“Many if not most of the pitchers in baseball use foreign substances, whether it’s pine tar or sunscreen or something else entirely. It’s widely known and widely tolerated and Major League Baseball has turned a blind eye to most foreign substance use.” - Craig Calcaterra
If 70 percent of MLB pitchers are putting foreign substances on the ball, can we honestly say it is still cheating? Little is being done to keep the practice from getting out of hand; it has begun to look more like a competitive advantage and less an ejectable offense.