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What I want to know is why did the Sox stop stealing signs last year...
I'll probably get blasted but this all seems much ado about nothing. The game is played on front of the public and I'm guess this has been going on forever, except now instead of a guy in the outfield with binoculars we are much more sophisticated because of technology. To be a complete purist I guess only the players and coaches on the field should be allowed to steal signs but I'm just not feeling it....maybe we need to get these catchers and pitchers some wristbands so they can't steal signs you could randomly rotate cards each inning so there wouldn't be a pattern that will fix it
You're right about that. Maybe the rule is antiquated or pointless, but that's what they have in place. You're also right about the solution - it doesn't seem that complicated to me at all. Baseball and sports media talk obsessively about the genius of "analytics" - way to go, Dave Roberts - but can't generate randomize signal calls for every inning played?I'll probably get blasted but this all seems much ado about nothing. The game is played on front of the public and I'm guess this has been going on forever,
Saying something is "as American as baseball and apple pie" used to mean something positive, I thought. OK, so I don't feel like a fool anymore for once believing in an ideal that never actually existed, but it's my position that mechanical cheating is at least as bad as chemical cheating, which is the source of more public outrage than anything else in sports.This didn't threaten the integrity of the game, it just threatened the pedestal that some people put the game on.
Dead on Bill. You don't get credit for being a hero when you wait until you no longer benefit from it to blow the whistle.I wonder if Mike Fiers will give back his World Series ring and cash since he benefited while on the Astros.
Second, he's not a whistleblower. If he was a whistleblower he'd have done it while WITH the the Astros, not when he's on a rival team.
... at least as bad as chemical cheating, which is the source of more public outrage than anything else in sports.
We use wrist bands every tournament every weekend on our fastpitch travel teamI'll probably get blasted but this all seems much ado about nothing. The game is played on front of the public and I'm guess this has been going on forever, except now instead of a guy in the outfield with binoculars we are much more sophisticated because of technology. To be a complete purist I guess only the players and coaches on the field should be allowed to steal signs but I'm just not feeling it....maybe we need to get these catchers and pitchers some wristbands so they can't steal signs you could randomly rotate cards each inning so there wouldn't be a pattern that will fix it
Just the worst at hiding it.I am also willing to bet that the Astros/Sox are not the only ones who broke this specific rule...