I am shocked, SHOCKED, to discover no collusion going on here.
Mr Putin on the line for you sir.

Seems premature, as there's obviously still plenty of time to collude here. On the other hand, this could be a fair signal that the union's watching for anything funny, though on the third hand, that just might mean the Yankees and Mets front offices start colluding using burner phones or bike messengers rather than something easily traced.

Yankees and Mets front offices start colluding using burner phones or bike messengers rather than something easily traced.

When's the last time anybody checked their Myspace pages and aol accounts?

I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I'm always amused by how the media treats these "internal" investigations as authoritative.

I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I'm always amused by how the media treats these "internal" investigations as authoritative.

Indeed. I’m pretty sure they’re not colluding, but I’m also pretty sure the “inquiry” was something like “You guys aren’t colluding, right? No? Ok, thanks.”

Anyone working in a business wouldn't be surprised at how much terrible stuff happens and is documented by emails, texts, and direct corroboration by third parties. One of my friends worked on the committee that vetted these things for the General Counsel and she said it was soul-destroying to see how people blew up their lives with stupid texts/emails not to mention the damage to the aggrieved.

Once a year our GC would do a speech to the leadership team where he would discuss the dangers of emails/texts/voicemails. He would put up examples of things you should never say in writing and then at the end he would stop and pause for a few seconds and say.....

"Everyone of these texts and emails are from somebody in this room."

As 25% of the leadership teams tend to turnover each year there were newbies who were shocked but that means 75% of the people paid no heed to his message the prior year. I was always proud that I never made the cut.

Leadership people are worse than the rank and file because they think they are untouchable. I could easily see GMs and owners screwing up a lot on this issue.

As I understand it, The Rams just had to pay STL 800 million in part because the internal emails about them screwing stl on the move to LA were damning.

It seemed fairly harmless and sort of impossible to prove if it wasn't harmless, so I'm not surprised by the result.

Mets: Mr. Judge we are prepared to offer you 10/410!

Low level employee of Yankees arrives at Citifield at 3AM to collect new Mercedes, informs Mets that Yankees offered 8/335.

Mets next day: Mr. Judge the previous offer has expired but we are now able to offer you 8/341!