During the baseball season I had a lot of fun tussling with fans of other teams on Twitter, mostly Mariners fans who thought that the Astros were about to be torn down from their perch atop the AL West. During those gentle conversations, one theme that I was presented with over and over was the idea that the Astros were akin to cheaters due to “tanking.” That at least those fans could take the moral high ground and win the argument for “doing it the right way.”
That was some delicious irony coming from fans of a team with three players who had been suspended for PEDs, but I digress.