...well, I think the testing for PEDs has gotten better and I also think the penalties seem to have at greatly reduced the number of users in sports...as far as electronic stealing/transmitting signals in baseball, what Boston blatantly did takes signal stealing to a whole other level but they did get caught, and MLB needs to come down hard on them to hopefully deter other teams from doing something similar down the road.
I never felt a man on 2nd looking in at the Catchers fingers, or even a hitter peeking in on a C, was a foul. Imo- that much (only) has always been a simpler part of the game, for those who feel the need to get a one up with such off handed tactics, other than pure power mano e mano.....
the Patsies and Bosox have disgraced there sports.
Today's methods of cheating perverts the game, and is beyond any old school method to get an (
off handed) hand up.... which again, was simply a lucky attempt to "try" to steal a signal.
My point, what would Tony Gywnn, Rod Carew (and other great hitters) ever need a stolen signal for. They could see the spin on a ball and know what they were getting before the ball ever arrived, and often where it was going as a result...
ntm- simply getting to know the Pitcher's habits, could often result in knowing a breaking ball from a fastball. Same with Ricky, imo, he didn't need to know what signals were, he picked that much up reading the Pitcher...his elbow, his feet, et al...
