I totally agree with your second paragraph.
As for the Sox, though, by now Manfred must have the uncomfortable feeling that use of the replay room for decoding signals was epidemic.
So if he comes down hard on them, what will he do when it emerges, as it very likely will, that they were only doing normal procedure and that it's him who really f***ed up with his lack of foresight? He will look like an all-time bozo.