As in "a spitball is an illegal baseball pitch" ergo "FM is doing something
not so honest".
Looking up the "pine tar" incident I see it's
another baseball reference.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I wouldn't
be surprised if more people were familiar with the illegality of a spitball then
are likely familiar with the rule surrounding the amount of pine tar that can be
on a bat.
If the Wiki article is accurate on the spirt1 of the
pine tar rule, I think the spitball is a more appropriate analogy then "pine
tar".
1:
MacPhail noted that the "spirit of the restriction"
on pine tar on bats was based not on the fear of unfair advantage, but simple
economics; any contact with pine tar would render a ball unsuitable for play,
and require that it be discarded and replaced, thus increasing the home team's
cost of supplying balls for a given game.
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