CHICAGO -- Nice try, Jim.
That was Brian Cashman's sarcastic response when addressing Astros owner Jim Crane's comments against the Yankees general manager concerning Houston's sign-stealing scandal.
"I don't think anybody's going to dance to the tune he's singing," Cashman said before the first game of a four-game set against the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field on Thursday. "I'd say it's called deflection, him trying to equate probably... an equivalent of a parking ticket to maybe 162 felonies."
Cashman was responding to Crane's comments to USA Today earlier this week. Crane disputed the New York executive singling out the Astros' sign-stealing scandal as one of the reasons for the Yankees' recent championship dry spell in an interview with The Athletic during the spring.