Random MLB News & Discussion 2014

[Eye Black]

Bartolo Colon at bats are one of my favorite things...

 

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[TooLiveBrew]

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[TooLiveBrew]

Michael Pineda was just ejected from the NYY@BOS game for having pine tar on the side of his neck. This, after he was already seen in a previous start with pine tar clearly on the heel of his pitching hand --

 

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[SRB]

Michael Pineda was just ejected from the NYY@BOS game for having pine tar on the side of his neck. This, after he was already seen in a previous start with pine tar clearly on the heel of his pitching hand --

 

Cue the same people saying Braun should be banned from the game talking about how Pineda is such a gritty player just trying to get the 'W' for his team.

 

(And of course, doctoring the ball actually has a clear impact on the game, unlike PEDs. [sarcasm]Eagerly awaiting Pineda's 50-game suspension.[/sarcasm])

[AdvantageSchneider]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I very much enjoyed the Cubs celebrating 100 years at Wrigley Field by giving up 5 runs in the 9th to lose 7-5.

[pretendastronaut]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I very much enjoyed the Cubs celebrating 100 years at Wrigley Field by giving up 5 runs in the 9th to lose 7-5.

 

I don't have the disdain for the Cubs that I had around 2007, but there was a lot of poetry in that collapse.

[pretendastronaut]

Michael Pineda was just ejected from the NYY@BOS game for having pine tar on the side of his neck. This, after he was already seen in a previous start with pine tar clearly on the heel of his pitching hand

 

What was amazing was how utterly blatant it was, the Red Sox bench was just standing at the edge of the dugout in disbelief.

[Eye Black]

Michael Pineda was just ejected from the NYY@BOS game for having pine tar on the side of his neck. This, after he was already seen in a previous start with pine tar clearly on the heel of his pitching hand

 

What was amazing was how utterly blatant it was, the Red Sox bench was just standing at the edge of the dugout in disbelief.

It was certainly blatant, especially coming off a start where everyone knew he had Pine Tar on his hand. Still, I was a little surprised the Red Sox actually complained about it considering the Red Sox pitchers received some accusations of doctoring the ball last year, and this is Jon Lester during last year's World Series.

 

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Also, here is a good BP podcast with Dirk Hayhurst from earlier this week about pitchers doctoring the baseball. Hayhurst is the one who called out Clay Buchholz last year for doctoring the baseball with a substance on his forearm last year.

 

And here is Hayhurst's Major League Pitcher's Guide to Doctoring a Baseball as mentioned in the above podcast.

[igor67]

Ban the PEC(D) users for life after all drugs are just a type of chemical, can't discriminate.

[dlk9s]

Michael Pineda was just ejected from the NYY@BOS game for having pine tar on the side of his neck. This, after he was already seen in a previous start with pine tar clearly on the heel of his pitching hand --

 

Cue the same people saying Braun should be banned from the game talking about how Pineda is such a gritty player just trying to get the 'W' for his team.

 

(And of course, doctoring the ball actually has a clear impact on the game, unlike PEDs. [sarcasm]Eagerly awaiting Pineda's 50-game suspension.[/sarcasm])

I think most people are just calling Pineda an idiot.

[fondybrewfan]

Most articles I have seen are "Well everyone is doing it Pineda was just to obvious about it" and are more or less letting him off the hook as a moron. Pine Tar and PED's are obviously not the same thing but they are both ways of cheating

[pretendastronaut]

Still, I was a little surprised the Red Sox actually complained about it considering the Red Sox pitchers received some accusations of doctoring the ball last year, and this is Jon Lester during last year's World Series.

 

I think that was pretty well acknowledged as the reason the Red Sox didn't say anything about the hand incident. They had to say something last night, and Farrell basically acknowledged they had to do it only because of how blatant it was.

[pretendastronaut]

Man I miss watching Zack Greinke. Greinke hasn't allowed more than 2 runs in a game since July 25th, a span of 20 consecutive starts counting the post season.

[SRB]

Michael Pineda was just ejected from the NYY@BOS game for having pine tar on the side of his neck. This, after he was already seen in a previous start with pine tar clearly on the heel of his pitching hand --

 

Cue the same people saying Braun should be banned from the game talking about how Pineda is such a gritty player just trying to get the 'W' for his team.

 

(And of course, doctoring the ball actually has a clear impact on the game, unlike PEDs. [sarcasm]Eagerly awaiting Pineda's 50-game suspension.[/sarcasm])

I think most people are just calling Pineda an idiot.

 

What a surprise. Grand Inquisitor Buster Olney has a piece basically glorifying the use of pine tar and saying the rules need to be changed. The levels of hypocrisy are incredible.

 

Pine tar and PEDs are not the same thing. Pine tar actually has a dramatic effect on the game and gives the user a proven advantage, unlike PEDs.

[endaround]

I hope Saint McCann does the right thing and refuses to catch that cheating Pineda from here on out.

[pretendastronaut]

George Will and Stephen Colbert discuss the Cubs and Wrigley. Funny interview

 

http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/yeczpa/george-will

[pretendastronaut]

Also, Richard Justice is still a terrible writer, even if he's writing about the Brewers:

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mil/richard-justice-ride-the-wave-brew-crew?ymd=20140424&content_id=73212528&vkey=news_mil

[whizkid]

Just saw on MLB Network, MLB is going back to the previous ball transfer interpretations starting with tonight's games. The new interpretations were a disaster.

[stalton]

Playing the devil's advocate Re: cheating. I understand there can be different levels of infractions/penelties (ie regular vs technical fouls in basketball or 5 to spot of ball foul for football) but if student A gets caught cheating by taking the time to make an elaborate cheat sheet and student B gets caught cheating by randomly looking and copying his neighbor's test, would they not receive the same penalty?

[MJLiverock]

Most articles I have seen are "Well everyone is doing it Pineda was just to obvious about it" and are more or less letting him off the hook as a moron. Pine Tar and PED's are obviously not the same thing but they are both ways of cheating

 

Well apparently the unwritten rule in baseball is that using pine tar is OK as long as you are discreet about it but since Pineda was so blatant about it it rose the hackles of the keepers of the code.

[Warning Track Power]

I went to the Dodgers-Phillies game last night and Dennis Haysbert aka Pedro Cerrano from Major League did the PA announcing the entire game. Awesome.

[pretendastronaut]

This is pretty great:

 

Robinson Cano Surprises Yankees Fans While They're Booing

 

[topper09er]

This is pretty great:

 

Robinson Cano Surprises Yankees Fans While They're Booing

 

 

This is like the internet, people just criticize everyone for everything, saying things they wouldn't dare say in real life.

[jjkoestler]

That was a great bit.

 

Stating the obvious... It's hilarious that fans of the Yankees hate players who leave for more money.

[pretendastronaut]

How brutal is it to be a Diamondbacks fan so far this season? They're 8-22. They're about league average on runs scored, but runs allowed, nobody is even close. Only 3 teams have allowed more than 130 runs to this point: Diamondbacks 175, White Sox 145, Astros 135.

 

These numbers are slightly skewed because they've played at least 2 more games than everyone else, but they're still averaging 5.83 runs allowed per game. The White Sox are at 5.18 and Astros 5.0.