HOUSTON – Following KPRC 2’s special report, “The Luhnow Interview,” the sports world has been discussing former Astros General Manager Jeff Luhnow’s comments to KPRC 2′s Vanessa Richardson. “I didn’t know we were cheating,” said Luhnow. Major League Baseball’s report stated that I didn’t know anything about the trashcan-banging scheme. I didn’t know. RELATED READ: Luhnow outlines texts, emails and timeline of Astros' cheating“After the investigation was over and I was fired, I got access to about 22,000 text messages that were from personnel in the video room,” said Luhnow.

HOUSTON – Former Astros General Manager Jeff Luhnow spoke exclusively with KPRC 2 to share his side of the Astros cheating scandal. Luhnow has claimed from the beginning that he didn’t know the Astros were cheating. In fact, there’s a few text messages where they say, ‘Don’t tell Jeff.’ So, it’s pretty clear that I wasn’t involved from that. But it’s also clear who was involved and how often it happened, and the extent to which it happened. RELATED READ: Q&A: Full, 37-minute interview with former Astros GM Jeff Luhnow"The texts and the documents are all part of the investigation.

HOUSTON – Before the Astros cheating scandal, there was another incident that put the Astros culture in question. I sat down with Jeff Luhnow, the Astros general manager who was fired as part of the fallout from the cheating scandal. But I was actually more disappointed in how the Astros reacted to that.”The Astros initially reacted with denial, fully supporting Taubman and calling the reporter’s credibility into question. “This particular response was crafted, edited and written by the person that runs the legal operation for the Astros, and the person that runs the marketing and PR for the Astros," Luhnow said. I didn’t write that response.

Major League Baseball’s report stated that I didn’t know anything about the trash can banging scheme. It isn’t a story, it’s the truth, Vanessa, and I’ve been consistent with the truth that I didn’t know from the beginning . It’s hard to prove that you didn’t know something, it’s proving a negative. And I’ll take my punishment for being the general manager because what happened, happened while I was there. But, think about for a second, all of the people who are with the organization that...no one questions why they didn’t know.