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30-2020-01157569-CU-DF-CJC - ROA # 32 - DAVID H. YAMASAKI, Clerk of the Court By e Clerk, Deputy Clerk.
1 Daniel L. Rasmussen, Bar No. 120276

danlras@mac.com
2 Matthew K. Brown, Bar No. 252503
mkbrown34@gmail.com
3 1944 N. Tustin Street, No. 112
Orange, California 92865
4 Telephone: (949) 300-7405
5 Attorneys for Brian Harkins
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
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COUNTY OF ORANGE, CENTRAL JUSTICE CENTER
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BRIAN HARKINS, an individual, Case No. 30-2020-01157569-CU-DF-CJC
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Plaintiff, Assigned For All Purposes To:
12 Hon. Melissa R. McCormick, Dept C13
v.
13 PLAINTIFF BRIAN HARKIN’S
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, an COMPENDIUM OF EVIDENCE IN
14 unincorporated association of professional SUPPORT OF OPPOSITION TO
baseball teams; ANGELS BASEBALL LP; a DEFENDANTS MAJOR LEAGUE
15 California Limited Partnership and DOES 1 BASEBALL’S AND ANGELS BASEBALL
through 100, inclusive, LP’S SPECIAL MOTION TO STRIKE
16 COUNTS ONE AND TWO PURSUANT
Defendant. TO CAL. CODE CIV. PROC. § 425.16
17 (ANTI-SLAPP)
18 VOLUME 2 OF 2
19 [RELATED TO ROA #19]
20 Judge: Hon. Melissa R. McCormick,

Date: January 21, 2021
21 Time: 1:30 p.m.
Dept.: C13
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Action Filed: August 28, 2020
24 Trial Date: May 31, 2022
25 Plaintiff Brian Harkins (“Plaintiff”) submits the following Compendium of Evidence in
26 support of his Opposition to Defendants Major League Baseball and Angels Baseball LP’s Special
27 Motion to Strike Counts One and Two Pursuant to Cal. Code Civ. Proc 425.16 (Anti-SLAPP):
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Case No. 30-2020-01157569-CU-DF-CJC
PLAINTIFF BRIAN HARKIN’S COMPENDIUM OF EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF OPPOSITION TO
DEFENDANTS' SPECIAL MOTION TO STRIKE
1 TABLE OF CONTENTS / INDEX TO EVIDENCE
2 VOLUME 1 OF 2:
3 DECLARATIONS
4 TAB A Declaration of Wally Joyner
5 TAB B Declaration of Michael Sweeney
6 TAB C Declaration of Gabe Morrell
7 TAB D Declaration of Vince Willet
8 TAB E Declaration of Joseph Jones
9 TAB F Declaration of Eric Rose
10 TAB G Declaration of John Altstadt
11 TAB H Declaration of Brian Harkins
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13 EXHIBITS
14 Exhibit 1 Article: Source: Angels fire employee for supplying ball-doctoring substances,
15 2020-03-05, OC Register
16 Exhibit 2 Article: Reports: Angels fire visiting clubhouse manager for helping opponents
17 illegally doctor baseballs, 2020-03-05, Yahoo Sports
18 Exhibit 3 Article: Sources: Angels fire visiting clubhouse manager for aiding opposing
19 pitchers, 2020-03-05, ESPN
20 Exhibit 4 Article: Angels Reportedly Fire Employee for Providing Pitchers With Illegal
21 Substances to Put on Baseballs, 2020-03-05, Bleacher Nation
22 Exhibit 5 Article: AP Source: Angels visiting clubbie fired for ball-doctoring, 2020-03-05,
23 AP News
24 Exhibit 6 Article: Angels address the sticky situation of illegal substances on the baseball,
25 2020-03-06, Whittier Daily News
26 Exhibit 7 Article: Fired Angels employee Bubba Harkins sold ‘Go Go Juice’ that pitchers
27 put on baseballs, 2020-03-06, Los Angeles Times
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1 EXHIBITS (Cont’d)
3 VOLUME 2 OF 2:
4 Exhibit 8 Article: ‘Everything’s under such a microscope now’: MLB rules crackdown
5 comes with confusion, 2020-03-06, Yahoo Sports
6 Exhibit 9 Article: Los Angeles Angels fire clubhouse attendant for supplying illegal
7 substances to visiting pitchers, 2020-03-05, Halo Hangout
8 Exhibit 10 Article: Fired Angels worker sue, says he didn’t sell Go-Go Juice; he made Sticky
9 Stuff, 2020-09-13, Los Angeles Times
10 Exhibit 11 Article: ‘Almost everyone is using something’: Getting a grip on how MLB
11 pitchers are cheating, 2020-11-09, The Athletic
12 Exhibit 12 Forum: Baseball Comments, 2020-03-05, www.Redditt.com
13 Exhibit 13 Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics
14 Exhibit 14 Eric W. Rose, Curriculum Vitae, Court Qualified Expert Witness
15 Exhibit 15 Critical Mention Report, 2020-09-18
16 Exhibit 16 Chris Young, Major League Baseball Memorandum to Owners, CEOs, Presidents,
17 General Managers and Field Managers re Applying Foreign Substances to
18 Baseballs, 2020-02-28
19 Exhibit 17 Photos: Mudded Baseball Color Tones / Mudding Application Standards
20 Exhibit 18 Forum: Baseball Rubbing, 2020-10-09, Twitter
21 Exhibit 19 Forum: @Alden_Gonzalez, 2020-03-05, Twitter
22 Exhibit 20 Forum: @maria_torres3, 2020-03-05, Twitter
23 Exhibit 21 Forum: sports.yahoo.com, 2020-03-05, Twitter
24 Exhibit 22 Brian Harkins’ Letter to John Carpino, President, Angels Baseball LP,
25 2020-03-20
26 Exhibit 23 Sheila Martinez, Major League Baseball, Letter to Brian Harkins, 2020-03-23
27 Exhibit 24 Text: Justin Verlander to Brian Harkins, 2020-03-07
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1 EXHIBITS (Cont’d)
2 Exhibit 25 Text: Gerrit Cole to Brian Harkins, 2019-01-17
4 Exhibit 26 Article: Yankees’ Gerrit Cole says Astros didn’t use substances on baseballs to
5 gain advantage, 2020-02-24, https://www.sny.tv/hankees/news
6 Exhibit 27 Text: Mike Gallego to Brian Harkins, 2020-03-08
7 Exhibit 28 Brian Harkins’ Letters to Allyson Shatz, Human Resources-Tampa Bay Rays,
8 2020-11-03 and 2021-01-04
9 Exhibit 29 John E. Altstadt, Altstadt Consulting, Curriculum Vitae
10 Exhibit 30 Brian Harkins’ Schedules: Summary of Potential Economic Damages
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The Los Angeles Angels fired long-tenured visiting clubhouse attendant Brian
“Bubba” Harkins on Thursday for supplying illegal substances to visiting pitchers
at Angels Stadium, according to the OC Register
(https://www.ocregister.com/2020/03/05/source-angels-fire-employee-for-
supplying-ball-doctoring-substances/).
WHAAAAAAAT?!?!
The firing was first reported by the LA Times

(https://www.latimes.com/sports/angels/story/2020-03-05/angels-fire-clubhouse-
attendant-brian-harkin-furnishing-illegal-substances-baseballs), but the OC Register adds
damaging detail to the original report that Harkins “furnished illegal substances to put on
baseballs.” Harkins used his position in the visiting clubhouse to provide opposing pitchers with
illegal substances to doctor baseballs. This is a shocking revelation about a team employee who is
an Anaheim native and has worked on-and-off with the organization since 1981.
With cheating and sign-stealing dominating the headlines around baseball this offseason, the
Angels needed to act quickly once reports started to surface that Harkins was creating an uneven
playing field. The fact that he was helping opposing pitchers turns the Angels into a victim.
Harkins, who goes by the nickname “Bubba,” has been a fixture in the Angels organization since he
was a batboy for the team in 1981. He just completed his 30th season as visiting clubhouse
manager and was honored as the “Visiting Clubhouse Manager of the Year” by MLB equipment
managers in 2005.
Team president John Carpino confirmed the firing to the Los Angeles Times, but said, “I cannot get
into any more details than that.”
Ironically, the Angels open the season in Houston as the Astros’ first opponent since the sign-
stealing scandal became public. Whether the Astros know the pitches are coming or not anymore,
at least the Angels now know opposing pitchers won’t have an edge on their hitters.
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Troy Percival, former Angels pitcher, said he taught ‘Bubba’ Harkins how to make Sticky Stuff. It’s “been around forever”
and a version can be purchased in stores, he said. (Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)
By MIKE DIGIOVANNA | STAFF WRITER

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Former Angels employee Brian Harkins, fired March 3 for allegedly providing illegal
ball-doctoring substances to visiting pitchers, has filed a complaint against the team
and Major League Baseball claiming he was made a “public scapegoat” in baseball’s
efforts to crack down on the use of foreign substances.
The complaint, first reported by ESPN early Sunday morning, was filed in Orange
County Superior Court on Aug. 28. The lawsuit names the Angels and the MLB and
cites defamation, as well as labor code violations.
Harkins, nicknamed “Bubba,” spent almost four decades with the Angels, starting as
a batboy in 1981. He was the visiting clubhouse attendant when he was dismissed
after an MLB investigation that said he was providing a blend of sticky substances —
known as “Go-Go Juice” — to visiting pitchers to aid their grip of the baseball.
The complaint says that Harkins “never distributed an illegal substance” to anyone,
that he was unfamiliar with the term “Go-Go Juice,” and that he did not sell it as a
money-making venture.
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According to the complaint, an all-star Angels pitcher taught Harkins in the 1990s to
mix rosin, pine tar and Mota stick (hard pine tar) for use “by that pitcher and other
Angels pitchers” to improve their grip on and control of the ball. The concoction is
referred to in the complaint as “Sticky Stuff.”
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“When the All-Star pitcher left the Angels to pitch for the Detroit Tigers in 2005,” the
complaint reads, a description that fits former Angels closer Troy Percival, “he
showed his new teammates how he used his rosin/pine tar mixture to get a better
grip on the ball and improve his control.”
As players changed teams through trades and free agency and became aware of the
Sticky Stuff, the complaint says, they asked Harkins to prepare it for them as a
courtesy. “It was a free offering for which Bubba often, but not always, was given a
gratuity.”
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The complaint goes on to say that Harkins “was not a traitor to his team,” that many
people in the Angels organization knew about the Sticky Stuff and that “year after
year, a hair-cream sized jar containing the Sticky Stuff was included in the Angels’
bullpen bag, along with sunscreen and other sticky substances. Many Angels pitchers
used it over the years.”
Percival, reached by phone Sunday morning, acknowledged that he taught Harkins

how to make the mixture in spring training, “mostly because it was so dry in Arizona
and the balls were so slick out there, and they didn’t rub them up.”
Percival, who pitched for the Angels from 1995 to 2004 before signing with Detroit,
said he used the Sticky Stuff about 15 times a year, in cold weather and in “five or six
cities that, come the ninth inning, would pack the seams with mud and you couldn’t
grip the ball. I didn’t see a big issue because I could go grab a [pine tar-covered] bat
and get the same thing.”
Percival, now the UC Riverside baseball coach, said he was taught by an older veteran
how to produce the mixture, “but it’s basically pine tar and rosin mixed together with
a couple other little things,” he said. “If [Harkins] developed it any more beyond that,
I don’t know.”
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Percival said he didn’t know if other Angels players used the Sticky Stuff. He was
aware of Harkins’ firing but did not know a player fitting his description was
mentioned in the lawsuit as the one who taught Harkins how to make the mixture.
“I don’t think it’s that big a deal,” Percival said. “To me, if you’re using something that
makes the ball move, where it’s slick and slipping off your fingers, that’s one thing.
But something that will help you with your command a little bit … we used it in
spring training because you couldn’t grip the ball, and hitters didn’t care because they
didn’t want the ball coming at their head.
“That stuff has been around forever. There’s no way he should have been let go for
making it because you can go buy it in stores. It’s called Pelican Grip,” a grip-
enhancing blend of pine tar and rosin.
Harkins contends in the complaint that he was not given a copy of a Feb. 28 memo in
which MLB vice president of on-field operations Chris Young reiterated the rules
banning the use of foreign substances before his firing.
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According to the complaint, a March 20 letter from Harkins to Angels president John
Carpino “explaining the errors underlying the club’s decision-making” and requesting
that Harkins be reinstated was ignored.
The Angels said they couldn’t comment “on pending legal matters or on employment
matters.”
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The complaint also states that Harkins was interviewed by attorneys for MLB and the
Angels on March 26 as part of an investigation into the use of illegal substances to
enhance a pitcher’s grip on the ball.
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Harkins “was specifically asked to identify which players, coaches and teams use the
Sticky Stuff,” the complaint reads. “Five months later, there has been no discipline of
any kind meted out to anyone — except Bubba.”
The case is scheduled to go before a jury on May 31, 2022. Harkins, a 44-year
resident of Anaheim, will seek damages from both the Angels and MLB, who, the
complaint claims, have “caused the loss of plaintiff’s employment and the destruction
of his hopes of future employment in his 38-year vocation.”
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Your favorite pitcher is probably cheating.
A large majority of big league pitchers right now are using some sort of extra-
grip substance to impart more spin — and therefore more movement — on the
ball. That’s the consensus of nearly 20 major league hitters, pitchers and
pitching coaches who spoke to The Athletic in the last month. The median
answer was more than three-quarters of the league, but five respondents
thought the portion was much closer to 100 percent.
“Almost everyone is using something,” said a coach with experience in several

major league organizations.
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“My guess on total MLB players using some sort of grip enhancement … 99.9
percent,” said another coach who has worked with multiple major leaguers.
Those who are loading up with a “grip enhancement” on the mound are
violating Official Baseball Rule 6.02, which states that the pitcher may not
“apply a foreign substance of any kind to the ball” or “have on his person, or in
his possession, any foreign substance” or “attach anything to his hand, any
finger, or either wrist.”
But, rather than try to eradicate such a widespread practice, it might make
more sense for Major League Baseball to legalize it.
Because of ongoing innovation in the grip substance marketplace, the difficulty

of enforcement, the perils of selective enforcement and the flaws in alternative
solutions, the simplest way out of this current situation may be to find some
sort of substance that satisfies the pitcher’s needs and hopefully ends the race to
develop better grip.
The advantages of using grip substances are unmistakable.
“It’s better than steroids,” said one player development executive about the
benefits, which have been demonstrated by major league pitchers in real time
before. Trevor Bauer, after making some comments about how a pitcher could
add spin rate and throwing some shade at Astros pitchers, ended up doing what
can only be described as a public experiment when it appears he added spin rate
to his fastball (https://theathletic.com/337974/) for one inning in 2018, when
he was with Cleveland.
“For eight years I’ve been trying to figure out how to increase the spin on my
fastball because I’d identified it way back then as such a massive advantage,”
Bauer himself wrote in a piece
(https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/trevor-bauer-cincinnati-reds-sign-
stealing) for The Players’ Tribune. “I knew that if I could learn to increase it
through training and technique, it would be huge. But eight years later, I
haven’t found any other way except using foreign substances.”
It wasn’t for a lack of experimentation.
“I’ve tested all sorts of different stuff in the lab up at Driveline,” Bauer told
Jordan Bastian (https://bastian.mlblogs.com/there-is-a-problem-in-baseball-
right-now-c9b15b7e3ed) in 2018. “I sat down with a chemical engineer to
understand it. At 70 mph, when we were doing the tests, spin rates jumped
between 300-400 rpm while using various different sticky substances. The
effect is slightly less pronounced at higher velocities — more game-like
velocities — but still between 200-300 rpm increase. So, that’s a lot of the
research we’ve done. We’ve done it with multiple test subjects. … And those are
the results we found.”
Some of those experiments at Driveline Baseball, the data-driven center for

pitching research outside Seattle, made their way into “The MVP Machine,” a
2019 book by Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik. One test left current Giants
coordinator of pitching analysis Matt Daniels with baseball on his fingers
(https://books.google.com/books?id=-
Z9xDwAAQBAJ&ppis=_e&lpg=PT299&dq=mvp%20machine%20correlation%20height%20power&pg=PT238
and, of course, increased spin rates on his fastball. In a possibly related matter,
Bauer now has the highest spin rate of any four-seam fastball in baseball.
An independent pitching development lab was kind enough to do some applied

research for the purposes of this article, asking a pitcher to throw multiple
times without any grip, then with pine tar on his fingers, and finally with
Pelican Grip on his fingers.
The results were remarkable. Going from nothing on the ball to applying
Pelican Grip added more than 300 rpm to this pitcher’s fastball and more than
three inches of extra movement. That’s enough to move from 39th on the
fastball spin leaderboard (Sam Selman with 2476 rpm) to first (Bauer, with
2776 rpm). See how much each substance changed the spin and movement on
the same pitcher’s fastball:
Pitch Characteristics by Grip Substance

GRIP VELO SPIN RATE X-BREAK Y-BREAK
Nothing 82.4 2193 14.2 9.7
Pine Tar 82.6 2431 16 9.6
Pelican Grip 82.3 2520 16.8 10.1
These resulting changes in movement would improve this pitcher’s stuff in an

apparent way. A pitcher who added this much spin to a league average fastball
would expect his swinging strike rate to go up from the 10.4 percent (league
average) to 11.1 percent, research on “stuff ” metrics has found. That would be
like going from Michael Pineda’s fastball to Trevor Bauer’s fastball, given their
respective whiff rates (https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_search?
hfPT=FF%7C&hfAB=&hfBBT=&hfPR=foul%5C.%5C.tip%7Cswinging%5C.%5C.pitchout%7Cswinging%5C
from the last two years combined. Real improvement, more strikeouts, all from
a little tacky stuff on the fingers.
It’s because of results like this that pitchers are largely turning to grip
substances on the mound. The league’s average spin rate has risen steadily
(https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_search?
hfPT=FF%7C&hfAB=&hfBBT=&hfPR=&hfZ=&stadium=&hfBBL=&hfNewZones=&hfGT=R%7C&hfC=&
year&sort_col=spin_rate&player_event_sort=api_h_launch_speed&sort_order=desc&min_pas=0&chk_stats_spin
from 2238 rpm in 2015, when we first started tracking the stat, to 2306 in
2020. Part of that might be due to teams selecting pitchers with higher spin
rate, but it also could be that more pitchers are turning to a grip substance as
they see the improvement in colleagues who have used these substances before.
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The practice has become so commonplace that pitchers, in past seasons, have
“loaded up” in front of multiple reporters, and casually talked about the practice
when off the record. Reporters have also observed infielders and catchers
putting pine tar on their gloves and equipment in order to improve their grip,
maybe, but also (admittedly) to add some goop to the ball for the pitcher as it’s
thrown around the infield.
Perhaps because of the ubiquity, and the form that enforcement takes, very few
pitchers have gotten in trouble for violating a rule that very many are
disregarding every time they take the mound. In practice, a manager must ask
the umpire to check the pitcher on the mound — and it could be that
managers aren’t willing to go there if they know their own staff would be made
vulnerable by the action.
When Brendan Donnelly was caught using pine tar on his glove in 2005, he
brought with him the ill will of being a replacement player who had crossed
picket lines to play during the 1994 strike. And, because Nationals manager
Frank Robinson, who’d been told by a former teammate of Donnelly’s that the
pitcher used pine tar, checked the pitcher, the very next night Angels manager
Mike Scioscia sent the umpire to the mound to check on reliever Gary
Majewski, who didn’t have pine tar anywhere the umpire examined.
Right there, you have the flaws in the way the rule is enforced shown front and
center. Making the manager the enforcer means that it can be used tactically
once the reward outweighs the risk.
So, maybe baseball could change the process. A pitcher in South Korea said
that the umpires basically “check you up and down” before your start.
Something automatic and daily like this would make enforcement less tactical
and selective and more of a routine.
“If you know where to look, it’s all obvious,” said one coach. “Watching the
playoffs today, there are clearly three guys touching the same spots.”
But would that catch all of the rule breakers?
Check the bill of the cap, check the glove, check the belt, check the back of the
neck and under that long pitcher mane. Then suspend those infringing on the
rules, and get this out of the game. Except it’s probably not that easy. Try it for
yourself, if you like. Find where the six or seven pitchers in each game, on
average, are getting their grip substance from. Yes, there are the obvious few, but
are all of them obvious?
Here’s another clue that it’s not so easy to eliminate the use of grip substances
by pitchers: Baseball itself announced an intention to crack down on the
practice in 2020, but the results of that effort are not obvious to the public. In
an internal memo obtained by Lindbergh
(https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2020/7/10/21175567/banned-substances-
pitchers-spin-rate-four-seam) before the season, MLB senior vice president
Chris Young points out that umpires may decide on their own without the
prodding of a manager and adds that the clubs themselves have some
responsibility to quell the cheating.
“It is the responsibility of each Club to ensure that its staff and its players
understand the rules set forth in this memorandum,” Young wrote. “Clubs may
be subject to sanctions by the Commissioner for failing to adequately educate
their staff and players on the applicable rules.”
And … not one pitcher was cited this year. One clubhouse manager was fired
(https://theathletic.com/1658263/2020/03/06/reports-fired-angels-visiting-
clubhouse-manager-supplied-foreign-substances/) for selling grip substances to
visiting pitchers, and that’s seemingly all that happened.
MLB declined to comment for this article, but The Athletic has confirmed with
multiple sources that the league has spoken to teams about the issue and is
working toward finding an alternative — whether it be a new ball or an
approved sticky substance — because enforcement is so difficult.
Technology is part of the reason that specific pitchers, even those with big
increases in spin rate, have been able to evade punishment. Pitchers have found
some substances that aren’t so easy to detect.
“Pitchers make concoctions and then use the Rhapsodo, and it makes it spin
like crazy,” said one coach, pointing to the fact that ubiquitous pitch-tracking
technology makes it easy for pitchers to conduct their own experiments and
discover (often clear!) grip substances that change their metrics.
“Some teams ‘cook’ their own mixtures,” said another coach. “I’ve heard about
some guys putting Pepsi on a stove top and heating it until it had to be cut off.
When slightly heated this can be mixed with other mixtures and you create
some unbelievable stick.”
With the immediate feedback provided by today’s pitch-tracking technology

and the eagerness to get noticed by spin-hungry front offices, the groundwork
is laid for an arms race. And not all of the substances pitchers are working with
are as visible as a pine tar patch on a pitcher’s neck. Clearer options that have
been tested or considered include CBD oil, lubricants, Tyrus Clear Sticky Grip,
shaving cream, Sprite instead of Pepsi, and the tried-and-true rosin-plus-
sunscreen trick.
bag and pine tar stick: Hannah Foslien / Getty Images)
That last one has been around a while, and seems impossible to catch. Should
pitchers be suspended for having too much sunscreen on their arms? If not,
there’s already a huge hole in the plan to enforce the rules more stringently.
Pitchers often see the use of sticky substances as a collective response to a dry,
dusty ball with increasingly tighter seams that are harder to grip.
“I would say a vast majority use something, but it’s because balls are so slippery
after they rub them up,” said one pitcher.
You might even find some hitters who say it’s no big deal because they’d rather
the pitcher had a good grip on the ball. Not all of them, though.
“This topic really bugs me when pitchers say it’s only for grip,” said one major
league hitter with a different perspective. “Lots of position players use
substances for grip too, so we get it. But guys are gaining insane amounts of
spin and ride from using insanely sticky substances. Guys are already throwing
harder than ever; we don’t need their sliders to have unconventional break.”
The idea that the substance is only there to improve command (and thus
protect hitters) is also hard to square with the fact that batters hit by pitches are
at an all-time high. It seems implausible that the problem would be that much
worse than what is already the worst hit-by-pitch rate of all time with less pine
tar, especially when other pitching trends (https://theathletic.com/966357/)
seem to explain the plunking situation better than any pine tar addition or
subtraction would.
“This has absolutely changed the way we have to approach hitting,” said one
major league hitter that was adamant that something should be done about the
situation and didn’t think the grip substances were saving him from any
plunkings. “We have to deal with more ride. We have to deal with more break.”
But, if the ball is the reason pitchers are using pine tar, the ball can also be a
way out. In South Korea, where they check every pitcher before each
appearance, they also have a different ball that’s easier to grip.
“The balls in Korea are treated with something and they use powder rosin, not
rock rosin, so it actually dries off in your hand and allows you to grip the ball,”
said one pitcher with experience in the KBO.
Rawlings and the league are working on a tacky ball, and it was tested in the
Atlantic League last year, but one complaint from a hitter seems ominous for a
league that has struggled with ball changes (https://theathletic.com/1044790/)
over the last five years.
“The big difference for me was that they felt a little bit softer than the other
ball,” former Reds catcher Ramon Cabrera told Newsday
(https://www.newsday.com/sports/local/ducks/d-arby-myers-atlantic-league-
new-rules-stealing-first-wally-backman-1.34344616) last year. “… I really liked
it. But when we’re hitting, the balls don’t jump like the regular ones. So, we hit a
couple line drives and a couple balls really hard, and the balls didn’t go
anywhere.”
Does baseball want to risk taking the carry out of the ball at a time when
strikeout rate also has risen to an all-time high? The reward would be that
strikeouts and home runs both go down, and perhaps more balls are put in play
— but the risk is that only the home run rate comes down, and viewers are
rewarded with a game that is reduced to strikeouts and strikeouts alone.
Maybe that’s why baseball is reportedly considering developing and

distributing an MLB-approved sticky substance, which Lindbergh reported
(https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2020/7/10/21175567/banned-substances-
pitchers-spin-rate-four-seam) and The Athletic has confirmed.
“Allow it,” Bauer said in 2018. “I don’t see that there’s a way to enforce it,
because you can’t go check a pitcher every single inning, every single pitch, and
that’s currently how it is.”
“You can get thrown out of a game and suspended for it if an umpire comes out
and checks and finds out,” he continued. “But it doesn’t happen. So, pick a
substance that’s sticky, that gives you all the performance benefits, and just put
it on the back of the mound. That way, if you want to use it you can and
everybody knows it’s being used. And, if you want to use other substances and
skirt the rule, whatever. Have a certain amount of outlawed substances —
Vaseline or whatever. But, if you want to use sticky stuff, it’s right there on the
mound. Put your fingers on it and throw.”
r and Tuf-Skin: Leon Halip / Getty Images)
With a couple options on the table, the least likely seems to be an all-out
enforcement blitz. But some sort of action is on the table since baseball — as it
has acknowledged — thinks this is a problem worth solving. With strikeout
rate (and spin) at an all-time high, wiping out grip substances that give pitchers
an unfair advantage might be a way to achieve more balls in play by enforcing a
rule already on the books.
“Pressure is on in the league,” one coach said. “Front offices value spin and velo.
If everyone around you is getting favoritism from the front office and having
higher success rates because they are using sticky stuff, then you’ll most likely
start to learn how to use it.”
“Something should happen,” said one hitter, before adding something

