Yes, you read that right. The FBI is on the case for the St. Louis Cardinals apparently hacking into the Houston Astros files.
Major League Baseball “has been aware of and has fully cooperated with the federal investigation into the illegal breach of the Astros’ baseball operations database,” a spokesman for baseball’s commissioner, Rob Manfred, said in a written statement.
Law enforcement officials believe the hacking was executed by vengeful front-office employees for the Cardinals hoping to wreak havoc on the work of Jeff Luhnow, the Astros’ general manager who had been a successful and polarizing executive with the Cardinals until 2011.
Are you kidding me? This is the most successful team in the major leagues for the last decade and a half and now they’re being investigated for cheating? Spying? Isn’t it bad enough that baseball has been dealing with the steroid era and trying to fix that messy situation? To make matters even more embarrassing, they’re going into the systems of a team who hasn’t had a winning season since 2008. This doesn’t make any sense to me. If they are indeed found guilty to have hacked into a teams internal networks to look at their scouting reports, the Cardinals can not for any reason be allowed to play in the postseason this year. They just can’t. If they do and they win the World Series again, what kind of message is that sending? It’ll just be Major League Baseball allowing cheaters to win, and after the steroid era fiasco tainted the game, this league can’t afford any more controversy about it’s morality.
Rob Manfred, do the right thing and put a stop to this before it escalates even further.
