Really Sorry?

It's been a story that has dominated the headlines for most of the winter. The Houston Astros stealing signs during the 2017 World Series year. This morning, the Astros owner, new manager and some of their players addressed the media at their spring training facility in Florida. Some of the statements made sounded honest, while others didn't sound as much. Below are some of the quotes from the press conference via ESPN.

Alex Bregman and Jose Altuve were the first two players to speak in front of the media about the scandal.

"I am really sorry about the choices that were made by my team, by the organization and by me. I have learned from this and I hope to regain the trust of baseball fans," Bregman said.

Altuve said the Astros had a "great team meeting" on Wednesday night and said the "whole Astros organization feels bad for what happened in 2017."

"[I] especially feel remorse for the impact on our fans and the game of baseball," he said.

Oh there's more. New Astros manager Dusty Baker said he hopes his players will be forgiven by fans and other players. "I ask the baseball world to forgive them for the mistakes that they made," he said.

Amnd last but not least, there's a great quote from the team owner, Jim Crane. He said "Our opinion is that this didn't impact the game. We had a good team. We won the World Series and we'll leave it at that,"

This is a complete one eighty from what the players were saying and showing to the fanbase over the last month or so, as this information was unfolding. And not only that, but t, to put it bluntly, it feels like a total load of crap. If you've seen any pictures or videos from the press conference earlier, you could tell by the facial expressions and body language of Altuve and Bregman that they didn't want to be there. They felt and looked totally out of place. You could tell they were like kids being sent to the principal's office to face the music for what happened.

The owners quote made me scratch my head even more. It didn't impact the game? I call bull crap. You guys had a six year run, including your first two years in the American League, where you had a losing record. Then in 2016 you make the playoffs with 86 wins. Then the win total jumps to three straight years of over 100 wins and three straight ALCS appearances. Trust me I've seen big turn around in sports, but nothing like this.

The fact that all of this came out, and that's the attitude your going with? Don't even try it. If you were really remorseful about this, then you would have come out with an apology right from the start and actually showed emotion. Today you guys just looked like little kids who were forced to apologize after stealing candy from the convenience store up the street.

I really can't wait to see how teams handle Astros hitters this year, because its going to be an ongoing story all season long