Astros, Red Sox, Major League Baseball urge dismissal of sign-stealing lawsuit

The Houston Astros, the Boston Red Sox and Major League Baseball asked a U.S. judge to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit by DraftKings participants who said the teams' electronic sign-stealing distorted fantasy baseball contests they wagered on. "Plaintiffs got exactly what they bargained for: contests determined by baseball players' actual performance on the field," even if rules were broken, lawyers for Major League Baseball wrote, in an argument joined by the Astros and Red Sox. The defendants also pointed to a 2010 federal appeals court decision rejecting a New York Jets football fan's damages claims over "Spygate," in which the New England Patriots used videotape to steal signals from Jets coaches on the sidelines.

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