 thing that's really making this have a life of its own is that big name players who never say boo about other players are destroying them. Cody Bellinger the the National League MVP destroyed the Astros. Nick Marques is closing in on 3,000 hits destroyed the Astros and Aaron Judge now is speaking as we speak and he is going up and in on the Astros. He's referring to the Jose Altuve Jersey thing as tattoo gate. Jack Curry just tweeted out that judge said the Astros World Series title quote wasn't earned said it doesn't have any value because they cheated to get it. Now Aaron Judge was asked a question that Don and I wanted him to be asked. He was asked about removing his congratulations to Altuve post on social media. Here's judge on that. Reports that when the Manifers report came out you deleted a tweet that congratulating Altuve back in 17 is that accurate did you delete that? Yeah oh yeah and for the obvious reasons that we're talking about here. Yeah I think I took it down like right when I think the story broke out right when I think Mike Fiers came out and talked with Athletic and stated that now this is what was going on in 17 you know and once I heard that you know I just it's just sick to my stomach you know just to find out you know you got a lot I got had a lot of respect you know for those guys and you know what they did you know especially you know what they did for the city of Houston and that whole organization and a team that was in last place and drafted right got the right players in there and you know eventually you know got to the World Series you know I had a lot of respect for them you know the way they played what they did and then to find out that you know it was it wasn't earned it was they cheated you know that didn't sit well with me and I just didn't feel like the post the post that I did really you know meant the same anymore wow I gotta tell you guys and gal something I really do and please know where I'm coming from here I'm coming from a career of 35 years in this business 35 of my 59 years on this earth probably 37 this doesn't happen players don't talk about other players like this that the level of intense hatred and enmity toward the ashes is something that I have never seen you could correct me if I'm wrong I don't sense anything I never ever heard anybody in the NFL excoriate the Patriots over deflate gate or spy gate never never I have never heard other because athletes look at themselves as a fraternity and everybody else is on the outside looking in they could rip the media they could get angry at the fans but they never publicly say this sort of stuff now as a writer and a journalist I've had players tell me stuff off the record you know this guy's a creep you know but never have I ever heard any athlete big-time athlete like a bellinger or a judge go up and in on other players their constituency as I'm hearing now I'm not sure this is going away unless somehow man Fred finds religion and says we're taking the championship away because he can't punish the players he gave them immunity can't go back on his word he can take away that championship I think that would take a lot of the anger away I really believe that I think it would help and then why not read reopening most the investigation in 2019 yeah because you didn't promise them any if you could find something out in 2019 because something something's rotten in Denmark they didn't just stop in 2019 but you also before you reopen negotiation in 2019 manfred's got to call Clark and say listen you got to allow me some leeway in disciplining the players if we find something listen to your own constituents they're red hot I think you can win Tony Clark over and then you can have something where if you investigate 2019 and you truly don't find anything we can't accuse him of while he couldn't do anything anyway if he and Tony Clark in unison say the players are allowed to be disciplined then you could feel like you've got a true investigation now judge was asked specifically about Houston's 2017 title this is judges answer and also as the question that the Astros should be stripped of their 2017 championship yeah it's something it holds any value with you know you cheated and you didn't earn it you know that's that's how I feel is it wasn't earned you know it wasn't earned the the way of you know playing the game right and fight until the end and knowing that you know I'm competing we're competing we're competitors and the biggest thing about competition is laying it all out in the line and you know whoever's the better player better person you know comes out on top you know and you know you just lay out there and you know to know that another team had an advantage that you know nothing you can really guard against that I just don't feel like that's that's earned or you know yeah that's it's not earned I gotta tell you one I gotta tell you another thing everybody keeps saying well everybody's everybody's done it the Astros just got caught the way these players are talking now there's no way that everybody's done it I think people might have pushed the envelope but no way people went to this extent and to now they're all publicly quoted if it ever came out that they did something wrong they look at the biggest hypocrites of all time that's why no one went to the union and complained except a few rogue guys during PDs because they don't want to call out their teammates right their own teammates what what a what a mess I mean for Aaron just I used to always say that Aaron was a lot like Derek where you know he'll talk and talk and really not give you that much Aaron judges unloading today I mean I'm in the heart stuff and this is like if you were to do a comparison it's probably it would probably be the same thing for Jeter at this point and that shows how significant this is right even people with that kind of personality have to say he's legitimately bothered yeah you get you hear that breath that he took you okay the question the reporter who asked the question you know that's I think it was Ken David off from the post so when Ken David I've asked the question of you reportedly deleted that post on Twitter he was a little bit antsy like he didn't want to overstep because judging judge is not the most talkative person and he kind of thought he'd get a one-word answer judge is like let me fully explain when I deleted that post right he was very forthcoming about it and these are stars Peter yeah Marques Aaron judge I mean these are these are the biggest names in the game I was generous to our cake is but yeah Bellinger I mean but these are recognizable people I mean I listen these are people these aren't just some some guys that nobody's ever heard of these are significant names Bellinger is a significant name judge is a significant name you know if it was just Bellinger and judge but it's not enough might have a lot of judge went on to say I wasn't a fan of the punishment I thought that was a little weak for a player driven scheme that no players involved got any punishments and he also said he's upset of the lack of remorse he's seen see the Astros did themselves in by their arrogant dealings with the media when they had that press conference in spring training a couple of days ago Jim Crane made his own bed by saying that he didn't think it affected the game which was I mean board didn't even border crass the border of Asinine and hard to accept why would you cheat if it didn't help you only cheat if it helps that's why I wish to laugh at people well PD's don't help you have to be able to hit a baseball if they didn't help why would people endanger their lives by injecting themselves with PD's why and by the way when we're telling off the names we can't leave out Mike Trout Mike Trout thank you Mike Trout who never says anything negative about anybody and is a great representative of the players he went up in in he went up in in a Manfred has to here's what Manfred should do in order to take the ball out of his court he has to publicly say listen I hear what the players are saying I want to make the players happy I put this ball in the court of Tony Clark if you give me permission to go out for the players right now I will do it and then all of a sudden it's all the players you put the ball in the players court to great now I know that that's hard to do because in the next year or so that they have to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement and you're essentially forcing the hand of Clark and embarrassing him if he doesn't answer or if he answers in the negative but then the players then have a new enemy it can't be Manfred it has to be their union leader I'm just now seeing the video of three days ago of the Mets all working out with no shirts yes very entertaining I mean it's gonna keep coming like this well that was no no that was about that was about Cinder guard that wasn't about the buzzers yeah but well what about this no Cinder guard then retweeted the video of it and wrote some assembly required buzzers not included well he's adding on to right but it was all it was just mocking Cinder it was mocking him because the day before he worked out without a shirt which is what I always do