Lacegate

[Manny A]

Was watching the Brewers-Nats game on Friday night on the flatscreen. Late in the game, two Nats relievers had long laces cut off of their gloves before they were allowed to pitch. The announcers speculated that it was gamesmanship on the part of the Brewers manager, and at one point they commented on how the Nats skipper was glaring at the Brewers dugout. I thought the same thing.

Well, during the next evening's telecast, one of the announcers stated that the lace-cutting incidents from the previous game had nothing to do with gamesmanship. He said that there was an MLB memo put out that, because of the use of super-slo-mo instant replay, the suits didn't want a situation where a replay of a disputed tag shows a fielder actually making contact of a runner with the laces of the glove.

Really? Did I just hear that correctly? Or was the announcer just trying to be humorous?