Do you know how to spell stupid?
P I N E D A
that's how.
"And I be makin $528,490 a yer an eye don ware my hat rite." Some pitchers, intelligent ones anyway, hide substances that can be used to help with certain pitches. They generally try to conceal where it is located. Not him, he put it on his neck for ALL to see.
And he didn't think that anyone would spot it??????????
BOSTON (AP) -- Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda was ejected for using a foreign substance less than two weeks after appearing to get away with it in another game against Boston, and the Red Sox beat New York 5-1 on Wednesday night.
The right-hander was thrown out in the second inning when plate umpire Gerry Davis found a shiny substance on the right side of Pineda's neck after Red Sox manager John Farrell asked him to check. Pineda walked from the mound without protest.
''When it's that obvious, something has got to be said,'' Farrell explained after the game. ''Our awareness was heightened, given what we had seen in the past.''
Pineda (2-2) had nothing on the right side of his neck in a photo of him on the mound in his tough first inning, when four of the first six batters reached on hits.
Another photo taken in the second showed a shiny horizontal substance on his upper neck below his right ear. After Pineda struck out the first two batters and had a 1-2 count on Grady Sizemore, Farrell talked to Davis. The umpire went to the mound, looked at the ball then touched the substance on Pineda's neck with his right index finger. Then he gestured with that same finger, indicating Pineda's ejection.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi called it ''an error in judgment'' and a ''little bump'' and ''poor judgment.''
I would also question the intelligence of Girardi for letting it happen. "Ah whatcha mean I be usin a sustance ... where, oh thet, on my neck .... that be sunscreen, my momma alwas tells me to put some on .... wha, oh, a nitegame, well, ah .... whut, it wasnt there the first inning, oh, a well, ..... I go now"