disturbing for a league that was just racked by a sign-stealing cheating scandal.
“Can the league do something? Absolutely. Is a little bit of cheating OK?”
Pitchers look around and see teams picking up high-spin pitchers. “You don’t
have to give them a name,” reliever Ryan Buchter said once of the pitchers the
Dodgers brought into camp (https://blogs.fangraphs.com/ryan-buchter-on-
spin-rate-and-its-limitations/). “You just bring in the numbers from the
TrackMan, give them 10 guys and they’ll pick off of their stats. They don’t care
what they look like or anything.”
These pitchers see more than three-quarters of the league using this tacky
substance, and they know it doesn’t have ramifications for their bodies the way
steroids did, as those performance-enhancing drugs have been shown to cause
long-term issues (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2646607/)
with heart and psychiatric health. Can you blame them for joining in?
It might behoove the league to try and enforce this, but it’s also apparent that
the practice is so widespread, and the grip substance research so advanced, that
enforcement will be difficult, if not impossible. The league has a choice
between offering options — like an approved tacky substance, or a new ball —
that address the problem, or doubling down on previously unsuccessful efforts
to catch the pitchers in the act.
Either way, there’s a fascinating process that starts almost every time the pitcher
gets the ball back from the catcher. That series of seemingly innocuous ticks
may have a calculated goal designed to impart a sticky advantage. And the way
out is as difficult to track as the high-spin breaking ball that ends up sizzling its
way to the plate.
(Illustration: Wes McCabe / The Athletic / Getty Images)
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Simon B. 9h ago 20 likes
Management of the condition of the ball is a thing in cricket, the ball deteriorates over time as it hits the
floor each ball so bowlers will use saliva to smooth down one side of the ball and keep the other side rough
to encourage unpredictable movement through the air. There's been a few cases of stretching the accept-
able limits, like using sugary sweets to make saliva stickier, but I think it shows that rather than try to ban
any such instance of this, it makes a lot more sense to decide what is appropriate and enforce that.
James K. 5h ago 3 likes
I don't understand why people are concerned about the condition of the ball. Almost everytime the
ball hits the ground it is replaced, no issue.
David D. 4h ago 3 likes
Let the pitchers have the sticky stuff and increase the diameter of the barrel of the bat by a quarter
or perhaps half inch, whatever offsets the advantage. Increase the sweet spot and increase the hits
and level the playing field.
Brandon W. 29m ago
But in cricket, the other differences are that start with speed and move to spin bowlers. And the spin
bowlers often try to bowl into the foot in the opposite crease. I'd never heard of using saliva, but then
the last televised match I saw was 40 years ago.
Brandon W. 27m ago
In cricket, balls last for over 500 pitches, and the ball bounces on almost every play
Nick P. 8h ago 21 likes
What is to stop people from sneaking in their own “improved” substances once it becomes legal and regu-
lated? As a player, wouldn’t you just keep on trying to maintain a competitive advantage?
Maffy L. 7h ago 9 likes
@Nick P. Exactly. How is the league supposed to know that clear sticky stuff on a pitcher's hand is the
approved clear sticky stuff they reviewed? Will they do tests on it? We're just back to square one
then.
Brian J. 6h ago 7 likes
@Nick P. There’s not much to stop them, but the marginal benefits of a secret improved formula is
probably insignificant if MLB simply allows pitchers to use the best available substance, whether it’s
pelican grip or something else. Some would still possibly cheat, but there’d be diminishing returns,
and a much more even playing field.
Peter S. 5h ago 3 likes
@Nick P. I think it's still better if there is a standard and accepted sticky substance to use. Instead of
one player having 0 rpm advantage, another having 200rpm, another with 300rpm, another with
400rpm, etc., you have everyone with a 300rpm advantage if they want it. Sure some guys will still be
looking for 400rpm and beyond but the gap between the biggest advantage and the smallest advan-
tage goes down. It makes it more fair, even if not completely fair.
Robert H. 8h ago 11 likes
Why not have each pitcher tested in an environment where they are unable to use a sticky substance and
have that spin rate information as their baseline. Any serious deviation from that number will be cause for
suspension.
Noah N. 8h ago 7 likes
Because while Trevor Bauer struggled to increase his own spin rate, some guys do find adjustments
like grip and arm angle work to increase spin.. I think what Bauer was saying is that he couldn't
achieve the elitist of spin without help.
Dennis M. 7h ago 9 likes
@Noah N. Actually, what Bauer said is 100% of pitchers who use a substance will improve spin rate.
He never said that mechanical adjustments were meaningless and he has been on cutting edge of us-
ing technology to improve his own mechanics.
Alex G. 4h ago
I’m not seeing where Noah stated Bauer said mechanical adjustments are meaningless?
All Noah said was having a “baseline” wouldn’t work because some guys, unlike Bauer, can find some
adjustments to help their spin. So it’s not always from foreign substances that increase it
Robert H. 4h ago 1 like
So if they find a mechanical adjustment to improve spin rate above their baseline, have them prove it
in an environment outside of a game with no sticky substance available. Assume a big jump is from
cheating which it will be in almost every case and allow players to appeal and prove otherwise.
Tyler M. 2h ago 1 like
It's very expected to gain velocity in a game vs. throwing a bullpen. With velo comes spin. Plus, like
these other guys say, mechanical adjustments
Spencer K. 8h ago 2 likes
Then do something about it MLB...
Roy T. 1h ago
Roy T. 1h ago
@Spencer K. The thing is, MLB doesn't take action on anything unless it affects the bottom line. If
they believed that this was making the game less entertaining and therefore causing ratings and tick-
et sales to drop, they'd do something about it. It's not anywhere near that point, so they'll just let it go
and keep counting their stacks of cash.
Alden B. 8h ago 2 likes
How about checking pitchers hands after they leave the mound each inning?
Josh M. 8h ago 15 likes
Don’t worry, guys. Joe Kelly will take care of those cheaters!
Mike P. 7h ago
Brilliant, love Joe!
Josh M. 7h ago 9 likes
Oh I’m definitely being sarcastic
Mike P. 7h ago
I'd have back at the Sox tomorrow
J. Daniel M. 17m ago
By sticking his tongue out at them? ... lol
Josh M. 7m ago
Oh not just that, my friend. He’s going to throw baseballs at them and then run his mouth as he walks
back to the dugout! Everyone will cheer him as baseball’s new sheriff, conveniently forgetting that he
played on the Red Sox team that ALSO got caught cheating! What’s better than a fake tough guy? A
fake tough guy that’s also a hypocrite!
Tim B. 7h ago 8 likes
When cameras zoom in on Clayton Kershaw it’s so obvious he’s covered in some foreign substance, never
understood why the TV commentators never say anything about it.
Jim S. 6h ago 19 likes
@Tim B. Gerrit Cole tucking the hair behind his right ear after every pitch is the most obvious to me
Justin H. 5h ago 6 likes
@Jim S. I've actually wondered why pitchers seemingly all decided to grow out their hair. I don't re-
member this many pitchers with long hair in the past. But if you look at the game's top pitchers (Had-
er, Kershaw, Cole, deGrom, etc.), a lot of them have long hair. Whether the hair is a distraction to the
hitter or whether the longer hair allows them to hide a foreign substance, I have no idea. But it's
something to note.
Travis M. 5h ago 10 likes
Degrom cut his hair short, then won back to back cy youngs. Yes he had long hair, but not anymore.
You're right about everyone else though
Justin H. 4h ago
I don't want to imply that pitchers with longer hair are using foreign substances. I just have noticed
that a ton of pitchers have long hair now, but I don't remember it being a thing 5+ years ago. And hav-
ing long hair isn't a trend in American culture, nor is it very popular in other sports (except hockey,
which always had long hair). It's just my observation. I have zero evidence that the long hair means
anything
Alex G. 4h ago 5 likes
Kershaw, like every pitcher, obviously uses some substance. His looks more pronounced though be-
cause he uses 1 hat a season and doesn’t wash it lol. Even in the postseason all he does is have them
attach whatever patch they’re using for that series on the hat he’s worn since opening day
Alex G. 4h ago
For Kersh I think it’s definitely just rubbed on the cap, it’s just one of his funny habits where he gets 1
haircut in ST and that’s it for the season. Also, think pitchers just love having “the flow” lol
Henry W. 7h ago 8 likes
Given the rosin + sunscreen trick is almost entirely unstoppable -- players are literally given a rosin bag as a
source for rosin -- I would be interested if there's any data for that as a sticky substance vs. the others.
Eno Sarris STAFF 1h ago
@Henry W. From conversation, but not hard data: most grip substances get you up past that +250
spin rate territory, and pelican grip was the best, so there's your range.
Henry W. 7h ago 5 likes
How does sticky substances affect pitchers with blister issues?
Marc K. 6h ago 1 like
I was wondering the same thing. It seems like there’s been a blister epidemic, or maybe it was just
Brett Anderson!
Robert A. 7h ago 25 likes
Pitchers have been cheating forever. And then everybody gets bent out of shape when the hitters (Astros)
try to do it.
Steve H. 4h ago 6 likes
@Robert A. You're out of your depth.
Kevin D. 7h ago 23 likes
Baseball is becoming a game of strikeouts and home runs and it is boring as hell. Small ball is a lost art
James W. 1h ago 1 like
@Kevin D. Maybe. Or maybe small ball is boring also. A ten second pitch clock would cure most of the
bore in baseball. That's Chris Sale with the bases empty. Give them fifteen with runners. Baez does
nearly forty.
Kevin D. 1h ago 1 like
Call me crazy but I think it’s way cooler seeing a guy hit for the cycle than it is seeing a grand slam
home run. The game no longer values guys like Ichiro, JRoll, etc. that can get on, steal a base or two
and end up a sac fly or bunt away from becoming a run
Colin M. 7h ago 1 like
How many players lost careers and life changing fortunes because they didn’t use steroids. Players are
forced to cheat if they are not forced to comply. Provide a standard solution and then penalize non
compliance.
Aaron G. 7h ago 6 likes
I feel like this is a case where enforcing the rules would not just be right, but really save baseball. We need
less home runs, strikeouts and walks and more balls in play. I think they should adopt the ball used in KBO
and do all they can to eliminate grip enhancement. The softer ball would reduce home runs, lower spin rate
would reduce strikeouts. I would not be surprised at all if less spin rate/movement correlated to less walks,
too. Make something happen, MLB!
Mark S. 7h ago 4 likes
What if batters stopped swinging for the "launch angle" and actually tried to just put the ball in play. The
numbers influx has brought a bunch of hitters that swing for the fences, and so has at least helped the K
rate climb up.
Maybe ther aren't enough contact hitters anymore because it isn't something teams encourage anymore.
Home runs is apparently what they want. Put Rod Carew or Tony Gwynn out there and see about K's.
Tom C. 6h ago 1 like
Easier said than done. Hitters swing for the fences because it’s easier to do and if you’re not a good
enough contact hitter, you’ll definitely lose a lot of value. I do however think some guys like Jeff Mc-
Neil or DJ LeMahieu are good places to start if we want to point at contact hitters who have been at
or near the top of the league though.
Chris S. 6h ago 3 likes
The problem with contact is pitchers are throwing harder and throwing more breaking stuff. Hitters
today are just as good at hitting 92 mph heaters as they always have. They just don't see 92 mph or
less heaters half the time any more.
Jon Y. 6h ago 2 likes
@Mark S. Not only that, but most players are using insanely end-loaded bats which can generate
crazy power, and a growing number are even removing the end-cups for even more end-load which
have been common-place since the 90s.
I think we need to bring the fences out a bit because it's clear that in today's game, they're too short. I
think the game would be much better if 1-9 on an average major league team with a bit of luck wasn't
capable of hitting 30 hrs in a season .
Mark S. 2h ago
True. I'd say that Mr Freeman with the Braves is an excellent choice for power and average too.
J. Daniel M. 9m ago
Ralph Kiner explained why guys swing for the fences “Home run hitters drive Cadillacs, singles hitters
drive Chevys.”
Or maybe it's because as Maddux and Glavin said "Chicks dig the long ball"
Michael E. 7h ago 14 likes
This really isn't difficult, or expensive. Before the season each pitcher must submit a baseline spin rate from
a pitch lab, with an MLB observer present to verify no foreign substance. Should a pitcher increase their
spin rate beyond a certain +/- threshold during an appearance that season, they must be retested later that
week and reproduce the results without substances, otherwise they are suspended.
Robert H. 1h ago
Agree. Said basically that exact same thing earlier
Esteban R. 7h ago 5 likes
Lower the mound and let them use whatever they want... if the increased numbers of strikeouts is a func-
tion of velocity and spin, let's focus on the variable we can control and decrease the speed.
James W. 1h ago
@Esteban R. Lowering the mound in 1969 caused a great and permenent increase in arm injury.
Teams are increasingly advising their pitchers that trhowing on flat ground increases strain on their
arms.
Esteban R. 1h ago
It’s an interesting point, wonder if it is worse than the current trends with people throwing sinkers at
100mph and blowing out their arms in a couple years.
Gil C. 7h ago 4 likes
Gil C. 7h ago 4 likes
Baseball has always had a cheating problem. From fixing games to scoffing baseballs to pine tar to corked
bats to PEDs to stealing signs, etc. etc. Baseball needs to enforce all rules and not allow a "little" cheating.
Cheating is cheating! Enforcement is really not that hard if you give it a little effort. Check pitchers before
games. Perform random spot checks. Take a baseball out of play after a couple of non-contact pitches to
examine substance on it. Make the punishment harsher, such as an automatic 15-game suspension and/or
an automatic ground rule double for whoever is at the plate at the moment.
Maffy L. 7h ago 12 likes
Why is the American solution to everything "just legalize it bro.". Why is it "impossible" to check if a pitcher
has a sticky substance on his hand? If its so "impossible", how would the league regulate their specially MLB
approved sticky substance and make sure players are using their special 300 Million USD-per-year sponsor
brand and not some weird garage blend made out of animal dung and icy hot that Trevor Bauer cooked up
in a mad scientist session?
Sean T. 2h ago
The idea to legalize these substances hurts the game and I think the example you used is a good way
to show that legalizing sticky substances is only going to create more questions and problems that
will be difficult to answer and monitor. The 2020 American solution to everything is, “to make it as
grey as possible.” Which makes zero sense to me. Baseball players and organizations have found so
many different ways to cheat, or as they would put it, “get an edge” seems like MLB needs to catch up
and start regulating this stuff.
Clifford O. 7h ago 2 likes
It's about time someone brought up this subject.
AJ A. 6h ago
It'd be nice to know how far back these tricks date because this isn't anything new. I would just argue that
they are getting better with their substances and concoctions. A new ball is the only thing that I see possi-
ble. Otherwise, who's to know if they are used the approved substance or not. And I'm not sure if I want to
see a new ball in play.
Griffin D. 6h ago 1 like
Great piece Eno!!
Paul G. 6h ago 5 likes
Either legalize it or enforce the rules. You know how stupid it is to have to explain this situation to someone
who doesn’t watch the game regularly? “Oh well there are these unwritten rules...”
Tom W. 6h ago 2 likes
Keep the sticky stuff and allow corked bats!
Tom J. 6h ago
Great piece of writing!
Brian J. 6h ago
Something interesting to note is that in men’s fastpitch softball, pitchers are permitted to use one specific
substance, “Gorilla Gold”. Pine tar used to be prevalent, and some still use it, but almost every single high
level pitcher goes to the rubber with that same familiar Gorilla Gold cloth in their back pocket. Ryan Divish
probably has some interesting insight into this if you were to ask him.
Jeff W. 6h ago
So, any pitchers signed out of KBO should pick up 200-300 rpms? Kim for the Cardinals sure looked mas-
terful. In these "uncertain financial times" (after all, the owners are billionaires), Korea might be a good place
to go shopping for a pitcher or two.
Brian J. 54m ago
@Jeff W. any increase in spin rate when using an MLB ball with grip enhancements would already be
taken into account by the league translations.
Jon Y. 6h ago 3 likes
One would be shocked at how effective normal sweat can be, as well as awareness to various kinds of dam-
age the ball gets thoughout a game and how to use it to get more movement. That cant be illegal right? My
own body produces the sweat, and the ball isn't being altered intentionally.
That being said, we figured out that if we wore some hair gel (my school had a massive New Jersey and
Long Island-native population and this was back when the Jersey Shore originally aired), the sweat on our
brows would be way stickier and you could make the ball do some crazy stuff. When you are facing D1 bat-
ters with those first generation composite bats that broke every understanding we had of how a ball flies in
the air, every advantage helps. Over the course of the season our pitching staff went from being the worst
in our conference to one of the best.
Jeff B. 6h ago 1 like
I can't wait to see which team or player takes the fall for this particular brand of cheating. It's only a matter
of time before MLB is forced to act and appoint a designated fall guy.
Kyle G. 33m ago
@Jeff B. Ironically Mike Fiers was very visibly tarred up during his first no-no.
Michael G. 6h ago 2 likes
Is there a particular light that would instantly dtect/show whether a substance had been added to the ball?
Mr S. 5h ago 1 like
Was this seriously only anonymous sources? I mean i believe it just wish you got more of anyone on the
record
Eno Sarris STAFF 3h ago 2 likes
@Mr S. Getting anyone on the record is difficult for the same reasons enforcement are: since so many
people are doing it, nobody wants to be the first to put their name on it. Mike Fiers got so much crap,
and that was one team, specifically. So, yes the estimation of how many people are doing it was done
on anonymous sources to protect people from that treatment. I tried to counter that fact by talking to
a lot of people on both sides of the issue.
John T. 2h ago 1 like
@Mr S. Saying "everybody cheats including my pitchers" on the record would be a good way to join
the ranks of the unemployed.
Kyle G. 30m ago
@Mr S. This is a good point. So many of the MLB pieces on The Athletic are rife with anonymous
sources.
This one seems more forgivable, since there is no one being specifically accused, but some of the
Luhnow reporting quote a lot of "league sources" that seem to have no reason they need to be
anonymous.
James P. 5h ago 1 like
If you are gonna let pitchers do this, you gotta at least bring in game video analysis back for hitters so they
can try to adjust. Yeah, there needs to be a check against Astros style cheating, but hitters need the play-
ing field leveled somewhat.
Ed J. 5h ago
I have only one question from this, Who are the best pitchers in last decade or two who did not use any en-
hancement substances? Maybe separate those who had short or long careers of success. I’d like to know
who those guys are.
Lora D. 5h ago 1 like
From L.D.:
Who can forget the days of Phil & Joe Niekro, Gaylord Perry, et al.?
There were a dozen or so MLB pitchers back in the day that “doctored” the ball.
Same old stuff continues but in a different way.
MATTHEW H. 5h ago
Hmmm. Pitchers can put additives on their gloves and that’s fine, but corked bats and steroids are ver-
boten? I understand steroids can be seen as a separate situation. But condoning cheating is condoning
cheating.
Bob P. 5h ago
"Sticky substance allows better grip for control" excuse analogous to slightly pregnant. No need to worry
Rob Manfred is investigating issue. Obvious that numerous pitchers on my team have pre pitch mannerisms
for obtaining the goo. Enjoyable Article Mr. Sarris.
Richard S. 5h ago
Welcome to the wonderful wide world of the Philosophy of Law!
pureblather.com/2014/04/26/pitching-pine-tar-and-philosophy/
And isn't "pitch framing" a form of cheating? A catcher is trying to fool the umpire into thinking a pitch was
a strike when it really wasn't.....
Victor S. 4h ago
I don't think pitch framing is cheating. Traditionally, cheating has been using foreign or alien sub-
stances or technology as a substitute for skill. Whether it's pine tar, pelican grip, an apple watch, or a
center field camera, the scope of cheating has been limited to training alternatives and shortcuts.
Framing pitches is a skill that has to be practiced and honed to be effective, which is pretty much the
opposite.
But if you have a problem with it I wouldn't worry, it won't be humans calling balls and strikes for very
much longer.
Robert Z. 5h ago
Simple rule change to minimize pitchers loading up is to prohibit the touching and/or stroking of hair.
Watch carefully how frequently pitchers including most of the aces, run their pitching hand thru their mane
loaded with hair gel to gain spin rate. It’s elementary Watson!
Mark D. 4h ago
Great and overdue article, Eno. I recall watching Cole in playoffs and just thinking, yikes it’s so damn obvi-
ous he’s going to hat to get that extra something after he delivers every pitch. The astros weren’t better at
teaching pitching they were better at teaching lab chemistry. Forefront of cheating on many levels those
guys. And of course as noted bauer has basically admitted and flaunted it. I said then it’s like during
steroids where everyone kinda looked the other way. But at this point the rule needs to change or be al-
tered to work hand in glove with an mlb approved ball-substance-threshold. It doesn’t equate perfectly to
hitters using gloves and pine tar but if they can outfit their hitting tool a bit it’s probably time to give pitch-
ers a little something.
Todd U. 4h ago
The easiest way around any pre-game inspections is to just give the sticky substance to the catcher, and
have him load up the ball after the first pitch. By the way, that's why a lot of first basemen and outfielders
take the ball with them when they get the third out. In Little League, we used to just roll the ball to the
mound. Nowadays that damn thing is lopsided by the time the inning is over.
Matthew W. 4h ago 6 likes
But.....steroids.....
Cheating has been around since the day they started playing baseball.
Put Bonds & Clemens in the HOF already....after all, Gaylord Perry and Bud Selig are in....
David D. 4h ago
Let the pitchers have the sticky stuff and increase the diameter of the bat by a quarter inch or whatever is
appropriate to offset the advantage. This will increase the size of the sweet spot and improve contact.
Joey R. 4h ago
Cheating is baseball.
Michael R. 4h ago
Who else thought of professional wrestling refs patting down each opponent before a match?
James W. 1h ago
@Michael R. There is no professional wrestling.
Brad S. 4h ago
At this point i am basically numb to any kind of cheating in baseball. let them cheat, i dont care anymore.
Neal D. 3h ago
Eddie Harris just rubbed a little jalapeño in his nose to get it running.
Paul C. 3h ago 3 likes
This is an example of why the Astros sign-stealing wasn't all that serious - many others do it but didn't get
caught.
Perhaps the answer doesn't lie in legalizing a banned tactic but identifying the tiers of rules that may carry
different punishments.
This would still allow pitchers to use grip enhancers at a said risk of, say, 5-game suspension or $100K fine,
for example.
If PEDS are more serious, keep the current 50/100/162 suspension rules in place.
Electronic sign stealing might be an organizational fine with Manager and player-culprit suspensions.
Etc, etc, etc.
I'm still not sure why electronic sign-stealing is a bigger deal than Stick-um, or whatever they're using these
days. But that's a different story.
David G. 3h ago
Every pitch is with a brand new ball, and you can't do anything with a brand new ball. Stop throwing out
every ball that hits the ground. Then pitchers will have something to grip.
Chris T. 3h ago 8 likes
We just have to figure out how to get our own beer into stadiums. If they are cheating the game we need to
get on their level!
D N. 2h ago
Best comment! Fans should be cheating too
Brent G. 3h ago 1 like
This issue has gone far beyond MLB and filtered down through colleges into high schools because of the
emphasis on pitch data for player evaluation, including recruiting.
Christopher L. 3h ago
It's so obvious this has been going on. Almost every pitcher has the same routine, touching things with their
pitching hand that they don't need to touch in the same sequence after every pitch.
Michael K. 3h ago
If baseball legalizes foreign substances for pitchers, it might as well legalize trashcans. While were at it, let's
put a keg at second and add another outfielder.
Baseball is turning into a circus. None of this is going to help get more fans.
Richard H. 2h ago 2 likes
The chart showing the increase in Ks since 1974, plus the comment on home run rate, brings us almost
there. Ks haven't been rising just since 1974. They have, with a temporary dip following the lowering of the
mound, been rising for a century now. So too have HRs, with a slightly earlier dip in the late 1960s. People
only really started noticing the past couple of years, but these are long term trends, and show no sign of
stopping yet. This discussion of sticky substances is a recent effort by pitchers to continue the trend. So
too are the use of openers, and clever manipulation of the roster rules to effectively add another one-inning
guy to the bullpen. Compare this with the uppercut swing angle that received so much attention a couple of
years ago. That was the batters continuing their side of the trend.
Discussions of these phenomena usually are held in isolation, both from one another and from understand-
ing the broad trend. This is why they are doomed from the start. If we agree that the three-true-outcomes
trend of baseball has reached a point where a less compelling game results (FWIW, I do agree to this) then
we need to address both the Ks and the HRs side. Deadening the ball a bit is a plausible approach to reduc-
ing HRs, but would be disastrous if not accompanied by somehow reducing Ks.
Jim L. 2h ago
Everyone who’s big time into baseball and player development advancements in pitching and hitting should
read MVP machine - it’s fascinating and eye opening. Trust me you will learn a lot.
Katie S. 2h ago 3 likes
Yeah sure, make it legal. We all love watching a ton of strikeouts, let's get some more.
Matt W. 2h ago 1 like
"Sir, why do you have sunscreen on your arms?"

"I don't want to get skin cancer. "
"Understandable. But it's 10 PM and this is the Tropicana."
William G. 2h ago
With 99.9 % using grip, and you highlighting it as a big benefit, yet ML pitchers ERA’s and WHIP’s continue
to rise. It’s not helping the pitchers command and in watching the inability to command the baseball is not
getting any better. But the plus side of this is that the hitters swing out of their asses and k so much, which
lends to in a great part boring games with deep counts, BB’s, K’s and HR’s. The science needs to be inte-
grated better in a way to make the game more interesting. MLB is losing fans and viewership and will con-
tinue with the product on the field.
Max W. 2h ago
wasn't bauer the one screaming about the Astros cheating? F hypocrite.
Arturo R. 2h ago
So which pitchers should be denied entrance to the HOF?
Tom M. 1h ago
what would making a substance legal accomplish? pitchers would continue to

look for something else. all this sticky stuff was discovered by pitchers wasn't it?
who said if you're not cheatin, you're not tryin?
Chris R. 1h ago
I find it laughable that this article states that it is difficult to find where pitchers hide their substance. 99%
of MLB pitchers have it under the bill of their cap, which they go to with their pitching hand after every
pitch. I actually watch for this during games, and it’s very rare when a pitcher doesn’t obviously have it un-
der the bill of their cap. I’d like the goop removed from the game, as watching the strike out and home run
fests has become very boring.
Joe Y. 1h ago
The ball is slicker, allowing more carry. Pitchers augment slick grip with a sticky substance. If it can be
shown that command improves, then just play. The issue, beyond cheating vs gamesmanship, is safety. If
you can’t command a doctored ball, somebody’s getting drilled.
John G. 1h ago
So, to offset this tremendous advantage and return hitters to "even," why not allow teams to bang trash
cans to enable hitters to know what pitch is coming? That way, when it illegally exceeds an un-enhanced
expected spin rate, at least they can know what it is, and react accordingly. Voila! More balls in play and
more action and a more level playing field. I honestly think I could live with that. What other cheating can
we address - the doctoring of playing fields? I am not an Astros' fan, but consider what they did no worse
than what pitchers do every game. Is cheating cheating or not? Are we the arbiters of the level of cheating?
How can we even know what else goes on? Let them play the game and, as a fan, just sit back and enjoy the
results!
Charlie M. 1h ago 1 like
So who did the athletic speak with about the matter? How about the names? Is the athletic becoming the
astros of sports writers world. How about exposing these guys and clean up the sport? So many players
and teams were “outraged” about the astros, maybe they were projecting the fact they were cheating. The
Yankees were ballistic and reading Cole is cheating gosh that’s ok?
Josh M. 1m ago
That’s not how sources work. If whoever the Athletic spoke with did so on the condition of anonymity,
then the Athletic could put them anyway but then nobody would talk to them anymore because they
can’t trust them. Also, if you’re going to accuse people of cheating, you need more than just hearsay.
It’s easy to be outraged and altruistic but if the Athletic loses access, then they can’t report on stuff
like this at all
Hal J. 58m ago
Hey, cheaters cheat. Bauer's conscience bothers him -- so he talks about it. Without any evidence at all, one
might conclude that in Game Four against the Braves in the NLCS the Dodgers pitcher went natural and got
hit, but later in his next game, that pitcher improved his spin rate significantly and redeemed his reputation
somehow -- against a starter he suspected might be spin-enhanced -- and in a more important elimination
game for his team.
Baseball was still the game being played. Home runs were still being hit. Runners were still scoring on sin-
gles or errors, and making mistakes on critical plays. The ball is still "lively" to some, "juiced" to others. It's
Modern Baseball to some. But is it Baseball?
Robert R. 37m ago
Can someone inform the Phillies bullpen?
Elliot K. 34m ago
Spelling it “Rhapsodo” is rhidiculous.
Jeffrey S. 27m ago
So are you accusing Bauer of cheating? And Cole?
Bill M. 23m ago
Enforce the rules until changes are made. That’s unlikely to happen with today’s leadership group !
Calvin H. 7m ago
Now that my team finally has good pitching, I’m all for legalization.
Richard B. 4m ago
Good column Eno. I cannot talk as an expert, nor can I speak to the morality of the subject, but can anyone
doubt that every professional athlete is constantly lookin for a way to gain an advantage? In baseball it is
sign stealing, erasing the back line in the batters box to get further away from the pitching rubber, trying to
intimidate opposition players or the umpires, or using a foreign substance on the ball. There are undoubt-
edly others. I can recall hearing an interview after a rookie pitcher hit a batter with a pitch he could not con-
trol, where the commentator (an ex-ML pitcher) said that this would not have happened if the pitcher had a
substance that helped them control the pitch.
Like playing in the rain, if every pitcher is using a foreign substance, it is the same for everybody. Also, with
analytics, fewer pitchers face the opposition more than twice, indicating that the foreign substance cannot
successfully carry them through the game anyway.
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 What the damn hell?
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There's some serious fuckery afoot here and I'm seriously considering getting a restraining order on the internet.
First of all, I had no idea teams had a "Visiting Clubhouse Manager". That's like being a bellhop. Did he ll the Gatorade
jugs? If so he probably laced them with seminal uids. I just can't even right now. I need a cigarette and I don't smoke. Oh
OH and there's a fucking AWARD for BEST VISITING CLUBHOUSE MANAGER Jeff Fletcher fade me now.
Secondly, this motherfucker was doctoring baseballs....in the visitors clubhouse? Do they use those balls during the
game? If so, was he doing it to help the Angels, or hurt them? What was he doctoring them with? We're the Angels in on
this? I'm literally shaking right now trying to fully understand this insipid fucktardery.
If they don't use them during the game, then why, and I seriously cannot stress this next part enough, the thermoindustrial
FUCK was he doctoring baseballs? Was he putting AIDS on them so the visiting teams would contract AIDS when using
said baseballs? If that were the case I would sympathize with his endeavor, but I certainly would not understand it.
"Illegal substances" does that mean "illegal" illegal or "baseball" illegal. I can't imagine him putting cocaine on them so I
assume it's boogers or fecal residue. Or tar. Or AIDS.
Lastly, what the actual fuck.
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There's some serious fuckery afoot here and I'm seriously considering getting a restraining order on the internet.
First of all, I had no idea teams had a "Visiting Clubhouse Manager". That's like being a bellhop. Did he ll the
Gatorade jugs? If so he probably laced them with seminal uids. I just can't even right now. I need a cigarette and I
don't smoke. Oh OH and there's a fucking AWARD for BEST VISITING CLUBHOUSE MANAGER Jeff Fletcher fade me
now.
Secondly, this motherfucker was doctoring baseballs....in the visitors clubhouse? Do they use those balls during the
game? If so, was he doing it to help the Angels, or hurt them? What was he doctoring them with? We're the Angels in
on this? I'm literally shaking right now trying to fully understand this insipid fucktardery.
If they don't use them during the game, then why, and I seriously cannot stress this next part enough, the
thermoindustrial FUCK was he doctoring baseballs? Was he putting AIDS on them so the visiting teams would
contract AIDS when using said baseballs? If that were the case I would sympathize with his endeavor, but I certainly
would not understand it.
"Illegal substances" does that mean "illegal" illegal or "baseball" illegal. I can't imagine him putting cocaine on them
so I assume it's boogers or fecal residue. Or tar. Or AIDS.
Lastly, what the actual fuck.

Best Visiting Clubhouse Dude. Nice.

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 What in the heck? So basically he’s a traitor! Helping the opponent beat the Angels.
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 Astros pitchers?
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Astros pitchers?
That would actually be pretty hilarious.
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 Doesn't it strain credulity that he conveniently only helped the opposition? Yes, I understand he was the visiting
clubhouse manager, but he has a long history with the Angels--and he just happens to only help the OPPONENTS cheat?
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Doesn't it strain credulity that he conveniently only helped the opposition? Yes, I understand he was the visiting
clubhouse manager, but he has a long history with the Angels--and he just happens to only help the OPPONENTS
cheat?
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I mean, if he's helping everyone cheat then what the hell is the point? Does he just really love pitchers duels?
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 We red him cause he only helped the other team. Sounds about right
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Duren, Duren Posted March 5 

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 Mentored by Gaylord Perry with his arsenal of little devices?
Bat and Ball 'doctoring' had been going since the beginning of the game. With various substances and implements. Hair
grease, nail les, the elementary spitball, pine tar, cork, etc. Trying to detect and enforce has met with varying degrees if
success. Every player tries to get an edge. Some try these physical techniques. With mixed results.
But having an outside source brings in a new angle. What was delivered? Common items or specialized whatever?
Members Players too lazy to bring in the stuff themselves? Or unavilable through normal channels?
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An Angel employee explicitly aiding and abetting the opposition to defeat his employer's team? Willingly breaking the
rules of the game?
Is this a wide spread thing around the leagues?
Angels need to come to grips with what's going on in and around the clubhouses.
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 Maybe he was helping Angels pitching and all the pitchers were getting injured on purpose so they didn't have to cheat.
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cranky This doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
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 next up - Angels re several members of their media and technology team for installing a monitor with live video feed of
Angels players at bats in the visiting dugout tunnel.
'they told us they wanted to see what the pitch looked like from behind.
rally money admits to being part of the conspiracy. one ip for fastball. two for off speed.
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'they told us they wanted to see what the pitch looked like from behind.
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rally money admits to being part of the conspiracy. one ip for fastball. two for off speed.
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 There is a lot that goes into being the visitor’s clubhouse manager. I’ve read about a few different ones over the years. If
you’re interested, @tdawg87 , here is a write up on PHI’s visitor’s clubhouse guy and what the job entails. FWIW, Ryne
Sandberg thanked CHC’s longtime clubhouse manager in his HoF speech.
https://philliesinsider.mlblogs.com/behind-the-scene-manager-visiting-clubhouse-7364f116ad5?gi=4ab540808622
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cheat?
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i don't know the story yet, because i can't read it, but i'd imagine them ring him should serve as evidence that they're not
happy with him.
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There is a lot that goes into being the visitor’s clubhouse manager. I’ve read about a few different ones over the
years. If you’re interested, @tdawg87 , here is a write up on PHI’s visitor’s clubhouse guy and what the job entails.
FWIW, Ryne Sandberg thanked CHC’s longtime clubhouse manager in his HoF speech.
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that's a very cool article. Those guys are pampered six ways from Sunday. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a
designated ass wiper. what a racket.
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 I appreciate the effort but I'm just not going to read an article about clubhouse managers.
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 Now we know why Albert has struggled since coming to Angels.
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eligrba4ever Posted March 5 

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 So were they de ating the baseballs that the Angels kept failing to hit into the RF seats for all those years?
I am outraged!!! Did Bubba have insider help?
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 after that, shrimpin' was easy.
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@tdawg87 I couldn't get the LAT article to open on my phone, but I read this one from ESPN which has some details. This
story still doesn't make a lot of sense, and I was also surprised to learn that a "visiting Clubhouse manager" even exists.
Wtf.
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cranky Bubba is a Dipoto asset.
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 He is a PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 The Angels getting fucked over internally is really on brand actually. Extremely Angels shit.
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He is a PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At rst I wasn't convinced, but then I saw all the exclamation marks and agreed with you.
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 Angels visiting team survey.
We appreciate any feedback that you can provide on your teams recent visit to Angels Stadium. How was your visit?
”Terri c, your clubhouse manager was very courteous and extremely helpful. Thank you.”
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that's a very cool article. Those guys are pampered six ways from Sunday. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a
designated ass wiper. what a racket.
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 I hope this isn’t taken away from him.
Harkins, a native of Anaheim, was named Visiting Clubhouse Manager of the Year by MLB
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I hope this isn’t taken away from him.
Harkins, a native of Anaheim, was named Visiting Clubhouse Manager of the Year by MLB
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The Home clubhouse manager will be red.
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The Angels fired their longtime visiting clubhouse manager after

an internal investigation confirmed that he was providing
opposing pitchers with illegal ball-doctoring substances. MLB,
which vows to enforce that rule this season, tipped them off. ...
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Sources: Angels ax visiting clubbie for aiding foes

The Angels have fired their visiting clubhouse manager for providing
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235 people are talking about this
Seems MLB told the Angels.
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 Jeez, the Angels always seem like the last to know about stuff.
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Jeez, the Angels always seem like the last to know about stuff.
If they would’ve known he would’ve been working in the Angels clubhouse instead.
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hangin n wangin Posted March 6 

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 Yea, I knew there was such thing as visiting and home team clubhouse managers and of course other attendants. I also
know that these guys, at least in the visiting clubhouse, get tipped by the players for taking care of their uniforms, the
clubhouse and other tasks they are slated with. My guess, and this is only a guess, is “Bubba” was getting pretty damn
good tips for providing this for the pitchers on the visiting team.
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Yea, I knew there was such thing as visiting and home team clubhouse managers and of course other attendants. I
also know that these guys, at least in the visiting clubhouse, get tipped by the players for taking care of their
uniforms, the clubhouse and other tasks they are slated with. My guess, and this is only a guess, is “Bubba” was
getting pretty damn good tips for providing this for the pitchers on the visiting team.
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There’s actually an ATM outside the visiting clubhouse speci cally so the players can grab cash to tip the clubhouse
manager. Dead serious.
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There’s actually an ATM outside the visiting clubhouse speci cally so the players can grab cash to tip the clubhouse
manager. Dead serious.
I’m pretty sure that they gave Bubba a tip and left envelopes for both Cahill and Harvey.
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 It was just pine tar?
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 So the MLB should open an investigation., and punish all those teams that cheated by having them forfeit their next two
years of rst round picks. It only seems fair. Over the last 15 years, I think that would make 29 teams he helped cheat.
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They will hire garbage can bangers for the Astros for games at Anaheim.
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 I'm o cially blaming this situation for our suckage the last 5 years.
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I'm o cially blaming this situation for our suckage the last 5 years.
I'm fairly certain that he took 2002 off, but was there consistently otherwise.
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 Between this, and the clubhouse guy being the drug-getter - what in the hell is going on around there?
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Between this, and the clubhouse guy being the drug-getter - what in the hell is going on around there?
We seem to be a very hospitable organization.
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cranky So Bubba was washing the opposing players' balls?
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Does Bubba post here under a different name?
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Between this, and the clubhouse guy being the drug-getter - what in the hell is going on around there?
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I used to have a picture of Dennis Kuhl practically swimming in Coors Light, but i couldn't nd it.
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I used to have a picture of Dennis Kuhl practically swimming in Coors Light, but i couldn't nd it.
Who is in charge of the day to day operations?
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Not sure, probably Carpino. Not that it matters. One employee giving others drugs certainly isn’t something out of the
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ordinary in society. As for the cheating it would be interesting to nd out how it came out. I know the story came out that
MLB told the Angels but it’s possible it came from a guy like Bundy who pitches for us now and knew it was happening
before.
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 lol what a f*cking moron.
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 i think bubba got hosed. it sounds like he wasn't cheating at all, but rather prepping the balls as the clubhouse manager
for the visiting pitchers. mlb allowed this "violation" of the rules for many many years because of player safety. now, due
to the astros and "cheating" being a buzzword around mlb, they've decided to enforce this rule and a guy like bubba gets
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i think bubba got hosed. it sounds like he wasn't cheating at all, but rather prepping the balls as the clubhouse
manager for the visiting pitchers. mlb allowed this "violation" of the rules for many many years because of player
safety. now, due to the astros and "cheating" being a buzzword around mlb, they've decided to enforce this rule and a
guy like bubba gets the shaft.
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Guess everybody is cheating then.
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I think he was providing pitchers a pine tar based substance that the pitchers used to get a better grip on the ball. I don’t
think he had access to the baseballs before a game.
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So the Home pitchers' balls are prepped in the same way as the visitors? Because of player safety?
Guess everybody is cheating then.

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4,653 posts yes, everybody is cheating in this regard. heaney, bundy and other angel pitchers semi-openly talked about doing it
Location: san diego themselves. it's well know to aid the pitcher's in control, which is to the hitter's bene t in regards to his safety. this is all
well traveled and discussed. you can literally nd it everywhere.
i'm 100% against cheating, but this isn't cheating to get an edge. this is mlb and it's players allowing a bending of the
written rule because it bene ts all parties. the pitchers, the hitters and the franchises that have to pay for contracts and
injuries.
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I haven’t heard that.
I think he was providing pitchers a pine tar based substance that the pitchers used to get a better grip on the ball. I
don’t think he had access to the baseballs before a game.
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but the real advantage is not losing control of your fastball. we will see this season if there is an increase in hit batters,
allowing for the houston factor. lol.
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He didn't get hosed. He got rightfully red.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/angels/story/2020-03-06/angels-employee-bubba-harkins-sold-homemade-substance-
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He was selling this "Go Go Juice" on the side for his own pro t.
He didn't get hosed. He got rightfully red.
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 TEMPE, Ariz. — The Angels have red visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins after he supplied illegal substances to
visiting pitchers at Angel Stadium, according to a source.
An Angels spokesperson would only con rm that Harkins was no longer employed by the Angels.
Major League Baseball has been investigating claims of pitchers around the majors applying illegal substances to the
ball. The Angels learned that Harkins was aiding the pitchers in obtaining the substances, and they red him, the source
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Harkins, known as Bubba, began working as an Angels batboy in 1981. In 1986 he began working as a clubhouse
attendant, and in 1990 he was named the visiting clubhouse manager.
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 ball doctoring substances could mean so many things.
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 Never trust a grown man called Bubba
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Never trust a grown man called Bubba
Or one with frosted tips.
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Dude’s had that hair for forever.
The Guy Fieri hair should have set off some alarms after 2002 or so.
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The Guy Fieri hair should have set off some alarms after 2002 or so.
I believe it may be some type of Huntington Beach camou age.
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This guy should be banned for life from MLB.
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 TEMPE, Ariz. — The story of one of baseball’s worst-kept secrets arrived at Angels camp this week.
A day after news that Angel Stadium visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins had been red for supplying visiting
pitchers with a sticky substance to apply to the baseballs, players in the clubhouse responded with little surprise about
what had occurred.
“It’s not a huge secret,” Angels left-hander Andrew Heaney said. “I think no one thinks it’s shocking that people are using
Administrators sticky stuff on their ngers. You’ve been hearing about it forever, I think throughout the history of baseball.”
 2,098 Heaney added: “I think everybody knows that most guys are doing it. I don’t think it’s that surprising for anybody who
262,119 posts knows baseball.”
When asked if he or any Angels pitchers had been offered the sticky substance, Heaney said: “C’mon, man. I said most
everybody is probably using it. Most everybody is getting something from somewhere, creating their own.”
Major League Baseball is reportedly cracking down on the widespread use of pine tar or other substances by pitchers,
part of an investigation that led to the dismissal of Harkins this week.
Most pitchers, including those questioned in the Angels clubhouse Friday morning, said the purpose of the substances is
to improve the grip on the baseball, and therefore the control.
“I don’t throw that hard, but I throw pretty hard and I like to know where it’s going,” said Heaney, who said he’d
experimented with different substances. “I’m sure the hitters would tell you the same thing. When they have dudes
throwing 100 mph, they want to know where it’s going too.”
Veteran Dylan Bundy, who is new to the Angels, said “no comment” when asked if he’s applied substances to the baseball.
Speaking generally, he said the rosin that is permitted is not su cient.
“For cold games, the rosin if anything makes the ball more slick,” Bundy said. “That’s when you get the two-seamer riding
up and in on guys. It’s tougher when it’s cold to get a grip. You are trying to throw up and in with a purpose and that little
bit of slippage can be dangerous.”
Pitching coach Mickey Callaway said he expects Major League Baseball to end up banning any use of substances like
pine tar, which could have a detrimental effect, particularly when it’s cold.
“If I were a hitter, I’d be scared to dig into the box in Detroit on April 10,” Callaway said.
Manager Joe Maddon said pitchers have been putting substances on the baseball to improve their grip “as long as I’ve
been in baseball,” and it’s a particular issue now because the baseballs have become more slick. The solution, he said, is
eventually that MLB will have to change the ball.
Speaking from the hitter’s perspective, Andrelton Simmons said there is a ne line between simply improving grip and
also improving stuff. Trevor Bauer has been outspoken about how pitchers can also improve their spin rates by doctoring
the baseball.
“I understand the need for a little feel to grab the ball,” Simmons said. “It’s kind of part of the game, to a certain extent. I
don’t know where the line is.”
Maddon and Heaney conceded that sticky substances can have a bene cial effect for the pitchers, but said it’s not
enough to outweigh the bene t for the game of hitter safety.
“I think the two things are intertwined,” Heaney said. “The better control you have, the better grip you have, the stickier
your ngers, the more spin you’re going to get, the more control you’re going to have. I don’t know how you separate the
two and say I get better control but my stuff isn’t better. I don’t know how that works. If they want to crack down and have
one uniform thing, rosin ain’t it. Rosin does not work. It’s like throwing a freaking cue ball.”
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Obviously, nobody clued Cam in on this practice.
Actually, Cam just sucks. Nothing would help him.
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 at this point, i feel sorry for bubba. it doesn't read like he did anything unscrupulous against the angels.i think he got the
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 So Bubba got red for sharing company secrets which are not really a secret. Scapegoat!
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 Every team uses pine tar for pitchers. The league has looked the other way but noti ed teams they were going to enforce
it this year. There was a story and a thread on it in this forum last week.
And how do we know Bubba was buying pine tar for the opponents. We know that is his job title but he was the tenured
team clubhouse guy. His duties were likely not limited to working the opponents clubhouse. I could see him getting it for
our team regardless of job title.
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So Bubba got red for sharing company secrets which are not really a secret. Scapegoat!
By company you mean decades of MLB secrets.
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By company you mean decades of MLB secrets.
Yeah so what was the point of ring him again? He shared things with pitchers that they already knew about.
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 The point would be why do that for the visiting pitchers? Let them spend their own time or their own staff member to
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 So.... MLB says it's going to enforce a rule -- MLB also tells the Angels an employee of theirs is suspected of breaking
said rule. Angels act on it by ring guy.
I'll take going through the motions for 100, Alex.
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So.... MLB says it's going to enforce a rule -- MLB also tells the Angels an employee of theirs is suspected of
breaking said rule. Angels act on it by ring guy.
I'll take going through the motions for 100, Alex.

