re: Altuve took his undershirt off in the bottom of 8th and 9th innings

Supposedly real journalists take jomboy, a Yankees fan, seriously. That’s where we are in 2020.

I weep for the journalism field, which has turned out quite a bit of Yankees fan boys in the baseball media in recent years. It’s why no one asks the simple question: Given Carlos Beltran’s presence in the Yankees organization in 2018 and 2019, did the Yankees cheat, too? This becomes relevant given all the holier-than-thou bullshite coming from the national and New York media.

It’s also relevant because if the Yankees did cheat in 2018 and ‘19 (which is highly likely), their organization should be punished to the extent the Astros got popped (manager and GM suspensions, loss of draft picks in ‘20 and ‘21, $5 million fine).

None of this will happen. The media doesn’t want to investigate the Yankees because they’re too busy rooting for them (Buster Olney, Marly Rivera and Marc Craig, just to name three). MLB doesn’t want to investigate/punish them because it would affect TV ratings at some point when the punishments inevitably affect the Yankees’ on-field results. That affects MLB’s bottom line, the only thing about Manfred truly gives a shite.