There is some rejoicing, and much consternation, over the penalties levied on the Houston Astros in the wake of revelations that they did not come by the 2017 World Series title honestly.
General Manager Jeff Luhnow and Manager A.J. Hinch went, overnight, from esteemed leaders to answers to trivia questions for years to come. (“I’m sorry, ‘Who is Buck Showalter?’ is not correct. Perhaps you were thinking of our earlier question, ‘This manager is kind of dumb but he won a lot of games anyway.’”) Draft picks have been lost and 500,000,000 pennies taken away.
But, you aggrieve, they didn’t take away the Astros’ championship that was won under false pretenses.