[Arles]

I don't think anyone is saying that if members of the Cardinals staff accessed the Houston database, they shouldn't be punished. They broke the law and should lose their jobs for that action.

The interesting point of Olney's article is to deal with the "cheating" shots taken at the St. Louis organization. As if access to another team's scouting database in March once or twice someone invalidates the team's success over the past few years. It looks more and more like a dumb prank by some Cardinals front office people either A) upset with the credit Ludnow was getting in Houston or B) upset he didn't take them with him when he left.

I think anyone found to be involved with this should be fired and I'm fine with Manfred issuing a fine/lost draft pick for "organizational control" even if the GM and owner were found not to be involved. Yet, this isolated idiocy shouldn't tarnish the success that the Cardinals have had on the field for the past 10 years.