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This is kind of messed up now that we know José Altuve didn’t cheat. You can’t find any evidence of him using the banging he was one of the only people that didn’t this man’s reputation is ruined forever and he’s innocent.
And says he's shy and his wife would get mad at him if they tore his shirt off yet has at least 5 pictures of himself on Instagram with his shirt off! Plus watch this part :40-:48 where Altuve/Correa/Bregman and some other Astro in a blue jacket in a really odd huddle blocking the on field camera, Altuve's arm strangely tucked in tightly like he's reaching into his jersey. Then poof, they all separate...ua-cam.com/video/NbDmAPife-s/v-deo.html
misesmedicine there is a breakdown on all their hits on base % wins RBI, HRs etc... split between home and away games and they difference is night and day and when you hit a HR to get into the WS you are all excited pumping your fists clapping high diving players and what does the little shithead do he grabs his shirt. And tells people not to rip his jersey off then when interviewed plays the i can’t hear please repeat the question again card so he can think of an answer and to say something about his wife being embarrassed about not wearing a jersey come on. What a LIE. I wonder how Cole and Chapman are going to get along in NY wouldn’t it be funny if they room together.
misesmedicine that would be street justice. Put in one of your Triple A pitchers to start the game and have him bean every Astro until he gets tossed and then bring in your actual starting pitcher. I hope they get the same treatment the steroid players who are trying to get into the Hall of Fame. Permanently denied 🙅♂️.
@@skippa7324, the Astros stopped cheating because Beltran, Gattis and McCann werent on the team anymore, and Cora left. they had no one interested in continuing cheating, and felt confident they could win without it. in 2018 playoffs and 2019, there were multiple investigations proving they didnt cheat in those times, with multiple sources saying the allegations from the reporters were lies, and had 0 facts to support their reports. AJ Hinch continuously scolded his players, as well as break the monitors to try to stop them cheating, but being millionaires they can quite easily afford a computer monitor. what does Hinch hating the video room have anything to do with whether he cheated or not? that makes 0 sense considering the cheating in 2017 was conducted in the hallway between the dugout and clubhouse, and there were no added monitors to their video room. MLB did massive investigations and looked into any loophole you may find, and found nothing. just because you are a hater, doesnt mean you all of a sudden become a police officer/detective.
Rounding third after hitting a walk-off homer in the championship series off Chapman - my first thought would be to tell my teammates not to rip my shirt off... SAID NO ONE EVER!!!!
Well if you were watching during that time like any regular Astros fan he was coming home I want to say the previous night and he got mauled by the guys at the plate. I'm all for conspiracy theories but when you can deduce them with the fact the snitch was on that team and would of said wheather or not there were devices. It's like with Bonds and steroids. If you want to believe he didn't fine. Just explain to me how a grown mans head decided it wasn't finished growing yet😂
@@kcsollers8552 I've been an Astros fan for 30 years and I thought I'd ask another fan. Do you personally feel cheated by the team? I only ask because I'm having a hard time deciding whether I'm going to continue following the organization.
kc sollers - denial is a pretty ugly thing and with you it’s very apparent. It’s not a conspiracy theory considering it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Astros have cheated in not one but two championship series.
Absolutely 100%. Would be interesting to watch the entire interview and see how many times he asked to repeat a question. I'd bet the shirt question was the only time.
He should have said “what, I said that? Oh I don’t remember, sorry. I was just excited. Next question.” He’s shy. Come on. Oh and his wife gets mad at him for going to the World Series. Ok.
Whether he cheated or not... the "my wife got mad at me" story is BS. He should have just said "I just hit a walk off to send us to the World Series, I'm framing this jersey"
I have a suspicion that Ken Rosenthal heard rumours about the buzzers and that’s why he asked him about the jersey, because otherwise why would that be your first question after he hit a huge home run
MLB in their investigation found nothing on the use of buzzers, vibrators, body worn electronic devices by the Astros. The Astros are just a scapegoat. There are a lot of other teams that are known to have used similar sign stealing techniques. Will they be investigated. I doubt it. If you can't beat them on the field destroy them anyway you can.
@@georgejetson3431 If they really looked into the details of the at bat, which I broke down for someone else in another forum, they'd realize this accusation is plain DELUSIONAL, PSYCHOTIC, and STUPID.
Michael Perez found the Astro fan .. how does it feel knowing your only championship has tainted, not only your organization, but the entire league? Do you know why other teams were doing the same thing? It’s because other players and coaches from the astros left and continued cheating. And for the record just because MLB didn’t “find any evidence” doesn’t mean they weren’t using them. MLB has been wrapped in scandals before. And at some point they have to protect their own ass for letting this go down right after all the steroid and HGH bullshit. Dude you are DELUSIONAL.
@@adamdavis4417 Yeah, I agree the Yankees cheated too. I understand your rationale for why other teams cheated as well. Beltran was with the Yankees right before he went to the Astros in 2017 and went back to the Yankees organization after he left the Astros. He must have brought his cheat sheet over when he joined the Astros and then took it back to the Yankees when he went back to them 🤔🤔🤔. You know he was doing the same thing while he was with them. Yeah, I agree with you. Other teams cheated, including the Yankees. They just haven't been caught. Everyone else may see the Astros championship tainted, but I really don't care what everyone else thinks. The Yankees and the Dodgers frankly didn't play well enough to win in 2017 if you really analyze the games. Bottom line, the title will not be taken away. Get me a second title. I frankly don't care about an apology. That's not going to change anything. Skip the puppy love with me. Bottom line: Win a second title.
In the interview with Ken Rosenthal afterwards, what was of particular note was how Altuve does the classic "What's that?" stall tactic and made Rosenthal repeat the question about his jersey to buy him enough time to formulate a BS answer. Just looks so fishy in retrospect.
yep...the look away....the body language.. seems to support this. thats what I would do while I quickly came up with a believable reason. That is a lame reason he gave and the sheepish smile too. I hope not cuz I really admire his tenacity to get where he is.
5:22 As he is running to home plate, you can see him saying in Spanish: "La camisa no!" Which translates to "Not the shirt." So, he definitely said that.
I was suspicious of this home run he hit against Chapman, even before all the cheating talk came out. Altuve, a very known emotional player, would normally be yelling, screaming and jumping for joy around the bases after a home run like that. He had the look of guilt as he rounded the bases...watch it again, he just jogs around like it's a spring training home run.
I didn’t because Chapman couldnt locate his fastball for a strike so the only other pitch is slider so if he can’t throw fastball for a strike then I’ll be sitting on slider
Bruh this comment is honestly dumb, Pete rose was a great players don’t get me wrong, but he broke the only rule in baseball that could get you kicked out for life. And sometimes betting on your team to win means that when you don’t bet, you think they are gonna lose
marcel escoda means he didn’t really like when it happened earlier in the year, so didn’t want it torn off again, if his teammates knew he had wires and buzzers under his jersey why would they rip it off? Doesn’t make sense, he just didn’t want his jersey torn off...
Nic James you being a fan of another team is completely irrelevant. Go re-watch the at bat before Altuve’s, which was Springer’s. Chapman threw 4 straight balls to Springer, the last two were way out of the zone and high fastballs. He then threw two fastballs that were way out of the zone to Altuve. This means Chapman threw 6 straight balls before he threw Altuve a strike. Chapman then throws a perfect slider to Altuve to make the count 2-1, pay attention to the next pitch which is the one Altuve hit for the HR, Chapman hung a slider, it was way up in the zone. What so many fail to mention is that Jake Marisnick was on deck and with 2 outs, Hinch had pinch ran for Brantley earlier in the game. Marisnick was Houston’s worst hitter, why would Boone and Chapman pitch to Altuve knowing this? Chapman lost control and fell behind one of the best hitters in baseball and he paid for it.
@@finalnj4683 why would I watch Rajai's at bat. The first comment was that Chapman's reaction was like "he knew the pitch that was coming" LOL why are people making Chapman look like 'he's some dominant pitcher that has never been hit. Rajai Davis hadn't homered all postseason long in the '16 postseason until he hit one off of Chapman, and it was in game 7 of the World Series lol. Why is it a shock that Altuve or any other good hitter can't do the same? Pitching to Altuve with two outs and a horrible hitter on deck is one of the dumbest decisions any manager can make.
5:19: When he asks the reporter to repeat the question which he clearly heard the first time. This is a MAJOR red flag coupled with his nervous laugh that something was up under that shirt. GUILTY!!!
yep yankees sure did, its why they called houston out on it early on.. cc even mentions how they had to change the mound visit rule because of him. gary sanchez had to constantly find ways to make sure they werent stealing signs
The Astros need to be boo'ed out of every stadium they step foot in this year. I'd rather them not even be able to field a team and forfeit every game and give teams those days off instead. This is beyond the beyond. I'm livid.
lol.... Matt is speculating this... This isn't proof on anything. I'm actually kinda disappointed in Matt spreading unsupported theories like this. But, UA-camrs click bait all the time for views I suppose. So try no to have a stroke over being livid.
