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To: ocrp1982
In Baseball, sign stealing and attempted sign stealing is as old as the sport itself.

Sure.

Who could forget, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays using TV cameras, monitors and wireless buzzers.

Right?

Of course not.

There are legal ways to steal signs that are as old as the sport itself and there are illegal ways used by the cheating Astros and Red Sox to steal sign in the last three years.

6 posted on 02/01/2020 10:18:24 PM PST by FreeReign ("Please sit down, resume your seats, put your flags away - youÂ’re leaving - and take them with you.)
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To: FreeReign

So, as long as you don’t use modern tech stealing is not stealing? There are Legal Ways to Steal?
Where in the Baseball Rule Book is this outlined? Is there a Baseball guideline detailing Legal Stealing versus Illegal Stealing?
No. There isn’t.
Once again, the attempted and or, successful stealing of signs from opponents has been going on since the beginning of the sport.
The elaborate signing in Baseball is an acknowledgement of this fact and, an attempt to prevent the opposition from understanding what the team using the elaborate signals are trying to communicate. This is an undeniable fact.


10 posted on 02/01/2020 10:57:05 PM PST by ocrp1982 (ll)
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To: FreeReign

I disagree with logic that there’s too much money at stake for MLB to ban the participating players.

While you can’t avoid hearing a bat hit a trashcan, voluntarily wearing a buzzer should mean a life-time ban.


12 posted on 02/02/2020 3:41:29 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: FreeReign

‘Who could forget, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays using TV cameras, monitors and wireless buzzers.’

if they had them they would’ve used them...


28 posted on 02/02/2020 11:09:47 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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