Major League’s Baseball Commissioner has initiated an investigation of the Boston Red Sox for sign stealing via electronic means. The entire investigation is a travesty. What kind of country is this, where you can steal elections but not signs? Not only that, consider this distinction without a difference:
Sign-stealing that relies on nothing but human discernment and communication is legal. However, if the Red Sox used electronic devices — including the video replay feed — that would be illegal, and subject to league punishment.
So the Sox will potentially be punished for the simple act of utilizing technology to do something otherwise perfectly legal, though, some might say, still quite tacky.
This outrage cannot be let stand.
Now, I’m certainly not advocating that everyone be allowed to steal signs. I’m simply arguing for a variant of the IOKYAR (It’s okay if you’re a Republican) rule that currently prevails in our national discourse and, increasingly, in our courts. I.e, It’s OKay if You’re A Red sox. See, even the initials are identical. It would obviously be beyond the pale if the hated Yankees, so deserving of world wide scorn, should engage in such loathsome practices, but the Red Sox should certainly not be penalized for what are, in their case, harmless activities. I must add that this is fully consistent with prevailing morality in another sense, that being that in those rare cases when both sides actually do do it, only one side gets to get away with it. That side, as a self evident matter, should be the Red Sox.
I’m sure Chuck Todd and his ilk would see the justice of my reasoning.
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