Classic liar's move: pretend you didnt hear the question so you can take a moment to make up your excuse. He heard the question loud and clear thats for sure.
Yeah I know, did the same thing the other day, asked this lady to repeat what she said Because I needed time to think up an answer, we have all been there, we all know the signs. Altuve is lying
I'm not so sure. Your point is well taken, but a stadium full of Astro fans are screaming their heads off, so it's at least possible he misheard the question. But his answer is so weird, that he got in trouble with his wife the last time it happened. What???
@@Dats_dope He asked him about the the shirt because it was odd as hell for a player to hit such a huge walk off and then to be bear hugging his shirt and yelling that no one should rip it off. It all makes sense that he cheated and it also explains Chapman's smile which I never understood. Chapman knew it was bullshit
I remember watching it live thinking "that was weird" lol. What makes it look so much worse is his response to being asked about it, first he does the "What was that?" thing people do when they need time to think of a lie, then he goes "uhhhh..... i dunno? Um my wife blah blah" like wow man that was really awkward.
@@joeydelvillar9712 Just have to say 2 years later.... Rose really f'd up and it wasn't as harmless as people say. You can say he was betting on winning but the one thing that always happens with gamblers is they lose and owe. All do eventually. So when he's owing, he could be persuaded to lay back or flat out dump in order to sway a sure-thing game. Rose could have eventually pulled a black sox situation once he started owing. Dumb decision on his part but gamblers do like the risks. That's how they end up owing. Weed em out when you catch em.
Just started watching some of your videos because someone mentioned that the dynamic between hitters and pitchers, or, more specifically, the thought processes involved is very similar to my own profession (Poker Player). So I don't know if you'll ever read this Matt but you're exactly right about cheaters not just stopping when they've been successful; they cheat to win and they want to keep winning. I can tell you there are any number of devices used by gamblers/cheats that can are mounted touching the body that send information in any number of ways, heck he could have something as simple as some of the old school machines that just use a series of vibrations to communicate rather complex information, -- to communicate something as simple as 1 of a few possible pitches would be incredibly easy to do. In my world it is used to communicate card information, but it would be so easy to employ these cheating techniques in a baseball game when no one is looking for them. These devices are used in casinos when people are specifically looking for them and often times go undetected,, so doing it in an environment where no one is looking....yeah that's a no brainer.
You people are so uninformed. Altuve did not start playing baseball in 2017. From 2014 to 2017, Altuve recorded at least 200 hits each season and led the American League in the category. He won three batting championships in that span. He won MVP in 2017, having the BEST ROAD batting average in ALL of baseball. He was already a proven player before the scandal and will continue to put up great numbers.
Did Jose Altuve say that, "His wife got mad" for his teammates ripping his shirt? OMG....DUDE, come up with a better excuse or refuse to be interviewed.
Honestly, I thought something was up immediately after he hit that homerun against Chapman. Especially after Chapman smiled and shook his head as obviously he knew that the Astros were cheating. This is ridiculous and MLB should strip the World Series Title from them AND suspend every player on that team for a season!!
I mean...at least they lost this past year. Guess cheating didn't help them enough. The Nats used very different signals as a result because they were suspicious
No more like “I can’t believe I’m that stupid.” As are all Yankees fans: You DO NOT TAUNT ALTUVE! He always hits a HR when angry. Besides, YOU tied the game. This is nothing more than an attempt to weaken the Astros. We know it’s an attempt to do cheating using the scandal as a cover.
I think it is under his patch on his left shoulder, not all players have it but some do, it sticks out square at the top. He loses it in the scrum at home plate. The wire is under the arm band I do believe.
I live in L.A. Ever since Peter O’Malley sold the Dodgers it hasn’t been the same but I still wanted my hometown team to win the World Series. I’m as disgusted with the Astros as anyone else but if the team was cheating by using buzzers wouldn’t they all know to not rip his shirt off? Or was it a situation where the cheating was confined to a small group of players? Obviously they can’t now award the World Series trophy to the Dodgers, but they can vacate the result of the ’17 WS, demand the return of the trophy, and confiscate the championship rings from the cheaters who robbed L.A. of the championship we would have enjoyed. That MLB did NONE of those things means, to me, that they’re tacitly condoning the appalling behavior and breach of trust by the Houston Astros and throws EVERYTHING into question. I read that when the Astros come to Southern California to play the Angels some Dodgers fans are planning to attend those games to voice their displeasure. That’s the exact opposite what EVERY baseball fan should do when the Astros come to town, and what they should do is boycott. What if they played an MLB game and no one came? Baseball won’t do the right thing but fans can. A lot of people love their baseball and don’t wanna give it up, but if they only boycott the Astros they won’t have to. The best statement baseball fans can make is with deafening silence. It’s past time that these pampered, spoiled, entitled athletes get what they deserve, and that’s nothing. We don’t give them our time, our adulation, and especially our money.
Astros beat yall twice at dodger stadium, game seven you could only muster 1 run, so were the pitchers cheating also!! GTFOH, with that. Always looking for an excuse when you lose.
@@bookhauler73 You should have never been in the world series. It should have been Yankees V Dodgers. If you still want to support your cheaters you can I see a lot of Astros fans don't mind it. Not all but some.
Brian Tyler this is the worst case of cheating.... Astros should NOT have a team anymore... (ps I only watch hockey) but even I know this is truly disgusting and honestly besides this I’ll never be intrigued to know more. Just don’t be all high and mighty over some pitcher, when his batters are cheating the opposing pitcher Ight bud, now go kick rocks
Brian Tyler Not to mention that you’d be pissed if the dodgers had done this to your all so blessed we didn’t do it I swear, my wife would get mad so I kept my shirt on Astro’s 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@blazingcorsair7307 Nonsense. It was the second off speed pitch in a row. If anything, Altuve would have been priming for another fastball if he really didn’t know what was coming. Against a guy who is notorious for reaching up to 102mph on his fastball and uses the fastball like a buzzsaw, you don’t sit there expecting multiple off speed pitches.
@@GozerTheGozerian you must've not watched Chapman this season or during that game. He had just walked Springer with fastballs and fell back in the count against Altuve with 2 fastballs not even close. He then throws a slider that he gets over for a strike. When Chapman loses control of the fastball, he always starts overusing his slider. I knew what the pitch was going to be when I was watching, but who knows what Altuve saw... or felt, if you know what I'm saying.
The Zapruder film was doctored though, cutting out the part where the limo completely stopped until the fatal shot hit Kennedy from the front, the sewer had the shooter with a final easy shot.
Saw someone else comment this on another video but if you look up the full game footage from that altuve walkoff. Altuve is wearing an undershirt in the top of the 9th and he’s not wearing one when he goes up to bat
I'm a Yankees fan, and I was obviously upset we lost. But I actually was happy for them. But now... it's soo sad, so extremely sad what happened here. The Astros franchise, it's gonna take decades for them to recover from this. Who's going to take them seriously now? This franchise might as well just dissapear, dissolve.
Dude I've seen that you've posted a link showing a precedent of his shirt being ripped off before. That doest not in itself disqualify all of the other evidence you seem to willfully ignore. There is more evidence of sign stealing, and you choose to only acknowledge the one vidoe of his shirt being ripped of previously.
@@bcknight727 So he had no problem having his shirt ripped in April but did in October? To such a degree that he's desperately gripping it rounding the bases. Wife must have really chewed him out back in April, right?
Matt Pierce I didn’t post the video, I just commented on it. I agree it’s just circumstantial. The fact his post season ops is 1000 points higher at home is also circumstantial, but pretty damning as well, right?
He also went all the way I to the dugout to change shirts before coming out to the interview with Kenny. And there is a picture online with an outline of some device under his jersey.
James Norona www.crawfishboxes.com/2019/4/7/18299635/game-recap-astros-walk-off-on-altuve-base-on-balls-beat-as-9-8-in-slugfest, yea show me the link to the pic please, he had his jersey ripped off earlier in the season that’s why he didn’t want it done again
bcknight727 sending that link doesn’t do anything to back up your point... looks like he’s having a great time with his shirt off that time. and don’t give me the “mY wiFe waS uPsEt” bull.
