The Astros cheating scandal went from being online outrage to actualy people wishing harm on the players and it’s starting to get sickening by the day.
Houston Astros players have gotten threats “every day” since the team’s sign-stealing scheme came to light last month, according to outfielder Josh Reddick, who said Friday that messages he has received also targeted his family.
“You just see the first things in your suggested box and it just says, ‘I will kill your family. I will kill your kids. Blah blah blah,'” Reddick said. “It’s depressing to read because it’s over a game of baseball. It’s not worth that kind of drastic measure.”
On top of that, Reddick’s wife, Jett, took to Twitter and posted a message sent from a Los Angeles Dodgers fan that called ‘low class pieces of shit’ and threatened them to sleep with their eyes open if they come to Los Angeles.
She also had this to say:
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“There are ways to add security to a lot of places on the road whether it be in our hotels, on the way to the field,” he said. “At the field, obviously, being a lot more hostile environment. Be a little crazier. I think, also, at the hotels because you see a lot of people line up at our hotels. They know where we stay, they know what times we usually go to the ballpark. And what time we get back.
“For me, myself having almost 5-month-old boys, it is going to be pretty scary because my wife is going to go want to come on a lot of road trips just because wanting to have my help in raising them and do our parenting thing. So it is definitely something you can think about every night.”
It’s going to be a long 2020 season for the Astros.
