HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!

With the recent scandal that has been revealed about Major League Baseball with the Houston Astros (Houston, we have a problem!), the sanctity of Baseball has taken another hit. It seems that it is bigger than the Black Sox, Pete Rose, and steroids it has the players speaking out and offering remedies to the situation that needs remedy.

Manfred the Magician has tried to make the scandal disappear with puny punitive actions and no real decking out the perpetrators for their misconduct.

First of all, the World Series trophy should be rescinded. Not doing so makes it a worthless piece of metal that shames and associates all the previous winners of the trophy and colors all the future winners for sure. How can the trophy have any value now?  Firing the manager and General Manager do not make a right and certainly seems wrong.

But there is a silver lining in this all. The players around both leagues feel the players involved should be punished, that they want the trophy to still have meaning and the only way to do so would be to discipline those players, all of them, and suspend the 2020 Houston Astros season, along with all else that was implemented. The 2017 World Series should be revoked as a title and the champions not recognized as winners. Along with the Boston Red Sox, in their pathetic attempt to keep up with the Yankees, they too should have similar penalties imposed.

The good news is that the player across the leagues have weighted-in, and their verdicts apprised. The response of the players from around the league should be used to give Major League Baseball back its credibility. It might not be a bad idea to rid the Commissioner from baseball as well, he is weak, and his intentions questionable as is his pusillanimous actions as a commissioner.