Given that both the 2017 Astros and the 2018 Red Sox have been implicated in the scandal, one's thoughts naturally turn to the 2017-18 Los Angeles Dodgers, who lost the 2017 and 2018 World Series to the Astros and Red Sox, respectively. Major League Baseball knows that, so yesterday they wisely told all 30 of the clubs — the Dodgers included — that they were not to comment on the Astros' punishment. If the Astros' competitors are out there fanning the flames of a cheating scandal, it'd be hard for the league to do what it wants to do: portray this as an aberration that was quickly nipped in the bud.