Posted on 10/23/2006 6:59:40 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL
Last night, MLB showed they had no balls when it refused to acknowledge that Kenny Rogers cheated by putting "something" on his palm (which he had done in a previous playoff game) and just chalked it up to "dirt." Yeah right, Kenny, it was just dirt. Kenny, you might be a great pitcher and you surely had great stuff last night (which didn't warrant you cheating), but you are frickin' SCUMBAG. Again, Kenny had the right stuff last night so why did he attempt to cheat? At least he could have come up with a better excuse like, "I ran out of toilet paper so I improvised".
juicing that ball...........it was very obvious and the umps were oblivious.
What did Leyland know, and when did he know it?
Hey, it could be worse. It could be a sport worth caring about.
MLB and Fox Television MUST get the World Series viewer numbers up, and they need to go 7 games. Otherwise, it is a money loser. To be guaranteed profits, they needed two larger market teams.
Leyland subscribes to DON'T ASK DON'T TELL and he didn't want to risk Kenny hitting him in the face for asking. Has anyone tested Kenny for roids? He exhibits classic roid rage before. And I don't mean hemorrhoids.
Taints his whole game for me.
I was a fan.
That was really sad and the MLB should be ashamed for not calling him on it. It wasn't dirt. It was pine tar. There is NO WAY on earth he didn't realize this was on his THROWING hand. No way on earth.
If you go back and view the 1st iniing, you can see him dig the ball into that part of his hand every time. Then after he "washed the dirt off", he not once did he dig the ball into that part of his hand.
Please don't alter titles. The title you created has to be changed now.
Just use the original published title. That will help reduce the number of duplicate threads.
Thanks.
It was so obvious he used a substance in the 1st inning to juice the ball.
After he cleaned it off at the end of the 1st inning, his pitches weren't any good at all, which is why he got shelled the rest of the game.
Oh, wait -- he didn't get shelled the rest of the game? His pitching in the 2nd inning as just as devastating as the 1st inning when he had a "substance" on his hand?
How could that be?
I noticed it long before the commentators brought it up. The color of it made it completely impossible for it to be dirt. Having said that, though, I cannot fathom he didn't think it would show on camera. I just can't wrap my mind around that.
Yeah, right. The Cardinals lost because Rogers had something on his hand.
This kind of thing is a part of baseball. I tip my hat to the Cardinal skipper for not blowing this out of proportion. He's a class act.
The empires who actually saw his hand do not agree with your assessment. They all agreed the substance was dirt. And since dirt is not a foreign substance and they did not notice that any of the balls were doctored in any way, you are just blowing smoke.
My apologies...my intention was to tie in politics to the story.
He seemed to pitch just as well without it. It was removed after the first inning and he pitched eight. There was no mention of this in his prior appearances where he also threw shutout ball.
How could that be?
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He could have moved it to his cap, to his glove, under his arm, whatever. Not the first and won't be the last.
And you know this because??? The umpires looked at his hand. The umpires know the difference between pine tar and dirt. They said it was dirt.
Okay, so he had something on his hand in the 1st inning. But what about the rest of the game?
if you watch the video that accompanies the article, Kenny had done the same thing during a game in the playoffs. I hope the St. Louis fans make noise about this.
LoL. Pretty weak.
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