I was having dinner tonight when my almost 97-year-old father called to let me know the Red Sox were using smart watches to steal signs from the Yankees. My reaction was, “So what else is new?” Teams have been stealing signs since signs were first given. Here’s Rob Manfred on the problem:
“We actually do not have a rule against sign-stealing. It has been a part of the game for a very, very long time. To the extent that there was a violation of the rule here, it was a violation by one or the other that involved the use of electronic equipment. It’s the electronic equipment that creates the violation. I think the rule against electronic equipment has a number of policy reasons behind it, but one of them is we don’t want to escalate attempts to figure out what a pitcher is going to throw by introducing electronics into that mix.”
So you can steal signs, but you have to use humans to do it. There’s a video at the top of the article, and I think Jemele Hill makes a very good point on this issue; if cheating is okay, how you cheat shouldn’t matter.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2j1b3fj
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