[Ransomed]

The Patriots hired an elite expert witness with a MLB background:

http://www.richmond.com/article_51a58ca4-5dbc-5c81-906a-e1fe0d5cc9fd.html

Case closed.

Freegards

[Colofornian]

Let's see...If I recall Gaylord Perry talked about what he could do with a cut baseball...like a cut generated by a sharp edge of a ring...

If MLB umpires didn't regularly toss out scuffed balls...and only could rotate a dozen thru the entire game...and if they didn't scrutinize those dozen...

...What could pitchers like Perry do with just a cut-mark on a ball??? (LOTS)

And then if a pitcher like Perry -- if he was in on a press conference -- and he claimed that he didn't realize that 93% of the baseballs the first half of the baseball game were literally cut baseballs (vs. a "cut" pitch)...

...His believeability would be at what level???

[Fresh Wind]

The Patriots hired an elite expert witness with a MLB background

So they are paying him to testify that Brady wasn't spitting on the footballs?