While baseball looks more gentlemanly than football or basketball or hockey, don’t let looks fool you. These “gentlemen” can play rough. Now, instead of stealing the other teams signs, one of them has been caught stealing data.
The St. Louis Cardinals hacked into the Houston Astros computers to steal scouting data and related e-mails. The man in charge of the hacks was sentenced to almost four years in a federal prison and the team is being forced to pay a hefty fine as well as lose draft picks. In view of other sports scandals, the Cardinals got away with a relatively light slap on the wrist…although the chief hacker might not agree with that statement.
What was it that Vince Lombardi said? “Winning isn’t every thing…it is the only thing.” You might add to that quote, “…that is until you get caught.” And the Cardinals got caught.
More good info here, as usual, so don’t get caught short by not looking for something that might be of help. Have a great weekend. -JRC
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