In the case of the #SpyGate scandal, there were a very few active head coaches who publicly went on record to excoriate the Patriots. Now with Major League Baseball’s investigation into the Astros and Red Sox, there are also very few other managers around the league who are piling on  A.J. Hinch or Alex Cora and like in the football scandal, it begs the question. Why?

Could it be because a lot of other teams do it and just haven’t been caught yet or their teams are still really bad despite any supposed advantage?

And let’s not conveniently let the high-and-mighties in the MLB front office off the hook because THEY have allowed sign stealing to be that much easier. Major League Baseball licenses out the games for broadcast and have the ultimate say on how games and teams are presented to the public. There are certain things MLB doesn’t allow, like live cameras in the clubhouse before, during or after games. There are no live microphones in the clubhouses, dugouts or bullpens during that same time. So, if there was a camera or mic in place that could potentially alter the outcome of a game, one would think MLB would take the appropriate action and remove that device.

From back in the early broadcast days until present, we made do with one center field camera angle to the plate….

But thanks to innovation, we now have 4K cameras that can zoom way in to give color blabbermouths so much more to talk about and make it so much easier for those on the team whose job it was to steal signs.

Seriously, what genius in the MLB front office approved of this shot and we now get it dozens of times during every Major League Baseball broadcast, local and national? The same geniuses who are now pointing fingers of authority elsewhere….

The Boston Red Sox used their video replay room to steal signs from opposing pitchers and catchers during their 2018 World Series championship season, according to a report published Tuesday by The Athletic.
— ESPN 1/7/20

Will this be addressed by Major League Baseball in their findings and will the elimination of the unnecessary cosmetic shot be on the agenda during the Winter Meetings?

Teams that didn’t win the World Series (or even make it to the playoffs) will be the first to whine that cheating was the factor. It was also retorted during the #Spygate controversy that no matter how many signs are stolen, players have to still perform of the field. Seeing how sign stealing has been done by all teams since the birth of the baseball, if your team still loses you can’t blame the achievers.

Baseball is a sport built on mediocrity. The best hitters, who command contracts that eclipse $300 million for a few precious years, are lucky if they can hit a consistent .300 batting average. Anything above that puts those players into the elite class. But for any other employee of almost any other job, a 30% rate of performance would’ve had you being fired within a couple months. Tipping a batter off that the next pitch will be either a breaking ball or fastball is huge but that hitter still has to make contact. Anyone who’s watched a Home Run Derby knows that throws straight over the plate aren’t always sent out of the park, thus the intrigue of the event.

While a general manager and two (possibly three?) managers are being publicly strung up in the town square for public ridicule, let’s not let those high-priced athletes off the hook. Many knew about the electronic sign stealing, were okay with it and are now clamming up.

Citing three anonymous people who were with the Red Sox in 2018, The Athletic reported that Boston players would visit the replay room to decipher their opponents’ sign sequence and then relay the information to the dugout.

Just because a few players are sounding off doesn’t reflect the vast majority who have and will relay catcher signs they see while standing on second base, as has been done for decades which is why signs are always being changed during the course of a game.

Athlete salaries are astronomical, the average career is not that long, and consistent performance is not guaranteed in a game based on mediocrity. The dirty little secret is as long as there’s professional sports, every team will push the rules for any competitive advantage. Baseball is no different. Catchers will continue to trot out to the mound to have that talk with pitchers, base coaches will continue to brush dust off their sleeves and tap their ears and noses, and opposing players will try to decipher the dance and relay that information back to their dugout. Major League Baseball shouldn’t allow sign stealing to be easier and then bitch about it.

Is this shot really necessary, or maybe a better wording would be if it would be missed? Some baseball fans may enjoy the intrigue of not knowing what the pitcher will throw and what the batter may or may not be expecting. But if this camera angle isn’t shown on the ballpark jumbotron, then it’s not all that necessary at home.

Then we can back to the old fashioned sign stealing everybody knows happens and no one really gives a damn about.

Subsequent “investigations” by the Democrat-led House of Representatives put an emphasis on “transparency” and demanded EVERYTHING in the Mueller report, including the 2% redacted court-protected grand jury testimony, be made public.