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Wrongful termination is looking like an option if they F’d with his retirement.
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The point would be why do that for the visiting pitchers? Let them spend their own time or their own staff member
to create the substance. It would be like providing the opposing team with scouting reports on your own team.
Maybe his personnel le has more than we know about. Could’ve been handled differently. Like a warning.
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Wrongful termination is looking like an option if they F’d with his retirement.
Dude, I realize you love to create these situations where the Angels are doomed, acting malevolently, or just plain stupid
but .. get real already.
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This was something that reportedly was initiated by MLB. Maybe you missed it but MLB has been interviewing players
left and right because of this little cheating scandal thing that happened (and you downplayed). If indeed it was MLB that
told the Angels then chances are pretty high that there are multiple accounts of it happening and this guy being at fault.
But by all means create a scenario where the Angels have once again done something wrong -- it's what you do.
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 Someone woke up early on a Saturday morning to shit on his “favorite team”.
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Dude, I realize you love to create these situations where the Angels are doomed, acting malevolently, or just plain
stupid but .. get real already.
This was something that reportedly was initiated by MLB. Maybe you missed it but MLB has been interviewing
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This is the way I see it also. Why abet the opposing team when you work for the Angels?
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So in your honest opinion......and please put your Angels bobbleheads down for the moment. Don’t you think that the
Angels pitchers were also using the same illegal substance that Bubba shared with the opposing team? It makes
zero sense that an Angels insider was creating this substance on his own just to help other teams. It has to be
something that our pitchers also used.
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Of course. You know what didn’t happen? We didn’t have the road clubhouse guy produce the sticky substance for us on
the road. You understand all this, you’re just being willfully ignorant.
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He's not interested in a discussion, he just wants attention and we are giving it to him.
You'd think after more than a decade, people would stop.
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You'd think after more than a decade, people would stop.
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cranky I still don't understand why the guy would do anything to help the other team. I don't care if it was giving them better
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I still don't understand why the guy would do anything to help the other team. I don't care if it was giving them better
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They grease his palm.
Don't even need to say it.
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Pretty sure he was selling it. And if Angels pitchers wanted it he would have sold it to them too.
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I still don't understand why the guy would do anything to help the other team. I don't care if it was giving them better
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Report: Angels Fire Brian Harkins for Giving Visiting Pitchers Sticky Substances BBTF Partner
The Los Angeles Angels fired their longtime visiting clubhouse manager following an internal investigation that determined he was supplying
opposing pitchers with illegal substances to better grip the ball.
Brian Harkins, who had been with the organization for 30 years, had been found to be providing sticky substances pitchers used to doctor
the ball against the Angels, according to ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez. While doctoring the ball on the mound has long been a widespread tactic
throughout the league, Major League Baseball has placed an emphasis this season on getting it out of the game.
Using a sticky substance to improve grip has generally been seen as a way for pitchers to add velocity and movement to their pitches Support BBTF
without being detected. Given the number of baseballs a pitcher will go through in an inning, it’s tough to detect if a player is using a
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1. kcgard2 Posted: March 06, 2020 at 06:59 AM (#5928454) first non-U.S. MLB game
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2. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: March 06, 2020 at 10:03 AM (#5928478) (7 - 2:17pm, Apr 15)
I wonder how they determined that he had provided those substances specifically for the purpose of letting pitchers improve their grip on the ball. Last: SoSH U at work
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4. RoyalFlush Posted: March 06, 2020 at 12:47 PM (#5928538)
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5. Itchy Row Posted: March 06, 2020 at 02:16 PM (#5928573) straight games
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The Astros were the only ones who asked for the substances.
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6. Barry`s_Lazy_Boy Posted: March 06, 2020 at 02:27 PM (#5928574) Ripken have against
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If the visiting clubhouse manager is supplying this stuff, it shows how prevalent it was throughout the game. Right next to the greenies jar.
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7. Howie Menckel Posted: March 06, 2020 at 02:32 PM (#5928576)
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The Mets pitching coach apparently was on NYC sports radio the other day, saying that in cold weather hitters actually prefer that pitchers use Last: tshipman
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It's interesting how its almost always the pitchers who know what the batters would prefer them to do to the ball, and that the Jones?
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And if the ball slips out of the pitchers' hand, I don't think it's going 95. inquires about
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12. Nasty Nate Posted: March 06, 2020 at 04:03 PM (#5928595)
Newsblog: Missed Time
But guys do get hit with balls going 95, usually by pitchers who weren't trying to hit them. Pitchers having the best possible grip and the Hall of Fame,
on the ball should benefit the hitters, at least on the safety side of things. It's not like they're talking about the difference between Part 1
pinpoint control and one of those old TWiB highlights where the ball pops out of the pitcher's hand while he's in the middle of his (16 - 9:11am, Apr 15)
Last: DL from MN
motion. Tiny differences in feel surely can be the difference between a fastball going where it's intended and being a little off the
mark. Newsblog: New playing
field for Jackie Robinson
I do admit I was imagining blooperish slipping. Day: Online tributes
(4 - 9:11am, Apr 15)
13. Jeff Frances the Mute Posted: March 06, 2020 at 04:14 PM (#5928596) Last: bobm
This LA Times article claims that Harkins had his own proprietary blend of various substances that opposing pitchers would buy from him when they
came to town. Harkins' blend is allegedly known throughout baseball as "Go Go Juice". Newsblog: FREE
BASEBALL DIGEST
14. jmurph Posted: March 06, 2020 at 04:23 PM (#5928597) ARCHIVE ACCESS
(7 - 8:52am, Apr 15)
This LA Times article claims that Harkins had his own proprietary blend of various substances that opposing pitchers would buy Last: Jose Is Absurdly
from him when they came to town. Harkins' blend is allegedly known throughout baseball as "Go Go Juice". Chatty
Newsblog: The Atlantic:

The Brainiest Hitter
Honestly this sounds great and I feel bad he lost his job! Quite the side hustle. (5 - 8:01am, Apr 15)
Last: Steve Parris, Je
15. Jeff Frances the Mute Posted: March 06, 2020 at 04:27 PM (#5928598) t'aime
Honestly this sounds great and I feel bad he lost his job! Quite the side hustle.
Now that he has been fired he can go full time selling this stuff to pitchers at all levels of baseball.
16. SoSH U at work Posted: March 06, 2020 at 04:33 PM (#5928599)
I do admit I was imagining blooperish slipping.
With appropriate sound effects, I hope.
17. jmurph Posted: March 06, 2020 at 04:40 PM (#5928600)

MLB needs an "Entrepreneurial Spirit" award. This guy is the first winner.
18. Nasty Nate Posted: March 06, 2020 at 04:45 PM (#5928603)
MLB needs an "Entrepreneurial Spirit" award. This guy is the first winner.
The Ruben Rivera award.
It's not as prestigious as the Clemente one, for sure.
19. jmurph Posted: March 06, 2020 at 04:48 PM (#5928604)
It's not as prestigious as the Clemente one, for sure.
Right, obviously. In order of prestige it would go Clemente, this, and then the Rolaids Reliever one.
20. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: March 06, 2020 at 04:59 PM (#5928606)
It's interesting how its almost always the pitchers who know what the batters would prefer them to do to the ball, and that the
batters unequivocally, definitely, 100%, agree that its not to gain an advantage over the hitter in any way.
In the National League, the pitchers are also the batters, and therefore they have an impartial view from both sides of the interaction. Perfectly
balanced.
21. Walt Davis Posted: March 06, 2020 at 05:24 PM (#5928610)

Batters particularly like it when pitchers use their improved grip to drill the batter with a 95-MPH fastball.
22. ReggieThomasLives Posted: March 06, 2020 at 05:25 PM (#5928611)
Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything
to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, ‘cause I've worked in a lot of clubhouses
and I tell you people do that all the time.
23. Stevey Posted: March 06, 2020 at 06:26 PM (#5928623)
In the National League, the pitchers are also the batters, and therefore they have an impartial view from both sides of the
interaction. Perfectly balanced.
Yeah the NL pitchers put a lot of effort and care into their batting performance, they never would give up an advantage on that side of the ball to
get one back while pitching.
24. Cleveland (need new name) fan Posted: March 06, 2020 at 09:29 PM (#5928639)
But guys do get hit with balls going 95, usually by pitchers who weren't trying to hit them. Pitchers having the best possible grip
on the ball should benefit the hitters, at least on the safety side of things. It's not like they're talking about the difference between
pinpoint control and one of those old TWiB highlights where the ball pops out of the pitcher's hand while he's in the middle of his
motion. Tiny differences in feel surely can be the difference between a fastball going where it's intended and being a little off the
mark.
If pitchers can't control the ball at 95 mph without illegal help, maybe they should try throwing 90 mph and see if they can control it at the lower
speed.
Essentially they are gaining an advantage from the extra speed (assuming that they can control a slightly slower pitch without help) even if they
aren't further using it to increase things like spin rate.
Who knows, it might help reduce injuries at least a little.
25. SoSH U at work Posted: March 07, 2020 at 07:21 AM (#5928675)
If pitchers can't control the ball at 95 mph without illegal help, maybe they should try throwing 90 mph and see if they can control
it at the lower speed.
I suppose you try asking nicely, but I still don't think that's going to happen.
26. Cleveland (need new name) fan Posted: March 07, 2020 at 10:14 AM (#5928697)
I suppose you try asking nicely, but I still don't think that's going to happen.
So you are good with the argument that pitchers need to use illegal substances on the ball for safety purposes because they are going to throw as
hard as possible even when can't control it?
-->
27. Sunday silence Posted: March 07, 2020 at 03:08 PM (#5928743)
So you are good with the argument that pitchers need to use illegal substances on the ball for safety purposes because they are
going to throw as hard as possible even when can't control it?
Really this argument just makes you look like a troll. Obviously if a pitchers hits several batters he's going to get tossed and he's not helping his
team. They pitch as hard as they can because that's their best option.
Furthermore there is probably little evidence to say: they throw as hard as possible even if they cant control it. THATS because there's an
understanding in MLB that pitchers can use the stuff when its cold, everyone is on the same page here.
So your supposition doesnt really come up as a practical matter.
28. Sunday silence Posted: March 07, 2020 at 04:38 PM (#5928756)
If pitchers can't control the ball at 95 mph without illegal help...
again this is a supposition without any evidence that its happening. What's been put out there is that theres an understanding in baseball that they
can use some substance when its a cold day in April or May. Except for that guy on the Yankees who had like a oil slick on his neck, I guess that's
the exception that proves the rule.
29. SoSH U at work Posted: March 07, 2020 at 05:17 PM (#5928763)
So you are good with the argument that pitchers need to use illegal substances on the ball for safety purposes because they are
going to throw as hard as possible even when can't control it?
My argument was with Nate's assertion in 7, that a pitcher couldn't lose control of the ball and hit a guy with a 95 MPH fastball.
Here's what I think:
In cold weather, pitchers are more likely to lose full grip on the baseball, increasing the chances (by how much, I couldn't tell you) they uncork a
pitch that dings a batter.
Pitchers are still going to throw the ball as hard as they can, because that's what it takes to get batters out (or at least that's what they believe).
They're not going to take something off their fastballs simply because there's a greater chance the ball might get away from them. It's not going to
happen.
Whether pitchers should be allowed to use something extra* in those situations is a question for MLB, and should be looked at from multiple angles.
Is there a consensus opinion among the teams themselves? Does the decreased likelihood of a 95 MPH fastball clocking some guy offset the gains
pitchers get by using the stuff? Are there other ways of reducing the chances of a beaning without a solution that allows them to enhance their spin
rate or whatever else comes with using such a substance? Is there a slippy slope at work here, whereby not cracking down invites the use of even
more Houstonian tactics.
I don't know the answer to any of these questions, so I'd defer to MLB** to find the solution.
*Keep in mind, the rules already allow, with both teams' consent, pitchers to blow on their hands on the mound in cold weather, demonstrating
they already understand that such conditions reduce grip.
** Granted, I have no faith that Rob's Man Fred would properly complete this process, but that's how I think it should be handled.
30. Cleveland (need new name) fan Posted: March 07, 2020 at 08:39 PM (#5928780)
Whether pitchers should be allowed to use something extra* in those situations is a question for MLB, and should be looked at
from multiple angles. Is there a consensus opinion among the teams themselves? Does the decreased likelihood of a 95 MPH
fastball clocking some guy offset the gains pitchers get by using the stuff? Are there other ways of reducing the chances of a
beaning without a solution that allows them to enhance their spin rate or whatever else comes with using such a substance? Is
there a slippy slope at work here, whereby not cracking down invites the use of even more Houstonian tactics.
It looks like I misunderstood your comment. This makes perfect sense and I agree that these are all interesting questions that should be addressed
in generating an enforceable rule. The current rule of outlawing illegal substances with a wink and a nod effectively allowing their use is not that.
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If you're going to cheat, at least help your own team - not the opponent
ESPN.com
Sources: Angels fire visiting clubhouse manager

for aiding opposing pitchers
The Angels have fired their visiting clubhouse manager for providing
ball-doctoring substances to opposing pitchers, sources confirmed to
ESPN. Brian Harkins provided a substance that consisted of a
melted-down pine-tar solution and rosin, a source said.
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Mar 6, 9:00am
More bad news for the Stros if MLB cracks down on sticky substances for real this year. Verlander is the
biggest pine shimmy Mar 6, 9:06am
As an Angels fan, we basically helped all 29 teams cheat BYUheaven Mar 6, 10:10am
I'm curious how many "pine tar" guys are out there. I bet there are quite a few. (nm) shimmy
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EXHIBIT 13
PREAMBLE
Members of the Society of Professional Journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy.
Ethical journalism strives to ensure the free exchange of information that is accurate, fair and thorough. An ethical journalist acts with integrity.
The Society declares these four principles as the foundation of ethical journalism and encourages their use in its practice by all people in all media.
SEEK TRUTH AND REPORT IT u Show compassion for those who may be affected by news coverage. Use
Ethical journalism should be accurate and fair. Journalists should heightened sensitivity when dealing with juveniles, victims of sex crimes,
be honest and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting and sources or subjects who are inexperienced or unable to give consent.
information. Consider cultural differences in approach and treatment.
Journalists should: u Recognize that legal access to information differs from an ethical justifica-
u Take responsibility for the accuracy of their work. Verify information before tion to publish or broadcast.
releasing it. Use original sources whenever possible. u Realize that private people have a greater right to control information about
u Remember that neither speed nor format excuses inaccuracy. themselves than public figures and others who seek power, influence or
attention. Weigh the consequences of publishing or broadcasting personal
u Provide context. Take special care not to misrepresent or oversimplify in information.
promoting, previewing or summarizing a story.
u Avoid pandering to lurid curiosity, even if others do.
u Gather, update and correct information throughout the life of a news story.
u Balance a suspect’s right to a fair trial with the public’s right to know. Consider
u Be cautious when making promises, but keep the promises they make. the implications of identifying criminal suspects before they face legal charges.
u Identify sources clearly. The public is entitled to as much information as pos- u Consider the long-term implications of the extended reach and permanence of
sible to judge the reliability and motivations of sources. publication. Provide updated and more complete information as appropriate.
u Consider sources’ motives before promising anonymity. Reserve anonymity for
sources who may face danger, retribution or other harm, and have information
that cannot be obtained elsewhere. Explain why anonymity was granted.
ACT INDEPENDENTLY
The highest and primary obligation of ethical journalism is to serve
u Diligently seek subjects of news coverage to allow them to respond to criti- the public.
cism or allegations of wrongdoing. Journalists should:
u Avoid undercover or other surreptitious methods of gathering information u Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived. Disclose unavoidable conflicts.
unless traditional, open methods will not yield information vital to the public.
u Refuse gifts, favors, fees, free travel and special treatment, and avoid politi-
u Be vigilant and courageous about holding those with power accountable. cal and other outside activities that may compromise integrity or impartiality,
Give voice to the voiceless. or may damage credibility.
u Support the open and civil exchange of views, even views they find repugnant. u Be wary of sources offering information for favors or money; do not pay for
u Recognize a special obligation to serve as watchdogs over public affairs and access to news. Identify content provided by outside sources, whether paid
government. Seek to ensure that the public’s business is conducted in the or not.
open, and that public records are open to all. u Deny favored treatment to advertisers, donors or any other special interests,
u Provide access to source material when it is relevant and appropriate. and resist internal and external pressure to influence coverage.
u Boldly tell the story of the diversity and magnitude of the human experience. u Distinguish news from advertising and shun hybrids that blur the lines
Seek sources whose voices we seldom hear. between the two. Prominently label sponsored content.
u Avoid stereotyping. Journalists should examine the ways their values and
experiences may shape their reporting. BE ACCOUNTABLE AND TRANSPARENT
u Label advocacy and commentary. Ethical journalism means taking responsibility for one's work and
u Never deliberately distort facts or context, including visual information. explaining one’s decisions to the public.
Clearly label illustrations and re-enactments. Journalists should:
u Never plagiarize. Always attribute. u Explain ethical choices and processes to audiences. Encourage a civil
dialogue with the public about journalistic practices, coverage and news
content.
MINIMIZE HARM
Ethical journalism treats sources, subjects, colleagues and members of u Respond quickly to questions about accuracy, clarity and fairness.
the public as human beings deserving of respect. u Acknowledge mistakes and correct them promptly and prominently. Explain
Journalists should: corrections and clarifications carefully and clearly.
u Balance the public’s need for information against potential harm or discomfort. u Expose unethical conduct in journalism, including within their organizations.
Pursuit of the news is not a license for arrogance or undue intrusiveness. u Abide by the same high standards they expect of others.
The SPJ Code of Ethics is a statement of abiding principles supported by additional explanations and position papers (at spj.org) that address changing journalistic practices.
It is not a set of rules, rather a guide that encourages all who engage in journalism to take responsibility for the information they provide, regardless of medium. The code should
be read as a whole; individual principles should not be taken out of context. It is not, nor can it be under the First Amendment, legally enforceable.
EXHIBIT 14
ERIC W. ROSE
Curriculum Vitae
Court Qualified Expert Witness
Nationally Recognized Media and Communications Expert

Eric Rose is a veteran executive in public relations, marketing, and communications with over
thirty years of experience, including ten years as a partner in the largest independent public
relations firm in Southern California. Eric has provided counsel to hundreds of clients in a broad
range of industries, including business, government, and non-profit at the local, national, and
international levels.
Eric is a nationally recognized expert in law and litigation, crisis communications, reputation
management, image repair, and counseling. Eric has created public relations and
marketing/communications programs for the legal profession and has provided litigation support
throughout the United States. Eric has served served as an expert information source and analyst
for the mass media on issues relating to crisis communications, image repair, and reputation
management. He is a respected court-qualified expert witness and has opined on matters relating
to crisis communications, defamation, damaged image, reputation prevention and the costs to
implement repair programs.
Areas of Expertise
• Crisis Communications • Corporate Civic Engagement
• Reputation Management • Social Media
• Brand Management • Defamation
• Strategic Communications • Public Relations
Eric specializes in communicating complex litigation issues so they are understandable, tangible,
and compelling to the targeted audience. His most successful work includes formulating
communication strategies in preparation for and during litigation, and also previewing potential
outcomes to key audiences to create and shape an environment favorable to the client's position.
Eric has also been very successful in preparing post-verdict communications strategies to
publicize favorable verdicts, diminish unfavorable verdicts, and present his clients and their
attorneys in the best possible light. Eric works with C-level executives at Fortune 500 firms,
where he advises clients on social, online, and traditional media campaigns, and develops online
reputation management strategies.
801 S. Figueroa Street, Suite 1050 Los Angeles, CA 90017

Professional Experience
Englander Knabe & Allen, 2008–Present
Partner, Los Angeles, CA
Englander Knabe & Allen is a strategic communications firm specializing in lobbying, public
affairs, crisis communications, and litigation support. The firm practices its trade at the
intersection of law, media, and public perception, which brings a critical understanding, and a
breadth of resources and experience that are unique in the public relations field. The Los Angeles
Business Journal consistently ranks EKA as the largest Los Angeles–based independent public
relations agency. EKA has a national reputation for excellence, and, as a result, many of the
firm's clients are Fortune 500 companies.
Eric Rose is an industry leader in the areas of crisis and litigation practice. He works with a
specifically tailored team that includes attorneys, media and public affairs specialists, and other
experts pertaining to the field of inquiry. Eric's team connects case facts with legal or policy
arguments designed to both inform and persuade audiences.
Eric has managed highly confidential situations involving attorneys and financial advisors. Eric
has experience in financial and regulatory environments. He is adept at handling and guiding
media inquiries, drafting strategic documents and shaping internal and external communications
strategies through news releases, community forums, speeches, websites, videos and other media.
Eric advises clients on unique corporate reputation issues, including environmental and safety,
major litigation (such as class actions and fraud), natural and human-made disasters, labor
disputes, product recalls, layoffs/plant closures, as well as crisis management and social media
vulnerabilities. With more than thirty years of experience working with investigative reporters,
Eric has a unique understanding of reputation management.
Expert Witness Work

Due to Eric's extensive background working with law firms and being involved in litigation
communication, often involving their clients who were in trouble (i.e. defendants), or in a crisis
(i.e. plaintiffs), Eric has amassed a significant amount of experience and expertise in aiding and
counseling people, businesses, and other entities who are in a crisis. While Eric primarily focuses
on long-term client engagements, he also provides expert witness testimony. The bulk of the
cases have been in the areas of libel, slander, defamation, reputation repair, and damage to a
future professional career. Eric has helped clients determine the reputation repair costs in libel,
slander, and defamation cases. Eric has never been disqualified as an expert.
Rhonda Holmes v. Courtney Love
Eric provided expert testimony in a precedent-setting case involving Courtney Love, who was
sued for posting a tweet about her former attorney. This was the first trial in the United States
involving allegations of defamation on Twitter. Eric provided expert witness testimony regarding
crisis communication, media relations, and reputation management. After an eight-day trial, a
jury decided that Courtney Love should not be held liable for a tweet directed at her former
attorney Rhonda Holmes. California, January 2014
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Jacob Haiavy v. Theodora "April" Morris
Eric was an expert witness for a well-known doctor who sued his patient for defamatory
comments on social media websites. Eric provided expert opinion and analysis on how it is
nearly impossible to remove defamation from the internet. His report included a detailed
overview of the steps necessary for content removal and the cost of rehabilitating the doctor's
good name and businesses. Eric examined the impact and dissemination of the comments on
social media websites and how those comments harmed the doctor's professional reputation and
economic condition. Eric's client won the case and was awarded the amount Eric recommended
for rebuilding the doctor's reputation. California, February 2016
Dr. Jose Lopez v. Healthcare Group and OptumRx
Dr. Lopez sued two insurance companies after his patients began informing him that their
pharmacists would no longer fill their prescriptions. Over six months, the patients were falsely
informed by the defendants that Dr. Lopez was a sanctioned provider by the federal government
and unable to write prescriptions. Eric was retained to address the effects of the dissemination of
false information to the doctor's professional reputation and to determine the appropriate
standard of care/crisis response that should have taken place. He also provided an overview of
the action necessary to recover the doctor's good professional reputation. A three-judge binding
arbitration panel heard the case and awarded Dr. Lopez $1.5 million. Florida, November 2016
Dr. Henry Higgins & Dr. Nathaniel v. Dr. Rena Salyer

Dr. Henry Higgins and Dr. Nathaniel Greenwood sued Dr. Rena Salyer for damage to their
reputation after Dr. Salyer allegedly spreading false and defamatory information to employees,
patients, the community, and the media. Eric was retained to address the effects of disseminating
false information on the doctor's and practice's professional reputations. Eric was asked to
provide an analysis on the potential impact and damage to their image, as well as examine the
effects to the practice as a result of the alleged act. He was also asked to offer his expert opinion
on the steps the plaintiffs should consider taking to recover their good professional reputation
and lost business. The case is pending. Texas, January 2018
Carter v. Louisiana Pacific Corporation

Cassandra Carter and her friend were on a second story deck with a concrete patio below.
Without warning—, the deck gave way underneath, and they fell to the concrete patio, where
they suffered severe injuries. Carter sued the manufacturer (Louisiana-Pacific Corporation), the
contractor, the wholesaler, and the distributor Taiga. Taiga retained Eric to provide analysis and
opinions regarding corporate communication, crisis management, and recall instructions. Eric
offered his views on the reports of the other experts who attempted to shift the blame to Taiga.
The day after Eric's deposition, Louisiana-Pacific Corporation settled the case, and Eric's client
did not have to pay any damages. Nevada, April 2018
CMFG Life Insurance Company et al. v. Banc Insurance Agency, Inc

Plaintiffs CUNA Mutual and TruStage Insurance Agency, LLC sued Defendants Banc Insurance
Agency, Inc., and Jeffrey Chesky for defamation and tortious interference based on false and
defamatory statements the Defendants communicated to CUNA Mutual's current and potential
customers with the intent of trying to convince those customers not to do business with CUNA
Mutual. CUNA alleged that the defendants repeatedly and intentionally communicated false
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statements to CUNA Mutual customers regarding its business practices. The CEO publicly
asserted misleading and defamatory communications with the intent to harm CUNA Mutual's
reputation and interfere with its current contractual and customer relationships. Eric was asked to
provide analysis and offer an opinion on the potential impact and damage to CUNA Mutual's
reputation. Eric established causation and provided CUNA Mutual with the steps they would
have to take to repair the harm to their excellent professional reputation and to provide an
estimation on the actual costs associated with repairing the damage. The Federal Court case
settled in May 2018.
Johnney Bennerson vs. Shelley Stevens

Johnney Bennerson, Shelley Stevens, and others were celebrating at a company dinner, and
afterward, Ms. Stevens became intoxicated and exceedingly flirtatious with several males.
Following dinner, the group broke up, and Mr. Bennerson eventually retired to his room. Ms.
Stevens, perhaps embarrassed by her drunken displays and flirtatious behavior, concocted a false
and defamatory story that evening about Mr. Bennerson coming onto and propositioning her. Ms.
Stevens then spread malicious lies within the company about Mr. Bennerson for the explicit
purpose of retaliating and wrecking Mr. Bennerson's reputation. Eric was asked to provide an
analysis regarding the reputational harm to Mr. Bennerson and to address the effects of
disseminating false information. After a jury trial, Mr. Bennerson was awarded $150,000.
Steven Krawatsky et al. v. Rachel Avrunin et al.

Rabbi Steven Krawatsky was fired from a private Jewish school in Pikesville, amid allegations
he abused boys at a camp. He denied the allegations and was never charged with a crime. Rabbi
Steven Krawatsky and his wife, Shira, filed a lawsuit claiming several parents engaged to destroy
his reputation and his ability to earn a living. He sued the New York Jewish Week for
defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Eric was
retained to address the effects on Rabbi Steven Krawatsky's professional reputation as a result of
the dissemination of false information. Eric was asked to provide an analysis and offer his
opinion on the potential impact and damage to the Rabbi's image and examine the impacts on his
reputation arising from defamation. Furthermore, based on his lengthy experience working with
reporters to correct false and misleading stories, Eric was asked to give his opinion regarding the
reporting of this information. Eric was also asked to provide recommendations on the steps
Rabbi Krawatsky and his wife should consider recovering the Rabbi's professional reputation.
The case is pending in Maryland state court.
Tammy Na vs. Joo Chan Kim

Tammy Na was at her apartment pool when she encountered Joo Chan Kim. Mr. Kim assaulted
Mr. Na by throwing a beer bottle towards her after yelling that she had splashed him with water.
Mr. Kim then used profanity and threatened to kill Ms. Na. Unknown to Ms. Na, who is a highly
respected artist, Mr. Kim took photos of Ms. Na and posted them on a popular Korean website.
The post contained offense language and accused Na of engaging in sexual acts with a large
number of people, all of which was not true. Eric was retained to address the effects on Na's
reputation as a result of the dissemination of false information. Eric was asked to provide an
analysis and offer his opinion on the potential impact and damage to Ms. Na's image and
examine the effects on her reputation. After the first day of a jury trial, the case was settled to the
satisfaction of Ms. Na.
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McGlothlin v. Hennelly
James McGlothlin is a founding member of The United Company, which is the parent company
of Scratch Golf, LLC. The company owns the Hilton Head National Golf Club. Mr. Hennelly
posted a link on Facebook to an article about a corruption investigation involving, then Virginia
Governor, Bob McDonnell and monies Gov. McDonnell's wife received as a consultant to The
United Company. Mr. Hennelly was also accused of making defamatory comments on Facebook
about Mr. McGlothlin. Eric was retained to provide an analysis of reputational harm and offer
his professional opinion on damages associated with repairing the Mr. McGlothlin's reputation
caused by the dissemination of defamatory information. The case is pending in US District Court
for the District of South Carolina.
Gish v. Le Sage
Dr. Robert G. Gish sued his former spouse Celeste E. Le Sage for defamation and to
overturn portions of their divorce settlement. In the lawsuit, Dr. Gish alleges that his ex-wife
sent emails to 80 friends, business associates, and relatives stating, among other things, that
Dr. Gish was abusing alcohol and was a danger to his patients. Dr. Gish alleges that his
business and reputation were impacted as a result of libelous comments. Eric was retained as
rebuttal expert witnesses to counter the assertion that Dr. Gish's reputation was permanently
damaged. The case settled.
Vernon Unsworth v. Elon Musk

Vernon Unsworth, a British cave driver, sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk for defamation after Musk
repeatedly accused Unsworth of being a pedophile. Musk and Unsworth got into a brief feud last
year following the rescue of a soccer team that was trapped in a cave in Thailand. Mr. Unsworth,
who helped with the rescue operation, criticized Musk's plan to save the team with a "kid-sized
submarine." Musk insulted Unsworth by calling him a "pedo guy" on Twitter. He doubled down
on the insult by tweeting "bet ya a signed dollar it's true," then elaborated even further in emails
to reporters flatly asserting that Unsworth had moved to Thailand "for a child bride who was
about 12 years old at the time." Eric was retained as an expert witness for Mr. Unsworth to
provide an analysis regarding reputational harm and provide his opinion on the costs associated
with repairing the damage to his reputation. Mr. Musk prevailed in US District Court for the
Central District of California.
Louis Bacon v. Peter Nygard

Billionaire Louis Bacon is suing billionaire Peter Nygard for defamation, which arose over a
property dispute in the Bahamas. Peter Nygard dredged sand on the bottom of the ocean near his
Bahamas home, which increased Mr. Nygard's estate from 3.25 acres to 6.1 acres. Mr. Bacon,
who is an avid environmentalist, along with his conservation group, Save the Bays, sought to
rectify this action through legal means. The legal action infuriated Nygard to the point of hiring
journalists to write articles, create videos, and design websites, all aimed at sullying Mr. Bacon's
reputation. The multimedia included claims of Mr. Bacon being an international drug-smuggler,
a member of the KKK, bribing officials, being involved in "one of the biggest Wall Street insider
trading cases ever," not being a real conservationist, and being a murderer. Eric was retained as
an expert witness for Mr. Bacon to provide an analysis regarding reputational harm and provide
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his opinion on the costs associated with repairing the damage to his reputation. The case is
pending in New York Supreme Court.
Andrzej Wrobel vs. Lynn Tilton, Patriarch Partners LLC

Andrzej Wrobel filed a lawsuit against Patriarch and Lynn Tilton for defamation per se, violating
his contract and firing him to avoid paying him bonuses he said he was owed. The lawsuit
accuses Ms. Tilton of writing a letter to Forbes magazine stating that Mr. Wrobel stole from the
company. Mr. Wrobel contends that Ms. Tilton knew or should have known the defamatory
statement accusing Mr. Wrobel of stealing was not true. Eric was retained to both offer an
opinion on the required steps to clean up the damage, and provide the estimated costs associated
with this repair. The case is pending in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit for
Palm Beach County, Florida.
David Smith v. Optum, Inc.

David Smith filed a claim against Optum. Inc and Optum Services Inc. for defamation and abuse
of process. Stemming from a lawsuit filed by Optum against Mr. Smith alleging a breach of
contract and misappropriation of trade secrets for Smith intending to work with a competitor, in
violation of his restrictive covenants. Smith's defamation claim arises from allegations by Optum
that Mr. Smith walked away with confidential information when a spokesperson for
UnitedHealth Group (Optum is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated) told the media
that Mr. Smith "violated his employment agreement and stole confidential company property on
his way to go to work for a competitor." Eric was retained to determine how far the damaging
material has spread across the internet and social media, the required steps to clean up the
damage, the estimated costs to perform this cleanup, and what ongoing monitoring and
corrective actions would be required going forward. The case settled.
Michael Rapaport v. Barstool Sports

Actor Michael Rapaport sued media outlet Barstool Sports, where he once hosted a podcast, for
firing him — and then claiming he had herpes. When Mr. Rapaport was fired, Barstool's
president David Portnoy said it was due to the comedian's tweet calling listeners "losers in life",
Mr. Rapaport’s lawsuit claims Barstool started in with him well before that and that in November
2017, one of Barstool's bloggers wrote a post titled, "Michael Rapaport is Fraudulent Sack of
S***," the lawsuit said. Then, a few days before his firing, another Barstool writer tweeted that
Rapaport was "a creepy herpes ridden failure". Rapaport also complains that the company began
selling T-shirts of him in a clown nose with a sore under his mouth after he was fired. The
lawsuit claims the tweet "was done with actual malice in an effort to convey that Mr. Rapaport
suffered from herpes and to harm Mr. Rapaport's reputation. The case is pending in the United
States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Paul Edalat & Olivia Karpinski v. Cahill & Denterlein Worldwide

The parties, in this case, have been involved in litigation against each other over various matters
since 2016. Mr. Cahill paid the Denterlein firm to produce and circulate a pitch letter to media
outlets that contained numerous false statements. Denterlein’s published stories that contained
false allegations. Eric was retained to address reputation repair for Paul Edalat & Olivia
Karpinski as a result of the dissemination of knowingly false information. The case is pending in
Orange County Superior Court.
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Michael J. Ligotti and Whole Health LLC v. United Healthcare Service
Dr. Michael Ligotti filed a complaint against United Healthcare Services (United) after they
stopped paying claims billed from Whole Health by Dr. Ligotti. United also refused to pay
claims from the facilities where Dr. Ligotti was a Medical Director and claimed that Dr. Ligotti
did not have an "active license." United Healthcare informed patients and the medical facilities,
where Dr. Ligotti was the Director, that he was involved in fraudulent practices and
misrepresented himself to patients as a Doctor. Eric was retained to address reputation repair for
Dr. Ligotti and Whole Health LLC as a result of the dissemination of false information. Eric was
asked to provide an analysis, offer opinions, and examine the potential impact and damage to Dr.
Ligotti from the distribution of false information. Eric was also asked to provide
recommendations for actions Dr. Ligotti should pursue to recover his reputation. The case is
pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Paris Dennard v. The Arizona Board of Regents

Political commentator Paris Dennard claims Arizona State University intentionally released an
investigation into misconduct to damage his reputation. Mr. Denard alleges that a 2014 report into alleged
sexual comments in the workplace led to lost wages and future opportunities. Mr. Dennard alleged that
an ASU employee disclosed and detailed the contents of harassment allegations about Mr.
Dennard to The Washington Post, which resulted in him losing his job as a CNN commentator.
Eric was retained to assess and address the need for reputation repair associated with the
dissemination of the confidential employment report to the media.
Examples of Work
COVID-19
The depth and breadth of COVID-19 Pandemic changed daily. Eric assisted a large hospital,
multiple universities, gaming companies, airport-related businesses, manufacturers, an
international restaurant chain, a non-profit that supports public safety agencies, and a large union
with Pandemic communications and crisis management. Among the matters, Eric has assisted
clients with their employees who contracted COVID-19, employees who died as a result of
coronavirus, supply chain and transportation disruptions, severe reductions in demand for
products and services, layoffs, increased operational expenses amid revenue shortfalls and
reputational risk, and damage to the brand.
Intellectual Property and Technology

Data breaches are among the worst kind of modern corporate crises because they financially and
emotionally impact large numbers of individual customers. Protecting reputation is not
necessarily about the crisis, but about how the crisis is handled and the actions that are taken to
restore trust. When consumers are personally threatened or affected by a breach, they can
become powerful influencers of public perception the minute their stories are amplified across
social networks. When millions are individually threatened, their reaction can severely damage
an entire business, regardless of size. Eric has worked on numerous data breach cases and has
helped his clients with comprehensive response programs to both repair damage and restore
customer trust after a data breach.
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Hazing Death
When a student died in a fraternity hazing incident, a major university hired Eric to help the
university deal with crisis communication and crisis management immediately. Eric assisted the
university immediately after the incident, during the formal investigation, and through the
conclusion of the event (which had attracted national attention).
YMCA Drowning
When a young camp counselor drowned at a YMCA camp, Eric was enlisted to assist with crisis
and reputation matters. Eric quickly developed communications for the campers’ parents, and
provided a media statement that the YMCA issued to reporters who inquired about the incident.
The communications informed interested parties about the death and the investigations, informed
them about supportive services for those who needed help grieving, and offered condolences to
the drowning victim’s family.
Food Recall
Eric has assisted several major brands with food product recalls. In one case, Eric received a call
from an international food company after they received reports from various places in the United
States that customers reported illness resulting from consuming their product. The biggest initial
challenge was to determine the scope of the recall in the face of incomplete information. Eric
worked with the company's CEO, legal counsel, and sales team to assess the facts, substantiate
the accuracy of the information and subsequently relay that information concisely and
transparently to the public and other stakeholders. Eric drafted scripts for the company's
reference when assisting customers and drafted releases addressing both wholesale and consumer
recalls. In the end, a full recall was avoided, and an escalating crisis was halted within five days
of the initial call.
Outbreak Response Plan

When a large Southern California hospital identified a person who had been diagnosed with
active tuberculosis (TB), Eric worked with the hospital and the County Health Department. Eric
developed a detailed outreach plan to determine the health status of patients and staff who were
identified as being in close contact with the person diagnosed with TB. As part of the program,
Eric created a comprehensive Outbreak Response Plan (ORP), which included the composition
of the response team, the creation of detailed notification procedures, local and state public
health responsibilities, data management, communication, training, education, community
partnerships and identification of all possible ways to disseminate the outbreak and testing
information to the public, stakeholders, and partners. The most critical component of the plan
was to ensure that every potentially impacted person was identified and notified. Topic fact
sheet, e.g. description of an outbreak investigation, the transmission of TB, treatment, were also
created.
Criminal Issues & Government Investigations

When a national university discovered that a member of the faculty had committed academic
fraud involving multiple college athletes, the school hired Eric to assist with formally notifying
the NCAA of the violations, developing an approach to get everything out in the open, and
creating a process for rehabilitation of the sports program. Eric's strategy began with the premise
that if the school does not tell its story on their terms, someone else will tell it for them. The
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university leadership did not want to "conceal and cover-up" what occurred or mislead the
public. Eric developed a "reveal and reform" strategy, which resulted in the NCAA accepting the
university's self-imposed sanctions.
Title IX lawsuit
Few college experiences are as shattering as being the victim of a sexual assault. After a former
college student was found guilty of raping a fellow college student off-campus, the college was
sued by the victim. Eric worked with the college's legal team and the school's administration on
communications with all stakeholders regarding the Title IX lawsuit.
Misconduct By A College Coach

When numerous collegiate athletes made social media posts accusing several coaches of
misconduct, including allegations involving sexual misconduct, Eric was retained to assist with
crisis communication. Eric worked with the college's legal team and developed a comprehensive
communication program for all stakeholders. An independent investigator was retained, and the
employees involved were immediately put on leave.
Sexual Harassment/Employment Discrimination/Labor

Eric has applied the same philosophy and principals of proactive media management and
scrupulous honesty when clients came to us as sexual harassment allegations and stories broke
across the nation.
• A highly respected television producer who had been honored multiple times for his
leadership on women's issues learned that a prominent lawyer was going to accuse him of
sexual harassment publicly, Eric preemptively issued a statement for our client and
publicly exposed the situation, which resulted in the media casting doubt on the veracity
of the claims.
• When a legendary entertainment executive was faced with assault charges, Eric assisted
in crafting his unequivocal denial regarding the allegations to the media and the
entrepreneur in shaping the announcement that he would be stepping down from his
various businesses to protect hundreds of employees. He also committed himself to
continue his personal growth, spiritual learning and listening.
• When a major NYC restaurateur was accused of sexual harassment and was alleged to
have subjected employees to unwanted sexual advances, public groping, and lewd text
messages, Eric was retained to protect the brand and assist the client in restoring the
restaurateur's reputation. Eric then put an action plan in place to defend the client against
personal attacks, customer complaints, and blatant falsehoods.
• When The New York Times contacted a famed director about a notorious movie mogul's
alleged sexual assault of the director's former girlfriend, Eric helped the director get
ahead of the issue by detailing his account of how he confronted the executive over the
casting of his next movie and describing what he hopes the entertainment industry will do
to reform itself in the wake of an ongoing harassment and abuse scandal. The headlines
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that followed all portrayed our client in a positive light and focused on the abuses of the
executive and the industry in general.
• When a California school district began hearing complaints from a large group of
parents and a Legal Aid Law Center alleging significant Title IX issues at the high
school as related to male and female locker rooms, the superintendent retained Eric's
services. Eric designed a communication program to address the concerns and avoid
potentially costly litigation. He advised the superintendent to personally inspect the
facilities with a few parents to assess the needs and viability for upgrades. Eric's
communication plan included an overview and outline of changes the school would
make to achieve Title IX compliance. In addition, he worked with the district to
publicly announce the new women's locker room makeover and to highlight four new
women's sports at the school: water polo, golf, tennis, and soccer. The plan to
proactively inform the community that all students had equal access to facilities and
an equal opportunity to participate in sports demonstrated that the district was
committed to Title IX. The plan worked, and costly litigation was avoided.
• Numerous police officers filed a lawsuit claiming years of race and gender-based
harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. The police department immediately placed a
gag order on all plaintiffs. Working with the police officers' legal team, Eric constructed
a communications theme and successfully placed stories in all local papers, which
resulted in extensive traditional and social media coverage. In addition, he arranged for
media coverage of the gag order itself, which shaped public opinion and put the police
department on defense. This ultimately required the department to respond to both the
complaint and the attendant media coverage of the allegations.
• After an award-winning journalist who admitted to sexual harassment and recognized

that his office behavior was unacceptable wanted to reemerge after apologizing publicly
and privately to victims Eric worked with him on a robust social media strategy that
included videos, op-eds. The aim of the effort was to show that the journalist rightfully
paid a substantial financial and societal price for actions that occurred more than a dozen
years ago and that he deserved a second chance.
The Invisible Plume

