Are The Yankees Massive Hypocrites For Signing Gerrit Cole?

While Yankees fans and players alike have spent the entire offseason slinging mud at the Houston Astros, only one man is brave enough to ask the real questions here. There's a reason Francesa was the king of New York and sports media for a hundred years, and this is that reason. When everyone is piling on, looking for their brownie points by hammering the same angle over and over again, Francesa tries to find the truth in what everyone else is missing. And while big dumb dumbs like Giant Carlos Stanton are out here spewing nonsense like "I'd hit 80 home runs if I cheated" while Aaron Judge is seeping sewage out of his largest face hole like "I can't respect anyone who took part in such acts," our protagonist points out the hypocrisy taking place in the Bronx. I'm sure this wasn't easy for Francesa, after all the man is a Yankees fan. But the truth isn't always convenient. It can be painful. I can understand why Yankees fans have been deflecting and focusing their attention on Houston rather than taking the skeletons out of their own closet. But the time has come to face the facts.

If Judge truly can't respect anyone who took place in this cheating scandal that has rocked baseball, how could he play behind Gerrit Cole? How could he even look that man in the eyes when he keeps claiming he knew nothing about what was happening in Houston? If he was a man of honor and integrity, he'd march right into Brian Cashman's office and say "it's him or me." That's what a man with scruples would do. I'm not saying Judge would be a massive coward for not calling out his own teammate, or retroactively bashing Carlos "The Ringleader" Beltran for learning all of Houston's cheating ways in pinstripes, however you really would have to question that man's honor and integrity for the game of baseball if he doesn't. A true leader wouldn't spend all of his time with his head craning over his neighbors fence while his own kitchen was on fire. 

I don't think the Yankees should be punished for signing a cheater. That would be ridiculous. Sure, the Red Sox fired Alex Cora the second they scanned their roster to check for anyone with even a minor connection to the Astros from 2017 onward. Hell, Mookie Betts jumped into the stands and made contact with a few Astros fans during the 2018 ALCS and the Sox promptly shipped him out of town in fear he became tainted as if he had been bitten by a zombie of some sort. But we're not talking about the morally superior Boston Red Sox here. We're talking about the potentially corrupt New York Yankees and their band of merry little hypocrites. It's sad to see what's happened to a once great organization. You just have to hope something like this doesn't tear them apart from within. Sports are all about chemistry and a wrong move like this could be potentially devastating to that organization once they start realizing they've let a fox in their henhouse.