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Yankees Pine Tar

April 24, 2014 by  

Yankees Pine Tar, We’ve learned a lot about Michael Pineda in the short time he has been an active Yankee.

Some phrases that come immediately to mind: Pleasant personality. Great breaking ball. Giant goofball.

Hard to say what’s more obvious at this point, the pine tar he wears on his neck or the falsehoods that spill out of his mouth.

First time against the rival Red Sox, he had the pine tar on his pitching hand, switched it to his wrist, and then told us it was dirt.

Second time, the pine tar was glued to the right side of his neck (toward third base, and away from the Red Sox dugout; how clever!), and his claim was that the Yankees never talked to him about his use of the pine tar between the first time he was caught and the second.

That suggestion is obviously absurd, even if Yankees general manager Brian Cashman hadn’t told us there had been “enough conversations” regarding what Pineda needed to do better. Of course we had to know he was talked to.

What else was there to talk to him about?

Yet, Pineda, straight-faced and otherwise seemingly contrite, told the writers about the presumed conversations following the first time he was spied with pine tar, “Nobody talked to me about that.”

Give him this. He finally admitted it was pine tar after his defeat to the Red Sox, he didn’t disagree when someone mentioned it was against the rules and didn’t protest much when someone asked whether he thought he might be punished further.

So he was on a truth streak there for a while. Maybe he figured his percentage of truth-telling was high enough for the day, and he would give it a shot. How silly.

Oh, the Yankees told him to stick the pine tar you know where, there’s no doubt about that. The league office did the pine-tar-using pitcher a favor last time, sending the message through the storied team to make sure to tell their misguided pitcher to be more discreet about his use of the sticky stuff.

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