I think you're going to see a lot of lower-quality pens in the coming weeks. Did you read the SI article that broke the sticky stuff case wide open? That excrement completely changed pitching all over the sport.
The bat was being taken out of guys' hands. I'm vehemently anti-3-true-outcome hitters, but I'm a lot more anti-cheaters. I've always been 100% behind 1 legal grip substance, but "Spider Tack"? No way.
i self admittedly need to learn a lot more about this and haven't been following very closely, but i saw those glasnow vids and you can't help but feel that there is a lot of merit to his concerns.
manfred and co have always been the worst with big decisions, and this may be another example. if you want to police the game and remove 'cheating', fine, great. figure out a safe and reasonable way to do it.
asking pitchers to go from 'anything' to nothing smack dab in the middle of the season without any sort of forewarning beforehand other than the prior two weeks seems......pretty fcking rash. if this forces pitchers to hold the ball/throw differently than they have their entire lives and recruit forearm muscles to hold the ball tighter
before they have to throw their pitches with extreme ferocity and torque, you can totally see and imagine how it could affect arm health.
also, even the punishments seem kind of stupid. miss 10 games without any dock in pay? that sounds like.......a paid vacation?
