Don't worry. We're about to throw some blame MichaelPineda's way. He deserves it for getting himself involved in yet another silly little controversy involving pine tar.
But I think it's also time for us to ask whether Major League Baseball should put an end to silly little controversies of this nature. It wouldn't take much. Just a simple rule change:
Make pine tar legal for pitchers.
Such a rule could have saved Pineda and the New York Yankees some grief a couple weeks ago, as we all remember the hubbub that arosefrom the brown, pine-tar-ish goo that was on his right hand during a dominant start against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium on April 10.
Pineda claimed the stuff on his hand was just dirt, but former big league pitcher Dirk Hayhurst had the right of it in a guest column for Bleacher Report that all Pineda did with that excuse was insult everyone's intelligence. It was obviously pine tar.
And it came back in the second inning during Wednesday night's contest against the Red Sox at Fenway Park, as Pineda took the mound with a brown streak on his neck that the cameras couldn't ignore:
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