Blake Bolesky So your saying the rest of his teammates had no idea he was wearing a device? If they ripped his shirt off they’re all immediately implicated in front of the whole world so why would they do that? The wife comment was a joke maybe he just didn’t want it torn off again like before...But your right in the end, only the Yankees can be a good baseball team and score runs...all of these other professional baseball players couldn’t possibly ever get a hit or score a single run against your precious team, and Logan Morrison another MLB player reported after Manfred’s statement other teams including Yankees and Dodgers were cheating as well, but I know not possible because Yankees fans and players are just Gods amongst us mere mortals
Ask Boone. After all, he let Domestic Violence Chapman (DVC) pitch to him after he had already walked Springer. People also "forget" that Michael Brantley had already been taken out of the game and replaced by Jake Marisnick. Jake Marisnick was due to bat after Altuve. Why not "intentionally" walk Altuve so that poor little DVC could face Marisnick instead? Hurry, go ask Boone for that answer 🤔. The Yankees just plainly lost that game. Stop making excuses for them.
For me, José Altuve received the signal directly to a device that he seems to carry on his left arm. I have seen, retrospectively, many Astros games and the timely batting of him coincide with the use of the apparatus. Why M.L.B. has not confiscated that bracelet or in default the F.B.I) I think it's time for M.L.B. do not allow items to be added to "uniforms."
Isabella Gomez You obviously are a salty ass Astros fan. Doesn’t matter who else did it, they did it and just because it happened before doesn’t give them a pass you moron.
we didn’t cheat in the alcs in 2017 we cheated in reg season and also he said not to rip his jersey bc in 2017!in the alcs he ripped his shirt and his wife was mad over it she went public about it
Yeah kind of. 80% of players using steroids. But now? There has to be people using something as well. Either that or there is a crazy crazy amount of sign stealing. Players are hitting 20-30 hr a season like their nothing.
True. Now we have a juiced ball era along with the sign steal cheating(electronic devices). Which equals a lot of guys hitting 20 to 30 homeruns, it's ridiculous. Look at the stats, as Max kellerman said, every 2nd baseman is hitting 30 home runs now.
1) He said he wanted to be on time for the fastball but, looking for something he could handle. He did not say, he was sitting on the fastball. 2) Chapman couldn't get the fastball over and then got the slider over. It was an easy guess to think he would throw another slider and my cousin sitting next to me at that time, predicted he would throw it and Altuve would be waiting for it. 3) He could have cheated, but let's not get the facts wrong.
Listen guys I’m not making excuses for him, but being married to a latin woman i can tell you that they are very very jealous, speak to any latin man married to a latin woman especially when they are 20’s & 30’s they are a pain in the @$$ when it comes to them feeling threatened by their husbands exposing their wealth & good looks, with that said i must say it is odd that he went to the extent he went to protect his jersey, after such a monumental game winning home run....
@@javiernieves329 and I'm telling you to look at the pinned tweet on his Twitter. If having your shirt ripped off is enough to make his wife angry, he has no explanation for his current tweet.
Has anyone shown a “buzzer” device that could be worn and controlled via Bluetooth or RF? Just wondering as I don’t think anyone has displayed a “this could be” what was used. If so please show links - my son’s high school team needs all the help they can get this year (joking!!!!)......
Zig Torres Have you ever seen what happens when a woman has a public wardrobe malfunction and another woman quickly jumps in to help her fix it? That’s exactly what it looks like here to make sure that nothing was showing...
Looks like player in front shielding the guy behind holding to keep whatever from dropping and the base manager there for the handoff because after out of that "huddle" all of the sudden not all mousy and guarding his shirt.
John James And would ya look at who else took a peek into their huddle? Just fired manager AJ Hinch who the Astros are scapegoating as the one who deserves the blame. Houston looks so awful in this. Boston too.
The fact that he isn't amped/smiling at all when running to first after hitting that bomb & ending the game is a big give away that in his mind the game wasn't over yet... (he still had to get back to the locker room without his cheating device being exposed during the celebration/interview).
Wasn't kind of odd that Rosenthal asked the question of Altuve: "Why wouldn't you have your shirt torn off?" That would be the very last question I would have ever asked of a player after hitting the game winner HR. Seems Rosenthal might have been perceptive enough to think that was kind of odd. Give credit to Rosenthal for that ah hah moment.
Antonelli Baseball www.crawfishboxes.com/2019/4/7/18299635/game-recap-astros-walk-off-on-altuve-base-on-balls-beat-as-9-8-in-slugfest, he had it ripped off on a walkoff earlier in the season, that’s why he didn’t want it done again...also, where is your coverage on Logan Morrison’s statements, funny how that was just swept under the rug by everyone
Im shy, thats why Im giving an interview as a player in major league baseball, a sport broadcast nationally in the biggest game of the year. Makes sense.
What does the Altuve interview have to do with cheating? Genuinely confused and dumbfounded how y’all think his interview has to do with cheating. Dummies
Love your coverage of this issue Matt. It's been thoughtful, reasonable and has the perspective of someone who's been there. Here's a question though. I've heard many people complain that the Astros players haven't been punished. However, the report describes the scheme as "player-driven". After publicly pointing the finger at the Astros players in this manner, is making them play 81 away games next year perhaps a more severe punishment than a suspension would have been? Imagine the reception they'll get, for example, when they play at Yankee Stadium. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this.
bcknight727 and his hand is right in front of where the buzzer is supposed to be 🤔 do you want me to send you a photo where they think they have the outline of the buzzer and tell you that’s concrete proof?
Matt" you make a good manager. For real, there's alot of managers in the MLB that have come and gone through the decade. You got baseball insight and experience. Shoot for the gift even as a coach. Fans remember you and so does the MLB.
The Astros cheated, and cheated, and continued to cheat. I can't wait to hear them get showered in boo's at any and all games they play as a visiting team.
I honestly think one of the asstros will get hurt when they come to the Bronx. Not wishing it on anyone, but Yankees fans can be nuts. They might have to put netting around the whole stadium
So when he does the post game interview on the field he has changed into a Astros Championship short sleeve t - shirt...where did he change into the shirt , on the field or ?
Chapman’s the only pitcher who didn’t sequence his signs and his smirk was most likely because the rumors were proven true. The Astros electronically stole his signs and Chapman figures it out as soon as the ball leaves the bat..
Ray2K you know nothing about Baseball, that smirk by Chapman is nothing new, see 2016 World Series in game 7 vs Rajai Davis. Boone and Chapman are the idiots who decided to pitch to one of the best hitters in the game with 2 outs and the worst Astros hitters due up since Brantley got taken out of the game for a pinch runner.
You can see at 5:33 they are surrounding him and the guy in the blue sweater is in there digging, getting the device and wrapping it in a jersey or towel and runs away. Altuve's lightens up right after and walks away.
I noticed also, many catchers, for many teams (not just against the Astros at home) were using multiple sign sequences with no runners or even just at 1st....why? Sign stealing from center field....
Only time will tell. Both players will hit around .300 if not higher. Bregman hit .284 in 2017 when the cheating happened and .296 in 2019 he will only get better as he becomes a veteran and sees the same arms in the league. If you noticed he fared well against pitchers he has faced several time and not so well against the new arms or low AB pitchers. Altuve is going to hit .300+ because that is what he does. What I want to know is what everyone is going to say when they make a deep playoff run again?? Will they start accusing them of cheating?? Or will they just be quite and watch great players play ball?
Frank Mora Sounds an awful lot like if it’s proven they cheated you wouldn’t care because they’re “great players.” Cheating is cheating. That could’ve been the difference between who made the World Series.
I thought this guy was awesome. I couldn't understand how such a little dude could be so clutch and hit bombs. Now we all know that he is just a cheater.
The part that I’m wondering is... Wouldn’t the teammates know he’s wearing something and would avoid tearing his shirt off? I’m a baseball fan so I’m very disappointed in this whole thing, but I need more evidence than this.
The entire team doesn't need to be in on the scheme. But even if they held daily "how the under-the-jersey buzzer works" team meetings, he would STILL want to be sure none of them FORGOT about the buzzer in their jubilation. All it would've taken is one teammate to forget he was wired, and with all of the cameras on the ALCS, the entire world would've seen it.
Maybe because after they were caught cheating the first time, maybe they decided to not let everyone know about the cheating.. Maybe only the good hitters.. Just a thought
Looks like there's really some there there: at 6:11 he seems to shrink away from Correa, as if he's afraid that Carlos might grab his jersey or try to pull it off.
There was extended footage you have to see....he runs into the dugout while they are celebrating which is unheard of and comes back a few mins later in the t-shirt
I was watching Bob Costas the other day on Major League Baseball channel and he was talking about how the Astros were cheating using whistles and banging on garbage cans. I thought to myself that that is not really a great way to do it. I then began thinking of better ways and one of them that I came up with was, ironically, a buzzer directly on a player.
