A-Rod criticizes Astros for lack of remorse post-scandal 

FIned $35,000,000 too.

Exactly. If anything that gives Arod more right to criticize. If one gets penalized for cheating why not the other? It doesn't make sense

You realize the key phrase in this is "lack of remorse" right? Because you seem to entirely be missing that part.

SOME individual players were punished during the steroid scandal, but owners, managers, and MLB officials were not. While owners made proposals to deal with the problem through drug testing, the Player's Association DID NOT AGREE. Therefore, owners did not press hard on the issue because they had other economic concerns ($$$) and advantages to gain. The problem was widely known across baseball and management, owners, club officials, MLB turned away from the problem. In this scandal, Luhnow and other managers were fired, the Astros' organization was fined, they were stripped of their first and second round picks in the 2020-2021 drafts. The players were not suspended because they were given immunity from MLB in exchange for their cooperation. The Astros organization was punished. Now, if they didn't get the punishment that you people want, that's a different story. But don't say nothing happened to the Astros.

Cheating is cheating there aren’t any levels to cheating

They paid a price....sure it was a 7th as much as a whole for the team with no punishments to the individual players in contrast to an individual not playing for an entire year, but.....I can't finish that run on sentence.

ASSTROLLS DEFEND WORST CHEATERS AND LIARS OF ALL TIME! KARMA COMING THEIR WAY!

anthony velasco he deserves forgiveness from the fans , I never liked him , he took it like man !! ⚾️🇺🇸⚓️

@@hqco3rdmedbattalionfmfpac953 I believe he lost as much as $35 million during his suspension

@@bobheck7303 always on here screaming like a little bitch. 😂

@@baseballworldwide9439 I guess u don't believe in second chances in life

@@baseballworldwide9439 u a clown

@@baseballworldwide9439 when did two wrongs make a right? AROD has every right to speak about whatever he wants. Also his point is the astrics need to acknowledge they're wrong doing if they expect anyone, fans especially, to move past this.

Baseball Worldwide right and he was still suspended for over a year and lost 35 million dollars. That’s more money than the Astros were fined by ALOT! Also, you are comparing Juicing to electronic sign-stealing... there is none. Sign-stealing is a lot worse.

@@ashesoflaughter774 The Astros apologized. If you didn't think it was enough, that's on you.

Its Spelled A-Roid

@@loelco8162 that's right one of the bigest cheaters in all baseball trying to be seen like a hero (B.S )

A-Rod criticized the Astros for cheating, but he was caught abusing steroids multiple times in his career. His real nickname is A-Roid.

Yeah but the difference is, A-Rod owned up to his stupidity and repaired his image. The Astros took the opposite approach

@@yarapah In 2003, A-Rod publicly stated that abusing steroids was in his past. Explain why he was caught abusing steroids again during the Biogenesis Scandal that occurred around 2009?

We would all MATURE and become MEN if we were going home to JLo every night too.

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@@EChino92 the seductress who's had 20 husband's? Sure!

I don't like him at all but I don't know what's worse that he's right or that the Astros got off with out punishment

One of the biggest? There were over 100 names on the Mitchelle report. He served his time. He got some angry pitches thrown at him. He apologized and then had an MVP year in the playoffs. Don't be a hater, Astros got no punishment and won a WS. Alex got fined and suspended. He has every right to criticize.

Biggest cheaters ? I think the entire astros team has claim to that term now and knowing what pitch is coming is far worse than steroid use

not saying they aren't but cheating is cheating u have no right to judge cheaters when u r know for cheating lol

AlwaysSomething The Mitchell report was two decades ago and the biogenesis scandal was last decade and people are still talking about Arod like he’s the devil. Tell me a person who bounced back from this shit as quickly Arod. The dude is doing well as a businessman, engaged to JLo and is killing it with ESPN and Fox. If he was such a terrible person, why is he doing so well for himself? Morons.

If you think a-rod took his punishment like a man you are deluded. He was the only player from the Biogenesis case to appeal his suspension, he sued major league baseball, he sued his own players association, leaked names of other biogenesis clients to take all the heat off himself including throwing his own team mates under the bus and still denied he did anything wrong until he had no other choice. Also the astros didn't defraud MLB, it wasn't money driven it was championship driven, if a-rod had participated in such a scheme he wouldn't have done it to win he would've done it for his own statistics and I'm a yankees fan but a-rod is the last person who should be commenting on anyones character given how he lied over and over again about his PED use

Charles Kroon A rod is the same dude who intentionally hit the putchers glove to knock the ball out and he got busted and called out for it. Although A Rod was guilty of his PED and foul play, his statement about the Astros is true. Wonder if he was on the Astros team if he would have come clean or participated like the other Astros. Something tells me, he would have gone along with the cheating if given the choice. Some people will do anything to win.

