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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Townsend: Troy Tulowitzki denies accusing Madison Bumgarner of doctoring baseballs

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posted 1 day ago by JE (Jason Epstein) to giants, rockies, spitball | 2 comment(s)

That brings us to Coors Field on Friday night. For a few seconds it seemed like we may have been headed towards that inevitable flare up. It happened in the third inning with Troy Tulowitzki running on first base, D.J. LeMahieu at the plate, and Madison Bumgarner pitching. As it’s being reported, Tulowitzki asked first base umpire Tim McClelland to check the baseball. McClelland complied, stopping play to give it a once over before tossing it out of play.

Bumgarner had the outward reaction ...

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51. Pops Freshenmeyer posted on August 19, 2012 at 02:10 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I lived a lie for many years but as of 9 weeks ago, I am, in fact, a Pops.

52. bfan posted on August 19, 2012 at 02:16 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

The fact that he tried to defend himself unethically/immorally doesn't take away that he is manning up now.

I am sorry, but it does. telling the truth after lying for a period, and then only 'fessing up when there is no other remotely credible course of action is not manning up.

53. Rafael Bellylard: Built like a Fielder posted on August 19, 2012 at 02:29 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I, too, must admit my deception. I am not built like a Molina, but like a Fielder.

I shall now console myself with some Mountain Dew and a cheesecake.

54. RMc don't hate anyone Asian posted on August 19, 2012 at 02:36 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I'm actually fairly indifferent to the MLB event.

55. Repoz

posted on August 19, 2012 at 02:40 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Here's a posey riot from Bruce Jenkins...

(Note: These “reports” come and go, often to be exposed as spectacularly inaccurate. The Daily News’ investigative team is perhaps the most reliable in the newspaper business.)

That Clinches it: No More Melky

56. The District Attorney posted on August 19, 2012 at 03:08 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

TFA:

a clause in the collectively bargained drug program... allows a player who has tested positive to attempt to prove he ingested a banned substance through no fault of his own.

Really? This is just begging for shenanigans and BS.

If Melky had gotten the site up before he talked to Andrew Baggarly, would he have received a front-page apology?

BTW, the site actually is up now.

57. Pat Rapper's Delight posted on August 19, 2012 at 03:12 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

In case anyone was still wondering, I am neither Pat Rapp nor am I particularly delightful.

58. The Long Arm of Rudy Law posted on August 19, 2012 at 03:47 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Since when is lying on the internet a crime?

Since 1912, when I invented the internet and married Morgan Fairchild. And then I kissed her.

59. Don't want the truth; just wanna see some dingers posted on August 19, 2012 at 03:55 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I would be delighted to both learn the truth AND see some dingers.

60. CrosbyBird posted on August 19, 2012 at 04:47 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Wow, I feel left out of the confession parade here. I was in an a cappella group in college called The Crosbys, and my nickname was Bird. So I technically am a Crosby named Bird.

Sometimes the truth is out there and just isn't very interesting.

61. The District Attorney posted on August 19, 2012 at 05:06 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Wait, you're not this guy?

62. Darren

posted on August 19, 2012 at 05:07 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Apparently Melky was using supplements from a Web site called Jukt Micronutrients.

63. Neutral Milk Dotel (Dan Lee) posted on August 19, 2012 at 05:39 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Time for me to come clean: I'm a Lillibridge to somewhere.

64. cercopithecus aethiops posted on August 19, 2012 at 06:16 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

So I technically am a Crosby named Bird.

But for all these years you've happily allowed people to think that you are a bird named Crosby. Liar!

65. Walt Davis posted on August 19, 2012 at 06:24 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Confession: I am not actually right about everything.

But the arrogance is real!

66. nick swisher hygiene posted on August 19, 2012 at 06:33 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I AM NOT A URINAL!

67. Smitty* posted on August 19, 2012 at 06:44 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I actually like pants

68. FancyPantsHandle glistening with foreign substance posted on August 19, 2012 at 06:54 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Great. Now I'm wondering about Gef's bona fides...

Personally, the poster I immediately thought of was God...

As for myself, I feel the need to set the truth free! I am actually not currently wearing any pants. My handle however, is truly tremendous.

69. FancyPantsHandle glistening with foreign substance posted on August 19, 2012 at 06:55 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I actually like pants

Thank you, that means a lot. *sniff*

70. Fred Lynn Nolan Ryan Sweeney Agonistes posted on August 19, 2012 at 07:06 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Through BTF comments I come and go
Names merely ballplayer portmanteau

71. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) posted on August 19, 2012 at 07:13 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I do get past Jeter a lot, but (truth be told) he never dives for me

(nor do I get gift baskets)

72. Non-Youkilidian Geometry posted on August 19, 2012 at 07:15 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I have to come clean as well. Two lines perpendicular to a third line that are extended to infinity will not really intersect with Kevin Youkilis.

