Georgia issues strong statement about the Jomboy allegations

So he’s just throwing this kid under the bus and saying he went rogue?

I noticed you didn’t post your coach’s statement

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“Certainly appears that way,” Schlossnagle said in a text to The Associated Press on Tuesday. “It’s part of the game ... wish we would’ve caught it.”

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So your only defense of blatant cheating is just to say everybody does it? Wow.

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So your only defense of blatant cheating is just to say everybody does it? Wow.

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Your coach said it buddy

Nobody who actually plays or coaches college baseball still cares about this.

Hell, even Kendall Rogers was making fun of Aggy fans on the D1Baseball podcast for not shutting up about it.

He said he didn’t care about the entire situation… sticky stuff is nothing new in college baseball and if you don’t catch them in the act there’s nothing you can do

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I didn’t say that. Your coach did.

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What do you think the league will allow him to say? He doesn’t want to get fined or bring that heat back on his team. Stop acting like it’s not a big deal because YOU got caught.

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What do you think the league will allow him to say? He doesn’t want to get fined or bring that heat back on his team.

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Schloss literally outed an unrelated scandal in the same interview complete with bread crumbs to figure out who it is like it or not, he’s airing dirty laundry

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Stop acting like it’s not a big deal

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It’s not. If you think it is you haven’t followed baseball for long.

Before MLB started substance checks in 2021, the vast majority of pitcher were using something. Kevin Gausman, Gerrit Cole, Max Scherzer, etc. Trevor Bauer said it was probably 75% of MLB pitchers.

And even though there were no substance checks, it was still illegal. As long as you didn’t have an egregious amount and didn’t make it obvious, nobody really cared.

And the part you really won’t believe is that a good number of hitters actually prefer that the pitcher uses sticky stuff, see BR article from 2019 below:

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"I use pine tar on my bat so the bat doesn't slip out of my hands," Baltimore outfielder Adam Jones says. "So a pitcher can use pine tar on the ball so it doesn't hit me in the face."
Washington Nationals slugger Bryce Harper concurs.

"Absolutely," Harper says. "I'm all in favor of it. If there's a guy out there that needs it, I'm all for it. I don't want to get hit in the head or the face. So whatever they need out there, I'll let them have it."

"Obviously, you want a pitcher to have control of the ball," the Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout says. "You don't want a ball up and in when everybody's throwing 100 nowadays. There's mixed feelings, obviously, throughout the clubhouse and throughout baseball with this.”

The game's dirty (and sticky) little secret is that there are pitchers on every staff who use some type of substance to aid in their grips. It's why you rarely see a manager complain to an umpire during a game about the opposing pitcher.

For example, despite his reputation for being uber-competitive, former manager Tony La Russa was noticeably quiet on the topic during the 2006 World Series when television cameras caught Detroit pitcher Kenny Rogers with what looked like pine tar on his left hand while pitching against La Russa's Cardinals.

It is only when it becomes obvious, such as when the Yankees' Michael Pineda practically covered the entire side of his neck in pine tar in a 2014 game or when the Orioles' Brian Matusz was caught with a foreign substance on his arm in Miami in 2015, that MLB acts.

"Why is he getting penalized when we know that 90 percent of guys are probably using it, anyways?" asks Nationals catcher Matt Wieters, a teammate of Matusz's in 2015 and now in his 10th season as an MLB catcher.

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College baseball has the exact same rules as MLB pre 2021. It’s “illegal” but there’s no substance checks. With an estimated 70-90% of MLB pitchers using something before 2021, are you really so naïve as to think that this isn’t going on in college baseball at a wide level as well?

So yeah, if you ask anyone who’s actually played baseball at a high level in the last few years about this, they will tell you it’s going on everywhere and it’s no big deal

I understand why Jomboy made the video, it’s great content. And Mracna deserves the embarrassment for doing a terrible job of hiding it. But it’s time to move on.

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We teach our players to play by the rules, and that’s where we’re at.

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Certainly not playing by the rules of grammar.

you georgia baws are something else. yall will defend anything no matter how bad it is.

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Certainly not playing by the rules of grammar.

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We aren't speaking Latin here. Those stupid rules don't apply to English.