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Bill Plaschke: Astros' appalling lack of remorse for sign-stealing is another affront to Dodgers

LOS ANGELES - The theft of the 2017 World Series championship continues.

A week after the revelation of their sign-stealing scandal, the pathetic Houston Astros are still cheating the Los Angeles Dodgers.

They're cheating them out of any show of remorse. They're cheating them out of any words of regret. They're cheating them out of any transparency that could lead to any sort of closure.

The arrogant Astros have spent the week behaving like innocent bystanders in an accident whose smoking wreckage somehow landed on their front lawn.

We're cleaning it up, they told us.

The grass will grow back even stronger, they promised.

Nothing to see here, they claimed.

Not once

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