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It's a spring afternoon in 2018 at Minutemade Park in Houston, Texas.

Hours before the players are scheduled to take the field,

two employees from a rival team's traveling party are wandering around the Astros' home ballpark.

If anyone asks what they're doing, they've been instructed to say that they got lost,

but in reality, they're trying to find proof that the Houston Astros have been cheating.

Ever since the Astros won the World Series last year, there have been rumors that the team got a leg up on the competition

by using some form of electronic sign stealing, a practice banned by Major League Baseball.

But so far, nothing has been proven.

Recently, though, someone inside the Astros organization tipped off this opposing team

that the Astros have a bizarre new way of communicating stolen signs, and it involves a massage

gun.

According to this tipster, there's a wall separating the clubhouse from the dugout. And when a particular pitch is coming, the person in the clubhouse gets the sign from the video replay room,

then passes it to the dugout by pummeling the wall with a massage gun, like rudimentary Morse code.

Apparently, this signal is silent to the ear, but the players in the dugout can feel the

vibrations through the wall. Then the dugout sends the sign along to players on the field

and ultimately to the Astros hitter at bat. The rival team's two employees have been dispatched

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