SMH @ MLB

[Eddielives]

So first of all, I know this cheating scandal shouldn't cause me to throw the baby out with the bathwater.  But the sport has lost so much fandom and the ratings show it.  It's truly sad and honestly pathetic.  Yet, I remember with extreme fondness loving my Braves, and baseball, as early as Dale Murphy.  My fandom  reached it's zenith with the run in the 90's.  But that love began it's fade as the disappoinment from the strike, corked bats, hgh, ridiculous contracts(money and length), too long a season, too many teams, lack of promotion of star players, get off my lawn old fogey game commentators, Atlanta's own Joe Simpson for example, and the continued wetting of the bed by those good Braves teams and the team now that couldn't get more than 1 championship.  

So for a sport that can't seem to get out it's own way, we have the latest.  Not to be undersold by anyone thinking they have demonstrated that they are the best at ruining a good thing, MLB says hold my beer.  We have proof that cheating on an epic scale happened with reason to suspect other World Series teams may have as well.  Boston, I'm talking to you.  Not the good ole' fashioned stealing signs from having your guy on second base.  We know that's been happening since the beginning.  But I just have to laugh and cry a little bit with the latest because what once was such a great sport is a shadow of itself. 

If they don't strip the Astros of the World Championship, they have very likely lost me and even more fans that they can't afford to lose for good. I was hanging by a string anyway even with the Braves being relevant again.

[macdaddy]

Yep.  I agree completely.  The Braves ditching intown the way they did left a bad taste in my mouth anyway.  This Astros thing is a joke and i can't believe more players on the team didn't object.  Watching the at bats you really see what a huge advantage it is to know whether a fastball or offspeed pitch is coming.  All those guys should be ashamed.  

But yeah.  My interest is low and for decades braves baseball was my number one sport.  

Go Hawks!