they said, wait a second, he couldn t have known where all the pitches were going. by the way, i miss jbj. i love him. yeah, but i was thinking about this as i was watching the astros play yesterday. i m talking because my liberal life loves hearing me talk about baseball. i was watching, and i sort of i looked at this astros team and said, really, this is the best team of our time. by the way, they re great whether they re cheating or not cheating. when we talk about cheating, we re talking about stealing signs, something that has happened in baseball for like a century. let s not just let s not fall too hard on our fainting couches. what they did was disgusting. two things can be true at one time. but i look at the astros, and i think, such a shame. even though i don t like them as a team, they re one of the great teams of our time. there was a parallel with barry
become vaccinated or they ll be considered inactive on the waiting list. california s music and arts festival, coachella, is reversing its plan to require vaccinations for next year s events. instead, attendees must show proof of a negative covid test taken within 72 hours of the festival or proof of vaccination. the announcement was made through instagram stories on coachella s official page. citing low transmission data and successful safety protocols at other festivals for the change. the festival is scheduled for april of next year. interesting. still to come on this edition of morning joe, new fallout over shocking emails from the now former coach of the las vegas raiders football team. what the league knew and when. morning joe is coming right back.
him. but, in fact, there s a guy on second base stealing signs for a catcher and setting up video equipment in the out field to replay it back. that s different. but the home run race between mcguire and sosa, he said, i m better than those guys. he joined, unfortunately, the steroid club. the same could be said in a different way for the astros. they re fundamentally a great team, as they re proving again this year, but they did, it s proven, not speculation, they did cheat for a couple of years. i don t want to go too deep here, but i m going to the 1950s. 1954, mike. even the shot heard around the world, the most famous home run probably in the history of baseball, bobby thompson, chances are very good that he cheated on that. he got a signal from center
field. it s just stealing signs has been a part of baseball for a very long time. again, i m not arguing the astros case here. i m just saying, i do think a couple players probably should have been banned from the sport, at least for a couple years. but it shouldn t continue to hang over the astros for the next five, six, seven years. yeah. but it will, joe. i mean, they were tainted by that scandal because it was so planned, extravagantly planned. willie is correct, sign stealing is as old as the game itself. always looking for an edge. bobby thompson looking at the centerfield light going on and off in the office. that s as old as baseball itself. but the way the astros concocted and devised their plan, that was the difference maker. they re going to have to live with that. they are a great team. they have great players. they re going to be the favorite against the red sox, no doubt about that. but that stain is going to be with them for a long, long time.
what are you waiting for? 28 minutes past the hour. we re following two big stories out west. jon gruden is out as coach as the las vegas raiders football team this morning after a workplace misconduct investigation found that he sent