What this guy said.
Love how the Astros got caught cheating last night and MLB and the broadcast made it sound like no big deal.
Like oh Maldonado had an illegal bat and drove in a run with it isn’t that cute? And here’s the 2-1 pitch…
And there’s a deep drive by castellano
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I’d like to let you all know GO ASTROS, especially the haters and losers.
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That’s an incredibly idiotic rule.
Different bats are legal for different players? What the fuck?
FYI he told everyone he was using the bat the day before the game. I think it’s pretty obvious nobody knew it was illegal until later since MLB said nothing either.
Also why the hell is an illegal bat grandfathered in for certain players lol
What happens when a random Cardinals player accidentally grabs his bat? Banished to the shadow realm?
Hater
Loser
45,000 chanting cheater cheater for the whole damn game tomorrow.
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Yeah he cheated I noticed it without the replays…
https://twitter.com/CrossingBroad/status/1586529791468920833?t=-le-IEVi1SPucRyZwoem4w&s=19
Then coming off the mount each inning he wiped his glove hand on his hair and pants.
Oh and his spin rate was ~100 RPM higher than his season average, which is in the range of what using a sticky substance would do.
Verducci said that MLB had changed the bat specifications in 2010, and Pujols’ bat was no longer legal. However, if any player used that bat prior to 2010, it was officially grandfathered in.
Hence why Pujols was still allowed to use it after the ban took place. Maldonado, on the other hand, began his playing career in 2011.
They restricted bat designs starting in 2011, but allowed players already in MLB to keep using what they were using.
They did the same grandfather thing with batting helmets, and with the flaps on each side.
Grandfathering in is fine if it’s strictly a safety issue. It’s idiotic when dealing with something that could be an obvious competitive advantage.
They didn’t grandfather in the belly putters.
The best was they grandfathered in no helmets in the NHL, so you had some fine manes of hair flowing into the 90s I think.
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The what now?
IIRC…
What they were doing, for the first time ever for wooden bats, is the equivalent of what happens with aluminum bats and golf clubs for a long time. They made so that wood bats couldn’t continually get better by introducing new designs. They now had to perform within a fixed range of performance based on standardized tests.
The grandfathered bats weren’t significantly outside those fixed limits, if at all. And there is a bit of possible unfairness the other way, as some hitters would have been forced to change bats to something new and different, and some would not.
Billy Martin (RIP) would have called him on the illegal bat, but only after he used it to get a hit.
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Baseball was cooler when you had a few old timers wearing hats at bat when everyone else had a helmet, and then when you had a few old timers with no ear flap on the helmet while everyone else had the flap
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If they aren’t outside the limits, they wouldn’t need to be grandfathered, right?
Right. Which is why this should be handled with a lot of lead time. Just say “Here are the new standards. They will go into effect two years from now. You can either start the transition now, or abruptly change your bat to something new and different on that date.”
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