Hopefully the Rangers were able to order the camera in centerfield option in their new stadium.

Paalease have some cheese with that wine. This was the most ridiculous and farcical effort MLB ever started. Might be right up there with the DELTA HOUSE articles of impeachment. You do realize that “signs” aren’t even in the rule book. It’s a convenience for the catcher. But don’t worry, 30 days from now this will be a big SO WHAT. As a face saving result, MLB will double down on the RED SOX next; bigger market more press. You really can’t make this stuff up....or can you?

1. Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame!

2. Astros did not “cheat” their way to the World Series. They stole signs, hitters still had to hit pitch, knowing what was being thrown or not. Pitching and Defense still had to perform.

No, they literally cheated their way to a WS

Look at the fines and suspensions MLB handed out

It can’t be made any more clear.

They absolutely cheated their way

Electronic means????? The ASTROS had an electronic plastic garbage can? Hell if they did.

LoL OK. Be that way.

Oh maybe you mean the center field camera. OK sit down now this may sting a little.

“(The center field camera was primarily used for player development purposes and was allowed under MLB rules at the time when used for that purpose.)”

Seriously the report is public please don’t make me copy the whole thing. I swear if I didn’t know better it looks like Adam Schiff wrote the whole thing.

At the beginning of the 2017 season, employees in the Astros’ video replay review room began using the live game feed from the center field camera to attempt to decode and transmit opposing teams’ sign sequences (i.e., which sign flashed by the catcher is the actual sign) for use when an Astros runner was on second base. Once the sign sequence was decoded, a player in the video replay review room would act as a “runner” to relay the information to the dugout, and a person in the dugout would notify the players in the dugout or signal the sign sequence to the runner on second base, who in turn would decipher the catcher’s sign and signal to the batter from second base. Early in the season, Alex Cora, the Astros’ Bench Coach, began to call the replay review room on the replay phone to obtain the sign information. On at least some occasions, the employees in the replay review room communicated the sign sequence information by text message, which was received on the smart watch of a staff member on the bench, or in other cases on a cell phone stored nearby. Approximately two months into the 2017 season, a group of players, including Carlos Beltrán, discussed that the team could improve on decoding opposing teams’ signs and communicating the signs to the batter. Cora arranged for a video room technician to install a monitor displaying the center field camera feed immediately outside of the Astros’ dugout. (The center field camera was primarily used for player development purposes and was allowed under MLB rules at the time when used for that purpose.) Witnesses have provided largely consistent accounts of how the monitor was utilized. One or more players watched the live feed of the center field camera on the monitor, and after decoding the sign, a player would bang a nearby trash can with a bat to communicate the upcoming pitch type to the batter. (Witnesses explained that they initially experimented with communicating sign information by clapping, whistling, or yelling, but that they eventually determined that banging a trash can was the preferred method of communication.) Players occasionally also used a massage gun to bang the trash can.

At the outset, it is important to understand that the attempt to decode signs being used by an opposing catcher is not a violation of any Major League Baseball Rule or Regulation. Major League Baseball Regulations do, however, prohibit the use of electronic equipment during games and state that no such equipment “may be used for the purpose of stealing signs or conveying information designed to give a Club an advantage.” Despite this clear Regulation, the prevalence of technology, especially the technology used in the replay process, has made it increasingly difficult to monitor appropriate and inappropriate uses of electronic equipment. Based on the investigation by my office, I have nonetheless concluded that during the 2017 season the Boston Red Sox violated the Regulation quoted above by sending electronic communications from their video replay room to an athletic trainer in the dugout.

OK I see your point. In addition the ASTROS will also be cited for ABUSE OF POWER and OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE WITHIN THE MLB.

Way past my bedtime I gotta go. I’ll just leave it right here but you can keep playing with it if you want to.

I think Rangers fans are most pissed that their team didn't think 9f it first.

The Astros have been whooping their butts for years.

This is a way for Rangers fans to explain all those whippings away and feel better about themselves.

I bet that’s the biggest reason Nolan stepped away

He knew they were dirty

This post makes it clear. Houston area fans have the same amount of class as Boston area fans. Good stuff guys. Maybe Houston's full of Yankees. Who knows.

So...let’s look at that assertion that the Astros have been “whooping their butts for years”...

The Rangers are 115-90 against the Astros all-time....but let’s just look at the last decade....the Rangers are 87-64 versus the Astros.

As a Rangers fan, I feel pretty good about that.

Take out the cheating years and the record may have been better.

The HOF is a JOKE as long as the guy with the most hits ever isn't in it...screw the HOF and screw the guys that don't vote him in. It's disgraceful!

I'm with Sapper.

Old baseball purist voter who was alive to vote Woodrow Wilson into office need to kicked off the voting committee. Plus the fact they have to have 5 guys or whatever it is every year to vote dilutes the HOF. Then also making a guy who is actually deserving of to get in has to wait a few extra years before they will vote for him is also a damn joke.

There is no worse group of sports people than the baseball writers association. It’s criminal they hold the keys to the hall of fame. It should be a museum and celebrate the game, good and bad. Instead, it serves the whims of 100 year old sanctimonious opinion writers, that were usually picked last if at all for any team sport.

Looking for more proof of the impact of this cheating? See this snippet from an article today by Tim Dahlberg of the AP (who went back and reviewed the games to freshen his perspective). His points below tell the story.

Watch the second inning of Game 3 once again and then decide. That’s when Darvish was touched up for four runs and the Astros took a 2-1 lead in the series.

It was almost as if the hitters knew what was coming — which, of course, they did.

If you’re still not convinced, Game 5 should be evidence enough. Like Game 3 it took place at Minute Maid Park, where the cameras were rolling, the dugout trash can was booming and the Astros bats were blazing.

All with arguably the best pitcher in baseball since the turn of the century on the mound for the Dodgers. Kershaw didn’t make it out of the fifth inning, surrendering six runs in a wild game that saw the Dodgers score a dozen times — and still lose.

Kershaw, Darvish and the rest of the Dodgers were called chokers. Manager Dave Roberts was taken to task on social media for not handling his pitchers properly.. But the reality is they didn't have a chance.