Blake: Lilly's cheating wahwahwah.

[sweetpeteman]

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100527&content_id=10495766&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

Lilly will have to watch his step in his next outing. In the sixth, Casey Blake complained to first-base umpire John Hirschbeck that the left-hander was throwing off the pitching rubber.

 

"I know the guy doesn't have the fastest fastball and he's trying to get any edge he can, but the guy is just cheating," Blake said. "John wouldn't at least tell him to get on the rubber or move to get a better look at it. That's what made me mad."

 

Hirschbeck said he "couldn't tell" if Lilly was in contact with the rubber, but couldn't leave his position to get a better look.

 

"It's a hard thing to see and you've got to know for sure," Hirschbeck said.

 

"There were a couple times I would get it and throw it," Lilly said. "I think I was a little bit ahead of the rubber. I don't know if it was that much. It wasn't one of those things where I was thinking about it."

 

Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee told Lilly about Blake's complaint.

 

"If I was doing that, I might have done that a couple times, but I wasn't real conscious of it," Lilly said. "I was just trying to get good footing."

 

Third-base umpire Wally Bell, asked by Dodgers coach Larry Bowa to watch for the infraction after the dispute, said Lilly was in compliance.

 

"I looked, and he was fine," said Bell.

 

 

 

I guess he's a friend of TLR.

[bcl412]

If the umpire says he doesn't have a problem with what you are doing how exactly are you cheating?

[Bote McBoteface]

When they asked Greg Maddux about this, he replied with "...who's Casey Blake?"

[17 Seconds]

He also whined about Brian Wilson- http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Brian-Wilson-isn-t-very-happy-with-Casey-Blake-r?urn=mlb,162567&cp=15

 

There was also another thing like this he cried about last year or the year before, but I can't remember what it was.

 

Casey Blake likes to whine a lot.

[Little Slide Rooter]

"I know the guy doesn't have the fastest fastball and he's trying to get any edge he can, but the guy is just cheating," Blake said. "John wouldn't at least tell him to get on the rubber or move to get a better look at it. That's what made me mad."

 

He may not have the fastest fastball, but its still going to hurt when Casey catches it in his ribs when we play them in LA.

[Garwilly]

Well to be fair, Lilly was off the rubber on at least a couple of occasions.

[Sammy Sofa]

"I know the guy doesn't have the fastest fastball and he's trying to get any edge he can, but the guy is just cheating," Blake said. "John wouldn't at least tell him to get on the rubber or move to get a better look at it. That's what made me mad."

 

He may not have the fastest fastball, but its still going to hurt when Casey catches it in his ribs when we play them in LA.

 

Lilly might not be a Cub by then (hopefully).

[Backtobanks]

I'm sure throwing off the rubber changed his 80 mph fastball into a 95 mph fastball.

[Banedon]

Well to be fair, Lilly was off the rubber on at least a couple of occasions.

 

Batters completely erase the back line of the batters box so they can stand further back too. Big deal.

[jame.gumb]

If Casey's worried about people cheating, he should stay a little more in the baseline...

 

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/218/cobrablake.gif

[bukie]

Well to be fair, Lilly was off the rubber on at least a couple of occasions.

 

Batters completely erase the back line of the batters box so they can stand further back too. Big deal.

Not guilty by virtue of two wrongs make a right?

[Tracer Bullet]

Well to be fair, Lilly was off the rubber on at least a couple of occasions.

 

Batters completely erase the back line of the batters box so they can stand further back too. Big deal.

Not guilty by virtue of two wrongs make a right?

 

not guilty by virtue of neither action seems all that significant. If the batters were standing a foot behind the box, that would be a problem. If the pitcher were standing at the bottom of the mound rather than 2 inches from the rubber, that would be a problem. As it is, neither seems like that big of a deal.