‘Losing a war that you weren’t informed of’: Some MLB pitchers are livid over electronic sign stealing

[Chuckster70 16,914]

https://theathletic.com/1410682/2019/11/29/losing-a-war-that-you-werent-informed-of-some-mlb-pitchers-are-livid-over-electronic-sign-stealing/?source=freeweeklyemail

[mtangelsfan 9,305]

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[Chuckster70 16,914]

4 minutes ago, mtangelsfan said:

Not going to subscribe 

It's good content should you change your mind. 

But I'm sure you get the gist of it from the intro. 

[mtangelsfan 9,305]

I got to read it.

thanks

[JustATroutFan 624]

Good thing that Bregman did not win American League MVP over Trout. All hell would have broke loose.

[Blarg 26,002]

I wonder how many pocket pitches are going to be thrown at Astros hitters the first month of the season. 

[ettin 3,721]

4 minutes ago, Blarg said:

I wonder how many pocket pitches are going to be thrown at Astros hitters the first month of the season. 

Since they were banging trash cans they will probably get a lot of junk balls.

[floplag 2,819]

If i pitch against them and here a bang, im throwing into the dugout steps...

[tdawg87 24,612]

So...MLB players are upset that other MLB players cheated? 

Well this is just an absolute bombshell.

[Calzone 2 1,662]

The Yankees got robbed. Is that what they’re trying to say. 

[eligrba 3,533]

19 hours ago, Blarg said:

I wonder how many pocket pitches are going to be thrown at Astros hitters the first month of the season. 

Those days are gone.  We can only expect looks of disappointment from opposing pitchers.

[Vladdylonglegs 1,520]

21 hours ago, Blarg said:

I wonder how many pocket pitches are going to be thrown at Astros hitters the first month of the season. 

Luckily for them they’ll know when it’s coming and just step out if the way. 

[Calzone 2 1,662]

20 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

So...MLB players are upset that other MLB players cheated? 

Well this is just an absolute bombshell.

No but I’m willing to bet that they’re more pissed at Mike Fiers for exposing major league baseball players as professionally paid cheats. 

[Stradling 22,521]

No fucking chance. 

[tdawg87 24,612]

8 minutes ago, Calzone 2 said:

No but I’m willing to bet that they’re more pissed at Mike Fiers for exposing major league baseball players as professionally paid cheats. 

[Rollinghard 9]

How is MLB going to police this? Take away CF cameras?  No electronics allowed in dugouts?  Who is going to enforce the changes? Should the catchers have to come up with better signs (encrypted somehow)? 

[Tank 19,343]

22 minutes ago, Calzone 2 said:

No but I’m willing to bet that they’re more pissed at Mike Fiers for exposing major league baseball players as professionally paid cheats. 

I agree. I see this as someone betraying his brothers. Unless, of corse, the Astros are the only team that does stuff like this.

[tdawg87 24,612]

8 minutes ago, Rollinghard said:

How is MLB going to police this? Take away CF cameras?

Yes.

8 minutes ago, Rollinghard said:

No electronics allowed in dugouts?

Yes.

9 minutes ago, Rollinghard said:

Who is going to enforce the changes?

The MLB

9 minutes ago, Rollinghard said:

Should the catchers have to come up with better signs (encrypted somehow)? 

No.

[tdawg87 24,612]

1 minute ago, Tank said:

I agree. I see this as someone betraying his brothers. Unless, of corse, the Astros are the only team that does stuff like this.

I mean, that's more believable than ALL the teams doing it.

The Angels sure as shit haven't been stealing signs for the past decade. If they have then they need to fire their trash can guy.

[Stradling 22,521]

19 minutes ago, Rollinghard said:

How is MLB going to police this? Take away CF cameras?  No electronics allowed in dugouts?  Who is going to enforce the changes? Should the catchers have to come up with better signs (encrypted somehow)? 

How does MLB police it?  How bout they hire 15 guys, who’s job is to monitor the home team dugout and clubhouse.  Done.  How bout they take control of the cameraman in CF and have him be an employee of the league and he can monitor whether or not there are additional cameras in CF to detect this.  This is really not a difficult thing to police.  Teams are allowed to have monitors in the clubhouse, but they are supposed to be on a 10 second delay or something like that.  So the dugout guy monitors that.  Could do away with iPads in the dugout if they are worried about that type of technology being used.  You could attach cameras in the dugout, tunnel and areas where the cheating could take place.  There are no shortage of ways to prevent this.  Lastly, they can make this punishment so bad that no one in their right mind would do it again.  

[tdawg87 24,612]

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

Lastly, they can make this punishment so bad that no one in their right mind would do it again.  

They have to eat nothing but In N Out fries for a week.

[Inside Pitch 13,080]

18 minutes ago, Tank said:

I agree. I see this as someone betraying his brothers. Unless, of corse, the Astros are the only team that does stuff like this.

The Astros may see it that way but the rest of MLB likely looks at the situation as the Astros having defrauded ALL of them...    There are a lot of guys pissed off because they believe this cost them money, be it playoff shares or service time..

[Stradling 22,521]

2 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

They have to eat nothing but In N Out fries for a week.

Suck Lou’s dick

[Calzone 2 1,662]

2 minutes ago, Stradling said:

How does MLB police it?  How bout they hire 15 guys, who’s job is to monitor the home team dugout and clubhouse.  Done.  How bout they take control of the cameraman in CF and have him be an employee of the league and he can monitor whether or not there are additional cameras in CF to detect this.  This is really not a difficult thing to police.  Teams are allowed to have monitors in the clubhouse, but they are supposed to be on a 10 second delay or something like that.  So the dugout guy monitors that.  Could do away with iPads in the dugout if they are worried about that type of technology being used.  You could attach cameras in the dugout, tunnel and areas where the cheating could take place.  There are no shortage of ways to prevent this.  Lastly, they can make this punishment so bad that no one in their right mind would do it again.  

How about just asking ALL MLB teams to operate with honesty and integrity. Unless that’s too much to ask for. 

[tdawg87 24,612]

3 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Suck Lou’s dick

I just had tacos last night.