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Saturday, January 18, 2020

MLB sign stealing

I don't want to talk about this topic much longer, we'll survive this.  When the Houston Astros were accused of and then acquitted of using a center field camera with an elaborate set up which involved trash cans to steal their opponents signs.  The Boston Red Sox also did this on a slightly smaller scale.  So far three managers A.J hinch (Astros Manager), Alex Cora (Astros bench coach at the time and now former Red Sox manager) and Carlos Beltran (was hired to be the Mets manager and Astros player who was critical in the process) have lost their jobs.  We have three MLB teams that need managers and baseball is reeling.  I've said it once and i'll say it again sign stealing within the white lines is fine but when technology becomes involved it's illegal.  I hope this scandal doesn't go any because you would be opening a pandora's box that can't be closed, if you open up all sorts of investigations on other teams.  Did we investigate every player during the steroid era, do we investigate every single World Series losing team to make sure it wasn't thrown on purpose like the Black Sox.  Rob Manfred laid down the law and made an example of people and hopefully this will put a stop to this kind of thing, maybe players shouldn't be allowed back in the video room during play.  Players on these teams especially will have to answer questions about sign stealing when they get to spring training in about a month, hopefully their answers are reasonable.  We've gotten through scandals before and we will again, but for now let's get back to playing the game of baseball.           

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