pine tar or dirt?

Answer 1

It was pine tar. I have three pieces of evidence:

1. It was amber colored. Dirt is darker. Besides, it was a perfectly shaped oval. Dirt, when it is on a hand, is usually messy.

2. On the first page of the sports section in the NY Times the day after the incident, there were pictures of his hand from his previous playoff appearances. The brown patch appeared in all of them.

3. He claims that he never saw the "dirt." I've pitched a couple of times and I know that pitchers cannot go a full inning without looking at their hands. (You have to assume that is was big enough to be visible to him.) Also, when pitching, you can feel when your hand is dirty. With a spot that big, it's hard to believe that he never noticed it until the inning ended.

Answer 2

8 shutout innings with pine tar, after the first inning he still had pine tar on his glove and hat, it is impossible for any pitcher to have a change up slow down 8mph from game to game, there is now way in hell that any pitcher can throw with dirt on their hand

check out the link below (CNN) and it shows rogers doin the same thing in in the ALCS, ALDS, and July 20 against the White Sox, rogers has been caught doing this 23 times before and only suspended twice.....this is comin from a tigers fan, i just hate rogers, he is bad for baseball and to do this in the World Series is a felony, he should be shot, if you love the game of baseball you should agree with me, the mlb is not going to do anything about this even if they knew it was pine tar so let it go

Answer 3

IF it was pine tar (IF) Tony Larussa should have made the umpire go out to check Rogers.

Tony Larussa elected not to do that.
IF Larussa had made the umpire check Rogers,
AND the substance had been found to be "pine tar"
Rogers would been ejected. That DID NOT happen.

If St Louis ends up losing The World Series
it will lay squarely on Tony Larussa's head
NOT Kenny Rogers!

Also, you Cardinals fans seem to forget that you had
the bases loaded TWICE in the 9th inning of that game.

Why didnt you score then? Huh? Why?
Kenny Rogers wasn't pitching the 9th inning.
If you guys are so darn good why didnt you win?

Cardinals fans need to realize that YOU SIMPLY LOST THAT GAME BECAUSE YOU SUCK!

Now, I have a question for you.

Would you like cheese to go with that WHINE?

Answer 4

It worked, didn't it? Got everyone (including the Cardinals hitters) thinking about it. I don't know if it was illegal or not. Could have been just what it was - a stunt to purposely be noticed so that everyone would be thinking about it instead of his pitching & get psyched out. In the end it doesn't really matter whether it was really illegal or not - mission accomplished. Now he'll milk it to try & keep this psych job going for another start. Rogers never was a great pitcher in his prime. Now at 41 he's turned into another Gaylord Perry - adequate, with a bag of tricks to extend his career.

Answer 5

Pine Tar + Kenny Rogers = Cheat

Answer 6

If anyone had caught the news that night like I did, the head umpire guy said it was PROVEN to be DIRT!!!!!! You can't ignore what is PROVEN. IT WAS DIRT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even after he washed his hands he still had 8 shut out innings. Coincidence? No Cardinals fans are just whining because Kenny Rogers is the best.

Answer 7

sorry but...if it was pine tar it would have been visibly and physically noticed on the ball...it would have made a stain on his uniform when he wiped his hand on his pants...
being it the world series I doubt that anyone would try something that was that noticable...a little vaseline under the collar maybe...but not pine tar on the hand.

Answer 8

Never seen oily yellow-brown dirt with a sheen -

It was pine tar!

Answer 9

Dirt tar.

Or pine dirt.

Or something like that.

Answer 10

it was pine tar, but every pitcher uses it and it may be illeagal but it's the equivalent to jaywalking the media just blew it out of porportion.