2006-10-22 14:37:07 · 13 answers · asked by Wilton P 5 in Sports ➔ Baseball
It ain't cheating if you don't get caught. And if you do get caught, it ain't cheating if you don't get ejected.
2006-10-22 15:11:27 · update #1
Buck and McCarver said it looked like pine tar. If he wasn't cheating, why did he take it off? He is pitching decently enough now, but not as well as he did his last two starts. The Cardinals have hit a lot of rockets tonight, but the Tigers are playing great defense. I think that whatever was on his hand, helped him, how else do you explain the two amazing performances from a pitcher who is pretty average? He struck out a lot of guys against the Yankees and A's, and he's not a strikeout pitcher.
If the stuff on his hand was nothing, why did the ump talk with him? Why did he take it off? I'm sure they didn't want it to take away from the World Series, so they let him stay in, even though he was clearly cheating.
2006-10-22 15:09:19 · answer #1 · answered by Jeffrey S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was pine tar and it is illegal, if the umps found it later in the game then he would have been thrown out, rogers has been caught cheating like this several times and has only been fined once, i am a tigers fan but a bigger cards fan, hes ruining the world series and should be punished worse than a small fine but the umps did the right thing by not throwing him out
2006-10-22 18:57:56 · answer #2 · answered by butterstma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kenny likes to eat a few krispy creams before the game which he learned while playing in Texas. SO, most likely he forgot to get the white sugar coating off his hand.
2006-10-22 15:09:31 · answer #3 · answered by Cy Gold 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
pine tar. each and every pitcher does it whilst the taking part in situations are moist and/or chilly. it helps with the grip. oftentimes they positioned the pine tar under the invoice of their cap or on the heel of their glove. Kenny in simple terms made the blunders of using a lot that it grew to become into seen with all this new HD television equipment.
2016-12-16 12:29:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The substance on Kenny Rogers hand was not illegal. Do you know what happens to someone that tries to cheat. He is thrown out of the game and suspended. It was probably stuff that was not illegal but not legal.
2006-10-22 15:00:35 · answer #5 · answered by Eaglesfan19 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pine Tar. Pine tar is produced by a process called destructive distillation of the wood from a pine tree. The wood is rapidly decomposed by applying heat and pressure in a closed container; the primary resulting products are charcoal and pine tar.
Pine tar is a complex combination distillate containing thousands of substances, produced by the high temperature carbonization of pine wood in anoxic conditions (dry distillation). It consists primarily of aromatic hydrocarbons, tar acids and tar bases. Components of tar vary according to the pyrolytic process (e.g. method, duration, temperature) and origin of the wood (e.g. age of pine trees, type of soil and moisture conditions during tree growth). The choice of wood, design of kiln, burning and collection of the tar can vary from burning to burning. Only stumps and roots of pine are used in the traditional production of pine tar.
Pine tar has a long history of use as a wood preservative, as a wood sealant for maritime use, in soaps, in roofing construction and maintenance, and in the treatment of skin diseases.
An additional, minor use of pine tar is as the sticky substance baseball players use on their bats to improve grip. Pine tar is applied liberally to Major League Baseball bats every season in the United States of America. Because of its sticky texture, pine tar is used by batters to improve grip on the bat and prevent the bat from slipping out of their hands during hard swings.
Rule 1.10(c) of the 2002 Official Rules of Major League Baseball states that batters may apply pine tar only from the handle of the bat extending up for 18 inches. On July 24, 1983, one manager's knowledge of this rule, and a keen eye, led to the infamous Pine Tar Incident.
2006-10-22 16:06:16 · answer #6 · answered by bigsexybouncer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called pine tar. That guy is a nut (incidentally)
2006-10-23 07:51:22 · answer #7 · answered by Becca 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
illegal. that's what it was and this isn't the first time they showed it on t.v, i saw it on his hand in the A's series. But of course they wont do anything about it.
2006-10-22 14:41:57 · answer #8 · answered by D_Rod 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
pine tar?? thats what everyone is saying but im not sure
2006-10-22 15:14:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
most likely pine tar, unless he had really cheap toilet paper.
2006-10-22 15:50:02 · answer #10 · answered by promark 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