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MLB News: Astros Player Issues A Profanity-Laced Apology

The good news is that Astros players are slowly starting to issue apologies for their part in a cheating scandal. The bad news is that while we do have another one, it’s just another former player. That means that there have been two former players to apologize while current players remain silent.

Evan Gattis went onto a podcast on The Atheltic the other day and spoke about his part in the Astros’ cheating scandal. Fair warning, there are a lot of curse words.

Everybody wants to be the best player in the f—–g world, man … and we cheated that, for sure, and we obviously cheated baseball and cheated fans. Fans felt duped. I feel bad for fans.

It’s interesting to see a player recognize what he cheated the fans out of. One might even say it’s refreshing to know that at least one of the Astros players realized that they took so much away from not just the players.

I’m not asking for sympathy or anything like that. If our punishment is being hated by everybody forever, just like, whatever. I don’t know what should be done, but something had to f—–g be done. I do agree with that, big-time. I do think it’s good for baseball that we’re cleaning it up. … And I understand that it’s not f—–g good enough to say sorry. I get it.

While Gattis did admit that there was no reason he should be let off easy, he did note that there were plenty of Astros players that were not on board with the idea.

It got out of f—–g control. That’s why I’m actually glad that the objective truth is out there. We f—-d up, and it was not right. It was wrong. It’s a little easier to see it being f—-d up afterwards.

Evan Gattis joins Marwin Gonzalez as the only two members of the Astros 2017 World Series team to publicly apologize. Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman made statements during a press conference in which they essentially read prepared notes off of a card.

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