There are some things that you just cannot get away with,
and having illegal pine tar on your neck for everyone in the world to see during
a baseball game is definitely one of them.
Michael Pineda, a pitcher for the New York Yankees,
had recently gotten into trouble just less than two weeks ago for using pine
tar to enhance his pitching against the Boston Red Sox. Just last night, he was busted for the same
exact thing, using pine tar to help him pitch better, but this time Pineda
placed the tar on his neck for almost anyone to see. Not to mention that they were playing the
exact same opponent as they were less than 2 weeks ago, when Pineda was ejected
from that game!
As the Dailey News put it “You don’t drive 100 mph past a
police station. You don’t brag to an IRS auditor about your undeclared income,
and if you are a big-league pitcher who has already been caught with pine tar
on your person, you don’t show up 13 days later against the same opponent, and
come out with a gob of the stuff smeared on the right side of your neck”. I’m starting to question the stupidity of
some people. I mean yeah if you really
want to get away with something be super sneaky about it, and if you are
caught, don’t do it again or if you really have to, be even sneakier. What you should not do is after you are
caught for something, do not make it even more obvious the next time and expect
to get away, it is complete nonsense!
Many pitchers do use illegal pitching substances in the MLB
such as the pine tar used by Pineda in the Yankees game against the Red sox
just the other night. Unlike Pineda,
these pitches are extremely quiet about it, and do not use it just a few games
after being caught using it. Many MLB
pitchers confessed to using theses illegal substances to enhance their
pitching, usually in cold weather.
Just when you thought it was almost impossible to get even stupider, you were wrong. It was even possible that Pineda had a rag used to wipe pine tar hanging out of his back pocket while he was pitching. One reported even joked that he had the discretion of a Kardashian. Just hopefully when he returns he does not get in trouble yet again!
Just when you thought it was almost impossible to get even stupider, you were wrong. It was even possible that Pineda had a rag used to wipe pine tar hanging out of his back pocket while he was pitching. One reported even joked that he had the discretion of a Kardashian. Just hopefully when he returns he does not get in trouble yet again!
"Placement
of Pine Tar on Yankees' Michael Pineda is Real Sticking Point." NY
Daily News. N.p., 24 Apr. 2014. Web. 25 Apr. 2014.
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