Well sports fans, we have a championship upon us. No not the World Figure Skating Championships featuring Chazz Michael Michaels, but the World Series. Game 1 on Wednesday night would be placed under the category of entertaining for about thirty-eight minutes, not exactly what the MLB offices were looking for. There were many things that were interesting to pull from that game. One of the most talked about thus far is the ruling of the umpires to change their call, something you almost never see in baseball. However, an interesting storyline came out Thursday morning, oddly enough from a minor league Cardinals pitcher via Twitter. Tyler Melling tweeted a picture showing an odd yellow substance in Jon Lester’s glove.
Honestly, the most annoying thing about this controversy is that no one seems to care. The Cardinals GM does not care, the MLB offices do not care, the Red Sox manager John Farrell does not care, Jon Lester believes the ordeal is over and done with. What the hell are all of you talking about? Lester was asked about it before Thursday night’s game and here is his exact quote, “I don’t know what that is, it looks like a giant booger.” This is directly after saying that the object is “apparently” just rosin. Okay, so which one is it Jonny boy, a booger or some rosin. So, yeah, basically you got caught red-handed Lester. Section 8.02 says that the pitcher cannot have any foreign substance on him. The problem now becomes that no one seems to give a hoot. Joe Maddon, the manager of the Tampa Bay Rays, gets tips from his pitching coach Jim Hickey all the time explaining how a pitcher is somehow stretching the rules. Maddon has said however that there is no reason to call someone out on it, as it would cause people to examine his pitchers even closer. Why are we letting players get away with this? The game is being swayed in favor of the pitcher at this point, with steroids becoming largely forced out of the game and we are just letting them get away with this?
This is an absolute joke MLB, and I have no idea how you can sit behind your argument of the Cardinals not protesting what was in his glove. This is the second time this year that someone of the Red Sox has been accused of doctoring the ball. Clay Buchholz was completely filthy before getting injured this season, and was accused by a Toronto Blue Jays announcer of throwing a spitball or greaseball. If you watch the tape, some of his balls from that game simply do not break the correct way for a right-hander. I do not know about you, but I doubt he learned a new pitch just for one start in April. Of course, it does not help that Lester went and threw 7 2/3 innings of dominant pitching. The most interesting aspect will be to see if Jon Lester has this “rosin” in his glove come Game 5. MLB this is your mess, now you need to do something about it.
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