Los Angeles seriously wants their World Series titles that they think rightfully belong to them.
Houston Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch found themselves being suspended for one year because of their actions during a wide-ranging sign stealing scheme during the 2017 season that saw them win the World Series. Astros owner Jim Crane would soon fire them both.
Alex Cora, who was the bench coach for them that season, likely took his cheating to the Boston Red Sox and they would go on to win the World Series in 2018. He was also fired.
Last week, the Los Angeles City Council decided they would hold a vote that would urge Major League Baseball to strip the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox of their World Series titles and award those trophies to the Los Angeles Dodgers, because they lost back-to-back in the big game against those teams.
As it turned out, the Los Angeles City Council were unanimous in that vote, according to ESPN:
“The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday urging Major League Baseball to strip recent World Series championships from the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox and award them to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The resolution, originally presented by council members Gil Cedillo and Paul Koretz on Wednesday, notes the sign-stealing allegations brought against the 2017 Astros and 2018 Red Sox and asks MLB commissioner Rob Manfred to “recall the World Series Commissioner’s Trophies and award them to the Los Angeles Dodgers.”
Manfred wrote a nine-page statement on Jan. 13 that detailed the Astros’ illegal use of technology to steal opponents’ signs throughout the 2017 regular season and postseason and doled out penalties that included season-long suspensions for general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch, the forfeiture of four draft picks within the first two rounds and a $5 million fine.”
Stripping those titles and giving them to the Dpdgers would be controversial move, not because it has never happened before, but because the Dodgers might have been cheating as well.
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“But the league declined to strip the Astros of their title, in part because they recognized the folly in asking fans to wipe out their memories of games that were played. Also, the league avoided the risk in giving the title to the Dodgers and later finding out they 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.”
When it’s all said and done, the L.A. city council might want this to happen, but no self respecting Dodgers fan would accept a title this way. Plus, it doesn’t have a chance of happening.
