There may be more contemptible things than guilty parties acting the wronged party. It's just hard to think of any given the way our former Only Available Impeached Whiny-Ass President raised it to an art form for four years.
Thus it's only consistency with the times that compels us to offer fresh contempt for the Houston Asteriskos, who got caught egregiously cheating and now are crybabyin' like 3-year-olds because baseball fans in other cities are giving them a hard time about it.
The latest to do so were the fans in Yankee Stadium, who this week rolled out the full monty of abuse. Signs alluding to various Cheatstros flew from every quarter. Inflatable trashcans -- banging on trashcans being the way the 'Stros communicated what pitch was coming to their batters -- bloomed here and there.
One guy even dressed up like Oscar the Grouch, a a clever allusion to said trashcans.
A Yankee Stadium usher evicted him for that, alas. And then told him he was doing so because the Asteriskos had complained to Major League Baseball about the way opposing fans were riding them.
If so, it wasn't the first time. The Asteriskos have been whining about this since way back in early April, when manager Dusty Baker bellyached about all the inflatable trashcans that popped up during a road game in Anaheim.
Said it was "a sad situation," all this abuse. Said it's not like some of the hecklers never did anything wrong in THEIR lives. Said the Asteriskos "paid the price" for their wrongdoing.
The Blob's response to this: Well, boo-freakin'-hoo.
First of all, they didn't pay nearly the price they should have. Only the manager and general manager were punished; the players who carried out the various cheating stratagems got zippo. One of them, George Springer, was rewarded with a fresh $150 mill deal from the Blue Jays.
Perhaps as a result, the Asteriskos have been remarkably unrepentant about the entire deal. Even arrogant about it, one might say.
Yet now they're gonna cry because fans in opposing ballparks are hurting their feelings?
Even the Deposed King down in Mar-a-Lago must be applauding gall that breathtaking.
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