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You know, I had not thought of that. Everybody and their dog throw 99, and if one slipsâŚ.
When the screws started getting applied to A-Fraud he initially said he used roids while in Texas but not NY.
I hope Mike Fiers joins the Yankees.
Fiers probably checks age of consent laws before he signs anywhere
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Didnât that happen the other day?
âI hate to bring it up, but youâll see more of that if we keep messing around with the stuff about the balls,â Martinez said. âI understand that theyâre trying to clean some stuff up. But the balls â itâs hot, itâs slippery, itâs sweaty. I know Velasquez didnât throw in there intentionally. ⌠But Iâm afraid that if we donât come up with something unified for everybody, that youâll see a lot more of that. And thatâs a scary feeling because these guys throw 95, 96, 97, some guys throw 100 [mph]."
Martinez and Mark talked, apparently.
EssentiallyâŚ
But it hasnât happened to Yankee/Dodger star yet, so itâs not an issue.
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Alonso with the real conspiracy theory:
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How can anyone think Manfred is competent enough to pull off a scheme like that?
Never ascribe malevolence when incompetence will explain it equally
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I have thought about this too. I also wondered aloud in my head at what the HBP rate is today compared to the past. I was too lazy however to do any research. Well, thanks to Steve Phillips and CJ Nitkowski, I donât have too. They said on the radio this morning that the HBP rate has doubled since 1990. I guess you could cherry pick any stat, but they each seemed to agree that pitchers using these substances in the name of player safety was a real stretch. Itâs used to gain an advantage. And Phillips went a step further and wonders if this will create some sort of split in the players union, where you have half the membership, pitchers, using nefarious means to gain and advantage over the other half, and getting bigger salaries at the other halfâs expense. Donât know if I agree with that rationale. It can go both ways, but it is an interesting take.
And when did players start wearing protection on their arms? Around this time.
The balance of intimidation held for almost three decades until the advent of modern armorâelbow protectors, et al.âwhich arrived in the late 1980s and early 1990s, much of it produced by Houston sporting goods entrepreneur Doug Douglas. Players who had injured an elbow, shin, hand, or other extremity were first to wear the early pads and plates, and all assumed that they would toss them after their injuries healed. But many hitters found that protectors afforded them increased access to the plate and wouldnât surrender that advantage after they mended. Soon, even uninjured players started strapping on armor in the name of prevention rather than protection.
Coincidence? I think not.
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Great point.
First, foremost, and items 1 thru 20 on the list of why they do it.
Let me ask you a question here:
If I could throw a baseball 100 MPH and you were facing me as a hitter, would you rather me have some form of substance that allows me better grip and control available to me, or would you rather me just huck this rock made of string and rubber at you with a slight chance my hand might be sweaty and I might not have any control over where it goes?
Iâll tell you which Iâll pick every time as a hitter: Iâd rather swing and miss at a nasty slider than wake up dead because some trickledick lost control of the ball and it hit me in the face before I could react.
ETA: I sweat a lot.
I think thereâs a happy medium between âthis sweat will make the ball slipâ and âwe cooked this stuff up in a lab and even Peter Parker says itâs really stickyâ
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100 percent. I think there is definitely a happy medium for sure, but these people who are howling about every pitcher that has a dirty spot on their cap and screaming cheater at them are just about the same level of exhausting as the Red Sox fans calling the Astros cheater without a hint of irony.
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Also, I came across an infuriatingly stupid Twitter account the other day that is now calling umpire bad calls âcheatingâ, and it made me want to start a career in doxxing idiots on Twitter.
Thatâs way to ambitious. Youâd never have time for anything else.
You could absolutely monetize that