That Cheating Smug Coward AJ Hinch Will Give His First Public Interview On MLB Network Tomorrow Night
We're finally going to hear AJ Hinch speak publicly for the first time since the Astros cheating scandal came to light. Does anyone really care anymore? Is this even necessary after all the dust has settled? Yes and no. As I've said before in recent blogs, I'm ready to move on. Everyone is. Nothing else is going to happen from the Astros side of this. But I will say though, there is part of me that really wants to see Hinch look like a sad puppy on TV and apologize to America for what he did. It's not about the apology itself because I couldn't give two fucks about that. It's about the blood boiling in his body as he's forced to put on a brave face and own up to everything. He might actually explode. The satisfaction I got from seeing a neutered Alex Bregman at Astros fan fest was fantastic. I can only hope to get the same tomorrow night.
There's one of two ways this can go:
1) This is used as a PR stunt. Verducci feeds him a ton of softball questions where he apologizes for how he handled it all and that he should have stopped it. Hinch tries to pin himself as a sympathetic figure who was the guy that got thrown under the bus by his players, but refuses to name the culprits.
2) Hinch realizes he'll never get another job in baseball and names players who were instrumental in the scandal. Verducci plays all of his smug interviews in his face and asks what he has to say about it. Maybe they bring out CC Sabathia and have him sit behind Hinch with a bat in case his answers aren't good enough. Imagine he says fuck it and calls out Altuve, Bregman, and Springer for ratting him out to the MLB investigators and we turn this bad boy upside down? Now that would be fun. What's Hinch have to lose?
What's going to happen? Probably scenario one and this all be a giant waste of time. I'll still be tuning in. They've hooked me. Dammit.