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Does Jake throw a spitter?

Bugs & Cranks sent along this photographic evidence!

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Click through to the rest of the story for a clip of video of Jake killing it with some nasty action. I'm pretty sure that what you're seeing on Jake's hands is chew residue. He's a chewer for sure and that nasty junk coming from whatever he keeps in his lip has ended up on his fingers!

I wonder if they'll investigate. I don't know about you, but I love the idea of a spitball. It's one of those things that people who only see baseball rules in black and white might criticize me about like, You're so high and mighty about steroids and you actually like the fact that Jake might throw a spitter?

See, to me... the spitter is like a lost dark art. It's against the rules to be sure, but if it were really such a terrible thing, they wouldn't have grandfathered in all of the guys who openly threw spitters after the pitch was banned. And even now, it lives on in the hearts of slightly evil pitchers. Jake Peavy harnessing the unholy powers of hell to do the holy work of defeating the Dodgers. He's like Ghostrider or Hellblazer or Spawn or something.

Carry on, young Jake! Work your dastardly magic!


 

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Beat my diary by a minute Dex

"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." - Robert S. Weider

by R.J. Anderson on Apr 6, 2008 11:14 AM PDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Haha I saw that

I was gonna see what you said and link through, but then it disappeared. I thought maybe Jake had something to do with it and was worried that I might be next.

by Dex on Apr 6, 2008 11:15 AM PDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Just the typical

"Don't shoot the messenger, I'm a fan of Peavy too." diatribe.

As for Peavy, it shouldn't really surprise anyone that players cheat or try to cheat. Heck just yesterday I thought Trever Miller had something on his hat the way he kept going to it.

"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." - Robert S. Weider

by R.J. Anderson on Apr 6, 2008 11:25 AM PDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Just a dirty hand

No way in hell he throws a junkball

by matto619 on Apr 6, 2008 11:22 AM PDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Spitball

From the few accounts I've read, oldschool pitchers that threw spitballs really applied the spit. Someone talked about actually having spit fly off the ball and hit them in the face. It would be so hard to effectively throw any kind of doctored ball in todays game. What is the average life of a ball, six pitches? To doctor a ball every six pitches on average without getting caught would be pretty impressive, and I agree with Dex, pretty frickin sweet. I mean all it takes is the umpire noticing a defaced ball once, and there is a 10 game suspension.

by osbug on Apr 6, 2008 11:26 AM PDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

"I've got no problems with anytime anybody needs to check me."

I bet he wouldn't. That manwhore who leaves his wife to take care of their kids while he's out with sluts pervert.

My counselor is trying to screw me over...Well, I guess if I went to college and ended up at a ghetto school I'd try to screw others over too. Do we have to be better than everyone else? What' s wrong with being normal?

by TheVinylCrocodile on Apr 6, 2008 9:20 PM PDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Ol' Jake loves him some strange.

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"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev

by TheThirdGonzalez on Apr 6, 2008 11:13 PM PDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I told you

regional euphamism

...the man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.-Mark Twain

by sdsuaztec4 on Apr 7, 2008 5:54 PM PDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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