I said it before somewhere else, but: Shoeless Joe Jackson was BANNED and he didn't participate in the fix. He led both teams in multiple categories and he set a World Series record for Base Hits. He was banned for just knowing about the fix....

Strip the title already! We can't stop talking about this until the title is gone!

We need "Beltran's niece" to release those photos she said she is saving for a rainy day confirming the wearing of the buzzers!! This will force action to be taken on the players. Short of that nothing will ever happen to them.

Need I remind people that 100 years ago, Kennesaw Mountain Landis was appointed as the 1st commissioner in MLB because the players weren't holding up the integrity of the game following the 1919 World Series. After being appointed as commissioner in 1920, his first act in office was throwing 8 players out of the league for disgracing the league. 100 years later, commissioners are afraid to touch the players regardless of the evidence that they blatantly cheated. It also shows that you can apparently ban players for giving away a World Series, but not for stealing one.

It's been very satisfying watching these guys dump on the Astros everyday

Manfred is just like the Cheaters, just focused on the $ and not the integrity of the game. He failed to stop it for years despite people telling him repeatedly.

I'm in Houston and I am beyond pissed off at the Astros. I wastws so much time cheering for them and even went to a game last year. Manfred must go.💕

Don you are spot on what all you said !

Don is right on point with my opinion. It’s gonna be sad to see players get in trouble for throwing at those cheaters.

Don’s points are spot on! Manfred was pathetic on LeBatard about The Marlins so weak

I think the Astros should be allowed to keep the trophy....and every other major leaguer is allowed to take one swing at it. Then they have to keep the mangled trophy right in the entrance to the stadium so every Astros fan will have to walk past it. Forever.

These gentlemen have called this perfectly since this excrement storm started. Thank you for coverage. Big fan

I’m convinced these players are only sorry because they got caught. Strip the title Manfred

We didn't have a 1994 World Series Winner so why can't we not have a 2017 World Series Winner. There was no World Series Champion in 1904 either.

Michael Kay is nuts if he thinks this is good for baseball! The game has lost the interest of kids, and after this there'll be more kids not interested in baseball! Iv'e heard many fans saying they're through with baseball!

This guy, Don La Greca is amazing!!! So on point! I'd pay big $$$ to watch him do a 60 minutes style interview of Rob Manfred! He'd DESTROY him!

You have to take it away!! Stop saying you don’t. The whole point of playing the game is to win a championship, and now that baseball didn’t take it away, it’s sending a clear message that if you cheat it’s worth it. Who cares several people lost their job, they still get the trophy. It’s bullshit, and it needs to be taken

MR. Manfred: "TEAR DOWN THAT 2017 TROPHY."

100% please keep this front & center! It's important to everyone who loves the game!

Don was spot on when he said it would be awful when the players who throw at the Astros get more time than them

You guys are ridiculous if you think this scandal is good for baseball! Goodbye fans, goodbye season tickets, goodbye sponsors and goodbye baseball! Hope the owners are paying attention...this could be the end for the golden MLB era

2:51 Funny to hear that now, given what would happen only three weeks later. Those games having no fans absolutely was a break for the Astros. What they would have faced in 2020 would have been must see.

lol keep the rants coming TMKS i love it all season long this will be the center of attention. the Astros brought this on themselves and i agree with what SAS said on FT. every MLB team should turn their backs on the Astros don't talk to them or greet them. remind them what they've done silence is golden as they say.

I hate to bring this up, as a Yankee fan, I'm glad we have Gerrit Cole, but first he said he didn't know of Astros cheating in '17. Now he say's he knows they didn't cheat last year. How? If you didn't know in 17, how do you know they didn't in 18 and 19?

Manfred saying he had to give the players immunity in order to get information doesn't hold water. "BANG BANG." The WS series must be vacated for both 2017-2018. Let's not forget who was managing the Red Sox. Players need to be suspended without pay for a year.

Every player who got a hit off a stolen sign should’ve been suspended a game/hit.

How many jobs pay millions and millions of dollars, give you celebrity status, the best health insurance, hotel suites etc - that you can be caught stealing/cheating/humiliating and hurting your company AND get to keep your job with virtually no consequences? They can't punish players because of union politics, but can't strip the title from them??? NOT punishing them by stripping the title it unethical. It's saying the Astro's championship is equal to the ones that were earned playing the right way.

All I know is the advertising adage: Bad PR is good PR! Baseball ain't goin' anywhere! It's only growing!

