If you're not cheating in baseball, you aren't trying. It's such a boring game, made worse by sabermetrics, that this kind of meta game is the only remaining in

If you're not cheating in baseball, you aren't trying. It's such a boring game, made worse by sabermetrics, that this kind of meta game is the only remaining interest. Tweak the balls. Tweak the bats. Sign-stealing. Tweak batting approaches. Fiddle with the mound. Chase ever better steroids. Without that arms race, it'd be horrifically dull.