In October of 2015, a massive gas leak was discovered adjacent to the residential community of
Porter Ranch. Over 30,000 residents had to relocate after suffering illnesses caused by the natural
gas leak. The media interest in the issue was sparse because, even though it was the single worst
human-made gas accident in history, the problem was not discernable to the public eye. Eric was
retained by several law firms to bring attention to the crisis. Eric worked with the legal team to
share infrared footage of the leak—which made the invisible gas visible. Immediately upon
releasing the video, the story gained worldwide attention as a result of a significant social media
effort. News headlines described the situation as a "catastrophe" and a "disaster," and the lawyers
who released the video were highly sought after by news organizations around the world.
Media Expose On Psychiatric Patient Safety
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When a newspaper informed a hospital that they were doing a series on inpatient psychiatric
patient safety and quality of care and that the hospital was going to be the subject of one of the
stories, Eric was retained to act as a spokesperson for the hospital and to create a
communications plan.
Threatened Litigation
After a teacher at a Northern California Jewish school was cleared by authorities of
inappropriately touching a student, the parent retained legal counsel and threatened to bring a
civil lawsuit. Eric created a communication strategy that included a media statement, statement
to parents and faculty, and subject points if a lawsuit was filed.
Hotel Labor Issue

For two years, Eric assisted a well-known hotel in Los Angeles with their ongoing labor dispute.
The hotel was involved in a dispute, which included numerous workers filing complaints with
the California Labor Commissioner's Office. For over six months, the employees (who were
union assisted) engaged in regular picketing and other activities while demanding that
management agrees to card-check, which does not ensure true employee free choice. Eric
developed communication strategies to inform the public that the hotel supported the secret
ballot election process conducted by the National Labor Relations Board to protect employees'
right to vote in a neutral, private environment. Eric worked with the hotel and their legal team to
petition the National Labor Relations Board to hold supervised secret-ballot elections.
Celebrity Horse Trainer

When numerous horses died in 21 months, a Hall of Fame trainer received massive attention that
harmed his reputation. Eric implemented a communication strategy that had three objectives: (1)
highlight the trainer's commitment to horse safety and his history of success with minimal
injuries, (2) protect his well-earned reputation, and (3) set the tone for the debate as opposed to
responding to false charges. Eric was able to achieve these objectives by demonstrating a desire
for solutions, showing that the horses died of factually unclear reasons, and demonstrating on
social media that the trainer was also seeking conclusive results for the cause of death. We
pushed outside agencies to conduct independent investigations, perform their own necropsies,
and look for other causes, including contaminated soil and air quality. Three months after the
campaign began, the trainer and his staff were cleared of any wrongdoing by the Horse Racing
Board.
Horse Racing Deaths

After the death of two-dozen horses at a horse racing track, Eric helped his client with media and
crisis communications. Eric worked with executives to announce stricter standards, including a
"zero tolerance" stance on race-day medication and stricter rules on the use of riding crops. The
changes resulted in praise from critics who called the move "a historic moment for racing." In
addition, Eric oversaw communications to key stakeholders and the announcement that the track
would provide money to help the horsemen impacted by the decision with the rehabilitation,
retraining, rehoming, and aftercare of any horses unable to race as a result. The campaign included
a significant amount of traditional and social media advertising.
National Railroad Company

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From 2008 to present, Eric has worked with a large national railroad company to manage the
communications involving a highly controversial $900 million expansion project. Eric works
closely with the company's general counsel and prepares messages for a variety of internal and
external audiences, including employees, customers, vendors, and the financial/investment
communities. The reputation campaign involves digital repair, paid advertising and media
outreach. Eric also monitors traditional media, blogs, websites, and trains company spokespeople
in effective communication response.
National Construction Company

For several years, Eric has worked with one of the largest publicly traded, diversified
infrastructure providers and construction companies in the nation. Eric worked with the company
on media relations, crisis communication, and internal communications to help protect their
reputation regarding border security work. The efforts included paid advertisements in traditional
and social media, as well as an ongoing paid digital media campaign.
Threatened Nurses Strike

When nurses at a large Southern California hospital threatened a ten-day strike, Eric developed a
comprehensive communication campaign aimed at hospital employees, the media, community
stakeholders, and the union. The threatened strike involved conflicts over compensation,
benefits, and staff workloads. Understanding that a strike could hurt the hospital's reputation,
finances, and patient care, Eric created a variety of communications to inform all parties know
that delivering safe, high-quality care to the community was a top priority. Through a series of
press releases and fact sheets, the hospital made it clear that it had taken the necessary steps to
fulfill their responsibilities to the community and had contracted with qualified and experienced
replacement RNs in the event of a strike occurred. After months of tense negotiations and
recognizing striking nurses would be replaced, a strike was averted.
Class Action Lawsuit

When a major utility company overcharged customers over $70 million following the rollout of a
flawed billing system, Eric provided strategic communication services to the out-of-state law
firm that brought a class-action lawsuit asserting claims for fraud, negligent misrepresentation,
breach of contract, unjust enrichment, and violations of the California Legal Remedies Act and
California Unfair Competition Law. Eric worked with the law firm, both pre and post settlement,
ensuring that customers and the media understood the settlement provisions, which included the
return of funds owed to customers. The agreement also required that the utility company
implement specific customer service performance metrics and submit to court oversight even
after all funds were repaid to the customers.
Threatened Environmental Litigation

When an exclusive private school discovered potentially carcinogenic materials had
contaminated their campus, school officials were deeply concerned that misinformation would
incite panic and decimate enrollment. Highly visible environmental mitigation work, including
drilling and restricted access, made it imperative that the community was informed of the
situation in a way that made them feel confident, comfortable, and safe. Eric set up a social
media monitoring effort and worked closely with the school's legal and technical experts to
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develop and implement a series of meetings and outreach activities to communicate the facts and
address parent fears and concerns. The environmental mitigation program was completed, and
school enrollment was not affected. Through proactive efforts, the school was able to avoid any
mention of the issue in both traditional and social media outlets.
Environmental Justice
Rattled by high levels of carcinogenic hexavalent chromium in their city, residents waged a
campaign with local regulators and the media to stop our clients from expanding their medical
waste treatment plant operations to seven days a week. Our client's operations are located about
700 feet from the nearest home and under 1,000 feet from an elementary school. Despite going
through extensive permitting, evaluations, assessments, and reviews before being granted a
permit to operate the plant, the community used my client's desire to expand operations as a
rallying cry for environmental justice. Eric was retained by the medical waste company to
protect their reputation, develop and implement a comprehensive communications plan, and
work with the public affairs team to prepare them for public meetings.] As part of the campaign,
Eric developed bilingual communication and convinced the plant operators to open the
operations for organized tours. Eric created a detailed bilingual Myths and Facts booklet that
addressed the popular myths about the plant and dispelled myths with verifiable facts from
independent third parties. The campaign was research-based. As a result, the plant received the
necessary permits to operate seven days a week.
Product Defect Case

When a large California utility sued a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment,
and electronics company for $7.6 billion for delivering equipment that ultimately led to the
permanent closure of a plant, Eric was retained by the Japanese company to develop a
comprehensive communications plan. Three years after the case was filed, his client scored a
major victory when the plaintiffs were awarded $125 million, which was less than the liability
limit under the contract. Eric worked very closely with the company's lawyers and in-house
public relations team and approached the challenge from three perspectives: public relations,
government relations, and legal. Eric identified the most probable scenarios likely to play out and
then developed a detailed plan to deal with messaging for each scenario. When the award was
announced, the story was picked up by over 250 newspapers and trades worldwide lead our
client's stock to soar.
Unfair Competition Lawsuit

After losing a large fraction of market share to a competitor who misrepresented his product to
the public, Eric's client brought suit in federal court seeking damages and an injunction against
false advertising. Eric mobilized public opinion by coordinating public interest groups, which
adversely affected individual consumers, public health specialists, and regulatory agencies in
support of the client's position. He successfully placed news stories nationwide, questioning the
honesty of the competitor's advertising and raising legitimate concerns about the safety of the
competitor's product. The competitor agreed to settle out of court following a public hearing by
an influential legislative committee. Settlement terms are confidential, but the competitor
changed his advertising practices to eliminate the false claims that were relevant from Eric's
client's lawsuit.
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Municipal Crisis Communications
When two people died, and twelve others were injured after a runaway car carrier slammed into
a bookstore and coffeehouse, Eric helped the municipality manage its communications. Within
hours of the accident, Eric worked with city officials to offer sympathies to the loved ones of the
two people killed in the collision. As a result, Eric issued numerous demands to the state
addressing the significant and ignored safety issues the city raised over the years. Eric provided
reporters and editors with a timeline and key documents showing that the state had been put on
notice and that warnings were ignored. Eric made city officials accessible to reporters and
quickly organized a news conference with local and state officials. Using tested crisis techniques,
Eric assisted the city in being responsive during the first 72 hours of the crisis and not operating
on a 9-to-5 schedule. The city called for the state to ban trucks on the highway and when
reporters called the State for comment, there was no immediate response. As a result, news
stories the night of the incident laid out the facts from the city and immediately shifted attention
to where it rightly belonged.
Personal Injury Litigation Appeal

Eric managed litigation communications following a horrific traffic accident involving a
publicly-traded transportation company. The incident involved nearly fifty vehicles and resulted
in multiple fatalities. Eric's work focused on directing traditional and social media attention to
the primary cause of the accident (faulty road design and management) and reducing speculation
concerning the client's involvement. His research on the flaws of road-construction, speed limits,
and safety warnings enabled him to persuade the media to reverse their initial conclusions and to
withhold judgment on the ultimate cause of the accident.
Western Sugar Cooperative v. Archer-Daniels-Midland, Co

For over four years, Eric handled litigation communications for the plaintiff in a $1.6 billion-
dollar misleading advertising case. Eric worked for the producers (plaintiff) of table sugar who
sued the inventor of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), alleging that the defendant ran a television
and print campaign that contained false representations about HFCS. These representations
constituted false advertising under the Lanham Act and a violation of California's Unfair
Business Practices Act. Eric worked closely with the legal team and was responsible for framing
key issues and ensuring proper perceptions as the case moved to trial. Halfway through the
dispute, the sugar processors and the inventors of HFCS announced a secret out-of-court
settlement.
Western Sugar Cooperative v. Johnson & Johnson

For several years, Eric handled all the litigation communications for the plaintiffs in a false-
advertising lawsuit against the company that makes the sweetener Splenda. The campaign
involved paid media, social media, and earned media. Filed by five US sugar companies, the
Lanham Act litigation focused on the claim that Johnson & Johnson deliberately misled
consumers with its "made from sugar, tastes like sugar" advertising campaign. The plaintiffs
alleged that the defendants not only intentionally misled consumers about whether Splenda was
natural but also continued the advertising campaign knowing that people were confused. After a
month-long trial, Johnson & Johnson settled the lawsuit just after the jury reached a verdict that
would have gone against Splenda. Settlement talks began after jurors asked the judge for a
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calculator and expert reports from both sides on how to determine damages. According to one
juror quoted at the time of the settlement, the jury was set to award a substantial amount.
Post-Verdict Defamation Lawsuit

Eric's clients filed a defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress case against a
prominent businessman. Following a successful verdict, Eric implemented a traditional and
social media strategy, which arranged for media coverage that included stories on the verdict as
well as the success of the litigator. The story was covered worldwide. In addition, the successful
litigator was named "Litigator of the Week" in several publications.
SpaceShipOne
In 2004, Eric was responsible for the public relations efforts surrounding the launch of
SpaceShipOne, the first privately developed spacecraft to reach suborbital space with the first-
ever civilian astronaut. After multiple visits to the Mojave Airport to tour onsite facilities, Eric
coordinated the PR, logistics, and event staging to host over 600 credentialed journalists. In
addition to event press materials, Eric created detailed hypothetical crisis materials, including
speeches and press releases to be disseminated in the event of a disaster. Media outlets from
Chile to China and around the world reported on the SpaceShipOne launch. Over 300 local and
international newspapers featured the flight, with many including coverage as a front-page story.
Actors' Equity Association

When actor Ed Asner filed a lawsuit against Actors' Equity Association (ATA) Eric worked with
the ATA to explain to members and the media why the union was fighting to ensure that small
theatres paid minimum wage to actors. For years, actors worked in theatres with under 100 seats
for small performance stipends, as essentially volunteers. The communication campaign centered
around the fact that labor unions exist primarily to advocate for better wages and working
conditions for its members, and the ATA was no exception. A federal court eventually dismissed
the case, and 99-seat theatres began paying actors the minimum wage.
Airline Crash
In October 2000, an airline jet crashed while attempting to take off under poor weather
conditions. Eighty-three of the one-hundred seventy-nine passengers were killed aboard the
flight headed to Los Angeles. Eric moved quickly to assemble a team of crisis and media
specialists to assist the airline company with managing the flow of information to passengers,
family members, employees, government officials, key stakeholders, media reporters, and the
general public.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks

In the hours after the tragedy of September 11, Eric led the external proactive media outreach
efforts for a major U.S airline and airport. His work included crisis and public relations support,
offline and online media monitoring, and subject research. Additionally, Eric implemented pre-
approved crisis-related media materials/messages and developed new messages for the airport
staff and the Los Angeles Mayor. The success of the effort resulted in the City of Los Angeles
retaining Eric to create and coordinate a massive post–September 11th event for the airport.
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Reactive Litigation Communication
Qui Tam Lawsuit

When a hospital chain reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice to settle a
whistleblower (qui tam) lawsuit filed by a former employee, Eric drafted the press release for the
hospital and developed communications documents to be used with employees, key stakeholders,
and elected officials.
California Proposition 65 Lawsuit

When an environmental organization presented California Proposition 65 (which requires the
state to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer or birth defects) against most major
manufacturers of chocolate products, Eric helped ensure that the announcement was a "one-day
wonder" that gained no media traction. Before the announcement, he prepared key documents,
selected and secured third-party advocates, hired media-trained spokespeople, and produced B-
roll. Eric conducted extensive opinion research to test the messages and to evaluate which
spokespeople would be most credible among key audiences. At the plaintiff's press conference,
he distributed the client's statement, subsequently providing B-roll and, to select media, a
spokesperson. The plaintiff's case was successfully characterized as a "sham". There was limited
media follow-up, the minimal settlement went unreported, and chocolate sales were unaffected.
Private Antitrust
A leading inkjet printing company faced several lawsuits from smaller competitors and refillers
alleging anti-competitive practices. Since public sympathy appeared to be on the side of the
"plucky little fellow" challenging a "bullying behemoth," Eric was hired to make the company's
case more sympathetic to the general public. Working closely with the client's legal team, he
developed a series of communications themes that his testing demonstrated, would resonate with
audiences outside the courtroom. By stressing that his client provided the assurance of quality
and improved consumer choice, Eric successfully blunted the opponents' campaign to paint his
client as an enemy of the public interest.
The cases above represent a partial list of crisis communication work Eric has done through his
career.
Reputation Management
Corporate Reputation Management

With electricity bills spiking sharply in California, the public outcry became a daily newspaper
story, leading a Fortune 500 company turned to our team for help. The client wanted to calm
local opinion, accustom people to the long-term reality of higher bills and educate them on the
broader issue of a broken wholesale market, and lack of power supply. Eric was also tasked with
garnering support for efforts to improve the situation and to guard against a public and political
backlash against deregulation or other harmful measures. As the energy crisis began to grip the
whole state of California, our client needed to maintain a significant place in the debate without
being seen in the same light as the much more troubled electricity providers.
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After conducting exhaustive research with electricity customers and a media audit of electricity
coverage, Eric led a team that implemented a paid and earned media campaign; an action that
allowed the company to weather the electricity crisis. Tactics included placing numerous
newspaper and radio ads, op-eds, editorial board meetings, press releases, paid online media,
new marketing materials, and the development of ratepayer assistance programs. The insights
gained from the telephone research and focus groups, along with a detailed media audit guided
the development of the plan. The multiyear effort succeeded in calming public and media
hostility in gaining acceptance of the broad power crunch and in providing an understanding of
why bills rose so high. The reputation effort refocused debate away from the utility and toward
the underlying and more widespread issues. Eric's team successfully kept attention away from
our client and diverted it to where it mattered—among legislators, other officials, and on Wall
Street. We not only protected the client's corporate image but enhanced it.
Businessman Fined by Federal Government

After a businessman agreed to pay a multi-million dollar fine for failing to pay his workers
minimum wage or overtime, the media attention was overwhelming. Search results of the
company and the CEO only showed the negative media stories. Eric oversaw a team that
implemented a robust digital repair campaign that included paid ads in newspapers, social media
and online. After 18 months, page one of search engines showed positive searches for the client's
name and his companies.
Medical Diagnostics Company
When the US Attorney indicted a business associate for allegedly scamming insurance
companies out of nearly $300 million, the company's management team and highly qualified
doctors retained Eric to help ensure that the crisis (that did not involve an employee) did not
disrupt business operations, damages their reputation, or negatively impacts their relationships in
the medical industry
Recycling Firm
After one of the dominant providers of metal recycling was accused by two District Attorneys of
consistently violating the anti-metal theft laws, the company agreed to pay a multi-million dollar
fine to settle the case, Eric was retained to implement a reputation repair campaign. The paid
digital and media campaign shifted the dialogue back to the company's strengths, rather than
being defined by the litigation.
Equity Firm
After news reports speculated that a Wall Street Equity fund was under SEC Investigation, Eric
was retained to develop a comprehensive reputation repair campaign. The campaign which
utilized paid social media, earned media, and digital repair, helped properly inform key
stakeholders of the facts.
Country Club
A waitress filed a lawsuit against a well-known country club alleging discrimination and
retaliation. At the same time the lawsuit was filed, her attorney went to the media to get the club
to settle. In her lawsuit, the plaintiff claimed wrongful termination, retaliation, intentional
infliction of emotional distress, a hostile work environment, sex discrimination, breach of
contract, and various labor law violations. Facing questions from members about the litigation,
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Eric was retained to provide internal communication and media support. Eric developed a
reputation effort to explain that the lawsuits were the product of disgruntled ex-employees and a
publicity-seeking lawyer and labeled the allegations ridiculous, salacious, and unfounded. The
plan included paid and earned media. A trial was held, and the jury rejected all the claims of the
former employee.
Environmental Management Company

Eric provided a media relations and reputation management company to a national
environmental compliance and remediation construction company. This happened when a
reporter for a large newspaper sought an interview regarding the failure to execute a contract
with a government agency for the cleanup of contaminated properties, despite being awarded the
bid through an RFP process.
Tax Services
In 2005, the dominant provider of tax services with a national network standing for quality and
reliability reputation and integrity was under attack by consumer activists, government officials,
and the media. Eric helped develop and assemble a team to implement a comprehensive brand
reputation and image program. The reputation repair campaign was based on market research
and included a significant amount of paid media was successful and helped to protect and
enhance the firm's legacy as a high-quality, high-integrity provider of sophisticated tax/financial
services for middle Americans.
Holding Company
When a holding company in the utility field wanted to institute a branding initiative that would
help to increase the stock market valuation of the Fortune 500 company and achieve positive
recognition for the company and the executives, Eric oversaw the development of the paid media
reputation plan and implementing the multi-year strategy.
Major Utility
A major natural gas company was perceived as aloof and did not have an integrated community-
outreach program. Eric developed a long-term systematic outreach plan to key community
stakeholders. Because of Eric's efforts, they now monitor social media platforms and proactively
address reputation issues.
Music Promoter
Following the drug overdose death of a fifteen-year-old attending a rave, Eric was hired to assist
the national company that hosted the event with a reputation of building and repositioning the
campaign. The campaign's purpose was to deflate and deflect negative misconceptions tied to the
company's festivals and events, namely the perceived connection to illegal drug use. Critical to
the success of the efforts was ensuring that the campaign worked across multiple platforms:
traditional media, social media, and interpersonal communications. The multi-year reputation
repair campaign involved paid and social media along with a robust earned media component
was so successful that company was able to grow and maintain its leadership position in the
industry.
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Family Spokesperson
Eric was hired by a family who owned hotels and an NBA basketball team to handle the negative
attention they were receiving received in both mainstream and local media. Eric created and
implemented an earned and paid media strategy for the family that allowed them to maintain fan
loyalty and garner respect from their business partners, concurrently selling the team for a record
profit.
Union Campaign
When the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) identified a major hospital chain as its
primary target and began attacking the core values and community service records of several
hospitals because they refused to allow a card check for organizing, Eric developed a
communications strategy to disclose the facts and protect the hospitals' reputation. While the
hospital chain was not opposed to union organizing efforts, the management felt a secondary
voice was necessary to combat the SEIU's misinformation. We developed a multi-disciplinary
campaign to challenge the SEIU's claims and provide employees with accurate information about
the potential impact and costs of union representation. To rebuild pride in the hospitals, we
developed a few key initiatives focused on employee morale. At the same time, the hospitals
launched a targeted and aggressive education campaign, which provided accurate information
about union organization to constituents (i.e., religious community, elected officials, patients,
medical staff, hospital communities, and the public). After conducting research, the reputation
repair campaign centered around ads that featured employees who represented the true spirit of
the hospitals. A series of communications pieces featuring community service outreach
programs (sponsored by the hospitals and a series of morale-building events during the holidays
to recognize employee contributions) were used in mailers and on social media. In addition, a
brochure was created that focused on the hospital chains' mission and its commitment to the
underserved individuals to combat the SEIU's attacks on those issues. The brochure was used in
online communications and mailed to key stakeholders. The strategy, to highlight individual
programs rather than debate directly with the union, helped neutralize the issues. As a result of
Eric's efforts, the service employees overwhelmingly rejected union membership in favor of
maintaining their direct relationship with management.
Supermarket Chain
Two years before a non-union supermarket chain announced that they were going to open up
over 100 stores in California, Eric was hired to help the company deal with several potential
issues that derailed other companies' entry in the state. Eric and his team assisted the
international chain with research and planning. A detailed reputation rollout plan was developed
that utilized paid radio, television and newspaper advertising along with earned media.
Traditional social media and social media influencers along with web advertising were utilized to
define the company before entering the California market.
Labor Dispute
For two years, Eric directed the effort of an independently owned hotel chain in Los Angeles
with a labor dispute. Eleven workers filed complaints with the California Labor Commissioner's
Office, alleging they had missed breaks required by law. Several weeks later, workers went on an
all-day strike to protest these allegations. For over six months, workers engaged in regular
picketing and other activities while demanding that management agrees to card-check. Eric
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developed communications to inform the public that the hotel supported the secret ballot election
process conducted by the National Labor Relations Board to protect employees' right to vote in a
neutral, private environment. The union refused to participate in an election process and began a
"corporate campaign." Eric worked to aggressively counter claims by touting the hotel's
industry-leading wages and benefits packages, its outstanding workplace-safety record, and its
role as a recognized leader in promoting a diverse workforce. Eric worked with the hotel and its
legal team to petition the NLRB to hold supervised secret-ballot elections. Two years after the
dispute began, the owner decided to sell the hotel and asked Eric to develop a plan to allow for a
union. The client then told prospective buyers they would be purchasing a hotel with a unionized
workforce and that the ongoing labor dispute had been settled.
Law Enforcment Unions

Eric has extensive background in local government, public policy, labor relations, political
campaigns and law enforcement. He has used his detailed knowledge of to provide numerous
law enforcement clients with public relations and strategic communication services, local
government lobbying, and political and issue campaign management. Eric has assised law
enforcement and prosecutor labor unions with community outreach, coalition building, and
political campaigns. Eric has worked extensively with local governments on innovative,
community-based solutions to complex criminal justice issues.
International Food Manufacturer

For the last three years, Eric has been working on a project for an international food
manufacturer that makes olive oil. The project includes monitoring a variety of social media sites
and developing responses to consumer and media concerns. Eric's job was to determine when
and how the company should respond to traditional and social media stories.
Municipal Communications
When a City learned that a popular restaurant and market decided to not move forward with
their proposed development plans, developers placed the blame on the City Council, Mayor
and City Manager. The City hired Eric to develop communications to show that the
applicants abandoned the project and sought a scapegoat. Eric's efforts highlighted the City's
remarkable job of balancing enthusiasm & excitement for the project with the legal obligation to
protect the public interest. In the end, the community understood that the City was committed to
the project from day one and that the developer abandoned the project for financial reasons.
The reputation examples represent a partial list of the reputation work Eric has done over his
career.
Crisis Communication
Among many and varied assignments, Eric has assisted clients in all aspects of dealing with
national media, including 60 Minutes, Dateline, 20/20, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, New
York Times and many local media outlets. Eric has counseled clients on product recalls, guided
clients on public image problems arising from legal disputes or government investigations,
coordinated readiness plans, and conducted crisis simulations for global corporations.
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Eric has counseled clients on protecting their reputations in the wake of rogue employee actions.
He has also trained company spokespeople facing hostile questions from investigative reporters
or a wary investor community. He has prepared CEOs to testify before legislative bodies and
also provided responsive, on-the-ground support when a crisis has occurred.
As part of his crisis communication practice, Eric has helped companies develop ironclad
policies and practices for handling personal, confidential, and sensitive information in the
workplace. For a client in the medical field, Eric assisted in developing responsible data-
handling practices, workplace privacy policies, and the implementation of regular training
programs for employees.
The examples above represent a partial list of hundreds of crisis and reputation communication
programs Eric has developed and implemented throughout his career.
Development of Crisis Communication Plans
Throughout his career, Eric has developed outreach and crisis communications plans for a broad
range of local, national, and international clients. Eric's crisis projects created a structure for
communicating with internal and external stakeholders, in the event of a crisis that affects the
reputation or normal business functions of the organization. Eric's plans ensure every aspect of
the plans aligns with this common goal.
Plans developed include:
• A crisis communication plan for Southern California franchise owners of an international

fast-food chain. The plan focused on how franchise owners should communicate with
employees, partners, customers, media, the general public, and any valuable stakeholders.
The plan was reviewed and approved by the corporate communications team.
• A crisis communication plan for a large Southern California casino. The plan included
guidelines for the casino to deal with emergencies and unexpected events. The plan
included steps to take when a crisis first emerges, how to communicate with the public.
• A crisis communication plan for a large Japanese electronics company that is one of the
world's largest manufacturers of computer printers and information and imaging-related
equipment
• A crisis communication plan for an American multinational toy manufacturing company
headquartered in Southern California
• A crisis communication plan for an international company that exports olive oil to the
United States
• Management and crisis communications for an international airline.
• A recall and crisis plan for an American biopharmaceutical company that has discovered
and developed numerous commercialized therapeutics
• A crisis communication program and plan for a waste management and environmental
services company headquartered in Texas
The examples of the work above represent a partial list of what Eric has developed for clients.
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Media Training for Senior Executives
Eric conducted media training workshops, seminars, and individual coaching sessions for senior
executives. Eric has taught over 700 individuals on how to shape a media message so that they
can say everything you need to say in 30 seconds or less and how to get quoted precisely the way
they want on the messages they want.
Publications
Throughout Eric's professional career, he has written on a wide variety of subjects related to
public relations, crisis communications, and reputation management for business as well as for
specialty areas (e.g., legal marketing/litigation support). Eric has written many articles for a
various local, regional and national general business publications; including newspapers and
websites. A small sampling can be found below.
• Branders: What to do when things go wrong, Branders Magazine – March 7, 2018,

https://issuu.com/brandersmag/docs/branders_issue_9/28
• Not Her Mother's Daughter: The lessons of Lisa Bloom, City Watch – October 23, 2017,
http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/los-angeles-for-rss/14241-not-her-mother-s-
daughter-the-lessons-of-lisa-bloom
• When Cops Get 'Lit Up' – Reacting to a Law Enforcement Crisis, American Police Beat –
December 12, 2014
https://apbweb.com/cops-get-lit-reacting-law-enforcement-crisis
• The False Claim Of An LA County Sheriff's Deputy Being Shot By A Sniper Leads To A
Classic Fail in Crisis Communication – September 6, 2019, Witness LA
https://witnessla.com/op-ed-the-false-claim-of-an-la-county-sheriffs-deputy-being-shot-
by-a-sniper-leads-to-a-classic-fail-in-crisis-communication
• The ABCs of Source Attribution – and Tips on Negotiating it;
https://www.summitas.com/officeblog/34004139776780634205
• Bezos Affair Saga Raises Issue of Confidentiality in Journalism;
https://www.summitas.com/officeblog/33755139776780633956
• How a Crime Hoax Taught a Lesson in Crisis Communications
https://thecrimereport.org/2019/09/09/how-a-crime-hoax-taught-a-lesson-in-crisis-
communications/
• What to do when things go wrong: protecting the brand
https://www.ekapr.com/branders-what-to-do-when-things-go-wrong/
https://issuu.com/brandersmag/docs/branders_issue_9/28
• Shopper Alert!! Hidden Restocking Fees Draw Consumer Anger
https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/archive/4218-shopper-alert-hidden-restocking-
fees-draw-consumer-anger
• Why Police Need ShotSpotter
https://thecrimereport.org/2015/03/24/2015-03-why-police-need-shotspotter
• Does your reputation online reflect who you really are?
https://link.medium.com/4uBgr3t0R3
• Sports, Recreation Fans Faced With Refund Confusion Amid COVID-19
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https://medium.com/@ericrose_41628/sports-recreation-fans-faced-with-refund-
confusion-amid-covid-19-29e3a647e83b
• McDonald's Re-writes Playbook for Corporate America and Crisis
https://www.prnewsonline.com/McDonald%27s-crisis-Easterbrook
Seminars & Speaking Engagements
Throughout his professional career, Eric has spoken, written, and lectured on a wide variety of
issues regarding public relations, crisis communications, litigation support, and social media.
• Media, Communications and Reputation Management Training – League of California

Cities
• Crisis Communications Training – California Bar Association – MCLE Credit
• Guest lecturer on crisis and litigation communication at the University of Southern
California (USC)
• Guest lecturer on reputation management at the California State University Northridge,
(CSUN)
• Seminar for LAPD management regarding social media, mass communication, and mass
gatherings
• Seminar of the California Police Chief's Association responding to social media and
reputation management issues
• Workshop for the San Diego County District Attorney's Office on crisis management in
the digital era
• Workshop for the Ventura County District Attorney's Office on social media for
communications
Media
Eric is a frequent media commentator on crisis and reputation management issues and is a
regular guest expert on CNN, Fox News, and KCBS/KCAL television. Topics range from the
current political stories of the day to crisis communication issues. Eric is also frequently quoted
in local and national newspapers regarding crisis and reputation issues.
Career Achievements
• Sabre Award Winner, Public Affairs

• PRSA Silver Anvil Award Winner, Corporate Reputation/Brand Equity
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EXHIBIT 15
9/18/2020 Critical Mention
Brian Harkins vs. Angels Baseball & MLB

Total National TV Audience Total National TV Publicity Total Local TV Audience Total Local TV Publicity
610,975 USD $179,530 610,975 USD $179,530
Total Online News Audience Total Online News Publicity

1,740,911,002 USD $20,378,681
Total Social Followers

10,955
Total Number of Clips 292 Collapse A
Fired Clubhouse Attendant Files Suit Against Angels, MLB
Date Collected Sep 14, 2020 8:45 AM EDT Language English

Category Blog
Source RealGM Baseball Wiretap
Full Article A clubhouse attendant that was red by the Los Angeles Angels on March 3 has led suit against the club claiming that he was unfairly depicted as
scapegoat" in Major League Baseball's e orts to curb the use of foreign substances.
Brian Harkins, who was an employee of the Angels for four decades, was found by MLB to have provided a blend of sticky substances to illegally
pitchers' abilities to grip the baseball.
The complaint, led Aug. 28 by Harkins' attorneys, lists defamation and false light as causes of...
Fired Angels worker sues, says he didn't sell Go-Go Juice; he made Sticky Stu
Date Collected Sep 13, 2020 5:38 PM EDT Est. Audience 2,471,551
Category Consumer Est. Publicity Value USD $18,991
Source Yahoo! Sports Market United States
Author Mike DiGiovanna Language English
Full Article
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Former Angels employee Brian Harkins , red March 3 for allegedly providing illegal ball-doctoring substances to visiting pitchers, has led a
complaint against the team and Major League Baseball claiming he was made a "public scapegoat" in baseball's e orts to crack down on the use
foreign substances.
The complaint, rst reported...decades with the Angels , starting as a batboy in 1981. He was the visiting clubhouse attendant when he was dismis
after an MLB investigation that said he was providing a blend of sticky substances — known as "Go-Go Juice" — to visiting pitchers to aid their grip
the baseball.
The complaint says that Harkins "never distributed an illegal substance" to anyone, that he was unfamiliar with the term "Go-Go Juice," and that he
not sell it as a money-making venture.
According to the complaint, an all-star Angels pitcher taught Harkins in the 1990s to mix rosin, pine...cold weather and in " ve or six cities that, com
the ninth inning, would pack the seams with mud and you couldn't grip the ball. I didn't see a big issue because I could go grab a [pine tar-covered
and get the same thing."
Percival, now the UC Riverside baseball coach, said he was taught by an older veteran how to produce the mixture, "but it's basically pine tar and
mixed together with a couple other little things," he said. "If [Harkins] developed it any more beyond that, I don't know."
Percival said he didn't know if other...
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Fired Angels clubhouse attendant sues MLB, says he was 'scapegoat'
Date Collected Sep 13, 2020 1:30 PM EDT Est. Audience 50,436
Source Yard Barker Market United States
Author Erin Walsh, Yardbarker Language English
Full Article
https://app.criticalmention.com/app/#/report/92988063-6930-4d71-a5ba-f2628685e9dd 1/94
A former clubhouse attendant for the Los Angeles Angels isn't happy about his departure from the team earlier this year.
The attendant has led a lawsuit against Major League Baseball and the Angels after being red in March for providing pitchers with an illegal
substance to help them grip a baseball better, according to ESPN's Alden Gonzalez .
Brian Harkins attorneys allege MLB depicted their client as a "scapegoat" in order to protect themselves after the...
Fired Angels worker 'Bubba' Harkins sues, says he didn't sell Go-Go Juice; he made Sticky
Stu , for free
Date Collected Sep 13, 2020 1:23 PM EDT Est. Audience 2,471,551
Full Article
foreign substances.
the baseball.
According to the complaint, an all-star Angels pitcher taught Harkins in the 1990s to mix rosin, pine...cold weather and in " ve or six cities that, com
the ninth inning, would pack the seams with mud and you couldn't grip the ball. I didn't see a big issue because I could go grab a [pine tar-covered
and get the same thing."
Percival, now the UC Riverside baseball coach, said he was taught by an older veteran how to produce the mixture, "but it's basically pine tar and
mixed together with a couple other little things," he said. "If [Harkins] developed it any more beyond that, I don't know."
Percival said he didn't know if other...
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Fired Angels worker 'Bubba' Harkins says he didn't sell Go-Go Juice; he made Sticky Stu ,
for free
Date Collected Sep 13, 2020 11:38 AM EDT Est. Audience 2,471,551
Full Article
foreign substances.
the baseball.
According to the complaint, an all-star Angels pitcher taught Harkins in the 1990s to mix rosin,...
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Fired Angels worker 'Bubba' Harkins says he didn't sell Go-Go Juice; he made Sticky Stu ,
for free
Date Collected Sep 13, 2020 11:36 AM EDT Est. Audience 919,784
Category National Est. Publicity Value USD $12,796
Full Article
Source Yahoo! Canada Market Canada
foreign substances.
the baseball.
According to the complaint, an all-star Angels pitcher taught Harkins in the 1990s to mix rosin,...
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Fired clubhouse worker les suit against Angels
Category Local Est. Publicity Value USD $311
Source San Bernardino County Sun Market San Bernardino, CA
Author Je Fletcher Language English
Full Article
Brian Harkins, the longtime Angels employee who was red in March because he provided a substance to pitchers to doctor baseballs , has led
complaint against the Angels and Major League Baseball, according to documents reviewed by the Southern California News Group.
The complaint was led on Aug....to anyone, and was unfamiliar where the name "Go Go Juice," which described the concoction, had originated. T
complaint also says it was common knowledge around the Angels clubhouse that a mixture of rosin, pine tar and "Mota stick (hard pine tar)" could
useful to help pitchers grip the baseball, and it was used by Angels pitchers as well as visitors.
"Bubba Harkins was not a traitor to his team," the complaint reads. "Many people within the Angels organization knew about the Sticky Stu of ro
and pine tar Bubba used to make for pitchers. Year after year a...game safer."
The complaint details how Harkins came to create his particular mix of materials with the help of a former All-Star Angels pitcher who went to the
Detroit Tigers in 2005. That description ts longtime Angels closer Troy Percival.
Harkins was red on Mar. 3, 2020, after Major League Baseball circulated a memo describing a crackdown on the use of substances on the baseb
Harkins never received a copy of the memo, according to the complaint.
On Mar. 20, Harkins delivered a letter to Angels president John Carpino explaining the situation and requesting he be reinstated, but Harkins rece
no response, according to the complaint.
Harkins was interviewed by Major League Baseball on Mar. 26 and he was asked which pitchers had used the substances, according to the compl
There has been no subsequent discipline against anyone else, the complaint says.
Harkins, better known as Bubba, had spent nearly 40 years working for the Angels, including the past 30 as the...
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Fired attendant les suit against Angels, MLB
Category Blog Est. Publicity Value USD $121,299
Source www.espn.com - Angels Report Language English
Full Article MLB.com

