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Posted on 6/17/21 at 11:33 am to TheRouxGuru
I am an excellent pitcher… even at 61 I could still strike out any MLB player… serious…
Posted on 6/17/21 at 11:41 am to dukke v
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But what’s the problem??? It may have a scuff mark on it
Pitchers used to put sandpaper in their gloves to scuff balls. It definitely gives them an advantage.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 11:53 am to idlewatcher
Fun fact: MLB baseballs are made by Rawlings. Rawlings is owned [in part] by the MLB.
This post was edited on 6/17/21 at 11:55 am
Posted on 6/17/21 at 12:05 pm to i am dan
I saw a video on how baseballs are actually made
The balls are stitched by hand. There is not a sewing machine stitching those balls.
With the labor that goes into making a ball its crazy how little value MLB gives to the balls.
Keep this in mind when Manfred wants to lecture you about social justice when they are paying sweatshop workers to manually stitch baseballs by hand.
The balls are stitched by hand. There is not a sewing machine stitching those balls.
With the labor that goes into making a ball its crazy how little value MLB gives to the balls.
Keep this in mind when Manfred wants to lecture you about social justice when they are paying sweatshop workers to manually stitch baseballs by hand.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 12:06 pm to dukke v
quote:
I am an excellent pitcher… even at 61 I could still strike out any MLB player… serious…
I needed a new sig quote. Thanks, Peej.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 12:11 pm to i am dan
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Didn't know I posted this on the OT. Thought it was the MSB
Posted on 6/17/21 at 12:43 pm to dukke v
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But what’s the problem??? It may have a scuff mark on it????
you ever seen a curve ball break with a scuff on it?
Posted on 6/17/21 at 12:44 pm to LSUBoo
Say what you want but zIm serious.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 12:47 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
quote:The baseballs aren’t clean in MLB. They are all rubbed with a special mud before they are game-ready.
It's interesting how in baseball everyone wants a clean ball but in football, kickers and QBs beat the shite out of them to their preference before the league cut down on that practice.
This post was edited on 6/17/21 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 6/17/21 at 12:55 pm to PrimeTime Money
A standard mudding? That's interesting.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 1:05 pm to dukke v
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even at 61 I could still strike out any MLB player… serious…
you couldn't strike out a HS player
Posted on 6/17/21 at 1:10 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
Mud from the Delaware River.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 1:27 pm to dukke v
friend: why do you still post on and view TD after 15 years?
me:
me:
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I am an excellent pitcher… even at 61 I could still strike out any MLB player… serious…
Posted on 6/17/21 at 2:14 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
But the mud has to be from the Pennsylvania side of the river, not the New Jersey side. New Jersey side of the river contains high levels of feldspar, which is too abrasive.
James Bintliff harvests Lena Blackburne’s Original Baseball Rubbing Mud, a 4 pound can cost $75. It is the only mud used in MLB and the Dominican Republic. Bobby Valentine introduced the mud into Japan. Over 1/2 the NFL teams by the mud from him.
James Bintliff harvests Lena Blackburne’s Original Baseball Rubbing Mud, a 4 pound can cost $75. It is the only mud used in MLB and the Dominican Republic. Bobby Valentine introduced the mud into Japan. Over 1/2 the NFL teams by the mud from him.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 3:15 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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A standard mudding? That's interesting.
There was an interesting ESPN or Grantland short on it several years ago.
It's a specific, special type of mud from this one guy's farm or something.
EDIT -- not the specific video/article I was referring to above, but this is an SI article on the same mud harvested and sold by one family.
Mud Maker: The Man Behind MLB’s Essential Secret Sauce
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Jim Bintliff’s collection of lies is small and sharply curated, each one loose enough to be plausible and mundane enough to limit interest in verifying it. They work like this: Bintliff will be out on the banks of a tributary of the Delaware River, in his personal uniform of denim cutoffs and disintegrating sneakers, using a shovel to harvest buckets of mud. Someone will come along and ask what he’s doing. Bintliff sizes up the questioner, usually a boater or swimmer or fisherman, then picks from his collection. I’ve been sent by the Environmental Protection Agency, and I’m surveying the soil. Or: I’m helping the Port Authority, looking into pollution. Or, if it’s a group of young folks who look like they’ve only come out on the water for a good time: I take this mud, and I put it on my pot plants. They grow like trees.
This always does the trick. It prevents anyone from exploring what he’s actually doing, which is what he’s done for decades, what his father did before him, and his grandfather before him: Bintliff is collecting the mud that is used to treat every single regulation major league baseball, roughly 240,000 per season.
Mud is a family business; it has been for more than half a century. For decades, baseball’s official rule book has required that every ball be rubbed before being used in a game. Bintliff’s mud is the only substance allowed.
This post was edited on 6/17/21 at 3:19 pm
Posted on 6/17/21 at 3:27 pm to dukke v
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I am an excellent pitcher… even at 61 I could still strike out any MLB player… serious…
frick yeah I upvoted!!!Posted on 6/17/21 at 5:22 pm to i am dan
I know this is off topic, but as an umpire, it drives me crazy when pitchers want a new ball for a summer ball or travel ball, because it’s got a scuff mark on it. Are these kids stupid? You should want to throw the ball that has a scuff mark on it.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 5:29 pm to i am dan
A ball that hits the dirt can get scruffed up pretty good. Why play with it if you don’t have to. This ain’t Bryson’s travel league.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 5:32 pm to dukke v
I hated when umps would toss baseballs for a new one.
I ain’t trying to throw a shiny white marble up there to get eviscerated.
I ain’t trying to throw a shiny white marble up there to get eviscerated.
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