Jon Lester: how did white resin turn green on your glove?

Gaylord Perry By twm1340 via Wikimedia Commons

Boston Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester insists that the green stuff clearly visible to all but Major Baseball League (MBL) officials during his start in game one of the finals is resin, not a "foreign substance".

Saturday, August 17, 2013  Cheaters, Weasels, Whiners.

I forgot to mention former Red Sox player Manny Ramirez, the only great player prior to Ryan Braun who recently copped a plea, to actually serve a suspension.  Ramirez was instrumental in the Red Sox winning the MBL tournament in 2004 and 2007.  Along with David Ortiz.

My interpretation of The Times article would have all the current Red Sox added to the list of weasels, including those named specifically: John Lackey, Jonny Gomes, Jon Lester.

The Times said this about Lester:

Starter Jon Lester said Friday that union members should understand the process, but added that the Red Sox did not want Rodriguez on the field.

“I would imagine pretty much everybody in baseball feels that way,” Lester said.

What a weasel.  Understand the process but get the guy off the field.  What a weasel.
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A resin bag is provided for pitchers.  It is conveniently placed on the back side of the mound.  Lester supposedly does not want to interrupt his pace to bend down and touch the resin bag.  He wants his resin on his glove and nice and green.  Maybe a little Vaseline to make the resin stick to the glove?  How else would it stay in place?  It's powdery.  Ever see a pitcher fire a resin bag down onto the ground in disgust?  That produces a puff of white particles into the air, like body powder.

Boston manager John Farrell stuck up for Lester saying that Lester sweats like a pig.  Nice touch.  Except that Farrell had supported his coward pitcher Ryan Dempster after Dempster deliberately committed the vigilante act of hitting Alex Rodriguez with a 90 mile per hour fastball.  Even the MBL didn't buy Dempster's denial and  slapped his wrist with a minimal suspension.

1. Why is a minor league pitcher the only member of the entire St. Louis Cardinals organization from the general manager on down the only one who seems to think that Lester might be cheating?  That's how the story broke, the guy posted a message, which I refuse to call a tweet, on twitter.com along with an image with the incriminating evidence.  Everybody wants to look the other way, maybe because this rule violation is common.

2. When did placing resin on a glove become legal?

3. Is this on field violation worse than an off field violation like using performance enhancing drugs (PED), including steroids?

4. Isn't this performance enhancing?

It stinks.  There's the stench of mendacity permeating Fenway Park.

Maybe Jon Lester should take Alex Rodriguez to dinner and talk it over.  After Lester washes his hands.