Follow on TwitterFacebookTwitterFacebook MessengerPinterestEmailprint
The attorneys for a former Los Angeles Angels clubhouse attendant who was red earlier this year have led a complaint in Orange County Super
Court, alleging that their client was unfairly depicted as "a scapegoat" in Major League Baseball's e orts to curb the use of foreign substances.
Brian Harkins was let go by the Angels on March 3, shortly after MLB informed the team that he was providing a blend of sticky substances to ille
aid pitchers' abilities to grip the baseball, ending a four-decade run with the organization. The complaint, led Aug. 28 by attorneys...adds that Ha
was "not given a copy" of the memo before his ring.
The complaint states that an All-Star Angels pitcher who moved to the Detroit Tigers in 2005 originally taught Harkins to mix rosin, pine tar and Mo
stick, a sti er pine tar, to help the pitcher grip the baseball. Though the complaint doesn't speci cally name the player, it is believed to be Troy Pe
a former All-Star pitcher for the Angels who later signed with the Tigers before the 2005 season.
Word spread about the concoction through the unnamed player, and Harkins began providing it for other pitchers "as...the complaint. The compla
also states that Harkins was interviewed by Angels and MLB attorneys as part of an investigation into the use of foreign substances and complied
nobody else has been punished.
"To avoid further embarrassment and bad publicity in the wake of the Astros cheating scandal, Major League Baseball needed a baseball-doctori
scapegoat," the complaint reads. "It would be Bubba...
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Category Blog Est. Publicity Value USD $848
Source Press Enterprise Market United States
Full Article Author Je Fletcher Language English
On Mar. 20, Harkins delivered a letter to Angels president John Carpino explaining the situation and requesting he be reinstated, but Harkins
received...victory over Rockies Mike Mayers credits his Angels breakout to social media Angels blow lead in ninth and lose to Rockies on walk-o g
slam Taylor Ward returns to Angels with a more consistent swing Dylan Bundy and Mike Trout lead Angels to victory
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Source Redlands Daily Facts Market Redlands, CA
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Source Pasadena Star News Market Pasadena, CA
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Source SGV Tribune Market West Covina, CA
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Category Local Est. Publicity Value USD $4,332
Source Orange County Register Market Santa Ana, CA
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Source Whittier Daily News Market Monrovia, CA
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Source Riverside Press Enterprise Market Riverside, CA
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Source Los Angeles Daily News Market Woodland Hills, CA
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Source Daily Bulletin Market Rancho Cucamonga, CA
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Source Daily Breeze Market Torrance, CA
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Source FantasySP / ALL / Headlines Market United States
Language English
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MLB.com
Brian Harkins was let go by the Angels on March 3, shortly after MLB informed the team that he was providing a blend of sticky substances to ille
aid pitchers' abilities to grip the baseball, ending a four-decade run with the organization. The complaint, led Aug. 28 by attorneys...adds that Ha
was "not given a copy" of the memo before his ring.
Word spread about the concoction through the unnamed player, and Harkins began providing it for other pitchers "as...the complaint. The compla
also states that Harkins was interviewed by Angels and MLB attorneys as part of an investigation into the use of foreign substances and complied
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Source Press-Telegram Market Long Beach, CA
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Fired clubhouse attendant les suit against Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, MLB
Source NewsBreak Market United States
Language English
Full Article
Court , alleging that their client was unfairly depicted as 'a scapegoat' in Major League Baseball 's e orts to curb the use of foreign substances. Br
Harkins was...
Date Collected Sep 13, 2020 2:05 AM EDT Market United Kingdom
Category National Language English
Source Sky-News.co.uk
Full Article The attorneys for a former Los Angeles Angels clubhouse attendant who was red earlier this year have led a complaint in Orange County Super
Brian Harkins was let go by the Angels on March 3 , shortly after MLB informed the team that he was providing a blend of sticky substances to ille
aid pitchers' abilities to grip the baseball, ending a four-decade run with the organization. The complaint, led Aug. 28 by...that Harkins was "not g
a copy" of the memo before his ring.
Word spread about the concoction through the unnamed player, and Harkins began providing it for other pitchers...complaint. The complaint also
states that Harkins was interviewed by Angels and MLB attorneys as part of an investigation into the use of foreign substances and complied but
scapegoat," the complaint reads. "It would be Bubba Harkins."
Original...
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Source ESPN.com Market United States
Author Alden Gonzalez Language English
Full Article
...AM ET
aid pitchers' abilities to grip the baseball, ending a four-decade run with the organization. The complaint, led Aug. 28 by...adds that Harkins was
given a copy" of the memo before his ring.
stick, a sti er pine tar, to help him grip the baseball. Though the complaint doesn't speci cally name the player, it is believed to be Troy Percival, a
former All-Star pitcher for the Angels who later signed with the Tigers before the 2005 season.
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Category Consumer Est. Publicity Value USD $835
Source ESPN.co.uk Market United Kingdom
Language English
Full Article
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Source ABC30 News Market Fresno, CA
Language English
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scapegoat," the complaint reads. "It would be Bubba Harkins."
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Angels re visiting clubhouse manager for providing ball-doctoring substances to

opposing pitchers, ESPN source says
Date Collected Mar 8, 2020 5:28 PM EDT Est. Audience 5,699

Source ABC7 RSS Feed Market United States
Full Article
Author KABC Language English
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KABC
ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- A visiting clubhouse manager for the Los Angeles Angels has been red after an internal investigation con rmed suspicio
that he was providing ball-doctoring substances to opposing pitchers, sources con rmed to ESPN.
Major League Baseball initially informed the Angels about a week ago about allegations that Brian Harkins was providing illegal sticky substance
aided the pitchers' abilities to grip the baseball, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.
Harkins, who had been with the Angels for 30 years, con rmed that...
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Angels re visiting clubhouse manager for providing ball-doctoring substances to

opposing pitchers, ESPN source says
Date Collected Mar 8, 2020 4:02 PM EDT Est. Audience 5,699

Source ABC7 Market Glendale, CA
Full Article
Language English
ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- A visiting clubhouse manager for the Los Angeles Angels has been red after an internal investigation con rmed suspicio
that he was providing ball-doctoring substances to opposing pitchers, sources con rmed to ESPN.
Major League Baseball initially informed the Angels about a week ago about allegations that Brian Harkins was providing illegal sticky substance
aided the pitchers' abilities to grip the baseball, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.
Harkins, who had been with the Angels for 30 years, con rmed...
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Angels re visiting clubhouse attendant for alleged cheating
Date Collected Mar 8, 2020 8:50 AM EDT Est. Audience 4,788,607
Full Article
Language English
Los Angeles Angels visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins has been red, reportedly for providing ball-doctoring substances to opposing pitc
The Angels conducted an internal investigation when suspicions arose that Harkins, a 30-year employee of the team, was providing illegal substan
to the visiting clubhouse that aided the grip of the baseball, ESPN reported. Major League... Baseball rst informed the Angels of the allegations a
week ago, per the report.
Harkins, who goes by "Bubba," said he was red Thursday. The Angels declined comment due to the legal nature of the situation.
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer recently told Real Sports that the majority of MLB...
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Angels ax visiting clubhouse manager for helping teams doctor baseballs
Date Collected Mar 7, 2020 10:28 PM EST Est. Audience 9,206

Source HilltopMonitor.com Market Stamford, CT
Language English
Full Article
On Thursday, the Angels red veteran visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins for allegedly furnishing illegal substances to put on baseballs, re
the Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles began an internal investigation after Major League Baseball alerted the club last week, and it was allegedly learned that Harkins
distributed the substances to visiting pitchers at Angel Stadium, sources...
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — It's not so much about the red clubhouse manager . It's not even, really, about pitchers and the substances they use to hold
baseball. Nor is it solely about televisions in clubhouses or buzzers under jerseys or phantom ailments occupying injured lists.
It's about all of it.
It's about a game that has veered into gray areas and yet covered by a rule book stamped in black and white. It's about Houston Astros...it too, an
Boston Red Sox players who promised not to do that again and two years later had to be dragged in for more questioning and, yeah, the guy in th
bullpen slathering himself with the latest potion out of Anaheim.
It's about identifying who is best at baseball, just baseball, and not who is best at reverse engineering and then gaming the system, and not who
best at making up an entirely di erent game, and not who is best at not getting caught.
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Pitchers openly dab, spray, smear and lacquer their pitching hands with foreign powders, ointments, oils and goos.
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At a time when it seems almost everything within the game has a fresh wobble, Major League Baseball seeks a reset on the rules as they are writt
Therefore, in its communications with team o cials and players, it has stressed that, for example, any substance on a baseball that is not human
or human sweat or Delaware River mud or dirt or rosin from the bag... behind the mound is illegal.
In the course of that very broad pursuit of a more honest game, baseball o cials heard more than once about the stu being produced — and so
out of the visitors' clubhouse in Anaheim, among two or three other places. They called Angels management.
Angels clubhouse attendant red amid foreign substance crackdown
Brian Harkins is a big guy with dyed blond...to have a carpet sweeper attached to one hand, and managed the details. He is very friendly.
The Angels red him Thursday.
An Orange County native, he'd taken his rst job with the team when he was in his teens. He leaves at 54.
Harkins is suspected by Major League Baseball and the Angels of concocting and distributing a signature mix of pine tar and rosin designed to im
pitchers' grips on the baseball and be undetectable, sources said Friday. Pitchers came to swear by it. Some, according to a source, received batch
the mail.
MLB is planning to...would have viewed it as a practice accepted by pitchers and hitters and therefore harmless, is precisely the target of the leagu
freshened standards. He is a casualty of that, perhaps unintended. He never threw a pitch.
Pitchers seeking additional tack contend it is to enhance their control of a baseball that can be slippery. They say batters are otherwise in danger.
also know that revolutions per minute (or spin rate) — on fastballs and breaking balls — is a pitcher's new currency, and that the longer the ball is
their ngers the better o they are. Therefore,...
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Padres' Matt Strahm believes MLB plan to crack down on pitchers 'cheating' is overdue

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Matt Strahm collects baseball cards, loves to talk strategy and generally appreciates the game he has played his entire life.
The beauty and purity of baseball is so important to him that he is not above going around and letting teammates know they are "cheaters." He a
others say he has done so...increase spin.
"It's cheating," Strahm said recently. "… There's plenty of guys in here doing it, and it pisses me o . … I'll become the best fastball-up-in-the-zone g
the big leagues if you let me stick my ngers in there, but it's cheating. I have morals."
For many in baseball, pitchers using pine tar or mixture of sunscreen and rosin to improve their grip on what seems to be increasingly slippery
baseballs falls into the game's nebulous category of acceptable skirting of the rules.
"There's kind of an understanding throughout the league that guys do it," Padres rst baseman...balls slippery, or on cold nights, which have a sim
e ect.
"We're talking about the best in the world no matter what's on the ball," Hosmer said.
Several Padres estimated that more than half (and perhaps as much as Strahm's gure of 75 percent) of major league pitchers alter the baseball w
some sort of substance that is technically illegal.
"I don't care at all, really," said relief pitcher Craig Stammen. "Everybody has to decide how they want to go about their business and whether they
they're cheating or not. For me, I don't want to have that if, and... or but, so I decided not to. … You could argue it's not cheating, because many pla
have done this from the beginning of baseball and it's kind of widely accepted. I don't care. I just choose not to do it."
Major League Baseball evidently has started to care, as it informed teams recently that umpires will be more diligent this season enforcing rules
prohibiting the altering of baseballs.
Speci cally, clubs were reminded of...as ejection from the game and automatic 10-game suspension. Rule 6.02 prohibits using any substance or o
to alter a ball or even possessing a substance or object on the mound. The penalty for a violation is also ejection and suspension.
The Angels on Thursday red longtime visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins for supplying visiting pitchers with a substance called Go Go Jui
they could apply to baseballs to improve their grip.
Padres pitchers were mostly unaware of MLB's intent to crack down on the use of foreign substances on balls. Pitching coach Larry Rothschild said
intended to speak... with his pitchers shortly about the new vigilance.
While some pitchers around baseball have predicted a spike in hit batters, especially in cold temperatures, Stammen was among those who said
didn't think there will be much change in the game even if umpires' policing greatly reduces the practice. He believes a lot of the bene ts are in
pitchers' heads.
Said Hosmer:...
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REPORT: Angels Fire Clubhouse Manager Amid Cheating Rumors

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The Los Angeles Angels were forced to part ways with their longtime clubhouse manager following an internal investigation that revealed he was
actually supplying opposing pitchers with illegal substances to better grip the ball.
Major League Baseball is said to have informed the team about allegations that Brian Harkins was providing illegal sticky substances in the visiti
clubhouse that aided pitchers' abilities to grip the baseball, according to ESPN.
Doctoring the baseball has been a thing in MLB for years, but the...
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It’s time to start thinking about the World Baseball Classic again
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Saturday news and notes A quali er for the 2021 World Baseball Classic will be held next week (March 13-18) in Tucson, Ariz., with six countries —
Brazil, France, Germany, Nicaragua, Pakistan, and South Africa — vying for two spots in next year's WBC.
Major leaguers will take part in the actual World Baseball Classic tournament next year, but in the qualifying...the brother of Dodgers relief pitche
Scott Alexander.
France plays Germany on Friday, March 13 (4:30 p.m. PT). A win would mean a game against South Africa on March 14, and a loss would mean an
elimination game on March 15. It takes three victories to qualify for the 2021 World Baseball Classic.
All of the games will be streamed live, for free, on YouTube.
Links
For the eighth consecutive season, Mike Trout has the highest projected Wins Above Replacement by ZiPS, and Dan Szymborski puts that into hist
perspective over at FanGraphs.
After news of the Angels' ring longtime visiting clubhouse manager Brian... Harkins, Je Fletcher of the Orange County Register examined the
prevalence of using illegal substances on the baseball. Andrew Heaney told him, "I think no one thinks it's shocking that people are using sticky st
on their ngers. You've been hearing about it forever, I think throughout the history... of baseball."
A second Angels clubhouse attendant was red in addition to Harkins, per Mike DiGiovanna and Maria Torres of the Los Angeles Times, and that t
substance Harkins sold was called "Go Go Juice," reportedly a blend of rosin and pine tar.
An opposing pitcher chimed in:
TBH, kind of upset...
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20 or will the central station and an intense amount and the radio and abandoned on the streets . More 22 were learning more about why the ang
red Brian park to . The visiting clubhouse manager for the la angels is out red by the team this after an investigation revealed he provided bald
doctoring substances to the angels opponents doctoring baseballs has been a long historic tradition in baseball even though it's against the rules
clubhouse manager Brian harkins rst began working for the angels in the 1980s as a ball boy accused in the visiting clubhouse manager since 1
Steve Futterman cbs news Los Angeles to . Least looking Foreman who stole another woman's wallet an engagement ring while at a restaurant an
German notes this happened in january the gays in the ring is worth more than 10000 dollars the peoples are radical for 4000 dollar .
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Morning Brie ng: Dellin Betances To Make First Spring Appearance

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...that Yoan Moncada and the club have agreed to a ve-year contract extension worth $70M with a club option that can extend the deal through 2
Jimmy Pitaro, ESPN President, announced that ESPN will be airing popular Statcast-driven presentation in addition to their regular broadcast durin
select Sunday Night Baseball games in 2020. The Director of Communications for ESPN Ben Cafardo, posted the news on Twitter .
The World Baseball Classic Quali er games will be live-streamed on MLB's Youtube channel for free according to MLB's Communications Twitter.
The Charleston RiverDogs, a minor league a liate of the Yankees, has canceled...suspended for 80 games after testing positive for boldenone whi
a banned PED.
The Los Angeles Angels have red their visiting clubhouse manager after an investigation con rmed he had been providing opposing pitchers with
"illegal ball-doctoring substances". ESPN 's Alden Gonzalez was rst to report the unfortunate dismissal of Brian Harkins.
Lindsey Adler of The Athletic remembers Kelly Rodman, an amateur scout for the New York Yankees, after her passing earlier this week.
WCBS 880 sports director Ed Ingles has passed away at the age of 87. The legendary sportscaster had a career spanning over 60 years and had...th
week featuring some Mets players and some Atlanta Braves mic'd up during their games this week. MLB compiled a video of the highlights from th
week's discussions and it is…something else.
Latest on MMO
Sal Manzo shared a personal story in his latest article titled "Why I'm Grateful For Baseball", a truly beautiful story about his experience growing u
loving the sport.
On This Date in Mets History
Happy Birthday to Cookie Rojas (81)!
2001: The Mets signed Tony Tarasco .
2003: The Mets signed Orber Moreno .
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Morning Brie ng: Dellin Betances To Make First Spring Appearance

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...that Yoan Moncada and the club have agreed to a ve-year contract extension worth $70M with a club option that can extend the deal through 2
Jimmy Pitaro, ESPN President, announced that ESPN will be airing popular Statcast-driven presentation in addition to their regular broadcast durin
select Sunday Night Baseball games in 2020. The Director of Communications for ESPN Ben Cafardo, posted the news on Twitter .
The World Baseball Classic Quali er games will be live-streamed on MLB's Youtube channel for free according to MLB's Communications Twitter.
The Charleston RiverDogs, a minor league a liate of the Yankees, has canceled...suspended for 80 games after testing positive for boldenone whi
a banned PED.
The Los Angeles Angels have red their visiting clubhouse manager after an investigation con rmed he had been providing opposing pitchers with
"illegal ball-doctoring substances". ESPN 's Alden Gonzalez was rst to report the unfortunate dismissal of Brian Harkins.
Lindsey Adler of The Athletic remembers Kelly Rodman, an amateur scout for the New York Yankees, after her passing earlier this week.
WCBS 880 sports director Ed Ingles has passed away at the age of 87. The legendary sportscaster had a career spanning over 60 years and had...th
week featuring some Mets players and some Atlanta Braves mic'd up during their games this week. MLB compiled a video of the highlights from th
week's discussions and it is…something else.
Latest on MMO
Sal Manzo shared a personal story in his latest article titled "Why I'm Grateful For Baseball", a truly beautiful story about his experience growing u
loving the sport.
On This Date in Mets History
Happy Birthday to Cookie Rojas (81)!
2001: The Mets signed Tony Tarasco .
2003: The Mets signed Orber Moreno .
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Quick Hits: Maeda, Dodgers, Angels, Cards, Royals
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The Dodgers d ealt Kenta Maeda to the Twins last month, after which the right-hander seemingly indicated that he asked for a trade out of the Los
Angeles organization. However, that's not what happened, according to Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman (via Bill Plunk
of the Orange County Register ). While Maeda did make it known to the Dodgers he prefers to start (they often used him as a reliever from 2018-1
Friedman insists there was no trade request when the two met last season. "I saw the...their part, the Dodgers didn't enter the o season planning
move Maeda, per Friedman, but they pulled the trigger when the Twins o ered a Brusdar Graterol -led package. Maeda, meanwhile, will now have
opportunity to return to being a full-time starter in Minnesota.
The Angels red visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins on Thursday amid allegations that he provided "illegal substances" to help opposing
pitchers grip the ball better, Maria Torres of the Los Angeles Times reports. The news did not come as a surprise to the Angels, per Je Fletcher of
OC Register . "I think everybody knows... that most guys are doing it," left-hander Andrew Heaney said. "I don't think it's that surprising for anybod
who knows baseball." Pitching coach Mickey Callaway told Fletcher he expects Major League Baseball to ban hurlers from using pine tar and othe
such substances, but he believes it could have a detrimental e ect because they help pitchers' control – especially in cold conditions. "If I were a h
I'd be... scared to dig into the box in Detroit on April 10," he said. Manager Joe Maddon also weighed in, saying pitchers have been using substance
better their grip for "as long as I've been in baseball." Maddon wonders whether MLB will eventually have to make changes to the ball, as the curr
one has become slicker. Cardinals righty Carlos Martinez has been a starter for most of his career, but shoulder issues helped force the hard-throw
28-year-old to their bullpen last season. He's now...
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The Dodgers d ealt Kenta Maeda to the Twins last month, after which the right-hander seemingly indicated that he asked for a trade out of the Los
Angeles organization. However, that's not what happened, according to Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman (via Bill Plunk
of the Orange County Register ). While Maeda did make it known to the Dodgers he prefers to start (they often used him as a reliever from 2018-1
Friedman insists there was no trade request when the two met last season. "I saw the...their part, the Dodgers didn't enter the o season planning
move Maeda, per Friedman, but they pulled the trigger when the Twins o ered a Brusdar Graterol -led package. Maeda, meanwhile, will now have
opportunity to return to being a full-time starter in Minnesota.
The Angels red visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins on Thursday amid allegations that he provided "illegal substances" to help opposing
pitchers grip the ball better, Maria Torres of the Los Angeles Times reports. The news did not come as a surprise to the Angels, per Je Fletcher of
OC Register . "I think everybody knows... that most guys are doing it," left-hander Andrew Heaney said. "I don't think it's that surprising for anybod
who knows baseball." Pitching coach Mickey Callaway told Fletcher he expects Major League Baseball to ban hurlers from using pine tar and othe
such substances, but he believes it could have a detrimental e ect because they help pitchers' control – especially in cold conditions. "If I were a h
I'd be... scared to dig into the box in Detroit on April 10," he said. Manager Joe Maddon also weighed in, saying pitchers have been using substance
better their grip for "as long as I've been in baseball." Maddon wonders whether MLB will eventually have to make changes to the ball, as the curr
one has become slicker. Cardinals righty Carlos Martinez has been a starter for most of his career, but shoulder issues helped force the hard-throw
28-year-old to their bullpen last season. He's now...
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policy after the 24-year-old tested positive for an anabolic steroid. guys being popped for p.e.d.'s is nothing new but this story is something. this is
brian harkins commonly referred to as bubba. he started with the angels as a bat boy nearly 40 years ago and worked his way up to becoming th
visiting clubhouse manager until he was red yesterday after an internal investigation revealed he was selling a ball doctoring substance to oppos
pitchers called go go juice many pitchers doctoring balls has long been common practice but bubba slinging go-go juice to pitchers facing his emp
of nearly four decades captures the hilarity of the circus of an o season in baseball. it's one thing after another for the mlb p.r. folks to tackle an
this, i think it's great for baseball. now, before the baseball purists throw something at their tv, i'm not advocating for cheating. i'm simply saying
'Everything’s under such a microscope now': MLB rules crackdown comes with confusion
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Former Marlins president details history of cheating in baseball, where Astros went wrong

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...the World Series over the powerful New York Yankees of Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and George Steinbrenner with much help from an orchestr
e ort to steal signs. Second, Samson said, no, those Marlins weren't the Houston Astros before the Houston Astros, because he mentioned the As
violated Major League Baseball rules by using technology combined with trash cans and maybe buzzers to cheat their way to the 2017 world
championship. Today In: SportsMoneyIn Henri Richard, Hockey Lost The Most Glorious Chapter Of Its PastUFC 248 Full Fight Video: Watch Joanna
Jedrzejczyk Defeat Michelle WatersonWWE Friday Night SmackDown Results: News And...they did so in Game 6 at Yankee Stadium, where Bronx fa
still haven't recovered. To hear Samson tell it: When it came to Yankees manager Joe Torre and his coaches relying messages to their players, the
Marlins often knew what Jeter and Mariano knew as soon as the future Baseball Hall of Famers knew it. "What got the Astros in trouble is that the
used technology that may have been a bridge too far," Samson said. "But there isn't one team, not one, who did not use cameras in order to help
steal signs. That's not what the bridge... too far was. The trash can banging. The buzzers that have been rumored that have never been proven. Th
way of communicating is far di erent than what any team has ever done." Yeah, well. But here's the problem for baseball: Whether you're talking
about the Astros, or what Samson just said about his 2003 Marlins, or the 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers using a high-powered telescope to give Bobby
Thomson a head's up on the National League pennant-winning pitch he slammed into legend, or whatever Gaylord Perry put on baseballs before.
pitches, or George Brett and others ignoring the rule for pine tar on a bat, or the slew of other times during the 151 years of professional basebal
folks just fudged a bit ... It's all an ugly muddle for the game. Now the Los Angeles Angels just red their visiting clubhouse manager for doing
something that likely several of his peers have done. He's Brian Harkins, and he served in that capacity since 1986,...their pitchers wanted somet
to help them grip the ball better (which has happened since after Abner Doubleday contributed to inventing the game), Harkins would put their tip
his pocket and get the stu . It's just that, courtesy of the Astros scandal, teams were told in spring training that baseball o cials won't tolerate th
doctoring of balls anymore. Whatever that means. Actually, here's what it means: That Astros scandal, featuring baseball o cials not penalizing th
cheating players and doing nothing else worth mentioning beyond that, has yanked open the door of past, present and future contradictions rega
a level... playing eld for everybody in an industry that nevertheless made a record $10.7 billion last season. It's a shaky record, though. Baseball
attendance has dropped for 12 consecutive years, and Mike Trout as the game's best player isn't exactly LeBron James or Tom Brady when it come
name recognition. Oh, and there's cheating in baseball. Lots of it. Illegally and legally. With no end in sight.
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The team conducted an internal investigation when people began to grow suspicious that Brian Harkins, a 30 year employee of the team, was giv
illegal substances to the visiting clubhouse that allowed opposing pitchers to grip the baseball better, according to ESPN. Major League Baseball
informed the angels of the allegations a week ago. Harkins, who goes by the name Bubba, said he was red this week. The Angels declined to
comment. Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer recently told real sports on HBO that the majority of big league pitchers are using pine tar or othe
substances to enhance their grip, which could provide greater movement and velocity. Baseball intends to strictly enforce rules to eliminate that
practice this season. I'm John Staleness. South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, has been cancelled because of Corona virus and the World Cup nal
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slashed search. And L.A. Angels visiting clubhouse manager has been red for allegedly giving ball doctoring substances to opposing pitchers. The
conducted an internal investigation when people began to grow, suspicious that Brian Harkins, a 30 year employee of the team, was giving illega
substances to the visiting clubhouse that allowed opposing pitchers to grip the baseball better. According to ESPN, Major League Baseball, rst
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MLB rules crackdown comes with confusion

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FORT MYERS, Fla. — It's not so much about the red clubhouse manager. It's not even, really, about pitchers and the substances they use to hold t
It's about a game that has veered into gray areas and yet covered by a rule book stamped in black and white. It's about Houston Astros players...d
it too, and the Boston Red Sox players who promised not to do that again and two years later had to be dragged in for more questioning and, yea
guy in the bullpen slathering himself with the latest potion out of Anaheim.
best at making up an entirely di erent game, and not who is best at not getting caught. [] Advances in — and the unintended consequences of —
technology explain...to be a closed replay system.
The injured list is freely and grotesquely manipulated.
Umpires are subjected to unnecessary abuse.
Brian Harkins is a big guy with dyed blond hair that sometimes bordered on platinum, usually spiked. Everybody...bags, seemed always to have a
carpet sweeper attached to one hand, and managed the details. He is very friendly.
the mail.
Assuming they had proof or...probably would have viewed it as a practice accepted by pitchers and hitters and therefore harmless, is precisely the
target of the league's freshened standards. He is a casualty of that, perhaps unintended. He never threw a pitch.
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MLB rules crackdown comes with confusion

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FORT MYERS, Fla. — It's not so much about the . It's not even, really, about to hold the baseball. Nor is it solely about televisions in clubhouses or
buzzers under jerseys or phantom ailments occupying injured lists.
[ ]
Advances in — and the unintended consequences of — technology...replay system.
the mail.
Assuming they had proof...would have viewed it as a practice accepted by pitchers and hitters and therefore harmless, is precisely the target of th
league's freshened standards. He is a casualty of that, perhaps unintended. He never threw a pitch.
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Fired Angels employee Bubba Harkins sold ‘Go Go Juice’ that pitchers put on baseballs

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It was common knowledge around baseball that teams visiting Angel Stadium for a series received a competitive edge in the form of a foreign
substance called Go Go Juice.
The concoction, which a person familiar with the situation said was a blend of rosin and pine tar, was sold by veteran clubhouse manager Brian
...Harkins to pitchers looking to improve their grip of baseballs.
The operation made Harkins extra money, but it ultimately led to his dismissal by the Angels on Thursday, according to several people with knowle
of the matter who were unauthorized to comment publicly. A second clubhouse attendant, whom the Angels declined...made available to the Ang
The answer is unclear.
"C'mon, man," Heaney said, cha ng at the question. "I said most everybody is probably using it. Most everybody is getting something from somew
creating their own. Bullfrog and rosin. Whatever they want to do."
Bullfrog is a sunscreen widely used in baseball as well as other outdoor sports.
Baseballs used in MLB are given to umpires before every game. An attendant in the umpire's room rubs eight dozen to 12 dozen baseballs with a
concoction known as New Jersey Mud, which removes the sheen from the balls and improves the grip for...in that sense, so we're not hitting guys
and right and letting the ball sail, or a two-seamer running too far inside."
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said MLB's goal should be to have uniformity in how baseballs are prepared.
"Whether you're in Arizona or Denver, the feel of the baseball ... at some point it's a health concern as far as command when you're throwing the
95-100 mph," Roberts said.
"Balls are not (all) rubbed up exactly the same way. It's di cult to do because every ballpark, every ball, is di erent. We're trying to be mindful of t
but...the rule against applying foreign substances to the ball, MLB also is exploring whether the ball used in Japan, which many pitchers say o ers
better grip, could be of use in modifying the MLB balls.
"If, in fact, (foreign substances) go away, they're going to have to alter the baseball somehow and provide a tackiness to the ball," Angels manager
Maddon said. "It's done like that I think in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea. The Asian baseball is tackier. I think the concern with their baseball is that
doesn't have the same carry as our...
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It's about all of it. It's about a game that has veered into gray areas and yet covered by a rule book stamped in black and white. It's about Houston
Astros players...doing it too, and the Boston Red Sox players who promised not to do that again and two years later had to be dragged in for more
questioning and, yeah, the guy in the bullpen slathering himself with the latest potion out of Anaheim.
best at making up an entirely di erent game, and not who is best at not getting caught.[] Advances in — and the unintended consequences of —
technology explain some...to be a closed replay system.
Brian Harkins is a big guy with dyed blond hair that...bags, seemed always to have a carpet sweeper attached to one hand, and managed the det
He is very friendly.
the mail.Assuming they had proof or...probably would have viewed it as a practice accepted by pitchers and hitters and therefore harmless, is pre
the target of the league's freshened standards. He is a casualty of that, perhaps unintended. He never threw a pitch.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — It's not so much about the red clubhouse manager. It's not even, really, about to hold the baseball. Nor is it solely about
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...this week for allegedly distributing a concoction that helps pitchers get a better grip on the ball. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/)
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the mail.View photosAssuming they had proof...probably would have viewed it as a practice accepted by pitchers and hitters and therefore harmle
precisely the target of the league's freshened standards. He is a casualty of that, perhaps unintended. He never threw a pitch.
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...too, and the Boston Red Sox players who promised not to do that again and two years later had to be dragged in for more questioning and, yeah
guy in the bullpen slathering himself with the latest potion out of Anaheim.
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Los Angeles Angels visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins has been red, reportedly for providing ball-doctoring substances to opposing
pitchers.The Angels conducted an internal investigation when suspicions arose that Harkins, a 30-year employee of the team, was providing illega
substances to the visiting clubhouse that aided the grip of the baseball, ESPN reported. Major League ...Baseball rst informed the Angels of the
allegations a week ago, per the report.Harkins, who goes by "Bubba," said he was red Thursday. The Angels declined comment due to the legal n
of the situation.Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer recently told Real Sports that the majority of MLB pitchers are...
Angels re visiting clubhouse manager for alleged cheating

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The L.A. Times reported Thursday that the AL West club axed visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins for allegedly providing illegal substances
them to put on the baseballs. Angels president John Carpino con rmed to the Times that Harkins had been red, but did not divulge the reason. T
Angels were not believed to have been pressured by MLB to re Harkins, but the league's...handing out 10-game suspensions for foreign-substanc
usage on the daily, and that would be the law-abiding thing to do, since Rule 6.02 clearly states pitchers cannot use foreign substances on the mou
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer recently estimated that 70 percent of pitchers doctor the ball .
Major League Baseball intends to strongly enforce the rule that guards against the practice this season and has made teams aware during spring
training.
Los Angeles Angels relief pitcher Matt Ball works against a Los Angeles Dodgers batter during the eighth inning of a spring training baseball game
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Fired Angels employee Bubba Harkins sold 'Go Go Juice' that pitchers put on baseballs

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TEMPE, Ariz. - It was common knowledge around baseball that teams visiting Angel Stadium for a series received a competitive edge in the form o
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- It was common knowledge around baseball that teams visiting Angel Stadium for a series received a competitive edge in the form
Harkins...players also made available to the Angels? The answer is unclear.
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yes radio for the from charlotte clear starry no you ever heard how much money a major league club house manager or attendant can make in tip
hundreds were talking thousands i mean the visiting intended speci cally they're hired by the home team to serve the visiting team at the end of t
series as the visiting teams leaving town the players generally very generously tip the attendant so the attendance very likely do whatever the visit
players ask that's kind of their job or it was the job of long time angels visiting clubhouse manager brian harkins whose is red after thirty years o
that job why because sources tell e. s. p. n. he was apparently giving opposing pitchers illegal items with which to doctor baseball's could be pine
could be other things that help enhance the grip and does the control of the baseball a known i rst thought of what i heard this a long time majo
league pitcher that i've worked with for a number of years telling me this hitters typically have no problem with pitchers having a little bit of pine
toward a
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TEMPE, Ariz. — It was common knowledge around baseball that teams visiting Angel Stadium for a series received a competitive edge in the form
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Harkins to pitchers looking to improve their grip of baseballs.
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...the Los Angeles Angels, but he was red a few days ago after he supplemented his income by selling foreign substances to pitchers who pitched
Angel Stadium.
Harkins' signature item was called "Go-Go Juice," also known as a blend of rosin and pine tar.
#Angels visiting clubhouse MGR Brian Harkins supplemented his income by selling Go-Go Juice, a blend of rosin and pine tar, to pitchers looking
improve their grip of balls. His side hustle got him red, as MLB looks to crack down on foreign substances. https://t.co/FcWD7Ucukf
— Mike DiGiovanna (@MikeDiGiovanna) March 6, 2020
Harkins who started working with the team as a batboy in 1981 was making money on the side selling this concoction to pitchers looking to imp
Angels re visiting clubhouse manager

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...the Angels have red their visiting clubhouse manager after an internal investigation revealed that he was providing ball-doctoring substances to
opposing pitchers.
The clubhouse manager, Brian Harkins, had been at his post since 1990, after starting out with the club as a batboy in the early 1980s. The team
con rmed that he had been red but did not elaborate on the reason citing legal restrictions preventing them from discussing employee matters.
The timing on this is...pitchers and possibly hitting batters. I've always been skeptical of that explanation and gured that it was a way for batters t
help cover for the pitchers on their own team.
Baseball's crackdown on violations of Rule 8.02 changes all of that, however. And it certainly just changed the life of Brian Harkins, whose supply
of foreign substances was, I imagine, a fairly open secret at Angels Stadium. An open secret that could no longer persist given the crackdown.
And, as I said last week, I also imagine that this crackdown did not occur in a vacuum but, rather, is a direct... response to the sign-stealing scanda
which has roiled baseball this o season. Sign-stealing, like pine tar on balls, was a bit of rule breaking that Major League Baseball was quite awar
for some time and did nothing about it. When newspaper reports came out detailing just how elaborate the Astros' sign-stealing operation was, M
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job or it was the job of long time angels visiting clubhouse manager brian harkins whose is red after thirty years on that job why because source
e. s. p. n. he was apparently giving opposing pitchers illegal items with which to doctor baseball's could be pine tar could be other things that help
enhance the grip and dust the control of the baseball and i know what i rst thought of when i heard this a long time major league pitcher that i'v
worked with for a number of years telling me this hitters typically have no problem with pitchers having a little bit of pine torda help on grip the ba
wine because said here would prefer that said pitcher have full control of said baseball and would you you want ninety eight miles an hour under
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is there on a c. c. n. n. streaming live on the d. s. d. n. a. and radios voice from charlotte peers starring okay you ever heard how much money a m
league club house manager or attendant can make in tips not hundreds were talking thousands i mean the visiting intended speci cally they're hi
by the home team to serve the visiting team at the end of a series as the visiting teams leaving town the players generally very generously tip the
attendant so the attend is very likely do whatever the visiting players ask that's kind of their job or it was the job of long time angels visiting clubho
manager brian harkins whose is red after thirty years on that job why because sources tell e. s. p. n. he was apparently giving opposing pitchers
illegal items with which to doctor baseball's could be pine tar could be other things that help enhance the grip and does the control of the baseba
known i rst thought of when i heard this a long time major league pitcher that i've worked with
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Angels re visiting clubhouse attendant Bubba Harkins over illegal substances
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Angels president John Carpino con rmed to the Times that Harkins had been red, but did not divulge the reason.
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer recently told Real Sports that the majority of MLB pitchers are using pine...homemade concoction - to enhan
their grip, which could ultimately provide greater movement and velocity.
Harkins was sacked Tuesday while the Angels are in Arizona for spring training.
Los Angeles Angels relief pitcher Matt Ball works against a Los Angeles Dodgers batter during the eighth inning of a spring training baseball game
Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in Glendale, Ariz.
There's no indication of the speci c substances or how long Harkins is believed to have been procuring them.
Harkins had been a clubhouse attendant with the Angels since 1986, and he'd worked in the visitors' clubhouse since 1990. He was put in... charge
the visiting team's room in 1990 and won visiting clubhouse manager of the year, voted on by Major League Baseball equipment managers, in...
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The Angels Just Fired A Clubhouse Attendant For Allegedly Providing Illegal Substances To
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It appears as though we can add the Los Angeles Angels organization to the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox who have had issues with cheatin
the Los Angeles Times .
Angels executives con rmed Harkins' ring but did not elaborate, citing legal restrictions that prevent them from discussing employment matters.
unclear whether he was assisting visiting teams or the Angels with illegal...1986.
The Times states that the reason for the clubhouse attendant's ring was, in fact, for the substances and not over anything related to the grand ju
investigation into the death of Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs.
Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer , long a vocal critic of cheating in Major League Baseball, has repeatedly over the past several years accused numerous
pitchers of doctoring baseballs with illegal substances to increase spin rate. He even went so far as to state his belief that "over 69 percent" of MLB
pitchers are cheating in this fashion.
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Angels address the sticky situation of illegal substances on the baseball

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TEMPE, Ariz. — The story of one of baseball's worst-kept secrets arrived at Angels camp this week.
A day after news that Angel Stadium visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins had been red for supplying visiting pitchers with a sticky substan
apply to the baseballs , players in the clubhouse responded with little surprise about what had occurred.
"It's not a huge secret," Angels left-hander Andrew Heaney said. "I think no one thinks it's shocking that people... are using sticky stu on their ng
You've been hearing about it forever, I think throughout the history of baseball."
Heaney added: "I think everybody knows that most guys are doing it. I don't think it's that surprising for anybody who knows baseball."
When asked if he or any Angels pitchers had been o ered the sticky substance, Heaney said: "C'mon, man. I said most everybody is probably usin
Most everybody is getting something from somewhere, creating their own."
Major League Baseball is reportedly cracking down on the widespread use of pine tar or other substances by pitchers, part of an investigation tha
to the dismissal of Harkins this week.
Most pitchers, including those questioned in the Angels clubhouse Friday morning, said the purpose of the substances is to improve the... grip on
baseball, and therefore the control.
"I don't throw that hard, but I throw pretty hard and I like to know where it's going," said Heaney, who said he'd experimented with di erent
substances. "I'm sure the hitters would tell you the same thing. When they have dudes throwing 100 mph, they... want to know where it's going to
Veteran Dylan Bundy, who is new to the Angels, said "no comment" when asked if he's applied substances to the baseball. Speaking generally, he
the rosin that is permitted is not su cient.
"For cold games, the rosin if anything makes the ball more slick," Bundy said. "That's when you get the two-seamer riding up and in on guys. It's
tougher when it's cold to get a grip. You are... trying to throw up and in with a purpose and that little bit of slippage can be dangerous."
Pitching coach Mickey Callaway said he expects Major League Baseball to end up banning any use of substances like pine tar, which could have a
detrimental e ect, particularly when it's cold.
"If I were a hitter, I'd be scared to dig into the box in Detroit on April 10," Callaway said.
Manager Joe Maddon said pitchers have been putting substances... on the baseball to improve their grip "as long as I've been in baseball," and it
particular issue now because the baseballs have become more slick. The solution, he said, is eventually that MLB will have to change the ball.
Speaking from the hitter's perspective, Andrelton Simmons said there is a... ne line between simply improving grip and also improving stu . Trev
Bauer has been outspoken about how pitchers can also improve their spin rates by doctoring the baseball.
"I understand the need for a little feel to grab the ball," Simmons said. "It's kind of part of the game, to a certain extent. I don't know where the lin
Maddon and Heaney conceded that sticky substances can have a bene cial e ect for the pitchers, but...
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unclear whether he was assisting visiting teams or the Angels with illegal substances.
Harkins, known...clubhouse attendant in 1986.
Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer, long a vocal critic of cheating in Major League Baseball, has repeatedly over the past several years accused numerous
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MLB Clubhouse Manager Fired for Helping Opponents Doctor Balls

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Another day, another cheating saga making the rounds in Major League Baseball. Though not as high-stakes as recent developments out of Hous
and Boston, the Angels were forced to nip their own crisis in the bud Thursday, axing longtime employee Brian Harkins for lending a helping han
opponents. Harkins' 30-year tenure as L.A.'s clubhouse manager ended on a... sour note after the team's internal investigation, which was prompt
allegations levied by Major League Baseball, revealed he had provided illegal substances to opposing pitchers for doctoring baseballs.
Pitchers scu ng balls or adding grip-enhancing substances to gain an edge has been a widespread problem in baseball, seemingly since the spor
inception with recent examples including Michael Pineda's suspension for blatant pine-tar use in...

