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  • Posts: 34,063
    tbergs said:
    I feel like they should put a light bulb above his head at that moment. It's like he realized, that's what that shit is called and then went down the rabbit hole of passed down traditions BS.
    Yeah, I mean the tradition thing is dumb. What's he supposed to say though? The team has a chemist on staff to give me the stickiest stuff possible?
  • Posts: 13,024
    it is cheating and the game sucks right now because of it.
  • Posts: 34,063
    pjhawks said:
    it is cheating and the game sucks right now because of it.
    I mean, not sure anyone has disagreed with that 
  • this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,936
    Yeah, I mean the tradition thing is dumb. What's he supposed to say though? The team has a chemist on staff to give me the stickiest stuff possible?
    That is what I wondered as well.
    He gets to be the poster child because of his contract, status, and timing of turning into one of the best of the best....but this isn't Bonds, Giambi and the dudes who got huge.  It is almost everyone.
    I know it is wrong but I think this is funny the way it is rolling out.
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • Posts: 41,737
    I mean, not sure anyone has disagreed with that 
    I do.  I love seeing the domination of pitchers.Funny that everyone said that the HR’s were a problem these last few years, lol.

    Want to make it exciting?  Bring in slap hitters that move runners and aren’t worried about launch angle. Steal more bases.  Suicide squeeze.

    Stop w the analytics and a HR is the only thing that matters.

    I can remember watching pitchers like John Tudor pull any the seams to raise them ever so slightly.
    I can also remember Sparky Anderson asking the pitcher for the ball and spitting on it to do lord knows what, lol.

    Licking fingers on rubber then pitching is still considered illegal too.
  • Columbia, SC Posts: 5,228
    Spider Tack reminds me of the stickum scene in The Replacements


  • Posts: 31,550
    ...but this isn't Bonds, Giambi and the dudes who got huge.  It is almost everyone.


    Steroids was “almost everyone” too. :whistle:
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
    Missoula 24
  • Posts: 41,737
    So Cole won and spin rate is still up there.
  • this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,936
    Well he threw harder which makes the ball able to spin more.

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  • Posts: 31,550
    at least cliffy is objective. for F’me, this is a little cheating....kind of like being a little pregnant.
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
    Missoula 24
  • Posts: 41,737
    I'm fine with whatever pitchers do.
  • this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,936
    Wobbie said:
    at least cliffy is objective. for F’me, this is a little cheating....kind of like being a little pregnant.
    I pulled out way early on that one


    (Big Ern!)
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • Deep South Philly Posts: 17,599
    I'm fine with whatever pitchers do.
    We're well aware.
  • Posts: 41,737
    We're well aware.
    The way the umps check things in between innings is a joke.  Why don't they look at the ball after it was pitched?  Every time a ball scuffs the ground they discard it, why not check to see if it's sticky or what not?
  • this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,936
    The way the umps check things in between innings is a joke.  Why don't they look at the ball after it was pitched?  Every time a ball scuffs the ground they discard it, why not check to see if it's sticky or what not?
    Because they know it is going on, of course, and have known all along.
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  • Posts: 41,737
    Because they know it is going on, of course, and have known all along.
    Isn't it a cop out though?  An ump should be able to tell right off that the ball is doctored.

    Gaylord Perry made a HOF career of doing it and hiding it very well.

    Hell Joe Niekro used a damn nail file, lol.  Mike Scott thre the nastiest pitch I ever saw but never could prove that he used something.
  • this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,936
    They play their role so that they get to do what they want, as well.
    The fix / the nod, whatever you want to call it.....open secret and nobody cared.
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  • Posts: 41,737
    They play their role so that they get to do what they want, as well.
    The fix / the nod, whatever you want to call it.....open secret and nobody cared.
    Like steroids?  Like sign stealing?

    Baseball has had players bending the rules since it's invention, lol.  I love reading old stories of John McGraw going from first to third, across the diamond, when the umpire had his back turned.  Ahhhh great stories.
  • Posts: 31,550
    I laugh when I see poo-holes “run”

    two tool player heading to the hall, while five tool Bonds gets frozen out by butt hurt sportswriters. :angry:
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
    Missoula 24

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