Amaury Pi-González

OAKLAND–We all remember the popular line by actor Tom Hanks in the movie “A League of their Own”, when he said: “there is no crying in baseball”! Well, there might be no crying today with all the money thrown around players and organizations making big profits, but it seems that there is some hacking in baseball going on. The St Louis Cardinals are been investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigations(FBI)for hacking into the Houston Astros.

It was then the New York Times who first broke the news, that St Louis Cardinals employees were stealing information as they hacked the database of the Houston Astros. It is not yet fully known how many times this did happened, the FBI said they will soon finish their investigation in this very particular case.

Now, it’s one thing for a manager or player to steal the signal of the other team during a game, and another thing is to deliberately hack another team and get information about scouting, personnel, team planning, prospects they are seeking, and other stuff that should not be taken by illegal means.

It appears that the St Louis Cardinals might have been doing this to the Houston Astros for years.
My question is, why the Astros?. Nobody hacked their computers when they were finishing last, or maybe that is why they have finished last, because the other teams(in this case)the Cardinals had all their private information.

Whatever it is,we shall know very soon. No doubt that for the new baseball Commissioner, Rob Manfred, this will be his first big task. Manfred visited the Oakland A’s prior to the game this Saturday at the Coliseum, and among the very interesting things he said, is that he believes that the Athletics and the Raiders cannot(repeat cannot)co-exist in the OCO.

Previous Commissioner Bud Selig,presided over the steroids era and scandals, maybe Fred Manfred will have to battle social media, hacking and all this technology stuff. He better be ready, Manfred is the Social Media Commissioner.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish TV voice for the Angels and the Spanish radio voice for the A’s and does News and Commentary each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com