betts is more likely now. I just hope the Sox don’t use him to entice someone to take Price and instead use him to recoup some of the value the Sox are likely to lose in the form of draft pick losses...

Judge Smales

I haven’t supported Cora, except in the face of some overly dramatic criticisms. I think he got what he deserved and will probably never do much better than The Sugar Land Skeeters, and he has no one to blame but himself. Grady Little, I felt bad for. Cora? Not so much. But that doesn’t mean I think he should be drawn and quartered...

Ok. Why do you think the President or Executive VP are involved or know anything about this? It is funny how you try to explain that you were not referring to ownership and bring about these middle layers, but then end on how this is all designed to protect owners. Do you think Crane, Henry and any other involved owner knew or not? And why do you think that? Or is there some proof I’m missing?