Dirt on the hand??????

[german]

In between watching C Wood smoke Miami and tha Raiders putting some major hurt on Arizona, Sportscenter was going on and on about the pitcher having dirt* on his hand................can someone who knows a bit about baseball explain the importance of this issue?

*didn't look any dirt I have seen before

Kust

 

[ticklingfeet4fu]

The claim is that Kenny Rogers might have been using a foreign substance on his hand to give him an advantage when he pitch last night. After the first inning they made him wash his hands and yet he still threw a shutout for 7 more innings. Fact is, the Cardinal players are crying and that is it. They say he was cheating. I think that the Cardinals just weren't hitting.

 

[HappyGilmore]

The cardinals wernt crying about it they even said after the game it wasnt a big deal because even after he washed it off they couldnt hit him anyway! I didnt think he was trying to cheat at first I just thought it was dirt and rosen like he said until I seen it on sports center today. It looked a little to shiny to ber rosen and dirt! But thats defeatly not the reason he won!

 

[unclebill]

Mr. Rogers has had that "dirt" on his hand during the entire postseason. Cheating like that has been going on in baseball for more than a hundred years. As far as MLB is concerned the controversy is good for ratings. And it gets those sour grapes New York sportswriters to stop whining because there is no Subway Series to write about.

 

[Dionysus]

Honestly, to me it looked like a smear of chew spit (sorry, but that's what it looked like).

From what I've heard thus far, neither the cardinals manager nor the players were really making much of a stink about it. Only the sports media, who these days are becoming as much story-*****s as the regular news media (i.e. cnn taking a 5-10 minute report and turning it into a 4 hour frenzy and then producing umpteen 30 minute documentaries on said story).

It didnt seem to affect his pitching anyway once he rinsed whatever it was off. If it was truly such a big deal I think the Card's or the Umps or both would have demanded samples and tests and whatnot. But they seemed to just kinda blow it off, which makes me think it wasnt nearly as big a deal as the sports media is trying to make it.

 

[ticklingfeet4fu]

Honestly, to me it looked like a smear of chew spit (sorry, but that's what it looked like).

From what I've heard thus far, neither the cardinals manager nor the players were really making much of a stink about it. Only the sports media, who these days are becoming as much story-*****s as the regular news media (i.e. cnn taking a 5-10 minute report and turning it into a 4 hour frenzy and then producing umpteen 30 minute documentaries on said story).

It didnt seem to affect his pitching anyway once he rinsed whatever it was off. If it was truly such a big deal I think the Card's or the Umps or both would have demanded samples and tests and whatnot. But they seemed to just kinda blow it off, which makes me think it wasnt nearly as big a deal as the sports media is trying to make it.

I wholeheartly agree with you. It isn't a big deal.