White Sox Cheating?

After being swept by the Chicago White Sox, the St. Louis Cardinals believe that the White Sox were using a center field camera to steal signs.

The Sox scored 33 runs against the Cardinals in the first two games of the series, and then in the finale managed only 1 hit and 1 run in a 1-0 victory.

As a lifelong White Sox fan who watches every game, let me assure the St. Louis Cardinals that we are not in fact stealing your signs. Well, not from a camera anyway.

The truth is that Thursday night the Cardinals sent Anthony Reyes to the mound. Now there are two things in Reyes' favor that are absolute kryptonite to the White Sox offense:

1. They have never seen him before. They had seen Mark Mulder plenty of times and Jason Marquis too. They always struggle against pitchers they've never seen. Take the Texas Rangers John Rheineker. In his first start against the White Sox(In Chicago) he handcuffed the lineup and the Rangers won. A week and a half later, in Arlington, the Sox roughed him up.

2. The White Sox always struggle against pitchers with above average changeups and Reyes possesses one, to go along with his 93MPH fastball. Another pitcher in the Sox division, Johan Santana, possesses a fantastic changeup, and the Sox have never been able to hit him well.

Personally I think the Cardinals were just a bit frustrated, and more than a bit embarrassed by their trip to Chicago in what some saw as a potential World Series matchup, and are venting those frustrations with these allegations.