The one that takes the fall for something negative (like a bounty scandal or worse), the face of something negative.
Though his entire band participated in it, he ended up being the scapegoat until the band got popular again, at which time they replaced his face with their own, front and center.
by Solid Mantis April 16, 2021
If every team that cheated got caught, and karma really did exist, nobody would watch baseball on TV anymore, which would make the TV ratings an all time low. Baseball needed a scapegoat team, and they got one with the Houston Astros.
Baseball would be more unpopular than the Houston Astros if every team that cheated could be punished. The true bad guys needed a scapegoat team to make a bad guy out of, and that's what the Houston Astros had become, because they were dumb and not because they betrayed anybody or owe anybody anything (like an apology). They weren't corrupt enough for a corrupt league, and people didnt like that, they were only half-crooked.
by Solid Mantis October 18, 2020