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Full Article The Los Angeles Angels have red their longtime visiting clubhouse manager after an internal investigation con rmed that he was providing ball-
doctoring substances to opposing pitchers, according to sources.
Major League Baseball initially informed the Angels last week about allegations that Brian Harkins, who had been with the clubs for 30 years, wa
providing illegal sticky substances in the visiting clubhouse.
Harkins, known throughout the game as "Bubba," joined the Angels as a bat boy in 1981 and returned to...
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...manager for providing illegal substances for baseballs By Craig CalcaterraMar 6, 2020, 7:13 AM EST 14 Comments The Los Angeles Times reporte
last night that the Angels have red their visiting clubhouse manager after an internal investigation revealed that he was providing ball-doctoring
substances to opposing pitchers. The clubhouse manager, Brian Harkins, had been at his post since 1990, after starting out with the club as a bat
in the early 1980s. The team con rmed that he had been red but did not elaborate on the reason citing legal restrictions preventing them from
discussing employee matters. The timing on this...and possibly hitting batters. I've always been skeptical of that explanation and gured that it wa
way for batters to help cover for the pitchers on their own team. Baseball's crackdown on violations of Rule 8.02 changes all of that, however. And
certainly just changed the life of Brian Harkins, whose supplying of foreign substances was, I imagine, a fairly open secret at Angels Stadium. An o
secret that could no longer persist given the crackdown. And, as I said last week, I also imagine that this crackdown did not occur in a vacuum but,
rather, is a... direct response to the sign-stealing scandal which has roiled baseball this o season. Sign-stealing, like pine tar on balls, was a bit of
breaking that Major League Baseball was quite aware of for some time and did nothing about it. When newspaper reports came out detailing just
elaborate the Astros' sign-stealing operation was, Major League Baseball was...all is overblown. Or, at the very least, something we shouldn't care
about all that much. I mean, yes, I'm sympathetic to managers, but casting it as some nearly impossible conundrum is a bit much for me given tha
was not until 1987 that even half the teams in baseball had relievers with fewer innings than appearances. It's a big adjustment given that most o
today's managers came into baseball after that, but it's been done and it's been ne. The unspoken thing in all of this is that it may actually be go
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nearly impossible conundrum is a bit much for me given that it was not until 1987 that even half the teams in baseball had relievers with fewer in
than appearances. It's a big adjustment given that most of today's managers came into baseball after that, but it's been done and it's been ne. T
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Craig CalcaterraMar 6, 2020, 7:13 AM EST 14 Comments The Los Angeles Times reported last night that the Angels have red their visiting clubhou
manager after an internal investigation revealed that he was providing ball-doctoring substances to opposing pitchers. The clubhouse manager, B
Harkins, had been at his post since 1990, after starting out with the club as a batboy in the early 1980s. The team con rmed that he had been re
did not elaborate on the reason citing legal restrictions preventing them from discussing employee matters. The timing on this...and possibly hittin
batters. I've always been skeptical of that explanation and gured that it was a way for batters to help cover for the pitchers on their own team.
of foreign substances was, I imagine, a fairly open secret at Angels Stadium. An open secret that could no longer persist given the crackdown. And
said last week, I also imagine that this crackdown did not occur in a vacuum but, rather, is a... direct response to the sign-stealing scandal which ha
roiled baseball this o season. Sign-stealing, like pine tar on balls, was a bit of rule breaking that Major League Baseball was quite aware of for so
time and did nothing about it. When newspaper reports came out detailing just how elaborate the Astros' sign-stealing operation was, Major Leag
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Christian Yelich nearing agreement on $200+ million contract extension March 3, 2020 4:24 pm Marwin González had o season knee surgery Mar
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foul ball March 3, 2020 2:31 pm Chris Sale has a sore elbow, will have an MRI March 3, 2020 11:11 am Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton not expected
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while sitting in dugout March 2, 2020 4:02 pm Cody Bellinger scratched from game with side soreness March 2, 2020 2:15 pm Start of Japanese
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Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer recently told Real Sports that the majority of MLB pitchers are using pine tar or other substances to enhance
grip, Los Angeles Angels visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins has been red, reportedly for providing ball-doctoring substances to opposing
pitchers. The Angels conducted an internal investigation when suspicions arose that Harkins, a 30-year employee of the team, was providing illega
substances to the visiting clubhouse that aided the grip of the baseball, ESPN reported. Major League... Baseball rst informed the Angels of the
allegations a week ago, per the report.
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Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer recently told Real Sports that the majority of MLB pitchers are using pine tar or other substances to enhance
grip, Los Angeles Angels visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins has been red, reportedly for providing ball-doctoring substances to opposing
pitchers. The Angels conducted an internal investigation when suspicions arose that Harkins, a 30-year employee of the team, was providing illega
substances to the visiting clubhouse that aided the grip of the baseball, ESPN reported. Major League... Baseball rst informed the Angels of the
allegations a week ago, per the report.
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Angels Fire Employee for Providing Opponents With "Illegal Sticky Substances"

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According to an ESPN report (following a story by the Los Angeles Times), Los Angeles Angels visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins has been
after allegations he was providing "illegal sticky substances" in the visiting clubhouse. Those substances here — suspected of being combination o
melted-down pine tar and rosin — would potentially enhance a pitcher's ability to grip the baseball.
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The Los Angeles Angels were forced to part ways with their longtime clubhouse manager following an internal investigation that revealed he was
actually supplying opposing pitchers with illegal substances to better grip the ball.
Major League Baseball is said to have informed the team about allegations that Brian Harkins was providing illegal sticky substances in the visiti
clubhouse that aided pitchers' abilities to grip the baseball, according to ESPN.
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Los Angeles Angels visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins has been red,
reportedly for providing ball-doctoring substances to opposing pitchers.
The Angels conducted an internal investigation when suspicions arose that
Harkins, a 30-year employee of the team, was providing illegal substances to
the visiting clubhouse that aided the grip of the baseball, ESPN reported.
Major League... Baseball rst informed the Angels of the allegations a week ago,
per the report.
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Harkins, who goes by "Bubba," said he was red Thursday. The Angels declined comment due to the legal nature of the situation. Cincinnati Reds
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substances to put on baseballs, according to the LA Times.
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of the Year by...hair. Here's a fun read from the LA Times.
Although he signed a contract worth nearly a quarter of a billion dollars, Anthony Rendon remains as humble as ever.
"I just don't like boasting about myself. I don't want to be the center of attention. I'm just here to play baseball. I'm not going to be on social medi
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have not made any arrests. an angels employee has been red for allegedly providing illegal substances to put on baseballs. a source con rmed t
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to do it back in nineteen ninety six thirty eight goals this season for Meeka Zabala. Jad. Steph Curry back for missing 58 games with a broken hand
score, twenty three points in his return. The Warriors lost to the Raptors who clinched a playo spot. Steph happy to be back on the court. I feel gr
It was kind of a cool moment. Pretty good game tonight. LOS ANGELES The Lakers take on the Milwaukee Bucks as Major League Baseball tries to
navigate through fallout of the Houston Astros science stealing scandal. Now the league has a new potential cheating mess. Brian Harkins, he's b
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Veteran visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins was sacked by the Angels Thursday for allegedly furnishing illegal substances to put on baseba
according to people familiar with the situation who were unable to comment publicly.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the Angels don't publicly discuss the details of internal personnel matters.
Harkins...ball .
Harkins was sacked Tuesday while the Angels are in Arizona for spring training.
The Angels reportedly believe that Harkins acted alone in illegally aiding opponents and have not red other clubhouse attendants.
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The Los Angeles Times reported last night that the Angels have red their visiting clubhouse manager after an internal investigation revealed that
was providing ball-doctoring substances to opposing pitchers.
The timing on this...and possibly hitting batters. I've always been skeptical of that explanation and gured that it was a way for batters to help cove
the pitchers on their own team.
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Toronto Raptors. Curry started o slow but nished the game with 23 points and 27 minutes of play. The old Curry air was there, as he hit some
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clubhouse manager after an internal investigation con rmed suspicions that he was providing ball- doctoring substances to opposing pitchers.
((wilson((() Brian Harkins, who had been with the Angels for 30 years, was providing illegal sticky substances in the visiting clubhouse that aided
pitchers' abilities to grip the baseball. That's according to sources with knowledge of the situation. Harkins con rmed that he had been let go on
Thursday, but did not elaborate on the reason. The Angels did not comment either, citing legal restrictions preventing them from discussing emplo
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design tea says construction will likely move in phases. the memorial and museum should open in two to three years. another scandal in basebal
one involving an employee for the anaheim angels. the team has now red brian harkins, its longtime visiting clubhouse manager. major league
baseball says he's been giving sticky substances to opposing pitchers to help them better grip a baseball. it can give them increased movement a
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of helping another team sheet. >> the la angels re there long time visiting clubhouse manager after an investigation revealed, he helped opposin
pitchers. sheet. >> much cheating in baseball right now espn reports brian harkins was giving the pictures substances that help them gripped th
baseball better and will be informed the angels about those allegations about a week ago harkins con rmed he was let go yesterday but did not
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The Los Angeles Times reported last night that the Angels have red their visiting clubhouse manager after an internal investigation revealed that
was providing ball-doctoring substances to opposing pitchers.
The timing on this...hitting batters. I've always been skeptical of that explanation and gured that it was a way for batters to help cover for the pitc
on their own team.
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...for providing illegal substances for baseballs By Craig CalcaterraMar 6, 2020, 7:13 AM EST Leave a comment The Los Angeles Times reported last
night that the Angels have red their visiting clubhouse manager after an internal investigation revealed that he was providing ball-doctoring
substances to opposing pitchers. The clubhouse manager, Brian Harkins, had been at his post since 1990, after starting out with the club as a bat
in the early 1980s. The team con rmed that he had been red but did not elaborate on the reason citing legal restrictions preventing them from
discussing employee matters. The timing on this...and possibly hitting batters. I've always been skeptical of that explanation and gured that it wa
way for batters to help cover for the pitchers on their own team. Baseball's crackdown on violations of Rule 8.02 changes all of that, however. And
certainly just changed the life of Brian Harkins, whose supplying of foreign substances was, I imagine, a fairly open secret at Angels Stadium. An o
secret that could no longer persist given the crackdown. And, as I said last week, I also imagine that this crackdown did not occur in a vacuum but,
rather, is a... direct response to the sign-stealing scandal which has roiled baseball this o season. Sign-stealing, like pine tar on balls, was a bit of
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order, who's to say you're going to return when you're required to return to court.'" i'm john lorinc reporting. vallow's husband, chad daybell, curr
is not facing any charges. espn reports the los angeles angels red their longtime visiting clubhouse manager. ' it comes after an internal investig
that looked into suspicions that brian harkins cheated. major league baseball o cials say harkins used illegal sticky substances to mess with
opposing pitchers' baseballs. m-l-b informed the angels about a week ago. the angels o ered no comment due to legal restrictions. harkins worke
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he tells me every day we had the post for him and i say i can't do it every day, people will be wondering what's going on here?>>> brian harkins h
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the m-l-b. the l-a angels red their longtime visiting clubhouse manager... for giving ball-doctoring substances to opposing pitchers. multiple repor
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The Los Angeles Angels have red their longtime visiting clubhouse manager after an internal investigation con rmed suspicions that he was prov
ball-doctoring substances to opposing pitchers, sources con rmed to ESPN on Thursday.
Major League Baseball initially informed the Angels about a week ago about allegations that Brian Harkins, who had been with the Angels for 30
years, was providing illegal sticky substances in the visiting clubhouse that aided pitchers' abilities to grip the baseball, sources with knowledge of
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suspicions that brian harkins cheated. major league baseball o cials say harkins used illegal sticky substances to mess with opposing pitchers'
baseballs. m-l-b informed the angels about a week ago. the angels o ered no comment due to legal restrictions. harkins worked for the angels for
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The longtime clubbie is reported to have supplied visiting teams with substances used to improve a pitcher's grip
The L.A. Angels on Thursday red veteran visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins. As Maria Torres of The Los Angeles Times reports , Harkins
alleged to have supplied visiting players with substances used to doctor baseballs in violation of the rules. Torres goes on to report that Angels o
con rmed the termination of Harkins but provided no further details.
ESPN's... Alden Gonzalez writes that Harkins, who had been with the team for more than 30 years, had been "providing illegal sticky substances in
visiting clubhouse that aided pitchers' abilities to grip the baseball ...". Harkins con rmed to Gonzalez that he had been red by the team.
In the o cial MLB rule book, Rule 3.01 states that, "… No player shall intentionally discolor or damage the ball by rubbing it with soil, rosin, para
licorice, sand-paper, emery-paper or other foreign substance." Rule 6.02 also... forbids the pitcher to "apply a foreign substance of any kind to the
Most commonly, pitchers surreptitiously apply pine tar to the baseball in order to improve their grip and at times increase spin rate. Early in the 2
Trevor Bauer, then of the Indians, touched o some controversy by implying that certain Astros pitchers were using an illegal substance to increas
their spin rates. In April of 2014, Michael Pineda of the... Yankees was suspended for 10 games for having pine tar on his neck while pitching.
Although doctoring the baseball has been a part of baseball for almost the entire history of the sport, MLB seems to be getting more serious abo
enforcing rules against it. Last month, Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported that former MLB pitcher Chris Young, who now works for MLB,
been...touring camps in Arizona and Florida to deliver the message that Rule 6.02 is going to be enforced this year ..."
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their visiting clubhouse manager brian harkins for allegedly forcing illegal substances to put on baseball's for the angels uphold its harkins has
tended to the angel stadium is visiting teams. since 1990 that's for the dodgers, they were in mesa today taking on the 80's. walker buehler not sh
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The Angels joined the list of MLB teams that have red an employee for cheating — theirs was just helping the other team.
them to put on the baseballs. Team o cials con rmed the ring to the paper but did not go into detail because legal reasons.
Harkins, whose nickname is Bubba, was a bat boy with the Angels in 1981 and rejoined the organization as... a clubhouse manager 1986. He was p
charge of the visiting team's room in 1990 and won visiting clubhouse manager of the year, voted on by MLB equipment managers, in 2005.
Pitchers have been using foreign substances to doctor baseball for a large part a baseball history — a practice that has become accepted becaus
how many are believed to be doing it Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer told HBO's "Real Sports" for a segment shown last month that he believes 70 per

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The Angels joined the list of MLB teams that have red an employee for cheating — theirs was just helping the other team.
them to put on the baseballs. Team o cials con rmed the ring to the paper but did not go into detail because legal reasons.
Harkins, whose nickname is Bubba, was a bat boy with the Angels in 1981 and rejoined the organization as... a clubhouse manager 1986. He was p
charge of the visiting team's room in 1990 and won visiting clubhouse manager of the year, voted on by MLB equipment managers, in 2005.
Pitchers have been using foreign substances to doctor baseball for a large part a baseball history — a practice that has become accepted becaus
how many are believed to be doing it Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer told HBO's "Real Sports" for a segment shown last month that he believes 70 per
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Another cheating scandal may have been nipped in the bud.
The Los Angeles Angels red visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins on Thursday for allegedly providing illegal ball-doctoring substances to th
opponents, ESPN's Alden Gonzalez reports.
Los Angeles began an internal investigation after Major League Baseball alerted the club last week, and it was allegedly learned that Harkins
distributed the substances to visiting pitchers at Angel Stadium, sources... told Gonzalez. The substances in question were sticky and helped pitche
grip the baseball.
There's no indication of the speci c substances or how long Harkins is believed to have been procuring them.
Harkins told Gonzalez that he lost his job but did not specify why. The team also con rmed the ring but didn't provide reasons for Harkins'
termination.
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The Los Angeles Angels red their longtime visiting clubhouse manager following an internal investigation that determined he was supplying oppo
pitchers with illegal substances to better grip the ball.
Brian Harkins, who had been with the organization for 30 years, had been found to be providing sticky substances pitchers used to doctor the ba
against the Angels, according to ESPN's Alden Gonzalez . While doctoring the ball on the mound has long been a widespread tactic throughout the
league,... Major League Baseball has placed an emphasis this season on getting it out of the game.
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The Los Angeles Angels red their longtime visiting clubhouse manager following an internal investigation that determined he was supplying oppo
pitchers with illegal substances to better grip the ball.
Brian Harkins, who had been with the organization for 30 years, had been found to be providing sticky substances pitchers used to doctor the ba
against the Angels, according to ESPN's Alden Gonzalez . While doctoring the ball on the mound has long been a widespread tactic throughout the
league,... Major League Baseball has placed an emphasis this season on getting it out of the game.
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TEMPE, Ariz. — The Angels have red visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins after he supplied illegal substances to visiting pitchers at Angel
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Veteran visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins was red by the Angels Thursday for allegedly furnishing illegal substances to put on baseballs
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Allegedly furnishing illegal substances to put on baseball's according to be China's visiting club house manager Brian harkins who was red by th
team earlier today he's intended to angels stadium visiting teams since 1990 starters there is about 0.81 was named visiting clubhouse manager o
year by major league baseball equipment managers in two thousand . ve a counselor at a school in reverse side has been arrested and accused
place hidden Cameron avoids restaurant and for downloading and distributing child pornography Matthew Johnson worked at la Sierra academy
him please o cer Daniel or Merrill tells candidates a has got a tip about Johnson and went to this whole . And Areas hard drives and computers a
that memory devices will do an investigation there they discovered that he was a counselor at a private school in riverside . Detectives then served
search warrant at the school there is no word of images of many students after school were distributed online schools said it shot .
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55 Swimmers, Divers Make Division III Academic All-District Teams
Date Collected May 16, 2019 7:28 PM EDT Est. Audience 89,820
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...and ice hockey (10).
The 29 women's swimmers and divers were the most selections for any at-large sport, ahead of tennis (19), lacrosse (12), eld hockey (9) and golf
At-Large Teams are selected from all sports except men's soccer, women's soccer, football, volleyball, men's basketball, women's basketball, softb
baseball and men's and women's track and eld/cross country, which have their own Academic All-District and All-America teams selected per sp
All-District honorees, which are selected from eight geographic regions across the country for Division III, are eligible for Academic All-America hon
which will be announced in June. The awards recognize...TEAM Sport Name School Yr. GPA Major Swimming Gabe Bamforth Carnegie Mellon Sr. 3
Civil & Environmental Engineering Fencing Gabriel Braun Haverford Sr. 3.98 Chemistry Swimming Justin Britton Carnegie Mellon So. 4.00 Informat
Systems Wrestling Dan D'Agostini Scranton Sr. 3.74 Electrical Engineering Lacrosse Ben Frost Haverford Sr. 3.99 Chemistry Tennis Brian Harkins
Scranton Sr. 3.80 Accounting Lacrosse Brian Kolen Gettysburg Jr. 3.63 Mathematical Economics Lacrosse Billy Sasso York (Pa.) Sr. 3.85 Mechanical
Engineering Swimming Jonathon Sinton Franklin & Marshall Jr. 4.00 Physics / Business, Orgs, & Society Tennis Kevin Yan Haverford Jr. 3.81 Econom
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55 Swimmers, Divers Make Division III Academic All-District Teams
Date Collected May 16, 2019 7:12 PM EDT Est. Audience 89,820
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...and ice hockey (10).
The 29 women's swimmers and divers were the most selections for any at-large sport, ahead of tennis (19), lacrosse (12), eld hockey (9) and golf
At-Large Teams are selected from all sports except men's soccer, women's soccer, football, volleyball, men's basketball, women's basketball, softb
baseball and men's and women's track and eld/cross country, which have their own Academic All-District and All-America teams selected per sp
All-District honorees, which are selected from eight geographic regions across the country for Division III, are eligible for Academic All-America hon
which will be announced in June. The awards recognize...TEAM Sport Name School Yr. GPA Major Swimming Gabe Bamforth Carnegie Mellon Sr. 3
Civil & Environmental Engineering Fencing Gabriel Braun Haverford Sr. 3.98 Chemistry Swimming Justin Britton Carnegie Mellon So. 4.00 Informat
Systems Wrestling Dan D'Agostini Scranton Sr. 3.74 Electrical Engineering Lacrosse Ben Frost Haverford Sr. 3.99 Chemistry Tennis Brian Harkins
Scranton Sr. 3.80 Accounting Lacrosse Brian Kolen Gettysburg Jr. 3.63 Mathematical Economics Lacrosse Billy Sasso York (Pa.) Sr. 3.85 Mechanical
Engineering Swimming Jonathon Sinton Franklin & Marshall Jr. 4.00 Physics / Business, Orgs, & Society Tennis Kevin Yan Haverford Jr. 3.81 Econom
NCAA DIVISION III – DISTRICT...
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University of Scranton rallies to Landmark title
Date Collected May 5, 2019 9:48 AM EDT Est. Audience 10,544

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...three innings in the second game and then pulled away with nine runs in the fourth. Dunmore graduate Marlena Pegula had two hits and scored
run for the Lady Falcons.
Lackawanna (33-20) advances to the losers' bracket nal and will play Delaware Tech on Monday at 1 p.m.
Baseball
Kevin Johnson had two hits, scored two runs and drove in two to lead the University of Scranton to a 7-3 win over Moravian in the rst game of a
doubleheader. Moravian won the nightcap, 8-4.
LOCAL COLLEGE: Zinn powers Royals sweep
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...RBIs to lead Clarks Summit University to a win in the rst game of a doubleheader.
Stephanie Fry had two hits, including a double, and scored two runs for the Lady Defenders (6-28). Fry singled, scored a run and drove in one in th
second game for Clarks Summit.
Baseball
Valley View graduate Brandon Peters and Anthony Lambroia each had two RBIs as the University of Scranton earned a win in the rst game of a
doubleheader against Elizabethtown, 8-3. Elizabethtown won the second game, 12-3.
The Royals (13-18) scored two runs in the rst inning and broke the game...had three goals and an assist.
Women's tennis
Danielle Ogonowski, West Scranton graduate Nicole Sinclair, Emily Zarrilli, Scranton graduate Devin Zombek, Scranton graduate Deena Haroun
Mahdavi and Mid Valley graduate Lyndsey Medric were two-time winners to lead Marywood University a 9-0 win over Neumann University.
Men's tennis
Alexander Ochalski and Brian Harkins had singles wins for the University of Scranton in a 7-2 loss to Haverford.
■ Jordan Collins, Zach Dakin and Shane Marino earned singles wins to lead Neumann University to a 7-0 win over Marywood University.
Men's golf
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Ian McIntosh had four hits, including a home run, and three RBIs to lead the University of Scranton to a 7-5 win over Muhlenberg in a college base
game Wednesday.
The Muhls scored three runs in the second inning to take a 3-0 lead, but Scranton answered with four runs in the third.
Kevin Haag had a double and a two-run home run for the Royals (12-16) and Connor Harding drove in two runs.
Misericordia 10, Keystone 8...the Pacers answered with seven straight goals.
Gwyneth Gleason had four goals and two assists for Marywood (11-4).
Men's lacrosse
Colin Blake had two goals and four assists to lead Neumann University to a 9-3 win over Marywood University.
Matt Mitarotonda scored two goals for the Pacers (5-10).
Men's tennis
Brian Harkins and Christian Aksu were two-time winners to lead the University of Scranton to a 6-3 win over SUNY-Oneonta. Scranton Prep gradu
Tarquin McGurrin and Alexander Ochalski had singles wins for the Royals.
■ Alex Noel and Dom Ramsden were two-time winners to lead Immaculata University to a...
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COLLEGE ROUNDUP: Clarks Summit baseball breaks through in CSAC play
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Clarks Summit University rallied for three runs in the nal two innings Sunday to defeat Cairn University in Game 1 of a baseball doubleheader, 6-
its rst Colonial States Athletic Conference win in program history.
Cairn won Game 2, 7-3, to earn a split.
Joining the CSAC in 2018, Clarks Summit had lost 21 straight league games including the rst ve this season.
Dyllan Weaver's RBI single in the sixth pulled Clarks...
Wilkes 9, Keystone 0
At Edwardsville, Keystone dropped a nonconference match to Wilkes University.
Men's tennis
At Lancaster, the University of Scranton clinched a Landmark Conference playo berth with an 8-1 win over Elizabethtown College.
Four players were two-time winners for the Royals: Scranton Prep graduate Tarquin McGurrin, Alexander Ochalski, Brian Harkins and Charles Sw
Harkins' singles win gives him 51 for his career, tying him for third on the program's all-time list.
Wilkes 9, Keystone 0
At Edwardsville, Keystone dropped a nonconference match to Wilkes University.
Men's golf
At Moosic, the University of Scranton had a score of...
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...Lexy Johnson each had two hits in the second-game win.
Rosemont 5 12
Clarks Summit 4 1
At Clarks Summit, Allison Glennon doubled and singled for the hosts in the rst game of the CSAC doubleheader, and Lauryn Brown drove in two
Glennon doubled in the second-game loss.
Baseball
At La Plume, Joe Fichera drove in two runs for Keystone in the opener and Chris Panzarella scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the seventh for
winning run in a 5-4 victory. Wilson earned a split in the CSAC doubleheader, taking the second game, 1-0.
Keystone...singled in Dunmore's John Mandarano as the Pacers won the opener, 8-7, to snap their seven-game losing streak with an Atlantic East w
Schuster also had three RBIs in the nightcap, belting a homer and a triple.
Men's tennis
The University of Scranton men's tennis senior class of Alexander Ochalski, Brian Harkins and Charles Swope were all two-time winners as the Ro
blanked visiting Moravian, 9-0, in their Senior Day Landmark match.
Clarks Summit 7, Bryn Athyn 2
At Bryn Athyn, Clarks Summit locked up the top seed for the CSAC playo s as the doubles teams of Noah Macey-Evan...
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...of the second game, then withstood a Scranton rally in the bottom-half.
Wallenpaupack graduate Lauren Goetz sparked the comeback by the Lady Greyhounds with a solo home run — her league-leading ninth of the se
— to tie the score at 1. Alexandria Scheeler later added a three-run double.
Baseball
At Scranton, Drew University scored eight times in the nal two innings to rally for a 13-9 win over the University of Scranton, completing a three-g
sweep of their Landmark Conference series at Volpe Field on Sunday.
Connor Harding had three hits, including two home runs, and ve RBIs for...Dallas, Keystone College edged Misericordia University, 5-4, in a
nonconference match Sunday.
Alec Greenip and Liam McGranahan each had singles and doubles wins for the Giants. JT Colapietro pulled out a three-set victory at No. 6 singles f
the Giants (2-3).
Scranton 7, Juniata 2
At Scranton, Charles Swope and Brian Harkins each won at singles and doubles to help the University of Scranton hand Juniata College its rst los
a Landmark Conference match.
Women's tennis
At Scranton, Nastashia DeNunzio, Emilia Jakubek and Emily Kelly won at singles and doubles to lead the University of Scranton past Juniata...
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...in Colonial States Athletic Conference action.
Smith scored ve goals and Robinson added ve goals and ve assists and controlled 10 ground balls.
Nina Cortes and Kayla Bain both tallied two goals, with Bain notching a game-high 12 draw controls. April Llewellyn and Megan Novak also both sc
twice.
Baseball
At La Plume, the Keystone College baseball team moved back to .500 on the year and improved to 3-0 in the CSAC with a sweep of Centenary
University, 12-3 and 15-2.
The Giants ripped 17 hits in the opener, three each from Abington Heights' Nick Carlini, Chris Panzarella, and...went 4 for 4 with three runs and th
RBIs. Carlini, Devin Reed and Joe Fichera all tripled and singled. Dakota McFadden and Hussein both drove in two.
Drew 4 5
Scranton 3 1
Kevin Haag collected his 100th career hit but Scranton dropped both ends of a Landmark Conference baseball doubleheader to Drew at Volpe Fie
Bobby Hegarty threw eight strong innings but Scranton was unable to capitalize after rallying to tie the game at 3-3 in the bottom of the seventh in
falling to Drew, 4-3, in nine innings in the opener.
Travis Adams two hits for Scranton in...Gri en-Noah Macey and Dennis Gray Jr.-Evan Michel posted doubles wins, and Michel, Macey, Gri en and
Bixby notched singles triumphs as Clarks Summit University won every contested match in a 9-0 victory over Rosemont on Senior Day.
Scranton 7, Susquehanna 2
At Royal Courts, Scranton Prep's Tarquin McGurrin, Alexander Ochalski, Christian Aksu and Brian Harkins swept singles and doubles matches to l
Scranton to a 7-2 Landmark win over Susquehanna.
Cabrini 7, Marywood 0
At Radnor, Cabrini swept all three singles matches and both doubles pairings to shut out Marywood.
Men's lacrosse
Tim Dolan and Connor Kirkwood each scored four goals and...
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Cabrini 5, Keystone 1
Cabrini 6, Keystone 3
Keystone junior Shannon Lloyd homered in both games as the Giants dropped a doubleheader to Cabrini University.
Gabrielle Truesdale had two hits, including a double, in the opener for the Giants while Paige Mokychic had two hits in the second game.
Baseball
At Dallas, Kevin Haag had three hits and drove in a pair of runs and Connor Harding collected three hits and scored three runs, but Scranton fell a
Misericordia, 16-7, in a nonconference game.
Moravian 17, Keystone 7
At La Plume, despite two hits from Devin Reed and Chris Panzarella,...
Dakota McFadden drove in two and R.J. Gouldsbury had a pinch-hit double for the Giants.
SUNY Cortland 22, Marywood 2
SUNY Cortland jumped on Marywood University early and never let up in a non-conference win. Jake Schuster and Mogan Theobald had Marywoo
hits, both of which were singles.
Men's tennis
Brian Harkins won at doubles and singles to keep the University of Scranton men's tennis team alive against Drew, but the visiting Rangers pulled
a 5-4 Landmark Conference victory.
Alexander Ochalski and Charles Swope won straight-set singles matches for the Royals (5-6).
Men's lacrosse
Zach Vaughan scored twice...
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North Pocono graduate Matt Fisch's two-out single scored Valley View graduate Brandon Peters with the winning run as the University of Scranton
baseball team rallied past Catholic University, 7-6, in a Landmark Conference game in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
Fisch's hit capped a three-run comeback by the Royals and enabled them to take two out of three games from the defending conference champio
Cardinals.
Josh Lydon worked around a leado error in the...and Gwyneth Gleason (2,2) added four-point e orts for the Pacers (6-4).
Men's tennis
At Towson, Maryland, Goucher College defeated the University of Scranton, 7-2, in a rematch of last year's Landmark Conference championship, a
won by the Gophers.
Alexander Ochalski was a straight-set winner at second singles, 6-3, 6-1, and Brian Harkins won, 6-2, 6-2, at No. 4 singles for the Royals (5-5 overa
league).
PSU-Abington 9, Marywood 0
King's 9, Marywood 0
At Kirby Park in Wilkes-Barre, Marywood University dropped a pair of nonconference matches.
Women's tennis
At Towson, Maryland, the University of Scranton swept Goucher College,...
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LOCAL COLEGES: Sweeney's gem helps Lady Royals earn split
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...hits in the win.
Kaitlyn Epler had Marywood's lone hit in the second game.
PSU Hazleton 19 15
PSU Scranton 2 0
Kelsey Sara nko had a hit and a stolen base in both ends of the doubleheader loss, and Morgan Dougherty also singled in both games for PSU
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Junior Kyle Bravin's strong pitching performance in the nightcap helped the University of Scranton baseball team complete a Landmark Conferen
doubleheader sweep of Juniata College on Sunday at Volpe Field.
Bravin allowed two runs on four hits and struck out ve in 7⅔ innings as the Royals won Game 2, 9-2. They also captured the opener, 8-6.
Connor Harding backed Bravin o ensively, going 3 for...had in the nightcap.
Samantha Monetti also had two hits and Lexy Johnson cracked an RBI triple for the Lady Giants (4-8).
Men's tennis
At Brooklyn, N.Y., the University of Scranton snapped a four-match losing skid with a 9-0 victory over Pratt Institute in nonconference action.
Alexander Ochalski, Charles Swope, Brian Harkins and Scranton Prep graduate Tarquin McGurrin were all two-match winners on the day for the
Royals (4-4).
Women's tennis
At Queens, N.Y., Marywood University downed Pratt Institute, 7-2, at the United Tennis Center.
Danielle Ogonowski and Devin Zombek each won at singles and doubles for the Pacers (2-9).
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Junior Kyle Bravin's strong pitching performance in the nightcap helped the University of Scranton baseball team complete a Landmark Conferen
doubleheader sweep of Juniata College on Sunday at Volpe Field.
Bravin allowed two runs on four hits and struck out ve in 7⅔ innings as the Royals won Game 2, 9-2. They also captured the opener, 8-6.
Connor Harding backed Bravin o ensively, going 3 for...had in the nightcap.
Samantha Monetti also had two hits and Lexy Johnson cracked an RBI triple for the Lady Giants (4-8).
Men's tennis
At Brooklyn, N.Y., the University of Scranton snapped a four-match losing skid with a 9-0 victory over Pratt Institute in nonconference action.
Alexander Ochalski, Charles Swope, Brian Harkins and Scranton Prep graduate Tarquin McGurrin were all two-match winners on the day for the
Royals (4-4).
Women's tennis
At Queens, N.Y., Marywood University downed Pratt Institute, 7-2, at the United Tennis Center.
Danielle Ogonowski and Devin Zombek each won at singles and doubles for the Pacers (2-9).
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The University of Scranton split a baseball doubleheader with Susquehanna University in Port Charlotte, Florida, on Friday, winning the opener, 12
and losing the second game, 17-4.
Connor Harding had four hits, including a double and a triple, three runs and three RBIs in Scranton's (3-6) win and Travis Adams had two hits,
including a triple, a...Monetti had two hits and scored twice.
Arcadia 8, Marywood 2
Montclair St. 13, Marywood 1
At Leesburg, Florida, Montclair St. scored seven runs in the rst inning to roll to a win over Marywood University.
Montrose graduate Hailey Rapisardi drove in the run for the Pacers (2-6).
Men's tennis
Brian Harkins had the lone win for the University of Scranton at No. 4 singles in the Royals' 8-1 loss to Hampden-Sydney in Orlando, Florida.
Women's tennis
Dickinson won ve of six singles matches to post a 7-2 win over the University of Scranton in Orlando, Florida. Marissa Campo...
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...away with seven runs over the nal two innings. Allison Glennon doubled, scored a run and drove in two for Clarks Summit.
Emily Oliver threw a
two-hitter with seven strikeouts for Norwich in the second game. Glennon and Elk Lake graduate Mikaela Meaders had the hits for Clarks Summit.
Baseball
Keystone College posted wins over Loras College, 12-11, and Montclair St., 5-3, in Auburndale, Florida.
In the opener, Chris Hadsall hit a walk-o double to score Chris Panzarella in the 11th inning to give Keystone a win. Nick Carlini nished with four
including a home run, two runs and...South Carolina, Albertus Magnus pounded out 22 hits to roll to a doubleheader sweep.
Marcus Dixon singled and scored a run for Clarks Summit in the opener. Ryan Clark was 3 for 3 with a triple, a run and an RBI for the Defenders (0
the nightcap.
Men's tennis
Brian Harkins won at
No. 4 singles for the University of Scranton in a 7-2 loss to Lees-McRae in Orlando, Florida.
Alexander Ochalski and Scranton Prep graduate Tarquin McGurrin won at No. 1 doubles for the Royals (3-3).
Women's tennis
Danielle Ogonowski had the lone win for Marywood University...
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...sabes.
Mis mejores deseos, amigo Pancho. Abrazos… Abner.
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** El zurdo Jesús Luzardo, nacido en Perú, pero pre ere se diga que es maracaibero, tiene asegurado un puesto en la rotación de los Atléticos. ¡Su
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** Después de 40 años trabajando con los Angelinos fue despedido el trainer Brian Harkins por suministrarles sustancias prohibidas a algunos
Éxitos rápidos: Maeda, Dodgers, Ángeles, Cartas, Reales
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...los Dodgers no entraron en la temporada baja planeando mover a Maeda, según Friedman, pero apretaron el gatillo cuando los Mellizos le
ofrecieron un paquete con Brusdar Graterol . Mientras tanto, Maeda ahora tendrá la oportunidad de volver a ser titular a tiempo completo en
Minnesota. Los Angelinos despidieron el jueves al gerente de la casa club Brian Harkins en medio de acusaciones de que proporcionó "sustancia
ilegales" para ayudar a los lanzadores opositores a agarrar mejor la pelota, informa Maria Torres del Los Angeles Times . La noticia no fue una sor
para los Angelinos, según Je Fletcher, del Registro OC . "Creo que todos saben que la mayoría de los muchachos lo...pero los problemas de homb
ayudaron a forzar al torpe de 28 años a su bullpen la temporada pasada. Sin embargo, ahora está de vuelta en la rotación de los Cardenales, y est
mostrando su antigua forma esta primavera, como observa Rick Hummel, del St. Louis Post-Dispatch . "Todo ha sido realmente bueno", dijo
el manager Mike Shildt después de que Martínez lanzó cinco entradas sin goles contra Washington el jueves. "Esa fue una exhibición bastante
dramática de 'Hola, soy un titular'. Se ha establecido él mismo, seguro. Martínez ha tenido bastante éxito en un papel inicial, habiendo registrado
efectividad de 3.38 / 3.61 FIP en 712...
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they host the league-best milwaukee bucks on sunday. >>> to vegas we go, women's pac-12 tournament quarter nals. u of a taking o on cal. wildc
never trailed. kate rees, career-high 30 points. u of a into the semis and a date with top-seeded oregon on saturday. >>> d'backs tied with the rock
today but they lost one of their top prospects for 80 regular-season games. un elder domingo has been suspended for violating major league
baseball's performance-enhancing drugs policy after the 24-year-old tested positive for an anabolic steroid. guys being popped for p.e.d.'s is noth
new but this story is something. this is brian harkins commonly referred to as bubba. he started with the angels as a bat boy nearly 40 years ago
worked his way up to becoming the visiting clubhouse manager until he was red yesterday after an internal investigation
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defense to persuade the jury not to recomend executing him neil . erickson is being tried as an adult. he's pleaded not guilty. the other suspect in
shooting-alec mckiney- pleaded guilty last month. he'll be sentenced in may. / neill a longtime clubhouse manager red by a major league team.
n is reporting the los angeles angels say brian harkins was helping opposing teams cheat. they say he gave pitchers ilegal sticky substances to giv
them beter grips on the bal. basebal experts say even though it's ilegal. the practice is widespread. and the league plans to do more to enforce the
natalie new at six thirty its an unlikely friendship that started over a package. neil a savanah georgia fedex driver has droped of one marine vetera
medicine for years. but that's not al. ashley wiliams shows us how he's also droping a lot of generosity.
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brian harkins had been with the angels for 30 years. and was named the visiting clubhouse manager in 2005. angels could not comment citing l
reasons but they did report they believe harkins acted alone umpires must approve any substance used on the hands of pictures, but recently red
pitcher trevor bauer. so real sports. he believes 70% of pictures you some sort of illegal substance to enhance their grip which could create greate
movement. >> and philosophy on their pitches. well woman celebrates her one 100th birthday behind bars and she says it was the best president
>> got too bad going to see why this 100 year-old woman was so happy to be arrested. >> that march is national women's month and tonight, we'
highlighting one of the most remarkable right here in central indiana. the show you how she has fought relentlessly for her son and change federa
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was providing ball-doctoring substances to opposing pitchers. The clubhouse manager, Brian Harkins, had been at his post since 1990, after sta
out with the club as a batboy in the early 1980s. Just last week MLB's...
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the cardiovascular system but after leaving the summit both heart rate and blood pressure drop signi cantly below the . Signed levels have long b
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case for which are coming of woodland hills to the severe i i . The driver of one of one also was to some trouble and will pass any backup in the v
the 14 because of that police pursue investigations of three which recommended away the seven 54 on the genitals and play at some stage . Roge
rent a canoe and . Now analysts didn't play yesterday but that longtime employee got his walking papers over something well a little expected like
veteran visiting clubhouse manager Brian harkins has been doing this job since 1990 over 30 years le Tom's report targets allegedly gave visiting
players substances doctor baseballs and le .
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The Angels have red visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins after he provided illegal substances to visiting pitchers to Angels Stadium, acco
to Je Fletcher of The Orange County Register.
The Angels, per Fletcher, learned Harkins was aiding pitchers in obtaining the substances and red him, per reports. Fletcher adds that there was
indication" that...of "engineered" substance mixtures, similar to what Michael Pineda used in 2014 .
Cincinnati pitcher Trevor Bauer previously charged the Astros with using grip substances to increase the spin rate for their pitches .
Per Fletcher, Harkins began as an Angels batboy in 1986, working his way up to visiting clubhouse manager, a title he's had since...
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e-s-p-n reports the soccer star was in paraguay for a charity event. and he claims the i-d's were gifts from the organizers. investigators also say the
had brazilian documents. but they entered paraguay using the fake pasports. a longtime clubhouse manager red by a major league team. acord
to e-s-p-n. the los angeles angels say brian harkins was helping opposing teams cheat. they say he gave pitchers ilegal sticky substances to give th
a beter grip on the bal. basebal experts say even though it's illegal. the practice is widespread. and the league plans to do more to enforce the rule
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federal prosecutors say jones spent the money on luxury condos. diners. custom-made gulf clubs. and cigars. nine other union leaders have alrea
pled guilty in the scheme. investigators say they had been stealing money since 2010. melissa prince harry and meghan markle have les than a mo
left before they o cialy step back as senior royals. they atended an awards ceremony in london. for wounded veterans and families. they'l join the
quen for a commonwealth service day on monday. the couple have been living in canada since they announced their plans to split with the royal f
in january. cindy a longtime clubhouse manager red by a major league team. according to e-s-p-n. the los angeles angels say brian harkins was
helping oposing teams cheat. they say he gave pitchers illegal sticky substances to give them a beter grip on the bal. basebal experts say even tho
it's ilegal.. the practice is widespread. and the league plans to do more to enforce the rule.
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rick porcello three scoreless innings. tonight the mets take on the astros. how about this, the angels red a long time visiting clubhouse manager
an internal investigation con rm suspicions he was providing bald doctoring substances to opposing pictures. and will be from the ages of week a
but allegations -- his name is brian harkins. it been with the angels for 30 years. >> somebody didn't get a raise. >> providing sticky substances th
she was giving out sticky both. >> -- who are you calling an idiot?

