8 years ain’t enough for the dust on the Astros’ cheating scandal to settle. This Thursday, a former teammate reignited the controversy with a staunch defense of Jose Altuve.

Plenty of theories in the past years have been thrown around about whether or not Jose Altuve was secretly wearing a buzzer under his jersey. Appearing on Foul Territory, former Astros veteran Josh Reddick revealed why Altuve didn’t want his jersey torn after that ALCS walk-off.

He emphasized that Jose Altuve “didn’t have a wire on him buzzing. That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.”

He explained that the moment had nothing to do with any hidden device. Jose Altuve was just embarrassed over a tattoo he’d just gotten. Reddick claimed that neither he nor Jose Altuve nor Tony Kemp ever used the illegal syst

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