After news broke Tuesday that the FBI is investigating the St. Louis Cardinals organization for possibly hacking into a Houston Astros database of player information, the Internet had some a lot of fun at the Cardinals' expense.
Michael S. Schmidt of the New York Times broke the story about the alleged corporate espionage. Once everybody had some time to read through the article and digest it, the jokes and memes began to hit the web.
Todd Fuhrman of Fox Sports 1 got things started with a nice pun:
— Todd Fuhrman (@ToddFuhrman) June 16, 2015
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Brandon McCarthy believes the punishment for the Cardinals should be handled the same way players handle retaliation on the field:
in keeping with baseball tradition, a Houston exec should walk into the STL offices and hit their best front office guy with a fastball
— Brandon McCarthy (@BMcCarthy32) June 16, 2015
They weren't the only ones having fun with the story, however.