Here's An Awful Take On The Astros Cheating Scandal

Saw this Tweet come across my timeline yesterday and wanted to vomit.  I have a long, storied history of being a superstar D3 bullpen catcher which makes me the perfect person to address this garbage.  

I'm obviously joking.  I sucked at baseball once I got to college.  But in the end a keyword that every single person with a brain needs to take into account when addressing this whole saga is "technology".  Carlos Delgado transcribing mental notes to paper?  That's as mundane as possible when trying to gain an edge in baseball.  Any team at any competitive level watches tape on pitchers, umpires, defensive positioning, etc. and puts pen to paper to help remember any given player or situations tendencies.  

Just watch any MLB game.  At any given time you'll see the camera pan to a SS, RF, etc. and he'll pull out a laminated note card that helps position him defensively.  That, and a lot of catchers wear the QB play call arm band things to help dissect a hitter's tendencies.  So Carlos Delgado writing down a pitcher's "tell" in a notebook?  Yeah, that's no crime.  Not at all.  Delgado could have titled his notebook "Dark Arts", "Black Magic" "Baseball Voodoo" or anything else at all and it'd be no crime.  

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Now I have no idea if Andy Martino is known for bad takes or this is just an exception to the rule and he's usually a good baseball mind, but his particular opinion on this matter is just grade A basura.  Trash.  Dog shit.  I felt obligated to say so so people don't get the wrong impression and misinterpret what's legal or not because of his blue check and employer.  It's not like Carlos Delgado had cameras piping in on a catcher's nut sack and was relaying a sign to a hitter that way.  

Rant over

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