We’ve been hit with a wave of major sports storylines in the recent days.
Now it’s MLB’s turn, but of course it’s not a crazy trade or signing.
Yeah not great at all.
The report states that Hoberg shared an account with a poker player friend who lived in Iowa.
Conveniently enough the friend deleted the messages after being contacted by MLB.
Definitely not suspicious at all.
After being contacted by MLB investigators, the friend deleted both of his Telegram threads with Hoberg.
Hoberg also deleted his Telegram account.
There was no evidence that Hoberg took any action to manipulate the outcome of the games.
The eight bets on games that Hoberg worked similarly did not reveal any obvious pattern.
Ah the friend also profited on the baseball bets, what a coincidence!
Surely baseball is telling us all we need to know and not all there is to know.
Definitely sketchy as fuck that the messages got erased and MLB couldn’t recover them.
Can’t you recover anything these days?
We’re just trusting that whatever investigation they launched found no wonky trends in his umpiring?
Seems awfully hopeful more than concrete.
How does your mind not go directly to Tim Donagy 2.0?
The worst part of this is we just lost the best umpire in baseball.
If only this could have been CB Bucknor or Laz Diaz.
Would that have set off way bigger panic alarms across the sport?
Well yeah, but at least we wouldn’t have to deal with them anymore.
