Jon Daniels and Chris Woodward address the media on tAstros' Cheating Scandal
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00:00 I believe so, yeah.
00:02 I have no reason to suspect otherwise.
00:05 It has not been suggested to me.
00:08 I never saw anything or heard anything or had any reason to believe otherwise.
00:12 So, we haven't gone in depth looking at it, honestly, but we haven't had any reason to either.
00:19 John, baseball has always been able to persevere through controversies over the years.
00:25 Steroids, all the stuff, you know, even back to the real old days.
00:30 What do you think about the state of baseball and how big is this to hit the game right now?
00:35 Because it's still so young.
00:37 Well, I think you're right in that the game is doing well and the game also has persevered through some major challenges in the past.
00:46 I would expect it will continue to do so.
00:49 That's kind of my take on how seriously the commissioner took it from back to when he issued the memorandum in '17,
00:58 some of the follow-up over the last couple of years.
01:01 It was pretty clear that Rob was going to act not just on electronic sign stealing but other violations.
01:10 You've seen some of the other discipline that's come down the last few years.
01:14 There's always in competitive arenas, there's always going to be looking to find that competitive advantage, that edge.
01:22 Like Woody said, there's a line that you can't cross, but I think if part of the goal of the discipline handed down
01:30 was to deter others from doing stuff like that in the future, that part of it I think has been accomplished.
01:36 You just asked a question about a couple of guys that to varying levels we all have personal relationships with that lost their job.
01:45 That's serious stuff.
01:47 Do I think that the game will power through this?
01:53 It's an ugly moment for the game right now, but absolutely.