Aaron Judge was the first person — well, the first person affiliated with a Major League Baseball team — to use the word “cheating” in the wake of his side-eye seen 'round the sport.
The Blue Jays broadcasters, Dan Shulman and Buck Martinez, did not accuse him of cheating on Monday. They did explicitly discuss the likelihood that he was peeking at the catcher’s setup behind him, a practice that is uniformly recognized to be against an unwritten rule, and deemed it implausible based on the angle. They referenced the idea of allegations about something and certainly implied a level of intent to Judge’s glance.