No, I made my point correctly. Perhaps if I stated a little differently it would make a bit more sense. What I am saying is that if the Dallas/Giants game was on last night, and so was Game 3 of the World Series, more people would watch the MNF game in NY and Dallas, if not overall in the country, than the Detroit/St Louis World Series game. Football is just more popular than baseball these days. Especially if there isn't a team like the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, Dodgers for the majority of fans to find a way to hate and watch just to root against them. No one cares about Detroit or St. Louis.
but that's pointless. Local teams always draw greater interest. If the Giants game outdrew a Yankees World Series game on the same night, then yes you'd have a point. But that wouldn't happen.
Nationally speaking the ratings for a regular season football game almost doubles the ratings for a baseball playoff game. I think with 2 local teams involved it would be pretty close for a regular season football game against a playoff baseball game.
obviously football is more popular than baseball. I'm just saying that better ratings for giants than for cards-tigers just proves that new yorkers would rather watch local teams. Plus, they haven't gone head to head anyway.
Yeah but it's not just New Yorkers. Game 2 of the World Series drew about what a typical Sunday Night Football game does on NBC. A local baseball team involved in the postseason going against 2 non local football teams would be about the only scenario I could see baseball outdrawing football.
Ummm, putting it on the inside of his glove would allow him to get it on his fingers quite easily, as pitchers reach inside their glove before every single pitch. If it was pine tar, just having it on the part of your hand below the thumb does nothing. You need it on your fingers. Inside the glove would be the place to put it, not on your hand for the world to see.
So, what's the plausible explanation then? He wipes his ass with his hand before starts? We've seen the same thing in pictures from other games, it wasn't some random "clump of dirt".
A very possible explaination is that he rubs the ball with dirt, which is perfectly legal. If he does it a lot, it might make his hand dirty. I don't know for sure what was on his hand, but if he was going to cheat with pine tar, putting the source on his pitching hand palm is not the way to go about it.
Maybe he needed it on his hand and not just his fingers. Regardless, it would show up once he put it on, even if it was in the glove initially.
he's the gambler. He gambled and lost. I can't say for sure what it was, but it sure as hell wasn't dirt.
