 boom was asked straight out are you convinced that the Astros didn't use buzzers last year and his one word answer was no he's still not convinced so there's a lot of smoke there I'm sorry and then Gary Sanchez had the early lead for quote of the year I don't know if you heard this Peter that's it he wasn't even asked about the Astros but he said I just want you all to know that if I hit a walk-off home run in the sixth game of the ALCS to get us to the World Series I invite my teammates to rip my pants off that's really good that's a good line he could have given to us that Mohegan son I would have loved that but he didn't he saved it for spring training but then Bob Melvin spoke at Oakland athletics camp and he said we always knew something was going on we complained to Major League Baseball the more this is happening and this is going to be the constant narrative down the spring training the more this is happening Donna Peter the worst it makes Manfred look that the Astros are not punished I know you gave them total immunity it's like that they killed six people and another person killed 100 people and you gave the six people I killed six people the guy who killed six people immunity because he turned in the guy who killed 100 I don't get the thought of just totally letting them get off scot-free and Manfred works for the owners right yeah how did the owners feel right now about this because if the players and the managers are all unsure or convinced otherwise then how do the owners feel about this investigation are they upset that an investigation was done their team lost the Astros didn't get disciplined really at all if they're upset and the players are upset I mean Manfred could be in a lot of trouble here does he have anybody on his side outside of Tom Verducci like who backs Manfred Jim Crane well because he only got fine five million dollars right and he I think that he's totally complicit because of the culture here's the problem Manfred's gonna have Michael is you've told me and it makes sense that even before this the Astros were one of the most hated teams in baseball because they're arrogant mm-hmm they walked around like they're you know what didn't stink that they invented the game of baseball I'm sure that aggravated a lot of owners a lot of managers a lot of players now they're involved in the biggest scandal in history of the sport and basically got away scot-free so I'm sure a lot of the owners are like Rob what are we paying you for here so did the investigation really not find anything or did he just not bother because he really didn't want to have the scandal really blow up but I'm wondering if it's gonna now be even worse because he's gonna make enemies all over baseball and maybe forced to reinvestigate this thing and then find something and then what does he do here's what's really gonna have a blow-up Don it's a story that won't go away no not everybody that's spoken today around spring training and even Aaron Boone said it's gonna be interesting they're gonna run into situations I think that's the word he used throughout the year teams are gonna throw at them they're gonna be brawls there might be a brawl every single series they play every single series it the Astros will not come into another town and not be booed vociferously there's a chance that they're gonna get knocked down nobody wants people to cheat against them the players are angry and I also blame the players just like I blame the players for the the PED situation they should have stood up and they should have told their union we want the cheaters taken care of because a lot of us aren't cheating they should tell Tony Clark the people that cheated should be punished because they cost us jobs they cost us money you're also representing the people that didn't cheat and Tony Clark could be in trouble here too because they who votes him in it's the players right well if you're if you are backing the minority of players the few that cheated the rest of you could vote Tony Clark out Tony Clark and Rob Manfred maybe out of jobs because of this that's why they should come together have a sit down and say listen you're looking bad I'm looking bad let's try to figure something out here now the PEDs were more widespread we found out that Konseko was actually telling the truth in his book is cheating that widespread that the commissioner felt like he had to protect them or if that's not the case then what are you doing what are you protecting the few and upsetting the many