Today, MLB suspended New York Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda for 10 games after he was ejected from last night’s game against the Boston Red Sox after being found with pine tar on his neck. Pineda was using this pine tar to doctor the baseball. He might as well have put a jar of vaseline on the mound beside the rosin bag.
My advice to Pineda is, if he is going to doctor the baseball he should at least get in touch with Gaylord Perry (or pick up a second hand copy of
Me & The Spitter) and learn how to cheat discreetly or at the very minimum make the hitters
think he’s cheating. On the other hand,
even Perry got caught cheating once. But Perry does have a plaque in Cooperstown.
