It’s been more than three and a half years since the world found out St. Louis native Jim Crane’s baseball team was using a center-field camera and trash-can-banging relay system during the 2017 and 2018 seasons to tell hitters which pitches were on the way to the plate, and those who doggedly defend those tarnished Astros teams still can’t help but reach for reasons to suggest what Houston did was somewhere between not so bad and relatively common.
It happened again this week, when the Blue Jays TV broadcast team noticed Yankees slugger Aaron Judge looking into his own dugout during a Toronto home game just before launching a home run.
“You don’t want to go throwing allegations around without knowing, but …” Blue Jays TV broadcaster Dan Shulman said during the broadcast, mastering the art of throwing around allegations without knowing.
