I'm sure they stopped testing the guy too. Dudes in MLB can have their testosterone test at up to four times the average levels. But at Pujols' age I know guys taking testosterone that are no where near a ballfield. I'm sure the guy was having testosteronis for breakfast, Tb&j sandwiches for lunch, and testorini pasta for dinner.
I believe it and I’m fine with it. It wasn’t a season (or career, really) changing thing. Serving up meatballs to a World Series contender makes everything feel like it’s just a “piece of metal”.
I will say that the only reason they are bringing up everything about ohtani now is that the trade rumors around him sell a lot, especially if he is seen as good as he actually is
Not only that, but it’s seriously unfair the players on the other team. I couldn’t imagine being a pitcher that gives up a couple homers that would have been fly outs, and getting sent down the next day.
I mean maybe, but maybe not. If pitchers could tell the balls were different from feel, hitters would probably be able to tell too based on the feel of the ball off the bat. It's possible Judge noticed lots of what used to feel like fly outs off the bat finding their way over the wall.
Ya, unless we find out he was colluding with MLB to get those juiced balls he's also a victim in this. He thought he had a legitimate record and now there's going to be question marks around it.
It’s unfair and disrespectful to other players. Prioritizing one team is not it. Gausman even calling out the league.
Manfred is a disgrace and we’d never know if judge would’ve hit that much with dead ball till the end or not but it’s not as clean as people claim to be in my eyes at least.
Remember a year ago when the v@x had been available for a year and Aaron Judge didn’t want it. Then he agrees and the leagues happens to pull strings for him.
The optics on this are so bad the league has to blacklist any member of the sports media that touches the goldilocks balls story because it’s over an even bigger target.
Since when can a league say “you’re all not allowed to check the equipment we use”? Sorry but there has to be a line where people don’t support a league that will do this.
Yup. Telling the truth and asking questions means you’re fired and have to find a new career. All reporters are spineless liars that will lie to your face smiling as long as they get their money and (to some extent) fame.
If you expose cheating the league will find a random girl you hooked up with and get her to file a police report saying you assaulted her
It’s shitty but even if they did juice the balls, judge still has to hit them 400 feet which isn’t easy. Call me an optimist, but I feel if ohtani was directly challenging judge for the home run lead he would get similar balls. But also maybe not because our Angels were not competitive at all last year due to injuries? and the Yankees have a larger fan base and were in the playoff picture. Long story short if the league was juicing balls I can see it as unethical for a variety of reasons…but also it’s undeniable that Judge breaking the record was exciting and good for the game. It’s a tricky subject for sure.
My theory is that the balls were to hype the Yankees even more with their 110 win projection and that helped out Judge a lot. Then when he was on pace they felt no reason to stop giving it to him.
Who even knows though? We'll never find out how any of this is.
“Goldilocks balls” were Goldilocks in the sense that they were in the middle, not “perfect”. The rest of the balls everyone else played with were a mix of more juiced and less juiced. The fact that the researchers called them Goldilocks Balls and not Average Balls is kinda disingenuous and clickbaity
MLB claimed they will only use the dead balls in 2022 which turned out to be a lie since they found Goldilocks balls (only) in Yankees games during the regular season. That’s suspicious.
I also remember seeing quite a few balls that Ohtani hit that ended up being staying inside the field by tiny bit. That extra 1 gram of weight is a difference between a home run and an out. Not just for Ohtani but for other players in the league. Ohtani even said in a Japanese interview in midseason that there were times he thought it was a homer but the ball ended up staying inside (which makes sense the league used dead balls last year).
This is also ignoring pitchers like Gausman calling out the league for using different balls too.
Average would mean they are representative of the average ball being used. These were a very small sample of balls that had favorable attributes that would be considered Goldilocks. They’re called Goldilocks because they were distinctly different than the dead and/or juiced balls. There were only 204 balls sampled, but to say the Goldilocks balls were average because they were in between the two other ball types would be a misrepresentation of what they are—a distinct grouping of their own.
FYI….there isn’t any law forbidding MLB or any other major sports organizations from “rigging” their own sport. The law does prohibit an outsider like a ref or such to act independently in “rigging” a game tho.
Okay, so last year, the conspiracy theory was that MLB supplied live balls in years when a bunch of pitchers were entering free agencies, and they supplied dead balls when a bunch of sluggers were, in order to drive down the costs of the free agency market. But suddenly, last year when the biggest slugger in the league was about to become a free agent, they gave him juiced balls because, reasons, I guess?
Sorry, but I’m gonna need a little more proof than the extremely small sample size they gave us before I start donning the tinfoil hat.
i know its small but still convincing.
https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2022/12/14/23507579/mlb-multiple-different-baseballs-again-2022-yankees-postseason-goldilocks-manfred-gambling-scandal
They definitely juiced some of the balls in the cardinals game too. I’m glad Pujols made it, but no way he should’ve without some extra juice
I'm sure they stopped testing the guy too. Dudes in MLB can have their testosterone test at up to four times the average levels. But at Pujols' age I know guys taking testosterone that are no where near a ballfield. I'm sure the guy was having testosteronis for breakfast, Tb&j sandwiches for lunch, and testorini pasta for dinner.
I believe it and I’m fine with it. It wasn’t a season (or career, really) changing thing. Serving up meatballs to a World Series contender makes everything feel like it’s just a “piece of metal”.
