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Old Mon Oct 23, 2006, 06:06pm
BigTex BigTex is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mcrowder
For those of you thinking it was pine tar ... have you ever tried to wash pine tar off your hand? Not a quick fix, folks, and the smell stays with you even afterward. I have no problem believing this was dirt or something else innocent like Shoe Polish... and I'm rooting for the Cards.
shoe polish=foreign substance (illegal)


In big league clubhouses, they have a solvent that takes pine tar off. It is similar to the stuff trainers use to take tape residue off. If you look at he "after" picture, there is still a brown discoloration. I think it was pine tar and somebody told him to take it off.