OK so my question is... What is the time line for him taking his jersey off and putting that ALCS champs t-shirt on? Because if we can track that, then it might give us a better idea. For example, if he went and hid in the dugout or went into the locker room to change shirts, and presumably remove the "buzzer device" then that would be a bigger clue as to something fishy going on. If he changed his shirt in front of everyone on the field then less likely I believe. Thoughts? 🤔
@@biga173rdify No there are not. There are a bunch of UA-cam channels that are speculating based off of a statement made by an unconfirmed twitter account. They even show pictures of Reddick in a tank and say, "look at that, HE even has tape on his chest".... That is clearly not hold anything to his chest, and matches the conffetti that was deployed. This getting stupid.
Chances are it’s not? I think given the evidence and the admissions that have come to to light; chances are it is. Thanks for a good video and great insight Matt.
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This is kind of messed up now that we know José Altuve didn’t cheat. You can’t find any evidence of him using the banging he was one of the only people that didn’t this man’s reputation is ruined forever and he’s innocent.
him asking to repeat the question, the "i don't know", the nervous laugh, all indications of someone lying
english being his 2nd language doesnt help tbh
And says he's shy and his wife would get mad at him if they tore his shirt off yet has at least 5 pictures of himself on Instagram with his shirt off! Plus watch this part :40-:48 where Altuve/Correa/Bregman and some other Astro in a blue jacket in a really odd huddle blocking the on field camera, Altuve's arm strangely tucked in tightly like he's reaching into his jersey. Then poof, they all separate...ua-cam.com/video/NbDmAPife-s/v-deo.html
I couldn’t tell you what the truth is but his explanation is clearly bullshit.
CSick27: Exactly! I thought the same thing.
@Tim Snortin' i said indications not proof. i have zero faith either way. i would say your butt-hurt comment is an indication you're a dork, though
Jose will know what pitches are coming this season too- fastballs right at him.
misesmedicine there is a breakdown on all their hits on base % wins RBI, HRs etc... split between home and away games and they difference is night and day and when you hit a HR to get into the WS you are all excited pumping your fists clapping high diving players and what does the little shithead do he grabs his shirt. And tells people not to rip his jersey off then when interviewed plays the i can’t hear please repeat the question again card so he can think of an answer and to say something about his wife being embarrassed about not wearing a jersey come on. What a LIE. I wonder how Cole and Chapman are going to get along in NY wouldn’t it be funny if they room together.
misesmedicine yassssss
Right in the ribs.
misesmedicine that would be street justice. Put in one of your Triple A pitchers to start the game and have him bean every Astro until he gets tossed and then bring in your actual starting pitcher. I hope they get the same treatment the steroid players who are trying to get into the Hall of Fame. Permanently denied 🙅♂️.
The bean balls this cat is going to receive.
Mafia: u wearing a wire?
Jose: dont take my shirt off I'm shy
Lol. Nice one, Dr.
HAHAHAHAHAH
😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 funniest shyt i heard in a while hell naw
Ahahahahaha wow, guys such a fucking little worm
Imagine they ripped the jersey off on live tv and a wire was visible. 🤣
CpnStbn12, or there was no wire, but rather an embarrassing tattoo his wife doesnt want seen
@baileysmith shut up u bum they cheated
@@baileysmith4744 someone’s salty
@@james.cerone, how am i salty? they were prove innocent in 2019. 2017 they cheated, but this is about 2019
@@skippa7324, the Astros stopped cheating because Beltran, Gattis and McCann werent on the team anymore, and Cora left. they had no one interested in continuing cheating, and felt confident they could win without it. in 2018 playoffs and 2019, there were multiple investigations proving they didnt cheat in those times, with multiple sources saying the allegations from the reporters were lies, and had 0 facts to support their reports. AJ Hinch continuously scolded his players, as well as break the monitors to try to stop them cheating, but being millionaires they can quite easily afford a computer monitor. what does Hinch hating the video room have anything to do with whether he cheated or not? that makes 0 sense considering the cheating in 2017 was conducted in the hallway between the dugout and clubhouse, and there were no added monitors to their video room. MLB did massive investigations and looked into any loophole you may find, and found nothing. just because you are a hater, doesnt mean you all of a sudden become a police officer/detective.
“Once you start down the Dark Side, forever will it dominate your destiny.” - Yoda
"Consume you it will"
Hate we Yoda, we do.
This will follow them forever if they have a really good season, or get to the world series again.
That is fucking deep man
Character fictional, Yoda is.
Rounding third after hitting a walk-off homer in the championship series off Chapman - my first thought would be to tell my teammates not to rip my shirt off... SAID NO ONE EVER!!!!
John-Del And he says he “doesn’t know why” yeah right. Obviously he had a damn good reason
Well if you were watching during that time like any regular Astros fan he was coming home I want to say the previous night and he got mauled by the guys at the plate. I'm all for conspiracy theories but when you can deduce them with the fact the snitch was on that team and would of said wheather or not there were devices. It's like with Bonds and steroids. If you want to believe he didn't fine. Just explain to me how a grown mans head decided it wasn't finished growing yet😂
@@kcsollers8552 I've been an Astros fan for 30 years and I thought I'd ask another fan. Do you personally feel cheated by the team? I only ask because I'm having a hard time deciding whether I'm going to continue following the organization.
@Pow A Exactly
kc sollers - denial is a pretty ugly thing and with you it’s very apparent. It’s not a conspiracy theory considering it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Astros have cheated in not one but two championship series.
He asked “what’s that?” for more time to think of a lie. It’s so obvious.
No doubt
Lying 101.
Absolutely 100%. Would be interesting to watch the entire interview and see how many times he asked to repeat a question. I'd bet the shirt question was the only time.
Absolutely. That’s a very common tactic. His response made very little sense as well.
He should have said “what, I said that? Oh I don’t remember, sorry. I was just excited. Next question.” He’s shy. Come on. Oh and his wife gets mad at him for going to the World Series. Ok.
Whether he cheated or not... the "my wife got mad at me" story is BS. He should have just said "I just hit a walk off to send us to the World Series, I'm framing this jersey"
Lol I agree 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That might be a better excuse, but it would still sound like suspicious BS
Shoulda told his wife to come down and freak out lol
I have a suspicion that Ken Rosenthal heard rumours about the buzzers and that’s why he asked him about the jersey, because otherwise why would that be your first question after he hit a huge home run
Ken was asked about this in an interview, and said his producer told him to ask Altuve about the shirt.
MLB in their investigation found nothing on the use of buzzers, vibrators, body worn electronic devices by the Astros. The Astros are just a scapegoat. There are a lot of other teams that are known to have used similar sign stealing techniques. Will they be investigated. I doubt it. If you can't beat them on the field destroy them anyway you can.
@@georgejetson3431 If they really looked into the details of the at bat, which I broke down for someone else in another forum, they'd realize this accusation is plain DELUSIONAL, PSYCHOTIC, and STUPID.
Michael Perez found the Astro fan .. how does it feel knowing your only championship has tainted, not only your organization, but the entire league? Do you know why other teams were doing the same thing? It’s because other players and coaches from the astros left and continued cheating. And for the record just because MLB didn’t “find any evidence” doesn’t mean they weren’t using them. MLB has been wrapped in scandals before. And at some point they have to protect their own ass for letting this go down right after all the steroid and HGH bullshit. Dude you are DELUSIONAL.
@@adamdavis4417 Yeah, I agree the Yankees cheated too. I understand your rationale for why other teams cheated as well. Beltran was with the Yankees right before he went to the Astros in 2017 and went back to the Yankees organization after he left the Astros. He must have brought his cheat sheet over when he joined the Astros and then took it back to the Yankees when he went back to them 🤔🤔🤔. You know he was doing the same thing while he was with them. Yeah, I agree with you. Other teams cheated, including the Yankees. They just haven't been caught. Everyone else may see the Astros championship tainted, but I really don't care what everyone else thinks. The Yankees and the Dodgers frankly didn't play well enough to win in 2017 if you really analyze the games. Bottom line, the title will not be taken away. Get me a second title. I frankly don't care about an apology. That's not going to change anything. Skip the puppy love with me. Bottom line: Win a second title.
In the interview with Ken Rosenthal afterwards, what was of particular note was how Altuve does the classic "What's that?" stall tactic and made Rosenthal repeat the question about his jersey to buy him enough time to formulate a BS answer. Just looks so fishy in retrospect.
Or it's loud and English is not his first language.
yep...the look away....the body language.. seems to support this. thats what I would do while I quickly came up with a believable reason. That is a lame reason he gave and the sheepish smile too. I hope not cuz I really admire his tenacity to get where he is.
