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Ortiz: Prison term for hacking further sullies Cardinals' reputation

General manager John Mozeliak and owner Bill DeWitt Jr. don’t actually peddle the holier-than-thou reputation that some fans have attached to the Cardinals. If you buy into that myth, stop reading now because you won’t like this column.

The so-called Cardinal Way is a tarnished fantasy, if not a farce.

The Cardinals’ reputation was sullied further when former scouting director Christopher Correa was sentenced to 46 months in prison for hacking the Astros’ Ground Control proprietary database.

DeWitt should be embarrassed, and so should Mozeliak.

It says something about the seriousness of Correa’s crime that U.