Barrel of the Bat Gate

Barrel of the bat gate.

It was two games into the season before our first baseball imbroglio. If the Yankees can't beat 'em, cheat 'em. With the torpedo bat. Home runs coming as quickly as another executive order from Mr. Trump.

Steroid abuse clearly child's play compared with this MIT concocted plot for the Bronx Bombers to bomb their way to World Series ring #28.

The well known science professor, Ray Milland, and his invention that makes a baseball avoid wood, immortalized in "It Happens Every Spring" no match for this terrible miscarriage.

The Giant's stealing the catcher's signs in the 1954 World Series? The Houston Astro's banging the trash can slowly in taking the title in 2017? Forgiven and forgotten.

Please don't mention that this was not kept a secret. That other teams experimented with it last year. That this very bat may have severely damaged our own Giancarlo. That Aaron Judge hit 4 homers in the first 3 games the old fashioned way. Or that the Brewer pitching staff has been decimated by injury and that Nasty Nestor was not so Nasty even last year as a Yank and the team was well versed in everything Cortes.

And oh, Major League baseball approved of this design.

But for those who hate the boys from the Bronx, none of this is of any significance.

Barrel of the bat gate. Convicted as not charged.