The Alex Bregman comment from Thursday the national media will ignore

Former LSU baseball star Alex Bregman and his teammates met with the media on Thursday to discuss the Houston Astros’ sign stealing scandal.

The headlines on Thursday featuring Alex Bregman’s name won’t be kind.

On Thursday morning, Bregman and teammate Jose Altuve delivered prepared statements to the media apologizing for the Houston Astros’ sign stealing scandal that took place in 2017-18.

The immediate social media reaction to Bregman’s statement wasn’t surprising.

Bregman’s apology, admittedly, wasn’t very contrite. It didn’t come off as genuine.

But Bregman’s comments in the clubhouse after the Astros’ press conference were a bit different.

Astros owner Jim Crane put all of the blame for the scandal on recently fired manager AJ Hinch and recently fired general manager Jeff Luhnow. Crane essentially absolved the players of any blame.

Bregman, however, took complete ownership of what happened, telling ESPN’s Marly Rivera “No one put us up to this. We did it. All of us, not one person made us do anything.”

The star third baseman wasn’t looking to shift the blame toward Hinch, Luhnow or even former teammate Carlos Beltran (who reportedly “intimidated” players into using the sign stealing system). He put the focus on himself.

Bregman made mistakes. He broke the rules.

But to suggest that Bregman isn’t truly apologetic for his role in the scandal is silly. And I think his decision to own up to the mistakes, instead of blaming others like Houston’s owner did, says more about him than a prepared statement does.

What happened, happened. The only choice now for MLB and for fans is to move forward and make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Continuing to crucify Bregman does nothing to help the sport move forward.

Bregman owned up to it. What more do fans want?