New York Yankees: Jason Giambi comments on Astros cheating scandal
Former New York Yankees slugger Jason Giambi has been in the hot water before and he says to the 2017 Houston Astros, come on in the water is fine.
From his MVP and Bash Brother days (brother Jeremy didn’t really hold up his end of the deal) with the Oakland Athletics to his Bronx Bomber days with the New York Yankees to his Blake Street Bomber days with the Colorado Rockies, Jason Giambi was never soft-spoken.
Standing flat-footed with his long left-handed swing, Giambi made a career of hitting moon shots. When given the chance to take a cheap shot at the Houston Astros for their sign-stealing scandal in 2017, Giambi took the high road.
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“There’s always going to be things going in this game when you’re talking about people making a lot of money and wanting to win.”
Giambi went on SNY, a regional network in New York, to share his thoughts about the Astros. Basically, Giambi looked at the scandal like, there is nothing to see here, move along.
Giambi, himself admitted to using PEDs in 2007, and recognized after coming clean the general public accepted him better.
Without saying as much in his interview, he shared the same sentiment to the Astros. Come clean and get the monkey off your back. The Astros players were given immunity for talking to Commissioner Manfred, and there has not been a player to acknowledge the cheating yet. Only players who have said they should have stopped what they were seeing.
Giambi thinks there is always someone trying to garner the upper hand in the game. The old adage is if you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying, and I agree there are a lot of professional baseball players out there trying.
Taking this stance by Giambi is a lot easier since he is not currently playing. Had he been on the losing end at the hands of those Astros he may view the scandal differently.
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The court of public opinion didn’t turn on Giambi like they did some of the other alleged steroid users. He enjoyed a twenty-year playing career finally calling it a career after a two-year stint with the Cleveland Indians when he was 43 years old.