(January 15, 2020 at 8:29 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Conventional sign stealing is a part of the game and has been for the whole history of the sport. Doing it by electronic means though is stepping way over the line. The home team is accessing a resource unavailable to the visiting team (the center field camera) so it makes for an un-level playing field.
I agree. Lets face it, all contact sports, but especially baseball and American football are about deception and misdirection. And on a literal evolutionary scale, all life prey and predator rely on both. But when it comes to a cognitive game which is supposed to be about rules and fairness, there is a line.
For example, any NFL fan knows what a "flee flicker" is. I am no fan of that play. Perfectly legal as far as rules, but the reason I don't like it is because it is a high risk, low yield play for the offence. BUT, as far as breaking rules, most NFL fans remember the RAMS/SAINTS pass interference play that should have given the Saints first and goal.
But yea, "spying" in sports to me, beyond using your eyes without electronics on the field of play is a dick move. Spying with electronics on other teams is no different to me as Lance Armstrong using steroids and the Terminator on top of that.
