Rangers pitcher compares Cardinals hack to Clinton FBI hearings
It was only a matter of time before someone in the baseball community expressed their thoughts on the St. Louis Cardinals hacking scandal, but no one expected it to happen like this.
In a now deleted tweet, Texas Rangers reliever Jake Diekman compared former Cardinals executive Chris Correa’s 46-month prison sentence to Hillary Clinton’s lack of punishment following her FBI investigations.
The tweet read “46 months for hacking baseball reports … But Clinton is still not in jail! #seemsfair”
With that, Diekman became one of the first players to offer his opinion on the hacking scandal, and one of the many players to express their political opinions online.
The reason the above tweet was likely deleted has far more to do with the former than the latter. Players are generally allowed to express their political opinions without facing punishment from their club.
Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer expressed his displeasure with one of the Democratic debates on Twitter in January. Jorge L. Ortiz of USA Today recently wrote a piece asking a number of players for their political assessment of Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Commenting on an investigation that impacted Major League Baseball is another matter. It’s certainly possible the Rangers don’t want Diekman sharing any thoughts on the subject, especially when MLB could still dish out punishment to the Cardinals.
The Cardinals’ hacking scandal may have reached a legal conclusion Monday, but it’s still open from an MLB perspective. Because of that, very few players are going to say anything publicly about it. If they do, you can expect those posts to be deleted into Internet oblivion, just like Diekman’s tweet.
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