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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - On Saturday, the Houston Astros played their 1st baseball game since the world found out, and then had confirmed by a Major League Baseball investigation, that they cheated in 2017. The spring schooling stadium that they share with the reigning champion Washington Nationals was dominated by Nats fans, who booed every opportunity they had (which wasn’t many - in a rain-shortened game, the Astros started only players who debuted in 2018, or later on, or not at all yet). --------------------------------------------------------------- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - On Saturday, the Houston Astros played their 1st baseball game since the world found out, and then had confirmed by a Major League Baseball investigation, that they cheated in Bakersfield Blaze 2017. The spring schooling stadium that they share with the reigning San Jose Giants champion Washington Nationals was dominated by Nats fans, who booed every Visalia Rawhide opportunity they had (which wasn’t many - in a rain-shortened game, the Astros started only players who debuted in 2018, or later on, or not at all yet). But among the triumphant red T-shirts and at least one custom polo that said “CHAMPS VS CHEATS,” there were also Astros fans - people who like baseball enough to end up being at a spring training game over 1,000 miles from Minute Maid Park; individuals who have nothing to do with the now infamous trash-can banging scheme. When the Astros betrayed the baseball world, they betrayed these people too. Or maybe most of all. Or maybe they don’t feel that way. Fan stories come with a built-in caveat. Every archetype could be contradicted or undermined by a dozen other examples. There’s nothing to be concluded about Astros followers en masse. Beyond that, the concourse of Inland Empire 66ers a springtime training facility is a self-selecting group. The people here Stockton Ports in West Palm aren’t the ones who chose this offseason to abandon the Astros. Even so, I wanted to know how they experienced about their team’s indiscretions and the subsequent scandal.