Media Members Rip Jim Crane, Astros On Twitter
By TBL Staff
Houston Astros owner Jim Crane apologized for the team's cheating and stealing scandalThursday morning. Crane may have thought this was damage control, but media members aren't buying it. Here are the early reactions:
What a massive amount of risk to take and tremendous amount of work to do for something that "didn't impact the game." https://t.co/wIq52vd40y
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) February 13, 2020
What an amazing opinion. This is like the people who say taking steroids to get bigger, faster and stronger don’t cause more HRs. If it doesn’t help, why are you cheating? https://t.co/4jbqy27jPQ
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) February 13, 2020
“What we didn’t expect is for Jim Crane to come out and treat us all like we are too stupid to ask the right questions.”
— Golic and Wingo (@GolicAndWingo) February 13, 2020
-@jasonfitz on the lack of accountability taken by the Astros today. pic.twitter.com/mMahpzKOrh
Crane says that he doesn't think the sign-stealing impacted the game. "We won the World Series and we'll leave it at that."
— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) February 13, 2020
Why would the players have done it, if it had no impact? And if it had no impact, what are they apologizing for?
.@MarlyRiveraESPN just nails Crane and this is a complete embarrassment for the Astros. pic.twitter.com/v2bdND3PUp
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) February 13, 2020
Jim Crane sounds tone deaf. Jose Altuve and Alex Bergman spoke for less than a minute and a half combined. Dusty Baker, who has been Astros manager for two weeks, sounded the most sincere. What a mess.
— Robert Murray (@ByRobertMurray) February 13, 2020
Jim Crane and the #Astros be like: pic.twitter.com/0XKxggwkYl
— James Rapien (@JamesRapien) February 13, 2020
This press conference with Astros owner Jim Crane is a joke. MLB should have stripped their 2017 World Series title and he should have been forced to sell the team. To only blame the fired GM and manager and to not hold the players accountable is A JOKE. #Embarassing #Cheaters
— David Kaplan (@thekapman) February 13, 2020
Well I guess we see why the Astros organization has handled things so poorly, it starts at the top. Their owner Jim Crane is leading the way at embarrassing the organization with these answers.
— Mike Golic (@espngolic) February 13, 2020
Here's the thing I have trouble squaring: If Houston Astros owner Jim Crane says the players are not at fault for the sign-stealing scheme and should be absolved, why did they spend the entire morning apologizing and asking for absolution? The disconnect doesn't make any sense.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) February 13, 2020
The Astros just somehow made themselves look worse
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) February 13, 2020
The Astros PR department isn’t very good at the PR thing.
— Colin Cowherd (@ColinCowherd) February 13, 2020
Congratulations Astros. A master clinic on taking a horrible situation and making it worse by deciding to throw massive accelerants on an already raging bonfire https://t.co/T4rTS9Q6Qq
— trey wingo (@wingoz) February 13, 2020
It's rare in this diverse time that so many media members can come together and agree on a take. Yet that is what we have this morning. This isn't to say someone won't rise like The Undertaker and side with Crane, but the clock is ticking.