Latest Dodgers cheating allegations to emerge are ridiculous

Did the Los Angeles Dodgers cheat in 2018? Ask the Milwaukee Brewers, and you’ll get a loud, spittle-filled answer that will eventually sound less like “facts” and more like slurred screaming.

Ask Major League Baseball, though, and they’ll probably tell you no.

After all, based on the latest rumblings from the pages of Andy Martino’s Cheated, it seems like the Brew Crew asked them to investigate several “suspicious” behaviors back in ’18, which the league rebuffed every time they emerged.

We’re modern baseball fans. We were prepared for center field cameras, trash cans, and spies in the tunnel. We were not quite ready for how low these allegations sank.

According to Martino, the Dodgers-Brewers off-field war of words involved MLB officials stalking Dodgers YouTubers around the concourse at the stadium, begging to see their tilted iPhones.

Seriously.

Did the Dodgers cheat by hiring YouTubers with cameras in 2018? Probably not!

First of all, we can’t wait for the rest of this book. Based on the excerpts that keep dropping, every page involves a new allegation levied against either the Dodgers, Astros or Red Sox from between 2017-2020. That’s the good stuff. For every 15 allegations, one is likely true.

Second, though, it definitely seems like league-wide panic was at an all-time high well before Houston was actually outed for their scheme, which makes you think some of the allegations mentioned were true — probably the Boston ones, though, and not the ones regarding nefarious Dodgers vloggers.

Third, though … if this was the Dodgers’ cheating scheme, we love it. It’s simply … so stupid it probably worked.

Of course, once Los Angeles locked horns with Boston and Alex Cora in the World Series, the cheating canceled itself out on both sides, leaving the Sox ahead of the pack. Such a shame. Should’ve hired more loose vloggers.

Look, we’re having fun here, but the above notion is valid. If legitimate allegations of cheating still exist from back in the pre-Astros-Gate era of MLB action, the league should certainly dive back in and come to a definitive conclusion. There’s no statute of limitations on uncovering cheaters. Just ask all the 2003 MLB stars not named David Ortiz who wound up in the steroid scandal thanks to “anonymous survey testing.”

Martino’s reporting does clear up the idea that MLB completely ignored a series of allegations back in the day, though, or looked the other way on everything.

It appears they checked out the vloggers thoroughly and moved on. Guess they weren’t very impactful vlogs. No word yet if MLB either liked or subscribed.

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