Why the F would his wife care about his baseball Jersey? Is she going to sell it on Ebay? She doesn't do the laundry. It's a bullshit answer.
ExGentleman i would have said to keep the jersey as a memory
He mentions that the team had tear his shirt before. When was that?
5:22 As he is running to home plate, you can see him saying in Spanish: "La camisa no!" Which translates to "Not the shirt." So, he definitely said that.
Nice catch
All of a sudden everyone speaks spanish 😂😂😂
I totally agree, some people say that he said no I got a piece on, but he definitely didn't say that after I watched his lips
I was suspicious of this home run he hit against Chapman, even before all the cheating talk came out. Altuve, a very known emotional player, would normally be yelling, screaming and jumping for joy around the bases after a home run like that. He had the look of guilt as he rounded the bases...watch it again, he just jogs around like it's a spring training home run.
I noticed his reaction seemed mild too.
Dumbass. Chapman has 2 pitches.
I didn’t because Chapman couldnt locate his fastball for a strike so the only other pitch is slider so if he can’t throw fastball for a strike then I’ll be sitting on slider
It was a hanging slider.
@@fernandosanchez0830 exactly moron. So they know exactly what pitch is coming.
Ken Rosenthal: So tell me Jose, who's you biggest influence?
Jose Altuve: Definitely Buzz Aldrin
🤣
Haters
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Another fraud!!!!! 😆😆😆
But Buzz Aldrin actually did go to the moon tho
This makes them losing to the Nats even better. Cheated and still couldn’t win. I hope every stadium greets them with a chorus of boos this year.
ABSOLUTELY!
Astros world series champions 2020 let's goo !!!
Danny d wanna bet? 😂
Boos won't be enough. They should've gotten a much more severe penalty
The Nats were informed by Dodgers and Sox to keep an eye out on buzzers and banging. They had to stop.
PUT PETE ROSE IN THE HALL. HE NEVER CHEATED. ONLY PUT HIS MONEY WHERE HIS MOUTH WAS AND BET ON HIMSELF TO WIN
Bruh this comment is honestly dumb, Pete rose was a great players don’t get me wrong, but he broke the only rule in baseball that could get you kicked out for life. And sometimes betting on your team to win means that when you don’t bet, you think they are gonna lose
How is gambling on your own team to win worse than cheating?
robertcwehmeyer he bet as a manager and not as a player. Pete Rose the player should be in the HOF.
robertcwehmeyer dumbass comment lol you wasted that much time typing that brain dead paragraph?
Pete Rose bet against his own team.
And Derek Jeter gave the best player in the National League (Stanton) to his previous boss.
he is guarding his shirt bigtime. sad for baseball. thank Coach.
Makes me not even want to watch baseball anymore
Here is earlier in the season when they ripped his shirt off on a walkoff, this is why but believe whatever you want
@@bcknight727 what do you mean?
marcel escoda means he didn’t really like when it happened earlier in the year, so didn’t want it torn off again, if his teammates knew he had wires and buzzers under his jersey why would they rip it off? Doesn’t make sense, he just didn’t want his jersey torn off...
Your basis is that if he had a buzzer the whole team knew. Why would the whole team know if only a few players or just him had buzzers?
"getting in trouble with your wife" about having your jersey ripped off? That's a BS answer.
breaking news - he had a buzzer
And when he is asked the question he says "what" while he thought of the lie about his wife not wanting his shirt ripped.
Its the dumbest explanation Ive heard for ANYTHING.
www.crawfishboxes.com/2019/4/7/18299635/game-recap-astros-walk-off-on-altuve-base-on-balls-beat-as-9-8-in-slugfest
announcers had previously stated that his wife had told him not to rip his jersey off. you must not have been watching the game in real time
That grim smile on Chapmans face says everything: 'how the hell did he know what was coming'
ART EFX how did Rajai Davis know what was coming in game 7 of the 2016 World Series?
@@1080p120hz totally different (not an indians fan)
Nic James you being a fan of another team is completely irrelevant. Go re-watch the at bat before Altuve’s, which was Springer’s. Chapman threw 4 straight balls to Springer, the last two were way out of the zone and high fastballs. He then threw two fastballs that were way out of the zone to Altuve. This means Chapman threw 6 straight balls before he threw Altuve a strike. Chapman then throws a perfect slider to Altuve to make the count 2-1, pay attention to the next pitch which is the one Altuve hit for the HR, Chapman hung a slider, it was way up in the zone. What so many fail to mention is that Jake Marisnick was on deck and with 2 outs, Hinch had pinch ran for Brantley earlier in the game. Marisnick was Houston’s worst hitter, why would Boone and Chapman pitch to Altuve knowing this? Chapman lost control and fell behind one of the best hitters in baseball and he paid for it.
@@1080p120hz dude how about you watch the davis at bat which is what I was referencing lol
@@finalnj4683 why would I watch Rajai's at bat. The first comment was that Chapman's reaction was like "he knew the pitch that was coming" LOL why are people making Chapman look like 'he's some dominant pitcher that has never been hit. Rajai Davis hadn't homered all postseason long in the '16 postseason until he hit one off of Chapman, and it was in game 7 of the World Series lol. Why is it a shock that Altuve or any other good hitter can't do the same? Pitching to Altuve with two outs and a horrible hitter on deck is one of the dumbest decisions any manager can make.
5:19: When he asks the reporter to repeat the question which he clearly heard the first time. This is a MAJOR red flag coupled with his nervous laugh that something was up under that shirt. GUILTY!!!
100% agree
So true
4:35 - Look at Chapman's face. It's almost like he knows what's going on.
MLB players move around. Everyone probably knew Houston was cheating.
yep yankees sure did, its why they called houston out on it early on.. cc even mentions how they had to change the mound visit rule because of him. gary sanchez had to constantly find ways to make sure they werent stealing signs
I caught that too.
he knows that even you would have hit that pitch out.
His face was like , theeeeeessseeee muuuuuutthhhha fuckas.
The Astros need to be boo'ed out of every stadium they step foot in this year. I'd rather them not even be able to field a team and forfeit every game and give teams those days off instead. This is beyond the beyond. I'm livid.
lol.... Matt is speculating this... This isn't proof on anything. I'm actually kinda disappointed in Matt spreading unsupported theories like this. But, UA-camrs click bait all the time for views I suppose. So try no to have a stroke over being livid.
imagine the amount of close calls or hit batters cause of this?
@@ANGELSNIPER117 Imagine all the accusations of cheating that are going to come this season when the Astros continue to win.
@@texasson i hope not tbh, we dont need any more scandals, would be bad for the sport
I totally agree with u bro
Ken: Jose why didn't you want to take your shirt off?
Jose: I'm too shy. My wife says i have a little.....belly button buzzer.
😂 LOL
Holy crap, came to your video by accident! Glad you’re still around baseball man!
Classic liar's move: pretend you didnt hear the question so you can take a moment to make up your excuse. He heard the question loud and clear thats for sure.
Yeah I know, did the same thing the other day, asked this lady to repeat what she said Because I needed time to think up an answer, we have all been there, we all know the signs. Altuve is lying
Love JetFuel the astros know ALL of the signs
@@nickvoivoda4327 yep
@@nickvoivoda4327 buzzer confirmed
I'm not so sure. Your point is well taken, but a stadium full of Astro fans are screaming their heads off, so it's at least possible he misheard the question. But his answer is so weird, that he got in trouble with his wife the last time it happened.
What???
Altuve think he slick, he pretended he didn't hear the first time rosenthal asked the question about him holding on his jersey.
That's what you do when you need a moment to think up an excuse, "what, what was that?
@@darrylbarker505 at least he didn't fake the language barrier
@@evanstanek5838 I actually thought that but didn't want to say it, thanks!😮
Why rosenthal ask him that? He’s the one that broke the story?
@@Dats_dope He asked him about the the shirt because it was odd as hell for a player to hit such a huge walk off and then to be bear hugging his shirt and yelling that no one should rip it off. It all makes sense that he cheated and it also explains Chapman's smile which I never understood. Chapman knew it was bullshit
I remember watching it live thinking "that was weird" lol. What makes it look so much worse is his response to being asked about it, first he does the "What was that?" thing people do when they need time to think of a lie, then he goes "uhhhh..... i dunno? Um my wife blah blah" like wow man that was really awkward.
You are in a stadium and you hit a really good ball fans go loud you wont be able to hear plus your adrenaline so to me i dont see anything in that
its because they ask something unusual/unexpected. so you wanna be sure you heard what you heard.