At this point I think Don should take over the show. Michael can do post game interviews

If MLB don't punish them? The Bronx will. I guarantee you that.

I think every team should cheat now because nothing can be done to the players...manfred set the wrong precedent...

The gov should investigate this. If it's true about the stuff people like Lucroy said, where guys went to them, and they really didn't do much. Why on earth would that be? People come up with these crazy conspiracies each year about stuff being rigged. Well, stuff like this doesn't make it sound so crazy. Why else would you do nothing serous about a complaint like that, unless you just wanted that team to do well? And that is coming dangerously close to fixing the game. Something is not right and the whole thing needs to be investigated by a third party.

Red Sox got punished for cheating in 2017 with an Apple Watch, but was it going on in 2016 when Ortiz was with the Red Sox? Let's have Mitchell investigate.

the title should be strip

Since Manfred loves "precedent" how come no one is talking about the precedent HE JUST SET where he CANNOT punish players for cheating going forward. How can he possibly punish a player who does the SAME thing this year?

DLG was on fire! Best episode yet!

David Ortiz is protecting all the Latino players involved. And he is worried about what will happen to the Rex Sox.

Now that we are moving on to 2021 we know that Corona virus help the Astros 2020 but I believe they still be boo but the players has show that money will make them move not only from teams they love to stay they also will move from this. Money makes 99% of people move on,now fans will always remember this at least real fans.

Manfred didn't have to step down because every team was cheating. So the owners didn't care.

The only logical explanation is that Manfred knew and was complicit. All of this makes no sense otherwise.

The cheating is bad enough but having the Astro players be so ignorant and full of themselves makes it worse!! They get what’s coming to them this season, if not from the players then the fans!

THE ASTROS ARE STEALING SIGNS IN SPRING TRAINING. FIRST IS WAS THE TEAMS SIGNS NOW ITS THE FANS WHO NEXT?

I heard different players say the same thing about the Astros. They scammed the other teams with the buzzers.

Nobody is going to throw at the Astros. Nobody.

He should do what the NBA did and get rid of the 1 owner. That would make sure it won't happen again.

As an A's fan I'm torn between supporting my team who probably got cheated out of the AL West, and wanting to stay away from the game to show my disgust over Manfred and the Astro's urinating on our game. Everyone keeps talking about Manfred and the players but what about us fans who feel cheated, who pay everyone's salaries we're pissed.

If Kevin Durant was a commissioner...

Make the hall of fame Bud Selig every Commissioner makes the hall come on Micheal.

Sad Dodger fan here :(

I like Fires, and how bad ass he pitches sometimes. Sometimes not too. I like to stack teams against him on fantasy baseball. And sometimes use him as my underdog. He's like a box of chocolates.

As an Australian who loves baseball, I’m so glad that Michael & Don are continuing to blast the Astros & the commissioner. Please keep it going!

OPPOSING HOME CROWDS SHOULD TURN THEIR BACKS ON THE ASTROS FOR 17 SECONDS....

Did he just say football is the 2nd most popular sport in the country???

jim crane had to have given manfred a big payday. C'mon, he had to! crane got fined $5M, and he probably gave manfred back $15M to go easy on asstro players. Manfred did not fine, nor suspend, ANY asstro player. Now, manfred is issuing a warning to the whole league, saying that any pitcher who plunks an asstro player will get fined, or suspended. That would be the most topsy turvy thing ever. He didn't fine or suspend the cheaters. He will fine or suspend the ones throwing beanballs at the cheaters.

My phone call prompted this outburst! Hell yeah!

Can’t wait for this season!! #LetsGoYankees

If they don't end up taking away the World Series title/vacating the spot, what are we going to say when the Astros one day win the World Series (could be years from now, could be decades)? Is that now their "second" World Series even though we know the first one wasn't deserved? Will people 50 years from now remember that this one wasn't deserved? At least if you take the title away, it will be clear that any World Series they win past this point is their first win, and they won't be called a "two-time" World Series winner.

Tear up the MLB rule book!

They need to strip the Astros of their titles YESTERDAY! How insane to let this go on! Each player involved should be suspended one year

They can't find another GOOD commissioner to make money??

#CancelHouston

I love the discussion

If Manfred doesn't vacate the title then he is being derelict in his duties. Bowie Kuhn would have vacated the title in the best interests of the game.

So now pitchers that accidentally hit an Astro have to worry about serious repercussions? Do you think that won't be in the psych of these pitchers and will affect their performance? Advantage Astros.

As the commissioner you refer to the championship as " just a piece of metal " just shows how much he doesn't understand any sport.

