Support NeoGAF

[Tschumi]

Please delete if old news...

Recent threads suggest this is good news for some GAFers... Wonder which pitchers will suddenly suck ...

Sources: Sticky stuff in MLB to yield 10-day ban

MLB is expected to announce Tuesday that it will suspend players caught with any foreign substance for 10 days with pay to help curtail the widespread use of grip enhancers by pitchers around the league, sources familiar with the plans told ESPN.

www.espn.com

Major League Baseball is expected to announce Tuesday that it will suspend players caught with any foreign substance for 10 days with pay to help curtail the widespread use of grip enhancers by pitchers around the league, sources familiar with the plans told ESPN.

The league is expected to distribute a memo to teams -- which have been briefed on the broad strokes of the policy change -- that outlines its plans to penalize all players caught by umpires with any foreign substance on their person, from the widely used sunscreen-and-rosin combination to Spider Tack, an industrial glue that has become a favorite among pitchers who want to generate more spin on the ball.

The liberal interpretation of Rules 3.01 and 6.02(c), which ban the use of foreign substances, would discipline all substances the same. While there is a "broad consensus among players that Spider Tack is over the line," a high-ranking person on the players' side told ESPN on Monday, the full ban of all grip agents could rankle players. A longtime umpire told ESPN the hard line is vital as he and his brethren attempt an on-the-fly enforcement of a rule that for years has been ignored.

However significant players' reliance on sticky stuff has become, and regardless of how responsible teams and the league were for enabling another cheating scandal to burrow its way into baseball, the efforts to rid the game of grip enhancers have arrived and will begin in earnest June 21, sources said.

 

[Tschumi]

Please edit title to 10-day, wtfOops

 

[StreetsofBeige]

10 day suspension with pay?

what kind of penalty is that? Sounds like a vacation.

 

[Tschumi]

10 day suspension with pay?

what kind of penalty is that? Sounds like a vacation.

Be decent if it happens to some gun at the start of a big series

 

[Halo is Back]

10 day suspension with pay?

what kind of penalty is that? Sounds like a vacation.

where do I sign up?

 

[EverydayBeast]

Receivers in football already wear gloves, LeBron is huge into chalk dust for grip in basketball but I love this pitcher cheating with sticky grip story, I feel like it’s attempting the steroid era ratings.

 

[Nobody_Important]

10 days WITH PAY for using a substance that can help them up their stats to a level where they get paid hundreds of millions of dollars?



Hmmm.......I wonder what players will do.....

 

[bender]

Tommy Johns frequency to decline.

 

[12Goblins]

saw this story this morning

Shelby Houlihan: American middle distance runner blames burrito for positive test

Shelby Houlihan says she has been banned for four years after testing positive for a prohibited substance - which she blames on a burrito.

www.bbc.com

dang burrito had anabolic steroids in them

 

[bigsnack]

Tommy Johns frequency to decline.

That's actually a very interesting point. Do you think there would be a correlation?

 

[LOLCats]

watched a video on this recently, thought i saw it here, anyway pitching stats are statospheric and increased ball rpm is so obvious that they def have a magic substance.

baseball dead to me since Steroid era anyway.

 

[MastaKiiLA]

Suspended with pay? So a fucking paid vacation? Way to deter the cheaters, MLB. Just cheat during the regular season, and then feel free to gamble late in the WS, because who gives a fuck about missing a start at the beginning of the next season? Also, what do they do to repeat offenders?

 

[ipukespiders]

Why not a lifetime ban from the MLB?

 

[HoodWinked]

It's weird they landed on calling it foreign substances because it makes it sound more nefarious and dangerous.

It's literally sticky shit for your hands. They have the rosin bags and players would mix that with thier sunscreen that makes it more sticky but both are allowed. They probably can't go nuts on the punishment because its a grey zone for what's allowed and what's not.

 

[MastAndo]

I'm surprised the MLB doesn't just provide pitchers with official, MLB-issued sticky stuff while making all other substances illegal. They can manipulate that from season to season to get the results they need, the same way the do with the baseballs themselves.

 

[DeepBreath87]

saw this story this morning

Shelby Houlihan: American middle distance runner blames burrito for positive test

Shelby Houlihan says she has been banned for four years after testing positive for a prohibited substance - which she blames on a burrito.

www.bbc.com

dang burrito had anabolic steroids in them

Shit dude. I'm about to start hitting up Chipotle. HARD.

Obviously this is pathetic. MLB wants to look like they're doing something without actually doing anything, which for the life of me, I do not understand. Their game is dying. The most exciting parts of the game are when the ball is put in play, and that is not happening enough. Cracking down on this will help hitters. It both stops cheating and makes the games better. Why is this even difficult?

 

[MastAndo]

Tyler Glasnow blames his injury on MLB’s sticky substance ban

MLB’s sticky stuff ban will lead to more injuries, according to the Rays ace.

www.sbnation.com

 

[Tschumi]

I'm surprised the MLB doesn't just provide pitchers with official, MLB-issued sticky stuff while making all other substances illegal. They can manipulate that from season to season to get the results they need, the same way the do with the baseballs themselves.

 

[Tschumi]

Tyler Glasnow blames his injury on MLB’s sticky substance ban

MLB’s sticky stuff ban will lead to more injuries, according to the Rays ace.

www.sbnation.com

like, basically, 'i'm straining to get the same action i was getting with the goop, and the strain has injured me'

Welll shit, son.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Fox Mulder]

Cheating or not, it wasn’t a new issue and now they’re cracking down in the middle of a season. I’m not a fan of how it suddenly impacts key players and teams. MLB could have handled it in an off-season

 

[StreetsofBeige]

like, basically, 'i'm straining to get the same action i was getting with the goop, and the strain has injured me'

Welll shit, son.

So he openly admits to using sticky substances. Ballsy I guess.

 

[Nobody_Important]

What has this world come to where a man is judged because he is being honest about how he wants his balls to be rubbed.


Got damn Ess Jay Dubs ruining everything......

 

[Pidull]

Hilarious how this all blew up in MLB's faces. Just like Jose Canseco, they'll hate Trevor Bauer forever.

Just goes to show, if you're not cheating, you're not trying. Athletes have every reason to cheat for an advantage.

 

[GloveSlap]

Hilarious how this all blew up in MLB's faces. Just like Jose Canseco, they'll hate Trevor Bauer forever.

Just goes to show, if you're not cheating, you're not trying. Athletes have every reason to cheat for an advantage.

Cheating is lame as hell....BUT there comes a point where non-enforcement forces everyone to cheat just to keep up.

 

[zeorhymer]

Cheating is lame as hell....BUT there comes a point where non-enforcement forces everyone to cheat just to keep up.

It's the MLB trying to save face after everyone's been doing it for years.