Chris Sale was ready and willing to play the “glass house” card Monday morning.
The Boston Red Sox ace is one of the most outspoken players in the game, and he sounds tired of hearing everyone launch harpoons at the Houston Astros.
Since it’s a storyline that refuses to go away, Sale was asked on WEEI’s "The Greg Hill Show" if he thinks the Astros’ 2017 World Series title is tainted knowing now what we do now about the way they cheated.
“I don’t know, man. Here’s the thing, and I’m going to give you my honest opinion. If the Astros were the only team doing it, then yeah, give it back. Take it back. I know for a fact they weren’t,” Sale said. “So, all these people pointing fingers, well hey, take a check in the mirror real quick. Make sure that you and your team weren’t doing something (nefarious). And what they did was wrong, and I’m not trying to condone it, but shoot we’re talking five years ago now and we’re still talking about this stuff. I’d like to turn the page on it. It happened, they dealt with it, there’s nothing you can really do about it now sitting where we are, so you just kind of move on from it.”
At this point, everyone who was going to be punished for their role in the scandal has been punished and the Astros as an organization have been penalized. To Sale’s point, you don’t have to like what happened, but constantly re-litigating might not do all that much.
Brian Cashman might respectfully disagree, though.
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