So Levitt, your guy who loves to catch cheaters, and it's October, which means the baseball

playoffs are starting.

Tell me what you know about the time-honored tradition of stealing signs from the other

team.

So I was talking with the Shikaiwaii socks about a number of different ways in which we

could use data to better their baseball operations.

And the thing that was most interesting to me was stealing signs.

And I told them that I was certain that I could do a great job stealing signs and they

could use that to their benefit.

Now why was that so interesting to you?

Just to them, I like to catch cheaters, but it's kind of fun to cheat too.

It's fun to know that you can cheat.

It'll be fun for me to be sitting at home watching a baseball game and to have be able

to watch what the catcher was doing and say to my kids, hey look, that next pitch is going

to be a curveball or even better to get on the phone to the dugout and say, hey, just wanted

to let you guys know they're using signal version C today.

And so if you get a guy on base, that'll tell you what you're thinking.

You wanted to steal signs for the weight sucks.

You didn't want to catch other teams stealing their signs or?

I wanted to engage in the intellectual activity of understanding how to steal signs.

Now whether anyone actually stole any signs or not didn't really matter.

I just thought it would be fun to figure out how to steal signs like code breaking.

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