When I played senior league I played 3rd base and catcher and I would steal signs and tell the rest of the team what was coming. I was playing third base once, with a runner on first and the other teams coach was in the 3rd base box doing his signs, which were pathetic and I yelled steal and bunt and charged in for the bunt and the batter bunted the ball foul and sure enough the runner took off from first.
The coach was furious and yelled at me how did you know that and I said your signs are easy to figure out. You can’t do that he yelled and I said can too, the home plate ump stepped in and said to the coach, you best change your signs.
Both sides do it and if you suck at disguising your signs, that’s on you.
From athlon sports:
According to a recent report from ESPN, Big Ten coaches urged league commissioner Tony Petitti to punish Michigan for its alleged sign-stealing scandal during a conference call on Wednesday.
Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule, who was on yesterday’s call, provided an inside look into the discussion during an interview with On3 Sports’ Andy Staples on Thursday.
“I think it was a chance just for everybody to talk about how they felt, how they were impacted. Obviously Tony Petitti, who I think is a wonderful commissioners — I’ll keep all the comments in house but I think a lot of peoples lives, livelihoods, jobs, their seasons, players, players health, all kinds of things have been impacted by this. And so it was an opportunity for all of us for the first time just to kind of see what’s going and talk about it like we talk about everything, really, as coaches. I think the Big Ten does a great job of having regular coaches calls. This one was just specific to that incident,” Rhule said.
Rhule wouldn’t outright condemn the Michigan program, but he did admit he feels “really bad for the players on both sides.”
“I think you sit there and just feel really bad for the players on both sides, because this is really our last chance to teach young people how to go out there and compete and overcome adversity and go through ups and down and highs and lows,” Rhule said. “And you just hope when you do this that no side ever has an advantage over the other that’s not gained and earned appropriately.”
“I can’t comment on the specifics of this [Michigan case], because I don’t know,” he continued.
Rhule said he would be “heartbroken” if his team was ever “shorted” by illegal sign stealing.
“As we tell parents, ‘We’re going to teach them how to be young men.’ I think the first thing we teach them is integrity and honesty. But if I ever feel like my guys have been shorted, obviously I’m here to fight for them,” he continued. “That would certainly be heartbreaking and disappointing to me, as someone who loves college football. It’s one thing when it’s recruiting, but when we mess with the 60 minutes of the game, that’s really, really, really impacted.”