He is going to have it tough if he doesn't do something this summer. It was one thing when there was no attendance and a partial season. Now neither of those things exists.
You can tell the first one was a copied pre-formatted response withe the extra spacing in it. It's someone who is closely following Houston and adding these responses as more of a PR campaign.
Personally I feel like posters on Soxtalk deserve to know that this isn't regular message board content.
I wonder who is taking the time to register at random baseball message boards in order to try to make excuses for the Houston Astros cheating. What a weird thing to feel the need to do.
Honestly?
He looks like he is pressing. When the team is going bad, he expands his zone to try to get hits in key situations. I see him going after a lot of junk in the left handers batters box instead of forcing pitchers to come to him. He is trying to put this team on his back.
So when people call Jerry cheap, realize there are a whole other class of bottom feeding owners out there. There is zero reason Wander shouldn't have been up last September, let alone Opening Day.