The Boston Red Sox are busy celebrating another World Series championship today after beating the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games.
However, the Red Sox found themselves in the middle of a minor scandal last season. When the Red Sox were hosting their bitter rivals, the New York Yankees, Boston was accused of stealing the Yankees signs. Now, sign-stealing is something that has been in baseball since its conception. However, the Red Sox were accused of having an official watching the game on television and then sending a message down to a coach in the dugout via an Apple Watch to aid in stealing signs and signals.
The Red Sox were subsequently fined by MLB’s Commissioner’s Office.
A month later in October, a Diamondbacks coach was being investigated to figure out why he was wearing an Apple Watch in the dugout.
When Apple Watches first debuted, there was skepticism as to how they would be accepted not only by consumers, but they the watch industry as a whole. Apple is here to stay in the watch game, according to the earnings numbers released from 2017’s fourth quarter. Apple outsold the entire Swiss watch industry, shipping eight million units.
How they did it
10 Comments
Johnny
They get more resourceful and technology helps them to cheat. Sadly it goes on everywhere.
Mark Morgan
What next. It is still good entertainment. There are other sports that are worse.
Mark
Jorge Marcial Lopez Fernandez
Very interesting!!
Ted
Speaking of technology, the video feeds can be altered (colored lines on the football fields, changes made to the advertisements on the stadium walls). So I am sure that the networks have the ability to blur out the catcher’s signals to avoid viewers from being able to see them.
Randy
The decay of our moral society took a big leap forward in the 60’s and 70’s. There’s a fairly simple reason for it, but it does little good to discuss it. We asked government for it and got it. Almost everything we see/hear is orcastrated for a particular ideology.
LARRY
Apple has stated the cell phone will no longer exist in a few years. So I assume this will be its replacement.
LARRY
Apple has said there will be no cell phones in a few years. This may be its replacement.
Michael Crestohl
Sleazy stuff, to be sure. However, nothing compares to the “Black Sox” World Series scandal of 1919.
Mike
I love mechanical watches but ………
Apple Watch 4 is simply amazing. I now leave my phone at home .
It’s louder, faster & smarter than older models. And accuracy of time spot on. I even know temp,wind direction & speed at a glance
It’s just a incredible instrument .
Allen
OK, so Apple gets a lot of publicity, but there are plenty of hands-free cell phones
that are pretty inconspicuous that could have been used, and they have some
phone connection to from the dugout to their video room to decide whether to
challenge a call. The real story is “hacking” into the TV centerfield cameras to get
the supposedly private data. Watches are not guilty.