McDowell claims team stole signs

Former White Sox ace Jack McDowell said during a radio interview Friday that the team had a signstealing system involving a camera at Comiskey Park.

“We had a system at Old Comiskey Park in the late ‘80s, Gatorade sign out in right-center had a light, there was a toggle switch in the manager’s office and a camera zoomed in on the catcher,” McDowell told WFNZ-AM in Charlotte, N.C.

“I’m gonna whistleblow this now because I’m getting tired of this crap. .Tony La Russa is the one who put it in. He was also the head, the first team of all the people doing steroids (referring to La Russa’s time as Athletics manager). Yet he’s still in the game making half a million, you know? No one is going to go after that. It’s just, this stuff is getting old where they target certain guys and let other people off the hook.

”Like the media doesn’t know that this all happened, what was going on. Everybody knows, everybody that’s been around the game knows all this stuff. Why all of a sudden it became a big thing, I have no idea. But it’s frustrating being on the outside and watching what’s going on with the game that I played for so long.“

La Russa — who joined the Angels in November as senior adviser of baseball operations — managed the Sox from 1979 to ‘86. McDowell pitched for the Sox from 1987 to ‘94 and won the American League Cy Young Award in 1993.

ESPN reported the Angels did not respond to a request for a comment from La Russa.