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Customers who have been around here for a while know that I love baseball as much as I love politics. And I love the Astros, even though they break my damn heart year after year.
So here’s some news. The FBI is investigating baseball.
Investigators have uncovered evidence that Cardinals officials broke into a network of the Houston Astros that housed special databases the team had built, according to law enforcement officials. Internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics and scouting reports were compromised, the officials said.
Hey, Cards, you don’t need to do that. Just call me and I’ll tell you that George Springer is so hot right now that you can fry eggs on his butt.
Grrrrrrrr … sumbitches.
Yeah, this one’s got me scratching my head, too. What on Earth do the Cardinals think they will learn from any of this? They’ve won upteen World Series and are leading all of MLB by a mile or so. And they’re worried about the Astros???
I wonder what kind of slap on the wrist they’re going to get from the Commish.
1They taking lessons from the Patriots or what?
2Astrogate…
3@GIndy51
Wow so “Patriots” has become a synonym for “cheating”.
Of course the Cardinal won’t be able to pull a Belichick and deflate the baseball, although corking their bats isn’t out of the question.
4Or pine tar on tbe bats… or pulling a Gaylord Perry and doctoring the baseballs… or sharpening the spikes on the shoes…
5Cheating in baseball? Say it ain’t so, Joe!
6Time was, the Astros gave straight A tickets. Our kids went to lots of ball games. We moved to St. Louis and they had dollar seats and you could take your own refreshments. Grown kids, grand kids and grandpa go to Spring training and as many games as the budget permits. When the new owner started hinting at relocating Spring training, the whole bunch decided they would just go to Cardinal Spring training.
To paraphrase a former Blue Bell fan, this is like finding out you got VD from the girl you love.
7I’ve heard that runners on second base steal signals, too.
8I’m, with you, BarbinDC. It makes absolutely no sense to risk so much for questionably valuable information, scouting reports etc. It’s not the Commish they’ll have to answer to. It’s the FBI for corporate espionage.
9Without knowing what specific data was accessed, this is only speculation, but if they were looking to work a trade (or trades), it would be to the Cards’ advantage to know what the Astros thought of their own players (or the what they thought of the Cards’ players that might be offered as part of any deal).
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