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Lawmakers from Texas, Missouri trade jabs about MLB hacking scandal (Big League Stew)

The MLB hacking scandal has reached Congress — just not maybe in the way you're expecting.

While baseball is in unchartered territory with news this week that the St. Louis Cardinals are being investigated by the FBI for hacking into a secure database belonging to the Houston Astros, lawmakers from Texas and Missouri are having a little bit of fun.

Pete Olson, a Republican who represents Texas' 22nd Congressional district and is "a huge Astros fan," authored a letter indicating a "state of war exists between the Astros and Cardinal Nation.