Is that Pine Tar on the Bill of Joe Blanton’s Hat?
Baseball October 13th. 2008, 9:51pm
Joe Blanton’s dealing tonight out in LA – he’s only permitted five hits through four innings and the Phillies lead the pivotal fourth game of the NLCS. But what’s that on the bill of his hat?
It has been two years since Kenny Rogers dominated the Cards in the 2006 World Series, when he was widely believed to have been cheating with pine tar on his hand. Earlier this season, Jake Peavy had a dark substance on his pitching hand, but nothing came of it.
Innocent foreign substance, or something sinister? We’ll continue to poke around to see if Blanton always has something dark on the bill of his hat.
Screengrab is courtesy of Miami blogger City of Champs.
25 Responses to “Is that Pine Tar on the Bill of Joe Blanton’s Hat?”
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October 13th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
It’s not helping him too much is it?
October 13th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Manny RBI single ties it at 2. And of course … Eli fumbled, killing the Giants threat. Super Bowl champs trail at the half, 17-7
October 13th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
5 hits through 4 innings isn’t dealing. It’s pretty average.
Bah, it appears I missed the trying hit. See. Dodgers will still win.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
oops, penalty on the Browns, no fumble! Nice. Giants inside the 10, 30 seconds left in the half …
October 13th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Cortez… always causing drama with conspiracy theorys.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
lol, bo.. in true lebatardian fasion “i’m just asking the question” like when lebby kinda sorta insinuated, but really just asked the question on whether steve nash winning the mvp was race related
October 13th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
and Plax scores, 17-14.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
TBL, you’re watching giants-browns over this great playoff game? come on!
October 13th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
great start manning need a td now
October 13th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
he is the dodgers game on fox tonight or tbs?
October 13th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Doesn’t the pine tar go under the brim?
October 13th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Fox
October 13th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Yea mike it stays neatly under the brim.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
TBL, Serena’s titties were really popping tonight. good episode.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
If that was sarcasm, I couldn’t detect it. The “pine tar” is halfway up the top of his brim.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Not the first time.
October 13th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Did Kimbo put that pine tar on his brim? Click city of champs to find out.
October 13th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Roughly 20 seconds after asking “Did they pull Matt Stairs out of the nearest dive bar or something?”, he LAUNCHES one about 420 feet into the right field seats.
October 13th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
And he’s still visibly winded after trotting around the bases.
October 13th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Did Kimbo put that pine tar on his brim? Click city of champs to find out.
LoL
October 13th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Whatever that is on Blanton’s cap, it looks like Broxton has it on his cap too. Apparently, judging from that Stairs homer, he didn’t have enough of it.
October 13th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
as my boy Bob Uecker said “Hes gonna need a rocket up his ass to catch that one.”
October 13th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Ha.
October 13th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Epic Lidge vs Man-Ram battle. And of course Man-Ram wins. How locked in can this guy be?
October 13th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
@POA: manny just hits ball.