espn.com shows the same "dirt" on his hands in the ALCS and the game from last night. Coincidence? No mother-******* way. K. Rogers should be banned from the WS.
2006-10-23 05:43:23 · 16 answers · asked by The Indigo Cobra 4 in Sports ➔ Baseball
You must be a cardinal fan, or a Yankee fan. anyway I know what happen. Before each game he pitched in the playoffs he had to take a really huge crap, and it was all runny, and there was no toilet paper insight. Instead of going out there and having everyone think that he craped his pants because the stains might of showed on his uniform, he knew he had to do something so he used his hand. And because of that he had doocey on his hand when he pitched. Just joking, it did look more like poop than it did dirt. Anyway, I think that they should not of let him wash it off so they could see what he had on his hand, because who knows what it could have been. But what he said after the game that he noticed it. Yeah right, he was told to wash it off. That right there says that he had something on his hand to give him a better grip on the ball. I say the cardinal's pitchers should do the same thing, because who would notice it after Kenny Rodgers gets caught. Then again the cardnal's would never do something that low because the respect the game. Oh and dirt is solid not liquid, what he had on his had was glistining and dirt doesnt do that. My opinion is he is a disgrace to all of baseball, just like that football player for the titans who likes to stomp on peoples faces.
2006-10-23 06:03:53 · answer #1 · answered by milky 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
What you need to understand is that a majority of big league pitchers use a "foreign substance" all the time. Saliva and dirt. They are always rubbing the ball while off the mound or the dirt. If you call a pitcher a cheater because he has dirt on his hands, then you have to call them all cheaters. The game is played on dirt and grass. The ball he gets back from the first baseman after a ground ball might have dirt on it. There are a lot of variables that go into his hand having dirt on it. The fact that he still dealt after his hand was clean should tell you that he did not cheat. Plus, if you are going to put any substance on your hand it si going to be you fingers, you don't throw the ball with your palm. Maybe you should understand the game a little better before passing judgment or are you a Cardinals fan.
2006-10-23 06:20:59 · answer #2 · answered by coachalbin 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes.
I'm a huge Tiger fan, but come on....it was pretty cut and dry.
Rogers is a very meticulous and quirky guy...talks to himself on the mound, doesn't touch the fairball line, jumps over the WS insignia painted on the grass...there is no way that a guy that quirky doesn't notice a clump of poo on his pitching hand!
Did he need it? He shut 'em down without it. Maybe it makes him more confident on the mound.....that little edge he needed to get him over the playoff woes that plagued him in the past.
I feel bad for the teams that this already happened to in the playoffs, and they have a legitimate gripe if he really did have the poo on his hand while pitching against them. I unfortunately think he should get the 10 game suspension...especially if there are pics of it from the previous games.
What was it? pine tar, dirt, extra chewing tobacco for Carlos Guillen, remnants from a pre-game bowel movement????only Kenny knows.
2006-10-23 06:03:02 · answer #3 · answered by Chris 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, even it was pine tar, the baseball rules allow the umpires to give a warning. It really isn't that big of a deal. Pine tar is actually used a lot in the majors and really doesn't affect the ball that much. Certainly not to the point of having 23 shutout innings.
2006-10-23 09:46:10 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. And i hate how Detroit fans are saying he wasn't and if he was they would have kicked him out of the game....BS. if he didn't have anythin illegal on his hand then tell me why did he clean it or wash it before the next inning? And why would he grab his cap over and over from the back and front of it. How does he strike out so many people now, when he hes like 50 and hes not even a power pitcher? i mean please, its like when bonds head got 10 times bigger than anyone Else's and people still said "its natural" "he works out, its not steroids" are you that blind? look at how small his body was when he was with Pit., everyone knows he cheated but were not doing any thing about it as well as we all saw Rogers cheating and again we wont do anythin about it. He should have been rocked by Puljos with a home run in the 6th inning i believe(not sure what inning it was when he hit that hard ball to left Field). But what can i do right? just watch the cheaters get away with things like this because they can.
Ohh and im not a Cards fan so dont think im mad cuz im pulling for them. It gets me mad when you got alot of players playing the right way, practicing for hours to be the best. And you got these chums using illegal things to make it easier for them to succeed or make a name for them when they dont deserve it.
2006-10-23 06:22:08 · answer #5 · answered by D_Rod 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Either the umps recognized it as dirt or they didn't have the fortitude to call him for cheating. He still pitched a good 7 innings clean-handed. Shame on the umps if he was cheatin' and they didn't boot him.
2006-10-23 05:55:31 · answer #6 · answered by ponyboy 81 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Should he be allowed to pitch another game in the WS? No ! If he did, He would pitch another great game and make the Cardinals look so mother-******* bad again. I guess I didn't make my answer clear, what I'm saying is suck it up cardinal's fans, your team couldn't touch him. I'm not a Tigers fan either.
2006-10-23 06:52:38 · answer #7 · answered by sluggo1947 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Look at it this way. The umps. made him wash whatever it was off after the first inning. The Cards still didn't score against him.
2006-10-23 05:48:00 · answer #8 · answered by Giants Fan! 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
looked like dirt all 3 times. even if it WAS something, he only had it in the first inning. he pitched 7 more scoreless innings. whatever it was on his hand didn't seem to affect his pitching.
2006-10-23 05:54:17 · answer #9 · answered by mesquitemachine 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't think he's a cheater. He still pitched well after it was washed off. Anyway, the Tigers will win it in 5 and he won't have to pitch again.
2006-10-23 05:52:10 · answer #10 · answered by Sephra 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