I can't believe nobody noticed James Harden and Russell Westbrook in the seats
When you think it can’t get worse lmao
WizGaming As a Dodgers Fan, This is fucking amazing😂
Michael M. Alvarez I’m a Yankees fan and I feel cheated out of 3 World Series
Luke Merhige 3? Max 2. Not that that’s not bad I’m a dodgers fan I feel you lol
Amazing that the big cheaters are the ones who had such a clear sense of morality when it came to President Trump. Leftist hypocrisy???
As an A's fan I feel cheated out of 2 division titles
This is a great opportunity to appreciate how great was Pete Rose as a pure baseball player.
🎲🎲
A slow singles hitter ? Yeah, he was so great.
Pete Rose is a straight og in the baseball world. What he did was personal. What Astros did was disgusting
@@joeydelvillar9712 Just have to say 2 years later.... Rose really f'd up and it wasn't as harmless as people say. You can say he was betting on winning but the one thing that always happens with gamblers is they lose and owe. All do eventually. So when he's owing, he could be persuaded to lay back or flat out dump in order to sway a sure-thing game. Rose could have eventually pulled a black sox situation once he started owing. Dumb decision on his part but gamblers do like the risks. That's how they end up owing. Weed em out when you catch em.
Just started watching some of your videos because someone mentioned that the dynamic between hitters and pitchers, or, more specifically, the thought processes involved is very similar to my own profession (Poker Player). So I don't know if you'll ever read this Matt but you're exactly right about cheaters not just stopping when they've been successful; they cheat to win and they want to keep winning. I can tell you there are any number of devices used by gamblers/cheats that can are mounted touching the body that send information in any number of ways, heck he could have something as simple as some of the old school machines that just use a series of vibrations to communicate rather complex information, -- to communicate something as simple as 1 of a few possible pitches would be incredibly easy to do. In my world it is used to communicate card information, but it would be so easy to employ these cheating techniques in a baseball game when no one is looking for them. These devices are used in casinos when people are specifically looking for them and often times go undetected,, so doing it in an environment where no one is looking....yeah that's a no brainer.
Jose’s stats will be interesting to keep an eye on this coming season.
Expect them to be significantly worse
You people are so uninformed. Altuve did not start playing baseball in 2017. From 2014 to 2017, Altuve recorded at least 200 hits each season and led the American League in the category. He won three batting championships in that span. He won MVP in 2017, having the BEST ROAD batting average in ALL of baseball. He was already a proven player before the scandal and will continue to put up great numbers.
World Traveler he won MVP in 2017 cuz he fucking cheated moron
Especially HBP.
@@itti990 Oh you mean he cheated on the road?
Did Jose Altuve say that, "His wife got mad" for his teammates ripping his shirt? OMG....DUDE, come up with a better excuse or refuse to be interviewed.
A guy that makes 30 million a year why would his wife get mad for ripping his shirt
I read somewhere he's got at least 1 pic of himself with no shirt on his Instagram................I'm shy? Try again pal.
actually 5 pics of him shirtless on instagram
I wonder if Joel suspected what was going on?
jasona9 he’s so disgraceful I want him gone from the game of MLB. It sucks because I liked him until this. Now he can screw off
This horseshit has me feeling nostalgic for the steroid era.
Tyler honestly the drama is interesting tho
LOL really!
Who needs steroids when you know which pitch is coming
Ten times worse than steroids.
Nationals pitching coach suggested that they were tipping pitches and made adjustments. What adjustments did they make to win in Houston?
He usually rips his shirt off when he gets a walk off hit in the past...
but he's shy though lmao...
Exactly
Shayne Tybur apparently his wife got mad lmao
He got a tattoo that he didn't want anyone to see
Isabella Gomez bs reasons
And *loves-loves-loves-loves* hitting home here at Houston
Honestly, I thought something was up immediately after he hit that homerun against Chapman. Especially after Chapman smiled and shook his head as obviously he knew that the Astros were cheating. This is ridiculous and MLB should strip the World Series Title from them AND suspend every player on that team for a season!!
I mean...at least they lost this past year. Guess cheating didn't help them enough. The Nats used very different signals as a result because they were suspicious
Suspend? No we need bans
No more like “I can’t believe I’m that stupid.”
As are all Yankees fans:
You DO NOT TAUNT ALTUVE!
He always hits a HR when angry.
Besides, YOU tied the game.
This is nothing more than an attempt to weaken the Astros.
We know it’s an attempt to do cheating using the scandal as a cover.
Altuve should get banned
Hahaha ok suspended the Yankees]Dodgers,Red Sox etc
Clayton Kershaw I humbly apologize
Nah, Kershaw has been a consistent post season choker long before this happened!
Cam PatsFan nope!
@@STXRBOY999 Cardinals fans loved to face him in the postseason lmao
You guys are dirty maybe right but dirty lol
The Cardinals humbly thank him for 2013 and 2014
I think it is under his patch on his left shoulder, not all players have it but some do, it sticks out square at the top. He loses it in the scrum at home plate. The wire is under the arm band I do believe.
I live in L.A. Ever since Peter O’Malley sold the Dodgers it hasn’t been the same but I still wanted my hometown team to win the World Series. I’m as disgusted with the Astros as anyone else but if the team was cheating by using buzzers wouldn’t they all know to not rip his shirt off? Or was it a situation where the cheating was confined to a small group of players?
Obviously they can’t now award the World Series trophy to the Dodgers, but they can vacate the result of the ’17 WS, demand the return of the trophy, and confiscate the championship rings from the cheaters who robbed L.A. of the championship we would have enjoyed. That MLB did NONE of those things means, to me, that they’re tacitly condoning the appalling behavior and breach of trust by the Houston Astros and throws EVERYTHING into question.
I read that when the Astros come to Southern California to play the Angels some Dodgers fans are planning to attend those games to voice their displeasure. That’s the exact opposite what EVERY baseball fan should do when the Astros come to town, and what they should do is boycott. What if they played an MLB game and no one came? Baseball won’t do the right thing but fans can. A lot of people love their baseball and don’t wanna give it up, but if they only boycott the Astros they won’t have to. The best statement baseball fans can make is with deafening silence. It’s past time that these pampered, spoiled, entitled athletes get what they deserve, and that’s nothing. We don’t give them our time, our adulation, and especially our money.
Astros beat yall twice at dodger stadium, game seven you could only muster 1 run, so were the pitchers cheating also!! GTFOH, with that. Always looking for an excuse when you lose.
@@bookhauler73 You should have never been in the world series. It should have been Yankees V Dodgers. If you still want to support your cheaters you can I see a lot of Astros fans don't mind it. Not all but some.
Brian Tyler this is the worst case of cheating.... Astros should NOT have a team anymore... (ps I only watch hockey) but even I know this is truly disgusting and honestly besides this I’ll never be intrigued to know more. Just don’t be all high and mighty over some pitcher, when his batters are cheating the opposing pitcher Ight bud, now go kick rocks
Brian Tyler Not to mention that you’d be pissed if the dodgers had done this to your all so blessed we didn’t do it I swear, my wife would get mad so I kept my shirt on Astro’s 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
bro they didn't cheat in the world series lol.. and even if they did, they would have beat LA either ways.. you dodger fans really are something
Chapman's smile says, "C'mon, you knew what was coming. Ain't fooling me...."
Tbf, everybody in a 200 mile radius knew a slider was coming.
@@blazingcorsair7307 Nonsense. It was the second off speed pitch in a row. If anything, Altuve would have been priming for another fastball if he really didn’t know what was coming. Against a guy who is notorious for reaching up to 102mph on his fastball and uses the fastball like a buzzsaw, you don’t sit there expecting multiple off speed pitches.
@@GozerTheGozerian you must've not watched Chapman this season or during that game. He had just walked Springer with fastballs and fell back in the count against Altuve with 2 fastballs not even close. He then throws a slider that he gets over for a strike. When Chapman loses control of the fastball, he always starts overusing his slider. I knew what the pitch was going to be when I was watching, but who knows what Altuve saw... or felt, if you know what I'm saying.
Completely agree. He just has that look standing there on the mound.
Oh, ok, you know exactly what pitch is coming. Must work for the Astros.
The Zapruder film of Astros cheating...
The Zapruder film was doctored though, cutting out the part where the limo completely stopped until the fatal shot hit Kennedy from the front, the sewer had the shooter with a final easy shot.
I really hope and pray that the Houston Astros get their title vanish and strip its advise that Jose Altuve had a buzzer in his chest.
