Just the thought of the Houston Astros skating away without any public rebuke rankled Jon Wilson. A 43-year-old software consultant from California’s East Bay and a devout Oakland Athletics fan, Wilson was stewing at the injustice of it all as the 2020 season approached. decided to start its 2020 season without fans in stadiums, enabling the Astros to avoid what Wilson and many others had eagerly anticipated: a season-long public flogging in the form of loud, visceral, deep-throated jeers. “How many different ways can they get away with what happened?” Wilson said in a telephone interview. He hired a plane to fly above Oakland Coliseum during batting practice before an Athletics-Astros game, towing a sign that read, “Houston Asterisks.”

Source: New York Times August 18, 2020 15:58 UTC