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Re:Say It Is So: Baseball’s Disgrace by agarden on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @02:14PM (#22416245)
Trevor Bauer has been loudly stating that the Astros' pitchers are using foreign substances on the ball to get the tremendous spin rates that they do. McCullers throwing 24 straight curveballs might in fact be suspicious.
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Re:Say It Is So: Baseball’s Disgrace by jahlove on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @03:47PM (#22417251)
Pitchers using stickum is pretty much an open secret that the entire league participates in [0].

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/baseballs-st...

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Re:Say It Is So: Baseball’s Disgrace by sk5t on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @10:29PM (#22420028)
I feel like the game tolerates some bending of the rules so long as the techniques were available and used in the 1920s--tar or earwax or whatever on the ball, a certain amount of incorrect calls from the umpire, and so on.
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