Totally ridiculous that they haven’t stripped this title. It’s obvious to every fan in the world that that is the right thing to do. It also may be the only real way to prevent it from happening again....

Its crazy how Dodgers got screwed in 2017 world series, maybe even 2018. But Yankees seem to be more upset.

Altuve, Springer, and Bregman will have down years in 2020. I would say Correa too, but he can't hit even when he knows what's coming.

I'm not an Astros Fan and I care less about this it's becoming so Boring 😢😢😢

Michael Kay, you are nuts. How can you say this is good for baseball. This is a HUGE negative for the game. Baseball ticket sales are down. I have friend who is a lifer ticket scalper. And he's no even close what he has made to this point last year. And it's only gonna get worse. So I totally agree with Don. This is the worse of worse of anything. Manfred is the worse of all.

Here's what I would do. Take the trophy back take the rings back. Ban the Astros a few yrs outta of post season. That's what I would do.

Really have enjoyed Don's passion and points on this topic!

Don, absolutely destroyed , Michael Kay about the cheating scandal. Everything he said was straight facts.

Are these guys from New York?

Only way to from here is all fans should boycott mlb this season until Astro's are properly punished by mlb... Until then mlb doesn't give a damn fans or the integrity of baseball because there still making money millions of dollars

Herein lies the problem. There are two competing ideologies at play here. Those of us that agree with Don La Greca that a Commissioner of Sport's primary job is to ensure fairness and the integrity of the game with discipline for those that break the rules. Those that fall in the Michael Kay camp think the Commissioner's primary job is to increase profits for the owners by instituting rules and actions that either create, abet or ignore problems that cause controversy and in theory bring a "Must See" factor as Kay puts it that will increase revenues across the board, regardless of how damaging it is to the sport because the money that it generates justifies breaking those rules above all other considerations. My response to Michael's worldview on this matter is with two bible verses.....1 Timothy 6:10 - For the love of money is the root of all evil. And... Mathew 16:26 - What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?

The yankees should be the last team to complain they used steroids to cheat.. Michael Kaye is a Homer

I’m disgusted that Dons’ name isn’t on the show

Preach Don! Preach!!

So an organization, decided to cheat, and render useless the most fundamental aspect of the game of baseball, in order to win a championship. And now, that they have gotten away with it, essentially means baseball has no rules, and any, and every type of cheating is now acceptable, per the commish. Welcome to thunderdome, boys of summer. Where anything goes, and no one lives to regret it. Thank you MLB for taking your game to the next level!

I hope the yankees make the playoffs.

THERES GONNA BE A MOVIE ABOUT THIS IN A COUPLE YEARS.

over/under hbp at 83.5

I'm more pissed about Altuve stealing the MVP from judge than I am about the world series... any update on severino arm

One sticks out in this entire video is how much smarter & more common sense Don has then Michael.. Kay sounds like a toddler

Don, it is not the second most popular sport.

Altuve, Bregman, other players who participated in this should be suspended for 81 games, half a season. Houston should be ineligible for post season for next 2 or three years. Question, Dusty Baker is such a class act , was a good player and manager. Why would he take the Astro manager job and jump into the Lions den ??

lol

Has anyone ever wondered if Nolan Ryan's abrupt departure from the Astros organisation has anything to do with this cheating scandal? I know it was reported as something to do with his son, but still...

Manfred please, i beg you take that trophy and give it to the Yankees? They already act like self righteous, entitled spoiled brats and if we have to listen to the Yankees whine all season about this title its gonna be insufferable. The rich kids that whine how everything is unfair if there not on top. Astros suck for cheating Yankees suck for, well for just being the Yankees. They were so upset about the cheating they ran out and hired the dude that ran the cheating, yea nothing to see here!! Unbelievable

No precedent? Manfred never heard about the Chicago Black Sox?

For this season the astro pitchers have to tell the batter what they are throwing.

I don't get it ... if he's loosing the owners then how can 1 (Houston) owner beat out 29 other owners?

Manfred must go he's not doing his job. Either punished the cheaters or punish Manfred, must go.

These two talk just to hear themselves talk. #GoAstros #ChampionsForever!

Bud Selig would have dropped the ban hammer. As much as I didn’t care for Bud he truly loved the game and would have handled this better.

Michael, your backing the wrong horse....Frank

Kay just got destroyed by Don. Don is 100% on point.

oH MK.. I love you man...however, please don't reveal that u think Tricky Dicky was a good prez!

War eagle!