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Just put this in the era of the characters of her negative indicate he could o er with a bid to go to the . That's one side that i think the market is
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noted that i got i think it's got a certain divisions of the team's last division but su ered at jd so be it still needs to be dealt with two thousand eigh
will act and you are talking about 12 guys want to replace it continued to . We will look at delightful well Exxon will have someone in the clubhous
excelled chargers signed at all at how do we want and that is that we just learned that we can't trust anything like that . About the story they came
the la dimes that parole be informed the angels that Brian harkins was providing illegal six sticky substances in the visitors clubhouse at eight in
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The Angels joined the list of MLB teams that have red an employee for cheating - theirs was just helping the other team. The L.A. Times reported
Thursday that the AL West club axed visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins for allegedly providing illegal substances for them to put on the
baseballs. Team o cials con rmed the...

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The Angels have red their visiting clubhouse manager for providing ball-doctoring substances to opposing pitchers, sources con rmed to ESPN.
Brian Harkins provided a substance that consisted of a melted-down pine-tar solution and rosin, a source said.
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...possible referee report (provided he saw any of it). With the incident making social media, it's clear the FA could suspend Dier for the rest of 202
Criminal charges have not been ruled out at this time, per English reports.
And in another case that The Shit Is Hitting The Fan:
Brian Harkins has just been red by the Los Angeles Angels. He had been with the team 30 years. And the reason may get him in signi cantly fur
trouble.
Harkins was, until today, the visiting clubhouse manager with the Angels. An internal team investigation, reported by ESPN this evening,...be
enforcing this further this year!) -- to the other team.
Let. That. Process.
I get the concept that a certain amount of substance to allow for better gripping of the ball is necessary to prevent people from getting killed, and
not argue that point.
But what business does the visiting clubhouse manager -- a guy with the team for 30 years! -- have in providing an illegal substance or substance
the players on the other team?
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The Angels have red their visiting clubhouse manager for providing ball-doctoring substances to opposing pitchers, sources con rmed to ESPN.
Brian Harkins provided a substance that consisted of a melted-down pine-tar solution and rosin, a source said.

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Veteran visiting clubhouse manager Brian Harkins was red by the Angels Thursday for allegedly furnishing illegal substances to put on baseba
Angels executives con rmed Harkins' ring but did not elaborate, citing legal restrictions that prevent them from... discussing employment matter
Harkins, known as Bubba, has tended to Angel Stadium visiting teams since 1990. He started his career with the Angels in 1981 as a batboy. He lef
after three seasons but returned as a clubhouse attendant in 1986.
Harkins, a native of Anaheim, was named Visiting Clubhouse Manager of the Year by MLB equipment managers in 2005.
"He is no longer working for the Angels," team president John Carpino said in a statement to The Los Angeles Times. "I cannot get into...
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Angels ax employee for allegedly providing ball-doctoring substances

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The Los Angeles Angels red clubhouse manager Brian Harkins on Thursday for allegedly providing illegal ball-doctoring substances, sources to
Maria Torres of the Los Angeles Times .
The team con rmed the ring but didn't provide reasons for Harkins' termination.
"He is no longer working for the Angels," said team president John Carpino. "I... cannot get into any more details than that."
Harkins had been a clubhouse attendant with the Angels since 1986, and he'd worked in the visitors' clubhouse since 1990. His rst run with the
Angels was a three-year stint as a bat boy beginning in 1981.
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Report: Angels ax employee for allegedly providing ball-doctoring substances

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The Los Angeles Angels red clubhouse manager Brian Harkins on Thursday for allegedly providing illegal ball-doctoring substances, sources to
Maria Torres of the Los Angeles Times .
The team con rmed the ring, but the Angels didn't provide reasons for Harkins' termination.
"He is no longer working for the Angels," said team president John... Carpino. "I cannot get into any more details than that."
Harkins had been a clubhouse attendant with the Angels since 1986, and he'd worked in the visitors' clubhouse since 1990. His rst run with the
Angels was a three-year stint as a bat boy beginning in 1981.
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O ce of Environmental Management - Hanford Workers Protect Environment, Further

Safety With Tank Farm Barrier
Date Collected Jul 11, 2019 3:34 PM EDT Est. Audience 3,632
Source Electric Energy Online Market Canada
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Solutions (WRPS), is a temporary structure that prevents rain and snowmelt from leaching into the underground waste tanks, percolating into the
and driving contaminants toward groundwater.
"Surface barriers improve tank and soil stability, reduce surveillance and maintenance costs, and create a clean and stable platform for eld worke
said Brian Harkins, ORP deputy assistant manager for tank farms. "The interim barrier, which satis es a Tri-Party Agreement requirement, will re
in place until a nal farm closure plan is determined."
Made of high-density asphalt, the barrier drains water to an evaporation basin. The project team constructed the barrier in...this year.
It took nearly 5,000 tons of asphalt and 6,400 tons of gravel to construct the 230,000-square-foot barrier. Workers also installed three stormwater
vaults and 1,100 feet of drain piping.
"Installing the barrier allows us to increase safety and reduce the radiological classi cation of the area," said Jim Geary, manager of the WRPS tan
farm projects organization.
Prior to constructing the barriers, the team built an evaporation basin roughly the size of two football elds south of SX Tank Farm. The project
involved excavating about 28,000 cubic yards of earth and installing a series of drain pipes on a...
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Paulding could see wide variety of new dining options open soon
Date Collected Oct 1, 2018 11:02 AM EDT Est. Audience 17,322

Source Marietta Daily Journal Market Marietta, GA
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...and rice. Traditional breakfast food will mix with lighter fare like yogurt to create a variety of options for north Paulding residents, he said.
278 SOUTH
Four Paulding-based owners have worked to renovate a decades-old building on Atlanta Highway near Charles Hardy Parkway into a sports-orient
restaurant.
Cynthia and Brian Harkins and Rachel and Chuck Hudgins are the owners and developers of 278 South at 3716 Atlanta Hwy. in Hiram.
The restaurant will o er casual dining and a full menu featuring locally grown vegetables and other items from local vendors, she said.
"We're trying to keep it local and...said.
JEFFERSON'S
Hiram will be the home of another quickly expanding franchise restaurant chain which already has a major presence throughout northwest Georg
Je erson's will operate in a 3,800-square-foot space being renovated just o Jimmy Lee Smith Parkway in the Millpointe Pavilion center in Hiram, s
Nick Carulla, a franchise manager with the Alabama-based chain.
The new restaurant will be at 45 Enterprise Path and will be the 25th location of Je erson's nationwide. It will be a sports-themed, casual dining ea
with seating for 120 and a patio to accommodate about six more, Carulla said.
Its specialties include wings, oysters,...
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Court of Session Rolls: Thursday 27 September 2018 - Issue 4
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Judicial Review Drummond Miller LLP O ce of the Advocate General Tuesday 16th October 2018
Proof (12 days) A747/15 Colin Aspinall v Borders Health Board HBJ Gateley NHS Scotland Central Legal O ce Proof (8 days) PD2754/15 Christophe
Smith v Euroline Shipping Co Ltd &c Balfour + Manson LLP BTO Solictors LLP PD194/16 Brian Harkins v StevenMcPhail &c Digby Brown LLP Clyde
PD198/16 Brian Smith v Scottish Power Ltd Allan McDougall Brodies LLP Proof (6 days) F59/17 Jane Hartnell-Beavis v Michael Blanchard SKO Famil
Harper Macleod LLP Proof Before Answer (4 days) A183/17 Carole Hope v Gi ord Bruce Murray Beith...- C Richardson, Clerk
Thursday 4th October
By Order A97/16 Mark Bain &c v Karl Martin Lefevre Litigation TC Young LLP Friday 5th October By Order A273/10 John Jarvie v P zer Inc Lefevre
Litigation DWF LLP A256/10 Ronald Richards v P zer Inc &c Lefevre Litigation DWF LLP LORD BRAILSFORD – Clerking Service Manager, Clerk
Monday 1st October
Pre-Proof Hearing
At 9.00am A353/15 Katrina Nicoll &c v Grampian Health Board Harper Macleod LLP NHS Scotland Central Legal O ce Thursday 4th October
Motion
At 9.00am F57/18 Zahid Rasul v Sehar Rasul BLM DAC Beachcroft Scotland LLP Friday 5th October
By Order
At 9.00am F71/17 Wendy Wotherspoon v Gordon Wotherspoon BLM Morton...Petition of Glasgow City Council for permanence order re BPF Glasg
City Council (Corporate Services) Wednesday 3rd October
Pre-Proof Hearing
At 9.00am F15/18 Ephraim Belcher v Marilyn Mackinnon BTO Gillespie Macandrew Thursday 4th October
Continued First Hearing P945/18 Pet: Janis Nikulins order re Child Abduction MacRoberts LLP LORD ARMSTRONG – Clerking Service Manager, Cler
Wednesday 3rd October
By Order (Adjustment) Roll A153/18 Krysztof Hliwa v Sparks Mechanical Services Ltd Lawford Kidd Clyde & Co By Order A35/13 Kenneth Whitcomb
Bank of Scotland Plc Party DAC Beachcroft Scotland LLP By Order In terms of Rule of Court 24.2(4) PD27/17 Rares Spainacan v Airbus...
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Court of Session Rolls: 27 September 2018 - Issue 4
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Judicial Review Drummond Miller LLP O ce of the Advocate General Tuesday 16th October 2018
Proof (12 days) A747/15 Colin Aspinall v Borders Health Board HBJ Gateley NHS Scotland Central Legal O ce Proof (8 days) PD2754/15 Christophe
Smith v Euroline Shipping Co Ltd &c Balfour + Manson LLP BTO Solictors LLP PD194/16 Brian Harkins v StevenMcPhail &c Digby Brown LLP Clyde
PD198/16 Brian Smith v Scottish Power Ltd Allan McDougall Brodies LLP Proof (6 days) F59/17 Jane Hartnell-Beavis v Michael Blanchard SKO Famil
Harper Macleod LLP Proof Before Answer (4 days) A183/17 Carole Hope v Gi ord Bruce Murray Beith...- C Richardson, Clerk
Thursday 4th October
By Order A97/16 Mark Bain &c v Karl Martin Lefevre Litigation TC Young LLP Friday 5th October By Order A273/10 John Jarvie v P zer Inc Lefevre
Litigation DWF LLP A256/10 Ronald Richards v P zer Inc &c Lefevre Litigation DWF LLP LORD BRAILSFORD – Clerking Service Manager, Clerk
Monday 1st October
Pre-Proof Hearing
At 9.00am A353/15 Katrina Nicoll &c v Grampian Health Board Harper Macleod LLP NHS Scotland Central Legal O ce Thursday 4th October
Motion
At 9.00am F57/18 Zahid Rasul v Sehar Rasul BLM DAC Beachcroft Scotland LLP Friday 5th October
By Order
At 9.00am F71/17 Wendy Wotherspoon v Gordon Wotherspoon BLM Morton...Petition of Glasgow City Council for permanence order re BPF Glasg
City Council (Corporate Services) Wednesday 3rd October
Pre-Proof Hearing
At 9.00am F15/18 Ephraim Belcher v Marilyn Mackinnon BTO Gillespie Macandrew Thursday 4th October
Continued First Hearing P945/18 Pet: Janis Nikulins order re Child Abduction MacRoberts LLP LORD ARMSTRONG – Clerking Service Manager, Cler
Wednesday 3rd October
By Order (Adjustment) Roll A153/18 Krysztof Hliwa v Sparks Mechanical Services Ltd Lawford Kidd Clyde & Co By Order A35/13 Kenneth Whitcomb
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six this calendar before they made their announcement that they were stepping back and it's a commitment they are honoring megan will undert
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service before returning to duty barker c. b. s. news london longtime los angeles angels clubhouse manager brian bubba harkin's has been red h
allegedly helped opposing pitchers get illegal substances to apply to baseball's and i'll be is been cracking down on the use of pine tar and other
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opposing pitchers get illegal substances to apply to baseball's and i'll be is been cracking down on the use of pine tar and other substances that
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taken engagement for international women's day tomorrow and then on monday harry and make it will join william f. k. at the annual commonwe
service before returning to did he barker c. b. s. news london longtime los angeles angels clubhouse manager brian bubba harkin's has been red
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prince harry and wife meghan are we clean living in britain for some of their last public appearances before stepping away from the royal duties in
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it's the publishing one of them ronan farrow published his book catch and kill through hatchet as well action employees even staged a walkout in
protest of the book on thursday the company saying the decision to cancel mr allen's book was a di cult one after listening to sta we came to th
conclusion that moving forward with publication would not be feasible not piper c. b. s. news long time los angeles angels clubhouse manager bria
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helped opposing pitchers get illegal substances to apply to baseballs. MLB has been cracking down on the use of pine tar and other substances th
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imposing pitchers get illegal substances to apply to baseball's and i'll be is been cracking down on the use of pine tar and other substances that
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a book publisher has second thoughts about releasing a new title c. b. s.'s my piper exit book group has decided not to publish woody allen's upco
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c. b. s.'s my piper hatchet book group has decided not to publish woody allen's upcoming memoir the decision comes after two of the directors a
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team's spring training facility but was instead o ered the job with the Trash Pandas. "I found out they were looking for a guy and thought I'd apply
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...back and stay involved in the sport that I love so much."
Smale's new gig will actually cut his hockey season short, as he'll head to Arizona for spring training with the Angels in March at about the same tim
the Lincolns will begin playo s.
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Pandas.
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team in base hits, not surprise preston guilmetly at all> >> speaker7: certainly a big win for the halos. they hit the road starting in new york on tue
right now send it down to the angels clubhouse. manager brad ausmus walking up to the podium. a lot of good things to talk about this afternoon
here is alex curry. >> Alex: what did you think of the batting? >> Brad: i thought it was good. took them a little bit of time to kind of get in the groov
thought he did a nice job. you know four innings on 60 pitches, that's basically a recipe, 15 pitches an inning that's kind of what you're hoping for.
Alex: o day for ty buttrey? >> Brad: yeah, well you have to give meadows credit, he's got 30 something homers, certainly if ty is on his game it's a
di erent story. >> Alex: what has hansel robles meant to this team? >> Brad: he's been a rock at the back end of the bullpen.

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to impress the way he hits the ball, jared walsh nice for the angels, for hermosillo, and that is exactly what you want to see, hermosillo, walsh
combination. david etcher all he does is gets his job done somehow. you have to get a little lucky. when you put the ball in play, when you wait o
wall you're not afraid to get hits like that. etcher continues to lead the team in base hits, not surprise preston guilmetly at all> >> speaker7: certa
big win for the halos. they hit the road starting in new york on tuesday. right now send it down to the angels clubhouse. manager brad ausmus wa
up to the podium. a lot of good things to talk about this afternoon. here is alex curry. >> Alex: what did you think of the batting? >> Brad: i thought
was good. took them a little bit of time to kind of get in the groove. i thought he did a nice job. you know four innings on 60

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changeup. the fastball to right eld, my goodness. i think they need to adjust the era for the pitchers because they are making pretty good pitcher
season long and guys are putting swings on it that should be out. you hate to see it happen to a young guy but this is part of peters' struggles. whe
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angels clubhouse. manager brad ausmus approaching the microphone. going to nd out what went wrong in this one, starting with dylan peters.
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aren't going to have enough of an opportunity to get deep in games. they have to, ready to go when it was too much. >> Kent: let's get reaction on
we head to the angels clubhouse. manager brad ausmus approaching the microphone. going to nd out what went wrong in this one, starting wit
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well, he's been able to build on each inning and is era comes down. tonight and as we talked about, these guys aren't going to have enough of an
opportunity to get deep in games. they have to, ready to go when it was too much. >> Kent: let's get reaction on this. we head to the angels clubho
manager brad ausmus approaching the microphone. going to nd out what went wrong in this one, starting with dylan peters. >> Reporter: the st
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when he's pitched well, he's been able to build on each inning and is era comes down. tonight and as we talked about, these guys aren't going to h
enough of an opportunity to get deep in games. they have to, ready to go when it was too much. >> Kent: let's get reaction on this. we head to the
angels clubhouse. manager brad ausmus approaching the microphone. going to nd out what went wrong in this one, starting with dylan peters.
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to the angels clubhouse. manager brad ausmus making his way to the podium. of course when he talks the conversation will be about his starter,
patrick sandoval, here is alex curry. >> Alex: how did you evaluate patrick sandoval's 3 1/3? >> Brad: he had trouble throwing strikes in the rst inn
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conversation will be about his starter, patrick sandoval, here is alex curry. >> Alex: how did you evaluate patrick sandoval's 3 1/3? >> Brad: he had
trouble throwing strikes in the rst inning plus p i thought he settled down. i thought he was ne after. that he's still competing as
Bour's 'terrible' e ort leads to double play Yahoo Sports
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...'OK.' So I threw it to second and all of a sudden we had the double play.''
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drop. Once it did, the double play was a mere formality.From the Associated Press: There was a di erent feeling in the Angels clubhouse. Manage
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I said, 'OK.' So I threw it to second and all of a sudden we had the double play.''''I felt like he was just paying 'MLB The Show' and he just controlled
on a little controller,'' Healy said. ''But it was awesome.''
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A's third baseman Matt Chapman has hip surgery and will miss the rest of the season.
Twins reliever Sergio Romo is suspended one game after a dustup with the Indians.
The A's sign former Diamondbacks third baseman Jake Lamb.
An Angels clubhouse attendant red for allegedly supplying pitchers with foreign substances sues MLB.
A 15-year girl is raising eyebrows with a low-80s fastball.
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The "skinny rebuild" in Texas isn't working out.
A's third baseman Matt Chapman has hip surgery and will miss the rest of the season.
Twins reliever Sergio Romo is suspended one game after a dustup with the Indians.
The A's sign former Diamondbacks third baseman Jake Lamb.
An Angels clubhouse attendant red for allegedly supplying pitchers with foreign substances sues MLB.
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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
1271 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS. NEW YORK. NY 10020
TO: Owners, CEOs, and Presidents

General Managers
Field Managers
FROM: Chris Young
DATE: February 28, 2020
RE: Applying Foreign Substances to Baseballs
We have received many inquiries from Clubs on the rules regarding the use by pitchers of
foreign substances on baseballs. The Official Baseball Rules and Office of the Commissioner's
policy in this area are described below.
Official Baseball Rule 3.01 states that "no player shall intentionally discolor or damage
the ball by rubbing it with soil, rosin, paraffin, licorice, sand-paper, emery-paper or other foreign
substance." Rule 6.02(c) ("Pitching Prohibitions") expands on Rule 3.01 by providing, among
other things, that a pitcher may not "apply a foreign substance of any kind to the ball;" "deface
the ball in any manner;" throw a shine ball, spit ball, mud ball, or emery ball; "have on his
person, or in his possession, any foreign substance;" or "attach anything to his hand, any finger
or either wrist (e.g., Band-Aid, tape, Super Glue, bracelet, etc.)."
The rules specify how these prohibitions will be enforced, and the penalties for
violations. Rule 6.02(d)(5) states that the umpire "shall be the sole judge on whether any portion
of this [rule on the use of foreign substances] has been violated." If the umpire detennines that a
pitcher has utilized a foreign substance on the ball, Rule 6.02(d)(I) provides that the umpire must
eject the player from the game, and that the player must be suspended by the Office of the
Commissioner. Rule 6.02(d) also provides instructions to the umpire regarding a play that
follows a violation of the rules. Under our practice, umpires are instructed to enforce the rules
when they personally observe a potential violation or are informed of a potential violation by the
opposing team. We do not intend to change that practice in the 2020 season.
Although not expressly addressed in the Official Baseball Rules, under the policy of our
office. Club personnel are strictly prohibited from providing, applying, creating, concealing, or
otherwise facilitating the use of foreign substances by players on the field. Any persons
employed by or acting at the direction of the Club, including but not limited to players, coaches,
uniformed personnel, dugout staff, clubhouse staff, and equipment staft: found to have assisted
players in the use of foreign substances in violation of the Official Baseball Rules will be subject
to discipline by the Commissioner, including suspensions without pay.
This memorandum must be distributed to each Club's entire coaching, training and
clubhouse staff, and proof of distribution must be provided to our office. It is the responsibility
of each Club to ensure that its staff and its players understand the rules set forth in this
memorandum. Clubs may be subject to sanctions by the Commissioner for failing to adequately
educate their staff and players on the applicable rules.
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March 23, 2020
Via Electronic Mail
Brian Harkins
Bubbaharkins@gmail.com
Re: MLB Investigation
Dear Brian:
I work for the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, which is
investigating an allegation that you made and distributed to Major League players a foreign
substance designed to improve pitchers’ grips on baseballs, in violation of Official Baseball Rule
3.01.
In connection with our investigation, we had scheduled an in-person interview with you at
the Los Angeles Angels’ offices on March 10, 2020 at 11:00 a.m., but you failed to appear. Our
office has since attempted to contact you by telephone at (714) 222-9532 and (714) 350-8033,
including as recently as March 17, 2020, but you have not responded to our messages. Moreover,
we understand that you have failed to respond to Angels’ personnel who have contacted you on
our behalf, including General Counsel, Legal Affairs & Risk Management Alex Winsberg, who
had arranged our March 10 meeting.
Please contact me by phone at (917) 200-1296 or email at sheila.martinez@mlb.com to

schedule a telephonic interview as soon as possible. Please note that failure to cooperate with our
investigation may result in disciplinary action, including placement on the permanently ineligible
list in accordance with Major League Rule 15 (c) and (d), meaning that you would not be allowed
to associate with any Major League or Minor League Club.
Sincerely,
/s/ Sheila Martinez

EXHIBIT 24
EXHIBIT 25
EXHIBIT 26
https://www.sny.tv/yankees/news/yankees-gerrit-cole-says-astros-didnt-use-substances-on-
baseballs-to-gain-advantage/312899612
Yankees' Gerrit Cole says Astros didn't

use substances on baseballs to gain
advantage
Cole's spin rate went from below average to elite after
joining Houston
Feb 24, 2020; Tampa, Florida, USA; New York Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit
Cole (45) throws a pitch during the first inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates at
George M. Steinbrenner Field. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports
(Kim Klement)
By Danny Abriano | Feb 27 | 8:47AM
Gerrit Cole had a 3.50 ERA and 1.21 WHIP while striking out 8.4 batters per 9 in
five seasons with the Pirates.
Gerrit Cole had a 2.68 ERA and 0.96 WHIP while striking out 13.1 batters per 9 in
two seasons with the Astros.
So what changed after he left Pittsburgh?
Cole's velocity with the Astros ticked up a bit and he changed the way he attacked
hitters with his fastball. He also changed his release point. But whispers about how
the Astros help their pitchers (specifically when it comes to using substances on the
baseball to improve grip and spin rate) have dogged Cole and others who have had
tons of success after arriving in Houston.
Those whispers about the Astros are due in part to Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer, who
has called out Houston in the past while also taking what appears to be a swipe at
Cole while questioning the way the Astros use foreign substances.
One substance Cole and others have been accused of using is Pelican Grip -- a pine
tar and rosin blended grip enhancer.
Speaking with Joel Sherman of the New York Post, Cole -- whose spin rate went from
below average to elite after joining the Astros -- denied that the Astros were better
at creating a sticky substance for pitchers to use on baseballs and/or at teaching
pitchers how to employ using those substances.
"(Spin) is a skill that (Astros pitching coach) Brent (Strom) and those guys over
there have great tips on what maximizes spin. Period. They just do," Cole told
Sherman. "Brent was forward-thinking in the sense the Cardinals wanted to go east
and west and he wanted to go north and south. … So finally he gets over to a new
team in Houston, he gets control of the reins and people are going north and south
and they think it is a new invention. It is not a new invention."
It should be noted that many pitchers use substances to improve their grip, with
many batters looking the other way because they would rather pitchers be able to
control where the ball is going.
Starting this season, though, MLB will be cracking down on pitchers who violate
Rule 8.02, which prohibits pitchers from doctoring the baseball with anything
outside of the legal rosin bag.
How that impacts pitchers throughout the league remains to be seen, but it is
definitely something to keep an eye on in 2020.
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EXHIBIT 27
EXHIBIT 28
Brian Harkins
Visiting Club House Manager
bubbaharkins@gmail.com
714/350-8033
November 03, 2020
Dear Ms. Shatz,
I would like to introduce myself as an applicant for management for either your home or visiting club
house. With my extensive work experience and the foundation for my skills and abilities, I believe I can
be a valuable asset to your club.
At my previous position as Visiting Club House Manager of the Los Angeles Angels, I effectively managed
many employees with over 20 years of loyal service. I was responsible for overseeing the entire running
of a club house from security, incoming equipment, ball players, team managers, uniforms, catering
food (nutritional requests), personal requests, media, family, field passes, issuing tickets. My biggest
priority was ensuring that everything ran smoothly throughout the entire day and night until all players
and managers left the club house.
My ability to perform rests on the foundation of my learning from the ground up. Starting as a ball boy
and bat boy at the age of 15 ½ years old, I quickly learned the inner workings of the club house and how
to engage with the players and managers. This gave me the ability to quickly move up thru the
organization into an assistant manager for 2 years before I became the visiting club house manager, a
title that I held for 30 years. I always have prided myself on the continued relationship that I have
cultivated with ball players, managers and mostly my employees and co-workers throughout all these
years.
Thank you for your consideration for me as the Manager of your club houses. I am positive that the
foundation and skills that I have learned in my 38 years of experience in an organization will allow me to
succeed as Manager.
Sincerely,
Brian Harkins
Brian's cover letter Rays.docx

SPECIAL AFFILIATIONS
1988 and 1989 Hired by Don Drysdale of the
Dodgers to Run month long club house for
Tokyo Giants camp
BRIAN HARKINS
1989, 2010 & 2011 VISITING CLUBHOUSE MANAGER
Managed All Star Games
EDUCATION
_____________________________________________________________________
Voted Club House Manager of the year 2005
Biola University
1984 -1985 - baseball scholarship
Fund Raised for CHP 1099 Foundation
Studied physical Education
13 Years of running tours of club house to
benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank – for
the Homeless WORK EXPERIENCE
Los Angeles Angels - Visiting Club House Manager
1981 – 1983 Visiting Club House Attendant/Batboy/Ball Boy

Maintain club house, unload equipment for visiting teams, appropriate uniforms,
cleats, bats and balls, warm up players in between innings
1986 – 1987 Visiting Club House Attendant

Uniform maintenance, personal errands for visiting players, club house duties –
spring training in Angels club house
CONTACT INFORMATION 1988 – 1989 Visiting Club House Assist Manager/Umpire Room Attendant
Club House Daily shopping for team provided meals, Equipment unloading, Uniform
PHONE: maintenance, meal preparation, help manage other club house attendants, maintain
714/350-8033 operation of duties of dugout, spring training in Angels club house
umpire room – trunk delivery, meals and prepared balls for games
EMAIL:
bubbaharkins@gmail.com 1990 – 2020 Visiting Club House Manager
Correspondence with visiting team equipment manager and traveling secretary,
manage visiting players nutrition requests, arrange 3 catered meals a day, oversee all
REFERENCES aspects of clubhouse operations, manage several attendants, managed security for
Mike Port 508/868-8406 club house, delegate attendants for players personal errands, management of all
Tim Mead 714/315-9396 inbound and outbound equipment, procure all clubhouse essentials, personally
Bill Bavasi 646/639-2494 responsible for players private requests(including agents), 2 road trips with team per
season, issue and maintain on field credentials
SKILLS
______________________________________________________________
• Strength in maintaining client relationships(strong verbal communications
and problem solving skills)
• Innovative
• Ability to prioritize
• Manage multiple employees(with 20 years of loyal service)
• Excellent logistics management
• Multi tasking
• Able to deal with challenging personalities(including celebrities)
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Allyson Shatz <ashatz@raysbaseball.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 5:46 AM
Subject: RE: Employment Opportunity
To: Brian Harkins <bubbaharkins@gmail.com>
Hi Brian,
Thank you for reaching out. At this time, I am unsure that we have any opportunities in the
clubhouse, but I have sent them your resume for consideration.
All the best,
Allyson Shatz
Senior Coordinator, Human Resources | Tampa Bay Rays
P: 727-825-3181 | F: 727-825-3235
One Tropicana Drive | Saint Petersburg, FL 33705
From: Brian Harkins <bubbaharkins@gmail.com>

