It's Not Too Soon For Cubs' Theo Epstein To Burn The Cardinals Over The Hacking Scandal
(CBS) A day after a former Cardinals scouting director was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for hacking the Astros' player personnel database, Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein sent a sharp verbal barb south.
Speaking on 670 The Score while at a fan luncheon Tuesday afternoon, Epstein was addressing his formative years in MLB and how he traversed his way through law school while also getting a start in the Padres front office. Epstein explained he juggled the two roles with "street smarts."
"I was in spring training in Arizona for six weeks while attending law school in San Diego -- there but not there," Epstein said.
"There's value there -- you figured out a way to game the system," 670 co-host Matt Spiegel said.
"That's what life's all about -- as long as you don't go to federal prison," Epstein replied.
Former Cardinals scouting director Christopher Correa was on Monday sentenced to 46 months in prison after pleading guilty to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer from 2013 to at least 2014. The Cardinals fired him in summer 2015.
The Cubs and Cardinals are no strangers to wars of words in the past year. Chicago manager Joe Maddon was upset late last season at his players getting hit by St. Louis pitchers. In the offseason after former Cardinals outfielder Jason Heyward signed an eight-year deal with the Cubs, citing Chicago's youth movement, St. Louis was somewhat irked.
Listen to the full interview with Epstein and Hoyer below.