Gerritt Cole

[storrsroars]

Has any commissioner in sports ever looked dumber than Rob Manfred?

Bud Selig, 2002 All Star Game.

 

[McLovin]

I saw it.

My point was you can get plenty of grip on the ball with rosin. Bauer showed he could suspend it upside down on his palm with a combo of sweat and rosin. So why the need for anything else?

As a follow-up...

Scherzer miffed as umpires inspect him 3 times

Nationals ace Max Scherzer was inspected three times for the use of foreign substances on the baseball in his start Tuesday, but it was Phillies manager Joe Girardi's request that he be checked that set him off.

www.espn.com

The errant offering from Scherzer, according to the three-time Cy Young winner, was not a message. It was simply a 95 mph fastball that he could not control.

"If you watch the Bohm at-bat, I almost put a 95 mph fastball in his head because the ball slipped out of my hand," Scherzer said. "The whole night, I was sick of licking my fingers and tasting rosin. I couldn't even get sweat from the back of my head, because it really wasn't a warm night. So the only part that was sweaty on me was actually my hair, so I had to take off my hat to get any kind of moisture on my hand, to try and mix with the rosin. For me, that's the confusing part, because I'm just trying to get a grip of the ball."

 

[Scoe]

As a follow-up...

Scherzer miffed as umpires inspect him 3 times

Nationals ace Max Scherzer was inspected three times for the use of foreign substances on the baseball in his start Tuesday, but it was Phillies manager Joe Girardi's request that he be checked that set him off.

www.espn.com

The errant offering from Scherzer, according to the three-time Cy Young winner, was not a message. It was simply a 95 mph fastball that he could not control.

"If you watch the Bohm at-bat, I almost put a 95 mph fastball in his head because the ball slipped out of my hand," Scherzer said. "The whole night, I was sick of licking my fingers and tasting rosin. I couldn't even get sweat from the back of my head, because it really wasn't a warm night. So the only part that was sweaty on me was actually my hair, so I had to take off my hat to get any kind of moisture on my hand, to try and mix with the rosin. For me, that's the confusing part, because I'm just trying to get a grip of the ball."

This is absolutely pathetic umps can’t even call a game and now you want them to check the pitchers every inning it seems like, you don’t even checked like this before you board a plane.

You wanna speed up the game cut out the BS nit picking and stop effecting the game with stupid extra inning rules. Let pitchers use substances and juice the ball who gives a damn.