Baseball’s sign-stealing scandal is serious. It is a statement on the integrity of the game, and its values and priorities, and how secure fans should feel in their trust of it. MLB has approached it accordingly, with sweeping investigations and serious penalties, and that is a good thing.
But, at the same time, it has been absurd. There is plenty that is a bit silly and some that is irrational and some that is just utterly weird. Thursday was one continuous wave of news, with the space between official announcements filled by amateur parsing that ranged from obviously disturbed to undeniably compelling, an incredible froth of game-shaping fury.