73. God posted on August 19, 2012 at 07:27 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I have nothing to come clean about. Ahem.

74. cercopithecus aethiops posted on August 19, 2012 at 07:34 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Two lines perpendicular to a third line that are extended to infinity will not really intersect with Kevin Youkilis.

Sorry, not buying it. Every line eventually intersects the head of Kevin Youkilis.

75. Bob Tufts posted on August 19, 2012 at 07:50 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I'm actually Win Remmerswaal

76. gef the talking mongoose posted on August 19, 2012 at 07:55 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I actually like pants

Is there nothing we can believe in anymore?

77. Nate posted on August 19, 2012 at 07:58 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

This thread keeps getting better. 67/76 I thought would win the thread, but 72/74 may have topped it. Keep going!

78. Nate posted on August 19, 2012 at 08:01 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I actually like pants

To what extent? Like, wear pajama pants to bed like pants, or wear jeans in the summer like pants? I'm just trying to determine the appropriate reaction: terror or pandemonium.

79. Swoboda is freedom posted on August 19, 2012 at 08:01 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Apparently Melky was using supplements from a Web site called Jukt Micronutrients.

The investigator was initially suspicious when the company owner was Vandalay Industries.

PS I am not Swoboda, nor am I free.

80. Crispix Attacks 2: Swag Airlines posted on August 19, 2012 at 08:16 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I am neither a belligerent breakfast cereal nor a black man in 18th-century Massachusetts.

81. Smitty* posted on August 19, 2012 at 08:18 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Jeans even in the pool

82. The District Attorney posted on August 19, 2012 at 08:25 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Sweet Jesus.

83. gef the talking mongoose posted on August 19, 2012 at 08:32 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Well, in fariness, Smitty* has always asked if we hate pants. He hasn't actually said he does.

OK, OK, I admit it: I'm clutching at straws here even as my world collapses around me ...

84. A triple short of the cycle

posted on August 19, 2012 at 08:45 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

In my softball game this week, my only hit was a triple.

85. Josh1 posted on August 19, 2012 at 08:56 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

If I had really been the first Josh to register on this site, I would have just taken the handle "Josh".

86. Smitty* posted on August 19, 2012 at 09:13 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Thanks guys for letting me get this off my chest....er......on my legs.

Oh, and don't you like pants?

87. Smitty* posted on August 19, 2012 at 09:21 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Oh, and one more thing. I called Jim Edmonds earlier (for some reason he only picks up right before it goes to voicemail). He told me he wanted me to tell you guys that he has something to come clean about as well. For his first 8 years in the majors he thought a fly ball to the outfield was an out if it was caught while diving.

88. Meatwad denied pope, reveals he faked it at mass posted on August 19, 2012 at 09:24 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I do not know how to meatwad

89. The District Attorney posted on August 19, 2012 at 09:33 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Oh, and don't you like pants?

*frantically searches for "Ignore" button*

90. Nate posted on August 19, 2012 at 09:41 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I do not know how to meatwad

So what is it, veggiewad?

91. Los Angeles El Hombre of Anaheim

posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:00 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I do not live in Los Angeles, nor do I hail from Anaheim.
I am not latin, and I do not speak Spanish.
I am not male.
I hate pants.

Everything is a lie!

92. FancyPantsHandle glistening with foreign substance posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:12 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

88. let me teach you how to meatwad Posted: August 19, 2012 at 09:24 PM (#4212193)
I do not know how to meatwad

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

93. Poster Nutbag posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:36 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Yes, but are you also ... a cat?

Are you Jimmy?....or that filthy mutt?

94. Esoteric throws a 'hard slider' posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:36 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

By the way, we all really are underplaying the extent to which this Melky Cabrera scandal is absofuckinglutely insane at this point.

I mean, this isn't a "did he or didn't he?" thing anymore. This is a straight-up clownshoes conspiratorial attempt at deception here. And I have no reason not to believe it's true.

95. PASTE Thinks This Trout Kid Might Be OK (Zeth) posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:20 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I for one am actually sort of impressed to finally see a player with the balls to just go for the gusto and make no bones about his intentions to cheat for money. That or a lack of enough intelligence to cover his tracks properly. One or the other. But still.

And for the record, PASTE is really, truly unimpressed by Joey Votto.

96. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:36 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

a few of us can do both--I can do and I can teach (and I suppose I can teach you to doo-doo)

97. BochysFingers posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:45 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I am not Bruce Bochy, nor his fingers, but I do have fingers.

Didn't RTFA, but put a dollar down for me on "the fabrication story is a lie".

98. Chris Needham posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:58 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I don't even particularly like ham.

99. Squash posted on August 20, 2012 at 12:07 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I yam what I yam. Screw you guys.

100. Meatwad denied pope, reveals he faked it at mass posted on August 20, 2012 at 01:03 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I did not have sexual.relations with that woman.

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