Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda is ejected for having a foreign substance - pine tar - ON HIS NECK. In plain sight.
Doyyyyy.
The Red Sox let it go the last time he faced them, when he kept the stuff on his wrist - also in plain sight. The ejection is as much for being obvious about it as for doing it. Probably a suspension in addition to paying his Stupidity Tax.
Slugfest in Toronto. Baltimore leads 9-6 and they’re not even through the fifth inning yet. The O’s managed to give up 9 runs to the Blue Jays yesterday, so i hope they can hang onto their lead today.
The bitch sox are going to watched very closely this season. Lester and the rest of them better hide their sticky goo carefully.
Between the hypocrisy and Fat Steroid Bastard’s preening homerun trots, that’s one classy bunch.
God, what a depressing loss for the Jays. Up 6-1 and blewwww it.
The “let’s bring Dustin McGowan back after five years and make him a starter” thing was obviously never going to work and why they tried it I cannot imagine.
It was not exactly a pitching masterclass. I had it on in the background while i worked, and i almost switched off in disgust when Tillman gave up 6 in the second.
He ended up with a W next to his name, though. The doesn’t happen to often when you give up 9 hits and 7 earned runs (including 3 homers) over 5.2 innings.
Asimovian, you weren’t at last night’s game, were you?
See? It’s you. 
The Buchholz incident last year is probably why they let Pineda’s pine tar go his previous start against them. That, and some interesting rationalizations given after the game that they’d rather bat against a pitcher *with *control than one without. If he hadn’t been so pathetically blatant this time, they’d probably have let it go too.
“Let them hate, so long as they fear.” 
IT’S JUST A COINCIDENCE, DAMN YOU!
Nice to see some hitting from Hanley, Kemp and Puig, though. Hope that stays with them, especially when they finally hit the road again. Sadly, I couldn’t talk Selig into just letting us play the D-Backs the rest of the season.
Very cool.
Way cool, but so weird I’m not sure it’s to be trusted. Apparently there isn’t a single zip code in the Bay Area with a majority of A’s fans. (Likewise, Mets).
I can see that. Even if there is, who would admit it in public?
Suspended 10 games.
The suspension penalties should be different for pitchers. 10 game suspensions are mostly toothless for them, yes? He’ll miss one, maybe two starts max?
They should suspend them for x amount of starts, and make them take extra batting practice.
I’ve been wondering recently how long it will be before I see a grandson of someone I saw play as a kid make his MLB debut. Several second generation guys have retired (Moises Alou, Griffy Jr., and the Boone brothers come to mind immediately). I’ll probably age a few years overnight when it happens.
Brett & Aaron Boone were 3rd-generation players.
For me, it has happened. Though I never saw the elder Bells or Boones, Dick (Ducky) Schofield was active when I became a fan in the late sixties. In one 1968 game I attended, he made a brief appearance for St. Louis. (Thank you, retrosheet.) His grandson is Jayson Werth, who I’ve never seen play in person but who has been a very fine player for a number of years now.
And do I feel old? Oh yes–
The Red Sox are going to be playing golf in October if they don’t shake off the afterglow of last year pretty damn soon. They’ve played maybe one relatively-crisp game *a week *this year. Last night? Five fucking errors. Five! Can’t pick out one or two pitchers because they’ve all been guilty (surprisingly, Lackey least of all, though).
I do trust Ortiz, Pedroia, and Gomes, the unofficial co-captains, to knock their teammates’ heads together once they get their own heads together, though.
Indians are in San Fran tonight, and this will be the Giants’ first game outside of their division this season. Pretty weird.
They are, but I never saw Gus play.