But now that the president was found to have done nothing alleged by the Democrats and their media, and an Inspector General’s coming report may show that pro-Hillary Democrats within federal law enforcement may have tried to rig the election against Donald Trump and subsequently derail and hamstring his administration, and wants EVERYTHING regarding the investigation declassified, transparency is now something deemed “dangerous” by those involved and “sources and methods” must be protected.

Many of whom were engaged, in what essentially was a coup d’etat, now know what it feels like to have federal law enforcement breathing down their necks, the potential cost of having to hire high-priced lawyers just to keep them free on bond, and have their lives and reputations turned upside down and damaged beyond repair.

The only difference is that those they pursued with the full weight of the federal government behind them were either innocent or entrapped. Those pro-Hillary #DeepState career federal law enforcement employees abused their power, assumed Hillary Clinton would win and none of their activities would ever be revealed, and now THEY are facing the very possible prison fate they cavalierly imposed on others.

On May 1, 2019, William Barr volunteered to answer questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee and one would think the senators would know enough about the Mueller Report and its conclusions to ask intelligent questions of the Attorney General.

One would think questions would not have to be read; questions possibly written by unelected staffers who just might be smarter than those sent to represent the American people.

I’ve been saying it at all of our Senate Democratic retreats that we need to speak to the heart not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody’s fears and resentments but truly to speak to the hearts so that people know that we’re actually on their side. We have a really hard time doing that and one of the reasons it was told to me at one of our retreats was that we Democrats know so much, that is true. And we have kind of have to tell everyone how smart we are….
— Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI)

One would think….

When AG Barr asked Senator Hirono for clarification on where she came up with one of the editorializations, the best she could come up with (seeing how it was apparently not written down for her) is “I think you know what I’m talking about, please.”

As usual, liberal Democrats believe they are intellectually superior… that is, until they have to prove it.

We finally got Alexa to tune into the right “WEEI”, and then we heard two Democrat windbags bashing President Trump, the false missile alert in Hawaii, the ridiculous new American embassy in England, birth control access, Trenni’s vagina, her boyfriend and her mother’s diaphragm.

Evidently Trenni Kusnierek and John Tomase, “Trenni and Tomase”, don’t care so much about sports and feel entitled to use their platform to assault their listeners.

As you listen to the following segment, remember, this is supposed to be a “sports talk” program….

BTW — For all those Patriots-are-cheaters haters, thank Tomase for his debunked contribution to #fakenews and smearing an NFL organization.

The Boston Herald sports writer who reported the New England Patriots taped a pre-Super Bowl walkthrough by the St. Louis Rams in 2002 said he will regret the erroneous story for the rest of his life.

“First and foremost, this is about a writer breaking one of the cardinal rules of journalism. I failed to keep challenging what I had been told. I should not have written the story without seeing the tape or getting multiple, firsthand confirmations from members of the organization,” wrote John Tomase in Friday’s editions of the newspaper.
— NFL.com, 5/16/08

Well, duh. Mike Barnacle and John Tomase prove, despite plagiarism or gross negligence, as long as you’re a liberal, you’ll always have a job in their media despite how much collateral damage is done.

As evidenced by the many liberal media platforms that exist, despite consistent under-performing, there’s visual evidence that Trenni and Thomas aren’t carrying their weight. For example, a lo-res video interview with the new Red Sox manager from February 7, 2018 that as of the following September that has a whopping 41 views?

Little kids do better than that.

“People are mean online,” Trenni Kusnierek noted.
— Boston Globe, May 21, 2016

Our now ‘deeply divided’ post-Obama country is a direct result of the Democrats refusal to respect our “democratic” 2016 election results. As is always the case when a Republican occupies the White House, liberals have now rediscovered morals, ethics, “fact-checking”. Where’s an order for protection from Democrats when Americans need one?

It’s okay for the Democrat media and Democrat “sports journalists” to be “mean” and troll their listeners; it’s par for their course and the only feedback they’ll possibly read is on social media. Trenni and Tomase use their so-called sports program for their sad anti-Republican rants to this day.