A Baseball Theory

by Smitty

Baseball Crank has a post entitled “BASEBALL: Year of the Slightly Better Pitcher”

While out in Idaho, we grilled some steaks. A rancher friend was over, and I alluded to the stolen third perfect game of the year. Out of nowhere, the fellow outs himself as a tremendous baseball fan, praising it as requiring more skill and athleticism than any other sport. Sure.

His post-worthy theory, though, was that the reason for the sudden rash of perfect games was that MLB has gotten off the dope. His notion was that, sans steroids and “mother’s little helpers”, batters were rolling off the bus three games into the road trip and doing about as well as BHO without a teleprompter up at the plate. Fresh pitchers on the home turf were wrecking these suddenly mortal batters.

I’m not enough of an aficionado to do more than pass this along.