Needles & Grooves

You mean the Houston Asterisks? lololol

hahahahahahaha GOT EM!!!

I mean, kinda. Flags fly forever and if the penalty for cheating is only this, it's 100% worth it and 0% deterrent.

Not a great 24 hours to be a Houston sports fan

@BjorgenFjorgen Yes it'll fly, but it will always be known that they cheated. It's a very narrow vision, tho, just to win a WS title but affecting future years is just punishing your fan base. You got a WS, great, but there's 20 other teams with 2 or more titles.

Flags would allude to more then one.....They won One championship for the franchise and they were caught cheating to win it. Reputation flies forever, and cheating to get your first pennant is a bad look imo.
Also, the way they carried themselves around female media personalities at this World Series was not a good look

Not denying that any of these things are terrible looks. What I'm saying is the penalty should have been a lot harsher than it actually was.

Ahhh gotcha I misinterpreted that!

Seems to be par for the course in how they've dealt with steroids in the past. This is a bit harsher though. I think this would be a fair punishment had they not won the World Series, but since they did, it makes the punishment seems infinitely smaller. Time will tell, but their legacy now forever has a scar and fans of other franchises will not soon let them forget.