What the Houston Astros did was wrong – the problem is that it worked Globe_Sports
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.When the Houston Astros were first accused of sign-stealing in 2018, they explained that what they’d been doing was actually the exact opposite.
At home, they put a camera in centre field. It fed into a monitor set up in the hallway leading to the Astros dugout. Someone watching the monitor would then relay in the rough parameters of the next pitch – off-speed or fastball – by slamming or not slamming a nearby trash can. The system was so stupid that it was brilliant.
This cued a lot of woo-hooing and celebratory finger pointing. The most hated team in baseball was finally getting it right in the head. Alex Rodriguez is a proven and prolific drug cheat who threw his own courier cousin under the bus when the cops caught his scent, and he is now one of the game’s most beloved analysts. We won’t even get started on Pete Rose, who’s somehow morphed from the Amarillo Slim of shady prop bets into the crabby uncle who tells you how baseball really works on Fox Sports.
The team writ large doesn’t suffer. It’s still run through with all-stars, most of them not yet in their primes. It wasn’t just that cheaters prospered in this instance. Baseball also let them off the hook. Had allegations this substantive been left hanging out there, they’d have followed the team around for years.
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