You've seen more than you have

You've borrowed more than you know

Better to steal the cross

Makes it easier to go

You've paralyzed by conscience

Looking for an opening apathy

The zero-volved cords cut out

Lo and welcome to episode 1484 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Ben Lemberg of the ringer joined by Samuel of Yes, In, Jose, Sam.

Hey Ben, should we do a quick sign stealing update before we get to emails?

We're gonna answer some emails for the first time in weeks.

But there was another report from Ken Rosenthal on Evangelic of the Athletic

who broke the Astros Sign Stealing Story.

Now they have broken the Red Sox Sign Stealing Story, or I guess the newest Red Sox Sign Stealing story.

So they write before the 2018 season after years of barely enforcing its broad rules regarding replay rooms.

The league made it crystal clear, replay rooms cannot be used to help steal signs.

The newly clarified rules in combination with the fines, the league levied on the Red Sox and Yankees,

and warnings that issued in 2017 were intended to end the replay room's canary

for the Red Sox and possibly other clubs it did not.

Three people who were with the Red Sox during their 108 win 2018 season told the Athletic

that during that regular season, at least some players visited the video,

replay room during games to learn the sign sequence opponents were using.

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