Baseball is sort of like warfare when it comes to 'cheating'

Washington Post:
Major League Baseball’s hurlers have been breaking the rules in plain sight since the game’s inception, and experts say most players are fine with that. Or at they don’t want to rat out their own pitchers by drawing attention to the issue.
Is it cheating for intelligence services to read the enemy's mail?  And is it cheating to develop new weapons to overcome enemy strengths?  If it is wrong for a team to use video and electronics to decipher what pitch is coming, it would make more sense for baseball to write a new rule to stop it rather than suspend those who did it.  Can the government deprive people of their ability to make a living ex post facto?  Were we wrong to read the Japanese messages that allowed the US to defeat them in the battle of Midway?

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