Yankees: Astros attempting to troll NYY for Apple Watch use is pathetic

Yankees fans catch all the subtle jabs. The Astros won’t get away with this.

The baseball world rejoiced when the Tampa Bay Rays thwarted the Astros’ 3-0 comeback in the ALCS and defeated Houston in seven games to advance to the World Series. No fan could stomach watching another minute of Astros baseball.

It feels like the Astros got away with murder during the 2020 campaign. After Major League Baseball unearthed the details of the Astros’ wide-ranging sign-stealing scandal, no players were punished, they weren’t stripped of their title, Jose Altuve got to keep his MVP, and there would be no fans in the stands to boo them off the field due to the pandemic.

Then Carlos Correa had the gall to talk trash to all of the team’s “haters,” which are just regular people who want to support the integrity of baseball at this point, after the Astros managed to take down the Twins and Athletics in the postseason, which, by the way, are two of the most inept playoff teams in modern day baseball history.

And it seems the Astros just can’t stop. This time, they’ve taken aim at the New York Yankees with their promo for the 2021 season. Their mascot, Orbit, was the culprit here, and he was sporting an Apple Watch to seemingly take a subtle jab at the Bombers.

https://twitter.com/astros/status/1323379623091195904?s=20

You can see it all at the 1:45 mark. After Orbit ditched the Dunkin Donuts coffee and shoved the Red Sox aside, he checked his Apple Watch, which alerted him that the Yankees would be coming to Houston in mid-July. We don’t think this is a coincidence.

Yankees fans have been jeering the Astros for quite some time now over their cheating scandal because it likely kept New York from advancing to the World Series on two separate occasions in 2017 and 2019. So grasping for straws here in an attempt to make a parallel between that and the Apple Watch fiasco with the Red Sox, who were actually reprimanded more harshly for their use of the technology, is pretty pathetic.

If this is all the dirt the city of Houston has on the Yankees, then there’s perhaps no worse finger pointing in history, aside from Donald Trump still complaining about Hillary Clinton’s emails. The Yankees were fined for the use of the Apple Watch in the dugout back in 2017 — as were the Red Sox — and that was before MLB had instituted a ban on use of technological devices during games. The Astros cheating scandal continues after MLB created that rule.

We’re still not sure how or why the Astros think they have a leg to stand on in this argument, but the fact that they’re trying to sneakily continue the unfounded discourse is just as pointless as their next five years are about to be. Enjoy watching all of your best players slowly leave in free agency until your back to bottom-feeder status.

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