On Apr 7, 9:10 pm, Hoover <Hoo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Ahhhh ..... nothing better than a make-believe Controversy !
>
> Some kooks with a website accuse Jake Peavy of 'Dirty
> Deeds' and the real media feels they have to respond.
>
> Here's Buddy Black sticking up for the hard-throwing Right
> Hander from Alabama.
>
>
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> Padres manager Bud Black defends Jake Peavy
> after images show dark substance on hand
>
> (AP) Padres manager Bud Black defended Jake Peavy on Sunday, saying
> a dark substance on his right hand after a game against the Dodgers
> on Saturday was just a mix of dirt and rosin.
>
> The s****ts Web site [deleted] posted images Sunday it said were sent
> by a reader after Jake Peavy tossed a 2-hitter in a 4-1 win over Los
> Angeles. The images, pur****tedly still frame shots from a TV broadcast
> of the game, show a dark substance on Peavy's right thumb, index and
> middle fingers.
>
> "When you play baseball, your hands get dirty," Black said Sunday.
> "He had dirty hands. Trying to keep his palms and fingers dry, you
> apply rosin and dirt. Rosin is a sticky substance, and as often as he
> goes to the rosin bag, as often as he goes to the dirt to sop up mois-
> ture, your hands get dirty.
>
> "I don't think there is anything to it. Modern cameras can pick up a
> dirty hand."
>
> Peavy (2-0) has allowed just one run in 16 innings over two starts
> this year. The right-hander won the NL Cy Young Award last season.
>
> "There's nothing on my hands that's not supposed to be," Peavy told
> the San Diego Union-Tribune for a blog entry on its Web site.
>
> "I thought it was funny that it was such a big deal. I've got no
> problems with anytime anybody needs to check me."
So you're telling me that some people on some other website say that
Jake Peavy is cheating. Interesting.
****ning the Light,
Marty Winn
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