Los Angeles Dodgers fans have been upset all week long. Major League Baseball levied their punishment on the Houston Astros for a sign-stealing scandal during their World Series-winning 2017 season. Their manager and GM were suspended for a year but owner Jim Crane came in a short time later to let the baseball world know they he was firing them both.
After the news of the Houston Astros one day and Alex Cora of the Boston Red Sox another day, it left Dodgers fans feeling they were cheated out of two Woirld Series titles in back-to-back years.
Because of that, the Los Angeles City Council is expected to vote on a resolution urging Major League Baseball to recall the championship trophies presented to the Houston Astros in 2017 and the Boston Red Sox in 2018 “and award them to the Los Angeles Dodgers.”
Via LA Times:
“Councilman Gil Cedillo, one of the sponsors of the resolution, said he expects the council to approve it. As of late Wednesday, the city clerk had not yet determined what day the resolution would come up for a vote.
Cedillo, whose district includes Dodger Stadium, said neither the Dodgers nor his constituents had requested the resolution.
“This is an equity and justice thing,” Cedillo said. “Who was the best team in 2017? Who was the best team in 2018? It was the Dodgers. They got beat by teams that were cheating.
“Do they need to be told that they shouldn’t have a title?”
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Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred ruled that the 2017 Astros had violated MLB rules banning teams from using video technology to steal signs and now the 2018 Red Sox are under investigation for a similar violation.
The Dodgers lost to the Astros in the 2017 World Series and to the Red Sox in the 2018 World Series, but the league declined to strip the Astros of their title because they later found out the Dodgers might have done something similar.
“You’re right. We don’t know,” Cedillo said. “But what do we know? You make your decisions on what you do know. We know that the Astros cheated, and they were advantaged by it.”
