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Message: [QUOTE="The Viking, post: 3526892, member: 1599"] You could tell this was going to be a nothing-burger. The investigation dragged on and on and on. Manfred was getting mocked for the Houston ruling and he was hoping something - anything - of significance would fall in his lap if he just kept the Boston investigation open long enough just so he could right some wrongs. Then you had 3 or 4 Sox players in the past 2 weeks start to basically challenge Manfred's manhood, telling him if he actually found anything he should just go ahead and release it and get this whole thing over with. Of course, Manfred also probably came to the realization - or came across evidence - that what this video scout did for the Sox was also probably going on with other teams. In Verducci's column he notes that many if not most teams had a setup similar to what the Red Sox had - in that their advance video scout also doubled as their replay monitor guy. So in essence, most of these same guys whose job it was to find patterns in other teams pitch sequencing just *happened* to also be watching live feeds in the replay monitor room during the game. The replay room. That has a camera that shows the catchers signals where you can see if the scouting report you just made for these players prior to the game, is still spot on once the very first guy reaches second base. And if you catch something during a game - let's say in the first inning - you have to stay buttoned up, even though maybe the biggest job you have for that day maybe entirely kaput after a couple of batters if the other team changed their sequence and you just found out what it was. I mean the whole setup that MLB allowed was crazy to begin with. It's like taking a drug addict and sitting him down in front of a line of coke and hope he resists. In the end, Manfred stated in the report that even if he had the authority to punish players who came forward, he wouldn't have done it based on what was discovered. And Alex Cora was cleared from any wrongdoing in 2018 and 2019. His suspension was for Houston alone. Speaking of Cora, in his statement tonight, if you read between the lines you could tell he is tired of taking all of the bullets (or at least half - with Beltran) for what went down in Houston. You get the feeling he's done his job to not snitch on others but this wasn't just a Cora/Beltran production. That there were deeper tentacles that ran through that organization. [/QUOTE]

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