February 3rd, 2023 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka There is a saying as old as time itself:
“You Can’t Beat a Dead Horse.”
At risk of scrutiny and criticism, I’m going to ‘Beat a Dead Horse’.
Early Friday morning, The Athletic‘s Evan Drellich (subscription required) posted this on Twitter:
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Although the sign-stealing scandal is certainly not new news to the baseball world (especially for Dodgers fans), this quote by Alex Cora, a former Dodger himself, may be.
…except for MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, who was undoubtedly very well aware of Cora’s blatant admission to cheating during the 2017 World Series when Cora was the Houston Astros bench coach and the confirmed ringleader of the cheating scheme. The Astros, of course, went on to beat the Dodgers in seven games, having used advanced technology to steal signs during that World Series and throughout the regular season.
(Howard Simmons)
Cora was later named manager of the Boston Red Sox in 2018, where he served in that capacity for four seasons … until his tainted past caught up with him.
After four seasons as the manager of the Red Sox (including again defeating the Dodgers four games to one in the 2018 World Series), Cora was fired by Boston one day after Manfred announced that Cora was “an active participant” in the Astros cheating scandal while their bench coach.
“Given the findings and the commissioner’s ruling, we collectively decided that it would not be possible for Alex to effectively lead the club going forward,” the Red Sox said in a prepared statement on January 14, 2020.
The point to all of this ‘Dead Horse’ stuff is that despite the continuing and overwhelming new revelations over the Astros ill-gotten win over the Dodgers in the 2017 World Series, Manfred still has not stripped them of that World Series title, and that’s just plain wrong.
Yeah … I’m still bitter.
Play Ball!
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Still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Asstros should have been stripped of the title at the very least.
You have to wonder just how ‘proud’ of those World Series rings they are. I would be embarrassed to even show it to anyone. Then again, I never would have even been given one because I would have been banned from the team because I would have ratted them out.
Manfred should be the one who isn’t proud. He totally mishandled the whole situation. Bad part is, they were good enough to win it without cheating.
They weren’t good enough to beat the dodgers, took them seven games behind a darvish meltdown all the while cheating. At the time rumor was darvish was tipping his pitches what a joke that turned out to be
Manfred had 3 options.
1 strip the Astros of the title.
2Award the Dodgers as the winner
3 Make co winners.
He chose the 4th. The cowardly one.