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Olney: MLB must rewrite foreign-substance rule

MILWAUKEE -- After a baseball stuck to the chest protector of Yadier Molina on Thursday, questions were asked of the St. Louis Cardinals catcher and some of his teammates -- simple inquiries, which, nonetheless, bore the potential of leading to a suspension for somebody.

How did the ball stick to Molina’s chest protector? What was the substance that caused it to stick? Where did the substance come from?

The players and managers who navigate through these questions -- and the reporters who ask them -- must ignore the reality that baseball’s foreign-substance rule is outdated, obsolete and flouted daily.