Sent: Monday, November 2, 2020 10:22 PM
To: Allyson Shatz <ashatz@raysbaseball.com>
Subject: Employment Opportunity
CAUTION: This email originated from the Internet. Do not click links or open attachments
unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
Attached please find my cover letter and resume for your consideration.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Brian Harkins
Brian Harkins
Visiting Club House Manager
bubbaharkins@gmail.com
714/350-8033
January 04, 2021
Allyson Shatz
Senior Coordinator, Human Resources - Tampa Bay Rays
One Tropicana Drive
Saint Petersburg, FL 33705
Re: My Employment Application
Dear Ms. Shatz,
I am following up to my application for employment with the Tampa Bay Rays. Because of the publicity
surrounding my firing by the Angels earlier this year, I feel compelled to clarify what occurred and dispel
falsehoods that were reported publicly.
On March 3, I was summoned to meet with Angels General Manager Eppler and Angels attorney Alex
Winsberg. To my shock and dismay, they fired me after I had been with the organization for 38 years.
They told me that the Angels had received a report from Major League Baseball’s front office that I had
been making an “illegal substance” called “Go Go Juice” that gave an “unfair advantage” to pitchers
“from visiting ball clubs.” They told me this betrayal was the reason for my termination. Eppler and
Winsberg also gave me a copy of a leaguewide memorandum that Chris Young, MLB’s Senior Vice
President, issued three days earlier to address foreign substances. This memo was apparently a
response to pitcher Trevor Bauer’s allegation days before that over seventy percent of pitchers were
using a foreign substance to unfairly gain “a bigger advantage than steroids ever were.”
My firing immediately hit the news. It was reported that I was selling illegal substances, doctoring
baseballs, and betraying my own team. These reports are false.
As you’re no doubt aware, a pitcher’s control is a serious safety issue for the batter. Pitchers routinely
throw a baseball between 90 and 105 miles per hour. New baseballs are slick and slippery, so pitchers
are permitted and encouraged to use rosin to improve their grip of the baseball. A rosin bag is found on
every pitcher’s mound. Similarly, major league batters use pine tar to improve their grip of the baseball
and their grip on their baseball bat to keep it from slipping from their hands and causing major injury.
This is also an important safety issue. Pine tar is often prepackaged under a commercial name such as
“Mota Stick” or “Tiger Stick.”
I’m sure you’re also aware that for decades a large percentage of major league pitchers have used pine
tar to improve their grip on the baseball because rosin alone is insufficient to provide a good grip. This
accepted practice is common knowledge, easily observable by umpires, players, managers, and fans.
With this background in mind, here is the truth concerning the allegations against me:
In the 1990s, Angels pitcher Troy Percival taught me to mix rosin, pine tar and Mota stick (hard pine tar)
for use by Percival and other Angel pitchers to improve their grip of the baseballs (the “Percival
Mixture”). As these Angels pitchers moved from team to team through free agency or trades, other
players learned of the Percival Mixture. Visiting players began asking me to prepare it for them. My job
was hospitality, so I obliged as a courtesy. I was doing was nothing out of the ordinary. I never named
this mixture and did not sell it as a product, although sometimes players would give me a gratuity. I
have no idea where the name “Go Go Juice” was coined. I did not use this term.
The claim that I made “illegal substances” is false. There is no such thing as an “illegal substance” in
baseball. Players can put any substance they want on their bats without limitation. MLB Rule 3.02(c)
provides, “The bat handle, for not more than 18 inches from its end, may be covered or treated with any
material or substance to improve the grip.” (Emphasis added.) The Rules specifically provide for rosin
and pine tar on the baseball field. They are not illegal substances.
Certain rules address how pitchers use substances while playing. For example, Rule 6.02(c) (“Pitching
Prohibitions”) provides, among other things, that a pitcher may not “apply a foreign substance of any
kind to the ball.” (I would argue that rosin and pine tar are not “foreign” substances on a baseball field.)
Importantly, only a pitcher can violate Rule 6.02(c). A batter cannot violate this rule. A position player
(e.g., outfielder, shortstop, first baseman, etc.) cannot violate this rule. And, of course, a non-player like
myself cannot violate this rule.
In any event, the “unwritten rule” and longstanding accepted practice is that pitchers may utilize pine
tar, sunscreen, and other substances to improve their grip of the ball. This “gentleman’s agreement”
effectively superseded the written rule. In fact, while most pitchers have long utilized pine tar and other
substances, no umpire has enforced Rule 6.02(c) for nearly six years, as far as I’m aware.
It is also false to say that I “doctored” baseballs. I did not touch baseballs. Only pitchers did that.
Most importantly, I was not a traitor to my team. The Angels knew about the pine tar mixture all along.
Every year a hair-cream-sized jar of it was included in the Angels’ bullpen bag, along with sunscreen and
other sticky substances. Many Angel coaches and players have encouraged its use by pitchers over the
years. Why? It gives the pitcher better control of the pitch and, consequently, makes the game safer.
I hope this information helps resolve any concerns you may have about the end of my employment with
the Angels. I would be happy to discuss this with you and answer any questions you may have.
Sincerely,
Brian Harkins
EXHIBIT 29
John E. Altstadt
23615 El Toro Road, Suite X #342
Lake Forest, CA 92630
(949) 246-2250
altstadtconsulting@cox.net
Summary of Qualifications
John E. Altstadt specializes in assisting attorneys and their clients in summarizing economic, financial and
accounting data related to litigation matters and providing expert testimony. Mr. Altstadt has practiced in
the fields of accounting and consulting for over forty years. During that period, he has obtained a wide
variety of accounting and financial experience with clients ranging from large publicly-held consolidated
groups with international operations to small closely-held family businesses. His audit clients have
included entities involved in transportation, retail, distribution, medical devices, financial services, real
estate and non-profit. In the specialized practice area of dispute consulting, Mr. Altstadt has provided a
variety of services including expert witness testimony, forensic accounting, fraud investigations, lost profits
and lost earnings analysis, damage assessment and evaluation, liability analysis and pre-trial discovery
assistance. He has experience in a number of disputes including breach of contract, intellectual property,
franchise/franchisor, real estate, construction, business interruption, bankruptcy, health care and labor and
employment.
Experience
May 1998 to Present – Co-Owner – Altstadt Consulting
May 1998 to June 2006 - Co-Founder and Partner - Lit.Econ LLP
October 1996 to May 1998-Senior Manager, Dispute Consulting Services, Deloitte & Touche LLP,
Costa Mesa, California
May 1995 to October 1996-Senior Manager, Dispute Analysis and Corporate Recovery, Price Waterhouse
LLP, Costa Mesa, California
August 1986 to May 1995-Various managerial positions in the audit and litigation services groups of
KPMG Peat Marwick, Costa Mesa, California
June 1980 to August 1986-Various staff positions, Parke, Guptill & Co., C.P.A.s, Newport Beach and
West Covina, California
Education
Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting, California State
University at Fullerton, June 1980
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Volunteer Experience
President, Constitutional Rights Foundation of Orange County
Treasurer, Public Law Center of Orange County
Committee Chair, Orange County Bar Association
Member, Society of Fellows – Project Youth OCBF
President, Supporting Cast of South Coast Repertory Theater
Board Member, Center 500 of Orange County Performing Arts Center
Memberships
Association of Business Trial Lawyers – Associate Member
Prior Testimony
PH Marketing, Inc. v. California Valet Parking, Inc. (Michael Ermer-Irell & Manella) Mr. Altstadt
provided an expert deposition on behalf of the plaintiff in a breach of contract matter.
Voxel, Inc. General Scanning, Inc. (Joseph Nardulli-Arter & Hadden) Mr. Altstadt testified as an expert
before an American Arbitration Association panel on behalf of the plaintiff in a breach of contract matter.
American Eagle Wheel Corporation v. American Racing Equipment, Inc. (Cynthia Schaldenbrand-
Freeburg, Judy & Nettels) Mr. Altstadt provided an expert report in United States District Court (Santa
Ana, California) on behalf of the defendant in a trade dress infringement matter.
Kemp v. Mazda Motor of America, Inc. (Job Taylor-Latham & Watkins) Mr. Altstadt testified as an expert
in State Supreme Court (Long Island, New York) on behalf of the defendant in a breach of contract matter.
Stanley Bloom v. Huntington Beach Redevelopment Agency (Jack Fleming-Arter & Hadden) Mr. Altstadt
provided an expert deposition on behalf of the defendant in a AAA abritration in a breach of contract
matter.
Irvine Central Motors, Inc. v. Mazda Motor of America, Inc. (Maurice Sanchez-Alvarado, Smith, Villa &
Sanchez) Mr. Altstadt testified before the California New Motor Vehicle Board on behalf of the respondent
in a franchise protest matter.
Romero Corp. v. Liebman, Reiner (Paul Mahoney-Jones, Mahoney, Brayton & Soll) Mr. Altstadt provided
an expert deposition on behalf of the plaintiff in a legal malpractice matter.
William Karges v. Dellis Montell (Harold Light-Law Offices of Harold J. Light) Mr. Altstadt testified as an
expert witness in Superior Court (Los Angeles, California) on behalf of the defendant in a breach of
fiduciary duty matter.
Samuel Gart v. Logitech, Inc. (John Sganga-Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear) Mr. Altstadt provided an
expert deposition in United States District Court (Santa Ana, California) on behalf of the plaintiff in a
patent infringement matter.
Michael Treadway v. Steven Hiller, et al. (Stan Jones-Law Offices of Stanley R. Jones) Mr. Altstadt
testified as an expert witness in a JAMS arbitration on behalf of the plaintiff in a breach of fiduciary duty
matter.
In Re: Evelyn Conroy (Jerry LaCues-Law Offices of Jerry LaCues) Mr. Altstadt testified as an expert
witness in Federal Bankruptcy Court (Santa Ana, California) on behalf of the Debtor as to the financial
needs of the Debtor.
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Aircraft and Boat Leasing v. Advantage Loma Linda LLC (David Werner-Stream & Stream) Mr. Altstadt
testified in a JAMS arbitration on behalf of the plaintiff in a breach of contract matter.
Pete Levin v. Reseda Dodge, et al. (Tina Wolfson-Ahdoot & Wolfson) Mr. Altstadt provided an expert
declaration in Superior Court (Los Angeles) concerning the financial analysis of two automobile
dealerships for punitive damage purposes.
O’Flaherty, et al. v. Belgum, et al. (Stuart Jasper-Jasper & Jasper) Mr. Altstadt testified as an expert
witness before an American Arbitration Association judge on behalf of the respondent in a breach of
fiduciary matter.
Judy Nagler v. The Hartman Group, et al. (Harold J. Light-Law Offices of Harold J. Light) Mr. Altstadt
provided an expert report and declaration before the American Arbitration Association on behalf of the
plaintiff in a breach of patent contract matter.
DM Tech America, Inc. v. Ultra Wheel Company (Cynthia Schaldenbrand, Esq.-Freeburg, Judy & Nettels)
Mr. Altstadt provided an expert report in United States District Court (Santa Ana, California) on behalf of
the plaintiff in a patent infringement matter.
DM Tech America, Inc. v. Guam Corporation (Cynthia Schaldenbrand, Esq.-Freeburg, Judy & Nettels) Mr.
Altstadt provided an expert report in United States District Court (Santa Ana, California) on behalf of the
plaintiff in a breach of patent infringement matter.
Edward Tobinick, M.D., Inc. v. Scripps Clinic Medical Group, et al. (Doug Lytle-Higgs, Fletcher & Mack)
Mr. Altstadt provided an expert report and deposition in United States District Court (Los Angeles,
California) on behalf of the defendant in a trademark infringement matter.
Uptown Property Management, et al. v. Hartford Casualty (G. Arthur Meneses – Berger, Kahn, et al.) Mr.
Altstadt provided an expert deposition in Superior Court (San Diego, California) on behalf of the defendant
in a bad faith matter.
Patty Panico, et al. v. Truck Insurance Exchange (Eric Riezman-Hollins, Schechter & Condas) Mr. Altstadt
testified as an expert witness in Superior Court (Santa Ana, California) on behalf of the defendant in a bad
faith matter.
Eiko Uyeda v. KJI, Inc. et al. (Thomas Borchard-Borchard & Baur) Mr. Altstadt testified as an expert
witness in Superior Court (Santa Ana, California) on behalf of the plaintiff in a breach of fiduciary duty
matter.
Mazda Motor of America, Inc. v. David J. Phillips Pontiac Buick Mazda (Maurice Sanchez-Alvarado,
Smith & Sanchez) Mr. Altstadt testified as an expert witness in Superior Court (Santa Ana, California) on
behalf of the plaintiff in a breach of fiduciary duty matter.
Rockville Harley-Davidson v. Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Brad Weiss – Charapp & Weiss) Mr.
Altstadt testified as an expert witness before the Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings on behalf of
the plaintiff in a breach of contract matter.
Beckman Coulter v. Flextronics International (Gary Waldron – Waldron & Olson) Mr. Altstadt testified as
an expert witness in Superior Court (Santa Ana, California) on behalf of the defendant in a breach of
contract matter.
James Barker v. David J. Wilson, et al. (Stuart Jasper – Jasper & Jasper) Mr. Altstadt testified as an expert
witness in a JAMS arbitration on behalf of the plaintiff in a wrongful termination matter.
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Prime Time Companies, Inc. v. Arlington Avenue Church of the Nazarene (Steven Fink – Daehnke & Cruz)
Mr. Altstadt testified as an expert witness before an AAA arbitrator on behalf of the plaintiff in a breach of
contract matter.
Hartmann-Lausanne, et al. v. HemoCue (James Mulcahy – The Mulcahy Law Firm) Mr. Altstadt testified
as an expert witness in a JAMS arbitration on behalf of the plaintiff in a breach of contract matter.
Thomas Tooma v. Charles House, et al. (Ralph Blakeney – Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman) Mr. Altstadt
provided an expert deposition in Superior Court (San Bernardino, California) on behalf of the plaintiff in a
breach of fiduciary duty matter.
American Isuzu Motors v. Ray Fladeboe, et al. (James Mulcahy – The Mulcahy Law Firm) Mr. Altstadt
testified as an expert witness in Superior Court (Santa Ana, California) on behalf of the plaintiff in a
trademark infringement matter.
S&C Kia v. Kia Motors America (Maurice Sanchez – Adorno Yoss, et al.) Mr. Altstadt testified before the
California New Motor Vehicle Board on behalf of the respondent in a franchise termination matter
Stuft Pizza Franchise Company v. Rajbir Rai, et al. (James Mulcahy – The Mulcahy Law Firm) Mr.
Altstadt testified as an expert witness in Superior Court (Santa Ana, California) on behalf of the plaintiff in
a breach of contract matter.
Junho Hyon v. Laurence Colangelo (Harold J. Light – The Law Offices of Harold J. Light) Mr. Altstadt
testified as an expert witness in Superior Court (Los Angeles, California) on behalf of the plaintiff in a
breach of contract matter.
Caleel+Hayden v. Valeant Pharmaceuticals (Michael D. McCaffrey – The Law Offices of Michael D.

McCaffrey) Mr. Altstadt testified as an expert witness in Superior Court (Santa Ana, California) on behalf
of the defendant in a breach of contract matter.
Yolanda Grady v. Samuel Silao, et al. (Jerry LaCues – Law Offices of Jerry LaCues) Mr. Altstadt testified
as an expert witness in Superior Court (Los Angeles, California) on behalf of the defendant in a breach of
contract matter.
GESD Investors v. Mark Press (Steven A. Fink – Fink & Abraham) Mr. Altstadt provided an expert
deposition in Superior Court (Santa Ana, California) on behalf of the defendant in a breach of contract
matter.
National Business Brokers v. Hooman Nissani (Christopher Reeder – Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &
Hampton) Mr. Altstadt provided an expert deposition in a AAA arbitration matter on behalf of the
defendant in a breach of contract matter.
In Re: IRMO Feldman (Various) Mr. Altstadt acted as the court appointed third party appraiser in a family
law matter in San Diego County Superior Court. He provided trial testimony in the matter.
U.S. Bank v Downtown Automotive Group, et al. (Greg E. Montgomery – Miller Nash) Mr. Altstadt
provided an expert deposition in Superior court (King County, Washington) on behalf of the plaintiff in a
Hooman Nissani v. Long Beach Motors (Christopher Reeder – Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton) Mr.
Altstadt provided an expert deposition in Superior Court (Los Angeles) on behalf of the plaintiff in a breach
of contract case.
In Re: Burger (Steven Bishop – Law Offices of Steven Bishop) Mr. Altstadt critiqued the valuation of a
Chrysler Jeep Dodge franchise in La Mesa, California in a divorce matter in San Diego County. Mr.
Altstadt provided a written report to the court.
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Bradley Cooper v. Cadillac of Whittier (Brian Plessala – Gray Duffy and Ron Brand – Fisher & Phillips)
Mr. Altstadt testified as an expert witness in an arbitration on behalf of the defendant in a breach of
contract matter.
William Cantey, et al. v. Brinks, Inc. (Jeff Pagano – Crowell & Moring) Mr. Altstadt provided an expert
deposition in Superior Court (Los Angeles) on behalf of the defendant in a class action employment matter.
George Seldin v. IMS Leasing, Inc., et al. (Scott Heil – Redwine & Sherrill) Mr. Altstadt provided an
expert deposition in an arbitration on behalf of the defendant in a breach of contract matter.
ECCO Equipment Corp. v. Central Valley Construction, Inc. (Jack Fleming – Musick, Peeler & Garrett)
Mr. Altstadt provided a Rule 26 expert report in United States District Court (Los Angeles) on behalf of the
cross-complainants in a breach of contract matter.
David Jackson v. Trans Union Company (Donald Bradley – Musick, Peeler & Garrett) Mr. Altstadt
provided a Rule 26 expert report in United States District Court (Oregon) on behalf of the defendant in a
In Re: Vanguard University (No Outside Counsel) Mr. Altstadt was contracted by the University to conduct
a forensic audit of certain financial transactions as part of the reaccreditation of the University by the
Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Mr. Altstadt prepared a written report and presented it to the
Board of Trustees.
College Park Motors, Inc. v. Volkswagen of America (Michael Charapp – Charapp & Weiss) Mr. Altstadt
testified before the Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings in a franchise termination matter involving
the Volkswagen dealership in College Park, Maryland.
Pacific National Development v. USF&G, et al. (Michael Williams – Connor, Fletcher & Williams) Mr.
Altstadt provided an expert deposition in Superior Court (Santa Ana) on behalf of the plaintiff in a breach
of contract case. Analysis involved quantifying the damages suffered by a syndicator of real estate
developments involved low income housing tax credits.
Mullahey Chevrolet v. General Motors Corporation (Jim Ferruzzo – Ferruzzo & Ferruzzo) Mr. Altstadt
testified in an AAA Arbitration on behalf of the claimant in a franchise reinstatement matter involving the
Chevrolet franchise in Fullerton, California.
Wm. L. Morris - Simi Chevrolet v. General Motors Corporation (Greg Ferruzzo – Ferruzzo & Ferruzzo)
Mr. Altstadt testified in an AAA Arbitration on behalf of the claimant in a franchise reinstatement matter
involving the Chevrolet franchise in Simi Valley, California.
Hunt v. Stalians (Paul Mahoney – Mahoney & Soll) Mr. Altstadt testified as an expert witness in Superior
Court (San Bernardino County) on behalf of the defendant in a breach of contract matter involving payouts
from the sale of a mass-transit business in Southern California.
Powerhouse Motorsports, Inc. v. Yamaha Motor Corporation (Maurice Sanchez – Baker Hostetler) Mr.
Altstadt testified as an expert in Superior Court (San Luis Obispo County) on behalf of the defendant in a
matter involving alleged interference with a business opportunity.
Todd Construction Services v. Bake R Us (Richard Soll – Mahoney & Soll) Mr. Altstadt provided an expert
deposition in Superior Court (Los Angeles) on behalf of the plaintiff in a breach of contract matter.
Los Feliz Ford, Inc. v. Chrysler Group LLC (Michael Sieving – Callahan, Thompson, Sherman & Caudill)
Mr. Altstadt provided an expert deposition in U.S. District Court (Central District of California) on behalf
of the plaintiff in a declaratory relief matter.
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Yang, et al. v. Winjet, et al. (Charles Sutton – Law Offices of Roger Hsu) Mr. Altstadt provided a written
report in U.S. District Court (Central District of California) on behalf of the plaintiff in a patent
infringement matter involving automotive aftermarket products.
Timber Mountain Hardwoods v. H.T. Cabinets, et al. (Eric Arevalo – Shumann, Rallo & Rosenberg) Mr.
Altstadt testified in Superior Court (Orange County) on behalf of the plaintiff in a breach of contract
matter.
Leo Boese v. 3MJ Corp. (Richard Ritchie – Callahan, Thompson, Sherman & Caudill) – Mr. Altstadt
provided an expert deposition in Superior Court (Orange County) on behalf of the plaintiff in a breach of
contract matter.
IMEX Leader v. Abdallah, et al. (Thomas Rallo – The Rallo Law Firm) Mr. Altstadt provided an expert
deposition in Superior Court (Orange County) on behalf of the defendants in a breach of contract matter.
Power Electric Distribution, Inc. v. Hengdian Linix Motor Co.,Ltd . (Roger Hsu – Law Offices of Roger
Hsu) Mr. Altstadt testified in an AAA Arbitration (Minneapolis) on behalf of the respondent in a breach of
contract matter.
Ocean Mission Park LLC v. Taheripour, et al. (Matthew Rips – Russ, August & Kabat) Mr. Altstadt
testified in Superior Court (Los Angeles) on behalf of the plaintiff in a breach of contract matter. Mr.
Altstadt also testified at the second phase of the trial involving damages.
Dominion Enterprises v. LinkUSystems (Brian Daucher – Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton) Mr.
Altstadt provided a Rule 26 report and deposition in U.S. District Court (Central District of California) on
behalf of the plaintiffs in a false advertising matter involving website design and maintenance.
Simi Management Corporation v. Bank of America, N.A. (William Logan – Putterman Logan & Giles) Mr.
Altstadt provided a Rule 26 report and deposition in U.S. District Court (Northern District of California) on
behalf of the plaintiff in an Aiding and Abetting Fraud matter.
Association of California Water Agencies Joint Powers Insurance Authority, et al. v. The Insurance
Company of the State of Pennsylvania, et al. (Steven Rice – Crowell & Moring) Mr. Altstadt provided a
Rule 26 report and deposition in U.S. District Court (Central District of California) on behalf of the
defendants in a Complaint-in-Intervention for Damages matter.
Salhotra v. Shah (Jess Bressi – McKenna Long & Aldridge) Mr. Altstadt testified in a JAMS arbitration
(Ontario, CA) on behalf of the defendant in a breach of fiduciary duty matter.
Wetzel & Associates, et al. v. Western Express (Sean O’Connor – Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton)
Mr. Altstadt provided an expert deposition in Superior Court (San Bernardino) on behalf of the plaintiff in
a breach of lease matter.
R&T Investments v. Kawasaki Motor Corp, USA (Maurice Sanchez – Baker Hostetler) Mr. Altstadt testified
as an expert in Superior Court (Sacramento County) on behalf of the defendant in a breach of contract
matter.
Trinh, et al. v. Lee, et al. (Roger Hsu – Law Offices of Roger Hsu) Mr. Altstadt testified as an expert in
Superior Court (Los Angeles) on behalf of the plaintiff in a negligent misrepresentation matter.
Keenan, et al. v. Souza, et al. (Richard Soll – Mahoney & Soll) Mr. Altstadt provided an expert deposition
in Superior Court (Los Angeles) on behalf of the plaintiff in a breach of joint venture agreement matter.
Jeffrey Evans v. Martin Project Management (Veronica Gray – Nossaman) Mr. Altstadt testified in a AAA
arbitration on behalf of the claimant in a breach of contract matter.
6
Richard Guess, M.D., Inc. v. Downey Acute Medical Group (Todd Green – Green LLP) Mr. Altstadt
provided an expert deposition in a AAA arbitration on behalf of the claimant in a breach of contract matter.
Anne Risk, Trustee of the Anne Risk Trust v. John E. Cox (Todd Green – Green LLP) Mr. Altstadt provided
an expert deposition in Superior Court (Orange County) on behalf of the defendant in a breach of fiduciary
duty matter.
Tutor Perini Corporation v. Elizabeth Lucido, et al. (Jeff Shields – Shields Law Offices) Mr. Altstadt
testified in a JAMS arbitration on behalf of the respondents in a breach of contract matter.
Alta Mira Investments, Inc. v. Payam Jahangiri. (Jeff Shields – Shields Law Offices) Mr. Altstadt testified
in Superior Court (Orange County) on behalf of the defendant in a breach of contract matter.
Brown v Min-E-Con, et al. (Andrew Smits – Law Offices of Andrew Smits) Mr. Altstadt testified in
Superior Court (Orange County) on behalf of the defendant in a declaratory relief matter.
Brion v. Lieberman (Ralph Blakeney – Gordee, Nowicki & Blakeney) Mr. Altstadt provided an expert
deposition in Superior Court (Orange County) on behalf of the plaintiffs in a breach of contract matter.
Timothy Thai v. Route 66 Motors, Inc. (Various) Mr. Altstadt acted as the court appointed third party
forensic accountant in a shareholder dispute in Los Angeles County Superior Court. He provided a written
report of findings in the matter.
Harbor Breeze Corporation, et al. v. Newport Landing Sportfishing, Inc., et al. (Todd Wulffson –
Carothers Disante & Freudenberger) Mr. Altstadt testified in United States District Court (Central District
of California) on behalf of the defendants in a Lanham Act false advertising matter.
Borjon Auto Center King City, Inc. v. Sentry Select Insurance (Alan Yuter – Selman Breitman) Mr. Altstadt
testified in Superior Court (Monterey County) on behalf of the defendant in a breach of contract matter.
Manuel Sedano, Jr. v. City Chevrolet, Inc. (Tom O’Connor – Callahan Thompson Sherman & Caudill) Mr.
Altstadt provided an expert deposition in Superior Court (San Diego) on behalf of the defendant in a breach
of contract matter.
Acushnet Company v. Callaway Golf Company (William Rooklidge – Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher) Mr.
Altstadt provided a Rule 26 report and deposition in an AAA arbitration on behalf of the respondent in a
patent infringement matter.
Acrisure of California LLC v. T London Insurance Services LLC, et al. (Tom Vincent – Payne & Fears and
Mark Erickson – Haynes & Boone) Mr. Altstadt provided a Rule 26 expert report in United States District
Court (Los Angeles) on behalf of the defendants in a breach of contract matter.
Brandon Drake v. Pirch, Inc., et al. (Eric Wersching – Ross Wersching & Wolcott) Mr. Altstadt provided
an expert deposition in a JAMS arbitration on behalf of the plaintiff in a wrongful termination matter.
Eagle Grove, Inc. v. David Harake, et al. (Eric Hardeman – Fortis LLP) Mr. Altstadt testified in an AAA
arbitration on behalf of the defendant in a negligent misrepresentation matter.
Publications
Chapter entitled “Accounting and Financial Reporting Matters” in the book entitled Environmental
Remediation Contracting edited by Randall L. Erickson, John Wiley & Sons, 1993
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References
Eric Arevalo, Esq. – Schumann & Rosenberg (Costa Mesa, CA)

(714) 850-0210 Arevalo@SchumannRosenberg.com
Dan R. Bane – Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton (Costa Mesa, CA)
(714) 424-8246 dbane@sheppardmullin.com
Jess R. Bressi, Esq. – Dentons (Irvine, CA)
(949) 241-8967 jess.bressi@dentons.com
Todd Green, Esq. – Green LLP (Newport Beach, CA)
(949) 288-6565 tgreen@greenllp.com
Jules L. Kabat, Esq. – Russ, August & Kabat (Los Angeles, CA)
(310) 826-7474 jkabat@raklaw.com
Greg S. Labate, Esq. – Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton (Costa Mesa, CA)
(714) 424-2823 glabate@sheppardmullin.com
Paul M. Mahoney, Esq. – Mahoney & Soll (Claremont, CA)
(909) 399-9987 pmmahoney@verizon.net
Christopher S. Reeder, Esq. – CS Reeder PC (Los Angeles, CA
(310) 861-2471 chris@crslawyers.com
Steven P. Rice, Esq. – Crowell & Moring – Retired (Irvine, CA)
(949) 798-1310 steverice.esq@gmail.com
Theodore K. Stream, Esq. – Stream Kim Hicks (Riverside, CA)
(951) 783-9470 ted.stream@streamkim.com
8
EXHIBIT 30
BRIAN HARKINS V. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, ET AL. SCHEDULE 1
SUMMARY OF POTENTIAL ECONOMIC DAMAGES
2020-2032
AS OF JANUARY 1, 2021
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
DURATION OF LOST EARNINGS 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
DURATION OF LOST HEALTH BENEFITS 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
PAST
Pre-Incident Earnings, Business Income and Benefits Schedule 2 79,088
Loss of Health Benefits -
Less: Post-Incident Earnings Schedule 3 - - - - - - -
Economic Loss 79,088
Cumulative Economic Loss 79,088 79,088 79,088 79,088 79,088 79,088 79,088
FUTURE
Pre-Incident Earnings, Business Income and Benefits Schedule 2 - 113,213 112,070 111,041 112,329 111,160 110,108
Loss of Health Benefits - - - - - - -
Less: Post-Incident Earnings Schedule 3 - (46,429) (47,339) (48,311) (49,248) (50,198) (51,214)
Economic Loss - 66,784 64,731 62,730 63,081 60,963 58,894
Cumulative Economic Loss - 66,784 131,516 194,245 257,326 318,289 377,183
TOTAL POTENTIAL ECONOMIC DAMAGES 79,088 145,873 210,604 273,333 336,414 397,377 456,271
BRIAN HARKINS V. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, ET AL.
SUMMARY OF POTENTIAL ECONOMIC DAMAGES
2020-2032
AS OF JANUARY 1, 2021
Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Year 13
DURATION OF LOST EARNINGS 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032
DURATION OF LOST HEALTH BENEFITS 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032
PAST
Pre-Incident Earnings, Business Income and Benefits Schedule 2
Loss of Health Benefits
Less: Post-Incident Earnings Schedule 3 - - - - - -
Economic Loss
Cumulative Economic Loss 79,088 79,088 79,088 79,088 79,088 79,088
FUTURE
Pre-Incident Earnings, Business Income and Benefits Schedule 2 111,488 110,293 109,218 110,572 109,473 108,373
Loss of Health Benefits - - - - - -
Less: Post-Incident Earnings Schedule 3 (52,247) (29,407) (29,994) (30,589) (31,194) (31,807)
Economic Loss 59,242 80,886 79,224 79,983 78,279 76,566
Cumulative Economic Loss 436,424 517,311 596,535 676,518 754,797 831,363
TOTAL POTENTIAL ECONOMIC DAMAGES 515,512 596,399 675,623 755,606 833,885 910,451
NOTES:
(1) Calculations are only for economic damages. Does not include any additional damages such as general damages, exemplary damages or attorneys fees and costs.
BRIAN HARKINS V. MAJOR LEAGE BASEBALL, ET AL. SCHEDULE 2
PRE-INCIDENT EARNINGS AND BENEFITS
2020-2032
INDEPENDENT
EMPLOYER CONTRACTOR
401K TOTAL CUMULATIV
REGULAR SAVINGS SOCIAL ANNUAL BUSINESS POTENTIAL PV OF POTENTIAL
PERIOD YEARS PAY PLAN SECURITY COMPENSATION INCOME LOSS LOSS LOSS
6.20%
PAST
1/1/15 - 12/31/15 35,414 1,062 2,196 38,672 56,467 - - -
1/1/16 - 12/31/16 57,090 1,713 3,540 62,342 60,167 - - -
1/1/17 - 12/31/17 141,242 4,237 7,886 153,366 10,344 - - -
1/1/18 - 12/31/18 80,078 2,402 4,965 87,445 17,908 - - -
1/1/19 - 12/31/19 71,263 2,138 4,418 77,819 33,395 - - -
3/5/20 - 12/31/20 0.83 75,000 2,250 4,650 81,900 11,111 79,088 79,088 79,088
FUTURE
1/1/21 - 12/31/21 1.00 77,250 2,318 4,790 84,357 30,000 114,357 113,213 192,302
1/1/22 - 12/31/22 1.00 77,250 2,318 4,790 84,357 30,000 114,357 112,070 304,371
1/1/23 - 12/31/23 1.00 77,250 2,318 4,790 84,357 30,000 114,357 111,041 415,412
1/1/24 - 12/31/24 1.00 79,568 2,387 4,933 86,888 30,000 116,888 112,329 527,741
1/1/25 - 12/31/25 1.00 79,568 2,387 4,933 86,888 30,000 116,888 111,160 638,901
1/1/26 - 12/31/26 1.00 79,568 2,387 4,933 86,888 30,000 116,888 110,108 749,010
1/1/27 - 12/31/27 1.00 81,955 2,459 5,081 89,494 30,000 119,494 111,488 860,498
1/1/28 - 12/31/28 1.00 81,955 2,459 5,081 89,494 30,000 119,494 110,293 970,791
1/1/29 - 12/31/29 1.00 81,955 2,459 5,081 89,494 30,000 119,494 109,218 1,080,009
1/1/30 - 12/31/30 1.00 84,413 2,532 5,234 92,179 30,000 122,179 110,572 1,190,581
1/1/31 - 12/31/31 1.00 84,413 2,532 5,234 92,179 30,000 122,179 109,473 1,300,054
1/1/32 - 12/31/32 1.00 84,413 2,532 5,234 92,179 30,000 122,179 108,373 1,408,427
NOTES:
This schedule details the history of Harkins compensation prior to the termination on March 4, 2020. This pre-incident compensation is then carried forward through the damage period.
(1) Termination date - March 3, 2020. Last payment date March 4.
(2) Damage Period extends through December 31, 2032 based upon Mr. Harkins' plan to work through age 67, or his 50th year with the team.
(3) Annual salary at time of termination - $75,000 which was raised to that level in 2018. Assume 3% salary increases every three years.
(4) 401K match and social security amounts based upon historical amounts as of March 2020
(5) Business Income is the historical earnings reported on Mr. Harkins' Schedule C of his federal income tax returns. The projection of Business Income is estimated to be $30,000 based upon
2019 full-year earnings. Earnings for 2020 are estimated based upon only 30 home games played in 2020 due to the Covid-19 shortened season. i.e., 30/81 of a normal season's income.
(6) - Interest Rate for Present Value Calculation - 1.0% based on the 10-Year Treasury Rate of .93% as of December 31, 2020
POST-INCIDENT EARNINGS AND BENEFITS
2020-2032
ANNUAL SOCIAL ANNUAL PV OF POTENTIAL

PERIOD YEARS SALARY SECURITY EARNINGS EARNINGS OFFSET
6.20%
PAST
3/5/20 - 12/31/20 0.83 - - - - -
FUTURE
1/1/21 - 12/31/21 1.00 44,160 2,738 46,898 46,429 46,429

1/1/22 - 12/31/22 1.00 45,485 2,820 48,305 47,339 93,768
1/1/23 - 12/31/23 1.00 46,849 2,905 49,754 48,311 142,079
1/1/24 - 12/31/24 1.00 48,255 2,992 51,247 49,248 191,327
1/1/25 - 12/31/25 1.00 49,702 3,082 52,784 50,198 241,524
1/1/26 - 12/31/26 1.00 51,194 3,174 54,368 51,214 292,739
1/1/27 - 12/31/27 1.00 52,729 3,269 55,999 52,247 344,985
1/1/28 - 12/31/28 1.00 30,000 1,860 31,860 29,407 374,392
1/1/29 - 12/31/29 1.00 30,900 1,916 32,816 29,994 404,386
1/1/30 - 12/31/30 1.00 31,827 1,973 33,800 30,589 434,975
1/1/31 - 12/31/31 1.00 32,782 2,032 34,814 31,194 466,169
1/1/32 - 12/31/32 1.00 33,765 2,093 35,859 31,807 497,975
NOTES:
(1) Mr. Harkins has not gained new employment as of January 1, 2021. See separate analysis of job applications and status at Schedule 6
(2) Mitigation begins as of 1/1/21. Assume no new position in 2020 as a result of high unemployment due to Covid-19 recession .
(3) Assumed annual salary is based upon wage of $22.08 per hour for 2,000 hour year based upon averages of the following employment types for L.A., Long Beach, Anaheim for May 2019
Community and social services 28.62 Office and administrative support 21.81
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, media 40.01 Production 19.00
Food preparation 14.36 Transportation 18.98
Building and grounds maintenance 17.16
Personal care services 16.48 Average of Totals 22.08
Sales and related 22.31
(4) Mr. Harkins will turn 62 in 2028, which is the average retirement age for damages purposes. We will continue the mitigation calculation through the projection period of 2032
by assuming a generic position can be obtained that will pay the state hourly minimum wage of $15.
(5) - Interest Rate for Present Value Calculation - 1.0% based on the 10-Year Treasury Rate of .93% as of December 31, 2020
CENSUS DATA
BRIAN HARKINS
DATE AGE YEARS
Date of Birth 5/22/1965
Date of Incident 3/4/2020 54.79
Date of Valuation 1/1/2021 55.61 0.83

NORMALIZED SCHEDULE C BUSINESS INCOME
2015-2019
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Historical Schedule C Business Income
Gross Receipts 244,073 261,602 36,317 46,605 62,289
Expenses:
Automobile 4,906 6,938 4,933 4,900 5,173
Contract Labor 31,350 32,870 12,470 10,750 11,860
Insurance (Other than Health) 650 675 - - -
Legal and Professional 1,625 5,275 980 980 988
Office 176 208 144 208 285
Supplies 6,964 7,317 6,520 7,821 8,644
Taxes & Licenses - - - - 522
Other:
Bank Charges 204 215 186 190 204
Computer 879 930 967 993 1,136
Dues & Subs 534 1,075 500 500 700
Food & Supplies 130,840 136,531 - - -
Freight 370 494 640 675 437
Laundry 1,200 1,200 120 120 240
Office Relocation - - - 2,750 -
Postage 333 367 88 84 102
Promotion 7,175 7,689 875 925 1,050
Seamstress 399 480 - - -
Small Tools 2,783 3,666 - - -
Telephone 2,124 2,241 2,308 2,524 2,531
Uniforms - 202 175 177 195
Home Office 3,944 3,681 4,040 - 14,343
Total Expenses 196,456 212,054 34,946 33,597 48,410
Net Schedule C Business Income 47,617 49,548 1,371 13,008 13,879
Add Back:
Automobile 4,906 6,938 4,933 4,900 5,173
Home Office 3,944 3,681 4,040 - 14,343
Normalized Schedule C Business Income 56,467 60,167 10,344 17,908 33,395
NOTES:
(1) Source: Brian and Paula Harkins U.S. Income Tax Returns - Schedule C for Brian Harkins - Visiting Team Clubhouse Manager
(2) Automobile expense and Home Office expense added back to normalize earnings as these costs would be incurred even without clubhouse business
(3) Significant decline in revenue in 2017 the result of the discontinuance of payment of dues to clubhouse manager by teams under the new CBA.
Discontinuance of costs of food, laundry at the same point in time.
HARKINS JOB SEARCH
COMPANY DATE JOB TITLE DISPOSITION
Tampa Bay Rays 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager Pending - follow-up communication sent
Detroit Tigers 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
Kansas City Royals 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
Baltimore Orioles 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
Houston Astros 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
Cleveland Indians 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
Minnesota Twins 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
Oakland Athletics 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
New York Yankees 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager Reply received - no current openings
Seattle Mariners 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
Texas Rangers 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager Pending - follow-up communication sent
Cincinnati Reds 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
St. Louis Cardinals 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
Milwaukee Brewers 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
Philadelphia Phillies 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
New York Mets 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
San Diego Padres 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
Pittsburgh Pirates 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
Washington Nationals 11/3/2020 Clubhouse Manager
Mater Dei High School 11/19/2020 Head Equipment Manager Reply received - to be reviewed
Pacific Charter School Development 12/5/2020 Director of Fundraising and Strategic Initiatives Applied through Indeed - declined
CLH Partners 12/18/2020 Process Improvement Manager - Logistics Applied through ZipRecruiter - App reviewed
Eastridge Workforce Solutions 12/23/2020 Assistant Operations Manager Applied through ZipRecruiter - App reviewed
NOTES:
(1) Harkins has applied for positions through Indeed and ZipRecruiter
1 PROOF OF SERVICE
2 Brian Harkins v. Major League Baseball, et al.

30-2020-01157569-CU-DF-CJC
3 Orange County Superior Court
4 STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF ORANGE
6 At the time of service, I was over 18 years of age and not a party to this action. I am
employed in the County of Orange, State of California. My business address is 4 Park Plaza, Suite
7 1100, Irvine, CA 92614.
8 On January 7, 2021, I served true copies of the following document(s) described as

PLAINTIFF BRIAN HARKIN’S COMPENDIUM OF EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF
9 OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL’S AND ANGELS
BASEBALL LP’S SPECIAL MOTION TO STRIKE COUNTS ONE AND TWO
10 PURSUANT TO CAL. CODE CIV. PROC. § 425.16 (ANTI-SLAPP) [VOLUME 2 OF 2] on
the interested parties in this action as follows:
11
R.Adam Lauridsen Attorneys for Defendants
12 Nicholas D. Marais MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL and ANGELS
Ann Niehaus BASEBALL LP
13 KEKER, VAN NEST & PETERS LLP
633 Battery Street
14 San Francisco, CA 94111-1809
Telephone: 415 391 5400
15 Facsimile: 415 397 7188
Email: alauridsen@keker.com;
16 nmarais@keker.com; aniehaus@keker.com
17 BY ELECTRONIC SERVICE: I served the document(s) on the person listed in the

Service List by submitting an electronic version of the document(s) to One Legal, LLC, through
18 the user interface at www.onelegal.com.
19 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the
foregoing is true and correct.
20
Executed on January 7, 2021, at Irvine, California.
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Electronically Filed by Superior Court of California, County of Orange, 01/07/2021 12:40:56 PM.

1 Daniel L. Rasmussen, Bar No. 120276

5 Attorneys for Brian Harkins

19 [RELATED TO ROA #19]

20 Judge: Hon. Melissa R. McCormick,

25 Plaintiff Brian Harkins (“Plaintiff”) submits the following Compendium of Evidence in

4 TAB A Declaration of Wally Joyner

5 TAB B Declaration of Michael Sweeney

6 TAB C Declaration of Gabe Morrell

7 TAB D Declaration of Vince Willet

8 TAB E Declaration of Joseph Jones

9 TAB F Declaration of Eric Rose

10 TAB G Declaration of John Altstadt

11 TAB H Declaration of Brian Harkins

17 illegally doctor baseballs, 2020-03-05, Yahoo Sports

19 pitchers, 2020-03-05, ESPN

21 Substances to Put on Baseballs, 2020-03-05, Bleacher Nation

25 2020-03-06, Whittier Daily News

27 put on baseballs, 2020-03-06, Los Angeles Times

5 comes with confusion, 2020-03-06, Yahoo Sports

7 substances to visiting pitchers, 2020-03-05, Halo Hangout

9 Stuff, 2020-09-13, Los Angeles Times

11 pitchers are cheating, 2020-11-09, The Athletic

12 Exhibit 12 Forum: Baseball Comments, 2020-03-05, www.Redditt.com

13 Exhibit 13 Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics

14 Exhibit 14 Eric W. Rose, Curriculum Vitae, Court Qualified Expert Witness

15 Exhibit 15 Critical Mention Report, 2020-09-18

17 General Managers and Field Managers re Applying Foreign Substances to

19 Exhibit 17 Photos: Mudded Baseball Color Tones / Mudding Application Standards

20 Exhibit 18 Forum: Baseball Rubbing, 2020-10-09, Twitter

21 Exhibit 19 Forum: @Alden_Gonzalez, 2020-03-05, Twitter

22 Exhibit 20 Forum: @maria_torres3, 2020-03-05, Twitter

23 Exhibit 21 Forum: sports.yahoo.com, 2020-03-05, Twitter

27 Exhibit 24 Text: Justin Verlander to Brian Harkins, 2020-03-07

2 Exhibit 25 Text: Gerrit Cole to Brian Harkins, 2019-01-17

5 gain advantage, 2020-02-24, https://www.sny.tv/hankees/news

6 Exhibit 27 Text: Mike Gallego to Brian Harkins, 2020-03-08

8 2020-11-03 and 2021-01-04

9 Exhibit 29 John E. Altstadt, Altstadt Consulting, Curriculum Vitae

10 Exhibit 30 Brian Harkins’ Schedules: Summary of Potential Economic Damages

14 DATED: January 7, 2021 PAYNE & FEARS LLP

17 By: /s/ Daniel L. Rasmussen

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