Sorry for the technical difficulties today, guys. I had a feeling that Michael Pineda would get his ass beat around Fenway tonight but I didn’t think the guy would get tossed for an illegal substance–on his neck.
Bright boy.
Yanks down 4-0 in the 4th.
Carry On.
Pineda has nothing if not chutzpah.
Welcome back, Alex!
What was I saying about the importance of having a Kangaroo Court last night???
Seriously, not. fucking. acceptable.
I cannot friggin' believe the Yankees let him go out on the mound looking like that. Seriously. WTF! I hope there was an ulterior motive b/c it was flat out stupid as far as I'm concerned. Unless Pineda applied it without anyone's knowledge. Lohud says it will be an automatic 10 game suspension. Bollocks!
Have to think Pineda was acting alone there. I imagine Joe G, Larry R or even CC would have interevened had they seen something.
The *only* mitigating factor that I will entertain, is that because he's coming back from the serious shoulder injury, he's still "needing" the pine tar to believe and have confidence that he can succeed at this level.
Or something ...
Maybe he gripped a bat when the Yankees were up, rested it on his shoulder and pine tar rubbed off on his neck? Yeah, that's the ticket!
[5] True, but *nobody* noticed a pine-tar patch on his neck? Seems somewhat dubious ...
Big Pine just exudes tar?
[8] Well, how often do other players inspect each other's necks for foreign substances? Also, Pineda is rather dark skinned, it's not like it was THAT easy to see...BoSox must have had a telescope on him.
Glad to the site is back up. There for a second I was afraid the ejection of a pitcher for a foreign substance carried an automatic suspension of the team's best blog as well... ;-)
[11] nice!
With Lackey pitching at Fenway, the Yanks could easily come back.
[10] Hard to say, but it was easy enough to spot that the Umpires did, without leaning in too far for it ...
Shrug.
FUCK, I hate the slack-jawed, mouth breather.
On the bright side, "Big Pine Tar" is a pretty good nickname.
C'mon, Captain!
[15] I Ike him 'cause the Yankees always get to him. Give it time.
STAB! STAB!! STAB!!!
WHY the FUCK would you bother to seek a 2nd opinion on a partially-torn elbow ligament???
REHAB NEVER WORKS!
HE'S NOT GOING TO PITCH AGAIN THIS SEASON!!
GET IT FUCKING OVER WITH. NOW!!!
What a waste of time ...
Stop.
The stupid ... it burns.
Thank you, Coney.
It's cold so they use pine tar instead of the suntan spray that the Sox use during the day.
[10] It was really easy to see.
Yay, a run!
Sigh.
Pineda either is really arrogant or dumb or both. My only beef is that he put the bullpen--and his team in a tight spot for the rest of the night and tomorrow too. I agree with Cult, a Kangaroo Court needs to give him an internal beatdown. I don't know what the locker room atmosphere is like but back in the late '90s this shit would not fly.
Sad to say but I feel the Teix era is kaput. How about McCann at 1B and Gary Sanchez gets a shot in the bigs?
Greetings Gents (and any Ladies?)
Agreed that PinHead wins the Stupid of the Week award.
But how could Girardi et al miss it?
It was obvious from the TV.
27) Apparently he only put it on between the 1 and 2nd innings. So I could see him going back out there without them noticing. But again, I hope someone has a nice long talk with his dumb ass.
I know they'll be a lot of anger but Pineda is still young and has really had a tough time the last two years..hope they'll go easy on him and get his confidence up so he doesn't need any pine-tar, etc.
SHUT. UP. KAY.
Yanks are going quietly into the night...
This is horrible.
[28] Ok, the between innings thing explains ... a lot. But, still, that shit isn't going to fly ...
[26] Huh? Did he get hurt again? The Yankees don't make the playoffs without him at first.
As Casey Stengel supposedly said, "If you don't know you your first baseman is, you don't have a first baseman."
He gives us leadership, superior defense and stability. This team can do without the extra pop
[28] So I guess he's riding the pine for the rest of the night. (ouch)
I really believe this was much more a case of poor hitting, rather than great pitching.
Well, that's that.
Bugger.
29) Fuck that. He needs a kick in the ass.
Lackey was really good tonight, too.
[28] This should blow over rather smoothly. I remember, after he was already well into his later career, Tommy John got caught with a nail file ON THE MOUND, like a kid with a doobie at a traffic stop. He tried to drop it surreptitiously right in front of the ump. I don't think he even got busted for it.
I'm not so irked that Pineda has chutzpah more than brains but I think he's selfish and dumb for screwing up the bullpen, not to mention the rotation if he gets suspended for 10 games.
It's not the getting caught ... it's the getting caught after he was blatantly caught doing it before, on national tv, and it was a thing!
I mean, how fucking stupid do you have to be???
I cannot believe Pineda. What a loser and cheater! Did no one on the Yankees notice the pine tar on his neck?
Well, any team with an obvious cheater deserves to lose.
Tonight, that team was us ...
"If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'.." - Grizzled baseball old-timer.
Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time ...
I mean, I'll give Pineda this faint praise, he was at least LESS obvious about than last time, though obviously, nowhere close to hiding it well enough to escape detection ...
[46] The steel-winged hawk drops the most flexible staple-gun.
[48] Meet at the Guava tree, the black dog runs at night!
Boy we have some self-righteousness on the board tonight. Pineda did what all pitchers do when the weather is cold and they need to get a grip on the ball. Lackey probably had it on his belt. Baseball will get serious about enforcement or they will suspend him for 8 games and pretend he is the only one. Count on the latter.
[50] Kenny Rodgers was putting pine tar ON THE BALL in the AL playoffs when he smoked the Yankees many moons ago. As I recall there were absolutely no repercussions.
[43] You're kidding right?
Exhibit A: Hall of Fame member Gaylord Perry. Used an illegal pitch his entire career. Joked about it.
Exhibit B: Future HOFer and the "face of baseball and all things pure," Derek Jeter pretended to get hit by a pitch once to get on base. That's once that we know of. That is premeditated blatant "cheating. No two ways about it.
Cheating is banded about too much in this game. For example, why doesn't a player get tossed for pretending to catch a ball that he really trapped? That is cheating in every sense of the word.
Yanks are lacking veteran leadership this year with A-Rod missing.
Did Cult break his record for most f-bombs dropped during a game?