By James Rush,
The “Villain” Baseball is a very narrative driven sport, and the role of a “villain” team comes along with that. There is always a bad guy in the sport of baseball. Usually, it is the teams that have had the most success historically, like the Yankees or the Dodgers, who are hated for always winning. Leading up to the 2017 season however, these teams were not performing to their usual standards, and the teams that had been winning the years prior, aka the Giants, Cardinals, and Red Sox, were not exactly dislikable teams. This left fans hungry for a team that everyone could hate in unison, and the Astros 2017 cheating scandal helped them fit into this role perfectly.
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