Hockey Olympian Meghan Duggan touches her neck in reference to Michael Pineda before throwing first pitch at NYY-BOS. pic.twitter.com/lWvTHwGLqs
— Nick Zaccardi (@nzaccardi) April 25, 2014
Love it. Just a subtle little jab. If you’ve been living under a rock, Michael Pineda got suspended 10 games for pine tar on his neck while on the mound.
Here’s how long-time lobster, Little Caster, imagined the conversation.
Ump: “Dude, that’s cheating!”
Pineda: “Wait, wait. what? What’s cheating?”
Ump: “Pine-tar, man. You got effin pine-tar your neck. YES!”
Sounds about right. Naturally, the internet has done a bang-up job responding:
-bp
[ht Nick Pants, Pete Blackburn]