"Baseball pitchers think they get to be the victims now on the sticky stuff?
How does that work, exactly?
'It’s so hard to grip the ball!' Gerrit Cole said this week.
Wait, it wasn’t hard for Koufax and Gibson and Seaver and Pedro?
And I hope Tyler Glasnow comes back even better and healthier than ever after 60 days on the IL.
But if he can’t throw a baseball the way he was throwing it without putting some kind of substance on the ball, then he needs to find another way to throw it."
Well, Pedro was quite possibly on steroids, but he wasn't on the Yankees, so Mike Lupica doesn't really mind.
Aside from that, the ball has changed. It is more slippery. This article is from back in 2017, and while neither the article nor my google search qualify as in-depth, definitive research, it's better than Mike Lupica's research.
Aside from that, there's a good chance "Koufax and Gibson and Seaver and Pedro" -- nice nod to Hemingway with the lack of commas, you dork -- used substances on the ball. Some pitchers want a better grip, some want a slippier grip
All of it is a moot point anyway. MLB doesn't care about cheating and neither do the fans. The pitchers found something that works too well. The league is taking action because the games are boring.
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