Bugs & Cranks sent along this photographic evidence!
Click through to the rest of the story for a clip of video of Jake killing it with some nasty action. I'm pretty sure that what you're seeing on Jake's hands is chew residue. He's a chewer for sure and that nasty junk coming from whatever he keeps in his lip has ended up on his fingers!
I wonder if they'll investigate. I don't know about you, but I love the idea of a spitball. It's one of those things that people who only see baseball rules in black and white might criticize me about like, You're so high and mighty about steroids and you actually like the fact that Jake might throw a spitter?
See, to me... the spitter is like a lost dark art. It's against the rules to be sure, but if it were really such a terrible thing, they wouldn't have grandfathered in all of the guys who openly threw spitters after the pitch was banned. And even now, it lives on in the hearts of slightly evil pitchers. Jake Peavy harnessing the unholy powers of hell to do the holy work of defeating the Dodgers. He's like Ghostrider or Hellblazer or Spawn or something.
Carry on, young Jake! Work your dastardly magic!
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Beat my diary by a minute Dex
R.J. Anderson - April 6, 2008
Haha I saw that
I was gonna see what you said and link through, but then it disappeared. I thought maybe Jake had something to do with it and was worried that I might be next.
Dex - April 6, 2008
Just the typical
"Don't shoot the messenger, I'm a fan of Peavy too." diatribe.
As for Peavy, it shouldn't really surprise anyone that players cheat or try to cheat. Heck just yesterday I thought Trever Miller had something on his hat the way he kept going to it.
R.J. Anderson - April 6, 2008
Just a dirty hand
No way in hell he throws a junkball
matthewverygood - April 6, 2008
Spitball
From the few accounts I've read, oldschool pitchers that threw spitballs really applied the spit. Someone talked about actually having spit fly off the ball and hit them in the face. It would be so hard to effectively throw any kind of doctored ball in todays game. What is the average life of a ball, six pitches? To doctor a ball every six pitches on average without getting caught would be pretty impressive, and I agree with Dex, pretty frickin sweet. I mean all it takes is the umpire noticing a defaced ball once, and there is a 10 game suspension.
osbug - April 6, 2008
Quotes from both managers are here
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/padres/2008/apr/06/peavys-dirty-hand/
matthewverygood - April 6, 2008
"I've got no problems with anytime anybody needs to check me."
I bet he wouldn't. That
manwhore who leaves his wife to take care of their kids while he's out with slutspervert.TheVinylCrocodile - April 6, 2008
Ol' Jake loves him some strange.
TheThirdGonzalez - April 6, 2008
I told you
regional euphamism
Sam (sdsuaztec4) - April 7, 2008
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