Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly didn’t mince words when asked how he responded to news of the Houston Astros cheating scandal coming to light.
Speaking with The BSBLR Show, Kelly explained that players were already well aware that the Astros were stealing signs and transmitting that information to batters via banging on trash cans.
“I said, ‘Duh,” he told host Drew Richard. “There’s no way these average players are f—ing barreling me, you know what I mean?”
Former Astro — and, briefly, Dodger — Jake Marisnick also caught a stray as Kelly made his point.
“No sh—, duh,” he said. “There’s no way Jake Marisnick could hit my f—ing slider.”
Who Knew and When Did They Know It?
In that interview, Kelly explained that the Astros’ scheme was something of an open secret in baseball. He added, though, that while players knew, members of the media seemed to be in the dark for years.
“There were already rumors,” he said. “Players knew they were cheating. You guys didn’t know.”
When the sports world became aware of the sign-stealing in 2020, Dodgers stars publicly discussed how they felt cheated out of the 2017 World Series, which the Astros won over the Dodgers in seven games.
But it was Kelly who took his teammates’ off-field comments and frustrations and channeled them into his play.
In July of that year, he took the mound against Houston and taunted the team mercilessly.
Alongside comments like “Nice swing, b—” and “Shut the f— up,” he famously made a face like that of a pouting baby at Carlos Correa, prompting the benches to clear.
Kelly wasn’t on the Dodgers during that 2017 season, though he did pitch for the Boston Red Sox, who also fell to the Astros en route to that disputed title.
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It’s 2026.
The Dodgers have purchased an all-star team!
When will we move on to something that matters.
Three peat bitches!
Insert {{{Joe Kelly pouting face}}}
Lazy know nothing comment of the year goes to…..
It’s a shame MLB did absolutely nothing to the Astros for cheating. Appropriate measures would have been forfeiting the World Series title and a fine equal to their payroll.
The MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred admitted later that was a bad mistake that he gave immunity to the baseball players. The day he gave them immunity I sent an email to MLB to fire him for such a lousy decision. I still demand he be fired. Those players should have been banned for life for cheating. Their WS rings returned and their trophy taken away.
Why don’t you dodger cry babies quit bringing up old stuff! You have a great team right now and you just got beat and you still whine after all these years and banned for life? Are you a moron or what?
It’s stolen valor! Some of those players will never get another opportunity! If I was an astric i would see my ring as a point of shame! Just based off of the amount of money that was subsequently stolen the players should be I prison!
Manfred totally botched it. Players should have been suspended and the title forfeited.
YEP. 100% Agree
Commissioner was complicit
Didn’t tha dodgers lose game 7 at home and if u really wanna talk bout lmk
If we had a comish with any hair…he would have taken the Title AWAY FROM THEM CHEATING BETROS….(G VERION)…. I mean look what happen to USC on the Bush issue….How Olympic Champs have had their medals taken away, and given to the second place finisher….and did he follow the trail next year to Boston…..SHAME ON COMISH….
And do you think any of the 2018 Boston players would come forward after what happened to the Houston players….
Poorly played….COMISH SHOULD LOSE HIS JOB
Manfred has been a sad joke as Commish for years. I agree. give him the boot, sooner the better.
but since he’s the owners’ pet, of course he will face no consequences. these are the same folks that have allowed baseball to become utterly corrupted and ifested by the gambling industry.
for SHAME.
You guys don’t understand, Manfred, as little as I care for him, which is very little, is doing what his employers want him to do. MAKE THEM MORE MONEY. His bosses are not particularly worried about ethics, doing the right thing, any of those childish concepts. They want to make money and as long as he’s doing that for them, for the most part they’re happy.
Bud Selig is in the HOF. I wonder if he even knows the infield fly rule. I think I should be more than he, in the HOF, although at best in a hall of like, but I didn’t make them gazillions of money.
Baseball is a great game and sport. That neither makes the people on the money side good or bad. At the best they are necessary and good. At worst they’re a sometimes cancer on the sport. Kind of like a lot of thing in life.
As I recall, Yu Darvish came into the dugout after being shellacked for five runs in the first inning of game seven and said essentially the same thing: “It’s like they know what’s coming!”
Yes It Was An Absolute Disgrace, They Definately Should Have Forfeited The Title And The Players And Any Coach Involved With A Year Suspended And Major Fines. Yes Manfred Really Screwed Up And Totally Sent The Wrong Message That Cheating Does Pay. And Letting Beltran In The Hall Of Fame When It Turned Out He Was A Major Contributor In Figuring Out How To Pull It Off Was Just Flat Wrong. Nobody That Would Cheat In The World Series Has No Place In The Hall Of Fame.
The players could not be suspended under the collective bargaining agreement that all teams players reps signed. And didn’t Kelly play for the Red Sox in 2018?
What irritates me the most is They ruined one of Kershaw’s best years, He definitely deserved the title the way he was pitching that year but those cheating losers damaged his record and left as big a mark on his record as they left on theirs for pulling that b. S.
The title should have been handed to them just for surviving that long against a team that knows every pitch that’s coming.