Saw someone else comment this on another video but if you look up the full game footage from that altuve walkoff. Altuve is wearing an undershirt in the top of the 9th and he’s not wearing one when he goes up to bat
I'm a Yankees fan, and I was obviously upset we lost. But I actually was happy for them. But now... it's soo sad, so extremely sad what happened here. The Astros franchise, it's gonna take decades for them to recover from this. Who's going to take them seriously now? This franchise might as well just dissapear, dissolve.
you hit a hr to send your team to the WS and the first thing you think of rounding 3rd is don't rip off my jersey??? c'mon.
Nicholas Mancuso www.crawfishboxes.com/2019/4/7/18299635/game-recap-astros-walk-off-on-altuve-base-on-balls-beat-as-9-8-in-slugfest
Dude I've seen that you've posted a link showing a precedent of his shirt being ripped off before. That doest not in itself disqualify all of the other evidence you seem to willfully ignore. There is more evidence of sign stealing, and you choose to only acknowledge the one vidoe of his shirt being ripped of previously.
@@bcknight727 So he had no problem having his shirt ripped in April but did in October? To such a degree that he's desperately gripping it rounding the bases. Wife must have really chewed him out back in April, right?
Matt Pierce I didn’t post the video, I just commented on it. I agree it’s just circumstantial. The fact his post season ops is 1000 points higher at home is also circumstantial, but pretty damning as well, right?
The paranoia was real
He also went all the way I to the dugout to change shirts before coming out to the interview with Kenny. And there is a picture online with an outline of some device under his jersey.
James Norona www.crawfishboxes.com/2019/4/7/18299635/game-recap-astros-walk-off-on-altuve-base-on-balls-beat-as-9-8-in-slugfest, yea show me the link to the pic please, he had his jersey ripped off earlier in the season that’s why he didn’t want it done again
bcknight727 sending that link doesn’t do anything to back up your point... looks like he’s having a great time with his shirt off that time. and don’t give me the “mY wiFe waS uPsEt” bull.
Blake Bolesky So your saying the rest of his teammates had no idea he was wearing a device? If they ripped his shirt off they’re all immediately implicated in front of the whole world so why would they do that? The wife comment was a joke maybe he just didn’t want it torn off again like before...But your right in the end, only the Yankees can be a good baseball team and score runs...all of these other professional baseball players couldn’t possibly ever get a hit or score a single run against your precious team, and Logan Morrison another MLB player reported after Manfred’s statement other teams including Yankees and Dodgers were cheating as well, but I know not possible because Yankees fans and players are just Gods amongst us mere mortals
bcknight727 lets just remember who were the ones banging on trash cans
bcknight727 ua-cam.com/video/mWKLDm8ZI6Q/v-deo.html
Really good take and breakdown on this a year ago. Now we know ;)
We know what?
"Chances are it's not?" What are you talking about? Chances are that he was cheating
6:25 - checking to see if the wire is still there...
Ask Boone. After all, he let Domestic Violence Chapman (DVC) pitch to him after he had already walked Springer. People also "forget" that Michael Brantley had already been taken out of the game and replaced by Jake Marisnick. Jake Marisnick was due to bat after Altuve. Why not "intentionally" walk Altuve so that poor little DVC could face Marisnick instead? Hurry, go ask Boone for that answer 🤔. The Yankees just plainly lost that game. Stop making excuses for them.
Altuve's new nickname , "Buzz Lightyear". "Houston we have a problem."
Buzz Lighter the cheap version. To infinity I will be banned! Hahaha
Dave Sparks lmaoooo
For me, José Altuve received the signal directly to a device that he seems to carry on his left arm. I have seen, retrospectively, many Astros games and the timely batting of him coincide with the use of the apparatus. Why M.L.B. has not confiscated that bracelet or in default the F.B.I)
I think it's time for M.L.B. do not allow items to be added to "uniforms."
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Isabella Gomez You obviously are a salty ass Astros fan. Doesn’t matter who else did it, they did it and just because it happened before doesn’t give them a pass you moron.
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we didn’t cheat in the alcs in 2017 we cheated in reg season and also he said not to rip his jersey bc in 2017!in the alcs he ripped his shirt and his wife was mad over it she went public about it
@@ets2446 not salty. boston cheated tho
He should have said I'm giving my jersey to my Mom
Sadly, the steroid era was arguably more honest than the current era.
At least then, everyone was using steroids so it was still and kind of an even playing field.
Yeah kind of. 80% of players using steroids. But now? There has to be people using something as well. Either that or there is a crazy crazy amount of sign stealing. Players are hitting 20-30 hr a season like their nothing.
Why? Both are cheating. So cheating is better than..... cheaing? Wtf?
@@gp381 🤩😝🤣😄😜🤪
True. Now we have a juiced ball era along with the sign steal cheating(electronic devices). Which equals a lot of guys hitting 20 to 30 homeruns, it's ridiculous. Look at the stats, as Max kellerman said, every 2nd baseman is hitting 30 home runs now.
Rosenthal knew something was up when he asked about shirt
Zachary Boone he’s the one who brought them down as well with an article, he knew all along, just waited to gather more evidence
The reason he didn't want them to take off his shirt is because he had a tattoo that he didn't want anyone to see
1) He said he wanted to be on time for the fastball but, looking for something he could handle. He did not say, he was sitting on the fastball. 2) Chapman couldn't get the fastball over and then got the slider over. It was an easy guess to think he would throw another slider and my cousin sitting next to me at that time, predicted he would throw it and Altuve would be waiting for it. 3) He could have cheated, but let's not get the facts wrong.
“ I’m shy”.... I mean “ my wife doesn’t like it”. Give me a break.
Jeff Lombardi meanwhile has a ton of pics on instagram without a shirt on
@@LJ_Alvarado Look at his pinned tweet on twitter
his comment doesnt make sense
Listen guys I’m not making excuses for him, but being married to a latin woman i can tell you that they are very very jealous, speak to any latin man married to a latin woman especially when they are 20’s & 30’s they are a pain in the @$$ when it comes to them feeling threatened by their husbands exposing their wealth & good looks, with that said i must say it is odd that he went to the extent he went to protect his jersey, after such a monumental game winning home run....
@@javiernieves329 and I'm telling you to look at the pinned tweet on his Twitter. If having your shirt ripped off is enough to make his wife angry, he has no explanation for his current tweet.
This story just keeps going deeper...
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Has anyone shown a “buzzer” device that could be worn and controlled via Bluetooth or RF? Just wondering as I don’t think anyone has displayed a “this could be” what was used. If so please show links - my son’s high school team needs all the help they can get this year (joking!!!!)......
Look up the Robinson Chirinos video.
He sure doesn’t care about taking his shirt off on social media
Correa looks like hes helping protect his shirt not hugging him. 🧐🤷♂️
Zig Torres Have you ever seen what happens when a woman has a public wardrobe malfunction and another woman quickly jumps in to help her fix it? That’s exactly what it looks like here to make sure that nothing was showing...
Looks like player in front shielding the guy behind holding to keep whatever from dropping and the base manager there for the handoff because after out of that "huddle" all of the sudden not all mousy and guarding his shirt.
They must have studied at the Lance Armstrong school of excellence.
This. Exactly. They were all in on it.
John James And would ya look at who else took a peek into their huddle? Just fired manager AJ Hinch who the Astros are scapegoating as the one who deserves the blame. Houston looks so awful in this. Boston too.
It was suspicious, I remember seeing Altuve being very protective of his shirt
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bcknight727 Sure seems like you love riding the Astros junk.
CJ P. Fuck you
Sorry to interrupt your massive circle jerk with the rest of the Yankees fans
@@bcknight727 notice how he doesnt give a fuck about how his shirt getting ripped off until now
The fact that he isn't amped/smiling at all when running to first after hitting that bomb & ending the game is a big give away that in his mind the game wasn't over yet... (he still had to get back to the locker room without his cheating device being exposed during the celebration/interview).
Wasn't kind of odd that Rosenthal asked the question of Altuve: "Why wouldn't you have your shirt torn off?" That would be the very last question I would have ever asked of a player after hitting the game winner HR. Seems Rosenthal might have been perceptive enough to think that was kind of odd. Give credit to Rosenthal for that ah hah moment.
I dont think this is crazy~ I think it's likely.
simon daughtry it could be!
Antonelli Baseball www.crawfishboxes.com/2019/4/7/18299635/game-recap-astros-walk-off-on-altuve-base-on-balls-beat-as-9-8-in-slugfest, he had it ripped off on a walkoff earlier in the season, that’s why he didn’t want it done again...also, where is your coverage on Logan Morrison’s statements, funny how that was just swept under the rug by everyone
He gives two excuses that dont make sense: “I’m shy” and then “my wife dont like it” which one is it. Obviously lying.
Im shy, thats why Im giving an interview as a player in major league baseball, a sport broadcast nationally in the biggest game of the year.
