Video is semi-inconclusive judging by the camera angle and when it cuts out, but boy does it look suspect.
Mariano Rivera Spitball
http://www.halosheaven.com/2009/10/19/1 ... ball-video
Slow-motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-KGmVqN-kA
Bahaha at the comments saying I guess the Yankees didn't buy the cameramen. Likely nothing though.
OT: Mariano Rivera Spitball
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OT: Mariano Rivera Spitball
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OT: Mariano Rivera Spitball
galacticos2 wrote:MLB needs to introduce an Amnesty clause. Bautista would be my first victim.
Bautista outplays his contract by more than $70 million over the next four seasons (2013-2016).
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As much as I'd like to believe this about a Yankees player (though not Rivera, really), Deadspin has frame-by-frames of him spitting, and it doesn't end up on the ball:
http://deadspin.com/5385945/spit-takes- ... s/gallery/
http://deadspin.com/5385945/spit-takes- ... s/gallery/
**** your asterisk.