@@RootzRockBand The difference is the Astros wanted to win a world series, a-rod just wanted to break bond's already fraudulent home run record, he never cared about winning only about himself. If he was on that team he probably would've come out and said he didn't use it knowing his pathetic track record with honesty. I agree with his statement but it doesn't change the fact that he is the last person to give a lecture on character.

AFraud should have been banned for life just as should every Astros player and coach who had anything to do with the electronic sign stealing scheme. Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned for life just for being aware of some of his teammates cheating and Pete Rose was banned for life for betting on his team to win.

Charles Kroon Exactly!

He wasn't fined; he lost over a year of salary during his 162-game suspension, and the Yankees bought him out of the final year of his contract for less than the full value. Combined, it amounted to 35 million dollars.

milesian1 still more than the Astros lost and nobody got suspended from that team but the GM and Manager. They deserve the worst

@@NamesSimba I totally agree. But I was just clarifying that A-Roid was never explicitly "fined" for his PED use, although he certainly paid a steep price both financially and in terms of his credibility and reputation.

Not only for cheated this guy ,looking for other players to used steroids this garbage belong to a jail

He would not stop doing it!!!

A rod should have been banned for life so dont whine that he got screwed

@@gwnphoto6350 As long as all the other PED users go with him, along with the Astros. The punishments have to be fair.

Barrett Johnson kinda like knowing what pitch it coming. Still got to hit it.

@@dustingreen4257 Not even the same thing. Knowing what's coming gives you a leg up on, more importantly, knowing when "not" to swing. No chasing breaking pitches and offspeed stuff, let's just sit on the fastball. Would've been interesting to know how the Dodgers would've faired with the same information.

Gabby Hayes Its the Same Get Over it

LOELCO 81 not even close. If you played the game you’d know this

@@Warum.2439 EXACTLY my point!

Not at first

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LOELCO 81 🤘🏼 and coming for another one

@@_gabe_2407 by cheating in the first place by defeated us in the ALCS you know my mom had a worse bday screw Houston by beating la Dodgers in seven games you know your are a target to us and Dodgers

@@_gabe_2407 thx Houston losers making my mom baseball postseason runs with your sign stealing hope yall get boo down in LA in all star game

your ace pitcher disagrees

DenalPvp You're statement is exactly an example for why people think the Astros have no remorse. Get your FACTS straight. According to the Athletic, "Four people who were with the Astros, including Fiers, said that DURING THE SEASON, the Astros stole signs during HOME games in real time with the aid of a camera positioned in the outfield. Mike Fiers NEVER said anything about the postseason. He NEVER said anything about ROAD games. He NEVER said anything about them cheating beyond the 2017 REGULAR season."

World Traveler you really gonna believe the bogus investigation that the commissioner put out. There is so much evidence on RU-vid of them cheating from the past three years. You think if they were cheating in 2017 and didn’t get caught. They aren’t just gonna randomly stop. They would still be cheating if they didn’t get caught. Imagine trying to defend cheaters.

DenalPvP let me see video evidence of wires. Link?

Baseball Worldwide plenty of RU-vid videos on it. Search them up.

He was one of the best. His game never changed even without steroids.

What?!

He’s my favorite player of all time also but I have to hold him accountable due to the fact that he’s being a hypocrite, I remember perfectly when all he was doing was deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, all the allegations until he had no other choice then confessed, so he was doing the same shit basically

@@pja4671 what what? You deny that he was one of the best baseball players in history?

I’m one of ARods biggest fans and I hope he gets in too

A-rod was a suspension, Rose was an outright ban. Big difference

Tw11tchy not really

@@FevourWoR what's the difference?

Frank Varela I don’t like manfred either but, it’s a cba he has to deal with the players association if he wants to do anything. It’s a union just like any other union in the developed world.

@@has3219 but you know what. He could have left them out of the picture. But he took the easy way out. He could have listened more to Mike Fiers and other players that were not involved. But new what was happening

@@frankvarela8520 the right thing to do was to strip the title I would have been happy had he done that. Im not mad at the player suspensions they arent allowed to be suspended because of how powerful the players association is.

@@has3219 totally agree

You sound stupid.... you know how many players have been on the juice??? He was forced to admit..think about it

Jose Salinas stfu you’re a fan of a team full of cowards. Astros are a disgrace to the game and if you still support them you should be ashamed.

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Jerson this is the kind of response that I was expecting to come from an Anti-Astro fan. You’d rather attack the team than to give me a reasonable explanation about what Gerrit Cole said. Yes; I’m an Astro fan. And yes, I am ashamed of 2017 season with the banging. Hence, I think it is remarkable what Cole said that “He didn’t see anything illegal” in 2018 and 2019. My thesis is, that y’all’s focus is to attack the team when y’all don’t have the true facts only speculations. Now, if you could be a bit professional, by sticking to the question, answer this. Why doesn’t Yes Network speak about what Cole said? Please answer the question instead of going to attack mode.

