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What is it about Boston and cheating in sports?
Topic Started: Sep 6 2017, 06:26 AM (61 Views)
George K
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First, we had deflate-gate, now, it seems that the Red Sox are stealing signals.

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For decades, spying on another team has been as much a part of baseball’s gamesmanship as brushback pitches and hard slides. The Boston Red Sox have apparently added a modern — and illicit — twist: They used an Apple Watch to gain an advantage against the Yankees and other teams.

Investigators for Major League Baseball have determined that the Red Sox, who are in first place in the American League East and very likely headed to the playoffs, executed a scheme to illicitly steal hand signals from opponents’ catchers in games against the second-place Yankees and other teams, according to several people briefed on the matter.

The baseball inquiry began about two weeks ago, after the Yankees’ general manager, Brian Cashman, filed a detailed complaint with the commissioner’s office that included video the Yankees shot of the Red Sox dugout during a three-game series between the two teams in Boston last month.

The Yankees, who had long been suspicious of the Red Sox’ stealing catchers’ signs in Fenway Park, contended the video showed a member of the Red Sox training staff looking at his Apple Watch in the dugout. The trainer then relayed a message to other players in the dugout, who, in turn, would signal teammates on the field about the type of pitch that was about to be thrown, according to the people familiar with the case.

Baseball investigators corroborated the Yankees’ claims based on video the commissioner’s office uses for instant replay and broadcasts, the people said. The commissioner’s office then confronted the Red Sox, who admitted that their trainers had received signals from video replay personnel and then relayed that information to Red Sox players — an operation that had been in place for at least several weeks.

The Red Sox responded in kind on Tuesday, filing a complaint against the Yankees claiming that the team uses a camera from its YES television network exclusively to steal signs during games, an assertion the Yankees denied.

It is unclear what penalties, if any, Commissioner Rob Manfred will issue against the Red Sox and whether he will order a more expansive investigation to determine the extent of the Red Sox’ sign-stealing system. It is also unclear how he will proceed with the countercomplaint.
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Copper
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You wanna win or not?

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George K
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Sep 6 2017, 06:38 AM
You wanna win or not?

Ah, the Harry Reid approach, eh?
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George, your post starts with a very innacurate statement. Deflategate was far from first.

First, the Patriots were busted for stealing defensive playcalls from opponents, as well as sending cameramen into opponents practices and taping. Hundreds of hours of tape sere given to the commissioner who watched them, issued the heaviest penalty in the history of the league, had the tapes destroyed, and has refused to discuss what was on the tapes.

Then there were allegations of playbooks being stolen from locker rooms, fire alarms pulled in opponents hotel rooms the night before games, and unusual communication equipment failures for opponents in their stadium.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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Copper
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Yes, Schaefer Stadium and its crew were famous for supporting the team.

The lights seemed to fail at just the right time, even for college games which I have seen in person. Then there is the Snow Plow Game against Miami when a convicted burglar on a work release program from MCI-Norfolk at the time of the game cleared the snow to help the Patriots field goal kicker get better footing.

The list goes on, it is a great tradition.

I was at Schaefer Stadium one Monday Night when Joe Namath came within inches of being sacked by a fan on the field. Howard Cosell and Dandy Don were both plastered in the booth on that memorable night, a fan was stabbed, a police officer assaulted and his gun stolen, and more than 60 people were arrested for drunken brawling. After this game, police began checking fans for alcohol when entering Patriots games. And the Town of Foxboro didn't allow the next Monday Night game for many years.

The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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George K
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Sep 6 2017, 06:48 AM
George, your post starts with a very innacurate statement. Deflategate was far from first.
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