The hell is going on with Little League recently?!
Seems like sign stealing should be legal everywhere - including little league. That’s how the pros do it. Part of the game.
I don’t mind a player on the field stealing signs and using it to help another player on the field, as long as the bench/dugout isn’t involved. If it happens on the field it’s s part of the game.
Wikipedia, for those like me who don’t know sports terms:
In baseball, sign stealing is the act of observing the signs being signaled by the opposing catcher to the pitcher or a coach, and the subsequent relaying of those signals to members of one’s own team. Signs are stolen with the intent of gaining advance knowledge of the upcoming pitch and communicating it to the batter, thereby giving them an advantage.
Okay first of all i read the whole article and still didnt undertsand what sign stealing was cause it never really explained it but also why is it not allowed? In waterpolo or volleyball(two sports i have played on high enough level to know) its just called having a shitty system of communicating. You need to account for your opponents stufying your plays and often, especially so in waterpolo, there will be a player on the opposing team that will understand your language even if youre from different countries. It seems like such an arbitrary rule.
Because in normal play it’s very hard or impossible to do. The batter is facing away from the catcher, who is the one signaling. Now that there are more high-tech ways to do it (telephoto lens cameras, ways to communicate things to the batter, etc) it’s just become a much bigger problem. A properly hidden signal would be visible to 2nd and maybe 1st/3rd bases, and the players there would have a harder time seeing and communicating signals. Nowadays, someone with a high-powered camera and a radio in the bleachers behind center field can see and relay things to team members and coaches with extreme ease. And past success doing it has only emboldened people
