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Joe Kelly has a hot take on Red Sox’s cheating investigation

“From the get-go I just thought it was laugh out loud funny.”

While the MLB’s investigation into the Boston Red Sox’s cheating scandal from 2018 remains unresolved, players from that squad are denying, denying, denying.

Second baseman Rafael Devers and World Series MVP Steve Pearce are among the Red Sox players who have denied cheating. Former Red Sox and current L.A. Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly chimed in during a recent interview with WEEI.

The Red Sox used video replay room illegally on the path to winning the World Series during the 2018 season, according to The Athletic’s Evan Drellich. The team already fired manager Alex Cora for his involvement in the Houston Astros’ cheating scandal — Cora was the Astros’ bench coach during their marred World Series season.

But if you asked the Red Sox, there was no foul play during 2018. Here’s what Kelly told WEEI, via WEEI.com’s Rob Bradford:

“From the get-go, I just thought it was laugh out loud funny. Now that this is the last thing on people’s mind obviously with how the world is right now. Whenever the investigation is done I’m interested in seeing what is in the investigation. If there is cheating involved with how good our team was we should have won every single out. We should have not even lost an inning if there was some good cheating involved, which would have been a lot more fun because we would have won in four. We would have swept through the playoffs and made it really, really fast and been able to go to Hawaii or go to Mexico and go on vacation a lot sooner than we did.”

Considering the strength of Kelly’s remarks, it will be fascinating to see what — if anything — the league finds from their investigation of the Sox.

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Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly accidentally smashes window during his quarantine throwing program

Well, that’s probably not how he envisioned that pitch going.

With the world largely hunkered down during the global COVID-19 pandemic, athletes everywhere have been forced to get creative with their workouts as they try to stay in shape for the eventual return of their day jobs — whenever that may be.

Los Angeles Dodgers right-handed pitcher Joe Kelly was just trying to get some work in too. According to his wife, Ashley, he was practicing his changeup by throwing at a gigantic target in his yard, but unfortunately for him, it ended in absolute disaster.

And thanks to the video Ashley recently shared on her Instagram story, we have video evidence of just how poorly this went. Solidly misses the target, the sound of broken glass, “Oppp.”

“Wondering how quarantine’s going?” Ashley says in the video while walking toward the scene of the crime.

And with the camera pointed at the shattered glass in a bedroom, she sarcastically continues: “That’s cool. Rad.”

Not great for someone whose job is to throw a ball at a very specific target. Maybe he should keep practicing. And maybe he also should consider moving his target away from the house or at least not put it right in front of a window.

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