Comments on: Fox Replay Operator Contacts SbB About Rivera

By: Eddie Harris

Eddie Harris — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:36:55 +0000

Son, if you haden’t got an arm like your’s , you’d put anything on it you could find….

By: RIck Vaughn

RIck Vaughn — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:35:13 +0000

You put snot on the ball?!?

By: Eddie Harris

Eddie Harris — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:34:10 +0000

If the umps are watchin me closely I just rub a little jalapeno juice inside my nose and that gets it runnin…..

By: Trotter123

Trotter123 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:13:54 +0000

Spit is probably the worst thing to use if you want to throw a proper spit ball anyways…ask the Niekro’s, they swear by vagisil and vaseline…

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:13:25 +0000

Even if he did spit on that ball, how many times do you think Rivera got to throw that ball before it was discarded by umps, fouled off, or thrown in the dugout to be cleaned before going back out to the pitchers mound?

Its a moot point, unless people are seeing Rivera spit on every ball he gets, which we have only seen this once in his almost 20 year career, he isnt throwing a spitball

By: BobJohnson

BobJohnson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:40:13 +0000

First off, I live and die for the Red Sox so don’t think for one minute I have any love for Mariano Rivera. I would love for Yankee Nation to have to deal with this. However, it is pretty obvious to me that he is holding the ball like that because he’s checking it for scuffs and seam breaks. Pretty standard stuff. Like Brooks said, don’t denigrate his career because tv can only produce a 2-D image. Depth perception is crap on tv and that is what happens here.

By: Snotball

Snotball — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:15:27 +0000

He learned to cheat from Pettite and Arod. He just does it in a different way. It certainly didn’t hurt their careers.

By: ME

ME — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:13:34 +0000

That is because he only uses it when he needs to for a big out pitch, not on every pitch, that would be pretty obvious.

By: jayaresea

jayaresea — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:22:06 +0000

have you ever seen a spitball before? seen how it behaves? i’m doubting it. here’s a hint: not at all the way rivera’s pitch behaves.