As Major League Baseball continues to fold itself into still another conspicuous conduit of information technology, hurrying the game along the dubious track from wondrous sport to monstrous math problem, certain precautions need now be taken.
Unless, of course, you’re confident that the game that brought you the designated hitter can protect itself from the next logical menace, the designated hacker.
The St. Louis Cardinals, an organization that has long since grown comfortable on the high ground of baseball royalty, were this week revealed to be the target of an FBI investigation into the matter of a data breach along some cyber fault line in the informational superstructure of the Houston Astros.