Cardinals say anyone involved in hacking will be held accountable

The St. Louis Cardinals are taking the recent hacking allegations seriously. A day after the scandal came to light, team Chairman and CEO William O. Dewitt Jr. and General Manger John Mozeliak issued statements on the investigation.

“These are serious allegations that don’t reflect who we are as an organization,” DeWitt said. “We are committed to getting to the bottom of this matter as soon as possible, and if anyone within our organization is determined to be involved in anything inappropriate, they will be held accountable.”

According to the statement, the club is working with a local law firm in order to assist the FBI with the investigation. The team is also conducting an internal inquiry into whether any employee “engaged in the alleged conduct.”

“The alleged conduct has no place in our game,” Mozeliak said. “We hold ourselves to the highest standards in every facet of our organization. It has been that way forever and is certainly true today. We are committed to finding out what happened. To the extent we can substantiate that these allegations have merit, we will take appropriate action against anyone involved.”

The internal inquiry has not yet been completed, according to the team’s lawyer. Due to the ongoing government investigation, the team said it will not comment further on the issues.

Wednesday’s statement was slightly more informative than Tuesday’s, though not by much. The Cardinals are cooperating with the FBI, and will punish anyone revealed to be involved in the scandal. That’s pretty much what everyone should have expected from a statement released by the team.

Many have compared the hacking allegations to the Deflategate situation in the NFL. The initial response from the team in both scenarios could not have been more different.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft was defiant about the allegations, going so far as to say the league should apologize if the investigation did not turn up any significant findings. Kraft denied that the Patriots engaged in any wrongdoing, and defended both Tom Brady and Bill Belichick during his response.

The Cardinals response was exactly the opposite. Instead of fighting the charges, the team did not deny anything in the statement. Both Dewitt and Mozeliak were adamant that the team is cooperating, and that they believe the charges are serious. While they don’t explicity say it in the response, their words seem to imply that they expect something to come out of the investigation.

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Given the serious nature of the allegations, we’re probably not going to get much else from the Cardinals until the investigation concludes. For now, the team’s response has been what everyone has expected. It will be interesting to see whether that changes once the FBI’s findings are released.

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