Makes sense.
If there's one thing Altuve isn't it's shy, the wife excuse might make sense if he'd actually thought of it quickly enough
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The Dude why did you tell your team mates not to rip off your jersey? Yes
What does the Altuve interview have to do with cheating? Genuinely confused and dumbfounded how y’all think his interview has to do with cheating. Dummies
You notice the huddle with Hinch, Correa, Altuve and Bregman? Looks they were talking about something before Altuve booker it to the locker room.
Chapman reaction of the homerun was like....how the heck did he know what kind of pitch I was about to throw ?
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Love your coverage of this issue Matt. It's been thoughtful, reasonable and has the perspective of someone who's been there. Here's a question though. I've heard many people complain that the Astros players haven't been punished. However, the report describes the scheme as "player-driven". After publicly pointing the finger at the Astros players in this manner, is making them play 81 away games next year perhaps a more severe punishment than a suspension would have been? Imagine the reception they'll get, for example, when they play at Yankee Stadium. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this.
Spot on. Now we don’t know. Everything that looks a bit off about Houston will seem really questionable from now on.
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bcknight727 and his hand is right in front of where the buzzer is supposed to be 🤔 do you want me to send you a photo where they think they have the outline of the buzzer and tell you that’s concrete proof?
MLB should have stripped them of their titles and banned them for one season. No balls!
The Astros weren't the only ones who cheated so shut up
Isabella Gomez You’re a fucking dumbass
Amir Lorenzo haha 👍🏼
@@ets2446 Clearly you are if you can't agree to that. Might as well not even reply if you no nothing about what happened in baseball before 2019.
Nathan Bradley Ok Nathan
Good analysis as always, Matt A.
Matt" you make a good manager. For real, there's alot of managers in the MLB that have come and gone through the decade. You got baseball insight and experience. Shoot for the gift even as a coach. Fans remember you and so does the MLB.
The Astros cheated, and cheated, and continued to cheat. I can't wait to hear them get showered in boo's at any and all games they play as a visiting team.
I honestly think one of the asstros will get hurt when they come to the Bronx. Not wishing it on anyone, but Yankees fans can be nuts. They might have to put netting around the whole stadium
@@ericcius1498 I'm a Dodger fan. If they come, they're getting hurt.
Those visiting teams will feel even dumber when they lose to the stros at a away game
honestly they’re probably going to do bad... & I’m excited for that
Nick Lawson boy your team can’t even go .500
In a clip from another angle, he seems to be saying "I've got a piece on".
Unless he's talking about his cheating piece, that's obviously not what he said.
I think he's actually saying "mi camisa no". ("Not my jersey")
So when he does the post game interview on the field he has changed into a Astros Championship short sleeve t - shirt...where did he change into the shirt , on the field or ?
There’s a side view and he is WAY up in the box.
Chapman’s the only pitcher who didn’t sequence his signs and his smirk was most likely because the rumors were proven true. The Astros electronically stole his signs and Chapman figures it out as soon as the ball leaves the bat..
Ray2K It did look like the pitcher Chapman caught on to what was happening.
You may be right, but that smirk looked more like he knew threw a bad pitch.
Ray2K you know nothing about Baseball, that smirk by Chapman is nothing new, see 2016 World Series in game 7 vs Rajai Davis. Boone and Chapman are the idiots who decided to pitch to one of the best hitters in the game with 2 outs and the worst Astros hitters due up since Brantley got taken out of the game for a pinch runner.
Ray2K and learn how to read, see the commissioners report so you can see the league found nothing for the 2019 season.
@@carltonreese4854 wrong
You can see at 5:33 they are surrounding him and the guy in the blue sweater is in there digging, getting the device and wrapping it in a jersey or towel and runs away. Altuve's lightens up right after and walks away.
I noticed also, many catchers, for many teams (not just against the Astros at home) were using multiple sign sequences with no runners or even just at 1st....why? Sign stealing from center field....
I’ve seen enuff of the Astros. I can’t wait to see how bad Altuves and Bregmans batting percentage drops next season.
if they get to play this year
Only time will tell. Both players will hit around .300 if not higher. Bregman hit .284 in 2017 when the cheating happened and .296 in 2019 he will only get better as he becomes a veteran and sees the same arms in the league. If you noticed he fared well against pitchers he has faced several time and not so well against the new arms or low AB pitchers. Altuve is going to hit .300+ because that is what he does. What I want to know is what everyone is going to say when they make a deep playoff run again?? Will they start accusing them of cheating?? Or will they just be quite and watch great players play ball?
Frank Mora Sounds an awful lot like if it’s proven they cheated you wouldn’t care because they’re “great players.” Cheating is cheating. That could’ve been the difference between who made the World Series.
Paul Martin imagine Trout cheated. He’d probably hit .400 and hit like 70 bombs 😂😂
Altuve mvp 2020
I thought this guy was awesome. I couldn't understand how such a little dude could be so clutch and hit bombs. Now we all know that he is just a cheater.
Hes a piece of shit
Us 5'8 guys can't catch a break. No Bueno!!!!!
Coco Robbins same exact feeling. I’m not even an astros fan and I feel betrayed.
as a Dodgers fan, FUCK this guy
He is 5'5
Im going to be interested to see how they do this year.
They've been doing pretty well......wouldn't you agree?
I like your channel and insight.
That was a definite maybe.
Shout out to the lady in the Astros mini skirt at 5:50
I think they're shorts, but yea, regardless, she is pretty damn fine.
Hotpants?
I think they’re called cheerleaders
Butterface. 😐
It's not a skirt, they're booty shorts.
Damn, and altuve used to be on of my favorite players and the only guy I liked on the stros can’t say that anymore
Luke22 same.
Luke22 disappointing honestly
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The part that I’m wondering is...
Wouldn’t the teammates know he’s wearing something and would avoid tearing his shirt off? I’m a baseball fan so I’m very disappointed in this whole thing, but I need more evidence than this.
The entire team doesn't need to be in on the scheme. But even if they held daily "how the under-the-jersey buzzer works" team meetings, he would STILL want to be sure none of them FORGOT about the buzzer in their jubilation. All it would've taken is one teammate to forget he was wired, and with all of the cameras on the ALCS, the entire world would've seen it.
Altuve Astros 2019 ALCS walk off no buzzer MLB breakdown
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Maybe because after they were caught cheating the first time, maybe they decided to not let everyone know about the cheating.. Maybe only the good hitters.. Just a thought
how does he feel about hitting at home in Houston?
Looks like there's really some there there: at 6:11 he seems to shrink away from Correa, as if he's afraid that Carlos might grab his jersey or try to pull it off.
Sosa's bat and Altuve's shirt.
Lemahieu’s blast though 🔥 🔥
I freaked out
Did you see the picture where they zoomed in on him on base and there is a DISTINCT outline of a mic
A mic? Maybe a buzzer, yeah.
Scared to go shirtless? Meanwhile apparently he has about 5 shirtless photos on his instagram.
There was extended footage you have to see....he runs into the dugout while they are celebrating which is unheard of and comes back a few mins later in the t-shirt
I was watching Bob Costas the other day on Major League Baseball channel and he was talking about how the Astros were cheating using whistles and banging on garbage cans. I thought to myself that that is not really a great way to do it. I then began thinking of better ways and one of them that I came up with was, ironically, a buzzer directly on a player.
OK so my question is... What is the time line for him taking his jersey off and putting that ALCS champs t-shirt on? Because if we can track that, then it might give us a better idea. For example, if he went and hid in the dugout or went into the locker room to change shirts, and presumably remove the "buzzer device" then that would be a bigger clue as to something fishy going on. If he changed his shirt in front of everyone on the field then less likely I believe. Thoughts? 🤔
You my friend are so on point. That little dbag was hiding a vibrating device inside his jersey.
Proof?
@@texasson There are plenty of youtube videos that points out he was hiding something.
@@biga173rdify No there are not. There are a bunch of UA-cam channels that are speculating based off of a statement made by an unconfirmed twitter account. They even show pictures of Reddick in a tank and say, "look at that, HE even has tape on his chest".... That is clearly not hold anything to his chest, and matches the conffetti that was deployed. This getting stupid.
@@texasson You still don't believe me? Lol okay. Here you go friend. ua-cam.com/video/368x77Gk5yA/v-deo.html
@@texasson "TexasSon" yeah you aren't biased at all, prick
I wonder if Joe Buck still loves Altuve's race car bed they spoon in together? True love story!
Chances are it’s not? I think given the evidence and the admissions that have come to to light; chances are it is.
Thanks for a good video and great insight Matt.
Hopefully this video gets out there in the mix good job presenting that!