Yankees minor league team brags baseball are ‘never deflated’
With the sports world oozing hot air about the NFL’s so-called Deflate-gate scandal, the person behind the Twitter account of the Single-A Staten Island Yankees used the controversy to publish one of those “neiner, neiner, baseball is better than football” proclamations.
Warning, stunning observation ahead about balls that aren’t full of air:
We’re all for propping up the greatness of baseball. There’s just one problem. You could make the argument that a football team (allegedly) deflating its footballs to help its players get a better grip is pretty much the same as pitchers using foreign substances like rosin, sunscreen and pine tar to get a better grip.
And who’s the pitcher most recently in the national spotlight for doing that? Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda, who was spotted twice last season using what looked like pine tar. The second time, he was ejected from the game and suspended. And we mentioned he played for the Yankees, right?
Perhaps given a Yankees pitcher’s recent history with this, it wasn’t wise for the crew from Staten Island — who fashion themselves the “Baby Bombers” — to jump into the fray this time. But then again, anytime New Yorkers can get a shot in against Boston, we know it’s hard to resist.
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