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Right. "It's the pitch stupid." Every team looks for advantages. Under-inflating a ball, puttings some grease on the ball, juicing to be bigger/faster/stronger. Of all of these, we're supposed to feel that the pitch is the biggest scandal? Oh please.

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From the article,

> "80 to 90%” of pitchers are using it in some capacity"

From wikipedia,

> "Several players have suggested that drug use is rampant in baseball. David Wells stated that "25 to 40 percent of all Major Leaguers are juiced"."

Juicing seems like a more severe issue to me, but I guess the article is saying that pitching substances are a "bigger" scandal because it's so prevalent.

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