Gerritt Cole

[The Viking]

These pitchers constantly complaining about grip. Plenty of pitchers have performed well in this sport in the past without some of this crazy stuff being used now.

Suck it up and be honest with yourself that you're just not as good as you think you are.

 

[Waquoit]

These pitchers constantly complaining about grip. Plenty of pitchers have performed well in this sport in the past without some of this crazy stuff being used now.

Suck it up and be honest with yourself that you're just not as good as you think you are.

Nah, Baseball needs to stop messing with the ball every year.

 

[mauconnfan]

These pitchers constantly complaining about grip. Plenty of pitchers have performed well in this sport in the past without some of this crazy stuff being used now.

Suck it up and be honest with yourself that you're just not as good as you think you are.

They've been using stuff forever, spitting or slicing the ball for movement this isn't anything new. Now the glue is ridiculous that Cole and others use, but the sunscreen and rosin who cares it's been going on for years. And it would seem the ball is harder to even grip because they took the "super ball" out of it now, baseball has done crazy stuff with the ball it's on them.

 

[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?

Sweat and rosin will work for guys who play outdoors in the heat in the summer. But come October in Boston or New York those guys won't be sweating, so what do they do then? How about guys who play in AC cooled domes year round? Personally I will sweat if its above 50 degrees, but everyone's body has a different threshold of what would help them produce the "sticky" mixture.

They need either an approved substance pitchers can use (that doesn't rely on them producing their own sweat) or change the ball. I liked Bauers suggestion for how to treat the balls and test the pitchers every inning.

 

[superjohn]

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

 

[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...

Washington Nationals' Max 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...

Washington Nationals' Max 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.