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What do you have to do to leave your mark on Major League Baseball's official site? You could hit your local batting cage, weight room, or Mexican pharmacy. Or, you could just flood the site's messageboards with porn, as a group of knuckleheaded knuckleballers recently did. Since July 2009, MLB's message boards have been flooded by dozens of "threatening, abusive, obscene, vulgar, demeaning, offensive, pornographic, profane, sexually explicit, indecent and inappropriate" messages or images. The situation has gotten so out of hand, in fact, that league authorities filed a subpoena in New York Supreme Court on Wednesday in an attempt to identify users subscribing to Internet service provided by Charter Communications, Inc. As Reuters reports, MLB claims that it has repeatedly (and unsuccessfully) tried to purge its site of the comments, some of which include photos of user genitalia, as well as mysterious threats against someone named "McCabe." After tracing the IP addresses back to Charter, though, the league decided to go ahead and file its subpoena request.
Both Charter and MLB were unavailable for immediate comment, but the whole thing seems a little odd to us. It's still unclear when the content in question was originally posted and how frequently the user or users bombarded the site afterward. If the site was really smeared "dozens" of times, though, wouldn't MLB have taken action a long time ago? It's surprising that this kind of material could just slip past the security of such a major site. But, as we found out last week, it certainly wouldn't be the first thing that MLB officials have missed. [From: Reuters]
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsLarry CaldwellJun 7th 2010 2:03PM
At least it's more interesting than Baseball !
stewJun 7th 2010 2:22PM
well...i happen to agree with larry. all baseball is, is nap time between football seasons.
but, you greg......you're nothing more than some little wuss who thinks he sounds so tough....while you hide in total anonymity.
get a real life greg. and get a sense of humor, without the hatred.
davidivoryJun 7th 2010 5:41PM
Especially the way the Pirates "no pun intended" are playing
MakinSteamJun 7th 2010 2:12PM
Whatever they do, I hope they don't ask Bud Selig to review and or act on it, nothing will change.....
ROLLANDOJun 7th 2010 2:23PM
Larry ..... The message you are saying is not appropriate for minors who has access to many of MLB's websites.
buzzard1Jun 7th 2010 2:24PM
Larry Caldwell said 2:03PM on 6-07-2010
At least it's more interesting than Baseball !
Says the soccer playing sissy.
pscarpelliJun 7th 2010 2:59PM
Hey, I hate soccer, but at least you need to be in shape to play it. Bobby Jenks could not play soccer, for example.
FroJun 7th 2010 4:36PM
Im a huge soccer fan first off. pscarpelli, I think your comment is spot on whether you love or hate soccer. But to the OP, buzzard, there is way more athleticism and physicality in soccer than baseball. So... "soccer playing sissy" is from left field and definitly inaccurate.
June 12th 2:30PM EST- tune in, root for your country, and be amazed.
GO USA!!!!!!!!
mark nJun 7th 2010 3:21PM
that may be true. but that's no different from any other sport these days. football, track, cycling, boxing. they're all juicers, because they all know that the more they cheat, the more money they can make. so how can you knock baseball and nothing else if you've always been such a big fan.
DigiJun 7th 2010 3:04PM
I think its gona be funny if they succeed and start filing civil suits against these people considering Im willing to bet over half of them cant even legally drive yet.
The bbl is LIVE!Jun 7th 2010 3:17PM
Perhaps MLB should consider adding on an "adults only" section to its website in order to attract more hits.
David S.Jun 7th 2010 3:34PM
Please...mostly men post messages on the MLB site....I'm guessing about 98% of them weren't that offended by the porno images. Well, depending on what they are, maybe.
Lisa KazmierJun 7th 2010 7:40PM
Don't know about the breakdown but there are a fair number of women on the team's message board where I participate. And the images were f----tio between two men. I think the men wouldn't have liked 'em.
camp4bellJun 7th 2010 7:49PM
How about if it's a picture of your daughter? Mother? Sis? Then is it okay?
rule number 2 is idioticJun 7th 2010 3:36PM
The MLB has been plagued with screw ups between Galrraga's perfect game and tonight's draft mistake. There's a good read today on Sotospeaks.com It talks about the set up for tonight, and taking away the fans. Here's one case where MLB should have followed NFL.
KenJun 7th 2010 4:06PM
Hell if they would show naked women during the games I might even be able to watch a full inning without being bored out of my mind.
briley226Jun 7th 2010 4:40PM
"dozens" is a complete understatement..The pig that was on the Yankees board using the pornographic avatars would have hundreds of vile, vulgar posts every night and would start about 50 disgusting threads every night. I hope he gets locked up.
jodyJun 7th 2010 7:46PM
briley if it was so "vulgar and disgusting" why would you go back night after night?
fredJun 7th 2010 4:38PM
gives a whole new meaning to make sure you tag the bag
individualterryJun 7th 2010 5:08PM
THey should have used Politics Daily's censors , nothing gets thruogh but the party line !