Hey Kenny Is That Dirt On Your Hand?

Some interesting stuff went down last night in the first inning of last nights' Tigers 3-1 victory in Game 2 of the World Series. The Cardinals managed only two hits off Rogers, who at 41 years, 11 months, 12 days became the oldest pitcher ever to win a postseason game.

You've all heard the latest news on Kenny Rogers of the Tigers and the foreign substance on his hand. Umpires asked him to tidy up in the first inning because it appeared that he had some foreign substance on his hand. Later, the umpires said it was merely dirt and played off the incident.

Rogers labeled the substance on his hand "a big clump of dirt… it wasn't a big deal." Look were not scientists, well at least one of isn't, but unless Rogers didn't wash his hands for a week, or even if he did, there isn't anyway that all of that "dirt" would be that clumped on his hand in one specific location only. Look what Kenny Rogers has done in the playoffs is amazing, but it's looking a little fishy, you be the judge.



Major League Baseball director of umpires Steve Palermo said "there was not an inspection, there was an observation."

Asked how he knew the matter on Rogers' hands was dirt, Palermo said, "Because it was observed as dirt. Umpires (have) been around for more than a week or so. This is not their first summer away from home, so they've got a pretty good idea as to what dirt is and what a foreign substance is."

Unless Mr. Rogers has a birthmark on his pitching hand that no one has noticed for the past 15 some odd years of his career, that appears to be a nice patch of pine tar. We were wondering how KR had all of a sudden became so good in the postseason when he had a higher career postseason ERA than the stock price of Google.

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