So, what was it everybody? Sure does not look like dirt to me.

Probably pine tar.

Players cheat all the time. LaRussa didn't make a big deal out of it b/c he's had plenty of guys who benefit from that kind of thing (Julian Tavares comes to mind).

I think Rogers made it obvious so he'd get 'caught,' then he'd wipe off the dirty part to look like he'd cleaned himself up.

Only you can't just wipe off pine tar--his hand would still be sticky, and he'd retain the advantage of having pine tar on his hand while looking like he'd complied.

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Come on.

I agree re probably pine tar, but do you really think he wanted to get caught? Doesn't he risk getting booted from the game and possibly the rest of the series? I understand that if everyone does it, even though its illegal (i.e. sodomy laws), it means its less likely you get tossed. But still.

petercobber wrote:I agree re probably pine tar, but do you really think he wanted to get caught? Doesn't he risk getting booted from the game and possibly the rest of the series? I understand that if everyone does it, even though its illegal (i.e. sodomy laws), it means its less likely you get tossed. But still.

You do realize that you just compared putting some stuff on your hand to fucking someone in the ass.

I thought it was a great piece of psychology with Kenny Rogers and Jim Leyland trying to get in the heads of the Cardinals and LaRussa. It reminded me of Dusty Baker sprinkling holy water or whatever it was when the Cards played the Cubs a couple years ago. [/code]

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:

petercobber wrote:I agree re probably pine tar, but do you really think he wanted to get caught? Doesn't he risk getting booted from the game and possibly the rest of the series? I understand that if everyone does it, even though its illegal (i.e. sodomy laws), it means its less likely you get tossed. But still.

You do realize that you just compared putting some stuff on your hand to fucking someone in the ass.

Sometimes when you fuck someone in the ass, you get some stuff on your hand.




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I'm so sorry.

Santorum!

Good one.

Without the shitstain on his hand, maybe the Yanks pound him in Game 3 (like they usually do) and keep the series going until the bats heat up and back to New York. Kenny Rogers is not a 23 consecutive scoreless innings kind of guy. He is a cheating hack fuxxor. I can't believe they didn't inspect his hand. It's as bad or worse than Sosa's corked bat IMO.