Clearly, New Thread is needed.
In this limbo between the end of the World Series and the commencement of the Winter Meetings, the biggest story these days revolves around the Houston Astros and their various efforts to game the system. Baseball has always been rather proud of its long history of skullduggery, but certain methods of beating the rule book have always been regarded as beyond the pale. Furthermore, the traditional solution to teams stealing the catcher's signs seems to have fallen out of use. Danny Farquhar spoke of how angry he was to hear the bashing of the bat before he threw a changeup.