Perceptions of the Astros

Hope you like the accompanying tune. For background of where the question is coming from, I have become a very casual fan of the sport, and will readily admit that. I didn’t really pay attention to baseball from the end of the shortened pandemic season until about a month ago, and the way that the Astros are discussed in this sub has changed dramatically, despite them essentially not being punished for cheating their way to a World Series. I’m not saying this and being salty, again, I didn’t even pay attention to this sport for 1.5 years, I’m just confused.

The Astros were a great team then as well without cheating, making deep postseason runs. How, in 1.5 years, did this sub go from cheering Joe Kelly for trying to hit Astros batters in the head to the fact that they cheated their way to their World Series win not coming up about the Astros outside of heavily downvoted comments

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