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From Tim Flannery on sign stealing in baseball âŠ. They are fining teams who try to steal signs âŠhahahaha..got out just in time .
OkâŠI feel a need to speak out, normal is changing, and todayâs norm is not the norm.
For 26 years I was in the big leagues , 10 as a player, 16 as a 3rd base coach , 20 if you count the other years learning the craft in the minor leagues , from Boise , to Wichita. The seriousness of the writer, the expertise from the front office man, the commissioner, to those who have never lived it. Here it isâŠI have 25 World Series games under my belt, 7 elimination games, and a 7th game of a World Series. 5 World Series ,3 World Championships I know it donât mean much to those in front of a computer, with the answers and all the rules. So Iâm gonna make a long story short. I had a video camera on every 3rd base coach every single night, I spent hours logging tapes trying to steal your signs and finding a way to beat you. You as well did it, in New York I knew the Valentine Mets did it, I knew the Cubs did it, I knew the Dbacks, St. Louis did it, I caught them, thatâs when the fun begins , you fuck em up by changing signs, you tell the boys â if I put a hit and run on first pitch donât do anything, they will pitch out and now they donât have the signs, and youâre in a hitters countâ the list goes on and on
âŠ..if you arenât smart enough ( and believe me this isnât rocket science, itâs being somewhat aware) itâs your fault, now the game is turned into no breaking up double plays , donât slide hard at home, donât block the plate.if you are not creative enough to derail them, youâve stopped thinking. As far as some of the greatest baseball writers who I love, read and listen to, and hang with. You are so off on the sign stuff. Itâs a high stakes poker game, big money especially as coaches . If you get caught , if your signs are stolen and you donât know in the moment they are close, they are on you
âŠyour not thinking, and now because of that the commissioner comes in not understanding, the writers write stealing signs is wrong. We had an advance scout that could watch your 3rd base coach for 3 days and be real close to getting his signs. He would send his report and I would watch you, or have a camera on you, if you havenât played , you donât understand how important this part of the game should be. You donât understand I would not only try and steal your hit and run sign, I would put our hit and run on that my guys knew, then in the same sequence put the other teams hit and run on so when they look at their cameras that we all used to steal the signs they would see and in their minds â shit they have the same sign for hit and run we haveâ. Itâs propaganda war fare, its trying to beat youâŠâŠso why you claim people arenât watching baseball because it takes to long, I say your taking the smarts out of it.
âŠI tried every night for 16 years to steal your signs either writing every thing you did down, or by looking at tapes because I had a camera on you, just like you had on me. Please leave the game alone, and every writer who wrote articles on this..be in church Sunday,because I know for a fact everyone of you looked at body language , vibe, and found a way to snake another writer to get the feature, get the win., leaving it with no creativity, no thinking, and the dumbing down of the greatest game everâŠâŠnot that I know anything about itâŠ.Peace Tim Flannery.
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