(01-15-2020 05:28 PM)CG_Hawk06 Wrote:  I'm 100% in agreement with you bricks. Stealing signs or tips as a runner and trying to relay those to the guys at the plate... ehhh. But setting up an elaborate scheme involving video feeds, computers just beyond the locker room, banging on instruments to relay those signs, that's downright absolute cheating.

Furthermore, it baffles me that some of these clowns aren't banned from baseball. Yes, I know that's the nuclear option but we're talking about a team that won probably two world championships using this scheme, and how many player stats at the plate have been boosted thanks to this nefarious operation.

We have a guy named Pete Rose that all evidence points to the fact that he never cheated or gambled on games he played it, just gambled on other baseball games. That dude is banned for life, should be a hall of famer based on his playing career alone and these guys will be allowed to coach teams in a year after point blank being caught cheating? Not even good at covering it up like the Patriots, just absolutely busted cheating for wins, stats, and championships -- DESTROYING the integrity of the game for the past several years, and they'll be allowed to coach next year? Not to mention all of the players that benefited from that travesty that are all getting off without repercussions. What in the actual f***?! Is baseball serious with this?

They'd have to ban a LOT of people if they went that route. Not that I'm opposed to it at all. But institutional cheating requires a LOT of people. And once you ban a bunch of people from one org you'd have to do it to a bunch of others when all this shakes out.

Not saying its right. But it's far easier to ban one legend, like Rose, than ban a bunch of people involved in a huge scheme.

Even when the 8 Black Sox players were banned for life by the MLB, only a few other non-Black Sox players got banned for life gambling during that 1919-1924 period as well, most notably Hal Chase.

This type of scandal would require dozens and dozens of people to be banned for life.