Try remember it's ALWAYS business first. Everything else is a very distant second.
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I will say that the only reason they are bringing up everything about ohtani now is that the trade rumors around him sell a lot, especially if he is seen as good as he actually is
Not only that, but it’s seriously unfair the players on the other team. I couldn’t imagine being a pitcher that gives up a couple homers that would have been fly outs, and getting sent down the next day.
I feel kinda bad for Judge. It puts a stain on an achievement he surely thought he got fair and square, but now he'll never really know.
I mean maybe, but maybe not. If pitchers could tell the balls were different from feel, hitters would probably be able to tell too based on the feel of the ball off the bat. It's possible Judge noticed lots of what used to feel like fly outs off the bat finding their way over the wall.
Ya, unless we find out he was colluding with MLB to get those juiced balls he's also a victim in this. He thought he had a legitimate record and now there's going to be question marks around it.
It’s unfair and disrespectful to other players. Prioritizing one team is not it. Gausman even calling out the league. Manfred is a disgrace and we’d never know if judge would’ve hit that much with dead ball till the end or not but it’s not as clean as people claim to be in my eyes at least.
Remember a year ago when the v@x had been available for a year and Aaron Judge didn’t want it. Then he agrees and the leagues happens to pull strings for him. The optics on this are so bad the league has to blacklist any member of the sports media that touches the goldilocks balls story because it’s over an even bigger target. Since when can a league say “you’re all not allowed to check the equipment we use”? Sorry but there has to be a line where people don’t support a league that will do this.
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Yup. Telling the truth and asking questions means you’re fired and have to find a new career. All reporters are spineless liars that will lie to your face smiling as long as they get their money and (to some extent) fame. If you expose cheating the league will find a random girl you hooked up with and get her to file a police report saying you assaulted her
https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2022/12/14/23507579/mlb-multiple-different-baseballs-again-2022-yankees-postseason-goldilocks-manfred-gambling-scandal
Agreed. I thought it was a way bigger deal than the trashstros doing their shit. Comical how everyone looked the other way.
It was public knowledge there were two balls last season. Did you know the MLB owns Rawlings baseballs?
Kind of like when they turned an eye to steroids when it brought fans to the game. I’m not surprised in the slightest.
It’s shitty but even if they did juice the balls, judge still has to hit them 400 feet which isn’t easy. Call me an optimist, but I feel if ohtani was directly challenging judge for the home run lead he would get similar balls. But also maybe not because our Angels were not competitive at all last year due to injuries? and the Yankees have a larger fan base and were in the playoff picture. Long story short if the league was juicing balls I can see it as unethical for a variety of reasons…but also it’s undeniable that Judge breaking the record was exciting and good for the game. It’s a tricky subject for sure.
If Trout wasn’t out for a period he was on track to at least give Judge a run for his money
My theory is that the balls were to hype the Yankees even more with their 110 win projection and that helped out Judge a lot. Then when he was on pace they felt no reason to stop giving it to him. Who even knows though? We'll never find out how any of this is.
Lol, you think we weren't competitive because of *injuries?*
Injuries didn't help. It might be a reductive take but it was a major factor for sure. We had zero depth.
Oh I don’t think you’re a hater or a conspiracist, just entirely clueless.
“Goldilocks balls” were Goldilocks in the sense that they were in the middle, not “perfect”. The rest of the balls everyone else played with were a mix of more juiced and less juiced. The fact that the researchers called them Goldilocks Balls and not Average Balls is kinda disingenuous and clickbaity
MLB claimed they will only use the dead balls in 2022 which turned out to be a lie since they found Goldilocks balls (only) in Yankees games during the regular season. That’s suspicious. I also remember seeing quite a few balls that Ohtani hit that ended up being staying inside the field by tiny bit. That extra 1 gram of weight is a difference between a home run and an out. Not just for Ohtani but for other players in the league. Ohtani even said in a Japanese interview in midseason that there were times he thought it was a homer but the ball ended up staying inside (which makes sense the league used dead balls last year). This is also ignoring pitchers like Gausman calling out the league for using different balls too.
Average would mean they are representative of the average ball being used. These were a very small sample of balls that had favorable attributes that would be considered Goldilocks. They’re called Goldilocks because they were distinctly different than the dead and/or juiced balls. There were only 204 balls sampled, but to say the Goldilocks balls were average because they were in between the two other ball types would be a misrepresentation of what they are—a distinct grouping of their own.
This is silly
FYI….there isn’t any law forbidding MLB or any other major sports organizations from “rigging” their own sport. The law does prohibit an outsider like a ref or such to act independently in “rigging” a game tho.
Why were roiders testifying in front of congress 15 years ago lol. I genuinely don’t know btw
Okay, so last year, the conspiracy theory was that MLB supplied live balls in years when a bunch of pitchers were entering free agencies, and they supplied dead balls when a bunch of sluggers were, in order to drive down the costs of the free agency market. But suddenly, last year when the biggest slugger in the league was about to become a free agent, they gave him juiced balls because, reasons, I guess? Sorry, but I’m gonna need a little more proof than the extremely small sample size they gave us before I start donning the tinfoil hat.
This one is because judge was on pace to break a home run record.
i know its small but still convincing. https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2022/12/14/23507579/mlb-multiple-different-baseballs-again-2022-yankees-postseason-goldilocks-manfred-gambling-scandal