Boston’s reputation in sports takes another hitAs far as I can tell, sign stealing's been around as long as I can remember. I don't know whether or not there are prohibitions on using technology to do this (EDIT - there are!). We'll see what commissioner Rob Manfred says about it, and what penalties go with it.
Where do we start on this one?
The New York Times says that the first-place Red Sox are cheaters. The Times says that the Sox admitted it. Evidently, the Sox got dimed out by the Yankees (Brian Cashman is the new Fredo) and they totally fessed up when caught.
So where do we go with this now? What do we tell our out-of-town friends? Every time we start talking about all those duck boat parades, they’ll have an answer.
To me, here's the more interesting part:
Michael Schmidt — the same guy who broke the news in 2009 that David Ortiz tested positive for PEDs in 2003 — reported the story for the Times. At the end of his story, Schmidt wrote, “Some in baseball would like for Mr. Manfred to take away some of Boston’s victories . . .”I'd trust a New York Times reporter as far as I could throw him down a set of stairs, but that's just me. Still, this is the perfect thing to have happened as far as Shank's concerned.
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why dont shank order the league to return the 3 world series back to colorado and st louis so he can have his stupid curse back
A guy from the Globe accusing someone of cheating - that's a delightful lack of self-awareness.
Of course the Times doesn't mention the league's non-enforcement of these rules - and as Spygate showed the media (and occasionally the sanctioning body itself) is lazy when it comes to reading the rulebook.
The entire ethic against "stealing signals" is overdue for change because signals are broadcast out in the open - public domain, in short. Thus they can't be "stolen."
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