Washington government agency trolls Astros with trash can joke

“Reminder to hikers and Houston baseball gamers that trash cans ought to solely be used for his or her supposed objective,” the tweet learn, together with a photograph of a baseball bat banging a trash can within the forest, and one other trash can with an Astros emblem in it.

In fact, the joke, which was retweeted greater than 2,750 instances, references the Main League Baseball investigation that found the 2017 Astros, who went on to win the World Sequence, have been illegally stealing opponents’ indicators, then relaying them to batters by banging on a trash can.

Ever because the outcomes of the investigation, which concluded with the firing of Astros supervisor A.J. Hinch and normal supervisor Jeff Luhnow, have been launched in 2020, the Astros have been the butt of incessant trash can references, and even some precise trash cans thrown on the sphere as soon as followers have been allowed again in ballparks final season.

Mariners followers are enthusiastic about their uncommon journey into mid-October baseball. Merely Seattle, a Pacific Northwest attire firm specializing in all issues Seattle, made a new T-shirt this week that makes use of the trash can reference, combined with an excellent older joke: “Houston, We Are A Drawback” the T-shirt reads, together with the Seattle skyline and a trash can serving because the “u” in “Houston.”

It has been greater than 50 years since “Houston, we’ve got an issue” was uttered throughout the Apollo 13 spaceflight — and truly, the precise phrases have been, “Okay, Houston, we have had an issue right here” — and folks nonetheless will not cease folks from pondering they’re intelligent once they use it. It is beginning to seem to be the trash can jokes will final simply as lengthy.