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Support Us Houston's independent source of local news and culture. It's been an interesting and highly successful decade of Astros baseball since Jim Crane purchased the team. Screen grab from YouTube. So Crane was paddling upstream right out of the gate as owner of the team. For the next two seasons, the Astros put a product on the field that would go largely ridiculed, if not ignored, by the city, in no small part because most of the city couldn't see it because of a carriage dispute between the partially-Crane-owned Comcast Sports Net and various distributors.
If we had asked the question in "Give the Jim Crane ownership era a grade," it might have gone like this: Needless to say, things got significantly better, but it still hasn't been all peaches and cream. In , Crane met Donald Trump at the White House, where the then-president congratulated him on the performance of the Houston Astros. Market Realist is a registered trademark. All Rights Reserved. People may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice.
Article continues below advertisement. Jim Crane's controversies. The Astros were made into a scapegoat for what everyone within the game knew was a pervasive problem, and Crane allowed it to happen. Not only that, but he willingly took the punishment and seemed to even welcome it. He fired Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch, neither of whom were anywhere near being the most at fault. Hinch already has a new job, and Luhnow is suing the Astros , claiming Crane negotiated with MLB in regard to what punishments would be doled out.
The Astros reputation has been tarnished for doing something that has been happening in some form for decades, and that many other teams were doing at the same time. But considering the competition, I suppose it could always be worse. At least the team is still winning. Want your voice heard? Join the Climbing Tal's Hill team! Yet, the moment MLB announced that Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly would be suspended for his actions , precipitating a benches-clearing incident, COVID style, the anger and hostility from the outside world surged forward again.
Crane said he didn't receive any death threats like he did earlier this year, but he and his team was savaged on the airwaves and social media. How can the Astros engineer one of the greatest cheating scandals in baseball history, with their players being granted immunity so none of them was punished, and then a Dodgers player get punished for trying to police their game if no one else was going to do it for them?
The public, even in the middle of a pandemic, and a country fighting for social justice, refuses to forget. A black mark. An asterisk. It happened. We got penalized. We were punished. We took a big penalty. Rob Manfred sent a message. We accepted the message, and went above and beyond. We apologized. People wanted me out of baseball. They wanted players to be suspended.
They wanted everything. And he expressed remorse for that disastrous February press conference which only inflamed the anger from the public and players around the game.
It was the Feb. He was not going to alter the game. How it altered the game, no one is ever going to know. Did it have an effect on the game? Astros finally bubbles over on field. You try to answer the same question 18 times.
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