Welp, the Joel Peralta pine tar story just got positively stupid. I hope Davey Johnson, the man who Rays manager Joe Maddon has openly called a "pussy" is proud of his damn self.
Peralta was suspended for eight games by Major League Baseball today in what can only be described as a trajesty (that's right, trajesty) of justice.
People are saying that MLB had no choice but to suspend Peralta for having pine tar in his glove. Bullshit. He was already ejected from a game without throwing a pitch. That could and should have been enough.
If MLB did have to suspend him, then Peralta could have been benched for one game. Instead, Peralta is being sidelined for as many games as Sammy Sosa was for using a corked bat.
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Pine tar in a pitcher's glove is not the same as a corked bat. Pine tar doesn't do a whole hell of a lot for a pitcher - not near as much as a corked cat - but more importantly, everyone does it. Major League Baseball is fooling itself to pretend otherwise.
Joe Maddon was right this week when he said that pine tar should simply be legalized for pitchers. What's the point of having a rule if everyone in the game is going to look the other way at it 99 percent of the time, and then the league is going to bring the hammer down on one the odd occasion.
Joel Peralta is appealing the suspension and will continue pitching until the appeal is heard. Hopefully those fucks in the league office will get their heads out of their own asses between now and then.
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