Cole recently said: "But I'm telling you, we played fair and square that year 2018. I didn't see anything last year either. But no one wants to hear it now." Those were Cole's words as he stated VERBATIMLY. Imagine all of the talking his new teammates are doing against the organization that Cole came from. I just recently saw a video of CC Sabathia trash talking against the Astros with Trevor Bauer and other players. Trevor Bauer ABSOLUTELY HATES Cole. He's talked very bad about him in the past. And supposedly, CC Sabathia helped recruit Cole to the Yankees. Imagine the hypocrisy. The person that helped recruit Cole is contradicting Cole's statement with a pitcher that hates him. And fans will still cheer for him, even after accusing him of being a cheater too. This has to be causing a certain level of friction between Cole and his team. BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES!!!

Yankee fan here, never really liked ARod when he was in NY, but I like this guy a lot, I can respect someone who expresses themself like this. I hope he gets his shot to the Hall, he deserves it.

He will, maybe post-mortem but he will. Specially after this whole cheating Astros era. People will realize using PEDS is not comprable to knowing what pitch is coming. Still with PEDS if you don’t have talent, you’ll swing and miss every time.

His worthy of i just hope that dosent taint it, my favorite player of all time.

DEFINITELY

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Not everyone was using it but they saw the TV screen in dugout. They saw the guy sitting there watching opposing catchers crotch with trashcan and bat near him. And no doubt everyone on team heard the bangs. Whole organization from top to bottom are Frauds.

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@Craig O Getting caught using performance enhancing drugs, has nothing to do with talent nor baseball IQ, its something that cant be taught or bought. Look at ARODS numbers rookie year, thin as a twig, he was the natural, so dont confuse talent and baseball IQ, with being greedy and following the crowd. He played short stop, the hardest infield position, mentally and physically, then switched to the hot corner like it was nothing and won gold gloves. You think someone without a high baseball IQ could do that? Astros cheating is another level, they introduced a non human element to cheating, AROD was still using his body and mind, and to be honest you try playing nearly 200 games a year without a little pick me up along with travel and handling business. Sign stealing from center field or other parts of the ballpark has been around since the Brooklyn Giants played at the polo grounds, but they were using humans, not tech strapped to their jerseys or watching video.

@@yeeerrrrrrr EXACTLY! GREAT TEAMMATE AND WINNER!

John Pestano hit them with pitches too

And take away their title of course

Good luck with that! Best team in MLB for several years now. Still are

Lol

Which could be a good thing or bad thing if you think about it....

AROID AND JHO

Sounds like a nightmare, unless its 24/7 anal sex.

GREAT COMMENT! BRAVO!

Have you watched any of his interviews or conferences or listened to the what he said in this clip.

Originally? I think so; pretty sure I could remember a couple sincere interviews of his when that news surfaced way back when, yes.

Years later.... Maybe. Actions speak louder than words. A-Rod failed on that.

A-ROID

Manny More like a 100 times.

random name how do you do that on salary? They cut his contract short anyway

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You're not a real Astros fan then. You and fans who say the same thing that you do, will be the FIRST ones cheering them on, especially if they end up reaching the postseason, which I'm sure they will. I don't deny that they cheated, but I know the FACTS. If you're a real fan, stick with your team through the good and the bad. Believe me, fans of other teams have. Fans still cheered for Arod when he hit .455 for the Yankees in the 2009 WS. He denied using PEDs in a 2007 interview with Katie Couric. Yankees fans will still cheer for Cole and call him a cheater at the same time. A few days ago, Cole said: "But I'm telling you, we played fair and square that year 2018. I didn't see anything last year either. But no one wants to hear it now." Those were Cole's words as he stated VERBATIMLY. Imagine all of the talking his new teammates are doing against the organization that Cole came from. That has to be causing a certain level of friction. Supposedly, CC Sabathia helped recruit Cole, but he's been trash talking the Astros along with Bauer, a pitcher who ABSOLUTELY HATES Cole. All the while, fans will still cheer for him. The hypocrisy is absolutely ridiculous.

Ok, I'm not a real Astros fan then. I won't watch once pitch this year. I could care less about those jackasses. They've embarrassed the city. It doesn't take much to make me not give a shit.

@@TheWoodlandsMusicLessons Exactly, you can say that because you're not a real Astros fan. That's EXACTLY my point

I already agreed with you.

@@worldtraveler721 By your logic, if they were all wife beaters you would still support them. The guy who jumped ship woodlandsdrumlessons may be the most sensible among you.