Baseball..

[Multi Sport]

With the news today that MLB will start checking starting pitchers 2x per game and relief pitchers once for foreign substance I wonder if they will start to check bats prior to games.

Look for more HBP as a byproduct...

 

[Multi Sport]

MLB: Pitchers get 10-game bans for sticky stuff

Pitchers will be ejected and suspended for 10 games for using illegal foreign substances to doctor baseballs in a crackdown by Major League Baseball that will start June 21.

www.espn.com

 

[Chelsea dad g09]

I'm all for the rosin/pine tar/sunscreen to help grip. Pitchers f'ed up when they started using it for better spin rates and did so blatantly. Should of kept it the open secret that it was and nobody wouldve complained.

 

[Multi Sport]

As more batters get hit MLB will probably change their tune. Then they'll return to the juiced ball to compensate..

 

[crush]

 

[ToonArmy]

But the Astros can cheat their way to a world series no real punishment

 

[Chelsea dad g09]

But the Astros can cheat their way to a world series no real punishment

I agree, total bs what they got away with.

 

[Multi Sport]

But the Astros can cheat their way to a world series no real punishment

Boom!!!

 

[Multi Sport]

On Tuesday night, Chicago White Sox star Carlos Rodon ripped MLB commissioner Rob Manfred for punishing pitchers, but being lax on the Houston Astros cheating scandal.

 

[Multi Sport]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1404954413974892547

Anyone else think Rondon is the second coming of Boomer? Watching him pitch is like watching Wells pitch in his prime..

 

[Multi Sport]

Cade Mcnown can relate...

Detroit Tigers pitcher throws up all over mound, demoted to Triple-A after the game

Detroit Tigers pitcher Beau Burrows had a season debut he’d like to forget.

www.foxnews.com

 

[espola]

It used to be slippery stuff, not sticky --

 

[Multi Sport]

It used to be slippery stuff, not sticky --

Rosin has been used since the early 1900s and is used to increase your grip. The Perry's opted for the other direction..

Now it's sunscreen, pine tar, pelicans and spiders. Nothing new just new (and more effective) ways of cheating.

Catch a foul ball at a game and chances are you'll find some "foreign " substance on it.

 

[N00B]

It used to be slippery stuff, not sticky --

It’s all ‘spin rate’…. Vaseline for less and a fastball that behaves more like a knuckleball. Sticky for more movement on your pitches.

 

[Multi Sport]

It’s all ‘spin rate’…. Vaseline for less and a fastball that behaves more like a knuckleball. Sticky for more movement on your pitches.

The worst game I ever had (a Golden Sombrero) was against a knuckleballer who sat me down 3x followed by a guy who was only throwing mid to upper 80s but looked like he was throwing 100 who sat me down. I know some guys who would ask to sit out when a knuckleball pitcher is going.. their afraid to mess up their swing...

 

[espola]

MLB analyst includes Yankees, Judge in widespread cheating claims

MLB analyst includes Yankees, Judge in widespread cheating claims first appeared on Elite Sports NY, the Voice, the Pulse of New York City sports.

elitesportsny.com

 

[Multi Sport]

MLB analyst includes Yankees, Judge in widespread cheating claims

MLB analyst includes Yankees, Judge in widespread cheating claims first appeared on Elite Sports NY, the Voice, the Pulse of New York City sports.

elitesportsny.com

Not surprised...

 

[Multi Sport]

Padres new theme song.. Free Falling.

 

[ToonArmy]

Slam the door on Slam Diego

 

[espola]

One of the advantages of the current broadcast technology of baseball games is that it can show how good or bad the umpires are at calling balls and strikes. Maybe roboump next year?

Minor League Baseball To Experiment With Robotic Umpires

The robot could help rein in different interpretations of the strike zone among umpires. It also limits the ability of catchers to frame a pitch. The machine will appear in select Low-A games.

www.npr.org