has a burning sensation. some pitchers think it improves their focus, basically they re pitching in pain. musgrove denied that as well. the umpires went out and had an almost sensual check of joe musgrove and his ears and found nothing. spin rate was up. it s the playoffs. the harder you throw, spin rate also goes up, so maybe musgrove is a little jacked. could be. therefore more velocity and more spin. i don t know. i get why the mets looked but it didn t feel very desperate and they didn t find anything. they didn t find anything. t.j. said from you talked about putting icy hot on your ears, t.j. said you know what that s called? that s also called cheating. of course we re coming up on the celebration of morning joe s 15-year anniversary. oh, my gosh. remember earlier in the show, pat buchanon, mike barnicle, we
embarrassed the mets last night. i was cheering for the mets. a little concerned going out forcing the umps to touch the pitcher, the padre pitcher s ears and everything. jonathan lemire, before we get to postseason picks, that spin rate was insane last night. i mean, if you, like, quadruple your spain rate, you have to ask yourself, what s this guy putting on the baseball? yeah. the teams had access to that data in the dugout which is why buck showalter went out afterwards. the mets said they thought musgrove had something in his glove or his ears. his ears were shiny. no way around it. glistening. glistening ears, not what you usually see. there is some theory that former ball players on twitter suggested he may have had a red hot, which is a substance like an icy hot, you put on yourself,