If he does has a earpiece on, I promised u someone will have a video or picture of him in the bullpen with them. Cameras everywhere. Or some random fans will post them on social media. For example, I have seen fans sitting nearby me were either ask to stop vaping and/or get escorted out of the stadium for that. Stadiums have eagles eyes cameras all over. I know u will say that’s our own stadium but for playoff/WS, Fox has their own set of cameras. I’m sure they have a few camera in each bullpen. For me, even with the cameras, you’re still getting a delay signal for 2-3 seconds after picking up the signals from the catcher. And I for one second don’t believe in banging trash can at all. Forget about 1 batter, no way they can go thru the whole game banging the trash can without fans noticing while watching the game on tv or listening to radio. That yankees Thaiboy, or whatever his user name is, full of chit.
Worry about it when the proof is clear. This would be pretty easy to prove. All of these guys are paranoid about sign stealing, all pitchers are paranoid about everything and tend to blame their failures on the batter having an edge, it's always been this way, even Verlander mumbles and rants about juiced balls if you start him on it. EDIT: Also, just catching the end of that thread, he's saying the Astros batters look over to the bullpen...should be pretty easy to spot then. I can't imagine batters, literally right before a pitch is thrown, looking around for a signal...but hey, people are blindly eating this stuff up.
I'm not in denail but if there is no camera found (wont be) and no proof that there ever was a camera I just dont see how MLB can levy anything more then a wrist slap. I suppose MLB can do whatever it wants but if the evidence doesnt exist where do they go with this? So going forward any player or team can wantonly accuse another of cheating and its taken for the truth? Really? #metoocheater?
It makes no sense for Fiers to have completely made this up. There’s no question the Astros cheated. The amount of cheating, the benefit of said cheating, and the amount of similar activity throughout baseball are the question marks. The pile train on the Astros for what we don’t know yet is the infuriating part. Also the pieces of **** that are calling out the Astros when their teams were doing the exact same thing.
I am so ready for this offseason to end, and it's barely begun. It's just so frustrating to watch the team being vilified so much. Granted some of it is self-inflicted, but the media is completely blowing all these stories way out of proportion.
My first sentence says that and I Absolutely Believe they did some “cheating” but the severity of punishment needs to match the actual evidence not the hearsay regardless of the corroborating “witnesses” and if they can’t prove digital implementation in the cheating then they’ll not be able to absolutely smash us in punishment. Maybe steep fines and a fall guy suspension.
Astros got caught, plain and simple and they will have to pay the price. Whether other teams did it or not is irrelevant because, so far, they don't have a former player going public to spill the beans. But I will add, if baseball, and more importantly The Player's Union, wanted to focus their time and energies on something that would really help declining fan interest in the sport, they would get out of the dark ages and instill a salary cap.
The irony of all of this is that it appears to have not helped us much at all if any, exercise in futility with a high cost and little reward
I heard that after the interview was over the Skype stayed connected and when he stood up from sitting you could see a large, white plastic barrel (scuffs marks apparent) under him with a bat leaning against these wall.
