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Friday, October 2, 2009

Is the American Idol a cheater too?

So we had Bronson Arroyo accused of using pine tar on the ball, and now we have Joe Mauer accused of tipping pitches.

While the Twins may be laughing the accusation off, I’m not sure that the kid isn’t onto something. If you’ve played baseball at any competitive level, you know how it works. Take a look here and see for yourself. What do you think? (Btw – the kid is a better analysis than he is a cinematographer. If you are not distracted by him moving the camera, his comments are pretty good. He makes a decent case for it………. You can watch the video at the link above too, it’s better but without the kids commentary)



No one in the Twins' clubhouse denied that there are attempts by teams to steal signs, but manager Ron Gardenhire seemed to find it funny that his team was being accused of actually being able to do it.

"That's the best they can come up with?" Gardenhire said. "Every team in baseball tries to steal signs. Every team in baseball tries to get the coaches' signs, the manager's signs, so ... really, that's old stuff."

Here’s my take. Maybe he was tipping pitches, maybe he wasn’t. But since it’s acknowledged that everyone tries to do it then why chastise someone if they are actually able to do it? It goes both ways too. If you know that someone is tipping pitches you can simply change the sign. And it only takes once. Just one time when you are looking for “Uncle Charlie” and you dive out over the plate to get it only to discover at the last millisecond that you got the “Express” in your ear hole. And that’s the last time you take a signs……… - Paul Leume
Paul Leume is a MLB columnist from Montreal, Canada. Paul, a one-time beat writer covering the Montreal Expos for the Montreal Gazette is a proud grandfather of 3 girls and now spends his time offering his thoughts and prospective on Major League Baseball on a variety of blogs and websites throughout Al Gore’s internet.
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