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Hello and welcome to episode 1749, effectively wild and baseball podcast from Fangrafts presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am the member of the Ringer Joint Find Meg Rally of Fangrafts. Hello Meg. Hello.

Can we discuss what is possibly the silliest unwritten rules controversy I have encountered all year, the most 2021 possible unwritten rules controversy?

Maybe the best one in this vein since 2016 when the Metz got mad at the Dodgers for using laser range finders to mark up the outfield before the game to establish where their outfielders should stand?

The case of the stolen scouting card tearing baseball apart to AL East opponents at each other's throats over a game plan card that was apprehended by the race Kevin Kiermeier under nefarious circumstances in Mondays game in Trappocana field.

So just to set the scene here, the Jays were visiting the race and it's the sixth inning. Kevin Kiermeier slides into home plate, he grabs a card.

You know all the players they have those cards in their back pockets or under their caps or somewhere on their persons these days that tell them where to stand in the outfield or what pitches to throw or what pitches to call for depending on the position.

So Kiermeier slides into home, he sees a card and the card it turns out was from Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk's wristband and this card contained the blue Jays game plan pitching to raise hitters.

This is who knows the work product of fan graphs alum Carson Sastouly possibly transferred to fellow fan graphs alum Jeff Sullivan in the race front office. So I haven't talked to them about it.

I don't know whose sides they're taking here, but this has become a controversy because Kiermeier made away with this card took it back to the dugout and as we speak here has not given it back.

So it's held on to the card. It is as Jo she end up that the great finders keepers losers weepers scandal of 2021.

What are the ethics of pocketing a card that are not yours?

Can I just say what a nice dumb scandal this is? What a what a treat Ben we've had such real weedy awful you know like people's jobs and respect for their personhood and lives impacted by scandals and this is the dumbest.

Don't minimize this the stakes are high here. No, this is great. This is what every scandal should be. I wish that every unwritten rule scandal took on this flavor.

I wish every rules controversy took on this flavor. I wish every team intellectual property scandal took on this flavor because it's just what a gift. What a lovely gift.

I had no idea what you were talking about when you messaged me before we started recording to be like do you have thoughts about this and I was like no and I watched that game.

I didn't even know this happened didn't see any of the kerfuffle. I mean look I think that his explanation for why he picked it up is logical to me that he keeps his own outfield positioning card in his back pocket and he slid into home.

I mean naturally thought that it might be his I will admit to some surprise at the equipment failure of the little wristband that the catchers wear because like you know I associate those wristbands still to this day more closely with football than I do with baseball.

And I have just watched again I'm going to do another swear here just you know quarterbacks get kicked out of them and that thing's still on their wrist and it seems like all their parts are there.

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